Journey Into Misery is a podcast that seeks to explain complicated comics characters, continuity and concepts to a patient and perpetually perplexed newcomer to the medium Hosted by Kieran Shiach, with permanent second-chair Helena Hart, each week sees one character or concept explained in as much detail as possible to showcase just what comics fans have to put up with sometimes.
The Krakoan Era truly begins! [Image Gallery]
Perpetua v The Batman Who Laughs with the multiverse on the line! [Image Gallery]
Justice League vs Legion of Doom for the fate of the multiverse! [Image Gallery]
The guardian angels of the Marvel Universe! [Image Gallery]
Malekith's war comes to Midgard as Jason Aaron wraps up his run on Thor. [Image Gallery]
We wrap up Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern with new threats and new Lanterns! [Image Gallery]
Marvel Comics' blasts from the past. [Image Gallery]
The JLA take on threats too abstract to punch in Mark Waid's excellent tenure on the titular title. [Image Gallery]
The rough-and-tumble turn of the decade reinvention of Superman steps into the spotlight. [Image Gallery]
The forgotten son of Marvel's cosmic wing! [Image Gallery]
Who's that knocking on the door? It's our very special Multiversity episode! (N.B. There's an echo in the background of this episode that we just couldn't get rid of. I'd rather still upload it than scrap nearly an hour-and-a-half of work, but I'm sorry it doesn't sound as good as usual.) [Image Gallery]
Welcome to the Jean Grey School, hope you survive the experience. [Image Gallery]
Mad scientist, evil billionaire or the saviour of humanity? [Image Gallery]
Marvel's original runaways, Cloak & Dagger! [Image Gallery]
One of the most divisive relaunches of the entire New 52 which firmly entrenches Diana in the world of Greek mythology in a whole new way!
It's time to embiggen Helena's knowledge of the best new superhero of the 21st century. [Image Gallery]
Like all things, this was inevitable. [Image Gallery]
Start with the impossible! We're talking about Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, USAvengers and Ultimates in this giant episode! [Image Gallery]
We're back in a big way with a two-hour look at Tom King's recent Batman epic. [Image Gallery]
Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.
He's a father, an educator, an outsider and a hero... Black Lightning!
Delivering justice, like lightning. It's everyone's favourite supervillains turned superheroes turned government sponsored supervillains pretending to be superheroes turned black ops kill squad turned supervillains turned superheroes.
Al Pratt, Ray Palmer, Ryan Choi; the many men to don the mantle of the mighty mite! [image gallery]
Odinson is unworthy, Jane Foster is Thor and the War of the Realms is coming. [image gallery]
Happy April Fools! I had to read this god-awful comic, so you have to listen to what we have to say about it!
Ahead of The War of the Realms, here's the first part of our big deep dive into Jason Aaron's epic run on Thor; covering The God Butcher, The League of Realms, the fall of Odinson and the rise of a new Thor. [image gallery]
The dead rise from their graves to take over the DC Universe in this Geoff Johns' summer crossover event which brings together the seven Lantern Corps for the first time to fight Nekron and his Black Lanterns. [image gallery]
One of the most groundbreaking & influential runs on X-Men; featuring Xorn, Kid Omega, Cassandra Nova and a super-sentient racist bacteria. Check out the image gallery here.
How do you get by as a cop in the same city as Batman? With great difficulty, as the officers of Gotham's Major Crimes Unit discover every time they go to work. Check out the image gallery here.
Tony Stark's tech is out in the wild, and he's going to have to go rogue to shut it down in this instant classic story from the late-eighties. Check out the image gallery here.
A roster of veteran Titans return to mentor the new generation, in this hugely popular revival of DC's greatest superteens. Check out the image gallery for this episode here.
One of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel Universe and the son of Charles Xavier, it's David Haller! (He doesn't like to be called "Legion" but we had to put it in the title of the episode.) Check out the image gallery for the episode here.
The lovable misfits who handle the jobs too dirty for the Justice League... The Outsiders! Check out the image gallery for this episode here.
We're making this milestone 75th bonus episode of Journey Into Misery Extra available to everyone! The Titans and Young Justice are tested like never before, not everyone's going to survive and whoever does comes out changed forever. It gives a bit of extra context to two upcoming episodes of the show, so while not essential to enjoy those episodes, it's a fun bonus (if your idea of fun involves two dead Titans, ya weirdos.)
Spider-Man reads from the book of Ezekiel and makes his peace with sins past, but what would he do with one more day? Check out the image gallery here.
Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress are just the start when it comes to DC's fiercest female superheroes as we dive into 25 years of Birds of Prey continuity. Check out the image gallery for this week's episode here.
While the X-Men deal with world-ending crises, someone needs to be there for the little guy, and that's where X-Factor comes in. A mutant private investigation firm that becomes something so much more, in one of the best, most loved runs of the 21st century. Check out the image gallery here.
Kon-El was one of the biggest breakout stars of DC in the '90s and 00's and then disappeared completely. Track the rise and fall and return of Superboy in our latest episode. Check out the image gallery for this week's episode, here.
Catch up on the year in superhero comics with our bumper continuity catch-up. Who lived, who died, who got married, who didn't; everything you need to know about superheroes in 2018 in this episode.
The king of the seas has come to cinemas, and we're celebrating with a deep dive into the near-eighty year history of Arthur Curry, the Aquaman! Check out the Image Gallery for the episode here.
Journey into the Spider-Verse with Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and many, many, many more. Spoilers: one of them is a talking car! Here's a link to the image gallery!
Come celebrate four years of Journey Into Misery with more of the weirdest and most wonderful characters comics has to offer.
You have become unhinged from time! Join the Exiles and journey through the multiverse fixing one world at a time until they can go home.
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's horror-tinged five year run redefined Batman for this decade, and we're gonna dig into it on this week's Journey Into Misery.
Kimota! We're diving deep into everything you need to know about Miracleman! Lawsuits, acrimonious creator relationship and one of the most complex deconstructions of superhero myth in the history of comics.
What would the Justice League look like if it came from Marvel Comics? I think it would go a little something, like this.
Head into the swamps of Louisiana with Swamp Thing and Alan Moore for a complete reinvention of how mature readers comics can exist in a superhero shared universe.
To celebrate our milestone 150th episode, we're talking about another colossally confusing comic character; the last daughter of Earth-Two, Power Girl!
On Earth, he is a regular archaeologist but in space, he is the greatest hero the planet Rann has ever known. He is Adam Strange, the man of two worlds!
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