Comics Misremembered Podcast

Welcome back to the final (for now) Comics Misremembered Podcast. It has been a fun and fast 5 years of this podcast but I am bringing it to a close. In the podcast, I go over the reasons why I am ending the podcast. The biggest one is the loss of Jon, my co-host. He … Continue reading CM Podcast 300 – The end of the CM Podcast

Batman: The Dark Knight returns in a comic that I have been planning to review for a long time now. Tonight I finally have taken the time to do it! Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is written and drawn by Frank Miller with inks by Klaus Janson and colors by Lynn Varney. It was published … Continue reading CM Podcast 299 – Batman: The Dark Knight Retruns (1986 comic miniseries)

Welcome back to the 2nd part of the Top 10 comic review. This comic originally came out in 1999 as an Image comic. It was printed under Alan Moore’s imprint of America’s Best Comics. The writer was Alan Moore with Gene Ha and Zandar Cannon providing the artwork. In part 2, I wanted to explore … Continue reading CM Podcast 298 – Top 10 (1999 comic miniseries) Part 2 of 2

I start the podcast by letting everyone know that Jon Babcock, co-founder of the Comics Misremembered Podcast, has passed away on Monday January 25th 2021. He succumbed to his 4 month battle with cancer and he will be missed. I wanted to give everyone a brief history of what happened to Jon. His sudden death … Continue reading CMPodcast 297 – Top 10 (1999 comic miniseries) Part 1 of 2

Welcome back to the conclusion of the Franken-Castle storyline from 2010. It was originally published by Marvel as The Punisher Vol. 3 and became the title Franken-Castle with issue #17 until the series ended with issue #21. Rick Remender was the writer of the series. The majority of the art was done by Tony Moore … Continue reading CMPodcast 296 – Franken-Castle (comic 2010) Part 2 of 2

This week we are going to review a Punisher comic storyline that will cause fans of the franchise to either be happy to talk about it or shun it with shame. I am always ecstatic to talk about Franken-Castle. Rick Remender wrote the Volume 3 of Marvel’s Punisher comic in 2010. His run ran from … Continue reading CM Podcast 295 – Franken-Castle (2010 comic review) Part 1 of 2

We live in a time when men claim to be great in their rhetoric but their actions say otherwise. And even though they claims for these men are confirmed false, they still have thousands of die hard supporters. If only we had a silver alien from another planet to testify to humanity and call out … Continue reading CM Podcast 294 – Silver Surfer: Parable (comic miniseries 1988)

Last week, I reviewed the 2nd Wonder Woman movie – Wonder Woman 1984. If you listened to that podcast, you know that I have a very favorable review of the movie. Since then, I have been reading and watching videos of other reviews of the movie and I have come to find out that I … Continue reading CM Podcast 293 – Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (OGN Comic 2002)

Just when you thought there were going to me no super hero related movies coming out in 2020, Warner Bros (the studio that owns DC and HBOMax) makes a bold movie before the year ends. They decide to release Wonder Woman 1984 in the theater on Christmas Day (12/25/2020) and on their streaming service HBOMax … Continue reading CM Podcast 292 – Wonder Woman 1984 (Movie 2020)

Taken from the Image Comics website: Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them—a good guy. A bold new series … Continue reading CM Podcast 291 – Reckless (Comic OGN 2020)

It’s the holiday season so I wanted to review a comic that was a little light-hearted and offered hope for the future and found that in Chrononauts. Chrononauts was written by Mark Millar and features art by Sean Gordon Murphy. It was published by Image Comics in 2015 as a 4 issue limited series. You … Continue reading CMPodcast 290 – Chrononauts miniseries (Comic 2015)

Alien Legion is a comic that was originally produced by Epic Comics imprint under Marvel Comics in 1984. It was created by writers Carl Potts and Alan Zelenetz with artist Frank Cirocco. Potts described the story “The French Foreign Legion in space”. The original series ran for about 18 issues and was relaunched with writer … Continue reading CM Podcast 289 – Alien Legion: Tenants in Hell (Comic 1991)

Due to COVID, there were not many comic related movies released this year. In fact, there were hardly any movies released. One movie that came out in September 2020 was The New Mutants. This was a former 20th Century Fox movie that was filmed in 2016 and would be delayed for reshoots and schedule conflicts … Continue reading CM Podcast 288 – The New Mutants (Movie 2020)

I continue celebrating my birth month with comic related items that I don’t think Jon would be interested in reviewing, and to be honest, I didn’t have much interest in this week’s item but I did have fun reviewing it… Man-Thing: The Movie The purpose of this podcast is to help promote comics and other … Continue reading CM Podcast 287 – Man-Thing (Movie 2005)

I am sticking with the funny book theme from last month’s Howard the Duck and transitioning into Marvel‘s 1989 miniseries, Damage Control. Damage control was conceived by the late, great comic duo of Dwayne McDuffie (writer) and Ernie Colon (artist). The premise is “a sitcom within the Marvel Universe”. The story follows around: Anne Marie … Continue reading CM Podcast 286 – Damage Control (comic 1989)

Another week and a new episode of the Comics Misremembered Podcast is created. It is just me, Jim doing the podcast this week. Jon will hopefully be joining us in some later podcasts but for the month of November, it will be me. November is also my birthday month so I will be celebrating all … Continue reading CM Podcast 285 – Howard the Duck (comic 1976)

Welcome to the Halloween edition of the Comics Misremembered. If the image above didn’t scare you away then continue on, intrepid listener. But be warned! You will have to be made of much sterner stuff to listen to this week’s podcast. This week, we are covering a Cosmic Horror comic called The Neonomicon. The Neonomicon … Continue reading CM Podcast 284 – The Neonomicon (comic 2011)

Jon is back! Jon joins us remotely for this week’s CM Podcast. As Jon explains in the podcast, he is currently in the hospital for cancer. This is a new complication that Jon found out about within the last few day. He is in one of the greatest hospitals for cancer and is being treated … Continue reading CM Podcast 283 – Black Badge (2018 comic)

Welcome back to the podcast! First order of business, Jon is not on this week’s podcast due to an aliment that he has and it put him in the hospital. I can’t say too much about it but what I know is that it is not life threatening and hopefully he will be able to … Continue reading CM Podcast 282 – The Boys Season 2 Recap (TV Show 2020)

It finally happened. The Walking Dead Season 10 episode 16 finally aired!! We finally have the finale of the season so now we can talk about it! There was plenty going on in that final hour. We had… MAGGIE and MASKED MEN and SOLDIERS! OH MY! Not only did we have all these 3 revelations … Continue reading CM Podcast 281 – The Walking Dead Season 10 Finale (TV Show 2020)

This week we have a slight variation in our comic review. This is a new comic but it a comic that is adapted from a well know American novel. Jon and I are reviewing Ryan North and Albert Monteys‘ comic adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. The adaptation is published by BOOM! Studios and is … Continue reading CM Podcast 280 – Slaughterhouse Five (2020 comic adaptation)

Last week, we reviewed the Warner Bros. Animated movie Superman: The Man of Tomorrow. Months ago, when the title of the movie was announced and there wasn’t any information about the movie, I thought they may be adapting the venerated Superman story: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. To my dismay, they did not … Continue reading CM Podcast 279 – Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (1986 comic book)

A few months ago while searching for the release date of Superman: Red Son (a comic and animated movie that are both quite good), I came across an image for another upcoming Superman animated film called Superman: Man of Tomorrow. There was no description of this movie but I was excited that WB Animation will … Continue reading CM Podcast 278 – Superman: Man of Tomorrow (movie 2020)

Last year, we were give The Boys, an Amazon Prime adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s comic series, and it was great. We waited and about a year later, we are given the second season of The Boys! Amazon Prime is doing something different with the release of Season 2. Instead of getting all … Continue reading CM Podcast 277 – The Boys Season 2 (TV series 2020)

This week we are talking about an original graphic novel that came out about a month ago that is part western and part crime drama. It is called Pulp. This fantastic story was written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips and coloring by Jacob Phillips. It was published by Image comics. Here is … Continue reading CM Podcast 276 – Pulp (2020 comic)

DC Animation recently released a new movie called Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons. It features DC’s anti-hero Deathstroke and the movie was written by long time comic scribe, J.M. DeMatteis. Here is a description about the movie: Ten years ago, Slade Wilson-aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke-made a tragic mistake and his wife and son paid a … Continue reading CM Podcast 275 – Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (2020 Movie Review)

A few weeks ago we did a podcast for the Netflix movie, The Old Guard. In that podcast, I mentioned that the comic and movie The Old Guard were both written by Greg Rucka. We went over some history of Greg Rucka’s past comic work and brought up that he did a Gotham Police comic … Continue reading CM Podcast 274 – Gotham Central (2003 comic)

Last week, we covered the 2020 Eisner Award Nominees and Winners. In the category of Best Limited Series, Writer Bobby Curnow and Artist Simon Gane were nominated for Ghost Tree. I recently purchased the trade for Ghost Tree so I thought it would be a great time to cover it. The podcast for this week … Continue reading CM Podcast 273 – Ghost Tree (2019 comic)

The 32nd Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented at a virtual ceremony on Friday evening, July 24. Normally, these awards are held at the San Diego Comic Con (AKA The International Comic Con) but due to COVID-19, the Comics Con was cancelled. Luckily, the ceremonies were held virtually which you can watch here. … Continue reading CM Podcast 272 – 2020 Eisner Award Nominees and Winners

We have been watching the CW show: Star Girl – which is set on Earth-2 and references the heroes and villains of the Golden Age of DC. The show does a good job of using the Golden Age villains and heroes without being too hokey or corny. While watching the show, I was reminded on … Continue reading CM Podcast 271 – The Golden Age (1993 comic review)

We are covering a comic related item this week – the recently released Netflix movie called The Old Guard. This is based on a comic series written by Greg Rucka and art by Leandro Fernandez. It is published by Image comics. In fact, Greg Rucka wrote the script for the movie. We normally like to … Continue reading CM Podcast 270 – The Old Guard (2020 Netflix movie review)

I know it was hard to wait a week for our review but thanks for coming back! We continue with our examination of the Wolverine miniseries written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Frank Miller. It was published by Marvel in 1982. We also compare the miniseries to the 2013 The Wolverine movie and show … Continue reading CM Podcast 269 – The Wolverine (1982 miniseries and 2013 movie review) Part 2 of 2

A new week and a new comic. This week we are talking about Chris Claremont and Frank Miller‘s collaboration on the 1983 Marvel miniseries Wolvervine. We recently read the trade paperback of the 4 issue miniseries and took some time out to watch the 2013 The Wolverine movie. There are many moments the movie uses … Continue reading CM Podcast 268 – The Wolverine (1982 miniseries comic and 2013 movie) Part 1 of 2

This is it – the final installment of our Dystopia Futures run on comics. This does not mean that we won’t talk about Dystopian Futures in… the future, but it mean next week will not be a Dystopian Future theme. We are continuing were we left off last week – we are concluding our discussion … Continue reading CM Podcast 267 – Ronin (1983 comic) Part 2 (of 2)

We are at the final comic we will be covering for the #DystopianFutures theme and it is Frank Miller’s Ronin. This podcast is so epic that we had to split into two! We will be posting part one today and follow up with part two next week. Ronin was published by DC in 1983. DC’s … Continue reading CM Podcast 266 – Ronin (1983 comic) Part 1 (of 2)

We are getting close to the end of our Dystopian Future comics. This week we are talking about Sweet Tooth written and drawn by Jeff Lemire. You know Jeff Lemire as the writer of great comics like Black Hammer, Gideon Falls, Hawkeye and many more. He started his career as an independent writer/artist and was … Continue reading CM Podcast 265 – Sweet Tooth (comic 2009)

It is Jon’s birthday today (wish him a happy one), I gave him the opportunity to pick what ever comic related item he wanted to cover for the podcast. He kept the Dystopian Futures theme going by picking Akira – the anime movie to review. For those that are not familiar with Akira, here is … Continue reading CM Podcast 264 – Akira (1988 movie)

Another week and we have another vision of a dystopian future in the 2007 comic The Last Days of American Crime. It is written by Rick Remender with art by Greg Tocchini and was originally published in 2007 as a 3 issue miniseries from Image Comics. This creative team has given us great stories like … Continue reading CM Podcast 263 – The Last Days of American Crime (2007 comic and 2020 movie)

We have been doing dystopian future comics for a few weeks now and there are still several ideas we want to talk about in the coming weeks but a couple of weeks ago, I saw a movie that I thought was really good and would fit nicely into our Dystopian Futures conversation. That movie was: … Continue reading CM Podcast 262 – Alita Battle Angel movie (2019)

We will be doing Dystopian Futures for the near future because in comics, there are hundreds of dystopian future comics and we want to talk about most of them. This week, we are talking about an Epic Comic that is not really well known called The Last American. It was written by John Wagner and … Continue reading CM Podcast 261 – The Last American (1990)

Another week, another dystopian future. This week we are covering the future of Transmetroplitan. This is a 1997 comic series that was written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson. It was published by DC under the new defunct Mature Sci-Fi imprint of Helix. The story of Transmetropolitan starts with journalist, Spider Jerusalem living … Continue reading CM Podcast 260 – Transmetropolitan (1997)

The future is now! We are continuing our discussion on future dystopian comics and this week we are cover the future of American Flagg! American Flagg! was a comic written and illustrated by Howard Chaykin with letters by Ken Bruzenak that originally started in 1983 and was distributed by First Comics, an independent publisher at … Continue reading CM Podcast 259 – American Flagg! (1983)

We are continuing with our review of Dystopian comics and next on the list is Tim Truman’s Scout. It was originally published by Eclipse Comics back in 1987. If you are not familiar with the comic, here is a brief summary: BY TIMOTHY (CONAN WRITER/ARTIST) TRUMAN Scout, originally published in 1987 and created by Timothy … Continue reading CM Podcast 258 – Scout (1987)

Welcome back to the second and final part of our discussion of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta comic miniseries. The 10 issue miniseries was published by DC back in 1982. In part one of our discussion we covered: the uniqueness of Lloyd’s original black and white art and the problems with coloring … Continue reading CM Podcast 257 – V for Vendetta (1982 comic) Pt. 2

The world is in a social crisis. COVID-19 is impacting everyone and we are all worrying about the future. Now seems like the perfect time to talk about a cheery subject – a totalitarian future were everyone’s freedoms are stripped away and there is no hope. This is not entirely true. The is one hope … Continue reading CM Podcast 256 – V for Vendetta (1982 comic) Pt. 1

Last week, The Walking Dead aired episode 15 (the penultimate episode) of Season 10 and episode 16 will not air until Summer. Well, that is too long for us to wait to recap the season. There is a reason why we call part of the podcast “misremembered” – we don’t have the best memories. We … Continue reading CM Podcast 255 – The Walking Dead Season 10 Season Finale (Almost) (2020)

This week’s podcast was brought about by an answer to a twitter question: Without telling me exactly how old you are, tell me something about your youth? Someone answered “I was alive when you had to call a 1-900 number to kill robin.” Jon did not get the answer to the question. I immediately knew … Continue reading CM Podcast 254 – Batman: Death in the Family (1988)

Back in 2018, we reviewed the 2003 Elseworlds story, Superman: Red Sun which you can listen to here. Jon and I both really like the comic (except for the ending). 2 years later, we are reviewing the newly releases Warner Bros. Animated movie – Superman: Red Son. Which is written by long time comics scribe, … Continue reading CM Podcast 253 – Superman: Red Son Movie (2020)

Welcome back to Comics Misremembered. This week we are going to talk about a story that people will argue that is Marvel’s greatest story ever. There are others that hold this story in reverence. We may make these people angry with our podcast. Tonight, we are talking about Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s seminal Daredevil … Continue reading CM Podcast 252 – Daredevil: Born Again (1986)

Welcome to Comics Misremembered New Comic Review. Jon and I find 4 titles that have come out in the past few weeks and we make recommendations. Usually these comics are independent titles that you may have missed. All of our recommendations are worth your time and we highly recommend reading them. Let’s get to talking … Continue reading CM Podcast 251 – New Comic Review

Welcome to a very special edition of Comics Misremembered Podcast. We are celebrating our 250th podcast!! About a week ago I had no idea what we were going to do to honor this milestone. We started kicking around ideas: Maybe do a countdown of our favorite storylines. We ditched this idea because we figured it … Continue reading CM Podcast 250 – Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle (1979)