Zero Issues Comic Podcast

 TRAVEL THROUGH TIME WITH THE ZERO ISSUES BOYS! Or at least about 44 mins of it, as we discuss time travel in comics!! Join us as we discuss time travel storylines and pitch a few of our own! Specifically we discuss comic stories of either characters that don’t time travel or time periods they usually don’t visit. Or horrible time travel stories where everyone dies. All the time. It&#...

This week we celebrate the life, career, and amazing legacy John Romita, Sr! From his youth growing up during the golden-age comics boom, to becoming perhaps one of the first fans-turned-pros as he cut his teeth as a comic-book artist during the tumultuous ‘50s at the pre-Marvel Timely and Atlas, before hopping to DC as a top-tier romance-comic penciller, into the silver age at Marvel where he con...

‘Verse Mania is upon us once more! We’ve finally all seen “Across the Spider-Verse” and have a theoretically endless number of things to say about it! From the stunning animation, art and sound design, vocal performances, endless deep-cut references, and as much else as we can fit into a warm-up segment! And we may tangent into cinema-enhancing power outages and childhood exposure to “Videodrome”,...

 Which Ninja Turtle smells the worst? How many birds has Wonder Woman killed with her invisible jet? Does Beast Boy need to know what a cow looks like in order to turn into a cow? What If the A-Team were still in Marvel Comics? These and so many other dumb, dumb questions are answered this week in what may be our stupidest Lightning Round ever! Direct Download: MP3

 Acting!!! Thespians!!! Performers!! Pantomimers….. ok maybe not that one. We’re talking about Comic Book Actors this week. Specifically actors/actresses who have done MULTIPLE comic book roles. Who’s done most? Who’s done the best? Who’s done the worst? We probably have a few on this list you never realized did THAT many comic book roles! And this week… i kno...

A “shocking development” in The Amazing Spider-Man leaked weeks ahead of its release, leading to a public confirmation and what appear to be extremely mixed feelings about the whole thing! Can you believe Gwen Stacy is back, she was just in Europe the whole time, and then she immediately dies again? What are the odds!? A whole bunch of comic adaptations (and in less important news: everything else...

 Spider(-Man), he is our hero! This week, we take a break from doing deep dives, taxing our brains thinking about new and unique things to do on the podcast, and just do what makes us happy: talkin’ ’bout Spider-Man. Who’s his best love interest? Who are his deadliest foes? Does he have way too many costumes, and should he be drawn like a brick poophouse? All that, plus we for r...

 Chip Zdarsky! We interview Chip Zdarsky! Lookit us! Talking to other people and stuff. Chip of course is a comic writer/artist of such books as Sex Criminals, Public Domain, Kaptara, Jughead, Howard the Duck, Daredevil and that little title called Batman. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. We caught Chip on his cross Canada tour as he came through town and was gracious enough to sit down and have...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is upon us, all 600 distinct versions of it, and we were lucky enough to see version #539! And maybe we were some of the lucky few, because nobody else seems to be talking about [VERY REAL SPOILER ALERT] the shocking return of TASERFACE as he takes his place as a surprise protagonist of the story! Join us as we dig into the movie’s twists and turns, its triumphant hig...

 Zero Issues Newsflash for May 8, 2023! Jim Lee becomes Emperor of DC! The Writers Strike, how does it impact comic movies? 3 new DC mini series coming! Whoopi Goldberg’s Dark Horse Graphic Novel! And Fantastic Four Casting Rumours going crazy! Adam Driver! Margot Robbie! Antonio Banderas! Paul Mescal! Danny Devito! Keith David wearing just a bathrobe! Some of those are true! Direct Do...

 POWER RECORDS TIME!!! Time to HULK out listening to a power records ’45 from 1974 where the Hulk battles the Abomination AND the Rhino AT the Hulkbuster Base with a guy named ARMBUSTER! Who’s down for a Gamma Moustache Ride!?!? Direct Download: MP3

What, us podcast? Yes, us podcast, specifically about Mad Magazine, this week! How did a weirdo li’l book like this come to be created and run for so dang long? Who made this stuff? Just how many times did they get sued or threatened by the US government? We answer…some of these questions. But before we even get to that, Merk guides us on a trippy dippy trip into the world of album-and...

 Newsflash time! It’s Al Jaffee! It’s Turtles and Teens! It’s your grandma and her original hips at 84, and so is Marvel! And Antarctica! Direct Download: MP3

Inspired by the announcement of Waid & Hitch on “The Last Days of Lex Luthor”, we look at the many versions of that hairless hater of Superman, talk about our favourite versions of ol’ Lex, then decide… Hey, never mind all that, we can fix this guy! Let’s reimagine Lex Luthor and see what other interpretations might befit the Menace of Metropolis! Maybe he transforms himself through sci...

 It’s DRAMATIC READING time and we have a CLASSIC DOOZY for ya!! Superman racing the Flash! It doesn’t get much more iconic than that…. but we can make it a lot weirder and funnier! And we do! Listen along as we act out and react to this surprisingly convoluted story. Hear about the UN’s gambling problem that they get these two heroes involved in! Watch Green Lantern and h...

Today we descend into darkness as we discuss those wretched hives of scum and villainy: comment sections and fan forums! Okay, okay, there are plenty of wonderful and positive fan communities that we all love, and should! But something about the direction of fandom online over the decades tends to take a turn for the toxic whenever negativity, bullying, and anger (and, uh, threats to drink spit in...

 This week: more firings! But to be specific, we’re talking about Ike Perlmutter: at one point the man on top, now a man reduced to living inside the Epcot sphere, eating stickers of X-Men favourite Sage, to survive. That plus more news!   Direct Download: MP3

 This week in the news: FIRINGS! They’re all the rage, it seems. From Victoria Alonso at Marvel to an entire department at Funko, folks are being let go. But it isn’t all bad news! Boris Karloff is (figuratively) back from the grave, and he’s brought Gold Key with him! Plus, if you’re hurting for television-based graphic novel adaptations, then surprise, Essex County&#8...

Purple robe, purple robe! This week, because it’s March, we’re getting a little…maaaaad. March Madness! This time, everyone’s bald! Bald villains and heroes, battling it out to see who’s the toughest one of them all! Oh shoot we didn’t even think of Bald Bull from Punch-Out, now we gotta do it all over again, shoot Direct Download: MP3