Comic Books Are Burning In Hell

The only podcast about comic books on the internet, with Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Matt Seneca and Tucker Stone.

The (Bad) Tastecast 05/29/2025

The (Bad) Tastecast Gather round as a random text thread becomes an episode, ye children of the pod! All your favorite comics professionals have gathered to spin a yarn about why they like the things that are bad, whether that means a bad thing is good, and to finally nail down one of our longest running mysteries: Does Joe Watch Prestige Television Or Not? For those of you who wonder if the Batman content is here: it is! And so is a lot of talk about Matt's recent appearance in Bubbles, the popular zine also responsible for so many of Joe's recent smiles. It's a podcast, buddy! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/36763605

His Friends Call Him Bobby (w. Dan Nadel) 04/15/2025

His Friends Call Him Bobby (w. Dan Nadel) On this very special episode, Make-A-Wish kid Dan Nadel makes his fondest dream come true: a podcast with Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Tucker Stone and a very special surprise guest! The topic: Dave Sim! Unfortunately, professional obligations ultimately demand that all individuals also discuss young Daniel's newly published biography of Robert Crumb, the famed cartoonist. No punches are pulled, but really, are any punches thrown? It's comic book time! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/36155365

Batman: Strange Apparitions 05/07/2024

Batman: Strange Apparitions If you're keeping track of these, this is number eight. When did we record it? None of your business, turkey hunters! This time around, on Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, Matt Seneca & Tucker Stone are talking about Batman: Strange Apparitions by Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers. /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/31177447

My Name Is Dylan Shingo 04/15/2024

My Name Is Dylan Shingo On this episode, Tucker, Chris & Joe tackle the latest Kazuo Umezz books to make it to American shores: My Name Is Shingo! And that's not the only comic that came across the US Border under the microscope...they're also all about Batman, and his adventures with Italian mainstay, Dylan Dog. Does this Caped Crusader appearance mean more Batman yakking? You guessed right, True Believer! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/30821003

The Comico Grendel! 10/15/2023

The Comico Grendel! In this episode, we're talking about Matt Wagner's Grendel--well, as much of it as we could fit in before we reached emotional capacity for...the devil! That turned out to be basically Grendel as it was published by Comico in the 1980s, which basically means "everything Grendel up until you get to Grendel Prime"). There is a little diversion into a Dark Horse comic written by Diana Schutz and drawn by Tim Sale, and as few cursory mentions of Grendel Red, White & Black as we can get away with, but neither of those take up so much time that we can't safely call this one "The Comico Years". /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/28266950

Social (Science) Fiction 07/31/2023

Social (Science) Fiction The gang is all here, and so is the NYRC release of Social Fiction, a collection of comics by Chantal Montellier, translated by Geoffrey Brock. Is there a bit of spot the reference going down? Sure there is: but if your eyes are closed, how are you gonna see who is coming at you?? Wake up sheeple!!! France is a real place!!!! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/27601527

Catalan Returns: Mickey Mouse Has Crickets In His Pants 11/21/2022

Catalan Returns: Mickey Mouse Has Crickets In His Pants This week, all decorum is out the window: Joe isn't here to stop us, so we're talking about Disney's Mickey Mouse in a labor fantasia, we're talking about a comic where a talking penis takes the stage (he's pink, y'all!) and, in the episode's coda, we talk about the coda of Crickets. You wouldn't think we'd get this much done with only the three of us: and your lack of faith reflects your poor upbringing! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/25071162

Public Broadcasting and Literature BEING THAT THING 10/26/2022

Public Broadcasting and Literature BEING THAT THING The Hernandez Brothers make it to television, but they don't talk about Blubber enough for our taste, and Alan Moore throws some words on the page but doesn't include any Don Simpson pictures? Well, if everything is wrong in the world, then what is right? Garth Ennis. Garth Ennis is always right! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/24751887

Fantastic Four: Full Circle 10/12/2022

Fantastic Four: Full Circle In this special, weirdly long episode, we talk about a bunch of Marvel characters in an Abrams book--all of them, somehow connected to Alex Ross. It's Fantastic Four: Full Circle time! Get in where you fit in, and brother, you fit in just fine! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/24668199

Hanna-Barbera's OROCHI 08/22/2022

Hanna-Barbera's OROCHI On this special episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, we discuss fairy tales, Kazuo Umezz and critically acclaimed cartoo--BARF. BARFING SOUND. Carto--VOMIT AGAIN. UPCHUCK CENTRAL. /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/24117417

Batman: Mad Love (with Katie Skelly) 08/15/2022

Batman: Mad Love (with Katie Skelly) We're back at the Batphones, and this time around, we're joined by Katie Skelly to talk about Batman: Mad Love! A loose collection of comics featuring the Animated Series versions of Gotham City's craziest and most violent citizens, this is a box we had to check. Here she is: the REAL Lady Joker! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/24048978

Jiminy Crickets! 07/25/2022

Jiminy Crickets! The boys are back-actually, they were back a while ago, but then one of the boys got sick and sleepy, so it took a while to get this one up: it's about Crickets, from Sammy "Salami" Harkham! It also features our recurring segment on British comics, which finally is giving a name. It's comic book time, pal! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/23835872

Batman: Mask 05/11/2022

Batman: Mask Say hello to Joe McCulloch, everybody! Co-editor of TCJ.com, formerly of Comics Comics, Savage Critics, and the legendary Jog the Blog, Joe is the headliner of our main show Comic Books are Burning in Hell, and the best comics critic of the internet era. There's no other way to say it: no one since Gary Groth has contributed as much high level writing and thinking about the form as Joe. But even the greats are fallible! Case in point: this episode, in which he deigns to babble about Bryan Talbot and Batman at great length with us. That's right folks: it's time for a podcast about some all-time Serious Superhero Comics, the great Legends of the Dark Knight deep cut BATMAN: MASK. Wanna listen? /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/23007011

"I Was Thinking A Lot Of Ding Dong Circus" 04/27/2022

"I Was Thinking A Lot Of Ding Dong Circus" Green Lantern, the guy who created the Double Dragon side-scroller, Tucker's mistaken "let's interrupt people" idea, Donny Cates Hulk comic, very old school podcast stuff, Akira, Jack Kirby's Silver Star, Koike's Heaven's Door, the Legends of DC Universe featuring Steve Rude, and the new Jack Reacher book. It's one of our biggest and messiest podcasts in a good long while: climb aboard and GRAB AHOLD! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/22895774

Catwoman: Lonely City 04/20/2022

Catwoman: Lonely City Welcome once again to Batman Books are Burning in Hell, where this time Tucker and Matt are joined by none other than Cliff Chiang, master cartoonist behind the best superhero comic to hit the stands since some of those old ones we usually talk about -- CATWOMAN: LONELY CITY. Whip-smart, addictively paced, and visually stunning, LONELY CITY is a hardboiled "one last score" crime novel that dons Batman-universe drag and absolutely werks it while tossing off no-shit social commentary that's as cutting as it is intelligent. It's a throwback to the type of dense, creator-driven, legitimately mature Batman sagas of the late '80s and early '90s that we created this show to discuss.. That Cliff is one of comics' most thoughtful interview subjects is the cherry on top. We're very proud to present this interview, so stop reading these words and start listening to it now! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/22832273

Red Flowers, Buddy! 01/26/2022

Red Flowers, Buddy! It's time for another installment in: the boys read some Tsuge! This time around, they're drinking in Red Flowers, the latest development in Yoshiharu Tsuge archival studies, in this, a look at the second volume of his mature tales! IS THAT AN ANTLION TALE? It is, you frisky freak! But wait? A salamander as well? B'twixt my shanty! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/21905105

Our Favorite 2021 Comics 01/06/2022

Our Favorite 2021 Comics Chris, Matt, Joe & Tucker get together to talk about some of the comics that hit them the hardest this year. Less a back and forth, more a roundtable ramble: no list is coming, you'll have to listen to find out more! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/21695624

Batman: The Jungle Cat-Queen 12/22/2021

Batman: The Jungle Cat-Queen Welcome back to Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, where this episode Tucker and Matt are joined by special guest star and master cartoonist Anya Davidson! We are absolutely gassed to present a conversation about one of the all-time best Bizarre Batman Comics: The Jungle Cat-Queen (1954), by the legendary Dick Sprang, with writer Edmond Hamilton and inker Charles Paris, as presented in Detective Comics #211. This is the stuff that dreams are made of - LISTEN UP /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/21561752

Batman: Murder In The Night 11/23/2021

Batman: Murder In The Night Welcome once again to Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, this week featuring special guest sta- hey wait a second, how'd he get in here? Chris Mautner? It's Chris Mautner, people! So here we go with more discourse than you ever imagined could exist about Murder in the Night, as presented in Detective Comics #481-482 by Jim Starlin and P. Craig Russell! Reach between your legs and hold on tight! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/21261758

Spending Sundays In My Cage 10/27/2021

Spending Sundays In My Cage It's time to get back to the classics of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell: a look at a new one from Olivier Schrauwen (that new one would be Sunday 3/4, from Colorama) and an old one from Martin Vaughn-James (that old one would be The Cage, from Coach House Books). But first: did you hear that one about the time the guy googled a religion the night before his paper was due? There's a comic book version of that. DC published it! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20950652

Batman: Venom 10/21/2021

Batman: Venom Welcome to Episode 2 of Batman Books are Burning in Hell, in which regular hosts Tucker Stone and Matt Seneca are joined by Benjamin Marra for a discussion of Batman: Venom! Venom, published in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20 (1991), is Denny O'Neil, Trevor Von Eeden, Russ Braun, and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's epic saga of a Batman whose commitment to workout gains ends in tragedy, madness, and punching a great white shark in the face. LISTEN UP! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20892569

Duke Togo & Dan Didio 10/12/2021

Duke Togo & Dan Didio We start off with a random survey of each other's memories to determine who has that diesel, then it's time to go to church and mourn the passing of an O.G. killer, TAKAO SAITŌ. After that, we put Chris in the hot seat to figure out why he needed to read every single issue of 52 to decide whether or not he should keep the issues or take them outside to his nearest dumpster, which resulted in evern more memorializing. Where's Matt Seneca? He's busy! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20783747

Batman: Prey 09/28/2021

Batman: Prey Get ready to dive straight towards your nearest 90s longbox! Matt and Tucker are taking the reins and talking Batman. In this installment of a Very Special Takeover Cast, the tale on offer is "Prey", from Paul Gulacy & Doug Moench. Over at The Factual Opinion, you'll find extensive show notes and images from the work in question from Matt Seneca. Keep your ears peeled, right down to the blood splattered bone, for more BatCasts To Come. /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20617787

Snapper Carr Vs. Rick Jones 09/13/2021

Snapper Carr Vs. Rick Jones Rumor control? Here are the facts! 1) Chris read every single issue of Rom, The Space Knight...but nobody asked him too! 2) Tucker read all of the Eternals...but Joe doesn't believe him! 3) This podcast is actually all about what Jack Kirby and Steve Dikto really wanted to do...and more! Get in where you fit in, and if you can't find that place, make that place! Make it your own! We're there, and our arms are outstretched. Podcast! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20462234

Garth! Fujimoto! TIM TRUMAN??? 08/17/2021

Garth! Fujimoto! TIM TRUMAN??? While most of the comics we talk about on this one are new, this is as classic an episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell as it gets: there's Garth Ennis comics, a recap of Peter Milligan's decisions, Joe checking in on some up-to-the-minute new manga from Tatsuki Fujimoto, huge technical problems, Tucker losing his temper with Chris, Matt talking about the Punisher, and then they still find time to talk about the 80s DC supercreeps of Hawkworld. Get it on! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/20138600

Won't Someone Think Of The Children (Of Mu-Town) 06/16/2021

Won't Someone Think Of The Children (Of Mu-Town) It's time to dive into some of the most politically prescient manga now available in English to the discerning reader: Masumura Jūshichi's Children of Mu-Town, published by Glacier Bay. What will the onslaught of takes result in: consensus, or all out war? There's only one way to find out, and if you haven't figured that part out yet, then I think we all know why you're still reading this description. Suit up! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/19502813

The Fists of Barry Windsor-Smith 06/01/2021

The Fists of Barry Windsor-Smith It's time to talk about Monsters, the newest brick of Barry Windsor-Smith comics since...geez buddy. I don't know. A long time! Consider this a prelude to our Rune-cast, part of a Malibu Monday series we have planned for the tenth of In Your Dreams. Time to get some teeth gnashing on! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/19316705

Jimbo Returns To The NO WARPING Zone 05/13/2021

Jimbo Returns To The NO WARPING Zone It's time to return to the subject of old: Jimbo, from Gary Panter. We've been jawing on the subject of Gary Panter for as long as we've been jawing at each other on anything, podcast or no podcast. NYRC's reissue gave us yet another chance to return to the subject, as did Fanta's publication of the big orange Crashpad. But none of us expected this episode's shocking discovery! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/19093421

Jimbo Returns To The NO WARPING Zone 05/13/2021

1963 Reasons To Read In Pictopia! 04/29/2021

1963 Reasons To Read In Pictopia! This week, the boys are playing with fire by talking about Alan Moore: will this be the end of our fair podcast? Probably not, because he refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the comics in question: it's the all new In Pictopia (from FU Press!) and the never-gonna-be-new-again 1963 (from Image's cool kid days!). Don Simpson, Steve Bissette, Chester Brown & Dave Gibbons: get ready to be name checked, boys! /episode/index/show/comicsinhell/id/18916739

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