With the Comics Code loosening in 1971, monsters came roaring back into the pages of our favorite medium. Kids that grew up reading comics were now making them; many of them were members of the counter-culture. Throw in a desire to do something all-new (and some fads like kung-fu) and you have all the makings of a wild decade of comics.
Join Jacob Balcom & Matt Howell as they explore some of the craziest comics of the 1970s (and early '80s). Each season focuses on a different character.
An old Kirby monster story from Strange Tales is recycled to (re)bring an old threat to Earth: an off-world horde of planet-destroying stone devils led by Granitor, the Lord of the Gargoyles! Now, It…
Len Wein loops back around finishes the story from the 1st scene of issue 169! This has all been a flashback. In STRANGE TALES #171, Jericho Drumm investigates the strange goings-on around the cemet…
We review the (re)debut of It! The Living Colossus, a character from the Lee/Kirby giant monster days that gets revived and tweaked for the Bronze-Age!
NEXT UP: Strange Tales #171. We'll be doing t…
We're joined for the conclusion of Brother Voodoo's origin story by Tim Tucker, author of The Cornishe Chronicles: https://tmtucker.com/. Jericho Drumm has completed his training w/ Papa Jambo and c…
Artist Jason Atomic is back to talk about Brother Voodoo's 1st appearance in Strange Tales #169. Dr. Jericho Drumm returns to his forsaken home in Haiti to visit his twin brother Daniel on his death…
It's a Bronze-Age Buffet! Let the feast begin! In SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS #5, we meet N'Kantu, the warrior-king who led a slave rebellion against a mighty pharaoh...and paid the ultimate price: a hel…
We took to YouTube for our Son of Satan season finale. You can watch the video there to see us and the chat replay. If you're one of those lucky ducks whose ballot was drawn for the finale, pick out …
Daimon's solo title ends with a fascinating mash-up of a story written for the more Marvel's mature black and white Curtiss magazines but was instead re-worked by unseen hands to make it suitable for…
The shadowy figure behind Mindstar's murder of a student and the attack on Daimon is revealed and an epic battle plays out across the planes of all existence... Daimon's solo title comes to an abrupt…
We let our better halves take over. Renee and Alicia fill in for Matt and Jacob and jump into the middle of John Warner's second story arc on the doomed Son of Satan title... The astral/etheric attac…
We're joined by Jamie from the Marvel by the Month podcast to talk about "Assassin's Mind"! Light is shed on the mysterious death of Daimon's neighbor at District U.; turns out it's occult-y and shad…
With his ancestral Fire Lake home a smoldering ruin, Daimon journeys to Washington, D.C., to interview for a position to head District U's new parasychology department. We meet a slew of new characte…
We went LIBVE on YouTube for the mind-shattering conclusion the The Homecoming saga. Don't forget to leave a like and a comment on the YouTube video for your chance to win a fancy thermos! https://yo…
We put a pin in Daimon's bizarre saga with The Possessor for a Bill Mantlo-penned one-and-done with The Thing in the nearby Arizonan Old West ghost town of Lawless, where Ben Grimm has been sent by R…
Guest Jason Atomic joins us to discuss the 2nd part of John Warner's Son of Satan solo title, Satanism as a liberating philosophy, his Satanic Mojo Comix, and more. Daimon is psychically force fed T…
John Warner takes over writing duties and sends Daimon back to New England for a moody-yet-still-trippy return to his ancestral home. Meanwhile, not even A.I. could have cooked up our new body-horror…
We took to the Tubes of You for a live episode covering Daimon's final Marvel Spotlight issue. Satana's more mature Curtiss magazine stories collide with the 4-color 616 universe which leads to a tes…
We're joined by Bryan Stratton and Robb Milne of the excellent Marvel by the Month podcast to talk about Steve Gerber's final Son of Satan issue (with a writing assist from Mike Friedrich). Daimon …
The odyssey we have dubbed "The Tarot Reading Saga" comes to its revelatory & senses-shattering conclusion. We're joined by friend of the show composer/director Michael Giacchino to talk through this…
We take a quick break from the Tarot adventure going on in Marvel Spotlight to cover another book published at the same time that features Daimon taking a case from Fantastic Four member Johnny Storm…