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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 15h

I hate that Bob Uecker didn’t live to see this.

The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m sure a lot of people have unique names for common family meals. “Sauspot” (pronounced “sauce pot”) is simply sausage and potatoes. “Flavor” is chili lime seasoned chicken breast with rice and vegetables on the side.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Post a comics-related poster you had on your bedroom walls as a kid.

1989 Marvel Super Heroes poster with Hulk, Silver Surfer, Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Thor, Iron Man, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Captain America, Colossus, Punisher, Hobgoblin, and Storm

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Super cool snapshot of a universe (even if it means including Dr Druid)

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The spoiler in this is Century (thighs). We no longer have much cause to think about Century except in the context of Combo Man.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Packers/Bears at noon, Brewers NL Championship Series Game 1 at 7. If you need to get any shopping done in Wisconsin and want to avoid crowds, now is a good time to make your Costco run or what have you.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Had a bit of a close call with the podcast. Leak under the kitchen sink made its way through the floor and downstairs where I record. Laptop was in quite a vulnerable spot.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Byrne is a person I find absolutely fascinating for how comprehensively unpleasant he is, even leaving aside his more repulsive attitudes. His Superman comics are so marvelously entertaining, though. I hate what they say but they say it so engagingly.

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Extremely Haunted @extremelyuncanny.com · 10/10/2026

Superman: Super Yuppie? a Perspective by Dave Wave from the pages of Amazing Heroes #96

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The guy was just itching to invade Asteroid M and oust Magneto.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Another more direct comic connection in this film: just looked up who did all the spooky drawings of ghouls in the graveyard from the third segment and it was John Bolton, probably best known in the U.S. as artist on the X-Men Classic backups!

A ghoul gnawing on a dug-up corpse in a graveyard while a minister looks on, horrified

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

THAT’S the stuff. I’m not even a huge James Bond fan (or a liker of guns I guess) but that is a logo that makes you go wooooohoooooo

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Feels equally plausible this will be brilliant or terrible, but it’s certainly unexpected! I haven’t seen a Bond movie since Skyfall but what the hell, I’ll read this. Is that the official “007” logo now, though? I know the fashion is for minimalism/simplicity but does it have to be boring?

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The mission statement of @ironageofcomics.bsky.social

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesterday was Souper Strength, today is Souper Speed

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If anybody needs me today I will be in the Orb Room

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A real showcase of the magic of the Marvel Method. Byrne draws something visually interesting and dynamic, Claremont discovers the interior drama beneath that. Byrne provides form, Claremont provides texture. Individual elements are good but complement each other to become greater.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Artists keep making those big shoulder “wings” on Nightcrawler and Colossus smaller or non-existent. Are they ashamed of them? Because they shouldn’t be!

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also as promised on the episode: Justin as the Golden Age Sandman, an outfit cobbled together from Ragstock one Halloween

A strapping young college student disguised as the Golden Age Sandman

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW EPISODE! From Matt Wagner and Guy Davis (and lots more besides) it’s Sandman Mystery Theatre, Vertigo’s first new ongoing series! An ACTUAL “realistic” superhero (seen here, uhh, hiding in a women’s bathroom). LISTEN: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...

Last page of Sandman Mystery Theatre #1. Dian recoils in horror from a man with a gas mask, trenchcoat and fedor!

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am going to bed early, someone tell me if tomorrow’s episode doesn’t post, thank you, goodnight

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BA Robertson in 1981’s The Monster Club is like a Brian Bolland drawing of the Joker come to life

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just two more sleeps till a new episode Wednesday!

Surreal dream sequence with art by Guy Davis and words by Matt Wagner

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Dan Membiela’s Panelverse on Kickstarter @danmembiela.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watch the trailer! Follow the Kickstarter! tinyurl.com/panelverse Escape to #Panelverse

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Robot Wig @robotwig.com · 04/10/2026

"There's a legend around here. A killer buried, but not dead. A curse on Crystal Lake, a death curse: Jason Voorhees' curse." All shot practically using real figures, lighting, foil for water and some water droplets on glass for the underwater bubbles #fridaythe13th #jasonvorhees #photography

Jason appears chained floating underwater

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me as a record company A&R guy: “What I’m looking for, optimally, is the next Beatles. I think that would be a big hit, to be honest.”

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m not a big Doctor Who guy, don’t think I ever even saw a Matt Smith episode, but this is funny to me. Oh, that’s what you’d like, huh? Simple as recapturing lightning in a bottle! Of course, why didn’t I think of that? Someone should do Fantastic Four in a Lee/Kirby vein, I bet that’d be good too

Questioned on what he would want to see from a revamped Doctor Who, Hall harked back to the days when Matt Smith and David Tennant were playing the Doctor.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By the way, I gesticulate exactly this wildly when Jim and I record Iron Age as well, there just usually isn’t a camera going.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dovetailing with the recent bonus ep on Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography, plenty of thoughts on post-Crisis Lex in this discussion on Man of Steel!

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I confess: I find Return of Swamp Thing more entertaining than the Wes Craven original.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(BONUS) EPISODE! Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography may not be a job for Superman, but it’s a job for us! Patreon supporters can listen to us talk about this bleak little gem and discuss Post-Cri—wait, uh…huh, where have I seen that cover design before…? LISTEN: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watched 1981’s Hell Night, a surprisingly competent slasher with Linda Blair. Feels like it could use a brisker edit, but lots of fun, clever little bits in it.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of The Iron Age of Comics, it may say more about the listener than the podcast. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world.

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Richard Howe @richardhowe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Matthew Perry from a 1997 interview is the spitting image of Ditko’s Peter Parker.

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Johnny Damm @johnnydamm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An excerpt from Ian Thomas's Unbound in the Square up today in The Comics Journal (@comicsjournal.bsky.social)! I quite enjoyed making this cover... Read the excerpt and consider buying the chapbook. 100% of proceeds go to Asheville Prison Books! www.tcj.com/excerpt-unbo...

tcj.com

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pretty baffling short film(?) after the credits of Transformers: The Movie.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jedi in this film do not demonstrate any physical/telekinetic abilities, only mental/psychic ones. Even Vader’s “Force choke” could be rationalized as some kind of hypnotic suggestion: “You believe you can’t breathe,” rather than actually crushing a windpipe.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like that the lightsaber duel is slow. It’s minimalistic precision fighting, testing each other to find weaknesses, rather than crazy acrobatics.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Of course the actual Doylist reason is that Vader was so cool he got “promoted” by Lucas between movies. But actually I think he’s more interesting in his original conception as uneasy ally with an ambiguous position in the hierarchy.

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The Iron Age of Comics @ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“…so if Tarkin gives you an order, you make a show of following it, but we’ll understand what the deal REALLY is.” But then once the Death Star blows up, Palpatine goes, “Okay, mask off. I’m a space wizard, Vader is #2 and this is now a death cult instead of a military thing.”

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