About this podcast
A podcast looking at comics history, pop culture, and how the two connect. Also: Swears.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 258 episodes
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Leaping Leotards Edition · 30 min · Episode 259Slap on your spandex and loosen your limbs! This week's dollar bin theme is "Leaping Leotards!" Mike stepped into the ring with Maxwell Madd and His Wrestling Women #1, while…
- Issue 142: Dragon Strike · 46 min · Episode 258This week, we're looking at Dragon Strike! The Marvel book serves as a prequel to TSR's fantasy board game. Even though the game itself seems interesting and cool, the comic…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Ghosts Edition · 21 min · Episode 257It's Spooky Season! That means it's time to dig up some spectral comics for today's Dollar Bin Discovery Theme: Ghosts. Jessika summoned The Spectre #1 and to check out how DC…
- Issue 141: Street Fighter - The Battle for Shadaloo · 53 min · Episode 256It's time for Round Two of Street Fighter! This week, we're checking out Street Fighter: The Battle for Shadaloo. Based on the infamous 1994 movie, is this comic any better than…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Fighting Forces Edition · 20 min · Episode 255This week’s Dollar Bin Discovery theme is “Fighting Forces,” so we’re squaring up with some rock ‘em sock ‘em comics. Mike investigated the mystery of Adrenalynn: Weapon of War…
- Issue 140: The Legion of Night · 54 min · Episode 254Just in time for Spooky Season, we're checking out The Legion of Night this week! A two-issue miniseries from Early 90s Marvel with incredible art, this comic teams up several…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Kids Edition · 18 min · Episode 253Just in time for Back to School Season™, this week's theme is "Kids." Jessika read Thud #1, where an artist's life blurs together with a comic character he created as a kid…
- Issue 139: Robotix · 42 min · Episode 252This week we're looking at Robotix, Marvel's adaptation of a 1980s Hasbro property that desperately wanted to be the next Transformers. The comic is better than the cartoon, but…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Futuriffic Edition · 23 min · Episode 251This week’s Dollar Bin Discovery is Futuriffic, with two very different visions of what the future looked like from the 1980s. Mike checked out Captain Power & the Soldiers of…
- Issue 138: Ariane and Bluebeard · 42 min · Episode 250Put on your smartypants and warm up your pipes, we're going to the opera and checking out Ariane & Bluebeard! A comic adaptation by of a French opera, readers are in for a visual…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: International Delights Edition · 19 min · Episode 249It's time to brush up on your foreign accents, because this week's DBD theme is "International Delights." Mike got into some very polite superhero action with Alpha Flight 130…
- Issue 137: Dynamo Joe · 44 min · Episode 248It's time to go back to the 1980s, when giant robots ruled the pop culture landscape with rocket fists, and talking about Dynamo Joe! A love letter to Japanese media like…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Just Visiting Edition · 21 min · Episode 247For this week's Dollar Bin Discovery, we're Just Visiting and checking out comics with prominent guest stars. For Mike's pick, robot versions of the Justice League tussle with…
- Issue 136: Ex-Mutants · 1 h 4 min · Episode 246This week, we're tapping into some 1980s gold with Ex-Mutants, one of the wildest post-apocalyptic stories we've ever read. This book's got it all: A nuclear apocalypse, mutants…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Pouches Edition · 21 min · Episode 245For this week's Dollar Bin Discoveries, we're piling on the pouches in surprising ways. Jessika dug into untold historical riches with Duck Tales #4, while Mike explored a…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Pretty Pretty Princess Edition · 21 min · Episode 244Slip into your ballgown and slap on a tiara, because this week's Dollar Bin Discovery theme is "Pretty Pretty Princess!" Mike checked out some action-intense royalty with Xena…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Brothers Edition · 20 min · Episode 243This week’s Dollar Bin Discovery theme is Brothers. Mike checked out a super-powered family feud with Brigade vol. 2 #2, while Jessika revisited The Beagle Boys #28, starring…
- Issue 135: Supergirl's Safety Belt Comics · 56 min · Episode 242Today we're checking out American Honda Presents: Supergirl #1 & 2, a pair of promotional comics created in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National…
- Dollar Bin Discoveries: Neon Edition · 15 min · Episode 241This week’s Dollar Bin Discovery is Neon! Everything is louder, brighter, and just a little more extreme. Mike got into some vibrant sci-fi with Radical Dreamer #1. Jessika…
- Issue 134: Howard the Duck (The Movie!) · 60 min · Episode 240Our next deep dive tackles Howard the Duck... not the character so much as infamous 1986 movie and Marvel's adaptation. We're talking about what's arguably Hollywood’s strangest…
