The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast

THE BLACK HOLE! The ambitious 1979 live-action space-horror film was unlike anything Walt Disney Productions had put to screen before, and spawned a number of different tie-ins, including not one but two comic adaptations! -- a newspaper comic by Jack Kirby, and an ongoing monthly series from Gold Key Comics which expanded the story beyond the movie's ending. --- What else are we reading? Justin loves Richard Corben's DEN: VOLUME 1 from Dark Horse Comics! Mike loves GODZILLA: HERE THERE BE DRAGONS by Frank Tieri & Inaki Miranda from IDW Publishing! --- Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theveryfinecomicbookpodcast/ and send us questions to potentially read on-air via IG DM or via email at theveryfinecomicbookpodcast@gmail.com If you're enjoying The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast, don't forget to Rate it, Follow/Subscribe, and tell a friend! Our 5-star-review contest runs through the end of September 2023! Leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts by Sep 30, and be entered to win a prize pack of assorted (good!) comics from Justin+Mike's collections. Mail us things c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada Thanks for listening! Keep reading comics! ---

Body horror meets the teen melodrama of pulp romance comics in Charles Burns' BLACK HOLE, in which a mysterious body-mutating STD affecting only teenagers surfaces in the 1970s. --- Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theveryfinecomicbookpodcast/ and send us questions to potentially read on-air via IG DM or via email at theveryfinecomicbookpodcast@gmail.com If you're enjoying The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast, don't forget to Rate it, Follow/Subscribe, and tell a friend! Our 5-star-review contest runs through the end of September 2023! Mail us things c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada Thanks for listening! Keep reading comics! --- closing song "Teen Dream" by Marty Topps featuring Jackie Pirico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc_6jABQ0bE https://martytopps.bandcamp.com/track/teen-dream

In the early 1990s, Peter Parker ventured to the great white north of Canada in these five one-shots produced by Marvel Comics in conjunction with the Toronto-based Community Programs Group. Spider-Man visited Winnipeg, Fredericton, Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal in mildly-educational stories framed around substance-abuse awareness and bike-safety, which were given out in schools, hospitals, community centres, and police stations. Unlike a lot of other very-pandering PSAs of the day -- these ones were surprisingly well-made, with some incredible talent involved! These five one-shots were titled: Amazing Spider-Man: Skating on Thin Ice Amazing Spider-Man: Double Trouble Amazing Spider-Man: Hit and Run Amazing Spider-Man: Chaos in Calgary Amazing Spider-Man: Deadball --- Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theveryfinecomicbookpodcast/ and send us questions to potentially read on-air via IG DM or via email at theveryfinecomicbookpodcast@gmail.com If you're enjoying The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast, don't forget to Rate it, Follow/Subscribe, and tell a friend! Our 5-star-review contest runs through the end of September 2023! Mail us things c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada Thanks for listening! Keep reading comics!

When Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become one of the most successful cartoons / toy lines / brands of the late 1980s, the creators' own Mirage Studios decided to put out a cartoon-inspired spinoff comic targeted at a more all-ages audience than the original gritty black & white series was. The monthly TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ADVENTURES -- spearheaded by Mirage artists Ryan Brown and Stephen Murphy -- wound up running for 72 issues over the next 7 years, and featured a phenomenal amount of lore and worldbuilding rarely seen in tie-in comics of the era. Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theveryfinecomicbookpodcast/ and send us questions to potentially read on-air via IG DM or via email at theveryfinecomicbookpodcast@gmail.com If you're enjoying The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast, don't forget to Rate it, Follow/Subscribe, and tell a friend! Listen to this episode for details on our new 5-star-review contest running through the end of September 2023! Mail us things c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada

Everyone knows Robert Oppenheimer did NOT have an evil twin brother who murdered him, ate his brain, stole his identity, and took his place in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. What THIS comic presupposes is... maybe he did? Years before Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" hit the big screen, writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra detailed the secret superscience wonders and horrors happening at Los Alamos in their [intentionally-pluralized] "THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS" series from Image Comics! Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theveryfinecomicbookpodcast/ and send us questions to potentially read on-air via IG DM or via email at theveryfinecomicbookpodcast@gmail.com If you're enjoying The Very Fine Comic Book Podcast, don't forget to Rate it, Follow/Subscribe, and tell a friend! Listen to this episode for details on our new 5-star-review contest running through the end of September 2023!

They're the Oscars of the comic scene -- the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards! In this episode, we run through / share thoughts on this year's nominees and winners, the list of which can be read in full here: https://www.thepopverse.com/eisner-awards-comic-award-will-industry-2023-nominees-winners-graphic-novel-ogn-novels-comics-book-books "You Won an Award. Congratulations!" by The Motern Media Holiday Singers, from the album "Congratulations Songs" -- https://open.spotify.com/album/1eCTrcvwml4Jr2fT73a5hV

In 1992, Don Rosa set out to chronicle the backstory of Uncle Scrooge, as originally detailed by breadcrumbs scattered throughout the many earlier stories by Scrooge's legendary creator Carl Barks. The end result was the twelve-chapter "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", considered since then to be the definitive canonical history of the character. "Just a Duck" by Moes Haven, from the album "Songs from Deep in the Vault (1996-2010), Vol. 2" -- https://open.spotify.com/album/4YqeNQo6wa5iccbg6GpvaU

Long before serving as the villain in James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3", the High Evolutionary was the chief antagonist in one of Marvel's biggest crossovers to date -- THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR event, which ran through all Marvel Comics Annuals in the Summer 1988 (including the confirmed-canonical ALF Annual #1). We take a look at all 12 chapters, warts & all! "Charles Darwin: Good Scientist Guy!" by Papa Razzi and the Photogs, from the album "Somebody Needed to Make These Songs" -- https://open.spotify.com/album/04MJaDnCij30NCfgBzJb4b

Years before being adapted into the hit 1997 film of the same name, THE MEN IN BLACK was originally an independent 6-issue comic series written by Lowell Cunningham and illustrated by Sandy Carruthers, published by Aircel Comics in 1990-91! Also discussed in this episode: - Mike loves issue #1 of "Superman: The Last Days Of Lex Luthor" by Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch! - Justin loves the hard-to-find "Bad Idea Comics" line! - other film adaptations of fairly-obscure comics! - the mysterious rivalry between screenwriters Scott Frank and Ed Solomon! (Somebody, please put the MIB on this case.) "The Men in Black Song" by The Paranormal Song Warrior, from the album "Believe: Exciting Songs About Shockingly Mysterious Stuff" -- https://open.spotify.com/album/77jKIpJH0mDrqiEPZJr8EI

Right before "Watchmen" in the mid-1980s, legendary comic writer Alan Moore wrote an assortment of incredibly-enduring Superman stories for DC Comics. In this episode we discuss Moore's "For The Man Who Has Everything" and "Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?"