Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    What if all the various radioactive spiders, gamma bomb detonations, and cosmic ray exposures in the origins of Marvel’s superheroes were not...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Or ... Knightfall - Part Three ) Bruce Wayne is back in Gotham, but before he can challenge his successor, Azrael, for the mantle of the Batman, he’s...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Or ... Knightfall - Part Two ) There’s a new Batman in town, and his name is Jean-Paul Valley, a.k.a. Azrael. While Bruce Wayne is recuperating from...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Or ... Knightfall - Part One ) Now that we’ve discussed Superman’s literal death and rebirth, we come to Batman’s symbolic resurrection in the Iron...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Will the real Superman please stand up? The Man of Tomorrow (aka the Cyborg Superman), the Last Son of Krypton (aka the Eradicator), the Metropolis...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In the early 90s, DC Comics, facing a changing comics market with the rise of Image Comics and the popularization of the grim n’ gritty antihero,...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In which Christine Spar and Brian Li Sung inherit the mantle of Grendel. Last time we covered Matt Wagner’s antihero Grendel, we did a chronological...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In what promises to be the snappiest episode of the podcast to date, we do a deep dive into the early years of Mike Allred’s signature creation,...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Startup superhero universes were a dime a dozen in the Iron Age, but Comics’ Greatest World was 16 for 16 Each issue of this weekly miniseries...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    It’s April Fool’s Day and the Joker has led an inmate revolt of Arkham Asylum In 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman was the year’s hottest movie, and fans...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    We continue our way through Jeff Smith’s all-ages comedic fantasy epic, Bone. Picking up where the first volume, Out from Boneville, left off, the...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s 1997 launch Thunderbolts had a killer high concept: what if a band of supervillains posed as heroes to con the public...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Revisit 17th century Japan with us and see what everyone’s favorite rabbit ronin gets up to next The second Dark Horse omnibus includes Grasscutter,...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    We revisit George Pérez’s redefinition of Wonder Woman with the second major arc, 1987’s Challenge of the Gods. In these pages, you’ll get to know...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Worlds will live Worlds will die The skies will turn red, and cowboys and cavemen will fight side by side Written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    It was 40 years ago this month that the calendar ticked over to 1986, often heralded as one of the high points of the comic book industry perhaps...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    The Iron Age boys reflect on another year of reading classic comics and three years since launching the podcast by answering YOUR questions (Assuming...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Jim and Justin are know-it-all comics guys normally, but in this episode they’ll enter unfamiliar territory for them: the 22nd century milieu of...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    When Bryan Hitch took over as artist on WildStorm’s low-selling StormWatch title, writer Warren Ellis was inspired to ditch most of the characters...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    A listener asked us some time ago if we’d consider reading some Moon Knight; instead, we read a lot of Moon Knight. We used Moon Knight Epic...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Hey, remember when they used to make official comics adaptations of major motion pictures? Hellboy auteur Mike Mignola drew one for the 1992 film...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Ghost Rider was something of an also-ran character in the 70s and 80s, so when editor-turned-writer Howard Mackie was invited to pitch a revival in...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    The Halloween season is upon us again, so we’re revisiting our favorite horror hero, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, in the next batch of adventures...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Following the triumph of Marvels and from the ashes of a proposed sequel that fell apart, Kurt Busiek launched Astro City with Brent Anderson on...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONCLUDES Where were you when the lights went out? Your hosts were reading DC’s 1996 crossover, The Final Night, in...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES We’ve discussed tie-ins to DC’s 1994 continuity-altering crossover Zero Hour on a couple occasions so far, but...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES Comic book annuals are a remnant of the newsstand distribution era, when Marvel and DC tried to get some extra...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In the wake of Tim Burton’s 1989 version of Batman, Hollywood tried to recapture its blockbuster success by fast-tracking a number of movies...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES Marvel’s X-titles are practically a superhero universe unto themselves, and the tradition of regular...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    The Iron Age boys share a few personal reflections about former Marvel editor-in-chief, writer, and all-around controversial comics industry figure...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR CONTINUES Alien attacks on Earth are an almost routine occurrence in the DC Universe, but until 1988’s Invasion , we’d...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    SUMMER CROSSOVER SPECTACULAR BEGINS Love ’em or hate ’em, big event comics were a defining feature of the Iron Age, cramming a whole universe of...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Concluding (for now) our look at the saga of Kyle Rayner, the last of the Green Lantern Corps (for the 90s, at least). Just when Kyle finally thinks...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Many artists look back on the work they did at age nineteen and cringe, but Matt Wagner keeps returning to Grendel, expanding and refining his...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In our continuing series on the early years of Kyle Rayner, our hero squares off against Fatality, a spacefaring warrior woman who wants to crush the...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Some people think Mike Hodges’ 1980 Flash Gordon movie is cheesy trash and hate it; others think it’s over-the-top hilarious and enjoy it. But some...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    When Marvel let their license to produce Star Wars comics lapse in 1986, Return of the Jedi was three years in the rear-view mirror and it seemed...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    It looks like Kyle Rayner and Donna Troy have broken up. In an effort to avoid both the consequences of his own self-sabotage and improve his...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Take The Dirty Dozen, populate with supervillains and obscure DC characters, and plug them into Mission: Impossible-style plots. This is the recipe...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In our continuing series on the Iron Age Green Lantern, twentysomething 90s dude Kyle Rayner gets a new girlfriend (Donna Troy, formerly known as...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Still bummed that Kraven the Hunter’s solo film career failed to launch? We ease the pain with a look at the celebrated 1987 storyline by J.M....

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Beginning an in-depth look at the life and times of Kyle Rayner, a new Green Lantern for a new era It’s 1994, sales on the Green Lantern comic are...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    When was the last time you actually sat down to watch Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin? Jim had never seen it, and Justin hadn’t seen it for years...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    It’s the 50th regular episode of the podcast, and to celebrate, we’re finally doing a deep dive on a comic that helped ushered in the Iron Age and...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    It’s the final lap of our epic look at every issue of this legendary run With Linda Park erased from history and Wally West merged with the Speed...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    When Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti were handed creative control over some of Marvel’s B- and C-list characters in 1998, they offered the job of...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Who is Cobalt Blue? Well, we’ll tell you, but you might not like the answer In 1997, Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn took a 12-issue vacation from the...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In 1988’s Amazing Spider-Man #300, Venom debuted as a ruthless, psychotic stalker and quickly became Spidey’s top villain. Within five years, he was...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    Conspicuous by their absence throughout most of this run, the villains of the Rogues Gallery return to menace the Flash. But Mark Waid (and newly...

Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon    In a Patreon-exclusive episode available now, we discuss Bernie Wrightson’s adaptation of the EC Comics-inspired horror anthology movie Creepshow,...