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Book of the Month: Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground by Darwyn Cooke, plus Final Faction: First Impact, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Golden Boy: Beethoven's Youth by Mikael Ross and Disney Masters Volume 15: The New Adventures of the Phantom Blot by Paul Murray, Witches: The Complete Collection by Daisuke Igarashi from Seven Seas, The Junction by Norm Konyu from Titan Comics, Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz from Silver Sprocket, Tim Sale and The Long Halloween, Better Place by from Duane Murray and Shawn Daley from Top Shelf/IDW, Heroes Con, plus a whole mess more!
Revita, Ex.Mag 4 from Peow Studio, Twig #2 from Image, Urban Animal Volume 1 by Justin Jordan and John Amor from Rocketship Entertainment, Succubus & Hitman Volume 2 from Seven Seas, Jason Pearson and Body Bags, Rick Grimes 2000, Neonomicon, Heroes 2022, Heaven's Door Extra Works by Keiichi Koike from Last Gasp, World's Finest, Eternals, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, X-Universe, plus a whole mess more!
Skottie Young, Felix Lu, Matthew Allison, Tom King, and Tony Fleecs stop by to join us for our 800th uninterrupted attempt at weekly comic book podcasting! Maybe this time we'll get it right!
Book of the Month: Wolverine Epic Collection Volume 1: Madripoor Nights by Christopher Claremont, Peter David, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Klaus Janson, Al Williamson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Glynis Oliver, Gregory Wright, Mike Rockwitz, and Mark Chiarello, plus a whole mess more!
Project MK-Ultra: Sex, Drugs, and the CIA Volume 1 from Clover Press, IDW, Buz Sawyer Volume 2: Sultry's Tiger by Roy Crane from Fantagraphics, Ibrahim Moustafa's Retroactive from Humanoids, Tony Fleecs and Heroes, We Have Demons by Snyder and Capullo, Viz-O-Rama: Crazy Food Truck Volume 1 by Rokurou Ogaki and Death Note Short Stories by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Duo #1, Yellow Cab by Chabouté, plus a whole mess more!
Eisner Nominees Live: Zack Kruse (Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity), Daniel Warren Johnson (Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star), and Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs) join us in the EOC treehouse, plus Single Shuffle: I Hate This Place #1 by Kyle Starks, Artyrom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, 7174 Annual '22 by Ashley Wood and T. P. Louise (Image). and Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin #1 by Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart (Dark Horse), Fables #151, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Hit Me, plus a whole mess more!
George Pérez, Reckless: Image-O-Rama: The Ghost in You by Ed Brubabker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips, Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane, and Arrowsmith: So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, Ashes, Ashes from Magnetic, G.I. Joe: Saturday Morning Adventures #3 from IDW, Silver Sprocket-O-Rama: Hell Phone by Benji Nate and Good Boy Magazine #2, Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century #2, Mossvale by Travis Wells from Ageless Press, plus a whole mess more!
Neal Adams, TMNT: The Last Ronin by Eastman, Laird, and company from IDW, Twig #1 from Scottie Young, Kyle Strahm, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu from Image, Laura and Other Stories and Guillem March, Avengers and Jason Aaron, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: ATARI Force by Gerry Conway, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Ross Andru, Riccardo Villagran, Tom Zuiko, and Keith Giffen, plus a whole mess more!
Mario pulls into the EOC parking lot to help us through By the Horns Volume 1: The Wind Rises from Scout Comics, Chronophage from Humanoids, Fourth Wall-breaking comics, Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #1, Blubber by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, The Nib #8, Dark Horse Presents, Disney's Moon Knight, Donald Duck: Follow the Leader, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #2, plus a whole mess more!
Sheeply Horned Witch Romi by Yoichi Abe from Seven Seas, TMNT Annual 2022 by Juni Ba and Ronda Pattison from IDW, Chivalry by Neil Gaiman and Coleen Doran from Dark Horse, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Saturday Morning Adventures #2, more King of Spies, Gary Panter's Crashpad from Fantagraphics, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #1 by Roel Torres and Lukasz Kowalczuk from Bad Kids Press, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #1 from Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, The Final Night, X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Marauders #1, The Return of the Killer, more Secret Passages and What If We Were by Axelle Lenoir, plus a whole mess more!
Manga-O-Rama: Kamen Rider: The Classic Collection by Shotaro Ishinomori from Seven Seas and Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatso from Shonen Jump, patron questions, Secret Passages 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir from IDW/Top Shelf, Rogues #1 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs, and Matheus Lopes, Hulk: Grand Design #1 by Jim Rugg, Superman: Red and Blue, X-Men-O-Rama: Immortal X-Men #1 and X-Men: Red #1, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Enigma by Peter Milligan, Duncan Fegredo, and Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Scout-O-Rama: Kingjira: Hungry Like a Monster and Gods of Brutality, Magnetic-O-Rama: Carbon & Silicon by Mathieu Bablet and Pistouvi by Merwan and Bertrand Gatignol, World's Finest #1, Orochi by Kazuo Umezu from Viz, Matt Emmonds' Gardener, Black Widow, We Live by the Miranda Brothers from Aftershock, Lady Baltimore: The Witch Queens from Dark Horse, King of Spies, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Lure by Lane Milburn, NOW: The New Comics Anthology #11, and Olympia by Bastien Vives, Jérôme Mulot, and Florent Ruppert, Alley Oop - Book One: Dinny by V. T. Hamlin from Manuscript Press, A Thing Called Truth from Image, plus a whole mess more!
Ryan Browne on Eight Billion Genies from Image, Charles Soule, God Hates Astronauts, Curse Words, process, Kickstarter, plus a whole mess more!
Desert Island Mystery Mail and Mirror Mirror Volume 2, Jason's OA escapades, Hit Me #1 from AWA, Death of Doctor Strange, The Seeds from Berger Books and Dark Horse, Punisher #1, Little Monsters #1, Star Trek: Discovery - Adventures in the 32nd Century from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El #9, plus a whole mess more!
Nick Dragotta descends from the heavens to talk up his forthcoming Ghost Cage from Image, plus we have time left to talk up Succubus & Hitman Volume 1 from Seven Seas, The Killer: Affairs of the State from BOOM!, Falconspeare and Mike Mignola from Dark Horse, Transformers: King Grimlock from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El, She-Hulk #2, Strange #1, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Fist of the North Star Volume 1 by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara from Viz Signature, plus King of Spies, The True Story of the Unknown Soldier by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, Cutting Edge from Titan Comics, The Cimmerian Volume 3 from Ablaze, Jeff Lemire-O-Rama: Robin and Batman and Primordial, Peacemaker, plus a whole mess more!
Tony Fleecs barges in once again to help us with G. I. Joe Saturday Morning Adventures from IDW, Book of Boba Fett, Transformers, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Deserter from Viz and Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge from New York Review Comics, Bermuda and Nick Bradshaw, Erik Larsen's Ant, Oswald's Body from BOOM!, Cowboy Bebop from Titan Comics, Rick and Morty, Terry Moore's Serial, Nightwing, Babyteeth Volume 4, Crossover, Randocomica: Hero Zero #1, Superman '78, Justice League 2022 Annual and Sanford Greene, The Human Target, plus a whole mess more!
Milo Minara's The Golden Ass from Humanoids, Lightfall: Book One - The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert from Harper Alley, 32 Stories by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, The Other History of the DC Universe, Solo by Oscar Martin from Titan, Disney Masters V18: Uncle Scrooge - Pie in the Sky by William Van Horn from Fantagraphics, I Am Gonzo My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books from Viaindustriae Publishing, Bolero from Image, The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona from Image, plus a whole mess more!
Tony Fleecs helps us out with January's Book of the Month: Maus by Art Spiegelman.
Mega #1 from Stonebot and Red 5, Balbuzar from Ablaze, So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess - Outsider Artist & Gender Visionary 1911-1977 from Microcosm, Maximum Volume from Kitchen Sink and Heavy Metal, Gamayun Tales II and Stig & Tilde: The Loser Squad from Nobrow, Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal from AWA, Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Strips from Dark Horse, Superman & Robin Special #1, Detective Comics, Human Target #4, plus a whole mess more!
Our Top Ten list of Comic Book Novelties plus Fantasy Sports from Nobrow, Spy Island from Dark Horse, Decorum from Image, plus a whole mess more!
A year in the making, it's the 11 O'Closcars, an assemblage of All-Winners from the year that was 2021, with our buddy, Brian Newberry, helping us lift this very heavy load! Will your favorites snag the gold? Listen and find out!
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips from Ablaze, Jim Rugg and the Hulk, Municipal Threat from Fluke, Mazebook from Jeff Lemire and Dark Horse, Bendis and Miles Morales, Knight Janek #1 from Behemoth, A Thing Called Truth from Image, Frontiersman, Kaiju No. 8, Money Shot, The Secret to Superhero Strength by Alison Bechdel, Giant Sized Santos Sisters #1, Ken Landgraf and Apocalypse 5,000 from Floating World and Outlaw Comics, Tardi and Fog over Tolbiac Bridge from Fantagraphics, Rorschack, plus a whole mess more!
Manga-O-Rama: Kaiju No. 8 V1 by Naoya Matsumoto from Viz and Dai Dark V2 by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Juni Ba-O-Rama: Monkey Meat #1 from Image and Djeliya from TKO, Mike's Place from :01 First Second, H. P. Lovecraft and BOOM's Magic: The Gathering from Jed MacKay and company, Pound for Pound and Andy Belanger from TKO, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance #3 from Image, Arc Athena by Eric Canete, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown by Walt and Louise Simonson, Jon J. Muth, and Kent Williams, plus Ryan Bodenheim, Nobody's Child by Massimo Rosi and Ramiro Borallo from Behemoth, Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1 from DC/Black Label, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), Superman: Son of Kal-El Annual 2021, plus a whole mess more!
Dark Horse, White Ash from Scout Comics, King Conan #1 and Mahmud Asrar, Smart Girl from Titan Comics, Wolverine #19, Nightwing, My Date with Monsters #1 from Aftershock, Destroy all Monsters, Dark Knights of Steel #2, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), plus a whole mess more!
Mark Russell-O-Rama: Deadbox #2 with Benjamin Tiesma from Vault and One Star Squadron #1 with Steve Lieber, plus Made in Korea from Image, Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1 from BOOM!, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills: The Manga from Viz, Letters from Animals, and a whole mess more!
Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Man in Furs by Catherine Sauvat and Anne Simon, Gil Kane's Savage!, and Popeye: The E. C. Segar Popeye Sundays Volume 1: Olive Oyl & Her Sweety.
ECCC 2021, George Peréz, DOSE! by Sean Ellis and John Gebbia from It's Alive, S.W.O.R.D., King of Spies, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge in World of the Dragonlords from Fantagraphics, Blue and Gold, American Vampire 1976, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Transmetropolitan Book One by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Jerome K. Moore, Nathan Eyring, Kim DeMulder, Ray Kryssing, and Dick Giordano, ECCC 2021, plus a whole mess more!
Tony Fleecs barges in once again to yap with us about Stray Dogs: Dog Days, plus The Heathens #1 from Aftershock, Crossover #9, Alberto Brecchia's Dracula from Fantagraphics, Marvel Meow by Nao Fuji from Viz, The Rush #1 by Spurrier and Gooden from Vault Comics, The Invincible Red Sonja and Moritat from Dynamite!, Robin Bougie's Gutter Hunter #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El, plus a whole mess more!
Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce from Fantagraphics, an exercise in filling voids in the comics industry, Snyder-O-Rama: Clear, Night of the Ghouls, and We Have Demons, TMNT: The Last Ronin Design Archive by Kevin Eastman and IDW, Farewell, Brindavoine by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, A Thing Called Truth from Image, The Thing #1, Hit-Monkey, The Bridgebuilder's Creed from Shawn Daley, plus a whole mess more!
Mycelium Wassonii by Brian Blomerth from Anthology Editions, Trots and Bonnie from New York Review Comics, Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips, Newburn #1, Nocturnals Omnibus and Dan Brereton, The Heroes Union from Sit Comics, We Don't Kill Spiders by Joseph Schmalke from Scout Comics, Dark Knights of Steel #1, Cyclopedia Exotica from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!
Magnetic-O-Rama, Klaus Janson, Comics Revue #421-424 and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, curating our collected comics collections by way of another Top Ten, Burton & Cyb Volume 1 by Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz from Catlan Communications, 80 Days from Archaia, Pre Code Classics: Web of Fear Volume 2, The Human Target #1, DC Vs. Vampires #1, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: The Silver Coin by Michael Walsh and company from Image, plus Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #1, House of Slaughter #1, more on 1000 Storms, PS Artbooks-O-Rama: Strange Terrors Volume 1 and Worlds of Fear Volume 1, Death of Doctor Strange #2, Deathstroke Inc. #2, Task Force Z #1, Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone from Fantagraphics, HSE: Human Stock Exchange from CineBook, Inferno #2, plus a whole mess more!
Refrigerator Full of Heads #1, Dirtbag Rapture #1 from Oni, The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard from Iron Circus, Superman: Son of Kal-El #4, Catwoman: Lonely City #1, Viz-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Sensor and The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezz, Vault-O-Rama: Deadbox #1 and Human Remains #1, Vinyl from Image, Strange Adventures, plus a whole mess more!
NYCC 2021 wrap, Fanzine-O-Rama: Monster Maniacs, Pulp Horror #7, and Pulp Horror: All Reviews Special Edition by Justin Mariott and company, Matteo Scalera, Gene Colan, Tom Scioli, Immortal Hulk #50, Hardware: Season One #2, Jonathan Kent, Noir is the New Black: Noir Stories from Black Creators from Fair Square Comics, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Himeros #1, plus a whole mess more!
On the eve of NYCC 2021, we meander through Our Encounters with Evil from Dark Horse, Sentient from TKO, Superman: Son of Kal-El, Letter to Survivors by Gébé from New York Review Comics, Soul Plumber #1 from DC Horror Presents, Superman and Lois, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance from Image, plus a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Sword of the Atom by Jan Strnad, Gil Kane, Pat Broderick, Tom Ziuko, Dennis Janke, and Petra Scotese.
ERB-O-Rama: Beyond the Farthest Star: Warriors of Zandar #1 and Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas from American Mythology, Killadelphia, Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Saga, Frontiersman #1, Venom, Campisi: The Dragon Incident from Aftershock, The Death of Doctor Strange, Corridor, plus a whole mess more!
Second Issue Spotlight: Beyond the Breach #2, Blue and Gold #2, Runes #2, Superman and The Authority #2, Batman '89 #2, Amazing Fantasy #2, Bermuda #2, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #2, Groo Meets Tarzan #2, Lucky Devil #2, The Me You Love in the Dark #2, Jason breaks the streak with Soulwind, plus a whole mess more!
Matt King, author of the incredible Tales to Enlighten with James Edward Clark, drops by to... uh... enlighten us, plus we have some time left over to talk up Echolands, Maw #1 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and A. L. Kaplan from BOOM!, Justice League, Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land and Germán Garcia, FCBD 2021 Scout Comics' White Ash and The Game, Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, Y the Last Man, The Eternals, NYCC, plus a whole mess more!
Batman White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn, The Piano Tuner by Ignacio Noe from Embassy, mountains of Bat-books, The Army of Darkness 1979 #1, The Man Who Invented the World from Europe Comics, Magnetic-O-Rama: 1000 Storms by Tony Sandoval, After the Fall by Queyssi and Juzhen, and Monolith by Roberto Recchioni, Mauro Uzzeo, and LRNZ, NYCC, Static: Season One, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Five Rings, Conan #25/#300, Department of Truth from Image, more Eddie Gein, plus a whole mess more!
When Jason's away, Tony Fleecs comes to play... Join us as we talk up Cherry Blackbird and Gods of Brutality from Scout Comics' Black Caravan, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell & Harold Schechter, Star Trek: The Modala Imperative, Darth Vader, Superman Vs Lobo #1, Skybound X, Icon and Rocket, Rick and Morty: World's Apart, plus a whole mess more!
Books of the Month: Hellboy in Mexico by Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Mick McMahon, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse and 4 Kids Walk into a Bank by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss from Black Mask.
Terry Beatty and Scary Monsters Magazine, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey, Defenders #1, Todd Nauck and X-Men Legends #6, Fight Girls and Frank Cho, our Favorite Five Sidekicks and Legacy Characters, Campisi: The Dragon Incident #1, Hardware: Season One #1, Ruins #1 from Source Point Press, Count Draco Knuckleduster #1 from Scout/Black Caravan, plus a whole mess more!
Skottie Young returns to talk about Middlewest, The Me You Love in the Dark, Jorge Corona, Substack, Image Comics, White Lotus, reality TV, Cameo, and more! Plus, Soulwind, Blue and Gold, and Something is Killing the Children!
Tony Fleecs comes home to discuss Lucky Devil #1 from Dark Horse, Elvira Meets Vincent Price #1 from Dynamite, Donny Cates and Babyteeth, Rob Liefeld, Finger Guns from Vault, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence, Maids by Katie Skelly, Emma by Kaoru Mori, Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Cankor: Anamnesis by Matt Allison, Cover Not Final: Crime Comics by Matt Huffman from AdHouse, something called Stray Dogs, and a whole mess more!
Book of the Month: Concrete: Depths by Paul Chadwick, plus Groo Meets Tarzan #1, Amazing Fantasy #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El #1, and a whole mess more!