Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man with Amy Miller

 

This week, famous comedian Amy Miller comes on to talk about Y: The Last Man, a series that answers a question that most women ask themselves every day: how great would it be if every man suddenly died?  The series also inadvertently asks: What would a world of only women look like if every woman looked exactly the same?  These and other important questions are addressed this episode!  

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Claremont and Byrne's X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga with Susan Kirtley

 Susan Kirtley (college professor and head of the Comics Studies Program at Portland State University) is really fun to talk to about comics because she's an accomplished academic and also a total comics nerd.  We discuss the all-time classic X-men run of The Dark Phoenix Saga, oscillating throughout between discourse about what greater meaning can be found within the story and pointing out which parts are super awesome.  Come for Wolverine carving fools up, stay for the dialogue about intersectional feminism.  

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Gaiman and Co.'s Sandman: World's End with Mark Russell

 

When I asked comics writer Mark Russell (Exit, Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Fantastic Four: Life Story, Superman: Space Age) to come on the show, he immediately said that he wanted to discuss Sandman: World's End because he thought that they were some of the best comics ever made. I always thought that those issues sucked but I really respected Mark's opinion, so I was pretty sure this was going to be a good discussion.  So, which is it?  Best comics ever made, or a real low point in the Sandman series?  Listen to find out. 

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Claremont and Paul Smith's X-Men with Austin Gorton

 

This week, comics blogger and pop-culture expert Austin Gorton talks with me about a real hall-of-fame run, Chris Claremont and Paul Smith's issues of Uncanny X-Men.  Austin has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things X-Men and he's got some good jokes, too.  This is a real connoisseur's run, as it's often overshadowed by more "blockbuster" X-runs but it's quietly a high point for the entire franchise.  

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