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Jav & Charles Talk Comics
by Charles Herring & Javier Gonzalez
Jav & Charles Talk Comics is a podcast where they discuss comic arcs they suggest to each other.Jav makes Charles read comics he missed in the 80's and Charles lets Jav experience the blossoming of the comic book art form over the last 20 years. Charles wrote this description with no input from Jav.
Episodes
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Traveling to Mars and Flex Mentallo
In which our heroes find the message from Traveling to Mars uplifting and also heartbreaking. And they both loved Flex Mentallo for the complexity that neither of them understood. Traveling to Mars Written by Mark Russell Art by Roberto Meli Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Written by...
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Lone Wolf and Cub and The Defenders
Once again Jav’s selection cannot compare to Charles’. This time it’s not because Jav picked something bad it’s that Charle picked something awesome and old. Like older than Jav and Charles. Lone Wolf and Cub Written by Kazuo Koike Art by Goseki Kojima The Defenders by Keith Giffen, J.M.…
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S5E3 Minor Threats and Fire & Ice Welcome to Smallville
In this episode Jav continues to suggest teen targeted comics and Charles continues to like them. They both like both the comics and have a quick and very non tagenty conversation about them. Minor Threats Vol 1. Written by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Bloom Art by Scott Hepburn Fire & Ice: Welcome…
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S5E2 the Star Wars and Star Trek: Lower Decks
Season 5 Episode 2 The two Stars – Wars and Trek – together for the first time. Charles and Jav’s, all time favs together at last. One a comic based on the original draft of The Star Wars and the other a cartoon turned comic Star Trek Lower Decks both great in their own way but what’s best is...
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S5E1 Shazam Vol 1: Meet the Captain and The Unbeatable Squirrel Gir Vol 2: Squirrell Power
Welcome back to the all-new season of JCTC. After a shortened 4th season – find out why in the episode – our heroes have returned with two all new – to them – comics. Charles suggested a Shazam comic which he insisted on calling Captain Marvel and Jav suggested Squirrel Girl which Charles took...
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S4E8 Darth Vader and Secret Invasion
In which the Force is strong in our heroes, and Charles clearly holds a grudge against Tony Stark. Jav picked Secret Invasion to read and both he and Charles loved the arc and Charles was happy Jav didn’t ask him to read every comic in that event (but Charles probably already has). Charles...
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S4E7 Spider-Man Kraven's Last Hunt and ElephantMen
Two comics enter and two comics were discussed as usual. We don’t have the ability to dispose of a comic and Jav would never want to and Charles would at least feel guilty. Both comics were enjoyed by both hosts and much merriment was had along the way. Spider-Man Kraven’s Last Hunt Written by…
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S4E6 Batman The Court of Owls and John Constantine, Hellblazer: Original Sins
In which our heroes discuss two DC comics Batman: Court of Owls and John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins. Both were liked by both Charles and Jav although Jav clearly hated the art in the Batman arc saying the artist was only borderline great. Batman: The Court of Owls Issues 1-7...
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S4E5 Pulp and The Sensational She-Hulk
Prepare to break the fourth wall as Jav and Charles talk about John Byrne’s She-Hulk run from the 80s. Then they discuss a much newer comic set much earlier in 1939 called Pulp and it was just that, a pulpy masterpiece from Ed Brubaker. Pulp Written by Ed Brubaker Art by Sean Phillips and Jacob...
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S4 Bonus Ep Special Guest Mark Reznicek
In a very special episode Jav and Charles talk comics with a very special guest Mark Reznicek not only is he a huge comics fan he is also the drummer for The Toadies. It was great having the opportunity to talk to someone who clearly knows a lot about comics but also loves them the way Jav and...
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S4E4 The Dark Knight Returns and Superman: Panic in the Sky
Episode 4 Buckle up buckaroos it’s long one. Our heroes finally talk about The Dark Night Returns and talk they do. Surprisingly enough they liked it. Then they talk about a Superman arc Panic in the Sky which was a lot of fun to read and discuss. The Dark Knight Returns Written and Drawn by…
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S4E3 Fantastic Four: Life Story and Secret Six
In which Jav and Charles have a deep and intricate discussion of the finer details of the Secret Six and Fantastic Four: Life Story. Just kidding, all they remembered about Secret Six was they liked it a lot and they got hung up arguing about why no mutants appeared in Fantastic Four. Jav...
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S4E2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin and Sandman Mystery Theatre
In which our heroes argue over how to build suspense. Well Charles argues for that, Jav just spoils things. This episode has some very heavy themes in the comics and the boys discuss them with the same tact and care they do with all their comic choices. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last…
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S4E1 Superman: Red Son and House of X/Powers of X
First episode of season four, in which our heroes participate in a predestination paradox both in this podcast twice and in every one of their other podcasts. As in all our podcasts two comic arcs were read one suggested by Jav, House of X/Powers of X and one suggested by Charles, Superman: Red...
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S3E17 Watchmen and House of M
In which Charles compares Watchmen to Gwenpool and it makes sense. In this extremely late final episode of Season 3 Jav and Charles discuss the granddaddy of all graphic novels Watchmen. They both loved it. The second comic they read was House of M and although they spend a lot less time talking...
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S3E16 Spider-Man Noir and Proctor Valley Road
In the penultimate episode of Season 3 our heroes battle through their many mistakes to discuss two fun comics. A 30’s Spider-Man and a group of young ladies in the 70’s who fight ghosts and win. Spider-Man Noir Written by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky Art by Carmine DI Giandomenico Proctor Valley...
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S3E15 Wonder Twins and 30 Days of Night
In which our heroes celebrate Halloween with a truly macabre vampire comic as Jav tries to scare Charles who is a know horror hater. It backfires when Charles really like 30 Days of Night, especially cause there were no zombies in it. They also read Wonder Twins who even though one of them only...
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S3E14 Hawkeye and The Sentry
In which our heroes answer the question on everyone’s minds, are Sue and Reed Richards swingers? The answer might surprise you. And Jav excoriates Taylor Swift with his most damning attack, “Taylor Swift is OK.” Charles, however, welcomes our new Swiftian Overlord and as a trusted podcaster is...
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S3E13 Superman: Secret Identity and Mister Miracle
In which our heroes talk about the two best comics they’ve talked about on a podcast. Superman: Secret Identity and Mister Miracle may not be better than every other comic we’ve read but this is the first comic where both suggestions were both this amazing.Superman: Secret Identity Written by…
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S3E12 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Shazam: Monster Society of Evil
In this episode Jav and Charles get back to their woke claptrap and talk about the importance of inclusion of different people in comics and literature like a couple of virtue signaling wokesters. They also discuss two comics. One woke comic that has a woman leader daring to tell men what to do…
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Jav & Charles Talk Comics Season 1 Trailer
After almost 3 seasons Jav & Charles are finally releasing a trailer for their podcast. This is your chance to try a little taste of Jav & Charles without having to listen to an entire episode. If you like it you can check out full episodes from almost 3 seasons. Season 4 pending renewal will...
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S3E11 The Sixth Gun and X-Men Fall of the Mutants
In which our heroes go back to the true format of the show and read one comic from the dark ages of the 80s and then they read a newer comic set in the 80s, the 1880s.The Sixth Gun Written by Cullen Bunn Art by Brian HurttFall of the Mutants in Uncanny E-Men 225-227 Written by Chris Claremont Art...
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S3E10 Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader and Superman: The Supergirl Saga
In a first for JCTC our heroes do both Superman and Batman in one pod and they didn’t even read a comic where Superman dies, although he kills 3 people and in the Batman comic Batman dies. I’m not exactly sure either one of the hosts actually likes comics. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader...
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S3E9 Survival Street and New Avengers: Illuminati
In which our heroes talk about how bad an idea a bunch of white men in private rooms making plans for the world can be. Which is essentially the plot of New Avenger: Illuminati. It doesn’t help that they are superheroes making the decisions. Then they discuss a sweet story about Muppets coming to...
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S3E8 Plastic Man and Catwoman
In which our heroes discuss the atomic bomb, serial killers, and Star Wars Episode 1 as well as two comic books. First up is Jav’s choice a brilliantly noir Catwoman arc that may be the most noir comic talked about on the pod so far. Second comic was a great different comic in Plastic Man…
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S3E7 Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales and Earth X
In which Jav and Charles actually argue about Jav’s choice Planet X and Charles was clearly right about his opinions (and listeners know he writes these notes too). They also talk about Miles Morales’ Ultimate Spider-Man origin which both of them like, but they argue again about the theft of…
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S3E6 Civil War and The New X-Men
In which are heroes read The New X-Men and are horrified to find that they have the Woke Mind Virus. Out of nowhere the X-Men seems to be pushing some kind of agenda where everyone should be treated equally and it doesn’t matter what you look like or where you were born. They also talk about…
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S3E5 Flashpoint and Tom Strong
In this episode Tom is Strong and The Flash is on Point, when our heroes discuss Flashpoint and Tom Strong. For once Charles likes an event book (that he suggested) in Flashpoint and Jav changes his tune from the last episode when he horrifically savaged Charles’ choice. Charles also really liked...
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S3E4 The Good Asian and Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
In this episode our heroes discuss two very different comics. One a traditional superhero event book full of tropes and the other a noir-based detective book full of tropes (but different ones). In Jav’s pick, Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters fight for America and in Charles’ pick The Good…
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S3E3 Spider-Gwen and The Incredible Hulk
In the surprisingly comic book centric episode our heroes mainly talk about the comic books they read. Instead of veering off into strange tangents about the dating habits of the lower class in Victorian London. The closest thing to a tangent they had was Charles rambling on about Spider-Verse...
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S3E2 Batman & Robin and Kingdom Come
In which our heroes spend the first half of the podcast trying to convince each other that they really like Kingdom Come while ruthlessly nitpicking the comic. Jav gives it 3 stars out of 5 which surprised Charles because he didn’t know Jav’s scale went below a 4 or that he had a 5-star scale.…
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S3E1 Spider-Man Deadpool and JLA/Avengers
In which Charles says whereas multiple times because he’s fancy and he also loses a chunk of audio at the end. Jav and Charles also talk about two good comics. Charles’ selection is a buddy comedy featuring Spider-Man and Deadpool and Jav’s is the greatest team book mashup ever (according to Jav,...
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S3 Bonus Ant-Man & Wasp Quantumania
In which our heroes are once again talking movies with Ceasar Alcala. Finally back together after a failed attempt at discussing Thor due to a myriad of technical difficulties, none of which surprisingly were Jav’s fault. The main movie was the latest Ant-Man and Wasp joint but many other movies...
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S2E15 All Star Superman and Swamp Thing
Welcome to the Season Finale of Jav & Charles Talk Comics. In this the final episode (of season 2) our heroes discuss two amazing comics from two titans of the industry (that’s right Jav there are other words to describe writers and artists other than great). First up your heroes talk about Grant...
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S2E14 Batman Zero Year and Star Wars
In which our heroes jump into the way back machine and talk about their childhood (and adult) favorite Star Wars. And even though it was written in the 70’s Charles refused to betray his inner child and had nary a negative thing to say about it. Then they talk about everyone’s favorite superhero...
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S2E13 Astro City and Strange Adventures
In which our heroes shower two comics with love. Even Charles couldn’t come up with anything to dislike about Jav’s choice. The only nitpicky thing he had was about too short an arc in the beginning of Astro City. Astro City Metrobook 1 Written by Kurt Busiek Art by Brent Anderson; Alex Ross…
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S2E12 All New Wolverine and Fantastic Four
In this episode Jav & Charles jump into the wayback machine and talk about a comic that debuted over a decade before they were born but had a serious impact on their nerdy boyhoods and adulthoods. The original 10 issues of the Fantastic Four plus issues 48-50 the Galactus arc. Even for a comic of...
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S2E11 Invincible and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Patrick is finally on the pod. Longtime listeners know Charles (of Jav & Charles Talk Comics) has a brother named Patrick and he’s on this show. Charles had badgered him for years to read Invincible and he finally did (once he watched the cartoon on Prime and liked it) and now he’s on the pod to...
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JCTC S2 Bonus Retrospective (Not a Clip Show)
In this very special episode Jav and Charles reminisce over what their favorite comics that they have read over the last two seasons. At no time will there be a clip from an old episode. Charles has no willingness to work that hard on the podcast.
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S2E10 Jupiter's Legacy and X-Men: Deadly Genesis
In which our heroes come right down main street to talk about Jupiter’s Legacy and X-Men: Deadly Genesis. In another X-Men arc they prove that no matter what happened previously they can always change it. And Jupiter’s Legacy is just another Oedipal story where a man kills his dad and his mom and...
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S2E9 Runaways and Fantastic Four v X-Men and
In this episode Charles curses a lot. Enough that while editing he texted Jav that he was cursing a lot and Jav berated him about having a foul mouth and said that was the only reason they had to put an explicit rating on the pod. Charles pretended to be contrite but is planning to curse even…
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JCTC S2 Bonus Spider-Man Dr. Strange and Other Movies
Bonus Episode In which our hero’s Discuss movies with a guest Ceasar Alcala Ceasar joins the pod once again to discuss Marvel Movies with Jav and Charles. They talk about the four movies that have come out since the last bonus pod: Shang Chi, Eternals, Spider-Man No Way Home, and Dr. Strange and...
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JCTC S2E8 Batgirl and X-Factor
Jav won this round, not by knockout but on the points. On this episode we talk about two great comics Batgirl, with Cassandra Cain as Batgirl and X-Factor that starts with a Madrox mini-series. They are both great and we enthuse over both. Jav punishes Charles for liking X-Factor by suggesting...
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JCTC S2E7 Ultimate Spider-Man and Nextwave
In which our heroes discuss Ultimate Spider-Man and Nextwave. Although a large part of the pod is taken up with a discussion of how to separate art from the artist. Ultimate Spider-Man Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Mark Bagley Nextwave Written by Warren Ellis Art by Stuart Immonen
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JCTC S2E6 Preacher and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
In which Charles admits Patton Oswalt sends secret messages for him to decipher via twitter. And they discuss Charles selection Preacher, about a small-town minister in TX, that’s imbued with the love child of an angel and a demon and then goes on an epic road trip. Then they discuss Superman’s…
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JCTC S2E5 Spider-Men and Wonder Woman
In which our heroes discuss the mythology and action in a beautifully written and drawn Wonder Woman reimagining by George Perez. They also discuss Spider-Men by Brian Michael Bendis which is a wonderful team up of Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Charles also takes the time to apologize for...
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JCTC S2E4 The Old Guard and Starman
In which our heroes discuss family dynamics in a very good and not very extreme (except for the jackets) Starman updating from the 90s. Then they talk about a much more recent comic The Old Guard and get to talk about the pure poetry that sometimes flows from the pens of comic book writers. The…
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JCTC S2E3 She-Hulk and Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War
In which Jav lists Neal Adams covers while hating on Neal Adams. And they also talk about the Kree/Skrull War and She-Hulk. Start listening for the Kree/Skrull Avenger arc and then hang around as we digress into discussing how to structure a legal settlement in a comic book. She-Hulk Vol. 1: Law...
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JCTC S2E2 Spider-Woman and Cosmic Odyssey
In which our heroes talk too long about Cosmic Odyssey, that Jav suggested and then talk for a shorter time about Spider-Woman a delightful arc that welcomes Jessica Drew’s new child to the world. Oh yeah and she also beats the hell out of some Skrulls both right before and right after giving...
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JCTC S2E1 Powers and Battle Pope
In which our heroes start season two in the year 2000. Two great comic writers in early runs with Kirkman’s Battle Pope and Bendis’ Powers. Powers Who Killed Retro Girl Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Michael Avon Oeming Battle Pope Written by Robert Kirkman Art by Tony Moore
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jav & Charles Talk Comics is a podcast where they discuss comic arcs they suggest to each other.Jav makes Charles read comics he missed in the 80's and Charles lets Jav experience the blossoming of the comic book art form over the last 20 years. Charles wrote this description with no input from Jav.
HOSTED BY
Charles Herring & Javier Gonzalez
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Jav & Charles Talk Comics is a podcast where they discuss comic arcs they suggest to each other.Jav makes Charles read comics he missed in the 80's and Charles lets Jav experience the blossoming of the comic book art form over the last 20 years. Charles wrote this description with no input from Jav.
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