Deconstructing Comics #784: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ — Wipeout
There’s a new sheriff in town in post-Great Disaster Earth: Gerry Conway took over as writer in Kamandi: The Last Boy
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Deconstructing Comices #783 Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #35-37 — Off The Deep End
Jack Kirby reaches the end of his writing run on Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth. After top-shelf stories about
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Deconstructing Comics #782: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird‘s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in 1984 as a violent, gory homage to/parody of Frank
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Deconstructing Comics #781: ‘The Hard Switch’ And ‘Pet Peeves’
This time we look once again at new books coming from British publisher Avery Hill Press. Owen D. Pomery‘s The Hard
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Deconstructing Comics #548 (Flashback): Jaime Hernandez Interview
FLASHBACK! Love and Rockets continues to impress, and in this episode Koom asks creator Jaime Hernandez some burning questions. Hernandez
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
The weekend has come back round once more. and to help ease you into it is our regular round up
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #780: Jim Shooter Interview
Jim Shooter was Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1978 to 1987, the era of Frank Miller‘s Daredevil, Chris Claremont‘s X-men, Secret Wars
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Deconstructing Comics #440 (Flashback): ‘The Love Bunglers’
FLASHBACK! Did you think Love & Rockets was over?! Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez continue to release new work about once
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Deconstructing Comics #305 (Flashback): ‘Love & Rockets’ — Gilbert Hernandez
FLASHBACK! In episode #300, we took a look at the sometimes wacky and cartoony Love & Rockets work of Jaime Hernandez.
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Deconstructing Comics #300 (Flashback): ‘Love & Rockets’ — Jaime Hernandez
FLASHBACK! The series Love & Rockets, featuring individual works by the Hernandez brothers, started in 1981 as a self-published magazine,
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Critiquing Comics #233: ‘The World of Tomorrow’ And ‘Prism Stalker’
In this edition, we rejoin The World of Tomorrow, a comic we discussed the first issue of five years ago! This
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Deconstructing Comics #779: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #32-34 — Big Action Issue(s)!
No longer just a look at Earth AD, Kamandi issues 32 through 34 introduce us to an alien who’s literally
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Deconstructing Comics #778: K. Briggs’ ‘Macbeth’
Flush with dark and mysterious symbolism, K. Briggs‘ adaptation of Macbeth from Avery Hill publishing is a challenging and visually exciting
Read moreDeconstructing Comics Special — ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” continues to roll as Tim and Mulele reach Thor: Ragnarok. It has perhaps the
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Deconstructing Comics #777: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #29-31 — “Up, Up, And Away!”
As we continue through Jack Kirby‘s 1970s issues of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, Tim and Emmet keep slowing down!
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #776: Emily Carrington Reveals ‘Our Little Secret’
Openly discussing being sexually abused, particularly if it was during childhood, is not easy. Emily Carrington has stepped forward with her
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Deconstructing Comics #775: Rina Ayuyang Draws (On) Her Filipino Heritage
Rina Ayuyang has called on her Filipino heritage in her graphic novels Blame This On the Boogie and, just out,
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Critiquing Comics #232: ‘Sons Of Thunder’ And ‘The Lamb’
Critiquing Comics is back, with discussions of two interesting comics from listeners. Stephen Grow sent us Sons of Thunder, a one-panel
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Deconstructing Comics #774: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #24-28 — Havin’ A Look-See For Some Fight-Fight
While Kamandi‘s exorcism story in issue 24 leaves something to be desired, never mind that: the subsequent four issues, as
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Deconstructing Comics #773: Jack Kirby’s “Kamandi” #19-23 — On To Monster Lake!
In this segment of Jack Kirby‘s Kamandi series, we visit a version of 1920s Chicago that seems to be drawing on,
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Deconstructing Comics #772: Evan McGorray And A Translation About Being Trans
Translation is a topic seldom covered on this show (Kumar has talked about it several times, most notably here). This
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Deconstructing Comics Special: Tim Catches Up With The MCU — ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
Spider-Man is a longtime favorite of Tim’s, in terms of comics reading, but how does he feel about Spider-Man: Homecoming?
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Deconstructing Comics #771: Jose Villarrubia On Restoring Richard Corben
Colorist Jose Villarrubia had trouble getting work from Marvel because his style was “too artistic” — but then other creators started
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Deconstructing Comics #770: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #11-18 — Kliklak Forever
This week we continue our look at Jack Kirby‘s run on Kamandi, another of the DC properties he created. Tim and
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Deconstructing Comics #769 Tracy Butler On ‘Lackadaisy’ — The Animated Cartoon!
Back in 2009, Tim talked with web cartoonist Tracy Butler about her beautiful, sepia-toned 1920s-with-cats strip Lackadaisy, and whether she’d ever
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Deconstructing Comics #768: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 1-4
Berserk abruptly ended when creator Kentaro Miura died two years ago, later resurrected by Miura’s assistants and his friend Kouji
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Deconstructing Comics #767: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #1-10 — It’s A Knockout!
If you can’t get the rights to Planet of the Apes, do the next best thing: get Jack Kirby to come
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Deconstructing Comics #766: ‘Time Breakers’
In most time travel stories, there’s an imperative to fix any paradoxes created by the time travel. But in Rachel
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Deconstructing Comics #765: ‘The Re-Up’ #2 and ‘Megillah Sunday Funnies’
This podcast continues to be a booster of Chad Bilyeu (“Chad in Amsterdam“), and he’s been busy lately! In addition to
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Deconstructing Comics #764: ‘Past Tense’, Tough Translation, and Audio Drama
In the year 2038, invisible drones are sent to the past to pick up any event you want to see,
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Deconstructing Comics #763: Graffiti And Comics
This time Tim finds some intersections of comics and the world of graffiti. First, Argentine graffiti artist and animator Cof talks
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