The Runs Podcast
The Runs is a discussion podcast about runs of comic books, hosted by Ryan Alexander-Tanner and featuring a different fascinating guest each episode.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Peter Bagge's Hate Part 2 with Whit Taylor
The Runs Podcast Season 2 Finale! We're closing out strong, with another deep dive into Peter Bagge's Indy comics canonical series, Hate, with Whit Taylor (Fizzle, Dead Air, The Nib), who is one o…
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Hama and Wagner's Nth Man with Zack Soto
Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja is a series that I never gave a chance as a kid, and it would have stayed that way if Zack Soto (The Secret Voice, Power Button. Study Group) hadn't chosen it for this e…
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Jhonen Vasquez's Squee with Julia Gfrörer
This episode isn't sponsored by Hot Topic, but it might as well be. Brilliant cartoonist Julia Gfrörer (Laid Waste, Black is the Color) comes by to talk about a formative run for her, Jhonon Vasqu…
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Jack Kirby's Fourth World with Jason Levian
It was not my intention for this podcast to be so focused on 70's Kirby, but I can't say I mind it, either. Jason Levian, owner of Floating World Comics, sits down with me to talk about the first …
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Slott and Allred's Silver Surfer with Ben Dewey
I met Ben Dewey (Autumnlands, Beasts of Burden, Namor, Vampirella, The Tragedy Series, etc. etc.) about 20 years ago when we worked together on a Roller Derby comic. He's been one of those guys in…
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Strakzynski and Romita Jr.'s Amazing Spider-Man with Mark Ginocchio
Mark Ginocchio, co-host of the Amazing Spider-Talk Podcast, comes by this week to talk about... Spider-Man. But not just any Spider-Man! This is one of the most divisive runs in Spider-Man History…
Mon 19 Feb 2024
McDuffie and Bright's Icon with Ronell Whitaker
This week's guest is comics educator Ronell Whitaker, who chose Icon as the run to discuss. Icon was the flagship title of the Milestone line, which may have been the only new comics universe wort…
Mon 12 Feb 2024
The Mutant Massacre with Zayd Dohrn
This week's guest recently won the DuPont Columbia University Award for audio and visual journalism for his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, and now he's here to talk with me about The Mutant Mass…
Mon 05 Feb 2024
Kyoko Okazaki's Pink with Xena Lopez
Up-and-coming comics superstar Xena Lopez comes on the show this week to talk about a series I'd never heard of, Pink by Kyoko Okazaki. We talk about manga, memoir, sex work and working at the libr…
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Dan Clowes' Eightball with Peter Bagge
One of the greatest living cartoonists, Peter Bagge (Hate, Yeah!, Weirdo) comes on the show this week to talk about an early run by another one of the greatest living cartoonists, Dan Clowes. This…
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Steve Gerber and Co.'s Howard the Duck with Diana Schutz
In this episode, comics hall-of-famer Diana Schutz comes by to talk about quintessential 70's Marvel series Howard the Duck. Did you have to be there at the time? Or do you at least have to be hi…
Mon 15 Jan 2024
John Byrne's Fantastic Four Part 2 with Alex Robinson
In the premier episode of Season 2, Alex Robinson (Box Office Poison, Star Wars Minute) returns to continue our deep dive into John Byrne's legendary Fantastic Four run. Does it hold up? How is i…
Mon 08 Jan 2024
The Runs Season 2 Introduction
Welcome to The Runs Season 2! This first episode is just a brief introduction in which Ryan checks in with you, the beloved viewer, and sets up the next 12 weekly episodes. Some great guests are …
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Jack Kirby's Omac with Dean Haspiel
For this podcast's Season Finale, Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook, American Splendor, Cuba: My Revolution) and I discuss Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C. One Man Army Corps. A highlight of this podcast for me has…
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Junji Ito's Uzumaki with Joelle Jones
Superstar comics artist Joelle Jones (Batman, Catwoman, Lady Killer) comes by this week to talk about Junji Ito's celebrated horror Manga, Uzumaki. Are spirals really scary, or just ridiculous? O…
Mon 05 Dec 2022
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 …
Mon 28 Nov 2022
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 co…
Mon 21 Nov 2022
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 di…
Mon 14 Nov 2022
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 kno…
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Todd McFarlane's Spawn with Matt Bors
One of the comics industries greatest little-known-facts is that multi-Pulitzer prize nominated political cartoonist Matt Bors is in fact a die-hard Spawn fan. Revel in his un-ironic joy at one of…
Mon 31 Oct 2022
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