The X-Men (most of them) make it to the Savage Land. The Milksops talk about the trope of hidden lands with dinosaurs in them, people who look like they've read Lord of the Rings but haven't, and try to figure out what the deal was with The Petrified Man. Plus lots of email! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 8Ep. 10
Over these issues, Spidey-Otto evolved into full super villain mode. He gets a lair, henchmen and even a giant robot. The Milksops discuss this, as well as some MCU talk and Will's plan to play the Thing in an FF movie as an homage to Fat Bastard from Austin Powers. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jul 14, 2021•47 min•Season 8Ep. 9
John Byrne is on-board and the X-Men stories are getting wilder, weirder and even more fun. We've got circus sideshows, robot nannies and Colossus saying "Lenin's Ghost" a whole lot more. Plus the Milksops read some email, with a very funny example of Moon Knight announcing his name before punching a bad guy out! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 8Ep. 8
Things go from bad to worse for Ghost Peter as Spidey-Otto discovers his existence. We get into the many ways that Dan Slott keeps this story emotionally interesting, with surprising plot twists and oh yeah, the art is great too. Plus a great cover, dare we say iconic, of Peter and Otto fighting inside of Spidey's brain! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jun 30, 2021•58 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Barely 12 issues into their run and the X-men battle with approximiately 100 newish characters and save the universe. We get into: Claremont and Cockrum putting themselves in the issue, the joy of new characters, the speed with which Claremont and team are changing the X-universe, Cockrum's insanely good costume design and the arrival of little rookie artist John Byrne. Also we answer a million emails. Plus: Screw It We're Just Gonna Talk About War Games returns! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @Sc...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 8Ep. 6
More tales of Spidey-Otto! The milksops get into seeing which ways Otto is a more efficient Spidey and the many ways in which he is worse. Some hot takes from Kevin on how modern comics kills people too easily, without good enough story reasons. As usual we disagree with the readers who thought this series glorified or somehow approved of Otto -- it most definitely does not. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podc...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 8Ep. 5
We're not far into Chris Claremont's X-Men run and things are happening FAST: Storm and Jean Grey are best friends, the X-Men have gone on vacation for the second time in a year, the Sentinels are back and Marvel Girl becomes Phoneix? So much! We talk about: old comics' tendency to RUSH everything (on the team for 2 issues: best friends), the weird decisions to bring back lame villains from X-Men 1.0. But also there's the good: romance and passion, terrific writing -- like literal wordsmithing, ...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 4
The new normal: Otto Octavious is Spider-Man. What could have been a single issue is being played out into a multi-year regular series! We start to see the ramifications of Otto as a man determined to be the best Spider-Man ever: robot spies, new tech for defeating baddies, more merciless beatings... and this all sometimes works? The Milksops dive in! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jun 02, 2021•54 min•Season 8Ep. 3
The Milksops introduce a new episode format: Mutants and Mailbag. For half the episode the cover the early Chris Claremont run of Marvel's X-Men (which they are embarrassed to admit they have never read before) and then for the other half they catch up on mail! In this ep, we go over Giant Size X-Men #1 and X-Men #94-97 --- seismic issues that would transform Marvel Comics forever! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: App...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 2
The Milksops get into one of the most-requested series from our fans: 2012's Superior Spider-Man, in which Spidey and Doctor Octopus switch bodies! In this episode we go over the three issues of Amazing Spider-Man where the story started, before it kicked off into its own series for thirty or so issues. Will is won over right away. Kevin talks about how he had to read the first issue a second time immediately after finishing it once. Fun! Scary! Cool! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics ...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 8Ep. 1
The Milksops get their first returning guest: podcast novice Scott Aukerman, creator and host of Comedy Bang-Bang as well as the writer / actor / producer of many other comedy projects. This time around, we discuss Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6, the debut of Spidey's sidekick Spider-Bite. Well, sort of sidekick. I mean, YES sidekick, but also... well, whatever, you'll see. We also talk about Scott's history as a fan of comics and how he got into writing a few himself. -- SHOW INFORMATION T...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 8
While the Milksops have been talking to all these guests, the mail has piled up so we catch up! We cover: superheroes in cabinet positions, the question of whether flying takes effort, and how Will's Stan Lee impression is starting to lean a bit Gilbert Gottfried. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 7
We are joined by Jordan White, who is Marvel Comics Senior Editor that oversees the "X books." Damn, pretty cool, right? Jordan talks about Amazing Spider-Man #334-339, which is the "Return of the Sinister Six" by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen. This arc which came out in 1990 is a long-overdue homage to the first Spider-Man annual that came out in 1963. We talk about Erik's terrific arc, the very fun story, the entertainingly insane reasons that these 6 villains need any help at all, and how ...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 7Ep. 6
We are so legitiamately thrilled to announced our guest for this episode: Chris Gethard. In addition to being an author, comedian, creator of the hit podcast Beautiful/Anonymous and host of the third biggest show on his own twitch network Planet Scum, Chris did improv with the Milksops at the UCB Theater for like 100 years. So we talk forever. Also, by the way, Gethard comes onto the podcast to talk about the ingenious, delightful, thrilling arc: FROG THOR. In the middle of Walt Simonson's legen...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Multi-genre master Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Red Handed, Beserker, Bang and a million more) comes on to wax nostalgic about the late 1980s indie favorite Concrete. We hear what Kindt loves about the thoughtful, lonely, beautiful comics series by Paul Chadwick. We get into why he refuses to re-read it! And plenty of talk about all the amazin comics that came out in the 1980s - A Milksops favorite topic! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail....
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Longtime Marvel (and ToyBiz and Disney) Toy Designer Jesse Falcon joins us. Jesse is both a comics professional and a comedian friend of the Milksops as they all performed together at the UCB Theatre for years. Jesse talks about his lifelong obsession with making comics gear, insanely strange movies and TV shows he somehow knows about it, that Will and Kevin were wrong for years to assume he was the guy who invented Hulk Hands, and that Steve Ditko once gave someone homemade pretzels. This ep is...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Jeff Smith, the creator of the insanely great series Bone, joins the Milksops to geek out about Batman #232 by Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams. And we do mean geek out. We get an awesome panel-by-panel breakdown of Neal Adams' storytelling might by one of our favorite comics artists of all time. A joy. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 2
The Milksops take a break from their season of guests (already? sure) to catch up on email. Turns out our Secret Wars episodes really got you listeners working at the 'ol email machines. We go over: another casting assignment, questions about spoilers, Stan vs Jack vs Steve, and dealing with the challenge that the Secret Wars did not have enough secrets! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spoti...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min
We begin our Season of Guests with a bang: Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort (editor of Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Civil War, Winter Soldier) joins us to talk about why he loved the 1970s mini-arc of the FF vs the Frightful Four (Three). We've got auditions for super-villains, Evil Reed, crazy big fan machines and The Impossible Man watching TV! We also geek out about Tom's excellent blog tombrevoort.com which is a must-read for any Marvel-head! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @Sc...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 7Ep. 1
The Secret Wars comes to an abrupt end, but not before Doom becomes a god, then not, then inbewteen, then... nothing. Also the heros all die and then don't. Except Szaji who really did? And Spidey is pretty chill about realizing that his costume is maybe kinda... alive? But in the end, the Brothers Milksop declare that this is a VERY fun book and deserved its success. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Su...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 6Ep. 7
These issues showcase the super-villain Doctor Doom, and he emerges as the main character of this story. Will loves Secret Wars and respect Jim Shooter's work on it, and Kevin brings him down to earth with some stories about Jim's behind the scenes arrogance or at least tone-deaf office humor. Still, these issues are fun. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 6
A lot of stuff happens in these two issues but maybe the most significant is the arrival of Spider-Man's black costume, which eventually becomes the super-villain Venom. But no one making Secret Wars had any idea that would happen! Isn't that weird? -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 5
More fun issues, though there is a lot of recapping, even for Secret Wars. In one issue we have both Doom and Professor X checking in with everyone, and maybe Reed Richards too? It's hard to keep track. Also: the Lizard shows up, and the Milksops think that maybe Shooter had simply forgotten to include him up until now. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 6Ep. 4
The Milksops talk about one of their favorite moments of the Secret Wars story: the Hulk holds up a mountain. Will is suprised how much he's enjoying this re-read. Kevin is not surprised. We get into more of Shooter's unsubtle dialogue, the Molecule Man's truly unreasonably powerful powers and if the X-Men are being treated unfairly by the story! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Secret Wars is a fun-first, subtle dialogue far far last type of story, and for the Milksops (and the tens of thousands who bought these issues) it works. Other fun things: the heroes are impressed with each other. Doom flips the script on Beyonder (or tries) and oh yeah, the bad guy's name is "Beyonder." -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 2
The Milksops talk about the original Marvel Superhero's Secret Wars. Commercially successful, critically tolerated, and fascinating! We ponder what the arrogant / influential editor-in-chief Jim Shooter must have been like. We remember what it was like reading this story as kids. Kevin gets into some behind-the-scenes stories he knows. And we read 100 pieces of reader email! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podc...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 6Ep. 1
We continue going over Kevin's recommendations as we go over the very cool series Black Hammer, specifically issue #2. A group of superhumans are stuck in a small town, which is... not a small town. In these early issues we are learning the back stories of our main characters, each of which is part fun part mystery! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 17 min
We go over the action movie homage Bang #02, written by Matt Kindt. It stars an action hero that is part Die Hard, part Doc Savage and all fun. It's also a mind trip, as the characters seem to exist in books written by another character from a higher dimension? It's weird. And fun! The Milksops dissect! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min
We begin a short series of Will reading some comics Kevin tells him to. We start with the commercially successful and critically acclaimed IMMORTAL HULK. The mystery, the philosophy, the character, the darkness, the... fun? We get into it. Next epsiode: BANG #2. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Milksops Will and Kevin wrap up their season of discussing Sandman comics. Somehow Will talks for 45 minutes and they're not even going over another issue. Plus email! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItSpidey@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 10
