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Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Comics
COMIC BOOKS! Join Kevin and Will Hines — two brothers, lifelong comics fans and kind of comedians — as they discuss the comics they have loved their whole lives! What we lack in accuracy we make up for in enthusiasm!
Episodes
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #26 - X-Men #189-191
First the Milksops review a three issue span where the X-Men and New Mutants team up against the magic villain Kulan Gath, who has thrown Manhattan back into…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman Netflix Show Review
The Milksops review the new Netflix' series The Sandman. We already did 10 eps on the comics so you know we're fans, so was the show good enough for us? Short…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsCrash Course: She-Hulk
In preparation for the Disney Plus show, the Milksops review She-Hulk in the comics! We go over the Savage era, the Byrne treatment, the Sensational phase…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #25: Wolverine (1982) #1-4
The Milksops go over the 1982 four-issue mini series Wolverine, written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Frank Miller. This was part of Wolverine's ascendence…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #24: God Loves, Man Kills
NO MAILBAG THIS EPISODE. For the "mutants" portion of our ep, the Milksops review the graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills" in which the X-Men ally with…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Astro City #1 and #1/2
We saved (one of) the best for last: Astro City. This is Kurt's masterpiece. Along with artist Brent Anderson and cover artist/collaborator Alex Ross, Kurt…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Secret Identity
We continue our look into Kurt Busiek with a deepish dive on one of his most beloved works: 2004's "Secret Identity." What if someone woke up in OUR world had…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Avengers #19-22
The Milksops continue our Talking 'Bout Busiek season with a look at his stellar run on The Avengers. Specifically we dig into issues 19-22, Ultron Unleashed!…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Untold Tales of Spider-Man
Continuing our dive into Kurt Busiek, we look at his critically acclaimed series Untold Tales of Spider-Man. It's a masterpiece of going back to basics with…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Thunderbolts #1
A team of villains who sometimes maybe kinda want to be heroes? One of the great series in recent decades. The Milksops get into Thunderbolts #1 with it…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTalkin' Bout Busiek: Marvels #1-4
The Milksops begin their celebration / examination of legendary comics writer Kurt Busiek by doing a medium-depth dive on his breakout 1993 mini-series…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsCrash Course: Ms. Marvel
To prepare for the new Disney+ show starring Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan incarnation), the Milksops do a crash course on her comic books! Despite just having…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsReview: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
The Milksops break from their tendency to talk about 80s and 90s comics to focus on the latest MCU release: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Their…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbgs #23 - X-Men #185-188
Two issues of bliss, two issues of blah -- that's how the Milksops see these issues. We get a fun look at Rogue and Storm's friendly in 185, followed by the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #22 - X-Men #181-184
A terrific run of Claremont issues. We have the charming "Young Dragons in Love" where we see Japan bring out its standing anti-Monster forces to stop a…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #21 - X-Men #177-180
In this X-issues we see a lot of cool stuff but also Professor X playing basketball in X-themed athletic wear, which is..... I can't decide what that is…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #21 - X-Men #174-176 and Annual 7
Three pretty great X-Men issues where we the mutants deal with getting used to Rogue, meeting Scott's Jean Grey-clone(?) fiance and Wolverine investigating why…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #20 - X-Men Annual 6, #171-173
The mutants return to fight the villain they are most known for fighting: Count Dracula! Wha....? Okay, so it's not a standard X-villain, but this is a better…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBorn Again: 6-7 (Daredevil #232-233)
The big finish of the Born Again saga. We've got: crazed super-soldier who always thinks he's in Vietnam, corrupt generals and police commissioners and police…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBorn Again: 4-5 (Daredevil #230-231)
The Born Again saga begins jumping from character to character faster and faster, but Miller's taut prose and Mazzuchelli's deft art keep everything feeling…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsCrash Course: Moon Knight
Because of the new Moon Knight television show, the Milksops do a crash course in to the comics portrayal of Moon Knight, a character neither of them know that…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBorn Again 2-3 (Daredevil #228-229)
Despite some very big limitations and shortcomings, Born Again stands out as an incredible achievement of monthly comic book creation. Each issue is tense…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #19 - X-Men 167-170
Professor Xavier is a jerk, says Kitty Pryde and X-Nation agrees, or at least the Milksops agree. We are into the beautiful Paul Smith epoch of the Claremont…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBorn Again #1 (Daredevil #227)
The Milksops can't stop obsessing over Frank Miller, so we're going from Dark Knight Returns to Frank's awesome return to Marvel's Daredevil: the Born Again…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #18 - X-Men 163-166
Brood, Brood and more Brood. The X-Men find themselves in an impossible situation when they realize that a hostile alien force has planted eggs inside of their…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Dark Knight Returns #4
The final issue of the Dark Knight Returns brings a showdown that maybe only Frank Miller was asking for: Batman takes down Superman. We see a very…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Dark Knight Returns #3
Batman doesn't kill. But should he? Frank MIller's portrayal of the Joker puts this question to the test after the Clown Prince of Crime begins a murder spree…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #17 - X-Men #159-162
The X-Men stories are getting so complicated it's tough to summarize correctly. But basically we've got: a quick fight against Dracula (no big), a demon who…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Dark Knight Returns #2
Issue 2 of this seminal series is the only one that features a wholly original villain: the hyper-violent, extra-brutal leader of the Mutant Gang. Batman gets…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #16 - X-Men #155-158
The Starjammers are back and things get confusing! It's something to do with a missing possibly kidnapped Princess Lilandra, and a coup among the Shi'ar, and…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Dark Knight Returns #1
The Milksops begin their in-depth look at THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, the 1986 Batman story by Frank Miller (and Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley) that changed the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbags #15 - X-Men #151-154
Hilarious Correction Department: it's Emma FROST not Emma STONE. Anyway: A rival school for mutants drafts Kitty Pryde, and Storm switches bodies with Emma…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsEmergency Episode: Spider-Man No Way Home
The Milksops convene for a emergency episode to discuss their feelings on the new Spider-Man movie "No Way Home." Big spoilers starting at about 10 minutes in…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #14 - X-Men #147-150, Annual 5
Magneto is back and badder than ever! Wait, no, maybe he's good! No, he's bad! Anyway: he's fun. The post-Byrne era continues. Claremont likes off-panel big…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBen Rodgers - Eightball #11
We take a break from the superheroes with this one. Actor/writer Ben Rodgers (Lower Decks, Workaholics) joins the Milksops to discuss the indie comic classic…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #13 - X-men #143-147
Five more Claremont X-Men issues. We say goodbye to John Byrne with a cracker of Kitty Pryde story, followed by a Man-Thing story (the most awkwardly named…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBrett White: X-Factor #84
We're joined by Brett White, a writer for Decider.com, former employee of Wizard magazine and deeply devoted life-long X-fan. Brett gets into his passionate…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #12 - X-Men 141-142
The hits keep on coming! The Milksops have reached another X-Men milestone: the two-issue story "Days of Future Past." This is where we see an adult Kathryn…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsChris Gethard: Strange and Doom - The Triumph and The Torment
Chris Gethard (Beautiful/Anonymous, Planet Scum, Half My Life special on Amazon Prime) returns to discuss a gem of a graphic novel from 1989: Dr. Strange and…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #11 - X-Men 138-140, Annual 4
It's a bit of a valley in the X-Men saga, as we take a breath after the Death of Phoenix and before Days of Future Past. We get a funeral, a recap of... the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJ.M. DeMatteis Interview
One of the Milksops' dream guests, J.M. DeMatteis graces the podcast this epsiode! J.M.'s credits in comics are vast: he had several long runs on Spider-Man…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #10 - X-Men #133-137
The Death of Phoenix. Truly one of the milestone stories in modern superhero comics, and it still hits hard, even for the Milksops who are reading the full arc…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsChris Claremont Interview
The Milksops interview Chris Claremont, author of Marvel's X-Books for something like 17 years, and then some. We get into how he got hired by Stan Lee in the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #9 - X-men #129-132
Enter: The Hellfire Club. Also enter: "radiation" heroes as stand-ups, mutants as improvisers; the abundance of alleys in Marvel's NYC; the debut of Kitty…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsAlex Segura: Amazing Spider-Man #350
Alex Segura, who's written and edited in various capacities for Archie, DC and many others (in addition to writing terrific crime novels) joins us to analyze…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #8 - X-Men #125-128
The Milksops arrive at the Proteus saga, and notice that the already-great X-Men series is levelling up in quality. Multiple storylines intersect with a…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #7 - X-men #122-124, Annual #3
A catch-up issue where everyone catches their breath, then Arcade throws everyone into a giant pinball machine, and then oh yeah some guy named Arkon from…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #6 - X-men #118-121
The X-Men go up against the most powerful enemy: the insanely well-funded secret Canadian super-hero program. Enter ALPHA FLIGHT! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man: #17-31
A big episode for a big event: the wrap-up of Superior Spider-Man. One of the all-time great Spidey comics comes to a thundering, epic, emotionally devastating…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutant and Mailbag #5 - X-Men #114-117
The X-Men (most of them) make it to the Savage Land. The Milksops talk about the trope of hidden lands with dinosaurs in them, people who look like they've…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man #11-16
Over these issues, Spidey-Otto evolved into full super villain mode. He gets a lair, henchmen and even a giant robot. The Milksops discuss this, as well as…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #4 - X-Men #109-113
John Byrne is on-board and the X-Men stories are getting wilder, weirder and even more fun. We've got circus sideshows, robot nannies and Colossus saying…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man #7-10
Things go from bad to worse for Ghost Peter as Spidey-Otto discovers his existence. We get into the many ways that Dan Slott keeps this story emotionally…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutant and Mailbag #3 - X-men #104-108
Barely 12 issues into their run and the X-men battle with approximiately 100 newish characters and save the universe. We get into: Claremont and Cockrum…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man #4-6
More tales of Spidey-Otto! The milksops get into seeing which ways Otto is a more efficient Spidey and the many ways in which he is worse. Some hot takes from…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #2 - X-Men #98-103
We're not far into Chris Claremont's X-Men run and things are happening FAST: Storm and Jean Grey are best friends, the X-Men have gone on vacation for the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man: #1-#3
The new normal: Otto Octavious is Spider-Man. What could have been a single issue is being played out into a multi-year regular series! We start to see the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMutants and Mailbag #1 - X-Men GS#1-#97
The Milksops introduce a new episode format: Mutants and Mailbag. For half the episode the cover the early Chris Claremont run of Marvel's X-Men (which they…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSuperior Spider-Man: Amazing Spider-Man #698-#700
The Milksops get into one of the most-requested series from our fans: 2012's Superior Spider-Man, in which Spidey and Doctor Octopus switch bodies! In this…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsScott Aukerman: Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6
The Milksops get their first returning guest: podcast novice Scott Aukerman, creator and host of Comedy Bang-Bang as well as the writer / actor / producer of…