Deconstructing Comics
Deconstructing Comics is a podcast about the craft of comics. Tim, Kumar, Emmet, and guest reviewers discuss a variety of comics (both recent work and classics) and present interviews with a variety of comics creators -- mainstream, indy, and even international! And in our occasional "Critiquing Comics" episodes, We'll even critique YOUR comic!
Whether you’ve got a comic going and you’re trying to promote it, or you haven’t even started yet and need some help getting rolling, we hope you’ll come here for inspiration and tips. And there’s plenty of interest for the casual comic book or graphic novel fan, as well!
"Tim is probably the hardest working podcaster in the community. He's an insightful and articulate comic reviewer and somebody I always enjoy talking to." -- Jason McNamara, writer, "The Rattler"
“Some of the best interviews I’ve ever heard! You guys review the type of comics I love and that’s really hard to find. So thanks for unique and knowledgeable.” -- Jack Wallace, Disposable Fiction Comics
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
“Captain Marvel” (2019)
Back in Critiquing Comics 154, Tim and Mulele discussed 2019’s Captain Marvel; Tim enjoyed it, Mulele did not. Now that we’ve arrived at the time to give it a full review as part of “Tim Catches Up …
00:48:30 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
#598 Dylan Horrocks looks back at “Hicksville”
FLASHBACK! Twenty years after the first collection of Hicksville was released, creator Dylan Horrocks talks to Emmet about how the comic looks to him now. Some of the work’s commentary on the comics…
00:55:27 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
#814 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals” 5-8: As wacky as they wanna be
Reading the original Jack Kirby iteration of The Eternals shows that the MCU movie based on the title was rather dour, where Kirby’s version veers into wackiness! Sersi shows quite the sense of humo…
01:15:44 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
#813 “Cross Game”: Baseball manga that’s not about baseball (much)
Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game is a baseball manga for people who don’t care about baseball. A tragedy early in the story helps to shape the narrative, but there’s also a good dose of unexpected comedy…
00:53:39 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
#812 Jonah Lobe on character anatomy and “Quiet: Level One”
Jonah Lobe, after many years designing characters for video games, has recently turned his attention to comics. He’s the illustrator of Marvel Anatomy: A Scientific Study of the Superhuman, in which…
00:38:00 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
#811 “Blood of the Virgin”: About much more than filmmaking
On the surface, Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the Virgin is about an editor of b-movies in 1970s L.A. who has greater artistic aspirations, but it’s also rich with unexpected explorations of character an…
01:09:51 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
#810 “Batman/Dylan Dog”: Dark Knight meets Nightmare Investigator
Batman meets Italy’s humorous horror icon Dylan Dog in a beautiful three-issue series, originally published in Italian and recently released in English from DC. Tim and Emmet could recommend it on t…
00:44:53 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Critiquing Comics #237: “Detective Perez: Autotropolis” and “Griz Grobus”
Paul Pate releases his third “Detective Perez” graphic novel, called Autotropolis, a turned-to-eleven detective story that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Tim and Jason find a lot to like and not…
00:50:30 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
#809 Pidge interview: “Fiction is a way to tell the truth”
Sure, comics are great for fantastical stories, but they can tell intimate, personal stories as well — or sometimes the personal and the fantastical mix well. Artist and writer Pidge is the creator …
00:39:18 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
#808 Jack Kirby’s “The Eternals” 1-4: Chariots of the Superheroes?
So many Jack Kirby creations focus on gods, from The Mighty Thor to New Gods; he picked up concepts from myth or elsewhere and made them his. Kirby’s The Eternals makes no bones about where its inspi…
01:00:22 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Critiquing Comics #236: “Clover and Cutlass” and “Coiled to Strike”
Clover and Cutlass is a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired fantasy YA comedy web comic by Toby Boyd. Adam joins Tim to discuss. Coiled to Strike is an anthology book from Wildstar Press, featuring numero…
00:43:15 |
Wed 29 May 2024
#807 Reviews: “Fiendish” and “Safer Places”
Friend of the show Irene Strychalski, former artist of such Marvel titles as Gwenpool and Silk, has been focused on her original title Fiendish, a lushly drawn (and colored, by Carlos Nicolas Zamudio…
00:30:29 |
Wed 22 May 2024
#806 “Berserk” v. 13 & 14: Is this scene necessary?
Berserk volume 12 left us at a crucial point: The Band of the Hawk were to be sacrificed so that Griffith can join the Godhand. Horrified, Tim and Kumar moved quickly on to volume 13, which left us……
01:09:29 |
Wed 15 May 2024
#805 “Feeding Ghosts”: a story of Chinese history and family trauma
This week, an interview with Tessa Hulls, author of the graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts. It’s about her Chinese grandmother’s persecution by Chairman Mao’s government, the mental illness that resulted…
01:00:11 |
Wed 08 May 2024
#167 “City of Glass”: Adapting a Novel to Comics
FLASHBACK! Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s comics version of City of Glass, a 1985 novel by Paul Auster, is an amazing adaptation of an unfilmable novel. Tim and Kumar assess the herculean tas…
00:58:55 |
Thu 02 May 2024
#804 “Berserk” v. 11 & 12: Cartoonish violence, epic horror
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk can be upsetting, fascinating, offputting, incredible, and even sometimes a bit comedic, as Tim and Kumar have found over the past several months. All those qualities appear …
01:17:02 |
Wed 01 May 2024
#803 Jack Kirby’s “2001” #6-10: Machine Man Begins
What did Marvel expect Jack Kirby to do with a 2001: A Space Odyssey series? Especially when they told him not to create any ongoing characters? What we got included the Monolith and the Star Child,…
01:25:33 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
#802 Jack Kirby’s “2001” #1-5: An Interesting Failure
As Jack Kirby’s adaptation of the movie/novel 2001: A Space Odyssey sold well, Marvel asked him to turn it into a series — but then tied one hand behind his back by asking that he not create ongoing…
00:44:02 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Critiquing Comics #235: “Rebirth of the Gangster” and “Toe & So Long”
Critiquing Comics returns, with a comic that we just couldn’t put down, and one that we couldn’t quite pick up on! Jason joins Tim to discuss Rebirth of the Gangster: The Complete Collection, a crim…
00:43:27 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
#801 Swamp Thing Begins: Issues 1-13 reviewed
The character of Swamp Thing originated in House of Secrets #92 in 1971, drawn by Berni Wrightson and written by Len Wein. That story served as a first draft for the real origin story in Swamp Thing…
01:01:17 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
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