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Deconstructing Comics — 123 episodes

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#886 LeUyen Pham and the magic of “As I Dream Of You”

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Critiquing Comics #250: “Ra no Tabi”

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#885 A Slayer of 13 Demons & A Real Canadian Hero

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#884 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther: Take THAT, George Lucas!

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#883 Hulk smash! Hulk stomp! Hulk wear rubber Hulk mask!

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#882 “Supergirl” vs. “Woman of Tomorrow”

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#881 “Doomwar”: Black Panther vs. Dr. Doom

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#880 Interviews: Emil Wilson (“The Nightingales”) and William Bernhardt (“The Superman Wars”)

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#879 Comics Satirize Comics: “DESTROY!” and “Doom Force”

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#878 Three fun graphic novels

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#671 Derf’s “Kent State”

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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#877 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #7-8: The Truth about Vibranium

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#876 Marjane Satrapi remembered

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#471 “Crumb” and “Punk Rock Jesus”

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#415 Crumb’s Confounding “Genesis”

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#384 R. Crumb’s “Weirdo” Years Revisited

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Critiquing Comics #249: “Westron”

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#875 Swamp Thing in Spaaaaace

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#874 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #5-6: The City of Samurai

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#873 Adam Tierney: Godzilla comes to Verona

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#872 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 2: The argument in favor of Stan Lee editing

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#546 “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye”

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#871 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #3-4: A Time Machine, a Sweet Ride, and a Samurai

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Critiquing Comics #248: “The Blossoming City” pt 1 and “Loon News: The Comic Strip!”

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#617 Swamp Thing meets the monsters

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#319 “The Maxx” (RIP Sam Kieth)

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#870 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 1: Spy or superhero?

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#325 Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”

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#869 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #1-2: A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story

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#868 “The Pass”: Are you living the dream, or is the dream killing you?

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#867 “Goodnight, Punpun”

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#866 Fantastic Four 53: Black Panther meets Klaw

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#865 Harold Buchholz interview: Kids love comics!

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#864 Black Panther Debuts

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#863 Jimmy Gownley interview

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#627 Walt Simonson’s “Thor”

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Critiquing Comics #247: “Lovers Quarrel” and “Digital Bardos” #2

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#862 “Poor Helpless Comics”

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#861 Jack Kirby’s Captain America: Cap vs Magneto!

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#372 “Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary”: Painful Personal Memoir as Wacky Comedy!

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#860 Chris Ryall on “Daredevil: Born Again”

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#859 Jason Shiga: Choosing his own path

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#858 Celebrating 20 years by reviewing a 20-year-old film (“Superman Returns”)

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#857 Carol Tyler’s “The Ephemerata”: Making sense of the worst of all possible stretches

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#856 Jim Keefe interview

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#855 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America” 214 & Annual 3: Cap vs the Space Vampire!

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#410 Marvel Comics: Telling the Untold Story

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Critiquing Comics #246: “Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent” and “A French Expat in the U.K.”

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#854 “Superman” (2025): Its commentary on other supermen

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#853 The strange history of “Robotech”

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#369 “Krazy Kat”: Show me the bricks

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#852 Dan Schkade and “Flash Gordon”

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#358 Carl Barks, “The Good Duck Artist”

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#851 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 212-213: “I love you, baby!”

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Critiquing Comics #245: “Joe Mallard” 4-6 and “Dream Machine”

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#850 “Fantastic Four: First Steps” (2025): Did it live up to the hype?

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#849 “Almost Sunset”: Wahab Algarmi on growing up Muslim in America

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#848 “More Weight”: Ben Wickey talks Salem witch trials

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“Spider-Man 3” (2007)

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“Spider-Man 2” (2004)

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“Spider-Man” (2002)

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Critiquing Comics #244: “God Summoner” and “The Keluarga Cable Ship Company”

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#780 Jim Shooter interview

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#847 “Angel and the Ape”: Forgotten, but not gone

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#846 Pow! Crack! Breaking down comics sound effects

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#845 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 209-211: An Uncle Sam Person

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#844 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 2: WTF does Doom want??

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#843 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 1

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#842 Struggling with Kit Anderson’s “Second Shift”

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#633 “Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun”

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#841 Ken Krimstein on Einstein, Kafka, and comics in general

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#840 Joe Sacco’s books on the Middle East

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#385 The Legacy of “Starman”

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Critiquing Comics #243: “Fables of Fear” and “Black Plastic”

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#559 Drawn & Quarterly and Canadian comics

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#210 Jillian Tamaki interview(s)

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#839 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007)

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#838 The Fantastic Four on Film: The Galactus Trilogy

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#837 Jack Kirby’s Captain America 206-208: The Tiger, the Swine…and the Fish

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#836 “Clyde Fans” reviewed by two fans

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#835 “Raised by Ghosts”: A time capsule, but relevant to anyone who’s been a teen

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#834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding corpse

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#833 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 201-203: Who are “the Night People”?

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#832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more

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#831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 2: What does Doom want?!

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Critiquing Comics #242 “The Star Tide Shores” vol. 1

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#830 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 1: “I am hot, and I’m not afraid to cry”

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#829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles”

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#828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga

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#827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts

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#826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your trauma is your trauma

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#825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even (especially?) if it’s NSFW!

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“Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)

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#824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)

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Critiquing Comics #241: “The Shapes” #4: El Puro

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#823 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #17-19: Lots o’ Ikaris (or Ikarus?)

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#822 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994) (part two) Why wasn’t the film released?

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#821 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994), a Roger Corman production (part one)

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#820 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #14-16: The Coming of…. The Editor!

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#819 We catch up with “The Re-up” and “Amazing Tales”

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#818 Requiems: “Ghost Band” and “Grimm’s Assistant”

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“Avengers: Endgame” (2019)

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#437 “Real” is a slam dunk

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Critiquing Comics #240: “The Night Brigade” and “Joe Mallard”

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#817 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, 1977 Annual + #13: Fun “Eternals” stories with few Eternals

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#816 Chester Brown interview: “Paying for It,” the movie

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#593 “Reading ‘Nancy’”, plus “Cat and Mouse”!

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Critiquing Comics #239: “Let’s Go, Coco” and “Digital Bardos”

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#338 Everything’s Archie!

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#815 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, #9-12: Judging books by their covers

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#134 “The R. Crumb Handbook”

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Critiquing Comics #238: “Jane Jet” and “The Fog Within”

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#591 “Promethea”: A mind-bending, life-changing comic

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#296 “Little Orphan Annie”

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“Captain Marvel” (2019)

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#598 Dylan Horrocks looks back at “Hicksville”

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#814 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals” 5-8: As wacky as they wanna be

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#813 “Cross Game”: Baseball manga that’s not about baseball (much)

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#812 Jonah Lobe on character anatomy and “Quiet: Level One”

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#811 “Blood of the Virgin”: About much more than filmmaking

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#810 “Batman/Dylan Dog”: Dark Knight meets Nightmare Investigator