Sometimes they aim big. A comic. A cartoon. A toyline. Video games.

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Oh shoot, we missed Mother’s Day! And we didn’t get anything for our Mother Boxes! I sure hope they like podcast episodes… That’s right, this episode is all about the Mother Box, the smartphone that’s also a mom, and a buncha other li’l robot buddies and helpers! We start off with a partial reading and discussion of the essay “‘How Can I Refuse You, Mother Box?!’ Abjection and Objectification of Motherhood in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World” by Annamarie O’Brien for ImageTexT, chat about whether Cyborg should be powered by a Mother Box or not, the life and times of Skeets, Widget, H.E.R.B.I.E. and J.A.R.V.I.S., and the introduction of our own acronym-first robot pals!

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The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are several of them!), and, of course, your standard whoops-we-flooded-the-world trope represented by The Massive. We’ve even got an apocalyptic quiz to start us off!

But even before that, Bry tells us all about Superman: War of the Worlds in the Warmup, which is exactly what it sounds like it is, but even still, sounds like a pretty great book! Plenty of reading suggestions this week, if you exclusively want to read about the end of the world.

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Lightning Strikes Twice!

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Spring has possibly actually finally sprung, and that means it’s time for another LIGHTNING ROUND! Before we get caught in a couple of wacky tangents, that is! Topics include:

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Here comes Daredevil, again! This week, we talk about the first half of Daredevil Born Again season 2. Well, some of us do, at least! Look, life can get pretty busy these days, and we don’t always have the time to watch all the prestige television we want. Point is, some of us watched Daredevil, and some of us have opinions.

Plus, it’s National Haiku Day, so before we get to any of that, we present some heartfelt Daredevil haikus. For youse!

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Hank McCoy! The ‘lovable’ Beast!

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It’s April Fool’s Day, and that means it’s time to both discuss and pity fools, in that order! There are many foolish comic-book characters, from the deliberately silly gag heroes and villains (such as Lady Stilt-Man, the Fabulous Frog-Man, and Dracula’s progeny Hell Cow) to the accidentally absurd golden-age and silver-age characters who seem to get more bonkers with every passing day (Turner D. Century, Asbestos Lady and Madam Fatal, anyone?) And what about when comics’ fools get serious, like Michelangelo in “The Last Ronin” or Snagglepuss in “Exit Stage Left”? And let’s not forget weird licensing creations like NFL Superpro and good ol’ US-1!

But first we respond to the passing of comics legend and innovator Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and so much more, and reflect on the impact his work had on us as fans and creators.

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We love colours in our comics! There’s so very much that you can do with colours, and it’s wild, but we pretty much never talk about it! This week, we do our best ot fix that. So get ready for a brief history of comic book colouring (from newsprint to NOWsprint? Is that anything?), and the various growing pains that we had to live through in the ’90s, and the advent of digital colouring.

Then, once that’s over, get ready for the three of us gushing over our favourite colourists, as well as lamenting our… well, we’re learning. We’re getting better at it, as artists! But it’s 90% gushing, 10% lamentation.

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Mike Richardson, the founder and head of Dark Horse Comics for the past 40 years….. has been fired.

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