We've Got Back Issues

Welcome back dear listeners as you join your heroes on a journey straight to hell itself. Follow your hosts as they make the most perilous journey through middle America to hunt down the son of Marvels (not the) 'devil' Mephisto and uncover the nefarious plot of his 'son' blackheart to take down him down. Only wolverine, Ghost Rider and, obviously the Punisher, can take him down.  Bear witnes...

Time to (temporarily) break from our love affair with the 1990s, delve into the previous decade and visit a character Galactosh really does not care for, a book he's never heard of, but one Sleeves has been meaning to read for ages. DC's Green Arrow... is basically robin hood right? Well, hopefully we can answer that as we read and discuss the book that reinvented him for the modern age and launch...

Welcome back dear listener, you join your heroes as the embark on another trek through the world of Judge Dredd and once again forget to read anything with good old Joe himself in it.  Listen to the lads as they get to grips with the finer points of etiquette whilst on the job for the Vatican. Be beguiled as your hosts answer the questions, are nurses really interchangeable? Do you really nee...

What is imagination? Fiction? Comics? Where do Ideas come from? Can fiction be made real? Can it influence the real world? We don't know but Grant Morrison seems to think they have an idea. Join us as we delve into the metatextual universe of Grant Morrison with his fictitious made real hero Flex Mentallo... a man who manipulated reality using his body mind and 'flex' muscles that transform the wo...

Welcome back dear listeners. It's that time of year again that perplexes the senses and hormones with amore. Indeed this valentines day your intrepid hosts, Sleeves and Galactosh get confused and mystified by the topic of love and become enthralled prisoners of Marvel handling the subject in only the way they can.  Join the lads as they answer age old questions of romance such as; haven't we...

It's our birthday! We’ve Got Back issues is two! So to celebrating two years of putting out this modest little podcast we've chosen to chat about something close to both our hearts... 1990’s Marvel nonsense! Namely Revenge of the Sinister Six from the adjectivesless Spider-man comic! Join Sleeves and Galactosh as we talk bombastic art, nonstop extreme’ action, endless cross promoting cameos and so...

Ho ho ho boys and girls. One again Santa has had a rummage through his sack and found a lovely gift for you all whether you've been naughty or nice.  This festive period, join Sleeves, Galactosh and Santa as they delve into another festive package of holiday comics.  Join your heroes as they discuss wintery ponderings such as; when is a homage not an homage? Why are there penguins a...

Transformers... THE Transformers the original Marvel run that started it all (sure there was a cartoon too but that was rubbish... kids stuff) is a bit of an obsession for Sleeves. He's collected all the Marvel UK comics, he's started a substack on the subject. So we thought we'd ingluge the little scamp and discuss a few issues of the comic, just a small number... four... keep it light. What foll...

Transformers... THE Transformers the original Marvel run that started it all (sure there was a cartoon too but that was rubbish... kids stuff) is a bit of an obsession for Sleeves. He's collected all the Marvel UK comics, he's started a substack on the subject. So we thought we'd ingluge the little scamp and discuss a few issues of the comic, just a small number... four... keep it light. What foll...

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer..... Oops. Wrong intro. Welcome terror seekers and join your heroes this Halloween as this year they go off with a Boom! Have you ever glimpsed something not right out of the corner of your eye? Do you ever get the feeling you're not alone? Ever seen your...

"CIVIL WAR? Nothing. KICK-ASS? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He's systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he's now set his sights on Washington, DC. Between you and me, the police don't have a chance." or at least that's what it says on the back of the book. Tune in to this listener chosen...

In this months episode of We've Got Back Issues we invite you to peruse the pages of Michael Allred's surrealist superhero creation Madman! Join us as we travel to Snap City where a mad scientist named Dr Egon Boiffard cobbles a guy together from corpses bring him back to life. Where the self-replicating robot creations Dr Gellespie Flem wander aimlessly through the sewers, where Mott from the Pla...

G. L. A. C. T. U. S..... G. L. A. C. T. U. S..... Did someone order a disco pharaoh? Your heroes on We've Got Back Issues certainly did. Join the lads as they traverse Marvel continuity once again. Returning to the pages of the Fantastic Four for the moment when the threats to Stan's comic universe went... well, into the universe. Join your hosts in answering such questions as: Who is the dum...

Jump into the way-back machine with Sleeves and Galactosh to the year 1938, when National Allied Publication keen to repeat the success of there soon to be namesake Detective Comics publish the first issue of their newest periodical Action Comics. In amongst the usual hotchpotch of cowboys, magicians, crime reporters, historical figures, comedy shoplifters, more cowboys, colonial casual racism, bo...

Roll up roll up purveyors of the strange, the weird and the outlandish. Come exotic travellers as we traverse the found world of Alan Moore alongside our congenial podcasters of the obtuse, messers Sleeves and Galactosh. Witness tall tales of daring do. Examine mysteries beyond compare. Join the lads as they ask the questions narely well dreamed of before as they ask; where is that meant to be in...

Another month, another We've Got Back Issues and another issues one. This time we travel back to spring of 1984, and take a look at the an oddly shaped black and white comic book, self published by two guys working out of a kitchen, the comic concerned four green dudes into martial arts with and a rat for a father figure and was a limited run of just 3000 copies. And that would have been that... a...

Welcome back listeners to this month's instalment of We've got back issues.  This time, your heroes, Sleeves and Galactosh, are travelling back in time to the beginning of the Marvel Empire. And it's a very different time indeed.   War is on the horizon in Europe, but over in America, they're more interested in the deeds of comic characters. Maybe not so different after all.... Join...

In the very first listener recommended episodes Sleeves and Galactosh come over all French and delve into an absolute classic of the Bande dessinée genre... join us as we visit 50 BC and the one small village of of indomitable Gauls still holding out against the Roman invasion in... Asterix: Obelix and Co. A book that take satirical sideways glance at the capitalism, economics and adverting that's...

Welcome back and happy New Year comic fans. Join your heroes, Sleeves and Galactosh, as they start 2025 by delving into the murky world of Gotham and it's most jovial antagonist, the Joker, as they read Batman Three Jokers. Tacking such questions as... Why are there three jokers? Can you really do a book based on one line in a crossover event? Can a comic be very long and very short at the same ti...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas and welcome too the first annual We've Got Back Issues Holiday Special! Where all faiths and denominations are catered for provided you enjoy a bit of festive cheer! To celebrate the season of goodwill to all men the two men of this podcast, Sleeves and Galactosh, examine... a couple of men! The Marvel variety! Firstly we check in with Hawkeye or should we say Hawkguy?...

Welcome back, friends. In this months instalment your heroes travel back in time some 40 years to read a book that seems so strangely familiar it could have been written last week. Join Sleeves and Galactosh as they discover a world of religious intolerance, unease of the different and persecution of the rights of minority groups. Where powerful people grab hold of the growing fears of the public...

Greetings, listener. This time, the We've Got Back issues boys have come over all... peculiar. Stepping into the pits of hell itself to bring you this months instalment. Ever wondered what would happen should a teenage witch go rogue? Well, your hosts did and dived into the afterlife, an Afterlife with Archie. Join Sleeves and Galactosh as they peer into the end of the world as Archie knows it to...

Sleeves and Galactosh return and this time it's war.... Star War. It was a dark time for George Lucas. Star Wars has been on the wane in the public consciousness for years, a near decade after the last film, finally there is new Star Wars! Catch up with your podcasting heroes as they trawl through the last great hope for the galaxy and Star Wars as they read Dark Horse's Star Wars: Dark Empir...

This month Sleeves and Galactosh travel back to the mid-ninties and examine what was almost the end of comics! Two relatively new upstarts fresh on the comic publishers block, Valiant Comics and Image Comics, collide in the crossover you never knew you didn't want! Now known in infamy as Deathmate. Messy incoherent plot? check. Hordes of derivative characters you've never heard of? Yup. Overhyped...

Welcome back true believers for the story Stan Lee and John Romita would never have brought you, but the one you have a sneaking suspicion Steve Ditko might have if left unchecked. Have you ever wondered what Peter Parker got up to once he'd collected his bus pass? Have you been longing for an update on the disco loving hypno-hustler? Have you seen Highlander 2? Have you ever been curious about th...