Ace Comicals

We love comics!

About the show

Every two weeks your host Greg and his co-hosts Leon and Rahul discuss comics in all their forms; monthly issues, collected volumes, graphic novels, newspaper strips, film tie-ins, TV tie-ins, flip-books, pictures scribbled on the backs of napkins...

If it tells a story in sequence through art and text, rest assured we'll have something to say about it.

Art and logos by the talented and extremely generous Anthony Smith

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • 145: "GREEN HELL"

    Episode  |  February 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 31 mins
    art brut #1-2, breath of shadows #1, supergirl: woman of tomorrow, swamp thing: green hell #1-2

    We're gonna burn in hell, Green hell, Like every hell but kind of green, In hell, green hell, We're gonna face the mess, We're in hell, green hell...

  • 144: ACE COMICALS PRESENTS- THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN PART III

    Episode  |  February 3rd, 2023  |  1 hr 56 mins
    action comics #689-692, action comics annual #5, adventures of superman #503-505, adventures of superman annual #5, green lantern #46, superman #80-83, superman: the man ofsteel #24-26, the death and return of superman, the return of superman

    The THIRD and FINAL part in our special series dedicated to the 30th anniversary of "THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN"

  • 143: "STATION FULL OF MUSKS"

    Episode  |  January 20th, 2023  |  1 hr 28 mins
    always never, black paradox, junji ito, know your station, masaaki nakayama, ptsd radio

    It's 2023 and we're back with a bang; some old and some new comics to get us through the chilly January nights. Two horror mangas, a space-station murder mystery, and a messy time-bending romance. All this to look forward to and more at Ace Comicals!

  • 142: X-MAS: DAYS OF NOEL PAST

    Episode  |  December 20th, 2022  |  2 hrs 12 mins
    1993 marvel holiday special, batman: legends of the dark knight vol 1 #79, christmas, extreme super christmas special vol 1 1, noel, spawn vol 1 #39, terror inc #8, the lobo paramilitary christmas special, what the-?! #10

    Merry Christmas. From the dystopian shores of the UK. where eating costs a kidney and heating costs two. Two men stand huddled around a dwindling blaze contained in an oil drum. No more fuel to last the night... All that remains left to burn is a stack of comics...

  • 141: ACE COMICALS PRESENTS- THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN PART II

    Episode  |  December 2nd, 2022  |  1 hr 37 mins
    action comics #687-688, adventures of superman#500-502, superman #78-79, superman annual #5, superman: the man of steel #22-23, superman: the man of steel annual #2

    Part TWO! in our special series dedicated to the 30th anniversary of "THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN"

  • 140: ACE COMICALS- WITH DR JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS

    Episode  |  November 22nd, 2022  |  1 hr 16 mins
    batman, batman: the animated series, cambridge university, dr joe sutliff sanders, lucy cavendish college

    In this episode, Greg is joined by special guest Dr Joe Sutliff Sanders to discuss, primarily his work in creating and launching the first world-class collection of graphic novels at Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College!

  • AFTERLIFE COMIC4LS: JUNJIWEEN

    Episode  |  October 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins
    junji ito, the liminal zone

    Welcome again on this night... This darkest night... To the unhallowed ground of my Library Of The Damned…

  • 138: ACE COMICALS PRESENTS- THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN PART I

    Episode  |  October 21st, 2022  |  1 hr 39 mins
    adventures of superman vol 1 #500, dan jurgens, doomsday!, jerry ordway, karl kesel, louise simonson, mike carlin, roger stern, superman vol 2 #75, superman: funeral for a friend, the death and return of superman, the death of superman, world's finest vol 1 #189

    The first part in our special series dedicated to the 30th anniversary of "THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN"

  • 137: "SORTING THROUGH THE BAXTER BUILDING'S BASEMENT"

    Episode  |  October 5th, 2022  |  57 mins 6 secs
    fantastic four: full circle, make believe, ten thousand black feathers #1

    "It reeks of people messing with forces they shouldn't..."

  • 136: "THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT"

    Episode  |  September 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 32 mins
    detective comics, sennen, shock shop, suzanne - the jazz age goddess of tennis

    "Softly, deftly music shall caress you... Hear it, feel it secretly possess you..."

  • 135: "ADULT TALES OF TERROR, HORROR AND SUSPENSE"

    Episode  |  August 10th, 2022  |  1 hr 49 mins
    clementine, drink my blood, eat my flesh, marvel monster group: tales of the zombie, terror illustrated

    INTRODUCING... PICTO-FICTION! A NEW FORM OF ADULT ENTERTAINMENT!

  • 134: "GLOBALLY WARMED"

    Episode  |  July 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 10 mins
    adamtine, gardener, stray, the passageway

    Prerecorded from the inside of a volcano... In front of a live Lava-Shark audience

  • 133: "PUT A STAKE IN ME I'M DONE"

    Episode  |  June 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 50 mins
    black mass rising, comic books, comics, forgotten blade, graphic novels, graphicnovels, i hate this place, joneses, monkey meat, outer wilderness, rain, sleeping while standing

    Wherein the lads get morbed, though they don't really remember it happening

  • 132: ACE COMICALS- WITH KATIE CUNNINGHAM

    Episode  |  June 1st, 2022  |  31 mins 25 secs
    katie cunningham, rotten under the snow, time bomb comics

    An interview with special guest Katie Cunningham writer of "Rotten Under The Snow"

  • 131: "FRANK MILLER'S SONIC THE HEDGEHOG"

    Episode  |  May 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins
    rotten under the snow, squire

    "Show some respect, we're in the Hidden Palace Zone!!"

  • 130: "GOT THE LIFE"

    Episode  |  April 27th, 2022  |  1 hr 13 mins
    2120, deserter, internet crusader, portal 2 hell zine

    "God MSN'd me "You'll never see the life", who wants to see? God told me I've already got the life, oh, I say"

What are you looking down here for? Go read some comics!