Tag Archives: Marvel Comics

Episode 196 – Amazing Spider-Man: Shed

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

(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

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

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

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

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!

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

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 186 – The Death of Captain Marvel

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

It’s one of the few superhero deaths that has managed to stick over the intervening decades. And it ties up Adam Warlock’s Magus Saga with a tidy bow. On this episode, we revisit Marvel Comics’ first-ever “graphic novel,” Jim Starlin’s … Continue reading →

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Episode 185 – The Strange Death of Adam Warlock Part 2

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

On this episode, we wrap up our two-parter on Marvel’s cosmic messiah, Adam Warlock, with a look at two stories that close the loop on Jim Starlin’s classic Magus Saga: Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2, published by … Continue reading →

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Episode 184 – The Strange Death of Adam Warlock Part 1

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning: Suicide/self-murder On this episode, we kick off a two-part look at the definitive Adam Warlock story, The Magus Saga, aka The Strange Death of Adam Warlock, as featured in Strange Tales issues 178-181 and Warlock issues 9-11, written … Continue reading →

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Episode 179 – Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Kevin Moreau

Content warning: suicide, threat of sexual assault. In this episode, we visit one of the most popular Spider-Man stories of all time that also happens to be one of the most atypical Spider-Man stories of all time: Kraven’s Last Hunt, … Continue reading →

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Episode 169 – New Avengers (2013) Vol. 4: A Perfect World

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Kevin Moreau

We wrap up our selective two-part look back on Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers, as the Illuminati—the secret syndicate featuring Black Panther, Iron Man, the Sub-Mariner and other heavy hitters—are finally confronted with an impossible decision: to destroy an alternate Earth … Continue reading →

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Episode 168 – New Avengers (2013) Vol. 1: Everything Dies

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Kevin Moreau

What was all that stuff about “incursions” in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness? The answer lies in these first six issues (plus one) of Jonathan Hickman’s run on New Avengers, drawn by the incomparable Steve Epting (and Mike … Continue reading →

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