The Oblivion Bar: A Nerd-Culture Podcast Chris Hacker and Aaron Knowles

Joining us this week on the show is the creative team behind the highly-anticipated, prestige-formatted four-issue haunted ghost story at DSTRLY Publishing: Spectregraph.

One is the Eisner Award-winning and New York Times Bestselling author of titles like Something is Killing the Children, Nice House on the Lake, Blue Book, Department of Truth, House of Slaughter, Worldtr33, and The Deviant. They also recently started a production company ‘Tiny Onion’, which plans to develop a number of those successful series we just listed and adapt them for both television and film.

The other is the 3x Eisner-winning comic book creator behind titles like Aquaman: Andromeda, ODY-C, Invisible Kingdom, Black Bolt, Blood-Stained Teeth, and Batman: City of Madness.

It is our honor to welcome both James Tynion IV & Christian Ward onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!
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INTERVIEW: Christian Ward (Episode 85, July 22')INTERVIEW: Christian Ward & Patric Reynolds (Episode 112, March 23')NYCC INTERVIEW-A-THON: Christian Ward (Episode 132, Oct 23')Follow us on Instagram
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Joining us this week on the show is the Eisner-award-winning comic book writer behind titles like Southern Bastards, Avengers, Conan The Barbarian, Vertigo’s Scalped, The Punisher, Marvel’s 2015 relaunch of Star Wars, and his iconic seven-year epic on Thor.

Recently, he’s been hard at work on newer titles like Action Comics and Batman: Off World at DC Comics, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and BRZRKR: A Faceful of Bullets  at BOOM! Studios, Uncle $crooge and the Infinity Dime at Marvel Comics, and the highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at IDW Publishing.

It is our pleasure to welcome Jason Aaron BACK onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!
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"The world, right now, is experiencing unusual paranormal activity. We are here to answer that call. Because we... ARE THE GHOSTBUSTERS!"

For part two of episode 151, we finish up our review of the fifth installment of the Monsterverse: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and then go directly into our discussion of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

Aaron’s Arcade [Sponsored by G Fuel]  (41:14)
Chris’ Corner [Sponsered by The Fantasy Shop] (45:16)

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"Kong can't stop this on his own."

"He won't be alone."

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For our news and notes segment, Aaron and Chris discuss Marvel casting Julia Garner in THE FANTASTIC 4 as the Silver Surfer and comic creator Ed Piskor tragically passes away at 41 years old.

Main Topic (22:45)

For part one of our main topic, we discuss and review the fifth installment of the Monsterverse: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire! Come back for part two to hear our discussion of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

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This is a preview of our Patreon exclusive show called THE GRID. Check this out, along with a bunch of other awesome perks over on Patreon.  New episodes every Friday!

For episode 120, Aaron and Chris discuss Aaron's visit to Soho for Batman's 85th birthday, the eternal drama of Harry Potter, and we each pick (1) movie to defend that we know the other hates.

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It's about to go DOWN 👊🏻💥

We are back for another installment in our BATTLE ROYALE segment! Five fighters, five arena-specific scenarios, two passionate nerds debate skill and combat to determine the ultimate winner among our fictional champions 🏆

Previous Battle Royale Episodes ⤵️

Episode 90 - Battle Royale IV

Episode 56 - Battle Royale III

Episode 20 - Battle Royale II

Episode 07 - Battle Royale I

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