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This time on The Comics Canon, it's visiting hours at the jail for giant monsters with "Kaijumax Season 1: Terror and Respect!" Does Zander Cannon's kaiju/prison mash-up earn a harsh sentence or leniency for good behavior? And "The Lizzas of Oz" -- is that anything? soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...

Episode 267: Kaijumax Season 1 – Terror and Respect

Content warning: Explicit language and themes; sexual assault On this episode, we’re commemorating the recent release of Godzilla Minus Zero! And if you’ve been a Comics Canon listener for a while, y

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Listen up, megafauna: next time (11/11) on The Comics Canon, big monsters go to the Big House in Zander Cannon's 'Kaijumax Season 1: Terror & Respect.' What starts as a snarky mash-up of kaiju and prison genre tropes becomes a surprisingly knotty satire of the incarceration system!

The cover of Kaijumax by Zander Cannon.

Coming up on the podcast we'll be reviewing the first 6 issues of 'Kaijumax' by Zander Cannon. I found this Feb 2026 Comics Beat interview with Cannon about protesting ICE abuses in Minneapolis. Good reading ahead of Election Day. www.comicsbeat.com/interview-ca...

Interview: Cartoonist Zander Cannon on the frontlines of the Minnesota resistance

Cartoonist Zander Cannon talks about life on the ground in Minnesota as protests continue against ICE and its violent tactics

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"Whatever you're scared of, that's what it looks like." On our latest episode we peer through our fingers at a horror comic classic, 'Saga of the Swamp Thing' 25-27: "The Monkey King" by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben and Tatjana Wood! soundcloud.com/the-comics-c...

Episode 265: Swamp Thing vs. The Monkey King

Content warning: references to sexual assault On this episode, Etrigan the Demon makes a return appearance as he horns his way into one of the best horror comic runs ever in Saga of the Swamp Thing #

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Next time (10/14), we celebrate spooky season with a fearful arc from possibly the greatest horror comic run of all time, 'Saga of the Swamp Thing' 25-27: "The Monkey King" by the dream team of Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben and Tatjana Wood!

The Monkey King from The Saga of the Swamp Thing