Place to Be Nation POP Experience

Big news from PTBN Pop's Comic Team and the Marvel Age Podcast! Here's a very special announcement regarding a second show from our team and a new member to the Marvel Age family - someone quite familiar to both Marvel fans and the Place to be Nation!

Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. And if there’s anything that fanboys love, it’s debating what book is better than another book or which character is “cooler.”
Enter Countdown, a monthly episode where Greg and Nick will each give a top five list and debate the merits therein.
This month, the Fanboys take a moment to survey the current landscape of comics and choose their top 5 active comic book writers (not named Geoff Johns)! Find out which newer writers made the cut alongside some grizzled vets and full-fledged legends.

Brad and Jordan share their SEGA Genesis memories and detail their four defining games for the console.

After an interesting first round and a less than interesting second round, we are on to the NBA's Final Four, and Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are here to give you their insights on the Conference Finals. Will we see a repeat of last year between Boston and Cleveland although the rosters are drastically different? Will Brad Stevens find a way to "solve" the myriad of problems LeBron James presents to the Celtics? The top two teams made it to the Western Conference Finals,but which team has the most pressure to deliver this year? Riche and Adam also talk about the Raptor's latest postseason mudslide, the greatness of Kevin Durant, the Chris Paul problem Houston might have against Steph Curry, and much more. So suit up and take it out with the NBA-Team!

In the latest edition of Talk'n Pop, Jenny and Tim lure JT Rozzero back to the show to share his thoughts on... Jersey Shore: Family Vacation? Sigh. Tim and JT run down the season thus far with some of their favorite moments. Plus, it's almost time for those blockbusters, so stick around for a Summer Movie Preview! From Deadpool 2 to Crazy Rich Asians, there's a little something for everyone.

In Off the Page, Greg and Nick take a look at comic book media outside the printed page. In this edition, they review the first two episodes of the ongoing Disney XD Marvel Comics animated series “Avengers Assemble.” As a replacement for the excellent “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes,” this cartoon had a lot to live up to. Does it clear the bar? (SPOILER: Absolutely not.)

Jordan and Brad share memories of the NES and the four games that best defined the system for them.

In the 24th installment of Geek and Sassy, Jennifer and Mirandia recount tales from their recent travels! They take you from Wisconsin to New Orleans and from Washington D.C. to Atlanta! Back at home, the girls check out some TV shows, books, and comics. Stick around for a discussion and review of the animated movie Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. How does this Elseworlds story hold up against the comic book version? Who is Jack the Ripper?? And what the hell is a Cock Robin??? All these answers and more, including Nerd Eye Candy!
(WARNING! FROM 52:00 - 1:11:00 THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS INFINITY WAR HERE!)

Welcome to the Marvel Age! Each month PTBN Comics' very own Sarcastic Four (Nick Duke, Tim Capel, Russell Sellers and Todd Weber) take an in-depth year-by-year look at Marvel Comics' publishing history, focusing on 10 significant issues from that year. The team looks at important character debuts, discusses significant comic creators, and places social and historical context of the era onto the books, all culminating in a holistic look at the Marvel Age of Comics.
This inaugural episode takes a concentrated look at Marvel's output from November 1961 until the end of 1962. The Sarcastic Four talk about Marvel Comics' origins as a company, they discuss the extremely crucial contributions of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, and our team chronologically looks at the first comic book appearances of the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man and Ant-Man.

Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. Over the course of their travels through comicdom, they have encountered numerous stories via the wonder of trade paperbacks and graphic novels. Once a month, Nick and Greg will review one of those collections in The Longbook Hunters. In this excursion, the boys celebrate 80 years of Superman by looking at one of the landmark stories in the character's celebrated history: John Byrne's 1986 miniseries "The Man of Steel." It's a story that changed the course of the oldest (and, some might say, greatest) superhero forever! Also: birthing matrices! Naked, hairy flesh! Katherine Hepburn! And more!

We're back to form this week with three beers each. Tim gets a little funky with his brews and Adrian takes a bullet with his papaya.

Brad and Jordan kick off a new PTBN Play miniseries, looking at the four Atari 2600 games that defined the system for them.

After a longer than expected hiatus (which is addressed at the top of the show), Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are back in the saddle to venture through what remains in the 2018 NBA playoff scene. After a shockingly quick disposal of the Blazers in the first round, can the Pelicans make lightning strike twice against the gaudy Golden State Warriors? How has LeBron, at this advanced stage of his career, somehow reverted back to the beginning of his career, and can he put another spell over a team that he has owned in the past: The Toronto Raptors? Riche and Adam also discuss the Rockets/Jazz series (and how Donovan Mitchell is very much like James Harden), the highly anticipated and energetic Sixers/Celtics showdown, and much more. So suit up and take it out with the NBA-Team!

Sellers Points is the place to be for real comic analysis, speculation and all around useless opinions as host Russell Sellers and a plethora of cohorts and special guests bring you new episodes monthly.
On this 40th episode of the show, the Hard-Traveling Fanboys, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke join first-time PTBN guest Joe Johnson and Russell to talk all things Doomsday Clock and the landmark Action Comics #1000. What stories were the best from the anthology issue? Is the new Rorschach a hit or miss? Would you leave a lonely stack of pancakes to get cold or devour the whole plate? All this and more!

SPOILERS! PTBN Pop's own Nick Duke, Jennifer Smith and Tim Capel take an in-depth, SPOILER-filled look at Marvel's Third Avengers film. Once again, there are MAJOR SPOILERS so proceed with caution.