Running On Rooftops: The Comic Book Adaptation Podcast

Sad news everyone. After running for nearly 5 years, we are pulling the plug on Running on Rooftops. Darryl and Phil take a run down memory lane, reminiscing about our favorite episode titles and podcasts. We also come clean about things going on behind the scenes.  Thank you for listening, no matter how long you've been  The Podcast is shutting down, but it's not the end of content. Please stay subscribed to the feed and our Facebook groups for updates on our next projects What we're planning in the future. Stay subcribed to this feed for more updates. 00:00 - Intro 00:21 - Is this the End of Running on Rooftops? 08:14 - Episode 111, a nice odd number 15:15 - Top 5 Episode Titles. Oh, the vanity 22:45 - Darryl's favorite RoR Episode 25:51 - Phil's Favorite RoR Episode 30:22 - Is this the end of the episode? No, it's not. 36:29- The Outro that is our Intro. You'll get it 39:23 - Zack Snyder edits the podcast? He has a personal cut?   Support The Show! Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes Facebook - www.

Darryl and Phil review Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel movie eleven years in the making. We discuss all the highly anticipated plot points in this surprisingly this love letter to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  After a quick spoiler-free discussion, we talk about the main cast and how their stories resolve. We then look into the future of the MCU, given what we know, about upcoming movies and Disney+.  How much satisfaction and joy could two people get coming from watching the movie? Listen and find out! Time Codes 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:53 - What Avengers: Endgame means to the MCU 00:03:55 - Spoiler-Free Review and Ratings 00:11:01 - Show Support 00:12:15 - Spoiler Space 00:13:09 - Joyful Moments 00:25:00 - Time Travel 00:36:38 - Character Development 00:55:39 - A-Force Future? 00:56:58 - Passing of the Gauntlet 00:00:00 - Not My Thanos 01:01:42 - AVENGERS... Assemble. 01:02:31 - The Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 01:13:07 - Outro Ratings Avengers: Endgame Darryl: A Phil: A+ References Age of

New Show. New Schedule. New naming scheme. Welcome to the first episode of Season 5 of Running on Rooftops! We are catching up to all* the Marvel and DC movies we missed since we last recorded, as well as review the newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain Marvel. New Schedule Similar to our plans for last season, we are aiming for 2 episodes a month.  The goal is to release one movie-related episode a month. When we started Running on Rooftops in 2015, the landscape of comic book TV shows was quite different. Four years later, there's over 3 times the amount of shows available on multiple platforms, and it has gotten too difficult to keep up with everything. We still like podcasting and while there are too many shows, there relatively fewer movies.  By focusing on movie reviews, we can deliver more content with less stress. For the second episode of the month, anything goes! We looked back at all the different types of podcasts we've produced since 2015, and asked ourselves "What have we mos

Phil sprints through the biggest movie in the world, Avengers: Infinity War. He shares all his initial reactions in part one of our coverage of the movie. He also asks the question we are all wondering, What is up with Thanos and bubbles? Phil also predicts what will happen in the next two Marvel movies, Ant-Man & the Wasp, and Captain Marvel, as well as predicting what will happen in the next Avengers movie. Let us know what you all think of the movie.   00:00- Intro 00:51- Part one 01:35 - Spoiler-free review 06:01- Ratings 11:25 - Spoiler space 13:09 - Thanos 19:39 - Heroes Dilmena 25:24 - Phil predicts what Avengers 4 will be like 30:46 - Before Avengers 4 35:12 - Outro Ratings Avengers: Infinity War Phil (Pure Movie Score): A- Phil (Marvel Movie Score):  A References Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

Darryl and Phil discuss the monumental 1000th issue of Action Comics. We discuss the issue 80 years in the making by going over our favorite stories and covers in this momentous anthology issue. We also talk about the differences between the digital and print issues as well the future of Superman under famed Marvel creator Brian Michael Bendis. 00:00-Intro 00:51- What is the 1000th issue? 03:41 - The significance of Action Comics #1000 11:28- The future of action comics with Brian Michael Bendis 16:25- Favorite variant cover 21:36- Favorite stories 36:17- Bendis and the truth 49:06- Action Comics #1000 is too good to rate 50:06- Outro References Variant Covers Brian Michael Bendis Joins DC Comics Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

Jessica Jones is back!  Darryl gives his spoiler-free thoughts on Jessica Jones Season 2. This season has a fairly slow beginning. Jessica is dealing with the aftermath of killing Killgrave, and it's known by the public that she's the one that's responsible for it. This is largely thanks to Trish, who is using her talk show to highlight powered heroes and starting to investigate the people who gave Jessica powers. Also investigating is Malcolm, who is now sober, and is working closely with Jessica and picking her up off the floor each morning. Hogarth has her own arc that runs parallel to main cast's this season. Killgrave leaves a large hole to fill in the cast. In the first season, when he wasn't on the screen, you would be asking "Where's Killgrave?" or "Is this person mind controlled"? It really picks up when the main antagonists are brought forward. Then the questions you ask are, "How did this person get to this point"? and "what does this mean for Jessica"? Some characters make really frustrating choic

We are joined by Maxine and Mark Moore for a rousing discussion on Black Panther. We give our spoiler-free impressions of the latest Marvel Studios film, which continues their streak of great superhero movies. We then have a long conversation about the characters, the influence of the movie on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the cultural impact this movie will have. Where does Samuel L. Jackson fit in this movie? Is the last Infinity Stone is tied into the Vibranium mound? How many opinions were changed over the course of the episode? Listen and find out! Interested in following our guests? Mark  - Twitter, Instagram, Website Maxine - Twitter, Instagram, Website Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Introduction of Guests 02:31 - Spoiler Free Review 29:14 - Spoiler Space 30:35 - Queen Ramonda 31:36 - No Nick Fury? 36:02 - Prince N'Jobu 37:28 - Killmonger 44:44 - M'Baku 46:55 - Shuri and T'Challa 50:16 - MCU Going Forward 1:02:15 - Behind the Scenes of the Movie 1:04:54 - Audience Reactions 1:07:07 - Powerful/

We review the first half of  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5.  The Agents are in Space, and they have a whole nother group of issues they have to fix.  We review our overall impressions of this half of the season, discuss time travel, theorize how this season ties into Avengers: Infinity War, and speculate on the show's future. While they are dealing with a futuristic dystopia, it's  still the quality show we've learned to love over 4 seasons. 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 So Far 07:39 - Got Better with each Episode 11:05 - Fitz and Simmons

Black Lightning Phil and Darryl are back together, and charged up for the newest show from the CW! We review Black Lightning, a comic book superhero from DC Comics that doesn't take place in the Arrow universe. Unexpectedly, this show really benefits from this. How could this be? Listen and find out! The next podcast episode will be the week of Feb. 5. Enjoy the next 2 weeks! 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - Both Hosts together again and it feels so good! 02:12 - Black Lightning Episode 1 Review 09:05 - Black Lightning/ Jefferson Pierce 16:06 - Gambi 22:20 - Anissa & Jennifer 31:22 - Tobias and fighting the Baddies 34:41 - Looking Forward to the Rest of the Season 38:48 - Ratings 43:25 - Outro Ratings Black Lightning - S1.E1 The Resurrection Darryl: A Phil: A- References IMBD Geek History Lesson on Black Lightning Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

  Welcome to 2018! Phil is back on track and ready for action with a review of Runaways Season 1. He then goes to his best movies, TV shows, and comics of 2017. There were some microphone issues this week, but we should be back to normal when we review the new theCW superhero show: Black Lightning! 00:00:- Intro 00:53- Phil is back 02:34- Marvel's Runaways Season 1 Review 16:00- Ratings 16:48- Best of 2017 23:50- Outro Ratings Marvel's Runaways Season 1 Phil: A References *Snikt!* One Last Time (Logan) TAROR #22 What A Wondrous Podcast! (Wonder Woman)  TAROR #33 Well.. Some of it was Real (Legion Season 1)  TAROR #27 So Many Arrows! (Arrow Season 5 Recap) TAROR #30 Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

Merry Christmas! In honor of the holiday where friends and family come together, Darryl reviews Marvel's Runaways, Hulu's new teen drama in which a group of teens finds out their parents are horrible supervillains. He covers his overall thoughts on the show, and the interesting adaptation choices Marvel chose to add. This show focuses on a group of former childhood friends that drifted apart after one of their group died, Alex, one of the teens, tries to get the group back together when their parents have an annual meeting for their Charity. The teens see their parents do something horrible and... Runaway from home, while developing special abilities and tools they didn't know they had. This definitely feels like a teen show. When Gert was talking about her club, I just realized how long it's been since I thought about homeroom.  I enjoy the characters so far and I'm excited to see where they end up. If teen shows are not your thing, it's fair if you do not want to try it, but I would give it a chance. I woul

Running on Rooftops Episode 100! We are going to take a look at the Tv show that influenced most of the shows that cover, as well as the show that is referenced almost every podcast episode: Smallville. 0:07:15 - Bad The show has not aged well - Some of the choices in music and effects are fairly cheezy in retrospect. Bad Character Writing -  A lot of this comes from how long Smallville ran, but many of the characters felt poorly used. Lana remained on the show for far too long. Jor-El and his overpowered shenanigans got very tiresome. Pete Ross was done a disservice. Finally, never forget "Henry James Olson". Smallville Season 8 - The number of missteps in this season almost made Darryl drop watching Smallville entirely 0:18:11 - Good The acting wasn't as bad in retrospect - Michael Rosenbaum was overall one of the better actors. His portrayal of Lex was a delight to see for seven seasons. John Glover's Lionel Luther was a fantastic villain for most of his time on the show. The Kents were way better paren

Phil delivers a stripped down version of the podcast this week, as he ranks the last two weeks of DC shows on theCW. Then he gives his impression on the first few episodes of The Gifted. Sorry for all the technical difficulties, but stay subscribed for our 100th episode next week. 00:00:20 - Phil's Technical Difficulties 00:01:47 - Rankings for theCW Premieres 00.00.0 - Rankings for theCW shows for the week of 10/15/17 00:11:35 - The Gifted 00:15:30 - Question of the Week 00:16:48 - Outro Question of the Week Which one of the Legends powers would you want to have? Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

The Fall 2017 season kicked off on theCW last week and Darryl is here to give his opinion on who came back the best. Darryl ranks the 4 returning shows  (not counting Riverdale) Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Supergirl. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:21 - #4 00:02:49 - #3 00:04:45 - #2 00:06:15 - #1 00:08:30 - Outro Ratings Supergirl The Flash Arrow Legends of Tomorrow References Subscribe on Android Subscribe on iTunes

Darryl is running solo this episode as he reviews the new Marvel TV Show "The Gifted" The Strucker Family What surprised me the most I'm not hating the kids. Lauren is a good elder sibling,  Andy was not the worst. It's also nice that the family isn't completely dysfunctional.  The parents were a little less interesting. The mom is a bit stereotypical, but the Dad's dynamic as a former part of the mutant-hunting division, now trying to save his mutant kids has potential. Mutant Underground I'm a bit surprised that Blink is used as our introduction to the Mutant Underground, but not as surprising after the fact. She was a character in the X-Men Mega Event "Age Of Apocalypse" where she was a fairly green character. However, I know her the most from the long-running Exiles comic (One of my favorite comics series BTW), where she ended up leading the team. Polaris is in an interesting position, both in her adaptation and her position in the story  She may be the most high profile character from the comics, but she

Welcome to Season 4! Welcome to Season 4 of Running on Rooftops. If this is your first episode, Darryl and Phil are two guys that enjoy comic books and the media they are adapted to. We will be here every week to rate and review comic book tv shows and movies. There's a lot of new events ahead that we will cover this year, like Gifted, the Justice League movie and the CW four-way crossover "Crisis on Earth X". We are a spoiler-filled podcast, meaning we like to discuss the source materials for the shows we cover. So be warned, and feel free to skip around. In this episode, we cover the two-part premiere of the new ABC Series Marvel's Inhumans, and the first 2 episodes of Gotham season 4 Marvel's Inhumans This show raises a lot of questions. The biggest question being: why should we care about the Inhuman Royal Family? Something just seems off about the show, but I can see them trying to build to something epic. Overall, it does not quite meet the expectations for a show that premiered in IMAX theatres. Gotham

Darryl and guest host Joe take a first look take our first look at Netflix mini series: The Defenders. This is the series we've been waiting for since this podcast started, and it does not disappoint. We give our spoiler free impressions on the first three episodes of The Defenders, then we discuss the four main characters and villains in Spoiler Space. How satisfying were the fights? Which characters worked surprisingly well together? Listen and find out! This episode was recorded the premiere weekend of the show, (8/19/2017) so forgive any outdated comments! Check out our coverage on the other members of the Defenders: Daredevil - #NinjaFatigue (Daredevil Season 2) -IROR #39 Jessica Jones -AKA Phil needs to watch more Jessica Jones (Jessica Jones): IROR #10 Luke Cage - Sweet Christmas Day (International Podcast Day 2016, Luke Cage Episode 1) : TAROR #2 Iron Fist - Wait, What's your Name? (Iron Fist Spoiler Free Early Thoughts) : TAROR #24  Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 11:58 -  Episode one concerns Spoiler

Spider-Man: Homecoming Darryl and Phil review Spider-Man: Homecoming, the joint release from Marvel and Sony.  We reflect on the past few iterations of Spider-Man movies, talk about a basketful of Easter eggs, and gush about Tom Holland and Micheal Keaton. Spider-Man is finally in the Marvel Cinematic Universe everyone. Let's Celebrate! This episode is also our final episode in our Totally Awesome season. Thanks for sticking with us for another season.  There may be a few episodes here or there this summer, but be ready for new, regular episodes  near the end of September 2017.     Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - Where Have we Been? 03;00 - Spoiler Free Review 31:40 - Ratings 33:43 - Spoiler Space 34:25 - Donald Glover 35:27 - One of Our Favorite Moments/ Twists 41:30 - Ned 47:09 - Tony and Happy 55:18 - One of Our Least Favorite Moments 01:10:20 - Outro Ratings Spider-Man: Homecoming Darryl: B+ Phil: B+ References Spider-Man Homecoming on IMDB The broken timeline on SlashFilm http://www.cbr.com/roll-cal

Phil Sprints through the season 3 finale of iZombie. Was it bigger? Badder? Zombier? Listen to find out. Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Phil is back 01:12 - Season finale Review 11:20 - Ratings 12:40 - Outro Ratings Finale Phil: A- Season 3 Phil: A- References

Gotham Season 3 Review Let's get started by talking about the season three finale of Gotham, Heavy Dirty Soul.  Not sure if it's a reference to something but things got pretty heavy, things got pretty dirty and weren't terribly soulful. This finale was pretty effective in wrapping up all the various plots from this past season. We had all of Al Tetch's blood coming into fruition in the whole virus plot. All of Nygma's as well as the Penguin's  various plots came to an end.  Finally, we have all of the Court of Owl stuff wrapped up in the previous episode, as well as the League of  Shadows being introduced. Quality Content in the Finale Ra's Al Ghul was pretty good. He seemed like a pretty spot on depiction. Not a fan of the whole prophecy angle for Batman coming about or Bruce's special destiny or whatever. I do think it's a pretty spot-on looking Ra's. The whole Tabitha and Selina starting to work together thing was a good choice. Another positive thing would be the end of the whole Penguin and Riddler story