Podcast appearances and mentions of Carlo Pagulayan

Welcome to the (Not So) New 52, a real-time retrospective of DC Comics' New 52 imprint! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:04:10 - Convergence #1 (Jeff King, Scott Lobdell and Carlo Pagulayan) 0:15:56 - Convergence: Superman #1 (Dan Jurgens and Lee Weeks) 0:25:13 - Convergence: The Question #1 (Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner) 0:32:27 - Convergence: Justice League #1 (Frank Tieri and Vicente Cifuentes) 0:39:55 - Convergence: Batgirl #1 (Alisa Kwitney and Rick Leonardi) 0:49:08 - Convergence: Nightwing and Oracle #1 (Gail Simone and Jan Duursema) 0:59:39 - Convergence: The Atom #1 (Tom Peyer and Steve Yeowell) 1:07:56 - Convergence: Speed Force #1 (Tony Bedard and Tom Grummett) 1:16:04 - Convergence: Titans #1 (Fabian Nicieza and Ron Wagner) 1:23:57 - Convergence: Batman and Robin #1 (Ron Marz and Denys Cowan) 1:31:28 - Convergence: Harley Quinn #1 (Steve Pugh and Phil Winslade) 1:40:34 - Next Week's Books patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast (Use #New52) discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz Find out more at https://the-not-so-new-52.pinecast.co

The battle endures and, ultimately, ends, but it takes awhile as Marvel's Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku -- Last Stand #4 (of 4) sets the stage for the New Republic later this year. Comics Discussed This Week:The Battle of Jakku -- Last Stand #4 (of 4)Star Wars Comics New to Marvel Unlimited This Week:_ The Battle of Jakku -- Insurgency Rising #2 (of 4)News: Alex Segura will write and Phil Noto illustrate Star Wars (Vol. 4) #1, which debuts on May 7 and is set in the New Republic era.Check out the Facebook page and Bluesky feed for an interview with Cavan Scott by Comicbook.com about his The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi mini-series.Star Wars: The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #1 (of 5) variant covers by Carlo Pagulayan and Phil Noto's virgin artwork. Both are due out Feb. 19.All the Women's History Month variants are now out and available for order. They feature Lina Soh, Ahsoka, Rey and Leia Organa.Upcoming Star Wars comics, graphic novels and omnibuses:Jan. 28 _ Jango Fett TPB (Collects 1-4, Revelations (2023) story), Saber for Hire TP (Collects 1-4)Jan. 29 _ Star Wars: A New Legacy One-Shot, Ewoks #4 (of 4), Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone #4 (of 4), The High Republic Adventures 2025 Annual, The High Republic Adventures Phase III #14, Echoes of Fear # 4 (of 4)Feb. 5 _ Legacy of Vader #1Feb. 12 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #15, The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents 1 (of 5)Feb. 19 _ Ahsoka #8 (of 8), The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi #1 (of 5)Feb. 26 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation #1 (of 5)March 4 _ Hyperspace Stories: Qui-Gon original graphic novelMarch 5 _ Jedi Knights #1March 12 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #16, Legacy of Vader #2March 18 _ Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Printing) (Collects Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2006) 1-50, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - War (2012) 1-5, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Handbook (2007) 1, material from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion (2006) 0)March 25 _ Star Wars: Inquisitors TPB (Collects 1-4)March 26 _ The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #2 (of 5), The Rise of Skywalker adaptation #2 (of 5), The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents #2 (of 5)April 8 _ The High Republic: Edge of Balance: PremonitionApril 9 _ Codebreaker #1 (of 4), Star Wars #1 (1977) Facsimile Edition (New Printing)April 16 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #17April 22 _ The High Republic -- Edge of Balance (Vol. 4), Echoes of Fear TPB (Collects 1-4)April 29 _ Star Wars: Ahsoka — Season One TPB (Collects 1-8), Crash Zone TPB (Collects Crash Landing, Crash and Burn and the 2025 The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual); Crimson Reign Omnibus (Collects 1-5, Star Wars 19-25, Bounty Hunters 18-24, Darth Vader 18-24 and Doctor Aphra 16-21)April 30 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III -- The Battle of Eriadu One-Shot, The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents #3 (of 5)May 3 _ Star Wars Free Comic Book Day #1, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Free Comic Book Day #1May 6 _ Darth Maul: Black, White & Red Treasury Editions (Collects 1-4)May 7 _ Star Wars (Vol. IV) #1May 20 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 3 TPB (Collects 11-13, Wedding Spectacular one-shot)June 3_ The Battle of Jakku TPB (Collects Insurgency Rising 1-4, Republic Under Seige 1-4, Last Stand 1-4)June 17 _ Star Wars Legends: The Rebellion Omnibus Vol. 3 (Collects Star Wars: Shadow Stalker (1997) 1, Star Wars: Rebel Heist (2014) 1-4, Star Wars: A Valentine Story (2003) 1, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) 1-6, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Mini-comic (1996) 1-2, Star Wars: Tales From Mos Eisley (1996) 1, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters – Scoundrel's Wages (1999) 1, Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink Are Dead (2001) 2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink II (2006) 1, Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars (2000) 1, Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (2002) 1-4, Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi (2003) 1-4; material from Star Wars Kids (1997) 12; Star Wars Visionaries (2005); Star Wars Tales (1999) 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 15-17, 20)June 24 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's Secret War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1-2); Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone TPB (Collects 1-4)July 8 _ Ewoks TPB (Collects 1-4)July 22 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1, 2), The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 4 TPB (Collects 14-16, Battle of Eriadu one-shot)Aug. 5 _ Star Wars: Visions Treasury Edition (Collects Visions: Peach Momoko, Visions: Takeshi Okazaki and material from Darth Vader: Black, White & Red #1)Sept. 30 _ The Legacy of Vader Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-6)

The battle begins, at least, in Marvel's Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku -- Last Stand #3 (of 4) as the rebels and imperials strive for their own last stand and Adelhard strikes. But not is all as it seems and a last-page reveal sets up a wild ending in the fourth and final issue of the maxi-series.Comics Discussed This Week:The Battle of Jakku -- Last Stand #3 (of 4)Star Wars Comics New to Marvel Unlimited This Week:Ahsoka #4 (of 8)Ewoks #1 (of 4)News: Dark Horse set to publish Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 4 TPB on July 23 collecting 13-17.The last of the variant covers for Feb. 19's Star Wars: Ahsoka #8 (of eight), including Brian Matyas' concept-art of Morgan Elsbeth and Takashi Okazaki's Ahsoka.Star Wars: The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #1 (of 5) variant covers by Carlo Pagulayan and Phil Noto's virgin artwork. Both are due out Feb. 19.Upcoming Star Wars comics, graphic novels and omnibuses:Jan. 21 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III TPB Vol. 2 (Collects 6-10)Jan. 22 _ The Battle of Jakku — Last Stand #4 (of 4)Jan. 28 _ Jango Fett TPB (Collects 1-4, Revelations (2023) story), Saber for Hire TP (Collects 1-4)Jan. 29 _ Star Wars: A New Legacy One-Shot, Ewoks #4 (of 4), Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone #4 (of 4), The High Republic Adventures 2025 Annual, The High Republic Adventures Phase III #14, Echoes of Fear # 4 (of 4)Feb. 5 _ Legacy of Vader #1Feb. 12 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #15, The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents 1 (of 5)Feb. 19 _ Ahsoka #8 (of 8), The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi #1 (of 5)Feb. 26 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation #1 (of 5)March 4 _ Hyperspace Stories: Qui-Gon original graphic novelMarch 5 _ Jedi Knights #1March 12 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #16, Legacy of Vader #2March 18 _ Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Printing) (Collects Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2006) 1-50, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - War (2012) 1-5, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Handbook (2007) 1, material from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic/Rebellion (2006) 0)March 25 _ Star Wars: Inquisitors TPB (Collects 1-4)March 26 _ The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #2 (of 5), The Rise of Skywalker adaptation #2 (of 5), The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents #2 (of 5)April 8 _ The High Republic: Edge of Balance: PremonitionApril 9 _ Codebreaker #1 (of 4), Star Wars #1 (1977) Facsimile Edition (New Printing)April 16 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #17April 22 _ The High Republic -- Edge of Balance (Vol. 4), Echoes of Fear TPB (Collects 1-4)April 29 _ Star Wars: Ahsoka — Season One TPB (Collects 1-8), Crash Zone TPB (Collects Crash Landing, Crash and Burn and the 2025 The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual); Crimson Reign Omnibus (Collects 1-5, Star Wars 19-25, Bounty Hunters 18-24, Darth Vader 18-24 and Doctor Aphra 16-21)April 30 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III -- The Battle of Eriadu One-Shot, The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents #3 (of 5)May 3 _ Star Wars Free Comic Book Day #1, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Free Comic Book Day #1May 6 _ Darth Maul: Black, White & Red Treasury Editions (Collects 1-4)May 7 _ The High Republic Adventures -- The Battle of Eriadu One-ShotMay 20 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 3 TPB (Collects 11-13, Wedding Spectacular One-Shot)June 3_ The Battle of Jakku TPB (Collects Insurgency Rising 1-4,  Republic Under Seige 1-4, Last Stand 1-4)June 17 _ Star Wars Legends: The Rebellion Omnibus Vol. 3 (Collects Star Wars: Shadow Stalker (1997) 1, Star Wars: Rebel Heist (2014) 1-4, Star Wars: A Valentine Story (2003) 1, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) 1-6, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Mini-comic (1996) 1-2, Star Wars: Tales From Mos Eisley (1996) 1, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters – Scoundrel's Wages (1999) 1, Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink Are Dead (2001) 2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink II (2006) 1, Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars (2000) 1, Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (2002) 1-4, Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi (2003) 1-4; material from Star Wars Kids (1997) 12; Star Wars Visionaries (2005); Star Wars Tales (1999) 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 15-17, 20)June 24 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's Secret War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1-2); Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone TPB (Collects 1-4)July 8 _ Ewoks TPB (Collects 1-4)July 22 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1, 2), The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 4 TPB (Collects 13-17)Aug. 5 _ Star Wars: Visions Treasury Edition (Collects Visions: Peach Momoko, Visions: Takeshi Okazaki and material from Darth Vader: Black, White & Red #1)Sept. 30 _ The Legacy of Vader Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-6)

THE LISTGideon the Ninth Star Trek 4: The Voyage HomeLegally Blonde.Red RisingBoardwalk empire S1Star Trek 5: The Final FrontierDeath Note Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered CountryTwin Peaks: The Missing PiecesDemon SlayerThe Warsaw Protocol by Steve BerryThe Earth and Sky and Marvels of Astronomy by Clarence R. SmithDead Boy DetectivesJack Reacher: Never Go BackTwin Peaks: The ReturnDelicious in Dungeon Batman: Ghost Stories by James Tynion IV, Guillem March, James Stokoe, Carlo Pagulayan and David BaronBeetlejuiceBettlejuice BeetlejuiceDune (relisten)ScreamSawAll Quiet on the Western FrontThe Shadow season 3Joker Folie A DeuxWar for the Planet of the ApesWonder Woman: Lords and Liars by Mariko Tamakai, Mikel Janin, and Steve PughDazed and ConfusedPercy Jackson and the OlympiansFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085031226698TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoughtplanemediaWEBSITE: https://www.thoughtplane.ca/RYAN'S SOCIAL MEDIA https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=ryanwalkerofficial&t=1645086679872 https://www.instagram.com/ryanwalkerofficial/?hl=enRecorded by Joseph Morin and Justin ChurchEdited by Joseph MorinClose Up cover art by Justin Church#closeup #startrek #Beetlejuice #twinpeaks #deathnote #Planetoftheapes

December 2024 Solicits Comic Reviews: DC o        Absolute Power: Super Son 1 by Sina Grace, Nicole Maines, John Timms, Travis Mercer, Pete Pantazis, Hi-Fi, Rex Lokus, Adriano Lucas o        Multiversus: Collision Detected 1 by Bryan Q. Miller, John Sommariva Marvel o        Dazzler 1 by Jason Loo, Rafael Loureiro, Javier Tartaglia o        Deathlok 50th Anniversary Special by Christopher Priest, Denys Cowan, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Neeraj Menon; Justina Ireland, Matthew Waite, Luke Ross, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Nolan Woodard, Neeraj Menon o        Spider-Boy Annual 1 by Steve Foxe, Carlos Nieto, Fernando Sifuentes o        Spirits of Vengeance 1 by Sabir Pirzada, Sean Damien Hill, Jay Leisten, Craig Yeung, Andrew Dalhouse o        Venom War: Deadpool 1 by Cullen Bunn, Rob Di Salvo, Dono Sanchez-Almara o        Venom War: Lethal Protectors 1 by Sabir Pirzada, Luca Maresca o        Marvel Unlimited §  Alligator Loki 39 Alyssa Wong, Bob Quinn, Pete Pantazis §  Lovable Lockheed 3 by Nathan Stockman Boom o        Graveyard Club: The Revenge Game by R.L. Stine, Carola Borelli, Francesco Segala o        Jim Henson's Labyrinth 1 by Kyla Vanderklugt, Giorgio Spalletta, Sara Cuomo Dark Horse o        Masked Macher 1 by David Goodman, Alex Andres, Gonzalo Duarte IDW o        TMNT: Mutant Nation 1 by Tom Waltz, Vincenzo Federici, Ronda Pattison; Erik Burnham, Mateus Santolouco, Marco Lesko Image o        Moon is Following Us 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Spicer o        Tin Can Society 1 by Peter Warren, Rick Remender, Francesco Mobili, Chris Chuckry Mad Cave o        Body Trade 1 by Zac Thompson, Jok Valiant o        Resurgence of the Valiant Universe 1 by Fred Van Lente, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Aj Ampadu, Guillermo Fajardo, Julio Azamor, Ludwig Laguna Olimba, Lautaro Ftuli OGN Countdown o        Mr. Lovenstein Presents Feelings by J.L. Westover o        The Road by Manu Larcenet, Cormac McCarthy o        Dear Dad: Growing Up With a Parent in Prison and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton, Kiara Valdez, Markia Jenai o        Dex Dingo: World's Best Greatest Ever Inventor by Greg Foley o        Rocket and Groot Tales of Terror by Amanda Deibert, Leo Trinidad o        Joker: The World o        Bitsy and Boozle Tell A Story by Sara Goetter, Natalie Riess o        Hex Vets Vol 3: The River Guardian by Sam Davies, Lisa Moore o        Weirdo by Tony Weaver, Jes Wibowo, Cin Wibowo o        Heebie Jeebies by Matthew Erman and Shelby Criswell Additional Reviews: Transformers One, Agatha All Along ep1 & 2, Penguin ep1 News: details on Monster s3, IDW changing portfolio to include bible stories and cutting page rates, New Champions, What If… Galactus series, Neon Galaxy from Molly Knox Ostertag, Netflix and Digital Circus, Cable by Pepose, Deadpool/Wolverine by Percy, Jeff Week, Hal Jordan casting Trailers: Dog Man, Mickey 17, Wednesday s2, Thunderbolts, Gladiator 2, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory s2 Comics Countdown (18 September 2024): 1.     Helen of Wyndhorn 4 by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes 2.     Ultramega 5 by James Harren, Dave Stewart 3.     Moon Is Following Us 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Spicer 4.     Gilt Frame 2 by Margie Kindt, Matt Kindt 5.     Ice Cream Man 41 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran 6.     Superman 18 by Joshua Williamson, Jamal Campbell 7.     Power Fantasy 2 by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard 8.     Wonder Woman 13 by Tom King, Tony Daniel, Leonardo Paciarotti, Khary Randolph, Alex Guimaraes 9.     Kosher Mafia 2 by David Hazan, Sami Kivela 10.  Jenny Sparks 2 by Tom King, Jeff Spokes  

Comic Reviews: DC o        Absolute Power: Task Force VII 5 by Alex Paknadel, Pete Woods o        Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special by Dan Jurgens, Ron Marz, Jerry Ordway, Howard Porter, Kelley Jones, Darryl Banks, Paul Pelletier, Tom Grummett, Norm Rapmund, Brett Breeding, Alex Sinclair Marvel o        Aliens vs. Avengers 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Ive Svorcina o        Amazing 56/950 by Zeb Wells, John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Marcio Menyz; Zeb Wells, Andres Genolet, Rachelle Rosenberg; Zeb Wells, Ramon Rosanas, Rachelle Rosenberg; Lee Gatlin o        Chasm: Curse of Kaine 1 by Steve Foxe, Andrea Broccardo, Brian Reber o        Incredible Hulk Annual by Derek Landy, Geoff Shaw, Frank Martin; Derek Landy, Sara Pichelli, Mattia Iacono o        Marvel 85th Anniversary Special by Ryan North, Joshua Cassara, Dean White; Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Stephen Byrne; Alan Davis, Rachelle Rosenberg; Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Morry Hollowell; Yuji Kaku, Ken Kunita; Steve Skroce, Bryan Valenza o        Phases of the Moon Knight 1 by Erica Schultz, Manuel Garcia, Sean Parsons, Ceci De La Cruz; Benjamin Percy, Rod Reis o        Spidey and His Amazing Friends by Steve Behling, Antonello Dalena, Giovanni Rigano, Cristina Giorgilli, Cristina Stella, Dario Calabria, Lucio De Giuseppe, Fabio Franchi o        Venom War: Zombiotes 1 by Cavan Scott, Juan Jose Ryp, Ceci De La Cruz o        Venomverse Reborn 3 by Al Ewing, Danilo Beyruth, Ceci de la Cruz; Steve Foxe, Kei Zama, Antonio Fabela; Ryan North, Matthew Waite; Gerry Duggan, Brent Peeples, Romulo Fajardo Jr. o        Marvel Unlimited §  Dogpool 6 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Blalam, Fer Sifuentes §  House of Harkness 1 by Preeti Chhibber, Jodi Nishijima, Ian Herring DSTLRY o        Life 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Brian Azzarello, Danijel Zezelj Image o        Convert 1 by John Arcudi, Savannah Finley, Miguel Co o        Universal Monsters: Frankenstein 1 by Michael Walsh, Toni Marie Griffin Archie o        Archie: The Decision 1 by Tom King, Dan Parent, Rob Smith, Rosario Pena o        Cursed Library Alpha 1 by Eliot Rahal, Magdalene Visaggio, Craig Cermak, Matt Herms Oni o        Sesame Street 1 by Joey Esposito, Austin Baechle OGN Countdown o        Mia and Friends: Mia Hamm and the Soccer Sisterhood that Changed History by Karlin Gray, Micheline Hess o        Buckle Up by Lawrence Lindell o        I Was The Cat 10th Anniversary Special by Paul Tobin, Benjamin Dewey o        Tunis to Sydney by Christian Carnouche, Meriam Carnouche, Sam Rapley o        Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan, Kit Seaton Additional Reviews: Grim HC Vol 1, Terminator Zero News: Vince McMahon Netflix documentary, details on next Jurassic World movie, Dead Boy Detectives cancelled, casting for 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, IDW oddness Trailers: Sonic 3, Nightbitch, Alien: Earth Comics Countdown (28 August 2024): 1.     White Boat 2 by Scott Snyder, Francesco Francavilla 2.     Nice House By the Sea 2 by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire 3.     Batman: Dark Age 5 by Mark Russell, Mike Allred, Laura Allred 4.     Life 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Brian Azzarello, Danijel Zezelj 5.     Aliens vs. Avengers 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Ive Svorcina 6.     William of Newbury 4 by Michael Avon Oeming 7.     Archie: The Decision 1 by Tom King, Dan Parent, Rob Smith, Rosario Pena 8.     Universal Monsters: Frankenstein 1 by Michael Walsh, Toni Marie Griffin 9.     Zatanna: Bring Down the House 3 by Mariko Tamaki, Javier Rodriguez 10.  Drawing Blood 5 by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman, Troy Little, Ben Bishop, Simon Gough  

On se retrouve dans ce nouvel épisode de ComicsDiscovery pour partager avec vous notre dernière lecture. Nous discutons de Superman Lost de Christopher Priest et Carlo Pagulayan édité par Urban Comics. Superman LostLois et Clark vivent leur vie tranquillement, pourtant tout bascule lorsque Superman est appelé par la Justice League pour une mission. Alors que pour les terriens sa disparition n'a duré qu'un battement de cil, pour le héros Kryptonien cette absence à durer 20 ans. Que s'est il passé? Pourquoi le symbole de l'espoir est traumatisé ? L'odysséeSuperman Lost propose un hommage à l'histoire d'Ulysse et de son voyage pour retrouver sa bien-aimée Pénélope. Superman a perdu le chemin de la terre et manque de chance, il n'a pas Nono, le petit robot, pour l'aider. C'est un homme brisé qui fait enfin son retour. Il a du abandonné un peuple en danger et cette décision le dévore de l'intérieur. Le traitement du PTSD de l'homme d'acier est plutôt bien traité, apportant beaucoup d'empathie au lecteur. La force de LoisLe personnage de Lois Lane n'est pas en reste. Elle dérange une grande force et passe tout le récit à lutter pour que l'homme qu'elle aime s'en sorte. Telle Pénélope, la journaliste du Daily Planet attend son retour et garde l'espoir de retrouver sa vie même si par moment un sentiment d'impuissance l'envahie. Un récit fortSuperman Lost est un comics qui a marqué l'équipe tant visuellement que scénaristiquement. On vous invite à partager avec nous votre avis sur le titre Si vous avez aimé Superman Lost et que vous voulez découvrir d'autres comics.Nous vous conseillons l'écoute de ces épisodes de ComicsDiscovery :ComicsDiscovery S08E17: Super Sons https://jamesetfaye.fr/comicsdiscovery-s08e17-super-sons/ComicsDiscovery S07E21: Superman For All Seasons https://jamesetfaye.fr/comicsdiscovery-s07e21superman-for-all-seasons/ComicsDiscovery S05E17 : Superman – Identité Secrète https://jamesetfaye.fr/comicsdiscovery-superman/ Le mot de la finComme toujours, nous vous invitons à venir partager votre avis avec nous, que vous soyez d'accord ou non, cela nous fait toujours plaisir d'échanger avec vous. Si vous avez envie de nous écouter en direct, c'est le mardi soir à 20 h sur notre chaîne Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/jamesetfaye Retrouvez nos chroniqueurs sur leurs réseaux sociaux :Sophie : https://linktr.ee/sophiahautrice?Spades : https://linktr.ee/SpadesOnAirFaye : https://linktr.ee/fayefanelLena : https://linktr.ee/lenainlive? Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur nos réseaux sociaux :Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ComicsDiscovery/Twitter : https://twitter.com/comicsdiscoveryInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/comicsdiscovery/TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@jamesetfaye Vous pouvez nous écouter sur :Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2Qb8ffDAusha : https://podcast.ausha.co/comicsdiscoveryiTunes : https://apple.co/2zw9H1QDeezer : https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/55279 Sans oublier le replay en vidéo sur :YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@ComicsDiscovery/Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/jamesetfaye Pour nous soutenir :Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/james-et-faye Vous pouvez venir discuter avec nous sur notre serveur discord :Discord : http://discordapp.com/invite/GsBTkDS Et Retrouvez nos autres productions sur notre site :Le site de James & Faye : https://jamesetfaye.fr/

Zach is joined by Lance from The Comic Book Keepers podcast to discuss one of Lance's favorite stories ever: Planet Hulk!Hulk has been betrayed, and shot off into space. When his ship goes off course through a wormhole he winds up on the Gladiator planet of Sakaar where he is forced to fight in the pits to survive. Can Hulk survive? Can he THRIVE? Find out in: Planet Hulk!Written by: Greg PakArt by: Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti and more---------------------------------------------------Check out more from Comic Book Keepers! Follow them on Twitter and Instagram!---------------------------------------------------Check out Dreampass and all their killer tracks on Spotify!---------------------------------------------------Join the Patreon to help us keep the lights on, and internet connected! https://www.patreon.com/tctwl---------------------------------------------------Listen to my other podcast!TFD: NerdcastAnd I am also part of the team over at...I Read Comic Books! ---------------------------------------------------Want to try out all the sweet gigs over on Fiverr.com? Click on the link below and sign up!https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=323533&brand=fiverrcpa---------------------------------------------------Follow on Instagram!The Comics That We LoveFollow on Tiktok!The Comics that We LoveFollow on Twitter!@Z_Irish_Red

Cette semaine, poursuit son grand dossier sur la cinématographie de Dr Zee Lo, il nous parle de « Willy Wonka Experience » et de la refonte de Baywatch. Gautier nous suggère la BD « Le visage de Pavil » de Jérémy Perrodeau et la série de Netlfix de « The Octopus Murders ». Laurent s'exalte devant le retour des Doritos à saveur de cornichons intenses. Il nous apprend également le retour potentiel de John Waters derrière la caméra et du Kickstarter de Terry Moore. Benoit de son côté est en mode années 90 avec « DC Versus Marvel Omnibus » et la campagne de financement social de « The Darkness ». En dernière partie d'émission, nous discutons de « Superman: Lost » de Christopher Priest et Carlo Pagulayan. Laissez-nous un message vocal: https://www.speakpipe.com/mysterieuxe Devenez membre de la communauté Patreon: https://bit.ly/3iMgD04​​​​​​​​ Diffusion originale : 4 mars 2024 Site web : MysterieuxEtonnants.com © Les Mystérieux Étonnants. Tous droits réservés

April 2024 Solicitations (DC, Image, IDW) Comic Reviews: DC John Constantine: Hellblazer – Dead in America 1 by Simon Spurrier, Aaron Campbell, Jordie Bellaire Nightwing 110 by Tom Taylor, Sami Basri, Vicente Cifuentes, Adriano Lucas Marvel Avengers Twilight 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Daniel Acuña Cable 1 by Fabian Nicieza, Scot Eaton, Cam Smith, Victor Nava, Java Tartaglia Jackpot 1 by Celeste Bronfman, Joey Vasquez, Eric Gapstur, Edgar Delgado, Erick Arciniega Marvel Unlimited Alligator Loki 32 by Alyssa Wong, Robert Quinn, Pete Pantazis Image Cobra Commander 1 by Joshua Williamson, Andrea Milani, Annalisa Leoni Colonized: Zombies vs. Aliens by Chris Ryall, Drew Moss Weatherman Vol Three 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nathan Fox, Moreno Dinisio IDW Sonic the Hedgehog: Fang the Hunter 1 by Ian Flynn, Mauro Fonseca, Rik Mack, Valentina Pinto Valiant Ninjak Superkillers by Jeff Parker, Mike Norton, Andrew Dalhouse, Exequiel Fernandez Roel Dynamite James Bond 007 Vol Two 1 by Garth Ennis, Rapha Lobosco, Jorge Sutil Ray's OGN Corner: Click by Kayla Miller Additional Reviews: Injustice Year Zero, Spider-Man 2 video game News:  Tom Taylor stupidversy, Aaron's TMNT not a reboot, Patrick Zircher writing/drawing Solomon Kane title, Miracleman: Dark Age by Gaiman and Buckingham, Charlie Adlard doing a Batman story, Moon Girl shifting to Disney+?, new Molly Knox Ostertag Disney animated series, details on the next Ryan Coogler project, Ultimate DC, new Blue Beetle graphic novel announced Comics Countdown (16 Jan 2024): 1.     Wonder Woman 5 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, Tomeu Morey 2.     Miracleman: Silver Age 7 by Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Jordie Bellaire 3.     Deviant 3 by James Tynion IV, Josh Hixson 4.     Superman 10 by Joshua Williamson, Bruno Redondo, Caio Filipe, Adriano Lucas 5.     Fantastic Four 15 by Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli, Jesus Aburtov 6.     Black Hammer: The End 5 by Jeff Lemire, Malachi Ward 7.     Enfield Gang Massacre 6 by Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips 8.     Zawa 3 by Michael Dialynas 9.     Superman: Lost 10 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jose Luis Soares Pinto, Joe Prado, Jonas Trindade, Jason Paz, Julio Ferreira, Jeromy Cox 10.  Jay Garrick: The Flash 4 by Jeremy Adams, Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero

Jacob's Linktree - Jacob Licklider | Twitter, Instagram | Linktree Joey's Linktree - jomoblooddonut | Twitter | Linktree Mason's Twitter - the m a s o n 256 (@TheGD256) / X (twitter.com) Buy the book on Amazon! - Amazon.com: Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk: 9780785120124: Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti, Juan Santacruz, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa: Books Our next reading - Amazon.com: THOR: GOD OF THUNDER VOL. 1 - THE GOD BUTCHER (Thor: God of Thunder, 1): 9780785166979: Aaron, Jason: Books

March 2024 Solicitations Comic Reviews: DC Batman 428: Robin Lives Birds of Prey Uncovered by Various DC's ‘Twas the Mite Before Christmas by Zipporah Smith, Logan Faerber; Rob Levin, Bob Quinn; Ethan Sacks, Soo Lee, John Kalisz, Natalie Abrams, Marcus Smith, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi; Jillian Grant, Rebekah Isaacs, Kurt Michael Russell, Michael Conrad, Gavin Guidry, Ryan Cody, Josh Trujillo, Andrew Drilon; Sholly Fisch, Juan Bobillo Titans: Beast World Tour – Gotham by Chip Zdarsky, Miguel Mendonca, Mike Spicer; Grace Ellis, Daniel Hillyard, Rico Renzi; Gretchen Felker-Martin, Ivan Shavrin; Sam Maggs, PJ Holden; Kyle Starks, Kelley Jones, Jose Villarrubia Marvel Daredevil: Gang War 1 by Erica Shultz, Sergio Davila, Sean Parsons, Ceci de la Cruz Spider-Gwen Smash 1 by Melissa Flores, Enid Balam, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, Elisabetta D'Amico Marvel Unlimited Marvel Mutts 3 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Takeshi Miyazawa Alligator Loki 27 by Alyssa Wong, Bob Quinn Image Bloody Dozen: A Tale of the Shrouded College 1 by Charles Soule, Alberto Alburquerque, Rachelle Rosenberg Dark Horse Assassin's Apprentice II 1 by Jody Houser, Robin Hobb, Ryan Kelly, Jordie Bellaire Masterpiece 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Ian Herring Quick Stops Vol 2 1 by Kevin Smith, Ahmed Raafat Boom Underheist 1 by David Lapham, Maria Lapham, Hilary Jenkins IDW Addams Family: Charlatan's Web 1 by Chynna Clugston-Flores, Leah Williams, Juan Samu, Francine Delgado, Danny Sanchez Chaves Sonic the Hedgehog: Winter Jam by Iasmin Omar Ata, Min Ho Kim, Reggie Graham Titan Life is Strange: Forget-Me-Not 1 by Zoe Thorogood, Claudia Leonardi, Andrea Izzo Oni Invasive 1 by Cullen Bunn, Jesus Hervas Mad Cave Charred Remains 1 by Anthony Cleveland, Andrea Mutti Archie Sabrina the Teenage Witch Holiday Special Vault Beyond Real 1 by Zack Kaplan, Fabiana Mascolo, Toni Fejzula, Jordie Bellaire American Mythology 21st Century Santa Stories by James Kuhoric, S.A. Check, Konstantine Paradias, G.O. Parsons, Horacio Domingues, Jorge Pacheco, Fernando Sosa Three Stooges versus Cthulhu by Hans Rodionoff, Adam Goldberg, Diego Tapie OGNs Macbeth: A Tale of Horror by Stefano Ascari, Simone D'Armini Many Deaths of Barnaby James by Brian Nathanson, Neil Gibson, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson Where the Body Was GN by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips Boxed by Mark Sable, Jeremy Haun, Nick Filardi o   A Call to Cthulhu by Norm Konyu Voyage du Gourmet by Paul Tobin, Jem Milton, Micah Myers Additional Reviews: Ducktails, Leave it to Chance vol 1, Space Between the Trees, Downlands News: new Black Panther animated series, Omninews, DeMatteis Green Goblin prequel series, new title for Spider-Man: Freshman Year, Good Omens renewed for third and final season, Mark Millar, William Shatner variant, new animated project from Matt Braly and Rebecca Sugar, Green Arrow now an ongoing, Bill Cipher spin-off book coming, new X-Files, Jonathan Major, Cody Ziglar takes over Deadpool, Stephanie Phillips takes over Spider-Gwen, Merry Shark-Mas, Uncle Fester spin-off The other Rabbit Stew Comics?!?! Letters on the Wall Trailers: Dune 2, Civil War, Kung Fu Panda 4, Hazbin Hotel, If Comics Countdown (12 Dec 2023): 1.     Where The Body Was GN by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips 2.     Radiant Black 27 and 27.5 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Eduardo Ferigato, Marcelo Costa, Raul Angulo 3.     Batman: City of Madness 2 by Christian Ward 4.     Green Lantern 6 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Scott Godlewski, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Peter Tomasi, David Lafuente, Tamra Bonvillain 5.     Superman: Lost 9 by Christopher Priest, Dan Jurgens, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Brett Breeding, Jeromy Cox 6.     Rogue Sun 17 by Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, Abel, Natalia Marques 7.     Zawa 2 by Michael Dialynas 8.     Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees 2 by Patrick Horvath 9.     Dark Spaces: Dungeon 2 by Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman 10.  Danger Street 12 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Jacob's Linktree - Jacob Licklider | Twitter, Instagram | Linktree Joey's Linktree - jomoblooddonut | Twitter | Linktree Mason's Twitter - the m a s o n 256 (@TheGD256) / X (twitter.com) Buy the book on Amazon! - Amazon.com: Planet Hulk Prelude (Incredible Hulk): 9780785143772: Way, Daniel, Cha, Keu, Santacruz, Juan, McKone, Mike, Straczynski, J. Michael: Books Our next reading - Amazon.com: Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk: 9780785120124: Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti, Juan Santacruz, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa: Books

Feb 2024 Solicitations Comic Reviews: DC Outsiders 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Robert Carey, Valentina Taddeo Speed Force 1 by Jarrett Williams, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Andrew Dalhouse Marvel Alien 1 by Declan Shalvey, Andrea Broccardo, Ruth Redmond Deadpool: Seven Slaughters 1 by Cullen Bunn, Phillip Sevy, Guru eFX; Justina Ireland, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D'Armata; Rob Liefeld, Chad Bowers, Romulo Fajardo Jr.; Cody Ziglar, Federica Mancin, Bryan Valenza; Steve Foxe, Gerardo Sandoval, Dono Sanchez-Almara; Gail Simone, David Baldeon; Marc Guggenheim, While Portacio, Arif Prianto Star Wars Visions: Peach Momoko 1 by Peach Momoko Superior Spider-Man 1 by Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Edgar Delgado Marvel Unlimited It's Jeff 29 by Kelly Thompson, Nao Fuji Image Deviant 1 by James Tynion IV, Josh Hixson Dutch 0 by Joe Casey, Nathan Fox, Francesco Segala, Roberto Megna, Chap Yaep Geiger: Ground Zero 1 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson GI Joe: Real American Heroes 301 by Syphon Vol Two 1 by Mohsen Ashraf, Arish Akanda, Thomas Hedglen Dark Horse Space Usagi: Death of Honor by Stan Sakai Boom Lotus Land 1 by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Caio Filipe, Patricio Delpeche Slow Burn 1 by Ollie Masters, Plerluigi Minotti IDW Dungeons and Dragons: Fortune Finder 1 by Jim Zub, Adam Guzowski, Jose Jaro Godzilla Rivals: Vs. Mechagodzilla by Ministry of Compliance 1 by John Ridley, Stefano Raffaele, Brad Anderson Titan Blitmap by Jack Timmer, Matias Basla, Emilio Lecce ComiXology Parliament of Rooks 1 by Richard Starkings, Abigail Jill Harding.  DSTLRY Somna 1 by Becky Cloonan, Tula Lotay Dynamite Wheel of Time: Great Hunt 1 by Rik Hoskin, Marcio Abreu OGNs A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll Rose Wolves by Natalie Warner Punycorn by Andi Watson Duel Across Time by Bret Baier, Marvin Sianipar Nightwrath by Daniel Kalban, Gabriel Santos Knight and Rook by Daniel Kalban, Baggs Brothers Hereville trilogy by Barry Deutsch It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood Manticore by Eric Palicki, Chris Peterson Storm King Comics Dark and Twisted: Death Mask by Amanda Deibert, Cat Staggs, Janice Chiang Doctor Who: Once Upon A Time Lord by Dan Slott, Chris Jones, Matthew Dow Smith Green Lantern Earth One Vol 2 by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, Jordan Boyd Downlands by Norm Konyufin Additional Reviews: Pacemaker, Doctor Who mini ep News: ComicsGate, ComiXology, What If to have daily release starting 12/22 and many episodes are sequels, Pedro Pascal may be Reed Richards, Nicholas Holt as Luthor, Kang Dynasty director leaves to focus on Shang-Chi 2, Harley Quinn renewed, Frozen 4 greenlit, Kang rumors, Steven Yuen to play Sentry, Gail Simone possibly taking over the X-Men, Marvel Mutts coming soon Trailers: Pokémon Concierge, Madame Web, Chicken Run 2, Imaginary, What If… s2 Comics Countdown (14 Nov 2023): 1.     Deviant 1 by James Tynion IV, Josh Hixson 2.     Fishflies 3 by Jeff Lemire 3.     Green Lantern 5 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Romulo Fajardo Jr 4.     Danger Street 11 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart 5.     Immortal Thor 4 by Al Ewing, Martin Coccolo, Matt Wilson 6.     Time Before Time 29 by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran 7.     Fantastic Four 13 by Ryan North, Iban Coello, Jesus Aburtov 8.     Superman Lost 8 by Christopher Priest, Will Conrad, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Jeromy Cox 9.     Superior Spider-Man 1 by Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Edgar Delgado 10.  Punycorn GN by Andi Watson  

Comic Reviews: DC Batman: City of Madness 1 by Christian Ward Wesley Dodds: Sandman 1 by Robert Venditti, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Plascencia Diana and the Hero's Journey GN by Grace Ellis, Penelope Gaylord Marvel Captain Marvel: Assault on Eden 1 by Anthony Oliveira, Eleonora Carlini, Ruth Redmond Capwolf and the Howling Commandos 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Carlos Magno, Espen Grundetjern Superior Spider-Man Returns by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Mark Bagley, Ryan Stegman, Humberto Ramos, John Dell, JP Mayer, Victor Olazaba, Edgar Delgado Marvel Unlimited I Am Groot 6 by Chiya Image A Haunted Girl 1 by Ethan Sacks, Naomi Sacks, Marco Lorenzana Destiny Gate 1 by Ryan Cady, Christian Dibari, Simon Gough Nights 1 by Wyatt Kennedy, Luigi Formisano, Francesco Segala Midlife or How To Hero At Fifty 1 by Brian Buccellato, Stefano Simeone IDW Sonic the Hedgehog: Halloween Special by Mark Bouchard, Jack Lawrence, Matt Froese, Gigi Dutreix TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures: Halloween Special by Erik Burnham, Sarah Myer, Dan Schoening, Luis Delgado Dark Horse Operation Sunshine 1 by Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, David Rubin Space Usagi: Yokai Hunter by Stan Sakai, Emi Fujii Dynamite Army of Darkness: Forever 1 by Tony Fleecs, Justin Greenwood, Brad Simpson Garbage Pail Kids: Trashin' Through Time 1 by Hans Rodionoff, Adam Goldberg, Jeff Zapata, Chris Meeks ComiXology By A Thread 1 by Scott Snyder, Jack Znyder, Valeria Favoccia, Whitney Coga Archie Chilling Adventures Presents: Welcome to Riverdale by Amy Chase, Liana Kangas Scout Cissy 1 by Charles Chester, Alonso Gonzales OGNs Look on the Bright Side by Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann Brooms by Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall Cereal: Sweet Darkness by Mark Russell, Peter Snejbjerg NYCC Fae and the Moon by Franco, Catherine Satrun, Sarah Satrun Redcoat by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Brad Anderson Additional Reviews: Loki s2e2, Pram by Joe Hill, Lego Jurassic Park, Excavator novella by J.M. DeMatteis, Once Upon A Studio, Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht News: NYCC, Mags Visaggio details her failed DC pitch, Universal/WB purchase rumors, comic from Snyder/Tieri/Tom Hardy, Daredevil show overhaul, new home for Star Trek Prodigy, Netflix shuts down animation department, Joseph Quinn cast in Quiet Place: Day One, Wagner and Jones creating a series of Dracula OGNs, new Remender series with Bengal, Jody Houser adapts Thrawn novel, Mike Hawthorne goes Image exclusive, Bunn writing Gatchaman for Mad Cave, Wonder Man TV show may be dead, Omninews, Remender signs several artists to exclusives at Image, Alien: Black, White and Blood by Stephanie Phillips, It's Jeff season 3, new Gargoyles series announced by Dynamite, Greg Pak writing Lilo and Stitch, Dynamite WB cartoon licenses, Ennis to be next James Bond comic writer, DC Elseworlds, Ghost Machine, Jeremy Adams writing Flash Gordon for Mad Cave, Superman Superstars, scandal of the year, Jackpot one-shot, Sabretooth War, new vampire war event showrun by Jed MacKay, Infinity Paws, new Hellblazer series, Ultimate line-up, Kate YA novel Remembering Keith Giffen Trailers: Iron Claw Longbox of Horror Part 2: Cage by Azzarello and Corben Comics Countdown (10 Oct 2023): 1.     Fishflies 2 by Jeff Lemire 2.     Batman: City of Madness 1 by Christian Ward 3.     Superman Lost 7 by Christopher Priest, Lee Weeks, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Bettie Breitweiser, Jeromy Cox 4.     By A Thread 1 by Scott Snyder, Jack Znyder, Valeria Favoccia, Whitney Coga 5.     Superior Spider-Man Returns by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Mark Bagley, Ryan Stegman, Humberto Ramos, John Dell, JP Mayer, Victor Olazaba, Edgar Delgado 6.     Cull 3 by Kelly Thompson, Mattia De Iulis 7.     Undiscovered Country 26 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Matt Wilson 8.     Danger Street 10 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart 9.     Brooms GN by Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall 10.  Midlife (or How to Hero At Fifty) 1 by Brian Buccellato, Stefano Simeone

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE! This week… the end of the road begins! Join Aeric, Malcolm and Jacob as they discuss Volume 14 of THE FLASH REBIRTH! A new threat has emerged… PARADOX, an individual with the power to erase anyone from the timeline and who has a grudge against Barry Allen! With reality closing in on him and allies in short supply, Barry will have to put his trust in the last person he ever thought he'd fight alongside: EOBARD THAWNE. But will these two arch rivals be enough to defeat Paradox and save the timeline from being erased? Find out here! Covers The Flash (2016) Annual #3, #88 & #750-755 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Rafa Sandoval, Brandon Peterson, Christian Duce, Jordi Tarragona, Steven Segovia, Carlo Pagulayan & Jason Paz Send us your questions for the Book Club Mailbag! Email: geeksplained@gmail.com Follow us! Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=en Instagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=en Music Sampled: "Alive" by Warbly Jets “2099 Theme | EPIC VERSION” by Carameii

Comic Reviews: DC Knight Terrors 1 by Joshua Williamson, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, Caspar Wijngard, Frank Martin Knight Terrors: Flash 1 by Alex Paknadel, Daniel Bayliss, Igor Monti Knight Terrors: Green Lantern 1 by Jeremy Adams, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, Luis Guerrero, Alex Segura, Mario Foccillo, Prasad Rao Knight Terrors: Robin 1 by Kenny Porter, Miguel Mendonca, Adriano Lucas Knight Terrors: Shazam 1 by Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Wellington Diaz, Arif Prianto Knight Terrors: Zatanna 1 by Dennis Culver, David Baldeon, Rain Beredo World's Finest: Teen Titans 1 by Mark Waid, Emanuela Lupacchino, Jordie Bellaire Superman vs. Meshi Vol 1 by Satoshi Miyagawa, Kai Kitago Joker: One Operation Joker Vol 1 by Satoshi Miyagawa, Keisuke Gotou Batman: Justice Buster Vol 1 by Eiichi Shimizu, Tomohiro Shimoguchi Marvel Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Mark Waid, Saladin Ahmed, Takeshi Miyazawa, Humberto Ramos, Andrea Di Vito, Victor Olazaba, Ian Herring, Edgar Delgado Moon Knight 25 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Vitti, Alessando Cappuccio, Partha Pratim, Rachelle Rosenberg Web of Carnage 1 by Christos Gage, Ram V, Francesco Manna, Ze Carlos, Erick Arciniega What If…? Dark: Loki 1 by Walt Simonson, Scot Eaton, Cam Smith, Scott Hanna, Andrew Dalhouse X-Men: Days of Future Past – Doomsday 1 by Marc Guggenheim, Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith, Yen Nitro Marvel Unlimited Cosmo the Space Dog 6 by Jason Loo, David Cutler, Jim Campbell Edge of Venomverse 5 by Clay McLeod Chapman, Gustavo Duerte Image Antarctica 1 by Simon Birks, Willi Roberts Fishflies 1 by Jeff Lemire Dark HorseSatoshi Groo in the Wild 1 by Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Carrie Strachan Lonesome Hunters: The Wolf Child 1 by Tyler Crook Panya: the Mummy's Curse 1 by Chris Roberson, Christopher Mitten, Michelle Madsen, Mike Mignola Savage Squad Six 1 by Robert Venditti, Brockton McKinney, Dalts Dalton, Geraldo Filho Ahoy Con and On 1 by Paul Cornell, Marika Cresta, Paul Little IDW Hunger and The Dusk 1 by G. Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose, Msassyk Rocketeer: In the Den of Thieves 1 by Stephen Mooney, David Messina TMNT Annual 2023 by Michael Walsh, Vlad Legostaev TMNT x Stranger Things 1 by Cameron Chittock, Fero Pe, Sofie Dodgson Boom Sirens of the City 1 by Joanne Starer, Khary Randolph Dynamite Gargoyles: Dark Ages 1 by Greg Weisman, Drew Moss, Martina Pignedoli Scout Death Drop Drag Assassin 1 by David Hazan, Alex Moore ComiXology Duck and Cover 1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Marcelo Maiolo OGNs Past Tense by Jason McNamara, Alberto Massaggia, Paul Little Eight Limbs by Stephanie Phillips, Giulia Lalli, Lee Loughridge Arca by Van Jensen, Jesse Lonergan, Patricio Delpeche Dear Rosie by Meghan Boehman, Rachael Briner Additional Reviews: Secret Invasion ep4, Black Hammer: Visions, Nine Perfect Strangers, Andre the Giant prose anthology News: new Thunderbolts series, Superman: Legacy casting for a trio of other DC heroes, Torunn Gronbeck taking over Carnage after Ram V, Marvel debuting fake teen heroes on variant covers, details on Ms. Marvel's resurrection, new Punisher coming, WGA and SAG Strike, Ms. Marvel to air on ABC, Stephanie Phillips writing Cap-Wolf, brief Hailey's On It update, death of Moon Knight, Universal line of comics starting with Dracula Ray pitches Sony's next big animated hit Trailers: Ahsoka, Wonka Comics Countdown (11 Jul 2023): 1.      Duck and Cover 1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Marcelo Maiolo 2.      Fishflies 1 by Jeff Lemire 3.      Danger Street 7 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart 4.      Great British Bump-Off 4 by John Allison, Max Sarin 5.      Deep Cuts 3 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Diego Greco, Igor Monti 6.      Dark Ride 7 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas 7.      Lamentation 3 by Cullen Bunn, Arjuna Susini, Hilary Jenkins 8.      Lonesome Hunters: The Wolf Child 1 by Tyle Crook 9.      Superman: Lost 5 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Jeromy Cox 10.  Spirit World 3 by Alyssa Wong, Haining, Sebastian Cheng

Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:55 - ComiXology Top 10 0:11:37 - News 0:35:49 - Green Lantern #2 (Jeremy Adams and Xermanico)  0:56:29 - Superman Lost #4 (Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan) 1:10:31 - Spirit World #2 (Alyssa Wong and Haining) 1:25:58 - PATREON Tim Drake Robin #8 1:34:30 - PATREON Batman and the Outsiders #4 1:43:51 - PATREON Noctera #12 1:53:23 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz

Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:11 - ComiXology Top 10 0:06:52 - News 0:26:16 - Green Lantern #1 (Jeremy Adams and Xermanico)  0:51:48 - Superman Lost #3 (Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan) 1:03:31 - Spirit World #1 (Alyssa Wong and Haining) 1:14:57 - Stargirl and the Lost Children #6  (Geoff Johns and Todd Nauck) 1:23:11 - Danger Street #6 (Tom King and Jorge Fornés) 1:41:02 - PATREON Batman and the Outsiders #3 1:56:34 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz

Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:50 - ComiXology Top 10 0:07:11 - News 0:20:37 - Quiz 0:58:31 - Superman Lost #2 (Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan) 1:11:28 - WildC.A.T.s #6 (Matthew Rosenberg and Tom Derenick) 1:21:06 - Danger Street #5 (Tom King and Jorge Fornés) 1:37:56 - PATREON Batman and the Outsiders #2 1:48:29 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz

DC June 2023 Solicits Comic Reviews: DC Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods 1 by G. Willow Wilson, Cian Tormey, Jordie Bellaire, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, John Livesay, Alex Guimaraes Multiversity: Harley Screws Up the DCU 1 by Frank Tieri, Logan Faerber Superman: Lost 1 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Jeromy Cox Bruce Wayne: Not Super OGN by Stuart Gibbs, Berat Pekmezci Marvel Hellcat 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, KJ Diaz X-Cellent Season Two 1 by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, Laura Allred Infinity Comics Avengers Unlimited 37 by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding, Chris Sotomayor Marvel's Voices 34: Negasonic Teenage Warhead by Andrew Wheeler, Carola Borelli, Brittany Peer Alligator Loki 21 by Alyssa Wong, Robert Quinn, Pete Pantazis Image Forged 1 by Greg Rucka, Eric Trautmann, Mike Henderson, Nolan Woodard No/One 1 by Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, Geraldo Borges, Mark Englert IDW Star Trek: Defiant 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Angel Unzueta, Marissa Louise ComiXology Grammaton Punch by Miles Gunter, Briane Andan, Lee Loughridge OGN Cryptid Club: A Nessie Situation by Michael Brumm, Jeff Mack The Last Man Vol 2 by Balak, Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville Ray's OGN Corner: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki Additional Reviews: Mandalorian 3.3, Picard 3.5, Billy Summers, Willy's Wonderland, Gotham Knights pilot, Thor by JMS/Gillen, Shazam 2, Scream 6, 65 News: Wild's End returning for a new volume, Mignola and Lemony Snicket doing a pinocchio graphic novel, Teen Titans movie, James Gunn to direct new Superman movie, Wayne Family Adventures coming to print, Image/Boom/Archie and a bunch of indies joining a new digital comics app, Nimona release info, Dreamer OGN announced, Uncanny Avengers by Duggan Trailers: Ghost and Molly McGee s2, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken Comics Countdown (15 Mar 2023): No/One 1 by Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, Geraldo Borges, Mark Englert Nocterra 12 by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Marcelo Maiolo Danger Street 4 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Batgirls 16 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Neil Googe, Geraldo Borges, Rico Renzi Spy Superb 5 by Matt Kindt, Sharlene Kindt Brzrkr 12 by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, Bill Crabtree Kaya 6 by Wes Craug, Jason Wordie, Andworld TMNT: The Last Ronin – The Lost Years 2 by Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman, S.L. Gallant, Ben Bishop, Maria Keane, Luis Antonio Delgado, Ifan Noor Justice Society of America 3 by Geoff Johns, Jerry Ordway, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire, John Kalisz Time Before Time 21 by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, Jorge Coelho, Chris O'Halloran

Image O-Rama: Supreme by Rob Liefeld, Brian Murray, Shawn McManus, and company, Love Everlasting by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, and Matt Hollingsworth, Art Brut by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Mat Lopes, and Last Barbarians #2 by Brian Haberlin and Geirrod Van Dyke, Superman-O-Rama: Superman: Strength by Scott McCloud, Aluir Amancio, Terry Austin, and Patricia Mulvihill, and Superman: Lost #1 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, and Jeromy Cox, Star Trek-O-Rama, Spectreman Heroes #5 by Matt Frank and company from Antarctic Press, plus a whole mess more!

Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:13:58 - ComiXology Top 10 0:25:22 - June 2023 Solicits 0:51:41 - Superman Lost #1 (Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan) 1:07:10 - Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #1 1:15:23 - Justice Society of America #3 (Geoff Johns and MIkel Janin & Jerry Ordway) 1:29:15 - Batgirls #16 (Becky Cloonan & Michael Conrad and Neil Googe) 1:37:45 - WildC.A.T.s #5 (Matthew Rosenberg & Christian Duce) 1:45:55 - Danger Street #4 (Tom King and Jorge Fornés) 2:07:18 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz

Send all House of the Dragon inquiries to askthemaester@gmail.com & don't forget to send  your weirdest, strangest, and funniest five star reviews to xray@crooked.com and we might read your review in the episode.On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight hit Bruce's Beachfront Bar! First in Previously On (2:28), Jason and Rosie discuss the sale of The CW and the latest Marvel crossover event A.X.E. Then in the first XRV appearance of Jason's classic segment Ask the Maester (20:30), he answers listener questions about House of the Dragon and Westeros. In the Airlock (39:12) they dive deep (deeep) into the premiere of the super charming She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, now available on Disney+Tune in every Friday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button!Nerd Out Submission Instructions!Send a short pitch and 2-3 minute voice memo recording to xray@crooked.com that answers the following questions: 1) How did you get into/discover your ‘Nerd Out?' (2) Why should we get into it too? (3) What's coming soon in this world that we can look forward to or where can we find it? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rkFollow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmediaCheck out the  X-Ray Vision DiscordPLUGS:Rosie's IG, website, author archive, & Letterboxd.The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision!She-Hulk: Attorney At Law's Creative Team on Reimagining This Hero's Origin Story by Rosie Knight for NerdistImmortal X-Men (2022) by Kieron Gillen and Lucas Werneck. The latest X-Men comic series follows The Quiet Council, the rulers of Krokoa and the most powerful people on Earth, as they decide the fate of the whole planet.A.X.E.: Judgment Day (2022) by Kieron Gillen and Valerio Schiti. The next Marvel Crossover Event is here and it pits the Avengers, The X-Men, and the Eternals in an epic conflict. Skaar - Hulk's son from the acclaimed World War Hulk (2007) story by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr., in which a rage-filled Hulk returns to Earth after being exiled to Sakaar by the Illuminati in Planet Hulk (1999) by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan. She-Hulk (2004-2005) and She-Hulk (2005-2009) by Dan Slott and Juan Bobillio (iconic covers by Greg Horn, some of which have inspired posters for the show). One of the most well-known She-Hulk comic runs and a big influence on the series.She-Hulk (2014-2015)  by Charles Soule and Javier Pulido. Another acclaimed run with clear influences on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Including a Jen / Daredevil moment we might see come true in the show! 

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On this week's comic book review podcast: Black Cat: King In Black #1 Marvel Written by Jed MacKay Art by C.F. Villa Blade Runner 2029 #1 Titan Comics Written by Mike Johnson Art by Andres Guinaldo The Expanse #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Corinna Bechko Illustrated by Alejandro Aragon Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… #3 IDW Written by Joe Hill Art by Gabriel Rodriguez Commanders in Crisis #3 Image Comics Written by Steve Orlando Art by Davide Tinto Rorschach #3 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Decorum #6 Image Comics Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mike Huddleston New Mutants #14 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala Art by Rod Reis Post Americana #1 Image Comics Story & Art by Steve Stroke Batman #105 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce Stillwater #4 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Al Ewing Illustrated by Simone Di Meo Wolverine: Black, White & Blood #2 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala, Saladin Ahmed and Chris Claremont Art by Greg Land, Kev Walker and Salvador Larroca Head Lopper #14 Image Comics Story and Art by Andrew Maclean Dark Nights: Death Metal #6 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Greg Capullo Seven to Eternity #15 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Drawn by Jerome Opeña The Immortal Hulk: King in Black #1 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Aaron Kuder The Immortal Hulk #42 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Joe Bennett Once & Future #14 BOOM! Studios Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Dan Mora SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's comic book review podcast: Black Cat: King In Black #1 Marvel Written by Jed MacKay Art by C.F. Villa Blade Runner 2029 #1 Titan Comics Written by Mike Johnson Art by Andres Guinaldo The Expanse #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Corinna Bechko Illustrated by Alejandro Aragon Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… #3 IDW Written by Joe Hill Art by Gabriel Rodriguez Commanders in Crisis #3 Image Comics Written by Steve Orlando Art by Davide Tinto Rorschach #3 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Decorum #6 Image Comics Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mike Huddleston New Mutants #14 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala Art by Rod Reis Post Americana #1 Image Comics Story & Art by Steve Stroke Batman #105 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce Stillwater #4 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Al Ewing Illustrated by Simone Di Meo Wolverine: Black, White & Blood #2 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala, Saladin Ahmed and Chris Claremont Art by Greg Land, Kev Walker and Salvador Larroca Head Lopper #14 Image Comics Story and Art by Andrew Maclean Dark Nights: Death Metal #6 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Greg Capullo Seven to Eternity #15 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Drawn by Jerome Opeña The Immortal Hulk: King in Black #1 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Aaron Kuder The Immortal Hulk #42 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Joe Bennett Once & Future #14 BOOM! Studios Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Dan Mora SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that came out this week, kicking it off with Black Cat, King in Black number one. I wish that rhymed, but it didn't. Marvel, written by Jed MacKay, art by C.F. Villa. This is of course tying into the King in Black event, but it's also bringing back the Black Cat title that I know Justin liked ever so much. This one, Felicia Hardy is dealing not only with Knull, the king of the symbiotes, but she's about to pull off a heist of her own. What did you think about this issue, Justin. Justin:              I think this is a great issue. I love this black cat series. I think Jed MacKay has a really great understanding of the character, the way that she speaks and we're in her head for a lot of the earlier series. Pete:                You love being in the characters heads. Justin:              I love. Isn't that the dream? God, if I could be in the head of Pete LePage and Alex Zalben on a daily Basis. Alex:                 Oh, that's delightful. [crosstalk 00:01:09]. Pete:                No, no way. Would not be good for you. Justin:              I spent a couple of weeks in Pete's head. I don't know what happened, if there was a lightning strike. [crosstalk 00:01:17]. Yeah, it was just as you'd expect. Pete:                Well, it was like what women want situation, but just with Pete. Justin:              I finally know what Pete wants, and it begins and ends with a meatball sub from the subway. And this issue, really great art, some fun stuff. Her and her team steal the Spider-Mobile and get to drive that one a bit. Pete:                Yeah, the Spider-Mobile was fun bit. I loved seeing that. Justin:              And this crosses into King in Black in such a fun, great way. It feels important and real, and the reveal, or the sort of mission at the end of the first issue is super fun. Pete:                I got to say, this is a great example of tie-ins done right. We've been reading a bunch of kind of tie-ins to this and it's like, “Wait, what? Is that really a tie-in?” This is done really well. It fits, it makes sense. It's really cool for the character. It gets you excited about the event. I was really impressed with this book. Alex:                 Well, it's also really good in on the Black Cat book, because clearly a lot of stuff has gone on there, which frankly I have not been reading. I think we only talked about one issue maybe at one point on The Stack or the live show. But this fills you in on everything you need to do very ably. You're able to jump in on her supporting cast and understand what's going on with them as well as her previous adventures over the course of this book. I agree, really fun stuff. I was very surprised how much I like this, and I'll definitely be reading more. Pete:                Also I just want to say the art is absolutely fantastic. Justin:              Yes. Thank you. Thank you guys for getting on board with this. You've really made my 2020 a perfect year. Alex:                 Even better than 2020 though is going to be Blade Runner 2029 number one from Titan Comics written by Mike Johnson, art by Andres Guinaldo. This is of course- Pete:                That's why you get paid the big bucks Zalbs. Alex:                 Thanks man. I do get so much money off of the show. This is clearly taking place in the very near future in the Blade Runner universe. Justin:              You make it sound like it's real. You're like, “This is our future.” Alex:                 I'll be upfront and honest about something. Justin:              Ooh. Alex:                 I've never seen Blade Runner. I've also never seen Blade Runner [crosstalk 00:03:33]. Pete:                No of the movies? Alex:                 I know what's going on because I live in the world and you can't avoid understand what's going to go on Blade Runner, so it wasn't a big surprise. I actually liked this despite not having ever seen those movies. I thought it was a pretty solid story of tracking down replicants. The main character was interesting. Pete:                Sorry, Alex. Alex:                 The character was interesting. I like this quite a bit. Pete:                I'm sorry, Alex. Alex. Alex:                 Hold on. Mike Johnson is a good writer of tie-ins, so clearly he knows what he's doing here and I think that works. Yes, Pete. Pete:                Because you've never seen any of the movies, no one gives a fuck what you have to say about this comic now. Justin:              Wow. Yeah, exactly. Pete:                Because if you haven't, if you don't know the material, shut the fuck up. Alex:                 No, I know. It is the ice skating competition movie. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 Where they have to do [crosstalk 00:04:21] the cutting edge. Oh, yeah [crosstalk 00:04:23]. Justin:              Oh, that's [crosstalk 00:04:25]. Surely you've seen the director's cut of Blade Runner then. Alex:                 No, I've seen the directors kind of cutting edge. Justin:              You just have seen the theatrical release. Alex:                 They called it the director's cutting edge is what they call it. Pete:                Oh, wow. Justin:              Yeah, the director's cut. Alex:                 I've also seen Cutting Edge 2049. Pete:                It keeps getting better every time you see it. Justin:              It's crazy, they're replicants. They're all replicants. I have seen the Blade Runner films. Pete:                Thank you. Now I want to know what you think of this. Justin:              Well, yeah, we shouldn't be allowed to comment on something if we haven't seen the underlying material. Hold on to that thought for anything else we're talking about this year. I thought this was really good and I agree with Alex, you don't actually really need to know a ton about Blade Runner except for Harrison Ford's theological underpinnings to his character when you're watching the director's [crosstalk 00:05:21]. Pete:                Yes. Thank you. Yes. Alex:                 I have seen Firewall, does that help? Justin:              No. If you've seen Air Force One, you've seen Blade Runner, my man. But the art of this book is really- Pete:                If you've seen Regarding Henry, then you have seen Blade. Justin:              Regarding Henry, I think that movie was fine. I look forward to the comic book adaptation. This book was good. It's a good story. The art is great. I love the tone of the art they have here. Pete:                Yeah, I really agree. I love the tone that the art sets up. It does a great job of really fitting into the world. Yeah, I was really impressed with this book. It really has a great pace to it, a lot of awesome action, some really fun moments where the replicate kind of gets their haircut and stuff like that. I thought the whole wall thing was really impressive. Always really thought this was a great, great comic, even though I've seen the Blade Runners and like them, this comic was kind of above and beyond that. Justin:              Classic flex. The art is almost Moebius like, I really like that. Pete:                Ooh. Alex:                 Yeah, this is very good stuff. Easy to get into, even if you haven't watch the stuff. Let's move on to another one and talk about The Expanse number one from BOOM! Studios written by Corinna Bechko, illustrated by Alejandro Aragon. Now I got to say this is another one, I've seen the first season and change of The Expanse. And of course I've seen The Expanse 2049. But I'll tell you without slamming it too much, this felt like the complete opposite of Blade Runner 2029 to me where I had no idea what was going on for most of this book. And it felt like you had to have watched the show to understand the characters, to understand the settings. And that was a real bummer to me because I enjoyed the first season. I would be happy to pick up an Expanse comic books, see more of this world, but I don't want to have to have watched every episode of the show to necessarily get into it. Did you guys feel the same way? Justin:              I've never seen The Expanse, but I understood every aspect of this comic book. Pete:                I have seen every episode of The Expanse. I have read the Bubblegum comic book series that Joe Blow did for a little while. I have read fan fiction. I am very well-educated in this and I thought it was spot. No, I haven't read any of it [inaudible 00:07:50]. Alex:                 It's funny that you did. I was pretty sure you were lying, but the fact that you didn't mention the novels that it's based on. Bubblegum first. Justin:              Joe Blow. Alex:                 But given that we don't necessarily have a familiarity with The Expanse. How do you feel this worked as a comic book? Justin:              No, I mean, I agree with you. This is definitely for fans. It is so rooted in … You have to know, I think you have to fully know the characters when you come into this book, there's not even a preamble to get us into the world and what's happening. And I think that's fine, it's definitely just not a book for someone who's never read or watched the show. Pete:                Yeah, it's tough if you're just kind of at a comic book shop or buy it however you do, because you're like Boom! Studios because they do great books. It's definitely a deep cut. I was definitely lost for a little bit. But kind of getting an idea of what's happening and by the end of it, it won me over. Art, I thought was fantastic. A lot of talking, but I'm kind of into it. I liked how it ended. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              And this ties into the X-Men. Alex:                 Yes, it does. It's a direct spinoff of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, everybody's favorite X-Men movie. Next one we're going to talk about Locke & Key, In Pale Battalions Go number three from IDW written by Joe Hill, art by Gabriel Rodriguez. Of course, this is a series that we're all in on. But this is wrapping up [crosstalk 00:09:18] the mini series before the mini series, which is kind of fascinating thing that they've been doing. Initially was supposed to be the sad man crossover which we're about to get into called [inaudible 00:09:28] that's going to be, I believe two issues long at this point. Alex:                 But then very slowly, they expanded outwards the amount of issues they were doing for this prequel that leads directly into it after this issue. And I think after the last issue we kind of know what the setup is going to be for the sad man Locke & Key crossover. But this is still wrapping up this three issue mini series. The story of what happens when one of the old timey Locke family members goes to war in World War I, comes back, brings some German soldiers back with him. Things go very, very badly. And in this issue Key house fights back in incredibly graphic and bloody ways. Pete, there were attack teddy bears in this issue. You have got to have loved this. Pete:                Oh my God, yeah. I love that whole teddy bear scene. This was just classic Locke & Key, amazing storytelling, the art going above and beyond in all the greatest ways. There's a moment where she's shutting the door, but it's like disappearing. It's just, Gabriel Rodriguez is a goddam legend. The moment where it was like, welcome to Key house motherfucker, it was just … This comic continues to be amazeballs every time these two team up is just absolute magic. It's just gross and fun and over the top and all the great ways. Yeah, I don't get tired of watching German soldiers die, and there's a fun little kind of ad in the back where it's Kinsey's comic corner, fantastic. Justin:              This was so upsetting as a story, just so well done and heartbreaking. And especially the fact that this is connected, it's the same family from among the stars story from back in the day, the one where they are- Alex:                 Is it over the moon? Justin:              Unlock the moon, sorry. Alex:                 Unlock the moon. Justin:              Unlock the moon, among the stars is what's written on his grave, it's just so tough. But the art in this book is so good. It's just so intense. And there's just dread throughout. We talked about this a lot with Locke & Key, the way that they're able to sort of have this low level hum of great narrative stress as you're reading this, because you feel for the characters and you know bad things are happening is so good. Something I noticed while reading this, and I don't know if this has been featured in any other thing or if it's maybe something to curb in the future. They feature the graveyard a couple of times in this book. And one of the characters, Fiona Locke, there's a little key hole in her gravestone. Do you feel like that's a … maybe there's something to be done there? Alex:                 Yeah, potentially. I mean, maybe it's like a zombie Key or something like that, or it'd bring back the dead Key. I mean, I think we could delve into spoilers here, but certainly the goal seems to be the current Locke patriarch in this continuity potentially heading down to hell to try to rescue his wife or something like that. Justin:              Yeah, maybe that's the doorway. He opens the door and goes down a pair of steps, a set of steps sort of Legend of Zelda style. One other thing I want to say real quick, the character- Alex:                 It's dangerous to go alone is what I have to say about that. Justin:              You are the guy that hands in the wooden sword. The character, one of the main characters here, the kid that goes to war is named Jonathan Tyler Locke. Jonathan Tyler is my brother's name. When I saw that in the grave, I was like, “Yo.” Pete:                Oh man, you should send them a screenshot, man. You know what I mean? Just be like, “Thinking of you bro. Hope you're good.” Because what's great is that you could cut it off because it says Jonathan Tyler, and then says Locke underneath. So you could totally do a little cut in there and just make it nice. Alex:                 Yeah, that'd be great to really fuck with your brother. To the point you were saying though Justin, I really liked that this story was in a very different mode than the Locke & Key title that we knew. It felt like it tells its own story with its own tone. It's a tragedy as opposed to the other one, which is a horror adventure story, and that's great. I'm really excited to see what they do with Helen gone. But the more different types of stories they can tell in this world, I think overall the better for its longevity, particularly as we know there is more coming. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Commanders in Crisis number three from Image Comics written by Steve Orlando, art by Davide Tinto. So Empathy is dead or is Empathy, because Empathy has come back to life and the commanders are trying to figure out exactly what's going on. I think we were pretty high on the first two issues of this book. Do you think it continues to hold up here on the third? Pete:                Yeah, I mean, I see Orlando as having a lot of fun with this. This is really cool the way it's written in the way that characters are. I love the voices and the different stuff. It kind of starts off really grody and kind of crazy in the beginning. But yeah, it gets a little emotional, but then kind of right back into the kind of humor and action I was impressed with how this ends. It does a great job of giving us a little bit of getting excited for the next issue at the end of each comic. Yeah, I continue to be impressed with this team and the different voices and stuff on it. This is a lot of fun. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. Steve Orlando is such an idea generator, you can see in all of his work his stories are super complex, calling on so much continuity. And I feel like with this, he sort of put it all, all of his just wild ideas in full throttle going forward. He's created all these characters and he has him just driving through all these different ideas. There's the multi-verse, there's superheroes just fighting on the ground. We have the villain here is the social callers. It's some sort of social media slash cell phone tech vampire or tech zombiefication for the situation. And it's just fun. It's a lot of new ideas all the time. Alex:                 From new ideas to old ideas, let's talk about Rorschach number three from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Ori Fornace. In this issue we find out more about the cowboy character that we've met in the first two, who was actually assassinated in the first issue of the book. We go back in time, find out about her backstory as the main detective investigates further, what was going on with her, this new old Rorschach. I really liked the sushi quite a bit, not just in terms of fleshing out Tom King's take on the world, but also how the story purposefully unfolded confusingly in terms of the timeline at first, but became clearer as it went on. I still don't know how this connects to the main narrative or exactly what our overall dramatic thrust is here necessarily, but as a one-shot one-off issue, I thought this was very well done. Pete:                Yeah, I agree. I'm really impressed with how crazy this is, but how this issue we're getting specific information about this main character that we're dealing with in this issue. And it's really impressive. There's just so much going on, but it's done in such a kind of cool way that keeps the story moving in such a creepy, but good way. Art and pace is phenomenal. This continues to be a very interesting, cool book, but it brings up this interesting point and I'm interested to get your guys' take on this. Sometimes to love your father, you have to shoot him in the head. How do you guys feel about that? Justin:              As fathers? Pete:                Yeah, as fathers with daughters. Alex:                 I have my kids sleep with a gun every night. Pete:                Smart. Alex:                 And every night I go to bed praying that they'll shoot me in the morning and so far it hasn't happened. Pete:                Wow. Alex:                 I just run right into the rooms and go [inaudible 00:17:43]. But then they say, “Good morning, daddy.” Pete:                Oh man. Alex:                 Disappointments, both of them. Justin:              What a startling vision of Alex's home life. Pete:                Same thing for you, Justin? Justin:              What's that? Pete:                Same for you with your daughters? Justin:              Yeah. No, I'm always waving a gun around the house. They're going to get there, I don't need to tell them quite as hard as Alex does. I want them to come to it on their own. Pete:                Okay. Yeah. Justin:              But I like this a lot. It's funny the last, this issue and the one before felt like a standalone issue with just lightly touching the events of the first issue. Pete:                Agree. Justin:              And I think, I mean this time, King does this a lot where you only realize the story he's telling a little bit into it. And I think it often works, I think it's working here. It's interesting that the characters we're learning about here are sort of conspiracy theorists. They believe that the squids affect your brain. And I wonder if that's, if Rorschach is going to believe that as well. Because it makes these characters maybe probably delusional. If he's commenting on believing in conspiracy theories, it feels like these characters are not understanding reality. Which Rorschach's whole thing was believing these outlandish things. But this one happened to be true in the watchman. Justin:              So to have Rorschach believe something that isn't true is an interesting take. I'm very curious, it makes him less of heroes, less of a character you can get behind if he's totally on this crazy path. I don't know, it's just like a lot of time King stuff, it's really interesting to see where it's going. Pete:                Agree. Alex:                 Next up, Decorum number six from Image Comics written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Mike Huddleston. We're finally bringing together this issue, which is wild that we're doing it in issue six. But we have this courier character that's been training to be an assassin. At the same time these weird [inaudible 00:19:52] beings who've been doing something, who even knows what. But in this issue they finally come down and hire the assassins and say, “Hey, can you find this egg for us?” And then we kind of avoid that in the back of the issue, but it's still- Justin:              They're prepping for their egg mission. Alex:                 Sure, they're prepping for egg mission. There are points particularly on the assassin side of things that are so funny and so fun, particularly because they're coming in the middle of this wild, very dead sci-fi and Saturday. I am finding myself loving this book more and more with every issue. Justin:              A 100% agree. I thought this issue was great. And all of the things we've talked about with Hickman, both in this book and with his X-Men work where it's like, what's he doing? What's all this information like. It was all worth it to get to this where it's super fun the whole time, the story's coming into focus, we're seeing the mission. And the characters are set up in a way where it's going to be exciting to watch them bump into each other. Pete:                Yeah, I agree. This was a really solid issue. Justin:              Yeah, Pete. Pete:                I felt like this clicked into place for me. The art is phenomenal, a lot of different styles mixing here, but done in such a great way, it doesn't feel like a separate story. It's really, really impressive how well the art kind of makes this all work. Yeah, I'm excited for more. I'm a little worried about Hickman fucking me because there's all these weird symbols everywhere that don't need to be. But so far the art is really winning me over, so this is great. Justin:              Pete, the original Hick maniac coming around for Decorum. I got to say though, the symbols and all of the extra pages, I think they do serve a purpose. They let you digest what you've seen before and see that it's all sort of a picture frame that holds the story. Alex:                 Because their chapter breaks is essentially [inaudible 00:21:49]. Pete:                I thought you were going to say a palate cleanser, Justin. Justin:              Maybe, I don't know. You're supposed to have a little bit of sorbet when you see the Decorum, just a light sorbet. Alex:                 Every time I get to one of those picture pages I eat an entire pint of Chunky Monkey. Pete:                Nice. Justin:              Chunky Monkey picture pages. Pete:                I'm more of a, what is it? Chunky hubby or what was that? Hubby- Justin:              Chubby Hubby. Alex:                 Chubby Hubby. Pete:                That's the one that I like. Alex:                 Chubby Hubby is very good. Pretzels in that, always love pretzels in an ice cream. Justin:              I don't like [inaudible 00:22:24]. Alex:                 Here's a couple of tastes that go great together, the New Mutants number 14 from Marvel written by Vita Ayala, art by Rod Reis. This kicks off Vita Ayala's run on the title, bringing a bunch of the original New Mutants together minus Cipher, which is a huge missed opportunity of course, I think we can all agree on that. But man, I love this issue. I thought this was so smart, so well done. As a lot of the recent X-Men stuff has been in terms of focusing in, here you have the older New Mutants teaching the younger New Mutants how to use their powers. They come up with a creative thing that I don't think we've ever seen on the X-Men before, where the new mutants characters combine their powers to figure out new ways of using them, which was paced out so well, it's so fun. Alex:                 There's a thing where I think it's two pages earlier, Rahne and Magik by their powers where they're one teleporting Wolf in, and then two pictures later, it's five teleporting Wolfs out, which is very funny. It was just perfectly paced out. The other thing that I loved about this book, and this is obviously very much on purpose, but bringing the Amahl Farouk, The Shadow King here, who also seems to be in some way on Krakoa, which is very suspicious. But clearly Rod Reis is channeling Bill Sienkiewicz, who is the definitive Shadow King artist here, also the definitive New Mutants artist. But it very much feels like its own thing. I love this from top to bottom. Pete, I know you're probably going to have some anti X-Men bias going on here with this book. Pete:                Yes. Alex:                 But I thought this was really good. This is one of my favorite books of the week. Justin:              Because you hate mutants. Alex:                 I thought this was so well done. And I was so happy with how it was executed. Justin:              You call them flat scans, right Pete? Because you're a mutant hater. Alex:                 Pete by the way, since you guys can't see on Skype is wearing one of the smiley robot suits that the right has. Pete:                I don't even know what you're talking about. All right. So the art in this is phenomenal. It's like some parts are almost like water color, it's so beautiful. Magik is just glorious in this, some really fun paneling. There's some stuff that's going on that I don't understand. But I do like the idea of bringing The Shadow King into this. I mean, if you've got fuck Island, you might as well have The Shadow King. Justin:              That's your excuse for everything. Pete:                And also it makes me want to rewatch Legion. Justin:              Yeah. I feel like there's definitely some channeling of Legion here, which is great. And I agree with you, Alex, combining the New Mutants powers in that way, it's very like Final Fantasy, the video game in a cool way. And I really appreciated that. Great book. Alex:                 Yeah. Just super fun across the board. Next up, here's a wild one, Post Americana number one form Image Comics, story and art by Steve Skroce. This is a future society where everything has fallen apart in America. We start off with some sort of militaristic remnants of America who seem ready to take the country back. But of course, or maybe they're actually fascistic, we don't really know. One person escapes, encounters some insane people that are in the bad lands, including cannibals and other people, find a bad-ass woman who's ready to take the back. It is wild. It is bloody. It's over the top. It's often funny, like when chickens just rip apart a dude. Justin:              That was funny. Pete:                Don't fuck with chickens man. Alex:                 The art in particular reminds me a lot of Jose Von Ryp I think is his name, the guy who does a lot of stuff for Valiant, and he did Crossed as well. Pete:                Oh, yeah, reminds me of Crossed. Justin:              This feels very Crossed to me both in substance and style. Alex:                 But I enjoyed this, I enjoyed the tone of the characters and the dialogue a lot. Just, they felt very different to me in fresh and ridiculous in exactly the right way. How'd you guys feel about it? Pete:                Yeah, I was really impressed with this. This was a lot of fun. It was really over the top, lot of action, lot of violence. You got to love that. This was a very cool interesting take. Yeah, it's hard to know who to kind of root for here with what's going on. I mean, America kind of looked like the evil empire but we'll see how this all unfolds. But man, what a great first issue to get you pumped up for what's going to happen? But yeah, man, it's exciting and fucked up. Justin:              You don't know how to root for it Pete, so you're maybe rooting for the cannibals. Pete:                Yeah, you don't know who to root for here, man. Justin:              Because let me say the cannibals who we meet at the end of the book- Pete:                Maybe rooting for the chickens. Justin:              Lot of human skin fashion in this last page. Alex:                 A lot of them were wearing hair suits, I would call them. Justin:              Like our facial, like faces sown into [crosstalk 00:27:16]. Pete:                Or skull in front of your junk. Justin:              The leader's wearing a button-down made of human faces. It's wild. Alex:                 Maybe they're good. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              So you never know. Alex:                 Maybe they're the good guys. Justin:              They clearly have a strong sense- Pete:                Because you've got to use everything. You've got to use every part of what you're using. Justin:              Well, let me ask you, don't you think- Alex:                 Just like I said to Jeanine back in the day of the comedy club, you got to use every part of the [inaudible 00:27:39]. Justin:              Wow. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              Wow. Sorry, I'm still stunned by that. Do you think, if you're a cannibal and you're butchering the meat. Pete:                Sure. Justin:              Do you cut the skin off? I feel like if I'm eating Turkey or if I'm eating some other, sometimes I eat the skin. Pete:                Yeah, definitely. Justin:              Why are these people leaving all the skin behind? Alex:                 It's probably too thick, right? Humans whose skin is too thick. Justin:              Not Pete skin. Pete:                Only one way to tell Zalbs. Justin:              Pete's very thin skin. Alex:                 Great point. I'll tell you what, after my children shoot me to death, I'll tell them to cook me and eat me and let me know how it goes. [crosstalk 00:28:27]. Pete:                Yeah. Let us know how it goes. Justin:              Yeah, let us know. And we can come over. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:28:32] podcast. Justin:              Let me work … We'll work out the menu. Alex:                 Yeah. You got to start with some survey I think between every dish. Good book, definitely pick it up. Batman number 105 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Carlo Pagulayan and Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez and Christian Duce. This is the final part of the Ghost-Maker story, and it doesn't end I think quite how anybody necessarily expected. It also seems to maybe be the end of James Tynion's run on Batman- Pete:                What? Alex:                 … which is surprising in and of itself. Well, I don't know. I mean, he seems to be tying stuff up before a future state. Pete:                Well, maybe he's just cleaning, getting a fresh start for his new story arc. I think this was a really great … It's nice to see Harley Quinn open up, get a little emotional here with the kid clown on her. I really liked the kind of flashback with the Ghost-Maker and Batman stuff, nice to get all that. And then we kind of had a nice moment. I don't know how much we want to spoil here, but reading I was like, “Aw.” I thought it was … you don't get to see as much. It was nice to see a little Batman being a little soft. Justin:              I was sort of surprised about that choice at the end. I expected Ghost-Maker to be either a villain that is someone who bothers Batman in Gotham or someone who leaves and maybe works in the shadows to cause a problem for Batman. The way it ended, I was surprised by, and I don't know if I love it. Pete:                Oh, come on man. Justin:              But the everything else in the book I thought was great and I've really liked the art in this book and the way they're able to sort of seamlessly transition between artists. Alex:                 I liked it more for Batman than Ghost-Maker, if that makes sense. I like the idea that Batman is trying to be more compassionate [inaudible 00:30:29], but Ghost-Maker at the end and saying, “I've tried to kill you most of my life, but you know what, let's be friends.” Seemed a little- Justin:              Let's be coworkers. Alex:                 Yeah. Which I don't know, I guess we'll have to see how it plays out. But I agree with you, I think it was a little quick there even though I enjoyed the issue. Pete:                I mean if Batman can be friends with like Damian and a bunch of other people who are at different stages of maybe being evolved. Justin:              Well, he's his father. Pete:                Yeah. But still he's kind of a psychopath. And so I feel like this works, Batman's opening up to this person and might as well try to work with them to hopefully get Ghost-Maker to a better place. Alex:                 All right. Fair enough. Let's move on and talk about Stillwater number four from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Ramon K. Perez. This takes place in a town where nobody ever dies. One guy comes into the town, finds out about it from the outside, but turns out he was actually born there. This issue, we flash back and find out that his history, how he was taken outside of the town and exactly what happened. I like this issue quite a bit and particularly coming in issue four, I think that was a smart place to put this because waiting much longer to parse out these mysteries might've kind of frustrating. But I liked the answers that we got personally. Justin:              I agree, and I love the … Ramon Perez's art is so good. I've been a fan of his for a long time and really like it here. This book has such a good tone. It feels like it's ready-made to be a TV show. And the characters are really well-made. Pete:                Yeah, this is very interesting. We kind of have this … we're finally getting pieces that kind of make sense, clicking into place here about our main character and why he's coming back to this place and what it means and what he's a part of. And it's too bad they didn't kind of push this, I think earlier a little bit, because they could have had like a baby boss tie-in real easy. You had a very- Alex:                 Boss Baby. Pete:                Boss Baby, yeah, sorry. But like that smart baby in the beginning, that could have really tied in nicely. Alex:                 Cool. All right. Let's move on and talk about We Only Find Them When They're Dead number four from Boom! Studios written by Al Ewing, illustrated by Simone Di Men. Di Men, Is that right? Or did that auto correct? Di Menco I think. Justin:              Simone Di Men. Alex:                 Simone Di Men. Justin:              Simone Di Meo. Pete:                Di Meo, yeah. D-I-M-E-O. Alex:                 Thank you very much. My auto correct is out of control. Justin:              That's crazy that it changed that letter from O to N, it's crazy. Alex:                 Nuts, it's disgusting is what it is. Justin:              They're right next to each other in the alphabet. Alex:                 This book is fascinating to read because I think the art and the coloring in particular almost overpower the story of everything that's going on. It's beautiful to look at, but sometimes honestly a little hard to follow at this point. Justin:              Yeah, it's funny, it's a book that I wish I had the hard copy of. Pete:                Yeah, exactly. Justin:              Because I really think that would make it a little cleaner. It's a book that I want to just be further away from when I'm reading it, because it is such a wash of color. I appreciate the choices. I think it is really cool and different. And I don't know enough about what's happening to know where we're headed. But I still trust the storytelling here. It's Al Ewing who I think is great. Pete:                Yeah, I agree. I don't mean to kind of echo the old demand of what we're saying, like, “Oh, it makes it hard to read.” But I think it's- Alex:                 Did you guys look at it with your spectacles on? Pete:                Yeah. I had one of the bifocals gone and it still didn't work, but yeah, it's really cool. The art, the paneling, the really pushing stuff, making the story move, helping the action, which is great. But just sometimes because the layouts are so intense, it's a little tough to kind of follow so it takes a couple of reads, but if we were holding the physical comic, I think it wouldn't be an issue. Alex:                 Next up, Wolverine: Black, White & Blood number two from Marvel written by Vita Ayala, Saladin Ahmed and Chris Claremont. Art by Greg Land, Kev Walker, and Salvador Larroca. As with the first issue, there's three stories of Wolverine, three different adventures. I got to tell you, I thought the first issue was pretty good. It was well done. I didn't love absolutely everything in it. This issue is great. Just really well done. And in particular, one of the things I was so impressed by was Greg Land takes a lot of knocks for his art and potentially rightly so. But stripping all the color out of it and all the metallic wash and shine that usually goes over his characters. And just in that story, focusing on the black and the white and the occasional splashes of red really emphasized how good and dynamic his art is. And Vita Ayala leaned into that with a story, which I thought was great as well. I was really impressed overall with nearly every story on this issue. Pete:                Yeah, I agree. I think this issue is really kind of clicking. This makes a lot more sense, this whole black, white and blood. I was just blown away by the art, the action, the violence, it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, a lot of fun, a lot of great Wolverine kind of stuff, that if you're a Wolverine fan, you know about this character, so it kind of bounces all over, which is great. I was really impressed. Two or three really solid stories in this book. Justin:              I thought the art was great across the board, I love, it feels like they put them, these stories in a particular order where it's sort of the most black and white, the first story, and it gets redder as the issue goes on. [crosstalk 00:36:36]. Yeah. It's funny on the live show, Alex, you talked about the cliche of Wolverine being in a bar and then having an adventure. And it felt like especially the first two stories were very like Wolverines in the woods and then somebody gets him. It felt like it was dealing with those tropes, living in those tropes a bit. But the Chris Claremont story I thought was … it was my favorite of the three, which I was surprised about. But in general I like the book. Alex:                 Well, I mean, to that point, I think the things that worked about both of these to me, the same thing that didn't quite work about the first two stories in the first issue of this, where that they stood back and let the art do their thing, that they were like, “Yeah, we're going to do classic Wolverine setups,” but it's all about setting up Greg Land. It's all about setting up Kev Walker to do the thing that they do, which I thought was really nice. Next up, Head Lopper number 14 from Image Comics, story and art by Andrew MacLean, continuing the Pete block we have here on The Stack. Justin:              Pete block. Alex:                 In this issue some heads get lopped, I think a head. Pete:                Yeah, maybe [crosstalk 00:37:45]. Justin:              A head finally gets lopped. Pete:                Huge head. Yeah, we get a Medusa, old head lopper goes up against Medusa. This is just glorious. I mean, plus it starts with a double page spread of a map, which I'm a sucker for. And yeah, this is just a fantastic story of kind of like Conan the Barbarian type of thing, wandering the earth, having adventures, hanging out with the witches as you do. And yeah, this is kind of a fun day, head lopper has a little bit of a team working with them now. This is just continues to be a bad-ass fantastic book that doesn't try too much and just stays in its fucking wheelhouse. Justin:              That's the dream, stay in your fucking lane artists. But I do, this is a fun book. This is like a modern Usagi Yojimbo. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Did we say that last time? Because I see why Pete likes it, it's very good. I like it as well. I thought the witch head was going to get turned to stone, I really did. Pete:                Oh yeah. Justin:              I was worried. Pete:                That would've been crazy. Justin:              Yeah. I also liked that this is clearly a huge universe, a long adventure that we want to be able to go on for a long time, and I hope we get to. Alex:                 Next up Dark Nights: Death Metal number six from DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, art by Greg Capullo. We are getting towards the end here as the United forces of every single hero and villain in the DC Universe, fight back against the Batman who laughs and his united sources of dark Batmans and dark planets and things like that. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is off on her own mission to try to save the universe at the universal forge, I believe it's called. I continue to be struck by not so secretly, but how this is almost secretly like a Wonder Woman series, which I think is kind of great. It gets away from Superman and Batman always being the leads and turns the focus on her. And the solution she figures out towards the end here. I thought it was really fun and really simple and really great. And just overall, again, just a fun issue of this wildly over the top series. Pete:                This continues to be a lot of fun. I really, really love this issue. Things are starting to finally maybe go in the good guys direction, which is very exciting, epic pages, some old school shout-outs and some touching moments with Clark and Lois and then Clark and Bruce. I fucking love this shit. Justin:              I'm just waiting for the space Wolverine to pop his claws. It's about time he popped them and got into the action, you know what I mean? Pete:                You're a piece of shit. Alex:                 If there's a low bow, why isn't there a high bow? Justin:              That's so good, or a tie bow. Pete:                Oh boy. Justin:              I think it's very funny to me that in this book, the Batman who laughs has been elevated to a god. And it's funny to think that it's just a Bruce Wayne. That's just a regular Bruce Wayne under there, who's just had a couple bad days. Alex:                 The weirder part to me, there were two weird things in this issue. Not necessarily bad things, but seeing Barbatos' face finally whereas I was like, “Oh, that's not a weird looking dude in there, under that giant cloak. That's pretty strange.” And then the other one was Superman and Lois saying goodbye to each other. Everybody else was great. I loved everybody else. And even- Pete:                What is your problem there? Alex:                 Then said goodbye, what did Superman say? Superman was like … Lois was like, “Superman, you're always the son that I looked towards.” And Superman is like, “You're the lead of my story.” Justin:              Yeah. You're always my number one lead I think she says. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Yeah. That was the point where I was like, “Shut up.” Pete:                Why? Justin:              Wow. Pete:                Why you cold hearted motherfucker? Alex:                 It's stupid. That's a stupid thing to say when you're about to die, don't say that. Justin:              I have it here, “Lois, thank you for this life, for our son, for being my true home planet.” Pete:                Yeah, that's fucking beautiful. Justin:              Very sweet from a long haired mostly dead Superman. And then she said, “Thank you, Clark.” Pete:                [crosstalk 00:42:02] complimenting his hair was hysterical. Justin:              Thank you, Clark, for being the best lead a girl could ask for. And then someone off panel, get a room. Pete:                All right. First off, Zalben fuck you man. I thought that was a great thing for Lois to say. Alex:                 I don't know. That was kind of like, and I worked in a newspaper. Pete:                Fuck you. Justin:              She doesn't love him. She just is with him to keep the news flowing. Alex:                 Yeah, exactly. Also, what is she doing there? Where has she been the entire time? The fact that she is [crosstalk 00:42:34] to be like, “And I'm also here.” Justin:              She's covering the end of the universe for the daily [crosstalk 00:42:40]. Pete:                You know what Zalb, she doesn't have tO prove shit to you. She can come and go as she pleases. Alex:                 She's just hastily writing out a newspaper on some dead Robin Skinner or something like that. Justin:              Yeah, exactly. This just in, holy shit, [inaudible 00:42:56] dead. Pete:                If you're reading this congratulations. Justin:              Bear with me readers because this is confusing. So there's a dark forge of … Alex:                 There's going to be a lot of bi-lines on this one, but fun book. Let's move on and talk about Seven to Eternity number 15 from image comics written by Rick Remender, drawn by Jerome Opena. This is a huge issue for this book. Our protagonist has slowly been working way towards a place that potentially could make him immortal. We think it has been for reasons of helping his family. In this issue it becomes clear, 100% absolutely is not. And he goes from, I would argue being the hero of the book to turning out to be the villain the whole time, which I think is phenomenal in the best Rick Remender way of doing things. What'd you guys think about this? Justin:              And conversely, the villain from the book, the Mud King is sort of becoming the hero. Alex:                 Yeah, 100%. Justin:              And I would guess that was Rick Remender's perhaps goal for the series. And he's done a great job of really just slowly leading us away from our expectations from the very first couple issues of the series. But really this issue, the art is so good. It's a real like everything is just really well done from the beginning to the end, a lot of big splash pages, it's so good. Pete:                This is classic Remender, just like you think you understand, you think … I was so excited. I was like, “Oh, this is great. Okay. We're finally going to have,” and then at the end I was like, “Wait, what? Goddam Remender, man.” He is a very impressive writer. This continues to be a ton of fun. And the twists and turns are very enjoyable. I'm very nervous about what's going to happen moving forward, but man, the art and the action are just glorious. Alex:                 Great stuff. Let's move on and talk about our Immortal Hulk block two issues [crosstalk 00:45:05]. Justin:              Hulk block. Alex:                 The Immortal Hulk King in Black number one written by Al Ewing, art by Aaron Kuder. The Immortal Hulk 42 written by Al Ewing, art by Joe Bennett. Starting with the first one, this obviously again is a tie into King in Black. Here, so many things going on at the same time. There's no reason this should work with the amount of things they have happening. But it's not only an Immortal Hulk book, which is a thing in and of itself. It's not only a tie into King in Black. It's not only a Christmas story. It's also a completely silent issue at the same time. And it is phenomenal. Pete:                One of my favorites. This is like, when people ask you like, “Oh, what's your favorite Christmas story?” This now goes to the top of the list, black Christmas. This is just so cool. And so much is said about Hulk without any words. This really is just a classic Hulk story. Oh my God, this is so great, so much fun. Justin:              This is your favorite Christmas story now, more than the movie Christmas story. Pete:                No. It's one of my favorite Christmas comics, [crosstalk 00:46:15]. Justin:              If you have children, you'll read this aloud to them on Christmas. Pete:                Yes, I will. Justin:              Which will be [crosstalk 00:46:21] reading. Alex:                 Say, “Hey kids, gather around, it's time for the horrifically wildly smiling Hulk story.” Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 The way Aaron Kuder draws, this is these … If you haven't been reading Immortal Hulk, Hulk is kind of split into different personalities. He keeps morphing between different things. Here we mostly get the skinny childlike Hulk, who's been showing up. He also shows up in the next issue we're going to talk about. We also get Joe Fixit shows up for a little- Justin:              Yeah, he does. Alex:                 … die hard style action at one point, which is super fun. But yeah, man, this is just great, just a great story. So well-drawn by Aaron Kuder, so well written by Al Ewing. Justin:              The art is so good. Alex:                 Again, there's no reason they should work with the amount of things they have going on here, but it's a wonderful one-shot. Justin:              Yeah, it's really, truly great. One of the best issues on the stands right now. Alex:                 Let's move on then and talk about Immortal Hulk number 42, which is the ongoing story of the Immortal Hulk. Here we get a little break as the Hulk fights The Thing, actually lays out everything that's been going on with him, which I think is the first time in 42 issues any of the superheroes have kind of found out what has actually been going on with the Hulk here, even though he understands the only part of it. And Thing figures it out too, understands the different [inaudible 00:47:38] Fixit and the other Hulk and everything that's going on, they eat some hotdogs at Coney Island. Pete:                You're goddam right. You got to do it while you're there. Alex:                 Delicious. And it ends with of course, a very typical terrifying paddle right at the end there for what's coming up next. But again, a fantastic issue of this book. And I love seeing The Thing, Hulk rivalry in a new light, it's great. Justin:              Yeah. You really get to see the tender side of The Thing coming out here, which I thought was really good. And their conversation at the hot dog shop was really nice- Pete:                The hotdog shop. Justin:              … getting into like, yeah, sandwich shop, hot dog I guess being a sandwich in that case. Pete:                Oh man. Justin:              Hot dog is not a sandwich. Pete:                Yeah. And the way they talk about the afterlife, The Thing coming back and being bar mitzvah'd and rediscovering some sort of spirituality or having a second spirituality 13 years after they got bombarded with the cosmic rays, I thought was an interesting take. I'll talk about Joe, but just a really smart issue touching on a bunch of ideas and really sad watching the whole fight and cry. Alex:                 I mean, I'll just mention just on the whole thing story where he's talking about how the 13 years there that was him being reborn. I know that's something that [inaudible 00:49:02] covered and is one of the thing. But from a Jewish perspective, I got a little choked up, that's something that they don't really talk about a lot in the books is that aspect of The Thing. And I think Al Ewing wrote it in a really sweet way and paste it out in a really sweet way. That was very nice to see. It meant a lot. Justin:              Now we talked about this on the live show, but the podcast just turned 14. Should we have had a bar mitzvah for you since we've been doing this for 13 years? Alex:                 Yeah, no problem. I'll shoot you guys a tow report and we could read that in the next live show. Pete:                Oh, that would be great. Justin:              I would love to. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Plus we get to go play video games and stuff or something, right. Alex:                 Sure, that's how that works. Justin:              Isn't there some fun thing? Alex:                 Yeah, you get to have a party afterwards. Justin:              Okay. I'm in. Pete:                Yeah, this continues to be amazing. Really great use of The Thing in this, love The Thing's new kicks, glorious. Also really fantastic cover, really love the cover. Yeah, just when you think this story, it gets so weird and so grotesque, but also the heart in the story is really phenomenal, it's very touching. The humanization of these kinds of grotesque characters if you will is fantastic. I cannot believe what they're doing in this whole comic. It's really unprecedented. Alex:                 Last but not least, let's talk about Once & Future number 14 from Boom! Studios written by Kieron Gillen and art by Dan Mora. In this issue, we're wrapping up a couple of things as I believe they fight Guen, or they are Guen. I don't know, I honestly missed the last issue, so I'm not [inaudible 00:50:47] keeping up. But there's some bloody stuff, it's a fight continuity stuff that happens and this title continues to be a ton of fun. Pete:                Yeah. I mean this whole game thing that it starts with, and I mean to say the art is spectacular is an understatement. It's just so breathtaking and makes things … you're feeling the stuff that is happening. It's just so intense and amazing. And then you just have this bad-ass grandmother right in the middle of it. Every issue is just glorious and it continues to be. I don't know why they don't turn this into a goddam movie or TV show. It's just so good. I want to see it in all the different iterations, if it could … Just so many great characters, so much fun. This is really just glorious. Justin:              There's a lot of stories about stories, particularly in comics. And I think this one does a great job of making it more complex and it's a little bit trickier, it really feels like a heightened version of so many things are touched on, where it's like, no, the story's, the thing we're inside a story. And in this our main characters are inside multiple stories at once and they're competing, they're juggling them. But it's also like they're having a great time, the art is so like high-octane action movie. It's really fun. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Great stuff. All right. That's it for this week's episode of The Stack, if you'd like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube, come hang out. Chat with us about comic books, iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. 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On this week's comic book review podcast: Captain America #25 Marvel By Ta-Nehesi Coates & Leonard Kirk Back-up by Anthony Falcone and Michael Cho Rorschach #2 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Sea of Sorrows #1 IDW Publishing Written by Rich Douek Art and colors by Alex Cormack Marvel Indigenous Voices #1 Marvel By Jeffrey Verge, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger, Stephen Graham Jones, Taboo & B. Earl, Weshoyot Alvitre, Kyle Charles, and David Cutler Barbalien: Red Planet #1 Dark Horse Comics Script by Tate Brombal Story by Jeff Lemire and Tate Brombal Art by Gabriel Hernández Walta Commanders in Crisis #2 Image Comics Written by Steve Orlando Art by Davide Tinto The Amazing Spider-Man #53 Marvel Written by Nick Spencer Art by Mark Bagley Dark Nights: Death Metal #5 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Greg Capullo Seven to Eternity #14 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Drawn by Jerome Opeña Venom #30 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Luke Ross Usagi Yojimbo #14 IDW Publishing Written, art and letters by Stan Sakai Batman #103 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki and Guillem March Black Magick #16 Image Comics Written by Greg Rucka Art by Nicola Scott Juggernaut #3 Marvel Written by Fabian Nicieza Art by Ron Garney You Look Like Death: Tales From The Umbrella Academy #3 Dark Horse Comics Story by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon Art & Colors by I.N.J. Culbard Stillwater #3 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez The Immortal Hulk #40 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Joe Bennett Big Girls #4 Image Comics Story & Art by Json Howard Widowmakers #1 Story by Devin Grayson Pencils and Inks by Michele Bandini Ice Cream Man #21 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo X-Force #14 Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy and Gerry Duggan Art by Joshua Cassara Hellions #6 Marvel Written by Zeb Wells Art by Carmen Carnero Cable #6 Marvel Written by Gerry Duggan Art by Phil Noto SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's comic book review podcast: Captain America #25 Marvel By Ta-Nehesi Coates & Leonard Kirk Back-up by Anthony Falcone and Michael Cho Rorschach #2 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Sea of Sorrows #1 IDW Publishing Written by Rich Douek Art and colors by Alex Cormack Marvel Indigenous Voices #1 Marvel By Jeffrey Verge, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger, Stephen Graham Jones, Taboo & B. Earl, Weshoyot Alvitre, Kyle Charles, and David Cutler Barbalien: Red Planet #1 Dark Horse Comics Script by Tate Brombal Story by Jeff Lemire and Tate Brombal Art by Gabriel Hernández Walta Commanders in Crisis #2 Image Comics Written by Steve Orlando Art by Davide Tinto The Amazing Spider-Man #53 Marvel Written by Nick Spencer Art by Mark Bagley Dark Nights: Death Metal #5 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Greg Capullo Seven to Eternity #14 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Drawn by Jerome Opeña Venom #30 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Luke Ross Usagi Yojimbo #14 IDW Publishing Written, art and letters by Stan Sakai Batman #103 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki and Guillem March Black Magick #16 Image Comics Written by Greg Rucka Art by Nicola Scott Juggernaut #3 Marvel Written by Fabian Nicieza Art by Ron Garney You Look Like Death: Tales From The Umbrella Academy #3 Dark Horse Comics Story by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon Art & Colors by I.N.J. Culbard Stillwater #3 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez The Immortal Hulk #40 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Joe Bennett Big Girls #4 Image Comics Story & Art by Json Howard Widowmakers #1 Story by Devin Grayson Pencils and Inks by Michele Bandini Ice Cream Man #21 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo X-Force #14 Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy and Gerry Duggan Art by Joshua Cassara Hellions #6 Marvel Written by Zeb Wells Art by Carmen Carnero Cable #6 Marvel Written by Gerry Duggan Art by Phil Noto SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What is up, everybody. Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete Alex:                 And we have the pack stack for you today. We've got so many comics to talk about. Pete:                [crosstalk 00:00:19] that there is a lot of comics on Stack's before this. This is a whole another level of Stack. Justin:              This is serious. Alex:                 I got a timer going, we're going to do 25 seconds per comic. 100%. Definitely, no fat on this show is what I like to say [crosstalk 00:00:35]. Let's cut all the X-Men book if you're cutting fat. Come on. Justin:              Those are nice and leam. Those are very fun. Yeah. They're right in the right length. We will not do any sort of deviation, no tangents, for God's sakes. Alex:                 No bits. Justin:              No bits. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              Who's got time for those. Alex:                 Nobody has time for bits. Speaking of bits, have you guys ever tried alphabets? Because that's a good series, surprisingly. Pete:                [crosstalk 00:01:02]. Justin:              Yes. What I do is I start the day with alphabets, jump right into some alphabet soup for lunch, and then I have a dinner of my own choosing. Pete:                Wow. That really fall off there at the end. Alex:                 Man. You're on Alpha Watchers, right? Justin:              That's right [inaudible 00:01:19]. Alex:                 Let's talk about, speaking of letters, specifically the letter A and whether it stands for France or not. Let's talk about Captain America, number 25 for Marvel by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Leonard Kirk, backup by Anthony Falcone and Michael Cho. It was a big anniversary issue for captain America. So I figured it was worth talking about, but this is right in the middle of a huge arc that they've been doing for this title for a while now, as captain America is basically fighting against all of his villains along with the daughters of Liberty, is that what the group is called? Justin:              That is correct. Alex:                 Big things go down on this issue. I got to tell you, I liked the main story. I thought it was fine as part of the continuing story, but I thought the backup was real good. Justin:              Yes. That's when I was reading this, despite the fact that it is a number 25, the first story, I was like, “This is pretty good. This is just Ta-Nehisi Coates as both this Captain America and Black Panther is always writing sort of one uber story and so each arc is the next piece of that. I've been really enjoying this story and Captain America. But the backup story, I was like, “Yes, this is the real… It's such a good… Just comment on what America is. It's captain America speaking at a funeral for a guy he met in Red Hook at a diner and it's just a great… It's like a speech and it's really- Pete:                I got choked up during this comic. It was really great and really well done. I was really impressed. Alex:                 The art is very good. It's very reminiscent of Darwin Cook in particular, I think- Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 From Michael Cho and the story spans the history of Captain America. So if you're looking for something anniversary-wise again, the first story, very good. It's a good story. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a good writer. We know that. Justin:              Great writer. Alex:                 Leonard Kirk is a great artist as well. So there's good stuff going on there. But the backup is definitely where it's at. Let's move to another run, Rorschach, number two from DC Comics written by Tom King art by Ori Fornace. I think it's fair to say we're two issues in, and I still don't know exactly what to expect personally from this title. I thought the story was fascinating, well laid out. The art is really good. I have no idea how any of this connects to anything yet, but I'm definitely on board for the ride. Justin:              This felt almost like a standalone issue, which I think is odd as a second issue. So it's a detective trying to track down this attempted assassination. In this issue, it's the characters that we think are sort of the Rorschach and are the main characters of the subjects at least of this book are just sort of side characters in this. It's about the mystery of a murder that happened in this building. I don't know, I really liked it, but I agree with you, Alex. I felt it was an odd place to put an issue like this. Pete:                I disagree, I think this a very interesting kind of like, who done it, I'm really liking how this is unfolding in a classic Kings fashion where we're getting a little bit, each issue a little bit, trying to put together this bigger picture. Art's unbelievable. Storytelling is really great. I really liked the voiceover stuff at the beginning and I think Rorschach is one of my favorite characters. So this is very interesting to kind of like, you get this story and to see how this is going to unfold. Alex:                 This is something that even while I'm reading it, I feel like my antenna is on wrong for it because I read it and I try not to do this when I'm reading it, because the story is good, the art is good, but I keep reading it as, okay, how does this connect to Watchman? How does this connect to Watchman the TV series? How does this connect-? Pete:                Wow, that's weird. Alex:                 Well, and it does Tom King said on Twitter, that it is in “the same universe”, because of course they're seeing the same universe, but it's not in the doomsday clock universe necessarily. It's taking place in the same universe as the TV show. So I feel like I'm focusing on that too much [crosstalk 00:05:34]. Pete:                Yeah. Why are you [crosstalk 00:05:36] harder on yourself. Alex:                 Well, this is what I'm saying, I am owning the fact that I'm reading this incorrectly, and it's something that I feel like I'm going to have to read through and then go back and read again to really read it the right way once it's a complete story personally. Justin:              That's fair. Alex, honestly, when it comes to antennas, you need to upgrade to a mental wirelessness so you can just not have to have this. Pete:                Get the WiFi bro. Justin:              Get the WiFi dude. Alex:                 It keeps going down though. I don't know what's going on. Let's move on to another title. Sea of Sorrows number one from IDW Publishing written by Rich Douek, art and colors by Alex Cormack. Man, I loved this book. I thought this was so good. This is about a bunch of treasure hunters exploring a sunken sub. There is some weird stuff going on there. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler because it's on the cover or one of the covers, but there's a weird bunch of stuff coming on there with potentially some mermaids. It flashes back in time to previous time- Justin:              Just potentially some mermaids, just a high mermaid potential on this book. Let me just say, no spoilers, but the potentiality of mermaid-ness is high here. Alex:                 Yeah. Certainly our mermaid antenna was like [inaudible 00:06:41]. Justin:              Was blazing. Pete:                Yeah. I wouldn't say this is splash two, but there's definitely some mermaid action. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 Sure. Most people with that in fact say this was splash two, but there is some really good, like dark horror crime fantasy stuff going on. We've had Rich Douek at our live show before talking about previous book he's done and I think Rich is just a really smart, precise writer. I was very surprised how much I enjoyed this, both from the art and the writing perspective. Justin:              Yeah. I think it's a nice, like sort of everyone's out to get everyone situation and then they encounter something horrifying. The art I think is really, really great. The undersea stuff is drawn. So with such darkness to it, and then the surprise of the potential mermaid that we've discussed and giving some- Alex:                 I don't want to say is a mermaid, I'm just saying it's a potential mermaid. Justin:              It's a potential mermaid. It's an undersea maid, I guess we could say. Pete:                I think this does a great job as a first issue, is setting up this fucked up world, putting all the pieces in place to get you excited for the bigger story. I think this is a really solid first issue. I can't wait for more. I'm all in. Alex:                 It's very reminiscent of the way of the Hill house Comics that came out of DC, just in terms of seeing like a contained horror story. But I like it quite a bit. Definitely pick this one up. Next up, Marvel Indigenous Voices, number 1 from of course, Marvel Comics by, here's a long list, Jeffrey Veregge, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger, Stephen Graham Jones, Taboo and B. Earl, Weshoyot Alvitre, Kyle Charles and David Cutler.As you could probably figure out from the title, this is a bunch of short stories that focus on Marvel's Indigenous characters. I thought this was nice theology and I'd like to see more of this. What did you guys think? Pete:                I agree. This was really cool, very creative. I liked the way this set up with the watcher in the beginning. Just setting things up as like, we're going to get a bunch of stories here. Yeah. I'm completely on board. I want more, I think this is a great idea and I'm glad Marvel is doing this. Justin:              I love, I think this is such a great variety of stories here. The first story focuses on Echo and great character from Daredevil back in the day. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              I miss seeing more of Echo, and it's sort of a straight up action adventures. She takes on the [inaudible 00:09:17], Loki shows up. Then we get a Dani Moonstar, Rahne Sinclair, story, which is good, very classic. X-Men short. Then the last story is this super interesting silver fox story that really fits into Wolverine history and is so dark and disturbing. But it was great. That was my favorite of the three and it really popped for me that last one. Alex:                 Yeah, I definitely agree. I think, we talk a lot about how anthologies are hit and miss, of course, because you're getting a lot of stories, but this is an issue that I think is well worth picking up based on the three stories in it. Justin:              Before you move on real quick, there is in the sort of back matter here, there's a note at the bottom, look for an exhilarating new series from Taboo and B. Earl in 2021. The Apache Warrior, [Kashiwa 00:10:12] the Sorcerer Supreme and the Ghost Rider of the mid-1800s berms her way into the future and brings disaster with her. I read that and I was like, “Shit, this looks awesome.” Pete:                Hell yeah. Yes. Justin:              I can't wait to check that out. Alex:                 Good stuff. Let's move on then to Barbalien, Red Planet, number one from Dark Horse Comic Script by Tate Brombal, story by Jeff Lemire and Tate Brombal, art by Gabriel Hemandez Walta. This is continuing to flesh out the Black Hammer Universe, which it is wild. How many books are coming out of this and how exciting all of them are. But this one is focusing on the world's Martian Manhunter Amalgam. Alex:                 The main thing that frankly, makes him different is he is gay and here he is dealing with a big situation on Mars where he's been sentenced to death. While back in time, he is discovering his sexuality at the height of the AIDS crisis in the 80s. This is great. Just another fantastic Black Hammer book. Pete:                Yeah. I was really impressed with this. Art is fantastic. Lot of heart, great storytelling, very interesting. I was really impressed by this and there is literally like an, oh shit, moment here, where you think maybe someone's going to die. I was really impressed by this. Justin:              Yeah. The Black Hammer Universe is so smart, the way it… This is a little bit cheap to say, but it brings like an indie sensibility to the Justice League characters or Justice League analogs, I think is so great. But what really does is flesh out these characters, make them more interesting and take the tropes of the top tier heroes like that and make the ground them, give them like a context and a historical place. It's just makes for rich storytelling. It's really good. Alex:                 Totally agree. It's just crazy that this is essentially a Martian Manhunter story, but with some tropes changed around, but it works completely and it shouldn't work outside of Jeff Lemire writing it. But it absolutely does. He's clearly guiding this whole universe. It feels like the best new superhero universe or new type of universe that Dark Horse has done since BPRD and Hellboy. They're doing such a good job with it across the board. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Moving on to another big new one, Commanders in Crisis, number two, from Image Comics written by Steve Orlando, art by David Tinto, as we found out in the first issue, empathy is dead and not only that, but one superhero from the remaining universe has taken a bunch of presidents from a bunch of other universes, save them, given them super powers, brought them here. They're all working together as a team. There are so many insane Steve Orlando ideas that are all working at the same time. We really liked the first issue. How do you think it held up on second take? Pete:                I think this is very cool. I love the ending. Yeah. This is Steve Orlando, just have a lot of fun kicking butt. This is very cool. Although there are a lot of ideas you can still follow what's happening. Art's great, ton of action, a lot of fun moments. Yeah, I've been really impressed with this book. He's taking big swings with this and I've been impressed with it. Justin:              Yeah. We just talked about sort of taking, coming at Justice League style storytelling in a different way and I think Steve Orlando here does it in an even different way. It's like fully idea and concept driven where you're getting into these multi-versal, true this and finding a way to have these heroes being heroes while at the same time combating an idea. It's good. It feels topical. It feels like it's also has good super hero action. I like it as well. Alex:                 The second issue spent a little more time with the individual characters, which I thought was really nice as we get to know them, because they're all new, they're all fresh, they've got different powers. So it's interesting stuff. Next up, The Amazing Spider-Man, number 53, from Marvel written by Nick Spencer, art by Mark Bagley. This is picking up on the cliffhanger of the last issue where Spider-Man died. He was killed by the character Kindred, who we know is Harry Osborne, but Spider-Man doesn't know that. This issue is coming around to the big surprise that Kindred is Harry Osborne, is the reveal at the end. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 What did you think about this? Because I've been very on board with this storyline, but felt a little mixed about this issue, personally. Pete:                What I really liked about this issue was, in the past issues, there's been so much happening at once. It seemed like a little bit of overload. I liked how the slow down a little bit to deliver who this is and the got you kind of moment at the end was cool. I thought it was earned. I've been a little like, “I haven't been enjoying myself on this book.” But at least I enjoyed the pacing a lot more on this and it felt like, “Okay, we're now on the same page.” We can move back to crazy time with Nick Spencer for this. What's going to happen next? Justin:              As always, I agree with Pete completely with nine caveats. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Because I agree with you. I think this issue was paced really nicely and Mark Bagley's aren't… I feel like I first came to reading Spider-Man comics when Mark Bagley was drawing Spider-Man and Peter Parker and so seeing him, I'm like, “Yes, I really like this. I recognize this.” If we hadn't known that Harry Osborne was underneath the bandages, this would have been a great reveal. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              But the fact that we know it, meant this was weird. Now it makes me be like, “Is this the reveal?” Pete:                It's got to be. Justin:              We were doubting it before, but now it feels like it is, but it also feels like, why do it twice? Pete:                Right. Alex:                 Why reveal that in advice. Pete:                [crosstalk 00:16:29]. Alex:                 It's just a strange choice. It completely undercut that last page for me when he looks and says, “Got you.” Because it's not a got you, because we already knew that and Spider-Man [crosstalk 00:16:39]. Pete:                Yeah. But Spider-man doesn't know it's a, got you. It was [inaudible 00:16:42]. Alex:                 Nobody did. He's like, “No, you can't be Harry Osborne.” Then he takes off his mask and says, “Got you.” But it's not. It's also another and a long line of Marvel masks that were definitely not masks until they took them off. Pete:                Right. Alex:                 Like Kindred, Taskmaster. It's like, “Come on, you're not wearing mask. Taskmaster, you've got a skull face.” Justin:              Another mask under that where it's going to be the next issue, he's like, “Got you.” Pete:                I'm Uncle Ben. I'm Peter Parker. Justin:              You should eat my rice. Pete:                Yes. That's what I meant, is that Uncle Ben from the rice brand. Alex:                 Of course, very controversial lately as they've taken that mask off. But thank you, Pete, for bringing that up. Pete:                Anytime. I like to make it weird. Justin:              At the end of the day we're journalists and that's the big reveal. Alex:                 Stop saying that. Cool. Dark Nights, Death Metal, number five, from DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder and art by Greg Capullo. In this issue, I don't know, a lot of stuff goes on. Pete:                Yeah, it does. Justin:              Yes, that is correct. Alex:                 I'll tell you in the middle of everything while this is like Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo have their wildest really channeling The Justice League run where it's like, “We've got to use this nth metal to fight back against the dark multi-verse and take the positive anti-crisis matter. Just all of this insane thing, all of this insane mythology that they're putting in there. But my main takeaway is it has the single funniest penguin panel I've ever seen in the history of comics. Justin:              That's 100% fair. Alex:                 So good. Everybody is lined up, everybody's ready to fight the dark multi-verse. Justin:              The villains. Alex:                 They have all the villains. They have all the heavy hitters there, everybody's ready and it feels to be like, Greg Capullo drew the penguin in there and then Scott Snyder wrote a line for later because the line is, “I have a sharp rock.” Justin:              Yes. To be fair. He says, “I have a very sharp rock.” So pretty [crosstalk 00:18:40]. Alex:                 “I have a very sharp rock.” Which made me laugh out loud. Pete:                I really enjoyed the army of Lobo's, yeah, this is just fun. The touching moment between Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman here, yeah, I think it's just, I've said this before, I'm going to say it again, it continues to be a lot of fun and really over the top and all metal doubt and why not? Why not have a little fun? Justin:              Yeah, I agree. It is fun. It's why they fight Castle Bats, they lose to a giant Gotham City basically, which was cool. Really finally proving that Gotham City really is a character in this Comic. Alex:                 Finally proving it. Justin:              Now here's my question for you. Lex Luther in this issue sort of comes through and rescues our heroes and is sort of the person who comes together with the plan at the end here, is he fully doing this for good? Or is he going to betray them in that [crosstalk 00:19:45]. Alex:                 Man, I don't know. The way Greg Capullo draws him, he seems pretty ernest, but it would not be true to Lex Luther if he didn't have a plan on top of a plan. Justin:              hat's what I'm saying. The way we sort of quickly move past the fact that it's Lex Luther who is the architect of their plan, makes me think that he will eventually become the true villain at the end of this once the Batman who laughs, despite the near infinite power he has, is defeated. But I love the getting all the heroes together. It feels like they're finally coming together to do their business. Pete:                Yeah. To get a business. Alex:                 I'm glad they finally got down to business. I agree. Justin:              Well, it does feel that way. They've been fucking around too much. Alex:                 Yes, they have. This is great. Like Pete said, every issue of this is just a blast to read because it's so purposely dumb and fun and over the top, every single choice. Does it make sense that Lobo could create an infinite army of Lobo's out of his own blood? Probably not. I hope they never follow up on that in any way, but it's fun to see. So that's fine. Justin:              Do you think one of them is actually Wolverine? Pete:                Stop. Just stop with that old [crosstalk 00:21:01] you do every time we talk about Lobo. Justin:              Eventually, one of them is like, “Hey guys, have you guys looked at us? I feel like we're just a Wolverine in space. Anybody else seeing that?” Pete:                That's just so dumb. Justin:              “Does anybody else…?” “Hey, Lobos, let's have a little Lobo huddle. Anybody else think we're Wolverine in space?” Pete:                Wolverine doesn't talk about himself in the third person and have a whole different language. It's not… Alex:                 Wolverine is constantly talking about himself in the third person. Justin:              No, he's not. Justin:              Yeah. If you can point out a couple other differences between Wolverine and Lobo, I'd love to hear it. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:21:38] talk about Seven to Eternity, number 14, from Image Comics, written by Rick Remender and drawn by Jerome Opena. So excited. This title is back. This takes place in a fantasy world where a dude who is dying has teamed up with the big villain who basically destroyed his world and is now tracking down eternal life. This issue, we get a very classic Rick Remender scaring of Disney world and Disney Land and things like that as they get to the place where eternal life is granted. As usual with Rick Remender book, things get real dark real quick. But it's really Jerome Opena's, character designs that carry this book in how wild and how creative they are throughout the book. Pete:                I would like to say, you got to pick this up for the art alone. It's worth it. Justin:              Nice, great, quote, from quoting yourself, Pete page. Yeah, to that point, I am the asker section from the back half of the book is really cool. But Rick Remender talks about this a little bit in the back matter on this book, he's like, “Hey, we took a real long time to get this done.” But I think his focus on quality of his comic book work is amazing. He made a choice years ago now to stop doing Marvel and DC work and focus on all of his creator owned books and he takes so much care with every issue to make them, in his mind, perfect. Justin:              He does such a good job of just making high quality comics that really everything is super unique, super creative from the writing to the art, to the character design all the way through it's dark, like all of his work, it definitely has his point of view, but it comes at you in such a different way. Pete:                I had to read this twice just because I didn't want to miss anything in the panels. It's just so detailed and so amazing. You can read this comic and then you can just page through it and be amazed at the paneling. Alex:                 It's great stuff. Let's move on to talk about Venom, number 30 from Marvel written by Donny Cates and art by Luke Ross. This is the final issue of Venom before the Big King in black crossover kicks off. This is the end of the Venom beyond storyline as they are in an alternate universe where Venom sun has gone bad, become a bad guy called the Codex, lots of Venom, lots of symbiotes stuff happening here. What'd you think about this, both as a issue and as a lead in to this big event? Pete:                Well, I… Go ahead. Justin:              I would say it's wild. It is like the way that Donny Cates has taken, a sort of one-off at least at the beginning Spider-Man villain. Now this is so far from being related to Spider-Man. It's such a, like expanded mythology where you've got Eddie Brock and his son going into this different dimension meeting his ex who is has the son from this multi-verse. They all have their own symbiontes. They are all the different symbiontes, have different languages and controlling which ones are which, and all building toward… I got to read Richard's who has googly eyes? He's got googly eyes. Alex:                 Yeah, he does. He has a paste it on. Justin:              Yeah. What's the deal with this guy? He's got googly eyes. He's a little bit. He's not as smart and he's got googly eyes. Pete:                Well, he can move and he's very flexible and bendy, and we were just going to have googly eyes every once in a while. Why is that weird? Justin:              No, I think he's just a little off. He's lost a little bit here, and you can tell that because of googly- Pete:                Okay. I'm just- Justin:              The google in his eyes. Pete:                You can Google his eyes? Justin:              You can Google his eyes and then setting up this next thing, it comes out of nowhere and it's fine. Pete:                I agree with Justin and I have a lot of caveats. I think that it is fun. It's really fun. The art and the characters designs are a lot of fun. There's some great action sequences where you're like, “This is really bad-ass.” But also what I really like about it is the heart. There's a lot of heart in this book, which I really appreciate. If you're going to go into all this action, it's nice to know what the thoughts and the feelings are before all this goes down. I'm excited to see this next big arc. I like where this left off. I feel like Donnie Cates did a good job of wrapping this up and getting it ready for the next thing. I think this was a really good issue. Alex:                 I agree. Let's move on to a give me for Pete, Usagi Yojimbo, number 14 from IDW publishing, written art and letters by Stan Sakai. In this issue, our Bunny Warrior does some bunny warrior stuff. Pete, take it away. Pete:                Okay. First off is [inaudible 00:26:36] sent the bunny warrior bullshit. Okay. Don't try to make him more cutesy. This is an action oriented book, about a serious ronin samurai who travels the land and helping people. So don't put that fucking bunny shit on there. All right? Alex:                 Okay. So would you call him a whittle, whittle rabbit, samurai? Pete:                You're the worst. Alex:                 Would you call him a adorable squish [inaudible 00:27:01]? Pete:                No. Did you just turn into your son for a second? I like this. I love all the characters. Alex:                 Don't you slam my son out of entirely separate podcasts. Pete:                I'll slam them. He needs to get some fucking musical talent is what he needs to do. Alex:                 Jesus Christ. Justin:              Wow, unnecessary Pete. Pete:                Don't ask from the hit if you don't want it. Justin:              Don't ask for the Pete hit if you don't want it. Anyway, get back to reviewing your peep Samurai book. Alex:                 Hey, can you name the three comic book writers who are female to your girlfriend, Pete? Pete:                No. That's why we had to do it on the show. All right. Justin:              This is unnecessary. Pete:                But I never get tired of this. These are all very similar stories about a traveling ronin, but I love his heart of gold and how he always is doing the right thing. This is just in a fucked up world, it's nice to have staples like this book that you can always depend on. You always know Usagi is going to do the right thing. He's going to try to save the day. It's just fantastic. I love all these stories. I love all the action. Even though that people are getting like cotton stabbed, they don't really show the blood and guts. Pete:                They focus more on the action, what happens than the blood and the gore. Yeah, I just think it's really cool, and this one, we see a lot of focus on family, which is nice and also poignant and sad. But I liked the old black and white version. I know people like color for some reason, but if this sells more comics and gets it in more hands, then I'm all for it. Justin:              Pete, are you threatened? Do you think that the even smaller cuter rabbit warrior with a bow and arrow is going to be a threat to Usagi, the cute, the sword bunny? Pete:                Well, hopefully the older Usagi will have somebody to hand over his swords to, you know what I mean, just to continue the story. Justin:              He does seem to love his swords. Just which one of these is the Easter Bunny? Pete:                I fucking hate you. Justin:              A very fun book. Alex:                 Yeah. Delightful. I would love to see this fluffy wuffy eat some carrots [crosstalk 00:29:20]. Batman, number 103 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Carlo Pagulayan and Danny Miki and Guillem March. In this issue, Ghost-Maker is having it in for Batman. Ghost-Maker is a old frenemy of Batman from back in the day, they both trained the exact same way, constantly fought throughout history and now has come to Gotham City to make things right, because he thinks Batman is doing a bad job. In this issue, he is trying to kill Clown Hunter who is trying to kill Harley Quinn. Alex:                 So things get really messed up. I really like this. I think this is, again, just a really good story from James Tynion. He clearly likes Harley Quinn a lot in particular, and I love having her in here. He writes really good Harley Quinn. It's good stuff. He's building his own Batman mythology rather than just picking up on what got left off on whatever happened with Tom King's run. That's great. I'm excited to see what's going forward. Pete:                Yeah. It's nice because he does a good job of giving us a little bit of Batman's past with some humor. Like the fact that we see Batman in the desert and Ghost-Maker rolls up on him and he's like, “Not tonight, man.” They're kind of back and forth, the way that Ghost-Maker and Batman kind of go back and forth, the repartee is very enjoyable. I really like it. Yeah. Seeing Poison Ivy… Not Poison Ivy. Seeing Harley Quinn talking to Poison Ivy made my skin crawl, because she's like kissing the plant and I'm highly allergic. But I think that, I liked the outer monologue of it. It felt very Harley Quinn. Pete:                I think they do a great job of capturing her voice and I like their characterization of her. Also this Clown Hunter thing is very interesting the way that this is still sticking around. I'm very curious about what the end game of this character. I'm not sick of Clown Hunter, I'm just wondering what the bigger game is. Yeah. I also liked how this Ghost-Maker is more of a psychopath than Batman and thinks that the recent Batman is doing a bad job with Gotham is because he cares too much, which is an interesting psychopathic thing to say and I can relate to it. Justin:              Lots of information there. Really love Guillem Marches art here in the back half of the book. I agree with you, Alex, Harley is a really well used here. Ghost-Maker reminds me a lot of Azrael taking over for Batman after Bain broke his back. So I'm curious what sort of hole this character will fill down the line, because as of now I think Clown Hunter really stands out a little bit more as the unique Jame's creation. So I'm curious to see how that unfolds. Alex:                 I agree. Let's move on and talk about Black Magick, number 16 from Image Comics written by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott. This is the last issue of Black Magick, I believe for a little while now. But it ends on a big… Cliffhanger isn't exactly the right word, but our main character is presented with an impossible choice. Is she going to seem one of the two people in her life that she truly loves, spoiler, she ends up saving both of them, which is actually a very bad decision in terms of things that are going forward. The thing that is fascinating to me about this book is relatively speaking, so little happens in every issue, but it has such import, it feels weighty anyway. Justin:              Yeah. I agree and the art is just beautiful. The way that the villains eyes are drawn is really haunting and it's such a simple thing giving each of the sort of demon characters, this yellow, black energy to them. Really great. Yeah, and in the back matter, we see that the next issue of Black Magick won't be until late summer 2021. Pete:                Yeah. That's tough. That's a long time to wait, but I've really liked the characterization of like, it's not something that you've seen before where it's like, “I'm a cop, but I also do magic.” The back and forth that we learn about this character and what she stands for and with her background and how she goes about her day is very interesting. I like the dilemma and the choices that she makes shows how much he cares. Pete:                So I think this is a very interesting book. I've been really enjoying it and I agree with Justin, the art is phenomenal. They pay a lot attention to details to make things extra spooky. When you're reading something and you're scared, it really says a lot about the art and how well they can draw you into the story. Alex:                 When you say that thing where, “I'm a cop, but I can do magic.” That we've seen before. Where have you seen that before Pete? Pete:                There's just been many stories where somebody struggling with their day job and their identity, which they would rather be doing, like, “I'm this, but I'm also that.” “I'm Bruce Wayne, but I'm also Batman.” The secret kind of identity thing is where I was going at. Alex:                 Sure. You don't need to go beyond Bruce Wayne and Batman, the most relatable of situations. I get what you're talking about. Juggernaut, number three from Marvel Comics, written by Fabian Nacieza, art by- Pete:                Don't ask me questions if you're not going to like my fucking response dick. Justin:              Yeah. It all comes back to Batman. Alex:                 Written by Fabian Nacieza, art by Ron Garney. We were very complimentary of this title for the first two issues and had Fabian on the show to talk about it. So check out the live show with him. We get some big answers here. What happened to Juggernaut? How did he get into his new costume? What's going on with him? I love this take on Juggernaut. This is nothing I would've ever expected or asked for, but I think it's so smart and so well done and of course, Ron Garney's art is impeccable throughout this. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Great title. Just a blast to read. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. The Ron Garney is such a great artist. I wish he was doing more books on a regular basis and yeah, it's such a unique story that really both explores the backstory of Juggernaut and also drives it forward at the same time, which is hard to do. Then just tells a fun action adventure going on in the present day. Pete:                Yeah. I also like how they were also making fun of the fact in the book that he's fighting sand. They're making fun of itself as it's going on. Yeah, I've been really- Justin:              Every time I go to the beach, I feel like I'm fighting sand. Pete:                Man, I tell you, when you're done going to the beach, you're still fighting sand, finding it all over the place. Justin:              I'm fighting sand. Pete:                This is such a great surprise. This book as Alex was saying, and also just like the art is so bad-ass. Ron Garney is such a bad-ass. We've seen Juggernaut in a lot of different ways, but like see him power up with this suit, with all the red, it was just so cool. Yeah, I've never been more impressed with Juggernaut. Justin:              You can't stop this. Pete:                You can't. Alex:                 It's fun to see him do the Superman thing, opening up his shirt and turning on his costume. It's just a fun riff that I'm really enjoying. Let's move on and talk about, You Look Like Death, tales from the Umbrella Academy, number three, Dark Horse Comics, story by Gerard way and Shaun Simon, art and colors by I.N.J Culbard. As you can probably guess from the title, this is focusing on Klaus from the Umbrella Academy. His adventurous in Hollywood got mixed up with a bunch of shady characters, including a vampire monkey and some other folks. Pete, you have a question right off [crosstalk 00:37:30]. Pete:                Yeah. I just wanted to ask Justin something because he's a classically trained actor. When you go on auditions and when you're being aligned producer, you have to see this a lot, right? A lot of people channeling demons and stuff like that. That's got to be a nightmare for Hollywood to comb through all of this all the time, right? Justin:              There's a famous actor manual called an actor prepares by, Uta Hagen, I believe. A lot of the technique focuses on channeling a demon into your body before you step out into the audition room or onto the audition stage. So it's really great to see this play down person and of course, Pete, always a grasp of my career and personal life that I am often auditioning to be aligned producer. Alex:                 Right. This is a fun book. One of the things that I really like about it in particular is the push and pull between Klaus doesn't care about anything, just wants to get high, just wants to get drug and actually being forced into situations where he is going to have to cause something to happen. It's just this enjoyable push and pull as the action coalesces and spirals around him getting him to a point where he's going to have to do something eventually, but he's not quite there yet. Right now he's just eating relish out of a jar and having a good time. Justin:              Relish is good. It just slides right down your throat. Pete:                The art in this is just fantastic. They do an amazing job. This is a really fun story and worth checking out for sure. Justin:              I love the little section where this writer who died, but hasn't moved on is sort of reckoning with his life, is really fun and it's just a little side bit of the story. Alex:                 That's good stuff. Stillwater, number three, from Image Comics, written by Chip Zdarksy, art by Ramon K. Perez. This title focuses on a small town where nobody ever dies. They can get hurt. They have to recover from that, but they never die and there's a man who has found out that he was actually the son of one of the women from that town. He is now trapped there. His mother is buried near the gazebo at the center of the town and he's trying to figure out a way out as he slowly works himself in the way of the society. Alex:                 This is really good and it doing a good job of slowly building up the mythology of this book. I like this issue in particular, just because it sets up the dangers going forward, but also explains a little bit more about the, how the concept works. Just smart writing across the board, I think. Pete:                Yeah. This is my favorite issue so far. In this issue, they do a good job of really spelling out everything that we've learned as we move forward. Yeah, I'm really impressed with the artwork. This is a cool idea and it's one of the reasons a lot of people are scared of small towns. Justin:              Yeah. Most people are scared of small towns because they'll have to live forever there and never get sick. Yeah, I think this issue really sets the level for what the series will be, I think in a good way and Ramon Perez's art is so good. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about the Immortal Hulk, number 40 from Marvel, written by Al Ewing and art by Joe Bennett. After spending the last couple of issues with the leader, fighting the Hulk inside of his own head, potentially inside of hell, potentially a lot of stuff going on and that was absolutely horrifying to witness. We finally move outside there and things really move forward as Alpha Flight finds out what's going on. They figure out what's happening to the leader. Thanks to… My gosh, what's his name? I heard it's the body of Walter Langkowski. Pete:                Sasquatch, Joe Fixit, who are you talking about? Justin:              Abomination? Alex:                 No. The strong guy, Samson? Justin:              [crosstalk 00:41:31]. That was the body Sasquatch and fills them in on everything that's going on. In the meantime, Joe Fixit, make some moves of his own. There's still plenty of gross stuff that happens to the comic. Pete:                Sure is. Alex:                 But I love how much we're moving forward here and that last page, not just in terms of the writing, but also in terms of the way Joe Bennett draws it, is perfection. Justin:              Yeah, it's really good. I'm sort of bummed because I had a long standing pitch at Marvel where I was like, I wanted the Hulk to give birth to a mustachioed version of himself and they did it in this issue. So I guess [crosstalk 00:42:10] back to the drawing book. Pete:                Yeah. Salvin I couldn't agree more of that last panel was just such a classic comic last panel that gets you really excited. This is horrifying and amazing and all sorts of everything in between. This ride has been fantastic. When this thing is finally collected, this is going to be one of those ones that stands the test of time. It's really impressive. Alex:                 I wanted to ask you, Pete, because you were really against this for a while, you kept asking for your Hulk to come back. You wanted your Hulk back. What turns you? Because you now see him 100% fully on board with this. Justin:              You were like, “I want my Hulk back.” Pete:                No. I still feel that way, guys. I still want my Hulk back, but this is an interesting time out take on characters that's been around for a while. It's a very fresh, very new take on it. So you've got to respect something that's great. But yeah, I can't wait for my Hulk to come back and I can enjoy Hulk books more. This is a scarier version of something that I love and it's a little bit over my head, a little too smart, but I respect the fact of what it's doing. Alex:                 Right. It's like ginger beer instead of ginger ale. Pete:                Right. Yeah. Why would you… I don't sure. Alex:                 It's like, “This is too spicy on my tongue, no thanks. Give me some Schweppes, please.” Justin:              It's hard to feel where you're landing in here Alex. Are you landing on ginger ale? Because I think you're positioning yourself as a ginger beer. Alex:                 No, I love ginger beer. I'm just talking about from Pete's perspective. He wants ginger ale, but he's getting ginger beer. Justin:              I think this is your mistake. He wants Mountain Dew. Pete:                This is true. Justin:              I don't know what all this ginger ale [crosstalk 00:43:58]. Pete:                Do you know, Mountain Dew came out with a cookbook. Glorious. Justin:              Yep. You've mentioned to us a lot and I look forward to your potluck dish that you'll be providing to our next meetup. What do you think next issue when the Hulk just totally murders the thing? Pete:                Man, that's going to be crazy. Justin:              Yeah, that'll be fun when he just rips the bricks off of him until he's [crosstalk 00:44:20]. Pete:                I don't know because Joe Fixit doesn't look like he's in good shape. I don't know if he can take on the thing. Justin:              He's going to rip the bricks off. Alex said it. Alex:                 We'll see what happens. Next up, Big Girls, number four from Image Comics, story and art by Jason Howard. This is a book about a world where girls are gigantic and boys are monsters. AKA the [crosstalk 00:44:43]. Pete:                Sorry. Alex:                 Wait, what? What are you sorry about? Pete:                Sorry for all the damage that dudes has done to this world. Alex:                 Thank you for apologizing for a millennia misogyny. I appreciate it, Pete. I think your statement here at our comic book podcast, solitary. Pete:                Thanks man. Do what you can, you know. Justin:              This book keeps moving forward. I liked the story. The girls just keep getting bigger. Alex:                 Yeah. That's what I love about big girls, man, they keep getting bigger [crosstalk 00:45:16]. Pete:                No, but we're slowly getting more and more of what this mutation is and how they're going to stop it and a little bit more about this evil mastermind behind this. I think Jason Howard is doing a good job of giving us just a little bit more information each issue surrounded by a ton of action. I appreciate the storytelling, I think this is a classically great Image book. Alex:                 Next up, I know this is one that Justin, you were super excited about. Widowmakers, number one, story by that Devin Grayson, pencils and inks by Michele Bandini. This is clearly setting up the Black Widow movie that'll come out at some point, maybe, we'll see what happens. But you got Yelena Belova, teaming up with Red Guardian. Justin, why don't you like this book so much? Pete:                Yeah, Justin? Justin:              It has- Alex:                 What's your fucking problem? Justin:              I've got a big problem with how great this book is because this book has no business being this good. It's a standalone issue featuring characters- Pete:                Don't say that. Justin:              People aren't crazy in love for. Well, I mean that as a compliment. It's such a, we follow mostly Yelena Belova, former Black Widow, who is technically a villain in a Black Widow arc and she's been on her own. What's great about it is, it's her being contracted by this rich dick to go do something for him and it ends up going wrong and she's just meant to test these facilities and then be murdered by these people. It's a great action book throughout the whole issue, but the internal monologue going on in Yelena's head is so good about her life, her place in the world, Russia's place in the world, what it means to be a citizen of the world and from a nation and freedom. Justin:              There's just so many great ideas here, but it really tracks with this character. It puts you really in her point of view. Then she meets Red Guardian later on in the issue and he has a very different point of view and we get to sort of just take that in without having them jam some sort of idea down our throats. I just thought it was one the smartest issues I've read in a long time. This is my favorite book of the week. I really liked it. Pete:                Yeah, it is really great. The art is fantastic. Also this is the best versions of these characters that I've seen. Yeah, it was really impressive to see when somebody tastes and has a great idea for some characters, what they can do. Justin:              I love it at the end, the idea of how she gets the villain in the end, I thought was truly [crosstalk 00:48:03]. Pete:                Yeah. That was glorious. Justin:              It was great. Alex:                 Awesome. Just to mention, it seems like they're teeing up that this ties into the Black Widow series that is currently running, which is great as well from Kelly Thompson. So definitely check that out. Let's move on to Ice Cream Man, number 21 from Image Comics, written by W. Maxwell Prince, art by Martin Morazzo. I got to tell you, coming into this book, I was like, “Okay, I get it. They're doing their [inaudible 00:48:29]. That's not what it was at all. This is straight up a Watchman riff that they are doing this issue, which was so surprising and so shocking and as dark and messed up, as you would expect from Ice Cream Man. What'd you think about this issue? Justin:              When I looked at the cover, I was like, “That's a funny cover idea.” Like a Watchman take Ice Cream Man. Then I was like, “Shit, that's the whole thing.” Which I was really surprised by. Then the way it ends is… Because it plays sort of a slight spoiler, like the very rare, more positive ending for any sort of character in Ice Cream Man. I thought that is a interesting subversion of what Watchman is, but it left me thinking like, “I need to read this a couple more times and really get into what's happening here because it's so good.” But I'm almost being fooled by the positive ending, I feel like. Pete:                Yeah. Because the Ice Cream Man has been so dark and horrifying throughout. This issue was just me going, “Shit.” I was like, “Why is this so familiar?” Then slowly getting it and it was the coloring and the panels. I'm like, “I know why this is so familiar.” Then the upside down frowny face was just the nail that kind of put in the coffin where I was like, “This is amazing.” I immediately went back, like Justin said and reread it to be like, “How did I not get this earlier?” Pete:                But every issue I'm so nervous before I read it, because I'm like, I don't know if it can keep going at such a high level of creativity and constantly amazing me and torturing my mind with what is happening. We still really don't know what's going on with Ice Cream Man and every issue we find out a little bit more, but it's just still such a crazy, interesting book that is… I cannot wait for it to finish so I can go back and reread it all again and enjoy it all again, because it's just really impressive. Alex:                 Well, feels like they did a similar sort of thing with All-star Superman, a couple of issues back. We had W. Maxwell Prince on our live show. He talked about how it's not necessarily connecting the story. Maybe there's an Ice Cream Man multi-verse, this feels like one of those tales out in the multi-verse that rifts on or reverberates off of what's going on with Ice Cream Man, because I read most of it thinking, okay, we're getting some real answers in terms of mythology here. That's not what happens at all necessarily. It's more just like, there are echoes of what's going on in the book usually, but it's still, Martin Morazzo's art is so gorgeous and so well laid out. The watcher risks are fun. It's weird to do a positive Watchman to your point, Justin, but I think if you're going to do anything that ends happy, that you're parodying, sure, do it Watchman, have a happy ending for Watchma. Why not. Justin:              Well, and the ultimate way to subvert Watchman is to have the Rorschach character go live a happy life and make his world better. That's what I think the point is, is like, “Hey, let's just take small steps to make our lives better.” That's what I think the last page with the end is near with [inaudible 00:52:14] crossed out on the dude's sign. I think it's like, “Hey, it'd be a little easier if we just had it be near.” He does. So it's like, “Let's all make small steps to have a better life.” Which that would solve Watchman as well. Justin:              Watchman's all about tricking the humanity to be nicer to each other by creating a squared that is threatening the planet. It's like, “Okay, now you don't have to kill each other because there's another enemy.” This book is maybe saying, “No, we could also just be nicer to each other on a day-to-day basis.” I think that's a very cool idea. If that's what the intention was, this is very good. Pete:                Yeah. I also liked the idea of, instead of having a character go down a dark path and be like, “I'm too wrapped up in this.” Having the character stop and realize like, “I need to be a better partner.” It's doable. It's “If I put some time and energy into this, I can save this fucking thing. I can turn it around.” It was really great and the midst of all this craziness of this Ice Cream Man world, it was very surprising and goal. Alex:                 Lastly, we're going to move on to our X of Swords block, which Pete is very into it, very excited about. Pete:                [crosstalk 00:53:32]. Alex:                 Hold on, buddy. Justin:              That's why we do it at the end because you log off. Alex:                 Yeah, we save it right for the end here. But this is the second to last week of extra service. We're going to be wrapping it up all next week. Okay. Calm down, buddy. But we got X-Force number 14, written by Benjamin Percy and [Jerry Dougan 00:53:50], art by Joshua Cassara. [inaudible 00:53:52] number six, written by Seb Wells and art by Carmen Carnero. Cable, number six written by Jerry Dukin and Phil Neto. Here we are very much into the tournament of [Arocco versus Kakoa 00:54:02]. They are fighting battles, often not with swords, but with other beings throughout this. Justin:              Eating contests. Alex:                 We get a bunch of them fleshed out. Some of them happen shorter than others, but by the end of it, we move on to the main event. Spoiler is you could have predicted this even call out that you could predict it. It's apocalypse versus annihilation as Arocco and Kakoa are tie. That's what this has been leading all up towards. Pete, I know you're against this. I know you're not loving this. Justin, let's go to you first. what'd you think about these issues? Justin:              Well, it's funny to Pete's point of being frustrated by it. It's there is a little bit of a trick here with this whole event where they set it up to be this Epic sort of age of apocalypse style crossover. When what it really is, is like X-Men playing baseball on a grand event scale. It's very playful. It's very light and fun. Despite the fact that the X-Men are losing, which is, I think stressful in general, but it's these fun lighthearted events punctuated by horrible murder. The back half of the X-Force issue where we see the Storm, the stuff that- Pete:                The storm fight is glorious. Justin:              The drink that Storm and Wolverine were drinking, the Blight Swill is actually a pretty strong poison, like a soul poisoning and then Storm still beats her dude, and then lets him get slaughtered. That was bad-ass. Pete:                Yeah it was. Alex:                 Well, in the Hellions issue, it takes a little bit of a side trip. Early in the event we found out that Mr. Sinister was leading his team to try to get the swords of Arocco before they could use them. Turns out as usual, Mr. Sinister is being an evil fuck and- Pete:                Surprise. Alex:                 He tricked his entire team in order to get genetic information from the mutants of Arocco, that's all he really wanted to do. His entire team dies in absolutely horrible ways. It's a little unclear which one of them are going to come back or not because if you die in other worlds, your personality dies, but you might be pulled from another personality. So may getting some new rifts out a bunch of these characters. Justin:              Well, I feel like we got Havoc and Quantum survive in that may be it. Alex:                 Yeah. I think Empath also makes it through, right? He gets stabbed, but he crawls his way through. So maybe he's coming back. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 But that's super dark. The rest of it is, like both of you guys are saying, there's a point to the fact that it's frustrating that they're never getting to the sword fights. You're watching it and you're reading it, you're like, “They're doing a puzzle fight. That's insane.” It is insane that Iliana is doing puzzles right now to try to beat these people. But I think, Justin, you said it last week, we were talking about these issues, this is [inaudible 00:57:07] setting up fairy magic to trick Arocco in order to win. Alex:                 There's even a point in one of these issues where they're like, what is she doing right now? What side is she on? What is the game that she's playing? But it ultimately comes clear when Gorgon ends up fighting and ties up the score, so it gets to annihilation versus apocalypse. That was the whole point of what [inaudible 00:57:31] was doing. She was getting it to this point of whatever is next to even up the score. I am still very much on board with this. I understand the frustration with the lack of sword fights that are happening in X of Swords, but we got three issues left here. I think the story has been so fascinating audits own both from a writing and an art perspective that I'm still very much enjoying it, personally. Justin:              Yeah. The Cable issue that we didn't talk about, the art's great and there's some great emotional mo

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FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What's up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of comic books that have come out this week. Pete:                We sure do. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 This is the main thing people are concerned about right now is new comics. That's what we're all talking about on this Wednesday morning. So let's get into it. Let's talk about new comics. Let's just chill out and have a good time and not stress about absolutely anything else going on in the world. Kick it off with Crossover #1 from Image Comics, story by Donny Cates, art by Jeff Shaw. This is a highly anticipated comic. And I got to say, I feel like it was worth the wait. If you didn't pick it up, mild spoilers here. But the idea of the book is it takes place in a world where a comic book crossover suddenly pops up in the real world, in Colorado, essentially changing the entire world. And a bunch of things reverberate off of there years later, as we meet various characters who have been affected by this comic book crossover. What did guys think about this book? Pete:                Well, from the cover, I really wanted to get blasted in the face with a rainbow. And I'm glad that they took the time to make sure that happened in the comic, so- Justin:              So you felt like you got blasted in the face? Pete:                Yeah, yeah. I felt like they did a good job of getting that across. Justin:              I like this book a lot as well. It's one of those like, bang bang premise books where it's just like, this is it. And then it's like you slowly then start to meet the characters. And I do think in this book specifically, you don't really get too much of a sense of the characters by the end of the first issue. But the premise is such a sort of satisfying idea that I think it sells it on that alone. Pete:                Can I just be the guy who says the thing we're all thinking? That little girl in the comic, shitty artist, she's probably not going to be able to get any work. Justin:              Wow. Because she's got dots. Alex:                 No, no she draws- Pete:                No, because of her artist skills. Alex:                 Yeah, she draws a not so great drawing by the end of the book. Justin:              I see, I see, I got you. Oh at the end, yes. Alex:                 What I really appreciate about this, like you're saying Justin is, there's so many things that are nicely set up in this book beyond the central concept of the book. It's such, as usual, smart writings from Donny Cates. It also really stretches Jeff Shaw, in terms of multiple comic book styles. The promise here is that Donnie and Jeff have gotten characters that we know. This isn't just them, creating a world whole cloth. This is also them bringing in characters from Image from other comic book companies, that this is legitimately a actual comic book crossover. And we haven't quite gotten there yet. Because most of it, we're spending outside of Colorado and the ground zero zone where it all goes down. Alex:                 But the promise is, we're going to get there soon. And I would be shocked if we don't get things like Rick Grimes walking in front of a comic book store, Savage Dragon popping through. At least all of these Image Comics characters, and potentially some DC and Marvel characters through as well. As long as it stays grounded in those characters, the main characters of the book, I think it's going to be a wild ride to take. Justin:              Yeah, and the revelation at the end of the first issue was like, “Oh, shit, can they do this?” And I think that's a great feeling to have at the end of an issue. Like, can they pull this off? And feeling like, “Well, this issue is good.” So yeah, they probably can. Alex:                 Yeah. Pete:                It'll be interesting. I think it does a good job of being like, “Here is something that… We all know what a crossover means. Like, here's the title that's going to grab you and then kind of try to put a twist on it.” And it is that will they be able to pull this off? And that's very exciting for a first issue. Alex:                 Let's talk about another book that probably shouldn't work. But I think of course totally does. Sweet Tooth: The Return #1 from DC Comics creator, writer and artist, Jeff Lemire. As you can figure out from the title, this is Jeff Lemire, returning to a almost perfect comic book series, Sweet Tooth years later, that was about a young animal boy that pairs up with an old man journeys through a post apocalyptic world try to find Safe harbor. They eventually kind of found it. And this picks up as happens in the first panel of the first issue, 300 years later, except things are happening again. As they say in old Twin Peaks, it is happening again. And that's definitely a lot of the vibe that I think we get here. Man, I loved this book and the audacity of it and the fact that I have no idea where it's going to go. Particularly by the end, how'd you guys feel? Justin:              I agree with you like the idea of setting the premise like, oh, the story is starting over and we're hitting very similar beats, but in a totally different world, means they're going to just like totally throw that out of whack. Like very quickly, I think. And I love Sweet Tooth. It's such a distinct book, and to be able to see it back on the shelves in a limited series though. Right. So that's a totally different thing. Alex:                 Yes. Pete What do you think about this one? You're a big Sweet Tooth fan. Pete:                Yeah, this was- Justin:              You got a real sweet tooth. Pete:                Yeah, it just… Don't get me started, I eat so much fucking candy. Alex:                 Hey Pete you got the sweetest teeth I've ever seen. Justin:              Hey it's Sweet Pete. Who's here? It's Sweetie Petey. Looking for his little sugar lick. Alex:                 Sweet Pete you want one of your meat treats? Pete:                When you guys are done. Alex:                 Never. Justin:              Never done. Pete:                So Black Label's putting this, which is interesting. It means they can kind of get a little crazier. So it'll be interesting to see how much they push on that side. But I thought like the art was great. It really felt like Sweet Tooth. I thought it was very kind of weird world that he kind of woke up in. This inside, but kind of outside world. So I think they did a good job being like, “Hey, remember everything you love still here? New-ish kind of scenario. Come along for this ride.” And I think yeah, it does a great job of getting you excited for another story, with this team with this kind of gang that we know and love. So I think they did a great job of kind of returning to the well on this. Alex:                 Yeah, I agree. Let's move on to another one that I'm sure you like Pete. Wolverine Black, White and Blood #1 from Marvel Comics written by Gerry Duggan, Matthew Rosenberg, Declan Shalvey, art by Adam Kubert, Joshua Cassara and Declan Shalvey. As you could probably figure out from the title, I think this is an anthology all about Wolverine that uses black, white, and blood and that's pretty much it. So- Justin:              Actual blood. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Human blood is what it's printed in this book. Pete:                So, this is just the story that I need right now. With all the insane shit going on I just want a Wolverine story. Okay, I don't want to have to think about Fuck Island or how many swords, whatever, who's got and read a bunch of fucking menus or articles or whatever the fuck in between panels. Just give me a fucking comic book about Wolverine. Thank you. Yes, this is my favorite pick from the week. I loved it. Great use of red, and then the black and white coloring. This is just a lot of fun and good times. Justin:              Exactly. Pete, you're right. It's so simple. The first story is just a simple story about a man from the 19th century who is born a mutant, has a healing factor he falls in love with the red haired woman. Later he is absorbed into a Weapon X program which is run by a secret government organization. He's experimented on, adamantium is added to his claws for some reason, in his skeletal system. He is then trained to fight using magnets, fight other monsters, that are built in this thing, and that people eventually feel pity for him because he does have some sort of conscience. It's a simple story. Pete:                Yeah it's simple. Just give me a Wolverine story. All right. Alex:                 Classic. It's like Dick and Jane, basically. Justin:              Yes. Exactly, you're talking about of course, the Jim Carrey movie. Alex:                 As usual with this sort of thing I think. Gerry Dugan and Matthew Rosenberg, Declan Shalvey, all good storytellers. Pete:                The Dugs. Alex:                 The Dugs. So they're all solid stories. For my money, the Declan Shalvey- Pete:                Rosenberg's great. Alex:                 … The third story is easily the best one. And I think part of that is that Declan Shalvey, as both the writer and the artist understands the challenge here and creates a story that plays to the strengths of the panels. It's simpler, it's more straightforward. It plays to those splashes, the small splashes both of blood but also the splash of the paddles. And I like that one quite a bit. Personally. Justin:              Interesting. I really like the Weapon X story from Gerry Dugan. Pete:                I loved the Rosenberg story the most. The Wolverine and a baby, I don't need to see that. But [Zaubs 00:09:40] you do you. But what's nice is three stories. If you pick this book up, probably like one of them. I thought this was great. You what you're getting and it delivers. Justin:              One of my favorite movies was Three Claws and a Little Baby. So I get it. Pete:                I thought you were going to say and a little lady, but you didn't. Justin:              No, I preferred baby. Alex:                 That's the sequel. Justin:              The sequel, yeah. Alex:                 Origins- Justin:              One claw's played by Steve Gutenberg, one claw's played by Ted Danson… Pete:                Come on, The Gute- Alex:                 What do you prefer? Do you prefer Three Claws and a Baby or Claws Academy? Justin:              That's though, or the Santa Claws? We're getting to that season. Alex:                 Origins #1 from Boom Studios created by Arash Amel, Lee Krieger and Joseph Oxford, script by Clay McLeod Chapman and art by Jacob Rebelka . I got to tell you I probably should have done some research here because I was very confused about the credits. Is this a video game or was this a previous property Why are there so many creators and a different script writer? What's going on? But as it is the hero here I think is Jacob Rebelka's art which is weird, set in a post-apocalyptic world, there's a bunch of people wandering through. It seems very close to the Museum of Natural History but clearly isn't. They pick up those strawberries but the strawberries are very bad for you. I needed more information personally in this first issue, but I still like the art quite a bit. Justin:              The strawberries are just filled with worms. It's not like they're… Alex:                 Oh, okay. Gotcha. So normal strawberries. Justin:              A normal strawberry. Alex:                 Yes. Justin:              I agree with you, the art in this book is amazing. I'm very intrigued by the story. I don't know exactly what's happening. It feels like there's a some sort of clone baby, but they talk about the baby, who is then later somewhat more of an adult, is named David. But they make it seem like he's famous somehow. Is there a David that you think it is, like David Beckham? Alex:                 Copperfield? Justin:              Oh, yes. When I was five, David Copperfield made me disappear. Pete:                Yeah, you've told us that story. Alex:                 Yeah, we know. Justin:              Have I told you that story? Yeah, well, just letting me know, it's available- Alex:                 Not to interrupt but when I was five, David Beckham made me disappear. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              He bent you out of reality. Alex:                 Pete, what do you think about this one? Pete:                I think the art's are unbelievable. I love the kind of like, seeing the subway entrance in the middle of the grass was kind of really cool. Justin:              It's lush. Pete:                Yeah, it's very creative. It's a cool story. I'm excited to see where this goes. But as of now, it's like, there's this baby named David. And so it's like, is this… Justin:              Oh, David Schwimmer. Pete:                Oh, it's a friend's reference. Because David Schwimmer did have that scene where he got it on in the museum. Justin:              Yes, he worked in a museum and it's in New York. Pete:                Yeah. So that's it, right there. Justin:              And if you're going to need to clone a human to restart the population. You're going to want a Schwimmer. You're going to want to get a Schwimmer. Pete:                Yeah, you're going to want a Schwimmer. Alex:                 You got to yell “Get me the pall bearer.” Justin:              Yes, definitely. Iconic film. Alex:                 Stranger Things Dungeons and Dragons #1 from Dark Horse Comics and [crosstalk 00:13:16]- Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Written by Jody Houser and Jim Zub. Line art by Diego Galindo. This is something that Jim Zub plugged on our live show many, many weeks ago at this point. I still kind of didn't know what to expect going in this. But I was surprised how much I enjoyed this. There are less of the Stranger Things and more as an homage, a loving tribute to the history of Dungeons and Dragons is what kind of comes through here. And that's kind of nice. Pete:                Yeah, that's what the Zub-hub was talking about. Like he was really talking about how this really is a love letter to D&D, and kind of really gets into it. And I thought that was a cool kind of way to come at it. You can tell from this, the passion kind of just comes through in the pages. At first when he was telling us on the show, I was like, “Okay.” But this really works in this comic, I thought this was a lot of fun. And I love the kind of little pages at the end where you can kind of start your own. I thought this was great. I thought this was a lot of fun. Justin:              It felt like regular things. It felt like, just things. They were just going about their business as kids. That's not a criticism per se it's just I think this is a hard prequel to the TV show Stranger Things. Bringing in how they got into D&D, which is very cool. And I like this book a lot better than the other Stranger Things book that we read, I think last week, because it feels a little more true to the characters and it feels like in line with the story of the TV show. Pete:                It's going to get strange. All right, they're just kind of starting things out first. Alex:                 Yeah, they've started with Dungeons and Dragons. They're going to move to Advanced Dungeons and Dragon and that's when things are going to get real fucked up. Pete:                Real strange. Justin:              That's crazy. Alex:                 Let's move on to Backtrack #8 from Oni Press written by Brian Joines and are by Jake Elphick. This is, as we've plugged in many, many times, about a Cannonball Run style race but through time. Here mysteries are slowly starting to unfold about the racers who are all tied to the race in different ways. They also end back in pirate times, which is a fun era to put them in. I, as usual, had quite a blast reading this issue. How'd you guys feel about this one? Justin:              It's fun. We're getting into a lot of like, specific character, small moves. And I feel like we're building up towards sort of some big revelations here pretty soon. And yeah, I like them being in pirate times. It's a fun, iconic place for them to be. Pete:                Yeah, it's interesting, because it's like this crazy race throughout time. So you're like, “Oh, Fast and Furious meets Back to the Future.” But like, what's great is we're getting as we're in this insane race, we're getting little kind of windows into people's backstory, why they're here, why they are the way that they are. And it's nicely layered, like some comics issues are more focused on the race. This one's a little bit more focused on the kind of story, which is good. This comic continues to be really great, the art is fantastic. And it really adjusts to what time period it's in such a great way. Alex:                 I also like that we've finally gotten to a point with this book where it feels like Well, you can't eliminate any of these characters. But of course, they're going to and that's going to make it hurt that much more. We're not quite there yet, but in the next couple of issues, it feels like that's coming. And that's a good emotional place for the book to be in. Still a blast to read. If you haven't read it, definitely pick it up. Alex:                 Next up US Agent #1 from Marvel Comics written by Priest, art by George Jeanty. I was very excited personally to see George Jeanty on this book. I've really liked his art a lot since he was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other things. He's good stuff. Of course priest, always reliable. And this is a bonkers book about the asshole Captain America going through the heartland, fighting who even knows why. But I really really enjoyed this quite a bit just for how best up it was. How'd you guys feel about it? Justin:              Yeah, if you're looking for sort of a Hawkeye style comic. I feel like this has some strong like Hawkeye vibes back when he was living in Brooklyn with the Russian tracksuit dudes. That whole thing feels very much in line with what this book is. Except he's a little bit more of a shit head. Sort of in the Scott Lane Ant Man style and constantly being mistaken for Captain America which that's going to burn. Pete:                Yeah, I was really happy when that one pizza delivery guy kicked the shit out of them. That was great. Justin:              It is a weird… Like the story, like USA Agent. There's a pizza delivery man who becomes his sort of sidekick. He's keeping all these other pizza delivery people in the basement. Like I don't quite know what the whole thing, the whole deal is here. But it's fun. And it's super unique, I feel like. Alex:                 Yeah, that feels like typical Priest stuff to be where it's just these details thrown in. Where you're like, “What I can't quite get a handle on this, but it's still fascinating at the same time.” Let's move into a very dark turn for a book that we've been enjoying quite a bit. That Texas Blood #5, from Image Comics by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. Again, when we had Chris Condon on the show a couple of weeks back, he promised that things were going to get real bad real soon, and oh, boy, they got real bad as our main character is losing his mind down in Texas doing some very dark stuff. In the name of his brother being killed. This is definitely the most brutal issue of this yet. I would say. Justin:              Yeah, I like this book a lot. I feel like the art in this issue specifically is so good. Some hard boiled crime I'm sure this book gets compared to Criminal a ton. And if you're a fan of that, like this is right in line. I do think it's strange that they use the same interior monologue lettering as a Criminal. And Jacob Philips is Sean Phillips' son. I would move away from that because I think this book really stands alone on its own right. It doesn't need to feel like it's drafting off of Criminal's success. Alex:                 How do you feel about Pete? Pete:                Yeah, I think the art's unbelievable. This is some real great storytelling, very intense. This book moves at a very interesting pace. It's sometimes very fast, sometimes it seems like slow. But this is a really kind of great storytelling. Great character stuff. I'm very much enjoying myself. Alex:                 Let's move on then and talk about Mighty Morphin #1 from Boom Studios, written by Ryan Parrott, illustrated by Marco Renna like that Texas blood This is a brutal issue for the Power Rangers. Just devastating, it's a lot of blood. Justin:              Devastating. Oh, Power Rangers. That makes sense, now. They must have left the other two words off the title. Alex:                 Yeah, well, that's how you know they're being serious. Unlike the other actually very dark Power Rangers books that we've been reading recently. This is a return to form. This is like classic Power Rangers. The Green Ranger is evil is he not? We don't even know who he is. Doesn't matter. You got all the villains here. You got all the Power Rangers. But with a slightly more modern style. How did you people feel about this one, particularly given that we've been quite enjoying the other Power Rangers books that have been coming out from Boom. Justin:              This book felt like when you're at a party, when we used to go to parties, and you end up talking to someone you don't really know. And they tell you a very long story and you're like, “I don't know you. Why are you telling me this crazy involved story about your life? Like where are we going with this?” It felt like, “Oh yeah, I guess I see how that relates. Oh, the mighty Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Yeah. Oh, I see like we're dealing with Zed and all this stuff.” But I will say I enjoyed reading. Despite the fact that it's definitely feels like not my wheelhouse. Pete, how did you feel? Got to shoot your Bulk and Skull? Pete:                Yeah, I mean, this is great. This is just fun. This, to me was like a animated version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers kind of like the new update of Voltron. I very much had a lot of fun. We got some great fighting, some badass panda stuff. It was fun to see them talk about making the villains and that kind of stuff. Yeah, I thought the reveal at the end was great. I think this was just fun, Mighty Morphin comic stuff. Justin:              It checks out. That's the title and he said stuff at the end. So that's what it is. Alex:                 I did like the reveal at the end. I think what I have been responding to and the other Mighty Morphin books that have been set in this post apocalyptic world where the Power Rangers mostly lost in the villains that are trying to just kind of hold on to what they have, is this idea of playing with the continuity. Which the shows could never do because they're mostly working off of what the Japanese versions, right? Of Power Rangers then remixing them. So they're all very kiddy and very silly and badly dubbed on purpose and all of these things. That just I never liked, this splits the difference between those two things. So to your point Justin, I also actually had a fun time reading this even if it is not quite my thing. But definitely more of my thing is those other books I would personally lean towards those. Justin:              I agree and obviously I've always been a Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. But it's especially funny the way that… I was surprised by how all their animals, the animal machines they ride are like saber toothed tiger and all that. I was like, “They all look exactly the same, but they're all different.” The mythology of the Power Rangers is so weird and convoluted. Alex:                 Yeah, I just can't get a handle on it. Pete:                Yeah, if that stuff made sense to you won't be pulled out of the story like that I think. Alex:                 I'll tell you, not to pull back the curtain too much but at my day job I got offered this exclusive clip for I want to say Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Dino Thunder or something like that. Pete:                Oh, wow. Alex:                 Yeah, I know. And they sent it to me. And it was the casts from like four different Power Rangers shows all getting together. So clearly we've done enough stuff that I could watch it I was like, “Okay, this is like Avengers: Endgame for Power Rangers.” But it was such a deep dive to understand what they were talking about at any point in that clip. Normally a clip I'm like, all right, I could write this up and half an hour tops. That's it. But this one I was like opening up wikis and looking at casts, and debut dates and everything. I was like “What is happening here? This is weird.” But there you go. Deep dives. Alex:                 Let's move on to another one. Which is a one of my favorite books that is coming out right now, Spy Island #3 from Dark Horse Comics written by Chelsea Kane art by Lia Miternique. So this is set on an island in the Bermuda Triangle that is filled with spies of different types. In this issue our mean spy is starting to figure out that her father, who is also on the island hiding out as a mime may have a bigger plan at work. We also find out more about what happened to the first two issues in terms of what she laid down. This book is fantastic. In my mind, it is like a perfect mix between Mind Management and Superior Foes of Spiderman with a flavor of his own. And I am loving every single issue of it. How are you guys feeling? Justin:              Pete? Pete:                Well, I was waiting for you to go. This is really kind of crazy, but it's also a lot of fun. I also like the kind of art. The way the art changes throughout the book. The whole like a series where she's dating different dudes and the kind of like the way the father sees the dudes, very interesting. Yeah, I think this is a very creative, cool book and the art matches it perfectly in such a cool way. Yeah, I'm not always understanding what's happening, but it's very interesting and very creative. So yeah, I think this is a great book. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. It's really funny. It reminds me a bit of Mark Russell's Flintstones, I guess all of Mark Russell's stuff. If you're a fan of that, like this book is like legitimately funny, it has sort of an irreverent tone. The way they do full page sort of jokes, visual jokes is really awesome. But it's still has like some… I'm very interested in the story as well. Like, these characters are fun. Like I don't quite know what's happening with the mystery itself. But it's just a smart world and universe this book creates in every issue. Alex:                 Yeah. I just wanted to reiterate what you said Pete about Lia Miternique's art which collages in so many different styles throughout the book, it's so impressive. Pete:                Very impressive. They're straight flexing. It's unbelievable in this. Alex:                 It's great. Yes, straight flexing is actually a really good way to put it. It's definitely a book to be like, “Here's what we could do. Here's what we can show off.” It's awesome. Definitely pick it up. Next up Web of Venom: Empyres End #1 for Marvel Comics, written by Clay McCloud Chapman, art by Guiu Villanova. This is as you can probably tell from the title, following up on the End of Empyre as a bunch of the Skrull and Cree leave Earth at run directly into the King in Black, the next event, and have literally like a crossover, while one of them is heading one way the other is heading the other. And ends up like aliens on a Skrull ship. I like this, I was a little hesitant, just because it wasn't Donny Cates ready to get and he's been such a mastermind behind this event. But I thought this was a very good, scary book. Justin:              That's such a funny way to put it, Alex. Because it really does feel like it's we're backstage at Marvel and one event is like, “Hey, we finished our performance. Thank you so much.” And another event is like, “Oh, we're up next. We're going to… Sorry. Oh, did we sorry, we bumped into you and made a big mess with all of our symbiont juice. So sorry.” Because it is like, when I saw this I was like, “Empyre. No way.” But it is actually a great story and it does have that sort of Aliens. Like it's game over man for everybody in this issue. And the King in Black is terrifying. Like I'm excited to see this event the more I see of sort of the insanity. Reminds me of the insane Adam Warlock from back in Infinity Gauntlet days, as the villain here. And it's a good read even though it feels unessential from the title. It's worth picking up. Pete:                Yeah, I mean, they got some space vampire bats in here. This is just some crazy, fun stuff that's going on. Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of like alright, space aliens. Cool. There's not too much more going on but it's definitely a cool comic and worth checking out. Alex:                 Next up Batman 102 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV in art by Carlo Pagulayan. This is the intro of Ghost-Maker who of course, is the guy who builds ghosts. We all know that in the DC Universe. Justin:              Yes. Pete:                No, no, because when he makes ghost by killing you and then you're a ghost. That's how that's… Justin:              Oh no, I think he makes the ghost in the original Pac Man game. He made Inky, Blinky, Dot. Pete:                And also just in case you're wondering he doesn't like crochet little ghosts either makes them. No. Okay, he kills people turning them into ghosts. Justin:              I guess we have different takes. Alex:                 So this introduces that character. And Ghost-Maker, well, he got introduced before, but this is his official introduction. He is going directly for Clownhunter. So we got two new additions to the Batman mythos, going head to head with Batman, of course stuck in the middle. As it turns out, though, Ghost-Maker has a deep tie to Batman's origin. Pete you got to like this right? There was a lot of fighting. Pete:                Yeah, this was a great issue. I love the action. Also fun reveal. Well, all right, let me back up the truck a little bit. Love the Batman like punch entrance. Nice when you can like make your entrance and punch someone in the face. I mean, that's like- Justin:              Yes. I've seen you walk into a lot of weddings. Pete:                Yeah, anyways. But I think this was a ton of action, which is great. But also the way they kind of knew each other, the way it was like, “Ghost-Maker.” “Batman.” And like right into it. It was really cool. Also very interesting how Clownhunter is still hanging on like still a thing. I thought Clownhunter would have kind of like faded away after Batman gave him his talking to. But not the case. And now we're also dealing with Grinners which is interesting. Talking to Oracle on the old earpiece there “Okay, that's cool.” But I think that they also had some funny moments like when Knife Guy was like, “I hate teenagers.” That was hilarious. Justin:              Because you hate teenagers? Pete:                No, no, I just think that it was like a funny line, where he's like, “Teenagers.” But yeah, I think there's some interesting stuff happening in this. And instead of kind of like a cool down from such a big event that we just had. The fact that they kind of ramped it right back up into that it's very kind of interesting. And also cool name, Ghost Stories part one. Justin:              I feel like James Tynion got sort of his first big story out of the way. And now he can really settle in and create his bat universe. And I think Clownhunter, Ghost-Maker are a big part of that. Really leaving his mark on Batman as a character and the whole world there. And I like that. I'm excited that we're sort of in that point in his arc here. Pete:                And it's also interesting to have a villain that's like, “Yo, Batman, do your fucking job. Gotham is a shit show. It's constantly on fire. Like What's your deal?” That's an interesting way to come at it. Alex:                 A lot of the discussion in this book is about what Gotham is now that the Joker War is done and what it's going to become next. I'm excited for what's going to become next. And I trust James Tynion enough to bring it there. But to your point, Justin, he thought he was only going to be on until Issue 100 and he's continuing from there. So in my mind definitely feels like “Oh, okay, I'm going to keep going. Alright, I'm going to set up the next 15, 20, 30 issues, however long I'm on for.” Versus what I was doing before, which was my definitive Batman story. Alex:                 So I'm curious to see what this sets up and where it goes. Because again, I trust James Tynion's storytelling, he has certainly proved himself more than capable. Let's move on to Dryad #6 from Oni Press written by Kurtis Wiebe, and illustrated by Justin [Barcello 00:33:49]. This issue our main family is still hanging out in cyberpunk Tech City, trying to figure out what's going on. Trying to figure out if they should help the kids who are currently in a coma. Turns out they don't need help, they do wake up by the end. We find out another huge revelation about our family. I got to tell you, I was not totally into the cyberpunk stuff in this issue. But I definitely turned around by the end. Love the twist there. I thought that was so great for the series going forward. What was your guys take on it? Justin:              I agree. I love the way the story is unfolding. I think the way they're able to capitalize on this two pronged like fantasy side of the story and the technological side of the story. In a way that it's a tough trick to pull off. And I think it is working on both fronts. I like the sort of Blade Runner vibe to the front end of the book. And then when we shift generations to the kids for the back end, I like all these characters. I'm curious to hear… It feels like this is sort of like a mission went bad a long time ago and we're dealing with the fallout is what this series is actually about. So I want to know What that is. I feel like that was a reveal in this issue that we didn't really know from before. Pete:                This book continues to be very, very creative. Each issue kind of comes at things a little differently. It's fun to see what you're going to get with every issue. Yeah, and we keep getting deeper into the story. They're doing a good job of kind of piecemealing information while still giving us a lot of action. Fun reveal at the end. I think this is very interesting. And also it's cool the way they kind of swap around styles. So I continued to be impressed by this book. Alex:                 Cool. Next up The Goddamned: the Virgin Brides from Image Comics written by Jason Aaron and art by R.M. Guera. Pete, I know what you're going to say it's creepy. So Justin, what did you think about this button? Justin:              This is a book you want to leave out for your grandparents, they're going to love the fighting, they're going to love the very short tops that expose all of your breasts. It's a good stuff for the older generation. But I like this book a lot. The R.M. Guera art is unbelievable. It's so detailed. It feels like it's in the style of Prince Valiant, but with a exciting, much more irreverent story. And the twists and turns, it's also written from the point of view where like, I don't know… We have our protagonists who are on the run. They're virgin brides who are supposed to mate with this like monster basically, that is the god here. And they escaped, we're on the run. And then things aren't going well, basically. And I feel like this book could be very harsh with its character, so I really don't know what's going to happen next. Alex:                 Yeah, I agree. That's one of the biggest things about the book is it's very dark, and it's a super gritty, I hesitate to say realistic but that probably gives the best sense of it take on the Bible and biblical mythology. But if you look at the Bible, lots of people dying all the time, or almost dying or horrible things happening to them almost constantly. So it's actually very- Justin:              Not a fun read. Not a fun read. Alex:                 Yeah. Not a beach… I don't usually take the Bible to the beach, to be honest, like to read it, to just chill out. But like you said, R.M. Guera's art is fantastic. This is very dark. I don't know what's going to happen in the next issue at all. But there's a crazy cliffhanger that happens that was awesome. Good stuff. Let's move on to talk about Thor #9. Pete:                I just wanted to say. Alex:                 Yeah, yeah. Pete:                I agree with you. The ending was really kind of amazing. Justin:              You do like it, you love it. Pete:                No, it's creeptastic in all the wrong ways. Justin:              But do you like the art Pete? Because this is R.M. Guera, same artist on Scalped? Which you like. Pete:                Yeah, amazing artist. Alex:                 Would you say it's worth it for the art alone? Pete:                Nope. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 You're very wrong. Justin:              Can't get past it. Alex:                 Yeah. Thor #9 from Marvel Comics written by Donny Cates art by Nick Klein. So this is kicking off a new crazy story arc. Donny Cates doing his Donny Cates Marvel thing as he goes back to an old part of Marvel continuity, lifts it up again and makes it as fucked up as possible. In this case, we're exploring what happens to Donald Blake when Thor comes out. Something that we haven't touched out in years. Where does he go? And it ends up being pretty messed up. But I love where the storyline is going. And Nick Klein's art of this book is phenomenal. So good. What did you guys think? Justin:              Totally agree. Like I love… This is my favorite book of the week, the way that finding this little bit of Thor mythology that has been just legitimately ignored. Dr. Blake was the character that was Thor's human form and he would tap his walking stick and become Thor. And Thor just hasn't transformed out of him. It's like Bruce Banner has been the Hulk for so long that like what's Bruce Banner up to? And we get to explore that side of that here. And it is fucked up. And it's super smart the way we get there and to have Donald Blake become this new aspect of the Thor mythology I think is super exciting. Pete:                I don't know man. Like this is to me, it's like, it's okay if we're out of ideas, guys, we can just maybe… Justin:              Jesus. Alex:                 Wow. Justin:              Harsh take. Pete:                What it's like, “Hey, remember how I turn into this guy? Well, when I turn into him, he just kind of walks the earth. What if he got angry about that?” And it's like “Wait, what is happening? What are we doing right now?” Alex:                 That's what's happening, you just described what's happening. Pete:                Yeah, I know, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Justin:              It's fun though. It's like when Wolverine when he died he had to fight a sword dude. Like that was cool. Pete:                Okay. Alex:                 Was it? Pete:                Yeah, I don't know if it was. Justin:              I liked the fighting this sword dude. I didn't like the fact that he came back from just a little speck of blood Lobo-style. Alex:                 I do love… I don't know, just I love the visual of what happens when Donald Blake finally comes out of his reverie, the way that Nick Klein draws him. I don't know if Nick Klein specifically designed him Pete:                The art's unbelievable. Alex:                 What? Pete:                The art's unbelievable. Alex:                 Yeah, it's great. It's worth it for the art alone, I would say. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 The that Nick Klein designs the new Dr. Donald Blake is great. Justin:              What a cool turn of phrase. Alex:                 It's a great new villain for the Marvel Universe. Spoiler, obviously, but I think in the same way that Donny introduced Cosmic Ghost Rider. And it immediately became like, “Oh, it's this thing. Like that exists. That's fun. That is a fun thing to look at.” Yeah, it's the same thing with whatever Dr. Donald Blake has become. It's a fun clear visual and I love it. And I'm excited to see what this means, it ties into the overall mythology that he's building for Thor, with what's happening with Mjolnir. It just feels very smart across the board. Justin:              100%. Alex:                 Next up, Wicked Things #6 from Boombox created written by John Allison and art by Max Sarin. We've been very complimentary of this book, which follows a teen detective who is framed, probably for murder, as she ends up teaming up with the police department in I believe London. Not 100% sure, but I'm going to say yes. And she is pretty much smarter than him. This is a weird ending for this book I got to say. It feels like there were supposed to be more issues. And then it got cut short, personally, which is disappointing, even though I enjoyed this issue as well. Justin:              Well, that may be true. It does feel… It could also just be a cliffhanger that they're really pushing. I think the last page makes it feel like there was truly like a page ripped out of the back of the book. And I was like, “Wait, what?” I wanted to know how this conversation ends. But in general, it's fun. This main character is such a fun… I love her energy. I like the world this is in which is like this detective, 14 to 16 years old, the best detective in the world. And there's a moment where she's being held hostage and you expect her to like elbow the guy and get away. But it doesn't happen because she's just a regular teen detective. And I think that's fun that they're really keeping within the storyline. Pete:                Just a regular teen detective? Justin:              Yeah, like a… Pete:                Like a normal teen detective. Justin:              Because like, surely you were a teen… You solved some crimes in your small town, right Pete? Pete:                Oh definitely. Definitely did. Yeah, I agree. This is a ton of fun. Alex:                 Sorry, Pete, what did they call you? They called you Thesaurus LePage? Pete:                No they didn't. Justin:              He was really good with saying other words that were like words. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              He didn't solve a lot of mysteries but he was like, “Oh, I think you mean sweaty.” Alex:                 Yeah. Pete:                Yeah, I think it did feel a little rushed. Every issue up until this issue didn't feel that way. But man, this is still a great story. Really creative, fun, main character. I could definitely see a lot more with her. I hope they keep going in some iteration or whatever. But yeah, this has been a lot of fun and I hope this doesn't end. Alex:                 I agree with definitely worth picking up in trade whenever it's collected and hopefully we'll get a second series of it. Moving on to DCeased: Dead Planet #5 from DC Comics, written by Tom Taylor and art by Trevor Hairsine. In this issue John Constantine is launching a desperate mission to fight back against the anti life plague. And it's predictably dark but with moments of real humanity and humor, everything that we've come to expect from this series I think so far. Justin:              This book has really migrated to the top of my stack like I love reading a book. It's a good book. The characters are fun. The Damian Wayne Batman is great. Constantine still a dick. Just a straight up dick. Pete:                Oh man. Justin:              There's some fun jokes here. Pete:                Constantine is great in this book, this book continues to impress. And I think this was a really great Constantine, hilariously messing with Dr. Fate and Swamp Thing even getting in on the joke. Batman doing father jokes, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. But Batman getting a punch in at the end, liked that. That was good. But yeah, this continues to be a very creative, very funny, well done comic that does like a lot of cool things. The Shazaam moment in this is so badass. That was so cool. Yeah, I thought this was a great, great issue. Justin:              And there's a lot of dread here still where like any character could die and everything could go wrong at any moment. And I believe on the last page at the bottom they say things get worse. Alex:                 There we go. Next up Inkblot #3 from Image Comics written by Emma Kubert, art by Rusty Gladd. I got to tell you I keep throwing this book in the stack because I can't wait to figure it out. Like what's going on here. There's a little bit more of a hint in terms of this is a cat that can jump through universes? Pete:                That's the thing. Alex:                 I guess that's the idea of the book that they establish at the beginning here. Pete, you've been enjoying this book. What did you think about this issue? Pete:                Yeah, I don't know what it is. It's just the two eyes are so adorable. It gets me. Justin:              You're a cat guy. Pete:                I'm a cat guy now. So like I get it, cats are very mysterious. They have a lot of things going on that they don't share with us. And yeah, I think that this makes sense of how the Loch Ness Monster came into fruition. I think this is just a crazy kind of creative book. And the art is phenomenal, some adorable storytelling. This is just fun. Alex:                 I just wanted to mention Justin before you get into your comments if you are a cat who would like to share something with us. Please email us at ComicBookClublive@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you. Justin over to you. Justin:              Yes. I always pick up after the cat call out. Pete:                After the cat plug. Justin:              Cat plug. We're looking to meet some single cats. There's something about this book. The art is really cool. And I think changing gears a little bit with this issue, for the few issues it was like what's the big story here? But I think reading this issue it was like, oh maybe it's just like fun little romps with this cat. Alex:                 Yeah, yeah I think so too. I felt a lot better about this one that I did for the first two because I was trying to figure it out. But I had the same sense as you did Justin. I reserve the right to be robbed with issue #4. But the art is so good and it is a fun little pirate adventure with a cat and the Loch Ness Monster, enjoyable stuff. Justin:              I reserve the right to be wrong. Alex:                 Last thing here we're going to end with our X of Swords, X of Swords block, talking about two issues that came out from Marvel. We got X-men #14, written by Jonathan Hickman art by Mahmud Asrar and Leinil Yu. Marauders #14 written by Gerry Dugan and art by Stefano Caselli, two very different issues. So I do think actually, if anything, we kind of need to talk about them differently. But so far, the champions of Arakko and the champions of Krakoa and they gathered in Otherworld for a dinner. In the first issue and X-men we find out about Apocalypse and his wife, what went on there we find out about her secret history. Pete's got to love that one because there was a lot of text and confusing things that happened. Alex:                 And then in Marauders everybody gets together for dinner and things go predictably badly. Would you think about these chapters of X of Sword? And Pete I know you're upset they're not fighting with swords yet. That aside, how'd you feel about these books? Pete:                Alright, so first off you know what's better than having a huge battle that we've been building to taking the time out to have a dinner first. Alex:                 Agreed, agreed. Pete:                And let's just talk at the dinner table. Justin:              When you're hungry. Pete:                And really just kind of talk things out and have a walk? “Hey, Apocalypse, why don't we hold hands and talk about the past and not fight. And get into a giant action sequence like maybe some people would enjoy?” Justin:              Well, let me give you a quick breakdown of the way the story. They teleport to this strange dimension. Dinner, dinner, sleep, midnight snack, brunch, coffee, sword sharpening and shining. Alex:                 You're forgetting something in the middle there Justin, there's several times when they get handed cards. Pete:                What's not to love. Justin:              That's right. Let's not forget about the… Pete:                [crosstalk 00:49:38]. Justin:              So I feel like there's some like magic happening, some light table magic. I think someone's going to eventually have a yo-yo and other like juggling tricks. It's just a fun day out. Anyway, where was I? Okay, then it's going to be lunch. And then they're going to have like a baseball game. Pete:                Don't forget to show the menu. They're going to show the menu a couple times. Alex:                 The menu was fun. It was a fun menu. Justin:              The menu was very fun. Well, let me say so Pete's criticisms aside, and let's put them far, far aside. I love this. I think that the X-Men issue by Jonathan Hickman is a full take down of Apocalypse. It's like a subtle takedown of Apocalypse. Apocalypse went to earth and he like had these like piddling battles with the X-Men, claiming that he was like survival of the fittest. We need to all be better. The mutants must rise. Justin:              Meanwhile, the world he left behind had everyone literally fighting for their lives, constantly. They became the fittest and he has to come back hat in hand, sword in hand with this woman that he left behind that he maybe still loves and be like, “Oh, you've been literally becoming the best fighters in the universe while I have been shitting the bed on Earth. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Let's go have a little day off.” And then the Marauders issue I feel like is a little bit more focused on the Wolverine side of it, but I do think this series- Pete:                Had time for a nice dance. Did you like the dance? Justin:              Some dancing. Wolverine likes to get fucked up. And I think he feels like he really gets to drink in this issue, which he never really… He's always like, I drink. But then the healing factor eradicates everything. Pete:                Yeah, Wolverine gets real fucked up in this issue. Justin:              Yeah. But I do think a lot of this arc, this whole storyline is about repositioning Apocalypse and I'm curious what the landing point of that is. And I do feel like the Marauders issue definitely had that sense of dread. Like an Agatha Christie story where you're like, “Fuck, some of these people are going to die.” Alex:                 Yeah, it really does feel like… And this is something that was a big point of conversation when the X-men introduced resurrection. It feels like these people are a danger. It feels like all of these characters are not actually going to make it out of this or at least in the same way at the end of the day. And that's great that they went in what has it been, a year, something like that. From everybody being like the exploiter just come back to life whenever, to positioning them into a place where they are in actual danger. And bad things may happen to them maybe for the first time at a really long time. That's super smart. Alex:                 And the Marauders issue in particular plays with that with Storm dancing with the literal personification of death, and mentioning “Hey, you've never actually died. You're one of the few X-men that has not died and come back. So let's talk about that. Isn't that interesting?” I thought there was such smart character work in the Marauders thing, the X-men issue as well. Both with Apocalypse and Annihilation I love as usual the insane world building. I do know where he pulls it out from with Jonathan Hickman there. Alex:                 I do think there are touches of East of West going on with the apocalypse, Annihilation stuff. Particularly in the relationship that's popping up there. But that's fine. That's a great book. So I'm okay to skim some of those ideas a little bit. And of course, the art. Mahmud Asrar, Leinil Yu, Stefano Caselli. Awesome. I know I said this the last time. But this is one of, not just with Marvel, but one of the best crossovers I've read in years. At this point. Pete:                Oh shut up. That's just… Shut up. Alex:                 Years. Pete:                Awful, just awful. Alex:                 Years. Decades. Pete:                First off- Alex:                 Millennia. Justin:              Lifetimes. Pete:                … X of Swords, are we even going to get 10 individual issues, like we got to see how they fought… If we don't get to see like 10 issues of fighting after all this fucking lead up. Oh, if we get no… I'm worried, we're getting close. We're past halfway, we still don't have any fighting yet. Justin:              Would you be disappointed Pete if we only got this fighting from the source perspective? Like it was just like metal banging another metal. Pete:                Just clang clang? Justin:              Clang, clang. Alex:                 And you don't actually get to see it. It's just the interior monologue of the swords. “Wow this hurts.” Pete:                I got to say in the Marauders ep, seeing magic like sizing everybody up. That was pretty cool. Justin:              She's a badass. Alex:                 Super fun. Justin:              You mentioned it before, but the menu at the top of the Marauders issue was super fun. Like I love that, the detail there was great. Pete:                Waste of a page. Justin:              I'd eat that shit. Alex:                 Pogg Ur-Pogg, very fun character. I'm just- Justin:              Marinated in urine. I'm here for it. Alex:                 Yeah, all of the Arakko characters also, I think are great and super fun. They're just… I don't know, I don't know if it's Jonathan Hickman in conversation with other people. I don't know if he's necessarily driving the rest of the X-Men team to this but it's just he comes in just and he's like, “Here's these new additions to Marvel continuity. They totally make sense. You love them know.” They are just these perfect things that absolutely work. And the greater part about all of these new additions from Arokko is only one or two of them are completely black and white, which I think is very cool. And a way of Jonathan Hickman really stretching himself as a creator. Justin:              Yeah. Wow, what a blistering takedown. That's the harshest I've ever heard you speak, Alex. Alex:                 These issues are great at that same for The Stack. If you'd like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also we do the live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out. We would love to chat with you about comics at Comic Book Live on Twitter, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. Also leave us comments on iTunes. Those help out quite a bit. Comicbookclublive.com for this podcast more. Until next time, we'll see you at the virtual comic book shop. 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On this week's Stack podcast: Batman #100, Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… #2, Amazing Spider-Man #850, Transformers/Back to the Future #1, American Vampire 1976 #1, Getting It Together #1, Wolverine #6, X-Force #13, Marauders #13, Sonic The Hedgehog: Bad Guys #1, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #2, Far Sector #8, Adventureman #4, Backtrack #7, Black Widow #2, Exosisters #10, DCeased: Dead Planet #4, Inkblot #2, Champions #1, and Decorum #5. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Transcript: Alex:                 What is up? You're all welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. And on The Stack, we've got it packed… Alex:                 … stack for you today. We've got [crosstalk 00:00:17], use. Justin:              It's a packed stack. Alex:                 Big issues is coming out, so let's jump right into it. Talking about Batman number 100, from DC Comics run by James Tynion IV, art by Jorge Jimenez, Carlo Pagulayan and Guillem March. This is the culmination of the Joker world. Justin:              Culmination. Alex:                 It's all been coming down to this. Big stuff happens here as the Batman takes on Joker [Mono-e-Mono 00:00:44], for all [crosstalk 00:00:49], translators. For all the [inaudible 00:00:52], there's some twists, there's some turns here, there's backup stories. What [inaudible 00:00:56]… Oh God. Pete:                Oh no, Alex. Justin:              Oh, wow. Don't die. [crosstalk 00:01:01]. Alex:                 That's a [inaudible 00:01:01], Joker guest. Justin:              Joker mist. Alex:                 Joker mist. Pete:                Oh, man. Alex:                 Yeah, I'm a joker mystique myself. Pete:                Smart. Justin:              Oh, nice. Just to clear up your throat? Alex:                 Mm-hmm (affirmative). No, you got to build up a tolerance, so that way… exactly. Justin:              Yeah, that's smart. Pete:                Oh, yeah. Alex:                 What do you guys think about this issue and what do you think about the storyline as a whole? Justin:              I liked it. Especially the battle, the Joker, bat uniform and that Joker becoming Batman, I thought was a nice thing here. There's some funny lines in here of Alfred's Corp saying he wishes he was the [crosstalk 00:01:40], butler. Had it up for [crosstalk 00:01:42]. Alex:                 That's not funny. Justin:              No, man. Alex:                 That was painful. Justin:              An underwater butler, so fun. How do you make tea? All the waters. It's all water. Pete:                Yeah, I felt like, first off the art's fantastic. I feel like the landing didn't stick as hard as I would have liked it. Normally, when we have these big buildups, these huge fights. The wrap-up is great, but there was a lot of weird stuff that happened. I felt like there was this epic showdown and then it wasn't between the Joker and Batman because Harley Quinn showed up and then made it be like, “Yo, one of us are going to die tonight,” which is holy shit, raising the stakes, but it wasn't like the classic showdown. It was a real switch of status of Joker trying to be Batman. I did like the things that Joker was saying during the fight. I thought that was classic cool Joker shit. Pete:                But the stuff I was a little disappointed with was the wrap-up and the Batman talking to the Clown Hunter, I felt like that could have been a little bit better. I had a weird feeling after that was over. Also, it was crazy to me that Catwoman seemed to be making moves, but then there was just a shot of her watching fights, which was weird to me. But I really think that overall, this was a really cool arc, very awesome twists and turns, a lot of fun. The Alfred shit to me was a little too rough, too soon. Seeing the corpse shit was really hard, but I- Justin:              I was going to say, it's great to see Alfred back in his good shape, in perfect form. This is the Alfred I want to see. Pete:                The Nightwing shit was bad-ass. Nightwing got a lot to do a lot of respect in this. So that was cool. Alex:                 I love the Oracle stuff. It was so much fun having Barbara back as Oracle. That was great. It just really shows the deep well of love that James Tynan has for DC Comics history that really came out on this issue. I agree with you that the execution of the ending felt a little asterisky, particularly given how big everything is built over the past couple of issues. But James Tynan came out on Twitter and said, “This was supposed to be as ending.” This was supposed to be his last issue of Batman, and then when he found out he would be ongoing on it, he had to scramble and change his plans and changes all outline to serve some other masters and serve some other storylines that are happening. Alex:                 So I think it's not purposeful, but that is a victim of circumstances, more than anything that rather than making it this big exclamation point, it became the dot, dot, dot in the middle of the ongoing Batman story. And I do like the place that he finds Batman at the end of this, I actually did really like Clown Hunter story. The idea that he- Pete:                I like Clown Hunter story, for sure. I felt like Batman just lectured Clown Hunter in a weird way. Alex:                 What I think was different about this, this almost pivots off of what Jeff Johns is doing over in three Jokers, is this idea that Batman keeps bringing in these orphans, breaking them, ruining their lives, and then being like, “Well, time for new orphan,” that he's doing something different here, which is similar to what they did with the signal as well. Is I think smart, and it's a progression of the character that personally I like. Yeah. Justin:              I mean, I agree. I also think despite the change in plan for James Tynion, I feel like his point was rather than have Batman play Joker's game the entire time in the end of this is like I haven't been… I'm not going to take the bait. And I thought that was a nice… Batman's usual tactic or at least for the past few years is he takes the bait and then suffers horrible consequences, but he endures because he's Batman and I actually liked- Alex:                 He got stabbed in the back-up bunch. That's suffering. Justin:              I know, but rather than be like, “All right, I'm going to give it all up for the corpse of my butler,” he's like, “You know what? I'm not going to do that.” And I liked the different take on that for one. I agree the Clown Hunter stuff, I thought what was actually good. I agree with you, Alex. It's nice if we're going to walk away with this new character, I think that's cool. Clown Hunter is a cool character. It's like if Damian Wayne took the other path and didn't become a Robin, it feels like. The one thing with the Joker little epilogue at the end, Joker, he's become this chemist. Why is he such a chemist? I don't know why that makes sense. It's like [crosstalk 00:06:31]- Alex:                 I appreciate your- Justin:              … gas that perfectly turns you into a Joker so much so that no one will be able to tell the difference in my body versus your body. Pete:                But also he's really into newspapers and likes to get his news, old timey, just sitting down, stacking newspapers, go through each one, see that headlines, soak it all in. So it's this mix of, he's up to date on all the latest chemical stuff, but likes to get his news old school. Alex:                 It's crazy. It's crazy stuff is what I tell you, but [crosstalk 00:07:06]- Justin:              Yeah. A lot of fans are definitely going to identify with Pete's point he just made the with the newspapers. Alex:                 This is a very good issue though. And I think this whole arc was good. Definitely pick it up in trade or individually if you like. Alex:                 Next up, Locke and Key in Pale Battalions, going number two from IDW storytellers, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. This is continuing a story of back in the day from Locke and Key as we follow John Locke. But a different John Locke, the last, as he goes to fight in the war, he has aged himself. Yup. He's using one of the magical keys. And this issue, we see things from the German perspective of the war as they are tagged. Justin:              Creating a way to put that. Alex:                 But again, we talk about this every time. There were two different World Wars. One of them was the World War, the second one with Nazis. This is the first World War, which was also with the Germans, but it's not creepy in exactly the same way. Pete [crosstalk 00:08:04]. Oh my God. Pete:                Different Wars. Justin:              DC, Wolverine one, Pete. The Balkans were powder gig. And then all of a sudden the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand really set off a series of chain of events within tangling alliances that led all of these different countries to declare war on each other. And then of course, a further countries guy, eventually entangled. And here we are with John Locke, [AGM 00:08:26], self up to take part. Alex:                 There you go. So this comes from the German perspective, which is not a creepy thing to say. And we see John [crosstalk 00:08:33]- Pete:                It's a creepy thing to say. Alex:                 Stop it. John Locke is attacking them. Just again as with the first issue, a bunch of classic Gabriel Rodriguez pages in here, this page with… and this is getting into spoilers, but there's a page where he uses the crown of shadows to attack that is just terrifying in exactly the right way. The twist at the end, which I won't spoil, it's so smart, so well done and clearly points to not just where they're going with this series, but also with Helen Gun, which is the Sandman Crossover. So I love seeing that path there. Pete, what do you think about this one? Pete:                It's really fantastic. I mean, the art is unbelievable. It's crazy storytelling. I mean, the fact that I'm caring about these fucked up soldiers is way back to the days. It's really impressive to the art and the storytelling. But this is really interesting what happens at the end and how it makes sense to why we are seeing this in such a cool way. I'm very impressed with this comic. It's just so excited when there's a new Locke and Key comic, because you're like, “What the fuck is going to happen? How scared or freaked out am I going to get?” And it constantly delivers. Justin:              And the fact that they were able to just tell a legit war story, I mean, this is a straight up war comic. There's not a lot of Locke and Key bells and whistles to it. We get a little bit of that, but it really is just a war story being told from the Locke and Key perspective, and obviously the German perspective, which I think we all find totally normal. And it's just a really good issue and the way they do find another, especially the art finds another angle on horror, war horror is so smart. Pete:                And it's interesting that, it seems like in this issue, we got to shout out to the TV show with that fire key that I don't think was from the book. I think it was from the TV show, right? Alex:                 Yeah. The matchstick key. I can't remember honestly the continuity there. I think it was something they came up with, but didn't use, that they ended up using on the TV show first, versus in the comic book itself. I could be wrong about that. But yeah, that is interesting to see. And it's great, it's just good stuff. Always- Justin:              It's great stuff. Alex:                 … an incredible issue out of the gate every single time. Next up, one I'm very excited to talk about, Amazing Spider-Man number 858 AK number 49, from Marvel written by Nick Spencer, Kurt Busiek, Tradd Moore and Saladin Ahmed, art by Ryan Ottley, Humberto Ramos and Mark Bagley, Chris Justin:              Bachalo, Tradd Moore and Aaron Kuder. So this is a conclusion of the Sin Eaters storyline, The Return of the Green Goblin and also a couple of backups stories. Justin, I'm curious to hear from you. You seem to really like the Sin Eater storyline in particular, but what's your take on the ending here? Justin:              It got a little muddled with the Green Goblin stuff. I thought the first couple issues of the Sin Eater Arc I thought were so good, so smart, felt very timely and responding to the world. It was such a total change from Nick Spencer jokey Spider-Man into this like very serious Sin Eater storyline. So it felt like a hard right turn into Peter Parker dealing with the Green Goblin stuff and so much more historical and it felt far less present to the modern world. And weird the way that he becomes like a juggernaut but with no… like a [crosstalk 00:12:24], hair. Alex:                 Could you talk about that for a second? So the- Justin:              Just a raged out, no neck dude. Alex:                 Well, the weird thing is, so the Sin Eater, when he shoots people, now he gains their powers, right? So he shoots the juggernaut and then I liked generally speaking, just the voice of anything, the design of this, because he gets this juggernaut- Justin:              Sorry to hear you [crosstalk 00:12:45]- Alex:                 … Vini head, which is pretty gross. But the juggernaut doesn't have a head like that. He has a normal head and he just wears a helmet. So what was going on there? Justin:              I like the idea that maybe juggernaut just smooshed a little bit into his old- Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              The clothes fit the man. Pete:                I think that how he starts to… your body forms to the helmet after a little while, and then it's like, you take a turtle and it looks like you still are wearing it a little bit. And I think that's what happened here. Justin:              Pete, at this point, your feet have taken on the shape of your punisher's slippers, right? Pete:                Yeah, exactly. Exactly, yeah. Alex:                 I did like the Green Goblin's stuff in this issue. I think Nick Spencer did a good job of driving up the, and I'm using this word appropriately here, creepiness of the character. Justin:              Especially once all the other spider family characters were there, I was like, “Woof.” Alex:                 Oh yeah. That whole Gwen stuff was crazy. Justin:              Gross [crosstalk 00:13:40]. Alex:                 The exact right way though. The way that Norman Osborn is gross that I don't think we've seen him this way in a very long time, but it's weird. I'm curious to see what happens to the next issue, because it seems like we're finally getting into all of the kindred stuff, which is this villain that he's been building up over the course of all the issues. Justin:              But I got to say the fact that the reveal wasn't an issue. I was like, “Come on, man.” Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              It really felt like now is the time to do it and it feels like we've missed our shot to finally get the reveal. Alex:                 Particularly the way the end… sorry, Pete. I was just going to add that particularly the way the ending is paced and obviously the spoiler for the ending, but in the mix, everything that's happening with Spider-Man, with the Green Goblin, with everybody, with Kindred walking towards this grave and walking up. And it definitely felt like this is the point where we see kindred walking, looking at a grave and now we know who Kindred is, and instead we still have no idea. What were you going to say, Pete? Pete:                Oh, I was just going to say, yeah, there's nothing like the old, “Hanging out next to a grave. You don't know who I am, moment,” that everybody loves. Yeah, it's a little frustrated. We don't have more information, especially after all we've been through, but I also really liked the backup stories. I'm a sucker for Chris Bachalo's art and also- Justin:              [inaudible 00:15:06], wars are also very good. Pete:                Yeah. The Ford shoes store with that art is so glorious and fantastic. Alex:                 Pete, Doug Wizard. Do you love a good Doug Wizard? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, come on, dogs and wizards together. What's not to love? Alex:                 No way. Could I throw out at you before we talk too much about the backup stories? Theories about the identity of kindred. Pete? Pete:                I'm trying to think of… What was the care bear with the little cloud on it? That's who I think it is. Alex:                 Okay, great. Great. Justin, do you have any theories? Justin:              I mean, what are the third rails we're going to touch here? It's been built up so much, it has to be a big character. Is it the dude who killed uncle Ben? Alex:                 Hmm. I guess I can do that. I'll throw out one. This is not my theory. I read this today. What? Pete:                I think it's Doc Cock. Alex:                 Doc Cock? Joe Chill. It's Joe Chill. I love this theory. I read this, I think it was on Nerdist or something today. They had a bunch of theories of who [crosstalk 00:16:22]. Justin:              I've heard of that. Alex:                 The theory was, Pete, you are going to 100%, absolutely hate this theory, but I'm so excited about it. The theory is, it's Peter Parker, but it's Peter Parker from the pre one more day continuity because they fucked up the Mafesto curse by Maryy Jane and Peter Parker getting back together. So it split up the reality, and so Peter Parker who made that deal is now kindred tried to get it back. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              If we can finally undo that bullshit- Pete:                That would be glorious. Justin:              That feels so arch and unnecessary. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:17:09]. But I love the idea. I love the idea of it being Peter Parker, baby. I think that would be interesting. Pete:                Or Peter Porker. Justin:              Ooh, interesting. But here's the thing. So much of Kindred is like, “I was buried. I was under the ground.” It has to feel like it has to be a dead character come back to life. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 And it sounds graves. Justin:              Maybe it's their marriage. It's like- Alex:                 Yeah, there you go. The physical representation. As we all know, marriage is covered in giant centipedes. Alex:                 Let's move on to another title. Transformer is back to the future, number one from IDW, written by Ken and Scott, art by Juan Semeru. So this is exactly what you'd expect from the title. This is the Transformers, muck it up the back to the future continuity. And I'll get into a huge spoiler here, but I was getting very worried that they wouldn't do the thing that they do on the last page for most of the issue, but when they did, I was like, “Ah, thank you.” Pete:                Yeah, glorious. Glorious last page reveal. This was fun. This was cool. I liked how they took the things that we know. We got different perspectives, a little POV and the mall scene. I thought that was really fun, and great use of clashing these two worlds together in a way that made sense. Justin:              Yeah. I think this makes perfect sense. No one would ever be like, “This is an unnatural blending of two different properties.” Pete:                Yeah. I mean, who doesn't love seeing [crosstalk 00:18:45]- Alex:                 Oh, go ahead. Justin:              No, as they say in the famous line, “One point 21 megatrons.” Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 I do [crosstalk 00:18:54], think we're doing a good job here. I think when they finally get to it, to spoil a little bit of the book, but they do a back to the future too, with the transformers weaving their way through back to the future continuity saying, “Ooh, we could use some time travel to really take down the autobots,” and then of course, they finally do. We get the classic view of Hill Valley Square, except transformers have taken over the entire world. Beef Tatton, of course, is working for them. And Marty has tried to get away. It's just silly fun stuff. I had a much better time once they finally got to it, in the second half of the issue versus the first half of the issue- Pete:                Don't fucking do that. Don't break it up [crosstalk 00:19:35]. Alex:                 But I do. Justin:              It definitely felt like mashing up your toys when you're a kid in a fun way. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 I agree. Next up, American Vampire 1976 number one, from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque. And we talked to Scott Snyder about this when he was at our live show a couple of weeks ago. So definitely go and listen to that podcast. But this is, as you could imagine for the title continuing and finishing the saga of American Vampire now in the '70s, there's disco, there's big Afros, everything that you'd expect going out on the title. This is also, I will say as much as I love this, and as much as I love Rafael Albuquerque's art in particular, this is definitely a deep dive into my subconscious to be like, “Who's that character from American Vampire?” I haven't read this in a while. But I enjoyed it nonetheless, personally. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, speaking of the Albuquerque's art. I mean, it's just so nice to be back in his warm embrace. I mean, this art is glorious. They're having fun. The classic, killing vampires with disco. I mean, you don't get tired of that, that's just fun stuff. Yeah, I think this was a cool wrap up. There's a lot of tie ins that I didn't remember, like you were saying solves, but I still enjoyed them. And yeah, I think it's a great saying that comes out of this book, “Fuck history, shred it and forget it.” You know what I mean? Justin:              Yeah. And that's how you failed social studies, right? Pete:                Hard, failed hard. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. I mean, seeing this altogether, the team back together that is, is so nice. Skinner is such an iconic character, even though he's not really in American Vampire anymore. It's just great to have this book back. There are so many great shots, the moment where Travis Kid is looking over his shoulder, it's just such a good blend, Scott and Rafiel working together, you don't get anywhere else. Yeah. Alex:                 Yeah. It's great. Yeah, they're really getting it together. And so is our next book, Getting it Together, number one from [crosstalk 00:21:59]. Justin:              How did you come up with that? Wow. Alex:                 I mean, it was just up here. It was just up here in my brain and it came out of my mouth co-created and written by Sina Grace and Omar Spahi, art by Jenny Define and Sina Grace. We of course had Sina Grace and Omar Spahi on our live show. Justin:              Oh, when? Alex:                 Just this very week. Justin:              Oh, weird. Alex:                 So go back to this [inaudible 00:22:20], interview, despite the unfortunate tech problems. But I really enjoyed this book. If you did miss our live show, it's basically a more modern friend set in San Francisco. That's a little sexier and a little more inclusive, both from a cultural and sexual standpoint. And I thought it was fun. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. What do you guys think about it? Justin:              I agree [inaudible 00:22:46], a lot. I talked about this my comparison on the podcast of, Being a Bit Like Scott Pilgrim, a more modern and more, I guess, real, version of Scott Pilgrim where the characters are fun and interesting. They're making jokes and they're dealing with their mistakes in their lives. And I liked it a lot. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, unlike Friends, this is a little bit more, less shiny and more real, they get into things. So it's enjoyable. It's nice to just see a great image comic that focuses on relationships and the ebbs and flows of life and how we'd put up with each other's shit or don't and yeah, I think it's really well done. You got some interesting characters, some really fun, cool moments. Yeah, it's a solid book. Justin:              And who's your favorite friend? Real quick. Pete:                Oh, yeah. Alex:                 Good question. Pete:                Favorite friend on the TV show [crosstalk 00:23:49]- Alex:                 Go with Joey on this. Pete:                I'm going to say Alex. Alex:                 Gunther? Pete:                Nice. Alex:                 Wow. Justin:              Again, makes sense. You're the Gunther of this podcast. I got to say Pete was right. It's Joey. Joey is the best friend. [crosstalk 00:24:00]. Also, the seasons, he's the only one that isn't deeply unlikable by the end. Pete:                Well, I do like the Power of a Good Hug here. It's a nice thing that's in this book here, and [crosstalk 00:24:15]- Alex:                 I mean, I just want to follow up though what Justin said, that's why Joey was the perfect spinoff and works so well. Justin:              Yes. I can't believe it's still going strong, 15 seasons later. Alex:                 Incredible. Just a quick shout out before we move on. Jenny Define's art is great. In particular character designs are very good in this book. They're very unique, they're very different. They seem more realistic than your typical character designs and I think she does a good job here. Alex:                 Let's move on to our 10 of Swords Block. Three books came out today. We are going to talk about them as a little bit of a block, because this is an interesting event. And Justin, you haven't really been here to talk about this too much yet. Pete:                Wait- Alex:                 Yes, Pete, what's up? Pete:                Wait, I just wanted to point out, it's important that you read these in order. I fucked up the order [crosstalk 00:25:00]. Justin:              Like a lot of things, it's important you do them in the correct order, like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, putting- Pete:                No, you can have breakfast any time, mother fucker. Don't pull that shit. Justin:              Okay. Alex:                 Matter of life, death? Justin:              That birth, life, death. Alex:                 Yeah. Man, I'm very excited to hear what order you read these in. But just to read off all three titles right now. Wolverine number six written by Benjamin Percy and art by Viktor Bogdanovic. X-Force number three, also written by Benjamin Percy and art by Viktor Bogdanovic. Marauders, number 13 written by Vita Ayala and art by Matteo Lolli. So as you can probably tell here, the first two issues are basically one story. They're showing how Wolverine gets his sword. He's going after the Muramasa blade, which of course is the only thing that can kill him, as we learned from that very weird storyline, where he comes back from hell all the time. But that's sword he needs to go and battle for other worlds. And then Marauders 13 is a little more of a one-shot as it's showing how Storm gets her sword from Wakanda, which of course is a very personal mission for her. What do you think about the storyline so far? How'd you feel about these issues in particular? And Pete, what order did you read the bid? Pete:                Well, I'm just noticing now there's the part three of 22, part [crosstalk 00:26:20]. If I would have taken the time, I could have paid attention and then not read it, but I read it. Justin:              You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can read the cover to know what you're doing. Pete:                Yeah. I read part five first. I did the Marauders and then I did Wolverine and then I did Acts of Swords. Justin:              So that's all right. [crosstalk 00:26:44]- Alex:                 Not as bad as it could have been. You could have read Marauders in the middle or X-Force first and then Wolverine. Justin:              The Last page of Marauders gives it away a little bit for Wolverine and then you [crosstalk 00:26:56]. Justin:              Yes. Wolverine, it does get it together. See, I read the fifth panel on the sixth page of Marauders and I jumped over to X-Force and read the seventh panel on. [crosstalk 00:27:05]. Yeah, I know. Alex:                 Now, wait. Do you want to hear from Pete because you've been pretty dead on the exponent general and down on that storyline for the first two parts? Well, I think pretty positive about everything so far. I've been really enjoying this storyline. But you like these issues, right, Pete? Pete:                Yeah. So yeah, I guess what you wanted to talk about how you're a more positive person than me and you can see the sunshine. Alex:                 Yeah, I'm like ray of sunshine and you're not. Pete:                Yeah. I got a clouded like a ping pang thing going on. So yeah, what I like about this is, it's not 80 different fucking things happening at once. It's not fuck Island and you can't kill anybody anymore and golden eggs of humans, as well as the fact that you're no longer a part of everything. You give humans drugs on the side. It's just dealing with this 10 of Swords, like, “Okay, there's a showdown coming up, you've got to go get your weapon of choice and go get in your spot so that when it's go time, you're ready to go.” So it's like, “Great, this is what I want. I don't want this.” There's so much shit happening in X-Men right now we can just deal with this side story. And I was so happy, we just got three stories that make sense, that kind of like, okay, it's each person's journey to get to their place, so the raid to try to save the world. Justin:              It's like a prequel to the Choose Your Fighter screen on Street Fighter II. Pete:                Exactly. You're choosing what weapon and why. [crosstalk 00:28:49]. Yeah, I love it. Alex:                 I liked that you refer to this Wolverine story as nice and simple and straightforward where it's just classic Wolverine goes to Japan, goes down to hell, burns all of the flash off of his skeleton, meets a guy from other worlds who killed people who were the children of apocalypse. And has come back to getr an immortal blade that contains a person's soul that is also wanted by the beast who runs the hand, who wants to give them as wedding gifts, except the beast also hates Wolverine and Muramasa, so wants to eat their souls. Just classic which is very simple [crosstalk 00:29:31]. Pete:                Yeah, give me straightforward story that I can fucking follow, man. Alex:                 Totally. All you need to do is read every expert book and every Daredevil book, and you got it. Pete:                But if you don't know that Wolverine, when he dies, goes to hell and have to be reborn every time. I like the fact that they were picking up on that and playing with it a little bit here and… yeah, it sounds insane, but with Hickman's, all the stuff that he's changed, it's nice to just have a simple and say [crosstalk 00:30:02]- Alex:                 Go back to basics. Yeah. Justin:              Let me ask you, how many of the text pages did you read? Pete:                None. Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Not a fucking one. Justin:              I actually liked a lot of the text pages, especially in the Marauders book, which feels like a good way for them to keep the more fantastical aspects of the Hickman, X-Men world in these books. These much more straightforward titles where we are just assembling the Circle of Swords characters back on Krakola. And yeah, it's like these are two shot in a one shot where fun stuff happens. Alex:                 I enjoyed these. I had fun. I still like this crossover. My only little qualms- Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 … with the Wolverine one- Justin:              Of course, I like something you fucking [crosstalk 00:30:55]. Alex:                 No. I mean, here's the thing. Is that, I don't like the Wolverine Goes to Hell thing at all. I do not like that as a part of Wolverine mythology. Justin:              I don't like that he can be- Pete:                I also don't like that Spider-Man made a deal with the fucking devil. [crosstalk 00:31:09]- Alex:                 Hold on. Wait, Justin, are you to call out the skeleton thing? Justin:              Yes. I don't like that either. Alex:                 What is that? Justin:              He can't just go back to skeleton and grow back. He's not Lobo, another Wolverine. Pete:                You don't know, that's not true. Alex:                 Yeah. That bothers me as well. I think Benjamin Percy, a great writer, the art is great. Justin:              I'm sorry about this [crosstalk 00:31:27]- Alex:                 I love having this new, a [oracco 00:31:32], opposite to Wolverine. This person, new has adamantium skin or armor or whatever is going on there. Justin:              Let's just say it's a microfiber. Alex:                 It's a great Wolverine villa. It's just a really good setup there. But those little things are just like, “Oh, this is so annoying to be,” but I pushed past them. Anyway, the Storm story I thought was very good. It's such a very smart thing to have her be like, “Goddammit, I got to go back to Wakanda with my ex-husband and ask for a sword somehow.” Vita Ayala puts great history of Storm in there. The art is excellent to the change of [inaudible 00:32:07], styles are great. I thought this was a very, very good issue in particular. So overall I'm a big fan of this storyline so far. Pete:                Yeah, me too. Yeah, and- Alex:                 Moving on… Oh, go ahead, Pete. Pete:                It was really cool to find out about the sword and the way they gave us the story. And yeah, and it was also tough because we're in Wakanda, rest in peace, Chadwick, Bozeman. There was that still, the amazing tribute thing. And then he didn't show up till later was cool and well placed and just caught her red-handed in the worst possible moment. But the conversation they had was great, and then the ending of the book with the other two waiting there was really fantastic, really setting things up and again it's excited for this 10 Swords event. I'm very excited for this and I hope this event can propel the X-Men into a place that is, I don't know, a little cleaner and less insane. Alex:                 I 100% guarantee you they're going to celebrate winning the 10 of Swords challenge with a big old fuck party at both ends. Justin:              Yes. And oracco fuck party is wow. Alex:                 That's fucked up. Justin:              I just hope they're not bringing 10 knives to 10 different gunfights. Alex:                 Oh man. That'd be bad. Son of a Hedgehog Bad Guy is number one from ITW story by Ian Flynn and art by Jack Lawrence. This is well outside of my wheelhouse. Justin:              What do you mean Alex? Alex:                 What I mean is Son of the Hedgehog is one of those characters, I was like, “What is he doing? He's running fast and spitting rings out of his body. This is dumb, and I hate this game. I'm not going to play.” Justin:              You don't like… because were an Nintendo person? Alex:                 Yeah, I was a Nintendo guy. Justin:              See, I was Nintendo too, and I feel the same way, because I was like, “He's just so fast.” Mario is not fast. He jumps, that's his whole thing. Pete:                First off, I was a Nintendo guy as well, but Sonic was fun. It was crazy, but it was a fun game. You all are [crosstalk 00:34:18]- Justin:              Alex and I are like Sonic, too fast, slow down. [crosstalk 00:34:22]. Why are you obsessed with rings? Be happy with the simple life, be happy with the simple life Sonic. [inaudible 00:34:29], all these golden rings, Pete:                All that aside, I felt like this was a very clean, fun idea of like, “All right, let's set up some villains. Let's set things up in a way that makes sense and moves things forward.” And I thought it was cool to see this team come together. Alex:                 Yeah. Ian Flynn knows what he's doing with these licensed properties. And like you said, taking a bunch of bad guys, even if I don't know a lot about them, he writes them well, he delineates them. Jack Lawrence's art is cartoony in front of the right way. Pete:                Perfectly, yeah. Alex:                 I'm just getting fun, all ages title. Even if I don't personally feel a connection with Son of the Hedgehog. Justin:              Now, Pete, how do you like this hedgehog when he's basically the flash with spikes? Pete:                No, he's nothing like that. There's no bullshit speed force or a fucking one of the treadmills- Alex:                 The screen force is like a bunch of rings that he spits out when he's hit. It's the same thing. Pete:                No, it's not true. Alex:                 Same concept. Pete:                No. Alex:                 Okay. Pete:                Yeah. I have no problem with Sonic, unlike you guys. I think this is a fun book, really well drawn. It's cool. Alex:                 We don't have a problem with it. It's a problem with you, Pete. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 We Only Find Them When They're Dead. Number two from Boom! Studios, written by Al Ewing and illustrated by Simone Di Meo. This is continuing the story of a bunch of salvagers who fly around the universe, carving meat off of gods. They want to find a live god, they only find dead gods. I got to say that carving meat thing is probably my favorite part of the book right now, just in terms of how weird and gross it is. How are you guys feeling about it, two issues in? Pete:                Well, I'm definitely going to change my will. And I want people to carve meat out of me and eat it. Justin:              Oh yeah. I can't wait for a filly Pete steak. Pete:                It's going to be fun. Justin:              Suck it up at Pete steak. Pete:                Oh boy. Justin:              Suck it up on Pete Steak. Pete:                Yeah. The art is fantastic in this book, it's very interesting as we piece together what's going on and this world where they live off dead gods. Yeah, this is very interesting different fun, space book, cool characters, good relationships. It'll be interesting to see how this goes, but I'm on board. I think this is a fun book. Justin:              Pete, when we do eventually eat you because you asked in your will, would you mind if I use regular cheese instead of cheez whiz? Pete:                No. You got use whiz. Also, I'll have a specific condiment, like the old country suite, [inaudible 00:37:20], dipping sauce, you know what I mean? Justin:              And that'll be made from your hair or something? Pete:                No, from the country [crosstalk 00:37:28]- Alex:                 No, of course, you're going to be a French dip. You got the [foreign language 00:37:30] Pete:                Oh, yeah. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Nothing like the good old you. Justin:              This reminds me, I've been watching the show, Raised by Wolves. [crosstalk 00:37:41]- Pete:                God, how many times are you going to talk about [crosstalk 00:37:44]? What the fuck? Alex:                 No, keep bringing it up, I want to talk about it every time. Let's do it. Justin:              [crosstalk 00:37:46]. I haven't quite finished it yet. Very excited. Two episodes left. This reminded me of that in a good way, a nice- Pete:                Save it for a weekend geek, you asshole. Justin:              Okay. But anyway, this is very similar. Totally, I think. Alex:                 Yeah, this is good stuff. This is just a big, hard Sci-Fi and I'm very impressed with this new world here. It's sometimes difficult to get through exactly what's happening, but I'm always intrigued to find out what's next. Alex:                 Talking about another hard Sci-Fi book, Far Sector, number eight from DC comics written by new MacArthur, genius grant recipients, N.K. Jemisin, art and color by Jamal Campbell. Yeah, take that other DC comics writers. This is tying up the storyline, but opening up some new mysteries. We have Green Lantern on this planet. She is fighting some digital beings. Finally, shuts them down, but as mentioned, it opens up new histories here. Every issue is just very good. How do you guys feel about this one? Pete:                Yeah. I mean the art is amaze balls. Every issue is very impressive. I love the aliens reference, little George Carlin quote. I mean this book continues to impress. The main character is fantastic. You root for the whole time. This is a fun mystery, who done it thing, that's slowly unraveling. I just constantly impressed with how different this is from Green Lantern books and how much more I like it than Green Lantern books. Justin:              Yeah. I think, in this issue, it occurred to me just the sense of place and characters is so unique in this book. You really feel like this city is difficult for the characters to understand or the main character to understand. That's as much of a part of the mystery as anything else. And I think it's very rare for a comic book to give that off. Alex:                 Yeah. Particularly when you have a Green Lantern comic book where they're usually flitting from planet to planet or going to [OA 00:39:54], and they're going somewhere else and then back to OA and then over to earth, that we're sitting here and living in this place is I think very smart and very good. This is a don't miss book every month. Alex:                 Next up, this is what I know you were excited about Justin, Adventure Man, number four from Image Comics. Script by Matt Fraction, pencils by Terry Dodson, inks by Rachel Dodson. In this issue, we're having our new adventure man, is dealing with the fact that she is much larger than she was previously. Justin:              And denser. Alex:                 And denser. Pete:                Denser. Alex:                 And we find out a lot more about the history of what went on with the previous Adventure Man. How'd you feel about this one? Justin:              I like this book a lot. Obviously, the art by the Dodsons is fantastic. And the way the story really takes its time, I said this on the main podcast as well, it really takes its time- Alex:                 You sure did. Justin:              … and we get to really explore the powers and origin of the character that so many books have to blow pass in one issue. And with this series, we get to really be like, to her discovering her powers. It reminds me of the first couple of Spider-Man movies and really like languishing in the origin and enjoying it, which is something that I've missed in a lot of new comic books. Alex:                 Yeah. I mean, some people might just say, “Get to it already,” but I see what you say. Justin:              I hear you on that. But with this, it feels like we get to see the characters really enjoying the world that they're in and enjoying this. This is moment of discovery of- Alex:                 Enjoying the journey. Justin:              Yeah. And enjoying the beginning of the journey. As for this character, I think it's cool. Alex:                 I agree. Pete:                The arts, fantastic. You've got some great action, some fun storytelling, great character development. This is a really pro comic that is just taking it's time and being confident in the art and the storytelling. Alex:                 Well, and it's also, I don't know if it's going to pan out this way, but it's a really good all ages comic book at the same time. This is something that you could read with kids and have no problem. It's a little complex, but it's fun stuff. It gets a little dark, but good book across the board. Next up, Backtrack, number seven from Oni Press written by Brian Joines, art by Jake Elphick. We had Brian Joines on the live show a couple of weeks back. [crosstalk 00:42:20]- Justin:              Wait, did you did you say Backtrack or Backstack? Alex:                 Backtrack. Pete:                Okay, [inaudible 00:42:25]. Justin:              Backtstack. Alex:                 So this is a car race through time. And in this issue, they find their [inaudible 00:42:30], cells not back in time, but forward in time, in the future, dealing with some big stuff here. I really like this issue a lot. This is a big mythology issue, building out exactly what's been going out of the background while they were doing this race. And I enjoyed finally getting to that stuff, as well as this glimpse of this future timeline. How did you two feel about it? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, this is just over the top fun, the art is unbelievable and it's nice to see even in the future, you can just cocky robots, you just shoot them down. You know what I mean? Don't let those robots talk shit to you. Just shoot them in the face until they fall down. It's good stuff. Justin:              Wow. Bad attitude when it comes to [inaudible 00:43:18]. You're the kind of guy that would shoot up C-3PO in Empire Strikes Back. Pete:                No, come on. Oh, well 3CPO, yeah. [crosstalk 00:43:26]. Alex:                 As will Smith said in the classic movie, I, Robot, “Oh, hell no.” Justin:              Yeah. That's what we were all thinking. Thanks for saying it, Alex. Alex:                 Anytime. Justin:              When we had Brian on the show, we talked a lot about how the racing, the balance between the racing and the other side of the story is really well handled. And even in this issue, where there's so much about the mythology and just developing the world around these characters, we still have a lot of time for the energy of the race. And I think that the momentum behind the book is really part of that and I appreciate that. Alex:                 Yeah, they do- Justin:              The colors in this book are also really exciting. Alex:                 Yeah, they do a great job of bouncing my story and action and it keep things grounded, even though it's such a chronic crazy over the top idea. Justin:              It makes me, just when I'm driving my kids to school in the morning, I just feel the same way. I'm just going crazy. Pulling to a stop at a red light and slowly, getting in traffic and then stopping again. Alex:                 Oh, man. That's really cool. You should try going through time. Next up, let's talk about one of my favorite Marvel books that is rapidly going to the top of my stack, Black Widow, number two from Marvel, read by Kelly Thompson, art by Elena Casagrande. We've got a little hint of what's been going on with Black Widow in the last issue as something happened to her. And now she's being manipulated by Arcade. This issue Hawkeye, and with the soldier tracking her down. They find out she's living a happy family life, but of course, Black Widow still got a Black Widow with some hero stuff. This is great. This is such a great twist on Black Widow. This is such a different story for her, and I'm very excited to see where this goes. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. Our expectations that we talked about at the first issue where it's like, “Oh, it's not the Black Widow book. Oh, she's dealing with her past, she's being taken advantage of. She's going to kill people to get back on top,” and to find that new spin on it like this. And I love the perspective shift, switching to Hawkeye and Bucky, Winter Soldier, just like trying to figure this out. And I do hope they get to the Winter Soldier Black Widow over relationship that was such a great relationship back in the Edward Baker run, and was just untimely dispatched with at the end of that run. And I would love to see that become a thing again, despite the fact that she has no memory at all. Pete:                What do you guys think? This is the kind of the question. Do they interfere here or do they literally let her live this happy life that she seemed so pleasant and content with? Alex:                 Well, since she's being manipulated by Arcade and the Kabbalah villains, I would say they probably should get her out, but they don't know that part yet. Pete:                They don't. I just wanted to go on record here and say if you guys see me living a brainwashed life, please don't hesitate to pull me out of that. Alex:                 Oh, I thought you're going to say let you stay in it. Pete:                No. Justin:              Do you think some of the younger henchmen that deal with Arcade are like, “What are you named after, dude?” Pete:                Yeah, definitely. Justin:              What is it? Core quarters? You put quarters in the machine? Alex:                 Apple Arcade. Come on, that's a thing. Everybody loves Apple Arcade. We are all subscribers. Justin:              That's 100% true. Alex:                 Yeah. What's your favorite game on Apple Arcade? Real quick. Don't even look it up. Just mention one. Justin:              Sorry. I'm just running through my favorite quippy shows. Let me just list those. Alex:                 Exorsisters, number 10 from Image Comics written by Ian Boothby and art by Gisèle Lagacé. This is the culmination of illustration [crosstalk 00:47:18], of the firsthand issues. We talked about this series on and off. This is about two sisters, as you probably figured out from the title. One of them is real, one of them is not. And they're battling forces of heaven and hell. Great climax in this issue. I thought just like a big, fun battle that didn't lose the sense of humor that it has throughout. I enjoyed this title quite a bit. How do you guys feel? Justin:              Yeah, I feel the same way. The art has the classic Betty and Veronica, Archie vibe to it, well dealing with these big demonic characters, heaven and hell coming together around these sisters, these not technically sisters, sisters. It's very fun. Alex:                 Yeah, it's fun. Even in the middle of the fight, she's like, “Do you want to tag in?” It's just, they're having a good time, even though there's big stakes and things happening and I really liked the sister's relationship. Yeah, I think this is really a fun book that makes an interesting turn at the end. But yeah, this is well done, well drawn. You can run those ones when you look at the cover, you're like, “Oh, I get what this is.” And then you're pleasantly rewarded for that. Alex:                 Next up, Deceased, Dead Planet, number four from TC Comics written by Tom Taylor, art by Trevor Harrison. If you haven't been following along, we've been loving this title. This takes place in a world ravaged by the anti-life equation. They have found out that cyborg holds maybe the cure to the virus that it has going around. So this issue they're tracking down, Metron trying to get information from him to put it all together. Another great issue of this title. What'd you guys think about it? Pete:                I mean, this comic is insane. This is so much fun. It's nonstop action and fun moments between heroes, great kiss. Some bad-ass reveal at the end, last page. Tom Taylor is killing this book. Justin:              Yeah, I really liked the way the Superman and Batman are done in this storyline. It's one of the rare Elle swirled these storylines where I really think the heroes stand on their own. I could see these characters continuing on outside of this comic or just really living in this deceased world for a long time. Alex:                 That's great. I agree. Next up, Inkblot, number two from Image Comics written by Emma Kubert and art by Rusty Gladdest. Pete, you're a big fan of this one. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 It's a fantasy book with a tiny little black cat. This issue takes a very different bed. Introduces subdue characters, keeps the same cat. How do you feel about this? Pete:                This is fun book. I don't know what it is about this adorable cat, but- Alex:                 Is some of the cat is very… I can't stop looking at it. Pete:                I don't know if it's the eyes or the cuteness or just the way it's drawn. Alex:                 It's probably the eyes, because the eyes are the only distinguishing features. Pete:                But I really love it. I know it's ridiculous, but just seeing this guy who just says ‘Meow,” is just great and saves the day. Guys, just because dragons are big and scary doesn't mean they have big and scary problems. Sometimes you just have a small problem kike your old rat stuck in the nose. Alex:                 You worshiped the cat? The weight of the cat. Pete:                Let's weigh the cat guys. Alex:                 You're a cat guy though, Pete. That's the thing. That's a secret that nobody knows. Pete:                Well, I was a dog person my whole life, but now I have a cat. And so it's just me and Inkblot living the dream. Alex:                 I like this issue. I just want to know what's going on with this book, because as far as I can tell the second issue wasn't really connected to the first issue, [crosstalk 00:51:24]- Pete:                Yeah, one and done type of scenarios. Alex:                 Yeah. But the first issue ended in a cliff hanger where they were going to continue the story. So I'd love to get back to that. No, that'd be cool. I think the art is very good. I like the world. There's a glorious picture of a bunch of [ellis 00:51:42], standing in front of this, I don't know if it's a portal or what it is in these tree branches that is gorgeous. So I want to know more about this world, but I feel like we're two issues in, and it's not quite giving me enough information at this point. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Well, I don't know what more you need. You got adorable cat who's solving crimes and helping people out. I mean, what the fuck else you want, man? Justin:              [crosstalk 00:52:08]. Getting that rat. Pete:                Got to get that rat. Justin:              Got to get that rat. That's what I said to my coffee mug in the morning, I drink my cup of coffee and I'm like, “Ah, time to get that rat.” Champions, number one written by Eve L. Ewing, art by Simone Di Meo. This is picking up on the champions outlawed storyline that I think began 35 years ago. I'm not 100% sure, but the champions have been… they're not allowed to be superheroes anymore. Kids aren't allowed to be super heroes and being a little mean, but this is obviously a victim of the pandemic where things have gotten very, very delayed. Justin:              Finally, we are picking up on this though. What do you think about this take on Marvel's Young Heroes? Pete:                I mean, it just sucks that they're no longer allowed to be heroes and they're trying to be… there's sting operations to get them. I mean, it's heartbreaking stuff, you know what I mean? They earn their stripes, they should be a part of the team. Justin:              Exactly. If I were in living in this world, I would want to [crosstalk 00:53:14]- Pete:                You are living in this world. Justin:              … 11, 12 year olds running around, shooting stuff through lasers. Alex:                 Yeah, being in charge of things, making big time decisions. I love it. Justin:              Once the team comes together and this book starts moving, I like this a lot. I'm the Van [Astervicks 00:53:32], formerly Marvel boy, former new warrior. The fact that he's the bad guy here, now he's called Justice. I don't know if he's just this way now. That was interesting. And I guess, I'm not super familiar with the dynamics of this team. I like the way the reveal at the end, and I'm curious how, if this book does have that same vibe of the new warriors that I liked back in the '90s. Alex:                 Yeah. It's not quite there yet. It feels like the middle of whatever happened previously, whatever's coming next, but once it comes together, I am interested to read it as well. Alex:                 Last but not least, Decorum, number five written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Mike Huddleston. This might be my favorite issue of Decorum, so far personally. Justin:              100%. I like how we always save this book for last. Alex:                 All right, so at this book, who knows what really is going on? But in this issue, we are following our former courier character was now training at a school for assassins. And we follow her as she trains at that school over the course of many, many years. Man, this issue was great. Just a ton of fun, perfectly relayed out by Mike Huddleston phenomenal. Like I do, it's taken us a while to get here, but just a joy to read from beginning to end. Justin:              Yeah. I agree. I think Hickman, especially on his non big to work really pops when there's a very clear format to the story so that he can live in that format and tell the wildest stories he can think of. I like to imagine that right after Krakola finishes, making love to a neighboring Island, Krakola falls asleep and dreams the comic book, Decorum. Alex:                 Wow. Justin:              Hmm, wow. Alex:                 There's some- Justin:              Delilah will be here all night, listening to your heartbreaking story. Pete:                There's some amazing art, some amazing coloring and shading in this book. Really beautiful stuff, but it's also repetitive and it's also like you're getting these symbols, the graphics, the [crosstalk 00:55:56]- Justin:              There's some amazing shading. There's some amazing shading right there for people to pick. Pete:                I get it, man. You like symbols now, and now every book has to have these little pages, in between pages that don't have much, but have a little bit whatever- Justin:              Dude, dude, dude, it is not now. He's been doing that same shit for years. Alex:                 Yes. Pete:                Okay, cool. I guess I'm just catching on to it, but I don't know. I guess if you like it and it's in every book, you get used to it or grow to expect it. But I think the art is glorious, especially with… even though it's repetitive of the same shit, the kind of goriness of it is fantastic. And then you get the, okay, she finally steps up and what that means and the aftermath. So interesting, cool storytelling, but really took its time and art's great. Alex:                 Alright, there you go. No better place to wrap up than that. If you would like to support this podcast, patrion.com/comic book club, also do a live show every Tuesday ni

This is the first episode of the second season of the Earth-16 Comics Wire Podcast. In this episode, I will be discussing the graphic novel Batman V. Deathstroke, This is one of my favorite arcs which was written by Christopher Priest (Black Panther) and illustrated by Carlo Pagulayan, Ed Benes, Robert Viacava, Jason Paz, Richard Friend, Trevor Scott, and Andy Owens. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

September Solicitations Comics Reviews: Dark Nights: Death Metal 1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, FCO Plascencia Flash Annual 3 by Joshua Williamson, Brandon Peterson, Stephen Segovia, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz Nightwing Annual 3 by Dan Jurgens, Inaki Miranda, Nick Filardi A Man Among Ye 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Craig Cermak, Brittany Pezzillo Wynd 1 by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas Steven Universe: Crystal Clean by Rebecca Sugar  Additional Reviews: The Outsider, End of the Fucking World season 2, Joker 80th Anniversary Special, The Floor is Lava, HBO Max digital comics News: Osborn is back as the Green Goblin, UK release nonsense, Tom King/Trevor Von Eeden lost Superman/Black Lightning BLM comic, NBC Universal to adapt Descender/Ascender, Cameron Stewart and Warren Ellis and sexual harassment scandals, Immortal Hulk ending, Tynion's first series at Image, new DC Walmart initiative, Generation Zero FCBD, new Zdarsky horror series from Image, major updates for DC digital lineup, Disney+ and Fan4stic, stealth cancellation of Ghost Spider, Stranger Things/Dungeons and Dragons Comics Countdown Gideon Falls 22 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart After Realm Quarterly 2 by Michael Avon Oeming, Taki Soma,  Strange Adventures 2 by Tom King, Evan Shaner, Mitch Gerads Dark Nights: Death Metal 1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, FCO Plascencia Wynd 1 by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas DCeased: Hope at World's End 3 by Tom Taylor, Carmine Di Giandomenico Birthright 44 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas Young Justice 15 by Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, John Timms, Scott Godlewski, Gabe Eltaeb Question: Deaths of Vic Sage 3 by Jeff Lemire, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Sotomayor Firefly 16 by Greg Pak, Ramon Bachs, Joana LaFuente

En época de cuarentena, es posible encontrar tiempo para leer, por este motivo esperamos que les guste y se útil el capítulo de esta semana Los cómics comentados en este capítulo son: - Shinzen: "MPH", Guión de Mark Millar, Dibujo de Duncan Fegredo y Color Peter Doherty. Editorial Panini Comics (Originalmente Dark Horse) "Batman/Tarzan" Guión de Ron Marz, Dibulo de Igor Kordey. Editorial DEUX (Originalmente Dark Horse) - Vicente: "The New Teen Titans" Guión de Marv Wolfman, dibujo de George Perez. Editados por DC Comic (En español hay ediciones Norma y Coleecionable Salvat que cubren la época) -Rodrigo: "Batman Contra Dadstroke". Guión de Christopher Priest, Marv Wolfman. Dibujo de Carlo Pagulayan, Ed Benes, Larry Hama, Roberto Viacava y Steve Erwin. Editado por ECC Ediciones Apóyanos en Patreon https://www.patreon.com/devorandocomics Recuerda que también pueden escuchar nuestro #Podcast de #DevorandoComics en: -Ivoox: https://cl.ivoox.com/es/podcast-devorando-comics_sq_f1586450_1.html -spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6dYRuOsPRRM5QM3hjbvuSx?si=psrhTDwLRj-HZ7lwcxP8UQ No olviden visitar #DevorandoComics en: -Web oficial: www.devorandocomics.cl -Twitter: https://twitter.com/dibujosshinzen -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devorandocomics.cl/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Devorandocomicscl-734381686931505/ -twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/devorandocomics/videos

Au sommaire de cette spéciale BD : -Evocation de LES DOGUES NOIRS DE L'EMPIRE - LA FORCE NOIRE (L'HARMATTAN BD) de Massire Tounkara au dessin et Christophe Cassieau-Haurie au scénario ;-Chronique de MECANIQUE CELESTE par Merwan Chabane (DARGAUD) ;-Retour sur le manga DEMON SLAYER de Koyoharu Gotoge (PANINI MANGA) ;-Echanges autour de BATMAN VERSUS DEATHSTROKE de Christophe Priest, dessiné par Carlo Pagulayan et Ed Benes (URBAN COMICS) ;-Retour sur CENTAUR CHRONICLES V.III L'ADVERSITE (FG PROD), comics français signé, au dessin, par Marti, Reed Man, Eric van Elslande, et au scénario par Jean-Michel Ferragatti ;-Interview de Jean-Michel Ferragatti. Bonne écoute à toutes et à tous.

Doomsday Clock, Legion of Super-Heroes, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy, DCeased, Batman vs. Ra's al Ghul, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man, Alpha Flight: True North, Spider-Man: Going Big, Ghost Spider Annual, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Dark Temple, Web of Black Widow, Spawn 300, Battlepug, Everything, Triage, Midnight Vista, Something is Killing the Children, Vampirella/Red Sonja Additional Reviews: IT Chapter 2, Daredevil s3, Insidious News: Scholastic and Marvel, Gage on Iron Man, Birds of Prey teaser, DC 100-pagers, Tom Taylor Suicide Squad, Patty Jenkins and Netflix, Incoming! Am It Glenn??? Comics Review Details: Doomsday Clock 11 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson Legion of Super-Heroes: Millenium 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Andre Lima Araujo, Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Andrea Sorrentino, Scott Williams, Jordie Bellaire, John Kalisz, Alex Sinclair, Dave Stewart Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy 1 by Jody Houser, Adriano de Silva Melo, Mark Morales, Hi-Fi DCeased: A Good Day To Die by Tom Taylor, Laura Braga, Darick Robertson, Richard Friend, Trevor Scott, Rain Beredo Batman vs. Ra's al Ghul 1 by Neal Adams Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man by Peter David, Francesco Mobili, Rain Beredo, Java Tartaglia Alpha Flight: True North by Jim Zub, Max Dunbar, Monkeyseed, Jed MacKay, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Ian Herring, Ed Brisson, Scott Hepburn Amazing Spider-Man: Going Big by Gerry Conway, Mark Bagley, Victor Olazaba, Andy Owens, Dexter Vines, Ralph Macchio, Todd Nauck, Rachelle Rosenberg, Erik Larsen, Laura Martin Ghost Spider Annual by Vita Ayala, Pere Perez, Rachelle Rosenberg Web of Black Widow 1 by Jody Houser, Stephen Mooney, Tree Farrell Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Dark Temple by Matthew Rosenberg, Paolo Villanelli, Arif Prianto Everything 1 by Christopher Cantwell, INJ Culbard Triage 1 by Phillip Sevy Vampirella/Red Sonja 1 by Jordie Bellaire, Drew Moss, Rebecca Nalty Midnight Vista 1 by Eliot Rahal, Clara Meath, Mark Englert Something Is Killing The Children 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell-Edera, Miquel Muerto Battlepug 1 by Mike Norton, Alan Passalaqua Pretty Deadly: Rat 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios Spawn 300 by Todd McFarlane, Scott Snyder, Shawn Alexander, Greg Capullo, Jerome Opena, J. Scott Campell, Jonathan Glapion, Matt Hollingsworth, Brian Haberline, Fco Plascencia, Peter Steigerwald Comics Countdown, 04 Sep 2019: House of X 4 by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia Die 7 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans Doomsday Clock 11 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson Redneck 23 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren, Dee Cunniffe Conan the Barbarian 9 by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matt Wilson Giant Days 54 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar Berserker Unbound 2 by Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr, Frank Martin Jr Deathstroke 47 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Fernando Pasarin, Jason Paz, Cam Smith, Wade von Grawbadger, Jeromy Cox Something is Killing the Children 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell-Edera, Miquel Muerto Harley Quinn 65 by Sam Humphries, Sami Basri, Hi-Fi