Tales From The Gutters

Ethan Light & Isaac Barnes
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Two "normal" comic book fans deep dive on weird comics and the weirdos that make them. Explore the history, context, and crazy concepts of sequential art through some of the medium's most obscure and oddball creations. Theme Music by: Spencer Light

Episodes

  1. Bad Gateway - Burnouts & Butt Stuff

    Mar 12

    Bad Gateway - Burnouts & Butt Stuff

    Can't make rent? Social services giving you a hard time? Are apathy and depression swallowing you whole while all the relationships in your life descend into codependency and drug addiction? Well, Simon Hanselmann's Bad Gateway is for you! You thought Bojack Horseman had the market cornered on anthropomorphic animals and sadness? Rookie shit.

    1h 36m
  2. Cutting Season - High Art & Wet Farts

    Feb 27

    Cutting Season - High Art & Wet Farts

    Welcome to icky gooey abstract heaven, leave your preconceptions and impossibly proportioned melted flip-flops at the door.

    1h 20m
  3. The Death-Ray - Teen Angst, Midlife Melancholy & Cigarette Superpowers

    Feb 12

    The Death-Ray - Teen Angst, Midlife Melancholy & Cigarette Superpowers

    Celebrating 50 Years of Fantagraphics with Issue #23 of Daniel Clowes' Eightball. Maybe the best or worst smoking PSA out there. Also if you've got a scheming-eunuch-type in your friend group it might be better to cut them loose.

    1h 55m
  4. Oink: Heaven's Butcher - Scholastic Reform & Big Ass Pigs

    Jan 30

    Oink: Heaven's Butcher - Scholastic Reform & Big Ass Pigs

    This episode is dangerous. DO NOT go into work after listening to this. Remember when your uncle watched Fight Club and paced his house for hours? This is like that times 1000. John Mueller writes and draws an allegorical murder maze of porcine truth bombs. Come. Dip your weary snout into the trough of anarchy.

    1h 20m
  5. Godkiller: Walk Among Us - Punk Comics & Prostitution Magic

    Jan 15

    Godkiller: Walk Among Us - Punk Comics & Prostitution Magic

    Maybe extreme violence and organ harvesting are the real punk rock. We're back from break with a hardcore, hedonistic title from Black Mask Studios. Matteo Pizzolo and Anna Muckcracker's Godkiller: Walk Among Us is the first arc in a long running series which incorporates punk rock attitudes and aesthetics in a grotesque, sci-fi, occult story that takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of blood and sick leather dusters.

    1h 47m
  6. Foreskin Man - The Circumcision Cinematic Universe Iceberg Explained (Just The Tip)

    11/27/2025

    Foreskin Man - The Circumcision Cinematic Universe Iceberg Explained (Just The Tip)

    We stand on the the prepuce of the war waging between those foreskin and those against-skin. Only one man can keep everything intact...and he's definitely not racist at all.

    1h 58m
  7. Battle Pope - Blasphemy, Balls, and Bighead Business Genius

    11/13/2025

    Battle Pope - Blasphemy, Balls, and Bighead Business Genius

    Invincible's pretty good, but does is have a buxom Momma Mary? Didn't think so. We take a look at Invincible and The Walking Dead creator, Robert Kirkman's first comic book, Battle Pope. Isaac talks about Kentucky.

    1h 50m
  8. Halloween '25 Special - Tales From The Grave Of The Dark In The Gutter

    10/30/2025

    Halloween '25 Special - Tales From The Grave Of The Dark In The Gutter

    Shit gets crazy, scary, spooky, and dare I say, hilarious.

    1h 5m
  9. The Materials Trilogy: Plastic, Vinyl & Plush - Sex Dolls, MP3s, & Feral Furries

    10/16/2025

    The Materials Trilogy: Plastic, Vinyl & Plush - Sex Dolls, MP3s, & Feral Furries

    Do furries dream of sexy sheep? We look at the serial killers and sexual fetishes in Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard's Materials Trilogy: Plastic, Vinyl & Plush.

    1h 50m
  10. Plastic Forks - Disposable Utensils, Long Faces, & Sef-Impregnation

    10/02/2025

    Plastic Forks - Disposable Utensils, Long Faces, & Sef-Impregnation

    Is it incest if you get yourself pregnant? We read Ted McKeever's Plastic Forks and can't stop talking about how dope the watercolors are. Music by: Spencer Light

    1h 43m
  11. Civilian Justice - 9/11, Anti-Islamophobia, & Wet T-Shirts

    09/18/2025

    Civilian Justice - 9/11, Anti-Islamophobia, & Wet T-Shirts

    Who did 9/11? Was it a cyborg wizard or Ethan's 4-month-old baby brother? In our first episode we take a look at Graig Weich's Civilian Justice and learn to remember to never forget.

    1h 25m
  12. Issue #0: Oddball Origins

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    Issue #0: Oddball Origins

    gut•ters - the spaces between the panels on a comic book page. Welcome to our podcast where two completely “normal” comic book fans deep dive on weird comics and the weirdos behind them. In our introductory prologue we talk our love for comics and our mission to cover the weirdest comics out there.

    18 min

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Two "normal" comic book fans deep dive on weird comics and the weirdos that make them. Explore the history, context, and crazy concepts of sequential art through some of the medium's most obscure and oddball creations. Theme Music by: Spencer Light

Information

  • Creator
    Ethan Light & Isaac Barnes
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ethan Light & Isaac Barnes
  • Show Website
    Tales From The Gutters