Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends With Garreth Hirons

December 19, 2023

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, first seen between 1981 and 1983, and joining Tim for a chat about Peter Parker, Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake very occasionally remembering to mention that they are also supposed to be at college is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about the practicality of 'Ice Pants', the canonical status of Kingpin's Special Neck Band and the appropriate etiquette when your ex comes back as a half-machine monster of some sort, and what does any of this have to do with a moral panic about 'Bytes'? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth talking about Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here, and standing in as host to chat with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably not from a vending machine that Video Man has used to implement a dastardly plot that they will still somehow need the supercomputer to alert them to.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage with Garreth Hirons

October 19, 2022

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Venom: Let There Be Carnage, released in 2021, and joining Tim for a chat about Eddie Brock crashing a wedding with the worst possible plus one is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about Rod Hull And Carnage, how many minutes of Constant Morbing are acceptable on a cinema screen and why Snoop Dogg is frightened of symbiotes, and what does any of this have to do with where TV's Woof! takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks chatting about the first Venom movie here as well as Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here, and standing in as host to chat to Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not a Red One.

Venom With Garreth Hirons

May 19, 2022

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Venom, released in 2018, and joining Tim for a chat about Eddie Brock's bid to thwart the sale of a popular social media platform to a carnivorous alien life form is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about The Gooey Punisher, Venom's Flying Circus and how alien-human hybrid entities should best describe their hobbies and interests on dating apps, and what does any of this have to do with what percentage of Hamburglar is currently owned by Sony? Get listening and find out!

You can also find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Venom: Let There Be Carnage here as well as Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here. Garreth also stood in as host to chat to Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Please be polite to Mrs. Chen while you are buying it.

045 - Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings With Tim Worthington

December 22, 2021

This time it’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings from 2021, and Garreth Hirons is guest-hosting for for a chat with Tim about the current betting odds on who would 'win' out of Agent 33 from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Abilisk. What will they find to say about hitting Wolverine with a big stick until he says 'No not aaaaahhh!', Ringo Starr's mastery of ancient cosmic forces and how Hawkeye's family can ruin films that they aren't even in, and what does any of this have to do with A Thousand Bad One Man Shows About Lockdown Vs. Abomination? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here and Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, and standing in as host for a chat with Tim about The Defenders here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. If it goes cold you can always use the Ten Rings to heat it up.

027 - Thor: Ragnarok With Garreth Hirons

September 7, 2020

This time it’s Thor: Ragnarok from 2017, and joining Tim to talk about the galaxy's most gambled on game of rock paper scissors is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about Thor's Ftone Clearing credentials, precisely how much Jeff Goldblum constitutes The Right Amount Of Jeff Goldblum and whether the Saga of Ragnarok has a moral or is just a bunch of stuff that happened, and what does any of this have to do with Godzilla Vs. Threat Of The Year? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It’s Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/outonbluesix. Just make sure you run it past Doctor Strange first. Also that he doesn't turn it into a rolled-up newspaper or something.

025 - The Defenders With Tim Worthington

August 25, 2020

This time it’s The Defenders from 2017, and Garreth Hirons is standing in as host for a chat with Tim about Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Daredevil protecting some dragon bones by punching buildings really bloody hard. What will they find to say about how far Daredevil is motivated by 'pants', why there is always one more Defender than you think and whether downing eight bottles of whiskey and spending seven hours listening to Nine Inch Nails makes you better than Captain America or not, and what does any of this have to do with Mandrake The Magician from TV's Defenders Of The Earth? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It’s Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also hear Tim as the guest on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking to Phil Catterall about Guardians Of The Galaxy here and Ant-Man And The Wasp here, David Smith about The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special here and Garreth about Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here. You can also hear Garreth on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here and Venom: Let There Be Carnage here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Though whatever you do, don't give me Trish's coffee instead of Jessica's by mistake.

016 - Avengers: Age Of Ultron With Garreth Hirons

June 19, 2020

This time it’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron from 2015, and joining Tim to talk about the race to stop two stroppy teenagers and a mardy robot who's swallowed a dictionary from getting their hands on some metal is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about how fast a 'slacker' can realistically run, whether movies can ever be enlivened by a screeching match and Little Richard's little-known stint as a comic book writer, and what does any of this have to do with a philosophical cultured robot going 'RAAAAAAA'? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here and Venom: Let There Be Carnage here,

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably one that lasts for as long as that bit with Hawkeye's family does.