Married...with Content

The Schaefer-Hameses are trying to hold onto their sanity any way possible during what our state is calling a "Safer at Home Order" (because that makes it sound downright pleasant) so Jon reads through a backup story from Detective Comics #38 while Maggie tries to win GTA races

New Episode! Maggie's video game shenanigans summon Aaron Henley to the Rod Pod, who helps us out as we cover Autocracy, the prequel story which only kind of ties into Phase 2 comics, but we cover it anyway! Join us for Last Starfighter jokes, discussion on the relative worth of Ratbat and Sky Lynx, and Maggie getting excited about a version of Rodimus that isn't a complete dink. Also The Touch, Less Than Meets the Eye, and Rodimus Star awards are given. Upload complete...now.

Could it be? A new episode of Married with Comics? You know it!

Careful listeners of our show may have noticed that Maggie has occasionally voiced a negative opinion on Jimmy Olsen, so Coffee and Comics and Fan Films Fridays host Clinton Robison pops by with DC Comics Presents #93 to join Jon with 1990's Superman #93 and Maggie with 2019's Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 to get to the bottom of this.

Find out if Maggie's irrational hatred is enough to withstand wacky stretchy hero shenanigans, Superman rescuing Jimmy from Hell, Superman rescuing Turtle Boy from falling from orbit, and Jimmy faking his death and hiding out in Gotham City

We also sing way more of the Plastic Man song from the Justice League Record than is probably comfortable and Maggie also expresses her opinion on the Spin Doctors.

Also we debut a new feature: Married with Context, where we talk about what else was going on during the months that the issues were on the stands.

Find out if Maggie's hatred is here to stay or if she stops worrying and learns to love Jimmy Olsen.

Maggie and Jon split a 6 pack of White Claw and talk about all of the movies they've seen since their last movie episode, including all of the #Star Wars movies up through The Last Jedi.

Halloween means Mephisto has kidnapped us again for a crossover, this time trapping us in the Dream Realm and forcing us to review comics for his amusement. But our torment is your opportunity, as Al Sedano From Resurrections: an Adam Warock and Thanos Podcast and Jon M Wison, comics podcast mainstay join us to cover Sandman #17: Calliope and try to escape the realm of dreams.

Content Warning: The issue covered includes a brief, non-graphic, rape scene, which is discussed. Make your listening choices with that in mind.

Thanks so much to our guests as well as to Tim Price, who not only does a hell of a Mephisto as usual (see what I did there? But a perfectly eerie Morpheus, the Dream Lord. Listen to him here as well as on the rest of the crossover episodes on:

Unpacking the Power of Power Pack

Secret Wars and Beyond (I hear they have some awesome guests)

and Resurrections: An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast

On Monday, we watch a movie.

On Tuesday, We record ourselves ramble about what we think.

On Wednesday, we publish the results pretty much unedited.

Maggie chose Cat on a Hot Tin Roof this week, a movie she's seen many times, and Jon had never seen. They also talk a bunch about the play it is based on, and the life and death of Tennessee Williams.

Jon takes a vacation this time around as Maggie hosts a round table of amazing women podcasters, who talk about a comic each of them has chosen. Stella From Batgirl to Oracle: A Barbara Gordon Podcast brings Batgirl (Vol 3)#3, Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight in Prose has chosen Batman and Elmer Fudd, and Barbara from A Gal Walks Into a Comic Shop introduces us to Lucky, the Pizza Dog with Matt Fraction's Hawkeye #11. Maggie rounds things out with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing #40, a man's take on women's issues. Join them for Square Women, Round Table. A podcast with all of the wit, humor, and knowledge that you would expect with this lineup, with none of the mansplaining that inevitably would have happened if Jon had been on!

SEE: Nothing, it's an audio medium.

HEAR: Maggie and Jon talk about a movie they watched two days ago, in this, an episode recorded yesterday

HEAR FURTHER: that they plan to do one of these episodes every week for awhile.

WONDER WHY: Maggie and Jon say the words "penis" and "vagina" way more than you would expect them to.

BE WARNED: This is barely edited, folks. This is raw banter, with more segues than an Arrested Development episode.

DOWNLOAD: and enjoy.

You have received a transmission from The Rod Pod. Jon and Maggie are trapped on a spacecraft shaped like Rodimus' head, hurtling through space with only the IDW Transformers Phase 2 comics to keep them company. So they are sending their thoughts about these stories through subspace, hoping that someone will hear and send help. Or at the very least be entertained.

TF Nation may have all of the writers, artists, celebrities, and toys associated with all aspects of Transformers, but we have something it doesn't: The Fire and Water Podcast Network's Ryan Daly, who we transported to the Rod Pod completely by accident and also completely against his will! Luckily, he was a good sport about the whole thing, and helped us review the next two comics on our journey through Phase 2: Spotlight:Trailcutter and Spotlight: Hoist, before we got him safely home (presumably).

We also debut two new segments, which are the same as two of our old segments but with different music and different names! With all the insight, commentary, and wacky hijinx that you've come to expect (presumably).

Soundtrack:

"No One Said This Would Be Easy" by Cloud Cult

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyhNfmjcOg

Only Living Boy in New Cross by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxNf4yGqiE

Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again by The Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cx10MrMYB4

The Distance, by Cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cno20onK9dY

The news about HasLab's Unicron toy is pretty dang exciting, but all the cool kids know that the biggest Transformers news of the week is the release of The Rod Pod: Episode 5! Any issue of Transformers issue has a lot to live up to when it comes to issue #5. Does one of the issues directly reference and pay tribute to Marvel Transformers Issue #5 because of this? (Yes) And does the other one say," Hold my beer, I'm jumping ahead to Marvel Issue #8 for my tribute" instead? (Also yes)

This episode has it all: Flying shark poets, Ironhide, the Zen Master, Ratchet facing off against a bad guy on a cliff, robot diseases, and Tailgate facing off against Ultra Magnus-in the classroom!

All that plus Intrigue! The last ever "The Touch" and "Less than Meets the Eye" Why aren't you already downloading this one?