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In this episode, Phillip and Eric return to the timely Image Comic series, The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds. Three more volumes have been published from where the duo left out last year, so they dissect the series' examination of institutional power, its unexpected twists and character revelations, and Eric tries to spread the gospel of Dr. Yakub and the white devil race.
En el podcast de esta semana, nos vamos al mundo del terror clásico, con esta nueva adaptación al comic de Drácula, por parte de James Tynion IV y Martin Simmonds. Editado en España por la editorial Moztros. Recordad que podéis ser Fans de nuestro podcast y apóyanos económicamente en Ivoox. Gracias por vuestro apoyo y colaboración.
Comic Reviews: DC o Absolute Power: Task Force VII 6 by Stephanie Williams, Khary Randolph, Ales Guimaraes o Nightwing Uncovered Marvel o Avengers Assemble 1 by Steve Orlando, Cory Smith, Oren Junior, Elisabetta D'Amico, Sonia Oback o Venom War: Wolverine 1 by Tim Seeley, Tony Fleecs, Kev Walker, Java Tartaglia o Wolverine 1 by Saladin Ahmed, Martin Coccolo, Bryan Valenza o Marvel Unlimited § Venom Original Sin by Steve Orlando, Scott Koblish § Alligator Loki 38 by Alyssa Wong, Bob Quinn § Lovable Lockheed 2 by Nathan Stockman Dark Horse o Groo: Minstrel Melodies 1 by Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Carrie Strachan o Midst: The Valorous Farmer 1 by Matt Roen, Sara Wile, Xen of Third Person, Jasmine Walls, Aviv Or, Quinton Winter o Summer Shadows 1 by John Harris Dunning, Ricardo Cabral, Brad Simpson DSTLRY o Time Waits 1 by Chip Zdarsky, David Brothers, Marcus To, Marvin Sianipar, Matt Wilson Image o Dead Eyes: The Empty Frames 1 by Gerry Duggan, John McCrea, Mike Spicer Mad Cave o Dark Empty Void 1 by Zack Kaplan, Chris Shehan, Francesco Segala Dynamite o Red Sonja: Death and the Devil 1 by Luke Lieberman, Alberto Locatelli OGN Countdown o Justice Warriors: Vote Harder by Ben Clarkson, Matt Bors, Felipe Sobreiro o Arty by Penny Schneider o Mr. Smarty Pants: Aww Nuts! by Charity Reid, Astronym o Pencil and Eraser: We Have a Dull-Emma! by Jenny Alvadaro o Vyper: Crimson Dawn by Dan Butcher o Scoop Vol 1 and Vol 2 by Joe Clark, Richard Ashley Hamilton o Shock City by Aaron Alexovich o I Felt Myself Slipping by Ray Nadine Additional Reviews: Lego Star Wars – Rebuild the Galaxy, Baby Reindeer News: John Cassaday and Karl Moline, Norman Reedus reportedly playing Knull in Venom 3, Grant Morrison doing something with Ice Cream Man, Magik solo series, Hellhunters by PKJ and Adam Gorham, Jeffrey Brown Marvel/Scholastic book, Rogue in the Savage Land by Tim Seeley, Soule and Browne announce next project: Lucky Devils, Mickey/FF mashup Longbox 2024 Announcement Trailers: Twilight of the Gods, Salem's Lot, Venom 3, Megalopolis, Flow Comics Countdown (11 September 2024): 1. Department of Truth 25 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 2. Ain't No Grave 4 by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Jean-Francois Beaulieu 3. Time Waits 1 by Chip Zdarsky, David Brothers, Marcus To, Marvin Sianipar, Matt Wilson 4. Green Lantern 15 by Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarin, Oclair Albert, Romulo Fajardo Jr. 5. Fantastic Four 25 by Ryan North, Carlos Gomez, Jesus Aburtov 6. Geiger 6 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson 7. Uncanny X-Men 2 by Gail Simone, David Marquez, Matt Wilson 8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 by Jason Aaron, Rafael Albuquerque, Marcelo Maiolo 9. Space Ghost 5 by David Pepose, Jonathan Lau, Andrew Dalhouse 10. Batman and Robin 13 by Joshua Williamson, Juan Ferreyra
In a few short years, James Tynion IV has become a beacon within comics. When you walk into a shop, you don't have to look long before you stumble upon one of his comics. He's seemingly everywhere, spreading beyond the four color realm, and no matter the title he's attached to, it's worth a perusal. Back in July, at San Diego Comic-Con, we sat down with Tynion inside the Dark Horse Comics booth to discuss the unique collaborative process that birthed The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. The conversation serves as a springboard to more significant topics, primarily the mission of his Tiny Onion label. How does Tynion feel about the industry today, and where would he like to see it go in the future? We discuss Christopher Chaos' origins, his creative relationship with Tate Brombal and Isaac Goodhart, and what this book offers that seemingly similar stories don't. We talk about his recent short film Room Service and why he was compelled to make it alongside Elsa Charretier and others. James Tynion IV is a profoundly passionate artist who'd rather speed up than slow down. Continue this conversation with James Tynion IV by following him on Instagram, Twitter, Substack, and his Website. Other Relevant Links: James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds on CBCC Cecil Castellucci - I Am The Comic Book CBCC at SDCC 2024: Hall H with Bryan Young (Patreon Exclusive) CBCC at SDCC 2024: Gail Simone CBCC at SDCC 2024: Jason Aaron on TMNT #1 CBCC at SDCC 2024: Wes Craig on Kaya CBCC at SDCC 2024: Joey Esposito and Sean Von Gorman on The Pedestrian CBCC at SDCC 2024: Joshua Williamson, Tom King, and Daniel Sampere Go All In CBCC at SDCC 2024: Juni Ba on TMNT: Nightwatcher #1 CBCC at SDCC 2024: Ram V on The New Gods CBCC at SDCC 2024: Mark Waid and Mariko Tamaki CBCC at SDCC 2024: Early Released, Unedited Interviews (Patreon Exclusive) CBCC on Pat Chat - SDCC Hangover CBCC on Bif! Bam! Pow! Brad on Missing Frames, Talking Godzilla Final Round of Plugs (PHEW): Support the Podcast by Joining OUR PATREON COMMUNITY Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, Virginia, on 9/21 at 4:00 PM for Batman Forever, co-sponsored by Four Color Fantasies. Watch the latest episode of The B&B Show, where Brad and Bryan Review the Hottest Cinematic Releases. And, of course, follow Comic Book Couples Counseling on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. Send us your Words of Affirmation by leaving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts. Continue your conversation with CBCC by hopping over to our website, where we have reviews, essays, and numerous interviews with comic book creators. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.
Comic Reviews: DC o Absolute Power: Task Force VII 3 by Jeremy Adams, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto o Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis by Tony Fleecs, Mike Norton, Brad Simpson; Alexis Quasarano, PJ Holden, Rex Lokus; Michael Conrad, Sami Basri, Ivan Plascencia; Dan Watters, Christopher Mitten, Michelle Madsen; Kyle Starks Marvel o Black Widow: Venomous 1 by Erica Schultz, Luciano Vecchio, Rachele Rosenberg, David Curiel o Blood Hunt 5 by Jed MacKay, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, Fer Sufuentes-Sujo o Ms. Marvel Annual by Sabir Pirzada, Iman Vellani, Giada Belviso, Yen Nitro o What If…? Donald Duck Became Wolverine by Luca Barbieri, Giada Perissinotto, Lucio Ruvidotti o X-Force 1 by Geoffrey Thorne, Marcus To, Erick Arciniega o Marvel Unlimited § Cat pool by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam § Mouse pool by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam § Dog pool team up by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam § Dog pool infinity comic 2 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Enid Balam Boom o Firefly ‘Verses 1 by Ryan Parrott, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Francesc Segala o Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Darkest Hour by Melissa Flores, Simona Di Gianfelice, Raul Angulo, Jose Enrique Fernandez Titan o Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus 1 by Kianna Shore, Mellow Brown, Rodolfo Taibo OGN Countdown o Murdervale by Vicente Cifuentes o Ali Cross by Adam Rau, James Robinson, Phillip Tajalle o Nanuche Vol 2: All Hugs, No Bite by Guillaume Bianco, Marie Kerascoet o Cross My Heart and Never Lie and save our forest by Nora Dasnes, Matt Bagguley, Lise Laerdal Bryn o Of Her Own Design by Nicole Adelfinger, Birdie Willis, Jess Taylor, Fiona Marchbank o Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln Additional Reviews: Caped Crusader, MAWS s1, Primos pilot, Dead Boy Detectives s1, Sex Education s1, Trap, Canobie Lake Park News: Omninews, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew launch date, SDCC arrests, Squid Game s2 release date, AI comic nonsense Trailers: Spellbound, Sweet Pea Comics Countdown (31 July 2024): 1. Department of Truth 24 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 2. Ultimate Spider-Man 7 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto, Matt Wilson 3. Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis by Tony Fleecs, Mike Norton, Brad Simpson; Alexis Quasarano, PJ Holden, Rex Lokus; Michael Conrad, Sami Basri, Ivan Plascencia; Dan Watters, Christopher Mitten, Michelle Madsen; Kyle Starks 4. Spider-Man: Shadow of the Green Goblin 4 by J.M. DeMatteis, Michael Sta. Maria, Chris Sotomayor 5. Drawing Blood 4 by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman, Troy Little, Ben Bishop 6. Absolute Power: Task Force VII 3 by Jeremy Adams, Marco Santucci, Arif Prianto 7. Immortal Thor 13 by Al Ewing, Jan Bazaldua, Matt Hollingsworth 8. William of Newbury 3 by Michael Avon Oeming 9. Star Wars: Darth Maul – Black, White, and Red 4 by Greg Pak, Will Sliney, Luca Pizzari, Jay Leisten, Roberto Poggi, Andres Mossa 10. Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider 3 by Stephanie Phillips, Federica Mancin, Paolo Villanelli, Matt Milla
Comic Reviews: DC Absolute Power: Ground Zero 1 by Nicole Maines, Mark Waid, Skylar Patridge, Patricio Delpeche; Chip Zdarsky, Mark Waid, V Ken Marion, Patricio Delpeche; Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov Zatanna: Bring Down the House 1 by Mariko Tamaki, Javier Rodriguez Marvel Giant-Size Little Marvels by Skottie Young, Dax Gordine, Jean-Francois Beaulieu Thanos Annual by Derek Landy, Salvador Larroca, Guru eFX; Derek Landy, Sara Pichelli, Mattia Iacono X-Men: Blood Hunt – Magik by Ashley Allen, Jesus Hervas, Yen Nitro Marvel Unlimited Marvel Mutts 9 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Takeshi Miyazawa Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices by Anthony Oliveira, Carola Borelli Dark Horse Anansi Boys I 1 by Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin, Shawn Martinbrough, Chris Sotomayor Resident Alien: The Book of Life 1 by Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse IDW Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II: Sons of Giants 1 by Frank Tieri, Inaki Miranda Sonic the Hedgehog: Spring Broken! by Josh Trujillo, Adam Bryce Thomas Valiant Ninjak vs. Roku 1 by AJ Ampadu, Emiliano Correa Mad Cave Gatchaman 1 by Cullen Bunn, Chris Batista, Carlos Lopez Gatchaman: Ken – Deathmatch 1 by Tommy Lee Edwards, Mindy Lee, Giada Marchisio OGN Countdown Cyn by Ibrahim Moustafa American Girl: Mysteries Across Time - Julie and the Blue Guitar by Casey Gilly, Felia Hanakata Usagi: 40th Anniversary Reader by Stan Sakai Total Suplex of the Heart by Joanne Starer, Ornella Greco Pale Queen by Ethan Aldridge Additional Reviews: Action Comics by Gail Simone (Superman: Strange Attractors), Spirit World, Oculus, MAWS 2.7, Watching by Cullen Bunn, A Quiet Place: Day One, Knoebels, Acolyte 1.5 News: MCU working closer to Marvel, Omninews, Green Lantern series greenlit from WB, Joe Kelly to take over Amazing, Mystique by Declan Shalvey, Sentinels by Alex Paknadel, Duke creative team relaunching G.I. Joe, Rousey GN by AWA Trailers: Red One, Batman: Caped Crusader, Kite Man: Hell Yeah, Hellboy: The Crooked Man Comics Countdown (26 June 2024): 1. Spectregraph 2 by James Tynion IV, Christian Ward 2. Department of Truth 23 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 3. w0rldtr33 11 by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire 4. Animal Pound 4 by Tom King, Peter Gross, Tamra Bonvillain 5. Rare Flavours 6 by Ram V, Filipe Andrade 6. Superman: Action Comics 1066/Superman 15 by Joshua Williamson, Rafa Sandoval, Miguel Mendonca, Alejandro Sanchez 7. Rook: Exodus 3 by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, Brad Anderson 8. Something is Killing the Children 38 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera 9. William of Newbury 2 by Michael Avon Oeming 10. Penguin 11 by Tom King, Rafael de Latorre, Marcelo Maiolo
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 312 Universal Monsters Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives #3 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters Ram V | Artist(s): Matthew Roberts Dave Stewart | $4.99 Something Is Killing The Children #38 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $3.99 Blue Book 1947 #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): James Tynion Iv | Artist(s):Michael Avon Oeming | $4.99 Feral #4 from Image | Writer(s): Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Trish Forstner ToneRodriguez Brad Simpson | $3.99 Gatchaman #1 from Mad Cave Studios (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Chris Batista $4.99 Project Cryptid #10 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | Artist(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | $3.99 Spectregraph #2 from DSTLRY Media | Writer(s): James Tynion Iv | Artist(s):Christian Ward | $8.99 Neil Gaimans Anansi Boys I #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Neil Gaiman | Artist(s): Shawn Martinbrough | $3.99 Department Of Truth #23 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s):Martin Simmonds | $3.99 w0rldtr33 #11 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Animal Pound #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Peter Gross | $4.99 Project Cryptid #10 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | Artist(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | $3.99 Rare Flavours #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Ram V | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $4.99 Wrong Earth Dead Ringers #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Jamal Igle | $3.99 Redcoat #3 from Image | Writer(s): Geoff Johns | Artist(s): Bryan Hitch Brad Anderson Andrew Currie | $3.99 Today's New Comic Books All The Things We Didnt Do Last Night #1 (One Shot) from Image | Writer(s):Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Local Man #11 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | $3.99 Public Domain #6 from Image | Writer(s): Chip Zdarsky | Artist(s): Chip Zdarsky | $3.99 Radiant Black #29 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins Joe Clark | Artist(s):Marcello Costa Eduardo Ferigato | $3.99 Archie Horror Presents Cursed Library Prelude FCBD 2024 from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Sarah Kuhn | Artist(s): Carola Borelli | $3.99 Barbaric Born In Blood #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Nathan Gooden | $4.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #12 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub | Artist(s): Roberto De La Torre | $3.99 Free Agents #1 from Image Comics (W) Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (A) Stephen Mooney, Triona Farrell $3.99 The Last Mermaid #3 from Image Comics (W/A) Derek Kirk Kim $3.99 Scarlett #2 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Marco Ferrari $3.99 Batman: Li'l Gotham #8 cover dated January 2014 This week's that guy that was in that show is Gene Lyons (Mac Rox) Today our Frenzy Faves is a favorite Twilight Zone episode - A Nice Place to Visit
Branan and Anson broadcast from a rooftop in Toronto accompanied by the soothing sounds of a nearby house renovation. In this Drop: Star Trek set tour, Moondog, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, Emergence Magazine's “Winds of Awe and Fear” by Nick Hunt and Ethernal Damnation's INDXcoin. https://youtu.be/H7Lonjt2CrM And here, as read by Branan, the original apology video posted by Eli Regalado regarding his crypto currency investigation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgCU-OxORo
Dive into literary adventures with Have U Read, the Monthly Book Club brought to you by your pals at UP UP & AWAY! Each month we're shining a spotlight on a fantastic Graphic Novel for the ultimate group read and lively discussion. For June, we're discussing vol. 1 of The Department of Truth by James Tyrion IV and Martin Simmonds. Find Us Online at the Following Outlets Website :: upupandawaycomics.com YouTube :: youtube.com/@upupawaycomics Facebook :: facebook.com/upupaway and facebook.com/uuablueash Instagram :: instagram.com/upupawaycomics Twitter :: twitter.com/upupawaycomics
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 311 Helen Of Wyndhorn #3 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s):Bilquis Evely | $4.99 The One Hand #5 from Image | Writer(s): Ram V | Artist(s): Laurence Campbell Lee Loughridge | $3.99 Uncanny Valley #3 from BOOM! Studios (W) Tony Fleecs (A) Dave Wachter $4.99 Blow Away #3 from BOOM! Studios (W) Zac Thompson (A) Nicola Izzo $4.99 Archie Comics Judgment Day #2 from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Aubrey Sitterson | Artist(s): Meghan Hutchinson | $4.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #22 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Don Glut | Artist(s): Others | $6.99 House Of Slaughter #24 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Antonio Fuso | $3.99 Mans Best #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Pornsak Pichetshote | Artist(s): Jesse Lonergan | $4.99 Destro #1 from Image Comics (W) Dan Watters (A) Andrei Bressan $4.99 Gun Honey: Collision Course #2 from Titan Comics (W) Charles Ardai (A) Ang Hor Kheng $4.99 Today's Comic Books Blue Book 1947 #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): James Tynion Iv | Artist(s):Michael Avon Oeming | $4.99 Neil Gaimans Anansi Boys I #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Neil Gaiman | Artist(s): Shawn Martinbrough | $3.99 Department Of Truth #23 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s):Martin Simmonds | $3.99 Image Firsts Little Bird #1 from Image | Writer(s): Darcy Van Poelgeest | Artist(s): Ian Bertram | $1.00 Universal Monsters Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives #3 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters Ram V | Artist(s): Matthew Roberts Dave Stewart | $4.99 w0rldtr33 #11 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Animal Pound #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Peter Gross | $4.99 Project Cryptid #10 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | Artist(s): Carol Lay Atagun Ilhan | $3.99 Rare Flavours #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Ram V | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $4.99 Something Is Killing The Children #38 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $3.99 Wrong Earth Dead Ringers #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Jamal Igle | $3.99 Feral #4 from Image | Writer(s): Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Trish Forstner ToneRodriguez Brad Simpson | $3.99 Gatchaman #1 from Mad Cave Studios (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Chris Batista $4.99 Redcoat #3 from Image | Writer(s): Geoff Johns | Artist(s): Bryan Hitch Brad Anderson Andrew Currie | $3.99 Spectregraph #2 from DSTLRY Media | Writer(s): James Tynion Iv | Artist(s):Christian Ward | $8.99 What If #26 V1 cover dated April 1981 This week's that guy that was in that show is Donald Sutherland Favorite Twilight Zone episode: A Piano in the House, Season 3 Episode 22, Original air date February 16, 1962
The Gill-man just does it for us. Or Lisa, more specifically. You can have your Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man, and Invisible Man; we'll take the wet and wild one off your hands any day of the week. Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! And no more ravishingly than in our hearts. Where other Universal Monsters stem from rich, lurid literature and folklore, the Creature is a far more contemporary cat...er, fish. His origins are chained to the 1954 film, its few sequels, and the morality of that brief timeline. While we've seen artists offer some spins on the design here and there, for the most part, it's been a long time since anyone's properly played in the Creature's intoxicating fish tank. As part of Skybound Entertainment and Universal's recent partnership, writers Ram V and Dan Watters (The One Hand, The Six Fingers), along with artist Matthew Roberts, colorist Dave Stewart, and letterer DC Hopkins, continue the Gill-man's saga, some indeterminate time after the movie climaxed. Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! begins with a journalist tracking a serial killer to the Amazon. We're so darn pleased to have Ram V and Dan Watters on the show this week, talking about Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives!, what the Gill-man represents culturally and thematically, and why we have a Kate this time around and not a Kay. Also, which Universal Monster is the most sexy? We get into it whether anyone else wants to or not. The first two issues of Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! are currently available from Skybound. The third issue will land in comic shops on June 26th. To continue this conversation with Ram V, follow his Twitter, Instagram, and Website. To keep chatting with Dan Watters, follow his Twitter and Instagram. As always, Omnibus, the Digital Comic Store and Reader, sponsors our Referrals segment. This week, we selected two comic book titles on the site that satisfy this episode's themes. We won't spoil what they are here, but if you click the links below, you'll be immediately escorted to those books. Brad's Referral Lisa's Referral Other Relevant Links: James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds on Dracula Pots and Panels: A Comic Cook Book Anthology Final Round of Plugs (PHEW): Support the Podcast by Joining OUR PATREON COMMUNITY Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, Virginia, on 5/19 at 4:00 PM for our Green Lantern screening, co-sponsored by Four Color Fantasies. Watch the latest episode of The B&B Show, where Brad and Bryan Review the Hottest Cinematic Releases. And, of course, follow Comic Book Couples Counseling on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. Send us your Words of Affirmation by leaving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts. Continue your conversation with CBCC by hopping over to our website, where we have reviews, essays, and numerous interviews with comic book creators. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 307 Archie Comics Judgment Day #1 from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Aubrey Sitterson | Artist(s): Meghan Hutchinson | $4.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #11 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub | Artist(s):Roberto De La Torre | $3.99 Something Is Killing The Children #37 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $3.99 White Boat #1 from DSTRLY (W) Scott Snyder (A) Francesco Francavilla $8.99 Blue Book 1947 #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): James Tynion Iv | Artist(s):Michael Avon Oeming | $4.99 Feral #3 from Image | Writer(s): Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Trish Forstner Tone Rodriguez Brad Simpson | $3.99 Blow Away #2 from BOOM! Studios (W) Zac Thompson (A) Nicola Izzo $4.99 Local Man #10 from Image | Writer(s): Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | Artist(s): Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | $3.99 Mans Best #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Pornsak Pichetshote | Artist(s):Jesse Lonergan | $4.99 Wrong Earth Dead Ringers #2 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Jamal Igle | $3.99 Void Rivals #9 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99 This Week's Comic Books Count Crowley Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): David Dastmalchian | Artist(s): Lukas Ketner | $4.99 Godzilla Mechagodzilla 50th Anniversary Special #1 (One Shot) from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Andrew Griffith | $6.99 The Six Fingers #4 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): SumitKumar Lee Loughridge | $3.99 Universal Monsters Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives #2 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters Ram V | Artist(s): Matthew Roberts Dave Stewart | $4.99 Beyond Real #4 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Zack Kaplan | Artist(s): Jorge Corona | $4.99 Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World #15 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jason Aaron | Artist(s): Nick Dragotta | $4.99 Project Cryptid #9 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Alisa Kwitney | Artist(s):Mauricet | $3.99 Death Ratiod from AWA (W) Mark Russell (A) Laci $6.99 Pine & Merrimac #5 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kyle Starks (A/) Fran Galan $4.99 Worldtree #10 from Image Comics (W) James Tynion Iv (A) Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire $3.99 Image Firsts Department Of Truth #1 from Image | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $1.00 Image Firsts Geiger #1 from Image | Writer(s): Geoff Johns | Artist(s): Gary Frank | $1.00 Image Firsts Gideon Falls #1 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s):Andrea Sorrentino | $1.00 Image Firsts Hack Slash #1 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley | Artist(s): TimSeeley | $1.00 Image Firsts I Hate Fairyland #1 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s): Skottie Young | $1.00 Image Firsts Ice Cream Man #1 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo | $1.00 Image Firsts Middlewest #1 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s):Jorge Corona | $1.00 Image Firsts Paper Girls #1 from Image | Writer(s): Brian K. Vaughan | Artist(s): Cliff Chiang | $1.00 Image Firsts Stray Dogs #1 from Image | Writer(s): Tony Fleecs Trish Forstner | Artist(s): Tony Fleecs Trish Forstner | $1.00 Image Firsts w0rldtr33 #1 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s):Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $1.0 Chris' Comics Corner - Incredible Hulk #189 cover dated July 1975; cover price 25 cents This week's that guy that was in that show is Sorrell Booke Favorite Twilight Zone episode - The After Hours
April 2024 Solicitations (remaining) Comic Reviews: DC Titans: Beast World Tour – Star City 1 by Joshua Williamson, Jamal Campbell; Ryan Parrott, Roger Cruz, Adriano Lucas; Robert Venditti, Gavin Guidry, Alex Guimaraes; Brandt and Stein Aquaman: Through Fire and Water by Ethan Sacks, Tom Derenick, Hi-Fi Marvel Power Pack: Into the Storm 1 by Louise Simonson, June Brigman, Roy Richardson, Nolan Woodard Resurrection of Magneto 1 by Al Ewing, Luciano Vecchio, David Curiel Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances 1 by Timothy Zahn, Jody Houser, Pat Olliffe, Andrea Di Vito, Rachelle Rosenberg Marvel Unlimited Alligator Loki 33 by Alyssa Wong, Robert Quinn Image Ghost Machine 1 by Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Snejberg, Peter Tomasi, Maytal Zchut, Brad Anderson IDW Dungeons and Dragons: Saturday Morning Adventures II 1 by David Booher, George Kambadais, John-Paul Bove Star Trek Defiant Annual 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Ramon Rosanas, Lee Loughridge Dynamite Justice Ducks 1 by Roger Langridge, Carlo Lauro ComiXology Astonishing Times: Rise of the Kokin by Frank Barbiere, Arris Quinones, Ruairi Coleman, Andrew Cramer OGNs In Utero by Chris Gooch Death Strikes: Emperor of Atlantis by Peter Kim, Viktor Ullman, Dave Maass, Patrick Lay Racc Pack by Stephanie Cooke, Whitner Gardner Additional Reviews: Queen and Country News: Maxx movie with Channing Tatum, Invincible returns 14 March, details for Aaron's TMNT, Oscar nominations, Wilson Bethel returning as Bullseye, WWE coming to Netflix, Doctor Who news, USS Callister Black Mirror spin-off, Steve Orlando and Jim Krueger to start new publisher, Omninews, Doug Jones Rogue Trooper adaption, Thunderbolts/Supergirl casting updates Trailers: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Despicable Me 4 Comics Countdown (23 Jan 2024): 1. Bone Orchard Mythos: Tenement 8 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart 2. In Utero GN by Chris Gooch 3. Penguin 6 by Tom King, Stevan Subic, Marcelo Maiolo 4. Immortal Thor 6 by Al Ewing, Martin Coccolo, Matt Wilson 5. Universal Monsters: Dracula 4 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 6. Detective Comics 1081 by Ram V, Stefano Raffaele, Riccardo Federici, Lee Loughridge 7. Superior Spider-Man 3 by Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Joe Caramagna, Edgar Delgado 8. Newburn 14 by Chip Zdarsky, Jacob Phillips, Pip Martin 9. Holy Roller 3 by Rick Remender, Joe Trohman, Andy Samberg, Roland Boschi, Moreno DiNisio 10. Batman: Brave and the Bold 9 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Kyle Starks, Fernando Pasarin, Oclair Albert, Wade Von Grawbadger, Matt Herms, Gabriel Hardman, Matt Hollingsworth, Bruno Redondo
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 290 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #8 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #4 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Ghost Machine #1 from Image Comics (W) Geoff JohnsPeter J. Tomasi, Brad Meltzer, Lamont Magee, Maytal Zchut (A) Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Jason Fabok, Francis Manapul $4.99 Project Cryptid #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Melissa F. Olson Various | Artist(s): Lane Lloyd Gene Ha | $3.99 Nasty #6 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): John Lees | Artist(s): Adam Cahoon | $4.99 Shudder Magazine #15 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Don Glut Various | Artist(s): Various | $6.99 Void Rivals #6 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Lorenzo De Felici Matheus Lopes | $3.99 Deer Editor #1 from Mad Cave Studios | Writer(s): Ryan Lindsay | Artist(s): Sami Kivela | $4.99 Midnight Western Theatre Witch Trial #5 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Louis Southard | Artist(s): Butch K. Mapa | $4.99 Nightfall Double Feature #4 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Tim Daniel Various | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Maan House | $7.99 Wednesday's Books Local Man #9 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | $3.99 w0rldtr33 #7 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 House Of Slaughter #20 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sam Johns | Artist(s):Letizia Cadonici | $3.99 Somna A Bedtime Story #2 from DSTLRY Media | Writer(s): Becky Cloonan Tula Lotay | Artist(s): Becky Cloonan | $8.99 Moon Man #1 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins, Scott Kid Cudi Mescudi (A) Marco Locati $3.99 Rumpus Room #5 from AWA (W) Mark Russell (A) Ramon Rosanas $3.99 Chris' Comics Corner Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 - 1964 This week's that guy that was in that show is Leo Gordon Today our Frenzy Faves are favorite Favorite Odd Couple Episodes,
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 289 Creepshow Vol 2 #5 from Image | Writer(s): Saladin Ahmed DB Andry and Tim Daniels | Artist(s): Artyom Topilin Matthew Roberts | $3.99 Phantom Road #8 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Gabriel Hernandez Walta Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 The Deviant #3 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Joshua Hixson | $3.99 Cobra Commander #1 from Image Comics (W) Joshua Williamson (A) Andrea Milana, Annalisa Leoni $4.99 Whats The Furthest Place From Here #17 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | $3.99 Colonized Zombies vs Aliens #1 (One-Shot) from Image | Writer(s): Chris Ryall | Artist(s): Drew Moss | $9.99 Weatherman Vol 3 #1 from Image | Writer(s): Jody LeHeup | Artist(s): Nathan Fox | $3.99 BRZRKR Fallen Empire #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Mattson Tomlin Keanu Reeves | Artist(s): Rebekah Isaacs | $9.99 Today's Comic Books Nasty #6 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): John Lees | Artist(s): Adam Cahoon | $4.99 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #8 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #4 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Void Rivals #6 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Lorenzo De Felici Matheus Lopes | $3.99 Deer Editor #1 from Mad Cave Studios | Writer(s): Ryan Lindsay | Artist(s): Sami Kivela | $4.99 Midnight Western Theatre Witch Trial #5 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Louis Southard | Artist(s): Butch K. Mapa | $4.99 Nightfall Double Feature #4 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Tim Daniel Various | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Maan House | $7.99 Project Cryptid #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Melissa F. Olson Various | Artist(s): Lane Lloyd Gene Ha | $3.99 Rumpus Room #5 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Mark Russell |Artist(s): Ramon Rosanas | $3.99 Shudder Magazine #15 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Don Glut Various | Artist(s): Various | $6.99 Ghost Machine #1 from Image Comics (W) Geoff JohnsPeter J. Tomasi, Brad Meltzer, Lamont Magee, Maytal Zchut (A) Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Jason Fabok, Francis Manapul $4.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is James Gregory Today our Frenzy Faves are favorite Album Sides
2023 Stewies! Year-End Extravaganza! Comic Reviews: DC Action Comics Annual 2023 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Max Raynor, Matt Herms Marvel Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu: Gang War 1 by Greg Pak, Caio Majado, Jim Campbell Timeless 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Juann Cabal, Edgar Delgado Marvel Unlimited Alligator Loki 29 by Alyssa Wong, Robert Quinn Marvel Mutts 5 by Mackenzie Cadenhead, Takeshi Miyazawa Image Duke 1 by Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly, Jordie Bellaire Boom Book of Butcher 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Miquel Muerto Scout Vectors 1 by Timothy Bacon, Grant Fraggalosch, Ruben Gil OGNs Pickhead Vol 2 Hominid of the Hills by Frederic Brremaud, Giovanni Rigano Many Lives of Charlie by Kid Toussaint, Aurelie Guarino Kickstarter No Moderation by Elizabeth Brei, Meaghan Carter Additional Reviews: Migration, Bear s2, Ghost and Molly McGee s2, Hailey's On It s1, Space Between the Trees, Mooncakes, If It Bleeds, Pokemon Concierge, Invincible s2.1, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, What If…? s2, Asteroid City, Holdovers, Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, Santa Clauses s2 News: Ram V leaving Detective Comics mid-2024, What If…? s3 announced, Mickey enters public domain Comics Countdown (26 Dec 2023): 1. Bone Orchard Mythos: Tenement 7 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart 2. w0rldtr33 6 by James Tynion IV, Jordie Bellaire, Fernando Blanco 3. Alan Scott: Green Lantern 3 by Tim Sheridan, Cian Tormey, Chris Sotomayor, Matt Herms 4. Action Comics Annual 2023 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Max Raynor, Matt Herms 5. Penguin 5 by Tom King, Rafael de Latorre, Marcelo Maiolo 6. Holy Roller 2 by Rick Remender, Joe Trohman, Andy Samberg, Roland Boschi, Moreno DiNisio 7. Universal Monsters: Dracula 3 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 8. Sandman Universe Nightmare Country: Glass House 6 by James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche 9. Detective Comics 1080 by Ram V, Mike Perkins, Jason Shawn Alexander, Dave Stewart 10. Green Arrow 7 by Joshua Williamson, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Trevor Hairsine, Romulo Fajardo Jr
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 286 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #7 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #3 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 The Holy Roller #2 from Image Comics (W) Andy Samberg, Rick Remender, Joe Trohman (A) Roland Boschi $3.99 Local Man #8 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s):Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | $3.99 w0rldtr33 #6 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Book Of Butcher #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $9.99 Midnight Western Theatre Witch Trial #3 from Scout Comics | Writer(s):Louis Southard | Artist(s): Butch K. Mapa | $4.99 No/One #7 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato (A) Geraldo Borges $3.99 Books this week Midnite Show #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Brian Hurtt | $3.99 Love Everlasting #11 from Image | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Elsa Charretier | $3.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #6 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub | Artist(s): Doug Braithwaite | $3.99 Ghostlore #7 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Leomacs | $4.99 Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World #11 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jason Aaron | Artist(s): Nick Dragotta | $4.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is Mona Freeman Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite candy bars
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 285 The Deviant #2 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s):Joshua Hixson | $3.99 Animal Pound #1 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Peter Gross | $4.99 Project Cryptid #4 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Liana Kangas Various | Artist(s): Salomee Luce-Antionette Ted & Ro | $3.99 Plot Holes #5 from Massive (W/A) Sean Gordon Murphy $4.99 Rumpus Room #4 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Ramon Rosanas | $3.99 Hunt For The Skinwalker #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Zac Thompson | Artist(s): Valeria Burzo | $4.99 Creepshow Vol 2 #4 from Image | Writer(s): Nick Dragotta Alisa Kwitney | Artist(s): Nick Dragotta Mauricet | $3.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #19 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Don Glut Various | Artist(s): Various | $6.99 Borealis #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Mark Verheiden Aaron Douglas | Artist(s): Cliff Richards | $3.99 Rare Flavours #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Ram V. | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $4.99 Geiger Ground Zero #2 from Image Comics (W) Geoff Johns (A) Gary Frank $4.99 Today's Comic Books Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #7 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Local Man #8 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s):Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #3 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 w0rldtr33 #6 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Book Of Butcher #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $9.99 Midnight Western Theatre Witch Trial #3 from Scout Comics | Writer(s):Louis Southard | Artist(s): Butch K. Mapa | $4.99 The Holy Roller #2 from Image Comics (W) Andy Samberg, Rick Remender, Joe Trohman (A) Roland Boschi $3.99 No/One #7 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato (A) Geraldo Borges $3.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is Roddy McDowell Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite bad movies we love
Comic Reviews: DC Batman Off-World 1 by Jason Aaron, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, David Baron Harley Quinn: Black, White, and Redder 5 by Mat Lopes, Bilquis Evely, Justin Halpern, Katherine Lobo, Speremint Marvel Carnage 1 by Torunn Gronbekk, Pere Perez, Erick Arciniega Daredevil: Black Armor 1 by D.G. Chichester, Netho Diaz, JP Mayer, Andrew Dalhouse Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Battleworld 1 by Tom DeFalco, Pat Olliffe, John Kalisz Marvel Unlimited It's Jeff 30 by Kelly Thompson, Nao Fuji Image Holy Roller 1 by Rick Remender, Andy Samberg, Joe Trohman, Roland Boschi, Moreno Dinisio Dark Horse Lunar Lodge 1 by Tyler Marceca, Mirko Colak, Bryan Valenza Mortal Terror 1 by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Bergting, Chris O'Halloran Mad Cave Edenfrost 1 by Amit Tishler, Bruno Frenda, Taylor Esposito Archie Darkling 1 by Sarah Kuhn, Carola Borelli, Ellie Wright Oni Faceless and the Family 1 by Matt Lesniewski Titan Forgotten Runes: Wizard's Cult 1 by Joe Rechthman, Reilly Brown OGNs Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp, Sylvia Bi Planeta Blu Rise of Agoo by Tem Blessed, Mike Lariccia Chunky by Yehudi Mercado Chunky Goes To Camp by Yehudi Mercado Additional Reviews: Wish, Leo, Scott Pilgrim, Blood Cruise, Tales from the Tardis, Doctor Who, Daphne Byrne, Tellos Saga News: Jimmy Olsen cast, Scream 7 shakeup, Guillem March reviving Penthouse Comics, second seasons on the way for Ms. Marvel/She-Hulk/Moon Knight, Avengers Inc ending with #5 Comics Countdown (21 Nov 2023): 1. Bone Orchard Mythos: Tenement 6 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart 2. Batman Off-World 1 by by Jason Aaron, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, David Baron 3. Wonder Woman 3 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, Tomeu Morey, Belen Ortega, Alejandro Sanchez 4. Ink Girls GN by Marieke Nijkamp, Sylvia Bi 5. Jay Garrick: Flash 2 by Jeremy Adams, Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero 6. Universal Monsters: Dracula 2 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 7. Black Hammer: The End 4 by Jeff Lemire, Malachi Ward 8. Holy Roller 1 by by Rick Remender, Andy Samberg, Joe Trohman, Roland Boschi, Moreno Dinisio 9. Superman 8 by Joshua Williamson, David Baldeon, Gleb Melnikov, Jamal Campbell, Norm Rapmund, Alejandro Sanchez 10. Justice Society of America 7 by Geoff Johns, Marco Santucci, Ivan Plascencia
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 281 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #6 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s):Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #2 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Somna A Bedtime Story #1 from DSTLRY Media | Writer(s): Becky Cloonan Tula Lotay | Artist(s): Becky Cloonan Tula Lotay | $8.99 Darkling #1 from Archie Comics (W) Sarah Kuhn (A) Carola Borelli $3.99 Holy Roller #1 from Image | Writer(s): Rick Remender Andy Samberg JoeTrohman | Artist(s): Roland Boschi | $3.99 Rumpus Room #3 of 5 from AWA (W) Mark Russell (A) Ramon Rosanas $3.99 Lunar Lodge #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tyler Marceca | Artist(s): Mirko Colak | $3.99 Brynmore #5 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Steve Niles | Artist(s): Damien Worm | $3.99 Mortal Terror #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Christopher Golden Tim Lebbon | Artist(s): Peter Bergting | $4.99 Hack Slash Back To School #2 from Image | Writer(s): Zoe Thorogood | Artist(s):Zoe Thorogood | $3.99 Radiant Black #26 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins Joe Clark | Artist(s):Marcello Costa Eduardo Ferigato | $3.99 Con & On #5 from Ahoy Comics| Writer(s): Paul Cornell | Artist(s): Marika Cresta | $3.99 Plot Holes #4 of 5 from Massive/What Not (W/A Sean Gordon Murphy) $3.99 Void Rivals #6 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99 Morning Star #1 (coming in March) from Mad Cave Studio (W) David Andry (A) Daniel, Finnegan, Wordie, Birch Today's Books Dark Spaces Halloween Comic Trick-Or-Read 2023 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Scott Snyder | Artist(s): Various | $3.99 Crave #1 from Image | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Local Man #7 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | $3.99 Swan Songs #5 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Alex Eckman-Lawn | $3.99 Whats The Furthest Place From Here #16 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | $3.99 Barbaric Wrong Kind Of Righteous #1 (One Shot) from Vault Comics | Writer(s):Michael Moreci Nicholas Eames | Artist(s): Julius Ohta | $6.99 BRZRKR Fallen Empire #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Mattson Tomlin Keanu Reeves | Artist(s): Rebekah Isaacs | $9.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #5 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub | Artist(s):Roberto de la Torre Dean White | $3.99 Grim #15 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips | Artist(s): Flaviano | $3.99 Something Is Killing The Children #35 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $3.99 Fire Power #29 from Image (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Chris Samnee $3.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is Anthony Dawson This week's Frenzy Faves are Favorite Fictional Detectives
The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 280 The Deviant #1 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Joshua Hixson | $5.99 Project Cryptid #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Bryce Ingman Paul Constant | Artist(s): Peter Krause | $3.99 Big Game #5 from Image Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Pepe Larraz $7.99 Animal Pound Ashcan #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Peter Gross | $2.99 Rocketeer in the Den of Thieves #4 from IDW (W) Stephen Mooney (A) David Messina $4.99 Fishflies #3 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Jeff Lemire | $5.99 Door To Door Night from Night #7 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $6.99 The Cull #4 from Image | Writer(s): Kelly Thompson | Artist(s): Mattia De Iulis | $3.99 Shudder Magazine #14 from Warrant Publishing. Various artists and writers Oddly Pedestrian Life Of Christopher Chaos #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tate Brombal Nick Robles | Artist(s): Isaac Goodhart | $4.99 Eerie Archives Vol 2 TP from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Archie Goodwin | Artist(s):Various | $24.99 A Haunted Girl #2 from Image | Writer(s): Ethan Sacks Naomi Sacks | Artist(s):Marco Lorenzano | $4.99 Geiger Ground Zero #1 from Image | Writer(s): Geoff Johns | Artist(s): Gary Frank | $3.99 Rumpus Room #3 from AWA| Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Ramon Rosanas | $3.99 The Madness #4 of 6 from AWA (W) J. Michael Stryczinski (A) Aco $3.99 Wednesday Books Lunar Lodge #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tyler Marceca | Artist(s): Mirko Colak | $3.99 Mortal Terror #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Christopher Golden Tim Lebbon | Artist(s): Peter Bergting | $4.99 Brynmore #5 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Steve Niles | Artist(s): Damien Worm | $3.99 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #6 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s):Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Hack Slash Back To School #2 from Image | Writer(s): Zoe Thorogood | Artist(s):Zoe Thorogood | $3.99 Holy Roller #1 from Image | Writer(s): Rick Remender Andy Samberg JoeTrohman | Artist(s): Roland Boschi | $3.99 Radiant Black #26 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins Joe Clark | Artist(s):Marcello Costa Eduardo Ferigato | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #2 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Con & On #5 from Ahoy Comics| Writer(s): Paul Cornell | Artist(s): Marika Cresta | $3.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #3 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub | Artist(s):Roberto de la Torre Dean White | $3.99 Somna A Bedtime Story #1 from DSTLRY Media | Writer(s): Becky Cloonan Tula Lotay | Artist(s): Becky Cloonan Tula Lotay | $8.99 Darkling #1 from Archie Comics (W) Sarah Kuhn (A) Carola Borelli $3.99 Plot Holes #4 of 5 from Massive/What Not (W/A Sean Gordon Murphy) $3.99 Void Rivals #6 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is James Olson Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite Thanksgiving foods
Comic Reviews: DC Alan Scott: Green Lantern 1 by Tim Sheridan, Cian Tormey, Matt Herms Amazons Attack 1 by Josie Campbell, Vasco Georgiev, Alex Guimaraes Tales of the Titans (starring Beast Boy) 4 by Andrew Constant, Brandt, Stein, Lee Loughridge Marvel Captain Marvel 1 by Alyssa Wong, Jan Bazaldua, Bryan Valenza Hallows' Eve: The Big Night 1 by Erica Schultz, Michael Dowling, Brian Reber Marvel Zombies: Black, White, and Blood 1 by Garth Ennis, Rachael Stott, Alex Segura, Javi Fernandez, Ashley Allen, Justin Mason Marvel Unlimited It's Jeff 26 by Kelly Thompson, GuriHiru Image Edenwood 1 by Tony Daniel, Jay David Ramos Paladin of Axes 1 by Gerry Duggan, David O'Sullivan Universal Monsters: Dracula 1 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds IDW Dark Spaces: Dungeon 1 by Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Patricio Delpeche Dark Horse Drive Like Hell 1 by Rich Douek, Alex Cormack Giant Robot Hellboy by Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart Ablaze Prism 1 by Matteo de Longis Saint Seiya: Nights of the Zodiac: Time Odyssey 1 by Masami Kurumada, Arnaud Dollen, Jerome Alquie Ahoy Wrong Earth: We Could Be Heroes 1 by Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, Lee Loughridge OGNs Super Boba Café by Nidhi Chanani Secret of Camp Whatever Vol 3: The Witching Hour by Chris Grine What if We Were Vol 2 by Axelle Lenoir Whisper of the Woods by Ennun Ana Iurov Asterios the Minotaur by Serge Le Tendre, Frederic Peynet Astro City Metrobook Vol 4 Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms by Rey Terciero, Megan Kearney Additional Reviews: Loki s2e4, Joe Hill's Rain adaptation, Five Nights at Freddy's, Amazing Digital Circus, Lego Avengers: Code Red News: Rian Gonzales, Rebel Moon prequel comics, Star Wars OGNs from Dark Horse beginning with Qui Gonn, new Flanagan movie, new Spider-Verse comic mini details, Fantastic Beasts officially scrapped, Hickman Ultimate Spider-Man details, new Image series by Ram V and Dan Watters, new Daredevil showrunners, Omninews, Hill House closing down, Whoniverse and Tales from the Tardis, It Follows sequel (They Follow) Trailers: Lisa Frankenstein, Argyle Longbox of Horror Part 4: Resident Evil Comics Countdown (24 Oct 2023): 1. Radiant Black 26 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Eduardo Ferigato, Raul Angulo 2. Universal Monsters: Dracula 1 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds 3. Dark Spaces: Dungeon 1 by Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Patricio Delpeche 4. Wonder Woman 2 by Josie Campbell, Vasco Georgiev, Alex Guimaraes 5. Penguin 3 by Tom King, Rafael de Latorre, Marcelo Maiolo 6. Ice Cream Man 37 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran 7. Black Hammer: The End 3 by Jeff Lemire, Malachi Ward 8. Rare Flavours 2 by Ram V, Filipe Andrade 9. Detective Comics 1075 by Ram V, Francesco Francavilla 10. Action Comics 1058 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Rafa Sandoval, Matt Herms
Image-O-Rama: Universal Monsters: Dracula #1 by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, Edenwood #1 by Tony S. Daniel and Jay David Ramos from Image, #DRCL: Midnight Children Volume 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto from Viz, World's Finest, Alan Scott: Green Lantern #1, M. S. Harkness-O-Rama: Six Mini-Comics and Time Under Tension, Todd McFarlane, Operation Sunshine Volume #1 by Henry Zabrowski, Marcus Parks, and David Rubin from Dark Horse, Spider-Gwen, Western-O-Rama: The Enfield Gang Massacre and Canary, plus a whole mess more!
Universal Monsters Dracula #1 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV |Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Something Is Killing The Children #34 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World #10 from BOOM! Studios |Writer(s): Jason Aaron | Artist(s): Leila Del Duca Nick Dragotta | $4.99 Conan the Barbarian #4 from Titan Comics (W) Jim Zub (A) Roberto de la Torre, Dean White $3.99 Fire Power #28 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Chris Samnee Matthew Wilson | $3.99 Rumpus Room #2 of 5 from AWA (W) Mark Russell (A) Ramon Rosanas $3.99 Brynmore #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Steve Niles | Artist(s): Damien Worm | $3.99 Ice Cream Man #37 from Image | Writer(s): W Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo Chris O Halloran | $3.99 Purr Evil #3 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Laura Braga | $3.99 Drive Like Hell #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Alex Cormack | $3.99 Lonesome Hunters The Wolf Child #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tyler Crook |Artist(s): Tyler Crook | $3.99 Dark Spaces Dungeon #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Scott Snyder | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $4.99 I Hate Fairyland Vol 2 #10 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s): Brett Bean | $3.99 Radiant Black #26.5 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins Joe Clark | Artist(s):Marcello Costa Eduardo Ferigato | $3.99 Whats The Furthest Place From Here #15 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | $3.99 Blacks Myth Key To His Heart #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Eric Palicki |Artist(s): Wendell Cavalcanti | $3.99 Rare Flavours #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): V Ram | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $4.99 Wrong Earth We Could Be Heroes #1 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Jamal Igle Juan Castro | $3.99 Edenwood #1 from Image Comics (W) Tony Daniel (A) Tony Daniel $3.99 Gone #1 from DSTLRY (Distillery) (W/A) Jock $8.99 Plot Holes #3 from Massive (W/A) Sean Gordon Murphy $3.99 Void Rivals #5 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99 This week Midnite Show #2 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Brian Hurtt | $3.99 Unbelievable Unfortunately Mostly Unreadable And Nearly Unpublishable Untold Tales Of I Hate Fairyland #5 from Image | Writer(s): Scott Brown David Delgrosso | Artist(s): Scott Brown Derek Laufman | $3.99 Ghostlore #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Leomacs | $4.99 Hard Case Crime Heat Seeker A Gun Honey Series #4 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Charles Ardai | Artist(s): Ace Continuado | $3.99 Midnight Western Theatre Witch Trial #2 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Louis Southard | Artist(s): Butch K Mapa | $4.99 Nasty #4 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): John Lees | Artist(s): George Kambadais Adam Cahoon | $4.99 Unnatural Order #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Chris Yost | Artist(s): Val Rodrigues | $4.99 Count Dante #4 from Scout Comics (W) J.C. Barbour (A) Wes Watson $4.99 No/One #6 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato (A) Geraldo Borges $3.99 The Space Between #1 from BOOM! Studios (W) Corinna Bechko (A) Danny Luckert $4.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is Leonard Stone Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite Star Trek TOS Guest Characters
Dracula doesn't suck. I'm sorry to start off with a pun about vampires but not really. Skybound has been killing it recently with getting huge IP comics with incredible creative teams. When they announced that they had the licenses for the Universal Monsters, I almost had to pick my jaw off the floor. But when they said James Tynion and Martin Simmonds were going to be unearthing Dracula, my jaw did hit the floor. You may know the team from their incredible series The Department of Truth where they tackle all sorts of conspiracy and cryptids. But now this dynamic duo has moved onto telling their version of the story about the biggest vampire of all time in spectacular fashion. I had the chance to chat with them about opening up the tomb of Dracula to adapt the story for comics. Dracula is a showcase of why horror thrives in comics. Tynion's masterful scripting is on display in this issue with some truly incredible scenes to introduce us to the characters. Some of the dialogue had me giggling, which is very important to me in a comic. I have read most horror comics that have come out in the last few years and I was shocked how much I was flipping through this issue of a story I knew very well over and over. Tynion brings a unique flair to everything he works on and this is no exception. But as you'll hear in this interview, Martin Simmonds design and color palette take Dracula to a higher plane. There is a masterful use of sepia tones to emulate the black and white nature of the film itself but with vibrant thematic splashes of red through the issue. The design and emotional displays from Renfield are some of the strongest artistic elements I've seen in a horror comic. The use of Dracula's eyes in the story drives home the power of the vampire which we get into Simmond's artistic inspirations about in this interview. We discuss both the colors and the character designs at length in this interview about their Dracula series.
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s):Patrick Horvath | Artist(s): Patrick Horvath | $3.99 KLIK KLIK BOOM #5 from Image | Writer(s): Doug Wagner | Artist(s): Douglas Dabbs Matt Wilson | $3.99 Fear The Funhouse Presents Toybox Of Terror #1 (One Shot) from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Timmy Heague Various | Artist(s): Ryan Caskey Various | $3.99 Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement #5 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $3.99 Big Game #4 from Image Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Pepe Larraz $3.99 The Madness #3 of 6 from AWA (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A) ACO, David Lorenzo $3.99 Swan Songs #4 from Image | Writer(s): W Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $3.99 Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 #1 (One Shot) from Dark Horse | Writer(s): David Dastmalchian | Artist(s): Valeria Burzo Phillip Sevy | $7.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #18 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s):Don Glut Various | Artist(s): Various | $6.99 Subgenre #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Wilfredo Torres | $7.99 Hack Slash Back To School #1 from Image | Writer(s): Zoe Thorogood | Artist(s):Zoe Thorogood | $3.99 Local Man #6 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | $3.99 Saga #66 from Image | Writer(s): Brian K. Vaughan | Artist(s): Fiona Staples | $3.99 - SECOND PRINTING Rogue Sun #16 from Image | Writer(s): Ryan Parrott | Artist(s): Abel | $3.99 Coda Vol 2 #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Simon Spurrier | Artist(s): Matias Bergara | $4.99 Rumpus Room #2 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Mark Russell |Artist(s): Ramon Rosanas | $3.99 (out this week?) Con and On #4 from Ahoy Comics (W) Paul Cornell (A) Marika Cresta $4.99 Kill Your Darlings #2 from Image Comics (W) Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan (A) Bob Quinn, John J. Hill $3.99 Hexagon Bridge #2 from Image Comics (W/A) Richard Blake $3.99 Today is Wednesday Drive Like Hell #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Alex Cormack | $3.99 Lonesome Hunters The Wolf Child #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tyler Crook |Artist(s): Tyler Crook | $3.99 Brynmore #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Steve Niles | Artist(s): Damien Worm | $3.99 Dark Spaces Dungeon #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Scott Snyder | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $4.99 Fire Power #28 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Chris Samnee Matthew Wilson | $3.99 I Hate Fairyland Vol 2 #10 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s): Brett Bean | $3.99 Ice Cream Man #37 from Image | Writer(s): W Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo Chris O Halloran | $3.99 Purr Evil #3 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Laura Braga | $3.99 Radiant Black #26.5 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins Joe Clark | Artist(s):Marcello Costa Eduardo Ferigato | $3.99 Universal Monsters Dracula #1 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV |Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $4.99 Whats The Furthest Place From Here #15 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | $3.99 Blacks Myth Key To His Heart #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Eric Palicki |Artist(s): Wendell Cavalcanti | $3.99 Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World #10 from BOOM! Studios |Writer(s): Jason Aaron | Artist(s): Leila Del Duca Nick Dragotta | $4.99 Rare Flavours #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): V Ram | Artist(s): Filipe Andrade | $4.99 Something Is Killing The Children #34 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Wrong Earth We Could Be Heroes #1 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Jamal Igle Juan Castro | $3.99 Conan the Barbarian #4 from Titan Comics (W) Jim Zub (A) Roberto de la Torre, Dean White Edenwood #1 from Image Comics (W) Tony Daniel (A) Tony Daniel $3.99 Gone #1 from DSTLRY (Distillery) (W/A) Jock $8.99 Plot Holes #3 from Massive (W/A) Sean Gordon Murphy $3.99 Void Rivals #5 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is George Wyner Today our Frenzy Faves are favorite Madcap Movies
James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds stop by for a quick chat about their new Skybound title: Universal Monsters: Dracula.
Comentamos las mejores noticias de actualidad del mundo del cómic de la semana: Próxima firma de Roman Ritual 2 James Tynion IV y Martin Simmonds se unen para el Drácula de Skybound Anunciados los Harvey honoríficos de este año Primer vistazo al regreso del nuevo Universo Ultimate Novedades Planeta Comic Noviembre 2023 Próximos avances editoriales
CAPÍTULO #349… Esta semana actualizamos la base de datos de virus y nos metemos de lleno en la inteligencia artificial con Carbono y Silicio. Hablaremos de esta esperadísima obra del maestro Mathieu Bablet, donde se explorarán temas filosóficos y existencialistas a través de los ojos de una simpática pareja de robots. También repasaremos las últimas noticias y los próximos avances editoriales. Y como no podría ser de otra manera reseñaremos los mejores lanzamientos de novedades, como el cierre de Borja González de su trilogía con El Pájaro y La Serpiente, el regreso de Roman Ritual, lo nuevo de Reckless, la Supergirl de Tom King y muchísimo más. Gracias por estar al otro lado agentes. ¡Nos oímos! NOTICIAS [00:07:41] Próxima firma de Roman Ritual 2 James Tynion IV y Martin Simmonds se unen para el Drácula de Skybound Anunciados los Harvey honoríficos de este año Primer vistazo al regreso del nuevo Universo Ultimate Novedades Planeta Comic Noviembre 2023 Próximos avances editoriales NOVEDADES Y RELECTURAS [00:39:11] Reckless: El Fantasma dentro de tí La Cosa del Pantano: Infierno Verde La Sociedad británica paranormal Supergirl: La Mujer del mañana Roman Ritual 2 Kroma El pájaro y la serpiente Velvet Versalles of the Death Amanece en Ciudad Despojo Americania: Nuevo Mundo El Tribunal de los Secretos Kaya Radiant Red Lobo: Retrato de un Bastardo Ultimate Invasion El increíble Hulk Namor: Litorales Conquistados La Muerte de Superman ANÁLISIS: CARBONO Y SILICIO [03:35:05] Volvemos con uno de los grandes autores de la BD como lo es Bablet, un viejo conocido que nos presenta un futuro alternativo donde la concepción de las primeras IA cambiará el mundo para siempre. En esta historia seguiremos a Carbono y Silicio, los primeros seres artificiales con autoconciencia de sí mismos, y a los que acompañaremos a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, a la vez que exploramos elementos existencialistas, filosóficos y sobre todo, muy humanistas. CORREO DEL AGENTE [05:44:57] Leemos todos vuestros mensajes dejados en las redes y nuestra sección de la voz de los Agentes de Hydra, ¡Habla pueblo Habla! ¡Muchas gracias por escucharnos y todo vuestro apoyo y participación! Nuestro PODCAST ya está en el CANAL SECUNDARIO ¡Inflate a contenido comiquero aquí! https://www.youtube.com/@tomosygrapaspodcast Tomos y grapas es un medio de comunicación transmedia, disfruta de nuestros contenidos también en nuestra web, YouTube y redes sociales. VISITA TAMBIÉN NUESTRA LIBRERÍA En la Calle Alcalá 211 o nuestra TIENDA ONLINE con el mejor servicio y atención tiendatomosygrapas.com
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James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' Universal Monsters: Dracula #1 gets previewed by Skybound. Jonathan Hickman reveals G.O.D.S. isn't an acronym. And DC Comics' Jim Chadwick is retiring. This is Comic Book Club News for September 1, 2023.SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Its a time for celebration as the ACP and Viz Comics meet for the first time ever! Graham Drury and Simon Thorp join the gang to talk about the long running comics institution that has been filling the newsstands with laughs for decades. From classic characters, hilarious letters, art process and the future for the comic, its a great interview thats not to be missed. PLUS there's a prize to be won if you know your stuff! Great stuff to check out this week - VIZ, Paper Medicine, Third Bear Press, Sussex, Foreign Press Comics, The United: Going Underground, Mechaniphobe, The Palace of Tears, Chris Imber, The Hunger and the Dusk, G Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose, Universal Monsters Dracula, Martin Simmonds, James Tynion IV, Highlands Vol1, Cinebook
Welcome to the Multiverse Report, a weekly recap of your news across all the fandoms with Mike Gibson and Steve Haller! Check us out at https://www.themultiversereport.com/ Check out our friends at Funky Town Comics and Vinyl! TMR Rundown: Madripoor to the Picket Lines! Strike Watch: SAG-AFTRA Goes on strike! DC More heroes added to the cast of Superman Legacy Constantine 2 apparently still happening Blue Beetle Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxyy8Rcz4k MOVIE THOUGHTS Mike saw Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One MARVEL First official photo of Hugh Jackman in costume as Wolverine in Deadpool 3 1:00:00 Bob Iger talks about Marvel's diminishing returns COMICS Ms Marvel herself Iman Vellani to write new Ms. Marvel series for Marvel Comics James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds working on a new Dracula book THIS WEEK Alien 4 Batman Superman World's Finest 17 Black Panther 2 Blade 1 Blue Beetle #1 Special edition Darkwing Duck 7 Guardians of the Galaxy 4 Harley Quinn Black White Redder 1 of 6 Hawkgirl 1 Knight Terrors: Catwoman, Nightwing, Punchline, Superman, WW Moon Knight: City of the Dead 1 of 5 Red Sonja vol 7 1 Something is Killing The Children 31 Star Trek Day of Blood 1 SW Doctor Aphra 34 SW ROTJ The Rebellion 1 TMNT The Last Ronin Lost Day Special 1 TMNT vs Street Fighter 2 The Vigil 3 X-Men Red 13 COMIC REVIEWS: STEVE: MOON NIGHT: City of the Dead MIKE: HARLEY QUINN: Black, White, & Redder ONE SHOTS: Marvel & EA's Cliffhanger Games announce new Black Panther game Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures returns with new episodes on August 2nd. James Gunn confirms Doom Patrol S4 pt 2 will still be aired. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or search The Multiverse Report on your podcast app of choice! ### #TMR, #MCU, #DCEU, #StarWars, #Fandom, #LOTR
Comic Reviews: DC Knight Terrors: First Blood 1 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Brad Anderson Knight Terrors: Batman 1 by Joshua Williamson, Guillem March, Tomeu Morey Knight Terrors: Black Adam 1 by Jeremy Haun, Nick Filardi Knight Terrors: Poison Ivy 1 by G. Willow Wilson, Atagun Ilhan, Mark Morales, Arif Prianto Knight Terrors: Ravager 1 by Ed Brisson, Dexter Soy, Veronica Gandini Knight Terrors: The Joker 1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Clark and Lex OGN by Brendan Reichs, Jerry Gaylord Marvel Captain America 750 by Tochi Onyebuchi, RB Silva, Jesus Aburtov, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Carmen Carnero, Nolan Woodard Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest 1 by Ann Nocenti, Paolo Villanelli, Java Tartaglia Edge of Spider-Verse 4 by B. Earl, Taboo, Juan Ferreyra, Daniel Kibblesmith, Chriscross, Andrew Dalhouse, Alex Segura, Enid Balam, Elisabetta D'Amico, Craig Yeung, Brian Reber Extreme Venomverse 4 by Peach Momoko, DJ Bryant, Alvaro Lopez, Alex Guimares, Alyssa Wong, Ken Niimura Thor Annual by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Ibraim Roberson, Dan Brown X-Men: Before the Fall – Sinister Four by Kieron Gillen, Paco Medina, Edgar Delgado, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo Marvel Unlimited Li'L Rocket 5 by Stephanie Williams, Jay Fosgitt Brute Force by Paul Scheer, Nick Giovannetti, Geoffo, Dee Cunniffe Image Swan Songs 1 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Simmonds Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland 1 by Skottie Young, Aaron Conley, Sarah Stern, Dean Rankine, Weird Work 1 by Jordan Thomas, Shaky Kane Mad Cave Under the Influence 1 by Eliot Rahal, Stefano Simeone Scout Puc the Artist and the Myth of Color 1 by Miles Greg, Garrett Richert Titan Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series 1 by Charles Ardai, Ace Continuado, Jose Zapata, Asifur Rahman Doctor Who: Doom's Day 1 by Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata ComiXology Pop Culture Presents by Brock Parks OGNs Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee by Rafer Roberts, Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua Merry-Go-Round by Sergio Rossi, Agnese Innocente Trackers Presents Captain Nick and the Explorer Society: Compass of Mems by Michelle McCann, Tony Deis, Grey Allison, Thomas Pitilli, Lukas Ketner, Liezi Buenaventura Additional Reviews: Secret Invasion ep3, Over My Dead Body, Remina, Colonel Weird and Little Andromeda, Ghost and Molly McGee, Danger and Other Unknown Risks, Shadow of the Batgirl, My Adventure With Superman premiere News: Strange Planet coming to Apple TV, MJ officially becomes Jackpot, new Snyder/Albuquerque series coming from ComiXology, Jennifer Garner returning as Elektra for Deadpool 3, Black Panther video game in development Comics Countdown (04 Jul 2023): 1. Daredevil 13 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Matt Wilson 2. Rock Gods of Jackson Tennessee OGN by Rafer Roberts, Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua 3. Love Everlasting 9 by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth 4. Swan Songs 1 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Simmonds 5. Hairball 4 by Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, Hilary Jenkins 6. I Hate This Place 10 by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, Lee Loughridge 7. Phantom Road 5 by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Walta, Jordie Bellaire 8. TMNT: Armageddon Game 8 by Tom Waltz, Vincenzo Federici 9. Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent 5 by Tom Taylor, Clayton Henry, Jordie Bellaire 10. No/One 4 by Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, Geraldo Borges, Mark Englert
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Blue Book #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): James Tynion IV Genevieve Valentine | Artist(s): Michael Avon Oeming Ming Doyle | $4.99 Brynmore #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Steve Niles | Artist(s): Damien Worm | $3.99 w0rldtr33 #3 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Fernando Blanco Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Local Man #5 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs | Artist(s): Tim Seeley Various | $3.99 Neighbors #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s):Letizia Cadonici | $4.99 Oddly Pedestrian Life Of Christopher Chaos #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Tate Brombal Nick Robles James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Isaac Goodhart | $4.99 Hell To Pay #6 from Image | Writer(s): Charles Soule | Artist(s): Will Sliney | $3.99 End After End #8 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Tim Daniel David Andry | Artist(s): Sunando C | $4.99 The 06 Protocol #3 from AfterShock Comics (W) Lee Turner (A) Cliff Richards $4.99 This Week's Books Hairball #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Tyler Jenkins | $5.99 I Hate This Place #10 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Starks | Artist(s): Artyom Topilin Lee Loughridge | $3.99 Love Everlasting #9 from Image | Writer(s): Tom King | Artist(s): Elsa Charretier | $3.99 Phantom Road #5 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Gabriel Hernandez Walta Jordie Bellaire | $3.99 Swan Songs #1 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $3.99 Unbelievable Unfortunately Mostly Unreadable And Nearly Unpublishable Untold Tales Of I Hate Fairyland #1 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young Dean Rankine | Artist(s): Aaron Conley Dean Rankine | $3.99 Hard Case Crime Heat Seeker A Gun Honey Series #1 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Charles Ardai | Artist(s): Ace Continuado | $3.99 Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World #7 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s):Jason Aaron | Artist(s): Leila Del Duca | $4.99 No/One #4 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato (A) Geraldo Borges $3.99 Torrent #5 from Image Comics (W) Marc Guggenheim (A) Justin Greenwood, Rico Renzi $3.99 This week's that guy that was in that show is Inger Stevens
My guest this week is comedian Pavel Zborik, direct from Switzerland! What moment in the Spider-Man PS4 game really shows off the kind of guy Peter Parker is? Why does Pavel love John Constantine? Do you follow writers or artists? What is Infinite Vacation about? What did Warren Ellis do with Moon Knight? What is Spectators about? What can you get in Brian K. Vaughn's substack? Is Alan Moore right to not want his work adapted for the screen? What is Mister Miracle's deal? How were those early X-Men movies? Who played Captain America in the 1980s awful Cap movie? Where do you start with Hellboy? What makes the Hellboy comics good? What characters show up in the Injustice video games? Which popular characters does Pavel not like? What is the series Die about? Reading list: Ultimate X-Men https://amzn.to/3Xpuqhw Hellblazer https://amzn.to/44fxtuV Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3PpINjN Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3qTURzz Infinite Vacation by Nick Spencer and Christian Ward https://amzn.to/3JrJ0PC Morning Glories https://amzn.to/3Nng6S3 Superior Foes of Spider-Man (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3XphsQH Dying is Easy by Joe Hill and Martin Simmonds (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3Poany1 Snelson: Comedy is Dying by Paul Constant and Fred Harper https://amzn.to/42Zl4dv Knock 'Em Dead by Eliot Rahal https://amzn.to/3XpuPR4 Bleed Them Dry by Eliot Rahal and Dike Ruan https://amzn.to/3Xq09iL Hot Lunch Special by Eliot Rahal https://amzn.to/42VlEJg Moon Knight by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/46nFno2 Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3PoaQAh Brian K. Vaughan books: Ex Machina with Tony Harris (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3XkXsPj Spectators (free on his substack) https://explodinggiraffe.substack.com/ Saga with Fiona Staples https://amzn.to/3CLoQN6 Paper Girls with Cliff Chiang https://amzn.to/3CID1Cf Y The Last Man with Pia Guerra https://amzn.to/3CHRDlu Sandman by Neil Gaiman https://amzn.to/43YQEtk League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore https://amzn.to/46onqFB Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (free with Kindle Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3NrrWL1 Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads https://amzn.to/3Nr0qx2 Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely (free on Comixology Unlimited) Hellboy by Mike Mignola (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3JwhjoZ Keiron Gillen books: Die With Stephanie Hans https://amzn.to/44aXRXn Loki: Journey into Mystery https://amzn.to/3XnnvFr The Wicked and The Divine with Jamie Mckelvie (free with Kindle Unlimited) https://amzn.to/44dx5gv Young Avengers (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/44hRuAO Phonogram with Jamie McKelvie https://amzn.to/3NrtZyN Uber with Daniel Gete https://amzn.to/4416TWD Books by James Tynion IV: Something is Killing the Children with Werther Dell'Edera (free on Comixology Unlimited) https://amzn.to/3NoKJGT The Nice House on the Lake https://amzn.to/42REZLf Loki: Agent of Asgard by Al Ewing and more https://amzn.to/46lW9nh Watch list: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World https://amzn.to/3pbh2kA X-Men https://amzn.to/3CGydxv Superman: The Movie https://amzn.to/3PuDwrs Superman II https://amzn.to/3pl9PhH Batman (Tim Burton) https://amzn.to/3XrqzAG Batman Returns https://amzn.to/3qRHWhA Hellboy https://amzn.to/3NKZHs0 Hellboy II: The Golden Army https://amzn.to/3NKhD63 Video games: Spider-Man PS4 https://amzn.to/3Nmxl68 Injustice 2 https://amzn.to/3psyCQS Recorded 6-11-23 via Zencastr
Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #126: Dark Comics and Graphic Novels Released in May 2023 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Black Tide Rising: The Graphic Novel, by Chuck Dixon, Brett Smith, John Ringo, Derlis Santacruz https://amzn.to/3Vf4RyC Blink, by Christopher Sebela (Author), Hayden Sherman (Illustrator), Nick Filardi (May 16) https://amzn.to/3ozvRNe Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers, by Jeff Lemire + Andrea Sorrentino (May 16) https://amzn.to/41VPYU2 The Department of Truth: The Complete Conspiracy Deluxe Hardcover, Book 1, by James Tynion IV , Martin Simmonds, Elsa Charretier, Tyler Boss (May 9) https://amzn.to/3WB3H0Z Haunthology, by Jeremy Haun (May 9) https://amzn.to/426rtTM Hollow Girl: Dead and Dying, by Luke Cooper (May 1) https://amzn.to/3OFvMSV In Flames Presents The Jester's Curse, by Blake Armstrong, Scott Bramble, Scott Dewey, Ben Laverock (May 30) https://amzn.to/447qDbB Pet Peeves, by Nicole Goux (May 25) https://amzn.to/3NZG9AO Trigore Labyrinth, by Matt Furie (Author), Skinner (Author), Will Sweeney (May 23) https://amzn.to/42p4AvM Year Zero Vol. 0, by Daniel Kraus, Goran Sudzuka (May 16) https://amzn.to/3VfgmWJ
Book of the Month: The Department of Truth Volume 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds from Image Comics!
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The year that was gets highlighted in the usual ACP way as the gang talk about what they liked in 2022! Great stuff to check out this week - Manga Month, Mark Millar, King of Spies, Edison Neo, Martin Simmonds, Steven Appleby, Dez Skinn, Paul Kupperberg, Christian Wildgoose, Fables, QVention, Cliff Cumber, BAM! Comic Fair, Akira, Gosh! Comics, OK Comics, Tribute Press, Strangers, Eleven O'Clock Comics, Heroes Comic Con, DUI #2, Stray Dogs, Do a Powerbomb, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done, White Ash, Scout Comics, Ghosts in Things, Gareth Hopkins, Patrick Sparrow, Tom Stewart, That Comic Smell, Beneath Us KS, Tabithas Year (13 Months), Viz: The Zookeepers Boot, Radiant Black, Night Club Click here to buy comics from the creators of the Awesome Comics Podcast! Let us know what you think! Email: awesomecomicspod@gmail.com Join the discussion today at our facebook group Awesome Comics Talk Check out the folks who sponsor this lil show - the mighty folks at Comichaus! If you love our Intro/Outro music, then check out the brilliant Chad Fifer and more of his musical badassery at www.chadfifer.bandcamp.com
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-> Des mouches, des asticots et des cadavres dans RIP-> La vérité est ailleurs et un peu dans DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH-> Des hommes et des femmes en briques dans LA MAISON NUE Au départ, ça devait être la grande réunion : la première fois qu'on se retrouvait tous les six pour enregistrer des épisodes du … Continuer la lecture de « LE GAUFRIER, LE PODCAST BD – Épisode 83 : RIP – Department of Truth – La Maison Nue » L'article LE GAUFRIER, LE PODCAST BD – Épisode 83 : RIP – Department of Truth – La Maison Nue est apparu en premier sur Le Gaufrier.
The ACP gets a convention report from the floor of New York Comic Con 2022! Well, kind of. Tony has been there and called the rest of the gang to talk about the sights and comics joy from the show. Theres discussion of artist alleys, publishers, creator interactions, podcast meetups and so much more! Great stuff to check out this week - New York Comic Con 2022, Eleven O'Clock Comics, Cliff Cumber, Martin Simmonds, Jae Lee, Bullet Adventures, Kia Wordsmith, Hull Comic Con, Kitchen Sink Press: the First 25 Years, Dennis Kitchen, Lise April Amelia, Dingus Click here to buy comics from the creators of the Awesome Comics Podcast! Let us know what you think! Email: awesomecomicspod@gmail.com Join the discussion today at our facebook group Awesome Comics Talk Check out the folks who sponsor this lil show - the mighty folks at Comichaus! If you love our Intro/Outro music, then check out the brilliant Chad Fifer and more of his musical badassery at www.chadfifer.bandcamp.com
November 2022 Solicitations Comic Reviews: DC Batman: One Bad Day – Riddler by Tom King, Mitch Gerads Webtoons: Red Hood and the Outlaws Marvel A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants 1 by Kieron Gillen, Guiu Villanova, Dijjo Lima Avengers 1,000,000 BC by Jason Aaron, Kev Walker, Dean White Edge of Spider-Verse 2 by Dan Slott, Mallory Rosenthal, Ramzee, Chris Giarrusso, Ig Guara, Paco Medina, Ruairi Coleman, Walden Wong, Brian Reber, Rico Renzi Ultraman: Mystery of UltraSeven 1 by Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom, David Lopez, Gurihiru, Davide Tinto, Espen Grundetjern, H.J. Diaz Infinity Comics Marvel's Voices: America Chavez Strange Tales She-Hulk Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal Image 20th Century Men 1 by Deniz Camp, S. Morian Last Shadowhawk (30th Anniversary Special) by Brian Haberlin, Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques, Todd McFarlane Razorblades: Small Cuts Special by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Andy Belanger, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Martin Simmonds, Josh Hixson, Liana Kangas Shirtless Bear Fighter! 2 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nil Vendrell Silver Coin 13 by Johnnie Christmas, Michael Walsh Dark Horse Parasomnia: The Dreaming God 1 by Cullen Bunn, Andrea Mutti IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2022 by Ian Flynn, Daniel Barnes, India Swift, Ian Mutchler, Evan Stanley, Aaron Hammerstrom, Gigi Dutreix, Adam Bryce Thomas, Abigail Bulmer, Thomas Rothlisberger, Natalie Haines, Joana Lafuente, Priscilla Tramontano, Heather Breckel, Leonardo Ito, Valentina Pinto Trve Kvlt 1 by Scott Bryan Wilson, Liana Kangas, Gab Contreras Dynamite Lady Hel 1 by Erik Burnham, Zhengis Tasbolatov Vault Barbaric: Axe to Grind 1 by Michael Moreci, Nathan Gooden Heart Eyes 1 by Dennis Hopeless, Victor Ibanez, Addison Duke Heavy Metal Entropy 1 by Christopher Priest, Montos Archie Chilling Adventures Presents… Jinx's Grim Fairy Tales 1 by Mags Visaggio, Joe Corallo, James III, Craig Cermak, Eva Cabrera, Evan Stanley, Matt Herms AfterShock Jimmy's Little Bastards 1 by Garth Ennis, Russel Braun, John Kalisz Scout Life and Death of Brave Captain Suave 1 by Joseph Sieracki, Kelly Williams A Wave Blue World Crash and Troy 1 by Jarred Lujan, Kyler Clodfelter 99 Cent Theatre: Smart Girl 1 by Fernando Dagnino OGN Beastlands: The Keepers of the Kingdom by Curtis Clow, Jo Mi-Gyeong Into Radness by Kyle Strahm, Jake Smith Ray's OGN Corner: Stepping Stones and Apple Crush by Lucy Knisley Additional Reviews: She-Hulk, surprise movie review (New Mutants) News: Omni News, Doom Patrol and Teen Titans, Batman 2, RWBY/Justice League movie, animation news, Velma cancelled, Madame Web cast, Kung Fu Panda 4, Valiant reduces output, the return of Bob Phantom, new Jason Aaron creator-owned series from Boom, Ezra Miller, two new Cullen Bunn books, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad movie, Superman and Lois loses a main actor, Mad Cave acquisition, new FF creative team, new Black Label mini from Marc Silvestri, another spider confirmed for Spider-Verse 2, Young Justice cancelled, Frank Miller variants, HBO Max, WildStorm, three new DC books from Geoff Johns, LOTR rights have been sold, new Bendis from Dark Horse, new Iron Man creative team, Enola Holmes 2, Knives Out 2 Trailers: Wednesday Addams Comics Countdown: Batman: The Knight 8 by Chip Zdarsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Ivan Plascencia Dark Spaces: Wildfire 2 by Scott Snyder, Hayden Sherman, Ronda Pattison Do A Powerbomb 3 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer Nightwing 95 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas Batman/Superman: World's Finest 6 by Mark Waid, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain Undiscovered Country 20 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Matt Wilson Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones 4 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall Daredevil 2 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Rafael de Latorre, Matt Wilson, Ann Nocenti, Chris Giarrusso, Klaus Janson, Chris Samnee, John Romita Jr, Alex Maleev, Paul Azaceta, Mike Hawthorne, Phil Noto Usagi Yojimbo 30 by Stan Sakai, Hi-Fi Shirtless Bear Fighter! 2 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nil Vendrell
En el 22º progama hablamos del comic Independiente americano El Departamento de la Verdad. Esta serie esta escrita por James Tynion IV, con dibujo de Martin Simmonds y editado por Image. Version española editado por Norma. Presentado por Ruben de Dios y Cesar Castañon. Para los impacientes también podéis ver el programa en directo en Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/demiurgo31
What is the truth? What is a lie? Is it all a conspiracy? Oh don't worry about all that, lets talk about comics instead! This week the ACP crew get together with Eisner-Award nominated artist Martin Simmonds to talk about the Department of Truth. Theres talk about artwork, inspirations, comic book shops, hard hitting storylines and so much more! Great stuff to check out this week - Martin Simmonds, The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV, Daniel Carter, The Hoards of Surrey, The Wiper, Eleven O'Clock Comics, The Brewgooders, 30 Years of City Centre Comics, BAM! Comics and Zine Fair, Fangoria, Starlight, Keeping To, Fantagraphics Click here to buy comics from the creators of the Awesome Comics Podcast! Let us know what you think! Email: awesomecomicspod@gmail.com Join the discussion today at our facebook group Awesome Comics Talk Check out the folks who sponsor this lil show - the mighty folks at Comichaus! If you love our Intro/Outro music, then check out the brilliant Chad Fifer and more of his musical badassery at www.chadfifer.bandcamp.com
Public Domain #1 from Image | Writer(s): Chip Zdarsky | Artist(s): Chip Zdarsky | $3.99 Hit Me #4 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Christa Faust | Artist(s): Priscilla Petraites | $3.99 BRZRKR (Berzerker) #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Matt Kindt Keanu Reeves | Artist(s): Ron Garney | $3.99 Eight Billion Genies #2 from Image | Writer(s): Charles Soule | Artist(s): Ryan Browne | $3.99 What's The Furthest Place From Here #7 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg Tyler Boss | Artist(s): Josh Hixson | Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou | $3.99 Broken Eye #3 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Martin Etxeberria Xabier Etxeberria | Artist(s): Inaki Arenas | $3.99 Pentagram Of Horror #2 from Black Caravan | Writer(s): Marco Fontanili | Artist(s): Marco Fontanili | $5.99 Canto Tales Of The Unnamed World #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): David M. Booher | Artist(s): Drew Zucker | $3.99 Department Of Truth #19 from Image | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $3.99 Agent Of W.O.R.L.D.E. #1 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Deniz Camp | Artist(s): Filya Bratukhin | $4.99 Mind MGMT Bootleg #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Farel Dalrymple | $3.99 Bone Orchard Mythos Prelude #1 (One Shot) FCBD 2022 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | $3.99 Closet #2 from Image | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Gavin Fullerton Chris O'Halloran | $3.99 Fire Power #22 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Chris Samnee Matthew Wilson | $3.99 Little Monsters #5 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Dustin Nguyen | $3.99 Saga #60 from Image | Writer(s): Brian K. Vaughan | Artist(s): Fiona Staples | $2.99 Twig #3 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s): Kyle Strahm | $3.99 Astronaut Down #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): James Patrick | Artist(s): Rubine | $3.99 Ballad Of Gordon Barleycorn #1 from Black Caravan | Writer(s): Colin McHugh Duncan Sligh | Artist(s): Colin McHugh | $4.99 Basilisk #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Jonas Scharf | $3.99 Deadbox #3 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Ben Tiesma | $4.99 Theres Something Wrong With Patrick Todd #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Ed Brisson | Artist(s): Gavin Guidry | $4.99 Absolution #1 from AWA/Upshot (W) Peter Milligan (A) Mike Deodato $3.99 Once & Future #27 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Dan Mora $3.99 This week's That Guy in That Show is Simon Oakland
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The Omnibus is back! We're talking the Image Comics conspiracy thriller Eisner nominated series, The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds. Phillip and Eric debate the effectiveness of its moody, surreal art style, its dissection of far-right conspiracy theories as a storytelling device, and whether white people are a creation of Dr. Yacub. Reach us by email at theomnibuscomicspodcast@gmail.com. Music by rodneyretro. https://traktrain.com/rodneyretro
Cette semaine, nous plongeons en pleine paranoïa pour trouver la vérité avec The department of thruth de James Tynion IV et Martin Simmonds disponible chez Urban Comics. On commence par nos news de la semaine qui ont suscitées pas mal de discussions:-Les ventes de comics en France-Le groupe hachette racheté l'éditeur Bragelonne-MAUS retiré d'une bibliothèque aux USA-Lego sort une collection Batman Jim LeeLa checklist des sortie comics de la semaine en trio avec James,Vincent et Spike. Le titre de la semaine:The department of truthAlors que les USA sortent de l'administration très controversé de Trump, siège des fameuses "fake news", The department of truth nous plonge en profondeur dans cette ambiance paranoïaque, grâce à l'agent Cole Turner spécialiste en conspiration qui se fait engager par une mystérieuse organisation, le département de la vérité. Au programme complot, hommes en noir et Femme à la robe rouge. La vérité est ailleursAvec ce Récit, James Tynion IV, nous propose de remettre en question notre société ainsi que notre propre notion de la vérité. C'est quoi la vérité? que signifie t'elle? est elle vraiment importante?Tant de questions qui vont s'imposer à nous tout au long d'un récit en tension constante. Les personnages se méfient de tout et surtout d'eux même. Cette ambiance est d'ailleurs renforcé par le dessin original de Martin Simmonds ressemblant à un vieux film que l'on aurait caché et qui serai projeté devant nos yeux. C'est très spécial comme trait et cela pourrait en rebuter plus d'un. Cependant, il serait dommage de passer à côté de ce titre. La réflexion qu'il nous apporte est importante,surtout en ce moment. Le mot de la fin Comme toujours nous vous invitons à venir partager votre avis avec nous que vous soyez d'accord ou non, ça nous fait toujours plaisir d'échanger avec vous. Si vous avez envie de nous écouter en live, c'est le mardi soir à 20h sur notre chaîne Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/jamesetfaye Si vous aimez les mangas, n'oubliez pas notre émission MangaDiscovery : https://linktr.ee/mangadiscovery Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur nos réseaux sociaux :Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ComicsDiscovery/Twitter : https://twitter.com/comicsdiscoveryInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/comicsdiscovery/ Vous pouvez nous écouter sur :Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2Qb8ffDAusha : https://podcast.ausha.co/comicsdiscoveryItunes : https://apple.co/2zw9H1QDeezer : https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/55279 Sans oublier le replay en vidéo sur :Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/ComicsDiscoveryTwitch : https://www.twitch.tv/jamesetfaye Si vous voulez nous soutenir vous pouvez le faire sur :Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/james-et-faye Vous pouvez venir discuter avec nous sur notre serveur discord :Discord : http://discordapp.com/invite/GsBTkDS Et pour retrouver tout notre contenu vous avez notre site web :Le site de James & Faye : https://jamesetfaye.fr/
Cette semaine, rien ne va plus chez Activision Blizzard, le légendaire animateur japonais Hayao Miyazaki sort de sa retraite et « Reptilian Rising » est le jeu Steam à surveiller selon Marie-Lune. Chen nous livre son appréciation de la nouvelle série de Hulk de Donny Cates et de la nouvelle édition de « Rocky 4 » en plus de faire part de ses achats lors du Vendredi fou de « Vinegar Syndrome ». Jeik a lu pour nos les BD « 1984 » de 1984 Xavier Coste et « Atomahawk ». Laurent nous parle de « J'ai vu les soucoupes » de Sandrine Kerion et est bien excité de voir la Matrice (il en est le premier surpris). Benoit livre en rafale les nouvelles concernant le futur des « Power Rangers » chez Netflix et celui de la franchise « Ghostbusters » selon le réalisateur du plus récent film, Jason Reitman. En dernière partie d'émission, on discute de « The Departement of Truth Vol.1: The End of the World » de James Tynion IV et Martin Simmonds, publié chez Image Comics. Diffusion originale : 29 novembre 2021 Site web : MysterieuxEtonnants.com © Les Mystérieux Étonnants. Tous droits réservés.
On a very special Episode 10 of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion is joined by both co-hosts, Rosie Knight & Cody Ziglar, for an all hosts, all comics, all conversation! In Previously On…(1:10) Jason goes solo (and Soprano) to unpack the trailer of Disney+'s Boba Fett, Sony's Morbius, and celebrate the formation of the brand new Comic Book Workers United union at Image Comics (link to support below!). In the Airlock (9:51) Jason, Rosie, and Zig dive deep (deeeeep) into the world of comics, offering entry points for eager new readers, some all time personal faves, and what they're looking forward to in all things panel & page. In The Endgame (1:00:22), Jason, Rosie, and Zig play Some Assembly Required, picking their comics character to go head-to-head-to-head in a randomly selected scenario (Hint: stock up on Koopa Shells). Use #XRVEndgame & let us know what you think of their choices! Tune in every Wednesday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Check out Comic Book Workers United & show your support! The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! Black Widow (2020) - Kelly Thompson & Elena Casagrande. Available here. Hawkeye (2012) - Matt Fraction & David Aja. Available here. Hellions (2020) - Zeb Wells & Stephen Segovia. Available here. Young Avengers (2013) - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, & Matt Wilson. Available here. Infinity Gauntlet (1991) - Jim Starlin, George Pérez, & Ron Lim. Available here. Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos (1990) - Ron Lim & Jim Starlin. Available here. X-Men: Grand Design (2018) - Ed Piskor. Available here. Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) - Brian Michael Bendis with Mark Bagley, Stuart Immonen, David LaFuente, & Sara Pichelli. Available here. Avengers Disassembled / New Avengers (2004) - Brian Michael Bendis with various, including David Finch & Steve McNiven. Available here. Saga of Swamp Thing (1984) - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, & John Totleben. Available here. Batman: Year One (1987) - Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli. Available here. Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others (1998) - Mike Mignola. Available here. Invincible (2003) - Robert Kirkman with Cory Walker & Ryan Ottley. Available here. This One Summer (2014) - Mariko & Jillian Tamaki. Available here. Super Mutant Magic Academy (2015) - Jillian Tamaki. Available here. Very Near Mint (2011) - Justin Peterson. Available here. Scott Pilgrim (2004) - Bryan Lee O'Malley. Available here. Love and Rockets (1982) -The Hernandez Brothers, Gilbert, Jaime, & Mario. Available here. Akira (1982) - Katsuhiro Otomo. Available here. Fantasy Sports (2015) - Sam Bosma. Available here. We3 (2004) - Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly. Available here. Demon Days (2021) - Peach Momoko. Available here. Trial of the Amazons DC Event (2022) - Written with input by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Vita Ayala, Stephanie Williams, Joelle Jones, and Jordie Bellaire. Start with Nubia & The Amazons, available here. The Antagonists (2020) - Tyler F. Martin with Felipe Dunbar, Kelechi Nwaogwugwu, Kieran Jack, Giacomo Guida. Available here. Fist of the North Star re-release by Viz (2021) - Buronson & Tetsuo Hara. Available here. The Good Asian (2021) - by Pornsak Pichetshote & Alexandre Tefenkgi. Available here. The Department of Truth (2021) - James Tynion & Martin Simmonds. Available here. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/xrayvision.. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week we launch our month of spooky books with a real banger in THE IMMORTAL HULK (Issues 1-15) by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy Jose, Leo Romero, Paul Hornschemeier, Marguerite Sauvage, Garry Brown, Lee Garbett, Martin Simmonds, Eric Nguyen and Kyle Hotz. We talk about how this book morphs the Hulk into something far more sinister and disturbing and the implications that come along with his new evolution. We talk about the relationship between this new iteration and Bruce Banner and what drives this book forward into being an instant, horrifying classic. Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookraiders/
Comic Reviews: Batman vs. Bigby: A Wolf in Gotham 1 by Bill Willingham, Brian Level, Jay Leisten, Lee Loughridge Deathstroke Inc. 1 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Hi-Fi Wonder Woman: Black and Gold 4 by Sina Grace, Andrew Constant, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Azaceta, Andrew McLean, Nicola Scott, Leonardo Romero, Jack Cole Wonderful Women of the World by Laurie Halse Andersen, Mikki Kendall, A.D'Amico, Sarah Kuhn, Lynne Yoshii, Carrie Strachan, Corinna Bechko, Anastasia Longoria, Louise Simonson, Nicole Goux, Melissa Marr, Marcela Cespedes, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Sharee Miller, Silvana Brys, Traci Sorell, Natasha Donovan, Lilah Sturges, Devaki Neogi, Triona Farrell, Marieke Nijkamp, Ashanti Fortson, Jadzia Axelrod, Michaela Washington, Magdalene Visaggio, Emma Kubert, Cecil Castellucci, Carina Guevara, Dr. Sheena C. Howard, Laylie Frazier, Kami Garcia and Igzell, Jody Houser Michiums, Danielle Page, Brittney Williams, Caitlin Quirk, Amanda Deibert, Cat Staggs, Son M., Safiya Zerrougui, Amanda Deibert, Hanie Mohd, and Shari Chankhamma Beast Boy Loves Raven GN by Kami Garcia Darkhold Alpha by Steve Orlando, Cian Tormey, Jesus Aburtov Extreme Carnage: Omega by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith, Guru eFX Inferno 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, David Curiel Infinity Comics: Deadpool 1 by Gerry Duggan, Lucas Werneck, Geoffo, Rachelle Rosenberg Infinity Comics: It's Jeff 6 by Kelly Thompson, Gurihiru Spider-Ham: Great Power No Responsibility GN by Steve Foxe, Shadia Amin Die 20 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans Children of the Plague by Robert Love, Jeffrey Kimbler, David Walker Stranger Things: The Tomb of Ybwen 1 by Greg Pak, Diego Galindo, Francesco Segala Firefly: River Run by David Booher, Andres Genolet, Mattia Iacono 10 Years to Death by Aaron Douglas, Cliff Richards Gun Honey 1 by Charles Ardai, Ang Hor Kheng, Asifur Rahman Human Remains 1 by Peter Milligan, Sally Cantirino, Dearbhla Kelly, Tim Daniel Verge 1 by Bryce McLellan, Silvo Db Impossible Jones 1 by Karl Kesel, David Hahn, Tony Avina Corset 1 by Jurii Kirney, Elina Kiyushnikova Soulstream OGN by Saida Wolf Night of the Cadillacs 1 by Jake Hearns, Jeff Marsick, Kirk Manley City of Dragons Vol 1 by Jaimal Yogis, Vivian Truong Market Day 1 by James Sturm Verse Vol 1 by Sam Beck Garlic and the Vampire GN by Bree Paulsen Life of Melody GN by Mari Costa Growing Up by T.S. Luther, Monica Aldrin, Kuen Tang 99 Cent Theatre: Notes 1 by Matthew J Burbridge Saah by Syd Fini Life of a Step-Dad Vol 1 and Vol 2 by Sam Hudson Additional Reviews: Midnight Mass, What If?, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Babyteeth, Amphibia season premiere, new cartoon (The Ghost and Molly McGee) Longbox of Horror: Gotham High News: Kami Garcia's next two OGNs announced, Babylon 5 reboot, Kelly Thompson to substack, Scarlet vs. Disney conclusion, Steve Orlando takes over Marauders, Batman '89 sales, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese picked up Trailers: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Encanto Comics Countdown: Die 20 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans Batman/Superman 22 by Gene Luen Yang, Paul Pelletier, Ivan Reis, Keith Champagne, Danny Miki, Hi-Fi Department of Truth 13 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, Bidikar Thor 17 by Donny Cates, Michele Bandini, D'Amico, Matt Wilson Robin 6 by Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov, Luis Gurrero Undiscovered Country 16 by Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Matt Wilson Inferno 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, David Curiel Good Asian 5 by Pornsak PichetshoteLee Loughridge, Alexandre Tefenkgi Life of Melody GN by Mari Costa Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell and Gone 2 by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jay Fotos
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Sage and Braden are back again to talk about comics, some of the latest discourse, What If..? and more! First up is Ms. Marvel volume 01 Written by G Willow Wilson, drawn by Adrian Alphona with colors by Ian Herring and letters by Joe Caramagna featuring the origin of Kamala Khan's tenure as the new Ms. Marvel! And second is Jessica Jones: Blindspot, Written by Kelly Thompson, drawn by Mattia De Iulis except for part 6 which is drawn by Marcio Takara and colored by Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters are by Cory Petit and the awesome cover is drawn by Martin Simmonds. This is the first Jessica Jones caper written by Kelly Thompson who is one of our favorite authors! We'll be discussing SPOILERS for both books so please read them first if that's a concern. We unfortunately had to cut the episode a bit short due to some technical difficulties and didn't get to dig into Jessica Jones quite as deeply as we would have liked, but there's still plenty here to enjoy. Your patience and support is very much appreciated! 00:53 - Substack 08:13 - What If...? 13:33 - Action Lab 14:32 - Ms Marvel: No Normal 31:06 - Jessica Jones: Blind Spot
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Welcome to “Off The Shelf”, our comic book reviews of recent titles. These are designed to be brief reviews of current books and series that we think you should check out.Today, Sam reviews Department of Truth: Story by James Tynion IV, Art by Martin Simmonds, Letters by Aditya Bidikar Connect with us on Twitter @GeekChurch and on Facebook at Church of the Geek or at the blog Church of the Geek.To help support the podcast, please visit our Ko-Fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/churchofthegeekTheme song by @RickRackYouTube
Comedian Kyle Adams returns! We talked about the comic Dying is Easy by Joe Hill and Martin Simmonds, weird wacky morning DJs, and a whole lot more! Episode recorded, edited, and produced by Gene Deweber Theme song by Lydia Manning with Jake Hueni and Jaren George.
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DC August solicitations Comic Reviews: Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom 1 by Brandon Easton, Fico Ossio, Rico Renzi Stargirl Spring Break Special 1 by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Todd Nauck, Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi Batman: Black and White 6 by Scott Snyder, John Arcudi, Brandon Thomas, Pierrick Colinet, Nick Derington, Elsa Charretier, Khary Randolph, James Harren, Klaus Janson, John Romita Jr Heroes Reborn: Magneto and the Mutant Force by Steve Orlando, Bernard Chang, David Curiel Heroes Reborn: Siege Society by Cody Zigler, Paco Medina, Pete Pantazis Heroes Reborn: Young Squadron by Jim Zub, Steve Cummings, Erick Arciniega Heroes Reborn 4 by Jason Aaron, James Stokoe, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, Matt Wilson Reptil 1 by Terry Blas, Enid Balam, Victor Olazaba, Carlos Lopez Made in Korea 1 by Jeremy Holt, George Schall Star Wars Adventures: The Weapon of a Jedi 1 by Alec Worley, Jason Fry, Ruairi Coleman Witcher: Witch's Lament 1 by Bartosz Sztybor, Vanesa Del Rey, Jordie Bellaire Down River People by Adam Smith, Matthew Fox Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho Nook by Caleb Thusat, Marcelo Biott Redshift 1 by H.S> Tak, Brent David McKee, Sebastian Cheng Misadventurers 1 by Joseph Michael, Nicolas Touris Monstrous: Heartbreak and Blood Loss 1 by Gregory Wright, Rachel Young, Sharpe Blue Flame 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Adam Gorham, Kurt Michael Russell 99 Cent Theatre CHC One Shot: Will Aliens Do My Homework? by David Whalen Into the Wilderness 0 by Gabe Cheng, Elisa Menghel Mister Johnson 1 by Adrian Jules Tales From the Dispatch Vol 1 by Orphan King 1 by Tyler Chin-Tanner, James Boyle Kickstarter: The Game Additional Reviews: Hannibal, Calls s1, Kominsky Method s3, Big Little Lies s2, Men in Black 4, God of War News: McFarlane TV deals, Naomi greenlit as series, next Arrow-verse crossover, Amazon buys MGM, Sandman casting, final round of Round Robin, Inferno event coming soon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Young Kraven, sequel to GL: Legacy coming soon, Flash ending with season 8, Joker sequel, Okoye series in development for Disney+, ultimate movie crossover Trailers: Eternals, Last Night in Soho, Gunpowder Milkshake Am It Glenn? Comics Countdown: Ascender 15 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen Strange Adventures 10 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Evan Shaner Department of Truth 9 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, Aditya Bidikar Batman: Black and White 6 by Scott Snyder, John Arcudi, Brandon Thomas, Pierrick Colinet, Nick Derington, Elsa Charretier, Khary Randolph, James Harren, Klaus Janson, John Romita Jr Something is Killing the Children 16 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'edera, Miquel Muerto Down River People by Adam Smith, Matthew Fox Beta Ray Bill 3 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer Money Shot 11 by Tim Seeley, Sarah Beattie, Caroline Leigh Layne, Kurt Michael Russell TMNT: The Last Ronin 3 by Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, Esau Escorza, Isaac Escorza, Luis Antonio Delgado HaHa 5 by W. Maxwell Prince, Gabriel Walta
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AmericIAN, Alan and Massimo get together once again to recommend some Comics, Movies and discuss the latest news. This week's book recommendations are: Proctor Valley Road #1 from Grant Morrison, Alex Child, Naomi Franquiz and BOOM Studios. Milestone Returns #0 from Reginald Hudlin and DC Comics. The Department of Truth from James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds and Image Comics Alan rages on how much he hated Man of Steel after he watched it this week and Ian sings the praises of Batman Begins after a recent rewatch. The guys discuss the potential villain leak for Eternals, Netflix, Avatar reclaiming it's top movie status from Avengers: End Game and more. BGCP: Disassembled wants to hear from all the listeners, if you have any comments or any talking points then please let us know, you can listen and rate us on the following platforms. Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/rsfzapph YouTube - https://tinyurl.com/ynwf7waj Google Podcast - https://tinyurl.com/3f6usaf3 iTunes - https://tinyurl.com/pa65jmv8 Anchor - https://tinyurl.com/fkaa7vkd Castbox - https://tinyurl.com/568udj8j Podbean - https://tinyurl.com/3yupy6zu Player FM - https://tinyurl.com/29tnamyd Tune In - https://tinyurl.com/5cekccw7 Spreaker - https://tinyurl.com/yas9yv5e Breaker - https://tinyurl.com/yw7xh8xm Pocket Casts - https://tinyurl.com/u2bx9fad Radio Public - https://tinyurl.com/7bs95wtm Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord and more. https://linktr.ee/BGCPComicCon
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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. 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On this week's comic book review podcast: Dark Nights Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns Art by Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin & Richard Friend, Paul Pelletier & Norm Rapmund King in Black #2 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Ryan Stegman Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Dan McDaid Ice Cream Man #22 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 Archaia Written by Lara Elena Donnelly Illustrated by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge and French Carlomagno King-Size Conan #1 Marvel Written by Roy Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman and Steven S. DeKnight Art by Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman and Jesús Saiz An Unkindess of Ravens #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi Sea of Sorrows #2 IDW Written by Rich Douek Art and Color by Alex Cormack The Last God #11 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici The Department of Truth #4 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds The Comic Book History of Animation #2 IDW Written by Fred Van Lente Art & Letters by Ryan Dunlavey Doctor Doom #10 Marvel Written by Christopher Cantwell Art by Salvador Larroca Sea of Stars #8 Image Comics Written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum Art by Stephen Green Transformers/Back to the Future #2 IDW Written by Canan Scott Art by Juan Samu Action Comics #1028 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by John Romita Jr. The Scumbag #3 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Eric Powell Scarenthood #3 IDW Story & Art by Nick Roche Color by Chris O'Halloran U.S.AGent #2 Marvel Written by Priest Art by Georges Jeanty Undiscovered Country #11 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcelo Grassi Something is Killing the Children #13 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera 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: Speaker 1: Three, two, one. 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 and woo boy, did a bunch of Comics come out this week. Justin: Oh, and we're going to talk about them all. It's like Pokemon, but for comics and talking instead of collecting and it's us instead of a kid named Ash. Alex: Yes, but- Pete: What? Alex: … we do still keep our comics inside of a ball. Starting with Dark Nights Death Metal The Secret Origin number one from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns. Art by Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin and Richard Fred, Paul Pelletier, and Norm Rapmund. This is not what I was expecting at all. Justin: Agree completely. Alex: But what it turns out to be is a deep dive into Superboy-Prime and in a weird way, the last ever Superboy-Prime story, it also I don't know if it spoils or shows us or jumps ahead of a huge moment in Dark Nights Death Metal, but this is not just a throw away one-shot, this is an important part of the overall story. I was very hesitant going into this, but completely won over by the end both by the emotion and the storytelling and the art throughout, I was very impressed. Did you guys feel the same? Justin: Yeah. I mean, this was written by Geoff Johns and Scott Snyder. A collab, a classic collab, and it really shows. I feel like this… You hear both of their voices in a nice synergy in this book. I've never been a huge Superboy-Prime guy, but this story I thought was really good. It takes the character and really humanizes him in a way that I didn't see coming and was just a great book, great little standalone story focusing on the character. I love where it ended. Pete: Yeah, the title was a little misleading. It is kind of a Prime story which I did not see coming. Yeah, I mean, it's Supeboy-Prime still being a dick, but then he kind of gets a little bit less annoying and it's amazing art and then of course dogs are awesome and dogs can make any asshole a better person. Justin: Wow. Alex: 100%. Couldn't agree more with that. Like you said, you got Geoff Johns who invented Superboy-Prime coming in, Scott Snyder who has been the maestro of Dark Nights Death Metal and they're working together. The thing… It is a huge spoiler, but the thing that surprised me that I could not believe happened in this book is Superboy-Prime beats the Batman who laughs and essentially wins in this issue, which is wild. Justin: It was wild, but- Pete: Is that it? I mean, is it going to happen in another book. Like it just seemed crazy that this was it. Alex: I don't know. Justin: It did feel weird that it would come down to this. There's has to be a ton more story to be told in the main book, but I do think like the Space Wolverine focused book who'd colloquially known- Pete: Fuck you. You don't know anything. Justin: He's known as the Lobo- Pete: Thank you. Tell people what you're talking about because that doesn't make sense. Justin: No, I think that's a perfect description. Pete: No. Justin: Like if I were to describe you, I would say regular bones Wolverine and I think that makes a lot of sense. I just see the world through Wolverine tinted glasses. Pete: That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Justin: Regular bones Wolverine? Pete: Yeah. Justin: But the Lobo book… I forget what it was called, but it really told the Lobo side of the story, but it all was a part of the main story, we just got to see this little fragment fully told in the side book. So I think this is real. This is part of it. Pete: [crosstalk 00:04:03], said frag. Alex: I mean, I'll tell you what. This is an event that really could have used a checklist in the back of every book, which seems like such a dumb thing but we're about to talk about King in Black in a second and a lot of those tie-ins kind of matter, but maybe not as much as the main King in Black book matters, but it's very handy to look through and go, okay, have I read that? Have I checked that off yet mentally in my mind yet or does that come after this other thing? There's so many different spinoffs and other things that it would be very easy to skip this issue and discount it as, Oh, it's just another tale of the dark multi-verse or something like that, which mind you those books have been good as well, but I think there would have been a better way of executing that instead DC seems very allergic to recap pages and ways of letting people know how to follow their events and I wish they would do that a little better because I think ultimately that would be even more rewarding for the constant fans. Justin: The constant fans. Pete: I mean, that's the thing though [crosstalk 00:05:02], by not kind of making anything about it, they're really rewarding the people who read every DC book. Alex: They just need to put a note be like, Hey, this one's important. Justin: [crosstalk 00:05:17], strategically fraud choice if I may. Alex: All right. Well, let's move on to another big event. King in Black, number two from Marvel written by Donny Cates and art by Ryan Stegman. This is picking up split seconds after the end of the last issue of Venom, which I know I said mostly King in Black is important, but we got to watch Venom falling down a building for 32 seconds in the last issue of Venom. That he's been tossed off by the King in Black by- Pete: [crosstalk 00:05:44], don't say he's been tossed off. That's not- Alex: What are you talking about? Justin: I mean, that's- Alex: What do you think that is? Justin: … exactly. Alex: [crosstalk 00:05:52], like. Justin: Is that degrading? Alex: You can't say you toss somebody off. That's not good. Justin: [crosstalk 00:06:00], he had his salad tossed off the building. Pete: Yeah. Alex: [crosstalk 00:06:06], Oh my God. Is that what you want me to say? Pete: No. Justin: Yeah. He got- Pete: No. I'm trying- Justin: Someone brocked his world. Pete: Somebody brocked his world. Alex: [crosstalk 00:06:18], is dealing with the fallout of the last issue where the world has been taken over by [crosstalk 00:06:24], or at least New York city. Some of the Avengers are trying to rally to get Venom, and unfortunately spoiler, by the end of the issue they fail at Eddie Brock dies. Oh, I couldn't believe that… I was like, Oh, this will cut and then [inaudible 00:06:41], will swoop in and save him. He's not going to hit the ground. Smash. Justin: It's about time somebody killed this maniacal Spider-Man villain. Pete: Oh my gosh. Alex: So where do you think this is going from here? Do you think Eddie Brock is actually dead? He's going to come back to life, is his son Dylan going to be the new Venom? What's the goal here, granted that we're only a couple of issues through the King in Black event at this point. Justin: I like this event a lot because it's going hard yet we're still getting the emotional bits. I think Donny Cates is very tactical. Like the issue of Eddie falling did feel like a sendoff and then to have him die in this issue feels like maybe he is dying, but I'm pretty confident he's going to come back. He'll become a full symbiote or some version of that will be where he goes. Pete: I hope so because I really got into the father son relationship here and it was weird that while he was going through all this… Like they just had his son playing video games in another room, I was just like… I feel like someone should have- Alex: [crosstalk 00:07:45], a son? Pete: Ooh. Wow. That's [crosstalk 00:07:51], like a jilted father. A jilted dad. Justin: No. Pete: Yeah. Jesus Christ. Justin: The other day Alex's son, it was bring your father to school day and he brought in his Xbox. That's true. Pete: He was like Master Chief is my dad. Alex: Great book. Next up let's move to the end of an event Firefly: Blue Sun Rising number one from Boom Studios. Written by Greg Pak. Art by Dan McDaid. This is as I just indicated wrapping up the Blue Sun Rising event where now Reynolds and the crew of Firefly are taking it to Blue Sun, the evil organization at the heart of a lot of things in the Firefly universe. Even if you haven't been reading this event religiously this is great. This is a good- Justin: So good. Pete: Fucking Greg Pak man. Alex: … chapter in the Firefly universe. Love this stuff. Justin: Yeah. I mean, Greg Pak has done a great job of really… Took the characters from Firefly and Serenity and put them in a very different place at the start of this run and then he's really brought them back. It really feels like a great episode of Firefly or even the sort of climax of the Serenity movie. Like really great action puts the characters in a situation where they know how to succeed by fucking everything up. Introduces these other characters that aren't part of the main crew, but still fit really well. I think this event is just such a great run on this book Pete: I've kind of been an outsider for this world, but this book did such a great job of bringing me in getting to care about these characters. This was an emotional ending. I thought it was really, really well done, and so well-written. This Greg Pak guy is unbelievable. I just really love that last panel and the let no one take the sky from you. Oh, just beautiful. Alex: Great stuff. Definitely pick that up. Moving on to another surprisingly emotional issue, Ice Cream Man number 22 from Image Comics written by W. Maxwell Prince. Art by Martine Morazzo. Now we've talked about every issue of this book. Pete: Every goddamn issue. Alex: Well, every goddamn issue because it's fantastic. The art is absolutely gorgeous. It's terrifying in exactly the right way. All these small or big heart tales that parse out may have a loose continuity with them, but this one is very different. This is a advent calendar focusing on a character who's trying to deal with the fact that she's pregnant, her parents are over religious, what should she do about it? And it ends up having kind of a sad, but very hopeful ending for Ice Cream Man. This was a very refreshing change of pace and I really liked this quite a bit. Pete: Well, that's the thing. Like I couldn't enjoy the refreshing because I was so worried about how this was ending. I was just like, “Oh God, what are we doing in this issue? Is the horror going to go too far? Like holy fucking shit.” But I was really impressed with the ending. I thought it was very touching and a nice turn. Justin: Yeah. I mean, this was so refreshing that you might as well call it Lemon Sorbet man, because- Pete: There we go. Justin: … it's such a nice bright change of pace. I do think that it's sort of fitting at the end of a long difficult year to have even one of the darkest comic books on the stands really have a bright ending, but still able to talk about really interesting stuff, bring us to the edge of that horror. It's great. This book is always great. Pete: I also really like how the house in the last panel, the way the windows are opened. It almost makes the house look like an advent calendar. It's just really, really impressive. If you haven't checked this out, please do. Like every panel it's just… They're really playing chess with this. It's just very impressive. Alex: Totally agree. Let's move on to one that I was pleasantly surprised by Labyrinth: Masquerade number one from Archaia. Written by Lara Elena Donnelly. Illustrated by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge and French Carlomagno. What Pete is alluding to is Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies of all time. Pete: You're, goddamn right it is. Alex: But I've been kind of iffy on the whole idea of continuing Labyrinth at all. What I really liked about this book is I feel like it found a fresh angle on the whole thing. We're told a story that takes place semi in parallel to the movie, has some new things to say with some new characters. Has some good things to say about memory. Adds some stuff to the continuity, and just the whole mythology of it and the art is really good as well as the coloring. I like this quite a bit. Again, I know it seems like I should be in the tank for this, but I definitely came into it being wary and was won over by the end. What was your guys' take? Justin: I think that Alex is fucking tanked, is what I think. He's in the tank, he's on the tank. This guy has tanked for this book. Pete: He's under the tank. Justin: Yeah. He's swimming in the tank. He's Scrooge dunking ducking the tank. I remember Labyrinth not perhaps as much as you. I remember if someone peeing into a fountain because we watched that in school and [crosstalk 00:13:15], a very salacious moment in my life, but this played like a book. If you're not familiar with Labyrinth, but want to give it a shot, it's very much like an issue of the dreaming in the same end universe or even an issue of fables. It plays by those same rules, it's a great story and you get to just sort of explore this world following this character. I thought it was fun. Pete: Yeah. I mean the whole time I was just thinking about how much [inaudible 00:13:43], loves this. Justin: There you go. Pete: But yeah, it was impressive. It was a new take on something that we've seen a ton. So it was nice to kind of like… I was impressed that it was fresh and the art was different, but it felt like it fit in the world. Yeah, I wasn't really a huge fan of the Labyrinth, you know? I mean, I respect the Bowie and stuff like that, but I was really impressed with this take and with this story. Alex: All right. Let's move from a book that Pete was sure that I was all over to a book that I was sure Pete was all over. King-Size Conan number one from Marvel written by Roy Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman and Steven S. DeKnight. Art by Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman, and Jesús Saiz. So this is a tribute to Conan. It is a bunch of short stories about different parts of Conan's life. As usual the short story collection, I think mileage may vary, but for my money I thought the last story by Steven S. DeKnight was awesome. I love that one. I thought that was great. The rest of them were like your standard hack and slash fair, but that was the one that I was really into personally. Pete: All right. You don't have to shit on the other ones [inaudible 00:15:06]. Alex: The other ones were pieces of shit. Pete: No. Justin: Wow. Alex: Is what I definitely think. They're not good art and good writing through out. Pete: Yeah, the Claremont one I enjoyed, but the Eastman one, it was like I got into a cozy sleeping bag from the '90s and just wrap myself self in nostalgia and was just so happy. It's just great to see his art. I mean, it's a little weird in color, but it's still just it's so grimy and fantastic in all the right ways and I think it fits with Conan. It's cool. Alex: Did you find any poggs at the bottom of your sleeping bag? Pete: No. Justin: Get out of that sleeping bag dude. Pete: I was never a pogger. Justin: Okay. Pete: Never into the poggs, but yeah, I think this is great. A lot of great stories. Yeah, and the last one was cool. Also the art themselves we're very different, but really worked. It was impressive. Justin: Yeah, I liked this a lot too. Conan's one of those characters that has these three iconic eras. Then I think if you haven't read Conan, Jason Aaron's run on Thor sort of echoed in a really good way, where it's like young Thor, young Conan, middle sort of Thor, that's confident and a great warrior and it sort of seeded all and then King-Conan who is sort of a little bit over it, and I like all these stories. The first one I thought it was really cool because it dovetails so nicely with the original publication of Marvel's Conan: The Barbarian, which that was a cool little note and then my favorite version of Conan the more recent books of the last decade or so are the ones when he's with Bêlit his pirate queen. So it was nice to see her again here. Alex: Yeah. Good stuff overall. Next up An Unkindness of Ravens number four from Boom Studios written by Dan Panosian and illustrated by Marina… Marianna, excuse me, Ignazzi. Here we're finally kind of getting some answers about what's been going on, but this book there is a teen witch not named Sabrina who has come to a small town, find some weird goings on. There seems to be two warring factions who were both gunning for her, and here a lot of the things that we have suspected since the first issue come out. I like that they aren't wasting a lot of time on this mysteries in this book and they're finally pulling the lid back on them so to speak. Justin: Agree. Though that I will say the beginning of each issue has some good mystery building stuff where we're getting a totally different sort of art style and some backstory stuff that I think is really cool. Dan Panosian who we had on the show is the writer of this book and he… The Panosh as he has never- Alex: [crosstalk 00:17:56], calls him that. Justin: As he's never been called in his life. He illustrates the beginning of each book, which I think is very cool and then the main story it's really good. The art style is sort of in that Archie world, but telling a story that sits right alongside Sabrina, if you're a fan of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Pete: Yeah, I agree. It's cool. It's almost like making fun of the Archie style in a way, where it's just like a little edgier. Also I think it works great. I'm impressed with this story. Also you shouldn't take old timey pills in a paper cup and then drink. You know that's just a bad combo. Justin: What are the oldest pills you think are safe to take? Are you talking about… Like when you say old timey, do you mean like… Because the oldest pills were just little pebbles that people would take. Pete: Oh, thanks man. Just the- Alex: Yeah. OG pills? Pete: OG pills- Justin: Yeah. Pete: Yeah. The original gangster of pills. Yeah, it looked like those old little paper cups that you see and he was just kind of tossing back some classic red and white pills there, and yeah. The art style is kind of like this Archie, but different, but the facial expressions are really great and especially in the main character. I think this is fun and different and cool. I like it. Alex: Next up Sea of Sorrows number two from IDW written by Rich Douek. Art and color by Alex Cormack. We had- Pete: [crosstalk 00:19:38], we had Rich on the show. Justin: Yes. Take it easy guys. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Yeah, not too rough. This is a story about a bunch of treasure hunters who encounter, or maybe some deadly mermaids. This is great. This is terrifying. This is the scariest issue I've read all week easily. Justin: Yeah, the tone of this book is just so good. The way they draw the depths of the water is scary. The way the art is from, it's so much… Like this is a very specific note, but it's like so much up and down like vertical when they're under water. Like when you read an issue of Aquaman or Namor. It's sort of a scene like you'd see on any other book except under water. With this I could see these real long angles of these people under water and just add so much tension to it. All the characters are sort of greedy, up to no good. It's great. Pete: Yeah, this is dark on top of dark and then scary as fuck, man. This is like a crazy book and it's intense to read because there is no hope, there's no chance. It's all going bad and the sea is a dark, dark place in this book and it's filled with things that are going to kill you. So this is intense and definitely worth picking up if you're into that type of shit my man, but get ready. Justin: Have you guys ever been in water before? Pete: Yeah. Justin: You guys are like really- Alex: Oh, man. No, I haven't tried it yet. Pete: Well, it was funny because Rich was talking about like… You know he's from New York City and he would go to the beach, but there's a real big difference. The first time I went into the ocean off of a boat where there's no land in sight, it's scary as fuck and I think this book kind of does a good job of really kind of grasping that. Alex: I panic when I get into the deep end of pools because I imagine there's a shark under me if I can't get to the bottom, so. Justin: Wow. Pete: Yeah. I'm ready to go to the ocean. Let's do this. Alex: No, man. You will- Justin: You really don't like the ocean? Alex: No, I really… Like I get an overactive imagination when the water is too deep and I can't see the bottom. We used to go snorkeling when I was a kid quite a bit and if we were on the low part, we're kind of swimming up to a reef or something like that. All good, but once we got past that where I couldn't touch the bottom with my feet, it really became like, “Okay, something is going to bite me. Something is going to eat me. What's coming? What's going to happen? Oh God.” And I would just get this spiraling panic until I got back to the shore. Justin: Oh, man. I can't wait for our triple Caribbean vacation. We're going to have a blast. Pete: No way, man. Alex: Good times. Let's talk about The Last God number 11 from DC comics written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Art by Riccardo Federici. Another guest that we had on the show this week. We had Phillip talking about this issue. This is the second to last issue of the first series in Felspire Chronicles. Yes. Pete, do you have a question or a statement? Pete: I have something I wanted to point out. Usually you do such a great job with your transitions, but I just feel like you really missed an opportunity from going from Seas of Star Wars to Sea of Stars. I just wanted to point that out real quick. Alex: You know what? I purposely separated them because I kept confusing them. Pete: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:22:58]. That makes sense. Alex: There you go you are absolutely correct. Later in the podcast, we're going to be talking about Sea of Stars number eight, but I kept them separate because I thought it was weird. All right. So let's talk about The Last God instead. This is a big dark issue where things go down. Justin: Holly shit. Alex: I don't think they're going to get out of this one. Pete: There's plucky kids. Justin: It doesn't look great. I mean, every time we talk about this book, it's all about there's just so much depth here of the fantasy, the mythology it's so well thought out. The art is amazing. It feels like the… Every page feels like the cover of a fantasy novel in the best way, and it does feel like a new take. It's like a ruined fellowship as Phillip said on the podcast and to get to be in that with them and still have it, it's not so stiff as it might come across. It's not like these people aren't saying we must continue. Like sometimes the sort of the token characters come across like they're still joking around, they're still like being real people and that's great to see. Pete: I got to tell you hearing PKG get worked up about this in how… And do it, he gets with just seeing the back matter in the songs and stuff in this issue really lets you know how deep this rabbit hole goes. Like you think you have an imagination of what you want to have happen. He has it worked out tenfold and it's really impressive. The art is just phenomenal. Each issue kind of takes you to this kind of creepy magic place. Yeah, this was a fantastic issue. Great ending. I really can't wait to see how this is all going to kind of go down. Yeah, man, the battle stuff is just glorious. Alex: Next let's talk about The Department of Truth number four from Image Comics written by James Tynion IV. Art by Martin Simmonds. Now earlier I said that Sea of Sorrows was the scariest thing that we read all week, I think I lied. I think this actually was. This book is incredible and this issue in particular is so expert at getting under your skin and making you feel uncomfortable. The writing is phenomenal. The art is phenomenal. If you haven't been reading this, this is about a organization, a part of the US government maybe devoted to not debunking conspiracy theories, but stopping conspiracy theories before they could become true based on everybody's belief. Here we get the belief that the characters of the organization is having challenged on their own as we find out more about Black Hat, the organization that's fighting against it and the stuff that they lay out here is so upsetting to read in exactly the right way. A fantastic book, but as I said very scary and very uncomfortable to read at the same time. Pete: I want to hear Justin take because he was saying this is his pick of the week. So I'm excited to hear what he's going to say. Justin: Yeah. I love this book. Like I'm a big news junkie and this book is like, Oh, this makes me feel so much better to have someone sort of digesting these things and making it make sense in a fictional context, but it actually is quite stressful to really feel these beliefs that real people in our world believe, and have it… The premise of the book is that if enough people believe in a very simple idea that is false, it still manifests in the real world and I think that is such a smart premise and scary and feels real to us. Like the book does this just great sort of loop-to-loop mentally for us as the reader, because the premise is about flies becoming real, but that's also happened in our world. It's such a smart book. Pete: That whole thing about Barack just blew my mind. I- Alex: And you believe it now, right? Pete: Yeah. It was just one of those things where they in this book were able to pull off kind of like a trope that we've seen in a lot of horror movies and spoiler, but the whole like “The room in the next room.” I was like, “Oh shit.” But like that's such a thing that I should have seen coming. It's just… Oh, man. It's intense. It uses real life that makes it scarier. Yeah, the art's phenomenal. This is a crazy read and it's really impressive. Alex: Two things that I wanted to mention about this book in particular. One, a couple of issues back they introduced these… Issue two actually I think, they introduced this star face man who are our main character that we are following who is new to The Department of Truth was maybe, or maybe not tortured by this being years back, wants to track him down and wants to stop him and it uses a lot of antisemitic tropes and as a Jewish man myself, I was very uncomfortable about it. Reading this issue the targets conspiracy theories around birtherism and Barack Obama made me realize in retrospect that, “Oh yes, of course they are trying to make me feel uncomfortable with this plot line. They're trying to make me feel this is upsetting.” And so to elicit that reaction, I think is the right thing. Alex: The other thing that I wanted to mention is the end of the book, and this is a big spoiler, but by the end of the issue our main character is told, okay, this Washington Post reporter and presumably his editor, you got to kill them. You got to just shut this down because even if they say they're not going to follow this up, at some point they're going to mention it and it's going to take on a life of its own and the Washington Post reporter I believe says something to the effect of, “Hey, you're one of the good guys, right?” And while he's crying, he says, “I think so.” And shoots them, and that in essence kind of defines and redefines the entire series because we realize, Oh, okay. We have a predilection to think that people we're following the heroes, maybe they're not. Justin: Yeah. And I think I had that same feeling of dread reading this about just controlling the truth is a slippery slope to be on. So that's a great tension for this book. One of the things I want to mention, there's an ad on the back of this book for the new Anthology series from W. Maxwell Prince, the writer of Ice Cream Man called HaHa, coming out in January. Very excited for that. Alex: Me too. Pete: I don't know if I'm ready for that. Alex: Neither am I. I feel like my wife, who is a clown is going to be hypercritical of it. We'll see what happens. Maybe we'll have her on the show. Next up [crosstalk 00:29:52], History of Animation number two from IDW written by Fred Van Lente and arts and letters by Ryan Dunlavey. Just a little note, we're going to have him on the show I believe next month or maybe February. Pete: Fred. Alex: Have a chat about this book, so that should be a lot of fun. This book is great. I know we talked about this the last time, but here we're finally getting to the point where Disney is ascended and Walt Disney at least in this world and probably in ours as well is a sociopath. Justin: Yes. Pete: Yeah. It's super crazy to read this. You know that Fred Van Lente just did all this off the top of his dome. Like this guy knows so much about Animation. Alex: He made it all up, right? Justin: Yeah. Alex: He made up all this shit? Pete: No, no. He just knows it- Alex: The Department of Truth. Pete: … because he lived it, man. He lived it all. Alex: Oh, God. That's crazy. Justin: He lived it. I love that little facts you learn every time you read any books that these guys do together, and this is so interesting. Like just one from the beginning here Marjorie Sullivan I think wife of the creator of Felix the Cat, notable drinker fell out of her window and died trying to hail her chauffeur while she was drunk. Just those little details, these little stories that are just so interesting, and then the way they incorporate imagery from the actual cartoons and animated projects they're talking about is really cool. Alex: And it's also funny. You know it could just be a history lesson that feel like reading Wikipedia, but they make it engaging, they make it fun as they have done with every comic they've done across the board. This is great. I'm very excited to keep reading this book and see how they get up to modern history. It's really fascinating so far. Next one Doctor Doom number 10 from Marvel written by Christopher Cantwell. Art by Salvador Larroca. This is the last issue of this title. I believe the last one we read was the first issue of this title. So I figured it was worth checking in. Part of the criticism I believe we had with the first issue was it seemed a little light and fun for a Doctor Doom book. This issue was not light and fun, [crosstalk 00:32:00], but definitely very dark in exactly the right way. I thought this was a great ending for the series. How'd you guys think? Justin: I agree like the first issue I think was called Pottersville last issue called Bedford Falls, I think those are two references to its wonderful life. My favorite movie at the holidays. So this felt very timely and it's just a great character study of Doctor Doom that we get to see played out here, cementing him as a straight up villain. He gets played a lot in Fantastic Four as sort of a little bit of a softie. He has a connection with Valerio thanks to Hickman's run, but I think this is the best Doctor Doom. He's a petty, very powerful super villain and we get to see that on display. Pete: Yeah. Just to me the way it ended was great. When it started, I was like what are we doing here? I don't want a different Doom, but just the way he's like never was, never will be good. Like that was just so bad-ass, such a great Doom kind of like ending. So I was really impressed with how this ended. Justin: You were like here comes the Doom? Pete: Yeah. “Here comes the Doom.” Alex: Well from Sea of Sorrows to Sea of Star number eight from the Image Comics written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum. Art by Steven Green. So we had Dennis Hallum on the show, live show a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was really fascinating frankly reading this now knowing that… Unless I got it wrong, Dennis writes the dad stuff and Jason Aaron writes the kids' stuff and knowing they kind of write on their own tracks, definitely redefined how I read this book, but still another good weird issue of the story of a dad and his son trying to find each other in the universe. Justin: Yeah. I mean, really knowing that about the book it definitely changes how you read it. This book reminds me so much of sort of last season late episodes of Adventure Time where it's like a little bit trippier it's a little bit like you don't quite know where the deeper underpinnings are blending with the fun mythology stuff and I'd love that. So I love this. Pete: Yeah. This continues to be just kind of like I'm worried about the kid and if they're going to find each other, but I'm also having such a great time with the amazing stuff that is happening and to see that the dad kind of get to have some fun in this issue was great. Before he was just kind of just scared shitless for his son and kind of panicking. This was I feel like a cool kind of turn where now both characters are kind of like looking for each other, but they're all both also kind of having fun out here in the Sea of Stars. Alex: Next up Transformers/Back to the Future number two from IDW written by Cavan Scott. Art by Juan Samu. I got to tell you I was fine with the first issue of this book. I thought it was fun, but okay. We get of course time travel story where the Decepticons take over the past of Hill Valley, turn it into a despotic future. Marty McFly has left there, but the reveal at the end that the DeLorean is a transformer was like, “Great. Now we're into it.” This issue paid off of that promise. It was a blast to read, super dumb and silly and fun in exactly the right way. Like I said, I had a blast reading this. I had a lot of fun. Pete, I'm sure you had fun as well. Pete: Yeah. This is just a ton of just kind of like mash up fun. You know like what's better than DeLorean being a transformer, spoiler also the goddamn skateboard is a transformer. Justin: Yes. Oh, you're not a fan of Skills. The transformer who's also a skate board. This makes me think like, can any wield object be a transformer? Pete: Yeah. Justin: Like- Pete: Well, also I got to say the ending was also a lot of fun. Doc Brown, looking like he's got the Mando gun going on and I tell you what, I don't know what future those ties are, but I can't wait to get there because that's a fun looking tie and I'm hoping to rock one, one day. Justin: Yeah, sort of the bandolier tie? Pete: Yeah, man. Justin: Here's what want to pitch given what I just said sort of an Amish wagon transformer series [crosstalk 00:36:46], wheelbarrow, there's a Turner, there's- Alex: My name is Rumspringer. I'm an auto bot. Pete: Rumspringer. Alex: Yes. There's more than meets the eye. Yeah, this is a blast read. It's very silly but it's very fun the right way. Next step action comics number 1028 from DC comics written by Brian Michael Bendis. Art by John Romita Jr. This is the last issue of Brian Michael Bendis's run on the title. He's wrapping everything up with the super family before he move on with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, who again we had on the live show talking about his new run so go check that out- Pete: [crosstalk 00:37:22], key guests. Justin: We're topical. Pete: Man. Alex: But what do you think about this issue? What do you think about Brian Michael Bendis's run on the super family as a whole? Pete: I thought you were going to be like, what do you think of this Brian Michael Bendis guy? Alex: Do you think he's going to do well? Pete: I thought this was very swing issue, cool ending, love the thank you notes by the desk cubicle, amazing art, touching story. I thought this was a great Superman comic. Justin: I mean, this is Bendis doing what he does best and Bendis writes great sum up issues for his runs, where he… Because his whole thing is like really bringing characters down to earth, having them having a take and really connecting with the other characters in their universe and that is what this is all about. We get to see this stuff from the Jimmy Olsen series where he has purchased The Daily Planet. Perry's very fun, we don't get a ton of time with actual Superman stuff happening here which I thought was interesting, but I love the family stuff. That's what I really liked about the run before Bendis took over so I'm glad we're sort of landing there because I hope that we'll play a lot in going forward and honestly, I don't feel as burnt by the Superman and Clark Kent revealing themselves to the world as I did initially. Alex: Yeah. I think that's a fair estimation of it and overall, this is a good fun issue. It doesn't feel particularly essential necessarily. It's been weird reading the sum-up issues before they move on to Future State where it's like well, see you later, is kind of what they feel like, but John Romita Jr art, it's good. He's drawn a good superman. It's a nice time. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Next up The Scumbag number three from Image Comics. Written by Rick Remender. Art by Eric Powell as considering the story of the worst guy on earth who can save the earth. Here, I think we kind of complete the first arc and move into the second arc or at least the second villain for our dirt bag hero naturally saves the world, but does some terrible things in the process. This book continues to be very timely in an interesting way and funny at the same time. Justin: Yeah. I mean, I agree. It's a classic Remender book where it's like a strong, good premise for a story. It's very funny, but there's always some stuff underneath. It's really like commenting on our world in a way that is really nice. Pete, give me your take on this 1978 Firebird trans in. Pete: Come on, man. I mean I was a little disappointed with the sex doll edition, but that is like, Woo-hoo, baby. Justin: Now that's a transformer, right? Pete: Yeah. it should be. Justin: I do like the last page that sets up our next field and as you said Alex, the sort of accolade looking people hundreds of them on laptops typing on the bright side of the moon with a mysterious villain watching over them is a great setup. Pete: I also like how there's this line with the scumbag, you know what I mean? Like okay, the scumbag gets to be a scumbag at different moments, but it's also like, “Hey man you can't be a piece of shit and have superpowers. That's not how it works, you know?” And that really kind of comes back to- Justin: Oh wait Pete. Actually, have you ever met villains? Have you ever met any supervillains? Pete: No, I haven't. Cause I'd probably be dead if I did, but thank you for asking? Justin: No. I mean, have you ever read about them, because those people are mostly assholes who have super powers. Pete: Oh, okay. Interesting take, but- Justin: And I'll also mentioned Eric Powells art, which is like what if Mad magazine, but super fucked up, which is fun to read. Alex: It's just a fun book across the board. Let's move to a slightly more serious one Scarenthood number three from IDW. Story and art by Nick Roche. Color by Chris O'Halloran. In this book we've been following a father and his friends, who have to deal with some weird going on in their town, around the school that their kids go to. Here a lot comes out about our main character that makes him I think in a really interesting way less palatable as well as we get the lid blown off when it comes to the supernatural storyline. It was definitely a big issue. Justin, you've been really liking this book in particular I think. Justin: I like this book a lot because of those swerves that it keeps taking. It's interesting we've spent the first two issues really in the head of our main character and then the perspective totally flipped. I love being inside people's heads except for the year that I was trapped inside Pete's head being John Malkovich style. That was a weird ride. Pete: Yeah. You almost didn't make it out, man. Justin: That's true, but boy I learned a lot about your schedule, what you do on your private time. Check out the upcoming memoir- Pete: Yeah. I think this is definitely what it's like to be a parent. Justin: … if I did it the page story. Pete: You know, like you've got your responsibilities to your kid and then you have a group of parents that you get together with and you solve crimes and ghost stories and stuff like that. So I feel it's nice to have a representation of what it's like to be a parent in this world. Alex: Yeah, I agree. Let's move on and talk about US Agent number two from Marvel written by Priest art by Georges Jeanty. This is continuing a story where US agent is dealing with a lot of things. I'll tell you what, I honestly had a little bit of trouble following this issue even though I remember what happened to the last issue which I think we all liked quite a bit, but the Georges Jeanty art still reliably very good. Justin: Yeah. I agree. It is. I don't quite know the full take of this story, but I do like it. I like the scenes, I like the issues we're touching on here and I just like US agent as a character. Like what if captain America was sort of a jerk, but really had an inferiority complex, but was always trying to do the right thing. So I like where this book is living. Pete: Yeah. I had a little bit of a hard time following what was happening, but it's cool. Alex: All right. Well, next stop then Undiscovered Country number 11 from Image Comics written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule. Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Leonardo Marcello Grassi. In this issue we're starting to get into the, if not wrap up, at least the back half of the unity storyline. We are in the second ring of a closed off America that has all followed focused on tech, turns out it's terrible. They're powered by baby brains. There is a basically dead woman living in a giant vagina who runs everything and she wants our heroes brains to join them. Alex: Here's something that I thought was fascinating about this issue, and this is definitely a spoiler for the issue, but I certainly realized this and the characters realized in this book, they're given a challenge. There said Aurora, who's the person who runs America wants you to either choose a ring of America or keep moving to the next ring until you choose one, and by the end of the book they all realize they say, “Hey, you know what I think we need to do is we need to see all of these rings and get to Aurora and then bring what we've learned. That's the challenge here.” And that's certainly what I thought. I was like, “I'm ahead of this book. I know what's going on here.” But the fact that they said that out loud, that is 100% wrong, right? Pete: Yup. Justin: Yes. I think that was a classic bait and switch move that we get a little bit of a pay off right here. Pete: But also we're plug for the first-generation iPod in the middle of this. Alex: Still good man [crosstalk 00:45:23], click wheels are really good. [crosstalk 00:45:27], plus all crazy bass they had for songs on those things. Justin: You can listen to one whole U2 album on there, and that's the only thing. If I remember correctly, that's the only thing you can listen to on it. Yeah, I really liked this arc especially. Like we talked about it before, but it really focuses up a lot of the ideas and you have more of a sense of the characters coming out of the first arc. So it really moves in a nice way, and so many ideas. Pete: I think it's an interesting idea just like, Oh, you just got to give up your second born. Not your first born to be a floating brain just your second born, you know what I mean? No one really cares. Alex: I think I can do that. Justin? Justin: Yeah. Wait a second. Are you a first born or a second born? Because I think- Alex: [crosstalk 00:46:16], I'm a firstborn. Justin: I'm a first born. Pete, aren't you this younger brother? Pete: Nope. I'm a firstborn as well. Alex: Oh, great. Well this is all working out so well. The book is really good, definitely pick it up. Next up at last something… Oh yes. What's up Pete? Pete: I did want to say though that every time I think I have a handle on what's going on, they're like nope, not even close. Which is not really frustrating, but impressive that I could still be confused after this long, but man the art and the paneling it's just really impressive. Okay, sorry. Alex: No. It's all right. Last but not least Something is Killing the Children number 13 from Boom Studios written by James Tynion IV. Art by Werther Dell'Edera. We're finally getting an event that's been promised pretty much since the first issue where our main characters compatriots come to town and start killing everybody. She wants to shut down the monsters that are killing the children as quickly as possible. Every issue… I know I say this every issue, but so little happens but it's of such import to the characters, it still feels media at the same time and Werther Dell'Edera art is phenomenal. Another great issue of this book. Justin: Every single issue of this is just so great and the art is just… There's at least one or two panels where you're like fuck man I would love to have that. It's like a desktop background or a poster or something. It's just glorious. Alex: [crosstalk 00:47:49]. That would be so cool to have it as a desktop background. Pete: Yeah, because you get to stare at it every day you fucking dick. Alex: [crosstalk 00:47:57], a laptop. I don't want to brag or anything. Justin: Mr. Desktop over here. I would love to have it just as printed on my sheets. Alex: [crosstalk 00:48:05], to have it on my van. Justin: Yeah. The inside or the outside are both? Alex: Inside. I don't want other people to see. Justin: Nice. Alex: It's for me. Justin: That's for you. That's for daddy. Yeah, I like this book a lot. I will say the pace of this book is gotten, it's pretty… Not a ton of story happens each issue, and I'm curious if that will change. Because I think it needs to make some larger moves. So maybe- Pete: So you're saying this wildly popular book that is really impressive they should just change it? Justin: I think it could pace up a little bit. I feel like we've been in this narrative moment for quite some time. Pete: Yeah, but if you read in the trade then you're fucking fine, they don't have to change anything. Justin: Don't tell me what to do. Pete: Well, don't tell it what to do, enjoy it for what it is. 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On this week's Stack podcast: The Other History of the DC Universe #1 DC Comics Story by John Ridley Layouts by Giuseppe Camuncoli Finishes by Andrea Cucchi Monstress: Talk Stories #1 Image Comics Written by Marjorie Liu Illustrated by Sina Takeda Power Pack #1 Marvel Written by Ryan North Art by Nico Leon The Department of Truth #3 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds Dark Nights: Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson, Patton Oswalt, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, Saladin Ahmed, and Brandon Thomas Art by Juan Gedeon, Chad Hardin, Scot Eaton, and Thomas Mandrake Nailbiter Returns #7 Image Comics Written By Joshua Williamson Art by Mike Henderson Daredevil #24 Marvel Written by Chip Zdarsky Pencils by Mike Hawthorne Undiscovered Country #10 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcello Grassi An Unkindness of Ravens #3 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi The Last God #10 DC Comics Created and written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici Chu #5 Image Comics Written by John Layman Art by Dan Boultwood X-Men #15 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mahmud Asrar Excalibur #15 Marvel Written by Tini Howard Art by Mahmud Asrar and Stefano Caselli X of Swords: Destruction #1 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard Art by Pepe Larraz The Scumbag #2 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Andrew Robinson 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 week's show is sponsored by the Just Been Revoked podcast. Full Episode Transcript: Alex: What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin: I'm Justin. Pete: I'm Pete. Alex: And at The Staff we talk about a bunch of comics that came out this week, and we're going to kick it off with a big one, The Other History Of The DC Universe #1 from DC Comics. Story by John Ridley, layouts by Giuseppe Cammuncoli, finishes by Andrea Cucchi. You could probably figure it out by the title here as well as the cover, but this is obviously an alternate look at the DC Universe mostly through the eyes of Black Lightning, at least in this first issue. We'll see where it goes in subsequent issues. Alex: As he slowly works through his career, sees himself and other characters of color kind of pushed to the side of the DC Universe in favor of other characters like Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, learn something about himself, learn something about history. And mostly it's told through the images of course, but also told through prowess. Alex: I don't think there's really any dialogue whatsoever in this issue other than the what's told in the narration boxes. I thought this was pretty stunning, and almost across, this is probably too reductive, but across between a new frontier and the truth in a certain way. Justin: Oh yeah. Alex: What did you guys think about this book? Pete: I thought it was really touching, very powerful, moving, which was great. I really love the little Halloween thing, that was beautiful. Yeah, I was really happy to see this comic. I'm glad that this comic was made. It's a long time coming and I hope we get to see more of this. This is just great storytelling. Justin: Yeah. I mean, just the format, the art is so nice. It feels like such a statement. It feels like such a … It sort of has this silver age vibe to it, which I think gives it this historical precedent. It just feels so like something that will be on the shelf and in the conversation for a long time. Justin: And then like the otherness of it, like the way that Black Lightning story keeps getting told with the Justice League and the Glacier Heroes as a counterpoint, I think is really interesting. And like you said, Alex, the fact that he and just all the other black superheroes and black characters in this book get shoved to the side throughout, you really feel it throughout and feel that drive for what makes Black Lightning, Black Lightning. Alex: I cannot even imagine what it is like to read this book as a comic fan of color necessarily, obviously because I am white. But speaking as a white comic book reader, it is very hard to read from the perspective of Black Lightning looking at the other characters. And I don't know if you have this feeling, but I'm reading this and I'm like, “But Superman is not like that. That's not what Superman is like. That's not Batman.” I felt these walls kind of building in me of- Pete: Whoa. Look at you, you felt attacked. Alex: … Well, not attacked. Attacked is absolutely the wrong word, but this feeling of trying to wrap your brain around how somebody else feels about these sort of things is hard to do, and that's I think part of the point of the book. Because by the end you do get Jefferson Pierce starting to understand a little bit more of the wider world, bring down some of those walls himself and accept these things while still understanding that his experience is ultimately going to be intrinsically different from a lot of other characters in this universe. Alex: So it really brings you in, in that way as well. And like you said, Pete, there are multiple times I got choked up, just almost hitched, like is the best word for it, when something just snuck up on you in the book, these moments of strong emotion throughout, which I was very surprised about. And then the other thing you were mentioning about the art, Justin, it feels almost Neal Adams-like to me without being exaggerated, which I thought was kind of neat. Justin: Yeah, totally agree. It's a great book. And there I think there are what, four more issues? And this is coming up bimonthly, I want to say? Pete: We can't wait. Alex: Yeah, I'm very curious. I haven't read ahead about it, but I'm very curious to see whether it follows Black Lightning story throughout, which would make sense. And it's essentially a Black Lightning book, or if it's going to switch perspectives in nature too. Justin: I think it jumps around a little bit and touches on different characters. Another thing about this, the amount of continuity that is touched on here, and really owning it when it's like some of it is ridiculous, but really making it a part of this very real story I think is great. There's this Reagan pin with the Watchmen blood splatter on it, which I thought was very cool. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Great book. Definitely pick this one up. Next up, Monstress: Talk Stories #1 from Image Comics, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda. I'd admit I have not read Monstress in a while, even though I really enjoy this book. The art is consistently gorgeous. Plus it takes place at in a fantasy world with some half personas, I guess I would call them. Pete: Yeah, nice. Alex: Yeah, absolutely. Pete: Great use of that word, that just came up. That was really organic and natural. Alex: Thank you so much, Pete. I really appreciate it. Justin: Tip of the tongue. Alex: In this book, we find a backstory on one of the characters. It's sweet, it's sad, it's harry. The character designs are great. I like this book quite a bit. What did you guys think? Justin: I agree, I like this a lot. There's some fun cooking. The cooking is really used as a great moment in this story. And this reminded me, I mean, it's such a … When I was a kid, first, the sort of furry ears on a human head was in Super Mario Brothers 3. That was the first time I encountered that. And to know that, that's such a thing, I was like, “What an interesting thing.” And to know that such a thing in Manga and everything was a revelation. Alex: And now here we are, three guys sitting in our own Tanooki Suits recording a podcast. Pete: Wow. Justin: 100%. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Metaphor. Pete: Well, they bring up an interesting question. What's your favorite meal you've ever had? I mean, I think that's a great question to kind of put out there. And also I- Justin: Yeah, I guess what garbage plate do you like the most? Pete: … Also the art and the storytelling is really superb. It is very- Justin: Art is great. Pete: … complicated, kind of cool story that we're kind of thrown into here, and it's really cool. Alex: Let's move on and talk about Power Pack #1 from Marvel- Pete: Okay, yeah. Very good. Alex: … written by Ryan North. Pete: You can ignore my question, that's cool. Alex: Oh, you were asking about- Justin: Favorite meal? Alex: … best meal we ever had? Pete: Favorite meal you've ever had. Yeah. Alex: Favorite meal? Did you offer up your favorite meal or did Justin just say garbage plate and you're like, “Yeah, fuck you.”? Pete: No, Justin just made a joke about garbage plates, but nobody's answered it yet. Alex: Oh, okay. Justin: Do you want me to go? Alex: No, I can go. On my honeymoon, we went to- Justin: Woohoo. Alex: … Yeah, on my honeymoon. We went to London and Paris. And particularly in Paris, we were like, “We're not going to look at any guidebooks, we're going to wing it. We're just going to like … We're not going to make any reservations, we're just going to wander around, we're going to find places.” And we consistently made the worst choices in terms of restaurants, just like absolutely … Just the tourist trap and just not good spots, and it was obvious- Pete: The [inaudible 00:07:42] of Paris. Alex: … as soon as we sat there, we were like, “Oh, no, this is bad.” One of the last days- Justin: I heard Paris TGI Friday's is actually one of the best ones. Alex: Yeah, they actually call it TGI Friday's. Justin: Yeah, wow. Alex: I couldn't think of any other French words. Pete: In other words, he wouldn't have done that. Alex: [inaudible 00:08:00] Friday's. Justin: Yeah. Alex: Anyway, so yeah, we were having a great time, but eating not great food, which you would expect in Paris. And one of the last days, one of the things that we really liked to do was just get some lunch and sit down at the Lourve in the park outside, which is this beautiful park and just eat the lunch. And we stumbled across this place called Maison de la Truffe, which is a ridiculously expensive black truffle restaurant. Alex: And everything in there, insanely expensive. We could not afford to sit down and eat, but they had a to go thing outside. And the cheapest thing that they had was a baguette with some truffle butter and sausage on it, and then a tiny little thing of champagne, just like this big. Alex: And there was a sack of things which we called basically fancy combos, because they were essentially just little wafers with cheese inside. And we took those and sat at the Louvre, and had this meal, and it was the best meal I had in Paris hands down. But also one of the best meals I've ever had. Just everything was ridiculously delicious. There you go. Justin: That's a great answer. I'm going to- Pete: And you're still married to this day? Alex: No, we got divorced. That was my first wife. Pete: Aw, my bad. Justin: The French woman he married for lunch. Alex: Hey, people married for all sorts of reasons. Justin: It's true. Alex: Lunch is- Justin: Lunch is a good one. Alex: … Yeah. Justin: Yeah. Your eyes are bigger than your stomach maritally. I'm going to give it up for my mom's taco dip. Very good. But just as- Alex: I'm also going to give it up for your mom's taco dip. Pete: Oh my God, what just happened? Justin: … Wow. Pete: Oh my God. Justin: But I'll go international as well as Alex. I was in Japan. I was traveling by myself, and I was hiking. I got off the Shinkansen bullet train right near Mount Fuji and just wandered around. It was January, it was very cold. I was not dressed appropriately. There was a guy who was selling some sort of soup at a stand, just like on this side road. Got that soup, ate it sitting on a rock, great meal. Alex: Nice. Pete: Wow. Nice. Alex: Pete. Pete: I'll share too a travel one, the regulation one. Justin: Regulation. Pete: There is this seafood place outside of Pawleys Island in South Carolina, and it's called Frank's. I don't think it's there any longer. And they named it Frank's because three chefs went in to create this restaurant, and one of the chefs name was Frank. And when it was time to sign the deal, this guy Frank completely disappeared and left them, but they started the restaurant anyway. Pete: And they had this amazing blackened mahi mahi. And in the kind of bar area, where we were hanging out as a family, I played my dad for my dinner in this little ring game, it's like a giant ring attached to a fish line. And I won the game and I got to order anything I wanted off the menu. So it was pretty cool, and it was really delicious. I don't know if it was extra good because I won, but it was really quite good. Justin: Yeah, I think the meal you had that day was victory. Pete: Yes. But in Costa Rica, I had gone through a lot of crazy events where I was dating this person, or I wasn't dating, we were kind of there together on this trip. And then she got robbed, and then I went to go meet up with my other friends and we went on this kind of tour of the sanctuary, and these monkeys robbed this couple that I was with, and I had to … They were going to kind of pay for me for a little bit, because I was low on funds, I'd spent a lot of money early drinking. You know what that's like, Justin? Justin: Yeah. Get the all inclusive. Pete: Yeah. And so I was kind of just I had nothing to do, so I was just kind of walking around Costa Rica, and I stumbled across this place called the Sunset Hotel. And I walked around the corner, and there as the sun is setting is this Italian dude, and I was like … I walked around the corner and this guy goes, “Hey, how you doing?” and he made me a fresh pizza and it was phenomenal. Alex: Man, there were so many different places that story could have gone. I was not predicting the end of it. Justin: Costa Rican pizza. Alex: There was a point where I thought maybe your thing was going to be you ate the monkeys for vengeance. Pete: Oh, wow. Justin: Yeah. Pete: I'm not [crosstalk 00:12:53] Justin: The meal you had that day was vengeance. Pete: Yes. Alex: I think that reviews that comic book. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Definitely. Alex: Next step, Power Pack #1 from Marvel, written by Ryan North, art by Nico Leon. This is how you get to the much bladed outlawed event where all the teen heroes in the Marvel Universe are not allowed to practice superheroism. But it's also bring back together Power Pack for the first time in a while, in their new iterations. Alex: I do think very smartly they age them down quite a bit in this book. They've been aged up to be like, “We're cool teens, and some of us are adults and it's a little unclear.” Bring them back to basics while not ignoring the continuity is very smart. And this Ryan North is very funny, it's fun, it feels like a old Power Pack. It's better and winky throughout. I enjoy this book quite a bit, but I'm also definitely in the tank for it. What was your guys' takes? Pete: My favorite part is, “We interrupt this broadcast of jazz for middle-class dinner parties to bring you breaking news.” That was really funny. Justin: Ryan North is a funny writer, it's great to see him on this book. I put him in the same bucket as Mark Russell. As like anytime you see them on the book, it's consistently funny, which is hard. Alex: Yeah. Yes. Justin: Sorry I interrupted you, Pete. You can finish your view. Alex: No, that was the only positive thing Pete wanted to say. Justin, what did you think about this one? Justin: No, I loved it. It was great, super fun. Power Pack kids are fun, especially with the comedic angle. The art is very good. I'm curious how this outline event is going to play out. It does feel super disjointed. And it's sort of the same thing over and over again where these teen heroes suddenly are arrested, so I feel like this will be a fun version of it. Alex: Yes, I agree. Next step, The Department of Truth #3 from Image Comics, written by James Tynion IV, art by Martin Simmonds. This issue we're continuing to follow our conspiracy fighters, is I guess what we can call them. Basically conspiracy theories aren't real, but if you believe hard enough, they will become real. In this one, they're tackling gun control and crisis actors, and false flags and things like that. And man, it's very well done, very hard to read at points. But just like the main characters find it themselves, there's a lot of conflicting emotions that go on here, I think. Justin: I love this book so much. I agree with you completely, Alex. And this issue especially, there's so much reality in this comic. And the hard part is I don't know how many people who read this know about all these conspiracy theories, and the insanity that is spun around them. This one I happen to know a lot about, because I worked on a show called The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was about this … Justin: Jordan was playing this conspiracy-driven host, and so we dealt a lot in this world. And Alex Jones who this book is, this issue is sort of like drawing upon, who's like a very bad grifter person. We had to do so much paying attention to him as he descended into this madness. So this was especially, I was like reliving all of the actual news stories that were happening back like three, four years ago. Pete: Yeah, this is really cool. It's very interesting. Artistically, it's really, really impressive what they're doing here with the different art styles meshing. It is a little tough to kind of understand what is happening a little bit. But I didn't appreciate the kind of like, “Oh, I took improv classes, so I'm good at lying,” I thought that was a little heartbreaking, but- Alex: Just to clarify what's happening is, probably as far as we can tell in real life, this woman's son was killed in a school shooting. Then this organization, Black Hat, which we don't know why, but it's a tease that we're going to find out a lot more next issue, is trying to make conspiracy theories come to life. Alex: They drop off a film that whether it's a fabricated or it's real or whatever it is that seems to convince this woman that not only is her son alive, but she may actually be an actor who was an improv actor, so the entire thing was faked, and it starts to change the reality around her. She doesn't know what's real and she doesn't know what's fake. And what I think it does really nicely emotionally, particularly through the art, as you mentioned, is it plays on this idea of this fractured psyche that I imagine you're going through when you deal with unimaginable tragedy like the death of a child. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Yeah. And the fact that the premise of the book that this group is able to manifest these conspiracy theories when she gets this flash drive with these facts, these alternative facts on them. This book is so smart, it's so current, it's just one of my favorites on the stands right now. Alex: What happens when a robotic overlord in prisons a rant god and a humble narcissist, you get this week sponsor of comic book club, The Just Been Revoked Podcast. Join Chris G., Tom legacy and Mr. Rhace, as they discuss the origins, the ends and everything in between of all things film. Episodes are released weekly on Apple, Spotify, and all other major podcast platforms. Alex: Looking for a film podcast that has fun and doesn't take things too seriously, then check them out at justbeenrevoked.com. Let's move on and talk about Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Multiverse Who Laughs #1 from DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson, Patton Oswalt, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, Saladin Ahmed and Brandon Thomas. Art by Juan Gedeon, Chad Hardin, Scott Eaton and Thomas Mandrake. Alex: This is anthology that Robin King is telling, basically saying, “Blah, blah, blah. You've heard all of these dark versions of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman before. How about a couple of other dark multiverses? What would you think about that?” So we get to see three of them in this book. What did you think about this comic? Pete: Well, it's a collection of stories. Some of them are a little better than others, but it's fun. It's like The Coming King and all that kind of stuff. I thought that it's interesting enough. It's definitely turning it up, like the Dark Metal stuff has been doing, so Death Metal stuff has been doing. I thought this was kind of a cool a book to put out as far as like, “Hey, we're going to kind of let some other writers do some stuff on this,” and yeah. Justin: Yeah, it's a good mix. I really liked the first bit, the Scott Snyder sort of just bucket of random worlds where bad things happen to our favorite heroes. And the Patton Oswalt story I thought was great. Fun sort of Mr. Zsasz, right, is he villain here? And what it's like for him trying to be the cool villain in Arkham, and the consequences of that was. It was cool. Alex: This is definitely in my mind one of the lesser books in this event, everything else feels so necessary and interconnected. I love the idea of having else worlds that follow not the big three, that follow just more side stories, and I'd love to see more of that. But overall, I thought this comic book was fine. I think to your point, I liked the Robin King stuff. I thought Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner of course put together a fun story. But just so you know- Pete: They usually do. Alex: What? They usually do. Pete: They usually do. Alex: But it does not feel like something you'd necessarily need to read to understand the main act. Justin: It's a little bit of the lighter side. Pete: Yeah, it's just a fun- Alex: Yes, exactly. Pete: … Yeah, it's a fun collection of ideas and stories- Justin: It's like a little Dave Barry novel. Alex: Great. That's what I'd say as well. Nailbiter Returns #7 from Image Comics, written by Joshua Williamson, art by Mike Henderson. Here were literally getting into the beat of the issue as they delve further into Buckaroo, into this game that's being played by the new Buckaroo Butchers. And we get a bunch of psychedelic stuff, a trip to the past, some revelations, some promise of future revelations. I'm really enjoying what they did with this series, and it feels entirely different from what they did with the previous one. Justin: Yeah. Pete: Yeah, I agree. I think it's really creative, the art's fantastic. They do such a good job of pulling you into this world and kind of like with their storytelling, and I just was really impressed with this. It does a good enough job or moving the story enough where you know a little bit about what's happening to kind of follow along and not feel like, “I don't get it.” It walks that kind of crazy line really well. But man, just the art and the characters are just insane in all the right ways. The use of blood rain and then that skull who's just like puking blood on the pyramid is just insane. Justin: Yeah, I love the sort of dream sequence aspect of this book, it feels so deliberate to become right now, sort of seeding out a bunch of wild ideas that then they can call upon going forward. The art's so good. I've been a huge fan of Birthright also by Joshua Williamson, and this feels like if you read that and haven't read Nailbiter, it's definitely worth getting in on Nailbiter. Pete: Ah man, that's what I should've said for that lock and key question. Alex: On the live show? Pete: Birthright would have been great. Yeah. Alex: Messed up, man. Messed up. Next step, this is what I put on the stack to make Pete feel a little bit better. Daredevil #24 from Marvel, written by Chip Zdarsky, pencils by Mike Hawthorne. Pete, you're not in your head. No. Do you not feel better after this comic book? Pete: Well, this is a rough issue, man. I was so excited that we got Daredevil in our stack, but then of course it's a sad issue and I was like, “Oh, well, this is why his album put this in.” Alex: No, 100% not. Pete: Foggy is fighting and- Alex: Foggy is bad at his job. What's different about the usual? It feels like pretty status quo for our man, Mr … Pete: No, this is not status quo. Also there's too many people look like Daredevil. I don't know what the fuck- Alex: It's only one other than his twin. Pete: … is going on. Alex: Sure. Daredevil is on trial for murder, something that he is willingly doing. We also get, which I thought was interesting and I want to get your beat on, a Kingpin shower scene in this issue. How did you feel about that? That's something fans have been asking for, for a long time. Pete: A long time. Justin: You got to truly see the Kingpin here. Pete: Oh boy. I mean, they always do that in the comics with the well-placed steam or fog- Justin: It's a little fancy. Alex: I do that in my shower. Pete: … or whatever. I don't see any of the- Justin: Yeah, in my shower, Foggy Nelson is standing in front of my genitals all the time. Pete: That's smart. Alex: I thought this was really good and I loved where this ended up. Justin? Justin: I agree. Chip Zdarsky is really bringing all of the Daredevil characters that sort of have the most emotional stakes here together. You've got your Typhoid Mary, your Kingpin. We don't see many other of Daredevil's love interests, but only because they're dead. But his current love interest, we see Elektra here, Foggy his, I guess, friend, frenemy in a lot of ways. Pete: Fuck you. That's his friend [inaudible 00:24:52] Alex: I'm excited to see where this goes going forward, because it has the potential to really redefine the Marvel Universe. Justin: How do you feel about Daredevil wearing a suit and his costume? Alex: That's pretty weird, right? Pete: Yeah, that was weird, right? Alex: Just like when Nightwing wears a mask over his mask, and I'm like, “Choose one, buddy. It's fine.” Justin: Unnecessary for both. The suit over the suit feels, in a very serious issue, it feels goofy. Pete: Mm-hmm (affirmative). It does. Alex: Also, how much is he sweating? He's got to stink real bad. Pete: Wow. Justin: Yes. Pete: Yeah. Well, I wonder if it's like a fake turtleneck situation where he doesn't have the full suit underneath. Justin: Keep the suit, just that top part. Alex: I thought that, I thought he was just wearing the mask, but he's wearing the gloves as well. Pete: Oh, wow. Alex: It's the full suit, man. Pete: Yeah. Justin: It's the full suit. Alex: Yeah, double suit. Pete: Double suit is a lot. Justin: Slow down on the suits. Alex: Undiscovered Country- Pete: No double suit. Alex: … #10 from Image Comics, written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Leonardo Marcello Grassi. In this issue, we find out a whole lot more about UNITY, the second zone of America, as well as what happened to the past as things rapidly start to fall apart there. It was a pretty horrific reveal at the end of the issue. It makes a lot of sense. This is great. And I think we've been saying this a lot about this arc, but I finally feel kind of like I understand what's going out of this book and that makes me feel a lot better. Justin: And it's interesting because I don't quite know … The story is just as complex. There's even more happening because our characters have split up a little bit. But what I think makes more sense is this arc is using more of like a metaphor in describing America. So I feel like that gives us a baseline to really understand how the different aspects are coming together. Alex: No, I mean, you're absolutely right. I didn't really think about it until you said it like that, but thinking about it was like, “What does Destiny, the first zone mean to me?” Well, join other men, ride on sharks. Versus here, the idea that everybody is joining together, finding unity through the shared belief in science. Yes, that works a lot better. It's a lot easier to hook into even if it's- Pete: Yeah, but there's also giant whale sharks in here too. Alex: There's still giant whale sharks. Justin: Yeah. That's what I'm saying, there's just as many crazy specifics- Alex: And also- Justin: … but it's all under this one narrative line I feel like, it's a little cleaner. Pete: Yeah, under one nation. I love the man-at-arms shout-out, a little He-Man love in there. That was just great. It was fun to see. Yeah, I do. With each issue, I become a little less confused, which is great. The art and the character designs are just phenomenal, great kind of like last page reveal. This continues to be a very interesting, very well done book. I'm just happy now that we're kind of getting a little bit more of a grasp on what's actually happening. Alex: I don't want to call you out, Pete, but I feel like you've been confused about every issue that we've talked about in The Stack this week. Was there any we talked about that you were not confused about? Pete: Huh. Justin: We should say you got hit on the head with an anvil right before you read The Stack, right? Alex: Right. Pete: Oh, that's true. You think that affects? Justin: You think that affects? Pete: I wasn't affected by Chew. I was confused by Chew. Alex: Oh, okay. All right. Well, we'll get to that one in a moment then, that's good. An Unkindness of Ravens #3 from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Panosian and illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi. This is another one we're getting to kind of the meat of everything that's going on. We have a new kid- Pete: You're really hungry. Alex: What? Pete: You're really hungry. You keep talking about meat. Alex: Sweet, delicious, savory meat. Yeah. No, we're getting to the heart of the issue. How about that? Is that better? Justin: I love eating hearts. Alex: There we go. Where we're finding out more [crosstalk 00:28:44] about this town that our main character has moved to, the warring factions, what's going on behind the scenes. I continue to really like this book. Justin: I agree. I said this on the live show this week, but this feels like such a … If you're a fan of the Sabrina TV series on Netflix, which is not coming back for a little bit and you want something to fill the gap, this book is great. It also feels like a good, if you're a fan of Lock and Key, which we talk about a lot, this feels like a nice spiritual successor to that book. Justin: It's just the characters are really fun, the art is great. There's this sense of dread hovering over everything. And I don't really know … It's hard to predict where their story's going. It's witchy in the right ways and sort of arty in the right ways as well. Pete: Yeah. Art's great. It's really fun. It's kind of nice that we're getting into this world and what's going on. I think in a cool way that doesn't make me frustrated or confused about what's happening. But I think it's very cool with hinting at what happens and then the kind of reveal. The whole part where we're seeing these crows and then one is shot, and then we kind of get to see that. Really impressed with that. I think this is a very cool story. I'm excited to see how this is going to unfold, and whether or not it's going to be like a really great comic that will hold up, stands the test of time. Alex: Well see. Next up, Last God #10 from DC Comics, written and created, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Ricardo Federici. This issue, we find out some big revelations about what happened back in the day at the Black Stair. We find out more about what's happening in the present. And it looks like the bad things are coming for our heroes or maybe are already there. What did you think? Pete: Yeah. I mean, this really starts off amazing. We got some great actions, some cool ass dragon shit. Justin: Cool ass dragon shit. Pete: And then there's a lot of talking, and then feelings and then stuff. But it starts off really good. I'm excited to see where this goes. I think this is a very creative cool book. Justin: I like this book a lot. The art is so lush and just beautifully done. It feels like a classic fantasy story. You'd get like one little drawing on the cover or something. This feels like it's that full art and that same style for the whole story, which is great. And what I love about it it was really placed with the tropes of legacy and fantasy books where it's like the great heroes from the past, and now it's this generation's turn to fight. And this says, oh, maybe what if the first generation wasn't great, how does that influence everything? And it's just a smart take and a beautiful book. Alex: I agree. Next step, the books that did not confuse Pete. Chew #5 from Image Comics, written by John Layman and art by Dan Boultwood. This is the end of the first arc here as the two Chews are facing down, all of Saffron's crimes have been revealed. And things do not go necessarily how you might expect. Yes, Pete. Pete: What's great is they picked up right where they left off last issue. This is not the worst than when you kind of build up to the standoff and then you cut away from it to have backstory or some shit. So this was really great- Alex: Was that you, Pete? Are the continuity police coming for you? Justin: Yeah. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Oh, shit. Book it. Justin: Get out of [inaudible 00:32:20]. They're going to have a good questions that I think he might be confused about answering. Let me be honest. Alex: Oh, boy. Pete: Yeah, I like this. This is great kind of standoff, brother, sister stuff. This is really cool. Art is fantastic. And it's nice because it still feels like in the two world- Alex: The Chew-universe. Pete: … and it also feels a little different. Justin: The Chew-universe. Good. Pete: Yeah, the Chew-universe. Also, did you guys see the … It looked like a country monkey riding a smoking lizard walking by when she got out of jail? Alex: No, I missed that. Justin: I think that was actually in your apartment beyond the edge of the comic book. Pete: No, it's there. I had to double-check it. And also it looks like Sonic the Hedgehog was just shot outside the prison. It's really cool if you look at the background stuff. Justin: RIP. Alex: Huh. Wow. Justin: I like this book a lot. I was not a Chew reader of the original series, and this is … I'm not a Chewer. Pete: Yeah, you weren't a Chew head. Justin: I really like this though. It makes me want to go back and maybe read Chew, because this is very good, very fun. And I really like the character Saffron. The way that this story sort of positions the next move going forward, I think is great. Alex: I agree. Next up, we're going to get into it here. We're going to talk about our final X of Swords block as this big event. 22 part event is wrapped up here with three issues. Pete: Can we … Alex: What Pete? Pete: Can we just finish off this stack before we get into this giant argument here? Alex: Sure, we can jump ahead. I put the scumbag up last to space out the image comics, but let's talk about the Scumbag #2 by Image Comics, written by Rick Remender- Pete: Okay, my bad. Alex: … art by Andrew Robinson. This is about the worst man of the world. He's the only one who could save the world. We find out more about him and his powers. He injected himself with some stuff so he can save the world here. This is very much positioning that there is no right way to go as we have a terrible guy, who needs to stop some potentially more terrible guys from doing some terrible stuff. It's just a fun book stuff. Just a fun book. Doing some light political commentary here. Justin: Yes. Pete: Yeah. Justin: So good. Rick Remender- Pete: Oh, go ahead. Justin: … writes people who fuck up better than anybody. This feels like a great successor to Fear Agent, one of Rick's first books that we loved way back in the day. And the art by Andrew Robinson is so good, it's so sort of 1970s animated, influenced, it feels like to me. And I think it's just a fun book that has some real, like a lot of Remender's book, has some real commentary underneath, a bunch of jokes and characters just screwing up. Pete: Yeah. It's a lot of fun. The art is like gross, but also light. It's really interesting the way they kind of walk this line of like you hate this guy, but you're also rooting for him. Yeah, I think it's very well done, very creative. Rick Remender does a fun balance of tripped out, but also not too tripped out, where you kind of feel like that's all it's doing. I'm just really impressed with … There's a lot going on in this comic. There's a lot being kind of dealt with, and it does it seamlessly in a way that's fun and moving the story forward, and it doesn't feel rushed. Yeah, I mean, I'm impressed with this book. I'm excited to see how Rick Remender is going to break our hearts with some of these characters, because he always does. And yeah, it will be fun to talk to him about this next week. Justin: Yes. Alex: Yeah, there you go. All right. For real now, we're going to wrap up with our X of Swords block. X-Men #15 from Marvel, written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Mahmud Asrar. Excalibur #15 written by Tini Howard, art by Mahmud Asrar and Stefano Caselli. And finally, X of Swords or 10 of swords: Destruction #10, written by Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard, art by Pepe Larraz. Alex: Now, before we talk about this, we should really talk about how hard everybody worked and how we never want to put down the amount of work that people put into it. They drew this, they wrote this, there were editors who we really like who worked on this, assistant editors, people who printed it, the staples were very nice in the book and somebody had to put them in there. Pete: Yeah, this came together fast, and they got it all done on time. There wasn't any delays. It's pretty impressive what they put together. Alex: There you go. And that's our review of X of Swords. I like this event. I thought it was fun and good, and I love where it turned up. We talked about this before, but a lot of this was Saturnyne in the background, manipulating the situation to get into a place where she got almost everything that she wanted as we find out about the end. Alex: And the one thing that hitches me up a little bit is I don't care about Otherworld that much, just as comics continuity and comic book fan. So having everything pivot on that, brought it down emotionally for me a little bit versus having a pivot on the X-Men themselves. Alex: But I do like the moves they made here. I like where Apocalypse ended up. I thought the big battles were good. The art was phenomenal, just like huge, big battle scenes, enormous monsters. The scale of it was great, and just individual characterizations. Both Tini Howard and Jonathan Hickman write a great Ariana. I don't know who specifically was scripting her dialogue, but just super fun throughout this entire event. Just a really good event for her. And it's good stuff. Alex: I know Pete's going to disagree with this, but really good Cyclops stuff towards the end here. And I love the idea of holding Cyclops and Marvel Girl in reserve until the end and then be like, “No, fuck you. We're getting there. We're going to solve this problem.” And it really positions them in the place they should be at the lead of the X-Men. I enjoy this quite a bit. I don't think it was a perfect event by any means, but I had a lot of fun. I had a blast reading it. Justin, what did you think about it? Pete, we can get your haterade later in a second. Let's get adjusted first, a little more positive. Justin: The hater goes later is what we've always said. I agree, I do like this event. Art across the board is great. But yeah, I mean, it's a weird event. It's so weird as the first big event to have it be so fantastical, have it be so sort of like goofy at points. I agree with you, the Cyclops and Jean Grey stuff, it really felt like their ascension at the end of this event is what's important here. Justin: And to see them sort of outside of just the bureaucracy of the Quiet Council and maybe they can actually make some moves is exciting. Really establishing them as a family with Young Cable I think is very cool. Ariana also stepped up a lot. The Apocalypse fight, I don't know. I thought it was going to be a little bit more about Apocalypse and it felt like just a fight. Alex: Yeah, it was like, “What was that?” Justin: I mean, we talked about this, we sort of predicted this, that, excuse me, Arakko would be coming through to Krakoa. And with it hundreds of mutans, I believe, from around- Alex: Millions, I think. Justin: Millions? Alex: Millions. Justin: Oh, wow. Alex: Yeah. Justin: That's a lot of people hanging out on earth, which I think I'm curious how that will affect the continuity. It feels like a lot to add. A continuity that's already pretty wild. Alex: Well, I think the thing that, that adds, and maybe I'm wrong because who knows what is going on with the X-Men stuff? They can set up that Arakko is coming through and then not deal with it for 30 issues or something. But to me it feels like suddenly millions of mutants show up, you suddenly have a destabilized world situation that is already on the edge because of Krakoa. Alex: When you bring the mutant population up to potentially pre-Genosha levels, what does that do? What nations does that put on alert? And that puts the mutant state in a really, really bad place. As for Apocalypse, the thing that I did like is it ultimately got to this place, even though I feel like we didn't get enough fleshed out about the annihilation helmet, the idea that ultimately Apocalypse; A, is fundamentally changed by Krakoa enough that he can surrender, but also that it is Apocalypse's will that manages to win the day felt like a smart decision. Even if it wasn't maybe an action-wise satisfying decision. Pete, I know you're a champion of the bid here. Go ahead. Pete: Okay. Yeah, please. All right. Explain this to me, okay? They had, “You got to get your sword, you got to get to the fight.” Okay? So then we learned that none of that matters because it's about this helmet that speaks to you and makes you annihilate everything. But once Apocalypse puts on the helmet, he realizes that he's not going to let a helmet control him, so he'll take a knee and then that solves everything. And then, oh, Apocalypse you won, and okay, I'm going to banish a whole Island of people. Great. Pete: And then Scott Summers and Marvel Girl, who started this kind of whole thing with a bunch of weird meetings through time, decided this whole island that they helped create doesn't matter and fuck all you all because I got to go save my son, which I understand, that's cool, but they had like a whole Quiet Council meeting and it didn't matter. So it was kind of like this- Justin: But- Pete: … whole thing that we're trying to do, they threw it all- Justin: If- Pete: … out the window. Hey, I'm trying to finish here. Justin: If Wolverine did that you would have loved, and just because it's Scott, you don't like it. Pete: That's a bullshit thing to thing. Justin: It's 100% true. Pete: No, it's not. Justin: Wolverine does that every time. Pete: I'm trying to wrap my head around this whole detour of the X-Men world that we just took and why we did it, and the only thing I can come up with is giant alligators and dragons are cool, and fighting with swords would have been cool, but it didn't happen. We got drinking games and playing softball. And people will say that they will get married at the drop of a hat in the X-Men world. Alex: The Cyclops thing I do think a lot of this is about … A lot of this story so far has been about the X-Men … And we're not supposed to call them the X-Men, the mutants. They specifically state that in the book. They're like, “The mutants-“ Justin: There's a whole big paragraph. Alex: There's several of that. I know. Pete: Yeah, I don't read the paragraphs. Alex: You should read the paragraphs, they're kind of important. The mutants have made this big move to become one mutant state. And from the writing perspective, I think what they've done is how much stress can we put on that? How many things can we do to fracture that? And Saturnyne says by the end, “Two people have left the Quiet Council. They're going to have to replace it, it's going to be the non-ideal picks.” Alex: And now, not just Scott Summers is leaving with a small team to go save everybody, but everybody comes with him, which means, yes, it's the mutants united, but it also means as it states in those paragraphs, which I do think are really important. They've tried to ditch the X-Men name because it's something that's pre-Krakoa. It's an idea of like, it's a moniker taken by Charles Xavier. It's not an example of- Pete: The Lollipop Man. Alex: Yes, Lollipop Man. It's not an example of the United Krarkoa State, but the fact that Scott Summers is reclaiming this and then everybody's like, “Yes, we're X-Men. Let's go. It's go time,” creates this friction there that's only going to get bigger. Once you suddenly have billions of mutants who have been slaves up to this point, who we've never met before suddenly showing up, so it means bad things for the outside world. It also means bad things for Krakoa and Arakko. And dramatically, that's a really good place to be putting everybody. Justin: Yeah, I agree with that. This crossover feels a lot like Chris Claremont-esque. Like mid-Chris- Alex: I mean- Justin: … Claremont run, where it's like epic stuff that involves things that are sort of far flung from actual X-Men and mutant world stuff. Like getting with Lilandra and all that stuff, where it's like continuity heavy, where it's like, “Wait, what was that about that?” I feel like this will hold a similar place to a lot of that Claremont stuff, especially the other worldness of it, which I agree with you, I don't love all that. Justin: And this whole like captain … I know Excalibur was the second to last issue so that they'll have an outsize effect on it. But the Captain Britain Corp and all that, I was like, “I don't … ” This feels like such a side quest that so much of this event landing on that felt like, “Oh, I don't know about that.” Pete: It was just a lot just so Cyclops could have a Jerry Maguire moment of like, “Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me?” Alex: What did you think about the part where Cyclops said, “Show me the money,” though? That was pretty cool. Pete: Yeah, that was touching. It was sort of touching. Alex: Yeah. Justin: And what about Wolverine played by Jonathan Lipnicki? I know. Pete: Too tall. Justin: He's too tall? He's very short. Pete: I don't know about Jonathan Lipnicki so- Justin: He's tiny. Alex: You just referenced Jerry Maguire. Justin: He's the kid. Alex: He's the little kid that said, “Did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?” Pete: Oh, he's the kids with the spiked hair? Alex: Yeah. Pete: Oh, that's great. Yeah, he's a great [inaudible 00:46:41] Alex: Okay. What would you think about Renee Zellweger playing Jonathan Lipnicki, is what it was? Justin: Renee playing Jonathan Lipnicki? Alex: Yeah. Justin: Oh, interesting. Alex: Playing Wolverine. Justin: Oh, wow. That's great. Alex: With the little lemon face. Justin: Ooh yeah, just a pursed lip. Alex: She got the little lip. Suck on a lemon. Justin: I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is this little face. She's a good actress. Yeah. Pete: I don't know what you guys are doing. Alex: All right, that is it for The Stack. If you'd like to support the show and other shows we do at patreon.coms- Pete: Wait. Alex: … What? Pete: Do you guys think this whole thing was worth it for that ending? You guys didn't feel let down at all by the fact of like this fight wasn't a fight, it was just a, “Can we make Apocalypse kneel? And then having Cyclops just ditch everyone because he wanted to go somewhere else.”? Justin: I liked it. Alex: Yeah, I liked it too. I think there were enough big moments particularly in these last couple of issues that I really just enjoyed from an artistic, from a big action perspective, literally using the S.W.O.R.D. Space Station as a sword to pierce a wormhole and attack these evil armies. Just the huge armies attacking everybody, the X-Men jumping through directly at the screen, the fairy soldiers or whatever it was jumping through. Justin: The screen? Alex: Good stuff. Just a lot of people coming from the sky and heading straight towards camera was a lot of fun. Justin: Yes, and it's surprising. A lot of Hickman big storytelling, you can't predict it. It's sometimes a little weird and wooly, but it's like in the end, it's really well thought out and smart, and very difficult to predict, which I like in storytelling in general, especially comic book storytelling. Alex: It's also something that relatively speaking felt like a complete story, which I don't think we've gotten in a really long time with events. It's usually by the latter half, it's all about setting up what's next. And certainly we get a fair amount of setup, but this started with the story of Otherworld, ended with the story of Otherworld, and that's what it was in between. It went on a bunch of side trips, but ultimately it all came together that way, and that is pleasing to me from a story perspective. Justin: It was pleasing, we say. Alex: It was pleasing to be … If you'd like to support the show at patreon.com/comicbookclub. We also do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM. Podcast ahead on YouTube. We would love to talk to you about X of Swords, that's going to be our big topic of conversation. Over the next I would say- Pete: It's 10 of swords, but there's going to be no fighting. Oh, you're going to love it. It's going to be smart. Alex: … There is a bunch of fighting. Pete: There's going to be a lady who- Alex: Wolverine cutting a man's arm off. Really? Pete: … you get confused with the ice queen the whole time. But then it's not her, even though it looks exactly like her, but ah, it's going to be great. Alex: Oh, I'm sorry. Are you being racist towards white, blonde women, Pete? Pete: Yes, Karen. I am. Justin: This took an odd turn at the end, just like the X of Swords. Alex: There you go. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. @comicbooklive on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next time, checkout my mom's taco dip. The post The Stack: The Other History Of The DC Universe 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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It's a bit of a long one today as Becca and Gary wrap up the last of October's events, new books, and spooky shenanigans! Events This Week: Tuesday, October 27th: Virtual Pop Culture Panel Series: Japanese American Voices in Graphic Novels Tuesday, October 27th: Jon Peterson, Kyle Newman & Michael Witwer Wednesday, October 28th: R.L. Stine and James Murray Wednesday, October 28th: Own Your Magic YA Panel Thursday, October 29th: YA Fantasy Panel New This Week: Heroes' Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook by Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Michael Witwer Warriors of Wing and Flame by Sara B. Larson Furtune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend Caraval Collector's Edition by Stephanie Garber Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams The Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David A. French The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay and Tracy Lynne Oliver Jane in Love by Rachel Givney Just Beyond: Welcome to Beast Island by R.L. Stine, illustrated by Kelly & Nicole Matthews The Eyes of the Queen by Oliver Clements Magic Dark and Strange by Kelly Powell Dying is Easy by Joe Hill, illustrated by Martin Simmonds How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross You can now find us on Patreon! Unlock exclusive content by subscribing today! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra! Send us your questions to podcast@mystgalaxy.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube! And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com!
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On this week's Stack podcast: The Department of Truth #1, Shang-Chi #1, That Texas Blood #4, Batman: Three Jokers #2, Chu #3, X-Factor #2, Nailbiter Returns #5, WW84 #1, Sea of Stars #7, Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #2, Ascender #13, Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey #3, Rogue Planet #5, The Immortal Hulk: The Threshing Place #1 and X-Ray Robot #2. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Transcript: Alex: What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Pete: I'm Pete. And- Alex: And I'm… What? What? Pete: Real quick. Alex: Yeah. Pete: You still have the two owls fucking up behind you. They're still fucking each other behind you, in between shows, you could have taken one down or separated them. Alex: Listen Pete, you do not know that the same people who watch our live show are also listening to our Stack podcasts. Don't assume that there's a continuity there. Just to explain to everybody just listening to this podcast. Pete: I am listening. Alex: There are two owls who may or may not be fucking behind me. It's unclear, and nobody knows. All right? Pete: Okay. Alex: But I will say one of them has a very deep hole and the other one does not. Pete: Stop saying that. Please stop. Alex: It's a puppet. It's a puppet. So you can put your hand in it. That's what I'm saying. He'll wear you like a puppet, Pete. Let's talk about The Stack. There's a bunch of books that came out. Pete: So many books. Alex: So many books for us to chat about, and some big books as well. Kicking it off with The Department of Truth. Number one, print image comic… Pete: Oh, you want to start with your favorite? Alex: I want to start with my favorite. There's also a ton of hype on this book, so I'm excited to chat about it. Written by James Tynion IV, art by Martin Simmonds. James Tynion IV, as we talked about a lot on all of our podcasts, has been on a roll lately. And in particular, I think like… This is not an insult, but Wind, maybe a little less so, even though I really enjoy that book, but there's something about- Pete: Wow. Fuck you. Don't. Alex: Something is Killing the Children came out and there was an insane amount of hype on it, and then it delivered. The Department of Truth seems sort of to think like such a clear title, you know what this book is on going in, and then it completely delivers in the first issue. I'm almost reticent to spoil it because it is one of those books, in my mind, it feels like a Brian Kay von book, where you read it and you're like, “Yes. Okay. This last page, this got me.” Pete: Oh my God. The last page though. Alex: Yes. Pete: But that's the thing, you said you read it and you know what's going on, I did not. It took me a while to kind of piece it all together, but man, by that last page you are hyped. Alex: Yes. Pete: You are so hyped and ready for the next issue. It's unbelievable. But the art is are really cool. It really fits the tone of what they're trying to do in such a great way. Alex: Yeah. Pete: And man, is the book good. Alex: I know we're bouncing around and not actually mentioning the plot here, and part of it is by design. Pete: That's how I like to talk. Alex: Well, I don't want to tell the people what the plot are, because I read the book, not actually knowing what it was, then read, went to Image Comics' website and looked at their blurb, it gives away too much. I didn't want to know any of that stuff going in. Alex: So, go in totally clean, know that it is a thing. You could probably tell us from the title, but it's a thing about kind of conspiracy theories and the government. I think that's all you need to know. Pete: Don't spoil it. You fucking ass. Alex: That's all I'm going to say. The art, the writing, everything, it feels to me, it feels like a vintage vertigo book. Like a book that like would come out at the same time as Sandman and everything else where you'd be like, “Oh shit, this is going to change the industry.” Alex: And now it's another in a line of amazing books from Image Comics, but it is great. And to your point, Martin Simmonds art, it feels a little… Ah, who's the guy who did 30 days of Night? Is it Ben Templesmith? Pete: Yes. Alex: It feels a little like Ben Templesmith on the art, but it's different enough. James Tynion is on a fire here, and it is a book that feels insanely current, like insanely current. Pete: It's really well done. It's just so good. I wonder if the people at Image are just high fiving themselves like, “We're fucking killing it right now. You can't touch us.” Alex: Well, the thing that is, I think, so great about this book, and again, this is not spoilers, this is just kind of skirting what it's about, is that it is about our current moment in time and our current political moment in time, but it's fun to read at the same time. It's still scary at points. It's fun at points. There's good action. There's good adventure. There's good weirdness. Great, great book. Do not miss this one. Pete: Really great book. Alex: Don't miss it. Alex: Next up, another book that I'm going to say don't mix, Shang-Chi, number one from Marvel, written by Gene Luen Yang and art by Dike Ruan. This is another one that I wasn't sure about going in, but as usual, Gene Luen Yang killed it. Alex: We get Shang-Chi, turns out he's part of a dynasty of five weapons. It's very similar on the surface to what happened with Iron Fist, where there were those seven immortal cities, but it goes in a very different direction by the ed. Super fun. Great last page. I'm 100% on board with the character, and it's a very different take on Shang-Chi. Alex: It's clearly calculated to have something that has a trade or multiple trades on the shelves by the time the movie hits, but you will not regret picking up this comic book. Pete: I'm so happy with the team behind this book. So happy for this new relaunch of Shang-Chi. One of my favorite characters as a kid, also get a little Fin Fang Foom, which I was totally pumped to see. This is a great book, great art, fun storytelling, and it picks up and you think like, “Okay.” But then you're like… It just does such a great job of unveiling the story in such a way that kind of is a little different than what we're used to, but still has all the action and stuff that you want. Pete: I'm very impressed with this book. I'm very excited to see how this is going to move forward. And also this was the first Marvel book that I read with the Brian Starfreeze- Alex: Stelfreeze? Pete: Stelfreeze, sorry. Stelfreeze tribute to Chadwick Bozeman, and it's very fucking moving and an amazing art and so powerful. And I'm so happy that Marvel is doing this. Alex: Man, they really went all out for that. I mean, just to talk about that for a moment. A lot of last weeks books had the Chadwick Bozeman tribute [crosstalk 00:06:51] rest in power branding on it. But this week, there's a whole testimonial from Ta-Nehisi Coates. There was the art, as you mentioned. And yeah, it's really powerful stuff. Pete: Yeah. It's really moving. Alex: But yeah, that's all said about Shang-Chi. One of the things that I love about it is Yang does such a great job of sneaking humor in out of nowhere. The rhythm of his humor, it almost sneaks in from the side in a certain way where it's in the middle of an action sequence and suddenly there's a joke. Alex: It completely throws me in the right way where I'm like, “Wait, wait, hold up, this was a serious scene, what's going on? That's funny, that thing that you're doing.” It just makes it really fun to read, even as he's setting up these good characters, this good mythology. Alex: Getting back to the Iron Fist thing, it almost feels like a rejoinder to Iron Fist, which is very good, mind you, but to the whole conversation surrounding Iron Fist, the TV show, where people are like, “Dude, cast an Asian person, person of Asian descent as Iron Fist, or just do Shang-Chi. What are you doing?” Alex: And this comic series is very specifically to be like, “Here you go.” Pete: Thank you. Yes, please. Alex: Great stuff. Can't wait to read the second issue of that. Let's move on to one of our favorites here on the show, that Texas blood number four Image Comics, by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips. We had Chris Condon on the live show a couple of weeks ago, and that was super fun to talk to him about this book. Alex: This issue, we're continuing the storyline of this brother who's come back to Texas. He's discovered some bad doings around his brother who was killed. This is very much a middle of the arc issue, but there's still such good character stuff here. And there's such a good emotionally based character twist that happens as well. Every issue of this is great. I'm really enjoying it. Pete: Yeah. The storytelling, the pacing, the art, it's really, really well done. It's very interesting. They do a great job issue to issue, giving you more information on this bigger thing in such a cool way that you're just you're in and you want more and more and more. They're killing it on this book. Just the paneling, it's just really impressive package. Alex: Yeah. There's a great scene in here with our sheriff character, who we haven't seen a lot of since the first issue. Where he's sitting down with his wife and his wife is talking to him and his… If you haven't been reading the book, he has this verbal tick where he just says, “Well.” And that's pretty much it all the time. Alex: The way that the lettering plays out in particular, it reads so well as a scene where she's just- Pete: So well. Alex: Yeah. Yes. Where she's just kind of like needling him a little bit. And he's like, “Well.” And she's like, “Well?” Alex: It's great. Just the rhythm of that scene is so good. And just those little character moments are so nice. Definitely pick up this book. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Next one up, I'm very curious to get your take on this, Pete. Batman: Three Jokers, number two from DC Comics written by Jeff Johns and Jason Fabok. This is continuing with the storyline, as you can tell from the title of, there are actually three Jokers. There's the original Joker, the criminal, there's the comedian, and there's the performer. I'm forgetting what the third one is. Whatever it is. He's dead this issue. Pete: The criminal, the comedian, and the clown. Alex: The clown, there we go. And the clown was killed by Red Hood last issue. There's serious repercussions for this issue. I got to tell you, I am so stressed out reading this book, I can't quite explain it. Alex: Jason Fabok's art is phenomenal, but the feeling and the tension that Jeff Johns is putting in this through the characters is everything that should have been present to Doomsday Clock but wasn't, but is here. It's very hard to read, but it feels like that is part of the point. What's your take on it? Pete: Yeah. That's the thing. It is very hard to read. What sucks is it reopens a wound of… We get Jason Todd again, fucked up by the Joker in a way that's not cool and way out of bounds. And you have this hard conversation with Batman and Barbara and it's like, I'm reading this going, “Hey, Jeff Johns, what are you fucking doing to me over here, man? Well, I already lived this and had to live with this already. And then you're making us redo it.” It's very painful and I'm just wondering why. Why? Alex: Well, it's interesting to pair this with Doomsday Clock, I think, because Doomsday Clock, for all its faults, was Jeff John's mission statement on what Alan Moore had to say through Watchman, what Alan Moore had to say about superhero comics and what he had to say about the universe. Alex: It's certainly, at the very least in this issue, particularly given the last page, feels like this is- Pete: That last page was awesome though. Alex: Well, it's Jeff Johns' mission statement on killing Joke versus Watchman, which is not unimpeachable, but it's still a masterpiece of the forum, as we talked about at length on our Watchman watch podcast. Killing Joke has not aged well. Killing Joke- Pete: Well, that's also the thing, is the killing joke recently had a movie done that was awful. Just garbage in a way that was unnecessary and very painful. I went to the movie theater very excited about what I was going to see and got kicked in the nuts repeatedly. And now Jeff John's like, “Oh, guess what? I'm not done kicking you in the fucking nuts yet.” Alex: Here's your problem, you got to stop going to 4D Movie theaters, and then you won't get kicked in the nuts repeatedly. You pay extra for the shit, right? Pete: Don't bring up 4D, man. That shit is awful. Alex: Jason Fabok started [crosstalk 00:13:23] Pete: I think 4D is the reason we're in this fucking pandemic, because there's spraying in the seats and that's where the COVID started. Alex: Oh man. Pete, by the way, I love your podcast that you do out of Alex Ross's network. It's very good. Batman: Three jokers is also, I think, very well done. Makes me uncomfortable. I'm not quite sure where it's going. And I'm certainly nervous on the places it going to leave the Joker and Batman in continuity, when eventually things link up. But it's a nicely put together package, I would say. Pete: It's too bad Justin is not here. Alex: Yeah. He loves the tight little package. Next up Chew Number Three from Image Comics, written and lettered by John Layman, art and colors by Dan Boultwood. This is continuing the story of the Breaking Bad and the Chew universe as Chew's sister. Goes darker and darker. Now they're just good fun issue of this book. I'm really enjoying a lot and I'm enjoying revisiting the Chew universe through this time. Pete: Oh, see what you did there? Alex: Yes, I do. Pete: Yeah, I agree. This is just a fun extension of something we already love. Very interesting to kind of have these two kind of like sisters. It's very cool to see where this goes. I think it's just a great continuation of something, and the art and writing, it feels spot on to what we love and it's just great. Alex: Yeah. It took a little while. I enjoyed the first two issues, but this is the first issue that really feels humor-wise on the same level as Chew, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm very happy about the series. Alex: Let's move on to one I'm sure we're going to agree on, X-Factor Number Two from Marvel, written by Leah Williams and art by Carlos Gomez. This is the second part of 10 of Swords. I know I loved the first issue of this. I thought this is great. Alex: The second issue is a little more of a business issue as the team recovers from the disaster that happened in other worlds. Now, they need to find 10 swords to battle apocalypses, evil children. That's what's going on. Here though, they're dealing with the fact that Rockslide died, Apocalypse got killed, Richter almost got killed. And what happens after that. Alex: And we once again get a realignment of how death works in the X-Men part of the universe, that I though was very smart and ups the stakes of everything that happens. I'm really enjoying this crossover. Pete, I'm sure you feel the same. Over to you. Pete: This fucking sucks, man. This is such fucking bullshit. What the fuck is even happening? There is so much shit happening that it is just insane. There is too much to deal with. And then in between that, they're making us read these fucking briefing statements- Alex: Love it. Pete: … wherever the fuck they are. The signed affidavit bullshit. I'm so happy that Charles Xavier finally lost his lollipop head. I'm very excited in that. Alex: Can we talk about that moment? I know you don't like this, but the very fact that everybody, this entire time, since House of Acts and Powers of 10 launched, has been talking about, “Wait, the X-Men could just resurrect themselves whenever they want, what does it matter if they die? The moment when, and this is a big spoiler for the issue, but they try to resurrect Rockslide and it goes horribly wrong to the point where Xavier's helmet shorts out, and we get to see every other helmet short out. Alex: I screamed, is probably too strong, but I definitely was gassed at that moment, because it was like, “This is all over.” It turns out that's not exactly what's going on, but that the stakes are that high for this thing, I thought was great. Pete: Yeah. You said this thing, because you don't even know what the fuck is going on. Alex: I know what's going on. Pete: Your shit is too confusing. And it's weird because it's like, okay, here's a shot of Xavier's helmet in a root bath, overlooking something. And then, oh, here's a shot of Xavier's helmet in a root bath that's in space, in a root bath that's somewhere else under a sun and then water. Alex: Hold on. This is the most- Pete: What is happening in this book? Alex: This is the most excited I've been about the X-Men in decades. Pete: Congratulations. You should- Alex: Thank you. Pete: … read X-Men more. I think that it's just sanity stacked on insanity, stacked on insanity. We have to deal with the first thing you did before we can move on. We're barely dealing with the fact that all the X-Men said, “Hey, fuck you to the rest of the world.” Okay. Now you're on your own private Island, you're fucking each other, great. Then it's just one insane thing after another insane thing, and then this insane council that like oversees everything. It is just so much insanity I keep hoping like, “All right, eventually this is going to calm down so we can catch up to all the madness.” And it just stays on the gas pedal, and I'm really having a hard time keeping up and dealing with it. Alex: I mean, I get what you're saying. I do think though that this crossover is more accessible than the stuff that has come before. I love the fact that, again, spoiler for the issue, but Polaris is some sort of seer, she's been given- Pete: Poor Polaris, is really falling apart here. Alex: She is falling apart because she let down her team, she let down everybody, but she has the information to where these 10 swords are going to be so that they can battle Apocalypse's evil children. Alex: I love the fact that she does this prophecy and the folks at Marvel, no, we're going to pick it apart, we're going to figure it out very quickly. So instead, at the end of the issue, they have Cipher being like, “Okay, here's what I think they're talking about on the prophecy. Here's the characters. They're going to go get swords.” Alex: And some of them are going to be wrong, but I love the idea that they're sending us on a wrong path in some places, while on the right path in others, like of course, Wolverine's going to have a sword. We already know Illyana is one of the people who has the sword. Pete: The Illyana part was great. Alex: That was great, so much fun. I am having a blast so far with the storyline and I'm excited to see what happens Pete: I would like to be enjoying it, but there's just too much madness going on with portals opening and closing, and then the White Queen's being mean. It's just it's too much. Alex: Excuse me. Pete: Well timed cough there, buddy. Alex: No problem. Pete: What are you trying to say? Alex: Nothing. Nailbiter returns number five from Image Comic. Story and art by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson. This is picking up the storyline. There's a contest going on in Buckaroo with a bunch of copycat serial killers, or are they? In this issue, there's a big twist. And we find there's another Nailbiter who looks exactly like the original Nailbiter. Some big action goes down. Alex: We had Joshua Williamson on the show a couple of months ago and he talked about the storyline. I love that he's just following through on it. This is a big fun action. Every single issue, out of the gate. I'm having a blast reading this one too. Pete: It's unbelievable. It's really a lot of fun. It's fast paced. It's action oriented. But also the art is amazeballs. You've got a lot of fun, double spread stuff. Great characters. Great action. This is just really, really fun book. Alex: Yeah. Next up WW84 Number One, which of course is World War 84. We skipped a couple in there, but that's all right. Number one. Just kidding. It's Wonder Woman 84, Number one. This is- Pete: Story. Alex: Yes. Hold on. A story by Anna Obropta and Louise Simonson art by Brett Blevins. I'm going to say two things about this. Pete: Well, wait, wait, wait. Alex: Yeah. Yeah. Pete: First off, it's a tie into the movie. Alex: Yes. Pete: Which I am so excited for this movie, but obviously let's push it back until we can all go see it in theaters or whatever we need to do. So excited for this movie. And then was so excited for this comic book because it's a tie in and I'm like, “Okay, maybe it'll match the tone of what's going on.” But then I got really disappointed and was like, “God, I hope the movie is nothing like this, because there is some really just lame character stuff. I mean, one of them is called Jazz and is just like chill Jazz, grownups never listen, who wrote this? Like what are you- Alex: Anna Obropta and Louise Simonson. Pete: Yeah, I know. But like really over the top kind of like, I'm being a kid right now and parents are lame. And then the accents of the robbers like, “The stairs. Tor the roof. Over that way.” I'm like, wow. No, [crosstalk 00:22:49] but let's tone this down a little bit. Make it a little bit more like not… It seems a joke to me. Alex: Wow. I didn't realize you'd be so negative about this. I thought this was just fine. I thought that was fine as like a movie tie-in comic. The big blubber to me was this idea that like… It's very clear that this machine is running, but certain parts of it are not working well. And what I mean by that is, as you mentioned, the movie was supposed to come out months ago, then it was supposed to come out in, I want to say, October. Pete: Yeah. Alex: And now it's being pushed to December. It'll probably be pushed back again. Let's be honest. But this weekend I actually went to Target, which was a harrowing experience. Pete: Why would you do that? Alex: It was actually fine. We needed to get my kids shoes and there was barely anybody there, so it was totally okay. Pete: Oh, wow. Alex: Yeah, it was pretty awesome. I was very nervous about it. But walking through the toy aisle, they had Legos for Wonder Woman in 1984, and I was like, “Man, this is not coming out for months now and you have the Legos already on the shelf.” And it's the same thing with the comic. And it's a real bummer to be like, they couldn't stop it. The comic still needed to come out, the Legos still needed to come out, even though the movie has been pushed way, way back. And that made me weirdly sad. Pete: Yeah. Alex: That's all. But that said, I thought the comic is fine. It is the sort of thing that if the movie was out or the movie was coming out next week, I think we'd read it and be like, “Yeah, this is cute. This is fine. I can't wait to see the movie.” As is, as the only thing we're getting for months and months, there's a lot more pressure on it. Pete: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I do like this idea of putting Wonder Woman in a museum where she can tell stories about like- Alex: She belongs in a museum. Pete: Fuck you. Telling stories about bad-ass females throughout history, that's awesome. I fucking love that. Premise, I don't want stereotypical weird kind of characters. Alex: We named Need the dog Diana. Pete: Oh, wow. Alex: Yeah. Pete: Well, I hope you got your kids wonderful Wonder Woman shoes while you were at Target. Alex: No, they didn't want that. Next up, Sea of stars, Number seven from Image Comics written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum, art by Steven Green. Another really just good solid issue of this book as a dad chases his son through the universe. In this issue, the son finds out that his dad is alive. There's some mix-ups there and some great action set pieces involving space. Well, what'd you think, Pete? Pete: This is just continues to be amazing. The art is really still in the show. And the characters, these are so fun and creative characters and really well drawn. It's just kind of the scary thing of, you think losing your kid in a store is bad, try losing your kid in space. Unbelievable scenario and just really over the top fun. Every issue has just been a real treat and it continues, continues to get better. Alex: Yeah, I agree. Let's move on to Marvel Zombies Resurrection, Number two, from Marvel. Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Leonard Kirk. We've really been enjoying this book or at least the first issue and the preview, zero issue, whatever you want to call it. The issue that came before. As Spiderman takes Franklin and Valarie Richards to try to stop the zombie plague that has affected their universe. Alex: It was a great twist in this issue involving the Phalynx and the robots of the Marvel universe that I thought was so smart and so well done and added some of the danger in a really nice way. There's also a wonderful and sad scene with Viv Vision's daughter. Another just very good solid issue of this book. Pete: Yeah. I mean, the Punisher [crosstalk 00:26:56] before- Alex: Yeah, what did you think about that, Pete? Pete: I mean, come on. Fucking come on. But this comic is great, even though I was like, “Oh man.” But the Viv thing was just so heartbreaking. Alex: No, you can do it. Come for him. Come for Phillip Kennedy Johnson. We've had him on the show a couple of times. Come for him. You tell him what he did to your boy, the Punisher. Pete: He made a choice. He made a choice. It wasn't as upsetting as Frankie Castle. It's an interesting choice. Alex: Filings Castle? Pete: Yeah, I don't know about- Alex: Yeah. It doesn't quite work as well. It doesn't roll off the tongue. Really good book, excited to see how this potentially ties into the bigger story in the Marvel universe that's being told. That should be very cool. Alex: Next up, Ascender, Number 13 from Image Comics written by Jeff Lemire and art by Dustin Nguyen. I don't know. Every issue. This is good. The end. Pete: I mean, it's hard because it's like… It really is. Every issue is just like a painted, just unbelievable artistic feet that is like water color and beautiful and amazing. Pete: The action, the storytelling, the connecting, these Ascender, Descender worlds, it's really impressive how big the story It's great that Jeff Lemire has got to tell this giant story. And he has an amazing artist who bring it to life. Alex: I cannot believe how much it is tying into Descender at this point. I really thought it was going to be its own thing, but nope, it's basically the same story at this point. And every old character that we get back again is so exciting. Another one happens at the end of this issue, the cover of the next one promises a huge one is coming back. This is great. This is just a thrilling fantasy Sci-fi mashup that I can't wait to read every month. Pete: Yeah. And also, I just wanted to say the Driller playing hide and seek was just so nice. Alex: Great stuff. Love Driller. Pete: In the middle of all this madness. Alex: So good. Next up, one that I'm sure you liked, Pete. Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey, Number Three, from DC Comics, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, art by Amanda Conner. Alex: As we talked about with the two previous issues, this is just classic. Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner on a Harley Quinn, except as raunchy as they want to be. And they want to be very raunchy as usual. Alex: Harley Quinn has gotten one over the Joker, stolen the collective treasure of all the criminals in Gotham City, and they're coming for her this issue. The Birds of Prey of course, kind of hate her, but are kind of having her back at the same time. This is just so much fun to read. This is one of my favorite things coming out from Black Label. Pete: It's great. And it's also nice to see Alfred alive. And the Alfred, Batman conversation about Harley Quinn being at the Wayne Manor is hysterical and really fun. It just feels like an extension of the animated series. And I hear the voices of the characters from that. Especially Clay Face. And the hole riddled with nails joke was hysterical. I mean, those two are just a powerhouse couple and they're killing it. Alex: It's just so much fun. Amanda Conner's art is so great, and so enjoyable. So funny to read every time. Just the way that they mine jokes, like the Beaver jokes, over and over and over again. But at the same time, they're still funny and stupid in the right way. Every single issue. And not just every single issue of this book, but their entire run of Harley Quinn books. It's wild that it still works this far down the road, but it absolutely does. Pete: I just want to say, while we're still in the DC world. I did check out some of that, wasn't on the list, and I wanted to quickly talk. Batman, Joker or War zone, Number one. A lot of people are wondering about the Clown Hunter, and you do get the reveal of who the Clown Hunter is in that issue. Pete: That was driving me crazy. If that was something that you wanted to go check out, you do get to the bottom of that in that issue. Alex: Who is it? Who's Clown Hunter, Pete? Pete: Well, that's the fun thing is it's not like, oh my God, it's, you know what I mean? It's a kid who grew up in Gotham who says Batman could have saved his parents. And I was like, “Great. That's good enough for me. That makes sense.” Alex: He figured out who Batman is? Pete: Well, he just sees Batman as Batman. Alex: Oh, okay, I see what you're saying. All right. Fun stuff. Thanks for the surprise pick. Moving onto Rogue planet, Number five, from Oni press, written by Cullen Bunn and illustrated by Andy McDonald. We talked about every issue of this wild space horror book. Alex: I believe this is the last one, which I was kind of surprised by. But we get some very, I thought, satisfying answers to all the bizarre, horrific weirdness that's been going on to this planet. Pete: That's the thing. I was like, “How are they going to tie in all this madness?” Because it seemed like every issue was just, “Look at this crazier thing that's going on on this planet. Oh, you thought that was crazy, check this out.” And it just keep tightening. And then they really delivered on this issue. Such a cool explanation. So moving. Very, very cool and interesting. This book is worth it. Check this out, get it collected, whatever you want to do. You'll be happy you did. Rogue Planet is not only artistically amazing, but it's a great story. Alex: Yeah. And a little pluggy plug, we're actually going to have Cullen Bunn on our live show next month, ostensibly, to talk about varying comic stuff, but I'm sure we will bring up Rogue Planet as well. Alex: But as Pete mentioned, it's coming out in Trade, definitely pick it up there. It's worth it. Ties up really nicely. I was very happy and very surprised at how concretely everything made sense by the end. Pete: Yeah, it was really impressive. Alex: There you go. Let's talk about another horror book, The Immortal Hulk: The Threshing Place, Number one, from Marvel. Written by Jeff Lemire and art by Mike Del Mundo. This is, I believe, one of the first time somebody other than Al Ewing has written specifically an Immortal Hulk tale. We've had the Hulk pop-up in other books at this point in the Immortal Hulk form, but this is a one-off horror story set in this universe. And I love it. Alex: I wish they would do this forever. It feels like the main book, and Pete, maybe this is part of what you've responded to. I know you haven't loved the horror Hulk in general. But it really started off as these done in one, almost tales from the crypt episodes, but starring the Hulk. And we very much got away from this, for this Uber story that Al Ewing has built, which is wild and insane. And I've been loving it a very different way. Alex: But this story gets back to basics here, where it's almost like the Hulk series, but through the lens of Immortal Hulk, where Bruce Banner is traveling around, he finds a weird gamma mystery. It's very dark. It's very sad. Mike Del Mundo's art is very evocative, and Americana, while also not shying away from the horror elements, just a really good one-shot across the board. Pete: I was really, really, really impressed with this book. Jeff Lemire killed this. This was a very moving book, still in this world of Al Ewing's kind of horror version, but just there was a lot of beauty and heart in this. Whereas I feel like if you're telling a Hulk story, it's got to kind of have those things of what are we really doing here, what's really important? And the Hulk kind of helping these people and really saving this kid was so beautiful. And the whole fact of like, at least you're not alone kid, you have your father, was just very touching, really well done. Pete: I'm so happy Jeff Lemire got to tell this one shot, and it still worked in the kind of bigger picture of what Al is doing. I was really impressed by this book. Very moved by it. Alex: Yeah, I agree. I know I kind of said this before, but I could read a million of these. I hope that they just keep releasing Immortal Hulk one shots from different perspectives with different writer, artists, teams. I don't know if they will, but that would be so much fun. So we'll see what happens. Alex: Last but not least. X-ray Robot, Number Two, from Dark Horse Comics. Story and art by Michael Allred, color art by Laura Allred. If you see the names of the cover, you know exactly what you're getting into. Alex: It's a bunch of Sci-fi psychedelic weirdness involving a robot who is sucking people through multiple dimensions. There's some really goofy shit that happens in this book that is just bits, and exactly the right way, involving portals. It's much more slapstick, I think, than their usual books, but I had a fun time reading this. How'd you feel about it, Pete? Pete: Portal bits, I love it. Yeah. This was a lot of fun. It's this classic kind of like art for kind of tripped out world. I just think it's really kind of in their sweet spot and it's a really great book. If you've enjoyed any of their stuff, you will really love this book. It's definitely, really cool and really well done. Alex: I agree. And that is it for the Stack. If you'd like to support us patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out. We would love to chat with you about your favorite comic books. Socially @comicbooklive, iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. Comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next week, that's it for the Stack. The post The Stack: The Department Of Truth, Shang-Chi 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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Time Codes: 00:00:31 - Introduction 00:02:53 - Black Panther info 00:06:51 - Our new Discord account 00:09:15 - More listener mail! 00:16:37 - The Lie and How We Told It 00:48:02 - Abbott #1 01:08:28 - Punks Not Dead #1 01:21:32 - Wrap up 01:22:37 - Contact us This week Gene and Derek discuss three fascinating titles...and with a '70s twist! They begin with Tommi Parrish's The Lie and How We Told It (Fantagraphics). Both had encountered Parrish's work previously in the first two issues of the Now anthology, but this is the first long-form narrative from them that the guys have read. This is an intriguing work that begs for multiple readings and provides much discussion fodder. After that, Gene and Derek turn to two recent #1 issues. Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä's Abbott (BOOM! Studios) is a crime noir story set in the early 1970s, and with a curious injection of horror. Punks Not Dead, the latest from IDW's Black Crown imprint, is a wild tale from David Barnett and Martin Simmonds, one that mixes punk sensibilities with what appears to be X-Files-like undercurrent.