Comics talk with memory, tangents, and teeth.
Comics In Motion treats comics culture as a big shared reading room, with relaxed conversations about indie series, superhero arcs, screen adaptations, and Star Wars stories. Its best moments come when fannish enthusiasm turns into specific talk about craft, continuity, casting, and why certain stories stick.
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Comics In Motion is less a single narrow show than a large comics conversation with several doors into it. The common thread is enthusiasm with receipts. Episodes pull from indie comics, superhero history, screen adaptations, Star Wars animation, author interviews, and the side roads where comics overlap with music, romance, publishing, and fandom. The pace is brisk and conversational. A discussion of Afterburn can turn from Red Five Comics into Dave Bautista casting, villain scale, adaptation shortcuts, and the fun of hunting for hidden gems among rough films. A conversation about The Beauty moves differently, following body image, competition, Los Angeles pressure, serialized structure, and the gutsy way the book plays with time. Batman talk brings in the New 52, Scott Snyder, Bruce Wayne, Gotham as a city with rules, and why the Court of Owls felt new without feeling disconnected. The show likes continuity, but it does not treat continuity as homework. It uses those details as shared shorthand for bigger questions about why a character, city, or franchise still works. The Heath and Tony episodes have the shape of two fans starting with a topic and letting personality tug the wheel. That can mean Generation X, entertainment executives, Marvel rediscovery, Wonder Man, Peacemaker, or old DC instincts. The Star Wars material is more guide-like, with Clone Wars Conversations steering listeners through Yoda, Darth Bane, Force ghost mythology, Order 66 foreshadowing, and related feed changes. Interviews add another texture. Phillip Mottaz brings punk, novels, comedy, the Ramones, Oasis, and the odd ways pop culture gets lodged in a person’s head. The 52Love author-to-author episode shifts toward romance writing, ghostwriting, book clubs, intimacy prompts, and literary universes. Across the feed, the tone stays warm, specific, and lightly scrappy. It is not trying to sound like a formal review desk. It sounds like people who read the books, watched the thing, remembered the context, and still want to keep talking after the planned topic runs out. For PlayNext listeners, the appeal is discovery through personality. A clip can lead to an indie series, a Batman run, a Star Wars rewatch, or simply a better argument about what makes comic-book storytelling last.
Made for: For comics readers, adaptation watchers, Star Wars completists, and superhero fans who enjoy informed conversation without a formal lecture tone. It especially suits listeners who like creator context, continuity talk, and candid opinions about what works on the page versus on screen.
What sets it apart: Comics In Motion stands out by treating comics culture as a connected ecosystem rather than a single beat. Indie books, Batman arcs, MCU reactions, Clone Wars lore, author craft, and messy adaptation debates all sit on the same table.
Regular episodes celebrating all things comic book and comic related. A number of different shows drop each week including TV & Movie reviews and news, Indie Comics Spotlight, Mandatory Marvel & DC, Star Wars: Comics In Canon, Superheroes for Dummies, Femme On Film, Classic Comics, Seasons Greetings, Whats the Topic and occasional weekly episode-by-episode shows (including Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian Season 2, with more to come)!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Comics In Motion connects comic-book history and criticism to the practical choices behind screen adaptations.
Comics In Motion treats comics as source material, historical record, and a route into screen adaptation. Its conversations move from decades of superhero continuity to close comparisons between indie books and their film versions, with enough room for disagreement over what…
Legion flight rings and Batman nursery rhymes become your excuse to argue about why comics work.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A comic-fan comparison that cares more about the movie's choices than about sounding polished.
Comics in Motion settles into an easy comic-book-versus-film hangout as Tony and Jack revisit an idea they had wanted to do for years, then land on 2008 Red Five Comics Afterburn by Scott Shipwood and Paul Enns and the 2025 movie directed by J.J.
A loose comics conversation that stays centered on craft and structure.
Indie Comic Spotlight turns toward Beauty and makes a steady case for why the series still holds up, with Alison Shelton and Cody Shelton helping draw out its larger ideas.
Heath and Tony frame Court of Owls through Gotham itself: a city that seems to manufacture the people who can survive it.
Batman: The Court of Owls turns into a lively look at why Gotham works as a pressure cooker. Heath and Tony place Scott Snyder around the New 52 launch, then find a warm human doorway in the story of Snyder's wife nudging him toward Bruce.
A Ramones conversation turns into a sharp, slightly wayward look at fandom, dreams, and celebrity mythology.
ADHD-Cast brings Philip into a nimble conversation about fandom, imagination, and the way admired musicians can take up residence in the mind.
A romance anthology conversation opens into intimacy, ghostwriting, and the craft questions behind one author's book-club thinking.
The conversation follows the path of 52Love, beginning with Tanya Todd's weekly love lessons and intimacy tips before landing on a podcast where real couples put those ideas into practice.
A thoughtful, slightly loose discussion of beauty, competition, and a comic that keeps folding time back on itself.
The episode treats The Beauty as a sharp comic about the pressure to become whatever society decides is good enough, then tracks that idea through a divided world of people who have the beauty, people resisting it, and the ordinary lives caught around them.
Comics talk with issue-by-issue memory.
Continuity arguments at Marvel speed.
Host AR Farina is joined by guests Alison and Cody Shelton to discuss the indie comic 'The Beauty,' which explores a world where a sexually transmitted disease makes people supernaturally attractive.
This episode features an interview with comic creators Charles Soule and Ryan Browne discussing their new book 'Lucky Devils' and their previous collaborations like 'Eight Billion Genies' and 'Curse Words'.
This episode features an interview with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick about her Image Comics series Bitch Planet, a science fiction women-in-prison comic.
This episode features an interview with indie comic creator Dani Diaz about their graphic novel 'Dream Over', discussing how the hosts discovered and connected with the work.
Host Matthew Lloyd interviews Mart Gray for a deep dive into the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Tony and Jack reopen the show with a loose, rambling intro.
The show sits down with Alison Shelton and Cody Shelton to talk about the comic.
["Tony argues that Scott Snyder's Court of Owls is the best Batman story in the character's history, and Heath frames it as the New 52 run that changed how he reads Bruce Wayne.", "They trace Snyder into Batman from Detective Comics, Nightwing, and American Vampire, including the detail that Snyder's wife talked him into taking the title.", "Gotham City comes up as a character with an advice-column voice, a nursery rhyme, and a hidden Talon floor inside Bruce Wayne's building.", "The conversation keeps returning to a fallible Bruce Wayne, not a godlike one, because that version makes the Court of Owls and the Bat-family feel like part of the same city."]
Heath and Tony discuss the overlooked existence and cultural identity of Generation X, touching on generational definitions, media representation, and entertainment trends.
Heath and Tony discuss Heath's revisiting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), his recent viewing of Ms.
Philip joins the ADHD cast.
Tanya Todd says romance is "always about hope and possibility" and "the world can be better."
This episode discusses the final episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 6, focusing on Yoda's journey to learn about Force ghosts and foresee Order 66 with Qui-Gon's help.
Mike hosts a weekly discussion show reviewing episode 7 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew with guest Dave, exploring their initial reactions to the series and diving into the episode's themes.