Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike talk about Boom Studios hit Something Is Killing the Children! Find out how they liked the book! Andy also described his greatest fear, Mike talked about his favorite geological and tasty spot on Earth, and Andy does voices again. Tell a friend! A show so great we had to do TWO intros! Enjoy the episode! As always, thanks for listening. Let us know what you think of t...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike talk about What If? from Marvel Comics. We picked four issues from the original two series and both give the rundown on how What If these What If issues are! And boy are they! We talk about Wolverine as a vampire, Thor as ThumbleThor, the Avengers beating up everyone on the planet, and a Dr Strange story that was just eh. All that and a visit from the Casual Observer ...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy talk about Moulin Rouge’ … OR was it Dark Empire, the 1991 script for the Sequel trilogy. No really, it was both!! We ogle over artwork from Cam Kennedy, laugh at our Star Wars love, or anti-love, and end up talking Karl Urban, Ewan McGregor, and more! We talk about Andy's latest trip to the comic store, the new Star Trek movies, using comics as a unit of spendin...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike talk about the prequel Star Wars movies. I'm not sure what went wrong. But then we talk about Grant Morrison's love letter to Superman, All-Star Superman. Twelve issues of extreme Superman by Frank and Grant. We go through all 12 issues as fast as we can and Andy is unsure about this reread and whether he liked it. Mike decides Andy has no clue what he'...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike talk to Kevin. That's it. Just talking. . . okay, Kevin is a new comic collector and we wanted to know what that was like since we are old and bitter. So we ask him questions and he asks us questions because we think we are a fountain of knowledge. A fountain I tell you! Kevin also is a founding member of show sponsor, Thunder Chicken, and we get to ask him quest...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike plan to talk about the first six issues of the Umbrella Academy, The Apocalypse Suite from Dark Horse. But first we have to talk about our dear friend Aaron, who unexpectedly passed away the week before. We talk about how Aaron changed our lives and how much he meant to us and a lot of other people. We miss you Aaron. See you later. We then get to the Umbrella Academy...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike continue discussing the last six issues of Marvel's Secret Wars from the 80's written by Jim Shooter and art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton. We try to find the romance and love of the series since it's coming out on Valentine's Day but admittedly that's a tough one. We discuss our favorite couples in comics, our favorite couple in this series, Ki...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike discuss the first six issues of Marvel's Secret Wars from the 80's written by Jim Shooter and art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton. We learn Andy is terrible understanding accents, Mike should voice act soap opera dramas, and of course there is a little flashback sequence of our love of HeroQuest and how the holiday went. All this plus lots of discussion how Secr...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, we go into the archives and deliver a review of Wonder Woman #1 by George Perez. A little looser in the edit and shorter in time, this episode is just a bonus episode for you. Thanks for downloading our episodes and we hope you enjoy what ended up being the second part of the Get Off My Lawn episode we published last year. So join us back in time when there was beard scratching, An...
Jan 14, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike celebrate the New Year with a quartet of One-And-Dones! We review four #1 issues (two from each of us) and give our opinion if it is worth even reading issue #2 in that series. Andy reviews DC's Judge Dredd title and brings it back to ABC by reading Promethia. Mike brings to the table Image's Astounding Wolfman and Fatale by Brubaker and Phillips. We also ch...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy do a Christmas review of two comics with a Christmas theme. We also talk about comic digests of Christmas past, do three quizzes for fun, Andy warns people about the danger of a new bathroom add-on to his house and then they end the episode with what might be the longest laugh ever on a podcast. I dare you to not smile while hearing us break down in a late-night laugh...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy are joined by two other guests and we talk about growing up as role players. Lots of annoying inside jokes and laughs but we also learn things about raising our kids as role players (or not), the definition of the word frock, what our favorite games were, and Andy learns his definition of friendship isn't just his alone. Great laughs were had on this admittedly s...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Andy and Mike work hard to discuss ABC Comics series Tom Strong. We talk about the first six issues of the series and also get into a discussion about pulp heroes and how different it was when our fathers collected. There is an awkward conversation about inappropriate street corners, we learn what The Franchesco effect is, a rude encounter at a comic store and riding bikes to the 7...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy discuss DC Comics 7 issue series from 2008 Final Crisis! It's Grant Morrison and his creative brain tackling an event that claims to be the last! And we all know by now it isn't! But back then . . . well we knew it wasn't going to be either but we pretended it was and we liked it! Listen to Andy talk about how this series intersected his own life pain, ...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy had good intentions. We wanted to discuss George Perez's wonderful art and story on his 1987 reboot of Wonder Woman by DC Comics. Instead, before even getting to the book, the old man vibes kicked in and instead we discussed the current state of the comic industry, what WE would do to try and get more people to read comics, and we create a swear word that's ...
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy are joined by Matt2 and we talk about the first 25 or so Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (except Captain Marvel). What movie was our favorite? Who is our favorite characters? And why does Matt love every one of them? We chat about our favorite scenes, who we want to see on the big screen next, and why you should always watch old movies before showing them to your kid...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy talk about Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet 6-issue series. How was it compared to the MCU version of the tale? What is it about Ron Lim that Mike doesn't like? Why is George Perez Andy's dream man? All this and more as the guys do a round of trivia as well! Snap your fingers, stroke that infinity stone and join us for a conversation about what makes this Mar...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, Mike and Andy are joined by guest co-host Matt as we talk about going to comic convention in the 90's. We hear some great convention stories about Stan Lee, Mike Baron, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Marv Wolfman, Mike Allred and many more! Who was the nicest person the guys have met and who was the one that was just incredibly rude? Join us for The Con Game! If you heard the fi...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! In this episode, we finish up talking about DC's Cosmic Odyssey by Jim Starlin and Mike Mignola from 1988. It's a Mike Mignola lovefest and that guy Jim Starlin too. We learn that Mike has a lot on his mind and that Andy really has memory problems. Getting old sucks. Hang with us on the audio! It gets waay better next episode! Thanks for listening. Email us at AndthisiswhyIlovecomics@gmai...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a note about the show and we will read it on the air! Special shout outs to you and yours! Now re-edited! In this episode, we talk about DC's Cosmic Odyssey by Jim Starlin and Mike Mignola from 1988. It's Jim Starlin, famous for Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet so it's got to be good, right? Plus we get introductions of hosts Andy and Mike and learn a little about what brought the two together. Hang with us on the audio! It gets better in future episodes. We were still figu...
Jul 31, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
