Comics Discourse 114
A group of great friends geeking out over contemporary and classic comic books, manga, and the creators behind them! Each week, Brian, Bryan and Hassan chat on comics, including recent reads, selected storylines, fun topics, and spotlights focusing on a particular book or creator!
Episodes
We get wacky as Special guest Shane Kelly from Comic Geek Speak join us to for our final monthly spotlight on Justice League International with Justice League Europe vs Extremists. We discuss JLE 15 - 19 by Keith Giffen, Gerald Jones, and Bart Sears where Captain Atom leads JL against alternate versions of Marvel Comic’s great villains and visit Disney World on a dead Earth. What?! It is DC Comics vs Marvel Comics!
The DC Comics event of the year concludes with DC K.O. #5 as King Omega finally arrives. We break down the finale, the tie-ins, and the overall event from Scott Snyder, Joshua Williamson, Javi Fernandez, Xermanico, Wes Craig, and more, plus what it could mean for the future of the DC Universe.
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Back by popular demand, we revisit the early years of Image Comics with ShadowHawk, Brigade, Supreme, Pitt, and Gen 13 by Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Dale Keown, Jim Lee, J Scott Campbell and others. Do these books hold up to the test of time? Did they ever? Find out. Plus some new comic book talk including Absolute Wonder Woman Annual, Versus Manga, The End of Life, the new Vertigo book by Kyle Starks & Steve Pugh, and Batman/...
Come sit down on comfortable chair and join us as we talk comic books that are on the Top of the Stack. We dive into some new hot books like Bleeding Hearts, D'orc, & White Sky, along with books from a wide range of publishers including Image Comics, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW, Ignition Press and more. We also talk about latest news coming out of ComicsPRO 2026 and talk about what has us most excited for t...
Hate. Death. Despero. It is not the typical Justice League International spotlight episode with the deadly return of Despero. Special guest Shane Kelly from Comic Geek Speak returns to the show to discuss with us Justice League International Special #1 and Justice League America 37 - 40 featuring Steel, Gypsy, Booster Gold quitting the team, Power Girl’s cat, and the Death of Mister Miracle! Wait? What? Plus Justice League Detroit...
In celebration of DC Comics relaunching Vertigo Comics, we’re spotlighting some classic titles from across the imprint’s history; Animal Man, Preacher, Fables, House of Mystery, American Vampire, and The Wake. The creators include Jamie Delano, Steve Pugh, Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Lilah Sturges, Luca Rossi, Ross Campbell, Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, and Sean Murphy.
With the excitement around DC Comics KO, we turn the clock back to Marvel’s own heavyweight showdown: Avengers vs. X-Men. In this episode, we revisit the 2012 blockbuster event by an all-star lineup: Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Cho, John Romita Jr., Olivier Coipel, Adam Kubert, and Jim Cheung. What did we think when it first dropped? How does it read now, years later? Plus ...
Please kick back in a comfy chair and join us as the co-hosts dive into our latest reads across Marvel Comics, Fantagraphics, DC Comics, IDW, and Image Comics.
On the stack this time: Captain America, Alien vs Captain America, Search & Destroy, Alex Ross, The Twilight Zone, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, TMNT, the return of Bendis to Marvel with Avengers #800, Absolute Wonder Woman meeting Absolute Batman, Captain Britain...
We dive into the first-ever Justice League America / Justice League Europe crossover, a landmark story that also kicks off Adam Hughes’ legendary run on JLA. These issues feature the debut of Fire and Ice’s iconic looks (although Fire’s is basically regular clothes, two sizes too small), the Huntress and a new female Doctor Fate joining the team, appearances by the Spectre and Superman, the return of the Gray Man, and the introduct...
The ’90s gave us some legendary comic book based animated TV show, but do they still hold up? We go back to X-Men, The Tick, and Spawn to find out which ones we still love and which ones don’t quite land the same today. Plus Y The Last Man, One World Under Doom, Arcadia, Escape, DanDaDan, TMNT & GlobalComix
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It is a Brian and Bryan on Brian episode as Brian Braddock takes center stage and we dive into classic Captain Britain stories by Alan Moore and Alan Davis, groundbreaking work that not only revitalized the character but established key Marvel Comics concepts, including Earth 616. Also, while Hassan is out the week, we talk about some great comics without him, including Drome, Assorted Crisis Events, Kingdom manga by Yasuhisa Hara...
It is our year-end episode, celebrating the absolute greatness of comics and manga with our favorite books of 2025 from across the industry; DC Comics, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW, Kodansha, Viz, Rebellion and many more.
It was an incredible year packed with standout books, so each co-host narrowed it down to their top 10 favorite comics … although one co-host may have sneakily cheated and brought 12 to the...
We’re joined by special guest Tim Meakins as we blast into DC Comics cosmic side with L.E.G.I.O.N, the ‘90s series by Alan Grant, Keith Giffen, and Barry Kitson. Set in the present-day DC Universe but tied directly to the 30th-century Legion of Super-Heroes, this book introduced heavy hitters like Vril Dox and put the Main Man himself, Lobo, front and center. Plus 2000AD talk including the Out, Red Dragon and Zenith.
We’re crossing the Atlantic for this month’s Justice League International spotlight, and we’ve brought along a very special guest, Shane Kelly from Comic Geek Speak! Join us as we dive into Justice League Europe #1–6, the launch of the classic team featuring Captain Atom, The Flash, Metamorpho, Elongated Man, Power Girl, Animal Man, and Rocket Red. From clashes with Jack O’Lantern and Queen Bee to French Language Night School, this...
Don’t let us get an angry and listen as we dive into a pivotal story of the Incredible Hulk by the legendary Peter David and Dale Keown, covering issues 372 - 377. This run has it all: the Gray Hulk, the Green Hulk, Rick Jones, Betty Ross, the Super-Skrull, the Pantheon, and Doc Samson.
We also dig into the brand-new Infernal Hulk series by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein, plus more wild throwdowns with DC KO Round One: Supe...
It is the night before Thanksgiving and we give thanks to almost all the comics that we read over the past couple of weeks including Brian going through his backlog of ALL the X-Men books including the Age of Revelation. And we do mean all of them. Plus, Predator Badlands comic book tie-in, Spawn The Dark Ages, New Gods, Batman Dark Patterns, Batman and Robin Year One, Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle, Wrestle Heist, Harley &...
It is a comic book podcast crossover: Comic Geek Speak & Comics Discourse 114!!
The Comic Geek Speak hosts, Peter, Shane, Bryan, and Brian invited us to join their show for a special crossover episode! For our Geek Discourse, we each are tasked with developing a comics syllabus as a way to get people interested in the world of comics. But it doesn’t just stop at the Intro level as we up the difficulty by offering our Intermedia...
We celebrate the creation of one of the best comic book publishers ever with a discussion of some of the first Image Comics books ever, with Youngblood by Rob Liefield, Spawn by Todd McFarlane, Savage Dragon by Erik Laresn, WildCats by JIm Lee, and CyberForce by Mark Silverstri. Discover which ones were our favorites back then and which ones are our favorites today.
We’re celebrating the birth of one of the greatest comic book pub...
We continue our Justice League International Monthly spotlight with Justice League America issues #25 - 30 featuring Guy and Ice’s first date night, brainwashed Blue Beetle, Nabu, Amanda Waller, Big Barda training Fire, and the Huntress joining the team. Stories by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Ty Templeton, Mike McKone, and Bill Willingham.
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To Me, My X-Men!
We’re diving into the end of and beginning of legendary X-Men eras as we breakdown the introduction of the iconic Blue and Gold X-Men teams with with X-men 1 -3 by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee and Uncanny X-Men 281 - 283 by John Byrne and Whilce Portacio! Marvel Comics!
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