Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’
Tim Catches Up With The MCU continues: Peter Quill (whose name we both blanked on while recording the show!) and
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Deconstructing Comics #757: ‘Nemesis The Warlock’
Kumar and Matt E celebrate the life and work of Kevin O’Neill with a look back at his breakout work
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Critiquing Comics #224: ‘Immortalis’
Immortalis is the story of a 19th-century woman, transplanted to the 21st, who is expected to be the world’s savior
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Deconstructing Comics #756: ‘Tokyo Rose – Zero Hour’
If you’re at all aware of Tokyo Rose, it’s most likely simply as a woman heard over a radio in
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Critiquing Comics #223: ‘Here 2 Cypher’
Here 2 Cypher is an anthology of stories written by Brandon Hayes, whose story Thready Tim and Jason enjoyed back
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Deconstructing Comics: ‘Tim Catches Up With The MCU — Doctor Strange’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” discusses Doctor Strange — an enjoyable yet problematic movie, based on a 1963 origin story
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Deconstructing Comics #755: ‘Best Of EC Stories, Artisan Edition’
EC Comics, a name that brings to mind Fredric Wertham and the coming of the Comics Code, also brings to
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Deconstructing Comics Presents — ‘Tim Catches Up With The MCU: Captain America: Civil War’ (2016)
Tim Catches Up with the MCU continues as Tim and Mulele discuss Avengers 2.5, er, Captain America: Civil War! (Originally
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Deconstructing Comics #754: ‘Peanuts’ — Schulz’s Silent Sundays 1957-1961
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts is a master class in how to do a comic strip. This week, Kumar and Tim are
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Deconstructing Comics #753 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Old Gods And New’
John Morrow is co-founder of Two Morrows Publishing, a company that owes its start to John’s interest in Jack Kirby.
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Critiquing Comics #222: ‘Berserker Monk’
Berserker Monk is a violent, but slightly humorous, comic that’s been pitched as “Tarantino meets The Last Airbender.” The creators
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Deconstructing Comics #752: Shanti Rai’s ‘Sennen’
What are the people like on the other side of the mountain? Are there any there? Where does the stuff,
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Deconstructing Comics #751: Rachel Pollack’s ‘Doom Patrol’
In the mid-’90s, Grant Morrison‘s innovative run on Doom Patrol was followed by that of Rachel Pollack, who took advantage
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #750: Jack Kirby’s ‘The Demon’
After leaving DC’s Jimmy Olsen book, Jack Kirby needed something else to keep his monthly page count up to the
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Critiquing Comics #221: ‘Steamgear Inc.’
Alexandra (her friends call her “Ax”) is trying to get in touch with hero team Steamgear Defenders; she wants to
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Deconstructing Comics #749: Marta Chudolinska — “An Insider And An Outsider”
Marta Chudolinska (who-doh-lean-ska), the child of Polish immigrants to Canada, makes comics and other art in Toronto. Koom talks with
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Critiquing Comics #220: ‘Amazing Tales’ #5
This time, we critique the fifth installment in David Dye‘s Amazing Tales anthology series. In the main story, we again
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Deconstructing Comics #748: Elizabeth Sandifer on Netflix’s ‘Sandman’
While Netflix’s The Sandman series has gone over well with many fans, not everyone is pleased. This week, Emmet talks
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Deconstructing Comics #746: Manga Mermaid Madness!
Patrick Ijima-Washburn (a.k.a. “Patrick W.”) has been doing some deep research on certain themes used in manga. Last year, he
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Deconstructing Comics #745: Noah Van Sciver And ‘Joseph Smith And The Mormons’
Joseph Smith and the Mormons is an objective look at the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
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Deconstructing Comics #744: ‘Fist Of The North Star’
If you’re looking for over-the-top — way, way over — action and violence, then Fist of the North Star, by
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Critiquing Comics #219: ‘Rougarou’ and ‘The Poet and the Flea’
This week, a Critiquing Comics double feature: During the U.S. Civil War, a confederate soldier is changed into a dangerous
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Deconstructing Comics #743: ‘Stray Bullets’
David Lapham‘s Stray Bullets “humanist crime” series began in 1995 and shows a number of characters interacting between the 1970s
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Deconstructing Comics #742: ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’
Crisis on Infinite Earths was an attempt by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez to clean up DC Comics continuity and
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Ant-Man’
It’s another episode of Tim Catches Up With The MCU, in which we wrap up Phase Two with Ant-Man. When
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Critiquing Comics #218: ‘A Lungful Of Brine’
This time, Jason introduces us to his former student Dan Tappan‘s first Kickstarter project, a nautical horror anthology with the
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Deconstructing Comics #741: Anneli Furmark
Anneli Furmark is a Swedish illustrator and comics creator whose latest book is Walk Me to the Corner, in which
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Deconstructing Comics #740: Gary Spencer Millidge (‘Strangehaven’) Interview
Strangehaven is a series started by Gary Spencer Millidge in 1995. As he does everything himself (including publishing, for the
Read moreCritiquing Comics #217: ‘Scion of Night’ #1
A man in Portland, Oregon, finds himself turning into some kind of neck-biting monster (a blue vampire who doesn’t mind
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Deconstructing Comics #738: ‘The Re-Up’
One of our favorite indie creators has long been Amsterdam-based Chad Bilyeu, who’s back with the start of a new
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Critiquing Comics #216: ‘Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril’
Longtime web cartoonist Don Ahé has asked us to look at his new story, Bran Bionic: The Sable Peril, about
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