Planes, Trains and Comic Books

We continue our celebration of Black History month as we take our first dive into the Milestone universe, with Dwayne McDuffies' Static Shock. Virgil Hawkins' life changed dramatically when a mutagenic gas accidentally gave him super human abilities, Virgil was reborn as Static, the electrically powered teen super-hero. 

Love is in the air, weird air... Join us as we discuss the hilariously terrible social expectations of romance, from bygone comic book eras, in Weird Love Vol. 1.

We celebrate the second week of Black History month with the Dwayne McDuffie story, Batman: Blink. A serial killer is loose in Gotham. He has no pattern, and he leaves no clues for the police or Batman to follow. The only certainty is that he will strike again!  

In celebration of Black History month we discuss, The true story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion. He is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement. 'Nuff said.

Matt and John discuss the subtle arts of drinking, thieving, and killing from the master himself in this weeks episode, Conan: God in the Bowl. A locked-room murder mystery explodes in horror and death, as Conan comes face-to-face with the inhuman machinations of the dread sorcerer Thoth-amon.

Join Matt and John as they discuss the wonderfully powerful series, Motor Girl. War veteran Samantha's quiet life in the Nevada desert is turned upside down when a UFO crashes into her junkyard. Now with the assistance of her gorilla companion Mike, Sam tries to protect the little visitors from a military contractor.

What if Superman's ship landed 30 minutes late? Join Matt and John as they discuss the dystopian world where superman is a card carrying communist and Lex Luthor is Americas' only hope to defeat the pinko bastard, in Superman: Red Son.  

Matt and John travel back into the dystopian future of 2013, where Sentinels stalk the Earth, and the X-Men are humanity's only hope...until they die!... and a whole lot of set up issues for Kitty Pryde. 

"If terminator and Homeward Bound had a baby," is Matt's pitch for this comic. This week Matt and John are thrilled by the nonstop action, and get "All the Feels" while reading We3. Three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government, escape their research lab and search for "home," all while attempting to ward off the shadowy agency that created them.

In celebration of the holidays, Matt and John visit three comic one shots of Christmas pasts. In these One Shots, Ash protects S-mart from some Deadites in, Army Of Darkness: Ash's Christmas Horror, Frank Castle hands out lumps of lead to those on his Naughty list in, Punisher: X-Mas Special, and Hellboy brings some holiday beatings to an old evil in, Hellboy: A Christmas Underground. 

Matt and John go back in time and across the pond to learn some 80's British slang, fight demon yuppies, and understand what true friendship means, when they read about John Constantine in Hellblazer: Original Sins.  An apathetic, somewhat amoral occultist, John Constantine always manages to come out on top through a combo of luck, trickery and genuine magical skill. In this seminal Vertigo series...

H.H. Holmes is building a murder house in the graphic novel, "A Treasury of Victorian Murder: The Beast of Chicago." Matt and John try to hide their fear, as they break down the life and times of one of the most F'ed up serial killers in American history.

Torso is half fiction, half true crime and half dialogue balloons. Based on true events that occurred in Cleveland in 1935, dismembered body parts have started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Their headless torsos have left no clues to their identity or the reason for death. Not to worry, Matt Hansen, John Johnson and Eliot Ness are on the case. 

In the inaugural episode of Planes, Trains and Comic Books, Matt re-reads and John reads for the first time, the "Best" Batman Comic of the early 2000's, Batman: Hush, by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee.