Up from the depths, thirty stories high. Breathing fire. His head in the sky. GODZILLA!!! Yes, to celebrate Micheal’s 18th birthday Godzilla and Otta Murikami join in to trash Tokyo (and most of the rest of the world) in the 5 part IDW series – The Half Century War. Listen and wonder as Micheal explains his love of the gargantuan monster and Andrew nods sagely trying to remember those old Toho movies he saw as a kid as this mixture of youthful exuberance and blind ignorance combine to make our greatest episode yet!!!

What on Earth does Magnum The Barbarian 2099 have to do with this week’s episodes? Is it a bizarre cosplayer? An 80’s cartoon? Or proof that Micheal & Andrew needed meds? Anyway, all of that is tossed to one side once CONAN THE CIMMERIAN strides into view. Gasp at the fact neither Andrew or Micheal had read any Conan before or watched one of the movies. Wonder what their choices of story are to be? Wonder no more as it is revealed – The Frost Giants Daughter from SAVAGE TALES #1 & RED NAILS from SAVAGE TALES 2 & 3. We don’t bury the lede. And then sit back and listen as two men marvel over how much simpler life must have been in a land were the stroke of a sword and the fall of a head solved most problems, men where men, women were also men and people wore very little. It’s OUR GREATEST EPISODE YET!!!!! (Legal Disclaimer – there are no guarantees this is our greatest episode yet!!!! I just want to see if anyone reads this stuff)

Feeling that they didn’t say enough nice things about Darwyn Cooke the last time they covered some of his work, the really rather magnificent NEW FRONTIER, they turn their attention to his latest opus – an adaption of the Richard Stark novels featuring PARKER. In no ways a hero, even of his own story, Parker – The Hunted is one of the finest pieces of Graphic Literature of the past few years and Micheal & Andrew try to explain why.

It’s an episode long in the making. Well, 2 weeks. It’s an episode asked for by YOU! Well, if you asked for it. It’s a chance for Micheal & Andrew to display their complete ignorance on a topic. As usual. Yes, it’s an episode all about GI JOE!!!! In issues HAND-PICKED by listeners (#21 and 34), Mike and Andrew explore the whole Joe phenomenon and compare it to Action Man, insert a sound bed of cool synth soundtracks and generally pretend they know what they are banging on about. So now you know!

A startling change to the format of the show is mooted by an emailer before the inevitable digression. After that, Michel and Andrew explore a Marvel that was on the cusp on the 90’s as their look at the adventures of the Cosmically-Enhanced Spider-Man concludes.

Did Batman REALLY kill The Joker at the end of The Killjng Joke? Is Brian Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise really a good thing? Do Andrew and Micheal even care about Ben Affleck? 2 of these questions will be answered before Andrew delves deep into his comic book collection to produce a Spider-Man crossover so epic, so lauded, so jam packed with important STATUS QUO changing events, it will be hailed as a classic from here on in – THE AMAZING, SPECTACULAR, COSMIC SPIDER-MAN. Yes, Spider-Man gets involved in the ACTS OF VENGEANCE, a story so unimportant he never even finds out what’s going on! But who cares about all that? DOOM is in the house. So I think it would be in all your interests to listen. If nothing else, there are some good promos.

Time to delve into the bulging sack once more dear friends, for an episode devoted to addressing the concerns of the lovely listeners. I would like to tell you what topics await herein but why spoil the surprise? In addition – for this is no mere EMAIL episode released by lazy podcasters enjoying their summer holiday – No, this episode includes a State Of The Comics Address were Micheal and Andrew look at all the good stuff currently being published by the majors and the indies.

Micheal and Andrew FINALLY get around to covering the 1980’s Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Wolverine series AFTER Back To The Bins already covered it! The moral of this story – don’t procrastinate.

It’s here! 2 hours of you asking questions and the entire family answering them! Plus, outtakes, A NEW OPENING, comic book chat and a week off editing and making notes! It’s all win.

Dateline:2013 – Micheal and Andrew delve into the physics of time travel and journey back and forth between today and 1980, bringing with them 2 of the finest comic books ever forged – Uncanny X-Men 141 and 142. They will inevitably meander onto other topics such as The Terminator, James Cameron, The Outer Limits, Harlan Ellison, Back To The Future and Andrew will confuse a past US President with a current day UK comedian. Their names are similar, all right! There is also a SPOILER FILLED discussion of Age Of Ultron (the comic not Avengers 2) somewhere you may want to avoid if you haven’t read that series.