We've Got Back Issues

Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

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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Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery #1-4

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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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X-Factor: Prisoner of Love

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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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Spider-man: Revenge of the Sinister Six

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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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X-mas, X-men, X-treme violence and Xenomorphs!

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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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The Transformers #7-8 (Part 2 of 2)

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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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The Transformers #5-6 (Part 1 of 2)

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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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Something is Killing the Children #1-5

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.....

Oops. Wrong intro. Welcome terror seekers and join your heroes this Halloween as this year they go off with a Boom!

Have you ever glimpsed something not right out of the corner of your eye? Do you ever get the feeling you're not alone? Ever seen your friends eviscerated before your very eyes? If so then please, get help. Otherwise, join your hosts Sleeves and Galactosh as they travel through the world of Something is Killing the Children. Join your heroes as they ponder such questions as; Why are talking stuffed animals so creepy? Why are the emergency services always so slow to catch on? And, can a comic be interesting when nothing and everything seems to happen in whole issues?

Come run in terror with the lads in the latest, scariest, most gruesome instalment of We've got back issues.

Credits

Creative talent: James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Werther Dell'Edera

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Nemesis #1-4

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

"CIVIL WAR? Nothing. KICK-ASS? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He's systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he's now set his sights on Washington, DC. Between you and me, the police don't have a chance." or at least that's what it says on the back of the book. Tune in to this listener chosen episode of We've Got Back issues to hear if Sleeves and Galactosh feel Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Nemesis lives up to the hype.

Credits

Creative talent: Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Steve McNiven

Clips: The Rolling Stones

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

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Madman Comics #1-5

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMT

In this months episode of We've Got Back Issues we invite you to peruse the pages of Michael Allred's surrealist superhero creation Madman! Join us as we travel to Snap City where a mad scientist named Dr Egon Boiffard cobbles a guy together from corpses bring him back to life. Where the self-replicating robot creations Dr Gellespie Flem wander aimlessly through the sewers, where Mott from the Planet Hoople didges the advances of a lovelorn alien cannibal. Where G-men from hell give out hero Frank Einstein the creeps, where self replicating robots run wild in the sewers, Were metaphysical philosophy and traveling circuses on cruise ships meet. Where 1950s science fiction films is and rock and roll pop music are melted down into a heady brew... it's should proved to be rather neato and certianly decidedly ginchy.

Don't believe in yourself,

Don't deceive with belief,

Knowledge comes with death's release

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Credits

Creative talent: Mike Allred and Laura Allred

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Mike Allred and Laura Allred

Clips: David Bowie

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The Coming of Galactus - Fantastic Four #48-50

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:00:00 GMT

G. L. A. C. T. U. S..... G. L. A. C. T. U. S.....

Did someone order a disco pharaoh? Your heroes on We've Got Back Issues certainly did. Join the lads as they traverse Marvel continuity once again. Returning to the pages of the Fantastic Four for the moment when the threats to Stan's comic universe went... well, into the universe. Join your hosts in answering such questions as: Who is the dumbest member of the FF? Is Reed a product of his time? What character trait has he continued to this day? Will The Thing get grumpy and hit something? If The Watcher is meant to observe and not interfere, what's he up to here then? How'd Galactus get his outfit change power from? Is this where Galactosh got his name then? These questions and many more will be answered as you join us in reading the Coming of Galactus only on We've got back issues.

Credits

Creative talent: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Jack Kirby

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Action Comics #1

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Jump into the way-back machine with Sleeves and Galactosh to the year 1938, when National Allied Publication keen to repeat the success of there soon to be namesake Detective Comics publish the first issue of their newest periodical Action Comics. In amongst the usual hotchpotch of cowboys, magicians, crime reporters, historical figures, comedy shoplifters, more cowboys, colonial casual racism, boxing, and Baseball... we discover a new type of hero for young boys to aspire to… one with strange… otherworldly... some might say ‘SUPER’ powers that got the first issue flying off the news stands and brought to life THE biggest, MOST important and SUPREMELY bankable comic book character of all time! We are talking of course of... Superman.

Credits

Creative talent: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, H. Fleming, Fred Guardineer, Captain Frank Thomas, Alger, Sven Elven, Will Ely, Bernard Baily and more.

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Joe Shuster

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1.

Sun, 18 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Roll up roll up purveyors of the strange, the weird and the outlandish. Come exotic travellers as we traverse the found world of Alan Moore alongside our congenial podcasters of the obtuse, messers Sleeves and Galactosh. Witness tall tales of daring do. Examine mysteries beyond compare. Join the lads as they ask the questions narely well dreamed of before as they ask; where is that meant to be in Edmonton? Can you just steal characters because they're public domain? Is there a line to cross? What exactly is this obsession with Jeff Wayne? All these quandries and more shall be addressed as you join your heroes voyage through the tome that is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in this months audio periodical for boys and girls of all persuasions from We've got back issues.

Credits

Creative talent: Allan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Kevin O'Neill

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Another month, another We've Got Back Issues and another issues one. This time we travel back to spring of 1984, and take a look at the an oddly shaped black and white comic book, self published by two guys working out of a kitchen, the comic concerned four green dudes into martial arts with and a rat for a father figure and was a limited run of just 3000 copies. And that would have been that... and yet here we are over 40 years later and it's STILL one of the most popular and beloved franchises in the world. So join Sleeves and Galactosh, as they discuss the world's most fearsome fighting team! The heroes in the half-shell! One one, the only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Abd the issue that lunched it all... COWABUNGA!

Credits

Creative talent: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Kevin Eastman

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Marvel Comics #1

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome back listeners to this month's instalment of We've got back issues.

This time, your heroes, Sleeves and Galactosh, are travelling back in time to the beginning of the Marvel Empire. And it's a very different time indeed.

War is on the horizon in Europe, but over in America, they're more interested in the deeds of comic characters. Maybe not so different after all....

Join the lads as they overcome different standards of both politics and storytelling as they try to answer various questions such as; why are everyone called rats? Why do things just happen? Can you tell the same story more than once in the same comic? Is this racist? Is this sexist? Was every character a psychopath in the 30's? Can everything be solved by melting it?

All these questions and more will be answered as you listen the boys discussing Marvel Comics #1 in the latest, greatest installment of We've got back issues.

Credits

Creative talent: Various

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Carl Burgos

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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Sun, 19 May 2024 23:00:50 GMT

This time on We've Got Back Issues, your heroes are in trouble. They're crime is life. They're sentence?... Is death.

That's right, in this issue your hosts Sleeves and Galactosh have read the origin story of Judge Dredd's most famous villain, Judge Death, in Young Death "Boyhood of a Superfiend" straight from the pages of Judge Dredd Megazine. (And you thought we'd stick to just the American funny books). Listen now to find out what your hosts thought of Death's early days, dentistry, the reveal of the protagonists horrifying real name and just how much this ~~blatantly rips off~~ is a loving homage to interview with the vampire.

Drokk! Just give it a listen for gruds sake!

Credits

Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra

Judge Death created by John Wagner and Brian Bolland

Creative talent: John Wagner, Peter Doherty and Gordon Robson

Hosts: Galactosh and Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Peter Doherty

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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Transformers (Skybound) #1-3 (part 1 of 2)

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:00:33 GMT

Hear part 2 on AARGH! MY OPTICS https://linktr.ee/aarghmyoptics

Welcome to a very special CROSSOVER episode of We've Got Back Issues! Galactosh and Sleeves are joined by Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia(also know as Sleeves, I know its confusing but deal with it!) from Transformers podcast AARGH! MY OPTICS! plus special guest host Michael Quintesson to chat about the first 6 issues and story arch of Skybound's brand new ongoing Transformers comic book! You'll find our discussion of issues 1 to 3 here on We've Got Back Issues and issues 4 to 6 over on AARGH! MY OPTICS! Fun right!?

Anyway please do join us to hear our hot takes on the latest reboot of the Transformers franchise as we talk robots, wrestling and PTSD!

Credits

Transformers created by Hasbro Inc. and arguably Bob Budiansky

Creative talent: Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer and Rus Wooton

Hosts: Galactosh, Orion Ghia AKA Sleeves, Virtual Dave and Michael Quintesson

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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The Death of Superman "Doomsday"

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:49 GMT

What's that in the sky?...Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! It's the 3rd instalment of your trusty comic book podcast We’ve Got Back Issues! In this episode your heroes ponder the highs, the lows, the hype and the marketing strategy that was the Death of Superman. Come with us to a time before the advent of the comics explosion, where event stories were just that and not an annual procession, to a time when Superman was still relevant? As we look at an event comic that arguably directly lead, or at least contributed to, the great comics crash of the 90s.

Listen as we discuss DCs Hulk rip-off and the Man of Steel knocking seven bells out of one another across the pages of 7 issues of 5 DC books until they both collapse in a bloody heap. Can a comic consist entirely of splash pages? Can the man of tomorrow survive? The title kind of gives it away! But that won't stop Sleeves and Galactosh digesting and dissecting it for your listening pleasure in what people are already calling the greatest comic book club discussion podcast?

Credits

Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

Creative talent on this story includes Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier, Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazelwood, Dan Jurgens, Rick Burchett, Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke and Brett Breeding.

Hosts: Galactosh and Orion Ghia AKA Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: DC comics

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #6-10 (part 2 of 2)

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:16 GMT

Welcome back to The World's Greatest Comic Magazine! Even if Stan Lee does say so himself... as early as issue 4! In episode one your hosts Sleeves and Galactosh tried to revisit the first ten issues of what would become the first family of superhero comics… namely the Fantastic Four! Having bitten off a little more than they could chew for one episode they cleverly split it in two, and here's that second part! Join them as they marvel at the first Doctor Doom and Sub Mariner team up, are baffled by Kurrgo Master of Planet X, get to grips with the bizarre abilities of the Puppet Master, watch incredulously as the Fantastic Four pay off their debts by going to Hollywood to make a movie and fall about laughing at a ridiculously convoluted story in which Reed Richards and Doctor Doom switch bodies!

Credits

Fantastic Four created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Fantastic Four volume 1 issues 1-10 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Hosts: Galactosh and Orion Ghia AKA Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Jack Kirby

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #1-5 (part 1 or 2)

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:20:04 GMT

Excelsior true believers! Welcome to the dawn of the Marvel age of comics. Back before shared universes existed and Batman still was worried by overtures of his conduct with Robin. A age when every comic had an ape on their cover because those sold more! Join your hosts Sleeves and Galactosh as they revisit what was the last chance saloon of a future comics mogul which inadvertently gave birth to superhero comics as we know them today! Voyage with us back to the sixties, to a time before they had started to swing and Stan Lee was still only “the man” in his own head. Where superlatives were given full force and the alliteration of names first took flight. Welcome to Marvel's first family as we dive into where it all started and discover how the Fantastic Four were born... It's Clobberin' time!!

Credits

Fantastic Four created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Fantastic Four volume 1 issues 1-10 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Hosts: Galactosh and Orion Ghia AKA Sleeves

Editing and production: Galactosh and Sleeves

Episode art: Jack Kirby

Music and stings: The Vidiprinter

Logo art: willnotcompute

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