Hey Kids, Comics!

In another All-Reader-Request episode, Micheal and Andrew discuss another project they know nothing about. People seem to want us to talk about things of which we have no knowledge – weird. Anyway, this week it’s the turn of the Robots In Disguise, THE TRANSFORMERS, specifically the UK comics. What will [...]

In 1984, Marvel UK embarked upon a unique experiment. An all-new, completely original, UK produced comic strip. This adventure, by Micheal Collins and Barry Kitson, has never been reprinted and seems to have been all but forgotten by all but the most devoted Spider-Man fan. Fortunately Andrew and Micheal are [...]

Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker wraps up with a rather long discussion on the recent multi-part EPIC – DEATH OF THE FAMILY! This much-hyped and extensive storyline, crossing over into pretty much any book with with a “Bat” in the title (and a few that didn’t) was the first large scale [...]

It’s DREADFUL BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOKER! Part IV! It has talking. And conversations about comic books. Specifically THE JOKER, who is 74 this year. Even more specifically, the chat is about THE BATMAN ADVENTURES #28, BATMAN #663 and DETECTIVE COMICS #826.

Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker continues by looking at – Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker from Batman #321. We never said we WEREN’T predictable. Also, there’s a look at BATMAN #353 where The Joker wishes to make his face a true landmark and Batman #366 where The Joker Is Wild, but not [...]

Emails are as random as ever but not as random as when Andrew and Micheal’s discussion on a classic Joker story and if the artist should have been allowed to tinker with it for reprint editions leads to Andrew revealing his true thoughts on the Star Wars special editions. But [...]

Are Stiletto and Discuss the renegade versions of 80’s action TV show Hardcastle & McCormick? Is Stiletto actually a good name for a villain or does it conjure up images of drunken Essex girls stumbling out of the pub? The jury is still out but after all that DREADFUL BIRTHDAY, [...]

The opening conversations about the current Spider-Man story arc leads to e-mails which question the ages of the different comics companies and how Andrew classifies the Marvel Golden, Silver and Bronze ages which bares no resemblance to how anybody else does it. Then, another in the inexplicably popular series of [...]

Micheal and Andrew jump on the Zombie bandwagon, late, to take a look at a career defining moment for creators Robert ‘That Zombie guy’ Kirkman and Sean “Noir” Phillips as well as providing Marvel with an immediate hit and a constant money well to keep returning to – MARVEL ZOMBIES! [...]

This month, Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell serve up a JUMBO-SIZED helping of OLD SCHOOL STAR TREK! This month The Freaks answer some e-mails, reminisce about model kits past and go over some SCHWAG! THEN- The Freaks butt heads with their GREATEST FOE – SPACE HITLER! It’s PATTERNS OF FORCE, [...]

8.00 BRADLEY, P.I. – Drama STEREO “Trail Of The Catwoman” When Bradley is hired by the Mayor of Gotham City to locate notorious jewel thief, The Catwoman, his investigations take him deeper and deeper into danger. How can he hope to track down a woman who is already dead and [...]

It’s the annual “natter about what we got for Christmas” episode of Hey Kids, Comics and Andrew & Micheal talk about their geeky gifts. Along the way there are e-mails a-plenty from the BEST listeners in the internet radio Universe and tangents pertaining to DC’s presentation of their graphic novels, [...]

Christmas 2013 brings Santa's Little Helper's, Andrew & Micheal, in to look at the 2 different kinds of Christmas stories - the ones set at Christmas and the ones that are true blue, sentimental, Christmas stories. First up, in a change from last week's advertised issue, POWER MAN & IRON [...]

The Silver Age Celebration season comes to a close with the men in red and blue battling it out for supremacy. There’s all to play for in this game of two halves and at the end of the day it’s the team with the highest score that will win. From [...]

In today’s episode, Micheal & Andrew completely derail the email segment of the show by asking who in the superheroic pantheon could go up against GODZILLA and survive. Yes, it’s another “who would win in a fight between…?” conversation. Then, it’s a quick trip down the Time Vortex to look [...]

Micheal & Andrew’s purely arbitrary and highly selective look at the Silver Age of Comics (comics published between 1956 and 1970) continues when they pitch the Green Lantern of Earth Vs The God Of Thunder. In two stone cold gems from the era, Green Lantern receives a SUMMONS FROM SPACE [...]

Join Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell for STAR WARS MONTHLY MONDAY 58, a podcast dedicated to their LOVE OF STAR WARS COMICS! This month features NO Star Wars comics!! What is going on! Well, since Indiana Jones has been neglected the last few months, the Freaks have decided to offer [...]

Come one, come all as Micheal & Andrew embark upon an epic making, 4 part quest to investigate The Silver Age of Comics! Was it really as daft as everybody says it was? Was it full of Super-Dickery? Or was there actually some pretty deep and haunting tales in this [...]

Micheal & Andrew celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who with a very special show that celebrates his various different comics adventures. Marvel at the early years when it looked like The Doctor had wandered into a 2000ad strip by mistake, take a gander through one of the finest magazines [...]

Micheal and Andrew take a walk on the wild side as Garth Ennis takes Nick Fury through hell and back, via Cuba, Vietnam and Nicaragua. It’s Ennis so it’ll be OTT but be warned! The themes and subject matter of these comics are adult orientated and whilst we do our [...]

In 1942 a crack commando unit was dispatched to the UK to help the Allies in the battle against the Axis powers. Together these men became the finest fighting force ever seen in that man’s war. If you have a mission, if that mission is impossible and if you can [...]

It’s episode 150!! So, in the usual way Andrew & Micheal spend anniversary episodes, they did no work! So come and spend an hour and a half with them as they just talk! About comics. Collecting, buying and the first comic shops they ever visited. Then, they dig deep into [...]

A short email starts off the show. Then Professor Alan e-mails in and it stops being short! After that, Micheal & Andrew continue to delve into the Bat-Catalogue to come up with their all-time favourite Batman stories in this EPIC LENGTH!!! episode. By which I mean Andrew DOESN’T SHUT UP [...]

Hi! Chris Honeywell here! I could not make this episode and Paul Spataro and Dr. Bill Robinson were similarly indisposed, so what you lucky dogs get is 2 HOURS of PURE, UNADULTERATED comic talk between good buddies! Oh, sure, there’s no Get Chris To Read A Superhero Comic, but trust [...]

It’s time for another exciting episode of the comics show with an accent as Micheal & Andrew eschew the usual format for the show and take a look at their all-time favourite Batman stories. It’s an eclectic list and not a BEST EVER!!! rather a collection of Batman stories that [...]