Journey Into Misery
205 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 163 ratingsJourney Into Misery is a podcast that seeks to explain complicated comics characters, continuity and concepts to a patient and perpetually perplexed newcomer to the medium
Hosted by Kieran Shiach, with permanent second-chair Helena Hart, each week sees one character or concept explained in as much detail as possible to showcase just what comics fans have to put up with sometimes.
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Episodes
Episode 149: Adam Strange
October 15, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBOn Earth, he is a regular archaeologist but in space, he is the greatest hero the planet Rann has ever known. He is Adam Strange, the man of two worlds!
Episode 148: The Incredible Hulk (Bruce Jones)
October 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBA somewhat forgotten run from the early-00s, Bruce Jones took Bruce Banner and The Incredible Hulk to some dark place, but how does it hold up in the light of the modern day?
Episode 147: Magneto
October 01, 2018 00:00 - 2 hours - 83.3 MBIn one of our biggest episodes ever, we dive right into Magneto's convoluted backstory, warts and all. Are his kids really his kids? What's up with Joseph and Xorn? How was he a teenager during World War II and still kicking around today? All that and more will be answered in this blockbuster episode of Journey Into Misery.
Episode 146: X-Statix
September 24, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBMutants have a reputation for being weird, and the mutants of X-Statix take it to another level! Come meet Mr. Sensitive, U-Go-Girl and Doop, and learn about the Princess Diana controversy which briefly rocked the world.
Episode 145: Spider-Man (J.M. DeMatteis)
September 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBThis week we're visiting arguably the greatest Spider-Man story of all time, as well as some more classics told by the legendary J.M. DeMatteis.
Episode 144: Firestorm
September 10, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBWe're back on hour-plus long episodes with an episode dedicated to everyone's favorite Nuclear Man, Firestorm!
Episode 143: JLA/Avengers
September 03, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBNever before, never again! The biggest crossover in superhero comics, as the JLA and Avengers team-up to save both universes.
Episode 142: House of M
August 26, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBIt's a world where mutants are the dominant species, humans are are going extinct and Spider-Man is a pro wrestler. Come with us, to the House of M.
Episode 141: Invasion!
August 20, 2018 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBThe Dominators and their Alien Alliance want Earth's metahumans, and if they can't have them they'll wipe them all out, in this classic crossover from the eighties.
Episode 140: Avengers Disassembled
August 13, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBNot like this. Not like this. LIKE THIS! Kickstarting the Bendis Age of Marvel Comics with Avengers Disassembled.
Episode 139: Convergence
August 06, 2018 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBAll of your favorite dead universes come back to fight each other for dominance, as we cover the comic which took over the entire DC publishing slate for two months.
Episode 138: Marvels
July 30, 2018 00:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBWe're dropping down for a man-on-the-street view of the early days of the Marvel Universe, courtesy of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.
Episode 137: Kingdom Come
July 23, 2018 00:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBSuperman is MIA and the world is overrun by the next generation of heroes with little regard for how their awesome power affects the man on the street. Armageddon is nigh, and the only person who can stop it is a regular pastor with visions of the end of the world.
Episode 136: Marvel 1602
July 03, 2018 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBI was going to write an olde English description for this, but I can't be bothered. We're kicking off a month of fan-favorite stories with Neil Gaiman, Adam Kubert, Richard Isanove and Todd Klein's flashback epic, 1602.
Episode 135: Nextwave
June 26, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBIt's like Shakespeare, but with lots more punching; Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen's masterful send-up of mid-2000s superhero comics, Nextwave: Agents of HATE.
Episode 134: Black Cat
June 19, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBDon't cross her path, it's Felicia Hardy aka The Black Cat!
Episode 133: Legion of Super-Heroes (Jim Shooter)
June 12, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBToday, we're dipping back into the Legion of Super-Heroes for one of the most influential and important runs on the characters.
Episode 132: Avengers: Infinity War
June 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBWe're a little late on this one, but we covered Jim Starlin's Thanos saga from start to finish.
Episode 131: Rogue
April 18, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBThis week we're talking about one of Marvel's mightiest mutants, the Southern Belle by the name of Rogue.
Episode 130: Hitman
April 11, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBDrinks onna' house, fellas. There ain't no closing time, but you gotta leave your guns at the door.
Episode 129: Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat
April 04, 2018 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBIt's Patsy! Everyone's favorite romance heroine turned superhero in one of the most requested episodes of Journey Into Misery ever.
Episode 128: Countdown To Final Crisis
April 01, 2018 18:52 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBIt's April Fools and this year we are the fools for putting ourselves through this year-long car crash of a comic.
Episode 127: Dark Nights: Metal
March 29, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBThe Dark Knights aren't coming; they're here! Everything you need to know about DC's best crossover event for nearly a decade.
Episode 126: Secret Six
March 21, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBDC's murderous misfits, the Secret Six!
Episode 125: Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
March 14, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBThe Torchbearer of the Green Lantern Corps, Kyle Rayner!
Episode 124: Namor - The Sub-Mariner
March 06, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBImperius Rex! It's the Avenging Son of Atlantis, Prince Namor.
Episode 123: Heroes Reborn
January 23, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBWe revisit Marvel's lost year as the Avengers and Fantastic Four journey to a pocket dimension to start all over again.
Episode 122: X-Men (Onslaught)
January 11, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBOne of the most memorable events of the nineties, for all the wrong reasons. Can our hosts survive the onslaught of complicated continuity?
Episode 121: Continuity Catch-Up 2017
December 31, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBTo see the year out in style, we're going breakneck speed through all the big continuity changes of 2017. Who lived? Who died? Who was a Nazi? Everything you love and hate about superhero comics.
Episode 120: Three Years Later
December 08, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBIt's our third birthday! To celebrate three years of Journey Into Misery, we're doing another D-List anthology episode including Death's Head, Doop and Dark Claw.
Episode 119: JLA (Grant Morrison & Howard Porter)
November 17, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBWith the Justice League movie in cinemas, we take a look at one of the most iconic runs on a JLA comic of all time.
Episode 118: Thor: Ragnarok
November 13, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBWith the new film in theatres, we looked at the Ragnarok storyline from the comics and then the story which followed which was a big influence on the first Thor movie as Asgard comes to Oklahoma.
Episode 117: Secret Empire
September 14, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBSecret Empire is over, which means we're going through the event itself and try and figure exactly where it went wrong.
Episode 116: Captain America (Nick Spencer)
September 04, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBSecret Empire is coming to a close, so we've put together a special two-parter to explain everything that went down so you don't have to read it. First up, all the events that lead up including social justice supervillains, sentient cosmic cubes and that infamous "Hail Hydra" page.
Episode 115: The Fourth World (Jack Kirby)
August 28, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBThere came a time when the Old Gods died! Silence closed upon what had happened — a long, deep silence — wrapped in massive darkness... it was this way for an age... THEN — THERE WAS NEW LIGHT!
Episode 114: Uncanny X-Force
August 09, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBThings get dark as we head into the black and grey world of the Uncanny X-Force.
Episode 113: Angela
August 02, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBAlmost as if an angel from heaven itself, Journey Into Misery is back with an angel in her own right, Angela!
Episode 112: Wonder Woman (Origins)
June 07, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBTo celebrate Wonder Woman as everyone is rightly doing, we tried something different and tackled all her many different canonical origins, from William Moulton Marston to Greg Rucka.
Episode 111: X-Men (The Phoenix Force_
May 17, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBHere us listeners! No longer are we the podcast you knew! We are life, and fire incarnate! Now and forever, we are Phoenix! Or, y'know, for the next hour or so at least.
Episode 110: Guardians of the Galaxy (Brian Michael Bendis)
May 03, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBThere's a new Guardians film out this week, so we looked at the complete run on the most recent volume of the comic by one of the industry's most influential heavyweights.
Episode 1,000,000: DC One Million
April 26, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBWe're zipping forward to the 853rd century to see what superheroes are like in the future and what happens when the future comes back to destroy the past, in DC's ambitiously epic crossover event.
Episode 108: Watchmen
April 19, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBWe've taken the most important superhero comic of all time and reduced it to its major story beats. What could go wrong?
Episode 107: X-Men (Age of Apocalypse)
April 12, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBThe world looks very different than it did yesterday, as we dive into the complicate mire of Age of Apocalypse and try to make sense of the '90s mega-events.
Episode 106
April 01, 2017 06:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MBThis week's episode is a special one that's light on character development or high action, but is packed with references and Easter Eggs that are well worth discussing.
Episode 105: Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers
March 29, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBHelena didn't know we were doing this when we started recording, and it ended up being really fun. Marvel's best pet superheroes unite to save the world from Thanos, dragons and spoiled little girls. It's significantly shorter than most episodes, but there's a reason for that that we explain a little in the episode itself, and it'll become clear in a few days.
Episode 104: Batman (Jeph Loeb)
March 22, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBThe Long Halloween, Dark Victory and Hush. Three comics that a lot of people really love and a lot of people really hate. Let's see how this goes.
Episode 103: Green Lantern (Rebirth)
March 15, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBGeoff Johns' defined Green Lantern for nearly ten years, and it's going to take more than one episode to tackle it all. To start, we're going from Green Lantern: Rebirth to The Sinestro Corps War.
Episode 102: X-23
March 08, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 75 MBWe're looking at one of the most interesting and exciting characters of the past twenty-five years, the mysterious and enigmatic clone of Wolverine, X-23!
Episode 101: Wolverine (Old Man Logan)
March 02, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBOver fifty years ago, the villains killed the heroes... except for Wolverine. What they did to him was so much worse. We talk about Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's instantly iconic story, the character's future and what, if anything, the movie might crib from the comics.
Episode 100: Cable
February 24, 2017 00:00 - 2 hours - 126 MBWe made it all the way to one hundred episodes, and to celebrate we're tackling one of the most complicated characters in all of creation, Cable!