Weird Warriors Podcast

01/01/2026

Happy New Year, and welcome to a "Rich's Birthday" Special Mission, Troops! Featuring, as you may have expected by now...A Garth Ennis-written "Punisher" story! Gather 'round the radioactive campfire with us for one last ride with ol' Frank Castle in this one-shot (don't worry, Frank fires more than...

01/01/2026

Fare thee well, 2025! Time for the "Year that Was" roundup! Fourteen issues of the title comic, 61 - 74! Our last redeployment issue, a romance comic, the fan-voted episode and a Big 5 book! 18 total episodes! We're due for a Road Warriors episode and I got just the place, but Max has to fit it into his schedule! Will this be the year? How many episodes will we post? Will Max ever "catch up" posting episodes of the show to our YouTube channel? Tune in and see, folks!

31/12/2025

30/12/2025

Honoring Ernie Patricio, born on this day in 1949!

Ernesto Patricio was born in San Juan, Rizal, The Philippines and became part of the Philippine wave of artists to the U.S. in the 1970s, providing war and horror stories for DC (1972-1986) and an illustrated classic of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Pendulum Press (1973), later reprinted by Marvel. His first work appeared in House of Mystery #206, followed by appearances in Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, Ghosts, Weird Mystery Tales, The Unexpected, The Witching Hour, House of Secrets, G.I. Combat, All Out War, Weird War Tales, Time Warp and Secrets of the Haunted House amongst others.

After leaving the comics industry, Patrício has worked mainly in fine arts and is considered one of the finest contemporary painters in the Philippines. He also worked as an Art Director in the Middle East.

He also worked as an animator in Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) and Biker Mice from Mars (1993).

His work appears in three issues of Weird War Tales.

28/12/2025

What did I do today? I picked up Sue Glanzman (Sam's widow) and went with the family to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown NY to see "Exploring Calvin and Hobbes", running until December 31.

The exhibition features original Calvin and Hobbes daily and Sunday strips as well as specialty pieces by Watterson from his collection of more than 3,000 originals housed at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University. Calvin and Hobbes appeared in 2,400 newspapers worldwide at the height of its popularity. Watterson won the National Cartoonists Society’s prestigious Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” in both 1986 and 1988.

Sue celebrated her 79th birthday this month, so we paid her way at the Museum and took her to lunch after. She had a great time and really got into comparing Watterson's techniques with Sam's. The exhibit was full. I don't know where it's going after the run at Fenimore ends, but I encourage all fans of the strip to look it up!

27/12/2025

My current read: "Haunted War Tales" by R.C. Bramhall. Some battlefields – such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all documented in one place for the first time in this engaging and informative collection - are not easily explained and remain a mystery to be pondered, becoming modern canon in the centuries-long history of strange and unusual war stories.

Anti-tank dogs? Yep! Bat bombs? Sure! N**i occult? You bet! All this and many more! This probably be a keeper!

25/12/2025

I've been lucky enough to be home for Christmas for the 15 years I've been in service. Let's remember all those today that aren't home.

24/12/2025

Happy New Year! It's the end of the world! It's all about the good feelings on the Weird Warriors Podcast! Because what says "hope for the future" more than 8 billion dead? But one guy made it, and he has one... final... mission... See ya in a week, and pass the party hats!

22/12/2025

SGT Fury vs. Cyborg

21/12/2025

"1920: America's Great War", by Robert Conroy

Consider another 1920: Imperial Germany has become the most powerful nation in the world. In 1914, she had crushed England, France, and Russia in a war that was short but entirely devastating.

By 1920, Kaiser Wilhelm II is looking for new lands to devour. The United States is fast becoming an economic super-power and the only nation that can conceivably threaten Germany. The U.S. is militarily inept, however, and is led by a sick and delusional president who wanted to avoid war at any price. Thus, Germany is able to ship a huge army to Mexico to support a puppet government.

Her real goal: the invasion and permanent conquest of California and Texas.

America desperately resists as the mightiest and most brutal army in the world in a battle fought on land, at sea, and in the air as enemy armies savagely marched up on California, and move north towards a second Battle of the Alamo. Only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser's challenge.