Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re diving back into 1970s Marvel Comics this week, specifically looking at comics featuring the pulp adventure character (and prototype for modern superheroes everywhere) Doc Savage. From 1972 to 1977, Marvel held a license to produce comic books featuring the Man of Bronze and his Fabulous Five companions. This week w…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This episode concludes our two-part coverage looking at the 1992 crossover event RISE OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS! In the final three issues of the event we see Marvel do their very best Vertigo impression, a team of vampire hunters decked out like characters from an Ann Rice novel, and a final issue where Dr. Strange realizes h…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This time we’ve got another of those Big Marvel Storylines that we’ve been promising we’d get around to ever since we first started this show. So crack open a Clearly Canadian, throw a Jim Steinman album into your Discman as we travel back to 1992 for Marvel’s six-part RISE OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS crossover. In this episode,…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’ve had it on the list since this show began, and we’ve finally gone and done it – and episode on the entire first MARVEL ZOMBIES miniseries from 2006! How well does it hold up? Can a book about zombie superheroes being awful to each other sustain itself for five issues? PLUS we catch up on other recent goings-on in Mar…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Things are coming to a head in the Tomb, as your humble hosts have had one disagreement too many! The only solution – TRIAL BY COMBAT! READING AND DISCUSSING VIOLENT COMICS. That’s right, we’re looking at the recently published PREDATOR VERSUS WOLVERINE 4-issue miniseries from Marvel’s 20th Century Studios imprint, writte…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re diving into another random grab bag episode this week! To help us out, we are joined by friend of the show Sean McGuinness! Each of us picked out one issue to read and discuss this week – and somehow, all three of us landed right in the middle of the Bronze Age! However, that’s about all these three issues have in c…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This is it! The thrilling conclusion to our three-part series discussing CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13 in its entirety! (In case you missed them, Part 1 and Part 2 released earlier this week). And this final story arc has EVERYTHING – up to and including Dracula shooting vampires out of cannons from his castle on the moon. For …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! In our second episode this week, we’re discussing the second story arc of CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13, “Hell Comes to Birmingham.” So, if you’re reading along, that means we’ll be talking about issues 5-9. In addition, we are thrilled to be joined by the writer of the series, Paul Cornell! In addition to writing CAPTAIN BRITA…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re baaaaaack! But no, we’re not going to be talking about that X-Men/Star Trek novel this time. We’ll come back to it…maybe…some day. But to make it up to you, we’re giving you a triple dose of TOI! That’s right three brand-new episodes of TOMB OF IDEAS released in (hopefully) just one week! What is the occasion of thi…

Podcaster’s log. Episode 108. Our journey into the strangest corners of the Marvel universe has taken an interdimensional turn, as we have arrived at the two X-Men/Star Trek crossovers from the late 1990s.To give us some help as we boldly go on this voyage, we’ve beamed aboard friend of the show and fellow Star Trek enthusiast Andrew Leyland! The i…

TIMEQUAKE of 12.8 Magnitude on the Simonwalt Scale!!! Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special look at the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992 and things are in full swing…or is it FULL SHAKE!? As we started the event in our last epic episode, we finish it here, with… WHAT IF? vol 2 #36 – “What if…the COSMIC AVENGERS battled the GU…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special WHAT IF? series this week, as we cover the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992. First, we wrap up the issues that introduce the various realities featured in the event: first, a world with a powerless Fantastic Four, followed by two possible timelines where Vision of the Avengers conquered t…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! James and Trey are back with the first Tomb of Ideas for 2024 – and it’s a Grab Bag episode! To start things off right, they’ve fired up their Randomizer and allowed it to pick three completely random issues from across the entire history of Marvel Comics. And what issues did this very high tech and complicated piece of e…

Happy HORRORdays, Tomb Believers! We’ve almost reached the end of 2023, and to celebrate the season we’re digging into our longboxes for a bit of holiday cheer. For our last episode of this year, we’re throwing a bit of a party. And, as we enjoy our wassail and figgy pudding, we’ll be taking a look at the 1993 Marvel Holiday Special. Plus, since th…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Some podcasters are always trying to record uphill. That’s why we’re starting December with a change of pace from our usual episodes: a brand new feature-length audio commentary! That’s right, we’re sinking our fangs into BLADE (dir. Stephen Norrington, 1998), the movie that launched the superhero movie boom of the early …

May the Force be with you, Tomb Believers! That’s right, at long last we are covering our first ever issue of Marvel’s STAR WARS comics, as part of a special grab bag episode selected entirely by returning guest Andrew Leyland! In addition to STAR WARS vol 1 #45, Andrew has picked out MARVEL TEAM-UP vol 1 # 122, in which ol’ Web-head runs into Man-…

Hello there, darlings…errr, I mean, Hello there, Tomb-Believers! On this episode, James and Trey finally get to talk about the hostess with the most-est, the legendary Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!! That’s right, they’re talking about ONLY Marvel Comic to feature your ghoulish gal pal, MARVEL SPRING SPECIAL #1, otherwise known as the comics adaptat…

Happy Halloween, Tomb Believers! We know we’re a little early this week, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to celebrate the season (and get in on the CINE-WEEN action) by releasing our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE on Halloween. It was exactly five years ago that we released the first episode of TOMB OF IDEAS. Since then we’ve gone through some chang…

WE’VE DONE IT, TOMB-BELIEVERS James and Trey have reached the final installment of their coverage of the epic 1988 INFERNO crossover! This week, they discuss: X-FACTOR ANNUAL 4 X-FACTOR #40 and WHAT IF V2 #6: WHAT IF THE X-MEN HAD LOST INFERNO? We love getting feedback from listeners – you can send any comments, questions, or other feedback to tomb…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have reached the penultimate installment of our summer(ish)-long INFERNO series! Our special guest this week is friend of the show and New Pulp author extraordinaire Barry Reese! Barry has worked on Marvel Handbooks and Encyclopedias and has also written stories featuring classic pulp characters such as the Avenger and…

James and Trey continue their Inferno coverage as they welcome comics and video game writer extraordinaire, David Gallaher to the podcast to talk about: Uncanny X-Men 242 X-Factor 38 Spectacular Spider-Man 148 Uncanny X-Men 243 Send comments, questions, or other feedback to tombofideas@gmail.com. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re back with part seven of our ongoing summer-long Inferno event! This week we are joined by returning guest Chad Bowers, co-writer of X-MEN ’92, G.I. JOE: SNAKE EYES: DEADGAME, DEADPOOL: BAD BLOOD, and the brand new miniseries DEADPOOL: BADDER BLOOD! As you might guess from those credentials, Chad is something of an X…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! It’s time for the sixth part of our summer-long coverage of Marvel’s 1989 Inferno crossover event! To help us out this week, we are joined once again by Ringo award nominated, Best of Austin-winning comic book writer (and creator of Halloween Man) Drew Edwards! This episode is surprisingly light on mutants for an X-event …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! If you’re worried about a sudden crispy, burning sensation, don’t go looking for the aloe – you’re just in the midst of INFERNO! This week, we’re joined by Ryan Does of ACROSS THE BI-FROST: THE MIGHTY THOR PODCAST to discuss the next five issues of the event. Our comics for this episode are: DAREDEVIL #263 POWER PACK #43 …

Don’t touch that dial, Tomb Believers! We’re turning up the heat on our Inferno coverage thanks to special guest Jack Rudo of Stapled Spine! Not only does he join in on our discussion of this week’s comics, but in true DJ fashion he has picked out a song to go with each book! The issues for this week are: AVENGERS #299 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #312 X-FAC…

Roll for initiative, Tomb-Believers! You have encountered a very special episode of the Tomb in which James and Trey are joined by the Fire and Water Network‘s Irredeemable Shag and comics and video game writer David Gallaher to play the 1980’s Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game (affectionately known as FASERIP) from dearly departed TSR!!! Turn o…

Welcome back, Tomb-Believers, to the TOMB OF IDEAS, or should we say TOMB OF INFERNO! That’s right, it’s our third installment of our summer-long (and then some) look at the event to was burning up the X-books of 1988 and half the Marvel Universe with it and you (yes YOU) lucky listener, are invited along for the ride. Not just you, however, as we …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing with the second installment of our summer(ish) event covering all of the 1988-89 X-Men storyline INFERNO. This week we are joined by noted X-Men fan and Cinepunx Pod-Daddy Liam O’Donnell! He’s here to help us get through a bunch of Marvel comics that are surprisingly light on X-Men: X-TERMINATORS #1 & #2 …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! June is upon us, and as we have promised (threatened?) for the last several episodes we are spending the summer covering the 1988-89 Marvel event INFERNO! We’re starting at the very top with several issues that serve as something of a prelude to the event proper. This week we are discussing: UNCANNY X-MEN vol. 1 #239 X-FA…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have made it to the finish line! In this episode we conclude our coverage of the 2021 HEROES REBORN event. As with our previous episodes, we have a couple of tie-in issues that further flesh out the supporting characters and status quo of President Coulson’s altered Marvel Universe while in the main book the Squadron S…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This is the penultimate entry in our miniseries covering the 2021 Marvel event HEROES REBORN! In this installment we spend a lot of time with the Nighthawk Family (and also Power Princess shows up). Our issues for this week are: HEROES REBORN #5 HEROES REBORN: AMERICAN KNIGHTS #1 HEROES REBORN: MARVEL DOUBLE ACTION #1 HER…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Join us for the second installment in our deep dive into the 2021 HEROES REBORN event! This week we get some interesting glimpses into the various ways in which the Marvel universe has been altered. The issues we’re covering in this super-sized episode are: HEROES REBORN #3 HEROES REBORN #4 HEROES REBORN: YOUNG SQUADRON #…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Pay no attention to the edges of reality warping around you! This week we are talking about the premier super-team of the Marvel Universe, the original line-up of powerful protagonists who have protected Earth for decades: The Aven The Squadron Supreme of America!!! Don’t worry – this isn’t some delayed April Fool’s joke.…

Attention Freaks! From the hosts of TOMB OF IDEAS comes a BRAND-NEW PODCAST about the most gruesome G.I.s of World War II, DC Comics’ CREATURE COMMANDOS! In this inaugural episode we look at: Weird War Tales Vol 1 93 “The Creature Commandos” Weird War Tales Vol 1 97 “The Faceless Enemy!” Weird War Tales Vol 1 100 “Dinosaur Convoy” As always, you ca…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! It’s the end of the month, and as such we have finally arrived at the thrilling conclusion to MARCH OF THE APES! To wrap up this event, we’ve got one of our patented All-New, All-Different TOI Grab Bag episodes! That’s right – three “random” Marvel comics, just like you’d find in a polybag on a spinner rack back in the da…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This week we continue our MARCH OF THE APES with a look at MARVEL PREMIERE issues 45 and 46, featuring the furry lupine fury of MAN-WOLF or, as he’s referred to in this issue, STARGOD!!! “But James and Trey”, I hear you say, “Man-Wolf isn’t an ape, he’s a werewolf!” and that is indeed true oh observant listener, but no on…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This week we’re going bananas and kicking off a three-part series we’re calling “March of the Apes.” To start things off, we’re discussing a wild trilogy of stories from issues 9, 10, and 21 of Marvel’s PLANET OF THE APES magazine. Returning to help us out is podcaster, friend of the show, APES fan, and all around good gu…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have finally made it to the end of our issue-by-issue coverage of the entire FRANKEN-CASTLE story arc! If you’re reading along at home, this week we’re discussing DARK WOLVERINE #89 and FRANKEN-CASTLE #20-21. Does this run stick the landing? Will Frank’s quest for revenge against Daken pay off in any meaningful way? Ca…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re back with the third installment (gods help us) in our multi-episode discussion of the 2009-2010 story arc “Franken-Castle,” in which The Punisher is killed and rebuilt by the Legion of Monsters into a Frankenstein-esque monster. This week, Frank gets some payback in FRANKEN-CASTLE #17-19 and DARK WOLVERINE #88 and n…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re back with the second installment in our multi-episode discussion of the 2009-2010 story arc “Franken-Castle,” in which The Punisher is killed and rebuilt by the Legion of Monsters into a Frankenstein-esque monster. This week, Frank goes on the offensive in THE PUNISHER vol 8 #14, 15, and 16. Plus there’s a cameo fro…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This week on the ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT TOMB OF IDEAS, we’re embarking on a multi-episode story arc! At long last (and apparently with much listener excitement, if our social media is to be believed) we are talking all about FRANKEN-CASTLE. That’s right, we’re talking about that time right in the midst of the Dark Reign e…

Happy HORRORdays, Tomb Believers! We’re wrapping up 2022 and celebrating the season with the 1991 MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL! This 80-page anthology features 8 different stories starring a cavalcade of Marvel characters: the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Captain America, the Punisher, Thor, and even ol’ flame head himself, Ghost Rider! And, in…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! On an ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT TOMB OF IDEAS, it’s our first grab bag episode, where we take three “random” Marvel Horror comics and discuss them in the grand tomb tradition! This episode James and Trey are tickled to be hosted noted kaiju artist, webcartoonist, and mixologist Sean McGuinness of NeoMonsterIsland and Twisted…

Podcast Log, Stardate 47634.44 In their ongoing mission to explore the spookiest corners of the Marvel Universe, Captain James Hickson and Commander Trey Lawson have encountered a pair of strange, new comic book issues that are taking them where no podcast has gone before. Well, okay – lots of podcasts have gone there before, because we’re talking …

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This week continues our exploration of the late 1990s Man-Thing storyline that began with MAN-THING vol 3. First, we wrap up that volume with issues 7 and 8, followed by the Man-Thing stories in STRANGE TALES vol 4 #1 and 2 and, finally, PETER PARKER: SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL 1999. In addition to that, we are joined by the write…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This week in the ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT Tomb of Ideas, we kick off the first of two episodes looking at Marvel’s late 90s revival of MAN-THING! In this episode we’ll cover the first six issues of MAN-THING vol. 3 by J. M. DeMatteis and Liam Sharp, featuring cameos by Doctor Strange, a certain anthropomorphic talking water…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! In this, the first episode of the ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT TOMB OF IDEAS we welcome “X-Men ’92” and “Deadpool: Bad Blood” writer Chad Bowers as special guest host as we look at times those Merry Marvel Mutants have faced off against dreaded Lord of the Vampires. That’s right, it’s X-MEN VS DRACULA!!! In this episode we’ll b…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! This October in the Tomb, Cineween is HOWL-oween! We’re kicking off the spooky season with the brand-new, officially official, canonically MCU event on Disney+: WEREWOLF BY NIGHT! That’s right – none of that “it’s connected because Michael Keaton showed up for two minutes at the end” nonsense (yep, we’re talking to you MO…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! Trey and James are back, and once again they have inadvertently conjured a special guest from beyond the veil (i.e., Texas). This week your intrepid hosts are joined by Drew Edwards – he’s a Best of Austin winner, co-host of the Castle of Horror podcast, a Ringo-nominated comic book writer, and the creator of HALLOWEEN MA…

Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re back…from beyond the grave! And to celebrate, Trey and James are acquiescing to listeners’ requests – nay, listeners’ DEMANDS! – and sitting down to watch the 2022 Sony Pictures Releasing film MORBIUS. But if you want to hear what they think, you’ll have to watch it too! That’s right, this episode is a feature-lengt…