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Zero Issues Comic Podcast472: He Can Act But Just Chooses Not To.It’s an all games episode! Superdedouper defight! Hulk Out/Fake Out! MFK! Battleholes card game! A Bry Quiz! And stunt casting with bad actors! We usually come up with the title from some random phrase that was said during the… Continue Reading →2025-04-1600 minZero Issues Comic Podcast459: Yadda Yadda Dumb Place2024 sure was a year that happened, huh? It really, really happened. Such an important, vital year. *Sigh* But hey! Some good stuff happened that year, and we’re gonna focus on it this week. What’s the GOOD stuff that… Continue Reading →2025-01-0800 minZero Issues Comic Podcast458: The Gunn Show (and other news)We haven’t done a news episode for a while, and there’s a whole bunch of somewhat-new and new-new stuff we want to talk about, so here we are! The Superman teaser dropped (as well as the teaser to the teaser… Continue Reading →2025-01-0100 minZero Issues Comic Podcast457: Godzilla and the Lake Michigan Jacuzzi
It’s CHRISTMAS, baby!!
And the boys have a special Christmas episode for you!
GODZILLA!!
What’s says Holiday Love like a giant radioactive lizard?
It’s record time to listen to a Godzilla story from 1977.
Godzilla, String beans, nachos, aliens, bugs bunny and a Lake Michigan Jacuzzi!
Take a 30 minute Godzilla break today with us, won’t you?
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2024-12-2500 minZero Issues Comic Podcast456 – A Yuletide SpecialAs the days grow shorter and the nights grow colder, it’s time once again for Bry, Merk, and Kyle to celebrate the season, and to get a little silly about comic books and the holidays. This year, it’s a Lightning… Continue Reading →2024-12-1800 minZero Issues Comic Podcast455: The Birthday BunchToday is Bry’s birthday, and to celebrate he’s taking the reins for a birthday-themed variety show! First up, the boys perform a Dramatic Reading of the “Jughead” classic where Ms. Grundy is going to celebrate her birthday — whether she… Continue Reading →2024-12-1200 minZero Issues Comic Podcast454: Don’t Buy Presents for a Dead ManIt’s halfway between Halloween & Christmas and that can mean only one thing….. CELERY DAY STALK SLAM!!! The 4th episode in our annual event, we pit Christmas & Holiday Season characters against horror & Halloween related characters to the… Continue Reading →2024-12-0400 minZero Issues Comic Podcast453: It’s Like a Lava Lamp
This week, we’ve decided to take it easy. Notes? Plans? Preparation? Bah! We’re just goin’ with the flow, talking about:
-the new Absolute DC stuff
-The Penguin and Agatha All Along
-all of the new Marvel movie and TV stuff that’s coming soon-ish
-Nightwing!
-general baloney
And it’s Kyle’s birthday! Sure, it’s all about a month late, but hey, chill out, buddy.
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2024-11-2700 minZero Issues Comic Podcast452: A Dell Comics Werewolf in IqaluitIt’s time to choose an adventure of our own (no trademark)! Kyle guides Merk and Bry as they are suddenly contacted by one Al U. Card and one Frank Stone, also known as the infamous Dell Comics Dracula and Frankenstein!… Continue Reading →2024-11-2000 minZero Issues Comic Podcast451: Secret Ghost Town Hullabaloo
We’re BACK!!! The archive site we used got hacked & attacked but we’re back! And yes, we know it’s November but we missed being able to post a lot of spooky stuff! So first up… SPOOKY LIGHTNING ROUND… A series of short, random, all spooky related topics including…. Marvel Scarecrow vs DC Scarecrow! MFK the B-Lister Universal Monsters! Merk queries! A Junji Ito scary love fest! Is Caspar dead Richie Rich? And LOTS more!
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2024-11-1300 minZero Issues Comic Podcast450: Now I’m Whirlwind Crandall
Boff! Pow! Sock! Sock again, even! This week, in a dramatic reading, we’re covering a few of Fletcher Hanks’s lesser-known protagonists: Buzz Crandall and Whirlwind Carter! They are definitely two different guys, they aren’t the same guy with a different belt. Y’see, Buzz Crandall lives on Venus and works for the Space Patrol, an interplanetary secret service, whereas Whirlwind Carter works for the Interplanetary Secret Service! Completely different guys. Their skintight smocks are probably different shades of blue, also!
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The post 450: Now I’m Whirlwind Cran...2024-10-0900 minZero Issues Comic Podcast449: Does Turbo Teen Pray to Car Jesus?Let’s race into a new episode all about cars in comics! Vroom vroom, and so on! Which of the ever-iconic Batmobiles is the most iconic? Do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drive the Turtle Van or the Party Wagon? Which… Continue Reading →2024-10-0200 minZero Issues Comic Podcast448: Adolph Lundgren for Slap ChopOH MAN! Where to start! Bry is off this week and Kyle & Merk go bonkers! What happens you ask? What do they talk about? Well…. Rock bottom finishing moves. Dazzler: Marvel’s Salute to walking sticks. Baby characters. X-book… Continue Reading →2024-09-2500 minZero Issues Comic Podcast447: Get Me Jensen Ackles“Which production logo are we using this time, fellas?” This week, we’re covering the DC Animated Universe of Films, or I guess it’s more of a multiverse, or DCAUFOIGIMOAM. What are the good ones? What are the duds? Is… Continue Reading →2024-09-1800 minZero Issues Comic Podcast446: The September SpatIn the ongoing spirit of March Madness, and August Audness, it’s time to make eight comic characters battle in a tournament we’re calling… The September Spat! Eight contestants enter, but only one can win! And this time, it’s “back to… Continue Reading →2024-09-1100 minZero Issues Comic Podcast445: Inglorious Adam WestBe our guest, be our guest, Brandon Ingram is our guest! Indie comic creator/writer Brandon is on the show once again, discussing his awesome new kickstarter for his indie creation, THE GALLOWS MAN! He describes it as Adam West… Continue Reading →2024-09-0400 minZero Issues Comic Podcast444: It’s the Dude from the Card!This week, we’re spending most of the episode playing Battle Holes, the card game that uses comic book trading cards from the ’90s. You could always play it yourself using, oh, some cards that are readily being given away from… Continue Reading →2024-08-2800 minZero Issues Comic Podcast443: We Stan a Fat AlfredBatman: Caped Crusader is here, we’ve all seen it, so we’re gonna talk all about it, see? And just upfront, we really liked it! We dig into the 1939-ish time period and all the trappings that come with it, share… Continue Reading →2024-08-2100 minZero Issues Comic Podcast442: Knull – Player 2 Marvel Dracula and other Symbiote StuffThe Trailer for Venom 3 has come out and 5 minutes have gone by since we’ve seen a symbiote centered comic event, so let’s talk SYMBIOTES! What do we think of them? How have they evolved? What are some… Continue Reading →2024-08-1400 minZero Issues Comic Podcast441: Taped to a MaceBeeeeest friiiieeeeeends! That’s what we’re talkin’ ’bout this week. We’re answering such age-old questions as: -who actually IS Spider-Man’s best friend? -Is Hank Pym a jerk because no one wants to hang out with him, because he is a… Continue Reading →2024-08-0700 minZero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for July 29, 2024The news flashes once more as San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC if you’re nasty) strikes, and we’ve gotta talk all about it! Kang’s dynasty is over before it began! Doctor Doom conquers Avengers 5 and renames it: DOOMSDAY! The Russos are… Continue Reading →2024-07-2900 minZero Issues Comic Podcast440: It’s a Bit Like Herding XenomorphsClass warfare! In this time of inequality and ever-rising costs of living, it’s time to take a look at superheroes living on very different sides of the class divide! The working class heroes with day jobs and the upper iron… Continue Reading →2024-07-2400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast439: Equal Opportunity StinkIt’s alternate ending week on Zero Issues as the boys take well known comic storylines and do a little ‘tweaking’ of the story…. sometimes for good…. sometimes for evil. Onslaught! Hush! Superman vs the Flash! And more! Plus Merk… Continue Reading →2024-07-1700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast438: Frank Miller’s Love ChunksThis week, our city screams (not unlike a certain Robot Cop screaming for Oreos) that it wants us to talk about Frank Miller, and we, our city’s, uh, lover, are honour-bound to oblige it! What was our first exposure to… Continue Reading →2024-07-1000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast437: No Ice Cream Until You Join The DefendersThe question all comic fans have wrestled with their whole lives! Which member of The Defenders is the best Defender!? We take five, uh, famous Defenders — The Silver Surfer! Hellcat! Nighthawk! Moondragon! Valkyrie! — and pit them against each… Continue Reading →2024-07-0400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast436: King Bee of a World HiveIt’s POWER RECORDS week on Zero Issues, where we listen to not one, but TWO ridiculously amazing DC Power Records from decades ago. Comics on vinyl! First up is Superman- PO Box 65 …. a riveting tale of a… Continue Reading →2024-06-2600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast434: John Lith-Go @#$% YourselfA week late, but worth the wait! As we enter a weird summer movie season in a year with few superhero movies, at least by 21st century standards, we feel compelled to discuss the untapped cinematic potential of comic series… Continue Reading →2024-06-1200 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast433: Righty Tighty, Lefty GoneThe first season of Xmen 97 is OVER!!! And WOW, was it sumpin, huh?! So the boys plunge into it’s depths and ask all the big questions…. Was that Polaris or Greeny Mcgoozle? Does Silver Samurai wish he was… Continue Reading →2024-05-2900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast432: Remy LeBeau, Your Mama’s a Pot of Gumbo!This Week, for our annual We Put Up a Mother’s Day Episode a Week or More Late spectacular, we’re thinking about some moms that haven’t really gotten the spotlight. What’s The Question’s relationship with his mother? What about Doctor… Continue Reading →2024-05-2200 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast431: The Hulk is Full of Tinier MenHey, let’s put all that structure aside for an episode, and just relax by the fire and have a friendly chat about comics. Doesn’t that sound nice? We discuss comic runs that just didn’t do right by their character or… Continue Reading →2024-05-0800 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast430: Some Variance to her SugahsOH MAN!! X-Men 97 continues and we talk episodes 5-7. OH THAT EPISODE 5….. Spoilers of course. Lifedeath! Genosha! Gambit! Rogue! Magneto! And Leech?!? What about Leech!?!? Charlie in space! Werner Herzog as Angel! Let my Cameron Hodge go!… Continue Reading →2024-05-0100 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast429: Q*Bert Has a Filthy MouthMeanwhile, at a different while! This week, we’re talking about our favourite comics that take places with familiar characters in unfamiliar times. Just what happens when super heroes start showing up hundreds of years ahead of schedule? What else… Continue Reading →2024-04-2400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast428: Love that RaimiComics and movies! Movies and comics! Superheroes from comics and movies have been entrenched in pop culture as a mainstay for quite a while now (some say too long). But what about the superhero movies that AREN’T based on… Continue Reading →2024-04-1700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast427: Welcome to DieTo us, our listeners! X-Men ’97’s first season is about halfway over and there’s been a lot to discuss. So let’s do that! We dig into the first four episodes of the nostalgic revival cartoon, and while we all enjoyed… Continue Reading →2024-04-1000 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for April 8 2024 – News That’s NOT the ECLIPSEIt’s monday newsday! And this week is…well… it’s been a week. Ed Piskor. Mark Bright. Julia Garner as Shalla Bal (and people freaked) Space Ghost comic! And Bry got a tattoo! The ups and the downs and the all… Continue Reading →2024-04-0800 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast426: Van Jesus (and Other Easter-Adjacent Tales)It’s an all-Easter Dramatic Read triple feature! Uh, sort of? If the Easter Bunny and/or Jesus Christ appear, we say it counts. So join us as we bring the printed page to audio life! First up, “Big” Ethel Muggs learns… Continue Reading →2024-03-2800 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast425: Could You Turn Human Bones into Glue?We’ve got a real Beast Wars situation on our hands! Okay, so maybe not a *real* Beast Wars situation, what with the no Transformers to speak of, but more of a lower case beast wars situation. These beasts, they be… Continue Reading →2024-03-2000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast424: Alfred With Nunchucks (and Other Rounds of Lightning)It’s time for another LIGHTNING ROUND! Featuring multiple concise but electric mini-segments! No attention span required! Kyle challenges us to pit randomly-selected comic characters against each other in battle with weapons, in a completely original segment we’re calling, uh, SUPAR… Continue Reading →2024-03-1300 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast423: When in Doubt, Blame Dennis!Indie comic creator interview!! Writer Dennis Robinson joins us and discusses his latest chapter of LYCAN:SOLOMON’S ODYSSEY! A gripping tale of the origin of the werewolf! We discuss his Kickstarter for chapter 3 that’s up now, why he decided… Continue Reading →2024-03-0600 minZero Issues Comic Podcast422: Henry Cavill as Wet Senator Kelly
This week on a completely unplanned and very loosey goosey episode, we go over what Henry Cavill could possibly do in the MCU (and boy, there are options!), revisiting the first X-Men movie (which came out 24 goddamned years ago. Wow.) and its sequels, Beast and Wonder Man’s wonderful reunion, and Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Did you know that there’s a new Hellboy movie? Wait, really?
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Zero Issues Comic Podcast421: Have We Ever Talked About Doctor Bong?We were gonna do an episode on drugs for episode #420, but then we… aw, you know the song. This week we discuss drugs in comics, the comic characters who likely partake, the wild and weird fictional drugs, Does the… Continue Reading →2024-02-2200 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for Feb 19, 2024NEWSTIME!!! GET YA NEWS!!! There’s lots going on, so strap in! Sad, Great and a few floating in between. The sad passing of comics great Paul Neary, as well as the tragic news of a crew member of the… Continue Reading →2024-02-1900 minZero Issues Comic Podcast420: Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Crom’s a Lady!Why buy Crom when you can rent Crom? This and MANY other Crom puns await you as we listen to a remarkably civilized sounding Power Records ’45 called Conan the Thunder Dust! All that AND Merk talks about some… Continue Reading →2024-02-0700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast419: He’s DarleneAqua, man! I mean Aquaman. I mean, y’know, Aquaman! My man! This week, we’re offering you four fishtastic Aquaman segments. First, we review Aquman: The Lost Kingdom, which is certainly a movie! Some of us even liked it! Kinda! Then,… Continue Reading →2024-01-3100 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for January 29, 2024Whoa, look at all this news! What if… Marvel used their “What If…” brand for Aliens comics… and also gave us the Paul Reiser / Phil Noto crossover we’ve all long dreamed of? Right?? If you’re an X-Fan who would… Continue Reading →2024-01-2900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast418: Nobody Puts Steranko on the CrateThis week we’re taking a look at the career, impact, legacy, and most importantly STORIES of the one and only Jim Steranko! An innovator, a showman, a living legend, and one that’s no stranger to controversy (let’s be real, controversies,… Continue Reading →2024-01-2400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast417: Dragula Continues… The Marvel Echo ReviewA new Marvel Series is out! ECHO! Echo… echo…. echo…. ok. We’re going to use that joke a few times. Get comfortable as we discuss this new Marvel Disney+ series. Was it good? Was it bad? What worked? What… Continue Reading →2024-01-1700 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for January 15, 2024Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s series Criminal has been given a series order over on Prime, which means that hey, comic book creators are going to be making some money for once! If only there were some sort of… Continue Reading →2024-01-1500 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast416: Cucking AzazelHappy January the 10th! This week, we’re talking about what we want in the world of comics this year. They aren’t big asks! We simply request that maybe the Big Two don’t turn everything into an event, tell smaller,… Continue Reading →2024-01-1000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast415: Crom Laughs At Your TARDIS!2023 is almost over! And while many of us may feel it was a pretty crummy year, a lot of good stuff happened too! And as is our usual custom, we’re gonna talk all about ’em! Bad Space! Conan! My… Continue Reading →2023-12-2700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast414: Wax for Cap’s ShieldIt’s HOLIDAY time, folks! So we have a special Christmas episode on Zero Issues… where Kyle & Merk send Bry on a mission with an impossible gift list…. and then they talk about comic characters. Because THAT’S what the… Continue Reading →2023-12-2000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast413: A Kung Fu Crazy Reptile BrythdayIt’s Bry’s birthday! To celebrate, Merk and Kyle recount Bry’s origin story. Kung Fu Reptiles! Secret brothers! Alien origins! Teen sidekicks! So much stuff that we didn’t know, but hey, we will now! Also, a Bry quiz! Also, a… Continue Reading →2023-12-1400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast412: When You Have Optic Blasts, Every Problem is a NailOh no, I missed mean ol’ Professor Xavier’s class last week, and now we’re all stuck in detention! And he’s forcing the whole class to judge his original five students against each other by some very scientific criteria: Powers! Fighting… Continue Reading →2023-12-0600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast411: A Werewolf Having a Panic AttackIt’s CELERY SLAM 3!!! The super popular and not at all made up by us annual event between Halloween & Christmas when characters associated with each of those holidays go head to head in a battle of … celery…… Continue Reading →2023-11-2200 minZero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for November 20, 2023Robert Kirkman spilled a big ol’ pile of beans this week, but were these beans prefried? The writer revealed in an interview that Steven Yuen has been cast as The Sentry in the upcoming Thunderbolts film, but I feel like… Continue Reading →2023-11-2000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast410: A Human-Shaped Cockroach Boy (and other Captain Marvels)If you thought putting three Marvels in one movie was a feat, this podcast has like seven times as many Marvels! Comics have a long history of using and re-using the name “Captain Marvel” for a wide variety of entirely… Continue Reading →2023-11-1500 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast409: You Can’t Get Real Cocaine in Thunder Bay: The Secret Origin of Sneezy LeezyIt’s Kyle’s birthday so Bry & Merk decide to FINALLY reveal his secret origin! Hear about Baby Beard Kyle! Ol’ hickory eyes Lees they called him. Hear about his crime fighting career as Sneeze Lees and his sidekick Tooters.… Continue Reading →2023-11-0800 minZero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash for November 6, 2023Whole lotta news this week, so let’s get into it! There’s a new Spider-Man swinging his way onto the pages of your comics, and this one’s married, just like you nerds have been crying about for the last ten years!… Continue Reading →2023-11-0600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast408: You Can’t Just Say TrapsterThis week, Bry and Merk wake up in a strange room, chained together. That’s right, they got Saw’d! And the only way out is to answer trivia questions. Will they live, will they die, will they be stung by many… Continue Reading →2023-11-0100 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast407: Ron’s Haunted Virtual WorldHalloween is almost here! And to celebrate the spookiest of seasons, Bry invites Kyle & Merk to a surprise party at… the local arcade that closed years ago!? What’s going on here? But there’s no time to ask questions, because… Continue Reading →2023-10-2500 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast406: Two Bodies Paid in Full!!Scary dramatic read time!! The boys read and act out ‘Nightmare Merchant’ from Strange Fantasy comics 7, 1953! That’s not a milkman… it’s the BLOODMAN!! But we’ll say no more! We dare not! It’s too scarrrrryyy…… but really, Bry’s… Continue Reading →2023-10-1800 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: October 16, 2023Starting off the news for this week, we’re very sad to report that Keith Giffen, of Bwahaha Justice League International fame, among co-creating Lobo, Rocket Raccoon, and Ambush Bug, has passed away at the age of 70. Giffen was… Continue Reading →2023-10-1600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast405: Ignore Rick Jones Until He Leaves of His Own AccordBatman was right that one time, the Justice League can shove it! This week, we’re talking about characters who leave super hero teams: why do they do it, how long do they stay gone, and are they right to… Continue Reading →2023-10-1100 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast404: Introducing LeatherPhoebeI dunno if it’s just us or the entire movie-watching public, but is there a case of the blahs going around? Martin Scorsese says comic-book movies are Ruining Cinema — and what if he’s right? Join us for a thoughtful… Continue Reading →2023-10-0400 minZero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: Oct 2, 2023Oct 2, 2023 newsflash time! It’s the writer’s strike! It’s AI comics! It’s Wall-E or is it Dall-E or is it Dali? We dunno. We talk content creators and Dan Didio’s interesting rant on corporations and the hullabaloo! Jack… Continue Reading →2023-10-0200 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast403: Paste Pot Pete’s Sticky Fingers AdventureWhat do Paste Pot Pete, Keep on Truckin’, James Spader, a spooky classy underground cavern and Charlie Chicken Johansson Berger have in common? They’re all in our crazy MAD LIB STORYTIME episode! With the SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes going… Continue Reading →2023-09-2700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast402: Aquadesantis: Mayor of AtlantisWe’re off to the city! This week, we’re taking a look at some of the cities that super heroes call home. It’s kinda weird that so many of them are Something City, right? Which one would be the safest to… Continue Reading →2023-09-2000 min
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Zero Issues Comic Podcast401: Tin Foil HypnotismIndie Comics!!! New indie comics!! We at Zero Issues LOVE indie stuff ( I know, I know, we talk about the big 2 a LOT) and we love indie creators and crowdfunding too! So this week we’re chatting with… Continue Reading →2023-09-1300 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastEpisode 400400! That’s way more than some Frank Miller book! To celebrate making it to 400 episodes, we’re going to do a whole load of 400-second segments! Marvel as Batman fights Mondays! Feel the shame of knowing we live in… Continue Reading →2023-09-0600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast399: Double Bowie KrangWe’re back together! No, really. We are. The boys are back together in the same room for the first time after zoom recording for a LONG time. So what do we have planned? um…. nothing. We’re just gonna get… Continue Reading →2023-08-3000 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast398: Are We Gonna Be on STROMBO?It’s time once again for the POWER! The power of Power Records, of course! They were comics that came with a record of a performance of the same comic, and they sure were something. This time we’re listening and riffing… Continue Reading →2023-08-2300 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: August 21, 2023Whole lotta sequels going on! This week, we’ve got Basic Instinct 2 (or is it 2.5? 3? 2.Now?) Last Ronin 2, some cool TMNT DLC, talkin’ ’bout the Scott Pilgrim re-adaptation, and maybe even more! Lotsa news*! Direct Download:… Continue Reading →2023-08-2100 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastClassic Zero Issues 3 (2023): The Shredder’s a Real BlancheWhat’s THIS? A surprise third Classic Zero Issues episode? Well, since a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode has hit theatres, why not enjoy this 2020 episode celebrating the first-ever TMNT film?? Personally, we recommend it. Here’s the original write-up:… Continue Reading →2023-08-1600 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast397: Abe Sapien is The DeanFrom the passing of the mantle of The Flash to Batman’s many, many, many teen sidekicks, legacy characters have been a part of super hero comics for almost as long as there has been super hero comics. With that… Continue Reading →2023-08-0900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast396: Get Me Out of Your Mouth. We’re Bros.It’s TURTLE TIME! With the new TMNT movie arriving, we’re doing a turtle episode! Kyle begins by interviewing esteemed Turtle scholar Esa Keltamaki about the TMNT comic series ‘The Last Ronin’-SPOILERS. Bry listened to part of it. Merk intentionally… Continue Reading →2023-08-0200 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: July 31, 2023San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, and in its wake: NEWS! Conan and his savage sword return to comics with a Cimmerian murderer’s row of talent well-geared to making comics about Conan! The relative absence of Hollywood at SDCC… Continue Reading →2023-07-3100 minZero Issues Comic PodcastClassic Zero Issues 2 (2023): A Lenny Kravitz SituationIt’s CLASSIC ZERO ISSUES time as the boys take some time off to find themselves and reconnect to nature. This week….. the FOOMER!! It’s time to FOOM it up!! Yup! We’re talking about that ol’ space dragon monster, Fin… Continue Reading →2023-07-2600 minZero Issues Comic PodcastClassic Zero Issues 1 (2023): A-List LosersNearly 400 episodes in, we need a little break! So, this week and next, we’ll be re-uploading some of our classic episodes. This week it’s episode 63: A-List Losers! Here’s the original writeup: These super heroes get no respect, I… Continue Reading →2023-07-1900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast395: How Titans Stopped Worrying and Embraced the “Dick”Pass the fancy wireless remote, tune in to the tube, get out the TV Guide and let me know if we need to set the VCR —- it’s time to talk about comic-based TV shows! Particularly the current state of… Continue Reading →2023-07-1200 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast394: More Like TrashpointWe’ve waited long enough! The time is now to talk about The Flash, because everyone who’s going to have seen it has seen it. And look, I know that us saying that, and also calling this episode “Trashpoint,” makes… Continue Reading →2023-07-0500 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast393: ROMish the Non-Electric Space KnightTRAVEL 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… Continue Reading →2023-06-2800 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast392: Face It, Tiger – A Romita RetrospectiveThis 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… Continue Reading →2023-06-2100 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast391: One Bub For Yes, Two Bubs For No‘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… Continue Reading →2023-06-1400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast390: Bizarro Farts ColdWhich 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… Continue Reading →2023-06-0700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast389: Bananas In. Bananas Out. That’s What Banana Eating is All About!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… Continue Reading →2023-05-3100 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: May 29, 2023A “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… Continue Reading →2023-05-2900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast388: Spider-Man’s Greatest Enemy: Reptile!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.… Continue Reading →2023-05-2400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast387: The Chip Zdarsky Interview – Add Beards, Do CocaineChip 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… Continue Reading →2023-05-1700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast386: Taserface II – RequiemGuardians 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… Continue Reading →2023-05-1000 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: May 8, 2023Zero 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… Continue Reading →2023-05-0800 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast385: Gamma Moustaches & Grandma BombsPOWER 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… Continue Reading →2023-05-0300 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast384: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad MagazineWhat, 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… Continue Reading →2023-04-2600 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: April 24, 2023Newsflash 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: MP32023-04-2400 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast383: I Wanna Lex You UpInspired 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… Continue Reading →2023-04-1900 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast382: Superman’s Race with the Flash – Sponsored by Brown SpriteIt’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… Continue Reading →2023-04-1200 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast381: Through the Cronen-HoleToday 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… Continue Reading →2023-04-0500 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: April 3, 2023This 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… Continue Reading →2023-04-0300 min
Zero Issues Comic PodcastNewsflash: March 27, 2023This 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… Continue Reading →2023-03-2700 min
Zero Issues Comic Podcast380: Bald BadnessPurple 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… Continue Reading →2023-03-2200 min