Category Archives: Episodes

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 205: Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1 – The Assassin’s Road

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, we take a long-overdue look at one of the most influential manga of the last 50 years: Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima! Specifically, selected stories from Vol. 1: The Assassin’s Road, as … Continue reading →

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Episode 204: Hulk vs. Thing – The Last Round?

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

Our two-part look at Hulk/Thing fights wraps up with a look at one of the twosome’s more recent titanic tussles in Fantastic Four Vol. 6, issues 12 and 13, by Dan Slott and Sean Izaakse, published by Marvel Comics! But … Continue reading →

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Episode 203: Hulk vs. Thing, Rounds 1 and 2

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME as we kick off a two-part look at one of Marvel Comics’ most storied traditions: epic slugfests between the Hulk and the Thing! Specifically, the first two face-offs between these fearsome foes in Fantastic … Continue reading →

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Episode 202: A Guest in the House

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning: Mentions of suicide; general gaslighting, psychological domestic abuse. In this episode, we look back at one of the best-reviewed books of 2023: A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll, published by First Second! Shy, awkward Abby is … Continue reading →

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Episode 201: A Carl Barks Christmas (With Dan McCoy)

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

Just in time for Christmas, Emmy-winning writer (and co-host of The Flop House) Dan McCoy joins us to unwrap a trio of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories by the late, great Carl Barks! In “Only a Poor Old Man,” … 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 199: Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

Happy Bonesgiving! In this episode, we celebrate our favorite(?) holiday with another excursion into the world of Bone, this time skipping ahead to Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, written and drawn by Jeff Smith, published … 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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