The Avenging Hour

John and Jason finish up the saga of the Avengers vs the Gods of Olympus with the last two issues of that storyline!  Join us as we discuss all of the punching, zapping and wrestling ensue!

This episode we continue the story of the Avengers against the Gods of Olympus, as the team escapes Hades, makes some allies and finally comes face to face with Zeus himself!

Join John and Jason as the battle between the Avengers and the Gods of Olympus continues!  This issue Namor gets involved, Cereberus  turns out to just be a big dumb brute in armor and the Avengers have to escape Pluto and all the hordes of Hades!

We're back in the main title, starting a new storyline that John likes and Jason dislikes.  (Of course, John is right, and the story rocks, and since he writes these descriptions and Jason doesn't, he gets the last word!)  The Avengers deal with the repercussions of Hercules' injuries at the hands of the Masters of Evil starting here!

This issue is mostly a clip show of Jarvis' tenure with the team, so after breezing through it, Jason and John have a thought experiment where they create new Avengers teams for specific needs.

Woo-hoo!  Its the last issue (we promise this time) of the Space-Time Caper in the West Coast Avengers as the team finally confronts Dominus.  Join Jason and John as they phallic spacecraft, bad fashion and mental illness as a superpower.

Its the final chapter of the Space-Time saga, only it kind of isn't because we'll still be talking about it next week!  But this week we get to see Mockingbird face the Phantom Rider and the team is reunited!  Come join us as we finally stop skipping throughout the time stream and get ready to return to the present day....1987!

Here we go with another installment in the West Coast Avengers epic, Lost in Space-Time!  We're nearing the finish, as Mockingbird strikes back at the Phantom Rider, the team in ancient Egypt tries desperately to get home, and Dr. Pym starts to cosplay!  Come along and join the fun!

Jason and John return to the main title to discuss new leadership for the team, and to wonder why it takes an entire issue to come to a conclusion that seemed pretty obvious from the start!

The West Coast Avengers may be the ones lost in Space Time, but its Jason and John who feel like they're trapped in an anomaly and can't get home!  Will this storyline ever end?  At least this issue we get a cool cover, a new Dr. Pym and the introduction of Moon Knight!

Lost in Space Time Continues!

We're in it now!  Jason and John continue to chronicle the West Coast Avengers adventure through space-time, as Wonder Man continues to be a jerk, Hawkeye almost dies and the Phantom Rider plot gets really icky.  Come join us!

Jason and John are diving straight into the multi-part West Coast Avengers Epic where the team is split across time and space!  Come with us to the Old West, where we'll meet 1870's style supervillains, a living totem pole and a crazy rannie who might hurt the team more than they've ever been hurt before!

Jason and John return to the main Avengers title to discuss the aftermath of Under Siege.  Who is Dr. Druid and is his main power cape-fighting?  How tall is Tyrak?  And if Hercules is brain dead, how can you tell?  Come join us, and follow us on FB and Instagram at Avenging Hour!

Jason and John are back!   After a short two year break they return to pick up where they left off talking about Avengers comics, all the way from the first one in 1963 to the current day!  We're in 1987 and back on the left coast to begin the most epic plotline from the early days of the West Coast team!  We'll also discuss Marvel's criminally underrated best pulp villain, whether...

Here it is....the last episode of the first season of Year One!  Much to Jason's dismay, its our last Fantastic Four episode, and our first one to star another Marvel character, as the foursome encounter....the Hulk!  We end our look at this first year with some thrills and big fight scenes!

It's two, two stories in one issue, as the Fantastic Four meet The Impossible Man, and if that's not enough excitement for you, they also.....read some mail?  Well, they can't all be nail biters true believers!

It's the Fantastic Four vs Doctor Doom....again!  But this time we get Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as part of the story!  So it's....better?

The Fantastic Four take on their most dangerous foe yet....bankruptcy!

Is it a superhero comic or a horror comic?  It may be difficult to tell when the FF face their most grotesque villain ever....the Puppet Master!  Arguably Kirby's creepiest design in the first year of the comic, we meet this arch villain, and his stepdaughter Alicia, a pivotal figure in the comic for decades to come!

Its the FF against their greatest archfoe, the one enemy who has bedeviled them numerous times throughout the decades, the name that leaps to everyone's lips when they think of the FF's greatest battles.....Kurrgo, the master of Planet X! Wait, who now?   See....the FF again run afoul of the government! See...the FF go off planet for no real reason! See...Mr. Fantastic's biggest jer...

Its the first Marvel Team-Up, as Dr. Doom and the Sub-Mariner join forces to take down our faithful foursome!  Can our heroes survive?

The FF face their mightiest foe, and the Darth Vader/Darkseid/Dick Cheney of the Marvel Universe, Doctor Doom!  See:  Doom kidnap the Invisible Girl!  See:  The Thing become a pirate!  See:  Doom live in upper New York state!  

"Hey Jack, do remember a character we published a couple of decades ago, an underwater type named Sub-Mariner?  Why don't we use him for this issue of Fantastic Four?" "C'mon Stan, no one is going to remember this guy.  Why do you want to drag him out of mothballs?" "Listen Jack, I edit every comic we publish and write three quarters of them!  I don't have t...

SEE:  The Fantastic Four get costumes! SEE:  The Fantastic Four get a headquarters! SEE:  The Fantastic Four get a mode of transportation! SEE:  The Fantastic Four get their butts handed to them by a cocky loser with all the powers of Doug Henning! All this and more in episode 3 of the Fantastic Four from 1962!