The 1994 film The Fantastic Four seems to have been made with the expectation, at least from producer Roger Corman on
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Father has reached godlike levels of power! Ed, Al, and their friends do their best to control the threat he
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By the early 1990s, Superman and Batman were blockbuster movie franchises, but Marvel had yet to find a way to
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Jack Kirby‘s The Eternals was not a conventional superhero book. It didn’t even seem to take place in the Marvel
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So just what was it that Scar’s brother noticed about Amestris’ alchemy (back in chapter 59!) that was “strange”? At
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It’s Sunday, so that means it’s time for me to take you round a bit of comics news in the
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This week we catch up with the work of two DCP favorites: Chad Bilyeu and David Dye! Chad’s series, The
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If you’ve ever felt like your city left you before you left your city, Jason McNamara‘s Ghost Band is for you.
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Father’s plan is coming to fruition! As the eclipse continues, he takes advantage of all his countrymen to get all the
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Tim gets ever closer to catching up with the MCU! Tim and Mulele discuss Avengers: Endgame‘s time-travel explanation (and problems),
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Anton, Erik, and I reconvene the Good Grief panel to watch It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Memories fail as
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FLASHBACK! Sports have rarely been subject matter for comics in the US; perhaps comics’ inherent static-ness has seemed antithetical to an
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The eclipse is here! Father/”Mr. Eyeballs” sets his plan in motion! Can Ed, Al, and company fight back? Tim and
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Most Americans know little about the Crimean War (1853-1856). Adam McGovern and Bruno Letizia’s The Night Brigade may go some way
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We left the Eternals joined together in the Unimind. The 1977 Annual doesn’t clearly fit into continuity, but features only
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It becomes clear in Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 103 that causing Mustang to open the portal shouldn’t have been possible, and
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Chester Brown’s work has come up on this show a number of times over the years. We’ve discussed Ed the
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FLASHBACK! A comic strip gag can be a deceptively simple thing. Once you take it apart — “deconstruct” it, one
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What happens when Mustang is forced to open the Gate of Truth against his will? Ever seen two nameless men
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What does an 11-year-old do when her “only friend” moves away? In Coco Fox‘s “sorta” memoir, Let’s Go, Coco, she
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FLASHBACK! It’s been more than 70 years now since the debut of Archie comics, featuring (though not quite from the
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Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 101 asks some important questions: Will Hawkeye bleed to death? How will Pride and Father open the
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Eternals are only human, I guess! In Eternals #9-12, many of the Eternals exhibit a segregationist attitude toward the Deviants,
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FLASHBACK! A then-recent R. Crumb compilation is reviewed by a Crumb connoisseur (Kumar) and a Crumb newbie (Tim). The book
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Can you believe we’ve done 100 episodes now? Can you believe we’re almost done with the series?? Fullmetal Alchemist chapter
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Once again we take a look at some comics submitted by their creators; we talk about what we liked about
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It’s Sunday, shouldn’t I be spotlighting some comics stuff? Well, what the hey… it’s Sunday Spotlight time…
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FLASHBACK! While Alan Moore and J.H. Williams’ Promethea, published from 1999 to 2005, is not one of Moore’s most remembered
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Stuff gets real as Foo and Bradley fight it out! Ed, Al (finally in Central City), and Izumi disappear from
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FLASHBACK! Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie debuted in 1924 and was a big success. FDR having not yet turned him
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Back in Critiquing Comics 154, Tim and Mulele discussed 2019’s Captain Marvel; Tim enjoyed it, Mulele did not. Now that we’ve
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