Siskoid and Chris Franklin's coverage of The Brave and the Bold brings them to issue #120 (July 1975), somehow starring Batman and Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth, together for the first time! It's that ol' Bob Haney-Jim Aparo goodness! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on ...
Nov 29, 2022•58 min
Siskoid and Shag continue their coverage of Marvel Team-Up's black costume era with #141 (May 1984), featuring the Spider-Man and Daredevil, and indeed the first appearance of the black costume in the book's pages! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER: https://twi...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Siskoid and Bass start their coverage of DC Comics Presents with issues 1 and 2 (July-October 1978), featuring the Superman and the Flash, discuss the proud tradition of Superman-Flash races, and uncover the origin stories of both Earth and Krypton. This is the epic no one really remembers, so get yourself this handy reminder! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FI...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Siskoid and Ryan Daly start their coverage of Marvel Two-in-One with issue 1 (January 1973), featuring the Thing and the Man-Thing, as monster goes up against monster! (Wait, do we mean Siskoid and Ryan, or Ben Grimm and Ted Sallis?) Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on T...
Aug 30, 2022•58 min
Siskoid and Chris Franklin start their coverage of The Brave and the Bold with issue 182 (January 1982), featuring Batman and the Earth-2 Robin, Chris' favorite comic of all time! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our FACEBO...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min
It's the Rise and Fall of the Black Costume as Siskoid and Shag start their coverage of Marvel Team-Up with issue 140 (April 1984), featuring Spider-Man and the Black Widow. Things are about to get weird for your Friendly Neighborhood Web-Slinger and the Fire and Water Podcast Network is there for it! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWO...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Special announcement concerning FW Team-Up as it's about to return from hiatus with a new, improved formula! Find out all the deets, PLUS an omnibus edition of our first 35 Amalgam Comics promos! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Credits: Theme: "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" by Andy Sturmer. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER: https://t...
May 17, 2022•26 min
How can a character meet himself in a team-up situation? How can a podcaster do the same? Find out as Siskoid 2020 calls Siskoid 2016 to discuss Marvel Two-in-One #50 by John Byrne and Joe Sinnott, starring the Thing 1979 and the Thing 1961! It's a battle for the ages, and maybe one of us will learn a little something about himself along the way. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a pr...
May 12, 2020•27 min
Fire and Water's Patreon followers were asked, which team-up should be featured in April, the most foolish of months, and they picked 1987's Superman Meets the Quik Bunny. Lots of silly, chocolaty goodness from host Siskoid and his guest Michael Bailey, who have a lot to talk about, including comics, dairy on both sides of the US-Canada border, and cities to visit both fictional and real! So pour yourself a tall glass of milk, stir in your additive of choice (or don't), and take a listen. (Lacto...
Apr 07, 2020•54 min
On Earth-1, Siskoid heeds the call. A podcast opportunity awaits! On Earth-2, Mike Staley gets the same call, also heeds it, yes, podcastery! They meet in a nether-dimension called Skypeworld and discuss DC Comics Presents #56, a fateful meeting between Superman and his cousin from another Earth, Power Girl! Available across the whole of the Multiverse (except Earth-3, that place is a cesspool of bad podcasting). Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images ...
Mar 10, 2020•48 min
Siskoid teams up with his Reboot writing partner in the Legion of Super-Bloggers, Shotgun, to cover the seminal - SEMINAL, WE SAY! - Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny team-up from 2017. We're not kidding around, but maybe the comic is. What a way to start the year, eh? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fir...
Feb 04, 2020•45 min
The Helena Wayne Huntress blog and podcast's Diane joins Siskoid to cover Fire and Water Network Patreon poll Christmas winner, The Brave and the Bold #184 with Batman and the Earth-2 Huntress. It's Mike Barr's and Jim Aparo's "The Batman's Last Christmas!", with lots of Crisis talk thrown in for good measure, because it's what Christmas Eve is all about, isn't it? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental T...
Dec 24, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Siskoid is joined by Tim Price for coverage of Ultimate Team-Up #9 (2001), a Spider-Man/Fantastic Four all-humor issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Mahfood, and this show's first foray into the Ultimate Marvel Universe! But is it actually the UMU? Jury is still out on that one. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 6 min
It's Hallowe'en Week, and FW Team-Up visits some spooky Irish isles in The Brave and the Bold #93, Batman and the House of Mystery, by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams. It's an usual team-up to say the least, as only Siskoid and Martin Gray can bring it to you. So... do you DARE press play? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WE...
Oct 29, 2019•50 min
Siskoid and Coffee and Comics' Clinton Robison have a cuppa across time zones (that's a pun) to discuss DC Comics Presents #75, starring the unlikely duo of Superman and Arion, Lord of Atlantis. It's a Paul Kupperberg/Tom Mandrake original spanning 45,000 years of history (but our hosts will just take a fraction of that out of your schedule). Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud ...
Oct 01, 2019•35 min
Last summer, Siskoid and Ashford Wright teamed up to talk about the Birds of Prey: Batgirl/Catwoman prestige-format comic. It's one year later for them, but five years later for the characters as they tackle its sequel, Birds of Prey: Catwoman/Oracle. A lot's happened in five years! Catch up with the heroes and podcasters both in this episode of FW Team-Up! Plus, feedback from the previous episode. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further cre...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Siskoid (not American) and Nicholas Prom (American) team up to bring you Fire and Water's 4th of July Special, covering the Superman/Freedom Fighters team-up from DC Comics Presents #62, and folks, the very SOUL of AMERICA is on the line! This one MAY be a metaphor for our times. So while somebody braver than you is setting up those roadside-bought fireworks, sit back, relax, and let the podcast magic take you across the dimensions... Plus, true blue feedback from the last six months of episodes...
Jul 04, 2019•55 min
Two franchises crash together in Adventure Comics' first full color series as Ape Nation! Yes, it's the Planet of the Apes and Alien Nation in a unique team-up mini-series, as covered by your hosts Siskoid and Derek William Crabbe! What are you waiting for? Press PLAY already! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: ht...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 8 min
So the Earth-1 Batman and Sgt. Rock were contemporaries during World War II?! Only in the Haneyverse! It's our Memorial Day episode as Siskoid teams up with U.S. armed forces veteran Jarrod Alberich, the Yard Sale Artist, to talk about The Brave and the Bold #84. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwa...
May 27, 2019•51 min
She fell in love with him on oHOTmu or NOT, now she's back to defend him on FW Team-Up. Amelie Montour sides with the frogs in the Fabulous Frog-Man's second ever appearance, as he and the veteran Spider-Man go head to head with the White Rabbit in Marvel Team-Up #131! It's an all animal episode, please keep your hands outside the cage! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member...
Apr 16, 2019•36 min
One of the comics that made Anj want to be Dr. Anj, The Brave and the Bold #118, a boxing spectacular starring Batman, Wildcat and the Joker is up next on FW Team-Up. Siskoid gets into the ring, but don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.co...
Mar 26, 2019•43 min
Rolled Spine Podcasts' Illegal Machine joins Siskoid to cover Marvel Two-in-One #12's team-up between the Thing and Iron Man as they (the heroes, not the podcasters) stumble on Prester John in the Israeli desert. It's a Bill Mantlo script, folks. It gets a little crazy. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fi...
Mar 12, 2019•43 min
Siskoid and Mike Peacock team up to bring your the rhyme-filled glory that is DC Comics Presents #66(6), starring Superman and the Demon vs. druidic sensation Blackbriar Thorn, by Len Wein and Joe Kubert. You are cordially invited to this marriage of heaven... and hell! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fi...
Feb 26, 2019•1 hr 2 min
The Thing meets Sasquatch and then Alpha Flight in Marvel Two-in-One #83 and 84, and it's up to Siskoid and Michael May to meet on the U.S.-Canada border to make sure all the action gets covered! Don't miss this very orange episode of FW Team-Up! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ F...
Jan 29, 2019•46 min
Merry Christmas, team-up fans! Boy, have Siskoid and Plasti-Cast's Max Romero a treat in store for you! The Brave and the Bold #148, starring Batman and Plastic Man, as written by Zany Bob Haney, with art by both Jim Aparo and Joe Staton. Can these two unlikely friends (we mean the superheroes) save Gotham's Christmas?! Find out! Then stick around as Siskoid opens the year's mailbag! Our gift to you the listener. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images ...
Dec 25, 2018•59 min
Siskoid and Scott X bend the rules of the podcast just a bit to bring you a three-issue team-up between Hawkman and Adam Strange, from Showcase #101-103. It's Rann vs. Thanagar before that was a thing! Listen as we solve this MYSTERY... IN... SPACE! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com...
Nov 27, 2018•55 min
It's the day before Halloween, Devils' Night! And we have a treat for you courtesy of Siskoid and Cory Drew - Spider-Man and Frankenstein's Monster (with some pinch hitting from Man-Wolf), from Marvel Team-Up #36-37 (1975). It's a team-up perfect for the season! Definitely in the "treat" department. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK...
Oct 30, 2018•54 min
To promote his 2009 album Relapse, Slim Shady got to together with Frank Castle in Eminem | The Punisher: "Kill You", a crazy one-off (first 8 pages published in that year's XXL Magazine's May 5th issue, the rest on Marvel Comics' website) by Fred Van Lente and Salvador Larroca. oHOTmu or NOT's Isabel Goguen and Siskoid team up to talk about this unusual crossover, white gangsta culture, and Shady's career and music. PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe t...
Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 10 min
60s TV. Whether appreciated fresh or in syndicated leftovers, we can safely say Ruth & Darrin Sutherland and Siskoid are fans. They bring you the mod camp team-up of the decade (the 1960s, that is), Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel. That's right, the REAL Avengers combine forces with the Dynamic Duo for an adventure that crosses the Pond and made our hosts smile. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Suppleme...
Aug 28, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Siskoid welcomes Ashford Wright of the Feathers and Foes Birds of Prey Podcast to talk about the Prestige-format Birds of Prey: Batgirl/Catwoman (2003), a story that takes Barbara Gordon back to her early career as a cowled crusader and her first team-up with the Jo Duffy/Jim Balent Catwoman! Come with us to Gotham, a few years before the current day... Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast ...
Jul 31, 2018•56 min