Intro Welcome to Season 7 Having a baby girl in May :)  Pocus Hocus giveaway coming soon on IG Episode 150 coming soon Background Jessica Drew created by Archie Goodwin and Marie Severin in Marvel Spotlight #32 (Feb. 1977) In her first appearance, she was a spider who evolved into a human That was later retconned - her origin is when she was young, she became sick, and her father injected her with an experimental dose of irradiated spider’s blood, and put her in a chamber to incubate, but while she was in there her mother died and her father left - she spent decades in the chamber, b ..read more

Intro Season finale New patron - Tamara Patreon paused for December Background (3:05) Polaris (Lorna Sally Dane) created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko in X-Men #49 (October 1968) Lorna Dane summoned to the X-Men by the mutant villain Mesmero, who mentally called upon all mutants to help him fight the team Magneto showed up to rescue her and claimed to be her father, explaining why she has his same magnetic abilities - Iceman spoke to her foster parents, who told her that her birth parents died in a plane crash - she joined the team and began a relationship with Havok Erik the Red, a Sh ..read more

Intro Background (1:43) Homelander created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson in The Boys #3 (Nov. 2006) Introduced as the leader and most powerful member of the Seven, a group of corporate-sponsored superheroes Initially comes off as affable, only to reveal he’s actually a misogynistic jerk - and it gets worse from there Public backstory is that he was an alien who landed on Earth, but in reality his mother was a mentally disabled woman who died in childbirth, and he was the byproduct of genetic experiments from Stormfront, a Nazi superhero - he spent his childhood strapped to a hydrogen b ..read more

Intro Thanks to all our Patrons: Humble Citizens Dan & Kate; Local Officials Frank, Rey, Jonathan; Mayors Angela, Chad, Devon, Maggie, Matt, Nyan, Ryan, Tasha; Presidents Ariel, Jeanine, Matt, and Ruby Background (2:00) Donna Troy created by Bob Haney and Bruno Tremiani in The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965) Donna Troy was originally introduced as Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman’s younger sister, created in an effort to desexualize Diana and make her (and comics) acceptable to parents Given a name and backstory in 1969 - Donna was an orphan rescued in a fire by Diana, brought to Themysci ..read more

Intro Upcoming holiday hiatus Background (2:38) Dane Whitman created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema in Avengers #47 (Dec. 1967) Dane Whitman is the nephew of Nathan Garrett, a descendant of Sir Percy of Scandia who served in the Court of King Arthur as the Black Knight, and was bestowed with a sword known as the Ebony Blade, carved from a meteorite and only to be wielded by the most honorable of knights The sword then made its way to Nathan Garrett, who called himself the Black Knight and used the Ebony Blade to commit crime - on his deathbed, he renounced his life and told Dane to take u ..read more

Intro Thanks to all our Patrons: Humble Citizens Dan and Kate; Local Officials Frank, Rey, and Jonathan; Mayors Angela, Chad, Devon, Maggie, Matt, Nyan, Ryan, and Tasha; Presidents Ariel, Jeanine, Matt, and Ruby Thanks to Khelan from Homo Superior - explain the show Background (3:30) Wiccan created by Allen Heinberg and Jim Cheung in Young Avengers #1 (April 2005) Billy Kaplan is a magic user recruited by Iron Lad (a time-traveling variant of Kang the Conqueror) to join a team of heroes to replace the disbanded Avengers Initially calling himself Asgardian, he changes his name to Wiccan Be ..read more

Intro Thanks to new Mayor level Patron Matt (0:40) Background (2:16) Squirrel Girl created by Will Murray and Steve Ditko in Marvel Super Heroes Vol. 2 #8 (Winter 1991) Doreen Green discovered at 10 years old she could communicate with squirrels, and also grew a prehensile tail At 14, attacks Iron Man in an attempt to impress him, and helps him defeat Doctor Doom (later revealed to be a Doombot, then an imposter, then the real thing #BecauseComics) Later joins the Great Lakes Avengers, where her squirrel sidekick Monkey Joe dies - he is replaced by Tippy-Toe Registers as a hero during Civ ..read more

Intro Background (2:22) Let's talk supervillain parents. How do you go about modelling good behavior for your kids when your own behavior tends to lean towards world domination? Do you try and create a Little Lord of Destruction to follow in your footsteps and eventually take your place? Or did the parenthood switch actually flip and you're horrified at the thought of your kids taking after you, leading to you doing everything possible to try and break the cycle? And if it's the latter, how do you do it? Do you go the Tony Soprano route and just keep them far away from your activities and ju ..read more

Creator Interview - Pocus Hocus Intro - Allen Dunford & Will Radford Questions Your backgrounds (2:41) First story (5:34) Where did the story come from (6:51) What drove Pocus to sell his soul? (13:52) How much did you “write what you know” (18:18) Demon’s backstory & motivation (22:30) How did you find the artists (26:15) How far in advance do you have the story mapped out (31:24) Will each future issue be its own, or will there be bundles? (37:40) Timeframe for issue 3 (39:10) Where can people find you on social media (40:55) Pocus Hocus Kickstarter Apple Podcasts: here Google P ..read more

Intro Ask for reviews Background (1:52) Starfire (Princess Koriand'r) created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez in DC Comics Presents #26 (Oct 1980) Second in succession to the throne of Tamaran, she and her sister were kidnapped, and her father sold her off to ensure peace After enduring several years of slavery and sexual torture, she was experimented on by being subjected to ever-increasing energy levels, which gave her the ability to release energy blasts from her hands, as well as fly - her sister (who had also undergone the experimentation, and was more powerful) attacked her, howeve ..read more