Category Archives: Episodes

Episode 239: X-Men – The Phoenix Saga

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

All My Xs, our decade-by-decade miniseries on Marvel’s merry mutant franchise, rolls into the 1970s with a look at The Phoenix Saga from X-Men #101, 104-105 and 107-108, published by Marvel Comics! Superstar writer Chris Claremont starts coming into his … Continue reading →

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Episode 238: X-Men – The Sentinels Live! and In the Shadow of … Sauron!

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

In this episode, we kick off All My Xs, a decade-by-decade look at everyone’s favorite Marvel mutants, the X-Men! First up, it’s the swingin’ 60s – 1969, to be exact, and X-Men #57-61, by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, published … Continue reading →

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Episode 237: The Mighty Thor – And Now … Galactus!

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

Galactus makes his big-screen debut this week in Fantastic Four: First Steps*, which means it’s the perfect opportunity to discuss his second-ever comics appearances in The Mighty Thor – specifically, issues #160-162 and 168-169, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, … Continue reading →

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Episode 236: JLA – Tower of Babel

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, the upcoming Superman movie has us in a Justice League frame of mind, which is as good an excuse as any to discuss the classic Tower of Babel storyline, as collected in JLA #43-46 by Mark Waid, … Continue reading →

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Episode 235: Tails of the Super-Pets

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, we’re getting ready for the July 11 big-screen debut of Krypto the Super-Dog in James Gunn’s Superman with a look at the Silver Age origins of Krypto and his fellow members of the Legion of Super-Pets, as … Continue reading →

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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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