Episode #072: Iron Mail: Listener Q&A The Iron Age boys reflect on another year of reading classic comics and three years since launching the podcast by answering YOUR questions! (Assuming you sent them in, that is to say.) Discussed in … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #071: Judge Dredd: Necropolis Jim and Justin are know-it-all comics guys normally, but in this episode they’ll enter unfamiliar territory for them: the 22nd century milieu of brutal supercop Judge Dredd…as well as the longrunning weekly comic 2000 AD … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #070: The Authority (with Guest Cameron Kunzelman) When Bryan Hitch took over as artist on WildStorm’s low-selling StormWatch title, writer Warren Ellis was inspired to ditch most of the characters and reinvent the book from the ground up. The … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #069: Moon Knight in the Iron Age A listener asked us some time ago if we’d consider reading some Moon Knight; instead, we read a lot of Moon Knight. We used Moon Knight Epic Collection Volume 3: Butcher’s Moon … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
The Delivery Based on a true event November, 2012 Curtis Young pointed the mail truck down the hill and swore under his breath as the first snowflakes spattered against the windshield. This day could officially not get worse. He’d suffered … Continue reading Punk Fiction
Episode #068: Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Ghost Rider was something of an also-ran character in the 70s and 80s, so when editor-turned-writer Howard Mackie was invited to pitch a revival in 1990, Marvel didn’t have high hopes. But, with a … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #067: Hellboy: Wake the Devil and Other Stories The Halloween season is upon us again, so we’re revisiting our favorite horror hero, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, in the next batch of adventures following his debut in ”Seed of Destruction.” We … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #066: Astro City: Life in the Big City Following the triumph of Marvels and from the ashes of a proposed sequel that fell apart, Kurt Busiek launched Astro City with Brent Anderson on interior art and Marvels collaborator Alex … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #065: The Final Night SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONCLUDES! Where were you when the lights went out? Your hosts were reading DC’s 1996 crossover, The Final Night, in which the Earth’s sun is blotted out, robbing Superman of his powers. … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #064: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES! We’ve discussed tie-ins to DC’s 1994 continuity-altering crossover Zero Hour on a couple occasions so far, but now we finally tackle the main series itself. Billed as “The Beginning … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #063: Atlantis Attacks SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES! Comic book annuals are a remnant of the newsstand distribution era, when Marvel and DC tried to get some extra-sized product on the rack for the summer. With the advent of the … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #062: Mutant Massacre SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES! Marvel’s X-titles are practically a superhero universe unto themselves and continue to regularly cross over. We take a look at the very first of these epics, “Mutant Massacre,” which follows the wholesale … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #061: Invasion! SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES! Alien attacks on Earth are an almost routine occurrence in the DC Universe, but until 1988’s Invasion!, we’d rarely seen one treated as an actual global war, with campaigns on multiple fronts, chains … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #060: Secret Wars II SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR BEGINS! Love ‘em or hate ‘em, big event comics were a defining feature of the Iron Age, cramming a whole universe of superheroes into a single miniseries and/or spreading a single story … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #059: Green Lantern by Ron Marz – Part Five (Featuring “Emerald Knights”) Concluding (for now at least) our look at the saga of Kyle Rayner, the last of the Green Lantern Corps (for the ‘90s at least). Just when … Continue reading Iron Age of Comics
Episode #058: Grendel: Hunter Rose Many artists look back on the work they did at age nineteen and cringe, but Matt Wagner keeps returning to Grendel, expanding and refining his youthful enthusiasms into an exploration of the nature of evil. … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #057: Green Lantern by Ron Marz — Part Four (featuring “Retribution”) In our continuing series on the early years of Kyle Rayner, our hero squares off against Fatality, a spacefaring warrior woman who wants to crush the Green Lantern … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #056: Star Wars: Dark Empire When Marvel let their license to produce Star Wars comics lapse in 1986, Return of the Jedi was three years in the rear-view mirror and it seemed possible there would never be any further … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #055: Green Lantern by Ron Marz — Part Three (featuring “Hero Quest”) It looks like Kyle Rayner and Donna Troy have broken up. In an effort to avoid both the consequences of his own self-sabotage and improve his approach … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #054: Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire Take The Dirty Dozen, populate with supervillains and obscure DC characters, and plug them into Mission: Impossible-style plots. This is the recipe that John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell used to launch Suicide Squad, … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #053: Green Lantern by Ron Marz — Part Two (featuring “Parallax View”) In our continuing series on the Iron Age Green Lantern, twentysomething ‘90s dude Kyle Rayner gets a new girlfriend (Donna Troy, formerly known as Wonder Girl, currently … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
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