The Book Was Better Episode 138: Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer (with guest host Courtney)

This week we subject our fool selves to the novelization of not-so-fantastic sequel Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer! And joining me is super-powered team member Courtney Coulson as we get to the bottom of what this film is really about. There is plenty of speculation and sixties comic book knowledge along the way - devour it like a hungry cloud!

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FPcast for August 10 2015: Fantastic Four!

This week we review the beleaguered Josh Trank's gutted and pasted back together adaptation of Marvel's Fantastic Four. (Fantastic 4? Fant4stic?). Plus we settle the score on the Kermit and Piggy break up, talk about Vin Diesel's latest potatoey venture and probably a whole lot more!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for February 2nd 2015! Pop Culture Fight Night!

This week we get liquored up and tackle pop culture's three greatest controversies (for the past week)! The ALL FEMALE Ghostbusters, the Fantastic Four reboot, and Adam Baldwin's invite to Supanova! Will we get to the truth or will we descend into rambling incoherence? Only one way to find out...

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for February 24th! Pop Culture Art!

This week we delve into our favourite pop culture art books! We are cultured and sophisticated! We also talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, Fantastic Four casting, and crappy X-Men photo shoots! And squirrels and elephants that can paint! And probably some other stuff! This thing belongs in your ears! Put it there!

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Join The Realm!

You are no doubt aware that we are mere days away from the return of Game of Thrones, and as if the excitement and interest among fans wasn't already huge, HBO have set up a house sigil generator so we can MAKE OUR OWN HOUSE SIGILS. If that isn't the best thing you've heard in the last few days, then you must lead a very exciting life. Why aren't you out skydiving right now?

Anyway, this thing is fun. A lot of fun. You can check it out at Join The Realm, but good luck trying to make something better than MY house sigil:

Batnicorns. I wanted to still keep the Baratheon feel, but Batnicorns are pretty much 1000% better than deer. Head below the cut to see what pop culture favourites I was able to stretch the limited palette to encompass.

The Book Was Better Podcast: Episode 7: Fantastic Four!

This episode we audibly groan at the incredulously extra dumbed-down junior novel version of cheap-looking superhero movie The Fantastic Four. So stop acting like a HOT-head and STRETCH yourself to listen to this ROCKing podcast before it FADES away. Yes. The whole episode is like that.

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Hosts: Jessica McLeod and Luke Milton

Fantastic Four 9: Redrawn!

Jason Young is commissioning contemporary comic artists to redraw issue number 9 of Fantastic Four!

The original cover