Zero Issues Comic Podcast

Zero Issues Comic Podcast A weekly podcast series hosted by three bald indie comic artists who discuss, analyze and obsess over comic books and pop culture over a few beers.

Three bald guys who both love AND make comics, sitting down, having a beer or two and hilariously talkin' comics. Tangents will happen. Tangents are guaranteed. We are all from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and make comics here locally. We are.... drum roll....

Bry Kotyk: www.welcometohereafter.com, www.facebook.com/welcometohereafter
Kyle Lees: www.thekylelees.com, www.facebook.com/thekylelees
Me

rk: www.merkasylum.ca, www.facebook.com/merkasylum

Producer: Kyle Lees (2014-2016), Kyle, Merk & Bry (2016-now)

Theme song made with the awesome help of the very talented Ocean City Defender: oceancitydefender.bandcamp.com, www.facebook.com/oceancitydefender

Thanks for checking out our podcast. We update weekly on Wednesdays, with very occasional exceptions and skipped weeks due to differing schedules. Each episode has an overall theme or topic that we'll talk about for at least 10% of the podcast before going off on a tangent. There will be coarse language. (Sorry, Mom.) Feel free to drop us a line, send in topic suggestions, say you don't like us, make fun of our bald heads, whatever.... we're game.

Hey Feedspot! Thanks for including us in your list of best obsession podcasts to listen to in 2026!  (and the top 15 ind...
01/06/2026

Hey Feedspot! Thanks for including us in your list of best obsession podcasts to listen to in 2026! (and the top 15 indie comics podcasts for 2025). Need an obsession podcast? Here ya go! Or just listen to our ramblin' that's cool too.

Best Obsession Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. Wild Thing ⋅ 2. Seinbros: A Seinfeld Podcast ⋅ 3. Nothing But Static ⋅ 4. Rockin' the Suburbs ⋅ 5. Where The Toys Are ⋅ 6. Love to Sew Podcast

So, what did we learn this year? More importantly, what do we read? Merk finally learns what happens to the Justice Leag...
12/31/2025

So, what did we learn this year? More importantly, what do we read? Merk finally learns what happens to the Justice League re: Despero in a 40-year old comic, Kyle learns the he likes his reimagined universes to be finite, damnit, and Bry learns about sweet monkey love.

Context within the episode, which you can get at ZEROISSUES.COM, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Happy Holidays, ya filthy animals!It's Christmas Eve and we've got a short, but fun dramatic reading for your holidays!"...
12/24/2025

Happy Holidays, ya filthy animals!
It's Christmas Eve and we've got a short, but fun dramatic reading for your holidays!
"Santa will feed you to his reindeer".
That is straight from this Dell Comic from 1948.
Nimble 'Nick' Needle, Santa's tailor, who he threatens to kill, is up to no good this year. Santa puts up with it only as long as he can ....
AND THEN HE SNAPS!!
Or does he?
Only we know (and anyone else who's ever read this comic) so join us and come on a Santa killing spree adventure!
Editors note- There may or may not be a killing spree in this story.

Go to https://zeroissues.com/2025/12/24/504-santa-will-feed-you-to-his-reindeer/ or wherever you get your berserker santa podcasts.

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12/15/2025

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Happy Hanukkah or Chappy Chanukkah!

Happy birthday to this special lil' guy! Happy birthday, Bry-bot!
12/12/2025

Happy birthday to this special lil' guy! Happy birthday, Bry-bot!

Comic book movies are dead! Now what?This week, we talk about how we got here, what comes next, and what are we worried ...
12/10/2025

Comic book movies are dead! Now what?

This week, we talk about how we got here, what comes next, and what are we worried that we're going to miss out on. How elegantly can we glue comic books onto other hot genres (elevated horror, anybody)? Are we getting into the deconstruction era already? Are we seeing the real-ass return of practical effects, or smaller theatres, or giving up and staying home? Do we embrace the future, or hide in our caves?

And in the Warmup, we have the triumphant return of the Comic Book Movies' Actors Quiz! Play at home, you too can beat Kyle at this!

This episode (and like 500+ more!) available at the link, or wherever you get your podcasts!

CALVIN & HOBBES.Yea, that's probably all we need to say right?The amazing strip by Bill Watterson that ran for only a de...
12/03/2025

CALVIN & HOBBES.

Yea, that's probably all we need to say right?
The amazing strip by Bill Watterson that ran for only a decade but changed the face of comics and comic strips is STILL revered to this day.
And we're gonna talk the $% #& out of it.
It's philosophical origins, the newspaper strip business, Watterson's fights with the syndicate (not the mob), contemporaries of the time, and realizing that Calvin's Dad is really cool.
Join us won't you?

Go to https://zeroissues.com/2025/12/03/502-calvin/ to transmogrify your ears with this podcast or go to wherever you get your transmogrifying podcasts.


*starts looking through the family house attic*
11/25/2025

*starts looking through the family house attic*

500 episodes! Like, 500 complete episodes. Way more than Seinfeld has, I’m pretty sure. For this centennial celebration,...
11/19/2025

500 episodes! Like, 500 complete episodes. Way more than Seinfeld has, I’m pretty sure. For this centennial celebration, this time? We’re just gonna sort of take it easy, with a chill-as-heck lava lamp of an episode, which are the kind of episodes that I think we like to do, now that we’ve discovered that after over a decade of getting together and recording, we’re actually kind of good at just talking to each other about comics and junk.

Also, happy birthday, Merk’s sister!

Listen at zeroissues.com, or wherever you get podcasts!

#500

https://zeroissues.com/2025/11/19/500-green-goo-spikey-goo/

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Three bald guys who make and love comics, sitting down, and hilariously talkin' comics. Tangents will happen. Tangents are guaranteed.

We are all from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and make comics here locally. We are.... drum roll.... Bry Kotyk- http://www.welcometohereafter.com/ -https://www.facebook.com/welcometohereafter/ Kyle Lees-https://thekylelees.com -https://instagram.com/thekylelees/ Merk -https://merkasylum.ca/ -https://www.facebook.com/pages/Merk/135968200630 -https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nowadays/ Our theme song is done with the awesome help of the very talented Ocean City Defender! https://www.facebook.com/oceancitydefender/ Thanks for checking out our podcast. We update weekly on Wednesdays, with some exceptions and skipped weeks due to differing schedules. Each one will have an overall theme or topic that we'll talk about for at least 10% of the podcast before going off on a tangent. There will be coarse language, though the bad bad words are often beeped. Sorry, Mom. Feel free to drop us a line, send in topic suggestions, say you don't like us, make fun of our bald heads, whatever.... we're game.