Sewer Mutant 
I went solo for this episode to talk about how the Dark Age of Comic Books, from the mid-1980s to 2000, was also the age of imprints, from Marvel’s Epic and Star to DC’s Vertigo and Milestone to Image’s Wildstorm and Extreme Studios. One note: After I recorded, John pointed out that Marvel’s Midnight Sons … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. MUTATION VECTORS Status Update I’m back from a wedding in Texas and some time visiting in-laws in Wyoming. This was, thankfully, not a fucked up wedding. But I’m having a bit of a time getting back into the … Read more
We’re joined by artist and illustrator Elinore Edge to talk about the first two volumes of ElfQuest: Fire and Flight and Forbidden Grove. We talk about the epic series’ themes of home and belonging, Wendy Pini’s incredible art and how it stood out against a sea of “house style” art from the big two, and … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update The first pages for the Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Spectacular zine are coming in and I’m really excited about it. Somewhere early in my adult life I stopped getting excited about things and started getting anxious instead. … Read more
Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi passed away earlier this month, so we recorded an emergency episode to discuss her work. Subscribe to the podcast feed or find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. Credits: Hosts: Klint Finley and John Ekleberry Music: krudler.bandcamp.com Comics Journal article on her work and legacy Mentioned … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update I’m enjoying a brief break in the heat wave. Summer is here, but at least for this morning I can pretend that we skipped summer and went straight into fall. I’m feeling a bit more on … Read more
Spawn issue 10, published in 1993, featured something I’d never heard of before: An ad for a series called Gay Comics. This may have been the first time I saw “gay” used non-pejoratively. And it was definitely the first time I saw queerness depicted in a positive light, even if it was basically only a … Read more
In our second installment on Matt Wagner’s Grendel, we dive into issues 1-20 of the ongoing series from Comico, as well as the Grendel: Devil’s Vagary one shot. We begin with the second Grendel Christine Spar, continue to Brian Li Sung, and wrap-up with Captain Wiggins. We talk about the Pander Brothers, how 1986 is … Read more
We couldn’t help it. We weren’t going to read Grendel so soon, but irresistibly drawn to Matt Wagner’s masterpiece. Once he started reading, he couldn’t stop. Klint was soon sucked back into the world of Grendel too. In this episode, we look at: The first appearance of Grendel in Comico Primer issue 2 The original … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update I have a cold and I’m behind on everything, so I’ll just quickly note a few things. Latest writing and podcasts The latest Sewer Mutant podcast is on Manhunter by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson, a … Read more