Critiquing Comics #247: ‘Lovers Quarrel’ And ‘Digital Bardos’ #2
A love triangle. One member feels jilted and goes off the deep end. A gun is involved. Tim and Adam
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Deconstructing Comics #862: ‘Poor Helpless Comics’
Ed Subitzky did a lot of cartooning for National Lampoon back in the 1970s and ’80s. Much of his work
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Deconstructing Comics #861: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’ — Cap Vs Magneto!
While it seems a bit odd to see Captain America fighting Magneto, they do have something in common: Jack Kirby
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Deconstructing Comics #372 (Flashback): ‘Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary” — Painful Personal Memoir As Wacky Comedy!
FLASHBACK! Autobiographical comics are par for the course, but in 1972, Justin Green broke ground for the genre when he
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Deconstructing Comics #860: Chris Ryall On ‘Daredevil: Born Again’
Daredevil: Born Again, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, is one of those comics stories that continues to attract attention
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Deconstructing Comics #858: Celebrating 20 Years By Reviewing A 20-Year-Old Film (‘Superman Returns’)
Our first episode was released on December 5, 2005. After 20 years of changes in focus, format, and personnel, as
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Deconstructing Comics #857: Carol Tyler’s ‘The Ephemerata’ — Making Sense Of The Worst Of All Possible Stretches
Longtime comics creator Carol Tyler went through a horrific stretch in her life where she lost numerous loved ones, from her
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Deconstructing Comics #856: Jim Keefe Interview
The November 16, 2025, Sally Forth strip, with Jim’s color guides at the top. Note the appearance of Gregory and
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Deconstructing Comics #855: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’ #214 & Annual #3 — Cap Vs The Space Vampire!
Jack Kirby wraps up his run on Captain America and the Falcon with issue #214, the rather underwhelming conclusion of
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Deconstructing Comics #410 (Flashback): Marvel Comics — Telling ‘The Untold Story’
FLASHBACK! If you’re into American comics at all, you undoubtedly know how Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and others
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Critiquing Comics #246: ‘Roy Beckwith And The Cursed Continent’ And ‘A French Expat In The UK’
Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent is a western series by Nick Patch, Jarret Katz, and Fabi Marques. It looks
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Deconstructing Comics #854: ‘Superman’ (2025) — Its Commentary On Other Supermen
Last summer’s Superman movie was a welcome improvement over many recent films featuring the character, and over much of the recent
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Deconstructing Comics #853: The Strange History Of ‘Robotech’
What if your first Star Wars movie were Return of the Jedi? You’d have questions! That’s how Tim felt once he
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Deconstructing Comics #369 (Flashback): ‘Krazy Kat’ — Show Me The Bricks
One of the most highly-regarded English-language strips of all time is George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, featuring the odd love/hate triangle of
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Deconstructing Comics #358 (Flashback): Carl Barks, “The Good Duck Artist”
From 1942 to 1966, many of the Donald Duck comic books published by Dell Comics were written and drawn by Carl
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Deconstructing Comics #851: Jack Kirby’s ‘Cap And Falcon’ #212-213 — “I Love You, Baby!”
Captain America and the Falcon #212 concludes the Arnim Zola/Red Skull storyline in somewhat perfunctory fashion, and gives a living
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Critiquing Comics #245: ‘Joe Mallard’ #4-6 And ‘Dream Machine’
Joe Mallard, a favorite of Tim and Jason’s from a year ago, is back! Creator Asante Amani has sent us
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Deconstructing Comics #850: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ — Did It Live Up To The Hype?
We’ve been building up to it for months with our reviews of previous Fantastic Four movies. Now it’s here, the
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Deconstructing Comics #849: ‘Almost Sunset’ — Wahab Algarmi On Growing Up Muslim In America
This week, Koom interviews Wahab Algarmi, author of Almost Sunset, a graphic novel about a Muslim American boy’s search for balance
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Deconstructing Comics #848: ‘More Weight’ — Ben Wickey Talks Salem Witch Trials
Ben Wickey has created a graphic novel, More Weight: A Salem Story, that gives us a very deep dive into the
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Spider-Man 3’
The film is bloated, it’s busy, it showcases numerous failures at human communication, and doesn’t hit some points it needs
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Spider-Man 2’ (2004)
To this day, Spider-man 2 is considered one of the best superhero movies. How does it stand up to Tim’s
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Spider-Man’ (2002)
Tim and Mulele begin reviewing the Sony (pre-MCU) Spider-Man movies with a look at 2002’s Spider-Man. After watching all the
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Critiquing Comics #244: ‘God Summoner’ And ‘The Keluarga Cable Ship Company’
This week, a look at two great new comics submitted by their creators: God Summoner, by Dio Zogaris and Manos
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Deconstructing Comics #780 (Flashback): Jim Shooter Interview
FLASHBACK! Jim Shooter, who was Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1978 to 1987, passed away on June 30th. He wrote a number of
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Deconstructing Comics #847: ‘Angel And The Ape’ — Forgotten, But Not Gone
In the 1960s, both Marvel and DC tried publishing humor books, often in a style reminiscent of MAD Magazine. One
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Deconstructing Comics #846: Pow! Crack! Breaking Down Comics Sound Effects
[ POW! ZAP! Comics may not be for kids anymore, but they still have sound effects! Our own Patrick Ijima-Washburn noticed
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Deconstructing Comics #845: Jack Kirby’s ‘Cap And Falcon’ #209-211: An Uncle Sam Person
While the last three issues of Captain America and the Falcon we looked at were rather underwhelming, issues 209 to 211
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Deconstructing Comics #843: The Fantastic Four On Film — ‘Fant4stic’ (2015) Pt 2
We conclude our look at 2015’s Fant4stic, directed by Josh Trank. Trank’s behavior on the set (and on Twitter) have been
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Deconstructing Comics #842: Struggling With Kit Anderson’s ‘Second Shift’
After the (connected) short stories of Safer Places, Kit Anderson‘s new book is a full-on graphic novel called Second Shift (again
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Deconstructing Comics #840: Joe Sacco’s Books On The Middle East
Joe Sacco has been covering the Israel-Palestine conflict in varying forms since 1991: first in Palestine, then in Footnotes in
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