Deconstructing Comics
By Tim
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Episodes: 100
Description
A podcast about the craft of comics
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#471 “Crumb” and “Punk Rock Jesus”
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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#415 Crumb’s Confounding “Genesis”
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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#384 R. Crumb’s “Weirdo” Years Revisited
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May 27, 2026 |
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Critiquing Comics #249: “Westron”
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May 23, 2026 |
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#875 Swamp Thing in Spaaaaace
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May 20, 2026 |
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#874 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #5-6: The City of Samurai
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May 13, 2026 |
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#873 Adam Tierney: Godzilla comes to Verona
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May 06, 2026 |
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#872 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 2: The argument in favor of Stan Lee editing
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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#546 “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye”
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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#871 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #3-4: A Time Machine, a Sweet Ride, and a Samurai
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Critiquing Comics #248: “The Blossoming City” pt 1 and “Loon News: The Comic Strip!”
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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#617 Swamp Thing meets the monsters
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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#319 “The Maxx” (RIP Sam Kieth)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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#870 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 1: Spy or superhero?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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#325 Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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#869 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #1-2: A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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#868 “The Pass”: Are you living the dream, or is the dream killing you?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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#867 “Goodnight, Punpun”
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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#866 Fantastic Four 53: Black Panther meets Klaw
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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#865 Harold Buchholz interview: Kids love comics!
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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#864 Black Panther Debuts
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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#863 Jimmy Gownley interview
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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#627 Walt Simonson’s “Thor”
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Critiquing Comics #247: “Lovers Quarrel” and “Digital Bardos” #2
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#862 “Poor Helpless Comics”
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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#861 Jack Kirby’s Captain America: Cap vs Magneto!
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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#372 “Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary”: Painful Personal Memoir as Wacky Comedy!
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#860 Chris Ryall on “Daredevil: Born Again”
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#859 Jason Shiga: Choosing his own path
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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#858 Celebrating 20 years by reviewing a 20-year-old film (“Superman Returns”)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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#857 Carol Tyler’s “The Ephemerata”: Making sense of the worst of all possible stretches
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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#856 Jim Keefe interview
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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#855 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America” 214 & Annual 3: Cap vs the Space Vampire!
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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#410 Marvel Comics: Telling the Untold Story
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Critiquing Comics #246: “Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent” and “A French Expat in the U.K.”
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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#854 “Superman” (2025): Its commentary on other supermen
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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#853 The strange history of “Robotech”
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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#369 “Krazy Kat”: Show me the bricks
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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#852 Dan Schkade and “Flash Gordon”
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#358 Carl Barks, “The Good Duck Artist”
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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#851 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 212-213: “I love you, baby!”
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Critiquing Comics #245: “Joe Mallard” 4-6 and “Dream Machine”
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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#850 “Fantastic Four: First Steps” (2025): Did it live up to the hype?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#849 “Almost Sunset”: Wahab Algarmi on growing up Muslim in America
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#848 “More Weight”: Ben Wickey talks Salem witch trials
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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“Spider-Man 3” (2007)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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“Spider-Man 2” (2004)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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“Spider-Man” (2002)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Critiquing Comics #244: “God Summoner” and “The Keluarga Cable Ship Company”
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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#780 Jim Shooter interview
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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#847 “Angel and the Ape”: Forgotten, but not gone
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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#846 Pow! Crack! Breaking down comics sound effects
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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#845 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 209-211: An Uncle Sam Person
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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#844 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 2: WTF does Doom want??
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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#843 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 1
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#842 Struggling with Kit Anderson’s “Second Shift”
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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#633 “Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun”
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May 28, 2025 |
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#841 Ken Krimstein on Einstein, Kafka, and comics in general
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May 21, 2025 |
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#840 Joe Sacco’s books on the Middle East
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May 14, 2025 |
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#385 The Legacy of “Starman”
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May 07, 2025 |
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Critiquing Comics #243: “Fables of Fear” and “Black Plastic”
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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#559 Drawn & Quarterly and Canadian comics
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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#210 Jillian Tamaki interview(s)
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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#839 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#838 The Fantastic Four on Film: The Galactus Trilogy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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#837 Jack Kirby’s Captain America 206-208: The Tiger, the Swine…and the Fish
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#836 “Clyde Fans” reviewed by two fans
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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#835 “Raised by Ghosts”: A time capsule, but relevant to anyone who’s been a teen
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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#834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding corpse
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#833 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 201-203: Who are “the Night People”?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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#832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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#831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 2: What does Doom want?!
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Critiquing Comics #242 “The Star Tide Shores” vol. 1
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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#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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Feb 05, 2025 |
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#829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles”
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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#828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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#827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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#826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your trauma is your trauma
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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#825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even (especially?) if it’s NSFW!
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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“Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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#824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Critiquing Comics #241: “The Shapes” #4: El Puro
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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#823 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #17-19: Lots o’ Ikaris (or Ikarus?)
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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#822 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994) (part two) Why wasn’t the film released?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#821 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994), a Roger Corman production (part one)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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#820 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #14-16: The Coming of…. The Editor!
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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#819 We catch up with “The Re-up” and “Amazing Tales”
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#818 Requiems: “Ghost Band” and “Grimm’s Assistant”
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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“Avengers: Endgame” (2019)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#437 “Real” is a slam dunk
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Critiquing Comics #240: “The Night Brigade” and “Joe Mallard”
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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#817 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, 1977 Annual + #13: Fun “Eternals” stories with few Eternals
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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#816 Chester Brown interview: “Paying for It,” the movie
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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#593 “Reading ‘Nancy’”, plus “Cat and Mouse”!
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Critiquing Comics #239: “Let’s Go, Coco” and “Digital Bardos”
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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#338 Everything’s Archie!
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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#815 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, #9-12: Judging books by their covers
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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#134 “The R. Crumb Handbook”
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Critiquing Comics #238: “Jane Jet” and “The Fog Within”
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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#591 “Promethea”: A mind-bending, life-changing comic
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Aug 14, 2024 |