Comics!

There’s a nostalgia filled glow to the first comic today as Micheal and Andrew take a look at some intercompany crossovers. First up, in the green corner, weighing in at an astonishing 500lb, Earth’s Mightiest Mortal, The Incredible Hulk! Then, in the red corner, weighing in at 225lb, The Man [...]

Celebrate the New Year in fine style as Andrew & Micheal discuss their Christmas gifts, read some feedback and talk about stuff in their usual, rambling style. So, if you’re nursing a hangover, brew up a pot of damn fine coffee and settle into your comfy chair of choice and [...]

It cannot have escaped your notice that it is Christmas. How do we know? Because everybody is doing Christmas episodes! And we are no exception except ours is a little darker than most. Micheal takes the reins to deliver a heapin’ helpin’ dose of Happy by Morrison and Robertson and [...]

Real life intrudes at Hey Kids Towers, forcing Andrew and Micheal to read emails instead of comics. That said, there’s still some fun to be had, largely at the expense of Croaky McCroakenstein who decides to host the show with Micheal this week, along with numerous tangential discussions, some of [...]

What can we say about the final episode of our Zero Year coverage? If you’ve only heard the first parts, you haven’t heard the best parts? This Time, It’s War? In podcasting, nobody can hear you scream? Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Plug In Your MP3 Player? [...]

It’s part 2 of the Zero Year event. With Dr Death under the thrall of the Riddler, has Batman been thwarted at every turn? Andrew & Micheal continue to read the Bat-Event of the year as the 75th birthday celebrations of the character come to a close.

Casting aside the sacred scrolls that was Frank Miller’s work, SCOTT SNYDER and GREG CAPULLO take the Batman back to the beginning, yet again, for another all-new take on Bruce Wayne’s origins. Micheal & Andrew take a look at the first act, Batman #21-24, the opening chapter of ZERO YEAR.

It’s 1989! Yay! After discussing the worthiness of Coy & Vance Duke, (don’t blame us, blame an email), Micheal & Andrew delve into whatever was happening in comics in 1989. Superman goes into exile in Superman #28, Batman engages in street racing to pump up the Wayne Family fortune in [...]

Adventures Of Superman #424. Detective Comics #573. Amazing Spider-Man #290. Uncanny X-Men #225. What do all these comics have in common? They were all retroactively removed from continuity EXCEPT X-Men #225 which was itself part of a ret-con! Oh, and they were published in 1987. Which is why Andrew and [...]

Donning their life preservers, Andrew and Micheal stop by 1985 to discuss why the name ‘Brad’ is so maligned and other topics including Superman #414, Batman #386, Amazing Spider-Man #263 and Uncanny X-Men #200. An episode that features a Crisis On Infinite Earths tie-in, the introduction of a new villain, [...]

The 1980’s retrospective marches on with more of comics finest including Superman and Superboy switching minds in Superman #380, Batman facing a mandroid Dick in Batman #356, an enraged Vulture out for revenge in Amazing Spider-Man #240 and Professor X being a jerk in Uncanny X-Men #168.

It’s the start of an all-new era when Hey Kids, Comics is rebooted and set in the 1980’s! What is the future that is now the past, like? Well, it’s not really that different to be honest, Micheal & Andrew still witter on about comics. This week, it’s all about [...]

Nearly 4 years ago, inspired by a podcast called “Get Off Your Ass & Make A Podcast”, 2 blithering idiots instead chose to sit on their ass and make a podcast and turned talking bollocks into an art form. Here is the 200th episode of that podcast.

It’s the 199th episode and to celebrate Micheal and Andrew do what they always do – talk about comics. Tangentially still hanging around the 90’s, they read the 4 part Marvel Vs DC crossover and argue a lot over the battles within. So, clear away 100 minutes and get into [...]

Tangential questions of how former Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo ended up on an island of cannibals aside, Micheal & Andrew take a trip to the seedier side of espionage. Meet VELVET TEMPLETON, she used to be a spy. Yes, one of Image Comics finest new books is poured over, largely [...]

It’s the fifth and final look at comics published in the 90’s with a round up of some IMAGE launch books. Are YOUNGBLOOD #1, WILDCATS #1 and SPAWN #1 much better efforts than what McFarlane, Lee and Liefeld were doing at Marvel? Do they use their creative freedom to expand [...]

Acting as a counterpoint to the big guns and big boobs comics of IMAGE, DC launches VERTIGO, for Mature Readers. As far away from Mature as you can get, Andrew and Micheal giggle through the depraved acts of PREACHER:BLOOD & WHISKEY, muse philosophically over the beard stroking antics of A [...]

Choking to death is the least of Andrew & Micheal’s problems today as the 90’s celebration looks at sartorial style. Spider-Man switches out his natty threads for an Iron Man inspired makeover in WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #100, Superman cosplays as Brian Boitano in SUPERMAN #123, and Sue Richards decides to [...]

It’s all about the legacy this week, as Mike and Andrew pull deep from the well of 1990’s comics to reveal an insidious plot to replace all our heroes with younger, more relatable, more marketable heroes. Kyle Raynor replaces Hal Jordan in Green Lantern #51, Bart Allen arrive from the [...]

Given that Micheal Bailey was doing nothing with it, we decided to steal his idea – hurrumph, pay homage, by devoting a number of weeks to that most maligned of decades – the 1990’s. Kicking off with three of the most successful comics ever published, the Million Selling Spider-Man #1 [...]

It’s the end of the clone road as Micheal and Andrew look at the final chapters of the original Clone Saga, Amazing Spider-Man 147-150. However, this was NOT the end and so, in an effort to make sense of it all, they even read PETER PARKER THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #25-31 [...]

It’s more clone madness in the 2nd chapter of Andrew & Micheal’s return to the 70’s Clone Saga. See Mr Peter Parker go all the way to France to meet Parisian Super Villain – CYCLONE! Witness the arrival of Gwen Stacy, the Dolly The Sheep of the Marvel Universe. Gape [...]

In an epilogue to Those 70’s Show’s, Micheal & Andrew follow up on the death of Gwen Stacy with a look at the 1970’s original Clone storyline. Before it was a ‘Saga’, it was a simple editorial edict – Bring Back Gwen. Amazing Spider-Man #139 – 142 are the beginning [...]

The finale of the interlocked mini series series in which Andrew & Micheal look at the final issues and the wrap it all up special.

Step aboard the Hey Kids Time Travel Express as Andrew and Micheal leap around the various different stories and timelines of the SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY in part 2 of a three part look at the mind-bending mini series.