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Episode 824
Now that we’ve become familiar with Jack Kirby‘s original Eternals comics, repeatedly referring to the 2021 MCU film along the way, it’s time to sit…
1 year, 8 months ago
Critiquing Comics: "The Shapes" #4: El Puro
Episode 241
Samuel Edme’s comic The Shapes is… a bit hard to pin down. It looks like notebook scribblings, it has its faults, but it seems to have found an audi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jack Kirby's "Eternals," #17-19: Lots o' Ikaris (or Ikarus?)
Episode 823
We’ve reached the end of Jack Kirby‘s Eternals series. Sure, it was a weird series, but introducing a Hulk robot apparently did little for the sales…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994) (part two) Why wasn't the film released?
Episode 822
The 1994 film The Fantastic Four seems to have been made with the expectation, at least from producer Roger Corman on down, that it would be release…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Fantastic Four on Film: "The Fantastic Four" (1994), a Roger Corman production (part one)
Episode 821
By the early ’90s, Superman and Batman were blockbuster movie franchises, but Marvel had yet to find a way to get a big-budget film made based on th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jack Kirby's "Eternals," #14-16: The Coming of.... The Editor!
Episode 820
Jack Kirby‘s The Eternals was not a conventional superhero book. It didn’t even seem to take place in the Marvel Universe. By issue 14, it appears t…
1 year, 8 months ago
We catch up with "The Re-up" and "Amazing Tales"
Episode 819
This week we catch up with the work of two DCP favorites, Chad Bilyeu and David Dye! Chad’s series The Re-up, about his time as a pot dealer 20 year…
1 year, 9 months ago
Requiems: "Ghost Band" and "Grimm's Assistant"
Episode 818
If you’ve ever felt like your city left you before you left your city, Jason McNamara’s Ghost Band is for you. Tim and Emmet discuss this post-apoca…
1 year, 9 months ago
"Avengers: Endgame" (2019)
Episode 19
Tim gets ever closer to catching up with the MCU! Tim and Mulele discuss Avengers: Endgame‘s time-travel explanation (and problems), Captain Marvel’…
1 year, 9 months ago
“Real” is a slam dunk
Episode 437
FLASHBACK! Sports have rarely been subject matter for comics in the US; perhaps comics’ inherent static-ness has seemed antithetical to an activity …
1 year, 9 months ago