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Indefensible Ink

Join host Justin Zyduck for a tour of the disreputable back alleys of the comic book medium. By analyzing what makes bad comics so bad, we hope to better understand what makes good comics so good. Drops the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Further podcasts by Ryan McClure and Justin Zyduck

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THE IRON AGE OF COMICS #1: Crisis, Dark Knight, and Watchmen from 2023-01-04T23:25:41

Hey, have you heard Indefensible Ink is over and there's a NEW PODCAST in town? Subscribe to THE IRON AGE OF COMICS now on your podcasting app of choice for future updates! Follow @ironageofcomi...

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PREVIEW: The Iron Age of Comics – A New Podcast by Justin Zyduck and Jim Cannon from 2022-12-21T10:00

Indefensible Ink has ended, but retro comics enthusiast and Jim Shooter apologist Justin Zyduck is not done podcasting. Check out this preview of his new show, co-hosted by recurring Indefensibl...

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Final Crisis from 2022-12-07T10:00:05

It's the final episode of Indefensible Ink! And what could be a more appropriate topic to cover than something called Final Crisis? Justin discusses Grant Morrison's divisive 2008 crossover event a...

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Continuity and Canon – Part Two from 2022-11-16T11:00:16

Part two of a conversation with original co-host Ryan McClure about continuity and canon in superhero comics. This episode covers cross-media adaptations and how they affect continuity, the concept...

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Continuity and Canon – Part One from 2022-11-02T09:00:14

Original co-host Ryan McClure returns for the first of a two-part discussion about continuity and canon in superhero comics: the benefits, the downsides, and drilling down into what makes comics di...

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Nightwing: The Ric Grayson Saga – Part Two from 2022-10-19T08:00

Our look at the two-year-long “Nightwing Gets Amnesia” storyline concludes as Justin and guest Jim Cannon get to the bottom of a sinister brainwashing scheme by t...

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Nightwing: The Ric Grayson Saga – Part One from 2022-10-05T08:00

Plenty of superheroes go through an amnesia storyline or two in their careers, but Dick Grayson spent around 25 entire issues of his Nightwing series from 2019-2020 with memory loss and...

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Justice League of America: The 1997 Television Pilot from 2022-09-21T08:00:20

There were dozens of TV shows trying to replicate the success of Friends in the late '90s, but only one of them was trying to do so with superheroes. If you're wondering how they could have made...

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Fury by Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson from 2022-09-07T08:00:43

Here it is, the comic so controversial it made George Clooney drop out of playing Nick Fury in movies and got Marvel publisher Bill Jemas fired! Or at least, that's what people say about Fur...

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Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker? Part Two from 2022-08-17T08:00

In part two of an examination of superheroes and the so-called "code against killing," Justin and Jim discuss how Hawkeye typifies a change of attitudes about lethal force in the genre, how Wolv...

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Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker? Part One from 2022-08-03T08:00:26

Superheroes don't kill supervillains...except for the ones who do. But it's a conceit of the genre that even if some heroes cross this line, they at least acknowledge the line exists. In this ep...

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Superman's History-Changing Mission! from 2022-07-20T08:00:55

The lead story of 1982's Superman #372 might look a little old-fashioned next to the cutting-edge superhero storytelling of Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, Miller's Daredevil Listen

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LJN's Uncanny X-Men for NES from 2022-07-06T08:00:23

Has anyone ever done a podcast on...complaining about a video game? Probably not, in which case it pleases Indefensible Ink to break new ground and discuss 1989's Uncanny X-Men...

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Captain America: Ice from 2022-06-15T08:00:51

Everybody knows an accident caused Captain America to spend decades in suspended animation after World War II. What this book Listen

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Captain Marvel by Peter David and ChrisCross from 2022-06-01T08:00:10

In the year 2000, the comic book Captain Marvel belonged to Genis-Vell, a novice superhero trying to to live up to his father's name and keep up the momentum gained by his appearances i...

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Electric Blue Superman from 2022-05-18T09:00:07

Remembering the New Coke of Superman storylines 25 years later, when a desperate DC Comics tried to get people excited about the Man of Steel again by giving him new powers and a '90s X-Men-styl...

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EXTRA: A Quick Word About George Pérez from 2022-05-11T09:00

We will not see his like again.

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Iron Man: Crash from 2022-05-04T08:00:38

Today, many comics artists work completely digitally, but in 1988, creating a comic book using a computer was a noteworthy novelty. Is Mike Saenz's cyberpunk thriller Iron Man: Crash--b...

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Youngblood: Bloodsport from 2022-04-20T09:00:24

Comic book titles don't get much bloodier than Youngblood: Bloodsport...but there's even more types of bodily fluids to worry about in this unfinished mi...

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The Batman from 2022-04-06T09:00

So many podcasts have already weighed in on Matt Reeves' The Batman, but only Indefensible Ink asks the most important question of all: Is the Penguin in this film actually Listen

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Countdown (to Final Crisis) from 2022-03-16T09:00

Building a year-long weekly comic book series around an ensemble of sub-A-list superheroes might sound like a risky gamble, but DC pulled it off in the middle par...

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Spider-Man: Chapter One from 2022-03-02T10:00

Indefensible Ink is back in a new format, and to mark the occasion, we'll look at the time Peter Parker went through a soft-reboot of his own in Spid...

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Introducing: The All-New, All-Different Indefensible Ink from 2022-02-16T10:00

Well ... it might not actually be that all-new or all-different, but come listen to Justin talk about what the future holds for this podcast anyway.

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Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again from 2022-02-02T10:00

It's the end of an era at Indefensible Ink, and to mark the occasion, Ryan and Justin have reconvened one last time to tackle a topic they've had their eye on since the podcast began nearl...

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Secret Empire from 2021-06-09T08:00

In this week’s Very Special Episode, Ryan and Justin discuss the controversial 2017 Marvel mega-event, Secret Empire, the crossover that spun out of the idea “What if Captain America wa...

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Canon Fodder: Season One Revisited from 2021-05-19T09:00

On every episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin painstakingly craft trivia questions on the bizarre and obscure corners of comics history to try to stump each other and provide so...

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Marvel's Star Wars: New Planets, New Perils! from 2021-05-05T09:00

Picture this: It's 1978, you're working on the insanely popular Star Wars comic book for Marvel, and you've just finished adapting the hit film. Now you've got to write a new Star Wars ...

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PREVIEW: What Star Wars Means to Us from 2021-05-04T08:00

Happy Star Wars Day, fellow nerds! This May the Fourth, hosts Ryan McClure, Justin Zyduck, and recurring guest Jerome Knox talk about what the Star Wars saga means to each of us, in a preview of...

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Marvel's Team America from 2021-04-21T09:00

We’re on the highway to obscurity, as today’s episode of Indefensible Ink covers Marvel Comics’ motorcycle-based supergroup Team America (no, not the Team America with...

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Masters of the Universe (DC Comics Preview) from 2021-04-07T10:00

Who better to discuss a comic featuring He-Man and the Masters of the Universe than the self-proclaimed He-Men of Podcasting, Ryan and Justin? In this episode, Indefensible Ink delves i...

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The Champions from 2021-03-17T09:00

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Superman: At Earth's End from 2021-03-03T10:00

On this episode of Indefensible Ink, Justin and Ryan go to the ends of the Earth t...

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X-Men: Onslaught — Phase Two from 2021-02-17T10:00

In this episode, Ryan and Justin continue to power through the much-maligned '90s...

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X-Men: Onslaught — Phase One from 2021-02-03T10:00

Get ready for some more 1990s X-cess when Justin and Ryan X-amine X-Men: Onslaught! In this first of two episodes covering the massive mutant-centric Marvel crossover, your hosts discus...

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Batman: Three Jokers from 2021-01-06T10:00

Everybody knows that there aren’t three Jokers. What this book presupposes is...maybe there are? Ryan and Justin reunite to cover 2020’s Listen

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Secret Wars II: The Complete, Very Weird Epic from 2020-12-23T15:28:26

This is a rerelease of Ryan and Justin's two-part look at legendarily bizarre 1980s Marvel mega-crossover Secret Wars II, now combined and condensed into a single episode for your conve...

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State of the Podcast 2: State Harder from 2020-12-16T11:00

In this gripping audio drama, Ryan finds out that every time he tries to get out of the podcast game, Justin pulls him back in. Here's a quick update on podcast status and a sneak peak of what <...

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Roger Corman's Fantastic Four: The Movie from 2020-11-04T12:00

Justin and Zach review one of the crown jewels of any self-respecting comic fan's bootleg video collection: the unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four movie produced by Roger Corman for only ar...

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Part Two from 2020-10-21T10:00

In this particularly dispiriting episode of Indefensible Ink, Justin and Zach cover the second half of the supposedly "Ultimate Edition" of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. ...

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Part One from 2020-10-07T09:00

Before this episode, Justin had never seen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before. Zach decided to do something about it.

Join the Brothers Zyduck as they dive into the THREE-...

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State of the Podcast - Updates and Future Plans from 2020-09-02T10:00

You may have noticed that Ryan and Justin haven't sat down together for one of their usual discussions of (allegedly) terrible comics for a few months now. There's no cause for alarm: everybody'...

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Brother from Another Podcast #3: Spider-Man Origins and Theories from 2020-08-19T09:00

Justin once more sits down with his brother, Zach, to talk about comics. In this episode, what began as a hasty text exchange at the grocery store expands to an in-depth discussion about perhaps...

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Brother from Another Podcast #2: Let's Rap About Cap! from 2020-08-05T09:00

Ryan is taking August off, so Justin has invited his brother, Zach, on the show once more to discuss comics from the point of view of a slightly more casual fan. In this episode, the topic turns...

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Summer Beach Party 2020! from 2020-07-01T09:00

In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can download this and touch the sky; when the weather's fine, you got comics, you got comics on your mind.

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Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage (Part 2 of 2) from 2020-06-17T09:00

In this week’s episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin continue to fig...

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Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage (Part 1 of 2) from 2020-06-03T09:00

In this episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and J...

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Adventures of Superman #500 from 2020-05-20T10:00

What if you made a collector's edition that nobody cared to collect? Ryan and Justin break open a sealed polybag of Adventures of Superman #500 to find out what happened to the Man of Steel afte...

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Gen 13: The Movie from 2020-05-06T09:00

In this special episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin trade bad comi...

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Brother from Another Podcast #1: Daredevil, the Man Without Peer from 2020-04-15T10:00

Taking a break from the usual format, Justin does the unthinkable and spends a podcast talking about GOOD comics. To do so, he's invited his brother, Zach, to have a laid-back conversation about...

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Fantastic Four: Heroes Reborn from 2020-04-01T10:00

"Defensible Ink" strikes again! When Marvel asked Image breakaways Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee to reboot the Avengers and Fantastic Four titles in 1996, it infuriated fans and Marv...

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Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.s from 2020-03-18T10:00

On this week’s episode of Indefensible Ink, it’s the first-ever edition of ...

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Trouble from 2020-03-04T09:30

In today’s episode of Indefensible Ink, your hosts discuss Marvel’s 2003 fa...

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Batman: Cacophony from 2020-02-19T11:00

POW! ZAP! SNOOGANS! Filmmaker Kevin Smith has written a Batman comic, and he's enlisted Walt "Tell 'Em, Steve-Dave!" Flanagan to draw it and the sound-effects-spouting assassin known as Onomatop...

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Mantra from 2020-02-05T11:00

In today’s episode, Ryan and Justin explore the ambitious male-warrior-reincarnated-in-a-female-superhero-body series, 1993’s Listen

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2019 Year in Review from 2019-12-18T11:00

As 2019 draws to a close, Ryan and Justin reflect on just how much time they've wasted reading and talking about bad comics. And to commemorate the occasion, they waste another 86 minutes on the...

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Uncanny X-Men: The Draco from 2019-12-04T10:00

Hey, remember that time Nightcrawler's dad showed up and claimed to be the Biblical Satan? And this dude Azazel claimed that Nightcrawler is descended from a line of demon-like mutants and the A...

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Spawn-Batman from 2019-11-20T10:00

Hope you're in the mood for some hard-boiled tough-guy nonsense, because in this episode, Ryan and Justin discuss Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane's Spawn-Batman from 1994. With only the...

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KISS: Psycho Circus from 2019-11-06T10:00

On this week’s episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin get belatedly s...

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Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #13 from 2019-10-16T10:00

In today’s episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin join forces to cove...

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The Kingdom (DC Comics) from 2019-10-02T10:00

In this episode, Ryan and Justin discuss The Kingdom, the mostly forgotten sequel (or "sequel") to DC Comics' universally acclaimed miniseries Kingdom Come. Was this storyline ...

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Secret Wars II, Part Two from 2019-09-18T10:00

On today's episode, Ryan and Justin conclude their discussion of one of Marvel's most misguided crossover epics, Secret Wars II. Prepare yourself for lots of space-god brooding, a dash ...

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Secret Wars II, Part One from 2019-09-04T04:32:42

Ryan and Justin cover the first four issues of legendary 1980s Marvel mega-crossover Secret Wars II! Find out what happens when Marvel trades crowd-pleasing, sprawling battles between t...

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Warriors of Plasm from 2019-08-21T10:00

On this episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin cover 1993's obscure (and bizarre) sci-fi superhero saga, Warriors of Plasm, a series that tried (and failed) to launch a s...

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Justice League: Cry for Justice from 2019-08-07T10:00

In this episode of Indefensible Ink, Ryan and Justin are reunited and ready to discuss 2009's little-loved DC miniseries Justice League: Cry for Justice. Will this grittier, "r...

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The World Series of Zombies (Summer Hiatus Episode #2) from 2019-07-17T10:00

With Ryan away, Justin must enlist his own son as fill-in co-host to discuss The World Series of Zombies, a poker-themed horror comic that's quite possibly inappropriate for a boy his age. Beat ...

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Mission Statement and Introductions (Summer Hiatus Episode #1) from 2019-07-03T10:00

An introduction to the podcast and your hosts, Ryan and Justin. If you want to know more about what Indefensible Ink is trying to accomplish and what kind of madmen or fools would volunteer to r...

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Ultimatum from 2019-06-19T10:00

In this episode, Ryan and Justin take a look at Marvel's Ultimatum, the major crossover event that changed the Ultimate Universe forever...because it alienated readers and rendered the ...

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Lady Death: The Reckoning from 2019-06-05T10:00

In this episode, the '90s comic series Lady Death strikes a dubious blow fo...

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Lobo: The New 52 from 2019-05-15T22:14:35

In this episode, Ryan and Justin cover DC’s 2014 poorly received reboot of the popular '90s anti-hero, Lobo! Was the backlash to the newly sleek and svelte Lobo s...

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NFL SuperPro from 2019-05-01T10:00

This week, Ryan and Justin trade in their inhalers and pocket protectors for free weights and jockstraps as they cover Marvel’s football-themed superhero, ...

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Rob Liefeld's Youngblood from 2019-04-17T10:00

This week, Ryan and Justin explore what was once the best selling independent comic of all time: Rob Liefeld’s Youngbl...

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Batman: Odyssey, Vol. 2 from 2019-04-03T10:00

In this episode, Ryan and Justin examine Volume 2 of Batman: Odyssey, in ...

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Batman: Odyssey, Vol. 1 from 2019-03-20T12:00

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Spider-Man: Torment from 2019-03-06T13:00

In this inaugural episode, hosts Ryan McClure and Justin Zyduck discuss one of the best-selling comics of all time, Spider-Man (1990) #1, which kicks off the critically panned "Torment"...

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