Bros Foes and Heroes

Christopher Chance is running out of time and the suspects are closing in. In Part 3 of our deep dive into The Human Target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood, things get darker, weirder, and far more personal. With only days left to live, Chance continues his noir-soaked investigation into who poisoned him…and every lead still points back to the Justice League International. This episode covers issue...

Zach and Mike continue their comic book holiday week by cracking open the first-ever Marvel Holiday Special (1991)! This issue is packed with short Christmas tales featuring your favorite heroes, but the bros dive deep into the strangest and most surprising stories. What's inside this holiday special: The X-Men’s Naughty List: The team (Nightcrawler, Colossus, Banshee, and Storm) attempts to celeb...

Get festive with Zach and Mike on Bro's Foes and Heroes as they kick off a week of Christmas-themed comic book stories! In this episode, the bros unearth a bizarre and definitive Santa origin story from a 1953 Dell comic, Santa Claus Funnies . What's inside this holiday special: The Origin of Clumsy Claus: Hear about the man who was initially known as "Clumsy Claus" for his lack of skill, who gets...

In Part 2 of our deep dive into Tom King & Greg Smallwood’s The Human Target , Zach and Mike break down Issues 4-6. Christopher Chance is running out of days, everyone in the JLI suddenly looks suspicious, and somehow Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, Ice, and Martian Manhunter all end up making things even messier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Poli...

Zach and Mike dive into the first three issues of Tom King & Greg Smallwood’s The Human Target, where Christopher Chance is poisoned while impersonating Lex Luthor and has just 12 days left to live. The JLI becomes a lineup of suspects as Ice, Guy Gardner, Booster Gold, and more all enter the picture in a stylish noir mystery. One of DC’s sharpest, funniest, and most beautiful books and we bre...

A chaotic Thanksgiving special where Zach and Mike break down two of the strangest Golden Age holiday comics ever made — from a turkey POV execution story to a giant bird terrorizing a family. Come hide from your relatives and laugh with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19....

Zach and Mike uncover the entire bizarre history of The Tumbler. A circus acrobat turned Golden Age “hero” who lasted two issues and left behind nothing but confusion. From mobsters to bridge dives to disappearing costumes, this is peak chaotic Golden Age energy. A perfect Thanksgiving-week hangout with laughs, comics weirdness, and holiday nonsense. #goldenagecomics #comicbookpodcast #comics #com...

Zach and Mike break down Pulp by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips. A sharp, emotional noir tale about an aging outlaw-turned-writer facing Nazis, mortality, and one last chance to do the right thing. It’s part Western, part crime thriller, part real American history… and one of the best graphic novels of the last decade. #comicbooks #comics #edbrubaker #seanphillips #graphicnovels #comicbookpodcast...

This week, we continue our series of creators we are thankful for as Zach and Mike dive into the Absolute Batman Annual #1, featuring a powerful new story written and illustrated by Daniel Warren Johnson (Do a Powerbomb, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth). Zach breaks down why Johnson’s gritty, kinetic art and storytelling make this one of the most striking Batman tales in years. A raw, violent, and deeply...

In this week’s episode, Zach and Mike dive deep into one of the most emotional and beautifully crafted stories in Fantastic Four history, “This Man, This Monster” from issue 51 (1966), written by Stan Lee with art by Jack Kirby. Zach kicks off a month of gratitude by focusing on creators he’s thankful for, starting with The King himself, Jack Kirby. Together, the guys explore how this story captur...

In this special episode, Zach and Mike sit down with comic book writer T.S. Luther to talk about his upcoming series The Digger. a four-issue pulp thriller about what might happen if Indiana Jones hunted Short Round. T.S. opens up about walking away from a soul-crushing corporate job to chase his dream of writing comics, how collaboration with artist Sam Gudilin turned one wild pitch into a full s...

Casper isn’t so friendly this time. For our Halloween special, Zach and Mike dig up a 1954 Harvey Comics story where Casper takes mean pills, torments his ghost roommates, and possibly commits light cartoon manslaughter. From Doctor Gooseflesh to ghost tar & feathers, this is one of the strangest, funniest Golden Age comics we’ve ever covered. Plus: Baby Huey’s diaper issues, Hot Stuff’s possi...

We continue with our spooky season coverage by taking a look at Superman Issue 344 from February of 1980. What happens when Superman has to battle not one but two famous monsters? Sit down, kick your feet up, and let Zach and Mike tell you all out this zany adventure! Superman Issue 344 (DC Comics, 1980) "The Monsters Among Us!" Writer(s) -Paul Levitz & Len Wein Penciler - Curt Swan Inker - Fr...

The Justice League can handle aliens, monsters, and gods… but what about magic? This week, Zach and Mike dive into the spooky side of DC Comics with Justice League Dark (Vol. 1), the New 52 series that brought together Constantine, Zatanna, Deadman, and more to fight threats too weird for Superman and Batman to handle. Expect chaos, confusion, Constantine comparisons, and Mike’s eternal hatred for...

Halloween season hits Bros, Foes & Heroes as Zach and Mike dive into some of the wildest horror comics ever printed and somehow manage to record the whole thing shoulder-to-shoulder in Mike’s office. This episode covers three gloriously strange horror anthology stories: A 1954 couple who get tired of waiting for dinner… and start eating themselves (Weird Mysteries Issue 9) A world of microscop...

This week, World’s Finest Wednesday gets spooky as Zach and Mike cover the first-ever issue of Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane and the completely unhinged story “The Witch of Metropolis.” When Lois breaks a mirror in front of a portrait of “Mad Molly,” she’s cursed to turn into a witch every night for seven years. Cue flying brooms, hexed bullets, jealous scoops, and Superman secretly making all...

Spooky Season begins! This week, Zach and Mike dive into one of Marvel’s strangest horror stories, "Hellcow!" from Giant-Size Man-Thing Issue 5 (1975, Marvel Comics). Written by Steve Gerber with art by Frank Brunner, this bizarre tale follows Howard as he faces off against a 300-year-old vampire cow named Bessie… a creature created when Dracula got thirsty and no humans would let him in. Along th...

It's the moment you've all been waiting to experience. Mike and Zach rank the Robins as the culmination of our Red Hot Rockin' Robin Summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Zach and Mike close out Rockin’ Robin Summer with the powerful conclusion to Juni Ba’s The Boy Wonder. a mythic, emotional story that redefines Damian Wayne’s place in the Bat-Family. This week covers issues four and five, following Damian’s brutal showdown with Ra’s al Ghul, his fractured bond with Talia, and a descent into the underworld that forces him to face the ghosts of his past...literally...

This week, Zach and Mike dive into The Boy Wonder by Juni Ba. A stunning, storybook-style retelling of Damian Wayne’s journey as Robin. This modern fable explores what Damian can learn from the Robin's before him and his battle overcoming his own demons. The guys break down the art, the themes, and the family dynamics that make this book a modern classic — all while keeping the laughs coming. #bat...

Batman is still reeling from Jason Todd’s death and Two-Face has him right where he wants him. But a new kid named Tim Drake refuses to let the Dark Knight spiral any further. In this episode, Zach and Mike cover the final chapters of A Lonely Place of Dying (New Titans Issue 61 & Batman Issue 442). Nightwing and Batman reluctantly reunite, Two-Face sets one last deadly trap, and Tim steps int...

The fallout from A Death in the Family continues as Batman spirals without a partner—until a new kid named Tim Drake steps in. In this episode, Zach and Mike cover Batman Issues 440 and 441 as well as New Titans Issue 60 (1989), In Part One of our look at A Lonely Place of Dying. We dive into Batman’s grief over Jason Todd, Nightwing’s return, Two-Face flipping out (literally), and Tim Drake’s sho...

This World’s Finest Wednesday takes us back to More Fun Comics Issue 73 (1941), the very first appearance of Green Arrow and Speedy. In The Case of the Namesake Murders, Oliver Queen and Roy Harper face off against a killer targeting members of a history club—murdering them the same way their famous namesakes died. Abraham Lincoln, Achilles, Socrates… nobody’s safe. There are electrified rugs, a c...

Green Arrow is back from the dead. We dive into Kevin Smith’s Green Arrow: Quiver, the story that resurrected Oliver Queen and redefined him for the modern era. From Hal Jordan’s help to Mia Dearden’s debut, plus some of the strangest supernatural twists in Star City—you don’t want to miss this one. Subscribe for more comic deep dives, both legendary and ridiculous. #greenarrow #oliverqueen #kevin...

This week’s World’s Finest Wednesday takes us back to 1955 with one of the strangest Batman stories ever told: “Batman, Junior and Robin, Senior” from Detective Comics Issue 218 (DC Comics). When a mad scientist’s “youth and age gas” turns Batman into a reckless kid and Robin into the responsible adult, Gotham gets the Reverse Dynamic Duo—and chaos ensues. Zach and Mike break down the story panel...