The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show

In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I'll be talking about the break dancing sonic shooter from the Justice League of America, not that he was in it for long, but Paco Ramone, and in later iterations of the character, Cisco Ramone. And if you are a watcher of The hit CW show, The Flash, yep, I'm talking about Vibe!

In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be talking The Runaways. That has gone from marvel Comics to Hulu Oringinal. 

In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I'll be talking about a character that moved from DC's Milestone imprint into the main DCU and beyond. In this episode we'll be talking about Virgil Hawkins, a.k.a Static Shock.

In this episode we are going to look into the origins of one of Marvel's most iconic and controversial characters, Frank Castle, a.k.a, The Punisher. Now this is a character that some consider a hero and others consider a crazy person who kills lots of people while wearing a skull on his chest. I think of him as a little of both. I'm also super excited about the interview I got to do with Gerry Conway, the man who created The Punisher,  and several other characters throughout Marvel and DC comics.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be learning about Herr Starr, soldier of a secretive known as The Grail who is on his own mission to find and recruit Jesse Custer to become the messiah. Oh, and the man with the worst luck in the entire comic. This man takes a beating and deserves every bit of it.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll talking about the entity that changed everyone's lives starting with Jesse Custer, I'm talking about Genesis. We only see him as a screaming baby head but Genesis is a new thing in creation with a power equal is not greater than Gods.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll talking about one of the most powerful characters in DC Vertigo's awesome comic from the 80's Preacher, and no, I'm not talking about God or Satan, Jesse, or even Cassidy. I'm talking about The Saint of Killers. And I think that name says it all. We'll look at his character in the Preacher comic and in the new AMC of the same name. But as always, we'll start with the comic.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks show I'll be continuing my Preacher series with a character with one of the most unique looks and names in the entire series. Now there are some pretty far out characters in Preacher, but Eugene Root, or better known by Arseface definitely has one of the most interesting looks and backstories in the comic. So who is Eugene Root and how did he go from a handsome young stoner to Arseface, let's get into it.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I'll be covering the butt-kicking past of one of an amazing character in DC Vertigo's amazing series Preacher. In this episode we'll be learning about Tulip O'Hare a woman who can fight, shoot and kick butt with the rest of them.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I'll be covering the drunken past of one of my favorite characters in DC Vertigo's amazing series Preacher. And it's a fairly long history since this character is about 119 years old and is an immortal vampire who like to wear his sunglasses at night and in the daytime for that matter. Today I'll be talking about Cassidy, the vampire that has more of a taste for booze than blood.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll talking about one of my favorite characters in comics, Jesse Custer a small town preacher with a complicated past from Vertigo's awesome comic from the 80's Preacher. And yes, in this golden age of comic books brought to the small screen Jesse and his crew can been seen on a new AMC show that does take some liberties with the comic but is pretty cool overall. Like the episodes on Walking Dead characters, we'll look at the similarities and differences between the comic and the show. We'll start with his comic origins and then we'll look at how the show differs.

Today on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks show we'll be talking about an omega level mutant that was created on an alternate earth in the Marvel Universe, Earth 295 to be exact and was such a popular addition he was transported to Earth proper, Earth 616. Today we'll be learning about the mutant Nate Grey.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be looking into the interesting past of Jason Todd, the boy wonder replaced Dick Grayson as being Batman's number one sidekick, Robin. And I am so excited that at the end of the episode I'll be playing an interview that I did with Gerry Conway, the creator of Jason Todd, as well as so many more characters. But we'll talk more about that later in the episode. Let's just say I was so excited to do this interview.

This week on Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be continuing our exploration into the origin of The Walking Dead's biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille in Part 6 of our "Here's Negan" series where we'll be covering issues 10-12 of Negan's origin in Image Plus.

On this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we're going to be doing something a little different character wise. I'll be talking about a sidekick, but that's not the different part. The different part is that this sidekick isn't human. It's actually a hairless blue-grey space cat that who accompanies an intergalactic assassin who goes by the name, The Will. In this episode I promise not to tell a lie or else she'll know it, Lying Cat is someone you don't want to get on the wrong side of.

On this week's episode we'll be looking into the multiple origins of one of my favorite characters on TV today, Michonne, from The Walking Dead. Who was she before the apocalypse...let's find out.

This week on Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be continuing our exploration into the origin of The Walking Dead's biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille in Part 5 of our "Here's Negan" series where we'll be covering issues 7-9 of Negan's origin in Image Plus.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be talking about a great character from Kirby's Fourth World that really didn't show up in a lot of issues, but was a cool and fun character that really captured imaginations. We'll be talking about BUG, The Forager.    

On this week's episode I had a chance to talk with prolific creator Brian Haberlin about creating comics and characters like Witchblade and what he's doing now with augmented reality in his comics Anomaly, Faster than Light and other really amazing titles.

Who is The Crow and what drives him. This week we'll be talking about a tragic character that went from the printed page to the big screen. What motivates The Crow and what brought about the actual character's creation?

Wild Dog, the cameo and hockey mask wearing vigilante was created by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty back in 1987 for DC Comics. Wild Dog first appeared in a four issue mini-series  named after the character and is now on the hit CW show Arrow.  But who is Wild Dog?

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be learning all about the characters from the comic and awesome CW show, iZOMBIE before it's season premiere this week. And I was also able to get an interview with the characters co-creator Michael Allred! We have a great chat about how iZombie went from comics to the small screen. 

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we're going to be talking about two Flash villains that have jumped from the comic book page onto the small screen and have been giving the CW's Flash a run for his money. This week we'll learn about the somewhat obscure character, Abra Kadabra and the very obscure character, Music Meister. And yes, that is his name, the Music Meister.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll look at not one, but three characters, two are villains and one is, well, just a tailor and each comes from a different comics universe. Today we'll be talking learning about Tinkerer from Marvel U, Arthur Rosebaum from Image and finally Paul Gambi from the DCU who designed costumes for many of Flash's Rogues gallery.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we look at another flash villain, I do love The Flash, today we'll learn all there is to know about one of Flash's most fearsome and ferocious enemy, Gorilla Grodd.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be rocketing through the ups and downs of one of my favorite and fairly obscure Spider-man villain turned hero, Rocket Racer. But since he started out as a villain, this is a villains episode.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I'll be walking us through the origin and backstory of my favorite martian, J'onn J'onzz. Then we get to hear about J'onn from one of the greatest comic book writers out there, J.M DeMatteis, who wrote the incredible 1988 miniseries that deepened J'onn's origins making him one of the most interesting characters in the DCU.

This week we'll be talking with Mike Norton on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show talking about Gravity, who was co-created by Mike, Eisner Award winner for his webcomic . This week we'll be talking about Greg Willis, a.k.a Gravity.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be doing something a little different. We won't be talking about a character on the show, we'll be talking about an object. An object that comes in many colors, some that kill, some that induce madness and some that give you three eyes and six arms, but they all come from the same place, the planet Krypton. That's right, we'll be looking at the history and backstory of Kryptonite in all is various colors.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be looking into the origin and backstory of Marvel's clean up crew for superhero disasters, Damage Control. We'll also learn about ABC's plan to bring Damage Control to life as a new workplace comedy next season.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be looking into the origin and backstory of one of Flash's more obscure villains, and he has a pretty colorful path, I'll be doing the paint by numbers of the Rainbow Raider. Yep, so along with a spoiler warning I also want to give a pun warning for this episode.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be continuing our multi-part series on the origin of The Walking Dead's biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille. This week we go over 12 pages from Here's Negan!

Dr. Zin is the arch nemesis of Dr. Benton Quest on the animated cartoon Jonny Quest that first aired on September 18th 1964. Jonny Quest actually aired in prime time and was a huge success both because of it's incredible art and storytelling but it only lasted one season. Like a lot of Sci-Fi shows of that time it made most of its money and gained even more popularity in syndication. The program was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and was created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey.

This week...Invincible! My favorite comic, the first one I read each month. Learn all about Invincible,  the creative team behind the book, and my own contribution to issue 13!

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be having some fun learning about a villain that's actually had a lot of air time the past few months on the awesome CW show, The Flash. Today we'll be learning about Flash's latest baddie, Dr. Alchemy.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be exploring the origin of a Golden age character that you more than likely have never heard of, The Flame.  Remember, I did say that we would also be exploring some of the more obscure characters out there, and this is one of them.

Spock is the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer aboard the USS Enterprise who was played Leonard Nimoy throughout the Star Trek franchise that includes the original series, of all 8 movies that include the original cast and even the animated TV series. Spock even showed up in a two part arc in Star Trek: The Next generation.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be continuing with part 3 of our multi-part series on the origin of The Walking Dead's biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille.

The Black Cat This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be having some fun learning about a character that straddles the line of hero and villain, Felicia Hardy a.k.a, The Black Cat.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be exploring the origin of our first sidekick, Wally West, Kid Flash. Now some of you may say hey, Wally's not a sidekick, he's the Flash. True...but he started as a sidekick to his mentor Barry Allen, so I'm sticking to it.

Michael Myers first appeared in John Carpenter's classic horror movie Halloween in 1978. When we first meet Michael we are actually seeing through the child's eyes. We're not sure who this character is but it's definitely creepy. He wanders through the house and picks up a clown mask and puts it on. We then see to those familiar plastic mask eye holes that we had back in the day.

John Constantine is my favorite character in the DC Universe and in Comics in genera, and this week we'll be looking into his origins.  John Constantine was created by writer  Alan Moore and artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben and first appeared in The Saga of the Swamp Thing issue 37 back in 1985. The story goes that Bissette and Totleben were huge fans of The Police and really wanted to draw a character that resembled Sting. So Alan Moore obliged them and created the character of John Constantine, the quintessential anti-hero, mage, con-man change smoker that will always do what's right...as long as it suits his purpose.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be taking a look at a member of the bat family that was created for both a TV show, and the comic...this week we'll be learning about the variations of Barbara Gordon a.k.a Batgirl.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be taking a look at the first villain not from a comic, but from a movie. The villain we'll be learning about on today's episode is The Gunslinger from the 1973 Sci-Fi classic Westworld.

New this Friday listen to part 2 of Here's Negan! In our ongoing series we'll look Image Plus issue 2, and see at how Robert Kirkman unfolds the origin of one of The Walking Dead's biggest baddies.

This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be exploring the origin of one of the Avengers greatest heroes The Vision. And that's what we'll be doing on The heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show, we'll be learning and talking about the origins and backstories of heroes and villains throughout the comic book universe and pop culture. We'll look at both popular and obscure characters you may have never heard….but I think you'll dig.

Explanation of our name change.

This week on Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be exploring the origin of The Walking Dead's biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille in Part 1 of our "Here's Negan" series.

Hi, this week on The Superheroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we'll be exploring the origin of one of Spiderman's oldest and most dangerous foes, Otto Octavius, or as he's non-affectionately known as...Doc Ock!

This week on The Superheros, Villains and Sidekicks Show...the first week actually...it's the backstory of Netflix's latest series, Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, Or Powerman, he's got a lot of names. I'll just be calling him Luke or Cage. And that's what we'll be doing on the Heroes and Villains podcast, we'll be learning and talking about the origins and backstories of heroes and villains throughout the comic book universe. We'll look at super popular heroes and villains and obscure characters you may have never heard….but I think you'll dig.