Welcome friends to Back Issue Bloodbath, a comics-centric podcast presented by Geek Hard. Join hosts Andrew Young and Petula Neale as they get down and dirty in the four-colour world of comic books, focusing on classic stories, new issues, comic creators and hot button topics.

This week on Bloodbath, it’s another creator spotlight as we look at the works of artist Mike McKone. Mike’s been working in comic since the early nineties and has always produced solid artwork. He started out as a fill in artist but eventually had memorable runs on Exiles, Teen Titans, Avengers Academy, Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. Over the past 3 decades, Mike has drawn practically every character at Marvel and DC in one book or another. Even with this great accomplishment under his belt, there’s still some folks not familiar with him. But to the hardcore fans, he’s one of comics’ greatest workhorses.

Join Andrew and Petula as they look back on Mike McKone’s career and some of the stand out series he’s worked on. There is much love for his work on team books. There’s a lot of love given to McKone’s characters’ facial expressions as well.

You’ll also hear a brief snippet from an interview Andrew conducted with Mike back in 2012 at the Toronto Comicon. Andrew asked him the hard question: Who would win a fight? The Teen Titans or Avengers Academy? Find out his answer on an ALL NEW, ALL DIFFERENT episode of Back Issue Bloodbath!

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