Kodansha Comics

4-Panel 29 – Old Man Astroboy

Archaeon 10/10/2015

This week Warner Bros. announce a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle movie, Scholastic decide to publish DC’s Secret Hero Society, Marvel give Mary Jane Watson an “unexpected” role in Iron Man, Batman fights institutionalised racism and manga series March Comes Like A Lion will be adapted for anime and as a live-action […]

4-Panel 27 – Beat Thanos With Zappy Dubstep

Archaeon 26/09/2015

4-Panel returns to deliver your weekly dose of comics, manga and graphic novels. This week’s news includes supervillains quoting politicians, more cast members for the Doctor Strange movie, NHK’s behind-the-scenes manga documentary series featuring Naoki Uresawa, and all sorts of other stuff. Our featured comics and manga are Robocop Versus […]

4-Panel 26 – Babysitting Galactus

Archaeon 13/09/2015

This week we discuss Marvel’s variant covers featuring cosplayers, the possibility that George Miller could direct Man of Steel 2, a sequel to the manga series Fruits Basket, Batman-themed burgers and more. Our featured comics and manga are Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches volume 2, and we return once more […]

4-Panel 25 – A Batman By Any Other Name

Archaeon 01/09/2015

This week we take a look at the newly released pictures of Jay Garrick – the latest addition to the upcoming second season of The Flash, John Constantine appearing in the Arrow TV series, Marvel’s “ressurection” of Devil Dinosaur and a whole lot of tangents. Our featured comics and manga […]

4-Panel 24 – Marvel's Sugar Daddy

Archaeon 24/08/2015

With the poor reception of the new Fantastic Four movie we kick things off this week with director Josh Trank’s comments about the film he made, Fox’s desire for an X-Men TV series, a new Baccano! manga series and more. Our featured comics and manga are “Giant-Sized” Little Marvel: Avengers […]

4-Panel 24 – Marvel’s Sugar Daddy

Archaeon 24/08/2015

With the poor reception of the new Fantastic Four movie we kick things off this week with director Josh Trank’s comments about the film he made, Fox’s desire for an X-Men TV series, a new Baccano! manga series and more. Our featured comics and manga are “Giant-Sized” Little Marvel: Avengers […]

4-Panel 23 – Animoos and Mangos

Archaeon 09/08/2015

We kick things off this week with news about Marvel’s “resurrection” of Hercules and The Black Knight – both of whom are getting their own series., Batman teaming up with Deadshot, the start of the UK’s Manga Jiman competition and more. Our featured comics and manga are “What If” The […]

4-Panel 22 – Green Lanterns Should Be 5 Years-Old

Archaeon 05/08/2015

On this week’s show we discuss the new superhero comedy move Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, the Wynonna Earp TV series, the possibility of an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover movie and more. Our featured comics and manga are Spiderman and the X-Men, X-Statix, Hail Hydra, Suicide Squad, Secret Wars: Siege, Guardians […]

4-Panel 14 – Apparently Fiendship is Also Magic

Archaeon 24/05/2015

We’ve got yet another eccentric mix of comics and manga on the show this week, including Secret Wars, The Power of Tank Girl, Spider-Woman, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume 6, My Little Pony: Fiendship is Magic (that’s not a spelling error either – it really does say fiendship), Chrononauts, […]

4-Panel 13 – Free Comic Book Day 2016

Archaeon 16/05/2015

Free Comic Book Day rolls around again and as always there were quite a few interesting titles, introductions and side-stories to be had including Divergence, The Savage Dragon, Mercury Heat, Sonic the Hedgehog/Megaman, 2000 A.D., Secret Wars (which contained the Avengers/Attack on Titan crossover short), and Kodansha’s sample collection (containing […]