Zero Issues Comic Podcast

02/26/2025

John Constantine! This month he celebrates not once, not twice but... no... well, yea, twice. It's been 40 years since his first appearance in Swamp Thing and 20 years since the Keanu Reeves helmed film was released! Wow.
So we talk about that. The boys reread that first appearance and discuss the bizarreness of that issues.... but it's Alan Moore, so that's expected. We discuss the debate on how to say his name. We talk Vertigo, suit colour, being a dick and Sting (the musician AND the wrestler).
We talk about the spectacular casting of that film, and how it didn't get much love when it first came out.
Plus Sonic films, beards, Christopher Walken, Justice for Jeeves and a warm up about first impressions of other magical comic characters!
And more! It's f'n magical.

Go to https://zeroissues.com/2025/02/26/constant2/ or wherever you find magical podcasts.

02/19/2025

This week, to coincide with the release of Captain America: Brave New World, we’re covering Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, partners in… well, not crime, but mostly the opposite? Captain America and The Falcon, partners since the ’60s. How did they meet? Why do they work so well together? Whaddya mean they’ve both been werewolves? Plus: Bry talks wings, Merk talks MODOK: Origins, and we all talk avian telepathy,and how it should have been in the MCU from the start.

Meanwhile (or a little earlier in the episode, as the format dictates): in the Warmup, Kyle pitches some other movies that are subtitled with the names of books we had to read in high school! Get ready for X-Men: Pryde and Prejudice, something that defintely has never been pitched before! Wooooosh!

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02/12/2025

COMICS to the rescue!!! Know what's going on. Stay informed. And read comics. Resistance is not futile.

Have a horror comic and watch out for the low literacy trolls who will never read it in the comments
https://stopproject2025comic.org

02/05/2025

It's a Lava Lamp Episode! In that we are just bringing up whatever topics and chatting about everything! What does that have to do with lava lamps? These three knuckleheads have no idea.

Tariffs are first up! How do these effects comics? Comic consumers? Comic makers? Indie comic creators? Kyle brings up Hank Howard Pizza Detective Kickstarter and the troubles insuing.... (This is recorded on Feb 2 and things may have changed drastically. Every day .... something else)

Diamond Distribution Bankruptcy! Wowzers! A 40 year monopoly comes crashing down! We sift through the rubble!

Tubi Conan or not Tubi Conan. THAT is the questions! Merk talks the '97 live action Conan series he just rediscovered on Tubi along with a few other Tubi gems! (Hey Tubi! Sponsor us!)

Comic characters on social media. Does Peter Parker have an Only Fans to pay the rent?

We anticipate how we're going to be disappointed by the FF Trailer.

AND SO MUCH MORE!

Go to https://zeroissues.com/2025/02/05/463-a-what-the-f-was-i-supposed-to-do-about-this-clause/ or wherever pods are cast.

02/04/2025

So is it a rocky dud? Or on fire? Or is that a stretch?

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01/29/2025

This week/month/news cycle, a lot of us north of the US/Canada border are feeling a little worried. Maybe you are, too, regardless of where you live? From a Canadian perspective, we talk about the relationship between Canada and "The States," at least in terms of comics. That's right, we're talking about We Stand On Guard! But also other stuff, too: how US tariffs may effect the cost of comics, the Canada Whites, that time we kinda sorta burned the White House down, and some new Canadian super heroes for our homegrown comic creators like Jeff Lemire, Ryan North, Fionna Staples, and our best friend forever Chip Zdarsky to work on instead of just more Batman (HONK SHOO, DUDE).

And in the Warmup, Kyle presents a scintilating game of Was It A Real Jimmy or Was It A Pretendo Jimmy, the game where you guess if it was a Real Jimmy or a Pretendo Jimmy (Olsen).

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01/23/2025

It’s time for another electrifying Dramatic Reading, as we travel back to 1966 for Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom #17! Reacting to a volcanic plot from his arch-nemesis, NURO, the good DOCTOR SOLAR must recharge his waning atomic powers to face off against the hot and cold flame monster PRIMO! Featuring a veritable grab-bag of terrible impressions for this story’s many background extras! It’s a primo episode, baby!

Listen along at zeroissues.com or anywhere the world’s finest pods are cast!

01/15/2025

Do you have a mentor? Someone who helped guide you through the weirdness of life? Helped you with picking your first cape to go on patrol in? Or how to take down a sleezeball mugging an old lady at 40 yards? Or how to get bludgeoned with a crowbar.....yeek.
We're talking mentors this week! From Batman to Green Arrow to Wolverine to ol' horrible Chuck and many more.
Bry runs a Cosmo style quiz to see who Merk & Kyle would be be suited to be mentored by. And it ain't Big Daddy.
We look at the high points (Speedy?) and the low points (Speedy?).
Merk also has a warm up talking about using the same actors over and over again in comic book movies. Jason Momoa, he's looking at you.
Join us for this and so much more!

Go to https://zeroissues.com/2025/01/15/460-a-couple-of-bucks-short/ or wherever you find mentorish superhero podcasts.

01/08/2025

2024 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 we read? What's the good stuff that we DIDN'T, and can we fix that? We'll find out, this week, and then, eventually, this year, one assumes!

PS: There was also stuff that we didn't like, and we do talk about that. It's fine, because nothing's perfect, and it's crazy to expect anything to be.

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12/31/2024

Dooooo iiiiiittt!!!!