Phillip and Eric travel back to the '90s to break two signature Image books of the era, Todd MacFarlane's Spawn and Sam Keith's The Maxx. They talk about the ridiculousness of peak '90s superhero books, what has aged well and not aged well, and Eric lambasts Phillip for his taste in video games.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric switch things to watch and commentate on anime adaptations of three popular manga series: Mob Psycho 100, Hellsing: Ultimate, and Spy x Family. That's right, they caved in to juice the algorithm.

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Phillip and Eric conclude their series on the comics of Jonathan Hickman with his run on Marvel's X-Men. They discuss how he evolves the X-Men being a metaphor for discrimination and racism, the sheer breadth of X-Men continuity combining with full creative freedom to reshape this flagship franchise, and Eric quizzing Phillip on a DEI work environment for mutants.

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Phillip and Eric are continuing their series on the comics of Jonathan Hickman and his work in Marvel, focusing on his ambitious Avengers run of Avengers, New Avengers, Infinity, and Secret Wars. Plus, they battle it out to see who can name more Avengers!

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Phillip and Eric are continuing their series on the comics of Jonathan Hickman and his work in Marvel, focusing on his Fantastic Four run. Plus they give a review of the 2015 Josh Trank film eight years after the fact!

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Phillip and Eric are continuing their series on the comics of Jonathan Hickman, now into his foray into the Marvel universe with his run on Secret Warriors Marvel and S.H.I.E.L.D. with Dustin Weaver.

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Phillip and Eric are continuing their series on the comics of Jonathan Hickman with his Image comics, Secret with Ryan Bodenheim, and Transhuman with J.M. Ringuet. They discuss these two oddballs in Hickman's bibliography, plus reveal documentaries they've watched and what modifications they'd accept to be transhuman.

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Phillip and Eric commemorate Black History Month by watching and commentating an episode of the CW series Black Lightning, and by commemorate,  we mean Phil didn't have time to read the comics he was supposed to this week.

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Phillip and Eric continue their Jonathan Hickman retrospective with his Image series, East of West with Nick Dragotta and The Manhattan Projects Nick Pitarra! They talk about Hickman being a "high-concept" writer, his way of writing characters and dialogue, and why pizza is cheaper on the East Coast than the West Coast.

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In this episode, Phillip and Eric are talking the Image comics The Nightly News and Pax Romana by Jonathan Hickman! This is the first part in a series focused on breaking down his body of work, starting with his most auteur creator-owned projects.

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