Time to (temporarily) break from our love affair with the 1990s, delve into the previous decade and visit a character Galactosh really does not care for, a book he's never heard of, but one Sleeves has been meaning to read for ages. DC's Green Arrow... is basically robin hood right? Well, hopefully we can answer that as we read and discuss the book that reinvented him for the modern age and launch hes very first solo title. A story of drugs smuggling rackets, rogue CIA agents, serial killers, Yakuza Assassins, Iranian arms deal, and coked up fish! And maybe even a love story about two heroic love birds, a guy who dresses like 'Robin' Hood and a gal that calls herself Black 'Canary'. Join us as we read Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters.

Credits

Green Arrow created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp

Creative talent: Mike Grell, Lurene Haines and Julia Lacquement

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Mike Grell

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Welcome back dear listener, you join your heroes as the embark on another trek through the world of Judge Dredd and once again forget to read anything with good old Joe himself in it.

Listen to the lads as they get to grips with the finer points of etiquette whilst on the job for the Vatican. Be beguiled as your hosts answer the questions, are nurses really interchangeable? Do you really need to take Victorian etchings of that sort with you while working for the church? Are we just doing comics about people with Charles Atlas physiques now? Are we really in a fully formed world or is i just in the authors head?

Join Sleeves and Galactosh as they answer these questions and more as they take a jaunt through the pages of Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood in the latest, greatest? episode of your legendary comic book club podcast We've got back issues.

Credits

Devlin Waugh created by John Smith and Sean Phillips

Creative talent: John Smith and Sean Phillips

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Sean Phillips

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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What is imagination? Fiction? Comics? Where do Ideas come from? Can fiction be made real? Can it influence the real world? We don't know but Grant Morrison seems to think they have an idea. Join us as we delve into the metatextual universe of Grant Morrison with his fictitious made real hero Flex Mentallo... a man who manipulated reality using his body mind and 'flex' muscles that transform the world around him. I four issue essay on comic books and their impact on society told through a mighty confusing story that Sleeves and Galactosh one really half understood on their third reading!

Credits

Flex Mentallo created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case

Creative talent: Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Frank Quitely

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Welcome back dear listeners. It's that time of year again that perplexes the senses and hormones with amore. Indeed this valentines day your intrepid hosts, Sleeves and Galactosh get confused and mystified by the topic of love and become enthralled prisoners of Marvel handling the subject in only the way they can.

Join the lads as they answer age old questions of romance such as; haven't we seen this bit before on another episode? What in the name of metaphysical insanity is going on here? Is this the 80s or the 90s? Is Galactosh trying too hard to get Sleeves into the X-men family of books? And was this really an FF book gone awry?... as they voyage through Marvel's X-Factor special, Prisoner of Love. Only on We've got back issues!

Credits

Beast created by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Creative talent: Jim Starlin and Jackson Guice

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Jackson Guice

Music clips: Harry Warren and Barry White

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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It's our birthday! We’ve Got Back issues is two! So to celebrating two years of putting out this modest little podcast we've chosen to chat about something close to both our hearts... 1990’s Marvel nonsense! Namely Revenge of the Sinister Six from the adjectivesless Spider-man comic! Join Sleeves and Galactosh as we talk bombastic art, nonstop extreme’ action, endless cross promoting cameos and some very dated 'feminism'.

Credits

Spider-man created by: Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

Creative talent: Erik Larson

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Erik Larson

Music clips: Altered Images and The Prodigy

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Ho ho ho boys and girls. One again Santa has had a rummage through his sack and found a lovely gift for you all whether you've been naughty or nice.

This festive period, join Sleeves, Galactosh and Santa as they delve into another festive package of holiday comics.

Join your heroes as they discuss wintery ponderings such as; when is a homage not an homage? Why are there penguins at the north pole? And what is grooming?

Come with us as the boys discuss uncanny xmen 143 and Lobo paramilitary Christmas special alongside jokes from your favourite ruddy faced benefactor, Santa himself.

Ho ho ho.

Credits

X-men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Lobo created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen

Creative talent: Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, Simon Bisley

Hosts: Galactosh, Sleeves, Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Terry Austin and Rick Parker and Simon Bisley

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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Transformers... THE Transformers the original Marvel run that started it all (sure there was a cartoon too but that was rubbish... kids stuff) is a bit of an obsession for Sleeves. He's collected all the Marvel UK comics, he's started a substack on the subject. So we thought we'd ingluge the little scamp and discuss a few issues of the comic, just a small number... four... keep it light. What followed was over 3 hours of robot related rambling too long to be contained in just one episode. So we split it in two... and this is the second part.

Reforming the same band of contributors that brought you an overstuffed look at Skybound's Transformers relaunch last year, Sleeves, Galactosh and special guests Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson pore over the pages of The Transformers issues 5 to 8 reprinted in issues 22 to 28 of Marvel UK's fortnightly larger format comic. We join the story as Shockwave takes command of the Decepticons and begins his plans to conquer the earth one Blackrock facility at a time, learn why Optimus Prime's head is no longer on his body, why Buster Witwicky is having a lot of headaches, how the Dinobot came to be on earth, what the rite of oneness is and why Ratchet must learn to become a warrior!

Credits

Transformers created by Hasbro Inc. and arguably Bob Budiansky

Creative talent: Bob Budiansky, Alan Kupperberg and William Johnson

Hosts: Galactosh, Sleeves, Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Mark Bright

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Transformers... THE Transformers the original Marvel run that started it all (sure there was a cartoon too but that was rubbish... kids stuff) is a bit of an obsession for Sleeves. He's collected all the Marvel UK comics, he's started a substack on the subject. So we thought we'd ingluge the little scamp and discuss a few issues of the comic, just a small number... four... keep it light. What followed was over 3 hours of robot related rambling too long to be contained in just one episode. So we split it in two... this is the first part and the second part will follow here on We've Got Back Issues shortly OR if you can't wait is available NOW over on our sister podcast AARGH! MY OPTICS!

Reforming the same band of contributors that brought you an overstuffed look at Skybound's Transformers relaunch last year, Sleeves, Galactosh and special guests Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson pore over the pages of The Transformers issues 5 to 8 reprinted in issues 22 to 28 of Marvel UK's fortnightly larger format comic. We join the story as Shockwave takes command of the Decepticons and begins his plans to conquer the earth one Blackrock facility at a time, learn why Optimus Prime's head is no longer on his body, why Buster Witwicky is having a lot of headaches, how the Dinobot came to be on earth, what the rite of oneness is and why Ratchet must learn to become a warrior!

Credits

Transformers created by Hasbro Inc. and arguably Bob Budiansky

Creative talent: Bob Budiansky, Alan Kupperberg and William Johnson

Hosts: Galactosh, Sleeves, Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Mark Bright

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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