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Back to Search"Angel and the Ape": Forgotten, but not gone
Episode 847
In the 1960s, both Marvel and DC tried publishing humor books, often in a style reminiscent of MAD Magazine. One of these was DC’s Angel and the Ape…
1 year, 1 month ago
Pow! Crack! Breaking down comics sound effects
Episode 846
Art by Don Martin
POW! ZAP! Comics may not be for kids anymore, but they still have sound effects! Our own Patrick Ijima-Washburn noticed that Japane…
1 year, 1 month ago
Jack Kirby's "Cap and Falcon" 209-211: An Uncle Sam Person
Episode 845
While the last three issues of Captain America and the Falcon we looked at were rather underwhelming, issues 209 to 211 give us all the kooky scienc…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Fantastic Four on Film: "Fant4stic" (2015) pt 2: WTF does Doom want??
Episode 844
We conclude our look at 2015’s Fant4stic, directed by Josh Trank. Trank’s behavior on the set (and on Twitter) have been nothing but bad for his car…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Fantastic Four on Film: "Fant4stic" (2015) pt 1
Episode 843
Should a director re-interpret a property when nobody wanted it re-interpreted? 2015’s Fant4stic, directed by Josh Trank, turns getting superpowers …
1 year, 2 months ago
Struggling with Kit Anderson's "Second Shift"
Episode 842
After the (connected) short stories of Safer Places, Kit Anderson‘s new book is a full-on graphic novel called Second Shift (again from Avery Hill) …
1 year, 2 months ago
“Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun”
Episode 633
FLASHBACK! Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun is a slim graphic novel by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierzawska, about the titular famous …
1 year, 2 months ago
Ken Krimstein on Einstein, Kafka, and comics in general
Episode 841
Ken Krimstein‘s Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came up with the Universe builds on the fact that these two stars of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Joe Sacco's books on the Middle East
Episode 840
Joe Sacco has been covering the Israel-Palestine conflict in varying forms since 1991: first in Palestine, then in Footnotes in Gaza, and most recen…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Legacy of “Starman”
Episode 385
FLASHBACK! The 1990s DC series Starman is one of comicdom’s most fondly remembered series. Interestingly, says series author James Robinson, it seem…
1 year, 3 months ago