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We start off our second round of MGM Studio Year by Year episodes with these 1930 films: the Marion Davies comedy vehicle The Florodora Girl (directed by Harry Beaumount) and Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan, which Elise decides is something like Eyes Wide Shut if it was made by James Cameron (but, alas, not as interesting as that sounds). (It's still pretty interesting, though, if only for the Art Deco Lightning Dancers. Yes, you read that right.) Plus, we give our impressions of MGM based on our first round of viewings and draw attention to some of the highlights from it.  Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: MGM Recap 0h 28m 41s: THE FLORODORA GIRL [dir. Harry Beaumont] 0h 45m 29s: MADAM SATAN [dir. Cecil B. DeMille]   Year in Film information from Forgotten Films to Remember by John Springer Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler                +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!  Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com   We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join! 

Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by returning guest Jim Laczkowski of Voices & Visions as we throw our ninth annual Secret Santa party. Who gave what to whom is the mystery of the episode as we take turns discussing five movies especially chosen for their recipients by their secret Santas. This episode is apparently sponsored by TUBI as several films can be found there. The films this year include MADAM SATAN (1930), TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990), DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991), DOGGIEWOGGIEZ! POOCHIEWOOCHIEZ! (2012), and SPRING (2015). Plenty of fun is had. Some big swings are taken. Listen to hear if they pay off. Play along and see if you can guess who gave what to whom. Time Tracks: 0:00 - MADAM SATAN (1930) 33:30 - TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990) 1:00:15 - DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991) 1:30:15 - DOGGIEWOGGIEZ! POOCHIEWOOCHIEZ! (2012) 1:46:00 - SPRING (2014)

Steel yourselves, folks! A new Wonder Woman series is hitting the stands, and just like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, there will be blood! In addition to wondering about Wonder Woman, Steve returns from a cabin in the woods to talk about comics, Aaron gets green with John Stewart, John hates Millar's Big Game, and Bob chills with Madam Satan before Halloween!Books: Alpha Flight #2, Dark X-Men #2, Uncanny Avengers #2, Big Game #3, Green Lantern: War Journal #1, Sirens of the City #3, Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods, Catwoman #57, Harley Quinn: Black, White, & Redder, Saga #66, Chilling Adventures: Madam Satan on Earth, Immortal Sergeant #1-9, Rare Flavours #1, Wonder Woman #1, Captain America #1, X-Force re-readOther Stuff: Babymetal, The Beaches, Dethklok, Thunder Queens, Opinicon Road, and more!The Comic Book Podcast is brought to you by Talking Comics (www.talkingcomicbooks.com). The podcast is hosted by Steve Seigh, Bob Reyer, Joey Braccino, Aaron Amos, Chris Ceary, and John Burkle, who weekly dissect everything comics-related, from breaking news to new releases. Our Twitter handle is @TalkingComics, and you can email us at podcast@talkingcomicbooks.com.

Josh and Brandon meet at Pop's to review the new Archie Horror one-shot Madam Satan: Hell on Earth created by Eliot Rahal, Vincenzo Federici, Ellie Wright, and Jack Morelli.Show notes: Beware spoilers in this episode! Follow Archie and Me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.If you enjoy this podcast, please consider leaving a review. 

Here we are, the final group of 5 for 1930. In this group we will discuss a novel adaptation starrind Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel; A silent film about a young newlywed couple in rural America, City Girl; The infamous Howard Hughes Epic, Hell's Angels; A Cecil B. DeMille film called the oddest he ever made, Madam Satan; The Best Picture Nominee starring Wallace Beery, The Big House. Listen to hear our thoughts on this diverse group of films.   The Blue Angel - 5:53 City Girl - 36:27 Hell's Angels - 1:10:00 Madam Satan - 1:29:29 Big House - 1:48:20   Contact info: Twitter: @theflyingcowpod Instagram: @theflyingcowpod Email: theflyingcowpod@gmail.com Facebook: The Flying Cow Check out our new Patreon Patreon.com/TheFlyingCow Don't forget to check out FCL Flashback, Movie Battles, and the Livestreams on our YouTube Channel The Flying Cow

Zach once again welcomes Erin and Chloe (Podcasters, ‘Required Viewing with Erin and Chloe), this time on a Decadent DirigibleContinue readingEp. 84: Madam Satan (1930) or ‘DeMille's Decadent Dirigible'

What happens when your typical Archie comic combines with horror? A tale straight out of Elvira and Tales from the Crypt! This week, Remso gives a rundown of "Chilling Adventures in Sorcery" #1.Support the Second Print Comics Podcast on Patreon, where you'll get access to TONS of bonus content and perks, including early episode releases of original shows like Remso vs. the DCEU, What Marc Missed, A Case of the Runs, TV recaps like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law recaps all for as little as a measly $5 per month! You could even become a Kirby Club Patron like Eric and produce an episode!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/second-print-comics-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Let's travel back to the early days of yesteryear as we explore the world of Steve Canyon! No, Really! We also discuss some movie news, and review Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #1 from Archie Comics, The Magic Order 2 #1, and Purgatori #2, just for you! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! a href="https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF">Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS https://variety.com/2021/film/box-office/marvel-eternals-box-office-globally-no-time-to-die-1235106898/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/no-time-to-die-on-demand-streaming-digital-james-bond-1235106439/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-shuts-down-production-letitia-wright-1235106126/ https://deadline.com/2021/11/stranger-things-season-4-premiere-update-episode-titles-1234869361/ REVIEWS STEPHEN CHILLING ADVENTURES IN SORCERY #1 Writer: Amy Chu, Eliot Rahal, Evan Stanley Artist: Derek Charm, Vincenzo Federici, Matt Herms, Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy Publisher: Archie Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 3, 2021 THE FUTURE OF ARCHIE COMICS STARTS HERE IN AN ALL-NEW ANTHOLOGY-STYLE ONE-SHOT! Madam Satan is our tour guide into this horrific world exploring the underbelly of Riverdale and its surrounding areas! Madam Satan is trying to escape Hell. She goes through the circles of Hell in reverse. Along the way she meets lost/tortured souls who tell their stories—like that of Archie Andrews, who accepted a seemingly normal job as the nighttime security shift at Riverdale's local pizzeria and children's mascot entertainment venue. Only to learn that the venue harbors a deep, dark, robotic, monstrous secret! And then there's Jughead Jones, a teen who never met a food he didn't like. Until now. What is that eerie noise coming from the kitchen…? All that plus more bonus frightful content sure to delight all Archie horror fans! [rating:4/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology/Amazon affiliate link (https://amzn.to/2Yobzt4) MATTHEW THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #1 Writer: Mark Miller Artist: Stuart Immonen Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 3, 2021 A magical turf war like you've never seen before! The London chapter of the Magic Order has entered the scene, and these tough Guy Ritchie-style gangsters have a problem with the Eastern European Warlocks moving into their territory. Can new leader Cordelia Moonstone keep the peace? [rating:3/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology/Amazon affiliate link (https://amzn.to/3D5C7P4) RODRIGO PURGATORI #2 Writer: Ray Fawkes Artist: Alvaro Sarraseca Publisher: DYNAMITE Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 17, 2021 Purgatori! She's the girl with the great horns and the biggest body count. Now she's fighting battles inside and out -- monsters trying to kill her in the trackless forests of Europe, and witches trying to take control of her one-track mind. And through it all, one central question nags her over and over - How the hell did she end up in Norway?! She'd better figure things out, or someone's gonna get gored in the fjord. [rating: 3/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link (comixology.sjv.io/0Jydx3) DISCUSSION STEVE CANYON VOLUME 4: 1953 - 1954 Writer: Milton Caniff Artist: Milton Canniff Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $75.00 Release Date: April 1, 2014 The fourth volume of The Complete Steve Canyon opens with Steve as the newly-minted Light Colonel bringing the jet age to the town of Indian Cape — and the natives are after an old friend's scalp! Can Steve and new sidekick Pipper the Piper find a way to still an entire town's wrath? Canyon encounters old friends throughout 1953 and into 1954: Princess Snowflower, the irascible Dogie Hogan, and the leader of a band of Hooligans on horseback. Of course, there are girls, girls, girls — Herself Muldoon, Summer Olson, plus Miss Mizzou, still wearing that trenchcoat! Then Steve looks up the Indexes, and the sparks really start to fly near the top of the world! CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

Let's travel back to the early days of yesteryear as we explore the world of Steve Canyon! No, Really! We also discuss some movie news, and review Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #1 from Archie Comics, The Magic Order 2 #1, and Purgatori #2, just for you! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! a href="https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF">Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS https://variety.com/2021/film/box-office/marvel-eternals-box-office-globally-no-time-to-die-1235106898/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/no-time-to-die-on-demand-streaming-digital-james-bond-1235106439/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-shuts-down-production-letitia-wright-1235106126/ https://deadline.com/2021/11/stranger-things-season-4-premiere-update-episode-titles-1234869361/ REVIEWS STEPHEN CHILLING ADVENTURES IN SORCERY #1 Writer: Amy Chu, Eliot Rahal, Evan Stanley Artist: Derek Charm, Vincenzo Federici, Matt Herms, Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy Publisher: Archie Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 3, 2021 THE FUTURE OF ARCHIE COMICS STARTS HERE IN AN ALL-NEW ANTHOLOGY-STYLE ONE-SHOT! Madam Satan is our tour guide into this horrific world exploring the underbelly of Riverdale and its surrounding areas! Madam Satan is trying to escape Hell. She goes through the circles of Hell in reverse. Along the way she meets lost/tortured souls who tell their stories—like that of Archie Andrews, who accepted a seemingly normal job as the nighttime security shift at Riverdale's local pizzeria and children's mascot entertainment venue. Only to learn that the venue harbors a deep, dark, robotic, monstrous secret! And then there's Jughead Jones, a teen who never met a food he didn't like. Until now. What is that eerie noise coming from the kitchen…? All that plus more bonus frightful content sure to delight all Archie horror fans! [rating:4/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology/Amazon affiliate link (https://amzn.to/2Yobzt4) MATTHEW THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #1 Writer: Mark Miller Artist: Stuart Immonen Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 3, 2021 A magical turf war like you've never seen before! The London chapter of the Magic Order has entered the scene, and these tough Guy Ritchie-style gangsters have a problem with the Eastern European Warlocks moving into their territory. Can new leader Cordelia Moonstone keep the peace? [rating:3/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology/Amazon affiliate link (https://amzn.to/3D5C7P4) RODRIGO PURGATORI #2 Writer: Ray Fawkes Artist: Alvaro Sarraseca Publisher: DYNAMITE Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 17, 2021 Purgatori! She's the girl with the great horns and the biggest body count. Now she's fighting battles inside and out -- monsters trying to kill her in the trackless forests of Europe, and witches trying to take control of her one-track mind. And through it all, one central question nags her over and over - How the hell did she end up in Norway?! She'd better figure things out, or someone's gonna get gored in the fjord. [rating: 3/5] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link (comixology.sjv.io/0Jydx3) DISCUSSION STEVE CANYON VOLUME 4: 1953 - 1954 Writer: Milton Caniff Artist: Milton Canniff Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $75.00 Release Date: April 1, 2014 The fourth volume of The Complete Steve Canyon opens with Steve as the newly-minted Light Colonel bringing the jet age to the town of Indian Cape — and the natives are after an old friend's scalp! Can Steve and new sidekick Pipper the Piper find a way to still an entire town's wrath? Canyon encounters old friends throughout 1953 and into 1954: Princess Snowflower, the irascible Dogie Hogan, and the leader of a band of Hooligans on horseback. Of course, there are girls, girls, girls — Herself Muldoon, Summer Olson, plus Miss Mizzou, still wearing that trenchcoat! Then Steve looks up the Indexes, and the sparks really start to fly near the top of the world! CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

It's the night before Halloween, the night before SABRINA's sixteenth birthday, the night of the blood-moon and the lunar eclipse, and SABRINA has made her decision: She will go into the woods of Greendale as a half-witch and emerge... on the other side of a frightful ritual... as a fully baptized member of the Church of Night. But there will be a cost, and his name is HARVEY. And unbeknownst to SABRINA and her aunts, there is a serpent in the garden, their great enemy MADAM SATAN, conspiring against them.

On the eve of Sabrina's sixteenth birthday, she faces a choice that will determine her destiny as a half-witch/half-mortal, an unspeakable terror arrives in Greendale, and her name is... MADAM SATAN! At long last, the secret history of the Queen of Hell is revealed, and she sets her vengeful gaze upon the SPELLMAN family. No one, especially those close to Sabrina, is safe, and very, very soon, the quiet streets of Greendale will run red with blood.

We'll get right to it, today we discuss these things: Horror Stuff: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Stray Dogs (Image Comics), Madam Satan #1 (Archie Comics), The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular (Disney+), Nightbooks (Netflix), and Cat's Eye (1985)! Other Stuff: Dave Chapelle - The Closer (Netflix), Storytime with Seth Rogen, The Martian novel by Andy Weir, Daniel Sanchez's 24 Hour Comic, Brent was an efficient officiant, and Steven is possessed by allergies! Main Topics (Major SPOILERS for both!): Malignant (2021) - 1:05:54 It Follows (2015) - 1:30:53 Email: LetsTalkAboutStuffPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @LTASpod Follow Steven on Twitter & Letterboxd: @stevenfisher22 Follow Brent on Twitter & Instagram: @BrentHibbard Please rate & review us! (5-stars is appreciated!) SPREAD THE CHEEKS, SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE.

In this episode, Greg, Leon and Rahul discuss the following comics: SENSOR (https://www.viz.com/read/manga/junji-ito-volume-1/product/6775)(Review begins at: 50m) SOUR PICKLES (https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-sour-pickles-by-clio-isadora)this book is currently available for pre-order here! (https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-sour-pickles-by-clio-isadora) and set for release 21st October (UK) / 26th October (USA) (Review begins at: 23m40s) Preview gallery: We also discuss the return of CHILLING ADVENTURES IN SORCERY (https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP211256) as well as the imminent return of CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG211498) HAPPY OCTOBER FROM THE LOFT DWELLER... A SPECIAL PLAYLIST FOR THE SEASON OF DECAY. (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XcaQvumgpF4Phw3nwvYD8) PERFECT FOR ALL YOUR HALLOWEEN RITUALS... Send any questions or feedback to (mailto:acecomicals@gmail.com) acecomicals@gmail.com. And also please subscribe (http://www.acecomicals.com/subscribe) and leave us a review! If you like what we do please consider donating to us (https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals) at https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals. All contributions will be used to defray the cost of hosting the website. Ace Comicals, over and out!#

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On this week's comic book review podcast: Riverdale Presents South Side Serpents #1 Archie Comics Story by David Barnett Art by Richard Ortiz Captain Marvel #25 Marvel Written by Kelly Thompson Art by Lee Garbett The Department of Truth #5 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds Firefly #25 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Pius Bak Future State: Suicide Squad #1 DC Comics Written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams Art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #1 DC Comics Written by Mark Russell Art by Steve Pugh Future State: Dark Detective #2 DC Comics Written by Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Williamson Art by Dan Mora, Giannis Milonogiannis Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Riley Rossmo Future State: Aquaman #1 DC Comics Written by Brandon Thomas Art by Daniel Sampere Future State: Batman/Superman #1 DC Comics Written by Gene Luen Yang Art by Ben Oliver Post Americana #2 Image Comics Written and art by Dave Skroce Daredevil #26 Marvel Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Marco Chechetto & Mike Hawthorne Monstress #31 Image Comics Written by Marjorie Liu Art by Nana Takeda The Other History of the DC Universe #2 DC Comics Written by John Ridley Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli Nailbiter Returns #9 Image Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Mike Henderson X-Men #17 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Brett Booth Spawn #314 Image Comics Written by Todd McFarlane Art by Carlo Barberi The Last God #12 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici Something is Killing the Children #14 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera Strange Adventures #8 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Mitch Gerards and Evan “Doc” Shaner An Unkindness of Ravens #5 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Art by Marianna Ignazzi Colonel Weird: Cosmagog #4 Dark Horse Comics Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Tyler Crook 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: As 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 comics that have come out this week, kicking it off with Riverdale Presents: South Side Serpents from Archie Comics, story by David Barnett, art by Richard Ortiz. This is part of a slate of comics that Archie has started releasing that aren't exactly in continuity with the shows, but they include the characters the way they appear on the show. They're kind of like halfway between the monthly comics and the shows themselves. This with a Madam Satan one-shot spinning off and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that we talked about. This one of course is spinning off of Riverdale [crosstalk 00:00:46]. Pete:                I wish I would've known that before I read it, because I read it and I was like, “Holy shit, everything's going to change.” Alex:                 Yeah. Well, no, it's out of continuity. Pete:                They killed some people in this comic. Alex:                 They straight up killed some people. I got to tell you, I mean, to start there, I was surprised how hardcore this was. Justin:              Me too. This book went hard from beginning to end and I will say, “I like this.” To me, I mean Archie Comics for a decade has been taking big swings with a lot of their choices, a lot of their … especially their one shots like this and they're limited series. But with this like putting it in between Riverdale featuring Toni Topaz here which was great. And then having both Hot Dog show up drawn like Hot Dog from the Double Digest. As well as a murder happening involving Hot Dog, I was like, “Okay, we're going for it here.” Alex:                 So the plot of this book if you haven't picked it up is that Jughead is tasked by FP to go rejuvenate the serpents, FP can see that they're getting older. He wants them to go out, get some young blood in there. Things go very, very wrong. The thing that I think this book did so well is the serpents are way too friendly on the TV show. They're supposed to be the most hardcore biker gang, but they was like, “We're hardcore, we're fucking helping out with community service. And now we're going to assist the police department. Look how hardcore we are.” Here they're an actual biker gag, and they're treated like an actual biker gang. And it works really well to the devastating end of the book. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. It was also nice to take you back to this time in Riverdale, we're all Riverdale fans, and to sort of position us sort of earlier, this was like season two Riverdale it felt like, was really fun as well. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Good stuff. Definitely check. Oh, go ahead. Justin:              Wait, Pete's going to weigh in. Pete:                I really liked this. I loved all the action, it moves really well. It feels like Riverdale, but it has its own kind of flavor, which is cool for the comic. And I thought the art was great and the storytelling was really impressive how well this moved. I had a great time. Justin:              A lot of biker gangs have a crown that the head of the gang wears. Alex:                 This is true, like the hell's angels. Justin:              Yeah, fairy famously, and some anarchy. Alex:                 [inaudible 00:03:17] biker gang that we can name which is, what is that, Justin? Justin:              That biker game, there's the wheels, the wheelies. Pete:                The Wheelers. Justin:              The wheelers, that's it. Alex:                 Yes. Captain Marvel number 25 from Marvel written by Kelly Thompson, art by Lee Garbett. This is a title that we haven't talked about too much, but as it is hitting an anniversary issue, we do like Kelly Thompson in particular here on the show, I figured it was worth talking about. Captain Marvel is trapped in a post-apocalyptic future where the son of Namor and Amara has lead ways everything, using captain Marvel for his evil plan. As usual with Kelly Thompson book, I thought this is a lot of fun. I had a blast reading this. What about you guys? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, as parents, you have to feel that if your son or daughter stabs a stuffed animal dolphin, you better address that early. Otherwise that's really going to get out of hand and lead you [crosstalk 00:04:14]. Justin:              Well, the question is, at least in my household is it during stabbing practice or is it [inaudible 00:04:19]. Pete:                Oh, oh, oh. Justin:              Because if it's during stabbing practice it's good. Pete:                It's fine. Alex:                 I'll tell you what, quarantine school has been weird. Justin:              Yeah, they're doing a lot of real post-apocalyptic lessons are going around. Obviously Pete you're not a parent, but there is a lot of zombie preparation- Alex:                 Smart. Justin:              … how to, like early cannibalism stuff. Pete:                Is it like machete upkeep and stuff like that? Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:04:44] and the teacher on the Zoom was saying, “Okay first graders, are you distilling your pee properly so you can drink it?” Pete:                Oh my God. That's so creepy. Justin:              That's why it's really important to potty train them, so you don't lose that precious pee. Alex:                 What'd you think about this book, Pete? Pete:                I loved it. Oh, that was gross. Justin:              Precious Pete. Pete:                Oh man, I don't want it. Yeah, I really liked this, a lot of over the top action, which I enjoyed. Fun kind of Namor a story, classic tale of raising somebody who is going to murder their father. It was just classic fun stuff. You guys have to be worried about that, getting murdered by your own kids. That's got to be something that waves on you. Alex:                 You keep throwing this back on us. Pete:                I mean, that's something that you got to be worried a little bit about as a parent that you're raising the person who's going to kill you. Alex:                 I'm much more worried about you killing me Pete than I have my kids at this point. Justin:              100%. Pete:                Oh well, that's smart. Justin:              That's the real threat, keeps us up nights. Alex:                 Speaking of things that are … Oh, go ahead. Pete:                But I love that art. I love the action. This is some great, yeah, the Thor was just fantastic and this is really fun. Justin:              Yeah, Bridget. It's funny reading this alongside Future State over on the DC side of things, because it feels very much like a Future State book in the Marvel Universe. And it's fun, I like books that take us into alternate futures where shits fucked up. Alex:                 Well, let's go to an alternate present where shit is fucked up in The Department of Truth number five from Image Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Martin Simmonds. This is a big one for anybody who's reading the series. It's about a department that is tasked with taking care of conspiracy theories here. Our main character is finding out a bunch more about the other side, Black Hat, and what's going on with them. Maybe this doesn't change everything, but it certainly comes close to it. How'd you feel about this issue? Justin:              I've not been shy to say I love this series. I think this series is just so present, it's feels so real. It's about how if enough people believe in conspiracy theories, they become real. And like what truth is, it is something I think we as a nation, as a world grapple with literally every day. And so this book does such a good job between the art and the story of really just getting inside my brain. Pete:                Yeah, this is really kind of crazy cool. The conspiracy stuff is one thing, but just the art and the storytelling, unlike how this all kind of unfolds for the main character that we're following here is tripped out in all the right ways. It's just really great kind of like conspiracy story telling that kind of feeds into fears and kind of deep thoughts in all the right ways. I think this is a really creative book that is really doing an amazing job. Alex:                 I feel like we've said this here on the show before, but it struck me with this issue in particular, this feels like a lost Vertigo book down to the art and the writing and everything, and it's awesome. Firefly … Oh, go ahead. Justin:              I was going to say just an excellent Vertigo book. Alex:                 Yeah. A lost Vertigo book that should have stayed lost was what I was saying. Pete:                Whoa. Alex:                 Should've stayed in Karen Berger's drawer. Pete:                Oh, come on, what? You mean drawer? Alex:                 Come on. Pete:                You saying drawer? Alex:                 Yeah, I was trying to say that. Pete:                Okay. Alex:                 Firefly number 25 from BOOM! Studios written by Greg Pak- Pete:                Greg Pak. Alex:                 … art by Pius Bak. We talked about the special, the end of The Blue Sun Rising, just being an awesome Firefly story. Here after all of this prequel stuff, we're moving beyond serenity. We're showing what happens years later. There's a big twists here. I thought this is great. As much as I like the stuff that went before, I'm very excited about this direction for the book. It tells a good story. If you have watched all the Firefly and Serenity, you can jump in right here, you don't have to read anything previous. And that is very exciting. Justin:              Yeah. For Greg Pal to tell a great story that really nails all the characters, but it also feels like it's expanding the universe as a prequel, and then to jump into sort of where the story is continuing from any fan, whatever they've taken in for this show and movie is great, such a smart move, I love that he's guiding this ship. Pete:                I wanted to read something, speaking of fans, a fan of our show reached out to me and was just wondering, we had Fred Van Lente on a bunch, but they're asking me when the fuck Greg Pak is going to be on, so I wanted to kind of turn that over to Alex and just be like, “Hey, when the fuck is Greg Pak going to be on the show so we can talk to him.” Justin:              Let me throw this out to you Pete, are you the fan that reached out to you? Pete:                No. Justin:              Sounds a lot like you. Alex:                 We'll try to have him back on scene, we always love having him of the show. Thanks for writing in, Pete. Let's move over to our Future State block. Here's the issues that came out of Future State this week. Future State Suicide Squad number one, Future State Superman Versus Imperious Lex number one, Future State Dark Detective number two, Legion of Superheroes number one, Aquaman number one, Batman and Superman number one. Now, as we've been doing in the past couple of weeks, instead of talking about absolutely everything, I want to call out what our favorites were, and I'll turn to you Justin first. What was your favorite or favorites from these Future State titles this week? Justin:              Once again, I liked a lot of these books. I feel like they'd been really crushing it, but my favorites were, let me throw it to Superman versus Imperious Lex. Alex:                 Oh, that's what I figured. I say that's what I figured because that was also my favorite. And that's a book, it's written by Mark Russell, who's one of our favorites here on the show, art by Steve Pugh. And it shows a Future State, a future society where Lex has taken over a planet, Superman and Lois come head to head with it. Ridiculous parodied, a lot of fun at the same time, Justin. Justin:              And I do think Mark Russell has done such a good job. He's so good at bringing real issues into his comic book work, famously first on the Flintstones book that he did. And then a bunch of other things that he's done. And this to really weave big interesting ideas about how people, populaces are controlled by their leaders and economics, how economics drives people into a far Future Superman United Planets, Lex Luther story, I think was great. There's a bunch of humor here as well. It's just a book of ideas and I love that. Alex:                 Pete, what about you? What jumped out at you this week? Pete:                I liked Future State Dark Detectives number two. I really liked this kind of like a gritty future Batman. And I also really liked the second story with a Rose, guessing Slade's daughter. But just- Alex:                 That's an in continuity character by the way. That's not just a Future State character. Pete:                Oh, okay. Alex:                 Just for clarification. Pete:                Thank you. Alex:                 But just to mention before you get too far into it, written by Mariko Tamaki and Joshua Williamson, art by Dan Mora, who you love from Once & Future, and Giannis Milonogiannis. And the first story is about Bruce Wayne after he's been “shot and killed” coming back and try to figure out what he is now. The second one is a Red Hood story, which is basically straight up Akira in a very fun way. Justin, what'd you think about this one? Justin:              I like both of these stories. The Bruce Wayne story at the front of this is so good. The art, the Dan Mora art is excellent, and really I would love to see this as just an ongoing series of Bruce Wayne in a future where he has been killed, figuring out what he's going to do next and finding his way back is great. And then the backup story really felt a lot like Nightwing [inaudible 00:13:02] relationship, but put on with Red Hood and Rose, which I thought was a cool sort of mapping, and with the Akira stuff you're talking about as well. Alex:                 The one that I was completely surprised that I loved was Future State Aquaman number one, written by Brandon Thomas, art by Daniel Sampere. I don't usually like Aquaman stories at all, but this one is showing Aqualad all grown up training the daughter of Aquaman and Mera. They accidentally ended up in this conjoining of seas, I think it's called the conjunction or something like that, that travels across different planets. They get trapped, they get separated, Aqualad's been in prison for years. And finally, spoiler, but he gets some hope that the girl he's been in charge with maybe still alive somewhere. This was bad-ass, like we were talking about, this is something that I'm like, “I want to read this book.” And this is such a strong concept right here. I want to see where this goes. I want to see them go through all these seas, go through all these worlds, try to find each other. That's very exciting. And the art from Daniel Sampere- Pete:                Oh my God. Alex:                 … is awesome as well, but fantastic. My jaw dropped, I was so surprised, I like this so much. Pete:                Yeah. And I really liked the Black Manta stuff as well. It was like the right amount of beautiful tripped out colors for all these different kinds of worlds and stuff. I was really impressed by it. Justin:              I also want to throw it out to the Suicide Squad Future State book. This was really great as well. Really surprising, well-written dark take, featuring a ton of characters that I didn't expect to really see together and just really smart observations of these characters. Pete:                The second story, Black Adam really looks like The Rock, it's like holy shit, all right guys, we get it. Alex:                 Yeah, that was a weird one for me. But just to mention the writing team of that, written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams, art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin. And real quick, before wrap up, here are the other ones, Future State Legion of Superheroes number one written by Brian Michael Bendis, gorgeous art as always by Riley Rossmo. And then there's also Batman Superman number one, which is interesting one. Pete:                That's the one I wanted to talk about. Alex:                 Written by Gene Luen Yang and art by Ben Oliver. Because this actually isn't very Future State. This is, if Future State is 10, 15, 20, whatever years down the road, this is five years down the road with our Batman and Superman right before things go wrong, which is a fascinating tack to take, Pete, take it away. Pete:                Yeah, I really thought this was, first off the banter back and forth between Superman and Batman was amazing. I also really liked this kind of false face thing. And then Superman realizing why masks are good was really cool. And I really liked this toad character that was introduced. Yeah, I was really impressed with this. Might not have been that far in the future, but man, this was a really cool book. I really liked it. And I'm trying to think, I also read the Batman: White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn, number four. And that was- Alex:                 Pete. Justin:              Totally [inaudible 00:16:24]. Pete:                I'm just putting it out there, we're doing a quick review thing here. Alex:                 No, no, no, but it's not Future State. Pete:                Well, it is DC. Alex:                 You keep doing this. I send you a list of comics and you are like, I read these five other comics. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 I just think that the story is really- Justin:              I just love comics. Alex:                 Great. Pete, when we get to it, I read Amazing Spider-Man as well, so I just want to talk about that. Pete:                Great. I'm just wanting to say real quick though, the Harley Quinn thing at first, the White Knight Presents, I didn't, but now it's really going well and I'm really impressed with it. And I thought it was a really great story and it's worth checking out. Justin:              Really grabbing the mic. Alex:                 How was Usagi Yojimbo, Pete? Pete:                I look forward to checking that out. Alex:                 Wow. Justin:              Wow, shame. Alex:                 What a hater. Post Americana, oh. Justin:              Hold up. One last thing about Future State. I think that DC should do this, pick a month every year, do this. It introduces so many interesting ideas. They could reflect whatever the ongoing stories are in the main titles in their Future State titles, introduce a bunch of new artists and writers into this world. Pete:                I think that's what they're going to do. Justin:              I don't think they're going to do that, but I wish they did. Pete:                I think they are. Alex:                 That's a great idea. I mean it's clearly like it was originally there to give everybody space on the schedule and everything, at least in terms of the writers and artists, but this is great. I'm so happy with all of these books. Pete:                I also wanted to say in the Future State Legion one, the amazing last page, that was a really fun issue. Alex:                 Sure. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 Post Americana number two from Image Comics written and art by Dave Skroce. This is a wild book, we talked about the first issue of this taking place in post-apocalyptic world. When we left off, our main characters have been captured by cannibals who wear human skin. That's where this issue picks up. Pete, you got to love that, picks up right where it left off basically. Pete:                Huge fan. Alex:                 This book is fucked up at exactly the right way. It's like Crossed, but not as dark I guess, with a little bit more of a mission to it. Justin:              I don't know. It feels a lot just like Crossed. I don't know where you're seeing the less darkness. There's less like coming on bullets before you shoot them at people. Alex:                 Sure, that's fair. Pete:                I would say- Alex:                 But the main lady has no limbs, but she calls her robot limbs and then kicks the ass of the cannibals, so that's pretty fun. Pete:                It's like Iron Man. I would say this is like a really dark version of Wall-E a little bit, like a real fucked up Wall-E. Justin:              Oh, Wall-E, interesting. I don't get that. Alex:                 Well, there's a male character and there's a female character like Eva. Justin:              Oh, interesting. None of them are robots. And there's a lot of other people there and many of them cannibals, which if I remember Wall-E correctly it's very light on cannibalism. Am I wrong there? Pete:                Yeah, it is. Alex:                 Did you watch the director's cut? Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 It's on Disney plus. Pete:                I was just talking about the people who are on vacation, looking at the news and kind of taking it all in. And that kind of little bit was very Wall-E. Justin:              Oh, I see. Yes. I mean, to be fair, that is reminiscent of Wall-E. That was one panel. Pete:                Still reminded me of Wall-E dickhead. Justin:              You said this book is like a fucked up wall-E, and that is taking one panel and being like, this is … If I heard that description, I was like, “Oh, okay, fucked up Wall-E. I love Wall-E, I wish he was more fucked up. Let me read it.” And I was like, “What's that dude Pete talking about?” Pete:                Because there's one panel that really reminds you of Wall-E. Justin:              Okay, it's hard to argue with you. Alex:                 It's a fictional story like Wall-E. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              My life's a lot like Wall-E in that I occasionally watch a silent film. Alex:                 This book is insanely over the top odd purpose, but I'm enjoying it two issues in- Pete:                I am too. Alex:                 … and I'm excited to see where it goes. Let's move on to talk about Daredevil number 26 from Marvel written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Marco Checchetto and Meek Hawthorne, Mike Hawthorne. Excuse me, I don't know why it's spelled Meek, like the character for the Guardians of Galaxy, not Guardians of Galaxy, [inaudible 00:20:39], and World War Hulk. Justin:              Yeah, we can just cut this part out of there. Pete:                World War Hulk is right. Alex:                 Mike Hawthorne, this is taking Daredevil who was in prison, mixing it up with King in Black. It is, Ted's fucked up with an amazing last paddle. I'll tell you what, I am vehemently against venomizing everything in the Marvel Universe, yet I love this, and I'm not 100% sure why. Justin:              Well, I think it's just really well handled. There's a sort of kid and parent venomization here that is legit scary. I love the Electra taking over from Daredevils in prison. I love Electra being the Daredevil on the street. That's such a fun story. To see them all having to handle the King in Black stuff is wild. And I loved that it didn't take over, all the characters get to shine still. And this last bit where we … spoiler, but Daredevil gets venomized and you get to be in his head. Pete:                You love that. Justin:              I loved it. I thought it was so smart. Pete:                Yeah, I was really … There's a lot in this comic which is great. A lot of very interesting ideas in this comic, the whole prison scene, and where Daredevil's getting kind of lectured and talking about the difference between white and black. He can just take off the mask and be somebody else, really powerful stuff, really cool. It's very interesting to see Kingpin. I am not tired of this idea of Kingpin being a public figure. And we know him as this evil person and he's like, it's just very … I love this idea and I'm not sick of it. And I hope it continues around Daredevil. Alex:                 One thing that I really loved was getting to see the moment when the mayor of New York finds out that venom symbiotes have attacked the city. I feel like that's something that you'd never really get to see at all in a comic book crossover, because it's always focusing on The Avengers, focusing on the superheroes. You never get to see the government, except later on when captain America is like, “Can you send out the national guard?” And they're like, “Yeah, absolutely.” You never get to see that moment they're like, “Oh, aliens attacking again. You got to get out of here.” Justin:              It's funny too because I feel like I've heard mayor de Blasio talk a lot about them, the venomization of New York. Alex:                 Oh yeah, he always talks about that. Pete:                I'm sick. Justin:              I mean, to be fair, he's often jumping to conclusions. Alex:                 Right. Well, you remember when those venom symbiotes attacked New York, he was like, “Alternate side of the street park [inaudible 00:23:18].” It's very niche content. Pete:                Yeah, it is. Justin:              It is very New York focused content. Alex:                 Great comic though. Let's move on and talk about Monstress number 31 from Image Comics written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda. Now we had talked about Monstress: Talk Stories, the two-part book that came out before this, after not talking about Monstress for a very long period of time. I thought those were awesome, so I thought it was worth checking out this book, the main book and seeing how it's going. I still love the art in this. This is such a weird wild world that is fascinating to jump in with, the mythology is so different and interesting to read. But what did you guys think about it? Justin:              Yeah, I agree with you. This is very much to me, and I haven't read a lot of this book, but it's very much to me like all of the cut scenes from Final Fantasy game just sort of put together. And I love that, so I thought this was a fun read. Pete:                The art is really impressive in this book and it's really a lot of fun, the different monsters and stuff and the different kind of animal people that we kind of see in this is very cool and worth checking out alone. But you guys, this has to be a dream of yours. Just sit down and have a father, daughter conversation as you sit on a pile of skulls and just kind of have a father daughter talk or a father son talk, that's got to be something that you guys look forward to as parents. Justin:              Hmm, didn't go where I thought it was. Yeah, sure. I mean, after stabbing practice obviously we do sit on skulls after. Pete:                Obviously after, yeah. Alex:                 Exactly. Let's move on and talk about The Other History of the DC Universe number two from DC Comics, written by John Ridley, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, where the first issue of this book focused on black lightning, here we're jumping over to the Teen Titans and looking to two characters there. I got to tell you, I mean, this issue was phenomenal as the first issue is phenomenal. Justin:              It's so good. Alex:                 It's fascinating personally reading this for me because I am much more familiar with what happened with black lightning. And there's much more touchstones in that book than here, because I never read Teen Titans growing up. I had no idea what was going on there, the continuity. This is definitely, I understand this feels like the decades, but none of these stories, other than Titans Hunt which we talked about at a live show a couple of months ago, and some of the Deathstroke stuff, none of it really feels familiar with me. But at the same time I love this story and I love the idea of taking two characters who were in Teen Titans showing their diverse opinions, their diverse ideas, views of what was going on throughout the history of the DC Universe. This is such a cool project. It's very exciting. Justin:              It's just so smart the way it takes two characters and really weaves their stories together with observations that … A lot of the things that happen in this from the original comics are ridiculous. But to then weave them into one story with actual commentary of what a real person would think, I think it just works so well, on top of that weaving in like real-world events and the perspective of these two African-American characters in a world where, which they talk about a lot where everyone else is white essentially, it's just really well done. This is necessary reading I think right there. Pete:                Yeah. I didn't know how much I wanted this until it happened, just to have that kind of commentary on the stuff that we know from the years of reading comics is just so rich and great and such a cool idea. Art's amazing. I'm really impressed with the writing and storytelling. It's a must pick up. Alex:                 Great stuff. Let's move on and talk about Nailbiter Returns number nine from Image Comics written by Joshua Williamson, art by Mike Henderson, not Meek Henderson or anything like that. Justin:              No, that would be [crosstalk 00:27:24]. Alex:                 That was so much fun. Justin:              Well, I guess we'll have to cut this out too. Alex:                 Yes. In this book we're finally getting a lot of answers about what has been going on in Buckaroo with the butchers. We get the [inaudible 00:27:38] back on the villain of this series. Another just great issue, like the theology that they keep fleshing out here is so impressive and so much fun. Justin:              And we finally get the eyeball licking that I think we've all been asking. Pete:                Oh, man. Alex:                 Absolutely. I've been begging for it. I've been writing them every week. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Pete:                Yeah. You guys are big eyeball lickers, this is right up your alley. This book has started at such a crazy place. And I think every issue like, oh, okay, now I understand. But it keeps getting more and more insane in such a great way. It heightens and makes things even better than you thought. I've been really impressed with the kind of unraveling of the stories, if you will. And man, this is so intense and gross and over the top in all the right ways, the arts fantastic. And man, eyeballs are gross. Justin:              Yeah. But I agree and the amount of sort of dream logic that's been used in this book, I was really surprised by, but it's been great and it really keeps you guessing throughout. Alex:                 Next one, I'm very excited and I mean this earnestly to find out what Pete thought about this book, X-Men number 17 from Marvel Comics, written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Brett Booth. In this issue the X-Men in classic uniforms, X factor uniforms journey to Shi'ar space and have a classic nineties style fight to save [inaudible 00:29:18]. Pete. Justin:              Save Xandra. Alex:                 Oh yes. Justin:              This generation's [inaudible 00:29:24]. Alex:                 Yeah, sorry. Pete, if there is any issue of X-Men, it had to be this issue, right? Pete:                Sure. I mean, it was very kind of like, it was a little nineties art that was a little bit like, holy crap, when does this take place in the timeline? But man, yeah, it was enjoyable. I mean the phone call was a little ridiculous. And there was still something that I was supposed to read that didn't in the middle of it. Alex:                 Oh my God, that was so much fun. [crosstalk 00:30:00] Bobby. Justin:              It was very fun. Pete:                I'll never know. Alex:                 Chilling out having a hilarious time. So funny. Pete:                I mean, it's nineties excellent fun is what it is and all the right ways. And so that part is very cool. Justin:              This to me was such a wild read. Coming off of X of Swords and everything that's been going on in the X-Men books, to read this sort of love letter to the Chris Claremont era of X-Men, drawn by Brett Booth with all this really goofy shit going on between Sunspot and Cannonball. Throughout the whole issue I was like this, it just feels like Jonathan Hickman is like, I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want. And this is what I want to do right now as a palette cleanser after X of Swords, and here it is. Alex:                 It's great. I could not believe where they had that splash page of Jean Gray and psych labs in the X-Force uniforms storm in her classic uniform, just walking out and like posing in [inaudible 00:31:03] field style. That's great. Justin:              There's this panel on page nine or something with storms in the front and then behind you got like Cyclops and Jean just flirting in the background. I was just like, this is so … And I love seeing that. Alex:                 Me too. Justin:              I was like, it's such a flashback. Alex:                 And the other thing that we get a tease of here is there's going to be an actual vote online to choose the new member of the X-Men, which is so fun. I just love the fact that they're having fun. Pete:                You think that's fun? Alex:                 What? Pete:                You think that's fun? Justin:              I do think it's fun. Here, let's list the options here, and then let's hear who everybody thinks. We've got Banshee. Pete:                Can we talk about the … in the middle of this giant epic fight, she calls home for help. And we got to listen to this douchebag talk about a fire sale and how he's making money off of it. Do you guys know what a fire sale is? Do you know what … I mean, this is like, it's very … Alex:                 It's for Sunspot. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 That's what he does. Justin:              Yeah. It was fun. It was weird and fun. That's what the point of it was. Pete:                Cool. Alex:                 What is your problem with the X-Men vote, Pete? Is it that you have to use a computer, which you don't know how to use yet? Pete:                Yeah, that's exactly it. Justin:              Let me throw it down. Let me list the X-Men, Banshee, Polaris, Forge, Boom Boom, Tempo, hugely famous Tempo, Cannonball, Sunspot, Strong Guy, Mero, Armor. Pete:                Armor. Justin:              Who's your pick? Alex:                 I do like Armor. Pete:                I go Armor. Alex:                 Wait, who is on it then? Who is already on the team? Because I don't know the list, obviously seen Cyclops, Jean Gray, Storm. Justin:              Yeah, I mean, I don't know either. I think it's sort of up in the air maybe or maybe it's decided. Alex:                 Who's the first batch again? Justin:              Banshee, Polaris, Forge, Boom Boom, Tempo. Alex:                 Ooh, I want to see if Storm is on the team. I want to see Forge on this team. Because I want to see that old nineties tension between them. That'd be fun. Justin:              Yeah, they had a lot of tension. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              I'm definitely going for Strong Guy. Pete:                Really? Alex:                 Love it. Justin:              I love Strong Guy. Alex:                 All right. Pete:                No Boom Boom. Justin:              Fun character. Funny character. A lot of pathos underneath his his powers, great, great character. Alex:                 I got to assume Wolverine is the other one, right? It's Wolverine and Storm, Cyclops, Jean Gray and whoever the fifth one is. Justin:              It's a bunch of X-Men. I don't know. We don't know. Remember every other X-Men book has been like, look, a bunch of random experts. Alex:                 It's true. All right. Let's throw it out to Pete the page here with a [inaudible 00:33:49], Spawn number 314 from Image Comics, written by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi. In this issue Spawn meets a larger Spawn. Pete:                Yeah. And is immediately confused why this larger spawn would be attacking him. He's like, “Hey, wait, we look similar, we should be on the same size, giant spawn.” Alex:                 What I love about this giant spawn, having not read many issues of Spawn before this, is it is entirely possible this large spawn was introduced prior or this large spawn was just introduced this issue. But either way is fine. Justin:              Let me just throw out there, he fights a larger spawn, is captured, and then that larger spawn is like, “It's time to meet my master, who is the large and even larger spawn.” Pete:                And even larger spawn, because [crosstalk 00:34:39], well, you can't get larger in that spawn. And by the way our spawn is so small in comparison to the large spawn and then even larger one. But what's fun- Alex:                 Here's my question, why do they keep calling each other spawn? Because that's like their designation, right? It would be like, if we kept calling each other a human or something like that. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 It's weird. Pete:                Well, human. Justin:              It is weird. Yeah, they should have a short hand, because they're all in the spawn business together. Pete:                I really liked this twist at the end where it's like, oh man, you giant spawns are going to get taken down by even smaller spawn. What a twist. Alex:                 Remember that he's not a spawn, I think he's sharp night guy. Pete:                He's night spawn, that's [crosstalk 00:35:24]. Alex:                 Oh, he's night spawn, was that medieval spawn? Pete:                It's medieval spawn. I don't know if it's medieval. It looks like a night spawn. Justin:              I think, and it wasn't introduced in issue six or something crazy, way back in the day. Pete:                What, medieval spawn? Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                That was- Alex:                 Before we move on here- Pete:                No, no, that was a crossover event where medieval spawn was its own comic series for a little, dark ages spawn. Justin:              Yeah, that's right. I'm starting to think this Todd McFarlane guy is trying to sell some action figures. Pete:                Well, he is, he makes a lot of them, and it's smart. Because if I was a kid I would want all the spawns, but the dark ages spawn is where [crosstalk 00:36:01]. Alex:                 But as an adult you know better. Justin:              As an adult you put away childish things. Pete:                That's right. Justin:              And you'd have no interest in having any of these action figures. Alex:                 Pete, before we move on, I just want to ask, did you like this comic book? Pete:                Yeah, what's not to like? Alex:                 Your voice was very high. Justin:              Wow, really high-pitched answer there, Pete. And let's just, for the listener, Pete, is sitting on a pile of spawn action figures as if they were skulls. Pete:                Yes. Alex:                 The Last God number 12 from DC Comics written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Riccardo Federici. This is wrapping up the first maybe arc of this book. But it definitely wraps up the story that we have here as our friends to try to take down The Last God, I guess. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Big revelations here, some big deaths. What'd you think? How'd you think about this story as a whole over the course of 12 issues? Pete:                Epic. I really love the storytelling, and [inaudible 00:36:58] is like we see them in action, but as the issues go on, we get little bits and pieces of their backstory, I think done so well, while telling a bigger story. The action and the lead-up of the ending of this was just really well done. And I wasn't the biggest fan of songs or whatever, but it really kind of fit. I loved all the back matter and the maps and stuff. This was just a fantastic epic story that I think really 12 issues of just gold. Justin:              It's really beautifully drawn. The story's great. And the fact that it ends with this just great song where we see all the characters, it feels just like a montage at the end of a epic trilogy. I want to see this as a TV series more than I want to see The Lord of the Rings series that's in development at Amazon. Pete:                Wow. Alex:                 Couldn't agree more. Let's move on and talk about Something Is Killing the Children number 14 from BOOM! Studios, art by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell'Edera. Here we're getting our hero finally fighting back against the monsters who are the ones killing the children. Justin, I know you've been, frustrated is probably too strong a word, but you've definitely felt like this title needs to get somewhere. Did you feel like it got there with this issue? Justin:              Yes, it does feel like this is the issue that's sort of moving into what this arc is about. When so many of the issues in this arc were very much like we got to fight this stuff, we got to get out there and do this. And we were getting little tidbits. Let me start over, this arc felt like it was going to be this huge backstory arc, really getting us to the next phase. And then it didn't do that. And then this feels like it does it. Alex:                 What about you, Pete? How'd you feel about this issue? Pete:                I disagree a little bit with Justin. I think this continues to be amazing. I didn't think- Alex:                 It's very good. The art is very good. The fight sequences are awesome in this book. Pete:                Yeah. I've just been impressed with it from start to finish, but I think that we do kind of get to see the main girl kind of views her kind of veteran's styles to kind of work her kind of magic a little bit. I'm glad we got to finally see that. And I love the whole bit about her working out some anger issues, oh, that just spoke to me in ways that you can't believe. But I want to get one of those mass to walk around with the light that she has. I think that'd be really cool. But yeah, I can't say enough great things about this book. This is really glorious. Alex:                 It's good staff. Moving on to Strange Adventures number eight from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Mitch Gerads and Evan Doc Shaner. In this issue the Pykkts finally attack earth. The whole Justice League is on the offensive, Adam Strange of course is caught in the middle. And in the backstory, finding out more about what's gotten with Adam Strange, and it is starting to feel like maybe he's the bad guy here. What do you guys think about what's going on? Justin:              I mean there's … Go ahead. You go. Pete:                Yeah, so I've been a little frustrated with this up until this issue, because I felt like we haven't really had enough information to really kind of piece together what's going on. In this we get a lot of information which is great and much needed. The very crazy cool touching stuff with the daughter here. Yeah, I felt like this finally started to click for me and I was like, “Oh my God. Okay. Now I'm understanding things a little bit more and I want to go back and read it from the beginning.” Justin:              I mean, this book is so good. It's such a stressful read, like a lot of Tom King stuff. The tension in this book, it's just palpable throughout. And we have Adam Strange in the last couple of issues. We found out that he's been tortured basically for a million lifetimes, just absolutely brutalized. And in this issue, it just rephrases him. He's gone through so much trauma. He's like a fully broken person. And Doc Shaner's art like, he still has these perfectly clear blue eyes, but you just see the pain that he's in and how he is just not capable of being a hero. And that adds so much dread to the scenes with his daughter. And then meanwhile, you have Mr. Terrific and Batman trying to sort through with great sequences of Mr. Terrific answering trivia questions from one of his fears. I'm so excited to see where this is going. Alex:                 I am starting to feel despite what I said at the beginning, that this is more about perspectives on war and how nobody is right. That there isn't really a villain. I know I said maybe Adam Strange was the villain, but I think he committed atrocities, the Pykkts committed atrocities. That's what happens in war. We know that Tom King has been in wars. He was in the CIA. He knows how this works. And I think that's what he's writing about here is that from the perspective of your side, of course you're right, but that doesn't mean that you're right for the perspective of the other side. And I think that's what he's playing with here. Justin:              There are no heroes. Alex:                 Exactly. Justin:              It's very hard to have a hero when you're in a war where both sides are fighting to kill and fighting for their lives. And I think that's what we're going to get next issue. Alex:                 Yeah. Next up, An Unkindness of Ravens number five from Boom! Studios written by Dan Panosian, art by Marianna Ignazzi. This is the end of the first arc, first book, whatever you want to call it, of this title. We've had our main characters try to figure out what's going on in this weird small town here, spoiler, but she finds out her mother is alive. She had a twin sister who had some power maybe, but it turns out actually she didn't. It turns out she might have the power. She might be the one that is supposed to complete this coven of witches or whatever is going on here. We were big fans of this from when they started. How did you feel about how it wrapped up? Justin:              I liked this so much. I think it's set up a good mystery. I really, the art is so approachable, it makes you really feel like you're right alongside the main characters. And this last couple of pages reveal is just so sweet. And it does such a good job, especially with the art of being very like Archie or comic books Sabrina. But having more mature themes and more sort of deeper storytelling than those original comics. Alex:                 Pete, what about you? Justin:              I really like this, this continues to be a fantastic book. I've been really impressed with kind of how we're finding out the information as this story is going. And this whole thing about this kind of coven of witches called the ravens. And it's just very cool. And I really liked this kind of mother daughter interaction. I feel like it's very kind of like old timey versus now times. This kind of like, there's a bigger picture and then … But somebody just so caught up in their own shit, they can't kind of see the bigger things going on. I was really impressed with that. The art is glorious. I'm really into it and I'm excited to see how this kind of unfolds what choice she makes moving forward, what team she's going to choose. Alex:                 Good stuff. Last but not least, Colonel Weird: Cosmagog number four from Dark Horse Comics, excuse me, written by Jeff Lemire, art by Tyler Crook. This is also wrapping up this title exploring one of the members of Black Hammer. There's a big emotional catharsis that happens here as he moves forward in his history. I thought this title was awesome. Just Tyler Crooks art is phenomenal. Justin:              So good. Alex:                 The writing is great. We've talked about this before. I've said this before, but it's like Slaughterhouse-Five in space. Good stuff. Justin:              Centered on an Adam Strange type of character. I mean, we've talked a lot about eyeballs in this episode The Stack. Pete:                Yeah, sure have. Justin:              And in this comic like- Pete:                Eyeball heavy stack. Justin:              Yeah, eyeball heavy. I've been just licking these eyeballs, lapping them up. And this, you just see so much pain in the different versions of Colonel Weird throughout time, throughout this book. And it's just so good. It's such a well done story. Pete:                I think the cover says so much. It's like The Little Prince and Outer Space, but sad. Alex:                 That cover is so good. Go ahead, Pete. Pete:                Yeah, it's really unbelievable. I feel like I want to read it all again because it ended and I was like, “Wait, what?” I wasn't sure how great the ending is until I want to go back and read it all again. But it was really cool, very creative and the art's unbelievable. Alex:                 And that is it for The Stack. If you'd like to support our show, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out, we would love to chat with you about comics at Comic Book Live on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast, and more iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen. Until next time, keep supporting Dim Comics. Justin:              Time for stabbing rehearsal. The post The Stack: South Side Serpents, Captain Marvel And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this week's Stack podcast, we've got reviews for: The Scumbag #1 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Lewis Larosa Fantastic Four #25 Marvel Written by Dan Slott Art by R.B. Silva, Paco Medina and Will Robson Madam Satan #1 Archie Comics Story by Eliot Rahal Art by Julius Ohta Iron Man #2 Marvel Written by Christopher Cantwell Art by Cafu Stillwater #2 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez Batman #101 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Guillem March Black Magick #15 Image Comics Written by Greg Rucka Art by Nicola Scott Werewolf By Night #1 Marvel Written by Taboo & B. Earl Art by Scot Eaton Big Girls #3 Image Comics Story and art by Jason Howard Batman: White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn #1 DC Comics Story by Katana Collins and Sean Murphy Dune: House Atreides #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Illustrated by Dev Pramanik Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King 1 DC Comics Written by Peter J. Tomasi, Tony Patrick Art by Riley Rossmo, Daniel Sampere Something is Killing the Children #11 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Illustrated by Werther Dell'edera Excalibur #13 Marvel Written by Tini Howard Art by R.B. Silva X-Men #13 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mahmud Asrar Faithless II #5 BOOM! Studios Written by Brian Azzarello Art by Maria Llovet Nightwing #75 DC Comics Written by Dan Jurgens Art by Travis Moore and Ronan Cliquet SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. This episode is sponsored by Helstrom, now on Hulu. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What's up y'all? 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 have come out this week. Pete:                Do we? Alex:                 And we're going to kick it off … I think this is a big deal. This isn't normally the sort of thing that we would kick off the show with. Usually it's some Marvel or DC book or whatever, I mean, who even cares? Justin:              Okay, weird voice. Alex:                 Weird way to put it. But we're going to talk about The Scumbag number one from Image Comics written by Rick Remender, art by Lewis LaRosa. The reason I think that should go first is a new Rick Remender book is a big deal. We've been following his writing pretty much since the beginning and every book out is an event, so it's worth putting this right upfront at the top of the show. Reading this book I know this is something that Pete just loves a ton. He's very into, he's very excited about. The concept of the book though, before we get into Pete's feelings about it, I can see his head already nodding, yes, yes, give me more. Justin:              Yes, yes, I love this. Alex:                 Is what if the worst person in the world was responsible for the fate of the world. That's essentially what it is to the point where they essentially say that line at the end of the book. And in fact we do meet the worst person in the world who ends up in the situation. Pete:                That's the thing, they say the worst person in the world, it's just like kind of a slacker druggie guy. It's not like he's a fucking head of the KKK or fucking, you know what I mean? A murderer. He's like- Justin:              Yeah. I guess it's more, to say the worst, I understand what you're saying, but definitely the most down and out. Pete:                Right. But what- Justin:              He has full on diarrhea. Pete:                Sure. Yeah. Who doesn't? The thing is it's like brand new Rick Remender book. You ready to get your fucking heartbroken. This guy writes in such a way that pulls you in, gets you sucked into this amazing world, and then always breaks your fucking heart. I'm scared. I'm scared about this book. Justin:              But that's what I love, what I love about Rick Remender books. And it has been a long time since he launched a new one. We've been reading Low. We've been reading Black Science for a long time. And those books are- Alex:                 Deadly Class. Justin:              Deadly Class of course ongoing. Pete:                Yeah, Deadly Class. Justin:              But these other books are sort of wrapping up. Deadly Class feels like it's going to keep going for a bit longer. And to have a new book is sort of precious. And what I love about it is he takes extreme premises and pushes them. And what he always does is on the art side brings in truly evocative artists. And in this case, it is the same thing. When he says it's the worst person in the world, we see it in like, I would call this hyper realistic color and line. And it's great. It's great. It's really smart of him to not shy away from these truly disgusting things, if the point of the book is this person is at his lowest and he has to become a world changing person. Alex:                 Or maybe it won't, I don't know. Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Starting a book with a Charles Bukowski quote is just a fantastic way to start something that's this kind of mayhem, or it's just about a drunken dude who does a lot of drugs and shit, that's the perfect thing. But man, just seeing a guy doing drugs and shitting on the streets really makes me miss New York city, you know what I mean? Like back in the eighties and nineties, the real New York, you know what I'm talking about? Justin:              Yeah, you were the mayor of New York in the mid eighties. Pete:                Oh yeah, man. Just love doing drugs in the street, shitting anywhere you wanted, those were the days. Justin:              You were a very controversial mayor [crosstalk 00:03:59]. Alex:                 Yeah. Before Giuliani took it all away. I mean, come on. Where's that guy now? What's he doing? Justin:              Yeah, it is great. It is truly crazy to think of a time when everyone was like Giuliani, what a hero. And now truly, and not to get … it's not at all political, but he is looked upon as a legit Nosferatu style monster. There are so many Twitter memes of him being like, “Look, his hands dead.” Or look, here's [crosstalk 00:04:28]. Alex:                 He's such a sad sack. That's the thing that's such a bummer about it, is he went from I'm the guy that's going to clean up New York, this is very controversial too. He did some sort of figures like, I'm going to reveal information and he taped a video, and he opens up this folder and there's nothing in the folder. And he's just like, “Well, there's evidence that I have here,” and there's nothing in there, it's just sad. That's not the point of this book, let's get back to The Scumbag thing. The thing about- Justin:              Wait, let me just say one more thing on that. I do think this book spins out of the era we're in. I think it's about a person who is not ready to be elevated to a position of power who is in that position of power, which I feel like is it common on our time both Trump in and everything around our current political situation where it's like, oh, these people shouldn't be in charge of stuff like this. This book feels very timely to me. Alex:                 I agree. The thing that I wanted to get back to you though, that Pete was saying about the worst person in the world is it's not racist, murderer or anything like that. It's nails on chalkboard worst, which I think they make pretty clear through the writing, where it's the sort of guy who within seconds of meeting him you're like, “Oh God, fuck this guy. This is the worst. Oh God, no.” Pete:                The guy at the party's looking to steal beers that aren't being looked at. You know what I mean, like oh. Alex:                 That's great. The specificity going on there is so clear to the point where it builds to very graphicallY as we were talking about him shitting himself on the street, which is horrifying and gross. And mind you, not the first time Rick Remender has written a person on drugs diarrhea scene, that was way back in Deadly Class. Classic scene in deadly class. Pete:                Classic, he loves a good shitting story, you know what I mean? Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Let me throw this out as well to go back into early Remender, this book sort of reminds me a little bit of Fear Agent, and then it is a person who is super down and out having to maybe elevate themselves. Alex:                 What I'm really interested in is reading the second issue of this book, because if Rick Remender has showed us anything, it's he always has a very clear concept in the first issue that he blows it and save the out of proportion by the second issue. And I don't know how they're going to do that yet, but I'm excited to find out. Justin:              A 100% true. Alex:                 Yeah. But great to view. Justin:              Great to view. Pete:                It's fun to see a new book that he's working on. I'm very excited to see where this goes. Yeah, crazy first issue, fantastic art, definitely check it out. Alex:                 Moving on to Fantastic Four number 25 from Marvel written by Dan Slott with art by R.B. Silver, Paco Medina and Will Robson. This I believe is the beginning of the status quo change that Dan teased back when he was on the live show with us chatting about this book. This is kind of a big deal. There's a lot of stuff that goes down in this book as we celebrate this mini anniversary of the Fantastic Four. What'd you think about the issue? Pete:                46 pages. This to me is a great Fantastic Four story. You get this kind of shit goes down, only the Fantastic Four can save the day. Then what's nice about it is you've got Reed and Sue talking a little bit about the holes in their marriage about how they lied to each other a little bit. I'm hoping that moving forward, their relationship can get a little bit better because I'm sick of the classic, Sue Storm does so much more for the family than Reed does, and he's just constantly busy and can't be bothered. I think this was a really cool story, great use to the whole family. I'm very excited, even cool Watcher stuff, which you don't normally kind of get. Alex:                 Oh, no, people are always like, “That Watcher is very cool.” Pete:                No, but like also, just this whole thing of like, we're the Watcher and we've watched all these amazing events happen in Marvel whether it's through comics or TV or movies, but just these splash pages like, oh yeah, I remember that. Oh, that was cool. Hey, cosmic Ghost Rider got a shout out. Justin:              Well, see, I would take some issue with your statement Pete, because I think what Dan Slott is so great at and why he's such a great match for the Fantastic Four, is his whole thing is everything old is new again, or everything new is old again, either way [crosstalk 00:09:10]. Pete:                Which one us it? Justin:              It's sort of both, because what he does here is he's like, “Yes, Reed and Sue aren't getting along because Reed has a secret from Sue.” But what's great about this issue is Sue also has a secret from Reed, and she has her own life and she's doing her own thing. And so they get to meet on equal ground. Pete:                Great. Justin:              The thing is it's [inaudible 00:09:30] time. I'm going to be a wreck and shit, but then he's like, “Oh, I have actually a family at home I have to get back to at the same time.” Doctor Doom is still a villain, but he's actually the Doctor Doom, is the Doctor Doom read Richard's relationship from the very beginning of the comic where they're contemporaries. And even though they are wildly super-powered and they're meeting here as like, “Oh, you were keeping a little secret from me.” He's like, “Oh, well, yeah I was, figure it out.” And they're like, “Well, let's figure it out together.” It's just Dan Slott is just a tactician when it comes to picking a part with a fine tweezers, these Marvel legends and finding a new way to reconfigure the stories by just slightly tweaking little bits and pieces. Pete:                I did want to, while we're talking about Doom, Doom is one of my favorite villains and Dan Slott did a great job of the way Doom just acknowledges the fact that Sue Storm was in the room before she revealed herself was such a bad-ass Doom moment. Dan Slott is just killing it on this book. Alex:                 Yeah. This is a really fun issue, like you're talking about, bunch of fun teases for the future, a new setup of new status quo for the team, as well as certain members of the team, as well as the Watcher and other things, just a great package. I had a blast reading this issue. Moving on to Chilling- Justin:              Justin loves good packages. Alex:                 Moving onto Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Presents Madam Satan number one from Archie Comics story by Eliot Rahal, art by Julius Ohta. We talked about this on the live show a little bit, but this exists in a weird mix of continuity between the comic books and the TV show, not necessarily contradicting either, but not existing like this is between season one and season two of Sabrina, or part one and part two or part three and part four or anything like that. It just kind of is an about Madam Satan. The real standout of this issue to me is Julius Ohta's art, which does a great job of channeling Robert Hack from the original series, but finding a different way around it. What'd you think Pete? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, because when you think about it, the only person who would want to be a principal at a high school is somebody who is in hell, you know what I mean? Someone who wants to bring hell to the people. So to me, this made a lot of sense like, “Oh yeah, the queen of hell would love to be a principal at a high school. That's the perfect job for them.” And this is a real fun kind of set up. Madam Satan is glorious in the Sabrina TV show. And it's nice to see this character kind of thrive in this comic as well. Justin:              This does a good job of being sort of the TV show, but hearkening back to the comics, it originally inspired what went on to become the Sabrina TV show, like the afterlife with Archie and the Sabrina comic that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa then developed into the show. It's great. And to your point, Alex, the art is just amazing throughout. Alex:                 Good stuff. Very impressive. Next step, Iron Man number two from Marvel written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Cafu. When we talked about the first issue of this book, I think we were pleasantly surprised by the change in direction here as Iron Man is going back to basics. Here we get a little bit more on that, veering on the side of he cut us a death wish a little bit, or at least injure himself, which as he's trying to move back to be a hero. But I got to say, I'm loving this take. I just think it's so refreshing to see a Tony Stark who is just being a hero and going on fights and fighting people and being a human being for a change. It's great. Justin:              I agree. This felt like a comic that I would have read back when I was in high school. It is just iron man dealing with shit. Of course he's fighting Absorbing Man. The ultimate early run of a series villain is Absorbing Man. And I love the guest stars throughout and Ironman just sacrificing himself, like Cardiac shows up, another, it's a Spider-Man villain technically who is just sort of Iron Manny in a lot of ways. And this felt like just some good classic fun. Pete:                Yeah. It was fun to see Hellcat. Yeah, it's all right, it's okay. Justin:              Pete, you do not like in Iron Man? Pete:                No. I mean, this comic has gone through so much stuff and it's just crazy. Like, okay, great, it's back to Tony Stark, but I don't know, cool. Alex:                 Well, what do you want it to be then? Pete:                I want, it was just weird because it's like, oh, Tony Stark's not Iron Man anymore. Okay, cool. And there was this really cool character who's trying to take on the mantle, but then was like, “No, we're going to go back to Tony Stark.” And then it's like, “Okay, but why?” And then it's just like, “Oh, it's back to basic Tony Stark.” Alex:                 So you're upset that it's not Riri is what you're saying. Pete:                I liked Riri. I liked the possibility of new stories. I just think that Iron Man has done a lot of amazing things, so let's see something amazing. You know what I mean? Let's see why we're seeing Iron Man again instead of something new. Alex:                 All right. Fair enough. Next up, Stillwater number two from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Ramon K. Perez. We talked about the first issue of this as well, liked it quite a bit. A guy goes on a road trip, ends up in a town where nobody ever dies. His friend gets killed outside the town, and it turns out at the end of the first issue that he may actually be a natural born resident of the village. We find out many more F'd up things about the town in this issue. What did you think about this? And also given that it drew some comparisons to Revival- Pete:                Controversial. Alex:                 Controversial comparisons to Revival the Tim Seeley series that had kind of a similar premise, at least at the start. Do you feel like it's veering off enough at this point? Justin:              It's totally quite different, I would say. I don't want to get into like, is it wrong to have a book this close premise wise? Because I enjoyed reading this, the first and second issue. It feels like at the end of this issue, we're setting up sort of what the deal is going to be. This guy is the third person who's been invited into the town. Clearly we're going to meet these other two people and what that means, his relationship to his mother and how the town works. All of that is fun. I'm excited to get into that. Revival felt like very different tonally. It was about people who with established relationships and how they were sort of dealing with this new status quo. I think to me it's different enough to exist separately. Alex:                 Also they feel like different types of horror, right? As Tim Seeley is very good at, it's a little more slasher horror, it's a little more graphic horror, a little more fun horror. This is more aligned with The Wicker Man I think that sort of, or mid summer, that sort of thing. Justin:              Oh, that's a good comparison, yes. Alex:                 So yeah, I agree. I do think they're different. There's certainly a danger there that they're going to weave together too much. But right now I think they can both exist and that's okay. Pete:                I would just like to say, as someone who's lived in a big city for a really long time, this is why I don't like the small towns, they scare the shit out of me. I love this thing of playing with the creepiness of a small town and all these people know each other and you're the outsider kind of coming in. I think that's a great idea to start a story. And I think sometimes when writers are … we're all pulling from the same pool. Sometimes ideas might overlap. You'd like to give somebody the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully it's not a rip off. But I do not know. Pete:                But as far as this is concerned, the little kid in the beginning was so fucking creepy with that wolf, I was scared shitless, and I'm interested to see where this goes. And it's really fun this idea of if people can die, then yeah, people would just kind of like loosey goosey shoot each other because there's going to be no damage. Justin:              Loosey goosey. Pete:                But it is kind of crazy right now to see a cop fucking just shooting first, and then talking later, it's kind of a hits and not fun chord right now. Justin:              Yeah. It's not crazy to see that, it happens a lot in this world. Pete, real quick, when you said you're scared shitless, could you give us just a sort of scale, a power ranking on the different types of scared you are, just so I know what you mean when you say that. Pete:                Well, they're scared like, oh, my stomach hurts a little bit, you know what I mean? And then there's like- Justin:              Your stomach hurts a little. Pete:                Yeah. And then there's like- Justin:              Like I ate too much candy. Pete:                Yeah. You got like- Justin:              So like you're scared candy. Let's call it that. Pete:                Okay. Yeah. And then scared shitless is like you're in real trouble. Alex:                 Oh, so there's two parts to the scale? Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Interesting. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:18:58] and then I have no shit in me whatsoever. Pete:                Yeah, let's skip the [crosstalk 00:19:03]. Justin:              Let me just also ask, quick follow-Up on that. When you say you're scared shitless, that means you've shit everything out. You're fully [crosstalk 00:19:09]. Pete:                Yeah, empty on the streets side. Justin:              You're on the streets comeback style diarrhea. Pete:                Right. Justin:              Or is it, are you full of shit and you just can't get it out? Pete:                No, no. Yeah, you're the scumbag of the street who's empty [crosstalk 00:19:23]. Alex:                 But you're 100% clean at this point. You're just- Pete:                Yeah. I'm an empty vessel. Alex:                 You're an empty vessel. Justin:              So you read this comic and you fully just rooster tailed yourself. Pete:                Yeah, exactly. Justin:              While you're reading it. I got you. Okay, great. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:19:39]. I've been going back to doing the transcripts of the episodes and I- Justin:              Don't do that- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:19:44], so I'll try to pull our quotes from each of the episodes and put it out there. The hope of getting maybe some pull quotes or something like that on a book. I think we could say Stillwater, it'll clear the shit out of you. Justin:              Yeah, you'll go full rooster tail. Pete:                Pull your own quotes Zalbs. Justin:              You go full rooster tail for this book. Alex:                 Batman 101 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Guillem March. This is following right up on the Joker war as Batman grapples with the knowledge that Joker might've been right. And he has to in fact change, he's got to up his game. Justin:              Game. Pete:                Game. Alex:                 As he talks to Catwoman about it. Pete, I'm sure you have some feelings about this because spoiler, Catwoman and Batman decide to be on a break for a year. What'd you think about that? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, I liked the kiss. I thought the kiss gave us hope. But the old taking a break is just, it's a heartbreaking, don't a break guys, say yes to love. Justin:              Don't take a break. Pete:                Don't take a break from love. Justin:              Friends, in the TV show Friends, famous romantic comedy. Alex:                 We were on a break. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Alex, let me ask you, are you hyping up that phrase or are you doing a Ross impression? Alex:                 I think I'm doing- Pete:                Ross, it was Ross. Alex:                 No. Yeah, I mean I'm doing Ross, but I think it's one of the characters from Seinfeld being like Jerry. Justin:              You mean Jerry Seinfeld. Alex:                 Yeah. No, I think Jerry [crosstalk 00:21:19]. Jerry Seinfeld says like, “Jerry.” He's like a poker bot. Jerry. Justin:              It's hard for me to tell what you're talking about. I love Guillem March's art. Alex:                 Yes. Justin:              And especially in issues focusing on not just Batman, but the bat family, always great to see. I will say, and this is being picky, but Grifter still doesn't sit with me. Alex:                 What's deal is that? Pete:                You don't like a billowy mask? Justin:              I'm fine with the billowy mask. I mean I wear a cloth mask for when I go out and it does hang a little low in a Grifter. Alex:                 Can I, not to interrupt your flow here, but when you're wearing that mask out, do you take it and then pull it up to your forehead? Justin:              Yes, a 100%. Alex:                 Okay. Justin:              And it really, it blows with little wrinkles in it just like Grifters does. No, it's just something like I still, the Wildstorm universe of it all. I'm just like, “This guy doesn't quite fit with these characters to me.” Alex:                 I do, I agree with you on Grifter, never quite got him, don't like the mask. But I do like what James Tynion is setting up here with Batman vs Grifter, and this greater mystery of who Grifter works for. That seems like that's something that potentially is going to tie in going further forward, and that's a fun place for it to go. Batman versus the Wildstorm universe, great, all in on that. Justin:              Also wildcats. Pete:                Old school, that Clownhunter got a shout out in this book. Alex:                 You love that guy. [crosstalk 00:23:02]. Justin:              Alex, we talked about this on the live show, but as someone who's married to a clown, are you worried? Alex:                 Definitely. We added an extra lock to the door, because my wife has been doing that thing where she pulls the bed sheets up to her neck and says, “Oh, I'm scare, scare, scare, scared.” Justin:              Yes. Because as you know, your wife is modeled on Charlie's grandparents and [inaudible 00:23:27]. Alex:                 Yes, exactly. We sleep with another couple in our bed. All right. Black Magick number 15 from Image Comics written by Greg Rucka and art by Nicholas Scott. Oh, it's a great issue every single time. Here we're getting the fallout of the last couple of the issues as our main character deals with her new burgeoning relationship with a fellow cop. While in the background, I think for the first time we see hell or something like that. Justin:              Yeah. She's getting crazy in the background. Alex:                 Yes. Justin:              This comic was very sort of austere for so long about the witchyness of this of it. And now we're fully in witch world, which I love. Pete:                A lot of pointy kind of pyramid looking things in that aisle. Alex:                 Great. Thank you, Pete. We'll use that one for the pull quote for this issue. Nicholas Scott art as usual is the hero here. It's just absolutely gorgeous. But I love the sort of almost taking a break issue in a way, there's been so much harrowing, terrifying stuff. Every issue to take some time here and really deal with the relationships, the characters, if I was really nice. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. And the art, it feels like it gets better. There's just something about, it's so detailed, but it keeps getting, I guess maybe cleaner is the right word. It's great. How do you feel about the French computer? You don't see French computers very often- Alex:                 No, not usually. Justin:              … except in France. Alex:                 No. Even in France, they still use English. Everybody's like, “I can not read this.” Pete:                I mean, I'm a little disappointed that she's not listening to her cat more. If you have a magical cat, I feel like you should pay attention and listen to it, especially when it knows more things than you. And that's always frustrating when a character isn't listening to people they should be listening to. Justin:              As a new cat owner, Pete, is your cat magical? And if so, what is that cat saying to you? Pete:                Well, I'll tell you what, she does have one of those mystical eye things like the Prince album over her left eye, which kind of freaks me out. And I do think that cats can see into different realms and stuff. So yeah, the cat freaks me the fuck out. Justin:              Nice. That sounds like a nightmare to deal with every day. Every day you wake up and you're like, you look at your cat and you're rooster tailing, because you're scared shitless. Pete:                That's right. That's how I start my day. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 God. From day to night, let's talk about Werewolf by Night, number one for Marvel Comics written by Taboo and B. Earl, art by Scot Eaton. Pete:                Oh, king of the transition. Alex:                 Here is another character that I'd never quite gotten just based on the name. And they try very hard to explain it to this book, by the idea of like, I'm a werewolf, but by night. It's like, “Well, most werewolves are by night, I think.” Justin:              But I take it the other way, I think the name is sort of saying, “Not just a werewolf where it's once a month, that's a werewolf by all nights.” Because if the character was named like werewolf normal, werewolf monthly, that's less fun. Alex:                 It does come out monthly, so there is that. But on the other hand, he turns back into a human in this very first issue where he's like, “I'm a werewolf by night.” Well, I'm a human, it's still nighttime.” Justin:              I say a lot I'm a human by night. And they're like, “What do you mean?” Alex:                 I thought this book was okay. It was honestly frustrating to be that the part that was fun and exciting was the last page of the book, that to me without getting spoilers unless we want to, that to me felt like, okay, this is the part you needed to put at the front of the book instead of all the setup that I didn't necessarily care about personally. Justin:              Well, let me say, I like this I guess more than you it seems, because it feels like it's a Marvel Comics book, but it feels like this could be an Image Comics book. It establishes a world around this character that isn't relying on other superhero, other Marvel universe things. And I like the characters a lot. And we talked about this on the show with Colin Bond and whatnot, the horror infiltration into superhero comics I've been really enjoying. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, I thought the reveal was fun, but I thought the more fun was with the granny pressuring those two to start a family, I thought that was really fun. Justin:              Your favorite part of this comic was the grandmother pressing them to have children? Pete:                Yeah. Come on, mommy's a werewolf, fuck it. But I think that also this was like- Alex:                 How's your relationship going, Pete? Pete:                Good man. It's going good. Thanks for asking. Alex:                 Welcome. Pete:                But I think that this book is kind of over the top, whatever. I just thought the kind of the real down to earth moments were kind of nice. And also you never know, man, the guy who cleans the toilets could be a werewolf, the person who collects the recycling, it could be a mummy. You got to be nice to people, because you don't know what their superpower is. Justin:              I think that every day. I'm like this- Alex:                 It would make sense if they switch jobs, honestly. Because I feel like the mummy could just take some of that wrapping and refill the toilet paper rolls. Pete:                Oh, wow. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Honestly, every time I … whenever I go out in New York city, I'm always like, “Are you a mummy?” Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Big Girls number three from Image Comic story, and art by Jason Howard. I think we've got back and forth a little bit about these issues. Generally, Jason Howard's art is great. This takes place in a world where large women and large men are fighting. The men are monsters, are they? And the women are not monsters, or are they? And they're fighting and the ruins left to the world. Find out a lot more about it, this issue that really mixes things up. I thought an interesting way, definitely confuses the metaphor perhaps a little bit, but certainly makes the story that we're following more fascinating. What did you guys take away from it? Pete:                Oh, go ahead. Justin:              You go. Pete:                I completely agree. I'm very happy with this kind of new development in this issue where the men aren't just total D bags. I kind of like the reveal in this issue, gives things a little bit more complication. I'm very excited to see how this moves forward and what the kind of reveals are going to be. Yeah, the art's the real hero of this book, this is becoming a very interesting book and I'm getting into it more and more with each issue. Justin:              Yeah. This book feels like an episode of The Outer Limits. Did you guys ever watch that when you were younger? Where it was like, it took a premise, a sci-fi premise and it just played it up and then there's a twist and then you landed the ending. And so I definitely liked this progression. I think the art is really nice. It reminds me of Ryan Ollie in a lot of ways. Alex:                 Jason Howard did … what was the wolf thing that Robert Kirkman did? Right, I think. Justin:              Oh, yes. Alex:                 Science Wolf. Science Dog. Justin:              Science Wolf. Science Dog. Alex:                 I think Jason Howard did Science Dog. I've got to look that up while you're talking. Pete:                You should look that up. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Okay, great. So all we have to do while Alex is looking this up is talk. Pete:                Yeah. Let's just do a little soft shoe and kill some time. Justin:              It's not killing time, it's bringing more of our personal lives into the fall. Alex:                 How's your family, Justin? Justin:              Family, good, very good. They're right upstairs. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Yes. Several members of my family were doing laundry over the course of our tapings this evening. And every time washer and dryer finish, they each make a little celebration song. Alex:                 No, I'm sorry. They did Super Dinosaur together, there it is. Pete:                Okay. I thought maybe it was the shark one. Alex:                 How did everything go while I was looking that up? Justin:              Great. We had a totally normal friend conversation. Pete:                Yeah, turns out Justin's washer and dryer, because he's such a fucking big time rich guy, they play celebration songs. He probably had to pay extra for that. Justin:              No, it's definitely not. Pete:                Every time his washer and dryer finishes it's like [inaudible 00:32:15] bright, clean clothes, come out now. Justin:              That's great, that would be great. Alex:                 Man, you should sell that to Whirlpool. Pete:                Yes. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn, number one from DC Comic story by Katana Collins and Sean Murphy. This is of course spinning off of the White Knight Universe of stories that Sean Murphy has been building up. It's a very different Harley Quinn who is out of the game. Batman is in jail. The Joker is dead. She's on her own. But she gets sucked back into it by a Joker want to be, or is it the Joker himself? What'd you guys think about this book? Pete:                Well, I mean, first off the art's amazeballs. This kind of a newer take, a fresh take on the old [inaudible 00:33:06]. You get a flashback to her and Jack meeting and I think it's interesting. I'm not upset at the changes. I think it's a fun last page. I kind of want to work alone and by alone, I mean, me and my two hyenas. I'm on board, I'm interested to see where this goes. I think we need more Harley Quinn. I don't think there's enough of Harley Quinn, we got to get more. Alex:                 I will say, before you get into anything, Justin, I think we already have our pull quote for this, it's I'm not upset at the changes. Justin:              Pete, when you say you need more Harley Quinn, what are you, in life, or in this [crosstalk 00:33:52] features a lot of Harley Quinn. Pete:                Harley Quinn is a very popular character. I don't think DC has caught on yet. They haven't put enough Harley Quinn in books yet. I barely see her, so it'd be nice if they started using her more. Justin:              Well, let me say the White Knights sub universe is interesting to me, because it's a little … I like this book and I like the Harley Quinn in this book. But I'm like, “Oh, we're so far away from the normal, the reality of the DC universe right now.” I'm like, that to me is … it takes me out of it because the book is so far removed from sort of the normal storytelling, the normal continuity I guess. But I have enjoyed these White Knight books, the art is truly amazing. Pete:                That's a real hero there. Justin:              Yeah. I'm curious how much longevity this pocket universe has in the DC universe. Alex:                 Yeah, I agree. Let's move on. Dune: House Atreides, number one written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, illustrated by Dev Pramanik. Oh, this is from Boom Studios, I believe, right? This is- Pete:                Yeah, it's Boom. Alex:                 Thank you. I forgot to write that down. Interestingly, I mean, as we were talking about with the Wonder Woman, 1984 book, a couple of weeks back. This is again a book that was clearly there to tee up the movie that was supposed to come out this year, instead is coming out a full year later. But at the same time, it is riffing off of the book, it's teeing up the movie, it's telling you a little bit more about Dune and the world. What did you think about this? Does this stand on its own, given that the movie is now not coming out for basically a full calendar year? Justin:              Well, I'm curious if some of the scenes here are from the movie. Is this bull fighting scene or space ball or whatever it's called. Is that a scene that we're going to see in this movie, because this made me want to see the movie? Pete:                Really? Justin:              Yes. It made me want to see sort of the more streamlined visually dynamic version of this comic. What this reminded me of though, as I was reading it, is like X of Swords, or 10 of Swords. It reminded me of a version of that where I'm like, “Wait, who are any of these characters?” Alex:                 It definitely, it's a very, it kept jumping around. I mean, granted the books are very expensive. There's a lot of stuff going on. There's a lot of mythology. I thought this looked very nice for what it is to have [inaudible 00:36:29] art is very pretty. And like you were mentioning the gladiator scenes or the bullfighting scenes were very nicely laid out. But I couldn't help but wish while I was reading this, that this was almost more in the European style, that this felt like the sort of thing, if you're going to going to do dune, get like a Mobius to do it, or Mobius light or something like that to give it that says, because it should be weird and off-putting not consistent with current comic books at all. Justin:              Right. Yeah. Especially when the movie is … I mean, we don't know this I guess. But is probably going to be visually stunning and purposefully so. The comic should reflect that a little bit. Alex:                 I agree. Let's move on to another one, Dark Nights: Death Metal, Robin King, number one from DC Comics written by Peter J. Tomasi and Tony Patrick, art by Riley Rossmo and Daniel Sampere. You cannot go wrong with Peter J. Tomasi and Riley Rossmo at all. I mean- Justin:              Great team. Alex:                 … I'm not the hugest fan of the idea of Robin King, who is basically a Bruce Wayne, who's an evil teen who's Robin, but man, this book is killer, just so good. What'd you guys think? Pete:                I mean, just this kind of like universe is just kind of cranking things up to 11 here. It seems like everybody's kind of having fun with the overtopness of it. And again, we get kind of a funeral thing here, but an interesting take where he hears Robin at the funeral that kind of draws him. I think it's … Robin King messing with Animal Man was really intense. Then the blue beetle getting eaten by beetles. I mean, this is just kind of crazy fun over the top shit. I think this kind of event is like a fun, like, “Hey, let's just crank this up and see what happens.” And every book has been kind of art-wise really funnily kind of driven towards these monsters and over the top villain, so why not? Justin:              Why not? I mean, to your point, Alex, this team is so good, and especially in a book where it's just all about hitting different aspects of the DC Universe, like Animal Man, Red Tornado, Blue Beetle, great to see all these characters, just like riding firestorm down and defeating him. Alex:                 Oh yeah, that was messed up. Justin:              It's all great. And I don't know, Robin King isn't someone who I'm like, “God, I can't wait to keep seeing more of this guy.” But I think he is one of the more memorable characters from this event. See of Bruce Wayne's, the Robin King definitely sticks out as one that is more threatening and more interesting. Alex:                 Yeah. I agree. Now from Children Who Are Killing Something to Something is Killing The Children number 11. Pete:                Oh, come on. [crosstalk 00:39:47]. He's been working on this for a week. Alex:                 Written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Werther Dell'Edera. We're really- Justin:              And just for you guys listening, the way we work is I actually hold up a cue card and Alex reads that down because we workshopped it. Alex:                 I hold it up a cue and Alex … Oh, I'm sorry, that's your line. Justin:              No, that's mine. We work in a classic SML model where it's all handwritten cue cards. Alex:                 Yeah. Fun fact, Justin really great at writing cue cards. Justin:              A 100% right. That's why I'm a line producer. Pete:                Yeah. One of the things that line producers do. Alex:                 In this issue we're continuing, like we talked about almost every issue, there's little bits of information that are eked out every issue, but it still feels so present and so terrifying as our main characters are trying to get away from these monsters who are attacking the town, who are killing the children. But at the same time, the organization she works for is mustering forces of their own, and it seems like we're heading towards a climactic showdown in the next issue, which is all very exciting. Every issue of this is great. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              And the amount of information we get is very controlled. Every issue of this feels like a scene or two scenes from a movie, as opposed to so many comics where it's so much happening. This feels very just like controlled pacing wise in a way that is very different from other comics. And visually it lets us really just chew these horror images up as we get to see them. Pete:                Yeah. This was intense. I was very happy with the kind of information we finally get about our kind of main character and her kind of relationship a little bit to this organization. Love the kind of dragon guy overseeing things. But it's also crazy in this comic how people are wearing masks, like how we're wearing masks. And so that's kind of freaking me the fuck out a little bit. But man, nothing creepier than a one eyed fucking Teddy bear, man. This book continues to be amazeballs. The art, the story- Justin:              Nothing creepier. Pete:                Nothing creepier. Alex:                 I'll tell you what, maybe they've already done this, but they should make masks based on something that's killing the children. I'd wear one of those, those would be fun. Justin:              That's a great idea. Pete, would you, now if a one eyed teddy bear is scary, what about a two eyed teddy bear? Alex:                 Oh, man. Pete:                One eyed is more scary, man. Alex:                 What about a no eyed teddy bear. Terror. Justin:              I mean a terror bear does sound scary. Alex:                 Let's move onto our X of Swords block Excalibur number 13, written by Tini Howard [crosstalk 00:42:40]. What? Pete:                I was hoping we would save that black for last, but all right, you've got this all- Justin:              No, I like the book we're saving for last, I think we made the right choice. Alex:                 Okay. Written by Tini Howard and art by R.B. Silva. And then we got an X-Men number 13 from Marvel written by Jonathan Hickman, and art by Mahmud Asrar. Unlike the previous months, we're only getting two … Previous weeks, excuse me, we're only getting two issues this week, they're not tied together, they're each their own stories. In Excalibur we find out what's going on with Captain Britain who is now Betsy Braddock, and her siblings as they go to other worlds and tango with other world. And in X-Men number 13, we find out the fate and backstory of apocalypse, two very different stories, but we're really starting to get to the halfway point of this event. What did you think about these, and what do you think about this event so far? Pete:                I really love the ways events started, but I just feel like we're taking too much time with the [inaudible 00:43:37] or getting the sword so they can join the battle. It's like, “Yeah, get your fucking sword so we can get this goddamn fight started.” I'm excited to see how this unfolds. I'm still very much on board, but I feel like they're taking their sweet ass fucking time with each person joining the goddamn fight. Justin:              I mean we got three swords in two issues, that's pretty … the ratio is right there. Alex:                 I will say I love the slow anticipation of building the swords, but every time they get to that scene where everybody is standing in the circle with their swords, it's cool. But I'm also like, how long have they been standing there? Have they been standing there not talking and staring at each other? Pete:                The first person was like, “Jeez, guys, cool sword.” Justin:              I do think, I mean, them all arriving there could have happened over the course of five minutes. It's just the way that comic pacings everyone is doing their own shit on the- Alex:                 No, this has taken weeks. I mean, weeks between comics. Justin:              Now, that's how you're reading it. But I do think everyone could have arrived there one after the other. Alex:                 Otherwise how … This is probably a good thing for our podcast to tackle. But how does the linear progression of time work? Justin:              Well, here's the thing, it moves forward second by second, minute by minute, unless you go timeout, and then time stops and you can do whatever you want for a brief amount of time. Alex:                 You can say what's going on. Pete:                I'm glad you're talking about timeouts. Justin:              And then time in and everything continues on. Pete:                No, but I think in comics Wednesdays are like our Mondays, you know what I mean? That's the start of the week. Justin:              Oh, interesting. Alex:                 I like [crosstalk 00:45:28]. Justin:              You have a calendar in your house is just Wednesday to Wednesdays just like- Pete:                Wednesday to Wednesday [crosstalk 00:45:33]. Justin:              Mondays and Tuesdays are just lost days for you. Alex:                 It's always Wednesday somewhere, you know what I'm talking about? Pete:                Oh yeah. Justin:              Timeout. Pete doesn't know what he's talking about. Timing. Pete:                Timing. Alex:                 I like these books quite a bit. I thought the other world stuff was really interesting- Pete:                What a surprise. Alex:                 … I really liked the Braddock family. I thought they're really fun in the way that Tini Howard wrote them, delineated them in an interesting way. It also throws in interesting power dynamic into everything that's going to other world, which if they're trying to defend to other world, but they hate other world, what's up with that? I guess we'll find out how that plays out. But the big one was X-Men 13 which gives completely red cons apocalypse, gives a entirely new motivation for everything that he has ever done, which is very, very classic, Jonathan Hickman, Marvel at this point. But I think it works. Justin:              I think it does work as well. And it is weird because it's like apocalypse who is like, he's been alive for millennia. But then you're like, “Wait, that dude was married?” Pete:                Yeah, right. Justin:              Like, oh, okay, he had a little life. Cool. Alex:                 Well, and then the other part of it for those who haven't read the book, this is a spoiler, but we find out the reason he's always been looking for the fittest and the strongest to survive is to master the forces to fight back the beings that are invading [inaudible 00:47:01] and therefore [inaudible 00:47:02] and eventually the earth. It's actually been this [inaudible 00:47:05] heroic motivation the entire time, which is kind of an amazing retcon to throw in there. Pete:                Yeah. Oh yeah. By the way, apocalypse has been not evil this whole time. Justin:              I don't know, I bought it like, as far as a cut scene to just drop in for us. I think that works. And despite the fact that he has been a villain this whole time, if he's trying to find the fittest so he can get back to be with the people he loves, that's enough of a motivation for me to be like, “Okay, maybe this person can now stand with our heroes.” Pete:                I agree. Alex:                 Pete, you disagree. Pete:                I would rather watch panels of him trying to put that sword together than to hear about his bullshit family. Alex:                 Man. Justin:              Wait, why would you rather watch see him put the sword together? Pete:                Because at least that's moving the fucking thing forward. Alex:                 All right. Well, we're getting to it. Pete:                I want to see a sword fight. I want to see a giant fucking sword fight. Alex:                 You're going to get it, you're going to get a big all sword fight. Pete:                And they're giving me all these goddamn backstory before what's going to hopefully be the greatest sword fight of all time. Justin:              What if instead of a sword fight they just talk it out. Pete:                If this is going to be a fucking kill bill situation, I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Alex:                 What if it's like the sexual sword fight, Pete, what would you think about that? Pete:                That would also suck. Justin:              Speaking of that- Alex:                 It would in fact. Justin:              … let's jump into our next book. Alex:                 All right. Let's move from saying that you were a little conflicted about Pete, a title I know you love, Faithless Two, number five [inaudible 00:48:50]. Pete:                You can't even [inaudible 00:48:51], you're cracking yourself up. Oh yeah, I love it, ooh, what the fuck. Alex:                 Well, I was kind of cracking up because you couldn't stop yawning while I was introducing this. You made the biggest, most adorable lion yawn while I was doing that. Justin:              Yeah. You are just a little bit, you're a little baby by just waking up from a nap. Alex:                 I thought this was great- Justin:              And Alex is like scar, Alex's scar being like, “Hey kid, you want to see some porno?” That's what we're doing right now. Alex:                 Oh, Justin. I thought this issue Justin actually got to the heart of what you've been talking about for the past couple of the issues with this book, where we'd be like, “Okay, what's going on with this art? They're visiting many wonderful European countries. There's some fucked up shit going on. There's weird sex stuff going on. What are we getting through this title?” And this issue did it. This issue pulled the lid off, revealed what the title at least this part is about, and I like that quite a bit. How'd you feel about it? Justin:              Same way. This felt like, I mean, if we can talk about how, this book is very sexual, and mixing that with sort of the demonic and we find out like heaven and hell in this universe they're creating. Pete:                Heaven fucks too bro, you know what I mean, come on. Justin:              No doubt. Yeah, no, I know. Alex:                 Oh, that's a pull quote [crosstalk 00:50:15], thanks Pete, you're [crosstalk 00:50:16]. Justin:              Heaven fucks too. And this, I feel like it has been a lot of buildup, and finally this is sort of the release issue where the orgasm issue, where there's a ton of sex in this issue, and it's about coming to conclusion. Pete:                You don't have to say it like that. Justin:              But that's truly what I think- Alex:                 No, he's commenting on coming to conclusions. Justin:              Exactly. I think this is truly what it was written to be, and I respect that. Pete:                We can be honest on this podcast, right? There's a thing that happens in this issue where they're having a threesome, and I've never had a threesome, but I have to assume when it happens it's like in the book, where you start to meld into each other and turn into each other's sexual organs until you become one sort of like human centipede, centrifugal force type thing. Is that correct? You guys [crosstalk 00:51:14]. Justin:              That's been my experience. Alex:                 Yeah. Okay. Pete:                Especially when you do weird drugs and then have sex in the woods. Alex:                 Nice. I thought this issue was very good. Last one, we're going to talk about Night- Pete:                Wait. Alex:                 Yes. Pete:                While we're being honest, I just wanted to say, Justin, the next time we're stuck on a boat and drinking with Brian Azzarello, I'm going to have a lot of questions for him. Alex:                 First of all, how dare you? Justin:              The real question is, don't do those drugs, those weird drugs that we didn't like last time. Because we should say a lot of this book is based on our time on the comic book carnival cruise that we did. Alex:                 Yeah. The boat was called the USS Faithless, right? Justin:              That's a 100% right. The Faithless Two. Alex:                 Last but not least, Nightwing number 75 from DC Comics written by Dan Jurgens, art by Travis Moore and Ronan Cliquet. Finally, Nightwing is back to himself. He has his memory again. In this issue, KGBs is coming for him. He's trying to figure out what's going on with himself, both with his ex-girlfriend Barbara Gordon, as well as his new girlfriend. We haven't really been following this title, and I got to tell you, I like Nightwing stuff, but I really got off when he lost his memory. Jumping back into this, this was a pleasant surprise. Justin:              Yeah. Rick Grayson was the sort of like devil may care, like I'm bad character, that filled in after he lost his memory, and it just didn't work I feel like. It didn't feel at all organic to Nightwing. And so it is good to finally see him back, especially since Nightwing has had so many iterations that have worked in a surprising way, a lot of the Tom King stuff where he was a super spy. [crosstalk 00:53:09]. Yeah, with Tim Seeley working for checkmate and all of that, it was great and it was not Nightwing, but it still worked because he was still inherently himself. And the recreation stuff felt like such a departure that it didn't … it felt like a one-off issue thing where it was like a bummer, but let's get our guy back, and it just lasted for longer. To see him back here being in themself is exciting. Pete:                Yeah. I also liked the Alfred stuff, I thought that was very touching. I'm glad somebody is really dealing with the lost here. Alex:                 And I like the idea also of bringing back KGBs, the person who shot him originally where he lost his memory and building it up as this big, bad villain, foreign Nightwing. I think that's fun, it gives it emotional stakes, ties it into the previous art, but moves it forward in a very nice way. I enjoyed this book. I was very surprised, I'm glad we checked it out. And I think that's it for The Stack, if you'd like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub, also do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out, we would love to chat with you about comics at comic book live on Twitter, iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. 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DC October Solicits New Comics Reviews: Dark Nights: Death Metal 2 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion Shazam: Lightning Strikes 1 by Dan Jurgens, Travis Moore, Nick Filardi Empyre 1 by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia 2020 iWolverine 1 by Larry Hama, Roland Boschi, Andres Mossa Giant Size X-Men: Magneto by Jonathan Hickman, Ramon Perez, David Curiel Bettie Page 1 by Karla Pacheco, Vincenzo Federici, Rebecca Nalty, Becca Carey Engineward 1 by George Mann, Joe Eisma, Michael Garland Sacred Six 1 by Christopher Priest, Gabriel Ibarra, Jae Lee Snake Eyes: Deadgame 1 by Chad Bowers, Rob Liefeld, Corona, Federico Blee Fence: Rivals OGN by CS Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana Lafuente Additional Reviews: Injustice Omnibus vol 1 Old Guard Cleopatra in Space Peacock Camp Spirit Killer Camp News: Comics Industry Updates, DC greenlights Shazam digital first comic, Clone Wars spinoff, Gal Gadot and secret Greg Rucka film adaptation, Bruce Campbell resurrects Adventures of Briscoe County, Tom Taylor's Dark Ages, Rorschach, Usagi Yojimbo to Netflix, Boom/Netflix/Morrison, Noelle Stevenson comes out as non-binary, Noah Centino as Atom Smasher, Madam Satan spin-off, strikeforce cancelled, BRZRKR by Kindt and Keanu Reeves, Hawkeye creative updates, Dynamite and CG, new Chris Evans movie Trailers: Chucky Glenn's instant villain cred theory Comics Countdown: Gideon Falls 23 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart Avengers 34 by Jason Aaron, Javier Garron, Jason Keith Once & Future 9 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen 12 by Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber, Nathan Fairbairn Strange Adventures 3 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Evan Shaner Immortal Hulk 35 by Al Ewing, Mike Hawthorne, Morales, Paul Mounts Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto by Jonathan Hickman, Ramon Perez, David Curiel TMNT 106 by Sophie Campbell, Kevin Eastman, Ronda Pattison, Nelson Daniel Dark Nights: Death Metal 2 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion Captain Marvel 17 by Kelly Thompson, Francesco Manna, Carlos Lopez

Caza Blanca is a spooky babe and a survivor.  Indestructible from a heart attack, heart transplant, stroke, and throat cancer, Caza Blanca is providing tricks and treats to burlesque scenes in Fredericksburg, VA and the surrounding areas.  ...topics: influential monsters, a medical saga, expressing without words, fake fear after real fear, Jack the Ripper, Elizabeth Bathory, the adventures of Herbert and Steve and Max and Wilbur, it's very terrible but... y'know, too dark for the red show, costumes, Lizzie Borden... "that's a messy one as well," Madea and Miss Julie, scary movies, Madam Satan, Marilyn Monroe, Tim Curry, mom's a burlesquer, stigma of a survivor, everything is connected ...shout-outs and acknowledgments:  Deanna Danger, Black Sheet Burlesque, Bella Sin, Madame Anka, Caramel Clavin, Tigger! ...recorded: March 2, 2020 / released on March 16, 2020 ...keep in touch: IG: @cazablancaburlybabe http://www.cazablancaburlesqueartist.com/ https://www.facebook.com/cazablancaburlesque/ ... give love to the pod at patreon.com/weburlesque and see capsule reviews of previous episodes at http://www.weburlesquepodcast.com ... intro/outro music: "On A 45" This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com) ... used with permission ... download it at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Delicious-Cabaret-Explicit-Egress/dp/B005D1GROO ... Check out: Viktor Devonne presents 2 Night Stay at Qhttp://www.2nightstaypod.com ... interlude music: "Dial M" (Twin Musicom) "Spellbound" (Kevin MacLeod) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ .. see us live: http://www.weburlesque.com/upcoming-shows ... follow us: @weburlesque @viktordevonne on instagram and twitter & talk to us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1576 73948280099

"Hell is under new management" In this episode, we discuss in depth the new series of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, available now on Netflix. Though she defeated her father Lucifer in the previous series, the Dark Lord remains trapped within the human prison of her boyfriend, Nick Scratch. Sabrina can't live with herself, knowing that Nick is burning in Hell. So with an assist from her mortal friends, “The Fright Club” (Harvey, Rosalind, and Theo), Sabrina makes it her mission to free him from eternal damnation. However, the Dark Lord's unseating has sent shockwaves through the realms—and, with no on the throne, Sabrina must assume the title of “Queen of Hell” to defend it against a challenger, the Prince of Hell, Caliban. Meanwhile, in Greendale, a mysterious carnival rolls into town, bringing with it a threat to the Spellmans and the coven... A lot of stuff happens in this new series, and Anna is joined by Screen Queenz editor Millicent Thomas to dive deep into how Chilling Adventures of Sabrina fully embraces Hell, paganism, female solidarity and ambition, how maybe Sabrina needs to be single for a while, erasure and the balance of powers. The first part of the conversation won't contain spoilers beyond the first episode, but we will be diving deep into spoiler territory later on in the episode. *** To coincide with our season of films and events, Here Be Witches, we will be focusing this first series on exploring all things witchcraft on film. Each episode, we will dive deep into films and TV shows that we can't necessarily screen. Each episode, we'll be joined with special guests to dissect and discuss a film or show, its legacy and the way witches are represented. Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe Our special guest this episode is Millicent Thomas, find her on @millicentonfilm and @screenqueenz

we talk the history of Archie Horror Comics, starting with Madam Satan in the 1940s and going all the way up to Vampironica

We talk about Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (the comic) #1 and the first ever appearance of Madam Satan. These witches' ethics don't make sense, friends.

On a Hallow's Eve night, when the air is chilled with fright, two friends read a comic that is a spooky, ooky delight! This week we talk about the comic (recently turned Netflix original series) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina in witch we follow a girl named Sabrina and her destiny to become a full witch... or perhap not?! We talk about the absolutely brutal fate that Madam Satan bestows on her "enemies", the bold fashion choice of having skulls for eyes, and this teen witch's seemingly completely neutral moral compass. If you want to listen to the podcast we mentioned about the show that features our past guest Pete LePage, you can find it here! Join the conversation with us on twitter @GothamArcade or send us comments/questions/suggestions at GothamArcade@gmail.com Al’s Social Media: Twitter / Insta T’s Social Media: Insta

This week on the pod, James and Marco are joined by Kaitlin Reilly of the Riverdale Register podcast to talk about the new Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (18:20). Some of us liked it more than others. Marco is obsessed with Madam Satan, James would rather watch a show about Totally Rad Gay Warlock Undertaker Ambrose, and Kaitlin is here for soft boi Harvey Kinkle. Also discussed: a little bit on You and Halloween, and what we’re watching/reading/listening to lately (6:05).

"Madam Satan" starring Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny and Lillian Roth and Roland Young. Kay Johnson stars as a society housewife whose husband is stepping out on her. She attends a masquerade ball on a blimp as ‘Madam Satan’ when disaster strikes. Director: Cecil B. DeMilleCostumes: AdrianStudio: MGMYear: 1932

All good things come to an end and as we conclude our fright-filled Archie-Palooza we look back on a month of satanic surrealism as our dark tale comes to a close with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina part 5; The Trial. Harvey is dead but, Madam Satan makes Sabrina an offer, but just what is her game? What terrible consequences comes with the return of the love of her life? One things for sure. She won't be able to do it alone. It's a Riverdale reunion on this THRILLING and CHILLING conclusion!

We are knee deep in the month of October now and we're getting ready for Sabrina Spellman's sweet sixteen. Candles, cake and blood sacrifices. Sabrina has her unholy baptism to look forward to while trying to balance out her mortal love life. Meanwhile, Madam Satan is weaving her own web in order to catch the teen witch off guard. Will Sabrina face the devil himself and sign her name in his black book? Find out, now!

Episode two of our reading of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina brings us face to horrible face with the mysterious Madam Satan. Who is she? Where does she comes from? What vendetta does she have with Sabrina's parents? Will Sabrina nail her audition for Bye Bye Birdie?! All the answers to these burning questions await you!