Darkseid's Couch

This time on the Couch: After an unexpected hiatus, Mike, James, and Shée try to remember how to do a podcast by discussing 1992's X-Force no. 11! In the decade of X-cess this may just have been ground zero for the most X-treme trends of the time: It's all tree trunk thighs and scratchy faces as Cable harasses a bunch of poor sewer-dwellers and Deadpool punches a woman in the face for like eight c...

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée travel back to the uncomfortably segregated 1950s with The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog no. 10! Young Danny Dennis is a teenage dunderhead who has only managed to stay alive this long because of his secret weapon: An insane pet dog with a firm grasp of grammar, an encyclopedic knowledge of physics, and no sense of self-preservation. From springing...

This time on the Couch: It's a fitting send-off for C-lister Darkhawk as Mike, James, and Shee read 1995's Darkhawk no. 50! It's the Hawk's final issue, but it seems nobody told him because he's still got way too much shit left to do. Between stopping an alien invasion, getting rid of Overhawk (ugh), getting his dad off the hook for trumped up murder charges, saving his brothers from getting shot...

This time on the Couch: It's three white people teaching the world about racial tolerance when Mike, James, and Shée lightly tread through Superboy no. 216, starring the Legion of Super-Heroes! It's a thousand years in the future and bigotry still exists in the form of Black Panther ripoff Tyroc hating on whitey (and greeny, in the case of Brainiac 5) for failing to help his people. Is what follow...

This time on the Couch: Come along with Mike and James on a baffling and under-researched space adventure in 1990's Guardians of the Galaxy no. 1! Didn't see the latest GotG movie? Don't worry, because neither did the hosts of a comic book podcast that's doing an episode about them and it didn't hurt their enjoyment/tolerance. Listen in as all of your favorite obscure nobodies trash a dog planet f...

This time on the Couch: The guys try to wrap their heads around 1975's Warlock no. 9, but falter when Shee's explanations involve pop culture references Mike is oblivious to. In the book, Adam Warlock confronts his own future self, the villainous Magus, who turned evil after being imprisoned in a giant rack of ribs floating in space, then emerged with a giant perm and a truckload of finger-wagglin...

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée reach into the deepest, most patchouli-scented recesses of hippiedom and fish out 1968's Brother Power the Geek no. 1. The incense and peppermint crowd briefly get their own superhero when lightning strikes a mannequin, but he quickly realizes that being an inanimate lump of fabric is only slightly worse than being a shiftless hippie. It's a concept so...

This time on the Couch: Mike and James (with special guest Shee) complete their Wonderful (?) exploration of Wonder Woman's controversial I-Ching era with 1970's issue no. 189! The dawn of the disco era meant the time for civil progress was over, so Diana and new sidekick Patrick waste no time celebrating the return to offensive stereotypes by literally painting their faces yellow and infiltrating...

This time on the Couch: Mike and James are joined by their own resident Wonder Woman Shée for the first of two Amazomazing episodes! In Wonder Woman no. 179, Steve Trevor's blind patriotism leads to Diana giving up her powers and agreeing to stay stranded in man's bullshit world until the sun explodes or whatever. Luckily, she's aided by I-Ching, a blind Chinese martial arts wizard who may or may...