Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Comics

Longtime Marvel (and ToyBiz and Disney) Toy Designer Jesse Falcon joins us. Jesse is both a comics professional and a comedian friend of the Milksops as they all performed together at the UCB Theatre…

Jeff Smith, the creator of the insanely great series Bone, joins the Milksops to geek out about Batman #232 by Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams. And we do mean geek out. We get an awesome panel-by-panel …

The Milksops take a break from their season of guests (already? sure) to catch up on email. Turns out our Secret Wars episodes really got you listeners working at the 'ol email machines. We go over: …

We begin our Season of Guests with a bang: Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort (editor of Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Civil War, Winter Soldier) joins us to talk about why he loved the…

The Secret Wars comes to an abrupt end, but not before Doom becomes a god, then not, then inbewteen, then... nothing. Also the heros all die and then don't. Except Szaji who really did? And Spidey is…

These issues showcase the super-villain Doctor Doom, and he emerges as the main character of this story. Will loves Secret Wars and respect Jim Shooter's work on it, and Kevin brings him down to eart…

A lot of stuff happens in these two issues but maybe the most significant is the arrival of Spider-Man's black costume, which eventually becomes the super-villain Venom. But no one making Secret Wars…

More fun issues, though there is a lot of recapping, even for Secret Wars. In one issue we have both Doom and Professor X checking in with everyone, and maybe Reed Richards too? It's hard to keep tra…

The Milksops talk about one of their favorite moments of the Secret Wars story: the Hulk holds up a mountain. Will is suprised how much he's enjoying this re-read. Kevin is not surprised. We get into…

Secret Wars is a fun-first, subtle dialogue far far last type of story, and for the Milksops (and the tens of thousands who bought these issues) it works. Other fun things: the heroes are impressed w…

The Milksops talk about the original Marvel Superhero's Secret Wars. Commercially successful, critically tolerated, and fascinating! We ponder what the arrogant / influential editor-in-chief Jim Shoo…

We continue going over Kevin's recommendations as we go over the very cool series Black Hammer, specifically issue #2. A group of superhumans are stuck in a small town, which is... not a small town. …

We go over the action movie homage Bang #02, written by Matt Kindt. It stars an action hero that is part Die Hard, part Doc Savage and all fun. It's also a mind trip, as the characters seem to exist …

We begin a short series of Will reading some comics Kevin tells him to. We start with the commercially successful and critically acclaimed IMMORTAL HULK. The mystery, the philosophy, the character, t…

Milksops Will and Kevin wrap up their season of discussing Sandman comics. Somehow Will talks for 45 minutes and they're not even going over another issue. Plus email!

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Dream learns that murdering his own son might have been uncool, like way uncool, to the degree that the 3 Fates who for reasons we forget hate Dream, show up and rip his world apart. The Milksops are…

Stories within stories within stories! The Milksops continue their look at Sandman with a deepish dive into issue #55, called "Cerements" in which (inhale).. a journeyman from a city of burial expert…

Casey Bruce from Danger Room Comics of Olympia, Washington joins the Milksops to do a deep dive on the truly strange Sandman Story "The Golden Boy," which focuses on the 1970s teen president "Prez." …

"Do You Control Transportation?" may not seem like a good way to start a conversation in a travel agent's office but then again, what are travel agents? The Milksops discuss chapter three of the funn…

The Milksops get into the hot button issues of: gender identity, sexual consent and also cutting people's faces off and nailing them to a wall in this, the third chapter of the incredible Sandman arc…