Category Archives: Episodes

Episode 234: Swamp Thing – Rite of Spring and Windfall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, we discuss a Swamp Thing story that we’re surprised didn’t qualify for our recently wrapped We’re With the Banned miniseries on banned and challenged comics – Rite of Spring from Saga of the Swamp Thing #34, as … Continue reading →

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Episode 233: Ice Haven

Posted on May 28, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, concludes (at least for now) with a stop at Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven, a “narraglyphic picto-assemblage” published by Pantheon Books! A collection of comic strips covering a variety … Continue reading →

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Hey, Where’s My New Comics Canon?

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

We’re afraid you’ll have to wait another week for our episode on Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to wait a whole week to hear Curt and Kevin talk at length about comics. In fact, you … Continue reading →

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Episode 232: Gender Queer

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, takes on the most banned book of the past several years – Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, published by Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press! … Continue reading →

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Episode 231: Assassination Classroom Vol. 1: Time for Assassination

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on challenged comics and graphic novels, rolls on with a discussion of Yusei Matsui’s manga Assassination Classroom Vol. 1: Time for Assassination, published by Viz Media! Consider this a big ol’ content warning, as … Continue reading →

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Episode 230: Pride of Baghdad

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning: Sexual assault, cruelty to animals In this episode, We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned or challenged comics and graphic novels, continues with a discussion of Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, published … Continue reading →

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Episode 229: This One Summer

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, we kick off We’re With the Banned – a miniseries on banned or challenged comics and graphic novels – with a discussion of This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, published by First Second Books! … Continue reading →

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Episode 228: Daredevil – The Devil in Cell Block D

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, blind lawyer Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, is behind bars – but so are Hammerhead, the Kingpin, and a host of other hardened criminals in 2006’s The Devil in Cell Block D, by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark, … Continue reading →

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Episode 227: Daredevil – Out

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

A mere 16 years after the Kingpin learns Daredevil’s secret identity in Frank Miller’s Born Again, that secret becomes front page news in 2002’s Out, by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, published by Marvel Comics! Returning to his indie … Continue reading →

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Episode 226: Thunderbolts – The Great Escape and Like Lightning

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

Our six-episode, six-decade overview of the Thunderbolts and the Masters of Evil comes to a close (for now, at least) as we discuss two time-hopping tales from 2011 and 2012: The Great Escape from Thunderbolts #163-165 and Like Lightning from … Continue reading →

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