The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show
The Superheroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show tells the origins and backstories of popular and obscure characters throughout comics and pop culture.
Episodes
In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I’ll be talking about the break dancing sonic shooter from the Justice League of America, not that he was in it for long, but Paco Ramone, and in later iterations of the character, Cisco Ramone. And if you are a watcher of The hit CW show, The Flash, yep, I’m talking about Vibe!
In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be talking The Runaways. That has gone from marvel Comics to Hulu Oringinal.
In this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I’ll be talking about a character that moved from DC’s Milestone imprint into the main DCU and beyond. In this episode we’ll be talking about Virgil Hawkins, a.k.a Static Shock.
In this episode we are going to look into the origins of one of Marvel’s most iconic and controversial characters, Frank Castle, a.k.a, The Punisher. Now this is a character that some consider a hero and others consider a crazy person who kills lots of people while wearing a skull on his chest. I think of him as a little of both. I’m also super excited about the interview I got to do with Gerry Conwa...
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be learning about Herr Starr, soldier of a secretive known as The Grail who is on his own mission to find and recruit Jesse Custer to become the messiah. Oh, and the man with the worst luck in the entire comic. This man takes a beating and deserves every bit of it.
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll talking about the entity that changed everyone’s lives starting with Jesse Custer, I’m talking about Genesis. We only see him as a screaming baby head but Genesis is a new thing in creation with a power equal is not greater than Gods.
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll talking about one of the most powerful characters in DC Vertigo’s awesome comic from the 80’s Preacher, and no, I’m not talking about God or Satan, Jesse, or even Cassidy. I’m talking about The Saint of Killers. And I think that name says it all. We’ll look at his character in the Preacher comic and in the new AMC of the same name. But as alw...
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks show I’ll be continuing my Preacher series with a character with one of the most unique looks and names in the entire series. Now there are some pretty far out characters in Preacher, but Eugene Root, or better known by Arseface definitely has one of the most interesting looks and backstories in the comic. So who is Eugene Root and how did he go from a ...
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I’ll be covering the butt-kicking past of one of an amazing character in DC Vertigo’s amazing series Preacher. In this episode we’ll be learning about Tulip O’Hare a woman who can fight, shoot and kick butt with the rest of them.
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show I’ll be covering the drunken past of one of my favorite characters in DC Vertigo’s amazing series Preacher. And it’s a fairly long history since this character is about 119 years old and is an immortal vampire who like to wear his sunglasses at night and in the daytime for that matter. Today I’ll be talking about Cassidy, the vampire that has more ...
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll talking about one of my favorite characters in comics, Jesse Custer a small town preacher with a complicated past from Vertigo’s awesome comic from the 80’s Preacher. And yes, in this golden age of comic books brought to the small screen Jesse and his crew can been seen on a new AMC show that does take some liberties with the comic but is pre...
Today on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks show we’ll be talking about an omega level mutant that was created on an alternate earth in the Marvel Universe, Earth 295 to be exact and was such a popular addition he was transported to Earth proper, Earth 616. Today we’ll be learning about the mutant Nate Grey.
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be looking into the interesting past of Jason Todd, the boy wonder replaced Dick Grayson as being Batman’s number one sidekick, Robin. And I am so excited that at the end of the episode I’ll be playing an interview that I did with Gerry Conway, the creator of Jason Todd, as well as so many more characters. But we’ll talk more about that later...
This week on Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be continuing our exploration into the origin of The Walking Dead’s biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille in Part 6 of our "Here's Negan" series where we’ll be covering issues 10-12 of Negan’s origin in Image Plus.
On this episode of The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’re going to be doing something a little different character wise. I’ll be talking about a sidekick, but that’s not the different part. The different part is that this sidekick isn’t human. It’s actually a hairless blue-grey space cat that who accompanies an intergalactic assassin who goes by the name, The Will. In this episode I promise not to tell a lie or else she’ll k...
On this week's episode we'll be looking into the multiple origins of one of my favorite characters on TV today, Michonne, from The Walking Dead. Who was she before the apocalypse...let's find out.
This week on Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be continuing our exploration into the origin of The Walking Dead’s biggest baddie, Negan and his deadly friend, Lucille in Part 5 of our "Here's Negan" series where we’ll be covering issues 7-9 of Negan’s origin in Image Plus.
This week on The Heroes, Villains and Sidekicks Show we’ll be talking about a great character from Kirby's Fourth World that really didn’t show up in a lot of issues, but was a cool and fun character that really captured imaginations. We’ll be talking about BUG, The Forager.
On this week's episode I had a chance to talk with prolific creator Brian Haberlin about creating comics and characters like Witchblade and what he's doing now with augmented reality in his comics Anomaly, Faster than Light and other really amazing titles.
Who is The Crow and what drives him. This week we'll be talking about a tragic character that went from the printed page to the big screen. What motivates The Crow and what brought about the actual character's creation?
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