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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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48:30

"Captain Marvel" (2019)

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/07/31

Back in Critiquing Comics 154, Tim and Mulele discussed 2019's Captain Marvel; Tim enjoyed it, Mulele did not. Now that we've arrived at the time to give it a full review as part of "Tim Catches Up with the MCU," another viewing has helped us both to clarify our positions and see things we didn't realize the first time around. Join us as we take a somewhat more nuanced look at the film. (Originally published on Patreon February 29, 2020) Brought to you by: The Quarter-Bin podcast Our supporters on

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55:28

#598 Dylan Horrocks looks back at “Hicksville”

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2024/07/24

FLASHBACK! Twenty years after the first collection of Hicksville was released, creator Dylan Horrocks talks to Emmet about how the comic looks to him now. Some of the work’s commentary on the comics industry turned out to presage subsequent developments, and in some cases he ended up not going far enough! Also, his source for a Jack Kirby quote that many experts were unaware of; the public’s misinterpretation of the term “graphic novel”; the explosion of female and minority comics creators,

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01:15:45

#814 Jack Kirby's "Eternals" 5-8: As wacky as they...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/07/17

Reading the original Jack Kirby iteration of The Eternals shows that the MCU movie based on the title was rather dour, where Kirby's version veers into wackiness! Sersi shows quite the sense of humor. SHIELD agents appear who just can't seem to accept that they can't get the upper hand on giant space gods! People are broken into atoms, and then reconstituted, alive! Tim and Emmet continue their look at Kirby's 1970s work with Eternals 5-8! Brought to you by: BAT 77: The '70s Batman podcast Our

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53:39

#813 "Cross Game": Baseball manga that's not about...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/07/10

Mitsuru Adachi's Cross Game is a baseball manga for people who don't care about baseball. A tragedy early in the story helps to shape the narrative, but there's also a good dose of unexpected comedy, and sequences that really make us want to cheer for Ko and his friends as they work toward the goal of reaching the high school baseball championship. Kumar at last succeeds at getting this one on the podcast schedule, and Tim is happy to come along. Brought to you by: Who’s Who podcast Our supporters

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38:00

#812 Jonah Lobe on character anatomy and "Quiet:...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/07/06

Jonah Lobe, after many years designing characters for video games, has recently turned his attention to comics. He's the illustrator of Marvel Anatomy: A Scientific Study of the Superhuman, in which we can finally learn just what's going on inside characters like Wolverine, Venom, and Modok. He's also on the verge of his first Kickstarter campaign, for Quiet: Level One, about a skeleton named Quiet who's up against an evil Conan the Barbarian-type called Galahorn. He talks with Tim about his

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01:09:51

#811 "Blood of the Virgin": About much more than...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/07/03

On the surface, Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the Virgin is about an editor of b-movies in 1970s L.A. who has greater artistic aspirations, but it’s also rich with unexpected explorations of character and narrative approaches, themes about the creative process, responsibility, and being an immigrant, and Harkham’s best art and writing to date. Over a decade in the making, the book was finally released in a collected volume last year, and the work shows. Matt E. and Kumar can’t help but heap praise on

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44:53

#810 "Batman/Dylan Dog": Dark Knight meets Nightmare...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/06/26

Batman meets Italy’s humorous horror icon Dylan Dog in a beautiful three-issue series, originally published in Italian and recently released in English from DC. Tim and Emmet could recommend it on the art alone, but the story gives us a lot to discuss as well, including very rich conversations between characters and an interesting take on the Caped Crusader. Brought to you by: Checkered Past podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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50:31

Critiquing Comics #237: "Detective Perez:...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/06/19

Paul Pate releases his third "Detective Perez" graphic novel, called Autotropolis, a turned-to-eleven detective story that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Tim and Jason find a lot to like and not too terribly much to advise on -- though of course almost any work can still be improved! Right? Griz Grobus, the latest from Simon Roy, is about a robot advocate for eating your veggies on a planet where humans have settled just in the past few hundred years. It's also about how the spirit of a war

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39:19

#809 Pidge interview: "Fiction is a way to tell the...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/06/12

Sure, comics are great for fantastical stories, but they can tell intimate, personal stories as well -- or sometimes the personal and the fantastical mix well. Artist and writer Pidge is the creator of the series Infinite Wheatpaste, which employs this method. Avery Hill has just published a collection of the series, called Infinite Wheatpaste vol 1: Catalytic Conversions. This week Pidge talks with Emmet about her attraction to the comics medium, but concern that it doesn't cover all the aspects

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01:00:22

#808 Jack Kirby's "The Eternals" 1-4: Chariots of the...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/06/05

So many Jack Kirby creations focus on gods, from The Mighty Thor to New Gods; he picked up concepts from myth or elsewhere and made them his. Kirby's The Eternals makes no bones about where its inspiration came from: Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Chariots of the Gods?. This week Tim and Emmet discuss the first four issues, from 1976. And play along with Emmet in the ongoing game "Did someone lift this idea from Kirby?" Brought to you by: Worst Collection Ever podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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43:15

Critiquing Comics #236: "Clover and Cutlass" and...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/29

Clover and Cutlass is a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired fantasy YA comedy web comic by Toby Boyd. Adam joins Tim to discuss. Coiled to Strike is an anthology book from Wildstar Press, featuring numerous artists and writers, focused on the adventures of legendary wild west antihero Emory Graves. Jason joins Tim to critique. Brought to you by: The Law of Equivalent Exchange: A Fullmetal Alchemist manga podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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30:30

#807 Reviews: "Fiendish" and "Safer Places"

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/22

Friend of the show Irene Strychalski, former artist of such Marvel titles as Gwenpool and Silk, has been focused on her original title Fiendish, a lushly drawn (and colored, by Carlos Nicolas Zamudio) fantasy story. This week, Tim and Patrick discuss the first two volumes. Also, Tim presents a mini-review of Safer Places by Kit Anderson, another book from our friends at Avery Hill. Brought to you by: BAT 77: The '70s Batman podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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01:09:29

#806 "Berserk" v. 13 & 14: Is this scene necessary?

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/15

Berserk volume 12 left us at a crucial point: The Band of the Hawk were to be sacrificed so that Griffith can join the Godhand. Horrified, Tim and Kumar moved quickly on to volume 13, which left us... horrified, in a less fun way. Casca is raped, in an unnecessarily long, confusing, and (ick) titillating scene (and we have to talk about it, so be warned). The rest of 13 and the start of 14 finally bring us up to the status quo of the first 2 1/2 volumes and get us started on a new story of Guts and

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01:00:12

#805 "Feeding Ghosts": a story of Chinese history and...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/08

This week, an interview with Tessa Hulls, author of the graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. It’s about her Chinese grandmother’s persecution by Chairman Mao’s government, the mental illness that resulted, the effect that had on Tessa’s mother and then on Tessa herself. It’s about Chinese history, trauma, psychology, family relationships, and more. Tim interviews Tessa about the book and how she learned to make comics, and then Emmet joins Tim to review the book. Brought to you by: To the Batpoles

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#167 “City of Glass”: Adapting a Novel to Comics

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/02

FLASHBACK! Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s comics version of City of Glass, a 1985 novel by Paul Auster, is an amazing adaptation of an unfilmable novel. Tim and Kumar assess the herculean task of adapting it, in probably the only medium capable of doing so: comics! We re-present this episode in observance of Auster's passing on April 30 at age 77. Originally published February 16, 2009.

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01:17:02

#804 "Berserk" v. 11 & 12: Cartoonish violence, epic...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/05/01

Kentaro Miura’s Berserk can be upsetting, fascinating, offputting, incredible, and even sometimes a bit comedic, as Tim and Kumar have found over the past several months. All those qualities appear again in volumes 11 and 12, as the story of the extended flashback reaches its climax with Griffith’s horrific accession to the God Hand. Join us as we discuss the cartoonish violence of volume 11 and the epic horror of volume 12. Brought to you by: Checkered Past podcast Our supporters on Patreon

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01:25:33

#803 Jack Kirby's "2001" #6-10: Machine Man Begins

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/04/24

What did Marvel expect Jack Kirby to do with a 2001: A Space Odyssey series? Especially when they told him not to create any ongoing characters? What we got included the Monolith and the Star Child, but with unmistakable Kirby bombast. After concluding his story of superhero-obsessed Harvey Norton in issue 6, and a one-shot exploration of what happens after becoming a star child in issue 7, for the final three issues Kirby seems to have abandoned not only his instructions to create no ongoing

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44:03

#802 Jack Kirby's "2001" #1-5: An Interesting Failure

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/04/17

As Jack Kirby's adaptation of the movie/novel 2001: A Space Odyssey sold well, Marvel asked him to turn it into a series -- but then tied one hand behind his back by asking that he not create ongoing characters for fear they'd become property of MGM rather than Marvel. As Tim and Emmet see in the first half of the series, it starts out as theme and variations on Dave Bowman's transformation into a Star Child, but the variations become more elaborate and interesting as he goes. "The Crazy Legacy of

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Critiquing Comics #235: "Rebirth of the Gangster" and...

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/04/10

Critiquing Comics returns, with a comic that we just couldn’t put down, and one that we couldn’t quite pick up on! Jason joins Tim to discuss Rebirth of the Gangster: The Complete Collection, a crime novel with incredible forward momentum by Writer CJ Standal and Artist Juan Romera. Then Adam and Tim critique Toe & So Long, a rather cosmicky, rather AdventureTimey comic created by Jacob Michael Campbell with art by Alexis Vivallo. Brought to you by: Worst Collection Ever podcast Our supporters on

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01:01:17

#801 Swamp Thing Begins: Issues 1-13 reviewed

Deconstructing Comics ·

2024/04/03

The character of Swamp Thing originated in House of Secrets #92 in 1971, drawn by Berni Wrightson and written by Len Wein. That story served as a first draft for the real origin story in Swamp Thing #1, with the same creative pairing. This week, Tim is joined by writer for CBR and Screen Rant Ashley Land to discuss the collection Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age vol. 1! Crowdfunding campaign for Ashley's comic The Unbreakable Argonauts #1 Brought to you by: BAT 77: The '70s Batman podcast Our

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