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Welcome to The X-Club, an X-Men book club podcast! Join us as we dig through the history of Marvel's Merry Mutants, one story arc at a time. For our first episode, we are looking back at 2010's Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena. We'll be covering issues 1 through 10 as we build up to the Dark Angel Saga. Follow us:@madman3005@xbrarianContact us:krakoaradio@gmail.com
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Comic Reviews: DC DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack by Joe Corallo, Rye Hickman My Adventures With Superman 1 by Josie Campbell, Pablo Collar, Nick Filardi Marvel Ultimates 1 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee Wolverine: Blood Hunt 1 by Tom Waltz, Juan Jose Ryp, Guru-eFX X-Men 35/700 by Gerry Duggan, Al Ewing, Kieron Gillen, Joshua Cassara, Phil Noto, Lucas Werneck, Leinil Francis Yu, Walter Simonson, Mark Brooks, John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Jerome Opena, Luciana Vecchio, Stefano Caselli, Sara Pichelli, Romulo Fajardo Jr., David Curiel, Laura Martin, Sonia Oback, Marcio Menyz, Matt Hollingsworth, Matthew Wilson; Chris Claremont, Salvador Larroca, Guru eFX; Jed MacKay, Gail Simone, Javier Garron, Morry Hollowell Marvel Unlimited Infinity Paws 10 by Jason Loo, Nao Fuji X-Men: From the Ashes Dark Horse Beyond the Pale 1 by Christopher Emgard, Tomas Aira Canto: A Place Like Home 1 by David Booher, Drew Zucker, Vittorio Astone Image Falling in Love on the Path to Hell 1 by Gerry Duggan, Garry Brown, Chris O'Halloran Precious Metal 1 by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, Matt Hollingsworth Scarlett 1 by Kelly Thompson, Marco Ferrari, Lee Loughridge IDW Godzilla Rivals: Mothra vs. Hedorah 1 by Josh Trujillo, Josh Cornillon Monster High Pride 2024 by Hannah Templer, Siobhan Keenan TMNT Alpha by Jason Aaron, Chris Burnham, Brian Reber; Tom Waltz, Gavin Smith, Ronda Pattison Boom Profane 1 by Peter Milligan, Raul Fernandez, Giada Marchisio Dynamite Vampirella: Dark Reflections 1 by Tom Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson, Daniel Maine Oni Cult of the Lamb 1 by Alex Paknadel, Troy Little, Nick Filardi Mad Cave Mammoth 1 by Paul Tobin, Arjuna Susini, Pippa Bowland OGN Countdown The New Girl by Cassandra Calin Robot Dreams by Sara Varon Griz Grobus and the Tale of Azkon's Heart by Simon Roy, Jess Pollard, Sergey Nazarov Barda by Ngozi Ukazu Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti, L.S. Biehler Sink or Swim by Veronica Agarwal, Lee Durfey-Lavoie Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag Additional Reviews: Fallout s1, Acolyte eps 1 and 2, Doctor Who, My Adventures With Superman 2.4, X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus vol 2, Hailey's On It s1 News: Avengers Assemble by Steve Orlando, new Hunger Games book and movie, Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Evangeline Lilly retiring from acting, Netflix animation announcements, Omninews, Jeph Loeb Last Halloween artists announced, Autumn Kingdom by Bunn and Mitten Trailers: Alien Romulus, Wallace and Gromit Comics Countdown (05 June 2024): 1.     Love Everlasting 15 by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth 2.     Batman 148 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez, Tomeu Morey 3.     Duck and Cover 4 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque 4.     Ultimates 1 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee 5.     TMNT Alpha by Jason Aaron, Chris Burnham, Brian Reber; Tom Waltz, Gavin Smith, Ronda Pattison 6.     Boy Wonder 2 by Juni Ba, Chris O'Halloran 7.     Falling in Love on the Path to Hell 1 by Gerry Duggan, Garry Brown, Chris O'Halloran 8.     Space Ghost 2 by David Pepose, Jonathan Lau, Andrew Dalhouse 9.     Poison Ivy 23 by G. Willow Wilson, Haining, Arif Prianto 10.  Birds of Prey 10 by Kely Thompson, Robbi Rodriguez, Gavin Guidry, Jordie Bellaire  

DES SINGES ! DES MUTANTS ! DE LA CASTAGNE ! C'est quoi ? Le PANINI CAST des sorties de mai ! Retrouvez Aurélien & Émile sur toutes les plateformes de podcast pour découvrir la face cachée de Wolverine, la taille des poings de Danny Rand ou si César aime la salade ! Titres abordés : - La Planète des Singes au cinéma et en comics ! - Iron Fist : L'arme vivante (Marvel Deluxe) de Kaare Andrews - Immortal Iron Fist & Les Armes Immortelles (Marvel Omnibus) de Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction & David Aja - Inhumans : Tour d'ivoire (Marvel Must-have) de Paul Jenkins & Jae Lee - Wolverine : L'intégrale 1988-1993 (Marvel Classic) de Louise & Walter Simonson, Archie Goodwin, Kent Williams, Howard Chaykin, etc. - Uncanny X-Force (Marvel Omnibus) de Rick Remender, Esad Ribic, Jerome Opena, Phil Noto - X-Men : Le procès de Magnéto (Marvel Deluxe) de Leah Williams, David Baldeon & Lucas Werneck Recommandations : Aurélien : X-Men ‘97 (disponible sur Disney+) Emile : Pierre Bourdieu : Une enquête algérienne (Editions Steinkis) de Pascal Génot, Saadi Chikhi & Olivier Thomas Tous nos remerciements à Emmanuel Peudon pour le montage et à ClemB pour le générique. Plus d'infos sur notre site internet : ⁠⁠⁠https://www.panini.fr/

On the newest episode of Comics and Chronic the guys cover the first half of Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force. But first is Jake glad to be back in the City of Angels? Are Cody and his son descended from giants? Did Jake get badass new batarangs? Do you need to read anything to understand this comic? What do we like about the art from Jerome Opena and Esad Ribic? Is this a hard time for the X-Men? Have we read Age of Apocalypse? What do we think of these versions of the 4 Horsemen? Did this comic make us love Deadpool? When does the Omnibus come out? Is this Rick Remender's best writing? Does this comic go beyond X-Force? Is Iceman an omega level mutant? Would we kill a genocidal maniac as a kid? Who forms this team? Which members of the team are down to kill Kid Apocalypse? What are the repercussions of killing a child? Did we all experience a lot of first exposure to X-Men characters and concepts on this? Is The World man made or sentinel technology? What is Dethlok's backstory? Is Dark Beast a great villain? What pushes Deadpool to kill the Father of The World? How does Shadow King play into this? Do we love astral battles? Which X-Men are currently dead in this story's continuity? Does Jake gaslight us into believing there's a storyline in this that is not? Does the love triangle between Fantomex, Psylocke, and Angel mirror the Scott, Jean, Logan triangle of the past? Who is Genocide? Does Fantomex regrow Kid Apocalypse and why?  Who wins between Betty Yayo 2069 and X-Force? Who makes our X-Force team? Did this comic go Balls Deep from Jump Street? Is this our favorite X-men run? Which characters are we? Who would we cast in a live action version of this? Has George Lopez been aching to join the Marvel Universe? Are we entering the Age of Walakalypse? Find out the answers to these in more in the newest episode of Comics and Chronic! Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComicsandChronic Check out our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.comicsandchronic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ New episodes every THURSDAY Follow us on social media! Instagram // Twitter // TikTok : @comicsnchronic YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC45vP6pBHZk9rZi_2X3VkzQ E-mail: comicsnchronicpodcast@gmail.com Cody Twitter: @Cody_Cannon Instagram: @walaka_cannon TikTok: @codywalakacannon Jake Instagram: @jakefhaha Anthony Instagram // Twitter // TikTok : @mrtonynacho YouTube: youtube.com/nachocomedy

This week Jason McNamara (Past Tense, The Rattler) joins the ACP crew to talk about the long, winding and satisfying journey of creating an original graphic novel! From the ups and downs of project managing, collaboration, pitching to publishers and working in genres, its an awesome comics process talk not to be missed. Plus there's great recommendations of books old, new and strange as well as the usual ACP natter! Great stuff to check out this week - Jason McNamara, Ghost Band, Past Tense, Nocturnal Commissions, The Rattler, Tillie Waldon, Torpedo, Jordie Bernaire, Jonah Hex, The Hard Switch, Avery Hill Publishing, Warline, From Woolworth to Wartime, Sarah Webb, Knave of Hearts, Boxes Comic Magazine, Craig Shields, Davon Elly Kurtz, Global Comix, Worn Tuff Elbow, Marc Bell, Lady Mayhem, Fear Agent, Rick Remender, Tony Moore, Jerome Opena, The Earth 2 Podcast, Antarctica, Top Cow Comics

Discover the truth behind an old family grudge, try to survive consumption, and whatever you do, don't listen to the Mud Kings offer, because Comedian Jeff Morris and I discussed the epic fantasy comic by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena. Theme song written and performed by Lydia Manning --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/obsessivecomicdisorder/support

Commander Colson and Riccardo discover a twisted new horror series from the mind of Cullen Bunn, something truly epic from the pen of Szymon Kudranski and the latest addition to the Batman White Knight pantheon.Our 'What Do You Mean You Haven't Read This' is another must read from Rick Remender and Jerome Opena.

Lexi, Dallas and Anne sit down to chat about Seven to Eternity by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena

We discuss the beginnings of one of the greatest Avengers runs ever, Avengers Vol 4 1-3 by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena. Then later we talk about the greatest 1st issue of a limited series that never was, Wildcats Vol 4 #1 by Grant Morrison and Jim Lee. Plus Incal, Metabarons and Pyschoverse. Email us at ComicsDiscourse114@gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook: Comics Discourse 114 Instagram: ComicsDiscourse114 Twitter: ComicsDiscourse    

This week we return to the wonderful world of UNCANNY X-FORCE as we continue on with issues 11-19! Created by Rick Remender, Esad Ribic, Mark Brooks, Jerome Opena, Dean White, Robbi Rodriguez and more; Uncanny X-Force continues to deliver as we dive head first into the multi-part epic that is THE DARK ANGEL SAGA. So join us as we get all uncanny about it! Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookraiders/

This week we're talking about Uncanny X-Force (issues 1-10) by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Dean White, Esad Ribic, Matt Wilson, Rafael Albuquerque, Billy Tan and Rich Elson. We talk about the first two or three arcs in this overall fantastic book. Arcs like, THE APOCALYPSE SOLUTION and DEATHLOK NATION. So come join us as we forever search for the answer to WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS? Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookraiders/

April Solicits Comic Reviews: Batman/Catwoman 2 & Rorschach 4 Future State: Catwoman 1 by Ram V, Otto Schmidt Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman 1 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jen Bartel, L.L. McKinney, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Emilio Lopez Future State: Nightwing 1 by Andrew Constant, Nicola Scott, Ivan Plascencia Future State: Shazam 1 by Tim Sheridan, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, Marcelo Maiolo Future State: Superman: Worlds of War 1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire, Brandon Easton, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Gleb Melnikov, Jordie Bellaire Future State: The Next Batman 2 by John Ridley, Laura Braga, Nick Derington, Arif Prianto, Vita Ayala, Aneke, Trish Mulvihill, Paula Sevenbergen, Rob Hayes, Emanuela Lupacchino, Wade Von Grawbadger, John Kalisz Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon 1 by Larry Hama, David Wachter, Neeraj Menon King in Black 3 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin Maestro: War and Pax 1 by Peter David, Javier Pina, Jesus Aburtov Rain Like Hammers 1 by Brandon Graham Crimson Flower 1 by Matt Kindt, Matt Lesniewski, Bill Crabtree Abbott 1973 1 by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela, Mattia Iacono I Breathed a Body 1 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell Lemonade Code OGN by Jarod Pratt, Jey Odin Additional Reviews: Little Fires Everywhere, Clown in a Cornfield, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous s2, Carmen Sandiego final season, Batman by BKV, The Victim, WandaVision ep3 News: BTAS sequel on HBO Max, Heroes Reborn from Marvel, Black Widow delayed, delays for Bond and Morbius, Nolan leaves WB, Aquaman: Earth One cancelled, Dusk movie announced Trailers: Superman and Lois Comics Countdown: Rorschach 4 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Barbalien: Red Planet 3 by Tate Brombal, Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire Stillwater 5 by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon Perez, Mike Spicer Once & Future 15 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain Batman/Catwoman 2 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Tomeu Morey King in Black 3 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin Seven to Eternity 16 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Future State: Superman: Worlds of War 1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire, Brandon Easton, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Gleb Melnikov, Jordie Bellaire DCeased: Dead Planet 7 by Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Gigi Baldasini, Stefano Gaudiano, Rain Beredo Avengers 41 by Jason Aaron, Javier Garron, David Curiel

On this week's comic book review show: King in Black #3 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Ryan Stegman Future State: The Next Batman #2 DC Comics Written by John Ridley, Vita Ayala, Paula Sevenbergen Art by Laura Braga, Aneke, Rob Haynes Future State: Superman Worlds of War #1 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Brandon Easton, Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jeremy Adams Art by Mikel Janín, Valentine de Landro, Gleb Mlenikov, Siya Oum Future State: Catwoman #1 DC Comics Written by Ram V Art by Otto Schmidt Future State: Shazam #1 DC Comics Written by Tim Sheridan Art by Eduardo Pansica Future State: Nightwing #1 DC Comics Written by Andrew Constant Art by Nicola Scott Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan & Michael W. Conrad, LL McKinney Art by Jen Bartel, Alitha Martinez Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #1 Marvel Written by Larry Hama Art by David Wachter Rain Like Hammers #1 Image Comics Created by Brandom Graham Rorschach #4 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Abbott 1973 #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Saladin Ahmed Art by Sami Kivelä Black Cat: King in Black #2 Marvel Written by Jed MacKay Art by C.F. Villa Batman/Catwoman #2 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Clay Mann The Scumbag #4 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Eric Powell Once & Future #15 BOOM! Studios Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Dan Mora Maestro: War & Pax #1 Marvel Written by Peter David Art by Javier Pina Stillwater #5 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K Perez Seven to Eternity #16 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Jerome Opeña 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 y'all, welcome to The Stack, I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. We're The Stack. What is up? Justin:              Oh, he wants a little editorial time at the beginning. Alex:                 Pete, do your what's up section, go for it? Pete:                Hey, everybody, what is up? Alex:                 [inaudible 00:00:30]. Justin:              What a fun way to Kick it up? You sound like [inaudible 00:00:38]. Pete:                He's my guy. Alex:                 We're going to talk about a bunch of comics that came out this very week. We're going to review them, we're going to talk about them, we're going to offer up our unfiltered opinions. We're going to kick it off with King in Black number three from Marvel written by Donny Cates and art by Ryan Stegman. This issue spoilers Venom is dead. And what remains to the Marvel heroes are going right up against Knull, that includes Venom's son, but also includes Thor, who is finally come back to take on Knull. There's some brutal stuff that happens in this issue. We're almost through this event, I think at this point. We're definitely at the halfway point. What do you think about it so far? Would you been thinking about this issue in particular? Justin:              What I really like about this event is, it has a unique structure. I feel like so many events are built around the idea of heroes having normal lives, problem emerges, everything gets bad, heroes rally, they win. And in this, it was for everything is bad immediately out of the gate. And then now we're seeing some things getting worse. We're seeing little pops of different hero moments. And in this issue we get Thor popping, and it's really good. I love the last page reveal, the arts fantastic in this issue. And it's also funny how little knull, knull it's just sort of hovering at the center of it, but we haven't seen a lot of Knull doing stuff. Alex:                 Yeah, I mean, this issue it definitely mixes it up though. I think this is just a lot of fun, a really a great kind of event. I've been really happy with the action and this, it keeps things getting worse, but there's little glimmers of hope. I've been very much enjoying the over the top action adventure and fun that they're having on this. This is just a really cool, very bad shit going on here, giant dragons and flaming monsters, and the last page reveal is just bad-ass. This might be the goop on the Chrysler building, but this is starting to remind me a lot of Inferno, the crossover from back in the day when demons took over New York. Partially… Pete:                Wait, was that Ghostbusters II reference with ooze on the… What do you mean the- Alex:                 100% absolutely not. It was a reference to the X-Men: Crossover Inferno. We just had… well, it's very iconic thing of the Empire State Building to be taken over by the demons from LeBeau, and it just got bigger and bigger over time, and people would be like, hey, that's weird. The Empire State Building is bigger than I remember it is. This reminds me a lot of that, but it also reminds me a lot of that because you have these disparate elements from these other mini-series and other things going on, and kind of starting to come together in this issue, different threads. Alex:                 Justin, you mentioned this couple of issues back, but I think that one thing that Donny Cates is doing very well, is giving the spotlight to other characters. Like there's a great Iron Man moments of this issue. Thor knocking Knull's jaw off is very bad ass. It's high octane thriller in the same way that Dark Nights: Death Metal was. And I think that's fun. It's fun to read right now. Justin:              Agree. Donny Cates is a big used the whole Buffalo writer and he does it here. With a lot of the stuff he's been setting up across all the titles he's been working on, and just stuff that goes on with the other characters in the Marvel universe. Pete:                Justin, I appreciate your Buffalo reference and go bills. Justin:              That's right. I've said use the whole Buffalo bills. Alex:                 Now, as we were doing for the past two weeks, on to week three, let's talk about Future State over at DC Comics.[crosstalk 00:04:33]. This is an interesting week because we bought a bunch of number one Future State issues, but we're also getting our first number two with Future State, the next Batman number two. There's also a lot of developing story at some big points that we start to get about what's going on in this future world. As we have been doing, why don't you guys call out the things that you particularly liked, that you thought were interesting? Pete, let's start with you, at all offer up the writing to you as we go through. Pete:                Alright, great. I really liked the next Batman. I think this is kind of a fun Batman in the future with tack and kind of shit that he's up against. I'm enjoying this. Alex:                 Well, let's talk about that one first, because that is as mentioned the first number two of this Future State slate. This is written by John Ridley, Vita Ayala, and Paula Sevenbergen, art by Laura Braga, Aneke and Rob Haynes. Pete, what did you like about this one in particular? Pete:                Well, I like where we're kind of picking up here. This feels like a Batman book, kind of in the middle of things picking apart who's doing what to whom, we've got some bad guys kind of closing in on Batman, and yeah, I also, Batman's hurt. It's nice to see it's not this Batman that has no flaws, or can't be hurt with the tech armor that he's got on. So it feels like a Batman book. It's a new kind of take on Batman. So I'm excited about it. I think it's I'm enjoying it. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. I mean, I like this a lot. It definitely, just the voice is different with Batman throughout here, and that's just great to see. And it really feels like it's paying off the promise of Future State. Like we're doing new versions of these characters and let's see. And then I also thought [inaudible 00:06:29] is it Gotham city sirens at the end which plays like a… The art is almost like Dan Parent Archie Comics, which I thought was really fun and just a different sort of vibe to the whole thing. Alex:                 Is that, we read a lot of these, so forgive me if I got this wrong. Was that's the one was Spoiler and Cassandra [Canaan 00:06:52] in jail, right? Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 That was great. Justin:              I love that. Alex:                 That was one of my favorite things this week. I thought that was really fascinating. That picks up on some of the threads that we've gotten on some of the other books with Spoiler in particular. And just this idea that the magistrate, whoever the magistrate is, who is running Gotham City now, is throwing good guys and bad guys in jail, just because of his zero-tolerance policy. I think it was a really fun idea. I mean, I don't know if I completely buy this, but I'll just throw something out to you that was my impression halfway through reading all these Future State books, I almost wish DC had gone for it and said, “This is the DC universe now, this is what we're doing going forward.” Like to be- Pete:                That would be too big of a shakeup, that would be- Alex:                 It would be huge. I understand why they did it, but if you remember back in the day, there was the one year later stuff, I believe after 52, where there's apocalyptic event that jumped forward a year, and then they kind of filled it and stuff later. The idea of doing that and just jumping forward in unseen unspecified amount of time later, I kind of loved that. Particularly because, well, a lot of what we got this week, was the idea that we're told in week one Batman is gone, Superman is gone, Wonder Woman is gone. They're not gone, they're just in kind of different status quos at this point. So instead, it does feel like the DC universe just, there are some holes to fill it at this point. Pete:                What I like about this event is, I feel like they are shaking things up. They're getting different people on different projects, and you're getting new takes on it. And it feels like a fresh take, which is great. I think they're doing it smart. If things start to do well, maybe it takes over the regular title. I think that's a smart way to do this. Alex:                 They are continuing next Batman. I mean, that's clearly seems like the one that they're all in on, they have John Ridley on it, that's a big deal. They're continuing that title that you've heard of the universe. So to your point Pete, I think there's a couple of others that could roll off of. Before we get two other leads here though Justin, any other titles that jumped out at you? Justin:              I'm going to give it up for Superman – Worlds of War. Alex:                 Yeah, gladiator Superman. Justin:              Which yeah. And I really like this because it takes Superman, to your point you mentioned before, about how the main trinity are sort of off the board. Here we get to find out where Superman is. And he's on war world, and there's a bunch of bad shit happening there. And I thought- Alex:                 It's… Let me just interrupt with the creative team for this one, written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, Brandon M. Easton, Becky Clinton, and Michael W. Conrad, Jeremy Adams, art by Miquel Janine, Valentine Delondra, Glib and Melnikov and [inaudible 00:09:47]. Take it away Justin. Pete:                I would, Justin, if I could interrupt you for a moment. I'm really hoping it's going to be like planet Hulk, and Superman comes back and he is so pissed, and blows up New York. Justin:              Yeah, that's a solid guess. I really liked the Phillip Kennedy Johnson story that kicks it off is so great. Focusing on Smallville, he talked about this a little bit when he was on our show a few weeks ago, and just a great sort of retrospective about what Superman is, what he does, it's so good. Alex:                 I also really liked the Midnighters story in this book. This is great and very key to everything that's going on in Future State, because unless I misinterpreted it, and this is a spoiler here, but we find out the identity of Trojan, the person who's been running Metropolis in Superman's absence, and it is none other than Apollo. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 What do you think about that Pete? You love Apollo and Midnighter, so what was your take on this twist? Pete:                I was very a gasped, I clutch my pearls, I wasn't ready for it. Justin:              Those pearls look lovely by the way. You look gorgeous. Pete:                Thank you. [crosstalk 00:10:55] Justin:              They really accentuate your neck. Pete:                You guys. Justin:              Beautiful neck. Pete:                Becky Cloonan is writing the crap out of this, this is… I really want more of this. This is a very, very cool kind of story that we have here in this book. Justin:              I like this quite a bit as well. Like you said there, a bunch of them they're really good. I like…What's up Pete? Pete:                I was just going to say the art across the board has been really impressive. It's because for me, DC seems very certain style of art, and I've been really impressed with how they're pushing that out a little bit. They're not as cookie cutter as they normally are. So I'm really impressed with that. Alex:                 I thought a mortal Wonder Woman was the one that I was really looking forward to, and art wise and in particular, I thought it was really gorgeous, Justin:              Really nice art. Alex:                 I like the stories quite a bit, written by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, L.L. McKinney, art by Jenny Bartelle and Alitha Martinez. You have two stories, one about Wonder Woman kind of an end of time Wonder Woman thing going on, and then another one about Nubia, who is Wonder Woman's twin sister. I thought this was a really solid book, particularly on the Wonder Woman story, which was really fascinating though I liked a Nubia as well. But the other one that a lot of call out that I was very surprised by it.[crosstalk 00:12:20] Pete:                Justin before you say anything, I thought this was going to be your pick, because you were inside the head of Wonder Woman at the start of that, and you love that shit. Justin:              I love being inside people's heads. I'm still trying to crack my way into that [inaudible 00:12:39]. Pete:                [inaudible 00:12:39] this. Justin:              I feel like in this story, it's sort of positioning Wonder Woman, almost like Superman. Almost like Jor-El on Krypton in the last days trying to save it, while everyone's like, “Nope, we got to do this other stuff.” And I thought that was an interesting sort of blending of Wonder Woman and Superman's [inaudible 00:12:58]. Pete:                The ghost Batman moment with Wonder Woman was very touching. I thought that was very nice. Justin:              Yeah. So good stuff but the other one I [inaudible 00:13:09] call was Future State Shazam number one written by Tim Sheridan, art by Eduardo Pansica. This is the one that really drove home for me. What I was saying earlier about feeling like, oh, they just could have done this. This doesn't need to be Future State because there's going to be a thing. This is what we get here is Neron, has separated Shazam and Billy Batson. Billy Batson is, big spoilers, but Billy Batson has been chained to the Rock of Eternity, to lock in some prisoner we don't find out what it is, but it's very bad. And Shazam has left on his own and basically spiraling out and becoming a merciless killer of villains. And this just feels like such a clear Shazam idea at a very different way. It's something that's like, you don't need to do this 40, 50 day years down the road. This is just a good dark Shazamm idea, that I like quite a lot. Yeah, I also really liked Legion. I thought that was… Alex:                 Legion? Justin:              Yeah, Legion number 12. Was that not part of the Future State? Alex:                 No, [crosstalk 00:14:18]. Pete:                No, but great that you're reading. Justin:              Yeah, sorry about that. Alex:                 That's all good. Justin:              But I liked the end, the reveal and Catwoman, I thought they also had great art and I liked the last page reveal very much. Alex:                 That was super fun as well. That was written by Ram V, art by Otto Schmidt and that is just Catwoman going on a great train robbery in this magistrate run Gotham City, super fun. Justin:              I agree, I really liked the Catwoman one. It was a good use of genre to really tell an interesting story. And the other one we haven't talked about yet is the Nightwing, which I also thought was cool as well. A lot of different takes. Alex:                 Yeah, written by Andrew constant, art by Nicola Scott, and this finds Nightwing kind of getting fed up with the status quo of Gotham City and decided to make a big move there. I'm more excited for the second issue of this one. I think that the first issue, but very solid done the less. Justin:              Yeah, I really, I thought all of these books from Future State this week really had something to really enjoy in them. And that was exciting. Alex:                 Yeah, I think what they're trying to do is cool, it's fun to mix things up. Pete:                I'm definitely at the point and I know I'll change my mind in a couple of weeks, but I'm definitely at the point where I'm like, I kind of don't want to go back to whatever the status quo is. Alex:                 Oh, wow. Pete:                I'm enjoying it, I'm having a fun time. Justin:              Maybe there's no status quo ever again, in the world. Alex:                 There's no status quo baby. Let's move on to shock one that I think is probably a gimme for Pete Iron Fist, heart of the dragon number one from Marvel written by Larry Hama, written by David Wachter, Pete, what'd you think about this? Pete:                First off, the Hamas writing this book is really fantastic. Touches my heart in all the right ways. Hama, who famously writes a ton of G.I. Joe, this makes a lot of sense, putting him on this book. And this the issue was just glorious. Really a lot of fun, some cool characters. I loved it. Plus anytime you got Luke Cage and Iron Fist together, I'm a happy camper. Art's unbelievable. This is just a really cool bad-ass story, and I want more. Justin:              I mean, is there any more G.I. Joe type story than this with guys named Iron Fist, Taskmaster? It's right over the gate. If we're going to get snow jabbing here, I think we have a full set. Alex:                 Yeah, this is fine. This is Taskmaster is stealing a bunch of dragon hearts and messing up the seven kingdoms. So Iron Fist has to go after him. There's a bunch of other things- Pete:                Heart of the dragon. Alex:                 Yes. Lady Bullseye is in there, like you mentioned, Luke Cage, yeah, it's fun. Justin:              Yeah, and I will say it did take some fun turns. I liked seeing Luke Cage in here really getting up and doing some fighting here. Pete:                Yeah. Also daddy Luke Cage, he starts off so lovable, but he's not scared to throw down, you know what I mean? Alex:                 Exactly. Justin, let's move on to one of I believe your favorites of the week, Rain Like Hammers, number one for, which comics created by Brandon Graham. This is a, I don't even know if it takes place in the future. It's definitely a sci-fi book but… Justin:              This is present day. Alex:                 It follows a guy… its present day. Follows a guy who works, he watches TV, he eats, then things go terribly wrong. Justin:              This is the prequel to Wally, is what this is. Alex:                 This book is gorgeous, but Justin, you go ahead. You talk about it. Justin:              I love Brandon Graham's art and storytelling. They'll… One of the books that really first turned me on is, he was doing the art on profit, the image book that it used to be just like a Rob Liefeld, like a knife and pouch situation, and then took on this trippy Sci-fi space take in the latter issues. And this sort of feels very much in line with that. This could be a stand-alone issue. And what's the other book that Brandon Graham did, is it Warheads? Something Warhead? Also very good, but this, in the back batter, he talks about this was inspired by him sort of being at home and feeling a little like just in a rut. Pete:                Yeah, bro. Justin:              So it's, in the end talking about healing Manga, a processing comic and how this sort of is- Alex:                 Yeah, multiple Warheads. Justin:              Multiple Warheads. This comic is a little bit about processing the stuff that he was going through when he was writing it, and I love that. To be able to take something you're going through and really make a beautiful piece of art out of it is great. Alex:                 It reminds me a little bit, it's almost like sad idiocrasy in a way. It's not funny, it's just sort of people sitting, ingesting TV, eating things, honestly things have pretty good that the guy's eating, but he's just living his life- Justin:              They did sound good. Alex:                 Right? And being a drone and kind of going through it, but gorgeous, gorgeous book. Highly recommend picking it up. Yes Pete? Pete:                The art alone is worth it. It's just the way it starts off, and like sets this tone, and the paneling of just this kind of vast thing that he's on, is really just, it's very moving and powerful. Alex:                 There's a panel towards the end of the book where the main character is standing outside finally at the place that he's living in, there's sort of a massive tank or whatever it is. It's double page spread, and it's so sad and awesome, and just so many things at the same time. It's wonderful to see, definitely pick up this book. Next up, Rorschach number four- Pete:                It's just like a cruise ship that has elephant legs on it. Alex:                 Sure. Rorschach number four, from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Hore Fortes. In this issue, we're getting a bit more of the origin of the kid. And if anything, this used to be pivoting to be less about Rorschach, and more about the kid, this kind of cowboy character that we met over the course of it. In here we find a man that she- Pete:                Muscle man. Alex:                 I mean, it's arguable, I think. But tricked into thinking he was the reincarnated soul of Rorschach after Dr. Manhattan destroyed him, a lot of what we were dealing with in this title and also here, is about conspiracy theories, which I think really gets to the theme of what Tom King is doing. Another fantastic issue, I don't know what the thrust of this title is, and I don't think we will know until the last issue, but man, every issue individually is so impeccably done. Justin:              You go ahead Pete. Pete:                I was just going to say, if Tom King wasn't a good writer, I'd be so pissed. Because I have no fucking idea what is happening, but I'm still having a great time. And part of me is like maybe muscle man was, I mean, how do we know? Justin:              I think that's part of the take here, and what my… I've really loved reading this series and really love sort of thinking about it after I finished each issue. And with this one, it feels like Tom King is taking some of the Rorschach stuff that's happened since Watchmen ended, where Rorschach is sort of being put in as like, oh, he was a precursor to a lot of the way people are feeling now politically. Like isolated, believing conspiracy theories, and just chasing them up all that kind of stuff. Justin:              And so to take that sort of version of Rorschach and then remix it again for our age where she makes this guy believe that he is Rorschach, believes this sort of fake news, this conspiracy stuff, and then he acts on it. I mean, it feels so prescient given the politics that have been happening in the last couple of weeks with the January 6, insurrection and all that. This feels like it's all speaking to these same issues and to be able to write something that feels that topical when it comes out, is amazing to me. Alex:                 Pete? Pete:                Yeah, I just think that, I kind of said how I feel about it as far as it's impressive, but it's also confusing. But the way that the kid is portrayed is very, very interesting. And I think it's really great kind of personification of somebody in this way, but also as I was kind of reading it, I wrote down in my notes. I think I'm crazier now after I've read this book. Justin:              Yeah, you're next. I mean, the kid is like a charismatic sociopath who believes in this stuff and convinces other people to believe in it. Alex:                 And it's funny too, because there's a line in here where it's like, What's the kid's name?” And it's like, “I don't know, we call him the kid.” And I have a friend like that, if they knew that I didn't know his actual name, we just call him the kid. He'd be pretty upset. I will say, and I don't know if I can completely believe this premise, but I do feel like there's a certain hesitance on King's part to touch Watchmen. And I say that fully knowing there is a scene in here, that shows the characters and Watchmen interacting in a new way. But there's something about it that feels like you have a book called Rorschach. You're not actually focusing on Rorschach. What exactly is going on? Pete:                Is it all about Rorschach? Justin:              See, I disagree. I think what this book does, it takes the ideas of Rorschach, and really puts them on the table, and looks at them with a modern eye, in a way that I think gets deeper than just having Rorschach be like, hey, what's up? Hey, what's up blue guy? Alex:                 Classic Rorschach line. What's up dudes? Pete:                What's up? It's me the Rorschach, [crosstalk 00:24:25]. Alex:                 I'm hanging 10 in here with you. Pete:                Yeah, I just think it's like a classic inkblot scenario. We're all bringing our own things to the story and it's just reflecting our own bullshit. Alex:                 I don't know how that connects it anyway to what we're talking about. Justin:              Yeah, exactly. What is that in relation to? Alex:                 What are you even talking about Pete? Justin:              Are you trying to test us? Alex:                 [inaudible 00:24:53]. 1973, number one for Boom! Studios written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivela. This is pick it up, of course, on previous series of Abbott. She is an investigator, She's got some supernatural powers. I feel like I've only read one or two issues of Abbott, but this was a good jumping on point anyway. And I felt like as a pulpy, 1970s, supernaturally inflected mystery, it was very enjoyable to read. Pete:                Abbott. Justin:              Abbott. I agree. I mean, we don't get much of the supernatural side of it. Just little gestures to it until the very end, but I really love the table setting in this issue and the sort of, just the vibe, it's got a good sort of irreverent vibe throughout. Pete:                Abbott. Yeah, I think that first off give a nod to, this is the year [inaudible 00:25:56] was born. So just want to give a shout out to that there. Justin:              Not true. Pete:                I know, I'm just messing with you [crosstalk 00:26:02]. Justin:              Pete loves telling lies about us. That's what his bit for quite some time. Alex:                 Pete was born in 1942. Yeah, that's right. Sailed the ocean blue. But what I do… What's nice is it's an interesting way to deal with this kind of the creepy feeling of someone. I liked the Reveal at the end, and it kind of made sense with the things that happened. It's one of those things where you're like, you read it and you're like, oh, okay. So I'm enjoying it. It's weird, but I like it. Let's move on to talk about Black Cat, King In Black, number two from Marvel, written by Jed McKay art by CF Villa. Of course, we had Jed McKay on our live show this week. So definitely- Pete:                We did? Alex:                 We did Pete, you were there and everything. So Black Cat is been tasked with stealing Dr. Strange from Knull, the king in Black, we get to see that heist this issue, this is so much fun. Justin:              So much fun. I've said this, I said this a lot on the live show. I love this book. This book is so smartly done. It's rare for me to see a character where she has multiple sides. So many superhero characters are… It's like they do their one thing and we just see it a bunch of different ways. But the Black Cat really gets to be different things to different people, she gets to feel things, be very serious, be a little bit more lighthearted. And then just the heist of it all, is just so well done. Throwing on an antivenom suit to dive into the goop is such a smart idea, and it's dramatic, it's tense, there's some spider immobile stuff. Pete:                Really plugging the hell a lot of goop on the show. Yeah, I really… There's also a lot of fun nerd stuff in here. Like the fact that she gets to fly on the goblin glider, and then the spider-buggy later. This is just… They have a lot of fun with this character, which is great to see. I love the baby bjorn with the Ghost Dog. I mean, this is just good shit. And it's cool to kind of see this. I'm not a huge Black Cat fan, but I'm having a lot of fun. Justin:              You love cats. Pete:                It's true, it's a good point. Alex:                 Speaking of which, let's move on and talk about Batman/Catwoman number two from DC comics, written by Tom King, art by Clay Mann, and this issue, we're jumping through multiple timelines here. We're getting to see Batman and Catwoman do some stuff where the tracking down the Phantasm, I believe, who is killing the edge man of the Joker. In the future timeline, Cat woman has come to kill the old Joker. And maybe there's another timeline in there. I got to be honest with you. Clay Mann's art, gorgeous. Tom King's write, good. I like reading this book. I am having a very hard time following what is happening in these issues. Justin:              Well, it's only the second issue. So, because I do sort of agree with you. It's hard to connect the plots as it's going. Pete:                No, it's too early. I don't try to do that, this is Tom King guys. Just let's lay off a little bit, enjoy the ride. Alex:                 The thing is like, there's not enough of an artistic or textual indicator for the timelines right now where, I understand part of the idea is that all of this mashed together. It's all happening at the same time. It all connects to each other. But just from a reader perspective, there are some pages where it's jumping between three timelines, and it takes me a second or two to realize, oh, okay, this is taking place at the middle timeline. This is duplicate of the first timeline. And that takes me out of the story a little bit. Justin:              Well a second or two, you don't have that kind of time to spare [crosstalk 00:29:58]. You were born in 1973. Pete:                Easy speed reader. You don't have to just plow through everything. Sometimes you got to stop and think about what's happening a little bit. Alex:                 I was a child of the love generation man. Justin:              It's true. Conceived in wood stack, born in the back of the Crosby Stills Nash and Young van. Pete:                [inaudible 00:30:21] with all due respect, I disagree. I'm having a lot of fun on this book because I miss that Catwoman/Batman relationship. Alex:                 This is a bizarre mirror world that we're in, but go ahead, Pete. Pete:                Yes. And so also I thought it was touching the way Joker wish Catwoman a Merry Christmas. I thought that was very nice. But yeah, we're getting a lot of different worlds and different timelines mashed up. We've been getting an old villain from Batman, the animated series. But Tom King does an amazing job on Batman, and I'm going to let this breathe a little bit before I start getting to what timeline are we in. I'm just enjoying the ride, and the artwork and man is it great? Justin:              Clay Mann, is he great? I do think part of it was, I think this book was, the expectations for this book were fun romance between Batman and Catwoman. It's just not that, it's like a whole new storyline and- Pete:                No, but they're dealing with stuff though. You can tell the [crosstalk 00:31:26] back and forth. Justin:              Of course I think they are… Pete:                Well, if you make it, it's not always sunny, beaches, you know what I mean? Sometimes relationships get real. You got to have tough conversations man. Justin:              I've never had a difficult conversation with anyone. Its all smooth sailing for old JT. No, my point is, you're walking into this book and it's just a different, it's a whole different thing. There're multiple timelines. There actually is very little romance in this. It's about the Joker pretty exclusively so far, and the introduction of the Phantasm. Justin:              But what I do think is amazing about this, it feels like Tom King is really writing toward Clay Mann. Every panel in this book feels like it's so specific, it's so curated. And it is just something to behold. Even the small panels are just perfect. There's this section where the… It's a close-up on the Joker with a candy cane, everything is so deliberate. And I think it's great. Pete:                Now I don't know about you guys, but the part where the subway scene and getting a little spoilers, someone dies in the subway. I was like, oh man, that is the worst. You finally get a subway car all to yourself, and someone murders you, oh man, classic New York. Justin:              You sound almost nostalgic for it, Pete. But I actually don't think you live, you're a new Yorker anymore, so you get that name out of your mouth. Alex:                 The Scumbag, speaking of Pete, number four, [inaudible 00:33:02]. Its written by Ric Remender, art by Eric Powel. In this issue, our main Scumbag is heading on a discreet mission to eyes wide shut style orgy that is going on, things go predictably wrong. We had Remender on the show last week where we talked about this title. So it was fun to get his input, but what'd you think about this issue? Pete:                Yeah, this is just insanity. But I do like how everybody's skeeved out by The Scumbag, and that's kind of funny how he can't get himself into the one place he wants to be. But yeah, this continues to be amazing storytelling, fantastic art, creepy ass fucking dude that I don't know why we're rooting for, but we are. And just kind of this scenario keeps getting more and more intense. Justin:              Yeah, I mean, I think the Pete bag is sort of one of Remender's real good another great book from him. The art is fantastic and the way that he is just, you could tell, he's having such a great time writing The Scumbag, for who he is. And I think Ric Remender with this, and another book we need to be talking about very soon, Seven To Eternity, it's really playing with, why does the protagonist have to be good? And why is the villain bad? Maybe we can mix those. And I think he just does that really well. And same thing here. This guy's a scumbag, but we still root for him. But he does a bunch of bad stuff, but he seems inherently good. And the bad guys seem like they're just trying to do what everyone's doing, getting by as best they can. It's interesting storytelling. Alex:                 Once & Future number 15 from Boom! Studios written by Kieron Gillen. Pete:                Sorry, Justin. Alex:                 Sorry Justin? Pete:                Yeah, he was clearly teeing up Seven To Eternity, but you were like fuck that, we're going Once & Future. Alex:                 So I said out a list. Pete:                Here we go, behind the scenes. You can't stray from the list. If something comes up organically, we got to stick to the list here. Justin:              Looking back, I don't think we should have given Pete that much power at the beginning to have his little what's up corner, because I think it's really gone to his head. Pete:                Yeah, I think the vodka is what- Alex:                 You wanted to talk about Once & Future, I'm sure Pete, because the grabba is in this a lot. In this issue we find out about Lancelot, we also find out more about the backstory of what was going on, a great issue, fun as always, high octane drama and action, with some terrifying things going on as usual. Just another good issue of Once & Future. Pete:                Good is an understatement man, this is great. The art's unbelievable, the action is over the top, this continues to be one of the must pick ups of the week. Every time there's an issue of Once & Future, it's just continues to be phenomenal. The drama keeps getting more and more bad-ass, and we get to kind of see the other half, the why we're kind of in this mess, in this issue. And I also really love the, I'm going to tell you a story, you're going to tell me a story moment, and that first story is fucking really powerful, especially when you reveal scars. Justin:              Yeah, I do… I like that we're getting to really learn the rules of this comic as it's going on. And this is your especially where, it's a story about stories. But in this it's about sort of who's taking power, and who's the storyteller, and which story are they telling? It feels like that's the hat that everyone continues to pass over. Like, wait, who are you? Who are you in this story? Oh, I'm this? I started telling this story. I think that refreshes that sort of trope of a story about stories in a fun way. And the artists fantastic. Lancelot screaming in French, I mean, I'm here for it. Alex:                 Yeah, absolutely. Let's move on, talk about Maestro: War and Pax, number one from Marvel written by Peter David and Javier Pina. This picking up on the first Maestro mini-series here, the Hulk finally fully as the Maestro, but he hasn't consolidated all of his power as of yet. So he's going past the remnants of the Marvel universe. I think we talked about the first issue of the Maestro mini-series previously. So I thought it was worth checking in with this one. How do you think it's holding up? Pete:                Well, it's kind of upsetting to see kind of a evil Hulk. So, Justin:              Really? Pete:                Usually I'm on the green guy's side, so this is, it's a little tough to see how this guy goes about business. Justin:              Wow, heartbreaker. I like this a lot. I really like seeing the Pantheon from Peter David's run way back in the day, characters that no one else has really touched since. And I like them. I also liked that the Hulk and… The Maestro and his squad just jump onto the Staten Island Ferry, and drive down to DC to go confront them, which is just a fun visual choice. And it's great to see that the Maestro sort of messes up. You expect him to just dominate and it's about him sort of not doing so had. Alex:                 Yeah, I mean, Peter David is a baster of the comic book form. Just everything is perfectly paced out. His jokes work, everything works. The action works. It's always a joy to read one of his books because they're just, they're firing on all cylinders every single time, even decades into his career as is at this point, and it's great. Let's move on talk about StillWater number five from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Ramón K. Perez. Pete:                He's really going to make you wait, Justin. Sorry buddy. Justin:              I'm fine, I wasn't [inaudible 00:39:14]. Alex:                 Oh my God. I mean, for those of you listened to the podcast, Justin is furious right now. You can see it just like flames coming out of his head. StillWater number five from Image Comics, this is a big issue here, as our main character has taken residence in StillWater, the town where nobody dies. Everybody has taken this as an opportunity to let the judge, the guy who rules the town know that, hey, they want to change things. They want to leave, they want to let the outside world know about stuff. Things go terribly wrong, and then they get more wrong from there. Then even then there were five issues in, it feels like this is whipping through story at this point. Justin:              Yeah, but I think it's really coming into its own. It's starting to remind me a little bit of Southern Bastards. [crosstalk 00:40:12]. I think the judge has some coach boss vibe to him, and I just think the energy has that Southern Bastards is a great book by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour from years ago, that to sort of think was left open-ended, that I just wish we could see more of. But this is fun, it really is like, I don't know what's going to happen. It's feels like bad stuff is happening all around in this town that [inaudible 00:40:37]. Pete:                Yeah, it's unfortunate that at this town, there's a kind of a power hungry judge who's not willing to hear the people. I think that this book continues to, with the twists and turns. We're kind of finally getting everything all out on the page here in this issue. So we kind of know where everybody stands and what the kind of moving forward is going to look like. But man, even with all that, the kind of twists and turns that happen in this comic, we're still pretty powerful and pretty crazy. Alex:                 Yeah, last and definitely least. Pete:                Sorry, Justin. Alex:                 Seven To Eternity number 16, from Image Comics written by Rick Remender art by Jerome Opena. This is the second to last, I believe issue of this title as we talk to Rick Remender about. Here, we're starting to wrap things up at an enormous battle way. This feels to me, I mean, they're obviously very different stories, but it feels to me very much like the end of low, where we're just getting these insane over the top battle scenes with all of our characters as he starts to wrap things up. But it's great. I mean, in particular Jerome [inaudible 00:41:53] art is stunning on every page. Justin:              Very good. And he's managed to tell a story, like following up on what I was saying, honestly so long ago, but to flip the hero and the villain here and still surprise us. And at the same time telling like an epic Avengers or justice league style, like cosmic stakes battle with all original characters, it's just really excellent comic making. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, I can't stop paging through the art. I mean the splash pages with the kind of waterfall, fallen giants thing is just, it's really unbelievable. The monsters, it's just really, really impressive. Yeah, the twists that happened, man, what a great book. I cannot wait to see how this wraps up. This is really, really great comic book, right here where we get to read. Alex:                 Well, and I'll tell you how The Stack is going to wrap up. It's going to wrap up right now. If you'd like to support us patrion.com/comic book club. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube, come hang out. 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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. 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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February 2021 Solicitations Comics Reviews: Death Metal 5 Rorschach 2 Avengers Marvels Shapshots by Kurt Busiek, Barbara Kesel, Staz Johnson Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices by Darcie Little Badger, Taboo, Rebecca Roanhorse, Stephen Graham Jones, Jeffrey Veregge, David Cutler, Kyle Charles, Weshoyot Alvitre Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black 1 by Peter David, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D'Armata Widowmakers: Red Guardian and Yelena Belova by Devin Grayson, Michele Bandini, Elisabetta D'Amico, Erick Arciniega Sea of Sorrows 1 by Rich Douek, Alex Cormack Star Wars Adventures Annual 2020 by Cavan Scott, Nick Brokenshire, Francesco Gaston Barbalien: Red Planet 1 by Jeff Lemire, Tate Brombal, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire Aggretsuko Meet Her Friends 1 by Cat Farris, Lisa DuBois, Andrew Dalhouse A Dark Interlude 1 by Ryan O'Sullivan, Andrea Mutti, Vladimir Popov Frank at Home on the Farm 1 by Jordan Thomas, Clark Bint Dark Wing 1 by Matthew Medney, German Ponce Savage Circus 1 by Brenda Columbus, Al Barrionuevo, Candice Han Suneater 1 by Joe Harris, Dylan Sprouse, Diego Yapur Fish Kill 1 by Dan Fogler, Laurence Blum, Ben Templesmith Additional Reviews: Star Wars Holiday Special, Mandalorian, His House, Criminal s2, Nocterra, Christmas on the Square, The Pull by Steve Orlando, Animaniacs News: Wonder Girl series coming to CW featuring Yara Flor, Batman Earth One vol 3, Wonder Woman to HBO Max, W.E.B. of Spider-Man removed, Stranger Things casting, Deadpool 3 from Disney, Black Lightning ending after fourth season, Omninews, Peacemaker to feature new Green Arrow actor, strange case of Batman's Grave #12 Comics Countdown: Usagi Yojimbo 14 by Stan Sakai, Tom Luth Seven to Eternity 14 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Die 15 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans Rorschach 2 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Barbalien: Red Planet 1 by Jeff Lemire, Tate Brombal, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire Stillwater 3 by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon K Perez, Mike Spicer Venom 30 by Donny Cates, Luke Ross, Jesus Aburtov Aquaman 65 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Miguel Mendonca, Romula Fajardo Jr Something is Killing the Children 12 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera Dark Nights: Death Metal 5 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, FCO Plascencia

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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Cette semaine on part pour l'espace infini avec un pilote un poil dépressif, avec un gros penchant pour la violence mais surtout très alcoolique dans Fear Agent de Rick Remender. Mais comme d'habitude on commence avec les petits news :- Des spin-off autour des méchants de Batman au ciné- Le retour de Batman Arkham en jeux vidéo- Dc qui s'autocensure pour faire plaisir à la Chine- Des news du film Spawn- Melissa Benoist qui témoigne sur instagram- Geoff Johns nous parle du film Green Lantern- Des images d'un projet avorté autour de Watchmen Nous avons la chance de recevoir David, qui nous parle du Salon du modelisme et des loisirs de Montpellier qui a lieu ce week end (le 07 et le 08 décembre), retrouvez toutes les infos en suivant ce lien : https://www.facebook.com/events/2140230279605150/ Puis on passe à la review de la semaine : Fear Agent de Rick RemenderOn vous parle des aventures de Heath Huston, un voyageur de l'espace alcoolique un peu violent mais surtout légèrement dépressif qui va être confronté à différents ennemis. Un comics de Rick Remender dont a déjà pas mal parlé dans l'émission puis qu'on lui doit Deadly Class (retrouvez la review dans l'épisode 04 de la saison 02) et Seven to eternity (à qui on a consacré l'émission 11 de la saison 02), un scénariste très talentueux dont vous n'avez pas finis d'entendre parler. Il est accompagné au dessin par Tony Moore qui avait travaillé les 1er numéros de Walking Dead et Jerome Opena qui a déjà collaboré avec Remender sur Seven to eternity. Fear Agent est édité en France chez Akileos dans un très beau omnibus que nous vous conseillons d’acquérir, un très beau cadeau de noël. Si vous découvrez l'émission avec cet épisode sachez que vous pouvez retrouver les autres en suivant ce lien sur le site web ou sur cette playlist sur youtube. Comme toujours nous, vous invitons à partager avec nous votre avis sur le titre ou bien encore sur les news. Vous pouvez également nous encourager en nous laissant des commentaires sur Itunes ou en nous mettant 5 étoiles.Si vous habitez sur Montpellier, que vous êtes disponible le lundi de 18H à 19h , n'hésitez pas à nous contacter à: contact@comicsdiscovery.fr peut être rejoindrez-vous notre équipe. Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur nos réseaux sociaux :Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ComicsDiscovery/Twitter : https://twitter.com/comicsdiscoveryInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/comicsdiscovery/ 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/c/ComicsDiscovery Si vous voulez nous soutenir vous pouvez le faire sur :Tipeee:https://fr.tipeee.com/james-et-faye Et pour retrouver tout notre contenu vous avez notre site web :Le site de James & Faye : https://jamesetfaye.fr/

This week on Hazardous Materials we discuss some of last week’s comic releases and a bit more. Doomsday Clock #11 Geoff Johns and Gary Frank Green Lantern #11 Grant Morrison and Liam Sharpe Legion of Superheroes: Millennium #1 Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Andrea Sorrentino, and Andre Lima Araujo Transformers/Ghostbusters #4 Chris Burnham and Dan Schoening Spawn #300 Todd McFarlane, Scott Snyder, Jerome Opena, J Scott Campbell, Jason Scott Alexander, and Greg Capullo House of X #4 Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz Future Foundation #2 Jeremy Whitley and Will Robson Immortal Hulk #23 Al Ewing and Joe Bennett Visit us at: Website: https://www.haphazardfiction.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haphazardfiction Twitter: https://twitter.com/haphazardficti1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haphazardfiction Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HapHazardFiction

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

Welcome to Legends of the Panel Podcast on the Geek Culturecast network. On this episode, its just KJ and Lady Archer as Mr Chulak is tied up with home stuffs.Are you looking for new ideas and adventures for your RPG Group? How about a monthly magazine filled with plot twists, one shots and side quests? Look no further, DM Dave brings you Broadsword magazine. Broadsword is a monthly digital and printed magazine that provides DMs with ideas, tidbits and even complete sidequests that can be fit into almost any campaign. Check out Broadswords magazine at http://dmdave.com/broadsword-magazine-1-pre-order/This episode is full of comic books, DC movies and a whole lot of tin-foil hat moments.KJ stopped at the Comic Book Shop today and picked up some special books. The big one is Spawn 300. This book is co-written and drawn by several artists including Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo. KJ got two covers, one is the Jerome Opena horde cover, and the other is a black print sketch cover.Beyond this important book, there was also Black Cat books 1, 2 and 3; Catwoman 12 with the classic 1960’s purple catwoman, Invisible Woman #1, and Jane Foster: Valkyrie #2From comics, we then moved to news about Comic Book Movies and TV, like the upcoming release of Teen Titans Season 2, Impending Doom patrol, and then the big news this week about Suicide Squad…James Gunn is building an incredible cast of characters. Will Smith is rumored to be returning as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Peter Capaldi in an undisclosed role what could be Sgt Fury, or The General. Gunn is expected to formally announce his cast and characters in the next couple of weeks.Some upcoming comic book titles to watch for:September 4 Image - Battlepug (alternate Cover by Bill McKay)Marvel - The Web of Black WidowDynamite - Red Sonja / Vampirella #1IDW - Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath #1September 11Marvel – King Thor #1Marvel – Gwenpool Stikes Back #2Marvel - Moon Knight Annual #1Thank you for downloading, subscribing, listening and supporting Legends of the Panel here on the Geek Culturecast network. We appreciate you taking the time to listen to each episode. For more information about the network go to www.geekculturecastnetwork.com, and look for Warp My Tardis on your podcast service for even more Mr. Chulak, KJ the Comic Guy, another show here on the Geek Culturecast network.Follow us:Email us at legendsofthepanel@gmail.com or contact@geekculturecastnetwork.comOn Social MediaInstagram @geekswdice @warpmytardis and @legendsofthepanelKJ the ComicGuy @kjweir1970 on Instagram or on TwitterMr. Chulak @geekculturecast on instagramThe Lady Archer @whatthefraq on InstagramJoin our Discord server https://discord.gg/eg7bhb

Welcome to Legends of the Panel Podcast on the Geek Culturecast network. On this episode, its just KJ and Lady Archer as Mr Chulak is tied up with home stuffs.Are you looking for new ideas and adventures for your RPG Group? How about a monthly magazine filled with plot twists, one shots and side quests? Look no further, DM Dave brings you Broadsword magazine. Broadsword is a monthly digital and printed magazine that provides DMs with ideas, tidbits and even complete sidequests that can be fit into almost any campaign. Check out Broadswords magazine at http://dmdave.com/broadsword-magazine-1-pre-order/This episode is full of comic books, DC movies and a whole lot of tin-foil hat moments.KJ stopped at the Comic Book Shop today and picked up some special books. The big one is Spawn 300. This book is co-written and drawn by several artists including Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo. KJ got two covers, one is the Jerome Opena horde cover, and the other is a black print sketch cover.Beyond this important book, there was also Black Cat books 1, 2 and 3; Catwoman 12 with the classic 1960’s purple catwoman, Invisible Woman #1, and Jane Foster: Valkyrie #2From comics, we then moved to news about Comic Book Movies and TV, like the upcoming release of Teen Titans Season 2, Impending Doom patrol, and then the big news this week about Suicide Squad…James Gunn is building an incredible cast of characters. Will Smith is rumored to be returning as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Peter Capaldi in an undisclosed role what could be Sgt Fury, or The General. Gunn is expected to formally announce his cast and characters in the next couple of weeks.Some upcoming comic book titles to watch for:September 4 Image - Battlepug (alternate Cover by Bill McKay)Marvel - The Web of Black WidowDynamite - Red Sonja / Vampirella #1IDW - Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath #1September 11Marvel – King Thor #1Marvel – Gwenpool Stikes Back #2Marvel - Moon Knight Annual #1Thank you for downloading, subscribing, listening and supporting Legends of the Panel here on the Geek Culturecast network. We appreciate you taking the time to listen to each episode. For more information about the network go to www.geekculturecastnetwork.com, and look for Warp My Tardis on your podcast service for even more Mr. Chulak, KJ the Comic Guy, another show here on the Geek Culturecast network.Follow us:Email us at legendsofthepanel@gmail.com or contact@geekculturecastnetwork.comOn Social MediaInstagram @geekswdice @warpmytardis and @legendsofthepanelKJ the ComicGuy @kjweir1970 on Instagram or on TwitterMr. Chulak @geekculturecast on instagramThe Lady Archer @whatthefraq on InstagramJoin our Discord server https://discord.gg/eg7bhb

On this episode the three bros review Josh's pick - Uncanny X-Force Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Solution. Written by Rick Remender with Art by Jerome Opena. The Uncanny crew get wind that Apocalypse is back and decide that he has to be taken out, then they find him and have a team crisis. Intrigued? Then press play!

In this episode (recorded on May 4th, Free Comic Book Day), the BP gang invite longtime friend and artist, Jerome A. Stacy, on to discuss the intro art for 80s and 90s cartoons, Jack Kirby, contemporary comic book artists, and anime. Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/blitzpop)

May solicits, Top 10 Jan, High Level, Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler, Hulkverines, Love Romances, Wolverine: Infinity Watch, Secret Agent Deadpool, Sharkey the Bounty Hunter, Stronghold, Wolfborne, Incursion, Adventure Time: Marceline & the Pirate Queen   Reviews: Queen & Country, JSA, Judas Contract, CulDeSac   News: Jessica Jones and Punisher cancelled, Transformers/Ghostbusters crossover, Chris Hemsworth = Hulk Hogan, Hill House s2, Black Cat ongoing, Usagi Yojimbo moves to IDW, A Quiet Place 2, Wal-Mart and DC, Batman/Fudd part 2   Comics Details: High Level 1 by Rob Sheridan, Barnaby Bagenda, Romulo Fajardo Jr Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler 1 by Seanan McGuire, Juan Manuel Frigeri, Dono Sanchez-Almara Hulkverines 1 by Greg Pak, Ario Anindito, Andrew Crossley, Mo Hollowell Love Romances 1 by Gail Simone, Roge Antonio, MonkeySeed, Pacco Dorwling-Carter, Margaux Motin, Lee Loughridge, Dennis Hopeless, Annapaola Martello, Jon Adams, Tamra Bonvillain Wolverine: Infinity Watch 1 by Gerry Duggan, Andy MacDonald, Jordie Bellaire Secret Agent Deadpool by Chris Hastings, Salva Espin, Matt Yackey Sharkey the Bounty Hunter 1 by Mark Millar, Simone Bianchi Stronghold 1 by Phil Hester, Ryan Kelly, Dee Cunniffe Incursion 1 by Andy Diggle, Alex Paknadel, Doug Braithwaite, Jose Villarrubia, Diego Rodriguez Adventure Time: Marceline the Pirate Queen by Leah Williams, Pendleton Ward, Zachary Sterling CulDeSac by Andrew Shaw, Will Pleydon (https://www.facebook.com/Shawillcomics/)   Comics Countdown, 20 Feb 2019: Middlewest 4 by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Jean-Francois Beaulieu Outpost Zero 7 by Sean Kelley McKeever, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Jean-Francois Beaulieu Seven to Eternity 13 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Mars Attacks 5 by Kyle Starks, Chris Schweizer, Liz Schweizer American Carnage 4 by Bryan Hill, Leando Fernandez, Dean White Justice League 18 by James Tynion IV, Pasqual Ferry, Hi-Fi Unstoppable Wasp 5 by Jeremy Whitley, GuriHiru Avengers 15 by Jason Aaron, David Marquez, Erick Arciniega Aquaman 45 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques, Sunny Gho Venom 11 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, Joshua Cassara, JP Mayer, Frank Martin Jr  

Stan Lee, Top 10, Green Lantern 1, Suicide Squad: Black Files, Marvel Knights 20th, Han Solo - Imperial Cadet, Typhoid Fever: X-Men, James Bond 007, Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down, Auntie Agatha’s Home For Wayward Rabbits, Outer Darkness, Wicked + Divine: Funnies, Empty Man, Transdimensional   Reviews: Soule Vader, Friend Request, Hill House, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doctor Who s11e06   News: Grant Morrison TV deal, Cassian Andor live-action Disney streaming, Loki series, Jeff Lemire, Toy Story 4 trailer, Detective Pikachu trailer, Marti Noxon to Netflix, Female Furies miniseries, Mowgli trailer   Comics Details: Green Lantern 1 by Grant Morrison, Liam Sharp, Steve Oliff Marvel Knights 20th 1 by Donny Cates, Travel Foreman, Han Solo - Imperial Cadet 1 by Robbie Thompson, Leonard Kirk, Arif Prianto Typhoid Fever: X-Men by Clay McLeod Chapman, Danilo Beyruth, Will Robson, Rachelle Rosenberg, Dono Sanchez-Almara James Bond 007 by Greg Pak, Marc Laming, Triona Farrell Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down 1 by Scott Beatty, Derek Charm, Jon Sommariva, Sean Parsons, Matt Herms Auntie Agatha’s Home For Wayward Rabbits 1 by Keith Giffen, Benjamin Roman Outer Darkness 1 by John Layman, Afu Chan Wicked + Divine: Funnies by Kieron Gillen, Erica Henderson, Juan Castro, Lizz Lunney, Chip Zdarsky, Becka Kinzie, Chrissy Williams, Dee Cunniffe, Clayton Cowles, Romesh Ranganathan, Julia Madrigal, Hamish Steele, Kitty Curran, Larissa Zageris, Kate Leth, Margaux Saltel, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson Empty Man 1 by Cullen Bunn, Jesus Halvas   Comics Countdown, 07 Nov 2018: Seven to Eternity 12 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Deathstroke 37 by Christopher Priest, Fernando Pasarin, Sean Parsons, Jason Paz, Jeromy Cox, Carrie Strachan Outer Darkness 1 by John Layman, Afu Chan Blackbird 2 by Sam Humphries, Jen Bartel, Paul Reinwand, Triona Farrell Immortal Hulk 8 by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy Jose, Paul Mounts Runaways 15 by Rainbow Rowell, Kris Anka, Matt Wilson Justice League 11 by Scott Snyder, Francis Manapul Wrong Earth 3 by Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, Andy Troy Dreaming 3 by Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes Batman 58 by Tom King, Mikel Janin, Jordie Bellaire

Top 500, Dec solicits, Batman Damned, Harley Quinn 50, Olivia Twist, Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive, Impossible Inc, Burnouts, Amazing Spider-Man Annual, Captain America Annual, Edge of Spider-Geddon 3, Infinity Wars: Soldier Supreme, Marvel Super-Hero Adventures: Captain Marvel - First Day of School, Return of Wolverine, Patience! Conviction! Revenge!, Over the Garden Wall: Hollow Town, Go Go Power Rangers Back to School, Junior High Horrors   Reviews: Al Ewing’s Rocket, GL/GA   News: Captain Marvel trailer, Avatar live action from Netflix, Haunting of Hill House trailer, new Rocketeer comic, Allan Heinberg mystery Marvel show for ABC, Boom gets Buffy rights, Kevin Feige takes over X-Men movies, Bond director, Stargirl cast, Twilight Zone reboot, Batwoman crossover villain revealed, Soule Daredevil finale, Kelly Thompson controversy   Comics Details: Batman: Damned 1 by Brian Azzarello, Lee Bermejo Amazing Spider-Man Annual by Saladin Ahmed, Garry Brown, Lee Loughridge Captain America Annual by Tini Howard, Ron Lim, Chris Sprouse, Scott Hanna, Karl Story, Walden Wong, Jesus Aburto, Erick Arciniega, Israel Silva Edge of Spider-Geddon 3 by Jason Latour, Tonci Zonjic, Ian Herring Infinity Wars: Soldier Supreme by Gerry Duggan, Adam Kubert, Matt Wilson Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Captain Marvel - First Day of School 1 by Sholly Fisch, Ty Templeton Return of Wolverine 1 by Charles Soule, Steve McNiven, Jay Leisten, Laura Martin Olivia Twist 1 by Darin Strauss, Adam Dalva, Emma Vieceli, Lee Loughridge Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive 1 by Mike Allred, Lee Allred, Laura Allred, Rich Tommaso Impossible Inc. 1 by JM DeMatteis, Mike Cavallaro Burnouts 1 by Dennis Culver, Geoffo, Lauren Perry Patience! Conviction! Revenge! 1 by Patrick Kindlon, Marco Ferrari Over the Garden Wall: Hollow Town 1 by Celia Lowenthal, Jorge Monlongo Go Go Power Rangers Back to School Special by Marguerite Bennett, Jim Towe, Derek Charm, Jordan Gibson, Xiao Tong Kong, Ilaria Catalani Junior High Horrors 1 by Rob Potchak, Rob Retiano   Comics Countdown, 25 Sep 2018: Mister Miracle 11 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads Black Hammer: Age of Doom 5 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, Dave Stewart Harley Quinn 50 by Sam Humphries, Mirka Andolfo, Brett Booth, Jon Davis-Hunt, Agnes Garbowska, Tom Grummett, Kelley Jones, Dan Jurgens, Scott Kolins, Guillem March, John McCrea, While Portacio, Norm Rapmund, Cam Smith, Babs Tarr, John Timms, Andrew Dalhouse, Gabe Eltaeb, Romulo Fajardo Jr, John Kalisz, Michelle Madsen, Alex Sinclair Thor 5 by Jason Aaron, Christian Ward Impossible Inc 1 by JM DeMatteis, Mike Cavallaro West Coast Avengers 2 by Kelly Thompson, Stefano Caselli, Triona Farrell Venom 6 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin Hit-Girl 8 by Jeff Lemire, Eduardo Risso, Trish Mulvihill Seven to Eternity 11 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Ice Cream Man 7 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran

Adv of Super-Sons 1, Green Arrow 43, DC Superhero Girls, Infinity Wars, X-Men Gold Annual 2, Frozen: Breaking Boundaries, Seeds, Project Superpowers 1, Robots versus Princesses, Bebop and Rocksteady Hit the Road, Leviathan, Steven Universe Harmony, Disney Gravity Falls: Lost Legends OGN   Additional Reviews: Amanda Knox documentary, The Boy   News: Peter Simeti printing strategy, Super-Pets movie, Kraven movie, Immortal Men cancelled, Jason Todd’s new costume, Patrick Stewart returns to Star Trek   Comics Details: Adventures of the Super-Sons 1 by Peter Tomasi, Carlo Barberi, Art Thibert, Protobunker Green Arrow 43 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Javi Fernandez, John Kalisz DC SuperHero Girls: Out of the Bottle GN by X-Men Gold Annual 2 by Seanan McGuire, Marco Failla, Rachelle Rosenberg Infinity Wars 1 by Gerry Duggan, Mike Deodato, Frank Martin Leviathan 1 by John Layman, Nick Pitarra, Michael Garland Frozen: Breaking Boundaries by Joe Caramagna, Jai Nitz, Kawaii Creative Studio Seeds 1 by Ann Nocenti, David Aja Robots versus Princesses 1 by Todd Matthy, Nicolas Chapuis, Sean Rinehart Project Superpowers 1 by Rob Williams, Sergio Davila, Felideus Bebop and Rocksteady Hit The Road 1 by Ben Bates, Dustin Weaver, Brittany Peer Long Lost Vol 2 by Matthew Erman, Lisa Sterle Steven Universe Harmony 1 by Shane-Michael Vidaurri, Mollie Rose Disney Gravity Falls Lost Legends by Alex Hirsch, Meredith Gran, Mike Holmes, Valerie Halla, Priscella Tang, Jim Campbell, Jacob Chabot, Asaf Hanuka, Stephanie Ramirez, Serina Hernandez, Dana Terrace   Comics Countdown, 01 August 2018: Mister Miracle 10 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Highest House 6 by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Fabien Alquier Gravity Falls: Lost Legends by Alex Hirsch, Meredith Gran, Mike Holmes, Valerie Halla, Priscella Tang, Jim Campbell, Jacob Chabot, Asaf Hanuka, Stephanie Ramirez, Serina Hernandez, Dana Terrace Quantum Age 2 by Jeff Lemire, Wilfredo Torres, Dave Stewart Batman 52 by Tom King, Lee Weeks, Bettie Breitweiser Cosmic Ghost Rider 2 by Donny Cates, Dylan Burnett, Antonio Fabela Deathstroke 34 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Trevor Scott, Jeromy Cox Seven to Eternity 10 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth Justice League 5 by James Tynion IV, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, Wil Quintana TMNT Universe 25 by Ian Flynn, Nelson Daniel

JONATHAN GORDON, the Copic King, joins us to roundtable Seven to Eternity by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth, and James Harren from Image, Rockin' Jellybean, Stephen King, Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuna, Marvel Unlimited, Legion of Super-Heroes, Real Deal by H. P. McElwee aka R. D. Bone and Lawrence Hubbard aka Raw Dog from Fantagraphics, Maestros #6 by Steve Scroce and Dave Stewart from Image, Star Trek: Boldly Go by Mike Johnson, Josh Hood, and Jason Lewis from IDW, Ether: The Copper Golems #1 by Matt Kindt and David Rubin from Dark Horse, Robocop: Citizen's Arrest #2 by Brian Wood and Jorge Cohelo from BOOM!, The Toys That Made Us: Transformers, Alterna-O-Rama: Zero Jumper #1 by Patrick Mulholland, Tinseltown #1 by David Lucarelli and Henry Ponciano, and Go West #2 by Garrett Gunn and Saint Yak from Alterna Comics, Tokyo Ghost, Solo, and a whole mess more!

Cette semaine, on parle de proposition pas si indécente, de troll et de méchant omnipotent dans un monde d’heroic fantasy avec Seven to eternity de Rick Remender et Jerome Opena. Mais bien sur on commence avec les news de la semaine :- le départ de Brian Michael Bendis de chez Marvel. - le reboot du film The Crow qui prend forme. - le rachat de certaines licences de la Fox par Marvel/disney. - et de l’affaire Weinstein qui fait des émules dans le comics. Avant de passer à la review de la semaine, nous interviewons notre invité, le blogueur BD Montpelliérain Paka. Un jeune homme bourré de multiple talents, n’hésitez pas à aller faire un tour sur son blog. Le titre de la semaine : Seven to eternityOn ne voit pas trop souvent de l’heroic fantasy en comics, c’est un genre plus abordé en franco belge. Mais ça n’empêche pas Rick Remender de nous livrer un superbe récit qui parle de famille, d’honneur et surtout de compromis. Tout ça dans un univers très original dépeint par un génialissime Jérôme Opena et sublimé par les couleurs de Matt Hollingsworth. Comme toujours nous, vous invitons à partager avec nous votre avis sur le titre ou bien encore sur les news.Vous pouvez également nous encourager en nous laissant des commentaires sur Itunes ou en nous mettant 5 étoiles. Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur :Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ComicsDiscovery/Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/jamesetfayeTwitter : https://twitter.com/comicsdiscoveryInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/comicsdiscovery/Et bien sûr le site internet: http://comicsdiscovery.fr/

Image-O-Rama: Mage: The Hero Denied #0 by Matt Wagner and Brennan Wagner, The Divided States of Hysteria #2 by Howard Chaykin, Jesus Aburtov, and Ken Bruzenak, Paklis by Dustin Weaver, and Seven to Eternity #6 and #7 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, James Harren, and Matt Hollingsworth, Super Sons by Peter J. Tomasi, Jorge Jimenez, Alisson Borges, Alejandro Sanchez, and HI-FI, Valiant-O-Rama: X-O Manowar #4 by Matt Kindt, Doug Braithwaite, and Diego Rodriguez, Secret Weapons #1 by Eric Heisserer, Rual Allen, and Patricia Martin, Rai: The Histoy of the Valiant Universe #1 by Rafer Roberts, Francis Portela, and Andrew Dalhouse, and Ninjak/Shadowman: Rapture by Matt Kindt, CAFU, Roberto de la Torre, and Andrew Dalhouse, Unholy Grail #1 by Cullen Bunn, Mirko Colak, and Maria Santaolalla from Aftershock, Lobo/Road Runner Special by Bill Morrison, Kelley Jones, and Michelle Madsen, Legion of Super-Heroes Special by Sam Humphries, Tom Grummett, Scott Hanna, Steve Buccellato, Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam Special by Jimmy Palmiotti, Mark Texeira, and Paul Mounts, Evil Ernie: The Movie Monsters #1 by Phil Nutman, Greg Luzniak, Mark Pennington, Greg Mironiuk, Justiniano, and Jason Jensen from Chaos! Comics, Superman #22-26 by Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Michael Moreci, Scott Godlewski, HI-FI, Jaime Mendoza, Mick Gray, Joe Prado, Ray McCarthy, Scott Hanna, Matt Santorelli, Wil Quintana, and John Kalisz, Nick Fury by James Robinson, Aco, Hugo Petrus, and Rachelle Rosenberg, and a whole mess more!

Rick Remender returns to discuss Black Science with Matteo Scalera and Dean White, Deadly Class with Wes Craig and Lee Loughridge, Low with Greg Tocchini, Sea of Red, Fear Agent, Last Days of American Crime, Strange Girl, Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth, Steve Ditko, Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth, James Harren, Twin Peaks, Venom, Frankencastle, Amazing Heroes, Memetic, The Mercenary Volume 1: The Cult of the Sacred Fire by Vicente Segrelles from NBM, Babyteeth by Donny Cates, Garry Brown, and Mark Englert from Aftershock, 2017 FCBD 2000AD, plus a whole mess more!

August 2017 solicitations, Women Wonder Woman screenings, I Am Groot 1, Venom 150, Star Lord Annual, Saucer State 1, Samaritan Veritas, Rapture 1, Victor LaValle's Destroyer 1, Archies 1, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol 1, DC Superhero Girls TV series with Jessica Cruz, Daniel Ketchum, Game of Thrones trailer, Legion review, Doctor Who "Pyramid at the End of the World" Details: I Am Groot 1 by Christopher Hastings, Flaviano, Marcio Menyz; Venom 150 by Mike Costa, Tradd Moore, Robbie Thompson, Gerardo Sandoval, David Michelinie, Ron Lim, John Livesay; Star Lord Annual by Chip Zdarsky, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Mat Lopes; Saucer State 1 by Paul Cornell, Ryan Kelly; Samaritan Veritas by Matt Hawkins, Atilio Rojo; Rapture 1 by Matt Kindt, CAFU, Andrew Dalhouse; Victor LaValle's Destroyer 1 by Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith; Archies 1 by Matt Rosenberg, Alex Segura, Joe Eisma 24 May Comics Countdown: 10. Detective Comics 957 by Christopher Sebela, James Tynion IV, Carmen Carnero, Richard Friend, Karl Story 9. Redneck 2 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren 8. Batman '66/Wonder Woman '77 5 by Marc Andreyko, Jeff Parker, David Hahn, Karl Kesel 7. Deathstroke 19 by Christopher Priest, Dan Abnett, Ben Percy, Larry Hama, Carlos Pagulayan, Jason Paz 6. Dying and the Dead 4 by Jonathan Hickman, Ryan Bodenheim 5. Star Lord Annual by Chip Zdarsky, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Mat Lopes 4. Deadly Class 28 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Jordan Boyd 3. Black Hammer 9 by Jeff Lemire, David Rubin 2. Seven to Eternity 6 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth 1. Wonder Woman 23 by Greg Rucka, Liam Sharp

Nog meer filmpod! Alien: Covenant is in de zalen en de pod-o-nauten zijn niet in staat daar op een objectieve manier over te oordelen. Dus dan maar de zwaar bevooroordeelde, subjectieve manier. Is dat goed of slecht? Hangt ervan af: kijk jij in het ei, of speel je op de fluit? We’ll do the fingering. Comics: 7 to Eternity door Rick Remender en Jerome Opena en Rachel Rising vol 1 tot 7 door Terry Moore. Met: Maarten en nout. • 7:00 TV nieuws >> 8:30 – Dark Crystal TV --- 13:20 – Judge Dredd Mega City One TV --- 18:30 – Witcher TV --- 24:30 – the problem with Iron Fist TV • 29:30 Main Event >> Alien Covenant • 1:12:08 Gelezen >> 7 to Eternity --- 1:22:10 – Rachel Rising

Top 300 March sales, X-Men Blue 1, Weapon X 1, Black Panther: The Crew 1, Deadpool vs the Punisher 1, Rose 1, Godshaper 1, 3 O'Clock Club 1 & 2, Little Guardians 1, Immortal Brothers: Tale of the Green Knight, Guardians of the Galaxy 19, Thor: Ragnarok trailer, Star Wars: Last Jedi trailer, Captain Phasma series, IDW All-Ages Star Wars, Rucka off Wonder Woman, Ardian Syaf fired, Tom King and the Fourth World, Batman 66/Legion of Super-Heroes, Josh Brolin is Cable, Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 1 "The Pilot", Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Details: X-Men Blue 1 by Cullen Bunn, Matteo Buffagni, Jorge Molina, Matt Milla; Weapon X by Greg Pak, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D'Armata; Black Panther and The Crew 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Butch Guice, Scott Hanna; Deadpool vs the Punisher 1 by Fred Van Lente, Pere Perez, Ruth Redmond; Rose 1 by Meredith Finch, Ig Guara, Triona Farrell; Godshaper 1 by Simon Spurrier, Jonas Goonface; 3 O'Clock Club by Jordan Gorfinkel, Butch Hartman, Erez Zadok, Gabrielle Gomez; Little Guardians 1 by Ed Cho, Lee Cherolis, Dann Tincher, Ginger Dee; Immortal Brothers: Tale of the Green Knight by Fred Van Lente, Clayton Henry, Cary Nord, Mark Morales, Brian Reber. 12 April 2017 Comics Countdown: 10. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie 2 by Anthony Del Col, Werther Dell'edera, Stefano Simeone 9. Motor Crush 5 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, Babs Tarr 8. Detective Comics 954 James Tynion IV, Marcio Takara, Marcelo Maiolo 7. Black Panther and the Crew 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Butch Guice, Scott Hanna 6. Harrow County 22 by Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook 5. Gotham Academy: Second Semester 8 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl, Adam Archer, Msassyk, Rob Haynes, Sandra Hope 4. 3 O'Clock Club 1 & 2 by Jordan Gorfinkel, Butch Hartman, Erez Zadok, Gabrielle Gomez 3. Immortal Brothers: Tale of the Green Knight by Fred Van Lente, Clayton Henry, Cary Nord, Mark Morales, Brian Reber 2. Seven to Eternity 5 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth 1. Supergirl 8 by Steve Orlando, Matias Bergara, Michael Atiyeh

Ryan Browne, The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Volume 19: Jay Disbrow's Monster Invasion from Craig Yoe and IDW, Aliens: Dead Orbit #1 by James Stokoe from Dark Horse, Chris Mooneyham, Remender-O-Rama: Deadly Class #27 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, and Jordan Boyd and Seven To Eternity by Remender, Jerome Opena, and Matt Hollingsworth from Image Comics, The Kamandi Challenge #3 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, and Paul Mounts, more on Secret Sneyd by Doug Sneyd from Dark Horse, Budd Root, Russel Daughterman, Marvel Unlimited, Spider-Man and Spider Gwen: Sitting in a Tree by Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli, Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez, and company, DK III #8 by Frank Miller, Brain Azzarello, and Andy Kubert, Gantz: O and the work of Hiroya Oku, The Unworthy Thor by Jason Aaron, Olivier Coipel, Kim Jacinto, and Pascal Alixe, Frazer Irving, Briggs Land by Brian Wood, Mack Chater, and Lee Loughridge from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young throws down with us on Adam Hughes, Daniel Warren Johnson, Mahmud Asrar, commissions, Art Adams, Jim Cheung, dust jackets, I Hate Fairyland, Image-O-Rama: God Country #2 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, and Jason Wordie, Deadly Class, The Belfry one-shot by Gabriel Hardman, and The Old Guard #1 by Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernandez, and Daniela Miwa, Ryan Browne, tangents, Dark Horse-O-Rama: Jeff Lemire and Black Hammer and Heart in a Box by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren, Riley Rossmo, Jerome Opena, The Kamandi Challenge #2 by Peter J. Tomasi, Neal Adams, and Hi-Fi, Jim Mahfood, Jason Latour, Chris Bachalo, Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown from Drawn and Quarterly, David Rubin, Stuart Immonen, Neil Gaiman, Aesop Rock, Rick Remender, Stephen King, Ryan Stegman, Rocket Raccoon, Wizard of Oz, The Creeps #9 and Jason Paulos from Warrant Publishing, Doctor Strange by Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo, Spidey by Robbie Thompson and Nate Stockman, Eric Powell's Hillbilly from Albatross, and a whole mess more!

Tom King drops in to discuss Batman, Sheriff of Babylon, Mitch Gerads, Mikel Janin, The Vision, Grayson, Frank Miller, Keith Giffen, The Invisibles, Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad by Joshua Williamson, Jason Fabok, Tony Daniel, Jesus Merino, Fernando Pasarin, Sandu Florea, Andy Owens, Matt Ryan, Alex Sinclair, and Jeremiah Skipper and Suicide Squad #9 by Rob Williams, Si Spurrier, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia, Dan Didio, Scott Snyder, Deadly Class by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, and Lee Loughridge from Image, Mark Waid, Amanda Waller, Jonathan Hickman and Secret Wars, Marvel, Rebirth, Night of the Monster Men, Steve Orlando, Tim Seeley, Marv Wolfman, David Finch, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Omega Men and Barnaby Bagenda, John Buscema, Erik Larsen, Kamandi, Jerome Opena, Old Man Logan by Jeff Lemire, Filipe Andrade, and Jordie Bellaire, Steve Orlando and Justice League of America, Fantastic Four, Star Trek/Green Lantern #1 by Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez, and Alejandro Sanchez from DC and IDW, Mike Norton, The Flintstones by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, and Chris Chuckry, Andrew MacLean's Head Lopper from Image, Deadpool and Domino, God Country #1 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, and Jason Wordie from Image, Superboy, Rob Liefeld, Robert Kirkman, Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek, Roger Stern, Carlos Pacheco, Jesus Merino, and Steve Oliff, Fantastic Four, Jim Lee, The Mighty Thor by Jason Aaron, Joelle Jones, Russell Dauterman, and Matthew Wilson, Time Warp (2013), and a whole mess more!

Love is Love, Supergirl: Being Super 1, Hulk 1, Rocket Raccoon 1, Komandar Bloodshot, Civil War II 8, 2016 Year in Review!, Gotham City Sirens casting, Collectors Corps unboxing. Details: Supergirl: Being Super 1 by Mariko Tamaki, Joelle Jones, Sandu Florea, Kelly Fitzpatrick; Hulk 1 by Mariko Tamaki, Nico Leon, Matt Milla; Rocket Raccoon 1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Jorge Coelho, Antonio Fabela; Komandar Bloodshot by Jeff Lemire, Clayton Crain 28 Dec Comics Countdown: 10. Star Wars 26 by Jason Aaron, Salvador Larroca, Edgar Delgado 9. Generation Zero 5 by Fred Van Lente, Francis Portela, Andrew Dalhouse 8. Flash 13 by Joshua Williamson, Neil Googe, Ivan Plascencia 7. Mighty Thor 14 by Jason Aaron, Steve Epting, Frank Martin Jr 6. Deathstroke 9 by Christopher Priest, Cary Nord, Jeromy Cox 5. Harrow County 19 by Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook 4. Seven to Eternity 4 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth 3. Deadly Class 25 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Jordan Boyd 2. Detective Comics 947 by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez, Brad Anderson 1. AD After Death 2 by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire

The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Jordie Bellaire, Mike Del Mundo, and Michael Walsh, Bloodshot and Bloodshot U.S.A. from Valiant, Action Comics by Dan Jurgens, Tyler Kirkham, Ulises Arreola, Patrick Zircher, and Arif Prianto, Image-O-Rama: Moonshine #3 by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, Reborn #3 by Mark Millar, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and Fco Plascencia, Seven to Eternity #4 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, and Matt Hollingsworth, Midnight of the Soul by Howard Chaykin, Jesus Aburtov, and Ken Bruzenak, and Cannibal #3 by J. Young, Brian Buccellato, and Matias Bergara, Unworthy Thor #2 by Jason Aaron, Olivier Coipel, and Matthew Wilson, Rogue One, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, A Lonely Place of Dying, Detective Comics by Steve Orlando, James Tynion IV, Andy Maconald, and John Rauch, Cage! by Genndy Tartakovsky, Young Justice, plus a whole mess more!

Batman Annual, Superman Annual, Justice League of America 10, DC New Talent Showcase, Ghost Rider 1, IvX 0, Savage 1, Fantastic Beasts, Nocturnal Animals, Mr. Marvel, Deadly Class, ResurrXion creative teams (Weapon X, X-Men Blue, X-Men Gold, Iceman, Jean Grey, Generation X), Guardians of the Galaxy trailer Details: Batman Annual by Tom King, David Finch, Scott Snyder, Ray Fawkes, Declan Shalvey, Paul Dini, Neal Adams, Steve Orlando, Riley Rossmo, Scott Wilson, Bilquis Evely; Superman Annual by Peter Tomasi, Pat Gleason, Jorge Jimenez; Justice League of America 10 by Bryan Hitch, Tony Bedard, Tom Derenick; Ghost Rider by Felipe Smith, Danilo Beyruth, Tradd Moore; Inhumans vs. X-Men 0 by Charles Soule, Kenneth Rocafort; Savage 1 by B. Clay Moore, Clayton Henry, Lewis Larosa. 30 November 2016 Comics Countdown: 10. Cryptocracy 6 by Van Jensen, Pete Woods, 9. Surgeon X 3 by Sara Kenney, John Watkiss, James Devlin 8. Uncanny Inhumans 16 by Charles Soule, RB Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Java Tartaglia 7. Generation Zero 4 by Fred Van Lente, Francis Portela, Andrew Dalhous 6. Shutter 24 by Joe Keatinge, Leila Del Duca, Owen Gieni 5. Black Widow 8 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Matt Wilson 4. Jughead 11 by Ryan North, Derek Charm, Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey, Marty Epp 3. Deadly Class 24 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Jordan Boyd 2. Batman Annual 1 by Tom King, David Finch, Scott Snyder, Ray Fawkes, Declan Shalvey, Paul Dini, Neal Adams, Steve Orlando, Riley Rossmo, Scott Wilson, Bilquis Evely 1. Seven to Eternity 3 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth

DC's New Talent Showcase featuring work by Adam Smith, Sia Oum, Michael Moreci, Barnaby Bagenda, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Erica Schultz, Sonny Liew, Christopher Sebela, David Messina, Moreno Dinisio, Michael McMillian, Juan Ferreyra, and more, Seven to Eternity #3 by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, and Matt Hollingsworth from Image, Avengers #1 by Mark Waid, Mike Del Mundo, and Marco D'alfonso, The Unworthy Thor #1 by Jason Aaron, Oliver Coipel, and Matthew Wilson, Ghost Rider #1 by Felipe Smith, Danilo S. Beyruth, and Val Staples, Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes by Tim Seeley, David Walker, Fernando Dagnino, and Sandra Molina from Dark Horse/BOOM!, Jurassic World, Southern Bastards, Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser from Image, Infamous Iron Man #2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, and Matt Hollingsworth, The Strain, John Wick, Cannibal by J. Young, Brain Buccellato, and Matias Bergara from Image, more Moonshine, Superman Annual #1 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Jorge Jimenez, and Alejandro Sanchez, Batman Annual #1 by Tom King, David Finch, Gabe Eltaeb, Scott Snyder, Ray Fawkes, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire, Paul Dini, Neal Adams, Steve Orlando, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Plascencia, Scott Bryan Wilson, Biliquis Evely, and Mat Lopes, The Beauty by Jeremy Haun, Jason Hurley, and company, Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 by Cullen Bunn, Ken Lashley, Nolan Woodward, and Anthony Piper, plus a whole mess more!