Category Archives: Episodes

Episode 199: Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border

Happy Bonesgiving! In this episode, we celebrate our favorite(?) holiday with another excursion into the world of Bone, this time skipping ahead to Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, written and drawn by Jeff Smith, published … Continue reading

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Episode 197 – Swamp Thing: American Gothic (Part 2)

One year (almost to the day) since we discussed the first half of American Gothic, we round out the scare-iffic month of October with a look at the final five issues (Swamp Thing #46-50) of this groundbreaking storyline by Alan … Continue reading

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Episode 196 – Amazing Spider-Man: Shed

(Note: You may just ever-so-faintly hear a neighbor’s barking dog occasionally adding his two cents in the background for the first half or so of the episode.) A perennial Spider-Man foe gets a horror-monster makeover (and our Spidey Super Stories … Continue reading

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Episode 195 –Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut! and The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man

In this episode, we swing back into our Spidey Super Stories miniseries with a pair of acclaimed Spider-Man tales from the early 80s: The two-part Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut from Amazing Spider-Man #229-230, and The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man, … Continue reading

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Episode 194 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (With Matt Goldberg)

Media critic Matt Goldberg returns as we temporarily pause our Spidey Super-Stories miniseries to discuss the unstoppable cultural phenomenon known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a look at the book that started it all—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 … Continue reading

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Episode 193 – Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 2: Learning Curve and Confessions

In this episode, Spidey Super Stories swings into a different gear as we examine yet another version of everyone’s favorite wall-crawler with a look at Ultimate Spider-Man: Learning Curve, with a special emphasis on issue 13, Confessions, by Brian Michael … Continue reading

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Episode 192 – The Superior Spider-Man: My Own Worst Enemy (With Marvel by the Month)

Bryan Stratton and Robb Milne from the Marvel by the Month podcast join us once again as Spidey Super Stories continues with a look at The Superior Spider-Man: My Own Worst Enemy, collecting The Superior Spider-Man (2013) issues 1-5 by … Continue reading

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Episode 191 – Spider-Man No More!

We kick off Spidey Super Stories, a series dedicated to everyone’s favorite web-slinger, Spider-Man, with a look at “Spider-Man No More!” from Amazing Spider-Man #50, along with two early clashes with the Kingpin in #51-52 and #69, by Stan Lee … Continue reading

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Episode 190 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 2

In this episode, we wrap up our two-parter on The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones, with a look at issues 64-69, published by Vertigo/DC Comics! Lyta Hall and the Furies descend on The Dreaming, intent on destroying the dream … Continue reading

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Episode 189 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 1

In this episode, our series-within-a-series on The Sandman begins winding down as we kick off a two-parter on Vol. 9, The Kindly Ones, discussing issues 57-63, published by Vertigo/DC Comics! When her young son Daniel is abducted, Lyta Hall embarks … Continue reading

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