Deconstructing Comics #319 (Flashback): ‘The Maxx’ (RIP Sam Kieth)
FLASHBACK! Even amidst the anything-goes craziness of the early Image years, Sam Kieth’s The Maxx was an outlier. While it
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Deconstructing Comics #870: Steranko’s ‘Nick Fury’ Pt 1 — Spy Or Superhero?
Somehow it’s taken us 20 years of podcasting to get to Jim Steranko‘s fabled run on Nick Fury: Agent of
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Deconstructing Comics #325: Alan Moore’s ‘Swamp Thing’
FLASHBACK! Due perhaps to the passage of time, poorly handled reprinting by DC, or some other reason, Alan Moore’s writing
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Deconstructing Comics #869: Jack Kirby’s ‘Black Panther’ #1-2 — A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story
We begin our look at Jack Kirby‘s Black Panther series from the 1970s, introducing a new Kirby character who’s a bit
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Deconstructing Comics #868: ‘The Pass’ — Are You Living The Dream, Or Is The Dream Killing You?
Sometimes, achieving your dream can be kind of a nightmare, even though it’s also rewarding. Claudia, in Katriona Chapman‘s latest graphic
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Deconstructing Comics #867: ‘Goodnight Punpun’
Inio Asano‘s Goodnight Punpun gives us what appear to be a family of ghostly birds living in a much more
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Deconstructing Comics #866: ‘Fantastic Four’ #53 — Black Panther Meets Klaw
After “hunting” the Fantastic Four, the Black Panther reveals that he did it for practice, as he anticipated a battle against
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Deconstructing Comics #865: Harold Buchholz Interview — Kids Love Comics!
At some point, the idea that some comics should be for adults took over to the extent that it became
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Deconstructing Comics #864: Black Panther Debuts
Sixty years ago, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby presided over the debut of the Black Panther in Fantastic Four #52. The
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Deconstructing Comics #863: Jimmy Gownley Interview
Jimmy Gownley is the award-winning creator of Amelia Rules, Tanner Rocks, The Dumbest Idea Ever, and more, as well as
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Deconstructing Comics #627 (Flashback): Walt Simonson’s ‘Thor’
FLASHBACK! One of the most acclaimed Marvel runs of the 1980s was by Walt Simonson on The Mighty Thor. He
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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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