Episode 746 - HickMania III: Four Cities

Yes, we finally did it. We read all six issues of the 1995/1996 Dawn miniseries. It's somehow both surprisingly impressive and just as bad as we expected.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Our GarFriend Daniel Kibblesmith returns to the show this week to talk about his new book So You've Been Bitten By a Radioactive Spider: How to Survive the Marvel Universe! We discuss having to decide what to feature in the book (and what to leave out), starting points for comics readers, Disney character sizes, and much more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

If only we had known this story arc would be taking place in multiple cities, we'd have figured out a way to make this HickMania 2. But it's our third installment, and Hickman is taking the Fantastic Four to cities that are underground, underwater, on the moon, and in the Negative Zone!Covering Fantastic Four #575-578.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Our friend 'till the end Erica Henderson joins us on the show this week to talk about Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes, including how she now gets to determine what's canon for The Joker! Plus, some haunted doll talk (of course) and much more!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Time for more rankings, and it's specifically time for Every Spooky Ever! Listen as we rank some monstrous comic stories, some moreso than others!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Benito and Matt finally got Chris to watch a movie they recommended, Deadstream. So they're offering up some more spooky-not-scary ideas for stuff for him to watch, while visiting the old abandoned War Rocket Ajax-themed amusement park our grandfathers opened. Happy Halloween!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

The creative team behind the new biographical graphic novel Fela: Music is the Weapon is joining us on the show this week to talk to us about making biographical comics that do what only comics can, showing different states of being through color, drumming, and a whole lot more!(Note: The Fela graphic novel is not authorized by the Fela Kuti family.)We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

It's undoubtedly a visual marvel, but how well does the story of James Stokoe's 5-issue 50-year Godzilla epic from 2012 hold up?We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Sword rating time once again, and we're taking some that glow, some that break, and some from, yes, fine art.We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!

Yes, we finally find out what Joseph Michael Linsner's Dawn is about in this episode. And we also take some of your listener questions!We make our show on Zencastr, and you can too! Follow this link to sign up now!Join the WRA Patreon to help us keep doing the show and get rewards!