Titan Up The Defense

In this, the second episode of their new show, Cory and Hub digress from their coverage of Champions and discuss the absolutely bonkers Silver Age gofers that is Action Comics #243. Digressions include: Super Lion's surprising pathos, burying scary media in your yard, 18th century fashion, and a bunch of other nonsense!

Our intrepid hosts, Hub and Cory, embark on a bold new adventure. They discuss The Champions #1 and indulge themselves in many digressions along the way. 

Welp, that's a wrap on Titan Up the Defense! For our final episode, we take a look at Teen Titan Spotlight #21, featuring the original Teen Titan lineup. We talk about Woodstock, the 60's vs the 80's, Arsenic and Old Lace, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember. Thanks so much for listening, everybody! We love you. Enjoy! Enjoy!

SMRASH! For the penultimate episode of TUtD, we set the wayback machine for 1971 and discuss Sub-Mariner #34, featuring the Defenders' precursor, The Titans Three! Topics include: Uh...stuff? Probably also things. Look, it's been a long couple of weeks, and I was drinking a fair amount of brandy. I think we talked about the Silver Surfer somewhere in there. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Hey, everybody! I goofed up when I uploaded this years Disco Barn and initially posted a version that was missing some bits. That version was only up a couple of hours, but if you downloaded when it was released and have an incomplete version of the show, please delete that version and re-download. That should fix things. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Welcome Back to the Disco Barn, once the most popular supernatural discotheque in all of rural New England. This year, the Haunted Disco Barn's owner and proprietor, Ezekiel P Shadowmaven, regales us with Punk is UnDead, a bone chilling murder mystery from the Barn's 1970's heyday. Happy Halloween! 

We get back to our roots, and read Adventure Comics #269, featuring the debut of the undisputed greatest Teen Titan, Aqualad! Hooray! There's also some fun stuff about Super Dogs, Space Pills, and stork rescue, but mostly we talk about the fact that one guy in the comic calls a mistake, "A costly boner." Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Bwahaha! We read Defenders (Vol 3) #1, by the creative team behind JLI! Topics of discussion include: Keith Giffen, revised jungle monarchy, Cory redeeming his Cory Points, and skeletal xylophonics. Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Puff! We read Teen Titans: Year One #1! There's very little comic book in this comic book, so we talk about: Halloween 3, Great Danes, the Cory Point redemption process, horse flies, Dean Moon, and a bunch of other stuff. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

This is it! We read New Defenders #152, the final issue of the series! Hub and Cory look back on their journey and discuss: an odd costume decision, the final(ish) fates of our heroes, a disturbing potential band name, and much more! Enjoy Enjoy! And thank you.If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Hub and Cory take a look at everyone's least favorite bird themed teenage heroes(?) first encounter with the Teen Titans in The Hawk and the Dove #5! Topics include: a rad present, comic book pacifism, dumb birds, and what to do if someone drops a box on your brother's head. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Yowsers! After a longer than expected delay, we read New Defenders #151, the penultimate issue of the series! Topics include: komiks, the virtues of lying and stealing, accurate answers to banal questions, and even more tangents than usual. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

This week's recording went sideways on us, so we reached into the archives and pulled out this Bonus episode Cory and Hub recorded for Patreon a depressing number of years ago. They talk about Wonder Woman issues #265-266, and probably a bunch of other stuff as well. Who can remember? It was 2016, a year most of us have tried to blot out of our respective memories. We'll have the show back on track with a real episode next week, but in the meantime, do your best to Enjoy! Enjoy!If you want to listen to episodes like this sooner than 8 years after they were first released, you can become a patron of the show at patreon.com/ttwasteland.

The Doctor is in! For reason's Hub barely attempts to justify, he and special guest Sara Century discuss issues 25-41 of Dr. Fate! Topics include: feelings jars, progressive superhero comics, less progressive superhero comics, whether Chaos reigns (it does), and is Inza Nelson the greatest superhero? Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Set the Wayback machine for 1967 and grab your gearest go-go fins, because Hub and special guest MeganBob are talking about Aquagirl's debut in Aquaman 33! Topics include: underwater crime discotheques, BEM, donkey basketball, and why Silver Age comics were so weird. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Hoopla! We read the conclusion of Cloud's origin story in the double sized New Defenders #150! Topics include: clown history, Ralph Kramden's favorite poem, space Sasquatch stooges, and the unfortunate Poochy-ing of Over-Mindy. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

The OG Teen Titans are back! Are they still gear and ginchy? We find out when we read the new World's Finest: Teen Titans #1! Topics include: Walrus Kisses, it being too damn hot, #hashtags, and appropriate footwear for evil cults. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Veep Veep Veep! We read Defenders #149, and finally learn (some of) Cloud's origin! Topics include: Underwater sexism, Beast is the worst, The Beast Must Die is the best, Julie Andrew's imminent hip hop career, and floppy boots as a power play. Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

It's the end of an era! We wrap up our coverage of New Titans by talking about issues #86 & #87. Topics include: "funny funny" riddles, Sex-Reactors, walrus kisses as a panacea, bad babysitters, awkward tail placement, fake mustaches, and Tusky! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294 

THOOM! We read the fun, farcical nonsense that was Defenders #148. Topics include: Smurf accents, laser honey, the return of Cutlass and Typhoon, Groucho Marx, and locked room mysteries. Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Gaaa Gooo?! We read New Titans #85 and conclude our coverage of the Titans Hunt! Topics include: volcano safety, what to do with a hippo, funeral etiquette, the birth of a Titan, and a distinct lack of the "answers" and "explanations" we were promised. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294 

Face front, lily livered dogfaces! We read Defenders #147! Topics include: goat cheese pitfalls, Pizza Fish?, how uncool Gargoyle is, math sludge, and the debut of a new New Defender! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

It's the conclusion of the Titan Hunt! Sort of. Topics include: state shaped cars, Rumble in the Bronx, the return (and possible departure) of Danny Fucking Chase, soul math, Heliogabalus, and did Raven just die again? Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294 

Poit! A possibly dead, Georgian era, libertine, glam rock club-kid is running amok in Defenders #146! We talk about: the stockbroker/bike messenger film Quicksilver, simple machines, Barbara Streisand's private mall, the importance of possessive apostrophes, and werewolf family trees. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

It's the purportedly penultimate chapter of the Titans Hunt! Hooray! We read New Titans #83 and talk about: art skills of paleontologists, fetal satans, Hood strawberries, Deathstroke is a terrible dad, and the death of a Titan. Enjoy? Enjoy?If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294 

Braddadap! We revved up our motors and read New Defenders #145. Topics of discussion include: cool motorcycle stunts, Team America, Moondragon's hatred of hats, Bumblebears, and whether Spain has a Kuato. Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Cory's back! Let the Transference Process begin! Probably! We read New Titans #82. Topics include: drug defying, swan consumption laws, infrared semen, things people say, olde timey classic rock, and stop saying "Paradise!" Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294 

Anthropomorphic antics ahoy! Cory's off this week, so Hub and MeganBob take a trip to Earth C and read Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #14!. Topics of discussion include: parody vs pastiche, social media sites as future drugs, too many tropes, and the similarities between pro wrestling and comic books. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Skrakzt! Epic bad-assery abounds in Defenders 144! Topics of discussion include: Robert Loggia, Giant Valkyrie, other Valkyries, a finale that is both climactic and anti-climactic, and Ladyhorse Prizepig. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

The Titan Hunt continues...to not continue in New Titans #81! Topics include: the A-Team as greek gods, cosmic Jay Leno seems like a real turd, Terry Long going full Jack Norris, Hub's new voice, and clip show episodes. Enjoy? Enjoy?If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Gone! Gone!--regular show format! Cory's off on an adventure, so Hub and special guest Sara Century discuss the first 5 issues of Jack Kirby's The Demon! Hooray! Topics include: how goddamn rad Jack Kirby is; Jason Blood's key parties; and horror that shouldn't work, but does. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Great Pama! Dire doing are a happening in the brilliantly executed gut punch that is New Defenders #143! Topics include: How dang impressed we are, solidarity, soup vs. salad, Connecticut defamation, and why not to trust joggers who aren't from the land. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

The storyline derailing confluence of crossover events continues in New Titans #80! Topics include: Lord Chaos is a real jerk, future vampire slang, Donna Troy's interior design choices, vampire Moe, and a letter home from the Titan Hunt. Enjoy? Enjoy?If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

EEEEEEEEEE! We read New Defenders #142. Topics include: Weed's Birthday Eve, acronyms, the limitations of metaphor, the mutant ability to wear purple fedoras, Senator Kelly is a jerk, and the terror of being told that "we need to talk." Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Get ready to travel to the far flung future of 2001! We read the epic (very long) New Titans Annual #7! Topics include: Easter shenanigans, GI Joe Reserve characters, Russian nesting Terminators, Third Eye Blind lyrics, the Grand Canyon, and much more! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Rrrumble! We read the horrifying New Defenders #141! Topics include: herbicidal super makeouts, Hub's birthday, a co-op bro fight, telepathic cocaine, superpowers as an occupational hazard, and the return of a beloved sponsor! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

The Titan Hunt continues in New Titans #79! Unless by "continues" you mean progresses forward. Topics of discussion include: the drawbacks of 90's crossover events, RoboCop wants big boy food, dik-diks, and what "The Most Insane Man in the World" orders at a drive thru. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

AAAAAAAAA! We read New Defenders #140, and folks, this was a tough one. Topics of discussion include: Ninja Turtle booze choices, Steely Dan, horny flower poems, and late 80's/early 90's tennis players. That's the fun stuff. But, CONTENT WARNING, because this issue's plot involves racism and sexual violence, and those topics do come up in both the synopsis and our discussion.If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Looks like Michael J. Pollard has captured the Titans! Wait, I think that's supposed to be Jericho. We read New Titans #78. Topics include: looking on the bright side, the occasionally fine line between retconning and gaslighting, and the pervasive dampness of the 90's. Enjoy Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Klunk! The gang gets in a subterranean scuffle, and Moondragon loses her least favorite fashion accessory in Defenders #139! Topics include: brazier color coding tips, Red Wolf, unusual salads, and whether Angel can communicate with birds. Enjoy! Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Soviet silliness abounds when the Titans head to Siberia! We read New Titans #77 and talk about: the uncomfortable RoboCopping of Cyborg, theological fruit marketing, vendors of cartoon meat, and more! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

TA-TA-TA-BLATT! Cory's off doing some astral nonsense, so Hub is joined by special guest Connor Goldsmith (Host of CEREBRO)! They read New Defenders #138 and discuss such topics as: Candy Southern being the best, Candy Southern's fashion being the best, and Candy Southern's holograms being the best! Also some stuff about Moondragon and Cloud. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Gack! We read New Defenders #137! The rest of the gang has to battle a giant Gargoyle, so our topics of discussion include: pasta shapes, Valkyries' bad-assery, owl defamation redux, and breakfast food homonyms! All that and more, plus some surprising developments pertaining to our new sponsor! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Ska-Rammo! A couple of buildings blow up, but not much else happens in New Titans #76, so we have plenty of time to talk about: our new sponsor, Pantha being a Hot Topic mall goth, misremembered animal fun facts, and the benefits of false advertising in novelty mugs. Enjoy Enjoy! If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Elaine!! Cory traded his recording equipment to some demons, so the brilliant Sara Century joins Hub and helps him unpack the strangely beautiful, problematic fairy tale that is the 1985 Gargoyle miniseries. Topics of discussion include: Gargoyle is the anti-Valkyrie, liking art you disagree with, Germaine rules, and WW1! All this, plus a heaping helping of Dylan disparaging. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

In this brand gnu episode (eh?), we read New Titans #75! This issue features the shocking reveal of Wildebeest's identity! And it is a shock! We distract ourselves from all the bad gnus by talking about: ironic didgeridoos, floating sheets, movie descriptions, and tide pools! Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

KRZZ! Cory got trapped by a wizard or something, so MeganBob helps Hub unpack Defenders #136! Topics of discussion include: representation of gender and sexuality; Flex Rumblecrunch; and...I started to say a "surprising amount about Paul Giamatti's balls," but knowing us, it isn't really that surprising. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

I've got some bad gnus...arguably too many! We read New Titans #74! Topics include: too many numbers, a mustache conundrum, the problem with stacked ranking for murder gnus, and slamming evil. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2023, we read New Defenders #135! Topics of discussion include: Molecules, words being made of letters, Chili Palaces, and molecules. Really, it's mostly molecules. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

What's Wolfman's deal with the word "paradise?" We find out when our hosts read New Titans #73! Topics of discussion include: the death(?) of DFC, the debuts of Phantasm and a kitty-cat person silhouette, Fabric Ward, and is Santa nasty? Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

What's the sound of man's laughter? The gang is in peril New Defenders #134, so we talk about: the theological implications of the word "slaughter," Glen Frey tattoos, celebrity parents, and the potential pitfalls of running an illegal forest casino. If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294