The Mortal Kombat II movie came out&#8230; several weeks ago, apparently, but MK Fever is still raging at Zero Issues Central! We finally all saw the movie, so now it&#8217;s time to talk all about it! Does it hold up to the mighty 1995 Klassic? What characters and fights were a flawless fatality or a fatal blow to the series? And what of Karl Urban as Johnny Cage? And our favourite character, Cole Young!? 
But we&#8217;ve got a lot more Kombat to Konversate about! We dig into tournaments as a storytelling function, their long history in comics, games, and movies, and the ever-present shadow of &#8220;Enter the Dragon&#8221;. We match up some Krossover Kombatants, pitting the MK Krew against comic heroes, then dig into the history of Mortal Kombat comics&#8230; which is still mostly Malibu&#8217;s 1990s MK line, so why hasn&#8217;t anyone else done much with this franchise since? And we have a Casting Call for a whole bunch of MK characters &#8212; but they have to be actors from John Carpenter movies! That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;ve got &#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper as Johnny Cage! James Hong as Shang Tsung! Keith David as Scorpion! Wilford Brimley as Kano! Ernest Borgnine as Goro! And that&#8217;s just the tip of the Event Tower.
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<description>&lt;p&gt;The Mortal Kombat II movie came out&amp;#8230; several weeks ago, apparently, but MK Fever is still raging at Zero Issues Central! We finally all saw the movie, so now it&amp;#8217;s time to talk all about it! Does it hold up to the mighty 1995 Klassic? What characters and fights were a flawless fatality or a fatal blow to the series? And what of Karl Urban as Johnny Cage? And our favourite character, Cole Young!? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But we&amp;#8217;ve got a lot more Kombat to Konversate about! We dig into tournaments as a storytelling function, their long history in comics, games, and movies, and the ever-present shadow of &amp;#8220;Enter the Dragon&amp;#8221;. We match up some Krossover Kombatants, pitting the MK Krew against comic heroes, then dig into the history of Mortal Kombat comics&amp;#8230; which is still mostly Malibu&amp;#8217;s 1990s MK line, so why hasn&amp;#8217;t anyone else done much with this franchise since? And we have a Casting Call for a whole bunch of MK characters &amp;#8212; but they have to be actors from John Carpenter movies! That&amp;#8217;s right, we&amp;#8217;ve got &amp;#8220;Rowdy&amp;#8221; Roddy Piper as Johnny Cage! James Hong as Shang Tsung! Keith David as Scorpion! Wilford Brimley as Kano! Ernest Borgnine as Goro! And that&amp;#8217;s just the tip of the Event Tower.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct Download: &lt;a href="https://ia601509.us.archive.org/3/items/zero-issues-527-just-throw-a-toasty-in-there/Zero_Issues_527_Just_Throw_a_Toasty_in_There.mp3"&gt;MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Mortal Kombat II movie came out&#8230; several weeks ago, apparently, but MK Fever is still raging at Zero Issues Central! We finally all saw the movie, so now it&#8217;s time to talk all about it! Does it hold up to the mighty 1995 Klassic? What cha

The Mortal Kombat II movie came out&#8230; several weeks ago, apparently, but MK Fever is still raging at Zero Issues Central! We finally all saw the movie, so now it&#8217;s time to talk all about it! Does it hold up to the mighty 1995 Klassic? What characters and fights were a flawless fatality or a fatal blow to the series? And what of Karl Urban as Johnny Cage? And our favourite character, Cole Young!? 
But we&#8217;ve got a lot more Kombat to Konversate about! We dig into tournaments as a storytelling function, their long history in comics, games, and movies, and the ever-present shadow of &#8220;Enter the Dragon&#8221;. We match up some Krossover Kombatants, pitting the MK Krew against comic heroes, then dig into the history of Mortal Kombat comics&#8230; which is still mostly Malibu&#8217;s 1990s MK line, so why hasn&#8217;t anyone else done much with this franchise since? And we have a Casting Call for a whole bunch of MK characters &#8212; but they have to be actors from John Carpenter movies! That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;ve got &#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper as Johnny Cage! James Hong as Shang Tsung! Keith David as Scorpion! Wilford Brimley as Kano! Ernest Borgnine as Goro! And that&#8217;s just the tip of the Event Tower.
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527: Just Throw a Toasty in There

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Here comes Daredevil (Born Again season two part two)! This week, we finish up our talk about the newest season of everyone&#8217;s favourite blind lawyer/Catholic guilt-haver/guy who might have owned the Ninja Turtles as a kid. And this time, Bry&#8217;s seen the show, so he sticks around! Not only that, but he gets to talk about the first half of the season!

So, what worked for us? What didn&#8217;t? How would we change the ending, and where could the ending that we have possibly lead us into the future? All that, plus the Punisher&#8217;s impregnable fortress of two unlocked doors in a parking garage.
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Here comes Daredevil (Born Again season two part two)! This week, we finish up our talk about the newest season of everyone&amp;#8217;s favourite blind lawyer/Catholic guilt-haver/guy who might have owned the Ninja Turtles as a kid. And this time, Bry&amp;#8217;s seen the show, so he sticks around! Not only that, but he gets to talk about the first half of the season!

So, what worked for us? What didn&amp;#8217;t? How would we change the ending, and where could the ending that we have possibly lead us into the future? All that, plus the Punisher&amp;#8217;s impregnable fortress of two unlocked doors in a parking garage.
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Here comes Daredevil (Born Again season two part two)! This week, we finish up our talk about the newest season of everyone&#8217;s favourite blind lawyer/Catholic guilt-haver/guy who might have owned the Ninja Turtles as a kid. And this time, Bry&#82

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Here comes Daredevil (Born Again season two part two)! This week, we finish up our talk about the newest season of everyone&#8217;s favourite blind lawyer/Catholic guilt-haver/guy who might have owned the Ninja Turtles as a kid. And this time, Bry&#8217;s seen the show, so he sticks around! Not only that, but he gets to talk about the first half of the season!

So, what worked for us? What didn&#8217;t? How would we change the ending, and where could the ending that we have possibly lead us into the future? All that, plus the Punisher&#8217;s impregnable fortress of two unlocked doors in a parking garage.

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526: Lady Stiltmuse

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Sometimes they aim big. A comic. A cartoon. A toyline. Video games.

And sometimes that crashes like the Hindenburg.
Failed Franchises!
That&#8217;s what the boys are talking about this week. A slew of bad comics, mediocre toys and forgettable films.
Some of them even had an ok aspect, but they just aimed too high.
From Jim Lee&#8217;s Wildcats, to Warren Beatty&#8217;s Dick Tracy and a few other gems (or crystals) in the mix. Crystar the Crystal Warrior and Bucky O&#8217; Hare anyone?
And somehow we talk about Glenn Danzig and Billy Zane because why the hell not!?!?
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&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they aim big. A comic. A cartoon. A toyline. Video games.&lt;/p&gt;

And sometimes that crashes like the Hindenburg.
Failed Franchises!
That&amp;#8217;s what the boys are talking about this week. A slew of bad comics, mediocre toys and forgettable films.
Some of them even had an ok aspect, but they just aimed too high.
From Jim Lee&amp;#8217;s Wildcats, to Warren Beatty&amp;#8217;s Dick Tracy and a few other gems (or crystals) in the mix. Crystar the Crystal Warrior and Bucky O&amp;#8217; Hare anyone?
And somehow we talk about Glenn Danzig and Billy Zane because why the hell not!?!?
&lt;a href="https://zeroissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/franchisess-scaled.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct Download: &lt;a href="https://ia600602.us.archive.org/18/items/zero-issues-525-failed-franchises-and-danzig/Zero_Issues_525_-_Failed_Franchises_and_Danzig.mp3"&gt;MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Sometimes they aim big. A comic. A cartoon. A toyline. Video games.

And sometimes that crashes like the Hindenburg.
Failed Franchises!
That&#8217;s what the boys are talking about this week. A slew of bad comics, mediocre toys and forgettable films.


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Sometimes they aim big. A comic. A cartoon. A toyline. Video games.

And sometimes that crashes like the Hindenburg.
Failed Franchises!
That&#8217;s what the boys are talking about this week. A slew of bad comics, mediocre toys and forgettable films.
Some of them even had an ok aspect, but they just aimed too high.
From Jim Lee&#8217;s Wildcats, to Warren Beatty&#8217;s Dick Tracy and a few other gems (or crystals) in the mix. Crystar the Crystal Warrior and Bucky O&#8217; Hare anyone?
And somehow we talk about Glenn Danzig and Billy Zane because why the hell not!?!?

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525: Failed Franchises and Danzig

Oh shoot, we missed Mother&#8217;s Day! And we didn&#8217;t get anything for our Mother Boxes! I sure hope they like podcast episodes&#8230; That&#8217;s right, this episode is all about the Mother Box, the smartphone that&#8217;s also a mom, and a buncha other li&#8217;l robot buddies and helpers! We start off with a partial reading and discussion of the essay <a href="https://imagetextjournal.com/how-can-i-refuse-you-mother-box-abjection-and-objectification-of-motherhood-in-jack-kirbys-fourth-world/">&#8220;&#8216;How Can I Refuse You, Mother Box?!&#8217; Abjection and Objectification of Motherhood in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World&#8221;</a> by Annamarie O&#8217;Brien for ImageTexT, chat about whether Cyborg should be powered by a Mother Box or not, the life and times of Skeets, Widget, H.E.R.B.I.E. and J.A.R.V.I.S., and the introduction of our own acronym-first robot pals!
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Oh shoot, we missed Mother&amp;#8217;s Day! And we didn&amp;#8217;t get anything for our Mother Boxes! I sure hope they like podcast episodes&amp;#8230; That&amp;#8217;s right, this episode is all about the Mother Box, the smartphone that&amp;#8217;s also a mom, and a buncha other li&amp;#8217;l robot buddies and helpers! We start off with a partial reading and discussion of the essay &lt;a href="https://imagetextjournal.com/how-can-i-refuse-you-mother-box-abjection-and-objectification-of-motherhood-in-jack-kirbys-fourth-world/"&gt;&amp;#8220;&amp;#8216;How Can I Refuse You, Mother Box?!&amp;#8217; Abjection and Objectification of Motherhood in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt; by Annamarie O&amp;#8217;Brien for ImageTexT, chat about whether Cyborg should be powered by a Mother Box or not, the life and times of Skeets, Widget, H.E.R.B.I.E. and J.A.R.V.I.S., and the introduction of our own acronym-first robot pals!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct Download: &lt;a href="https://ia601506.us.archive.org/22/items/zero-issues-524-call-me-big-roomba/Zero_Issues_524_Call_Me_Big_Roomba.mp3"&gt;MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Oh shoot, we missed Mother&#8217;s Day! And we didn&#8217;t get anything for our Mother Boxes! I sure hope they like podcast episodes&#8230; That&#8217;s right, this episode is all about the Mother Box, the smartphone that&#8217;s also a mom, and a bunch

Oh shoot, we missed Mother&#8217;s Day! And we didn&#8217;t get anything for our Mother Boxes! I sure hope they like podcast episodes&#8230; That&#8217;s right, this episode is all about the Mother Box, the smartphone that&#8217;s also a mom, and a buncha other li&#8217;l robot buddies and helpers! We start off with a partial reading and discussion of the essay &#8220;&#8216;How Can I Refuse You, Mother Box?!&#8217; Abjection and Objectification of Motherhood in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World&#8221; by Annamarie O&#8217;Brien for ImageTexT, chat about whether Cyborg should be powered by a Mother Box or not, the life and times of Skeets, Widget, H.E.R.B.I.E. and J.A.R.V.I.S., and the introduction of our own acronym-first robot pals!
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524: Call Me Big Roomba

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The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are several of them!), and, of course, your standard whoops-we-flooded-the-world trope represented by The Massive. We&#8217;ve even got an apocalyptic quiz to start us off!
But even before that, Bry tells us all about Superman: War of the Worlds in the Warmup, which is exactly what it sounds like it is, but even still, sounds like a pretty great book! Plenty of reading suggestions this week, if you exclusively want to read about the end of the world.

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&lt;p&gt;The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are several of them!), and, of course, your standard whoops-we-flooded-the-world trope represented by The Massive. We&amp;#8217;ve even got an apocalyptic quiz to start us off!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But even before that, Bry tells us all about Superman: War of the Worlds in the Warmup, which is exactly what it sounds like it is, but even still, sounds like a pretty great book! Plenty of reading suggestions this week, if you exclusively want to read about the end of the world.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://zeroissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/523.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Direct Download: &lt;a href="https://ia601509.us.archive.org/11/items/zero-issues-523-wet-velvet/Zero_Issues_523_-_Wet_Velvet.mp3"&gt;MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are sever

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The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are several of them!), and, of course, your standard whoops-we-flooded-the-world trope represented by The Massive. We&#8217;ve even got an apocalyptic quiz to start us off!
But even before that, Bry tells us all about Superman: War of the Worlds in the Warmup, which is exactly what it sounds like it is, but even still, sounds like a pretty great book! Plenty of reading suggestions this week, if you exclusively want to read about the end of the world.


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523: Wet Velvet

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