Tag Archives: DC Comics

Episode 208: Return of The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning (death by suicide) Our reexamination of Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns continues! How good IS this story, really? Will things go differently than they did in our fourth episode way back in 2016, allowing this universally … Continue reading →

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Episode 207: Return of The Dark Knight Returns Part 1

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

Explicit (a few swears scattered throughout) and content warning (brief mentions of death by suicide and attempted sexual assault) This isn’t a podcast—it’s an operating table, and we’re the surgeons! This time, we revisit one of our most controversial episodes … Continue reading →

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Episode 200: Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

It’s our bicentennial episode, and we celebrate by going back to 1976 for a momentous match-up between comics’ two most popular characters: Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru, published by DC and Marvel Comics! This … Continue reading →

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Episode 198: Hellblazer: Newcastle (A Taste of Things to Come)

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning: sexual abuse and implied sexual assault In this episode, friend of the show and John Constantine authority Tracy Tanoff joins us in unpacking a defining moment in the life and career of everyone’s favorite street-level mage (and con … Continue reading →

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Episode 197 – Swamp Thing: American Gothic (Part 2)

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

One year (almost to the day) since we discussed the first half of American Gothic, we round out the scare-iffic month of October with a look at the final five issues (Swamp Thing #46-50) of this groundbreaking storyline by Alan … Continue reading →

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Episode 190 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 2

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, we wrap up our two-parter on The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones, with a look at issues 64-69, published by Vertigo/DC Comics! Lyta Hall and the Furies descend on The Dreaming, intent on destroying the dream … Continue reading →

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Episode 189 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 1

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, our series-within-a-series on The Sandman begins winding down as we kick off a two-parter on Vol. 9, The Kindly Ones, discussing issues 57-63, published by Vertigo/DC Comics! When her young son Daniel is abducted, Lyta Hall embarks … Continue reading →

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Episode 188 – The Flash of Two Worlds

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, we look ahead to the June 16 release of The Flash with a little story that established the concept of the multiverse as a canonical part of superhero comics: “The Flash of Two Worlds” from The Flash … Continue reading →

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Episode 183 – It’s an Ambush Bug, Not a Feature!

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

With April Fool’s Day just around the corner, the time seems right for a long-overdue look at DC Comics’ Ambush Bug, who was breaking the fourth wall and spreading mayhem almost a decade before Marvel Comics’ Deadpool. Specifically, we take … Continue reading →

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Episode 182 – The Authority: Relentless

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, we look at the source material for one of the upcoming DC movies recently announced by James Gunn: The Authority Vol. 1: Relentless, collecting The Authority #1-8 by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, published by … Continue reading →

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