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Helping new, lapsed, and long-time comic readers discover new characters, stories, and creators.

Episodes

  • 36: T-Shirt and Jeans Look

    15/06/2015 Duration: 01h07min

    In framing a conversation with writer Greg Pak about the new direction for Superman in Action Comics (as well as his new creator-owned project The Princess Who Saved Herself), we find ourselves also indulging in preaching  the gospel of Adam Warlock. In our conversation with Greg, we look at the importance of "bold, different takes", going back not only to his work on Hulk (Planet- and  World War- specifically) and Adam Warlock, but also the major influence of Bill Mantlo's legendary work on Hulk and Micronauts. Brought to you by... * IDW: In two weeks, long-time My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic  writer (and someimtes also artist) Katie Cooke will be our guest on our Giant Size Comicpalooza 2015 Special. The latest issue of MLP is out this week, as is the six issue of Zombies vs Robots, which completes the backup story written by Steve Niles and drawn by firend-of-the show Val Mayerik.

  • 35: Slap-in-the-Mouth Guarantee

    21/05/2015 Duration: 01h04min

    In the first installment of a new recurring series, we recommend great, currently running reads that we've never discussed on the show. Brought to you by * IDW: with a wide array of great new releases this week, among others... o Locke & Key Master Edition Hardcover Vol 1 o Donald Duck #1 o Mark Waid’s Insufferable #1 and Empire: Uprising #2 o Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective Agency #1 o Transformers: Treasury Edition o Jem and the Holograms #3

  • 34: Reading Orders

    28/04/2015 Duration: 43min

    ComiXology co-founders David Steinberger and John D. Roberts join us for an annual check-in, discussing library expansion, the changes post-Amazon acquisition, and the possibility of new UI/UX features in the future. Brought to you by * IDW: New issues of Jem and the Holograms, Judge Dredd, and Teenage Murtant Ninja Turtles, and many more are on stands just in time for this weekend's Free COmic Book Day. Revisit a property like these, or try something completely different. Take risks this FCBD!

  • 33: Heart and Soul

    21/04/2015 Duration: 01h14min

    In our first-annual STAPLE Special, we dive into some of our mutual comfort foods: autobiographical and otherwise-great indie comics. Intercut throughout are interviews with an all-star, all-woman super-team lineup of comics creators. Brought to you by * IDW: Add Weird Love to your pull list and add a splash of weird romance comics from the past to your diet that are guaranteed to entertain and delight (and horrify)!

  • 32: Every Flavor is Chocolate!

    28/03/2015 Duration: 36min

    In the Epilogue to our comprehensive, decades-spanning, senses-altering  Crossover Event(s), we each name the five events from each publisher we would "save", were we forced to choose. Stay tuned for a shocking conclusion in the conclusion that will change the way you judge us...FOREVER. * Crossovers Epic Event: Epilogue Brought to you by * IDW: Jem and the Holograms #1 is out now. Grab the first printing of this sure-to-sell-out-hit from writer Kelly Thompson and art by John's fellow SCAD alum Sophie Campbell, whom we discuss at the beginning of this episode.

  • 31: This Hero Must Die!

    20/03/2015 Duration: 01h40min

    The Crossover Crisis War(s) experience is consummated with a dive from AvX  and its Consequences (without ruining it for you) through the recently-concluded AXIS. * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 8 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Want some less-gritty, more-fun stuff appropriate for all ages?  Powerpuff Girls Smash-Up #3 (of 6) and Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland #4 fit the bill. If you prefer gritty and violent, Judge Dredd #28 will suit you nicely. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44 is a landmark issue in that series. Avoid spoilers and pick it up if you've EVER been a Turtles fan.

  • 30: Beyond Continuity Porn

    13/03/2015 Duration: 01h25min

    Do our hosts come to blows over heroes coming to blows in Civil War?! Who will leave this battle "WWH Champion"? Have one or both of us been Skrulls  the whole time? Find out as we take race across the Rainbow Bridge and out of dark-gritty-dark-darkness, toward The Heroic Age! * Crossovers Crossover Epic Event: Part 7 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Godzilla - Cataclysm posits the idea that all these monsters caused a global...cataclysm...and follows that destruction. The first volume TPB drops on 24 March 2015, so get this Cullen Bunn + Dave Wachter goodness pre-ordered!

  • 29: Doctor Strange Explains It All

    09/03/2015 Duration: 01h23min

    In the aftermath of the 90's and Marvel's bankruptcy, a classic is sequelized, Earth becomes a penal colony for the rest of the galaxy, and Brian Michael Bendis kicks off the modern era of line-wide, connecting crossovers. * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 6 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Louise Simonson's Super Secret Crisis War vol.2 TPB is out soon, as is the third issue of the five-issue Star Trek/Planet of the Apes series.

  • 28: Chain Mail and a Bomber Jacket

    28/02/2015 Duration: 01h12min

    The trilogy of Infinity Something crossovers (Gauntlet, War, and Crusade) and the rest of the Events of the 1990's employ "crossover tactics" seen in Marvel events through the present. Say "hello" and at once (in many ways) "good riddance" to the 90's! * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 5 of 8 Brought to you by * Cards Against Humanity: all-powerful despots we can only stop if they, ultimately, are the engineers of their own undoing.

  • 27: The Experience Has Been Consummated!

    20/02/2015 Duration: 01h12min

    In an episode where we cover both parts of Secret Wars, you'll be amazed at which Marvel crossover we declare the most influential and important to Marvel history in the years leading up to Infinity Gauntlet.   * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 4 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Popeye Classics is the only place you can find Sweet Pea asking for (and receiving!) his first firearm from Popeye and Olive Oyl!

  • 26: Heroes Punching Each Other

    13/02/2015 Duration: 01h02min

    In the first of more parts than we planned, we lay the foundation and start into Marvel Comics crossovers, looking at what a crossover really is (and isn't, and is/isn't perceived to be), including how Marvel invented them (no, seriously).   * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 3 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Transformers vs. G.I. Joe is like your childhood play with an unlimited budget!

  • 25.5: A Game for Children

    05/02/2015 Duration: 46min

    Recorded after our two-part discussion of DC crossover events, this would usually go in the "extras" feed, but this is a major crossover event, so we're including this tie-in that you didn't ask for along with everything else in your subscription box. Play along with the Marvel Trivia game to tide you over until the next thrilling installment (no fair Googling!).   * Crossovers Epic Event: (Non-Canonical, Inessential, but Fun!) Part 2.5 of 8

  • 25: End of the Universe

    31/01/2015 Duration: 58min

    The second part of our intra-show crossover event covering DC and Marvel crossover events (all of them), takes us from Zero Hour (1994) to the New52-generating Flashpoint (2011).  * Crossovers Epic Event: Part 2 of 8 Brought to you by * IDW: Sam Kieth's The MAXX: Maxximized is being lovingly remastered and reprinted (vol1/vol2, vol3 drops on 10 February 2015). Looking for something kid-friendly? Powerpuff Girls: Super-Smash-Up! is a five-issue miniseries starting this week!

  • 24: Your World is Going to be Destroyed!

    29/01/2015 Duration: 57min

    The first part of our intra-show crossover event covering DC and Marvel crossover events (all of them), starting with DC's "Big Bang" that set their standard, Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985). We leave you hanging off the cliff just before Zero Hour (1994). Part 2 posts tomorrow.  Crossovers Crossover Epic Part 1 of ????

  • 23: All-New Secret Age of Infinity Crossover War CrisisPoint Convergence

    25/01/2015 Duration: 12min

    We dispel some misconceptions about this week's major Secret Wars  announcement from Marvel and tease our podcast-redefining, multi-episode, intra-show-crossover event, where we will do an overview of major crossover events at DC and Marvel since they began back in the 1970's. Audio Quality Notice: This short bonus episode was recorded over tethered LTE with Skype calling John's cellphone, with him literally "phoning it in", but in peak form. * Crossovers Epic Event: Prologue to the 8-Part Extravaganza

  • 22: Super-Powered Murder Cat

    24/01/2015 Duration: 01h48min

    We memorialize some great comics cancelled in 2014 with a truly Giant-Size episode that is full of complete runs you can start and finish (for the most part) right now. Brought to you by * IDW: Out this week - Galaxy Quest #1(of 4), Zombies vs Robots #1(ongoing), Star Trek: Planet of the Apes #2(of5), Popeye Classics #30 Special Guest * Kevin Wada (twitter) posts amazing art on Tumblr, has done gorgeous covers for the now-ending run of She-Hulk, and has a lot up his sleeve in terms of upcoming work and talent. Become a fan now so you can be a Kevin Wada hipster later. Related Episodes * Artist Edition 58: the exact same interview found in this episode, but isolated on its own for your re-listening convenience.

  • 21: The Samurai Code

    13/01/2015 Duration: 58min

    Usagi Yojimbo celebrated a 30th Anniversary in 2014. In our first single-creator spotlight episode, we celebrate Miyamoto Usagi and his creator, Stan Sakai. Special Guests * Stan Sakai created Usagi Yojimbo, and is at once a master storyteller as well as holding the title of the "nicest man in comics". * Diana Schutz has been Stan's editor at Dark Horse for years, and moderates the San Diego Comic-Con panel excerpted here. * Kim Jung Gi (twitter) is a world-renowned Korean artist whose  website, Facebook, and Tumblr are full of jaw-dropping, no-sketch finished art (as seen in motion here). * Andy Ihnatko (twitter) is generally best-known as a writer who covers technology, but his not-so-secret identity is that of a man with a marvelous appreciation for great artwork across a variety of media. * Sergio Aragonés, a legend in his own right, created Groo the Wanderer , which Stan still letters to this day.

  • 20: Rip a Hole in the Multiverse

    20/12/2014 Duration: 01h22min

    In our version of an Annual issue, we deconstruct end-of-year lists by just talking about comic-related topics, happenings, and trends that we're thankful for in 2014. No rankings or slideshows: just fun and variety you can only spoil by reading ahead. Pictured above (top to bottom): The Private Eye, The Bunker, Black Science , Minimum Wage Brought to you by * IDW's Little Nemo - Return to Slumberland is an all-ages title that looks great, reads well, and that deeply respects the original classic work of Winsor McCay. Special Guest * Doug Hazlewood inked Superboy in the 90's, and worked on Grant Morrison's classic Animal Man run, but he was a big comics fan before that. Jack Kirby and stand-out cover design were his portals to comics discovery as a kid.

  • 19: Agent of Chaos

    12/12/2014 Duration: 01h02min

    John and Moisés hosted two "sketch duels" at Dallas Fan Days this fall. One of them lent itself nicely to a light "creator sampler" episode. The other was an unmitigated, glorious, and hilarious disaster. Left-to-Right: Crain, Raney, Banks Audio levels and quality are a little dicey in a few places due to multiple not-as-reliable-as-we'd-like source files. This episode has gone through more post-production than any episode of any ESN show yet.

  • 18: Permission to Kill Thanos

    01/11/2014 Duration: 58min

    Marvel announced their movie slate through 2019, and it's full of characters that you may not know very well. John and Moisés blow through a ton of rapid-fire reading recommendations to the extent we can predict (or not) what parts of comic lore the movies will use. We've got five years of reading ahead of us, so pace yourself. Brought to you by * IDW Publishing: Edward Scissorhands (written by Kate Leth) and TMNT/Ghostbusters are both selling good and fast. Check them both out. Related Episodes * Artist Edition 2: Punch Holes in the Sky (Kelly Sue DeConnick) is one of many vintage "Volume 1" Giant Size interviews that are finally making their way into the Artist Edition feed. * Extras 18: post-show musings and idle speculation full of spoilers for Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet. * Giant Size Origins 4: Taste the Hulk Rainbow was the first full episode of the show that you now know as Giant Size that John and Moisés did together.

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