Comic Books Are Burning In Hell

On this episode, Joe, Matt, Chris & Tucker talk at great length about Yoshiharu Tsuge's comics in English--both of which just arrived, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly and the NYRC. The Swamp and The Man With No Talent are up for discussion, and yes, these are books they have a lot of affection for.

Joe, Matt and Tucker get together to talk about filmmaker Zack Snyder, his Man of Steel, his Batman V Superman, and how that informs all of their lives and life experiences. It's time for a comic book movie podcast!

wait where's Chris

It's time to take a page from the baby book: a 1980s DC Comic that is! It's Frank Miller's Ronin, and yes, everybody is wearing tight shoes and really awake this time, with interruptions and "I don't agree with you sir" ringing out like a turn of the century switchboard. We also cover Chris Claremont's X-men as much as we probably ever will. Bring it on home, Frank!

This week, the crew is looking at the career output of Al Columbia, a cartoonist we all love tenderly and wildly. You want to get there? Cross the Syndercut river, you cowards! The Biologic Show awaits!

How many jokes about the Judge Dredd movie featuring Sylvester Stallone will we will allow Chris Mautner to make? How many assumptions regarding British comics will be made? How often will Tucker get hyperbolic about John Wagner? Will Matt do an accent? Guys, the answers to these questions are yes, 1, a lot, many times, and sure. You'll have to listen to find out the order?

You can take a look at a lot of the books we talk about on this show on our Bookshop page. If you purchase any of the books, the podcast will receive an affiliate fee, which will go towards paying the monthly hosting fee for the podcast, and, because it is Bookshop, will also go to support indie booksellers. On Twitter, you can keep up with the boys at @factualopinion, @snubpollard, @mattseneca and @cmautner.

It's that time again: back issue time, when the boys go digging into the boxes of old. This time, it's to take a look at a comic that Matt Seneca has been making a case for as of late: the last ten issues of DC's Tomahawk, drawn by Frank Thorne. We're all in on this one, even when things get contentious, and even more so when things get really saucy...hey, we're talking about Frank Thorne, of course that kind of stuff is going to happen! Who knew Chris would choose this episode to explain his personal fetishes!

This week, we're spotlighting the late Richard Corben, the great Richard Corben. We don't all walk in with the same take, but by the close, we reach the kind of war torn climax a Corben character often finds: a grudging, earned moment of quiet spent looking across a blasted landscape. Except here, the landscape is of the listeners mind. Dare you join us, brother? Shalt we see you, sister? Rise! Rise and FIGHT!

Happy New Year, you dirty scumbags, you shiny bottleneckers, you comic book naildrivers: it's time to look back at the comics that came out in the last year where you might have been able to keep from getting your hands dirty. We've got ten comics to yank our entrails about, and the whole gang is in the building. It's list talking time!

Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Matt Seneca and Tucker Stone get together to take a look at Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger, Rachel Pollack and Chris Weston's Time Breakers and the legal problem-causing Spectre comics by Jim Aparo and Michael Fleisher.

Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Matt Seneca and Tucker Stone get together to take a look at Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger, Rachel Pollock and Chris Weston's Time Breakers and the legal problem-causing Spectre comics by Jim Aparo and Michael Fleisher.

This week, we're down a man and the sass is upped: Tucker, Joe & Chris are talking about the latest Michel Rabgliati book, Paul At Home, then they're talking Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass, and a brief tour of M.S. Harkness' Desperate Pleasures is made as well. 

You can take a look at a lot of the books we talk about on this show on our Bookshop page. If you purchase any of the books, the podcast will receive an affiliate fee, which will go towards paying the monthly hosting fee for the podcast, and, because it is Bookshop, will also go to support indie booksellers. On Twitter, you can keep up with the boys at @factualopinion, @snubpollard, @mattseneca and @cmautner.

On this special background and feelings episode, we get Joe to open up even more than he already did in a 10,000 word interview, specifically about the conclusion of one of his major works of comics criticism, "This Week In Comics", then we discuss the merits and debits of comics advocacy as a general program, talk about our favorite types of writing, and say nice and mean things to one another in equal measure. If you stick around at the end, there's a nice little conversation about Batman and jeans.

This week, the boys are taking a look at CF's latest works with Anthology Editions...but talking new CF means talking old CF, and talking old CF means talking legacy, impact, the whole deal. Then things take a turn...for the randy!

This week, the boys are looking at the latest from some lifers: Katie Skelly's Maids and Julia Gfrorer's Vision. Do things get heated? Yes. But do they get heated because of those two comics? No! They get heated because Joe won't stop talking about the dingdang Three Jokers!

On this week's episode, we take a look at DC Comics in the 80s, specifically, the Marv Wolfman & George Perez series Crisis On Infinite Earths. Everybody is here: The Psycho Pirate (Matt Seneca), The Anti-Monitor (Joe Mcculloch), Arion, Lord of Atlantis (Chris Mautner) and Tucker, who dresses up like Hawk every morning! It's comic book podcast time!

This week, Joe, Tucker & Chris are talking about Boston Corbett, the massive new comic that comes in a cube by Andy Douglas Day. It's a beast of a read, but well worth the box that Sonatina put it in...even if that box is as heavy as a child's bowling ball!

This week, the boys are going back to the shelf to take a look at The Hero's Life and Death Triumphant, but they're also checking in with the new Jack Kirby biography from Kirby expert extraordinaire Tom Scioli. It's a bunch of talking about these things! 

This week, the boys are taking a look at Ex.Mag #1, published by PEOW--an anthology of cyberpunk comics by a laundry list of creators, while Chris and Matt are breaking down their innermost on Perramus, the latest hardcover of Alberto Breccia comics put out by Fantagraphics.

This week, we're talking about the work of Kuniko Tsurita, recently collected and brought to English by Ryan Holmberg, Mitsuhiro Asakawa and Drawn & Quarterly.

It's round-up time! Tucker's reading the Ladronn Cable, Chris is reading Umma's Table, Matt is reading Olivier Schrauwen's Sunday and Joe's reading Magician A by Natsuko Ishitsuyo. Is there a connective thread between this variety of works? Hell yes there is!

This week, the spotlight falls upon Adrian Tomine. How will this widely acclaimed new memoir land for the boys of the Burning in Hell crew? There's only one way to find out, trusted listener: by asking someone else who listened to the episode to tell you. Proceed with caution!

This week, the full crew is here with a look back at Jack Kirby's 2001 comics, published by Marvel in the 1970s. Get ready to hear about the history of violence in human development, the most incisive and contemporary criticism of fandom and consumption you can find (written by Jack himself) and the nature of children: what's wrong with their faces?

On this episode, Matt, Tucker, Joe & Chris talk about Wendy: Master of Art, by Walter Scott. And then, because there is always time for pie, they talk about Punisher #89 and how it represents the Platonic Punisher.

Matt's away, but the rest of your crew is here to talk about David Kunzle's Eisner nominated Cham, Rick Veitch's self-published Maximortal franchise, and what it looks like when Garth Ennis phones it in with Jimmy's Bastards!

This week, Chris, Joe, Matt & Tucker are talking about Blutch's Mitchum and some favorite tales from Crepax!

This week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris talk about the decision by DC Comics to sever their relationship with Diamond, their primary distributor. In a surprising twist, this ends up being the entire topic of the episode!

Katie Skelly, cartoonist and host of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, welcomes special guest Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca & Chris Mautner to talk about Go Nagai's Cutie Honey in all its perverse and gonzo glory. You can't call it a potboiler when the room gets as messy as this one!

This week, Matt, Joe, Chris & Tucker are talking about Seasonal Shift, the recently published collection of Lala Albert's comics from Breakdown Press. After that, it's time for a weekly Garth Ennis update: with a discussion of the recently concluded Punisher Soviet, featuring the art of Jacen Burrows.

This week, Joe, Tucker, Matt & Chris are taking a look at the graphic novel Portrait of a Drunk, a 2020 release from Olivier Schrauwen, Jerome Mulot & Florent Ruppert, published in the US by Fantagraphics. 

This time around, the boys are talking about Chester Brown, Matt Kindt, Fist of the North Star, Moebius, Gasoline Alley, Little Orphan Annie, Little Joe, Floyd Gottfredson, Garth Ennis, Dav Pilkey and their depressing predictions for our terrifying future. It's comic books, baby!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner discuss the comics that they call "best" when they get into this last ten years.

This week, Joe, Chris, Tucker & Matt got together to talk about Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana, a recent documentary by Frank Henenlotter. Why a movie? Because Mike Diana is the only cartoonist to ever have been convicted of obscenity in the United States. Come for the movie, stay for the discussion of dealing with obscenity. Handwringing and posturing ensues, but luckily, it isn't by all four of them.

Tucker, Matt, Joe & Chris got together to check in about the top of their Just Read stack, including a new comic from Kevin Huizenga, Mickey Zacchilli's Space Academy 123, and the unjustly (justly?) ignored Batman: Master of the Future. And at the end, Joe provides a deep analysis that may or may not be necessary of a recent Todd McFarlane article posted at Vice.

When Joe was 14 he thought watching anime was the next evolutionary step from reading comics. Now he and Chris are living in the future, as they discuss a bunch of Japanese cartoons they watched, all of them based on comics by the thoroughly franchised enfant terrible Go Nagai! I’m told the word “Devilman” will improve our metrics!

It's January 2018--what better time to look back on 2017? On this extra long episode of the only comic book podcast, you'll find Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner, Joe "Jog" McCulloch and Tucker Stone powering down the comics that kept them going. What's on their list? You'll have to listen to find out!

On this brief episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Tucker Stone welcome a four year old girl named Piper on to talk about three new comic books--Captain America, Thor & Disney Princesses. Then they touch upon Comics Arts Brooklyn 2017, which Joe attended.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Matt, Joe, Chris and Tucker sit down and deliver the public service of easing the world into a land where there is no new weekly column by Joe McCulloch lining up the various comics and graphic novels that will be released this coming Wednesday. If you've spent the last 13 plus years reading Joe on Tuesday mornings and are now wondering where you are to turn, well, so are Chris, Tucker and Matt. So here it is: your weekly dose of Joe, in podcast form. We tried our best to stay out of his way!

Subjects Discussed in this Episode:

The Work of Yuichi Yokoyama--you can read Matt's interview with Yokoyama here,. His new book is called Iceland, and you can track it down from Retrofit if it isn't at your local store.

Poppies of Iraq, by Brigitte Findakly--you can find more information about this graphic memoir at the publisher's site.

Pope Hats #5, by Ethan Rilly--you can find more info over at the publisher's site.

What is a Glacier, by Sophie Yanow--you can grab a copy at Retrofit's site if this is hard to come by.

Beirut Won't Cry, by Mazen Kerbaj--this is an FU book, you can find out more information at the Fantagraphics site. This book is 264 pages!

Quazars Vs. The Jealous Machines--Shabazz Palaces stuff. Read about it at Fantagraphics.

Nightcat #1--This is a piece of shit that Marvel put out.

Break the Chain--Kyle Baker made this, it's great.

All Star Batman Volume 1: My Own Worst Enemy--if you can't find this on your own, you have problems that extend beyond being annoyed i'm not helping you track it down.

Bane Conquest #5--Chuck Dixon, Nolan--what else do you need? Nothing. You need nothing else.

Dastardly and Muttley #1--Ennis stuff. I haven't read it yet. I'm sure it's garbage, can't wait.

Jimmy's Bastards--More Ennis shit. Hot garbage, i've been digging it.

LaCroix Sparkling Water.

Usagi Yojimbo Saga Books. Dark Horse has them, but so does Lone Star.

4 Kids Walk Into A Bank #5--This is a Black Mask comic. Pretty sure i've never read a single issue of a Black Mask comic.

Amory Wars Comics, who knows. Rags Morales!

Death Note, all in one box. Huh. 

Marvel's Graphic Novel Program. Again: you can square this circle.

Mike Mignola's Hellboy and related titles continue to be some of the more popular comics seeing release today. They have movies and everything. But are they any good? One podcast is ready to find out.

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner gather round to discuss the Ganges series by Kevin Huizenga, one of the most important comic book releases of the last decade. Check out The Factual Opinion for links to articles that we've written about Kevin's work!

On this very special episode, Matt Seneca, Tucker Stone & Chris Mautner talk about the latest issue of Sammy Harkham's tremendous Crickets series up until Matt turns back the pages for a look at the Mike Zeck classic of old, Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt!

It’s a podcast crossover as Trash Twins co-host Katie Skelly shows up to talk about Moyoco Anno’s Insufficient Direction. Then Joe and Chris talk about Dominique Goblet’s Pretending Is Lying. It’s a short episode but we actually got decent audio recording equipment for once. Don’t expect that to ever happen again. 

Three boys, one toy: JIRO JIRO JIRO. I don't care about some sushi movie, for me, there is only one Jiro: His name is Taniguchi. Come and dive into a lurid pool of love for a gentle soul who knew his way around a famous gunshot. Joe, Chris and Tucker talk about their affection for one of Japan's heartiest souls.

The title says it all: these are the best comics of 2016, courtesy of Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch. Tucker is here too, but he refused to do a best of thing. 

Well, not completely.

Hey there pardners. Saddle up and join us at the saloon for a rootin, tootin’ … OK, enough of that. In this episode Joe McCulloch, Matt Seneca and Chris Mautner are talking about Western comics, with a lengthy discussion of Garrett Price’s White Boy. Yee-haw. Or some such exclamation.

Every year, a festival takes place in Brooklyn, and every year, Joe comes out to visit Tucker and go through his rituals. This time around, Joe and Tucker are joined by Tim Hodler to recap:

• CAB
• NINTENDO
• OPERA
• MANGA
• TRANSIT
• COMICS

Chris and Joe went to second annual CXC festival in Columbus, Ohio, and decided to record a podcast about their trip on the car ride home. That’s a great idea, right? In between they talk about Winsor McCay, Charles Burns, Garry Trudeau and just how cool that Billy Ireland museum is (it’s pretty cool).

There’s a new comics publisher in town (any town, just pick one), New York Review of Comics. In this episode, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner examine two of their latest offerings, Peplum by Blutch and a new edition of Pushwagner’s Soft City. Merriment is had Fun fact: I hate writing blurbs.

On this episode, Chris, Tucker and Joe talk about what might be the worst Garth Ennis comic ever made, one that is fine, and the history of Queen Emeraldas. Get in where you fit in, young demon!

Matt Seneca and Joe McCulloch couldn't find any comics, so they went to the movies! What movie, you ask? Why THE NEON DEMON of course!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch and Matt Seneca get together to talk about Tim Hensley's 2016 comic Sir Alfred, the final publication of Alvin Buenaventura's Pigeon Press. NOTE: difficulties with recording make this episode hard to hear at times, and for that we apologize. 

COMMUNITY. That's our message this week. MATT SENECA visits TCAF and reports on the scene.  JOE MCCULLOCH buys a stack of 1997 Avatar Press comics and gazes across the tides of history. CHRIS MAUTNER reads a Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror and ponders the nature of art and authorship. COMMUNITY. I don't need to explain this metaphor. TOGETHER WE CANNOT BE BROKEN.  Please consult the comments for factual corrections. 

On this episode, Joe, Tucker, Matt and Chris debate the latest graphic novel from Daniel Clowes, Patience. Recently published by Fantagraphics, it's a pretty big deal.

• On this episode, Tucker, Sean, Matt and Joe take on the Seneca Challenge: Barry Windsor Smith, Roy Thomas and Conan! Subjects include:
• Conan: Red Nails
• Egon Schiele
• Miracleman: The Golden Age
• Mercury Rising, Kiefer Sutherland's career and Mark Hamill's choices

On this episode of the podcast, Matt, Joe and Tucker sit down to talk about the following topics!

• Drive by shitting on Garth Ennis collaborators
• Unearthing by Alan Moore
• Hercules, starring the Rock
• Axel Pressbutton from Eclipse Comics and Steve Moore
• Puke Force, If N Oof, Ninja, Battlestack Galacticrap, Maggots by Brian Chippendale
• Tim O’Neil’s review of Puke Force
• The Incredible Hulk: What's the deal?
• Super Hero Movies and the collapse of culture
• Mark Millar, the last traditionalist

New Comics? You know who cares about new comics? Losers, that’s who. Which is why this week Matt, Joe and Chris pulled some old comics out of their longboxes to talk about — old, obscure comics you probably haven’t heard of before. ‘Cause you’re so uncool.

I wish i was dead all the time

On this special, no-Joe episode, Tucker, Matt and Chris sit down and hammer out the books that caught ahold of them in the middle of a tumultuous year. The books discussed in this episode are all deserving of some attention:

The Story of My Tits, by Jennifer Hayden

Band For Life, by Anya Davidson

The Terror Assaulter: One Man War On Terror, by Benjamin Marra

Demon, by Jason Shiga

Blubber, by Gilbert Hernandez

Pope Hats, by 

Crickets, by Sammy Harkham

Optic Nerve, by Adrian Tomine

Sky In Stereo, by Mardou

Men's Feelings, by Ted May

Copra, by Michel Fiffe

Providence, by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

Eat Eat Eat,  by Tom Van Deusen

Invisible Ink, by Bill Griffith

Fante Bukowski, by Noah Van Sciver

Generous Bosom, by Conor Stechschulte

Inner City Romance, by Guy Colwell

SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jill Tamaki

Volcan, by Various Artists

If you'd like to know what sort of order they ended up in--well, you'll have to listen to find out!

The wrecking crew (Joseph McCulloch, Matthew Seneca and Christopher Mautner) does battle with two titans of the past, both of whom have returned to the killing floor: Alan "Revenge of the Overfiend Moore" and Frank "Does A Body Good" Miller! Don't miss this battle royale!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Chris, Joe and Tucker are joined by Tim Hodler, editor of the Comics Journal, to discuss Comics Arts Brooklyn, which they all attended in some capacity.

Tom Spurgeon – The Narrator

Chris Mautner – The Recorder

Joe McCulloch – A Peeping Tom

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AND FEATURING, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE...

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Various works by Wallace Wood (ex. “Cannon”, “Malice in Wonderland”, “Pipsqueak Papers”)

Various works by Frank Thorne (ex. “LANN”, “The Iron Devil”, “The Complete Ghita”)

“Birdland” by Gilbert Hernandez

Various works by Don Simpson ('Anton Drek') (ex. “Wendy Whitebread: Undercover Slut”, “Dracula's Daughter”, “Forbidden Frankenstein”)

“Ironwood” by Bill Willingham

“Id” by Robert Crumb

Various works by Tom Sutton ('Dementia') (ex. “Buffy”, “Crypt of Cum”, “Savage Sewer Sluts”)

“Box” by Brian Sendelbach

“Hump Crazy!” by Jeremy Eaton

“Cannibal Porn” by Rich Tommaso

“I Want to Be Your Dog” by Ho Che Anderson

“Cynthia Petal's Really Fantastic Alien Sex Frenzy!” by Dave Cooper

“Sheedeva” by Sandra Chang

Various works by Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr (ex. “Femosaur World”, “Spore Whores”, “Kill of the Spyderwoman”)

“Leatherboy” by Craig Maynard

“Coley Running Wild” by John Blackburn

“Ramba” by Rossano Rossi & Marco Delizia

Various works by Ron Wilber (ex. “Revelry in Hell”, “Domino Lady”, “The Ocelot”)

“The Young Witches” by Francisco Solano López, Ricardo Barreiro & Pablo Maiztegui ('Pol')

“Super Taboo” by Wolf Ogami

“Bondage Fairies” by Kondom

“Silky Whip” by Oh! Great

“Tart!” by Howie Dard

“Elizabeth Bathory” by Raulo Cáceres

“Talk Dirty” by Matthias Schultheiss

“Dirty Stories” anthologies, Eric Reynolds ed.

Various works by Tony Libido (ex. “Here Come the Lovejoys”, “Boffy the Vampire Layer”, “The Matrixxx”)

“Blowjob” anthologies, Michael Dowers ed.

“Crack Whore” by Dean Williams & Gunther von Wegen

“Submissive Suzanne” by Gunther von Wegen

“Diary of a Dominatrix” by Molly Kiely

“Small Favors” by Colleen Coover

“Eros Forum” anthologies, Ryder T. Windham ed.

“Housewives at Play” by Rebecca

“The Blonde” by Franco Saudelli

“Baby, You're Really Something!” by Frank Frazetta

“Liz & Beth” by Georges Lévis

“Real Smut!” by Dennis P. Eichhorn & various artists

“Butterscotch” by Milo Manara

Chris Mautner, Joe McCulloch and a special guest sit down to talk about Bethesda's own SPX Festival. Matt and Tucker didn't go so they aren't here yakking about it. What books did they buy? What did they miss? What did the younger generation have to say?

On this episode, Joe, Chris and Tucker get together to recap the last few months of comics they have read (which is less than you would think). Alan Moore, Garth Ennis and AVATAR are all brought to the table. YES MA'AM.

In this morsel of a pickle, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch sit down to gab about Blubber, the latest (greatest) release from Gilbert Hernandez and Fantagraphics Books, alongside Optic Nerve #14 by Adrian Tomine, a blistering piece of work. Two of the best single issues you'll see this year, being talked about by a couple of crackerjacks. Check 'em out!

The whole team sits down to talk about Sammy Harkham's Crickets--the fourth issue, specifically. That's Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Tucker Stone and Matt Seneca on the same podcast. Drink in the noise!

On this episode, Chris Mautner and Joe McCulloch discuss contemporary manga that Joe picked up on his way to MoCCA, which he attended with Chris Mautner. Good times? Good times indeed.

On this episode, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner and Tucker Stone dedicate themselves to speaking to one another about the recently deceased Yoshihiro Tatsumi--why they like him, what others thought of him, and the nature of studying the history of another culture's art form when you don't know the language of that culture.

The books talked about on this episode are published for the most part by Drawn and Quarterly. They are:

• Black Blizzard
• The Push Man and Other Stories
• Abandon The Old In Tokyo
• Good-Bye
• Fallen Words
• A Drifting Life

On this extra long episode, the boys go old school and talk exclusively about a book that none of them liked: The Sculptor.

On this episode, you can hear the boys discuss the following NEW comics available for purchase now at your friendly comic book store.

• Multiversity
• Nameless
• Stray Bullets
• Rat God
• Casanova

On this echo heavy episode--we're really sorry about that--the boys talk about Julio's Day, Charlie Hebdo's final issue and Thomas the Tank Engine.

It's time for the four of these jokers to get busy with a timer and there personal top ten released of the year. Which Image book makes the cut?

On this episode, Joe, Matt and Tucker talk about the following comics and comic related things:

• Who in comics is a 9/11 truther?
• How many different times in American history has the Savage Dragon comic been masturbation fodder?
• What's going on with Crossed Plus One Hundred, written by Alan Moore?
• Was there a manga called 20th Century Boys?
• Is there a manga called Master Keaton?
• How good was Grandville: Noel?

Jim Balent's Tarot, otherwise known as "the one where they used the phrase 'haunted vagina'" gets put under the microscope at CBABIH central. Get into it!

On this episode, Joe, Chris and Matt discuss their feelings about CAB, the recently completed arts festival that took place in Brooklyn.

On this episode, Joe, Chris and Tucker discuss:

• Dalgoda
• Don Rosa's work on Donald Duck
• Usagi Yojimbo
• And Junji Ito!

On this episode, Tucker, Joe and Chris discuss the following:

• A video game called NES Remix
• Joe Sacco's book BUMPF! from Fantagraphics
• The history of Declarative Alternative Comics
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins from Picador
• Billy Idol's Cradle of Love video
• Billy Idol's Cyberpunk album
• Descant 164 Cartooning Degree Zero

Welcome to the first episode of the Matt and Joe Show, which will jumpstart a whole new direction for the Comic Books Are Burning In Hell mothership. Bow down to the row!

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Chris, Joe and Tucker discuss the following topics:

• Taking vacations from comics: the pros and cons!
• The Hospital Suite, by John Porcellino and published by Drawn & Quarterly
• Bumperhead, by Gilbert Hernandez and published by Drawn & Quarterly
• Sally Heathcote: Suffrage by Kate Charlesworth, Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot and published by Dark Horse 

On this episode, Chris and Joe and Matt sit down to talk about Logan, the Wolverine.

On this episode, the gang's all here! You can listen and be surprised by their choices, but if you want to do that you better stop reading immediately because I'm about to list this episode's points of interest:

• Emily Carroll's Through The Woods
• Julia Gfrorer's Palm Ash
• Junjo Ito's "The Bully", published in Museum of Terror Volume 3
• Kazuo Umezu's Drifting Classroom
• Marbles in my Underpants by Renee French
• Schizo by Ivan Brunetti
• Tom Spurgeon's Grit Bath story
• Pim & Francie by Al Columbia
• Comics by Josh Simmons

Sandman Overture, Prince Valiant and some food manga go into a bar, which is to say they get talked about in this episode, because we’re very bad at making analogies. And telling jokes.

Following up on our historic Harvey nomination, here's the team (sans Joe) talking about Franklin Miller and Gareys Panter. They make comic books!

On this episode, Chris and Tucker discuss newspaper strips, like The Far Side, and they talk about comics, and then they talk about webcomics, and they talk about populism, and they run out of time before they can have their Big Argument.

On this special episode of the comic book podcast, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner discuss Japanese animation and contemporary events.

On this episode, Tucker explains the connections between Chuck Dixon's Wall Street Journal piece, how right wing lunatic slimebuckets are the same as people who think giving the Dark Knight anything less than 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is tantamount to treason, to something something YA novels and gun control and NRA and you know, nobody cares about your FEELINGS dude, nobody wants to hear about your FEELINGS anymore, let's just talk about BARNABY and his magic conman fairy godfather.

On this episode, the boys talk about Eric Stanton, Mark Millar's MPH, Lobo, and some comic that Chris read? It's the first thing we talk about. I can't remember what it was though!

On this episode, there are many comics discussed, and one of them is the new one by Chris Blain, Weapons of Mass Diplomacy.

There is a day where they give away free comic books. It is a day like many others, but it is bloody and apocalyptic and there are free comics involved.

Jack Kirby. Wally Wood. Dave Sim. Jesse Jacobs. Brian Bendis. Kathe Kollwitz. One of these things is not like the other.

On this episode, they are three, and they discuss the recent MoCCA festival.

Ah, the films of Miyazaki. Are they comics? Are you? Ask Joe, Matt and Chris. They will tell you no lies. NO LIES.

On this episode, Tucker, Chris and Joe discuss a comic by Garth Ennis (surprise!), the 90's comic Animal Man, everything else they've been reading, how much they miss Matt, whether or not feelings have a place in American discussion, depression, being a bad father and husband, not caring anymore about anything, just feeling adrift in a sea of malaise and future shock, 2000AD, and this science fiction comic by Frederik Peeters.

In this episode, Chris Mautner, Joe McCulloch and Matt Seneca discuss Steve Ditko, Mark Millar, Japan Inc. and Zap Comix. Alternate topics ensue.

Chris and Joe kick off this episode by talking about the Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short, which was really timely and topical when they recorded it but is old news now since Chris couldn’t be bothered to edit and upload this thing in time. Thankfully, lots of comics are discussed afterwards, including Snowpiercer, Celebrated Summer, Judge Dredd, Cannon (briefly) and Satellite Sam. So it’s not a total loss.

On this episode, Tucker and Chris talk about the following topics:

• The Lego Movie
• Sonic The Hedghog & Night Trap
• White Cube
• On Loving Women & Kaspar
• Pyongyang & Non-Fiction comics
• Flocks
• Judge Dredd Case Files 21
• Mould Map 3 & narrative comics
• Box Brown
• CF's Powr Mastrs 1
• Cannon
• Mickey Mouse
• Donald Duck
• Golden Age Dr. Fate
• "Put in the plugs to not hear her screaming at you."

On this somewhat unusual episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Chris, Joe & Tucker discuss the graphic novel Slaine, written by Pat Mills and illustrated by Simon Bisley, published as a stand alone volume by 2000AD. After that, Chris takes his leave and Joe & Tucker have a long talk about movies they've recently, the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and comic book criticism. 

On this episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner and Matt Seneca discuss the Rube Goldberg collection coming from Abrams and Mould Map 3, recently released after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Is that all? Oh no, that's not all. There's a lot of talking here. 

On this episode, the boys embrace the controversy, by talking about Alan Moore, Miracleman, and then Batman, becuase whateva, Batman4LIFE

Continuing our discussion from last week (sorta), Tucker, Joe and Chris delve into a discussion of books that lots of other people liked a whole but they were kind of meh about. Or at least not as enthused as all these alleged other people, whomever they might be. At some point they also start talking about the Star Wars novels and Chris is rather shocked to learn that Chewbacca is dead. This is how we like to spend our leisure time, people.

Prior to the conclusion of the year, Tucker, Joe and Chris got together so that Tucker could bitch and moan and Chris could point out that he's a real jerk and Joe kept just unleashing pure comic gold. Then they listened to Chris talk about Boxers and Saints for like 30 full years.

Everybody got in the boat for this one, a needlessly overstructured barking of The Best In Comics, circa 2013. Come one, come all!