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This week Chris goes over what he got at FCBD, Nightwing Volume 5: Raptors Revenge, Nightwing, The New Order, Prince Valiant, Creepy Archives, Eerie Archives, Predator: The Essential Comics Volume 1 TPB, The Paybacks Collection, Harrow County: Library Edition Volume 1. Plus the July 2018 Solicitations that include Project Superpowers Omnibus Vol. 1: Dawn of the Heroes TP (Dynamite); Planet of the Apes Archive Vol. 4 HC (Boom Studios); Prince Valiant Vol 17 1969-1970 HC (Fantagraphics); Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 3 HC, Bram Stoker's Dracula HC (IDW/LOAC); Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy In Hell TP (Dark Horse); Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor Vol. 17 HC (Variant Edition Vol. 267), Destroyer by Robert Kirkman TP, Secret Invasion: Rise of the Skrulls TP, Cloak and Dagger: Predator and Prey TP (Marvel); Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6 HC, The Flash: Rogues: Captain Cold TP, Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway Vol. 2 HC, Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition HC (DC Comics).
Chris is back and he goes over his recent “buy” pile that includes Punisher: Platoon, Star Wars Vol. 7: The Ashes of Jedha, Star Wars: Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith Vol. 2: Legacy's End, EC Archives, Creepy Archives, Eerie Archives, and Prince Valiant. Also in the news today is MARVELOCITY: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross, Usagi Yojimbo/TMNT: The Complete Collection, Age of Reptiles, X-O Manowar Compendium One, Aliens Essential Comics Volume 1, and Action Comics #1000 Deluxe Edition. Lastly, Chris goes over a few notable and collected edition-centric Eisner Award categories and gives his guess as to who will win!
Age of Ultron, BOOM! + Archaia, Regular Show, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, Under the Dome, Arrow, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Activation by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko from Vertical, Dark Horse's Eerie and Creepy Archives, Brian Wood's X-Men #2, Vertigo's The Wake from Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, New York Comic Con, Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto from Viz, Man of Steel, TMNT, Transformers, Vin Diesel, Ben Tiede's Nom Nom Comics, The Art and Creativity of Steve Ditko by IDW and Craig Joe, ONI's Double Barrel, Mind MGMT from Matt Kindt and Dark Horse, and a whole mess more!
Tim Seeley, the hardest-working multi-talented man in comics, drops in to talk to us about Witchblade, Hack/Slash, Suicide Girls, digital distribution, Jack Kraken and Four Star Studios, the double-edged sword of creative autonomy, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Dungeons and Dragons, Fletcher Hanks and Fantomah, the Hack/Slash movie and film options, horror movies, and a bloody mess more! Plus, we have enough steam to kibbitz about Creepy Presents Bernie Wrightson and Creepy Archives volume ten from Dark Horse, Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit from Fantagraphics, Steve jobs, Echoes by Joshua Hale Fialkov & Rahsan Ekedal from Top Cow, Teen Titans: Games by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, The Hit List Agenda books out of Aspen, Avengers Academy, and a short fifth-week DC wrap-up spotlighting Action Comics, OMAC, Detective Comics, Stormwatch, Animal Man, and Swamp Thing!
Casting our fates to the control of the almighty 11 O'Clock Orange D20, our extra-length holiday episode features Gabriel Hardman, Scott Pilgrim, Pluto, Doc Stearn: Mister Monster, Encyclopedia Deadpoolica, Giant-Size X-Men #1, Amazing Heroes, Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix from Abrams ComicArts, The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers from Craig Yoe and Fantagraphics, Crossed, Matt Murdock, more Adele Blanc-Sec, Winter's Bone, One Eskimo, Avatar, S. Clay Wilson, an impromptu Fanzine Flashback featuring John Byrne's Alpha Flight and Bill Mantlo's Incredible Hulk, Man-Thing, Tom Scioli's American Barbarian, Declan Shalvey, Creepy Archives from Dark Horse, Secret Wars II, Damage Control, Vandal Savage, The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read from Abrams ComicArts, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant volume one from Fanta, Ostrander and company's Grimjack Omnibus from IDW, Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture from Mark Batty, Quantum & Woody, 100 Bullets, Sean Murphy's Off Road, Heavy Metal, Moebius, Wolverine, Grant Morrison, Tim and Eric, Shade, the Changing Man, Jean Grey, Howard the Duck, 2000 A.D., Fear Agent, Eaglemoss, Gotham Central, Deadpool, Strangers in Paradise, Grendel, Kamandi, ROM, Black Hole, Lady Death, L'Association's Comix 2000, curling brooms, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Jack Kirby, Strange Tales II, James Stokoe's Orc Stain, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Mystery Society, and a whole mess more!
Collected Comics Library Podcast #208 - The two hundred eighth podcast! Nexus as black and white digests; Creepy Archives to go to 26 volumes; New Releases of the Week; Cap, Bucky, Namor and Human Torch as The Invaders; Running time: 29m 47s Collected Comics Library, hosted by Chris Marshall, THE Trade Paperback Podcast. The only podcast solely dedicated to news, information and reviews on all sorts of comic book collected editions.