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Well as Valentine’s Day approaches Leland and Spooky wanted to show their support for “Single Awareness Day” by doing a romantic comedy. But we do it up Movie Issues style, by taking you way back to 1984 to watch Dolly Parton teach Sylvester Stallone how to become a country western singer in the movie Rhinestone. [...]

It’s officially the one-year anniversary of Comic Issues. Join our heroes as they take on the past, reliving the funnier moments of Comic Issues. Also in this episode we hit up the Blind Question: where we each come up with a question for one of our heroes. Not to spoil the fun, but there are [...]

A single beautiful year ago 4 friends got together to record a podcast that was the essence of so many late night diner adventures together.  By combining topical geek news stories, fantastical and impossible“what if” scenarios, and cutting wit that only friends could withstand, Comic Issues was born. Now coming up on a full [...]

We met with Able Planet at CES 2012 and got a quick preview of their upcoming BT400 True Fidelity® Bluetooth Sport Headset. Recently, Able Planet sent me a unit to test for myself. The BT400 is an ultra-light, compact headset using Bluetooth for its audio connection. There are no other inputs aside from the port [...]

This week is just chock-full of celebration, as this Thursday at midnight marks the release of the 3D version of The Phantom Menace. We’ll be there at Edward’s Mira Mesa interviewing and talking with you the fans. In the spirit of Star Wars, our crew took on the challenge to draw your favorite Star Wars [...]

Yesterday the ultimate team was assembled. Not the New York Giants sort of team; more the“Earth’s mightiest heroes” sort. While John Stamos was certainly my favorite commercial, the Avengers certainly blew Battleship out of the water. Though Ant-Man sized at only thirty seconds long, the trailer was still impressive,showing our heroes ready to fight [...]

Harry Potter’s fought a lot of crazy stuff while at Hogwarts, but now school’s over and there’s no hocus pocus left to get him out of a jam. Yeah I know The Woman in Black isn’t another Harry Potter sequel, but I can’t help it, Daniel Redcliffe has been Harry Potter for a decade. Now [...]

Well it was bound to happen sooner than later. This week the boys decided to go down memory lane and revisit Howard the Duck, the infamous 1986 film that is widely considered one of the worst movies in Hollywood history. Join us, as we discuss why it’s not that bad: lots of Lea Thompson love [...]

Join me on this horribly imaginary journey. The most important thing in the last 12 minutes of your life just happened and you just have to post it on facebook! You reach for your phone only to find that the battery is dead! You could use your computer to provide your information-ally starved facebook friends of the cute cat video you found or the copy and pasted chain mail/status that just arrived, but who uses computers anymore?!? They are archaic machines used by old fogies who think the internet is made of tubes! Whatever shall you do?!

There has always been the power of myth. Though there is one man without whom we would never would have been given A New Hope in the movie industry. This week on Comic Issue,s our heroes talk about the man behind Star Wars and some of our other favorite films: George Lucas. With the recent [...]