Hey Kids, Comics! – Two True Freaks

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.

It’s another multi-part epic! Yay. Largely due to the incompetence that has signified this show since its inception, Andrew & Micheal go all free form for the first of 3 episodes looking at the DC Mini Epic 7 SOLDIERS OF VICTORY! Except they read it in the trade which prints [...]

Micheal and Andrew wrap up the Marvel colours trilogy with a look a Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s examination of the first 24 hours of Hulk’s existence – HULK: GRAY. Witness the return of Continuity & Nitpicks – more nitpickery than ever – and journey along as Dr Bruce Banner’s [...]

It’s the D-List Justice League! It’s the Suicide Squad! It’s a All-New Flash! And witness the first appearance of WONDER WOMAN! Yes, LEGENDS shows us how crossovers were done in the 1980’s. Turns out – not so different. LEGENDS 1-6, read, loved and loathed with the same fervor as FOREVER [...]

In the first of a 2 part look at huge crossover events, then and now, Micheal and Andrew first cast their eyes over FOREVER EVIL and the Justice League issues that tie in. Does it work as a stand alone story? Does somebody lose a limb? Has the EVENT reached [...]

It’s the conclusion of HUSH as Micheal and Andrew examine the final 6 issues of the story. With the prime suspect killed of, will the identity be a satisfying reveal? Or will it not really deserve the honoured status the story seems to have achieved? Well, I think you can [...]

Micheal & Andrew decide to pay tribute to the Dark Knight’s 75th by doing something they would have done anyway – yes, we’re a BATMAN podcast again! JIM LEE & JEPH LOEB’s “seminal” work HUSH is lovingly examined in part 1 of a 2 part special. Is it any good? [...]

Micheal and Andrew follow vampire detectives, and explore the murky swamps of Louisiana. There they encounter two generic Swamp Men-Thing’s, as Those 70’s Shows takes them into the horror comics of the decade.

It’s time to get all supernatural and Sci-Fi on part 6 of Those 70’s Shows as Micheal and Andrew look at the wild and wacky world of Adam Strange in STRANGE TALES #181, experience the land of the future in KAMANDI – THE LAST BOY ON EARTH #1 and finally [...]

It’s tantrums and tiara’s as 70’s icon LUKE CAGE takes on DR DOOM over the matter of $200. Don’t get in Cage’s way when he’s owed bread, you dig? Yes, HERO FOR HIRE #9 is first up before matters get altogether more serious for the duo of Green Lantern and [...]

Some Seventies stories need no introduction, no hyperbole, no hard sell. Micheal & Andrew ask – where were you The Night Gwen Stacy Died?

Micheal & Andrew’s look at Seventies classics (!) continues with a look at Marvel’ leading ladies. First up, STAN LEE returned to comics to script the debut of THE SAVAGE SHE-HULK, then GERRY CONWAY introduces the world to MS MARVEL. Finally, RED SONJA shows CONAN how it’s done in CONAN [...]

Get down with your funky selves and vibe on the Hey Kids, Comics experience as the 1970‘s roll on. After the feedback frenzy caused by the Transformers, Andrew & Micheal once again enjoy a selection of choice Bronze Age cuts – step into the tortured mind of a writer in [...]

It’s Here!!! Andrew & Micheal follow up the sensational sixties retrospective with a trip into the polyester clad, 1970’s. First up, it’s the first appearance of those world-conquering mutants, the all-new X-MEN who go GIANT SIZE for their inaugural adventure. Then DC goes sci-fi as Jack KING Kirby jumps ship [...]