Andrew Kilpatrick, Phil Oberholzer

This Is Getting Graphic

Comedy EN ↓ 111 episodes

We're Andrew and Phil, college roommates emeritus, best friends for life, and comic fans by choice. During each biweekly episode, we dive into the wildest and wackiest that comics and graphic novels have to offer, with Andrew doing research and analysis and Phil providing comedic commentary. You can expect a healthy dose of comics history, comedy, analysis/commentary, and more, as well as special guests and retrospective looks at some of our favorite comics throughout the decades.

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Andrew Kilpatrick, Phil Oberholzer

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Comedy

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

The Real Housewives of Generational Trauma (The Vision and the Scarlet Witch #6) 25.11.2024

Namor November continues on This Is Getting Graphic, with a comic he only sort of features in! He needs to step aside for the REAL drama going on at Thanksgiving at the Vision and Scarlet Witch's suburban home. The party is in full swing, the drinks are flowing, the international terrorist with magnetic powers are at the door... wait, what?? That's right, who should show up for dinner but Wanda an...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Fantastic Porno" (Fantastic Four #9) 11.11.2024

Once again, it's NAMOR NOVEMBER on This Is Getting Graphic! In this first edition of this year's fishman follies, the Fantastic Four are BANKRUPT! And it only took 9 issues! But then, an offer from Hollywood comes in that's too good to be true, and the offer comes from none other than... Namor?? What sinister scheme does the Sub-Mariner have in mind? Do the Fantastic Four have the strength to take...

Having Your Cake and Eating YOU Too! (Stephen King's Creepshow) 28.10.2024

Happy Halloween, comics fans! Today, Phil takes the reins as he walks us through a comic book adaptation of the 1982 film STEPHEN KING'S CREEPSHOW! In between these pages are five gruesome tales of guts, gore, and gratuitous violence! And cake. LOTS of cake. We've got zombies! We've got yetis! We've got cockroaches (even though Andrew doesn't want to talk about it). And we've got... Swamp Thing? E...

Vampires Are SO Yesterday (Uncanny X-Men #160) 14.10.2024

Listener beware, you're in for a SCARE, in our first 2024 Halloween episode of This Is Getting Graphic, featuring the Uncanny X-Men in HELL! In a classic X-Men story, Colossus's young sister Illyana finds herself at the mercy of the demonic Belasco, and only the X-Men can save her! If only they'd bothered to scout out this island headquarters beforehand. What sorts of terrors await them in Belasco...

Minisode: A Conversation with Fred Van Lente 09.10.2024

Special bonus episode! Join Andrew and Phil as they have an interview with comic writer, novelist, and playwright Fred Van Lente, as they discuss such topics as Italian slasher movies, favorite Muppets, the late great Jack Kirby, and Eminem. This episode is proud to promote the release of MURDER KINGDOM #1 from Mad Cave Studios, written by Fred Van Lente, penciled by Chris Panda, and lettered by B...

We're All Flesh Sacks (All Star Comics #3) Part 2 30.09.2024

The second part of our look at the first meeting of the Justice Society of America continues, and it only gets wilder from here! Between the Sandman discovering huge sacks of skin and bones to Dr. Fate fighting metaphysical terror to... the Atom falling off a truck and an old lady ripping her pants... the superthrills never stop! I guess crime was less serious in the Golden Age. Will Mary James di...

The Murder Society of America (All Star Comics #3), Part 1 16.09.2024

It's time to go back to the Golden Age with the stories of the first superhero team ever, the Justice Society of America! What does their first meeting entail? Well, after a humble young man gets his butt literally kicked by a genie, they decide to just... kinda tell their own stories about solo adventures. And that's just the framing device! Thrill as the Flash finds sunken treasure! Marvel at Ha...

Mean Marlow (Mystic Comics #6) 02.09.2024

Guten tag, meine freunden! Venture back with us to the halcyon days of the Golden Age with one of Marvel's classic WWII superheroes, THE DESTROYER! When milquetoast reporter Keen Marlow is sent seemingly against his will to Nazi Germany, he just can't help but get arrested and tortured. But with the help of a dead professor who's dead, he acquires a scientific formula that transforms him into a Na...

The Birds Work for the Bourgeoisie (Uncanny X-Men/New Teen Titans #1) 19.08.2024

The summer is over, the dead are asleep, and it's time for a new episode of This Is Getting Graphic! And how better to transition than with an epic Marvel/DC CROSSOVER (that I guess thinks Marvel is better, apparently). When Darkseid's latest evil scheme requires the memories of the Dark Phoenix, the X-Men leap into action to investigate... but little do they know that a certain team of teenage cr...

Life, the Space Baby, and Everything (Blackest Night #8) 05.08.2024

Hey, are the dead done rising yet? THEY BETTER BE, BECAUSE THIS IS THE FINAL EPISODE OF THIS IS GETTING GRAPHIC'S SUMMER EVENT, BLACKEST SUMMER NIGHTS, covering the final issue of DC's Blackest Night event! In this corner, in the black trunks, representing the forces of death, it's NEKRON! And in this corner, in the white trunks, representing all life in the universe (and his own enormous ego), it...

The Color Cavalry (Blackest Night #6-7) 22.07.2024

The war against death is going very poorly, so it seems like the heroes of the DC Universe might need a little help... time for a recruitment drive in the next part of our BLACKEST SUMMER NIGHTS event! When Ganthet empowers the rings of the emotional spectrum to seek out new faces for the various Corps, we see some... interesting choices as to who is worthy to wield the light of emotion. Welcome t...

Doxxing Barry Allen (Blackest Night #4-5) 08.07.2024

The DC Universe's zombie apocalypse continues in the next part of BLACKEST SUMMER NIGHTS, covering issues #4-5! As a cadre of undead supervillains join the fray and Hal Jordan has vanished, it's up to the Flash, Mera, and the Atom to find reinforcements! But little do they know that the Black Lanterns are about to pull their greatest play of all, changing the game for the worse! How can the heroes...

BUT WHO IS BATGIRL?? (Blackest Night #2-3) 24.06.2024

THE DEAD HAVE RISEN... and they're listening to the newest installment of This Is Getting Graphic's Blackest Summer Nights! As the living superheroes of the DC Universe find themselves battling their reanimated chums, stuff gets REAL PRETTY DANG FAST when the lord of the seas arises from his dry dirt grave! And he's brought many undead friends with him... some with BIG POINTY TEETH. Can Mera and T...

Night of the Living Edgelords (Blackest Night #0-1) 10.06.2024

THE DEAD ARE RISING... and hopefully so are our download numbers as we start this year's summer event, BLACKEST SUMMER NIGHTS! As Green Lantern, the Flash, and so many others reflect upon lost friends, those lost friends start to crawl out of their graves thanks to some jewelry provided by the king of the edgelords! Can the superheroes of the DC Universe rally against this threat and save the univ...

The Good, the Bad, and the RASSIN' FRASSIN' Ugly (Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam Special #1) 27.05.2024

REACH FOR THE SKY, PARTNER! It's time for a western starring one of DC's greatest bounty hunters, Jonah Hex... and also a couple of Looney Tunes characters. Yes. Really. When Yosemite Sam (YES, THAT ONE) strikes it rich by finding a mine full of gold, he needs somebody to help protect his claim... enter Jonah Hex, the greatest bounty hunter in the Old West! But can even Jonah protect this cartoon...

Conan the Salad Bar-barian (Empyre: Savage Avengers #1) 13.05.2024

Alex Hanbury joins the boys once again for a look at an event tie-in that may be one of the greatest comics we've ever read on this show! When a time-displaced Conan the Barbarian visits Mexico City, he finds himself in the midst of an alien invasion by plant people! But none of them are prepared for the ferocity of a Hyborean Age warrior, or for a certain alien symbiote... cue mayhem, madness, an...

Costumes and Combustions (Detective Comics #241) 29.04.2024

Today we come out swinging with a double feature, starring Batman, Robin, and the Martian Manhunter! Our first story features Batman wearing a rainbow of different costumes (don't worry, the reason why is very dumb). Then, J'onn J'onzz, the Manhunter from Mars, meets his match against a firebug with the most intimidating name of all: MR. SMITH. Who's dyeing all these costumes for Batman? Would peo...

The Toad, the Witch, and the Taxes (The Vision and the Scarlet Witch #11) 15.04.2024

Have you filed your taxes yet? This Is Getting Graphic has, and we have some Marvel superheroes who are also working on them! When the Vision and the Scarlet Witch need some extra cash come tax time, they invite a photographer to take a look at their suburban home: none other than Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man himself! But unfortunately, he's not the only houseguest the two will be receivin...

Deadpool Is HERE! (Deadpool Samurai Chapters 9-10) 01.04.2024

HELP. THE SHOW HAS BEEN HIJACKED. AND WE'RE BEING FORCED TO LOOK AT A-- Pay no attention to them. It's me, Alex Hanbury, this show's only host! This week, we're looking at two chapters of a manga, featuring Marvel's very own Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool! Deadpool's in Japan trying to thwart a plot by Loki, the God of Mischief himself, when he finds himself a little in over his head facing a clone o...

Beached Garth (The Brave and the Bold #54) 18.03.2024

When there's trouble, This Is Getting Graphic knows who to call... THE TEEN TITANS, in their very first story! After all the teenagers in the small town of Hatton Corners mysteriously vanish, the town's government calls in OTHER teenagers, namely Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Robin the Boy Wonder, to solve the crisis. But will the teens solve the predicament, or find themselves perishing in earth, water...

The Magic School Bus Goes to Camelot (King Arthur and the Knights of Justice #1 w/ Joe Corallo) 04.03.2024

Hear ye, hear ye! Join us for a new episode of time traveling wonder as we discuss the comic adaptation of the classic 90s cartoon show KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF JUSTICE, with special guest Eisner and GLAAD nominated writer and editor Joe Corallo! Camelot is under siege by Morgana and her sentient rocks, and Guinevere's been taken prisoner! Merlin's only recourse is to grab... a college footb...

One Ape for Silver, Two Apes for Gold (Fantastic Four Annual #3) 19.02.2024

You are cordially invited to join us for a landmark comic book wedding, the marriage of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman! And if past Fantastic Four stories on this show are any indication, we know it's bound to be an eventful affair! Not having received an invitation, Dr. Doom opts to pull a Maleficent and ruin everybody's good time... but rather than a spinning wheel, he uses drills, nukes,...

TWO MONTHS!! (Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #89) 05.02.2024

We're back from our January hiatus with wedding bells: it's a DC wedding no one saw coming! Probably because it's an imaginary story. Just like all stories. But we digress... when Lois Lane has had enough of Superman's absentee boyfriending, she opts for a new boy toy, this one with his own cave! But unbeknownst to her, he's got plenty of Lois Lane... memorabilia, let's just say. Will Superman win...

3 Christmas 3 Carol (Marvel Holiday Special 2004) 18.12.2023

We end out the year 2024 with a Christmas extravaganza of stories from our friends over at Marvel! First, witness A Christmas Carol AGAIN through the eyes of the Daily Bugle's favorite publisher, J. Jonah Jameson! Next, Cyclops and Emma Frost must care for a young mutant with nowhere to go over the holiday break when they could be off banging on an island! And finally, Franklin Richards inquires j...

Superheroes Don't Do That (Batman: Noel) 04.12.2023

It's Christmastime here on This Is Getting Graphic as we take a look at a beautiful take on Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" featuring the Dark Knight himself, Batman! As the Joker escapes again on Christmas Eve, a disease addled Batman finds himself unusually aggressive, even for him. Can representations of his past, present, and future help save him, or will the neck snapping sound e...

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