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Deconstructing Comics

Tim Young and friends

Deconstructing Comics is a podcast by and for comics creators — especially those who haven"t hit their creative stride yet. Whether you"ve got a comic going and you"re trying to promote it, or you haven"t even started yet and need some help getting rolling, we hope you"ll come here for inspiration and tips. And there"s plenty of interest for non-creators, as well!

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01:19:55

#829 Jack Kirby's "Captain America's Bicentennial...

Deconstructing Comics ·

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 from difficult moments in US history. This week, Tim and Emmet discuss the treasury-size special Captain America's Bicentennial Battles. Brought to you by: The Quick and the Dad Our

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01:07:27

#828 Japan's mythical "oni" in manga

Deconstructing Comics ·

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 us in. He also discusses the main points of monster theory. Watch Patrick's videos on oni and other Japanese creatures Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our

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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 to watch it develop. And of course, it never lets us forget vol. 1's tragedy, even as Adachi hits us with goofy jokes. Tim and Kumar brush up on their baseball terms as they go

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#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 experience than mine, does that mean my trauma is less important than theirs? In this episode, Tim interviews Hugh, and then Jason joins Tim to review the book. Brought to you by: Worst

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01:05:21

#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) forced him to up his game, and his new project to help NSFW comics creators support each other and find new readers! Waaay back in 2008, we reviewed How to Make Webcomics, co-authored by Brad

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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 supporters on Patreon

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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 and Emmet can get a better idea of what those problems were. And also take note of the bright spots. Brought to you by: Checkered Past podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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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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01:06:44

#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 took the odd step of giving us an Ikaris solo adventure, with a Celestial-in-the-machine ending. Not really what we wanted from a series that we initially found enjoyable. Tim and Emmet discuss

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01:14:56

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

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2024/12/03

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 say that someone stepped in to kill it after the film was made. In part two of our FF '94 crossover with Comic Book Movie Oblivion, Tim, Kumar, and Jordan finish walking through the film

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01:17:56

#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 expire. So he teamed up with B-movie producer Roger Corman to bang out an FF film -- which, for somewhat unclear reasons, never came out. This week, in a crossover with the Comic Book Movie

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01:18:51

#820 Jack Kirby's "Eternals," #14-16: The Coming...

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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 really the Hulk, leaving plausible deniability to the fact that this is really happening in the MU. But, along with New York City, the Pseudo-Hulk also smashed the direction of the

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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 gone in various directions: a Beowulf adaptation, a Burroughs-esque time travel story commenting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and an EC-type horror comic! We review The Re-up issues 4-6 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, in Nigeria, the Grim Reaper has an apprentice, and he saves a girl's life -- temporarily. Grimm’s Assistant, by Mamode Ogbewele and Chigozie Amadi, might be a little too stingy with

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01:03:52

"Avengers: Endgame" (2019)

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/10/30

Tim gets ever closer to catching up with the MCU! Tim and Mulele discuss Avengers: Endgame's time-travel explanation (and problems), Captain Marvel's relative irrelevance to the film, how this movie set the stage for the upcoming TV shows, and much more. (Originally published on Patreon March 14, 2020) Brought to you by: Bat Bits podcast on Patreon, featuring our research on Batman '66 Our supporters on Patreon

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01:00:19

#437 “Real” is a slam dunk

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2024/10/23

FLASHBACK! Sports have rarely been subject matter for comics in the US; perhaps comics’ inherent static-ness has seemed antithetical to an activity with so much movement. But Japan has seen comics about various sports, and some of them have been quite popular, even iconic. Takehiko Inoue’s Real is not only about basketball, but about physical handicaps, relationships, and more. Kumar and Ilango find a whole lot to like about it — including the satisfying ways in which it translates sports action to

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Critiquing Comics #240: "The Night Brigade" and "Joe...

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2024/10/16

Most Americans know little about the Crimean War (1853-1856). Adam McGovern and Bruno Letizia’s The Night Brigade may go some way toward filling us in on that conflict, and it does give us several historical figures, including Florence Nightingale - but it also features a werewolf. Tim and Adam critique. Asante Amani's Joe Mallard gives us short detective stories that feel a bit like Matt Kindt's work. Tim and Jason are hoping for more! Brought to you by: The Quick and the Dad Our supporters on

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01:18:27

#817 Jack Kirby's "Eternals", 1977 Annual + #13: Fun...

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2024/10/09

We left the Eternals joined together in the Unimind. The 1977 Annual doesn't clearly fit into continuity, but features only one Eternal, Thena, together with Deviants Karkas and the Reject against a time-traveling threat! Back in the regular series, issue 13 gives us exactly two Eternals, trying to stop a Deviant attack on the Celestials. In spite of the lack of Eternals, these are two of the most fun issues Tim and Emmet have read yet! Brought to you by: Checkered Past podcast Our supporters on

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01:33:19

#816 Chester Brown interview: "Paying for It," the movie

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2024/10/02

Chester Brown’s work has come up on this show a number of times over the years. We’ve discussed Ed the Happy Clown, Louis Riel, and Paying for It. He’s actually published 10 graphic novels since 1989, some of which are collections of his comics series. In connection with the recent premiere of the movie version of Paying for It at the Toronto International Film Festival, our own Koom got a chance to interview Brown for this week's show! Check out Koom's novel, Killing Shakespeare Brought to you by:

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01:33:35

#593 "Reading 'Nancy'”, plus “Cat and Mouse”!

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2024/09/25

FLASHBACK! A comic strip gag can be a deceptively simple thing. Once you take it apart -- "deconstruct" it, one might say -- you find that it actually has many moving parts. (Click to enlarge) Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden's How to Read "Nancy" takes a close look at each of those parts -- as well as arguing persuasively for Bushmiller's underrated artistic chops, and giving us some comic-strip history as well. Tim and Patrick review. PLUS: Roland Mann, Dean Zachary, and Kevin Gallegly join Tim

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