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- 524: Call Me Big Roomba
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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36 min - 523: Wet Velvet
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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49 min - 522: Lightning Strikes Twice – It Sounds Goopy
Lightning Strikes Twice!
Another lightning round (continuing from last week) as we have more short topics to blaze through!Kyle gets Bry to give a crash course on Usagi Yojimbo and where to start with that legendary comic series!Merk runs a Mike Mignola Hellboy quiz! 4 questions but they’re tough!Bry gets us going on Nintendo comics, existing, possible and can we have this?Kyle – “What if DC bought Marvel in the 90’s? What if Marvel bought DC in the 80’s? What if the Defenders were the Watchmen?”Merk discusses John Byrne’s fan fic X-Men run being actually published by Abrams Books, X-Men : Elsewhere !Bry has an animated comic theme quiz! And it’s TOUGH!And who wants to have Cyclops visor headphones?This and at least 4 other things this week on ZERO ISSUES!!Direct Download: MP3
0 min - 521: A Swamp Water Slurpee
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:
– Do you want to start reading Conan but don’t know where to start? Let resident Conan Expert Merk be your guide into the Hyborian Age and its many forms!– Not one but TWO Mike Mignola topics, in which we discuss “Uri Tupka and the Gods” as well as the overall “Lands Unknown” series, and are later challenged to an All-Mignola Quiz!– With Archie and Oni Press finally crossing (or X-ing) over, what new synergistic Archie crossovers could be next? Archie x Scott Pilgrim? The Sixth Gun? Mind MGMT? Howabout Jughead’s Time Police Meets Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen!?– Hey, remember those “READ” posters in libraries and schools? Let’s imagine what books comic characters would be reading in their own versions! (The Hal Jordan jokes write themselves!)– And lastly, we take on Marvel’s “Acts of Vengeance” with DC superheroes and villains! What if the Legion of Doom swapped foes in the Justice League? Dibs on not fighting Superman!Direct Download: MP3
53 min - 520: Daredevil, The Episode Without Bry
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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46 min - 519: Roast Beast
Hank McCoy! The ‘lovable’ Beast!
You’re up on todays episode of ROAST THAT… GUY… THERE…. over there.A handful of Hank’s best buddies, enemies, 2 ex-girlfriends and Dr Druid show up for ROAST BEAST!!Who’s got the best takedown?How many reference Beast’s hygiene and peculiar odor?Are we roasting Dark Beast, Lovable Furry Blue Beast or Big Feet Beast?What do his Exes have to say?Tune in to find out!Direct Download: MP3
22 min - 518: Cool as Catman (and other April Fools)
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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55 min - 517: No Danos Club
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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56 min - 516: It Was a Bit of a Zoot Suit Riot
Mike Richardson, the founder and head of Dark Horse Comics for the past 40 years….. has been fired.
This is pretty big news and a huge shift in a rapidly changing comics world. We discuss the history of Dark Horse and how Mike Richardson crafted this strange middle space in comics, the fabulous comics they’ve given us over the years, the Embracer Group responsible for Richardson’s exit and most importantly…. we discuss the why.We lean heavily on Matttttttt on youtube for much of his excellent information and insight, but we also talk about what may have been left out of that analysis.The Dark Horse ups, the Dark Horse downs, the Dark horse all arounds through the years. It was a bit of a zoot suit riot.Direct Download: MP3
53 min - 515: BLOOR and the Amazons of Uranus!
This week: BLOOR! We dig deep into the archives of absurd and infamous golden-age comics to bring you a Dramatic Read of PRIZE COMICS #4 from 1940, possibly created by legendary Batman artist Dick Sprang! Join Power Nelson, the Future Man from 1982, as he battles not only a job-cutting dictator on Earth, but also against BLOOR, the Dictator of Uranus, who has absconded with Earth’s workers! And he refuses to pay them — why, that’s forced labour! Thankfully, ol’ Power Nelson (aka Gene) has a NEW DEAL for Uranus, and he doesn’t care how many Amazons he has to surrender to or robots he has to smash to deliver it! It’ll all make sense in the episode. Probably!
Content Warning: This comic contains some visually racist depictions of East Asian peoples, as was unfortunately common in that era.
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A weekly podcast series hosted by three bald indie comic artists. Join us as we discuss, analyze, and obsess over comic books and all things pop culture!