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The Comico Grendel!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 15, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this episode, we're talking about Matt Wagner's Grendel--well, as much of it as we could fit in before we reached emotional capacity for...the devil! That turned out to be basically Grendel as it was published by Comico in the 1980s, which basically means "everything Grendel up until you get ...
Social (Science) Fiction
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 31, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe gang is all here, and so is the NYRC release of Social Fiction, a collection of comics by Chantal Montellier, translated by Geoffrey Brock. Is there a bit of spot the reference going down? Sure there is: but if your eyes are closed, how are you gonna see who is coming at you?? Wake up sheepl...
Catalan Returns: Mickey Mouse Has Crickets In His Pants
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 21, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, all decorum is out the window: Joe isn't here to stop us, so we're talking about Disney's Mickey Mouse in a labor fantasia, we're talking about a comic where a talking penis takes the stage (he's pink, y'all!) and, in the episode's coda, we talk about the coda of Crickets. You wouldn'...
Public Broadcasting and Literature BEING THAT THING
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 26, 2022 10:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe Hernandez Brothers make it to television, but they don't talk about Blubber enough for our taste, and Alan Moore throws some words on the page but doesn't include any Don Simpson pictures? Well, if everything is wrong in the world, then what is right? Garth Ennis. Garth Ennis is always right!
Fantastic Four: Full Circle
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 12, 2022 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this special, weirdly long episode, we talk about a bunch of Marvel characters in an Abrams book--all of them, somehow connected to Alex Ross. It's Fantastic Four: Full Circle time! Get in where you fit in, and brother, you fit in just fine!
Hanna-Barbera's OROCHI
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 22, 2022 10:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsOn this special episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, we discuss fairy tales, Kazuo Umezz and critically acclaimed cartoo--BARF. BARFING SOUND. Carto--VOMIT AGAIN. UPCHUCK CENTRAL.
Batman: Mad Love (with Katie Skelly)
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 15, 2022 10:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWe're back at the Batphones, and this time around, we're joined by Katie Skelly to talk about Batman: Mad Love! A loose collection of comics featuring the Animated Series versions of Gotham City's craziest and most violent citizens, this is a box we had to check. Here she is: the REAL Lady Joker!
Jiminy Crickets!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - July 25, 2022 10:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe boys are back-actually, they were back a while ago, but then one of the boys got sick and sleepy, so it took a while to get this one up: it's about Crickets, from Sammy "Salami" Harkham! It also features our recurring segment on British comics, which finally is giving a name. It's comic book...
Batman: Mask
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsSay hello to Joe McCulloch, everybody! Co-editor of TCJ.com, formerly of Comics Comics, Savage Critics, and the legendary Jog the Blog, Joe is the headliner of our main show Comic Books are Burning in Hell, and the best comics critic of the internet era. There's no other way to say it: no one si...
"I Was Thinking A Lot Of Ding Dong Circus"
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsGreen Lantern, the guy who created the Double Dragon side-scroller, Tucker's mistaken "let's interrupt people" idea, Donny Cates Hulk comic, very old school podcast stuff, Akira, Jack Kirby's Silver Star, Koike's Heaven's Door, the Legends of DC Universe featuring Steve Rude, and the new Jack Re...
Catwoman: Lonely City
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 20, 2022 09:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWelcome once again to Batman Books are Burning in Hell, where this time Tucker and Matt are joined by none other than Cliff Chiang, master cartoonist behind the best superhero comic to hit the stands since some of those old ones we usually talk about -- CATWOMAN: LONELY CITY. Whip-smart, addicti...
Red Flowers, Buddy!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 26, 2022 16:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time for another installment in: the boys read some Tsuge! This time around, they're drinking in Red Flowers, the latest development in Yoshiharu Tsuge archival studies, in this, a look at the second volume of his mature tales! IS THAT AN ANTLION TALE? It is, you frisky freak! But wait? A s...
Our Favorite 2021 Comics
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - January 06, 2022 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsChris, Matt, Joe & Tucker get together to talk about some of the comics that hit them the hardest this year. Less a back and forth, more a roundtable ramble: no list is coming, you'll have to listen to find out more!
Batman: The Jungle Cat-Queen
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - December 22, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWelcome back to Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, where this episode Tucker and Matt are joined by special guest star and master cartoonist Anya Davidson! Anya's work sometimes seems to encompass the whole history of American comics, harnessing the raw current of energy tapped by everyone from G...
Batman: Murder In The Night
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - November 23, 2021 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWelcome once again to Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, this week featuring special guest sta- hey wait a second, how'd he get in here? Chris Mautner? It's Chris Mautner, people! If you've literally never listened to an episode of our eleven year old comic book podcast before, Chris boasts a top...
Spending Sundays In My Cage
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time to get back to the classics of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell: a look at a new one from Olivier Schrauwen (that new one would be Sunday 3/4, from Colorama) and an old one from Martin Vaughn-James (that old one would be The Cage, from Coach House Books). But first: did you hear that on...
Batman: Venom
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 21, 2021 13:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWelcome to Episode 2 of Batman Books are Burning in Hell, in which regular hosts Tucker Stone and Matt Seneca are joined by Benjamin Marra for a discussion of Batman: Venom! If Marra needs an introduction you're living wrong - the cartoonist behind Night Business, Terror Assaulter O.M.W.O.T., Am...
Duke Togo & Dan Didio
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - October 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWe start off with a random survey of each other's memories to determine who has that diesel, then it's time to go to church and mourn the passing of an O.G. killer, TAKAO SAITŌ. After that, we put Chris in the hot seat to figure out why he needed to read every single issue of 52 to decide whethe...
Batman: Prey
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsGet ready to dive straight towards your nearest 90s longbox! Matt and Tucker are taking the reins and talking Batman. In this installment of a Very Special Takeover Cast, the tale on offer is "Prey", from Paul Gulacy & Doug Moench. Over at The Factual Opinion, you'll find extensive show notes an...
Snapper Carr Vs. Rick Jones
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - September 13, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsRumor control? Here are the facts! 1) Chris read every single issue of Rom, The Space Knight...but nobody asked him too! 2) Tucker read all of the Eternals...but Joe doesn't believe him! 3) This podcast is actually all about what Jack Kirby and Steve Dikto really wanted to do...and more! Get in ...
Garth! Fujimoto! TIM TRUMAN???
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - August 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWhile most of the comics we talk about on this one are new, this is as classic an episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell as it gets: there's Garth Ennis comics, a recap of Peter Milligan's decisions, Joe checking in on some up-to-the-minute new manga from Tatsuki Fujimoto, huge technical pro...
Won't Someone Think Of The Children (Of Mu-Town)
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 16, 2021 19:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time to dive into some of the most politically prescient manga now available in English to the discerning reader: Masumura Jūshichi's Children of Mu-Town, published by Glacier Bay. What will the onslaught of takes result in: consensus, or all out war? There's only one way to find out, and i...
The Fists of Barry Windsor-Smith
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - June 01, 2021 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time to talk about Monsters, the newest brick of Barry Windsor-Smith comics since...geez buddy. I don't know. A long time! Consider this a prelude to our Rune-cast, part of a Malibu Monday series we have planned for the tenth of In Your Dreams. Time to get some teeth gnashing on!
Jimbo Returns To The NO WARPING Zone
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - May 13, 2021 15:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time to return to the subject of old: Jimbo, from Gary Panter. We've been jawing on the subject of Gary Panter for as long as we've been jawing at each other on anything, podcast or no podcast. NYRC's reissue gave us yet another chance to return to the subject, as did Fanta's publication of...
1963 Reasons To Read In Pictopia!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 29, 2021 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the boys are playing with fire by talking about Alan Moore: will this be the end of our fair podcast? Probably not, because he refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the comics in question: it's the all new In Pictopia (from FU Press!) and the never-gonna-be-new-again 1963 (from...
The Gang SPOILS The End of Chainsaw Man!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - April 04, 2021 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, you'll get hot, ripped-from-the-bedsheets coverage of the manga all the kids were reading a few years ago that has finally made its way through the various nerd channels and achieved "make Tucker and Chris read it" status. How will they react? Will Joe quit the show in a huff? At one ...
The Zack Snyder Pregame Special
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - March 17, 2021 21:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsJoe, Matt and Tucker get together to talk about filmmaker Zack Snyder, his Man of Steel, his Batman V Superman, and how that informs all of their lives and life experiences. It's time for a comic book movie podcast! wait where's Chris
Every Single Issue Of Frank Miller's Ronin
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - March 10, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIt's time to take a page from the baby book: a 1980s DC Comic that is! It's Frank Miller's Ronin, and yes, everybody is wearing tight shoes and really awake this time, with interruptions and "I don't agree with you sir" ringing out like a turn of the century switchboard. We also cover Chris Clar...
The Al Columbia Show
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - February 25, 2021 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsThis week, the crew is looking at the career output of Al Columbia, a cartoonist we all love tenderly and wildly. You want to get there? Cross the Syndercut river, you cowards! The Biologic Show awaits!
The First Of Many Dreddcasts!
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell - February 17, 2021 23:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsHow many jokes about the Judge Dredd movie featuring Sylvester Stallone will we will allow Chris Mautner to make? How many assumptions regarding British comics will be made? How often will Tucker get hyperbolic about John Wagner? Will Matt do an accent? Guys, the answers to these questions are y...
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