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Podcaster’s log. Episode 108. Our journey into the strangest corners of the Marvel universe has taken an interdimensional turn, as we have arrived at the two X-Men/Star Trek crossovers from the late 1990s.To give us some help as we boldly go on this voyage, we’ve beamed aboard friend of the show and fellow Star Trek enthusiast Andrew Leyland! The issues we are discussing this week are: * STAR TREK/X-MEN #1 * STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/X-MEN: SECOND CONTACT #1 Just how 90s is the art? Which era of Trek will get on better with the mutant superheroes? Will anyone make fun of Wolverine’s dumb bone claws? All of these questions – and more – will be answered! Also, the Star Trek crossovers continue on Thursday 2/22 as Andrew and his son/cohost Micheal are discussing the 2014 STAR TREK/PLANET OF THE APES crossover on their podcast Hey Kids, Comics!. In addition to that great show, you can also hear Andrew discuss all sorts of pop culture on The Palace of Glittering Delights, as well as all things Batman with Michael Bailey on The Overlooked Dark Knight. As always, send us your comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Next Time, on Tomb of Ideas: We wrap up this crossover with the Pocket Books novel STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/X-MEN: PLANET X EX-HELL-SIOR!  

TIMEQUAKE of 12.8 Magnitude on the Simonwalt Scale!!! Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special look at the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992 and things are in full swing…or is it FULL SHAKE!? As we started the event in our last epic episode, we finish it here, with… * WHAT IF? vol 2 #36 – “What if…the COSMIC AVENGERS battled the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY?” (Timequake part 2 of 5) * WHAT IF? vol 2 #37 – “What if…WOLVERINE had been LORD OF THE VAMPIRES during INFERNO?” (Timequake part 3 of 5) * WHAT IF? vol 2 #38 – “What if…THOR had become a thrall of SETH” (Timequake part 4 of 5) * WHAT IF? vol 2 #39 – “What if…the WATCHER saved the MULTIVERSE?” (Timequake part 5 of 5) That’s right, Tomb-Believers, not only do James, Trey, and Thomas transverse the multiverse, but they also return to the horrors of INFERNO for your listening pleasure. Wait..who’s Thomas? Why Thomas “The Mallard” Malluck, our third potificating podcaster?  You’ve never heard of him!? Hmmm…Perhaps things truly are amiss in the multiverse! Tune in to hear how it all…shakes out!!! Mwahahahaha!!! As always, send us your comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social!

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special WHAT IF? series this week, as we cover the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992. First, we wrap up the issues that introduce the various realities featured in the event: first, a world with a powerless Fantastic Four, followed by two possible timelines where Vision of the Avengers conquered the world. (We’re skipping over WHAT IF? vol 1 #24 because we already covered that one on our X-Vampires episode back in October 2022.) Finally, we arrive at part one of TIMEQUAKE itself! To that end, the reading list for this issue includes: * WHAT IF? vol 1 #36 – “What If the Fantastic Four Had Not Gained Their Superpowers?” * WHAT IF? vol 2 #19 – “What If…Vision of the Avengers Conquered the World?” * WHAT IF? vol 2 #35 – “What if…the Fantastic Five Fought Doctor Doom & Annihilus?” (Timequake part 1 of 5) What horrors will the world face if the FF isn’t there to protect it? Who would possibly think putting Vision in charge of the world is a good idea? Didn’t Reed Richards of the Fantastic Five massacre a bunch of Atlanteans last episode? Tune in to hear the answers to all these questions, and more! As always, send us your comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social!

Greetings, Tomb Believers! James and Trey are back with the first Tomb of Ideas for 2024 – and it’s a Grab Bag episode! To start things off right, they’ve fired up their Randomizer and allowed it to pick three completely random issues from across the entire history of Marvel Comics. And what issues did this very high tech and complicated piece of equipment select? * WHAT IF? vol 1 #1 * WHAT IF? vol 1 #6 * WHAT IF? vol 1 #21 Join us as we depart from 616 to observe other, weirder corners of the Marvel multiverse. It’ll be…fantastic! As always, send us your comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social!

Happy HORRORdays, Tomb Believers! We’ve almost reached the end of 2023, and to celebrate the season we’re digging into our longboxes for a bit of holiday cheer. For our last episode of this year, we’re throwing a bit of a party. And, as we enjoy our wassail and figgy pudding, we’ll be taking a look at the 1993 Marvel Holiday Special. Plus, since this is an anthology book, we’ve forced invited some of our party guests to join in the Marvel merriment! In this Tomb of Ideas Holiday Spectacular, we’ll be looking at thematically appropriate stories featuring Spider-Man and Mephisto, Colonel Nick Fury (Sr.), the Incredible Hulk, Ghost Rider…Captain Ultra……and Marvel editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco and executive editor Mark Gruenwald? And to help us out with this kooky bunch of Yuletide tales, we’re joined by Kaiju Punk artist Sean McGuinness, podcaster extraordinaire Andrew Leyland, and for the first time ever on Tomb of Ideas, expert comics podcaster (and Andrew’s Overlooked Dark Knight co-host) Michael Bailey! So grab some sugar cookies and pour yourself some egg nog as we deck the halls, Tomb of Ideas-style. You can find Sean’s work over at Neo Monster Island. Andrew Leyland hosts The Palace of Glittering Delights and Hey Kids, Comics! as well as co-hosting The Overlooked Dark Knight with Michael Bailey. And, in addition to podcasting about Batman with Andrew, Michael also hosts It all Comes Back to Superman and co-hosts From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast, all of which can be found at the Fortress of Baileytude Podcasting Network. As always, send us your comments, questions, comics-related new years resolutions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Some podcasters are always trying to record uphill. That’s why we’re starting December with a change of pace from our usual episodes: a brand new feature-length audio commentary! That’s right, we’re sinking our fangs into BLADE (dir. Stephen Norrington, 1998), the movie that launched the superhero movie boom of the early aughts. It’s got everything – Wesley Snipes chopping up bloodsuckers with a katana, Donal Logue hamming it up as Stephen Dorff’s villainous sidekick, and Kris Kristofferson at his most grizzled and grouchy! All you have to do is queue up the film, hit play when we do, and you’ll be watching along with us. As always, send us your comments, questions, suggestions for future commentaries, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!

May the Force be with you, Tomb Believers! That’s right, at long last we are covering our first ever issue of Marvel’s STAR WARS comics, as part of a special grab bag episode selected entirely by returning guest Andrew Leyland! In addition to STAR WARS vol 1 #45, Andrew has picked out MARVEL TEAM-UP vol 1 # 122, in which ol’ Web-head runs into Man-Thing and a man called Fate (no, not that one) as well as FANTASTIC FOUR vol 1 #274, which checks in on the ever-lovin’ blue eyed Thing during his SECRET WARS-era residency on Battleworld. Be sure to check out Andrew’s fantastic podcasts – Hey Kids, Comics! and The Palace of Glittering Delights over at the Two True Freaks Network and The Overlooked Dark Knight, which he cohosts with Michael Bailey on the Fortress of Baileytude Network! And of course you can send us your comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, you can find us via our Facebook page, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!   

Hello there, darlings…errr, I mean, Hello there, Tomb-Believers! On this episode, James and Trey finally get to talk about the hostess with the most-est, the legendary Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!! That’s right, they’re talking about ONLY Marvel Comic to feature your ghoulish gal pal, MARVEL SPRING SPECIAL #1, otherwise known as the comics adaptation of the 1988 film, well….”ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK”. Joining our drooling duo for this outing is comics writer, director, actor, and all around good guy, David Avallone, writer of Dynamite Entertainment’s recent outings featuring the raven-haired rabble-rouser, including “ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK”, “SHAPE OF ELVIRA”, “ELVIRA MEETS VINCENT PRICE”, and much much more! As always, you can send feedback to [email protected]. Or, you can find us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!

Happy Halloween, Tomb Believers! We know we’re a little early this week, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to celebrate the season (and get in on the CINE-WEEN action) by releasing our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE on Halloween. It was exactly five years ago that we released the first episode of TOMB OF IDEAS. Since then we’ve gone through some changes, but we’re still here talking about our favorite monstrous and spooky comic book stories. In this episode we’re digging into one of the quirkiest moments in comics set around Halloween: the Rutland Halloween Parade comics of the 1970s! This real-world event provided the setting for numerous comics at both Marvel and DC, and we’ll be discussing some of the most notable instances – including the infamous unofficial intercompany crossover! In this episode we are discussing: * AVENGERS vol 1 #83 * MARVEL FEATURE vol 1 #2 (featuring The Defenders) * BATMAN vol 1 #237 * AMAZING ADVENTURES vol 2 #16 * JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA vol 1 #103 * THOR vol 1 #207 For more information on the intersection of comic book creators and the Rutland Halloween Parade (including some really great vintage photos), check out this article over at Comic Book Historians. Thank you so much to all of the people who help make TOMB OF IDEAS possible: Liam and the rest of the team at Cinepunx who have provided a home for the show and help us out when technical issues crop up, all of the wonderful guests who have added their insights, expertise, and humor to our discussions, our families who put up with our needing to devote time and energy into this kooky podcasting thing we do, and of course to all of you who download and listen. We sincerely appreciate your support, and we hope you’ll stick around for the next hundred episodes (and beyond). To reiterate a question posed near the end of the episode: What are your favorite TOMB OF IDEAS moments? Do you have a favorite episode, interview, or story that we have covered? We’d love to hear from you – and read your response on the show! You can send us your answer – along with any other comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Or, you can let us know on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, or even over at Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!

WE’VE DONE IT, TOMB-BELIEVERS James and Trey have reached the final installment of their coverage of the epic 1988 INFERNO crossover! This week, they discuss: X-FACTOR ANNUAL 4 X-FACTOR #40 and WHAT IF V2 #6: WHAT IF THE X-MEN HAD LOST INFERNO? We love getting feedback from listeners – you can send any comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, and of course our brand-new Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social!

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have reached the penultimate installment of our summer(ish)-long INFERNO series! Our special guest this week is friend of the show and New Pulp author extraordinaire Barry Reese! Barry has worked on Marvel Handbooks and Encyclopedias and has also written stories featuring classic pulp characters such as the Avenger and the Green Hornet. Plus he’s the creator of Lazarus Gray, the Peregrine, and the Gravedigger. This week, he’s joining us to discuss: * X-FACTOR #39 * DAMAGE CONTROL #4 * POWER PACK #44 * THE MUTANT MISADVENTURES OF CLOAK & DAGGER #4 You can find Barry’s blog at www.barryreese.net. Also, his latest book THE STRAW-MAN BOOK ONE is out now both in print and ebook formats! We love getting feedback from listeners – you can send any comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, and of course our brand-new Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!

James and Trey continue their Inferno coverage as they welcome comics and video game writer extraordinaire, David Gallaher to the podcast to talk about: Uncanny X-Men 242 X-Factor 38 Spectacular Spider-Man 148 Uncanny X-Men 243 Send comments, questions, or other feedback to [email protected]. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, and of course our brand-new Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL-sior!!!