Grab your reading glasses and smoking jacket and join Nickel, VF, Jordan Steinhoff (All Us Geeks Podcast) & Ryan Beagley (Gotham Knights Podcast) as they convene to discuss DC's epic "Crisis On Infinite Earths" from way back in old 1985. Topics include a quick summary of the DC multiverse, the rationale for the Crisis event, a summary of the 12 individual issues, and each of the hosts thoughts on the story, as well as the aftermath of the event in the DC Universe.

Thanks to Jordan and Ryan for pseudo-tolerating us for 2 hours. Please send us your feedback after this first installment of our new monthly Book Club segment.

This week on the Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast we tip our hats to Bob Ross and paint some happy little trees... metaphorically speaking. After getting two hour plus of audio problems, we get to recording, and slap together a fairly disjointed episode, even for us.

The "General Banter" segment includes a discussion of Nickel's podcasting schedule and the History of Bad Ideas Nicolas Cage Special, Green Up's 100th episode, A lovely and undeserved gift from Desmond Hassing, VF's insurance woes, Twitch TV and of course, Bob Ross.

VF & Nickel partake in a showdown of incompetence in the "Marvel Trivia Box" segment.

In "Rapid Fire Review" we discuss comics released on October 21 & October 28, 2015, including Cognetic #1 (of 3), Hacktivist Volume 2 #4, Batman Eternal #3, Black Canary #5, Clean Room #1, Gotham Academy #11, Tokyo Ghost #2, Amazing Spider-Man #2, Invincible Ironman #2, Uncanny Inhumans #1, and Grimm Tales of Terror, Volume 2 #1, Batgirl #45, Grayson #13, We Are Robin #5, Black Magick #1, Manifest Destiny #18, Spread #11, They're Not Like Us #9, New Avengers #2, and Valiant's Book of Death #4 .

We wrap things up by taking some shots at Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks and playing some outtakes from the first 2 hours of the non-show.

Thanks for bearing with us through these trying times.  if you have any suggestions to improve the show, please email vf@graphicnovice.com

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast spends the unofficially titled "General Banter" hour talking about podcast audio quality, death, family, and our friend Ryan screwing up his new daughter's name.  Comic news is a little light, but we discuss our worst comics choices of 2015 for the HOBI Floppy Awards, our new Trade Review episodes, and some TV stuff. After nattering on like two old hens for an entire segment, Nickel & VF take on the Marvel Trivia Box in another segment of VF & Nickel vs. The Marvel Trivia Box. In "Rapid Fire Review" we look at comics released October 14 & October 21, 2015, specifically, Lantern City #6, Batman #45, Batman Eternal #2, Earth 2 Society #5, East of West #21, I Hate Fairlyland #1, Low #10, Savior #7, Sam Wilson, Captain America #1, Civil War #5, Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Ms. Marvel #19, Spider-Gwen #1, Ninjak #8, Tokyo Ghost #2, Amazing Spider-man #2, and Astonishing Ant-Man #1. Thanks for listening!

A landmark episode of Graphic Novice, where VF & Nickel bring their 'D' game and continue to try and hammer down the format and spend less time talking about nothingness... to no avail.

During the "General Banter" segment, after Nickel's microphone tries to ruin the podcast, the final episode of the show (episode 100) is discussed, the last episode of The Walking Dead, the guys toss around ideas for a new segment, probiotic gut bacteria, bidets, the invitation to present a "Floppy Award" for the History of Bad Ideas Podcast, Mr. Bloom and Poison Ivy... and theories are floated about the downtrodden state of fellow podcaster, Ryan Beagley from the Green Up podcast.

VF throws a twist in "VF vs. The Marvel Trivia Box" after being repeatedly shamed for his performance...  The new segment is titles "VF & Nickel vs. The Marvel Trivia Box".

After a brief "Comic News" segment, the guys discuss comics released on October 7, 2015 during "Rapid Fire Review".  The books discussed include Jughead #1, Batman & Robin Eternal #1, Detective Comics #45, Paper Girls #1, Southern Bastards #11, Starve #5, Avengers #0, Doctor Strange #1, and Secret Wars #6.

Thanks so much for listening.