Darren Watts

Explain This, Comics Guys!! presents a special Giant-Sized episode this week, taking on the snarled continuity of Hawkman!! Gang, if you love inexplicable editorial confusion and stubbornness, then this is your show! https://explainthis.podbean.com/

So the upcoming episode of Explain This, "Hawkman," will be double-sized at 86 minutes. We originally planned to cut it in two but decided it was such a clusterf*ck that listeners should be able to just rewind when we're like "And then Fel Andar reappears in the story..." Wait, which dumb idea was he again? So, you're welcome, comics fans!! dw

Explain This, Hostess Guys!! is now live. We hope you enjoy this very special episode. Note: The cosmic cube can do anything. dw https://explainthis.podbean.com/

Check your calendars, and note that this Wednesday a very special episode of Explain This, Hostess Guys!! will drop, in which we take a break from our regular podcast about Hostess products in order to talk about Hostess comicbook ads. dw

I was working at Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1990 when he played Troy in Fences there. Absolutely magnetic personality, and always polite and kind to the crew. And of course, crushed the part. RIP, sir. dw

Coming to you live from the battlefields of the Siancong War, it's Explain This, Comics Guys!! This week we take on Floating Comicbook Timelines, or how the relentless march of history has garbled the backstories of so many of our apparently ageless heroes!! https://explainthis.podbean.com/ dw

Glad you liked it! Upcoming topics include "comic book time" and topical references (or, what war precisely did Tony Stark sell weapons for?), and our April Fool's Day special on the world of Hostess ads. We'll be recording a deep dive into the career of Steve Ditko in the next week or two as well, in which he is given appropriate credit for several things people don't remember he invented as well as puzzled shrugs about all the Objectivism malarkey. dw

All gags aside, I'd need a very-active partner in any rpg podcast, simply because I detest D&D-style fantasy as a genre and have zero interest in the products for it, so my awareness of the industry beyond the most basic stuff would not include what, 80-something percent of the marketplace? Unless our specific focus was "So D&D's not for you, what other rpgs are out there?" which would be, to say the least, a challenge to find an audience... dw

Explain This, Comics Guys!! celebrates our 20th episode with Part 2 of The History Of Image Comics!! Misseth it not!! dw https://explainthis.podbean.com/

Yeah, the first version we put up last week went weird for some reason. We put up a fixed version a few hours later. dw

OK, well, this episode is well behind the others in listens after a week. Does everybody hate Image? Are you tired of company dramas? Or was it just a rough week? dw

Hero never came *close* to Vampire in sales. If we were ever "upper middle" it was because there are so many kitchen-table operations. dw

Guns! Pockets! Capes a mile long! Gritted teeth and no feet! That's right, True Believers, this week Explain This Comics Guys!! takes on the History of Image Comics Part One and it's rat-tails and knife-pistols everywhere around here!! https://explainthis.podbean.com/ dw

I have been remiss in not reminding those of you enjoying #WandaVision that Explain This!! did a full episode on Wanda and Pietro and their complicated history way back in August, which you can of course find here: Explain This Comics Guys (podbean.com) dw

OK, True Believers, after even-more-than-usual technical difficulties, Explain This, Comics Guys!! is back on the air with episode #18, DC Does Marvel (And Vice Versa!) This one explains all of the different non-trademark-violating versions of each other's characters the Big Two use to get their respective titans to clash!! Learn about the Eggs-Men!! Thrill to a repeat appearance by Tasker's dog!! And enjoy my unrehearsed response to the death of Blue Jay!! It's all happening at Explain This Comics Guys (podbean.com) dw