Episodes
How can a character meet himself in a team-up situation? How can a podcaster do the same? Find out as Siskoid 2020 calls Siskoid 2016 to discuss Marvel Two-in-One #50 by John Byrne and Joe Sinnott, starring the Thing 1979 and the Thing 1961! It's a battle for the ages, and maybe one of us will learn a little something about himself along the way. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast...
Published 05/12/20
Fire and Water's Patreon followers were asked, which team-up should be featured in April, the most foolish of months, and they picked 1987's Superman Meets the Quik Bunny. Lots of silly, chocolaty goodness from host Siskoid and his guest Michael Bailey, who have a lot to talk about, including comics, dairy on both sides of the US-Canada border, and cities to visit both fictional and real! So pour yourself a tall glass of milk, stir in your additive of choice (or don't), and take a listen....
Published 04/07/20
Published 04/07/20
On Earth-1, Siskoid heeds the call. A podcast opportunity awaits! On Earth-2, Mike Staley gets the same call, also heeds it, yes, podcastery! They meet in a nether-dimension called Skypeworld and discuss DC Comics Presents #56, a fateful meeting between Superman and his cousin from another Earth, Power Girl! Available across the whole of the Multiverse (except Earth-3, that place is a cesspool of bad podcasting). Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant...
Published 03/10/20
Siskoid teams up with his Reboot writing partner in the Legion of Super-Bloggers, Shotgun, to cover the seminal - SEMINAL, WE SAY! - Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny team-up from 2017. We're not kidding around, but maybe the comic is. What a way to start the year, eh? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 02/04/20
The Helena Wayne Huntress blog and podcast's Diane joins Siskoid to cover Fire and Water Network Patreon poll Christmas winner, The Brave and the Bold #184 with Batman and the Earth-2 Huntress. It's Mike Barr's and Jim Aparo's "The Batman's Last Christmas!", with lots of Crisis talk thrown in for good measure, because it's what Christmas Eve is all about, isn't it? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up...
Published 12/24/19
Siskoid is joined by Tim Price for coverage of Ultimate Team-Up #9 (2001), a Spider-Man/Fantastic Four all-humor issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Jim Mahfood, and this show's first foray into the Ultimate Marvel Universe! But is it actually the UMU? Jury is still out on that one. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our...
Published 11/26/19
It's Hallowe'en Week, and FW Team-Up visits some spooky Irish isles in The Brave and the Bold #93, Batman and the House of Mystery, by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams. It's an usual team-up to say the least, as only Siskoid and Martin Gray can bring it to you. So... do you DARE press play? Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST...
Published 10/29/19
Siskoid and Coffee and Comics' Clinton Robinson have a cuppa across time zones (that's a pun) to discuss DC Comics Presents #75, starring the unlikely duo of Superman and Arion, Lord of Atlantis. It's a Paul Kupperberg/Tom Mandrake original spanning 45,000 years of history (but our hosts will just take a fraction of that out of your schedule). Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a...
Published 10/01/19
Last summer, Siskoid and Ashford Wright teamed up to talk about the Birds of Prey: Batgirl/Catwoman prestige-format comic. It's one year later for them, but five years later for the characters as they tackle its sequel, Birds of Prey: Catwoman/Oracle. A lot's happened in five years! Catch up with the heroes and podcasters both in this episode of FW Team-Up! Plus, feedback from the previous episode. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and...
Published 08/20/19
Siskoid (not American) and Nicholas Prom (American) team up to bring you Fire and Water's 4th of July Special, covering the Superman/Freedom Fighters team-up from DC Comics Presents #62, and folks, the very SOUL of AMERICA is on the line! This one MAY be a metaphor for our times. So while somebody braver than you is setting up those roadside-bought fireworks, sit back, relax, and let the podcast magic take you across the dimensions... Plus, true blue feedback from the last six months of...
Published 07/04/19
Two franchises crash together in Adventure Comics' first full color series as Ape Nation! Yes, it's the Planet of the Apes and Alien Nation in a unique team-up mini-series, as covered by your hosts Siskoid and Derek William Crabbe! What are you waiting for? Press PLAY already! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our...
Published 06/11/19
So the Earth-1 Batman and Sgt. Rock were contemporaries during World War II?! Only in the Haneyverse! It's our Memorial Day episode as Siskoid teams up with U.S. armed forces veteran Jarrod Alberich, the Yard Sale Artist, to talk about The Brave and the Bold #84. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 05/27/19
She fell in love with him on oHOTmu or NOT, now she's back to defend him on FW Team-Up. Amelie Montour sides with the frogs in the Fabulous Frog-Man's second ever appearance, as he and the veteran Spider-Man go head to head with the White Rabbit in Marvel Team-Up #131! It's an all animal episode, please keep your hands outside the cage! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud...
Published 04/16/19
One of the comics that made Anj want to be Dr. Anj, The Brave and the Bold #118, a boxing spectacular starring Batman, Wildcat and the Joker is up next on FW Team-Up. Siskoid gets into the ring, but don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 03/26/19
Rolled Spine Podcasts' Illegal Machine joins Siskoid to cover Marvel Two-in-One #12's team-up between the Thing and Iron Man as they (the heroes, not the podcasters) stumble on Prester John in the Israeli desert. It's a Bill Mantlo script, folks. It gets a little crazy. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 03/12/19
Siskoid and Mike Peacock team up to bring your the rhyme-filled glory that is DC Comics Presents #66(6), starring Superman and the Demon vs. druidic sensation Blackbriar Thorn, by Len Wein and Joe Kubert. You are cordially invited to this marriage of heaven... and hell! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 02/26/19
The Thing meets Sasquatch and then Alpha Flight in Marvel Two-in-One #83 and 84, and it's up to Siskoid and Michael May to meet on the U.S.-Canada border to make sure all the action gets covered! Don't miss this very orange episode of FW Team-Up! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 01/29/19
Merry Christmas, team-up fans! Boy, have Siskoid and Plasti-Cast's Max Romero a treat in store for you! The Brave and the Bold #148, starring Batman and Plastic Man, as written by Zany Bob Haney, with art by both Jim Aparo and Joe Staton. Can these two unlikely friends (we mean the superheroes) save Gotham's Christmas?! Find out! Then stick around as Siskoid opens the year's mailbag! Our gift to you the listener. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant...
Published 12/25/18
Siskoid and Scott X bend the rules of the podcast just a bit to bring you a three-issue team-up between Hawkman and Adam Strange, from Showcase #101-103. It's Rann vs. Thanagar before that was a thing! Listen as we solve this MYSTERY... IN... SPACE! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK! Visit our WEBSITE:...
Published 11/27/18
It's the day before Halloween, Devils' Night! And we have a treat for you courtesy of Siskoid and Cory Drew - Spider-Man and Frankenstein's Monster (with some pinch hitting from Man-Wolf), from Marvel Team-Up #36-37 (1975). It's a team-up perfect for the season! Definitely in the "treat" department. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST...
Published 10/30/18
To promote his 2009 album Relapse, Slim Shady got to together with Frank Castle in Eminem | The Punisher: "Kill You", a crazy one-off (first 8 pages published in that year's XXL Magazine's May 5th issue, the rest on Marvel Comics' website) by Fred Van Lente and Salvador Larroca. oHOTmu or NOT's Isabel Goguen and Siskoid team up to talk about this unusual crossover, white gangsta culture, and Shady's career and music. PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT Listen to the Team-Up below, or...
Published 09/25/18
60s TV. Whether appreciated fresh or in syndicated leftovers, we can safely say Ruth & Darrin Sutherland and Siskoid are fans. They bring you the mod camp team-up of the decade (the 1960s, that is), Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel. That's right, the REAL Avengers combine forces with the Dynamic Duo for an adventure that crosses the Pond and made our hosts smile. Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up...
Published 08/28/18
Siskoid welcomes Ashford Wright of the Feathers and Foes Birds of Prey Podcast to talk about the Prestige-format Birds of Prey: Batgirl/Catwoman (2003), a story that takes Barbara Gordon back to her early career as a cowled crusader and her first team-up with the Jo Duffy/Jim Balent Catwoman! Come with us to Gotham, a few years before the current day... Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This...
Published 07/31/18
Siskoid is joined by Dr. G, Man of Nerdology and MOTU expert, to discuss DC Comics Presents #47 (July 1982), in which, somehow, Superman finds his way to Eternia, meets He-Man, fights Skeletor, and shills for one of the most popular toy line of the 1980s! Break out your figures and come play round our house! Listen to the Team-Up below, or subscribe to FW Team-Up on iTunes! Relevant images and further credits at: FW Team-Up Supplemental This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER...
Published 06/26/18