Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCritiquing Comics: "The Blossoming City" pt 1 and "Loon News: The Comic Strip!"
Episode 248
Ian M is a Japan-based Canadian creator whose work we’ve discussed on this podcast before. His work is often about Japan, but not necessarily about …
4 months, 1 week ago
Swamp Thing meets the monsters
Episode 617
FLASHBACK! We continue our look at Alan Moore’s 1980s run on Swamp Thing— a run in which the title character met werewolves and vampires (as Moore a…
4 months, 1 week ago
"The Maxx" (RIP Sam Kieth)
Episode 319
FLASHBACK! Even amidst the anything-goes craziness of the early Image years, Sam Kieth’s The Maxx was an outlier. While it included some superhero t…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Steranko's "Nick Fury," pt 1: Spy or superhero?
Episode 870
Somehow it’s taken us 20 years of podcasting to get to Jim Steranko’s fabled run on Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. But is the early stuff really s…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”
Episode 325
FLASHBACK! Due perhaps to the passage of time, poorly handled reprinting by DC, or some other reason, Alan Moore’s writing stint on Swamp Thing in t…
5 months ago
Jack Kirby's Black Panther #1-2: A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story
Episode 869
We begin our look at Jack Kirby‘s Black Panther series from the 1970s, introducing a new Kirby character who’s a bit too similar to one who first ap…
5 months, 1 week ago
"The Pass": Are you living the dream, or is the dream killing you?
Episode 868
Sometimes, achieving your dream can be kind of a nightmare, even though it’s also rewarding. Claudia, in Katriona Chapman‘s latest graphic novel The…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
"Goodnight, Punpun"
Episode 867
Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun gives us what appear to be a family of ghostly birds living in a much more realistic-looking world. People within that…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Fantastic Four 53: Black Panther
Episode 866
After “hunting” the Fantastic Four, the Black Panther reveals that he did it for practice, as he anticipated a battle against his father’s killer: U…
6 months ago
Harold Buchholz interview: Kids love comics!
Episode 865
At some point, the idea that some comics should be for adults took over to the extent that it became hard to find good comics for kids. Cartoonist H…
6 months, 1 week ago