Comic shop reviews with sharp teeth.
The Crypt Cast is a comic book review show rooted in shop-counter energy, sharp jokes, and real-time reader reactions. Mike and Brian move from craft talk to wild plot details without losing the practical feel of new comic day.
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The Crypt Cast is built around the rhythm of a comic shop conversation. Mike and Brian record from inside the Comic Crypt in Eatontown, New Jersey, and their reviews keep that local-counter texture instead of smoothing it into formal criticism. The show is funny first, but not only funny. It can spend several minutes on a ridiculous sex-comedy beat from Sex Criminals Volume 1, then shift into how Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's collaboration shapes the book's timing. The reviews are full of specific scenes, strange reveals, and reader reactions. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow gets a more somber treatment, with attention to Tom King's narration device, Bilquis Evely's art, Mateus Lopez's color work, and the emotional weight of scenes involving injury and helplessness. The speakers notice craft without pretending the room is a seminar. A painful panel can land hard, and Flarg can still become the thing everyone remembers. That balance is the show's appeal. It lets comics be moving, absurd, messy, and hilarious in the same breath. The episode on Picture It! Prom Night 1997 shows the same instinct from another angle, following loops of murder, survival, monsters, future versions of characters, and the logic of inevitable disaster. The speakers also answer reader-style questions about infamous storylines, using examples such as One More Day and All-Star Batman and Robin as prompts for bigger comic-culture arguments. There is a lot of Marvel and DC language in the air, especially in the recurring rap-style closings packed with X-Men, Superman, Punisher, Dark Phoenix, and Mr. Sinister references. The pace is loose, direct, and often rowdy. Still, the commentary keeps returning to concrete evidence from the book: narration, pacing, art, shock value, emotional payoff, and whether another issue is worth picking up. The Crypt Cast suits readers who like their comic analysis opinionated, unpolished in the right places, and grounded in the actual experience of reading the book.
Made for: For comic readers who like candid book reviews, creator talk, continuity references, and messy plot breakdowns delivered with shop-counter energy.
What sets it apart: The show blends local comic shop banter with close attention to panels, narration, art, and emotional beats. It can joke hard without flattening the books it reviews.
A podcast for comic book fans by your friendly neighborhood local comic shop guys trying to give you a little taste of new comic day. In each episode we talk comic books and all the wonderful and terrible things that come with them.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A lively review of Sex Criminals Volume 1 that leans into its weird, crude humor.
The episode treats Sex Criminals Volume 1, One Weird Trick as a comic built on sex jokes, awkward confession, and a time-stopping premise, and that framing gives the discussion its shape.
A sharp, emotionally grounded review that gives the book its due without overhyping it.
CryptCast treats Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow as a book worth serious attention, and it stays with the reasons it works. The hosts spend time on Tom King’s framing device, the 8-issue structure, and the way grief, rescue, and grim determination shape the story, so the praise…
A comic-shop conversation about infamous stories, shocking turns, and why some notorious comics still invite debate.
CryptCast uses this installment to circle comic-book infamy, with Matt's question about notorious stories opening into a discussion of bold swings, backlash, and whether some reputations are earned.
Comics talk with issue-by-issue memory.
Continuity arguments at Marvel speed.
Comics talk with memory, tangents, and teeth.
The Crypt Cast reviews Shadecraft Vol.
The hosts discuss what the comic industry needs, focusing on leadership, coherent direction, and reducing gimmicks like excessive variant covers.
John’s first orgasms create “Cumworld,” and he starts using time-stops to burgle sex shops.
The Crypt Cast reviews Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Mateus Lopez, covering all 8 issues published in 2021 and 2022.
Brian and Mike open with a listener question about infamous comic arcs, then focus on Scott Summers, Madeline Pryor, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost as the clearest example of reputation outrunning the page.