Todd McFarlane's Spawn with Matt Bors

 

One of the comics industries greatest little-known-facts is that multi-Pulitzer prize nominated political cartoonist Matt Bors is in fact a die-hard Spawn fan.  Revel in his un-ironic joy at one of the best worst comics of the early 90's.  Listen to two non-fictional, journalism focused cartoonists talk about how Spawn was pretty much the coolest shit ever when they were ten.  One of them still thinks so, the other... not so much.  

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Kirkman and Walker/Ottley's Invincible with Joshua Silverstein

 

My first guest who isn't a comic book creator of some sort, actor/comedian/musician/all-around-performer Joshua Silverstein comes by to talk about the first dozen issues of Invincible.  This episode may or may not be a painful portrayal of how a person that takes comics way too seriously talks with a person who reads comics for entertainment.  Also, Joshua likes Invincible because it's about beating up your dad.  

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Lobdell and Bachalo's Generation X/Generation Next with Terry Blas

Brilliant comics writer and sometimes illustrator Terry Blas (You Say Latino, Lifetime Passes, Dead Weight, Reptil, Ariana Grande Vs. Sargeant Shade and the Clonebot Parade) joins me this week to talk about one of the weirder series launches in Marvel history.  In the 90's, writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo teamed up to create Generation X, the new New Mutants, which ran for four issues before being retooled as Generation Next for the Age of Apocalypse crossover. Does that even make any sense?  Come for the amazing artwork, stay to hear Terry call out the total misuse of Spanish in Skin's dialogue.  

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Peter Bagge's Hate with Whit Taylor

 

Beloved Comics writer, artist and editor, Whit Taylor (Montana Diary, Comics for Choice, Fizzle, The Nib) talks with me this week about the first 5 issues of Peter Bagge's definitive 90's alt-comic series, Hate.  Can a series about crappy people persevere in this current cultural climate?  Find out how well it's aged, and how we'll we've aged as longtime fans of this series. 

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Jack Kirby's Kamandi with Erik Larsen

 Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon, Amazing Spider-Man, Image Comics co-founder) is my guest this week as we talk about the first six issues of Jack Kirby's brilliant, weird and brilliantly weird post-Marvel series, Kamandi, The Last Boy On earth.  Getting to hear a living comics legend talk about the work of a no-longer-with-us comics legend is about as good as it gets on this show. Be sure to keep track of the number of times that Kamandi gets knocked out.  

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