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
#800 “Batman and the Outsiders” vol. 2 review
Batman and the Outsiders was one of DC’s top sellers in the 1980s. This time, Tim is joined by John Trumbull to take a close look at the second volume of the series, which includes the reveal of Hal…
01:18:13 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
#799 “Berserk” v. 9 & 10 deep dive: Genre hopping
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk can be confounding. Reading volumes 9 and 10 prompts us to ask “Just what genre IS this comic, anyway?” While it still has plenty of over-the-top action and violence, it also…
01:13:37 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
“Ant-Man and the Wasp” (2018)
After the gravitas of Avengers: Infinity War, which ended in a blaze of glory only for the villain, what did we want next? A fun, lighthearted romp of a movie. Right? No? Well, that’s what we got an…
00:41:25 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
#241 “Dragon Ball” in depth
FLASHBACK! Though the highly influential manga series, and resulting TV show, are known for non-stop action and fighting, Dragon Ball started out as a comedy strip reminiscent of Akira Toriyama‘s ear…
00:42:21 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
#689 Priest’s “Black Panther”
FLASHBACK! In 1998, under the “Marvel Knights” banner, Christopher Priest began the first ongoing Black Panther title in nearly two decades. Panther was a relatively unknown character to many Marvel …
01:01:12 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
#798 “Delicious in Dungeon” yields a feast
Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon pokes fun at fantasy games and cooking manga tropes, exploring what it would really be like to be a character in a fantasy game, arranging your life in ways that wou…
00:56:49 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Critiquing Comics #234: “Murky Water” and “Barking”
Kel McDonald‘s Murky Water is about a paranormal investigation police unit looking into the death of a man from drowning – in his very dry living room. (Currently being Kickstarted!) Tim and Adam …
00:48:43 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
#797 Jack Kirby’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Jack Kirby’s 1976 adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey is an odd combination of the Stanley Kubrick movie, the Arthur C. Clarke novel, and Kirby’s own research and dramatic inclinations, which someti…
01:15:09 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
#796 Stan Mack and “Real Life Funnies”
If you read New York’s Village Voice newspaper between 1974 and 1995, you are probably familiar with Stan Mack‘s Real Life Funnies. If not, hold on to your hat! A forthcoming book from Fantagraphics…
01:15:03 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
#479 Some of the greatest Superman stories (or not)
FLASHBACK! There’s no doubt that Superman is one of the most significant characters in the history of American comics. He ended up setting the template for what would be the dominant genre in Americ…
01:22:14 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
#219 “Asterios Polyp”
FLASHBACK! Reviews of Asterios Polyp blanket the Internet; why need we pile on? Well, for starters, to counteract all the reviewers who think that giving a story synoposis = explaining what the book…
01:12:36 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
#795 Jack Kirby’s “Capt. America and the Falcon” #198-200: Bicentennial Madness
Cap and the Falcon have found the underground bunker of the aristocratic forces hoping to take over America on the Bicentennial, but the location of their secret weapon, the Mad Bomb, is still a myst…
01:16:23 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
#794 “The Ballad of Halo Jones” – in color!
To mark the recent passing of artist Ian Gibson, Kumar and Dana dive into a long-overdue discussion of his masterpiece with writer Alan Moore, The Ballad of Halo Jones. Halo Jones is an early work b…
01:12:12 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
#793 “Berserk” v 7-8: The Battle for Doldrey
While Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is meant to feature the swordsman character Guts, in volumes 7 and 8 the focus is on Griffith and the progress made – at ANY cost – toward his dream of having his own k…
00:49:22 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
“Avengers: Infinity War” (2018)
Tim continues to catch up with the MCU! This film is awkward to review nearly two years after it came out, with Tim going through the speculation about how this story will play out in Avengers: End …
01:07:30 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
#792 Jack Kirby’s “Capt. America and the Falcon” #195-197: “Kill-Derby”
Cap and Falcon are trapped in an underground bunker where elites plot to destroy the Bicentennial celebrations and take away Americans’ freedoms. In Captain America and the Falcon 195-197, they part…
01:10:06 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
#791 Daniel Clowes’ “Monica”
Monica is Dan Clowes’s richest and most rewarding book in years, combining the surrealism of early works like Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron with the multi-genre anthology approach of his more rec…
01:39:04 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
#790 “Social Fiction” by Chantal Montellier
Chantal Montellier‘s Social Fiction, published by New York Review Comics with a translation by Geoffrey Brock, is a collection of comics fueled by political anger, hauntingly farsighted satire and a…
01:04:33 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
#789 Jack Kirby’s “Capt. America and the Falcon” #193-194: “Madbomb”
When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, the first series he worked on starred the character that was one of Kirby’s earliest claims to fame: Captain America, created in 1940 by Kirby and writer …
01:04:46 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
#291 “MONSTER” (Justifiable Homicide? pt 2)
FLASHBACK! Planning a murder that you think will prevent future murders? That’s the premise — or, at least, one of the premises — of Monster, Naoki Urasawa’s 18-volume series. Set in Germany, the se…
01:02:52 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
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