Apr 24, 2024
One of our co-hosts is quarantined at home, so we’ve decided to postpone our next proper episode until we can be together in person! Meanwhile, Curt surprises Kevin with a pop quiz on quotes from books we’ve covered on the podcast. How good is Kevin’s recall? (Spoiler: It’s bad! Very, very...
Apr 9, 2024
Content warning (death by suicide)
Our reexamination of Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns continues! How good IS this story, really? Will things go differently than they did in our fourth episode way back in 2016, allowing this universally acclaimed 1986 miniseries to avoid nuclear winter and score a...
Mar 27, 2024
Explicit (a few swears scattered throughout) and content warning (brief mentions of death by suicide and attempted sexual assault)
This isn’t a podcast—it’s an operating table, and we’re the surgeons!
This time, we revisit one of our most controversial episodes (okay, pretty much our only “controversial”...
Mar 12, 2024
On this episode, it’s the return of “Miller March,” featuring a month of Frank Miller comics! First up is the 1982 miniseries Wolverine by Chris Claremont and the aforementioned Mr. Miller, published by Marvel Comics!
The very first comic series to feature Wolverine’s name in the title takes Logan to Japan,...
Feb 28, 2024
On this episode, we take a long-overdue look at one of the most influential manga of the last 50 years: Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima! Specifically, selected stories from Vol. 1: The Assassin’s Road, as published by Dark Horse Manga!
Who is this taciturn assassin known as Lone Wolf and Cub?...