Zero Issues Comic Podcast

‘Verse Mania is upon us once more! We’ve finally all seen “Across the Spider-Verse” and have a theoretically endless number of things to say about it! From the stunning animation, art and sound design, vocal performances, endless deep-cut references, and as much else as we can fit into a warm-up segment! And we may tangent into cinema-enhancing power outages and childhood exposure to “Videodrome”, this is who we are. But once we’re done with the Spiders’ ‘Verse, it’s time to shake up The Canon elsewhere as we pitch our own ideas for crossovers where multiple variations of beloved characters collide! How many Jugheads can we cram into a Jug-Verse? A multiverse of Bishops set sail on the bemulletted Bish-Ship! Wolverine’s Hot Claws tear open a hole in the Bub-Verse releasing endless Wolvereeners, bub! They’ve got so many kinds of claws it’ll blow your mind. And there’s a universe where we hate on the 2013 movie “The Congress” for a couple minutes, why not. All this and much more! So many pitches it’s like its own Pitch-Verse, honestly.

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Which Ninja Turtle smells the worst? How many birds has Wonder Woman killed with her invisible jet? Does Beast Boy need to know what a cow looks like in order to turn into a cow? What If the A-Team were still in Marvel Comics? These and so many other dumb, dumb questions are answered this week in what may be our stupidest Lightning Round ever!

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Acting!!! Thespians!!! Performers!! Pantomimers….. ok maybe not that one.

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A “shocking development” in The Amazing Spider-Man leaked weeks ahead of its release, leading to a public confirmation and what appear to be extremely mixed feelings about the whole thing! Can you believe Gwen Stacy is back, she was just in Europe the whole time, and then she immediately dies again? What are the odds!?

A whole bunch of comic adaptations (and in less important news: everything else) have paused their productions as the WGA writer’s strike continues! And until a fair deal is struck, we’re gonna be missing out on Thunderbolts, Blade, Wonder Man, Ryan Reynolds’ ability to do improv, all of it!!

ROM RETURNS! In Omnibus form. Wait, no — in ROMNIBUS form! Marvel is dipping back into their beloved ‘80s licensed Hasbro comics, and even the Micronauts are getting in on this! They’re all back!! And they’re gonna crossover with ALF, probably! And Combo Man!

Grant Morrison also returns… except they didn’t go anywhere… to kick off “Partially Naked Came the Corpse”, an “exquisite corpse” style series where multiple creators add to the overall story. How this is gonna work, we can’t tell you. (But we assume there will be a corpse.)

Diamond Comic Distributors loses another publisher as Image signs on with Lunar! But no matter what happens, retailers will be frustrated, that’s a guarantee.

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Spider(-Man), he is our hero! This week, we take a break from doing deep dives, taxing our brains thinking about new and unique things to do on the podcast, and just do what makes us happy: talkin’ ’bout Spider-Man. Who’s his best love interest? Who are his deadliest foes? Does he have way too many costumes, and should he be drawn like a brick poophouse?

All that, plus we for real talk about the version of Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 that everyone else saw in the theatres.

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Chip Zdarsky! We interview Chip Zdarsky! Lookit us! Talking to other people and stuff.

Chip of course is a comic writer/artist of such books as Sex Criminals, Public Domain, Kaptara, Jughead, Howard the Duck, Daredevil and that little title called Batman. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.

We caught Chip on his cross Canada tour as he came through town and was gracious enough to sit down and have a relaxed, fun, hilarious conversation with us. There’s also a video of this interview as well! Listen to it, then watch it! Chip for several senses!

Watch the video version right here!

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is upon us, all 600 distinct versions of it, and we were lucky enough to see version #539! And maybe we were some of the lucky few, because nobody else seems to be talking about [VERY REAL SPOILER ALERT] the shocking return of TASERFACE as he takes his place as a surprise protagonist of the story! Join us as we dig into the movie’s twists and turns, its triumphant highs and heartbreaking lows, the needle drops, the celebrity cameos, the newly-revealed connections between Taserface and his Guardian pals, and oh gosh, so much more. But that’s not all! Did anyone say “vaguely Guardians-themed Character Storm”? We know YOU did, dear listener! Set tasers (and faces) to FUN!

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Zero Issues Newsflash for May 8, 2023!

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POWER RECORDS TIME!!!

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What, us podcast? Yes, us podcast, specifically about Mad Magazine, this week! How did a weirdo li’l book like this come to be created and run for so dang long? Who made this stuff? Just how many times did they get sued or threatened by the US government? We answer…some of these questions.

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