Hey Kids, Comics!

In another All-Reader-Request episode, Micheal and Andrew discuss another project they know nothing about. People seem to want us to talk about things of which we have no knowledge – weird. Anyway, this week it’s the turn of the Robots In Disguise, THE TRANSFORMERS, specifically the UK comics. What will [...]

In 1984, Marvel UK embarked upon a unique experiment. An all-new, completely original, UK produced comic strip. This adventure, by Micheal Collins and Barry Kitson, has never been reprinted and seems to have been all but forgotten by all but the most devoted Spider-Man fan. Fortunately Andrew and Micheal are [...]

Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker wraps up with a rather long discussion on the recent multi-part EPIC – DEATH OF THE FAMILY! This much-hyped and extensive storyline, crossing over into pretty much any book with with a “Bat” in the title (and a few that didn’t) was the first large scale [...]

It’s DREADFUL BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOKER! Part IV! It has talking. And conversations about comic books. Specifically THE JOKER, who is 74 this year. Even more specifically, the chat is about THE BATMAN ADVENTURES #28, BATMAN #663 and DETECTIVE COMICS #826.

Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker continues by looking at – Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker from Batman #321. We never said we WEREN’T predictable. Also, there’s a look at BATMAN #353 where The Joker wishes to make his face a true landmark and Batman #366 where The Joker Is Wild, but not [...]

Emails are as random as ever but not as random as when Andrew and Micheal’s discussion on a classic Joker story and if the artist should have been allowed to tinker with it for reprint editions leads to Andrew revealing his true thoughts on the Star Wars special editions. But [...]

Are Stiletto and Discuss the renegade versions of 80’s action TV show Hardcastle & McCormick? Is Stiletto actually a good name for a villain or does it conjure up images of drunken Essex girls stumbling out of the pub? The jury is still out but after all that DREADFUL BIRTHDAY, [...]

The opening conversations about the current Spider-Man story arc leads to e-mails which question the ages of the different comics companies and how Andrew classifies the Marvel Golden, Silver and Bronze ages which bares no resemblance to how anybody else does it. Then, another in the inexplicably popular series of [...]

Micheal and Andrew jump on the Zombie bandwagon, late, to take a look at a career defining moment for creators Robert ‘That Zombie guy’ Kirkman and Sean “Noir” Phillips as well as providing Marvel with an immediate hit and a constant money well to keep returning to – MARVEL ZOMBIES! [...]

This month, Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell serve up a JUMBO-SIZED helping of OLD SCHOOL STAR TREK! This month The Freaks answer some e-mails, reminisce about model kits past and go over some SCHWAG! THEN- The Freaks butt heads with their GREATEST FOE – SPACE HITLER! It’s PATTERNS OF FORCE, [...]

8.00 BRADLEY, P.I. – Drama STEREO “Trail Of The Catwoman” When Bradley is hired by the Mayor of Gotham City to locate notorious jewel thief, The Catwoman, his investigations take him deeper and deeper into danger. How can he hope to track down a woman who is already dead and [...]

It’s the annual “natter about what we got for Christmas” episode of Hey Kids, Comics and Andrew & Micheal talk about their geeky gifts. Along the way there are e-mails a-plenty from the BEST listeners in the internet radio Universe and tangents pertaining to DC’s presentation of their graphic novels, [...]

Christmas 2013 brings Santa's Little Helper's, Andrew & Micheal, in to look at the 2 different kinds of Christmas stories - the ones set at Christmas and the ones that are true blue, sentimental, Christmas stories. First up, in a change from last week's advertised issue, POWER MAN & IRON [...]

The Silver Age Celebration season comes to a close with the men in red and blue battling it out for supremacy. There’s all to play for in this game of two halves and at the end of the day it’s the team with the highest score that will win. From [...]

In today’s episode, Micheal & Andrew completely derail the email segment of the show by asking who in the superheroic pantheon could go up against GODZILLA and survive. Yes, it’s another “who would win in a fight between…?” conversation. Then, it’s a quick trip down the Time Vortex to look [...]

Micheal & Andrew’s purely arbitrary and highly selective look at the Silver Age of Comics (comics published between 1956 and 1970) continues when they pitch the Green Lantern of Earth Vs The God Of Thunder. In two stone cold gems from the era, Green Lantern receives a SUMMONS FROM SPACE [...]

Join Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell for STAR WARS MONTHLY MONDAY 58, a podcast dedicated to their LOVE OF STAR WARS COMICS! This month features NO Star Wars comics!! What is going on! Well, since Indiana Jones has been neglected the last few months, the Freaks have decided to offer [...]

Come one, come all as Micheal & Andrew embark upon an epic making, 4 part quest to investigate The Silver Age of Comics! Was it really as daft as everybody says it was? Was it full of Super-Dickery? Or was there actually some pretty deep and haunting tales in this [...]

Micheal & Andrew celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who with a very special show that celebrates his various different comics adventures. Marvel at the early years when it looked like The Doctor had wandered into a 2000ad strip by mistake, take a gander through one of the finest magazines [...]

Micheal and Andrew take a walk on the wild side as Garth Ennis takes Nick Fury through hell and back, via Cuba, Vietnam and Nicaragua. It’s Ennis so it’ll be OTT but be warned! The themes and subject matter of these comics are adult orientated and whilst we do our [...]

In 1942 a crack commando unit was dispatched to the UK to help the Allies in the battle against the Axis powers. Together these men became the finest fighting force ever seen in that man’s war. If you have a mission, if that mission is impossible and if you can [...]

It’s episode 150!! So, in the usual way Andrew & Micheal spend anniversary episodes, they did no work! So come and spend an hour and a half with them as they just talk! About comics. Collecting, buying and the first comic shops they ever visited. Then, they dig deep into [...]

A short email starts off the show. Then Professor Alan e-mails in and it stops being short! After that, Micheal & Andrew continue to delve into the Bat-Catalogue to come up with their all-time favourite Batman stories in this EPIC LENGTH!!! episode. By which I mean Andrew DOESN’T SHUT UP [...]

Hi! Chris Honeywell here! I could not make this episode and Paul Spataro and Dr. Bill Robinson were similarly indisposed, so what you lucky dogs get is 2 HOURS of PURE, UNADULTERATED comic talk between good buddies! Oh, sure, there’s no Get Chris To Read A Superhero Comic, but trust [...]

It’s time for another exciting episode of the comics show with an accent as Micheal & Andrew eschew the usual format for the show and take a look at their all-time favourite Batman stories. It’s an eclectic list and not a BEST EVER!!! rather a collection of Batman stories that [...]

Up from the depths, thirty stories high. Breathing fire. His head in the sky. GODZILLA!!! Yes, to celebrate Micheal’s 18th birthday Godzilla and Otta Murikami join in to trash Tokyo (and most of the rest of the world) in the 5 part IDW series – The Half Century War. Listen [...]

Join Scott Gardner and Chris Honeywell as they explore the VAST UNIVERSE of Star Wars comics! This month The Freaks step back in time to look at Marvel Star Wars comics from around the edges of the main title. This time we get to see an adventure on a non-Hoth [...]

What on Earth does Magnum The Barbarian 2099 have to do with this week’s episodes? Is it a bizarre cosplayer? An 80’s cartoon? Or proof that Micheal & Andrew needed meds? Anyway, all of that is tossed to one side once CONAN THE CIMMERIAN strides into view. Gasp at the [...]

Feeling that they didn’t say enough nice things about Darwyn Cooke the last time they covered some of his work, the really rather magnificent NEW FRONTIER, they turn their attention to his latest opus – an adaption of the Richard Stark novels featuring PARKER. In no ways a hero, even [...]

It’s an episode long in the making. Well, 2 weeks. It’s an episode asked for by YOU! Well, if you asked for it. It’s a chance for Micheal & Andrew to display their complete ignorance on a topic. As usual. Yes, it’s an episode all about GI JOE!!!! In issues [...]

A startling change to the format of the show is mooted by an emailer before the inevitable digression. After that, Michel and Andrew explore a Marvel that was on the cusp on the 90’s as their look at the adventures of the Cosmically-Enhanced Spider-Man concludes.

Did Batman REALLY kill The Joker at the end of The Killjng Joke? Is Brian Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise really a good thing? Do Andrew and Micheal even care about Ben Affleck? 2 of these questions will be answered before Andrew delves deep into his comic book collection [...]

Time to delve into the bulging sack once more dear friends, for an episode devoted to addressing the concerns of the lovely listeners. I would like to tell you what topics await herein but why spoil the surprise? In addition – for this is no mere EMAIL episode released by [...]

Micheal and Andrew FINALLY get around to covering the 1980’s Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Wolverine series AFTER Back To The Bins already covered it! The moral of this story – don’t procrastinate.

LET’S TALK COMICS! Join hosts Chris Honeywell, Paul “Clunk” Spataro and Scott H. Gardner as they welcome the newest member of the DiManzicorp Podcasting Empire into the family – – Mr. Mike Voiles of “Mike’s Amazing World of Comics”! Mike is here to give us the skinny on his latest [...]

It’s here! 2 hours of you asking questions and the entire family answering them! Plus, outtakes, A NEW OPENING, comic book chat and a week off editing and making notes! It’s all win.

Dateline:2013 – Micheal and Andrew delve into the physics of time travel and journey back and forth between today and 1980, bringing with them 2 of the finest comic books ever forged – Uncanny X-Men 141 and 142. They will inevitably meander onto other topics such as The Terminator, James [...]

Andrew and Micheal read emails and then talk about Nightwing Year One for about an hour and a half. What? You want more? Oh, OK. With Dan DiDio talking about putting a target on young Dick Grayson (again!), we decided to look at the post-crisis, post Zero Hour, Pre Nu52 [...]

There is no game talk in this episode, instead Micheal and Andrew get back to discussing the first of the Marvel Colours Trilogy, Daredevil – Yellow. It’s pretty damn good so if you haven’t already go and read a copy before we yak about it and ruin it for you. [...]

This week Micheal wrests control of the microphone to continue to wax lyrical about Metal Gear Solid. Issues 7-12 of the comic adaptation and more about the games. Andrew watches, infuriated by the gameplay.

Some email tomfoolery sends Andrew into a fit of giggles plus Hey Kids WANTS YOU!!!!!! Listen in to hear why. Then Micheal begins his epic look at the multi million selling comic style game series Metal Gear Solid! Whataminute! Game? GAME!? Apparently it’s an itty bitty little game. The game [...]

Micheal and Andrew FINALLY break their silence over the Man Of Steel movie, then emails are read before the meat of the show is consumed. A celebration of Comics Innovator, Industry Legend & part-time Escape Artist – Jim Steranko and a look at his seminal run on Captain America from [...]

What can I say about the final episode of How Soon Is (Marvel) Now? well, I could say it’s choc full of all the things you love – disagreements, banter and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge when we’re wrong – about comics. But what if I just say it’s about [...]

It’s Hip! It’s Wow! It’s Now! Marvel Now! Part 3 looking at FF #1 and Fantastic Four #1. I know what your thinking. And you’re right. It WOULD have made more sense to have these issues be part 4. You want sense? At this stage of the game?

Seeing as the new Man Of Steel movie is out and Michael Bailey has made his TRIUMPHANT RETURN – the rest of the crew decided to have throw a Superman themed episode of Comics Monthly Monday! In addition to Mike, you’ve got Dr. Bill Robinson, Paul Spataro and Chris Honeywell [...]

There’s a podcast if you’d like to listen. You may hear someone whose comics you love. So go and download. And listen on your own. And then weep that it was only alright. How Soon Is (Marvel) Now continues with a look at Captain America #1 and Hawkeye #3. Sci [...]

Welcome back to another installment of Hey, Kids, Comics! the podcast that does for comics what Bran does for your diet. This week, Micheal & Andrew answer more reader email. Is your missive in there? Then they turn their attention to the recent (don’t call it a reboot) publishing initiative [...]

In an episode decidedly less Blue than the last few weeks, Micheal and Andrew turn their to attention to one of the three colours trilogy – No, not the arty French films but the comic book series by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale; Spider-Man Blue. Marvel at proper storytelling, glorious [...]

Free Gifts from Listeners!!! A big old Hug Fest!!!! A SPECIAL GUEST!!!! All this and more as Micheal and Andrew tackle the end of Civil War with issues 5-7 and the epilogue In Captain America 25. Then, Michael Bailey drops by to tell us if the Graphic Audio Adaptation of [...]

Rather randomly, the First Family Of Podcasting discuss Iron Man 3 for the first 11:44 of the show so skip that if you haven’t seen the film. Then Micheal and Andrew roll up their sleeves and delve into the Reader Request mailbag by looking at issues 1-4 of Marvel’s big [...]