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Critiquing Comics #220: “Amazing Tales” #5

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2022/09/07

This time, we critique the fifth installment in David Dye‘s “Amazing Tales” anthology series. In the main story, we again join the troops of Dropship Fifteen, in a story that gets a bit harrowing… but not without some humor. Adam joins Tim to talk through the issue. Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our … Continue reading Critiquing Comics #220: “Amazing Tales” #5

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#748 Elizabeth Sandifer on Netflix’s “Sandman”

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2022/08/31

While Netflix’s Sandman series has gone over well with many fans, not everyone is pleased. This week Emmet talks with comics commentator Elizabeth Sandifer, who has found the series to be vastly inferior to the original comics, and gives us her reasons in a very entertaining and informative way. Brought to you by: To the … Continue reading #748 Elizabeth Sandifer on Netflix’s “Sandman”

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#747 “Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis”

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2022/08/24

Suzanne Lenglen was a trendsetting tennis star in the 1920s, among the first to challenge the notion that tennis players had to be amateurs, running themselves into debt to keep competing, in order to participate in tournaments. Tom Humberstone‘s first full-length graphic novel Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis, soon to be released, is … Continue reading #747 “Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis”

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#746 Manga Mermaid Madness!

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2022/08/17

Patrick Ijima-Washburn (a.k.a. “Patrick W.”) has been doing some deep research on certain themes used in manga. Last year, he told us about scary cats in manga; this time it’s (mostly scary) mermaids — or, to be gender neutral, “merfolk.” Thinking it would be a topic easily covered, he was soon caught in a tsunami … Continue reading #746 Manga Mermaid Madness!

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#745 Noah Van Sciver and “Joseph Smith and the Mormons”

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2022/08/10

Joseph Smith and the Mormons is an objective look at the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Author and artist Noah Van Sciver took a bit of heat from the church for not portraying things in line with church teaching. Adam interviews Noah in this episode, as they compare notes … Continue reading #745 Noah Van Sciver and “Joseph Smith and the Mormons”

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#744 “Fist of the North Star”

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2022/08/03

If you’re looking for over-the-top — way, way over — action and violence, then Fist of the North Star, by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, is the comic for you! Kumar and Jordan breathlessly recount their experience reading the comic, which — despite the ridiculousness of the story — is done sincerely, not cynically. Brought to … Continue reading #744 “Fist of the North Star”

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Critiquing Comics #219: “Rougarou” and “The Poet and...

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2022/07/27

This week, a Critiquing Comics double feature: During the U.S. Civil War, a confederate soldier is changed into a dangerous creature by a mysterious woman. His comrade, now a marshal, tracks him after the war as he takes more innocent victims. But is everything as it appears? Tim and Jason enjoy the twist in Rougarou, … Continue reading Critiquing Comics #219: “Rougarou” and “The Poet and the Flea”

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#743 “Stray Bullets”

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2022/07/20

David Lapham’s Stray Bullets “humanist crime” series began in 1995 and shows a number of characters interacting between the 1970s and 1990s, with the stories told nonsequentially. Kumar and Matt dodge the bullets to turn in this review. Brought to you by: The Law of Equivalent Exchange: A Fullmetal Alchemist manga podcast Our supporters on … Continue reading #743 “Stray Bullets”

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#742 “Crisis on Infinite Earths”

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2022/07/13

Crisis on Infinite Earths was an attempt by Marv Wolfman and George Perez to clean up DC Comics continuity and make the publisher’s line more reader-friendly. The story showed the Anti-Monitor trying to eliminate all of the many versions of Earth that had appeared in DC stories, and the few surviving Earths ended up merged … Continue reading #742 “Crisis on Infinite Earths”

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“Ant-Man” (2015)

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2022/07/06

It’s another episode of TIM CATCHES UP WITH THE MCU, in which we wrap up Phase Two with Ant-Man. When this movie was released in 2015, some thought this might be where Marvel Studios would finally stumble. Did they? Tim and Mulele discuss. (Originally published September 14, 2019.) Brought to you by: Dear Reader: A … Continue reading “Ant-Man” (2015)

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Critiquing Comics #218: “A Lungful of Brine”

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2022/06/30

This time, Jason introduces us to his former student Dan Tappan‘s first Kickstarter project, a nautical horror anthology with the appropriately horrifying title A Lungful of Brine. Tim joins him for a review.

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#741 Anneli Furmark

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2022/06/29

Anneli Furmark is a Swedish illustrator and comics creator whose latest book is Walk Me to the Corner, in which two married middle-aged women become attracted to each other. Anneli talks with Koom (at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) about why this book isn’t an LGBT book, about her painting technique and layout choices, and … Continue reading #741 Anneli Furmark

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#740 Gary Spencer Millidge (“Strangehaven”) interview

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2022/06/22

Strangehaven is a series started by Gary Spencer Millidge in 1995. As he does everything himself (including publishing, for the first 18 issues), it has come out on an irregular schedule, but the content has been compelling. Kumar talks with him about how far he might be from completing the series, his process, his life-Strangehaven … Continue reading #740 Gary Spencer Millidge (“Strangehaven”) interview

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Critiquing Comics #217: “Scion of Night” #1

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2022/06/18

A man in Portland, Oregon, finds himself turning into some kind of neck-biting monster (a blue vampire who doesn’t mind sunlight?), but he can’t remember anything about who he is. What’s causing this? Past drug use? Psychiatric issues? Tim and Jason discuss Tatu Heikkinen‘s Scion of Night #1: “The City of Roses.”

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#739 Kirby’s Fourth World: “The Hunger Dogs”

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2022/06/15

Jack Kirby’s final Fourth World story is the 1984 graphic novel The Hunger Dogs, which continues some of the themes we saw in Even Gods Must Die, such as the encroachment of technology. Tim and Emmet complete their reading of the Fourth World and ponder how aware George Lucas may have been of the New … Continue reading #739 Kirby’s Fourth World: “The Hunger Dogs”

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#738 “The Re-Up”

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2022/06/08

One of our favorite indie creators has long been Amsterdam-based Chad Bilyeu, who’s back with the start of a new series, The Re-Up. Chad tends to deal in nonfiction and memoir, and this time is no different: he reminisces here about the time he took over a marijuana retail business in Washington, DC. Of course, … Continue reading #738 “The Re-Up”

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Critiquing Comics #216: “Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril”

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2022/06/04

Longtime web cartoonist Don Ahé has asked us to look at his new story Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril, about a boy with some bionic body parts who’s stranded on an island. Tim and Adam looked around on the rest of his site and found both gag-a-day and serialized work in his Road Apples Almanac … Continue reading Critiquing Comics #216: “Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril”

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#737 Kirby’s Fourth World: “Even Gods Must Die”

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2022/06/01

In 1984, ten years after the last of Jack Kirby‘s Fourth World books was canceled, Kirby was brought back to do a brand new New Gods story in the final issue of a series that had been reprinting the original series. The story, Even Gods Must Die, is typical Kirby Fourth World: alternately horrifying and … Continue reading #737 Kirby’s Fourth World: “Even Gods Must Die”

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Critiquing Comics #215: “Usher of the Dead” #1

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2022/05/28

Blood Moon Comics has sent us another of their titles: Usher of the Dead #1 by Keith Rommel and Samir Simao. Will Tim and Jason find as many problems with it as they did with Blood Moon’s previous entry? Or will they be pleasantly surprised? Listen and find out!

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