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Batman Confidential #44 (2010) Looks like we’re back in Batman town this Halloween season as we check out the BATMAN VS. THE UNDEAD story from BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL! Batman is down in New Orleans tracking down an escaped mad scientist only to find himself up to his neck in reanimated museum corpses and vampire allies. Highlights include: Bruce Wayne suffers an injury whilst congratulating himself Co...

Shawn has some business to tend to this week so it is just Jen solo as she shares some thoughts on current books she’s been reading: Topics include: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham Absolute Green Lantern Batman and Robin Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit Batman: Dark Patterns and the most controversial comic book of the now! Promo: BAILEY’S BATMAN PODCAST ( https://w...

X-Force #28 (1993) Let’s end this mutant mercenary madness as X-Force has their final showdown with the Mutant Liberation Front! We got team members swapping sides, exploding swords, a whole truckload of ethical debates and some weirdly placed squatting poses. Highlights include: Boomer gets possessed by the band Disturbed Henry Gyrich receives a punch in the face Stan Lee invented MILF?!? Bobby F...

X-Force #27 (1993) More mutant mercenary action awaits as the X-Force team clashes with the Mutant Liberation Front! But don’t discount the MLF as they got Dani Moonstar turning heel and rocking fools with her feel-bad arrows. Thankfully, X-Force is hopped up on gimmicks, looking REAL swole and ready to rescue some bureaucrats. Highlights include: 90s pop star Hathaway becomes a cyborg Meet the ne...

X-Force #26 (1993) It’s been too long but let’s get back into some X-books as we discuss some prime 90s X-FORCE! We got Cable recovering from the events of “Fatal Attractions,” the OG New Mutants mourning the loss of Illyana Rasputin and the formation of a new Mutant Liberation Front. Highlights include: Dazzler sings “One Night in Madripoor” The proper spelling of Forearm’s name Time to start sel...

Catwoman [vol 2] #40 (1996) Let’s wrap up this CATWOMAN: YEAR TWO arc with some diamond caper nonsense as Catwoman and Batman round up the rest of Dark Knight’s rogues. Topics include: Batman and Catwoman star in UNCUT GEMS Two-Face takes a shotgun to the face…and lives! Which Falcone is this supposed to be? Jimmy Olsen’s foreign cousin Stefan Penguin gets used as a pummel horse Also, Jen and Shaw...

Catwoman [vol 2] #39 (1996) Catwoman is a busy lady this issue, between the planned theft of an Egyptian dollhouse and fending off Two-Face’s crew of Bob Seger fanatics. Even Batman has his hands full with the Joker laugh-gassing the GCPD and expertly defacing the Bat-Signal. Will these two ever know a moment of peace?!? Topics include: Catwoman sleeps in the nude Batman pilfers office supplies Mi...

Catwoman [vol 2] #38 (1996) Hey now! Let’s catch up with our friend Catwoman and see what she was up to in her second year of burglary and flirtations with millionaire vigilantes. She’s even got a pretty sweet plan to distract the Bat with big-time jailbreak. But will the prisoners be happy about it? You’d think so…. Topic include: Jim Balent — the greatest artist of the 90s Catwoman takes fashion...

Cobra Commander #2 (2024) Cobra Commander has finally made it to Florida and now he has to brave gator-crazy tourists on the hunt for Energon. But will the Dreadnoks and their donuts stand in his way. Absolutely, yes they will. Topic include: Cobra Commander attempts a Force choke on a fat kid Nemesis Enforcer will not tolerate park rangers Jigsaw from SAW enters the Energon Universe A man eats a...

So instead of doing another [R]OHOTMU and wonder if the casual or new listeners know what the acronym stands for, we’re going to make it easier on you and ourselves by just calling these random one-off character bio episodes “HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT….” Hopefully it catches on. This time out, since we are in the midst of the COBRA COMMANDER book, Shawn gives you as much of the low-down as possible on...

Cobra Commander #1 (2024) As it turns out, Image and Robert Kirkman have been cooking hard on the G.I. Joe/Transformers comics with their Energon Universe! This one is focused on the Cobra patriarch Cobra Commander as he departs the hidden organic society of Cobra-La and enters the real world, starting with the bar that Superman used to work at in MAN OF STEEL. Topic include: the great actors of C...

Fantastic Four #165 (1975) Will today be the day that we get a Fantastic Four movie that we can be proud of? I guess it’s time to find out. In the meantime, we wrap our FF coverage of their battle with Crusader which doesn’t end well for anyone. Topic include: the EVENT HORIZON-inspired Fantasti-Car Sue’s Namor calendar Ben Grimm remembers hot dogs Human Torch’s love life is in shambles The Thing...

Fantastic Four #164 (1975) There’s a new Fantastic Four movie about to show up in a few weeks so let’s catch back up with Marvel’s first family as we check out the debut (return?) of the Crusader! Crusader is back from space and he’s SHAKING WITH ANGER to the point that he’s flinging middle-aged men across Washington Square. Also, Johnny Storm’s first date with a debuting Frankie Raye gets ruined...

Superman #342 (1979) Happy Superman Movie Day everyone! Let’s keep the super-vibes flowing as we stick around in 1979 as Superman quarantines himself in a Willy Wonka elevator. S.T.A.R. Labs screwed up and beset a noxious black cloud over a city somewhere. Of course, Superman has to fix things but he forgot that Chemo was dispersed in the atmosphere so now Supes is afflicted with bestial urges and...

Action Comics #497 (1979) Since he’s got a big movie coming out, let’s keep it going with the Man of Steel here on WCE with a Bronze Age tale of Superman finding himself at the whims of three kids and an inter-dimensional imp convening in a modest shack in Kansas. You see, one of these kids needs life-changing surgery so the imp is letting these youngsters conjure up all sorts of perilous tasks li...

Absolute Superman #1 (2025) We have reached the end of DC Absolute Universe Month as we talk about ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN! Absolute Superman dives mightily into the Kryptonian class structure and what it would be like to have brunch on Krypton. Kal’s parents are working-class citizens with interesting backstories, fixing space farming equipment and rightfully pointing out hazardous mining conditions. A...

Absolute Green Lantern #1 (2025) It is yet another entry in our DC Absolute Universe Month as we cover the horror-tinged — and possibly AMERICAN PIE-tinged — ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN. Green Lantern this time around is the Far Sector’s Jo Mullein and much like Absolute Batman, she is friends with her contemporaries such as toy collector slash architect Hal Jordan, local police chief Guy Gardner and t...

Absolute Wonder Woman #1 (2025) Absolute Month from DC Comics rolls along as we check out the immensely awesome ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN! There’s a lot to dig here because it’s basically Wonder Woman rubbing monster blood across her eyes and slaughtering assorted Hell demons and monsters that fly out of an upside down pyramid in the sky. If that’s not wild enough, Absolute WW was RAISED AS A CHILD in...

Absolute Batman #1 (2024) It is all about the Absolute this month as we check out some of the premiere issues of the Absolute Universe from DC Comics! We start off with the meaty thighs of ABSOLUTE BATMAN and his blue-collar origin story where Bruce is almost seven feet tall, Alfred is not his friend (yet) and Martha Wayne is STILL ALIVE! We also got possible squid people, Alfred with Paulie...

Thunderbolts #3 (1997) Our Thunderbolts comes to an end as Marvel’s newest team of fake superheroes clashes with the newest version of evil villains as the Masters of Evil….return? Its’s quite the crew: there’s a freshly mutated Tiger Shark, a guy dressed as a tiger that FLYS, an Olympic skier turned violent feminist, a French mafia operative wearing a dead guy’s gear and Justin Hammer’s daughter...

Spider-Man Team-Up #7 (1997) Look, I know it’s supposed to be more Thunderbolts but the “Justice Like Lightning” trade tricks you into reading a Spider-Man book. Thankfully, it is chronologically congruent to the ongoing storyline that we are covering so let’s keep going. Spider-Man is framed for murder and the Thunderbolts are the only ones to can help (because everyone else is dead). Songbird an...

Thunderbolts #2 (1997) Our OG Thunderbolts discussion continues as the Thunderbolts adjust to their newly heroic personas in a battle against the Mad Thinker and his plan to suck knowledge out of Franklin Richards’s brain. Thankfully, the T-Bolts are here to handle the situation even though they pretty much get their asses handed to them by Thinker’s Gumby-looking android. Also, Mach-1 gets amorou...

Thunderbolts #1 (1997) It’s time to talk about the origins of the MCU’s latest offering as we look at the very first issue of the THUNDERBOLTS! Of course, there is the big undercover villain twist at the end here but who can blame them when Onslaught eliminated all of our heroes and all that’s left is Spider-Man, Daredevil and (maybe) Blade. We got Baron Zemo masquerading as a capoeira-slinging Ho...

THUNDERBOLTS* is dropping this Friday and we’ve got a selection from the OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE to go with it as we talk about Red Guardian (I)!  Join us as we chat about the OG Red Guardian (played by David Harbour in the upcoming film) and learn about his humble beginnings as a hotshot test pilot, his marriage to Black Widow (wait, isn’t his daughter in….) and his involvem...

JSA #58 / Hawkman #25 (2004) Apologies for the delay but here it is — the final chapter in our #JSApril stint as we cover the final two installments of the “Black Reign” story arc! First in JSA, we suffer a few unintentional casualties on the heel side, Doctor Fate gets trapped in suburbia and Brainwave Jr. Jr. Jr. has actual brain WORMS in his head and they’re…friendly, sort of? Then in HAWKMAN,...