Married...with Content

You've received a new transmission from the Rod Pod! Anthony Brucale from Transformers University joins Jon and Maggie for a deep dive into the 2012 MTMTE Annual!

Jon and Maggie talk about  Foundation by Isaac Asimov,  Old Man's War by John Scalzi,  Project Hail Mary,  by Andy Weir, and  The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by  Becky Chambers. 

Maggie helps Jon with one of his librarian classes as they discuss mystery books and TV shows before she reads him an Encyclopedia Brown mystery! Can Jon match wits with the world's smartest 10 year old? Can you? Download it now! Timestamps: Intro:  0:00 Mystery Book Talk: 3:00 Encyclopedia Brown and The Case of the Electric Clock: 27:30   Books mentioned in Book Talk: Murder at the Vicarage- Agat...

New episode!  Join Maggie and Jon as they read through and review issues 7 and 8 of IDW's More Than Meets the Eye comics series.  We meet the DJD who is scary as hell, and their leader Tarn, who could be the nastiest Decepticon in the series.  We talk about the ramifications of eons-long warfare, good and evil in terms of the same, and the occasionally gray area between million year campaigner and...

Spoon!  Maggie brings the Tick vs Pineapple Pokopo to the episode and to help us out with it, Ryan Daley from The Fire and Water Podcast Network stops by.  We call him Speak, because that is what he does!  Grab your surfboard and shark repellant and your taste for pineapple dishes as we discuss 90s ennui, the fallacy of the undistributed middle, monkeys in space, and Monkees as voice actors.

It's Halloween and that means Mephisto is up to his old tricks again, forcing us and 3 other podcasts to mix it up.  This time around, Al Sedano from Resurrections: An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast joins us to cover the most unlikely crossover that you will ever love: My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise.  Join us as we cover the episode "Suited For Success" from Friendship is Mag...

In Married Watching Cartoons, Jon and Maggie take turns introducing the other to a cartoon they may not be as familiar with.  This episode, Sean Ross from Secret Wars and the Bat Pod basically wouldn't let us do this episode without him, so here he his!  We talk about quoting lines from cartoons as a means of seduction, muse about what Sean's baseball career would have been like if he'd never seen...

Jon and Maggie dust off their comic books and remind themselves how to appreciate static images as they cover Fantastic Four #s 334-336 which serves as both the end of the Acts of Vengeance storyline as well as the debut of Walt Simonson's run on the series. We are a Proud Participant in the Merry Marvel MARCHing Society 2021 event! Check out all the other participants: 3rd Degree Byrne Back 2 The...

Jon and Maggie are watching cartoons while remaining married the entire time!   Maggie's favorite thing ever is Pokemon while Jon knows it mostly as a collectible card game that he never played but complained about a lot.  How will Jon feel about The Fortune Hunters?  How many Pokemon can Maggie name in 30 seconds?  Prepare for trouble.  Better make it double.

Join Maggie and Jon and they match wits with the world's greatest (10 year old) detective!  Maggie reads Jon The Case of The Two-fisted Poet.  Will Leroy lose Sally forever to a snobby kid who went to school in England?  Then Jon reads Maggie The Case of the Wounded Toe where the weird kid who keeps teeth in a jar gets shot n the foot.  The 1960's everyone!     Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce cov...

You have received a new transmission from the Rod Pod. Jon and Maggie are trapped in a spacecraft shaped like Rodimus' head with only their cats and occasional issues of IDW's Transformers comics that the Autobot Sky Lynx periodically drops by.  No one knows why any of this is happening.   This month, Sky Lynx has brought Robots in Disguise issues 7 to 9, which includes the first part of the Combi...

Welcome to our new format!  Jon and Maggie are taking turns introducing the other to cartoons that the other may not be as familiar with. On our debut episode, Jon introduces Maggie to the Smurfs!  Take time out of the craziness of real life for some escapism.  Jon brings in King Smurf, an episode which *checks notes* shows the Smurfs descend into full-on fascism as half of them develop a cult-lik...

We close out 2020 and this phase of our podcast with the comic that we nearly started with.  Listen for one last comics hurrah before we change over to covering cartoons in 2021.  Reed Richards and Sue Storm get married but not before having to deal with Doctor Doom's nefarious wedding gift and a blind guy driving a bomb into New York Harbor.  Listen in to say "Good Riddance 2020" with us!

Happy Holidays from Married with Comics!  Clinton Robison from Coffee and Comics as well as Fanfilm Fridays stops by to discuss one of his favorites and ours, the cleverly named, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special!  Celebrate the holiday of your choice while we dive into this 55 minute long toy commercial in which the Evil Lord of Destruction gets transformed by the Christmas spirit into somet...

It's Halloween, so that means Mephisto has compelled us into a spooky crossover yet again, this time with Tim Price and Sean from Secret Wars and Beyond podcast.  We cover Tomb of Dracula #44 and Doctor Strange #14 as the Lord of Vampires and Sorcerer Supreme fight to the death! Stick around as we veer off into tangents about Brahm Stokers' novel, God in comic books, and the 1970s.  Happy Hallowee...

Jon matches wits with everyone's favorite 10 year old detective, and almost gets too distracted by how violent life was for the youth of the '60s to solve the case. Will he recover in time?

New episode!  Mephisto casts the dastardly Spell of Comics Apathy on us and only Tim Price, the Podcrasher can save us with one of our favorite comics of all time, Bone #10.  You'd be a stupid, stupid rat creature to miss this one!

Jon reads an Encyclopedia Brown mystery to Maggie and she tries to solve it.  Jon remembers this one from childhood and thinks the clue will be too obscure for Maggie to solve.  Is he right, or will Maggie's repeat viewings of QI win her the day?

The world may be a garbage fire, but at least there's a new Rod Pod!  Jon and Maggie read through and discuss IDW Transformers More Than Meets the Eye #6: Interiors, where we deal with severe PTSD, depression, and  someone accidentally getting shot in the head.  MTMTE is the funny on purpose one, remember.  In Robots in Disguise #6 Syndromica, Orion Pax, Hardhead, and some lizard guy named Garnak...

Maggie Reads Jon an Encyclopedia Brown mystery and he tries to solve it.  Can you solve the case of the Balloon Man, a case that has perplexed even the Chief of Police of Idaville before Jon can?  (I wouldn't get too worked up.  Chief Brown is stalwart and true, but his deductive reasoning skills are dangerously lacking, considering his job). 

This is it!  The final chapter of The Wounded Sky, read by all three of us followed by a discussion of the book. Thank you so much for putting up with the various delays and we hope you had as much fun listening as we did reading and recording it. Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Feedback is appreciated.  Send comments  to marrie...

We're almost to the the end of our  Doses of of Star Trek, Daily or otherwise. Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads chapter 15, where we say hello to a new universe and goodbye to a crewmember. Layne appears c...

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek!  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads chapter 14, in which the Enterprise crew mulls over how to best play God. Layne appears c...

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Maggie reads chapter 13 in which we find out why God would have need of a starship. Or at least a star...

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads Chapter 12 as the crew comes face to face with something that may or may not be God and try...