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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 ComicsMailbag #2
While the Milksops have been talking to all these guests, the mail has piled up so we catch up! We cover: superheroes in cabinet positions, the question of…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJordan White: Amazing Spider-Man #334-339
We are joined by Jordan White, who is Marvel Comics Senior Editor that oversees the "X books." Damn, pretty cool, right? Jordan talks about Amazing Spider-Man…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsChris Gethard: Mighty Thor #364-366
We are so legitiamately thrilled to announced our guest for this episode: Chris Gethard. In addition to being an author, comedian, creator of the hit podcast…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMatt Kindt: Concrete #1-3
Multi-genre master Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Red Handed, Beserker, Bang and a million more) comes on to wax nostalgic about the late 1980s indie favorite…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJesse Falcon: X-Men #128
Longtime Marvel (and ToyBiz and Disney) Toy Designer Jesse Falcon joins us. Jesse is both a comics professional and a comedian friend of the Milksops as they…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJeff Smith: Batman #232
Jeff Smith, the creator of the insanely great series Bone, joins the Milksops to geek out about Batman #232 by Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams. And we do mean…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMailbag Episode
The Milksops take a break from their season of guests (already? sure) to catch up on email. Turns out our Secret Wars episodes really got you listeners working…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsTom Brevoort: FF #177-179
We begin our Season of Guests with a bang: Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort (editor of Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Civil War, Winter Soldier)…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #11 and #12: Wrap It Up Quick!
The Secret Wars comes to an abrupt end, but not before Doom becomes a god, then not, then inbewteen, then... nothing. Also the heros all die and then don't…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #9 and #10: Your hero, Doctor Doom
These issues showcase the super-villain Doctor Doom, and he emerges as the main character of this story. Will loves Secret Wars and respect Jim Shooter's work…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #7 and #8: Spidey's Costume
A lot of stuff happens in these two issues but maybe the most significant is the arrival of Spider-Man's black costume, which eventually becomes the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #5 and #6: Recapping the Recaps
More fun issues, though there is a lot of recapping, even for Secret Wars. In one issue we have both Doom and Professor X checking in with everyone, and maybe…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #3 and #4: A Mountain of A Problem
The Milksops talk about one of their favorite moments of the Secret Wars story: the Hulk holds up a mountain. Will is suprised how much he's enjoying this…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars #1 and #2: Doom Flies Off
Secret Wars is a fun-first, subtle dialogue far far last type of story, and for the Milksops (and the tens of thousands who bought these issues) it works…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsMarvel's Secret Wars: Preview
The Milksops talk about the original Marvel Superhero's Secret Wars. Commercially successful, critically tolerated, and fascinating! We ponder what the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBlack Hammer #2 - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
We continue going over Kevin's recommendations as we go over the very cool series Black Hammer, specifically issue #2. A group of superhumans are stuck in a…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBang #2 - It's Like You're In A Book
We go over the action movie homage Bang #02, written by Matt Kindt. It stars an action hero that is part Die Hard, part Doc Savage and all fun. It's also a…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsImmortal Hulk #5 - Best Hulk Ever?
We begin a short series of Will reading some comics Kevin tells him to. We start with the commercially successful and critically acclaimed IMMORTAL HULK. The…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman Wrap-Up
Milksops Will and Kevin wrap up their season of discussing Sandman comics. Somehow Will talks for 45 minutes and they're not even going over another issue…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #69 - Killing Family... Bad?
Dream learns that murdering his own son might have been uncool, like way uncool, to the degree that the 3 Fates who for reasons we forget hate Dream, show up…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #55 - The Thing About Burying Someone
Stories within stories within stories! The Milksops continue their look at Sandman with a deepish dive into issue #55, called "Cerements" in which (inhale).. a…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #54 - A Good Prez
Casey Bruce from Danger Room Comics of Olympia, Washington joins the Milksops to do a deep dive on the truly strange Sandman Story "The Golden Boy," which…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #43 - A 15,000 Year Old Guy Walks Into A Wall
"Do You Control Transportation?" may not seem like a good way to start a conversation in a travel agent's office but then again, what are travel agents? The…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #34 - Horrifying Rituals and Small Talk
The Milksops get into the hot button issues of: gender identity, sexual consent and also cutting people's faces off and nailing them to a wall in this, the…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #21-#22 - To Hell And Back But Also Stay There
We meet Lord Morpheous' family who are strange in two ways only: they are super-powerful beings in charge of aspects of reality, and all their names start with…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #17 - So Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
WARNING: the issue we discuss has sexual assault in its story. Kevin and Will review a gruesome tale of horror and revenge in the Sandman issue "Callopie." An…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #13: Chaucer and Shakespeare Walk Into A Bar
The milksops (Kevin and Will) go over the debut of Hob Gadling, the man who will never die! What's YOUR favorite invention of the last 500 years: chimneys or…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSandman #8: Dream's Big Sister Death
We begin a new season in which Kevin and Will examine the Vertigo series Sandman! Will is so excited we don't get to the issue itself for 30 minutes! Then we…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBatman Year One Issue #4 | Costume Optional
Kevin and Will finish their discussion of Batman Year One, and guess what? They still love it. Kevin pitches more ways to get Batman out of this story. Will…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBatman Year One Issue #3 | Batman Saves the Cat
Commissioner Gordon watches as Gotham Police nearly kill his not-yet-friend Batman. Topics we discuss include: how fast could you pick a lock in gloves? Did…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBatman Year One Issue #2 | 80% Less Batman
Kevin and Will continue looking at one of the greatest superhero comics of all time: Batman Year One. There's two hot takes in this episode. 1) They both think…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League Europe #6 | French Class
The JLE meet their toughest enemy yet: a strict French teacher. Also the hilariously not-that-powerful Injustice League are in the same class! And with that…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League Europe #4 | Big Hair Day
The JLE beat their foe, and in a very un-Justice League moment -- they do it by actually using their powers in a fight?! Also Kevin and Will discuss how JLE…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League Europe #3 | Off the Dome
Who does the city of Paris love more than the JLE? Everyone, but especially the Global Guardians (who? oh, right them). Will and Kevin admire the balance of…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League Europe #2 | Split Up!
The new chapter of the league splits into pairs to track down who is trying to destroy their credibility. We learn almost nothing about that, but DO get to see…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League Europe #1 | The Spin-Off
Justice League International was such a hit that it spawned a spin-off: Justice League Europe. Kevin talks about how this title is better than the original and…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBatman: Year One Issue #1 | Tze Chun of TKO Presents
Special guest episode! We talk to Tze Chun, a writer and the co-founder of comics company TKO Presents, about the stellar classic BATMAN: YEAR ONE. A…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #12 | Maxwell Lord's Backstory: How Evil Is He?
The first year of JLI ends with Maxwell Lord smashing a computer apart while the Justice League fights... no one? Merton leaves mid issue and Will and Kevin…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #11 | The Trouble With Max
The league starts to uncover the mysterious background of Maxwell Lord, the good guy who seems like a bad guy until we discover... he isn't! Maybe? I lose…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #10 | Enter G'nort!
Within the forgettable Millenium event there is born a character both idiotic and unforgettable. G'nort arrives! And the JLI creative team gets to write…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #9 | Rocket Red Traitor?
Rocket Red, who has been a member of the JLI for one whole issue -- is a TRAITOR! Only a crossover as forgettable as "Millenium" could produce a betrayal of…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #8 | Moving Day
The first almost all-fun-character, no-action JLI issue as the league moves into several embassies around the globe. We've got the first "bwa-ha-ha" laugh…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #7 | International At Last
The Justice League becomes Justice League International! First Dr. Fate gets rid of the most powerful villain of the series in one panel. Also, Kevin and Will…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #6 | The Grey Man
The Justice League team attempts to fight the mystical Gray Man with the help (or hinderance) of the Creeper. Captain Marvel fights J'onn Jonzz, Black Canary…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #5 | One Punch
The mysterious Grey Man is finally revealed! He's a dude who is a bad guy. Also The Creeper shows up. And Batman and Guy Gardner have their most iconic moment…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #4 | Mr. Gold
Booster Gold joins the Justice League. He earns his place by fighting some adults who dress up as playing cards the same way most people get jobs. Plus Maxwell…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International - #3 | Windy Ninja
More nukes, more commies, plus two Star Trek Jokes. JLI is already in fine form, very early in its series run. Kevin and Will love that Mister Miracle was…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #2 | The Commies!
It's not a 1980s superhero book without the THREAT OF NUCELAR WAR looming closely overhead. Will and Kevin get into the issue where the Justice League start…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International #1 | The C-Team!
Issue one features the new Justice League in all of its not-that-much-glory. We've got: alt-right Green Lanterns! An "Oh Gosh" Captain Marvel! A…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsJustice League International | Introduction
We begin our look at the 1980s hit JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL. Originally simply JUSTICE LEAGUE, this was an incarnation of DC's super team that featured…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsBonus Episode | Last Knight on Earth #1 with Jerah Milligan
We take a break from the Incredible Hulk to take a deep dive on BATMAN. -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk | Ditko Tales to Astonish
Finally: Banner changes into Hulk when he gets angry! Or at least stressed. We go over the first two Ditko Hulk stories under the "Tales to Astonish" banner…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #6 | The Metal Master!
The Metal Master is a villain so powerful, so fascinating -- that we're pretty sure he's never heard from again after this issue. But we have art from Steve…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #5 | A Muscle-Bound Creep
This issue includes: secret underground civilization, sub-human worker race, the fountain of youth, spider-leg-cars, gladiator battles, and a sub-nuclear…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #4 | Smart Hulk / A Mongol in Shorts
Lots more of the Hulk flying-not-flying, Rick being a scientific genius, a new set of rules for Banner turning into the Hulk, lotsa gamma rays, a few rampages…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #3 | A Completely Bonkers Story
Truly one of the most bonkers stories Will and Kevin have ever read. Hulk flies, but doesn't, gets mind controlled, gets trapped in space for the third time in…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #2 | Toad Men! Toad Men? Toad Men!
We follow up last issue's sci-fi commnuist spy plot with... TOAD MEN! An alien race arrives with insane magnetic power to take over the Earth, that is... until…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk #1 | It's About Ding Dong Time!
Kevin and Will go over The Incredible Hulk issue #1. We've got G-bomb tests, cranky generals, rebellious teenagers, dangerous commies, a human gargoyle and…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsThe Incredible Hulk | Introduction
Your introduction to all things Hulk! Kevin and Will give an overview of how the Hulk comic book was created, canceled, brought back, and then seen to become…
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About ComicsSeason Three Trailer | The Incredible Hulk
Kevin and WIll announce they'll be discussing the first six issues of The Incredible Hulk, starting next episode! -- SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics…