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John Constantine! This month he celebrates not once, not twice but… no… well, yea, twice. It’s been 40 years since his first appearance in Swamp Thing and 20 years since the Keanu Reeves helmed film was released! Wow.

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This week, to coincide with the release of Captain America: Brave New World, we’re covering Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, partners in… well, not crime, but mostly the opposite? Captain America and The Falcon, partners since the ’60s. How did they meet? Why do they work so well together? Whaddya mean they’ve both been werewolves? Plus: Bry talks wings, Merk talks MODOK: Origins, and we all talk avian telepathy,and how it should have been in the MCU from the start.

Meanwhile (or a little earlier in the episode, as the format dictates): in the Warmup, Kyle pitches some other movies that are subtitled with the names of books we had to read in high school! Get ready for X-Men: Pryde and Prejudice, something that defintely has never been pitched before! Wooooosh!

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In honour of Valentine’s Day, as well as cynicism, we’re discussing each others’ picks for WORST COMIC BOOK COUPLES! Some couples just don’t work, even beyond the usual ups and downs of decades-long continuity. Maybe you root for them, but deep down they’re just bad for each other, and sometimes everyone around them. Bry thinks Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris have left too much destruction in the wake of their romance! Kyle says that Quicksilver and Crystal of the Inhumans deserved to be hit by the Annulment Mists! And Merk has serious ethical concerns about Doctor Lady Jane Foster and Thor Odinson’s off-and-on relationship, and quite possibly the entire idea of superheroes dating civilians at all! And strap in, true believers: this episode’s got Thor lore galore!

But first! Merk tests Kyle and Bry in a comic-book love interest quiz! We’ve got all the hits: Iron Man’s “nose mask” is rusty for no one’s pleasure! Can Batman ever be completely sure he never hooked up with Clayface? What are some wild examples of heroes dating villains? Tony Stark and She-Hulk compete for the most super-romantic entanglements. And more, much more!

(Oh, and Paul Rabin ****ing sucks, but you already knew that, even Dylan Brock knows that.)

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It’s a Lava Lamp Episode! In that we are just bringing up whatever topics and chatting about everything! What does that have to do with lava lamps? These three knuckleheads have no idea.

Tariffs are first up! How do these effects comics? Comic consumers? Comic makers? Indie comic creators? Kyle brings up Hank Howard Pizza Detective Kickstarter and the troubles insuing…. (This is recorded on Feb 2 and things may have changed drastically. Every day …. something else)

Diamond Distribution Bankruptcy! Wowzers! A 40 year monopoly comes crashing down! We sift through the rubble!

Tubi Conan or not Tubi Conan. THAT is the questions! Merk talks the ’97 live action Conan series he just rediscovered on Tubi along with a few other Tubi gems! (Hey Tubi! Sponsor us!)

Comic characters on social media. Does Peter Parker have an Only Fans to pay the rent?

We anticipate how we’re going to be disappointed by the FF Trailer.

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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This week/month/news cycle, a lot of us north of the US/Canada border are feeling a little worried. Maybe you are, too, regardless of where you live? From a Canadian perspective, we talk about the relationship between Canada and “The States,” at least in terms of comics. That’s right, we’re talking about We Stand On Guard! But also other stuff, too: how US tariffs may effect the cost of comics, the Canada Whites, that time we kinda sorta burned the White House down, and some new Canadian super heroes for our homegrown comic creators like Jeff Lemire, Ryan North, Fionna Staples, and our best friend forever Chip Zdarsky to work on instead of just more Batman (HONK SHOO, DUDE).

And in the Warmup, Kyle presents a scintilating game of Was It A Real Jimmy or Was It A Pretendo Jimmy, the game where you guess if it was a Real Jimmy or a Pretendo Jimmy (Olsen).

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It’s time for another electrifying Dramatic Reading, as we travel back to 1966 for Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom #17! Reacting to a volcanic plot from his arch-nemesis, NURO, the good DOCTOR SOLAR must recharge his waning atomic powers to face off against the hot and cold flame monster PRIMO! Featuring a veritable grab-bag of terrible impressions for this story’s many background extras! It’s a primo episode, baby!

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Do you have a mentor? Someone who helped guide you through the weirdness of life? Helped you with picking your first cape to go on patrol in? Or how to take down a sleezeball mugging an old lady at 40 yards? Or how to get bludgeoned with a crowbar…..yeek.

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2024 sure was a year that happened, huh? It really, really happened. Such an important, vital year. *Sigh* But hey! Some good stuff happened that year, and we’re gonna focus on it this week. What’s the GOOD stuff that we read? What’s the good stuff that we DIDN’T, and can we fix that? We’ll find out, this week, and then, eventually, this year, one assumes!

PS: There was also stuff that we didn’t like, and we do talk about that. It’s fine, because nothing’s perfect, and it’s crazy to expect anything to be.

We haven’t done a news episode for a while, and there’s a whole bunch of somewhat-new and new-new stuff we want to talk about, so here we are!

The Superman teaser dropped (as well as the teaser to the teaser to the teaser) and we have some thoughts about the tone, the music, the haircuts, and of course Krypto! One or two Batman movies may or may not be delayed! The Creature Commandos will re-enlist for season two! Mike Flanagan writes Clayface! Over at Marvel Studios, Chris Evans returns again in Avengers: Doomsday — but will he also be playing Doctor Doom this time??

The Amazing Spider-Man is relaunching with a new #1 issue (again) but this time it’s got Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, and the ever-prolific John Romita Jr! Godzilla makes his triumphant return to Marvel, and he’s gonna atomic-blast the Fantastic Four! Boom Studios have left Diamond for a new distributor in Penguin Random House amongst retailer complaints about Diamond’s handling of some shipments. And more! More!!

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