Ep.149 – Solo Avengers Starring: Hawkeye No. 18 (1989)

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03/08/21 • -1 min

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée get sucked up into a whirlwind of interspecies romantic with Solo Avengers Starring: Hawkeye no. 18! With the useful Avengers out of town, Hawkeye just wants to get in some shirtless target practice and forget his many, many failings as a superhero. There's only one problem: Cowboy goofball the Texas Twister has come a'lookin' for help rasslin' up the slimy gremlin what stole the soul of his darlin' Star, and Hawkeye is too much of a coward to tell him to kick rocks! Together, the two heroes (?) confront the monstrosity, only for Tex to lay a big slobbery kiss right on its face! What's going on here?! Have all the methane fumes of a life on the range finally eaten their way into his brain? Also, in a bewildering backup tale, Moondragon and her talking pendant have to escape from space bugs who want to steal the baby that contains her cousin's mind! If the solution involves more kissing this might be the greatest comic book ever made!

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Ep.148 – Phantom Lady No. 13 (1947)

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée shine their black light of justice on Phantom Lady no. 13! When she's framed for murder by her robotic doppelganger, the mysterious Phantom Lady must clear her name the only way she knows how: By punching anyone who gets in her way until the police agree to drop all charges! It's a legal strategy that could've saved O.J. a lot of hassle. But one adventure is never enough for this Lady, so she's off to investigate why all of the radio stations have suddenly stopped broadcasting. Does the answer involving beating up Nazis? It's a comic book from the 40s, isn't it? Yeah, stop being naïve. Plus, the Blue Beetle attempts to fight a mummy, but then remembers that he's just some dude who likes bugs and thinks better of it, making him the smartest crimefighter the world has ever known.

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Ep.150 – Batman No. 150 (1962)

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée celebrate/reluctantly acknowledge a year of quarantine and then immediately try to forget it with Batman no. 150! The year was 1962, and the Dark Knight's sales were in a tailspin. The Comics Code Authority had robbed the industry of its precious youth-corrupting sex and violence, so what was DC to do? How about some nonsense where Batman fights an assortment of uninspired losers who don't see how owning firearms might aid their criminal enterprise? Or maybe a story where Batman sniffs incense and falls in love? How about one where Robin gets hit by lightning and gains super-strength instead of just a crippling ER bill? It's all here and it's all canon!