Hideous Energy
308 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsHideous Energy is a place where thoughts and words can't be stopped. David Hopkins and Austin Wilson love comics, and can never stop reading them, or talking about them. Listen to their opinions, some based on facts and others that are wild lies. They reanimated monsters. All for comics.
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#332 – Jessie’s Girl
July 19, 2017 01:48 - 177 MBThe point is probably moot. Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 2:09:05 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Quiz Time / Stuff We’ve Read Lately – we kill time here because we don’t have a
#331 – Amanda Loves Spider-Man
July 12, 2017 03:16 - 143 MBAnd why don’t you love him as much as she does? Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:44:26 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Topic Thunder – David is done with Yale Stewart’s social media “presence,”
#330 – Trigger Mortis
July 06, 2017 02:29 - 206 MBStarring Jason Statham and Bret Easton Ellis Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 2:30:00 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Stuff We’ve Read Lately – The 3 Geeks! Boundless! New Super-Man! • Topic Thunder – Howard Chaykin made a comic
#329 – Han Solo Dolo
June 28, 2017 02:47 - 95.4 MBPretty sure Kid Cudi thinks he’s a werewolf. Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:09:25 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Topic Thunder – Did you know that there are new Hellboy and Han Solo movies in
#328 – The Hottest Cakes
June 21, 2017 01:30 - 131 MBBut what does it mean?? Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 1:35:34 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Stuff We’ve Read Lately – The Vision! Doom Patrol! Hellboy! • Club Book – We walk into the club with our Bibles
#327 – Everyone’s Babies
June 07, 2017 02:47 - 131 MBThis episode almost had a much different name. Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:35:34 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Topic Thunder (sort of) – David saw Wonder Woman and liked it, and he also
#326 – The Return of the Top 5
May 24, 2017 02:14 - 146 MBTop 5 meatnesses. Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 1:46:32 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Stuff We’ve Read Lately – Austin catches up on Max Landis and co.’s Superman: American Alien and hates the Superman parts but
#325 – Daytripper
May 17, 2017 02:27 - 128 MBLIFE IS ART IS DEATH IS LIFE. Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:33:07 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Stuff We’ve Read Lately – David cracked open some new Luna/Vaughn comics and the Prometheus miniseries. Then we
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.13]
May 13, 2017 01:19 - 49.5 MBIn which Archie fights a river. Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 35:55 Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 13 and all of the new craziness that comes with the end of
#324 – Local
May 10, 2017 02:05 - 152 MBKeanu Reeeeeads. Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 1:50:41 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Topic Thunder – New Hellboy movie coming out?! David has feelings, and Austin makes fun of him for it, but it’s
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.12]
May 06, 2017 01:13 - 41.6 MBThe dark, sticky, dirty secret is revealed. Featuring: David Hopkins, Austin Wilson, & Caleb Green Running Time: 30:12 Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 12 and all of the new craziness that comes with
#323 – The Escapists
May 03, 2017 01:47 - 1 hour - 118 MBSort of Eisner-nominated! Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:25:47 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • The Eisners! – Some stuff was nominated, David has a breakdown on the lettering category, we discuss like what if
#322 – The C2E2 2017 Show!
April 26, 2017 12:51 - 142 MBWe’re hard-hitting journalists on a mission from God. Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 1:43:33 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • C2E2 Breakdown! – We went to Chicago this year for C2E2 and you should
#321 – 52 Gross Jokes
April 12, 2017 12:41 - 117 MBThis episode was almost called so many other things. Featuring: David Hopkins & Austin Wilson Running Time: 1:22:30 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Listener Questions/Topic Thunder! – We’re asked if we’ve ever regretted anything we’ve said on
#320 – 1602
April 06, 2017 01:32 - 113 MBROHHAJHAAZZ.Featuring: Austin Wilson & David Hopkins Running Time: 1:22:30 Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Listener Questions! – We turn to Facebook and Twitter for some Q&A supplied by our amazing listener base. And David misunderstands who
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.08]
April 01, 2017 00:37 - 49 MBIt’s pretty ripe in here, boys.Featuring:David Hopkins and Austin WilsonRunning Time: 35:33Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 8 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check out
#319 – Marvels
March 29, 2017 01:44 - 111 MBCome on and slam.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:11:52Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Stuff We’ve Read Lately – Lots of interesting books this week, including Rumble, Terminal Lance, Superman, and more! • Revisiting Marvels –
#318 – Hilarious Woke Joke
March 22, 2017 00:17 - 98.8 MBSuck all of your own butts.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:11:52Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • Topic Thunder – David watched all of Iron Fist and is already sick of talking about it, and you’re probably
#317 – Fanta, Fanta, Don’t Ya Wanta
March 15, 2017 01:20 - 105 MBMake sure you read that title correctly. The joke hinges on it.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:16:38Topics • Have you bought any comics lately? It better have been from DCBService.com! Check them out and get your stuff for cheaper! • We talk about a bunch of recent books we’ve read, including (part of) Fante
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.07]
March 11, 2017 03:06 - 47.9 MBSponsored by Glamazon.com!Featuring:David Hopkins, Caleb Green, and Austin WilsonRunning Time: 34:48Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 7 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check out Austin’s
#316 – Two And A Half Wolverines
March 08, 2017 04:41 - 117 MBWith 18 claws total.Featuring:Austin Wilson, David Hopkins, and special guest Jeff Leeds!Running Time: 1:25:01Topics • We talk about some brand new changes to our Patreon, including a $10 tier that nets you over 200 pages of original comics (and counting)! Check it out over at patreon.com/hideousenergy when you can. • Topic Thunder – We discuss
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.06]
March 04, 2017 01:53 - 52 MBVeronica Ex MachinaFeaturing:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 37:44Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 6 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check out Austin’s weekly write-ups
#315 – Hacksaw Jim Dugouts
March 01, 2017 03:16 - 97.2 MBWith Boink The Clown and Nacho Man Dandy Sarvage.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:10:45Topics • We talk about our fancy new secret Facebook group, the artistic merit of books like Shitty Watchmen & Bartkira, and then run you through the steps for how to DDT one man’s balls into another man’s ass. We have
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.05]
February 25, 2017 01:12 - 45.9 MBThe Ginger Jesus returns.Featuring:David Hopkins & Caleb GreenRunning Time: 33:18Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 5 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check out Austin’s weekly
#314 – Where Is My Mind?
February 22, 2017 02:29 - 87.1 MBEXCEPT THE LITTLE FISH.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:03:22Topics • David read a bunch of books this week, and SOME OF THEM you should buy over at InStockTrades.com (hey look, our sponsor). We also talk about the Hellboy 3 movie news, the new Legion show, and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. • Club Book – We
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.04]
February 18, 2017 01:32 - 48.4 MBThe Joak and the Grund.Featuring:David Hopkins, Austin Wilson, and Caleb GreenRunning Time: 35:08Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 4 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check
#313 – Chronicles of Apathy
February 15, 2017 03:07 - 103 MBIt’s like Dune, but stupid.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:15:12Topics • We have nothing planned for today’s episode, and you’d never be able to tell. Everything is as smooth and professional as always! But hey, let’s talk about anxiety, parenting, and come back at the end for a critical look at the Riddick franchise cause
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.03]
February 11, 2017 02:03 - 50 MBExcuse me, Chuck Clayton.Featuring:David Hopkins, Austin Wilson, and Caleb GreenRunning Time: 36:19Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This week we talk about episode 3 and all of the new craziness that comes with it. Be sure to check out
HE Presents: RIVERTELL [01.01-01.02]
February 08, 2017 21:01 - 86.8 MBA weekly miniseries about heartbreak and hamburgers.Featuring:David Hopkins, Austin Wilson, and Caleb GreenRunning Time: 1:03:06Topics • Our first Hideous Energy spin-off miniseries is here! Welcome to RIVERTELL, a weekly recap podcast where we discuss the CW teen drama Riverdale. This first week has us talking about our first interactions with the show and Archie characters, episodes
#312 – SCP-867-5309
February 08, 2017 02:10 - 85.7 MBJenny I got your number. I’m gonna disappear into the abyss.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:02:23Topics • HideousEnergy.com is all you need to know, baby! Check out our Patreon, our Facebook, our Twitter, blah blah blah. Buy all of your comics through DCBService.com or InStockTrades.com CAUSE THAT’S WHERE IT’S AT. Then listen to us
#311 – 311 Jokes About the Band 311
February 01, 2017 03:08 - 116 MBOpening for Nada Surf.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:24:21Topics • Are you familiar with the band 311? Are you aware that this is our 311th (or three hundred eleventy first) episode? Get ready for the jokes cause they are a-comin’. Also, join David in Riverdale where he wants to be best friends with Betty and
#310 – Frank Confessions
January 25, 2017 03:14 - 102 MBI’ll take an order of crow and some humble pie please.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:14:23Topics • Let’s talk about pro wrestling (again?!) and then slowly morph into Topic Thunder sort of with Nazi punching, and then kind of sidetrack into a Confessions tangent and this show isn’t what it used to be, is
#309 – I Definitely Still Hate Books
January 18, 2017 04:13 - 148 MBWe give this guest three stars.Featuring:Austin Wilson, David Hopkins, and special guest Seth T. Hahne!Running Time: 1:47:38Topics • Let’s talk about pro wrestling and some recent books we’ve read, including the most sexually explicit book that David now owns. Shoutout to DCBService for the money, especially after David says some regrettable things (again). • Club
#308 – Uran Trouble
January 11, 2017 02:36 - 96.4 MBThis poor girl.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:10:08Topics • Let’s start the episode off with some acoustic guitar and the state of David’s gear. Shoutout to DCBService for the money, especially after David says some regrettable things. • Topic Thunder! – We get into the De Liz / Dillon Wonder Woman debacle from a few
#307 – The Meaty Jones
January 04, 2017 04:34 - 104 MBWe apologize in advance for 2017.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:15:27Topics • We’re back to rock your face in 2017 and make some poorly planned jokes! Get your books from DCBService.com and InStockTrades.com because that’s what the cool kids are all doing. • Club Book – We get all hunky up in the club
#306 – Hot Dog On My Brain
December 21, 2016 01:56 - 123 MBI really wanted that hot dog.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:29:10Topics • Random musings and nostalgia about our favorite webcomic of days gone be. Make sure you stock up on Pluto before next week where we get into it in Club Book! • Did you see the new Star Wars movie? Of course you did. Now
#305 – Have We Lost Our Edge?
December 14, 2016 16:48 - 89.5 MBBalls. PENISVAGINABUTTS.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:05:06Topics • The title IS the question. In pursuing careers as adults, have we lost our hilarious and edgy “comedy”? Can we get by with just making the occasional reference to bodily fluids, rather than entire episodes dedicated to sex powers and animal murder? You decide. Oh, also we talk
#304 – Cheese Wings
December 07, 2016 02:49 - 115 MBThe second worst thing to happen to Spider-Man.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:23:36Topics • Cheese wings? Absolutely. You know we’re not going to not talk about two of our favorite things combined into one. Also, hey, DCBService.com! • Come down into Club Book as we get funky to the pulpy tunes of DJ Orson
#303 – Lead Zeppelins
November 30, 2016 02:29 - 77 MBWE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND THE SNOWFeaturing:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 56:00Topics • We get an extremely nice and emotionally impactful email and then we go off on a bunch of tangents. Imagine that! • Come down into Club Book as we get funky to the pulpy tunes of DJ
#302 – Everything Is Problematic
November 23, 2016 02:26 - 94.7 MBYou’re wrong…maybe. Or not.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:08:53Topics • Austin is still worried about a juvenile joke he makes in our intro, forever solidifying it as one of David’s favorite moments of 2016. While you’re waiting for that to happen, check out DCBService.com and InStockTrades.com and buy some comics. • Let’s talk about
#301 – Top 5 Best Times We Were Great
November 16, 2016 03:04 - 82.6 MBKing Babar’s Hell Club revisited. Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:00:08Topics • Thanks to listener Kent Blue for sending us his Top 5 Favorite Hideous Energy Moments! We edited them together and basically called it a show. Enjoy how great we were in the past. Next week we’ll be back with more Iron Fist!
#300 – What An Accomplishment
November 09, 2016 02:43 - 109 MBBrace yourself for the mediocre.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:19:13Topics • Please congratulate us on 300 perfect episodes as we ring in this special milestone with a perfectly adequate episode. Then go spend your money at DCBService.com! • Club Book! – We go back into the club yet again to discuss The Immortal Iron Fist
#299 – A Fistful of Topics
November 02, 2016 20:17 - 105 MBMostly comic talk this week, don’t worry.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:16:07Topics • David makes amends after last week’s meltdown, and then we discuss a bunch of random topics. The new(ish) Logan trailer, Peter David’s meltdown, a brief discussion of the Chelsea Cain reactions, and then Cho/Manara’s “battle” against censorship. • Club Book! – We
#298 – Whiny Babies
October 26, 2016 00:49 - 72.9 MBLife is hard, babies cry a lot, waah waah.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:19:34Topics • David and Amanda had their baby, and now David is going to whine about why life is hard for an hour. Hope you’re ready to hear about that and not, like, Green Lantern or vampires or something. For real
#297 – Colonel Mandust
October 05, 2016 03:28 - 75.2 MBColonel Mandust in the parlor with an android’s hand.Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:22:04Topics • You shouldn’t be reading this. You should be over at DCBService.com or InStockTrades.com buying all of the comics we’ve been recommending lately! After that though, stick around for a discussion of Warren Ellis and the Stormwatch relaunch, the origins
#296 – Trigger Warnings
September 28, 2016 04:05 - 89.1 MBWelcome to the Parents Club.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:37:18Topics • Trigger warnings, Social Justice Warriors, and THE LEFT. What is too much? Is there such a thing? Of course there is. But let’s talk about comics including DC’s modern-day masterpiece THE OMEGA MEN.
#295 – Grindin’ Jazz
September 21, 2016 01:34 - 101 MBHey what’s up, NSA?Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:50:15Topics • Buy your comics from DCBService.com, then apologize to them for us for all of our tasteless jokes in the memo line of recent Chase Bank transactions. It’ll all make gross sense here soon.• Writer extraordinaire R.J. Ryan stops by to chat about The Joyners from
#294 – Behind the Robots
September 14, 2016 01:14 - 71.1 MBBuy our book or we’ll keep making podcasts.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:17:36Topics • We’re not sure if you’ve heard about this, but we had a graphic novel published this past week. Listen as we discuss the inception, the process, the writing, the art, the lettering, and the publication of Re•pro•duct: Self-Applied now in stores
#293 – Spider-Gwen-Stacy
September 07, 2016 03:28 - 102 MBHey, look! It’s BatBruce!Featuring:David Hopkins & Austin WilsonRunning Time: 1:51:44Topics • Piracy, stealing comics, buying comics (maybe even from DCBService.com?!), Valiant comics, Spider-Gwen, gender “norms,” variant covers, and The Omega Men! We cover it all!
#292 – Milk Mysteries of Illinois
August 31, 2016 01:31 - 68.9 MBDO NOT USE.Featuring:Austin Wilson & David HopkinsRunning Time: 1:15:09Topics • Strange stories from David and Amanda’s trip to Illinois, Superman stories that are just so original they need to be told twice, and the best deals around courtesy of DCBService.com! All this and more in today’s episode of Komix Time with Steve Jobs & Your