Episodes
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #297 - It's Not Easy Being Green: Green to the Corps
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
Thursday Dec 20, 2018
The greenest story arc of Hey Kids, Comics! continues in a big way! This time Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston discuss the Green Lantern Corps. With a staggering number of active and inactive Lanterns out there, it is a lot of green with too little time to cover it at full!
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
“That time of year” has arrived anew…yes, Christmas is coming! So naturally Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston are again in the spirit of things with their annual HKC! Christmas Gift Guide!
Your hosts have come up with a great mix of comic collections and comic book related collectible certain to be on any fan’s wishlist…or even your own! Grab your eggnog, a stack of cookies, and your gift-giving notes then settle in for a variety of great gift choices for 2018!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #293 - Order on the Court or: (Comicsportsballs III)
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Friday Nov 23, 2018
Play ball!
Welcome to the third outing (or inning) of the HKC! recurring theme known as Comicsportsballs! Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston are joined yet again by the show's own Sportsmaster Eddie Medina for an exploration of some of the strangest sports in comics. This sprinkled with a non-stop halftime show of humorous takes on life, comics, and that thing called sport!
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #292 - Order in the Court!
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Welcome to the second of a two-parter on the legal system in comics! Law and order are both represented as Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston explore some of the top court cases in comic history. Join them from the gallery as super-justice is meted out in the court of comic opinion.
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #285 - Family Reunions: We Are Family
Friday Sep 14, 2018
Friday Sep 14, 2018
"We Are Family" concludes with a look at literally the first family of comics, the Captain Marvel Family!
Talk about a power family! Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston do just that as lightning strikes more than twice in the storied history of those who tap the power of Shazam!
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #284 - Family Reunions: Along Came a Spider
Monday Sep 10, 2018
Monday Sep 10, 2018
"Amazing", "Spectacular", "Friendly Neighborhood" - Call him what you will, Spider-Man has long been a flagship Marvel Comics character...and unless some criminal was impersonating him, pretty much his own thing. In more recent years, however, a LOT of new characters have vied to become, in the words of David Pumpkins' beat-boy skeletons, "part of it!"
This week's installment of "Family Reunions" sees Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston diving headlong into the Spider-Verse with a look at Spider-Man family members from the old classics like Aunt May and Mary Jane Parker to the myriad Spider-Men and Spider-Women that have become fairly prevailent over the last few years.
Note: That's David S. Pumpkins.
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
The Rantcor Pit #77 - Something Wicket This Way Comes
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
We celebrate the wonderous career of actor Warwick Davis!
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #283 - Family Reunions: Last Son and Then Some
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Superman may be the Last Son of Krypton, but that has never meant that he had to go it alone as an orphan and sole survivior.
"Family Reunions" returns with Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston exploring the life and times of Superman and the Superman Family. A family that began with, but by no mean ever ended with, Smallville's most accomodating, Ma and Pa Kent.
Discover how much of Krypton's life and culture survived, who took up the iconic "S" when the Man of Tomorrow seemingly expired at the crispy fists of Doomsday, and those that are part of the inner circle of Clark Kent and/or Kal-El.
Saturday Aug 25, 2018
The Rantcor Pit #76 - The Spirit of '76
Saturday Aug 25, 2018
Saturday Aug 25, 2018
In 1977 a little science fiction film called "Star Wars" changed everything, becoming not only a box-office smash but an international cultural phenomenon that prevails to this day.
But before that fateful summer, what was going on in America. What were things like even just a year before there was a Star Wars?
Cole Houston and Eddie Medina explore the Bicentenial year of the United States with a look at popular culture of the day back when George Lucas and company were about to begin principle photography on the little movie that could. From movies and music to toys and even, enexpectedly, fast food, everything that was in '76 would seemingly change the following year. Vic Medina joins the exploration of this virtual time capsule of the year before the year that made that Galaxy Far, Far Away world famous.
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Hey Kids, Comics! #282 - Family Reunions: First Family Ties
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
They were Marvel's First "Family of Super-Heroes", even though only two were technically related when they go their start! But isn't that the point of this story arc? To explore how family does not always come from birth or marraige.
The Fantastic Four and all who have joined them in battle or in support, is the focus of this, the second chapter of "Family Reunions". Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny may be the iconic quartet, but the likes of Crystal, Sandman, She-Hulk, and even (yes, believe it or not) Ghost Rider have been a part of the team, and in most cases, the family as well.
Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston discover how diverse a family the FF has become over a great many decades from Alisha Masters to a future herald of Galactus, your hosts discover that this is some kind of family!