Married With Comics

We're back! Welll, I mean, we weren't like, gone, really, just not releasing shows. We released a show! And it's a part one of two, so that means we will have released two shows! Nothing will stop us now! One Halloween, long ago, one of our Crossover episodes got religion. Or rather, the discussion about the comic that we were covering with guests Tim Price and Sean, Podcast Host and Man of Knowledge, turned to that topic without having been planned that way, and we wound up having an informative and extremely interesting discussion. You can listen to that here: https://marriedwcomics.libsyn.com/mephisto-vs-the-podcasters-three-god-dracula-and-everything-else   It was well-received by our listeners and we were complimented on how civil and non-jujdemental we came across. Since this surprised us as much as anyone, we thought we'd have them on again for a (slightly) more structured discussion. In part one, we cover the Fantastic Four: Hereafter arc, and talk about death and resurrection in comics, how aspects of the story come across when filtered through the lenses of different faiths (Including how one story element is technically blasphemous for different reasons for different religions, but only if you're really really trying to see it that way.   In Part 2, we will have a no-questions forbidden roundtable on religion, in which we compare and contrast dogma, talk about how each of our religions thinks about the other ones, and all sorts of other things that you'd think would have led to huge arguments, but didn't!  We decided to split this episode, both due to the time, and content:  part one is more comics focused and part two is more religion focused. This will allow people that are not interested in one or the other topic the opportunity to focus on the one they want. After both are published, we may publish one that includes both, for all you completists out there. Here's one of Sean's shows:  https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/wonderwoman/   Here are Tim's: Www.thehuntresspodcast.com      

Feeling nostalgic for this year's JL Ape-ril crossover, where great comics podcast from across the sphere covered their favorite ape-related comics? Well, good news! Jon and Maggie have absolutely no sense of time,  so here is the final installment four months late! Man, that was cool of us!  Join us for around three hours of coverage of the entire 7 part series, as well as random disgressions into pretty much any topic you can think of!   Check out these other entries in the crossover: The Outcasters  Dial F for Flanger The Bat-Pod Coffee & Comics  The Fanholes  Once Upon a Geek Campus Comics Cast  Quarter Bin Podcast   Available wherever great podcasts can be found!   Feedback at married2comics@gmail.com

The RodPod is back! Maggie and the two Jons cover issues 13 of Robots in Disguise and More Than Meets the Eye, as well as Spotlight: Megatron, as we continue our coverage of IDW: Phase 2 Transformers comics.   In MTMTE 13, more meta jokes than you can shake a psychic paper at, Ultra Magnus gets drunk, and we learn a secret about Swerve, which would be the most shocking reveal of the episode if it weren't for what's coming.  Spotlight: Megatron adds some context and depth to Megatron and Starscream's releationship, which we, of course, talk about in purely sexual terms. And RID 13, which has that shocking reveal I mentioned. The last few issues have had some pretty insane last page cliffhangers, but you are not going to see the end of this one coming.    Also, Maggie and Jonathan talk about an incident in baseball history without providing enough context, and we respond as only we can to reader feedback.     Jon M Wilson appears courtesy of jonreadscomics.com 

Jon M Wilson and Layne Join Jon back on Krynn, to cover chapters 7-9 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Listen in, as Jon gripes about and praises different parts of Weis and Hickman's ongoing new Dragonlance series, the trio comes up with ideas for what Jon would call a goth band, were he to be in one, and then be not-perplexed by the mystery this part of the book deals with, and see if you can figure out who the traitor is. (You won't be perplexed)

Just in time for, uh, Thank-a-ween, Mephisto is back, and he's brought more podcasters than you can shake a pitchfork at! Jon M Wilson and Layne from Ninjas and Bots podcast and Tim Price from The Outcasters podcast join Maggie and Jon for a talk about Avengers #83, The first appearance of the Rutland Halloween Parade in a preview of the first unofficial Marvel/DC crossover! It's also the first appearance of Valkyrie and the Women's Liberation Movement in comics, so we actually mostly talk about that. Featuring way more detailed of an explanation of Radical vs Liberal Feminist Theory than you will likely see on any comic podcast this year.   Be sure to check out the rest of this year's Mephisto Vs crossover with: Ninjas and Bots The Outcasters Unpacking the Power of the Power Pack Resurrections: a Warlock and Thanos Podcast Coffee and Comics

A Halloween crossover so epic that it had to wait until Thanksgiving! This crossover is  huge that it needed to add a brand new podcast! Mephisto sends the Podcasters to Rutland, Vermont to cover the first unofficial Marvel/DC crossover. Listen to all of these podcasts to get the whole story: Married with Crossovers (MWC) Podcast with Jon and Maggie!  The Ninjas and Bots Podcast! Unpacking the Power of the Power Pack! Resurrections: The Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast! Plus Sean Ross, formerly of The Secret Wars and Beyond podcast! Thanksgiving 2023  

MWC stands for Married with Cybertron, as Jon M Wilson joins the Schaefer-Hames on their journey through the IDW Phase 2 Transformers comics. On this episode, we cover issues 12 of RID and MTMTE.  The Lost Light Crew battles a group of rogue Decepticons and fights to save the lives of some of their own, while back on Cybertron, Megatron's return is quickly unravelling all of the progress that's been done since the end of the war. 

Ryan Daly from the Fire and Water Podcast network mentioned in passing that we should watch the cartoon, Bluey for a Married Watching Cartoons. Ryan was right! Join, Ryan, Maggie, and I as we talk about 3 episodes of what could be the best show of any medium currently running.  

It's #JLMay once again! This time around, podcasts from all over the 'sphere have gotten together to cover 2007-8's The Brave and The Bold #15, featuring two characters that Maggie and Jon have never covered before and only know all that much about one of them. So, in true Brave and the Bold style. #JLMay2023 #JLMay   Follow the Event with all of these great podcasts Overlooked Dark Knight Dial F for Flanger The Bat-Pod L.E.G.I.O.N.P.O.D.cast The Legion Project Teal Productions Wright On Network Justice Trek Popculture Affidavit It All Comes Back to Superman Long Box Crusade Resurrections An Adam Warlock & Thanos Podcast Married With Comics Superman in Crisis The Lanterncast Podcast of OA JLI Bwa-Ha-Ha Podcast Rolled Spine  Weird Warriors Magazines & Monsters Once Upon A Geek Head Speaks Coffee & Comics Aquaman & Firestorm: The Fire & Water Podcast Waiting For Doom    

Jon, Jon, Layne, and Clinton cover chapters three through six in book two of Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Jon and Maggie. Layne stops by to help us cover the Batman: TAS episode, Christmas With the Joker and sticks around while we cover Frank Capra's classic Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life. 

Deep Dive is back as Layne, Clinton, and the two Jons cover Chapters one and two of Book Two of Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Minisode alert! It's Married with College time again as Maggie helps Jon with one of his Library classes as they review Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence and write love letters and breakup letters to some of their favorite (and not so favorite) books and other media, including The Magician's Nephew, The Magicians, Bullet Train, Atlas Shrugged, Andor, and more!

The summer side project continues into the late fall, as Jon, Layne, and Clinton cover the last part of book one of book one. You read that right. Tolkein broke up his books into books, and so does Dragonlance. You gonna tell us that Tolkein was wrong? I don't think so! The heroes face Onyx, the black dragon in a final battle, the gods come back to Krynn, and we thankfully leave the gully dwarves behind, unfortunately not forever. Give it a listen!

The two Jons cover Robots in Disguise #10 with a cover and timey-wimey plot that will amaze you but nowhere near as much as the last page of Robots in Disguise #11 will. Things are about to kick into gear in IDW Phase 2!

The Summer of Dragonlance draws to an end but we have more book to cover! Join Jon, Jon, and Layne as we continue through chapters 17 and 18 of Dragons of Autumm Twilight. Then stick around as Jon interviews Ben Riggs, author of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons and Dragons as they discuss Weis and Hickman's time at TSR as well as something called TSR West that you probably haven't heard of.

The Summer of Dragonlance continues as Layne, Jon, and Jon discuss chapters 13-16 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! With discussions of the logistics of hauling around a giant wicker dragon, unintential dark humor while describing a scene where a character gets bathed in acid, and complex relations between people and gods reduced to the poem "Footprints", there's a lot going on in this one. (This podcast does feature adults using adult language. You have been warned.) Catch Jon M Wilson at jonreadscomics.com   Layne is found at thebatmanuniverse.net

The Rod Pod returns! TFG1Mike stops by to discuss More Than Meets the Eye #s 9-11, the Shadowplay Saga with the two Jons.  This one has an absolutely jaw-dropping finale and a last page you won't believe, so don't miss it!    

Summer side project continues as Jon, Jon, and Clinton take on chapters 9-12 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! This episode has everything! Really bad puns by one Jon and Clinton threatening to drive the other Jon out of his mind? Yep! Misuse of the word "Thee" in the text coming close to finishing the job? Oh yes! Jon literally moved to tears while reading a passage aloud? You know it! This plus pedantic discussions of AD&D vision rules, undead, spells, and Greek and Roman linguistics. I told you it has everything! Sent comments to marriedwcomics@gmail.com Jon M Wilson:  @jonreadscomics Clinton Robison: @CoffeeComicsBlg Jon Schaefer Hames: @MWC_Podcast    

The whole gang is here! The two Jons, Clinton, and Layne cover Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Chapters 5-8, as well as an exerpt from the AD&D Module, Dragons of Mystery. The companions survive near drowning and flying arrows only to fall headfirst into combat with creatures from beyond their experience. Will the quest be over before it begins? Sent feedback to marriedwcomics@gmail.com or on Twitter @MWC_Podcast 

The Summer of Dragonlance continues, as my friends join me for a discussion of one of my lifelong favorites, The Dragonlance Chronicles! Layne and Clinton join me for a discussion of chapters 1 and 2 and a readthrough/discussion of 3 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight!  Check out Clinton's stuff: http://coffeeandcomicspodcast.blogspot.com/ Check out Layne and her firends' stuff! https://thebatmanuniverse.net/   Buy this book! https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Autumn-Twilight-Chronicles-Dragonlance-ebook/dp/B004G606K8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dragons+of+autumn+twilight&qid=1656979671&sr=8-1  

Inacurrately Titled Summer Side Project Alert! Jon M Wilson, Clinton Robison, and eventually Layne from Batman Books: A Dark Knight in Prose podcast join me for a deep dive into one of Jon's childhood favorites. (The use of the word "Daily" is for alliterative purposes and will not imply the rate of release!)  

New Rod Pod! It's two Jons for the price of one as Jon M Wilson joins me as we cover RID Annual 2012. With more esoteric nostalgia than you can possibly imagine!

In the final of our book talk minisodes, Jon and Maggie chat about Weird Westerns! Discussing Territory, by Emma Bull, Six Gun Tarot, by R.S Belcher, Karen Memory, by Elizabeth Bear, Silver on the Road, by Laura Anne Gilman, and River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

You've received a new transmission from the Rod Pod! Anthony Brucale from Transformers University joins Jon and Maggie for a deep dive into the 2012 MTMTE Annual!

Jon and Maggie talk about  Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Old Man's War by John Scalzi, Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers. 

Maggie helps Jon with one of his librarian classes as they discuss mystery books and TV shows before she reads him an Encyclopedia Brown mystery! Can Jon match wits with the world's smartest 10 year old? Can you? Download it now! Timestamps: Intro:  0:00 Mystery Book Talk: 3:00 Encyclopedia Brown and The Case of the Electric Clock: 27:30   Books mentioned in Book Talk: Murder at the Vicarage-Agatha Christie 1930 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie-Alan Bradley-2009 The Black Echo-Michael Connelly-1992 Cocaine Blues (Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries 1) McPhee Gribble Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate, book 1)- Gail Carriger 2009 The Martian-Andy Weir2011    

New episode!  Join Maggie and Jon as they read through and review issues 7 and 8 of IDW's More Than Meets the Eye comics series.  We meet the DJD who is scary as hell, and their leader Tarn, who could be the nastiest Decepticon in the series.  We talk about the ramifications of eons-long warfare, good and evil in terms of the same, and the occasionally gray area between million year campaigner and war criminal.  These and other fun topics on episode 10 of The Rod Pod!

Spoon!  Maggie brings the Tick vs Pineapple Pokopo to the episode and to help us out with it, Ryan Daley from The Fire and Water Podcast Network stops by.  We call him Speak, because that is what he does!  Grab your surfboard and shark repellant and your taste for pineapple dishes as we discuss 90s ennui, the fallacy of the undistributed middle, monkeys in space, and Monkees as voice actors.

It's Halloween and that means Mephisto is up to his old tricks again, forcing us and 3 other podcasts to mix it up.  This time around, Al Sedano from Resurrections: An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast joins us to cover the most unlikely crossover that you will ever love: My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise.  Join us as we cover the episode "Suited For Success" from Friendship is Magic so that poor Al isn't going into this completely blind, before we dive into issue #1.  Optimus and Bumblebee meet Twilight Sparkle!  Rarity matches wits and vanity with Starscream!  And Arcee kicks Starscream in the face!    Be sure to check out parts 2-4 with Resurrections: An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast, Unpacking the Power of the Power Pack, and new to the crossover this year, Outcasters: Batman and the Outsiders Podcast Til all are one, you know you are our very best friends!    

In Married Watching Cartoons, Jon and Maggie take turns introducing the other to a cartoon they may not be as familiar with.  This episode, Sean Ross from Secret Wars and the Bat Pod basically wouldn't let us do this episode without him, so here he his!  We talk about quoting lines from cartoons as a means of seduction, muse about what Sean's baseball career would have been like if he'd never seen this episode, decide how a made-up-for-this-episode cyborg stacks up against other cartoon villains in and out of the Marvel Universe and cast our own Spider-Friends!  

Jon and Maggie dust off their comic books and remind themselves how to appreciate static images as they cover Fantastic Four #s 334-336 which serves as both the end of the Acts of Vengeance storyline as well as the debut of Walt Simonson's run on the series. We are a Proud Participant in the Merry Marvel MARCHing Society 2021 event! Check out all the other participants: 3rd Degree Byrne Back 2 The Bins/Avengers Spotlight Coffee & Comics Comic Book Time Machine DoomSpeak Fanholes Podcast Fire & Water Podcast Presents Head Speaks Into The Weird Jeff and Rick Present: Unpacking The Power Pack Justice Not Entirely Dissimilar To Lightning – A Thunderbolts Podcast Longbox Crusade Make Ours Marvel   Married With Comics  Quantum Cast  Resurrections: An Adam Warlock Podcast Rolled Spine Podcasts

Jon and Maggie are watching cartoons while remaining married the entire time!   Maggie's favorite thing ever is Pokemon while Jon knows it mostly as a collectible card game that he never played but complained about a lot.  How will Jon feel about The Fortune Hunters?  How many Pokemon can Maggie name in 30 seconds?  Prepare for trouble.  Better make it double.

Join Maggie and Jon and they match wits with the world's greatest (10 year old) detective!  Maggie reads Jon The Case of The Two-fisted Poet.  Will Leroy lose Sally forever to a snobby kid who went to school in England?  Then Jon reads Maggie The Case of the Wounded Toe where the weird kid who keeps teeth in a jar gets shot n the foot.  The 1960's everyone!     Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce cover Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subReinaDelCid 

You have received a new transmission from the Rod Pod. Jon and Maggie are trapped in a spacecraft shaped like Rodimus' head with only their cats and occasional issues of IDW's Transformers comics that the Autobot Sky Lynx periodically drops by.  No one knows why any of this is happening.   This month, Sky Lynx has brought Robots in Disguise issues 7 to 9, which includes the first part of the Combiners Wars.  Things get tense on the political front as moral compromises get considered and the environment of Cybertron reveals its biggest threat yet!   Send questions and comments to marriedwatchingcartoons@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @MWC_Podcast  and @maggientherain  

Welcome to our new format!  Jon and Maggie are taking turns introducing the other to cartoons that the other may not be as familiar with. On our debut episode, Jon introduces Maggie to the Smurfs!  Take time out of the craziness of real life for some escapism.  Jon brings in King Smurf, an episode which *checks notes* shows the Smurfs descend into full-on fascism as half of them develop a cult-like worship of one of their own which almost destroys them all. ...   Look, we recorded this awhile ago, we swear.     Send comments and show suggestions to: marriedwatchingcartoons@gmail.com

We close out 2020 and this phase of our podcast with the comic that we nearly started with.  Listen for one last comics hurrah before we change over to covering cartoons in 2021.  Reed Richards and Sue Storm get married but not before having to deal with Doctor Doom's nefarious wedding gift and a blind guy driving a bomb into New York Harbor.  Listen in to say "Good Riddance 2020" with us!

Happy Holidays from Married with Comics!  Clinton Robison from Coffee and Comics as well as Fanfilm Fridays stops by to discuss one of his favorites and ours, the cleverly named, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special!  Celebrate the holiday of your choice while we dive into this 55 minute long toy commercial in which the Evil Lord of Destruction gets transformed by the Christmas spirit into something almost...nice?  

It's Halloween, so that means Mephisto has compelled us into a spooky crossover yet again, this time with Tim Price and Sean from Secret Wars and Beyond podcast.  We cover Tomb of Dracula #44 and Doctor Strange #14 as the Lord of Vampires and Sorcerer Supreme fight to the death! Stick around as we veer off into tangents about Brahm Stokers' novel, God in comic books, and the 1970s.  Happy Halloween everyone! In addition to the Secret Wars and Beyond podcast, make sure to catch Resurrections: An Adam Warock and Thanos Podcast as well as Unpacking the Power of Power Pack for the rest of the crossover.

Jon matches wits with everyone's favorite 10 year old detective, and almost gets too distracted by how violent life was for the youth of the '60s to solve the case. Will he recover in time?

New episode!  Mephisto casts the dastardly Spell of Comics Apathy on us and only Tim Price, the Podcrasher can save us with one of our favorite comics of all time, Bone #10.  You'd be a stupid, stupid rat creature to miss this one!

Jon reads an Encyclopedia Brown mystery to Maggie and she tries to solve it.  Jon remembers this one from childhood and thinks the clue will be too obscure for Maggie to solve.  Is he right, or will Maggie's repeat viewings of QI win her the day?

The world may be a garbage fire, but at least there's a new Rod Pod!  Jon and Maggie read through and discuss IDW Transformers More Than Meets the Eye #6: Interiors, where we deal with severe PTSD, depression, and  someone accidentally getting shot in the head.  MTMTE is the funny on purpose one, remember.  In Robots in Disguise #6 Syndromica, Orion Pax, Hardhead, and some lizard guy named Garnak encounter the fruition of Shockwave's ancient plan.  And Pax takes on Monstructor because that's how he rolls.  With The Touch, Less Than Meets the Eye, and Intrigue!  

Maggie Reads Jon an Encyclopedia Brown mystery and he tries to solve it.  Can you solve the case of the Balloon Man, a case that has perplexed even the Chief of Police of Idaville before Jon can?  (I wouldn't get too worked up.  Chief Brown is stalwart and true, but his deductive reasoning skills are dangerously lacking, considering his job). 

This is it!  The final chapter of The Wounded Sky, read by all three of us followed by a discussion of the book. Thank you so much for putting up with the various delays and we hope you had as much fun listening as we did reading and recording it. Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Feedback is appreciated.  Send comments  to marriedwcomics@gmail.com

We're almost to the the end of our  Doses of of Star Trek, Daily or otherwise. Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads chapter 15, where we say hello to a new universe and goodbye to a crewmember. Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek!  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads chapter 14, in which the Enterprise crew mulls over how to best play God. Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Maggie reads chapter 13 in which we find out why God would have need of a starship. Or at least a starship crew.     Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Send feedback to marriedwcomics@gmail.com

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads Chapter 12 as the crew comes face to face with something that may or may not be God and try to communicate with it. You know, the usual.   Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Send feedback to marriedwcomics@gmail.com

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek!  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads chapter 11, it's an absolutely beautiful chapter and Layne reads it wonderfully. That's it.  That's the preview.   Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Feedback is appreciated.  Send comments  to marriedwcomics@gmail.com

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek!  Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Maggie reads chapter 10 where we learn along with the crew what is going on and the extent of the danger.  We ponder with Kirk the ethical quandries that come with every command decision and hopefully grasp how relevant a book written in the early 80s is so relevant today.   Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale Send feedback to marriedwcomics@gmail.com