May 15, 2019

It’s a list of things! This week, Mr Sunday Movies and Maso welcomed Andrew Levins into their brand new man cave* to pick apart poke-blockbuster, Detective Pikachu.

Part of his very own podcast multiverse, Levins co-hosts Hey Fam & Serious Issues on the network and it’s no surprise The Weekly Planet boys have crossed over multiple times to chat Marvel, DC & the band Kiss’s comics.

So just for you, here’s some ‘What We Readin’ to deep dive into! Plus be sure to head over to our NEW Facebook group to chat red hot comic book news with Andrew ‘Dadmin’ Levins, James, Maso and now almost 6,000 mates – Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Official.

The Latest: Detective Pikachu is…

This week! Detective Pikachu! And more Endgame breaks records! And another Fast Furious spin-off! And a Spider-Man trailer! And an IT trailer! And Suicide Squad casting! And a Watchmen trailer! And also Disney’s new slate.

And that’s all the things. Thanks for the support.

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Blade Scrubber

It’s an extra special MEGA EPISODE where The Weekly Planet’s own Nick Mason joins Levins to discuss brand new issues of Spider-Gwen, Books of Magic, Black Panther vs Deadpool, Judge Dredd and more.

Levins is then immediately teleported to Kings Comics in Sydney to finish the rest of this week’s new comics with Siobhan!

Bloodshorts

The Weekly Planet’s own Mr Sunday Movies joins Levins for a look at last week’s new number ones, featuring reviews of Justice League of America, Kingpin and whatever the hell Fathom is.

THEN, Siobhan is joined by fan favourite Nachopop for their top five books of last week!

Are Movies Better than the Comics?

Levins makes the case for there being no comic book adaptation better than the movie!

Plus we talk Fast and Furious spin-off, Avatar sequels, Ripley’s return to the Alien franchise, trailers for Krypton and Cloak and Dagger, Lock and Key, more X-Men films, Will Smith as the Genie in Aladdin, Batgirl casting and Kylo Ren’s scar in The Last Jedi.

Hey! You’ve made it this far down the page, that’s pretty cool. Thank you. There’s also a video clip from this episode – available here.

Number Ones

Nick Mason returns to review mostly terrible number ones from DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW and more!

Also reviewed: Warren Ellis and Ian Masters’ recent excellent James Bond series for Dynamite, and a long discussion of Timothy Dalton’s James Bond movies that nobody asked for.

Serious Planet

Stuck in Melbourne, Levins is forced to record an episode with one of the hosts of an infinitely more popular podcast than Serious Issues: Nick Mason from The Weekly Planet!

Together they review MOST of the latest comics, plus Siobhan makes a little cameo.

Patreon Exclusive: Best/Worst Movie Video Game Adaptations

Chuck in a buck for the first ever Caravan of Garbage live! To James & Maso’s surprise, people actually turned up to this recording from PAX Australia in October 2018 and it was a great fun time.

Joined by Levins once more who was kind enough to set everything up, the boys chat games inspired by movies and whether they’re ever any good.

Aladdin! Batman! Captain America! Cheese Sticks! Does Kingdom Hearts count? Star Wars! The Warriors! The Matrix! Riddick for some reason!

Plus so much more in a very clean (shaven) audio version available at patreon.com/mrsundaymovies or even click the pic below to grab dat gem.

Chuck in a buck! If you want.

*regular room