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The Comics Canon

The Comics Canon is the podcast that reads, reviews, and renders judgment on the greatest comic book stories of yesterday and today. Each episode, Curt Holman and Kevin Moreau take a critical and completely subjective look at one of the biggest stories and most seminal moments in the medium's history, as they decide: Does this belong in the pantheon of classic and iconic tales known as ... The Comics Canon?

Episode 252: The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans

78 hours 18 mins; March 31, 2026

Episode 251: Green Lantern Origins

66 hours 46 mins; March 16, 2026

The Ask Us Anything Episode

73 hours 36 mins; March 02, 2026

Call for Questions!

15 mins; February 23, 2026

The Gateway Episode

92 hours 26 mins; February 17, 2026

Episode 250: Understanding Comics

99 hours 44 mins; February 03, 2026

Episode 249: Zot! The Earth Stories

98 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2026

Episode 248: Drome

89 hours 18 mins; January 06, 2026

Quizzical Canonical 7: 2 Quizzical, 2 Canonical

35 mins; December 24, 2025

Episode 247: The Hellfire Gala

92 hours 8 mins; December 09, 2025

Episode 246: The Wedding of Northstar

86 hours 9 mins; November 25, 2025

Episode 245: The Alpha Flight Episode

87 hours 33 mins; November 11, 2025

Episode 244: The Closet

69 hours 15 mins; October 28, 2025

Episode 243: New X-Men – E Is for Extinction

95 hours 19 mins; October 15, 2025

Episode 242: Weapon X

78 hours 4 mins; September 30, 2025

Episode 241: A Contract With God (With Elliott Kalan)

93 hours 32 mins; September 16, 2025

Episode 240: X-Men – God Loves, Man Kills

81 hours 39 mins; September 02, 2025

Episode 239: X-Men – The Phoenix Saga

105 hours 19 mins; August 20, 2025

Episode 238: X-Men – The Sentinels Live! and In the Shadow of … Sauron!

91 hours 26 mins; August 05, 2025

Episode 237: The Mighty Thor – And Now … Galactus!

95 hours 41 mins; July 22, 2025

Episode 236: JLA – Tower of Babel

82 hours 3 mins; July 08, 2025

Episode 235: Tails of the Super-Pets

92 hours 53 mins; June 24, 2025

Episode 234: Swamp Thing – Rite of Spring and Windfall

75 hours 29 mins; June 11, 2025

Episode 233: Ice Haven

78 hours 36 mins; May 28, 2025

Hey, Where's My New Comics Canon?

1 min; May 20, 2025

Episode 232: Gender Queer

89 hours 20 mins; May 06, 2025

Episode 231: Assassination Classroom Vol. 1: Time for Assassination

78 hours 40 mins; April 22, 2025

Episode 230: Pride of Baghdad

77 hours 29 mins; April 08, 2025

Episode 229: This One Summer

82 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2025

Episode 228: Daredevil – The Devil in Cell Block D

90 hours 37 mins; March 11, 2025

Episode 227: Daredevil – Out

86 hours 48 mins; February 25, 2025

Episode 226: Thunderbolts – The Great Escape and Like Lightning

82 hours 26 mins; February 11, 2025

Episode 225: Thunderbolts – Burning Down the House

73 hours 56 mins; January 28, 2025

Episode 224: Final Cut

78 hours 10 mins; January 14, 2025

Quizzical Canonical 6: Bring on the Good/Bad Guys!

24 mins; January 01, 2025

Episode 223: Thunderbolts – Justice, Like Lightning …

84 hours 23 mins; December 18, 2024

Episode 222: The Avengers – Under Siege

75 hours 1 min; December 03, 2024

Episode 221: Captain America and the Falcon – Secret Empire and The Coming of Nomad

89 hours 21 mins; November 19, 2024

Episode 220: The Avengers vs. the Masters of Evil

81 hours 38 mins; November 05, 2024

Canonical Conversations: Marvel Monster Mash (With Marvel by the Month)

104 hours 23 mins; October 22, 2024

Episode 219: Chainsaw Man

84 hours 5 mins; October 08, 2024

Episode 218: The Joker Episode

83 hours 46 mins; September 24, 2024

Episode 217: Will Eisner's The Spirit

93 hours 12 mins; September 10, 2024

Episode 216: V for Vendetta Book 3: The Land of Do-as-You-Please

71 hours 26 mins; August 27, 2024

Episode 215: V for Vendetta Book 2: This Vicious Cabaret

79 hours 5 mins; August 13, 2024

Episode 214: V for Vendetta Book 1: Europe After the Reign

79 hours 5 mins; July 30, 2024

Episode 213: The Boys Vol. 1 – The Name of the Game

82 hours 3 mins; July 17, 2024

Episode 212: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Who Is Scorpio?

77 hours 56 mins; July 03, 2024

Canonical Rewind: Deadpool – With Great Power Comes Great Coincidence

63 hours 45 mins; June 19, 2024

Episode 211: Here

62 hours 37 mins; June 04, 2024

Episode 210: Uncanny X-Men – The Brood Saga

88 hours 19 mins; May 22, 2024

Episode 209 – Flung Out of Space

82 hours 49 mins; May 08, 2024

Quizzical Canonical 5: Word Balloons

24 mins; April 23, 2024

Episode 208 – Return of The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

88 hours 15 mins; April 09, 2024

Episode 207 – Return of The Dark Knight Returns Part 1

77 hours 42 mins; March 27, 2024

Episode 206 – Wolverine (1982)

74 hours 51 mins; March 12, 2024

Episode 205 – Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road

63 hours 38 mins; February 27, 2024

Episode 204 – Hulk vs. Thing: The Last Round?

68 hours 3 mins; February 13, 2024

Episode 203 – Hulk vs. Thing, Rounds 1 and 2

66 hours 29 mins; January 31, 2024

Episode 202 – A Guest in the House

74 hours 26 mins; January 17, 2024

One-Shot: The Comics Canon All-Stars 2024 (The Best of Our Second 100 Episodes)

42 mins; January 03, 2024

Episode 201: A Carl Barks Christmas (With Dan McCoy)

89 hours 12 mins; December 20, 2023

Episode 200 – Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man

89 hours 50 mins; December 06, 2023

Episode 199 – Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border

76 hours 22 mins; November 22, 2023

Episode 198 – Hellblazer: Newcastle (A Taste of Things to Come)

63 hours 20 mins; November 07, 2023

Episode 197 – Swamp Thing: American Gothic (Part 2)

83 hours 49 mins; October 24, 2023

Comics Onscreen – Movie Mayhem!

50 mins; October 11, 2023

Episode 196 – Amazing Spider-Man: Shed

75 hours 37 mins; September 27, 2023

Quizzical Canonical 4: Nothing Can Stump the Juggernaut!

7 mins; September 18, 2023

Episode 195 –Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut! and The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man

63 hours 8 mins; September 13, 2023

Episode 194 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (With Matt Goldberg)

65 hours 57 mins; August 29, 2023

Episode 193 – Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 2: Learning Curve and Confessions

78 hours 2 mins; August 16, 2023

Episode 192 – The Superior Spider-Man: My Own Worst Enemy (With Marvel by the Month)

89 hours 57 mins; August 02, 2023

Episode 191 – Spider-Man No More!

65 hours 1 min; July 18, 2023

Episode 190 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 2

65 hours 34 mins; July 05, 2023

Episode 189 – The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Part 1

62 hours 10 mins; June 21, 2023

Episode 188 – The Flash of Two Worlds

58 mins; June 06, 2023

Episode 187 – American Born Chinese

62 hours 8 mins; May 24, 2023

Episode 186 – The Death of Captain Marvel

53 mins; May 09, 2023

Episode 185 – The Strange Death of Adam Warlock Part 2

56 mins; April 26, 2023

Episode 184 – The Strange Death of Adam Warlock Part 1

72 hours 7 mins; April 12, 2023

Episode 183 – It's an Ambush Bug, Not a Feature!

66 hours 19 mins; March 29, 2023

Episode 182 – The Authority: Relentless

63 hours 24 mins; March 15, 2023

Episode 181 – Batman and Son

63 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2023

Episode 180 – Batman: A Death in the Family

69 hours 12 mins; February 15, 2023

Episode 179 – Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt

80 hours 54 mins; February 01, 2023

Episode 178 – Death: The High Cost of Living

66 hours 21 mins; January 18, 2023

Episode 177 – Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

84 hours 31 mins; January 04, 2023

Episode 176 – A Very Batman Christmas Episode

76 hours 12 mins; December 21, 2022

Episode 175 – Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Snowbirds Don't Fly (With Marvel by the Month)

98 hours 34 mins; December 07, 2022

Quizzical Canonical: Roll the Bones

8 mins; November 29, 2022

Episode 174 – Bone Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race

62 hours 59 mins; November 23, 2022

Episode 173 – City of Glass

61 hours 11 mins; November 09, 2022

Episode 172 – Swamp Thing: American Gothic (Part 1)

98 hours 0 mins; October 26, 2022

Episode 171 – Hellboy: The Corpse (and Other Stories)

62 hours 7 mins; October 12, 2022

Episode 170 – JSA: Black Reign

62 hours 36 mins; September 28, 2022

Episode 169 – New Avengers (2013) Vol. 4: A Perfect World

69 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2022

Episode 168 – New Avengers (2013) Vol. 1: Everything Dies

77 hours 57 mins; August 30, 2022

Episode 167 – She-Hulk (2004): Single Green Female

82 hours 26 mins; August 16, 2022

Episode 166 – The Sandman: World's End

82 hours 26 mins; August 02, 2022

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