Dream learns that murdering his own son might have been uncool, like way uncool, to the degree that the 3 Fates who for reasons we forget hate Dream, show up and rip his world apart. The Milksops are almost done with Dream, folks! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Stories within stories within stories! The Milksops continue their look at Sandman with a deepish dive into issue #55, called "Cerements" in which (inhale).. a journeyman from a city of burial experts tells a story he heard from his master about a story HE heard from HIS teacher, who also tells ... other stories! All within the story of the World's End Inn. Come get "incepted" with us! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe:...
Casey Bruce from Danger Room Comics of Olympia, Washington joins the Milksops to do a deep dive on the truly strange Sandman Story "The Golden Boy," which focuses on the 1970s teen president "Prez." We've got Nixon cameos, Watchmen references, plenty of Jesus parallels, and oh yeah, Wildcat. Don't forget the rad Mike Allred art! We also get into what makes great comic shops great and how important they are for so many comics fans! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItCo...
"Do You Control Transportation?" may not seem like a good way to start a conversation in a travel agent's office but then again, what are travel agents? The Milksops discuss chapter three of the funny / sad / exciting Sandman story "Brief Lives." -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The Milksops get into the hot button issues of: gender identity, sexual consent and also cutting people's faces off and nailing them to a wall in this, the third chapter of the incredible Sandman arc "A Game of You." -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
We meet Lord Morpheous' family who are strange in two ways only: they are super-powerful beings in charge of aspects of reality, and all their names start with D. We also take a trip to hell! And we learn that Lord Morpheous is a really bad boyfriend. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
WARNING: the issue we discuss has sexual assault in its story. Kevin and Will review a gruesome tale of horror and revenge in the Sandman issue "Callopie." An evil writer is out of ideas so he does what so many young artists to: he enslaves a Roman muse. We get into this story as an example of how well Sandman can show evil and justice, and we learn some key info on Dream's personal history. Also the Three Fates show up. That's pretty wild. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: ...
The milksops (Kevin and Will) go over the debut of Hob Gadling, the man who will never die! What's YOUR favorite invention of the last 500 years: chimneys or handkerchiefs? -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
We begin a new season in which Kevin and Will examine the Vertigo series Sandman! Will is so excited we don't get to the issue itself for 30 minutes! Then we discuss this seminal issue, in which we meet Dream's big sister Death. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Kevin and Will finish their discussion of Batman Year One, and guess what? They still love it. Kevin pitches more ways to get Batman out of this story. Will tries to figure out when he stopped liking Frank Miller. And they talk about whether it's COOL or REALLY COOL that Batman is not even in costume for the climactic battle of this story! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Commissioner Gordon watches as Gotham Police nearly kill his not-yet-friend Batman. Topics we discuss include: how fast could you pick a lock in gloves? Did Year One create the "Save The Cat" trope? How much money can one make from a device that summons thousands of bats? -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Kevin and Will continue looking at one of the greatest superhero comics of all time: Batman Year One. There's two hot takes in this episode. 1) They both think this comic is great. 2) Kevin thinks he could do with EIGHTY PERCENT less Batman, which Will thinks is the craziest thing Kevin or anyone has ever said. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The JLE meet their toughest enemy yet: a strict French teacher. Also the hilariously not-that-powerful Injustice League are in the same class! And with that, we close up our discussion of the Giffen/DeMatties era Justice League International. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The JLE beat their foe, and in a very un-Justice League moment -- they do it by actually using their powers in a fight?! Also Kevin and Will discuss how JLE characters all have an intimidating amount of hair. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Who does the city of Paris love more than the JLE? Everyone, but especially the Global Guardians (who? oh, right them). Will and Kevin admire the balance of humor and action again. They also try to name their top 5 favorite artists and instead name 50. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The new chapter of the league splits into pairs to track down who is trying to destroy their credibility. We learn almost nothing about that, but DO get to see everyone's powers and personalities on display! And Kevin talks a lot about Back to the Future for no good reason. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Justice League International was such a hit that it spawned a spin-off: Justice League Europe. Kevin talks about how this title is better than the original and Will ogles Captain Atom's tiny waist. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Special guest episode! We talk to Tze Chun, a writer and the co-founder of comics company TKO Presents, about the stellar classic BATMAN: YEAR ONE. A masterpiece of Frank Miller's hard-boiled detective fiction style, with David Mazzuchelli's sublime art, and Richmond Lewis's transcendant colors - this is one of our favorite comics of all time. Tze writes hard-boiled genre comics himself, is a lifelong Batman fan, and was also a writer/producer on the TV show Gotham, so this story is right up his...
The first year of JLI ends with Maxwell Lord smashing a computer apart while the Justice League fights... no one? Merton leaves mid issue and Will and Kevin can’t decide why we supposed to like Max. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The league starts to uncover the mysterious background of Maxwell Lord, the good guy who seems like a bad guy until we discover... he isn't! Maybe? I lose track. Also we discuss and propse catch phrases of super-teams! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Within the forgettable Millenium event there is born a character both idiotic and unforgettable. G’nort arrives! And the JLI creative team gets to write Superman, Hawkman, Hawkwoman and more Green Lanterns then any story needs. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Rocket Red, who has been a member of the JLI for one whole issue -- is a TRAITOR! Only a crossover as forgettable as "Millenium" could produce a betrayal of such low stakes! Still, the issue is pretty good! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The first almost all-fun-character, no-action JLI issue as the league moves into several embassies around the globe. We've got the first "bwa-ha-ha" laugh, which would become iconic for this series, and the establishment that the Martian Manhunter loves Oreos. Kevin and Will give it an A+. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
The Justice League becomes Justice League International! First Dr. Fate gets rid of the most powerful villain of the series in one panel. Also, Kevin and Will discuss how it's weird that it's interesting when an ensemble comic spends several pages discussing lineup changes. And RIP Richard Sala - unrelated to JLI but a great comics creator that Kevin has admired for years. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcas...
The Justice League team attempts to fight the mystical Gray Man with the help (or hinderance) of the Creeper. Captain Marvel fights J'onn Jonzz, Black Canary reluctantly gets saved, and a casually dressed Hal Jordan visits Maxwell Lord. Then in the end Dr Fate handles the situation. Plus we answer some emails and take too long deciding who should be on our Justice League line up. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple...
The mysterious Grey Man is finally revealed! He's a dude who is a bad guy. Also The Creeper shows up. And Batman and Guy Gardner have their most iconic moment they will ever have. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Booster Gold joins the Justice League. He earns his place by fighting some adults who dress up as playing cards the same way most people get jobs. Plus Maxwell Lord annoys Batman and Blue Beetle unplugs something. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
More nukes, more commies, plus two Star Trek Jokes. JLI is already in fine form, very early in its series run. Kevin and Will love that Mister Miracle was willing to sacrifice his life for the cause, and we also love his flying discs! Kirbytastic! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
It's not a 1980s superhero book without the THREAT OF NUCELAR WAR looming closely overhead. Will and Kevin get into the issue where the Justice League start messing around with nukes. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Issue one features the new Justice League in all of its not-that-much-glory. We've got: alt-right Green Lanterns! An "Oh Gosh" Captain Marvel! A serious-as-heck Batman. And a cigar-chomping entertainment booker-style Oberon! Let the new era begin! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
