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#834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding...

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2025/03/05

What’s that Kirby Crackle octopus chasing Cap and Falcon? And didn’t it used to be an oddly muscular, bald (naturally) corpse? It’s Agron, who gives our heroes some headaches in Captain America and the Falcon issues 204 and 205. Not the best Jack Kirby Cap adventure ever, but it produces at least one wildly T-shirt-worthy … Continue reading #834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding corpse

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#833 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 201-203: Who are...

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2025/02/26

The Night People are looking for a superhero. But who are the Night People? Where do they come from? And what does one have to sacrifice to become their superhero? Tim and Emmet discuss Captain America and the Falcon issues 201-203! Brought to you by: Worst Collection Ever podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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1:01:42

#832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”,...

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2025/02/19

Michael Cohen has created comics such as Strange Attractors and Tangled River, and is credited with helping to create the first known comic book price guide. He’s also co-host of the Unpacking Peanuts podcast, and his talk with Tim includes discussion of Charles Schulz’s strip, including about the reason why Michael has no interest in … Continue reading #832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more

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1:08:56

#831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four”...

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2025/02/12

While the 2005 film Fantastic Four gives us, debatably, a well-casted group of heroes, with plenty of comics-accurate details, the script does no favors to Dr. Doom. What are his goals, other than “taking everything back” from Reed? Why is he a CEO instead of a despot? Who the heck gives a frightening metal mask … Continue reading #831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 2: What does Doom want?!

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Critiquing Comics #242 “The Star Tide Shores” vol. 1

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2025/02/08

The Star Tide Shores is an action space adventure comic that isn’t afraid to get a little deeper emotionally than, say, Star Wars. Tim and Adam enjoyed reading the first volume, by Henry Goeldner and Illuminated, and are here to give you the scoop.

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#830 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four”...

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2025/02/05

After the fiasco of the 1994 unreleased Fantastic Four movie, development proceeded on a big-budget FF film, which finally hit theaters in 2005 — a better film than the ’94 attempt in some ways, but frustratingly as bad or worse in others. This week, in another crossover with the Comic Book Movie Oblivion podcast, Tim … Continue reading #830 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 1: “I am hot, and I’m not afraid to cry”

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1:19:54

#829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial...

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2025/01/29

Captain America was the obvious choice of a character to help Marvel celebrate the USA’s bicentennial in 1976. The job of doing that went to Jack Kirby, co-creator of the character. Naturally, that meant a story full of hard-hitting moments, and one that gets a bit treacly at the end, but also doesn’t back away … Continue reading #829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles”

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1:07:27

#828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga

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2025/01/22

Oni are mythical monsters similar to the ogres of Western tradition. Like many of the legendary Japanese creatures, their characteristics are often adopted for manga characters, including series such as Lum, The Promised Neverland, and Demon Slayer. Our own Patrick has compiled a lot of data on them, and he’s here this time to fill … Continue reading #828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga

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#827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts

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2025/01/15

The second omnibus volume of Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game focuses largely on a scrimmage between the varsity team and the “portables”, which doesn’t go how anyone expects it to. Things are shifting subtly under the surface; we’re pretty sure what the series is leading up to (it’s a baseball manga, after all), but it’s fun … Continue reading #827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts

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57:05

#826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your...

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2025/01/08

When Hugh D’Andrade was ten years old, his next door neighbor was mysteriously murdered, and he saw the body. In his forthcoming graphic memoir The Murder Next Door, he explores the trauma this caused him as the experience stuck with him over decades, and he explores the question: If someone else has had a worse … Continue reading #826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your trauma is your trauma

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#825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even...

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2025/01/01

Brad Guigar, creator of Evil Inc., has been putting his comics on the Web for over 20 years, and this week he’s here to talk about how he made that his day job, the challenges of promoting your work in a changing media environment, how making an erotic comic (his Patreon-only spinoff Evil Inc. After Dark) … Continue reading #825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even (especially?) if it’s NSFW!

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“Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)

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2024/12/25

Tim is now completely caught up with the MCU! Mulele joins him to discuss the most recently released (as of this episode’s recording) Marvel Cinematic Universe film, last summer’s Spider-Man: Far From Home! (Originally published on Patreon March 28, 2020) Brought to you by: The Law of Equivalent Exchange: A Fullmetal Alchemist manga podcast Our … Continue reading “Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)

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#824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)

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2024/12/18

Now that we’ve become familiar with Jack Kirby‘s original Eternals comics, repeatedly referring to the 2021 MCU film along the way, it’s time to sit through all two hours and 37 minutes of it again and evaluate it anew. Unfortunately, as a movie, it still has just as many problems, but at least now Tim … Continue reading #824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)

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Critiquing Comics #241: “The Shapes” #4: El Puro

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2024/12/14

Samuel Edme’s comic The Shapes is… a bit hard to pin down. It looks like notebook scribblings, it has its faults, but it seems to have found an audience, which is all a comics creator can ask for. Bad? No. Not for us? Probably. Tim and Adam attempt to describe it anyway.

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#823 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #17-19: Lots o’ Ikaris...

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2024/12/11

We’ve reached the end of Jack Kirby‘s Eternals series. Sure, it was a weird series, but introducing a Hulk robot apparently did little for the sales numbers. How did Kirby wrap things up? For a series that featured so many characters (though not as many as the freakin’ movie, which we’ll get to soon!), he … Continue reading #823 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #17-19: Lots o’ Ikaris (or Ikarus?)

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1:14:55

#822 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four”...

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2024/12/04

The 1994 film The Fantastic Four seems to have been made with the expectation, at least from producer Roger Corman on down, that it would be released. While some interested parties have claimed that it was only made to help Constantin Film’s Bernd Eichinger keep his option to make an FF film from expiring, others … Continue reading #822 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994) (part two) Why wasn’t the film released?

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#821 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four”...

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2024/11/27

By the early ’90s, Superman and Batman were blockbuster movie franchises, but Marvel had yet to find a way to get a big-budget film made based on their characters, let alone succeed at the box office. Bernd Eichinger of Constantin Film owned the film rights to the Fantastic Four, but those rights were soon to … Continue reading #821 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994), a Roger Corman production (part one)

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#820 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #14-16: The Coming of…....

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2024/11/20

Jack Kirby‘s The Eternals was not a conventional superhero book. It didn’t even seem to take place in the Marvel Universe. By issue 14, it appears that Marvel editorial must have been pressuring him to make it more Marvel Universe-y, which would account for the appearance of the Hulk in issues 14-16… except it’s not … Continue reading #820 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #14-16: The Coming of…. The Editor!

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#819 We catch up with “The Re-up” and “Amazing Tales”

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2024/11/13

This week we catch up with the work of two DCP favorites, Chad Bilyeu and David Dye! Chad’s series The Re-up, about his time as a pot dealer 20 years ago, continues and has overcome the skepticism Tim had of the series at the start. David has released three more issues of Amazing Tales and … Continue reading #819 We catch up with “The Re-up” and “Amazing Tales”

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#818 Requiems: “Ghost Band” and “Grimm’s Assistant”

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2024/11/06

If you’ve ever felt like your city left you before you left your city, Jason McNamara’s Ghost Band is for you. Tim and Emmet discuss this post-apocalyptic look at San Francisco. Jason then taps in to explain the inspiration for the book and what happened to artist Vincent Gladnick 2/3 of the way through. Meanwhile, … Continue reading #818 Requiems: “Ghost Band” and “Grimm’s Assistant”

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