Kevin Moreau
@kevinmoreau.bsky.social
Writer, editor, co-host of The Comics Canon podcast. Recovering music and entertainment journalist. Comics, RPG, fantasy, sci-fi, crime fiction and hard rock enthusiast. I contain multitudes, and they’re all bummed out.
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This week on The Comics Canon, we say hello to Canada's greatest superhero team Alpha Flight with their debut in 1979's 'Uncanny X-Men 120-121' and their eponymous first issue from 1983! Meet the team that puts the "Sasquatch" in, uh, "Saskatchewan." soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
Episode 245: The Alpha Flight Episode
All My Xs, our miniseries on Marvel Comics’ X-Men, takes a little detour to introduce the Canadian superteam Alpha Flight in 1979’s Uncanny X-Men #120-#121 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne and 1983’s
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This week on The Comics Canon, we say hello to Canada's greatest superhero team Alpha Flight with their debut in 1979's 'Uncanny X-Men 120-121' and their eponymous first issue from 1983! Meet the team that puts the "Sasquatch" in, uh, "Saskatchewan." soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
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Our "All My Xs" miniseries has reminded us of Dave Cockrum's importance to X-Men.
Today is the birthday of artist Dave Cockrum (Nov. 11, 1943-Nov. 26, 2006). Creator or cocreator of Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Thunderbird, Wildfire, Mystique, the Starjammers, the Imperial Guard, Magik, & much more!
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Our "All My Xs" miniseries has reminded us of Dave Cockrum's importance to X-Men.
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A tale almost as concise and tragic as the one about the baby shoes:
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A tale almost as concise and tragic as the one about the baby shoes:
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Next time (Oct. 15), the all-star team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely bring Marvel's biggest mutant team into the 21st century with "E for Extinction" from "New X-Men" 114-117 and 121! If you wanted to visit Genosha, maybe change those plans...
October 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Next time (Oct. 15), the all-star team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely bring Marvel's biggest mutant team into the 21st century with "E for Extinction" from "New X-Men" 114-117 and 121! If you wanted to visit Genosha, maybe change those plans...
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Our mutant miniseries "All My Xs" reaches 1991 with Barry Windsor Smith's "Wolverine: Weapon X!" Evil scientists turn a scrappy Canadian mutant into an indestructible, animalistic killer in a well thought-out plan! soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
Episode 242: Weapon X
After a brief but worthwhile interruption, All My Xs, our decade-by-decade look at Marvel’s X-Men franchise, returns with 1991’s Weapon X, written and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith!
Originally seriali
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October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our mutant miniseries "All My Xs" reaches 1991 with Barry Windsor Smith's "Wolverine: Weapon X!" Evil scientists turn a scrappy Canadian mutant into an indestructible, animalistic killer in a well thought-out plan! soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
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Next time (Oct. 1), we subject ourselves to the disorienting effects of “Wolverine: Weapon X” by Barry Windsor-Smith! Our “All My Xs” miniseries reaches 1991 with Logan’s origin — but is that what this dense, dark storyline actually is?
September 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Next time (Oct. 1), we subject ourselves to the disorienting effects of “Wolverine: Weapon X” by Barry Windsor-Smith! Our “All My Xs” miniseries reaches 1991 with Logan’s origin — but is that what this dense, dark storyline actually is?
This was one of the highlights of my nearly 19-year career as a podcaster. Come for the Emmy-winning guest, stay for the nerdy discussion of Jewish-American life, man’s relationship with God, and 1930s real estate!
A major work needs a major guest, so we’re thrilled that comics writer Elliott Kalan of @flophousepodcast.com joined us to talk Will Eisner’s landmark work, ‘A Contract With God!” Is Eisner’s brilliant, baffling, deeply personal book really “the first graphic novel?”
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Episode 241: A Contract With God (With Elliott Kalan)
Content warning: Sexual assault, pedophilia
On this episode, we welcome The Flop House podcast co-host, current Harley Quinn writer and former The Daily Show With Jon Stewart head writer Elliott Kala
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September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This was one of the highlights of my nearly 19-year career as a podcaster. Come for the Emmy-winning guest, stay for the nerdy discussion of Jewish-American life, man’s relationship with God, and 1930s real estate!
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On our next scheduled episode (9/17), we play tourist at one of the art form's landmark works, 1978's A CONTRACT WITH GOD by Will Eisner! Does Eisner's account of New York tenement life in the 1930s qualify as the first graphic novel? And would Eisner's The Spirit fit right in on Dropsie Avenue?
September 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
On our next scheduled episode (9/17), we play tourist at one of the art form's landmark works, 1978's A CONTRACT WITH GOD by Will Eisner! Does Eisner's account of New York tenement life in the 1930s qualify as the first graphic novel? And would Eisner's The Spirit fit right in on Dropsie Avenue?
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Next time (9/3), mass media demagoguery reaches a fever pitch and theocratic paramilitary forces brutally target oppressed minorities on the streets! And also, our X-Men miniseries reviews the 1982 graphic novel "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills"!
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Next time (9/3), mass media demagoguery reaches a fever pitch and theocratic paramilitary forces brutally target oppressed minorities on the streets! And also, our X-Men miniseries reviews the 1982 graphic novel "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills"!
Also, forgive the late repost: Here’s last Wednesday’s episode of The Comics Canon.
This time on The Comics Canon, a supervillain eco-terrorist uses Batman’s playbook against the Justice League in the popular story ‘JLA: Tower of Babel’ from the year 2000! Fun fact: Mark Waid wrote this & the new SUPERMAN film has an Easter egg for Waid Street! (1/2)
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Episode 236: JLA – Tower of Babel
On this episode, the upcoming Superman movie has us in a Justice League frame of mind, which is as good an excuse as any to discuss the classic Tower of Babel storyline, as collected in JLA #43-46 by
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July 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Also, forgive the late repost: Here’s last Wednesday’s episode of The Comics Canon.
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This time on The Comics Canon, a supervillain eco-terrorist uses Batman’s playbook against the Justice League in the popular story ‘JLA: Tower of Babel’ from the year 2000! Fun fact: Mark Waid wrote this & the new SUPERMAN film has an Easter egg for Waid Street! (1/2)
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Episode 236: JLA – Tower of Babel
On this episode, the upcoming Superman movie has us in a Justice League frame of mind, which is as good an excuse as any to discuss the classic Tower of Babel storyline, as collected in JLA #43-46 by
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July 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This time on The Comics Canon, a supervillain eco-terrorist uses Batman’s playbook against the Justice League in the popular story ‘JLA: Tower of Babel’ from the year 2000! Fun fact: Mark Waid wrote this & the new SUPERMAN film has an Easter egg for Waid Street! (1/2)
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This was a very fun discussion. I hope you all enjoy it.
This time on The Comics Canon, our “Tails of the Super-Pets” episode flashes back to the joyously silly Silver Age origins of the super dog, cat, horse and monkey! FYI, Krypto first appeared in 1955, making him 70 years old, which is like almost 500 in dog years!
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Episode 235: Tails of the Super-Pets
On this episode, we’re getting ready for the July 11 big-screen debut of Krypto the Super-Dog in James Gunn’s Superman with a look at the Silver Age origins of Krypto and his fellow members of the Leg
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June 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This was a very fun discussion. I hope you all enjoy it.
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This time on The Comics Canon, the psychedelics kick in as discuss “Swamp Thing: Rite of Spring,” a heartfelt Beauty-&-the-Beast story from Alan Moore’s classic 1980s run, as well as its clever follow-up, “Windfall.” They're yam-tastic!
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Episode 234: Swamp Thing – Rite of Spring and Windfall
On this episode, we discuss a Swamp Thing story that we’re surprised didn’t qualify for our recently wrapped We’re With the Banned miniseries on banned and challenged comics – Rite of Spring from Saga
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June 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This time on The Comics Canon, the psychedelics kick in as discuss “Swamp Thing: Rite of Spring,” a heartfelt Beauty-&-the-Beast story from Alan Moore’s classic 1980s run, as well as its clever follow-up, “Windfall.” They're yam-tastic!
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Meet your new friends and Naybors — that’s Harry Naybors, Comic Book Critic — when The Comics Canon’s “We’re With the Band” miniseries winds up in ICE HAVEN by Daniel Clowes! Find us at the intersection of the Sunday funnies and an infamous 20th century murder case!
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Episode 233: Ice Haven
We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, concludes (at least for now) with a stop at Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven, a “narraglyphic picto-assemblage” published by Pant
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May 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Meet your new friends and Naybors — that’s Harry Naybors, Comic Book Critic — when The Comics Canon’s “We’re With the Band” miniseries winds up in ICE HAVEN by Daniel Clowes! Find us at the intersection of the Sunday funnies and an infamous 20th century murder case!
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The book? Fun!
Parallels to grim real-life issues in the U.S.? Uncomfortable!
Parallels to grim real-life issues in the U.S.? Uncomfortable!
Our miniseries "We're With the Banned" goes to the head of the class with Yuseu Matsui's manga "Assassination Classroom 1," in which underachieving middle schoolers must try to kill their seemingly indestructible, maddeningly cheerful alien teacher! soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
Episode 231: Assassination Classroom Vol. 1: Time for Assassination
We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on challenged comics and graphic novels, rolls on with a discussion of Yusei Matsui’s manga Assassination Classroom Vol. 1: Time for Assassination, published by V
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April 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The book? Fun!
Parallels to grim real-life issues in the U.S.? Uncomfortable!
Parallels to grim real-life issues in the U.S.? Uncomfortable!
I’m proud to be starting a miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, and to be spotlighting what I think is a must-read comic for all ages.
Our new episode begins a miniseries on banned and challenged comics with THIS ONE SUMMER! Is this one of the greatest graphic novels of the 2010s? And why would anyone want to ban such a warm, bittersweet and (seemingly) non-controversial coming-of-age story? (1/2) soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
Episode 229: This One Summer
In this episode, we kick off We’re With the Banned – a miniseries on banned or challenged comics and graphic novels – with a discussion of This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, publishe
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March 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m proud to be starting a miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, and to be spotlighting what I think is a must-read comic for all ages.
Superhero attorney Matt Murdock goes from passing the bar to life behind bars! Plus, a spoiler-y discussion of the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+!
This time, Matt Murdock goes from the mean streets to the big house as an unjust prosecution locks him in Ryker’s Island with members of his rogue’s gallery! Our Daredevil two-parter concludes with “The Devil in Cell Block D” by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark!
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Episode 228: Daredevil – The Devil in Cell Block D
In this episode, blind lawyer Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, is behind bars – but so are Hammerhead, the Kingpin, and a host of other hardened criminals in 2006’s The Devil in Cell Block D, by Ed Brubak
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March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Superhero attorney Matt Murdock goes from passing the bar to life behind bars! Plus, a spoiler-y discussion of the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+!
I’m no legal expert, Sammy Hagar, but if they’re posting your face Wanted Dead or Alive, it’s not for driving over 55 mph. What are you hiding, Sammy Hagar? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
March 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I’m no legal expert, Sammy Hagar, but if they’re posting your face Wanted Dead or Alive, it’s not for driving over 55 mph. What are you hiding, Sammy Hagar? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
This is one of my favorite episodes in sometime. It also contains one of my goofiest bits. Coincidence??? 🤔🤔🤔
(No.)
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Extra, extra! New York tabloid outs blind lawyer Matt Murdock as crime-fighter Daredevil! Bendis & Maleev set high bar for street-level superheroes! Comics Canon podcasters run low on superlatives! Read (hear?) all about it! soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...
Episode 227: Daredevil – Out
A mere 16 years after the Kingpin learns Daredevil’s secret identity in Frank Miller’s Born Again, that secret becomes front page news in 2002’s Out, by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, published
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February 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is one of my favorite episodes in sometime. It also contains one of my goofiest bits. Coincidence??? 🤔🤔🤔
(No.)
(No.)
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Next time (Feb. 26), a New York tabloid exposes Matt Murdock's secret identity in "Daredevil: Out," a game-changing storyline from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's classic run! Getting dragged in the press = way worse than fighting The Owl or Stilt-Man.
February 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Next time (Feb. 26), a New York tabloid exposes Matt Murdock's secret identity in "Daredevil: Out," a game-changing storyline from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's classic run! Getting dragged in the press = way worse than fighting The Owl or Stilt-Man.
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Meditation of the morning:
“You take/the world/
Take the world you find.
Try not/to be/
Not to be unkind.”
—Too Much Joy
“You take/the world/
Take the world you find.
Try not/to be/
Not to be unkind.”
—Too Much Joy
February 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Meditation of the morning:
“You take/the world/
Take the world you find.
Try not/to be/
Not to be unkind.”
—Too Much Joy
“You take/the world/
Take the world you find.
Try not/to be/
Not to be unkind.”
—Too Much Joy
They said it couldn’t be done! (I mean, surely someone did.) Our six-decade-spanning miniseries on The Thunderbolts, a comic that launched less than 30 years ago, comes to a close.
This time, we wind down our Thunderbolts miniseries with a pair of time travel stories from the 2010s! Can our antiheroes enjoy a WWII caper in ‘The Great Escape’ or meet their 1990s version in 'Like Lightning' without breaking all of reality?
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Episode 226: Thunderbolts – The Great Escape and Like Lightning
Our six-episode, six-decade overview of the Thunderbolts and the Masters of Evil comes to a close (for now, at least) as we discuss two time-hopping tales from 2011 and 2012: The Great Escape from Thu
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February 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
They said it couldn’t be done! (I mean, surely someone did.) Our six-decade-spanning miniseries on The Thunderbolts, a comic that launched less than 30 years ago, comes to a close.
Just another comic with absolutely no prescient themes that speak to the present moment! Nothing to see here…
This time, our decades-spanning Thunderbolts series ignites the 2000s with ‘Burning Down the House’! Norman Osborn uses his political power to purge the old team and make a more compliant new one in a story that we’re sure has no allegorical value whatsoever!
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Episode 225: Thunderbolts – Burning Down the House
Our decade-by-decade series on Marvel Comics’ Thunderbolts rolls into the 21st century as we discuss Burning Down the House, collecting Thunderbolts #126-129 and #132 by Andy Diggle and Roberto de la
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January 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Just another comic with absolutely no prescient themes that speak to the present moment! Nothing to see here…