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It's our 100th episode extravaganza, so we thought we'd bring back two of our favourite ever guests! When that fell through, we got James Roberts & Nick Roche on instead, but at least they blessed up with some epic chat about one of the best Transformers comic stories of all time. If you enjoy our podcast then find more... much more than meets the ear at www.patreon.com/tripletakeover TONS of weekly exclusive content & perks, including bonus episodes, outtakes, early access and more! Sign up at 'Gold Box Classics' level today to get immediate access to: Over 90 'minisodes' on a wide range of topics (plus commission your own!) Over 60 'miniseries' chapters on ongoing topics, including toys & comics Early release of regular episodes - normally a week in advance! Our Patreon Discord server - the place to be! Bonus podcast artwork & more! And a big thank you to all the patrons in our top two tiers, including: Nick Danny Roberts Andy Chris Spider-Father Adam Shoemaker Bad Saturday Justin Masaru Dave Dalrymple Geokaiser Yusifer John Pearl Alec Meer CapnRA Phil G Rotorstorm Puma The Hunter Peter Hammerson Shenry Jesse Moreno Nexis Jimoin Aaron Svoboda Andy Gold Coldsquall Simon Elvin Joshles Cracktastic Plastic Danvastator Jeffrey Freije Tim Bannerjee Ben Lewis Lucas Henkel Molluskoenig CNCRick56 Mythic Gears Zach Lawson Jason Murray David Shepherd esdeem Quickmixed Josh Bell Ashpolt Cristian Hyatt Graeme Moffat Burke Perrotta Eric Hoyt Mike Loiacono Nihar Bhatt Chris Rodwell Steve Redman Jim Kinsey James Pascoe GhostPrime Jickel Godert Walter Charlie Shoppell Maya Entransta Alexis Taylor Jeremy Woodall Ross Jetfire James Duggertron squidcatfish Robert R UncrasimaticBore Cam Lee Miguel Gonzalez Spider-Bob James Hooks Brandon Mahaffey Collecticon Chup Goldbolt Riley Lentz Emperor Galvartron Matthew Deadmen Spencer Butler Allen Johnson Adam Brady James Turnham Simon EMH_Richard Robin Hunt RhA Jetfireprime760 Frank Colosimo Dave Beckett Jeremy Canceko Ben Erickson Evilplopdisease Klarque Clint Gaming Tony Hayward DJ Convoy Private Random Rob Franklin Digbysaurus Menastreaker Darj Stevie P Traffic Cone ThePerfectPixl A Saucy Fellow Andrew Bentley Marc Bairstow obadiahstarbuck Toy Pocket Dylan TFormers2002 Rob S 01 Forever0ne kingliamthegood Dustimus Primal Scott Dickinson Andy TFtheShow aggresive bread Elliot Wright Hugh Mckinney Jay_too Chris Carnage Coy Gojiprime Rahdimus Tarngaryan Zee The Nerdy Vampire Here'sWhyIt'sCool Jetstorm Spencer Ellsworth gestaltgeek gareth4foot30 SkywarpSCS StarSaberFan38 Mikey Quetzalcoatlus northropi tfgrandaddy Billy Boy Turbine027 (Bobby Allen) Jamesyplays Michael Wigert Andy Fitzpatrick Jamie @Stormtoyphotography TFShowUK Luke Wiltshire Vicente Taboada The 20-Sided Theatre Andrew Nickson Justin Slayden Matthew Shortt Simon Goodall Charles Hansen Don Lubecki Connor Ross Rob Schwarze (Swarez) Sam Kershaw Tayler DelNagro Trent gdinero Jon R And the Mapes Brothers (who you might recognise)

Thunderbird, Warpath, and Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage have become not only popular members of the X-Men franchise, but have also become some of the best representations of Indigenous Americans. For this episode, Mari and Brandon highlight these characters as they discuss the following comics: Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird One Shot - Written by Steve Orlando and Nyla Rose and Drawn by David Cutler. X-Men Unlimited Infinity 121 - 123 - Written by Steve Foxe and Steve Orlando and Drawn by Nick Roche and Phillip Sevy. Join in on the conversation and get the latest updates on the podcast by following Comic Talkers on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @comictalkers. Also, let us know what you think about these comics. You can listen to Comic Talkers on: Spotify For Podcasters - ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/comictalkers⁠ Apple Podcasts - ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/.../comic-talkers/id1560772306⁠⁠⁠ Spotify - ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0mLHZQajx81j0iFDqD1vGE?si=9b8f2313487d463f YouTube (Please Like And Subscribe) - https://www.youtube.com/@comictalkers

On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children's presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show ended in disaster. Due to a quirk of scheduling, a large part of the audience didn't realise that it was all fake. Ghostwatch is frequently listed as one of the scariest TV moments of all time. Ghostwatch was written by Stephen Volk and directed by Lesley Manning. Comics writer and artist Nick Roche joins us to relive his experience of watching Ghostwatch, aged 13, dressed as Batman for Halloween. Nick is @NickRoche. His orignal graphic novel Scarenthood is out now and he's currently the robot designer for Transformers:EarthSpark on Nickolodeon. Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea  @AndreaCleary_. Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our patreon-only show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished recently. We also have some free lil bits of  merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia This episode was produced by Alan. Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

With a new season of Transformers Earthspark landing, it seemed like a good time to finally welcome Mr Nick Roche to the podcast! Well-known for his work on the cartoon, his legendary contributions to the IDW comics series, and for just being a literal force of nature, Nick makes for a wonderful guest during what is likely one of the most bizarre episodes we've ever done...If you enjoy our podcast then find more... much more than meets the ear at www.patreon.com/tripletakeoverTONS of weekly exclusive content & perks, including bonus episodes, outtakes, early access and more! Sign up at 'Gold Box Classics' level today to get immediate access to:Over 75 'minisodes' on a wide range of topics (plus commission your own!)Over 45 'miniseries' chapters on ongoing topics, including toys & comicsEarly release of regular episodes - normally a week in advance!Our Patreon Discord server - the place to be!Bonus podcast artwork & more!And a big thank you to all the patrons in our top two tiers, including:NickDanny RobertsAndyPrestonChrisSpider-FatherAdam ShoemakerBad SaturdayJustin MasaruDave DalrympleGeokaiserJohn PearlAlec MeerCapnRAPhil GRotorstormPuma The HunterPeter HammersonShenryJesse MorenoNexisJimoinAaron SvobodaBilligatorAndy GoldColdsquallSimon ElvinJoshlesCracktastic PlasticDanvastatorJeffrey FreegTim BannerjeeBen LewisLucas HenkelMolluskoenigCNCRick56Mythic GearsZach LawsonJason MurrayDavid ShepherdesdeemQuickmixedJosh BellAshpoltzindiosCristian HyattMarc AllieGraeme MoffatBurke PerrottaEric HoytBobby P.Mike LoiaconoNihar BhattChris RodwellSteve RedmanJim KinseyShawnti SeigelJames PascoeGhostPrimeJickelGodert WalterCharlie ShoppellAlexis TaylorJeremy WoodallRossJetfire JamesDog Lunch UKMichael CagleDuggertronsquidcatfishRobert RCalidusUncrasimaticBoreCam LeeMichael BrandtMiguel GonzalezSpider-BobJames HooksBrandon MahaffeyCollecticonChupGoldboltRiley LentzEmperor GalvartronMatthew DeadmenSpencer ButlerAllen JohnsonAdam BradyJames TurnhamSimonEMH_RichardRobin HuntRhAJetfireprime760Frank ColosimoDave BeckettJeremy CancekoBen EricksonEvilplopdiseaseKlarque Clint GamingMichael GaxiolaTony HaywardDJ ConvoyPrymus84Private RandomRob FranklinDigbysaurusTony NatoMenastreakerDarjTraffic ConeThePerfectPixlA Saucy FellowAndrew BentleyMarc BairstowobadiahstarbuckToy PocketDylanTFormers2002Rob S 01kingliamthegoodScott DickinsonAndy TFtheShowJoseph Riveraaggresive breadHugh MckinneyJay_tooChris CarnageCoyKasey HershbergerGojiprimeValkRahdimusTarngaryanGRRUFFITRONZee The Nerdy VampireHere'sWhyIt'sCoolJetstormMike YangGregory CurrinSpencer EllsworthgestaltgeekJon RAnd the Mapes Brothers (who you might recognise)Support the Show.

Join host Jason Starbuck as he delves into the exhilarating world of entrepreneurship with his guest, Nick Roche, in this captivating episode of the MOVD Entrepreneur Evolved Podcast. Set against the backdrop of their shared love for motorcycles, this conversation takes unexpected turns, revealing the raw and unpredictable nature of both business and life. From the thrill of riding motorcycles to the challenges and triumphs of building successful businesses, Nick shares his journey, including surprising encounters with law enforcement, the pursuit of lifelong dreams, and the transformative power of embracing new adventures. Get ready for a thought-provoking conversation that will leave you inspired and motivated to embark on your entrepreneurial ride. Don't miss out on the twists, turns, and triumphs that await you in this captivating episode!

Friend Of The Podcast Eoin McAuley interviews Mike Collins at Nick Roche at Dublin Comic Con . Two great conversations

This week's episode is a recording from our final day on the Germany West to East trip.Listen in to hear Liam Yates, Tom Hardie and Nick Roche describe their final day riding across the country, with some off-road to start the morning, followed by the dash for the border and the rapidly changing landscape and towns as they crossed over to the Czech Republic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We review Nick Roche & E.J. Su’s Last Bot Standing #4 in Comics as we bear witness to the end of the Transformers Universe. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Become a Donatreon and support us on Patreon or PayPal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00] Intro [00:05] Welcome Guest Hosts! Dr. Pants – Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! [YouTube Channel] Awesome artist Apollo – Check out her work on Twitter and Instagram! The next bonus uncut Empire Of Rust Episode 84 – The Custobot is Always Right will be out on Monday, September 5th! Check out our Interview with… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 301 – Bot on Fire (Last Bot Standing #4 Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

We review Nick Roche & E.J. Su’s Last Bot Standing #4 in Comics as we bear witness to the end of the Transformers Universe. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Become a Donatreon and support us on Patreon or PayPal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00] Intro [00:05] Welcome Guest Hosts! Dr. Pants – Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! [YouTube Channel] Awesome artist Apollo – Check out her work on Twitter and Instagram! The next bonus uncut Empire Of Rust Episode 84 – The Custobot is Always Right will be out on Monday, September 5th! Check out our Interview with… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 301 – Bot on Fire (Last Bot Standing #4 Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

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This episode is another grand slam for the shoe nerds out there. Nick Roche is an accomplished runner, cyclist, and now the head of the Adidas Adizero product line, home to record-breaking shoes like the Adios Pro and Takumi Sen. We talk about his work in developing the Adizero line, how athletes contribute to the process, what comes next after Lightstrike Pro, and what the future holds for Adidas and race day footwear as a whole. This episode is sponsored by Inside Tracker, which helps you optimize your body and running, using science and technology to deliver ultra-personalized guidance for your training and health. Drop listeners save 20% on any product (no code necessary): https://www.insidetracker.com/dropin

This episodes begins with a special feature as we talk to Nick Roche, the writer of the new Last Bot Standing comic mini-series, about the new book and his time spent working on Transformers comics over the past 15+ years. Listen in to hear about the origins of the new story, details on the characters within and much more. Toy discussion topics with the regular cast of the show follow, starting out with a look at the upcoming Masterpiece Trailbreaker toy. Amazon's exclusive Wreck 'n Rule collection comes up next with all the reveals and preorders having hit throughout the week for toys such as Impactor, G2 Leadfoot, Springer, Twin Twist, Mr. Bones and another incarnation of Bulkhead that no one wanted. A brief chat about the new Studio Series figures headed our way leads into a talk about LEGO, who officially unveiled an Optimus Prime set that has fans buzzing. More toy repaint talk, a listener question about a hypothetical end of all Transformers comics and then bragging rights follow, but that's not the end of this one. For this special 300th episode, we dive deep into our memories and storage bins to figure out what our 300th most favorite Transformers is and why.

We review IDW's Transformers #42, the penultimate comic in their ongoing series, we look at Nick Roche's frequently asked questions for his upcoming Last Bot Standing comic miniseries, and we go back to the beginning to look at the original ads for the G1 Marvel Comic 38 years ago. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00] Intro [00:36] Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop Check out TransMissions Artist KGirl’s TeePublic Store! Check out the uncut version of Empire Of Rust Episode 76 – The Spark Awakens exclusive to Donatreons that will be out on Monday May 16th!… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 285 – Calm Before The Storm (Transformers (2019) #42 Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

We review IDW's Transformers #42, the penultimate comic in their ongoing series, we look at Nick Roche's frequently asked questions for his upcoming Last Bot Standing comic miniseries, and we go back to the beginning to look at the original ads for the G1 Marvel Comic 38 years ago. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00] Intro [00:36] Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop Check out TransMissions Artist KGirl’s TeePublic Store! Check out the uncut version of Empire Of Rust Episode 76 – The Spark Awakens exclusive to Donatreons that will be out on Monday May 16th!… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 285 – Calm Before The Storm (Transformers (2019) #42 Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Comic Reviews: DC Blood Syndicate Season One 1 by Geoffrey Thorne, ChrisCross, Juan Castro, Wil Quintana Jurassic League 1 by Juan Gedeon, Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer Marvel Captain America: Symbol of Truth 1 by Tochi  Onyebuchi, R.B. Silva, Jesus Aburtov Hulk vs. Thor: Banner of War Alpha by Donny Cates, Martin Coccolo, Matt Wilson Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood 1 by Jonathan Hickman, Marc Guggenheim, Mureqa Ayodele, Jorge Fornes, Adedotun Akanda, Chris Bachalo Patsy Walker Infinity Comic 1 by Trina Robbins, Derek Charm, Rico Renzi, Clayton Cowles Image Eight Billion Genies 1 by Charles Soule, Ryan Browne, Kevin Knipstein Dark Horse Avatar: Adapt or Die 1 by Corinna Bechko, Beni Lobel, Wes Dzioba Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones 1 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall, Tyler Crook Jenny Zero II 1 by Dave Dwonch, Brockton McKinney, Magenta King, Arnaldo Robles Boom Grim 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, Rico Renzi ComiXology Cold Iron by Andy Diggle, Nick Brokenshire, Tom Muller IDW Transformers: Last Bot Standing 1 by Nick Roche, E.J. Su, Rebecca Nalty Dynamite Vampirella Strikes 1 by Thomas Sniegoski, Jonathan Lau, Omi Remalante Jr. AfterShock Bunny Mask: The Hollow Inside 1 by Paul Tobin, Andrea Mutti Archie Archie Meets Riverdale 1 by Daniel Kibblesmith, Tim Kennedy, Pat Kennedy, Bob Smith, Matt Herms AWA Devil's Highway Volume 2 1 by Benjamin Percy, Brent Schoonover, Nick Filardi Behemoth Blind Alley 1 by IRRA Ablaze Belit and Valeria: Swords vs. Sorcery by Max Bemis, Rodney Buchemi, Dinei Ribeiro Substack True Weird by James Tynion, Klaus Janson  Colonel Weird and Little Andromeda by Tate Brombal, Ray Fawkes FCBD Dark Crisis 0 Spider-Man/Venom Mythos: Bone Orchard AXE: Judgment Day Doctor Who Additional Reviews: Amphibia full series, Candyman 2021, The Hunt, Owl House, Russian Doll s2, Everything Everywhere All At Once News: Omninews, 14th Doctor Announced, Round Robin results, Tales from the Human Target, new Spider-Verse comic, new Marvel trans hero, Survival Street, Marvel loses rights to Conan, Disney adapts Trevor, Naomi canceled, Amazing Fantasy 1000, Scream 6, Gotham Knights, CW, She-Hulk release date, new Pixar movie "Elemental" announced, Perry White one-shot, Black Mirror returning Trailers: Paper Girls teaser, Players, Resident Evil Netflix Comics Countdown: King Conan 4 by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matt Wilson Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country 2 by James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Andrea Sorrentino, Jordie Bellaire, Patricio Delpeche Eight Billion Genies 1 by Charles Soule, Ryan Browne, Kevin Knipstein Crossover 13 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe Nocterra 10 by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Marcelo Maiolo Superman: Son of Kal-El 11 by Tom Taylor, Cian Tormey, Matt Herms, Federico Blee Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones 1 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall, Tyler Crook Grim 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, Rico Renzi Seven Secrets 17 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo Batgirls 6 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jorge Corona, Sarah Stern

Episode 295 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast begins with initial impressions of the Transformers and G.I. Joe collaborative release featuring a H.I.S.S. Tank Megatron and Cobra's Baroness. With new details available for the next cartoons - Botbots and Earthspark - the talk moves to media for a short while with thoughts shared on some of the initial designs seen in promotional imagery for the shows. After that, the crew looks forward to IDW's upcoming "Last Bot Standing" from writer Nick Roche and artist E.J. Su. Listener questions follow, beginning with one about the controversial combiner character from The Last Knight, Infernocus. The next listener question sparks lengthy thoughts about damage from the post office and imperfections present on Transformers toys when they leave the factory itself. A final listener question asks about experiences buying figures after the intake of adult beverages before the episode concludes with the recurring Bragging Rights segment.

In the sixth episode of the Standard Bank PowerPulse podcast series, BizNews founder Alec Hogg is joined by Kevin Ssemwogerere, Corporate Venturing Lead in Wholesale Clients Digital for the Standard Bank PowerPulse platform, Nafisa Fareed, the Chief Executive of Power4Less and Nick Roche, Chief Product Officer at Rubicon Cape Town, to discuss how the PowerPulse platform is going to be extended to residential homes. As many South Africans are looking for alternatives to power their homes and to make them less reliant on Eskom, there are tips on how to sift through the many new suppliers to the solar PV market and the booby traps to watch out for.

Imagine instead of standing at the school gate chatting about yoga and house prices-you were planning your next ghost busting mission? [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/10/13132307/NickRoche_1310.mp3"][/audio] A new Irish graphic novel is taking parents around the country through an alternative, and much more exciting, option for when the kids go to school. Comic artist, Nick Roche, has created 'Scarenthood', which he has described as a cross between 'Catastrophe' and 'Stranger Things'. Speaking to Dermot and Dave, Nick explained his personal reasons for putting pen to paper and revealed how Irish folklore played a massive part in its creation. You can catch the chat by clicking play above. 

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Hi TF-Fans! Welcome to a new episode of Transformerspodden! The Swedish podcast on Transformers! Todays episode will be in english because today we have a guest! We have the honour to have Josh Burcham with us! Josh Burcham is an American comic-book artist. He is currently working for IDW Publishing and usually colors the work of fellow artists Don Figueroa, Nick Roche, and Guido Guidi. Make sure to check out his art in the new Beast wars comic book 2021. Hejsan TF-Fans! Välkomna till ännu ett avsnitt av Transformerspodden! Idag är avsnittet på engelska, eftersom vi har en gäst på besök. Vi har äran att ha med oss Josh Burcham ! Josh är tecknare/färgsättare hos IDW och är välkänd för sin färgläggning av andra konstnärarer inom Transfoemrs så som Don Figueroa, Nick Roche & Guido Guidi. Glöm inte att kolla in hans arbete i nya Beast Wars serietidningarna 2021.

Welcome to the skysurfing seventy-third episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!The teenage wallscrawler who became a tearaway skysurfer hits his fortieth anniversary this year and three creators behind his most recent appearances come together to discuss the changing face of Chopper.Writer David M Barnett and artist Nick Roche are the team behind the new Chopper story in the new 2000 AD Regened issue, a tale set between his original release from the cubes and his rise as the famed skysurfer. And writer David Baillie has worked with artists Brendan McCarthy and Tom Foster on Chopper stories set during more recent times. They come together to talk about Dredd's ultimate nemesis, the questions and ideas raised by his four-decade career, and with a brief diversion into '90s Marvel comic books...The Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you're keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy's Greatest Podcast!Got a theme or interview you'd like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.comThe 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

This week on Creannotators, I talk with Nick Roche about his IDW miniseries Scarenthood, one of my favorite comics of 2021 so far! We talk parenting, horror, and Nick’s work on Transformers among other topics! On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or […] The post Creannotators #40: “Scarenthood” Interview With Creator Nick Roche! appeared first on Comic Book Herald.

In Episode 402 of The Pull Bag join TFG1Mike as he gets the Comic reading origin story of Mikey O'Sullivan from the MoonBase2 podcast!!!! We even learn that artist Nick Roche owes Mikey some money, plus what kinds of stories he likes, and more! As always Make Your Great Escape Into Comics!!!

Nick Roche by Jason Rouse's Safe Word

Comics   Specter Inspectors #1 of 5 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Bowen McCurdy Kaitlyn Musto | Artist(s): Bowen McCurdy | $4.99 Redemption #1 (of 5) from AWA/Upshot (W) Christa Faust (A) Mike Deodato Jr. $3.99 The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #2 from Ahoy Comics (W) Tom Peyer (A) Jamal Igle + various creators on prose pieces $3.99 Fire Power #8 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Chris Samnee Matthew Wilson | $3.99   Deep Beyond #1 of 12 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo David Goy | Artist(s): Andrea Broccardo | $3.99 Luna #1 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Fear Case #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Tyler Jenkins | Colors: Hilary Jenkins | $3.99   Chained To The Grave #1 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Brian Level,  Andrew Eschenbach | Artist(s): Kate Sherron | Letters: Micah Myers | $3.99 Maniac Of New York #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Elliott Kalan | Artist(s): Andrea Mutti | Letters: Taylor Esposito | $4.99 Resonant #7 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): David Andry | Artist(s): Skylar Patridge | $3.99 Canto II Hollow Men #5 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): David M. Booher | Artist(s): Drew Zucker | $3.99 Sea Of Sorrows #3 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Alex Cormack | $3.99 Engineward #7 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): George Mann | Artist(s): Joe Eisma | $3.99   Vagrant Queen Planet Called Doom #6 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Magdalene Visaggio | Artist(s): Jason Smith | $3.99   Upcoming Comics Comic Book History Of Animation #3 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Fred Van Lente | Artist(s): Ryan Dunlavey | $3.99 Scarenthood #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Nick Roche | Artist(s): Nick Roche | $4.99 Bliss #5 from Image | Writer(s): Sean Lewis | Artist(s): Caitlin Yarsky | $3.99 Home Sick Pilots #3 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): Caspar Wijngaard | $3.99 Happy Hour #4 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Peter Milligan | Artist(s): Michael Montenat | $3.99 Heavy #5 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Max Bemis | Artist(s): Eryk Donovan | $3.99 I Walk With Monsters #3 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Paul Cornell | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $3.99 Knock Em Dead #3 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Eliot Rahal | Artist(s): Mattia Monaco | 3.99 Scouts Honor #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): David Pepose | Artist(s): Luca Casalanguida | $3.99 Space Bastards #2 from Humanoids Publishing | Writer(s): Joe Aubrey Eric Peterson | Artist(s): Darick Robertson | $4.99   Casual Fling #1 of 5 from AWA/Upshot (W) Jason Starr (A) Dalibor Talajic $3.99   E-Ratic #3 of 5 from AWA/Upshot (W/A) Kaare Andrews $3.99    Wasted Space #19 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $3.99   Radiant Black #1 from Image Comics (W) Kyle Higgins (A) Marcello Costa $3.99 Red Atlantis #4 from AfterShock Comics (W) Stephanie Phillips (A) Robert Carey $3.99 The Vain #5 from Oni Press (W) Eliot Rahal (A) Emily Pearson $3.99  Trades   A Man Among Ye Vol 1 TP from Image | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips | Artist(s): Craig Cermak | $14.99

DC May 2021 Solicits Comics Reviews: Future State: Green Lantern 2 by Geoffrey Thorne, Tom Raney,  Mike Atiyeh, Josie Campbell, Andie Tong, Wil Quintana, Robert Venditi, Dexter Soy, Alex Sinclair Love is a Battlefield by Christos Gage, Xermanico, Romulo Fajardo Jr, Crystal Frasier, Juan Gedeon, Ulises Arreola, Mark Russell, Nik Virella, Marquis Draper, Pop Mhan, Chris Sotomayor, Tim Seeley, Rebekah Isaacs, Kurt Michael Russell, Cavan Scott, Jose Luis, Jonas Trindade, Rex Lokus, Regine Sawyer, Rob Guillory, Mike Spicer, Sina Grace, Karl Mostert, Ivan Plascencia, Pornsak Pichetshote, Chris Mooneyham, John Ridley, Amancay Nahuelpan, June Chung King in Black: Black Panther 1 by Geoffrey Thorne, German Peralta, Jesus Aburtov Morbius: Bond of Blood by Ralph Macchio, Tom Reilly, Chris O'Halloran Wolverine: Black, White, Blood 3 by John Ridley, Jorge Fornes, Donny Cates, Chris Bachalo, Jed MacKay, Jesus Saiz Radiant Black 1 by Kyle Higgins, Marcelo Costa Black Hammer: Visions 1 by Patton Oswalt, Dean Kotz, Jason Wordie Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins by Jody Houser, Olivia Samson, Msassyk Red Sonja: Valentine's Day Special by Bill Willingham, Giuseppe Cafaro, Andrew Dalhouse Casual Fling 1 by Jason Starr, Dalibor Talajic, Marco Lesko Junior High Horrors: Strangest Thingies 1 by Rob Potchak, Eric Kent Orcs 1 by Christine Larsen Jo and Rus GN by Audra Winslow Last Dance by Hanna Schroy Averee by Stephanie Phillips, Dave Johnson, Marika Cresta Almost 1 by Todd Jakubisin Shell Loch 1 by Isaiah Joseph Henson Additional Reviews: Superstore s1, Happy Death Day 2 U, WandaVision ep6 News: Blue Sky shut down cancels Nimona, Infinity Train canceled, Redwall adaptation, Glenn vs. Joss Whedon, Mack/Bendis' Cover adaptation for HBO Max, New Defenders book, Velma origin cartoon, Gina Carano fired, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur cartoon, new X-book (X-Corps), Brooklyn 99 ending, Melissa Benoist signs new deal with WB, Donald Glover and PWB star in new Mr. and Mrs. Smith, CW passes on Wonder Girl, Zawe Ashton cast as villain in Captain Marvel 2 Trailers: Justice League Snyder cut Comics Countdown: Black Hammer: Visions 1 by Patton Oswalt, Dean Kotz, Jason Wordie Future State: Kara Zor-El Superwoman 2 by Marguerite Bennett, Marguerite Sauvage Rorschach 5 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Scarenthood 4 by Nick Roche, Chris O'Halloran Last Witch 2 by Conor McCreery, V.V. Glass, Natalia Nesterenko Undiscovered Country 12 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Matt Wilson Birthright 46 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas S.W.O.R.D. 3 by Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Ray-Anthony Height, Bernard Chang, Nico Leon, Marte Gracia Sweet Tooth: The Return 4 by Jeff Lemire, Jose Villarrubia Daredevil 27 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checcheto, Mike Hawthorne, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marcio Menyz

Comics Comic Book History Of Animation #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Fred Van Lente | Artist(s): Ryan Dunlavey | $3.99  Shadow Service #5 from Vault Comics (W) Cavan Scott (A) Corin Howell $3.99  Gideon Falls #27 (The Finale) from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | Colors: Dave Stewart | Letters: Steve Wands | $7.99 - Oversized (80 pages) Scumbag #3 from Image | Writer(s): Rick Remender | Artist(s): Eric Powell | Colors: Moreno Dinisio | Letters: Rus Wooton | $3.99 Picture Of Everything Else #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): Kishore Mohan |  Letters: Aditya Bidikar | $3.99 Something Is Killing The Children #13 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Scarenthood #3 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Nick Roche | Artist(s): Nick Roche | $4.99 Sea Of Sorrows #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Alex Cormack | $3.99 Department Of Truth #4 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $3.99 Family Tree #10 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Ryand Cody, Steve Wands | $3.99 An Unkindness Of Ravens #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Dan Panosian | Artist(s): Marianna Ignazzi | Colors: Fabiana Mascolo | Letters: Mike Fiorentino | $3.99 Grendel Kentucky #4 from | AWA | Writer(s): Jeff McComsey | Artist(s): Tommy Lee Edwards | $3.99 Ice Cream Man #22 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo Chris OHalloran | $3.99 Sea Of Stars #8 from Image | Writer(s): Jason Aaron Dennis Hopeless Hallum | Artist(s): Stephen Green Rico Renzi | $3.99 A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night #2 from Behemoth Entertainment LLC | Writer(s): Ana Lily Amirpour | Artist(s): Michael DeWeese | $3.99 Sleeping Beauties #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rio Youers | Artist(s): Alison Sampson | $3.99 Tartarus #8 from Image | Writer(s): Johnnie Christmas | Artist(s): Andrew Krahnke | $3.99 Dark Interlude #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Ryan OSullivan | Artist(s): Andrea Mutti | $3.99 Edgar Allan Poes Snifter Of Blood #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Rachel Pollack Shaun Manning | Artist(s): Alan Robinson Greg Scott | $4.99   Miles to Go #3 from Image Comics (W) B. Clay Moore (A) Stephen Molnar $3.99     Upcoming Comics Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Neil Gaiman P. Craig Russell | Artist(s): P. Craig Russell Various | $3.99 Canto II Hollow Men #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): David M. Booher | Artist(s): Drew Zucker | $3.99 Bad Mother #5 from | AWA | Writer(s): Christa Faust | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr. | $3.99 Engineward #6 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): George Mann | Artist(s): Joe Eisma | $3.99 I Walk With Monsters #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Paul Cornell | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $3.99 Mirka Andolfos Unsacred Vol 2 #2 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Wasted Space #18 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $3.99 Trades Heist Or How To Steal A Planet Vol 1 TP from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Paul Tobin | Artist(s): Arjuna Susini | $19.99  

Thanks for traveling with me. As 2020 finally falls we spend a little time discussing which Transformers make the best friends, spouses, mentors or enemies. Thanks to a reader survey we have plenty to work with, ranging from naked thirst, heartfelt vulnerability and irreverent daydreams.   Big thank you to everyone who filled out our survey and to everyone for watching and supporting over the years.  Theme tune is ‘Resuscitation’ by Hazeltron. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Follow us on Twitter: @PodcastMaximus Stuart: @inflatabledalek Marian: @mmortah Tom: @teromemcnally If you'd like to drop us a tip for the end of the year, our Ko-Fi is here: https://ko-fi.com/podcastmaximus A video version of this show is on YouTube and features the artwork of Alex Milne, Jack Lawrence, Nick Roche, Hayato Sakamoto, Sara Stone, Guido Guidi, Geoff Senior and Angel Hernandez. Colours were by Josh Burcham, Joanna Lafuente and Priscilla Tramontano.

March Solicits Comics Reviews: Black Adam: Endless Winter Special by Ron Marz, Andy Lanning, Brandon Peterson, Mike Atiyeh Dark Nights: Death Metal - The Secret Origin by Scott Snyder, Geoff Johns, Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin, Richard Friend, Paul Pelletier, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, Ian Herring, Rain Beredo, Adriano Lucas King-Size Conan by Roy Thomas, Steve McNiven, Ive Svorcina, Kurt Busiek, Pete Woods, Chris Claremont, Roberto de La Torre, Carlos Lopez, Kevin Eastman, Neeraj Menon, Steve DeNight, Jesus Saiz Star Wars Adventures: Smuggler's Run by Greg Rucka, Alec Worley, Ingo Romling, Edward Gauvin Firefly Blue Sun Rising 1 by Greg Pak, Dan McDaid, Vincenzo Federici, Marcelo Costa Jim Henson's Labyrinth Masquerade 1 by Lara Elena Donnelly, Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge, French Carlomagno, Francesco Segala, Fabiana Mascolo Taarna: The Last Taarakian 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Patrick Zircher, Jessica Kholinne Alter Nation by Tim Seeley, Mike Norton, Allan Passalaqua Picture of Everything Else 1 by Dan Watters, Kishore Mohan Snow Angels 0 by Jeff Lemire, Jock Additional Reviews: Noir - A Collection of Crime Comics, Bronze Age Joker Omnibus, Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, Burrow, Monster Vol 1, The Deep and Dark Blue, Game of Thrones News: MGM selling Bond, Vault announcements, Omninews, new Jessica Cruz graphic novel Trailers: Coming 2 America, Death To 2020 Comics Countdown: Gideon Falls 27 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart Department of Truth 4 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds Redneck 29 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren, Dee Cunniffe Oblivion Song 29 by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, Annalisa Leoni Undiscovered Country 11 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Matt Wilson Scarenthood 3 by Nick Roche, Chris O'Halloran Something Is Killing The Children 13 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Miquel Muerto Dark Nights: Death Metal - The Secret Origin by Scott Snyder, Geoff Johns, Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin, Richard Friend, Paul Pelletier, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, Ian Herring, Rain Beredo, Adriano Lucas Ice Cream Man 22 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran The Picture of Everything Else 1 by Dan Watters, Kishore Mohan  

Comics   Solid Blood #17 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Ryan Ottley $3.99  Once and Future #14 from Boom Studios (W) Keiron Gillen (A) Dan Mora $3.99  The Vain #3 from Oni Press (W) Eliot Rahal  (A) Emily Pearson $3.99  Resonant #6 from Vault Comics | Writer: David Andry | Artist: Skylar Partridge | Colors: Jason Wordie | Letters: Deron Bennett   Second Coming Only Begotten Son #1 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Richard Pace, Leonard Kirk | $3.99 We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4 from BOOM Studios (W) Al Ewing (A) Simone DiMeo | Colors: Mariasara Miotti | Letters: Andworld Designs | $3.99 Big Girls #5 from Image | Writer(s): Jason Howard | Artist(s): Jason Howard | $3.99 Stillwater #4 from Image | Writer(s): Chip Zdarsky | Artist(s): Ramon K. Perez Mike Spicer | $3.99 Atlantis Wasn't Built For Tourists #4 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Eric Palicki | Artist(s): Wendell Cavalcanti | Colors: Mark Dale | Letters: Shawn Lee | $3.99 Commanders In Crisis #3 from Image | Writer(s): Steve Orlando | Artist(s): Davide Tinto | $3.99 Miskatonic #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Mark Sable | Artist(s): Giorgio Pontrelli | $3.99   Post Americana #1 from Image Comics (W/A) Steve Scroce $3.99   Upcoming Comics Comic Book History Of Animation #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Fred Van Lente | Artist(s): Ryan Dunlavey | $3.99 Scarenthood #3 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Nick Roche | Artist(s): Nick Roche | $4.99 Sea Of Sorrows #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rich Douek | Artist(s): Alex Cormack | $3.99 Sleeping Beauties #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rio Youers | Artist(s): Alison Sampson | $3.99 Department Of Truth #4 from Image | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Martin Simmonds | $3.99 Family Tree #10 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Phil Hester Various | $3.99 Gideon Falls #27 (The Finale) from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino Dave Stewart | $7.99 - Oversized (80 pages) Ice Cream Man #22 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo Chris OHalloran | $3.99 Scumbag #3 from Image | Writer(s): Rick Remender | Artist(s): Moreno DiNisio Eric Powell | $3.99 Sea Of Stars #8 from Image | Writer(s): Jason Aaron Dennis Hopeless Hallum | Artist(s): Stephen Green Rico Renzi | $3.99 Tartarus #8 from Image | Writer(s): Johnnie Christmas | Artist(s): Andrew Krahnke | $3.99 A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night #2 from Behemoth Entertainment LLC | Writer(s): Ana Lily Amirpour | Artist(s): Michael DeWeese | $3.99 An Unkindness Of Ravens #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Dan Panosian | Artist(s): Marianna Ignazzi Dan Panosian | $3.99 Dark Interlude #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Ryan OSullivan | Artist(s): Andrea Mutti | $3.99 Edgar Allan Poes Snifter Of Blood #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Rachel Pollack Shaun Manning | Artist(s): Alan Robinson Greg Scott | $4.99 Grendel Kentucky #4 from | AWA | Writer(s): Jeff McComsey | Artist(s): Tommy Lee Edwards | $3.99 Picture Of Everything Else #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): Kishore Mohan |  $3.99 Something Is Killing The Children #13 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99   Miles to Go #3 from Image Comics (W) B. Clay Moore (A) Stephen Molnar $3.99   Shadow Service #5 from Vault Comics (W) Cavan Scott (A) Corin Howell $3.99   Trades Man Who Effed Up Time TP from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): John Layman | Artist(s): Karl Mostert | $16.99 Seeds TP from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Ann Nocenti | Artist(s): David Aja | $19.99

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. Alex:                 Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to tell those of you listening what to do. If you'd like to support us patrion.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out. We would love to chat with you about comics. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app is you are trying to subscribe and listen to the show @comicbooklive on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next time we've been Comic Book Club, peace out. Justin:              Oh, when I lived in your head Pete, I told you what to do all the time. (singing). The post The Stack: Dark Nights Death Metal, King In Black And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. 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Comics Reviews: Batman: Black and White 1 by James Tynion IV, Tradd Moore, J.H. Williams III, Emam Rios, Paul Dini, Andy Kubert, G. Willow Wilson, Greg Smallwood,  Dark Nights: Death Metal - The Last Stories of the DC Universe by Scott Snyder, Gail Simone, Jeff Lemire, Mark Waid, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson, Cecil Castellucci, Christopher Sebela, Mariko Tamaki, Rafael Albuquerque, Daniel Sampere, Mirka Andolfo, Travis Moore, Meghan Hetrick, Christopher Mooneyham, Francis Manapul, Andrew Dalhouse, Adrian Lucas, Ivan Plascencia, Tamra Bonvillain, Marissa Louise, Enrica Eren Angiolini DC's Very Merry Multiverse by Sholly Fisch, John Layman, Derek Fridolfs, Ivan Cohen, Tom Sniegoski, Tom King, Paul Scheer, David F. Walker, Brittany Holzherr, Nick Giovanetti, Jay Baruchel, Dustin Nguyen, Scott Koblish, Eleonora Carlini, Todd Nauck, Steve Lieber, Dominike Stanton, Vanesa Del Rey, Gustavo Duarte, Dani, Justin Mason, Ulises Arreola, Bryan Valenza, John Kalusz, Marcelo Maiolo, Bryan Valenza, Tamra Bonvillain, Marissa Louise, Chris O'Halloran, Hi-Fi Superman: Endless Winter Special by Ron Marz, Andy Lanning, Phil Hester, Ande Parks, Hi-Fi Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint by Bryan Hitch, Scott Hanna, Andrew Currie, Jeremiah Skipper, Alex Sinclair Arkhamaniacs by Art Baltazar, Franco Heroes At Home by Zeb Wells, Gurihiru King in Black: Namor 1 by Kurt Busiek, Benjamin Dewey, Jonas Scharf S.W.O.R.D. 1 by Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia Home Sick Pilots 1 by Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard Postal: Night Shift by Levi Fleming, Stephanie Phillips, Cecilia Lo Valvo, Jesse Elliot Comic Book History of Animation 1 by Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey Locke and Key/Sandman: Hell and Gone 0 Vampirella: The Dark Powers by Dan Abnett, Paul Davidson, Ula Mos, Sebastian Cheng Red Sonja: The Price of Blood by Luke Lieberman, Walter Geovani, Ula Mos Piecemeal by Cullen Bunn, Szymon Kudranski What If We Were... by Axelle Lenoir Byte-Sized 1 by Cullen Bunn, Nelson Blake II, Snakebite Cortez Clockwork Girl by Sean O'Reilly, Kevin Hanna, Grant Bond 100 Light Years... of Solitude by Katie Schenkel, Jodie Troutman Additional Reviews: Alien X-Mas, Mank, Eurovision: Story of Fire Saga, The Prom, Mandalorian News: Liefeld and Deadpool's 30th Anniversary, new Charles Soule and Joe Henderson comics from Image, GoT prequel casting, delays on Black Widow, Cates/Morrison Atomahawk origin, Marvel delays, Discovery confusion Trailers: Recipe For a Seduction, Batwoman, Wandavision, Loki, Falcon and Winter Soldier, What If? Comics Countdown: Crossover 2 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe, John Hill Scarenthood 2 by Nick Roche, Chris O'Halloran Usagi Yojimbo 15 by Stan Sakai Sweet Tooth: The Return 2 by Jeff Lemire, Jose Villarrubia Seven Secrets 5 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo Avengers 39 by Jason Aaron, Dale Keown, Scott Hanna, Jason Keith American Vampire 1976 3 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig S.W.O.R.D. 1 by Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia Guardians of the Galaxy 9 by Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, Federico Blee Superman: Endless Winter Special by Ron Marz, Andy Lanning, Phil Hester, Ande Parks, Hi-Fi

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On this week's Stack podcast, we're reviewing: Home Sick Pilots #1 Image Comics Written by Dan Watters Art by Casar Wijngaard Venom #31 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Iban Coello The Comic Book History of Animation #1 IDW Written by Fred Van Lente Art & Letters by Ryan Dunlavey Sweet Tooth: The Return #2 DC Comics By Jeff Lemire Scarenthood #2 IDW Story & Art by Nicke Roche Colors by Chris O'Halloran Vampirella: The Dark Powers #1 Dynamite Written by Dan Sbnett Art by Paul Davidson Seven Secrets #5 BOOM! Studios Written by Tom Taylor Illustrated by Daniele Di Nicuolo Crossover #2 Image Comics Written by Donny Cates Art by Geoff Shaw Spider-Man #5 Marvel Written by J.J. Abrams & Henry Abrams Art by Sara Pichelli American Vampire 1976 #3 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Rafael Albuquerque Getting It Together #3 Written by Sina Grace & Omar Spahi Art by Jenny D. Fine & Sina Grace Origins #2 BOOM! Studios Creat by Arash Amel, Lee Krieger and Joseph Oxford Script by Clay McLeod Chapman Art by Jakub Rebelka King In Black: Namor #1 Marvel Written by Kurt Busiek Art by Benjamin Dewey The Vain #3 Oni Press Written by Eliot Rahal Illustrated by Emily Pearson Red Sonja: The Price of Blood #1 Dynamite Written by Luke Lieberman Art by Walter Geovani SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack we talk about a bunch of new comic books that have come out this very week. We review them, we give our unfiltered [crosstalk 00:00:23]. Pete:                Just try to filter us. Good luck. Alex:                 It's never going to happen. And we're going to come out raw and hard on this first one. Pete:                What? Well, don't say things like that. Alex:                 Yeah, but no, I'll say whatever I want. Home Sick Pilots number one from Image Comics, written by Dan Watters, art by Caesar Wijngaard. I don't know, I probably should check that before we got on the air or anything like that. Justin:              I think Caspar, is Caspar Wijngaard. Alex:                 Yeah. This is a new title obviously from Image Comics from two creators that frankly I don't think I've ever heard of, but this is … I wanted to put this up front because there's been a lot of hype on this. And there is a very big, in my opinion, bold debut that is well worth that hype. This focuses on an indie band, one member who ends up in a haunted house, disappears, weird things go on, crazy things go on. And it almost feels like to me a spiritual descendant of like, I don't know, so many different things at the same time that it feels original. But the first things that came to mind are like Locke and Key a little bit, Paper Girls a little bit. Pete:                Paper girls. Yeah. Alex:                 And it's great. I was so happy with this book and I'm so excited to see where it goes next. Did you guys feel the same way? Justin:              Yeah, I agree completely. I thought this book was great. The art's really nice and it really makes you really feel along with the characters, especially in the first third, that when you're young and you're like, “Let's go fuck around. Let's go mess something up. Let's go … ” That rebellious vibe. They do a good job of expressing that in a fun way. And then it does a nice job also of being a horror story that also edges into comic book world. It's not just a horror story. And I really appreciated that. Pete:                Yeah. I think this is really a fantastic first issue. Does a great job of getting us set up with who's who and what's going on, and then tells a really crazy story. I also really love the use of the all black panels are really great. Just some really fantastic storytelling [inaudible 00:02:39] perspective. They really did a great, great job. I can't recommend this comic enough. It's really interesting. And I cannot wait to see how this unfolds, really, really impressive. Alex:                 There's a double page spread in the middle of the book that was laid out in a way that honestly as a comic book reader was kind of confusing for me, but once I realized what they were going for, I really appreciated and liked, where two different groups are coming to a haunted house at the same time, but coming from opposite ends of the house. So the way you read it is you follow one group and then they meet in the middle and then you follow the other group from the other side of the page. Alex:                 One is going the way that we read in America, the other is going the way that you read anime. But it took me a second for my brain to adjust to that. But I thought it was such a smart, fascinating way of laying out the page. And that's what plays throughout the book is just these top of mind choices that they're going for. Justin:              Yeah. It's just a book that feels very cool. They're all musicians, they seem like they're in cool bands. It feels like it's just a good- Alex:                 You want to hang out with them, wondering what they're doing. Will they give you a call? Pete:                Justin, it's okay, you're cool, man. You don't have to just want to hang out with the cool kids all the time. Justin:              No, I'm just saying like, “Hey nerds, I'm going to hang out with these cool musicians. I'm out of here.” Pete:                Watch you become a nerd. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about the opposite of a nerd, which as we know is jock with Venom number 31 from Marvel, written by Donny Cates, art by Iban Coello. This is picking right up off of the cliff hanger from King in Black number one, where Eddie Brock was thrown off the top. Love the sounds of coke being poured to the background. Pete:                Sorry. Making the last of my rum and coke here, so apologies. Justin:              Pete. Alex:                 It's okay. You got to listen. Justin:              Pete, it's 10:00 AM. What are you doing? Alex:                 Cook breakfast for your kids. Venom number 31, Eddie Brock has been thrown off of a building. And this takes place during 32 seconds, 31 seconds. Justin:              32 seconds, yeah. Alex:                 32 seconds, could have been 31 seconds, could match the number of the book, where he is falling to the ground and various things are going on. And he's thinking back on his life and the mistakes you've made. What'd you think about this issue as a follow-up to King in Black number one in particular? Pete:                Well, I thought it was really very interesting, this kind of using this kind of free for all to tell the story that's kind of insane and kind of, I think fits what's going on. This is a very over the top kind of insane thing that's happening in this book. I thought this was kind of an interesting way to kind of tell this story. The arts phenomenal, the action's very intense. Yeah, it's impressive how much store we get in as a person is falling to maybe their death. But the art I cannot say is just how creepy and weird and disgusting it is. It's really impressive the way they're doing it. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, especially after how big the first issue of this crossover was with so much happening, I really like this issue despite the fact that it takes place in 32 seconds really slows the action down. And it's sort of like setting the table, we're meeting a lot of the players that feel like they are going to be the core characters in this crossover. Eddie Brock, obviously his son, Dylan know. And we really get in their heads as we are moving forward. I appreciate this. And it's like one of those issues that sort of just like a show piece, it all takes place as this one quick thing is happening and the art's amazing. Pete:                Yeah. It seems like the son's going to be a part of this somehow. Alex:                 Yeah, I think so maybe, maybe a little bit. To what you're saying Justin- Justin:              Well, let me just say from the last issue was a huge broad strokes, you saw as much of Dylan as you did of Captain America. I do think this issue is important to be like, “Yes, Dylan is the linchpin of this crossover.” Alex:                 Yeah. Well, to your point Justin, I think what's really nice about this is creating different tones. It could feel since you're coming from the same writer, you could be getting big bombastic King in Black and then big bombastic Venom, but instead he's using them to hit two different storytelling modes to continue the same story. And it's very smart decision. Alex:                 Let's move on to talk about The Comic Book History of Animation number one from IDW written by Fred Van Lente, art and letters by Ryan Dunlavey. We have talked to Fred and Ryan about many, many series that they have done, Comic Book History of Comics, Action Philosophers, other things like that. They have been diving into specific histories forever, and this is no different, just a reliable duo. And I say that in the best sense that when you see Comic Book History of Animation at the front, you see who's doing it. You know what you're getting, it's smart, it's funny, it's informative, but it's a good story at the same time. I just had a blast reading this and it's so packed with information, is a good value for readers as well. Pete:                Yeah. I loved the kind of like, you've heard stories over the years, but this is really informative. The fact that there's a spinning house that rotates with the sun, that was really cool to find out. Yeah, this is really cool, very nerdy in all the right ways. The art does such a great job of keeping things action oriented and fun. It's not just like facts, facts, facts, they do a good way using the storytelling to kind of keep things fun and light. It's really impressive what they can accomplish. Justin:              Yeah. To your point, Pete, they really do a great job of just selecting the facts, details and just story points that they tell about these historical figures. What I got really excited about is the animation studio that was like basically the first Hollywood studio in Midwood, Brooklyn. I want to go drive out there and look around and be like, “This is the first Hollywood style studio, is right sort of 20 minutes away from me.” That's awesome. Pete:                Wow. Alex:                 Well, to that point, I think it's interesting the different things you can pick out. The thing that really drew me in was the story of Winsor McCay, who created Little Nemo in Slumberland, and how crucial he was to the development of animation as an art form, which I feel like was one of those facts that maybe I had heard at some point and kind of ignored or not really gotten stuck in my brain. And to hear it again in this way, and as part of the story that eventually leads up to Walt Disney while not necessarily getting into Disney Studios. It's good, it just really draws a narrative line between these things, which is what the best history stories do or the best history lessons do, and this is one of them. Justin:              There's another great panel where Walt Disney, who was sort of a dick, all of his animators that he had crossed are flipping him off wearing Mickey ears, that will really resonate. Pete:                I was a huge fan of Felix the Cat as a kid. And so that part where Felix is pissing on exec's desk really made me laugh. Alex:                 Good times. Justin:              Yeah, you'll laugh so hard your heart will ache, your sides will ache and your heart will go pitter pat. Alex:                 Sweet Tooth: The Return number two from DC Comics by Jeff Lemire. This is, as you could figure out for the title, the continuation, reverberation, whatever you want to call it, the original title. Pete:                The Return. Alex:                 Well, I think there's a lot of things going on here. With Sweet Tooth we don't necessarily know the full story or exactly what is going on with this new sweet tooth. But we find out a lot more about the world that he is in this issue, as well as potentially what's going on and how it maybe ties to the first series, or maybe not. It feels like there's more swerves going on. This is just great to revisit again in this new way. It's eerie. It's weird. It's dark. I am loving this series. Pete:                Yeah. This is a crazy issue. We're slowly kind of learning more of what's going on. And I really liked this kind of new friend that we meet. I think this is a very interesting character. I'm excited to learn more. This is very exciting to be back in this world kind of in a fresh way. And I really hate the creepy old church guy, but I'm excited to read more. This does a great job of getting you pumped for the next issue. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. I'm curious how this is sort of going to roll out because it does feel like they're telling the same story in some ways, but in just a total different mashed up iteration. So I'm curious sort of what the point of that is. Why are we hitting these same characters again in the same way, very much in the like, it's happening again, that sort of TB trope. I'm curious what that will mean. And I just got to say nobody draws crusty old villainist dudes better than Jeff Lemire. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Yeah. Next up, Scarenthood number two from IDW Story, and art by Nick Roche, colors by Chris O'Halloran. We had Nick Roche on the story, on a live podcast a couple of weeks back, really enjoyed the first issue of this one. I think in particular, Justin, you were probably the biggest fan of the first issue, which found a bunch of parents dealing with some weird going on at their kids' school. How do you think the second issue held up? Justin:              I really enjoyed it again as well. I think what I said last time is this comic does such a great job of simultaneously really being about the horrors of everyday parenthood, as well as touching on this supernatural horror that is really just boiling underneath this town and these characters. And this issue does the same thing. We get a lot of great scenes, their main character and his kid that he's raising on his own, and sort of the little mistakes you make when you're a parent, when you're distracted and you apologize. And it just felt, the detail work here is so good. And so I got to give it up for Nick for putting that together. Pete:                Yeah. I think this really continues to be a very interesting book. I love the kind of like almost scary things that kind of happen in this. We're getting a little bit more story and a little bit less of the kind of ghost, kind of stuff and more like, okay, this is the team that we're going to be kind of leading this expedition as we move on. I think this is a really great issue. The art is fantastic. It's kind of a cool world and I'm excited to see where it goes in the art. Again, I really like it. Alex:                 Like we talked about with the first issue, I think this does a phenomenal job of capturing the frustration and terror of being a parent, and then funneling that into actual horror things and ghosts. There are moments in here as Pete pointed out, there's less of the supernatural activity, but the moments that were really just made my heart beat faster were the things about being, thinking you're a bad parent, being a bad parent, acting like a bad parent. All of those things are very true to life in the best way. And on top of that, you do have this really nice art and this spooky story talk into at the same time. It was good stuff. Next up- Justin:              One thing that really resonated with me is multiple times in this issue he's doing something and his kid is like, “Hey,” and he looks at the clock, he's like, “Oh shit, I got to go do this thing.” That was very real. Alex:                 Yes. Vampirella: The Dark Powers number one from Dynamite, written by Dan Abnett and art by Paul Davidson. In this issue Vampirella is now teaming up with a super team made up of people from project superpowers, I think is what's going on here. And she's just got her crazy vampire methods and they don't like them. Justin:              They don't like them. [crosstalk 00:15:03]. Pete:                Oh, go ahead. Alex:                 Go ahead, Pete. Pete:                I was just going to say that that's a cool idea, right? It's like put the person who doesn't do well on a team, on a team. You know what I mean? Because there is this thing of like, oh, this is my arch enemy, and they keep coming back to haunt me. And it's like, well, if you took care of business the first time, it wouldn't keep going. So having Vampirella unleashed on these bad guys is very fun. She likes her work. She's very good at it. And so yeah, it's kind of fun to see her not trying to fit in, but being on this team and how they're going to kind of deal with her. Justin:              Let me ask you, what is the team that you would be put on that would be the biggest mismatch, and it can be like a Cub scout trip leader. What's the team that would be the biggest? Alex:                 Maybe a podcast or something like that. Pete:                Yeah. I'd say a podcast with two assholes is what my answer is. Justin:              And so you'd be the mismatch by being an asshole? Pete:                Touché or douche as I should say. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Seven Secrets number five from Boom! Studios, written by Tom Taylor, illustrated by Daniele Di Nicuolo. In this we're dealing with the fallout of the attack on all the secrets they go to hide from their enemy, and things go very, very badly leading up potentially to finally finding out what these secrets are. This series is as usual very well-crafted by Tom Taylor. I like the anime inspired art [inaudible 00:16:39], I guess inspired art by Daniele Di Nicuolo. Just a good series through and through. Pete:                Yeah. Tom Taylor is a great writer and this is a very interesting, cool idea. In this issue though we kind of get this like … there's someone on the inside because they keep doing the wrong thing. And it's a little obvious where it's like, attacking us all at once, oh no, it's got … what should we do? Oh, let's all go to the same spot. And it's like, “Oh no, that's a horrible idea. But here we go.” But all that said, I'm really impressed with the art and the storytelling, I can't wait to see what happens next. Justin:              Yeah, I think the [inaudible 00:17:22] influenced art, I think it's really working. And I think the story really plays into that in a nice way. It feels like that was the intention throughout, which is great. And I just want to know a couple of the secrets. I don't want to be greedy. I just want to know two secrets. Alex:                 Yeah. Right. Justin:              Or maybe three. In general I don't know secrets. I keep secrets. I'm great at secrets. Pete:                Whoa, I don't believe that. Justin:              I've kept all of your secrets, Pete. Pete:                Whoa. Alex:                 Let's move on to talk about Crossover number two from Image Comics written by Donny Cates, art by Geoff Shaw. The first issue we found out that in Denver, I believe in Colorado, a big superhero crossover from every possible super year universe broke out, a dome appeared over Denver, locking it off. Some comic book characters were left outside, some were not. We found out different pieces of the story as we've followed a comic book shop worker has got embroiled with one of those rogue comic book characters. Find out a lot more about the state of the world in this issue, as well as having many, many teases for other things going on in this world, as well as the real world. What'd you think about this issue and how it picked up on the first one? Justin:              I mean, it's fucked up that there's all these dead actual comic book writers in the beginning. Alex:                 Yeah, they kill Scott Snyder, Brian Kayvon, Robert Kirkman, and somebody else. Justin:              Chip Zdarsky. And do you think CNN would be leading with these names, all these comic book writers? Chip Zdarsky, Scott Snyder, I don't think so. Alex:                 I did like the joke where they're like Brian Kayvon, Marvel comics writer. And I read that first page I was like, “Marvel comics writer,” and then the next page is the comic show crowder being like, “Marvel comics writer.” So well played. Justin:              That was very funny. And you could tell that this is all sort of, the winks here are strong and good. Pete:                Strong links for sure. Justin:              Strong links. And the story, it's such a good concept that it's one of those premises that almost feels like it's going to break under the weight of the story. But Donny Cates does such a great job of really straddling that line and keeping us just on the good side of like, “No, this is working, these people are going to enter the dome and encounter all of your favorite superheroes or maybe not.” We get the scene in the superhero prison where you see the arms of some of your characters you recognize. Pete:                Yeah, that's really cool. Justin:              Yeah, it's cool. Alex:                 It's like Batman's there, Spawn's there, Spiderman, bunch of others like that. It's definitely- Justin:              The Thing. Alex:                 … Easter egg heavy. The Thing, yeah. Pete:                I really thought the way that they intertwined different styles of art in this book is really impressive. A lot of the shading and shadowing and coloring really is impressive. And it fits well in this story, which is really cool. And then we got a really creepy reveal at the end. I think this is very interesting. Unfortunately, they lean a little hard on the comic book shop person is a lot of their god. It's like, I would just like one normal comic book shop owner, just one time, just one person- Alex:                 Doesn't exist. Pete:                … that's got their shit. But I really like the story. The Cates does good work. I'm excited to see how this unrails, unreveals itself. Alex:                 Yeah. Good stuff across the board as you mentioned, Geoff Shaw's art is really gorgeous as well. Let's move on, talk about Spider-Man number five from Marvel, written by J.J Abrams and Henry Abrams, art by Sara Pichelli. This was a huge launch I want to say a year ago at this point, something like that. Justin:              Ages ago. Alex:                 Yeah, ages ago, because of course, J.J Abrams and his son behind it, unclear how it fit into Spider-Man mythology, but it was very much its own thing. And of course, circumstances worked against it with COVID and delayed things. Seems like maybe it would have been delayed a little bit anyway, but who knows? But how do you think this wrapped up? Justin:              Sad. Sadly. I mean, we talked about this I think back when the first issue came out that seeing Peter Parker be a distant parent and a jerk or an absent parent replicating the mistakes that he suffered from where his parents died obviously and then uncle Ben died, seemed very out of character to me. So that was a hard pill to swallow. And then to have the way this issue ends up, I was like, “Ah.” I appreciate the sacrifice Peter makes. And I liked the reveal that we get at the end here, but I was just such a … it just bummed me out the way it ended. Pete:                Yeah. It's really kind of crazy and over the top. And it's got a little kind of like aliens meets Spiderman kind of vibe to it. But I feel like the heart of Spider-Man is still in this story, which is nice. At the end of the day still trying to do what he can, trying to do the best that he can. Alex:                 Whatever a spider can. Pete:                Yeah. Bu it's very gross and it's kind of scary, but there's some heartwarming stuff in it. Alex:                 This was kind of a bummer for me. I think Sara Pichelli's art is always great. And there's some phenomenal action sequences in here. But this is quippy even for a Spiderman book, everybody is joking all the time even in the middle of dire circumstances to the point where everybody kind of sounds the same. It wrapped up very quickly. I don't know if it was a victim of pacing necessarily, it certainly felt like that could be part of it. But after an intriguing start, I felt like this fizzled a bit at the end for me, even if it is worth picking up for Pichelli's art, who is only as good on Spider-Man personally. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 I thought you were going to say more. American Vampire number 1976, a lot of issues on that one. American Vampire 1976, number three, DC Comics written by Scott Snyder, art by Raphael Albuquerque. I just continue the storyline where Skinner Sweet and his pals are robbing an old train, great train robbery, a little bit of a twist on that as they fight the edge of the world and some other dark things go on as some of other characters track down Dracula. Man I love how much they're blowing out the mythology of this book. And just as always, Scott Snyder loves his details in a very good way, and Raphael Albuquerque- Justin:              Guy loves details. Alex:                 Loves details. Raphael Albuquerque just draws the hell out of a book. Pete:                Yeah, the Querque just kills it. One of my favorite artists on a book called- Justin:              Never heard him call the Querque. Pete:                But yeah, this was my kind of favorite. Alex:                 Hey, who's your favorite Star Trek captain, Pete? Pete:                Kirk. Alex:                 James Kirky. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Which favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving, Pete? Pete:                Jerky. Justin:              Beef turkey. Pete:                Stuffing. No, but a really fun bit at the start. I really liked that. And then they had kind of … What I like about this is they're having fun, but there's also some crazy kind of ideas poke around here. I wrote this down, the world becomes a greenhouse and all the buried secrets will come poking up. I thought that was a very kind of cool line in there. I mean, the arts phenomenal, the action in this issue, this issue really moves. It's got a great kind of pace to it. Amazing last panel. Yeah, this is great issue. Justin:              I think this book is one of the most consistently successful comic books on the stand. Scott Snyder and the Querque know how to really just deliver the great action, great character moves, while at the same time pushing the story forward. The reveals at the end of the issue are super exciting. This book is just so good. Alex:                 Next step, Getting it Together number three, written from Image Comics, written by Sina Grace and Omar Spahi, art by Jenny D. Fine and Sina Grace. Continuing our story of a bunch of friends if you will in San Francisco, mixing it up romantically. We get some big band stuff goes down in London. Justin:              A lot of big band music, classic 1950s big band stuff. Alex:                 I like this story. I'm into these characters. I like how they relate to each other. I do think the band drama is really good at particular and well done. There's a lot of nuance there in terms of how the characters react to the fact that their band might be falling apart, that I thought was very nicely drawn in terms of the characters. How'd you guys feel? Pete:                Yeah, it's weird, but I agree with you, Alex. I really love the band stuff. Justin:              Huh, it is weird. Pete:                And I feel like that's really kind of- Alex:                 Look at us, quirky in the turkey. That's what they always call us. Pete:                I don't know about that, but I think the art does a great with the paneling and the pacing to kind of really give it this tone. And I think this is kind of cool. You see texting and when it's done not so well in comics, but this is kind of a fun way to kind of have these texts conversations. And they did a good job of trying to be creative about it, which I think is impressive. But overall, I think this story really continues to move forward in an interesting way that does a great job of getting the reader excited for more information. Justin:              Pete, I thought you're going to say, “You see texting,” and I honestly hate these textings. Why can't you just give a call or just say hello, I don't want to get a bunch of words from you. Alex:                 Send a letter through the mail. Justin:              That's the way we used to do it in my hometown, letters. Alex:                 Back in the civil war, which I fought in. Pete:                Oh my God. Alex:                 Anyway, good stuff. Next up … Oh, go ahead. Justin:              I really like this as well. It's funny we have so many band based comics today, they approach it in a very different way. I said this back when we had the team on our show. But to me, this has some Scott Pilgrim fives in a very good way. If you like Scott Pilgrim, this feels like a updated version of that, where we get to explore those same worlds in a fun and reverent and visually interesting way. I love the way the issue ends with the music performance and into the drug stuff, really great. Alex:                 All right. Origins number two from Boom! Studios, created by Arash Amel, Lee Krieger and Joseph Oxford, script by Clay McLeod Chapman, and art by Jakub Rebelka. This is continuing a weird future story of a virus that's mostly wiped everybody out seemingly there- Pete:                Oh, no. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Yeah, it happens. Alex:                 There is a guy who, as we find out, spoiler, but right at the top of the issue, has been cloned, who has been resurrected, potentially a bunch of times we find out a lot more about his past here. I think our general impression of the first issue was gorgeous, but confusing. Do you feel like it's more straightforward an issue too? Justin:              I do. Pete:                Well, I think for parts of it, yeah. We get the main characters kind of deal, which is interesting. But then it gets kind of really tripped out with what the main character is going through. But man, the art is fantastic. It really feels like this other worldly, which is very impressive. There's also some sweet small moments. Yeah, it's a little like, I got a little confused by the end of what's happening, but man, the art and storytelling are fantastic. This does feel very original and cool as far as the story goes, so I'm into it. Justin:              I feel like of all the books we've talked about and maybe in a while, this feels very much tailor made to become a feature film. And maybe that's the intention of this book. Because I do think this issue lays out some of the factors and sort of the places where the characters are a little bit better, and we get sort of locked in on our trio who begin this journey. So yeah, I like this, I think the second issue really pushes it forward in a good way. Alex:                 Next up, King in Black: Namor, number one from Marvel written by, Kurt Busiek, art by Benjamin Dewey. Right off the bat, I will say, I thought this was a great Namor story, it's Namor dealing with some issues in the present while he's flashing back to his past. So we get fun, young, shirtless Namor, kind of like a little skinnier, a little smaller, deal with [crosstalk 00:30:27]. Justin:              Tiny. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Shirtless. Alex:                 Yeah, he is, it's cute. [crosstalk 00:30:29]. Pete:                Don't make it weird. Alex:                 He's like a cute teen Namor. Justin:              Now as you were saying his nipples are a little smaller. Pete:                what the fuck man? Alex:                 They're very hard because he's under the water. Justin:              Yes, cold. Pete:                Oh my God, what? Justin:              It's cold down there. Alex:                 Nothing's going on, you know what I mean? Pete:                Oh my God. Justin:              It's like from that song from The Little Mermaid like, it's always colder and your nipples are harder under the sea. Pete:                What the fuck. Alex:                 You got those [inaudible 00:30:53], doubt where [inaudible 00:30:54], under the sea. Pete:                All right. Stop. Stop. Alex:                 It's a good Namor book. I don't understand how it could actually King in Black. And this is a problem, I mean, I do want to talk about this book in a second, but I love the King in Black number one. As we talked about in this very Stack, I liked the Venom issue. Pete:                Oh, in this very Stack? Alex:                 In this very Stack. The other issues they've released so far have been weird. I don't know what this has to do with King in Black yet, this issue, the [crosstalk 00:31:27] which we reviewed last week also was like, here's this new concept? There's a wet dragon in here somewhere, don't worry about it too much. And then I don't know if you guys read the Atlantis Attacks issue that Greg Pak wrote, which was real good, but ended with the most red skies of red skies possible things where they're like, I wonder what's next for us. In the background there were some dragons and that was it. And it's just like, don't label it as an event if it doesn't actually have anything to do with the event. Pete:                Yet, they could be leading up to it. I appreciate the fact that Marvel was like, “Hey, listen, we need you to tie it in.” And they were like, “You go fuck yourself, I'm telling the story I want to tell. We'll put a fucking banner on the top, so everybody will be happy.” I think this is a good issue, Namor is usually a complete douche bag. So it's nice to see younger, less douchey version a little bit. I think there's a lot of cool characters [crosstalk 00:32:25]. I'm not going to fucking answer that bullshit. Justin:              Honestly I'm a larger nippled Namor guy. From the beginning I appreciate sort of Namor. Alex:                 Well, how he's grown into his nipples, right? Justin:              I mean, it's a thing that as he gets older, it's part of his history, that his nipples- Pete:                You two are the fucking worst. Alex:                 I always like to call them, I'd like to call him Namor the [inaudible 00:32:48]. Justin:              That's the way they originally created the character. Pete:                Don't laugh at that. Justin:              He was the nazi man. He wasn't even under- Alex:                 Stan Lee watches the [inaudible 00:32:57] days like, “I want a character with rock on nipples.” Justin:              I mean, that's probably a 100% accurate. Alex:                 Probably. And Steve Ditko was like, “I don't know, I'll draw some fucking bigger rounds nipples, we'll see what happens.” Justin:              In the far future Namor is mostly nipple. I think I agree with you. It is weird that these stories exist under this banner, but I also think this is a good way to launch new titles, new character, directions, everything, so I'm here for it. And I do think, well, there was Nereus [inaudible 00:33:32] in this issue. They do one of the characters that King talks about how there's some black rocks hidden underwater somewhere that probably are like, “Oh, a bunch of symbionts or something.” Eventually we'll get there. Pete:                Yeah, there you go. Zalbs, what are you talking about? Alex:                 I know. And again- Justin:              And also apparently this will tie into King in Black number two, which will then spin back into the Namor number two book. Because Namor apparently has something to do, because here's the thing, symbionts, very gloopy underwater. It's a weakness. Alex:                 There's a point to this book where somebody offers somebody piece of food. They're like, you've got to try this, this is really crispy. And that didn't track for me, because there's not a lot of things that are very crispy underwater. Justin:              That's fair. That is a 100%. I will say if you were to eat a lobster whole, it would be crispy. Alex:                 That's true. Or some coral, crunched down some coral, that might be crispy. Justin:              Depends on how good your teeth are. Alex:                 Points retracted. This is a good book. Let's move on, The Vein number three from ODI press written by Eliot Rahal and illustrated by Emily Pearson. We checked it on the first issue of this book, which is kind of turning into its own sort of American vampire story following a group of the empire criminals throughout history, throughout important moments in American history or world history I guess actually. Here we get them through several decades as they try to get blood, as they try to hide out. I think we're big fans of the first issue. Do you think this concept is still holding up three issues in? Justin:              I like this book. I do think this is like an American vampire that's coming at it from a totally different way. It's much more focused on the passing of time, the passage of time for vampires, which I think is fun. I like these characters. I like the action here. It's very funny that the back half of the issue focuses on the most gabagool, goofy ass gangster character. He's like, “Hey, I'm Johnny Boneno.” [inaudible 00:35:40]. That part was crazy. And then he's just like, “Yeah, I'm going to be a fun guy, okay, [Don Gambilino 00:35:47], I sell blood to vampires and I didn't mention that before. Pete:                No one killed old bananas yet. Justin:              No, just call me bananas, classic gangster name. Pete:                Johnny bananas. Alex:                 Good stuff. What'd you think about this issue, Pete? Pete:                I mean, it's interesting. It's great artwork. The subway stuff really made me miss New York. Because when you're living in New York, you can just wrap a body and a carpet and walk down the subway tunnels, no one will say shit to you. Alex:                 Yeah. Philly they're like, “Hey, what's that, a she steak? Give me a bite.” Pete:                They're like, “Guys, give me, you're going to eat that whole hoagie yourself?” But- Justin:              But in Philly- Alex:                 And they're halfway through and they're like, “Yo, is that a body? You got a body here?” Justin:              You seem to be painting New York as some sort of like Thunderdome. When in Philadelphia you can murder anyone at a sporting event and everyone be like, “Yep. It's the purge basically because our sports teams are playing.” Pete:                Hey, take it easy, all right, with that, like you're fucking all saints over there. All Right? Justin:              Okay. What are you, Mr. Philly now? You've lived there for four months, not even. Pete:                That's true. Justin:              We've got the Philadelphia Philly over here. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:37:01] with Gritty, what's going on with that? Are you friends with Gritty? Pete:                Gritty, yeah. Our next door neighbor made his own Gritty costume, It's a lot of fun. Alex:                 No further questions. Pete:                Great. Justin:              Well, everyone in Philadelphia has to have a Gritty costume, right. They come by and check. Alex:                 Last but not least, Red Sonja: The Price of Blood number one from Dynamite written by Luke Lieberman and art by Walter Giovanni. This started off with Red Sonja captured in a dungeon. She flashes back, tells the story of how she got there. Typical, crazy Red Sonja adventures, getting drunk, killing people, you know how it is. But how do you think this held up, was this a new fresh take on Red Sonja? Is this a story you want to read more of? What are your thoughts? Justin:              It's interesting. I haven't read a ton of Red Sonja, and I didn't know she was this sort of partying fun, loving. I thought she was sort of grim. When she cuts, she goes to the literal fire festival. I don't know if that was meant to be the same one that we've seen so many documentaries about, but definitely had that vibe. So yeah, it's hard to pin down exactly what the character is from this issue anyway. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, this is more of Red Sonja who likes to murder and party. But I think this is, I am excited for more in this story just because I like her the way she fights and just straight up attacks anyone who kind of tries to wrong her. I think that's one of my favorite things about Red Sonja. And I'm glad that like, yes, there was kind of crazy shit happening in the party, but they didn't focus too hard on that, it was in the background, which is good. I want Red Sonja to be more about action and story and less about like TNA. I think that this comic does a good job with that. Alex:                 I liked Walter Giovanni's art in particular in this book, there's a part in the middle where Sonja kicks a guy out a window that I thought was really active and nicely staged just in terms of the angles of everything. It was very cool. And just across the board, the action and the characters are very clear, which is good. The settings are very clear. I know that sounds like faint praise, but I thought this was a solid first issue of a Red Sonja book, if not necessarily a radical reinvention, say like the Vampirella book that we talked about earlier. Justin:              Yes, good comparison. Alex:                 Thank you very much. And that is it for The Stack. If you'd like to support our show, patreon.com/comicbookclub, also do a live show every Tuesday nights at 7:00 PM, Crowdcast and YouTube, come hang out. We would love to chat with you about comic books. 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DC Feb Solicits Comics Reviews: Dark Nights: Death Metal - Infinite Hour Exxxtreme by Becky Cloonan, Sam Humphries, Frank Tieri, Rags Morales, Tyler Kirkham, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Sotomayor, Andrew Dalhouse, Arif Prianto Punchline 1 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Mirka Andolfo, Antonio Fajardo Jr. Teen Titans Go: Roll With It by Heather Nuhfer, P.C. Morissey, Agnes Garbowska, Sandy Jarrell Taskmaster 1 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Vitti, Guru eFX Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl 1 by Steve Niles, Marcelo Frusin,  Scarenthood 1 by Nick Roche, Chris O'Halloran Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here 1 by Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse Power Rangers 1 by Ryan Parrott, Francesco Mortarino, Angulo Miskatonic 1 by  Mark Sable, Giorgio Pontrelli, Pippa Bowland Terminal Punks 1 by Matthew Erman, Shelby Criswell, Micah Myers Cutting Edge: The Siren's Song 1 by Francesco Dimitri, Mario Alberti,  Planet Paradise 1 by Jesse Lonergan Tomorrow TP by Peter Milligan, Jesus Hervas, Clem Robins, James Devlin Additional Reviews: Annabelle comes home, I Hate Suzie, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Twilight Zone s1 News: Predator comes to Marvel in 2021, Marie Javins new EIC at DC, Young Hellboy spinoff series from Dark Horse, X-Men Legends revives 90s X-Men plots, Mirka Andolfo's first project as a solo writer and someone else on art, Three Jokers sequel, Black Lightning spin-off, Ablaze acquires Grumpy Cat, new DC digital-first anthology, new Image book by Johns and Frank, Darkwing Duck spinoff from Ducktales, new book by Lemire - Maze Comics Countdown: Punchline 1 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Mirka Andolfo, Antonio Fajardo Jr. Scarenthood 1 by Nick Roche, Chris O'Halloran Seven Secrets 4 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Joan Moldez Oday, Walter Baiamonte American Vampire 1976 2 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig We Only Find Them When They're Dead 3 by Al Ewing, Simone Di Meo, Mariasara Miotti Hawkman 29 by Robert Venditti, Fernando Pasarin, Oclair Albert, Jeromy Cox Oblivion Song 28 by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, Annalisa Leoni Detective Comics 1030 by Peter Tomasi, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes Green Lantern Season Two 9 by Grant Morrison, Liam Sharp, Steve Oliff TMNT 111 by Sophie Campbell, Jodi Nishijima, Ronda Pattison, Kevin Eastman

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On this week's comic book review podcast, we're chatting: Punchline #1 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV and Sam Johns Art by Mirka Andolfo Taskmaster #1 Marvel Comics Written by Jed MacKay Art by Alessandro Vitti Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl #1 Image Comics Written by Steve Niles Art by Marcelo Frusin Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here #1 Dark Horse Comics Written by Peter Hogan Art by Steve Parkhouse American Vampire 1976 #2 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Rafael Albuquerque The Amazing Spider-Man #52 Marvel Comics Written by Nick Spencer Art by Patrick Gleason Scarenthood #1 IDW By Nick Roche & Chris O'Halloran G.I. Joe #10 IDW Written by Paul Allor Art by Chris Evenhuis Dark Nights: Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme! #1 DC Comics Written by Frank Tieri, Becky Cloonan, Sam Humphries Art by Tyler Kirkham, Rags Morales, Denys Cowan Marvel Zombies Resurrection #4 Marvel Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Leonard Kirk The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem #2 Dark Horse Comics Story by Gerard Way & Shaun Simon Art by Leonardo Romero Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp #2 IDW Written by Marieke Nijikamp Art by Yasmin Florez Montanez Getting It Together #2 Image Comics Co-creators and Co-Writers Sina Grace & Omar Spahi Art by Jenny D. Fine Marauders #15 Marvel Comics Written by Gerry Duggan and Benjamin Percy Art by Stefano Caselli Excalibur #14 Marvel Comics Written by Tini Howard Art by Phil Noto Wolverine #7 Marvel Comics Written by Benjamin Percy and Gerry Duggan Art by Joshua Cassara SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex:                 What is up everybody, welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete, and I'm not looking forward to talking about the Marvel stuff today. Alex:                 Oh, wow. Really? Justin:              Wow. What a way to plant a flag, Pete. Alex:                 Interesting. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Well, that's okay, because we're going to kick it off with a DC comic first, Punchline, number one, written by James Tynion IV and Sam Jones, no relation I think. Art by Mirka Andolfo. This is, as you could probably guess from the title, focusing on Punchline, new girlfriend to the Joker who is brought to the forefront during the Joker war, finally getting her own one-shot. Should we get your own series? I think starting next year at some point. Justin:              It certainly feels that way, yes. Alex:                 Yeah, but this is picking up. She is in prison. And in this issue, we get one of James Tynion's pet projects. Harper Row shows up again with her brother tracking down Punchline, is clearly setting her up as an adversary to her. We find out a lot more about her origin. I'll tell you what, I personally have been feeling very much like Punchline is the Pucci of the Batman side of the universe. Pete:                Oh, what? What the- Alex:                 Hold on, let me finish. But this issue went a long way to selling me on understanding what their take on her is personally. Pete, you're all in on Punchline, that is clear. Pete:                Yes. I think this is a interesting kind of way to come at this character. What I don't like is she's like, “Oh man, don't trust people of a podcast, they turn out to be psychos,” which, that's fair. Justin:              Truth. Pete:                That's fair. But I do think that this is an interesting villain. It's one of those things where like, she was kind of forced in the situation, almost helped “the Joker” and then kind of Batman interrupted them and then felt like, oh man, I was so close to being a part of something bigger, and this is kind of her pursuit of that. It's interesting. I feel like as a first issue, they do a good job of being like, okay, here's this character, here's a little bit of her backstory and what she's about. And I think it does a good job of getting you intrigued for more to see how this is all going to unfold and to see if she does claim her kind of like all the bad stuff that she does or tries to hide. Justin:              Yeah. First off, the art on this was great by Mirka Andolfo, really good stuff, and sort of had some flavor to it as opposed to just sort of getting it done which I thought was nice. But I think this issue made crystal clear what the whole idea here is, jumping off what you said, Alex. The whole thing with Harley Quinn was it always felt a little wild that Harley Quinn was the Joker's psychiatrist. And then suddenly she became his partner or his just fully onboard. And in this issue we get to see- Pete:                Wait, can I? Justin:              Yes, sure. Pete:                I just wanted to ask you, have you ever just really hated your day job before? Justin:              No, I've never. What is work? Because when you love your job, it's like you never work a day in your life. Pete:                Wow. Justin:              So don't know what you're talking about. Alex:                 If you teach a man to fish, you never work a day in your life. That's what I always say. Justin:              That's right. I'd rather be fishing says the seat of my jeans. What I like about this though, is it's sort of, we see the progression and it very much mirrors how many people go from being a regular person on the internet to being radicalized in our modern world, through social media. And I think this does a really good job of using that very real issue in our country slash world. And putting it into the comic book world and bringing us a character that we believe, I believe the way this story is told and having Punchline land where she does, I'm on board. I think this is a really good issue for getting us to like the character. Pete:                Yeah. I hope those punches do land, because it'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. Alex:                 Yeah. Like you said, very smart, very well done. Particularly if you've been on the fence about the character like I have, I recommend reading this issue. Let's move to another one that I know Pete is excited about, even though it's a Marvel comic, Taskmaster number one written by Jed Mackay. Pete:                I should have been more specific and said the X-Men stuff. Alex:                 God. Art by Alessandro Vitti. This is a new take on Taskmaster. He is just chilling out on a golf course, in one the [crosstalk 00:05:05]. Pete:                Yeah, just like everybody else. Alex:                 Ends up getting framed for a murder. I won't spoil who gets murdered, but ends up on the run for that murder as usual. Particularly given that we revisited Fred [Valenti's 00:05:18] excellent Taskmaster series just a few months ago here on this very show. What'd you think about this one? What'd you think about this new take here? Pete:                I thought this was a lot of fun, having bulls-eyeing him in this kind of celebrity golf tournaments, I just didn't expect this. I was really impressed with, just from reading comics and knowing this character like, okay, I know how this is going to go. But I was pleasantly surprised by the start of this and how different it felt from what I expected. And I think it was kind of a very cool story and also very interesting team up. I think this did a really great job of setting up this kind of new take on Taskmaster a little bit, and then kind of this arc of where this is going, and kind of laid out all the characters that are going to be involved. I think this did a great job of getting me wanting more and excited for this world. Justin:              Taskmaster has this weird spot in the Marvel universe where sometimes it's a little bit Deadpoolesque. But sometimes he's meant to be a scary villain who is very hard to beat. And in this he's sort of goofy dude who was fucking around. And that's why I feel like Fred Valenti's take we love so much because it really found the middle ground between those two. He's someone with a tragic backstory where he can't retain his long-term memory and because his brain is full of these fighting techniques that have overtaken his short-term memory. It's a little … I don't quite know where this book is going. Because I like the story and I like sort of the task that I hope he masters by the end of it. But the golf stuff felt a little, I was like, “Wait, what?” Pete:                No, but that was fun. Justin:              And I will say I loved that it was Black Widow. My guess was that it was Black Widow who was hunting [inaudible 00:07:24] and I love that it actually was by the end of the issue. Alex:                 Yeah. I mean, this seems like a pretty clear tee up for the Black Widow movie, right. I don't know when this was originally supposed to come out, but given that Taskmaster is going to show out there, Black Widow is going to show up there obviously. It seems like this is tying into that in a certain way, or at least going to be one of those things where, hey, now there's a trade on the stands. The other thing, I'll get into spoilers here. Alex:                 I don't love the idea of being ahead of a book, but I sincerely hope this is where this twist is heading. Because, again, spoilers, the thing is that Taskmaster is framed from the death of Maria Hill. And it feels like killing Maria Hill off screen is a very bad, very weird move. But what I think is going on here is Nick Fury Jr. recruits him to find the real killer of Maria Hill so he can get Black Widow off his back. It seems to be that it's probably Nick Fury Jr. is not who he says he is. It is in fact somebody else, has lied to Taskmaster the entire time. And that's the twist coming down the road. This is something that I felt very uncomfortable and sort of hated when they brought out, oh, Maria Hill is dead. When they get to that twist, say four issues down the road, I think I'm going to feel a lot better about this book. But as it is, Alessandro Vitti's art is really solid and fun and there's some funny bits in here. Jed Mackay, I think wrote the Black Cat book- Justin:              I love that book. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:09:01] coming out, which is super fun. So he does comedy, so it's good stuff. If you're looking for a fun, silly one, this might be one to check out. Pete:                Yeah. I just wanted to go back and touch on something Justin said, yes, Fred Valenti definitely did an amazing job. But I think other people should be allowed to do their takes, just because Fred did something that was so iconic. Justin:              No, one take and one take only I say, leave me. Pete:                I think there's room for other kind of take some people. But I think- Justin:              Pete, when you're making a movie, you only do one take, they just turn the camera on and everything rolls. That's how it works. Pete:                Justin, you know better than that, come on. Justin:              Then they just move the camera to different locations. The camera's rolling, the whole time it's traveling from Atlanta- Pete:                Every film is filmed live, right? Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Great. Justin:              It's why it's really hard, actors really have to run very quickly to different places. Alex:                 Kick-Ass versus Hit-Girl number one from Image Comics written by Steve Niles, art by Marcelo Frusin. This is following the new Kick-Ass who is in with some drug dealers and gangs. By the end of the book Hit-Girl is maybe coming for her. I got to tell you, I like Steve Niles. Though this art was very good, the violence was brutal. We were talking about this other live show a little bit, the idea that some number one issues don't leave it off on the table that they sort of just like get to it at the end. Frankly, this is the issue that I was thinking of when we were talking about it, because not enough happens here in this first issue necessarily to make it work for me. But I'm curious to hear what you guys think. Pete:                Well, I'm kind of like, you see it in movies and comics all the time, the person who killed somebody then goes to the funeral and that's just so insane to me that you would go to somebody's funeral that you murdered. Alex:                 Pete, you're going to come to my funeral, right though? Pete:                Sure, I am buddy. Alex:                 Okay. Pete:                Yeah. Can't wait to piss on your grave, it's going to be great. I just think that- Justin:              You don't have to piss on the grave at the funeral, the graves' going to be there, give it a day, come back. Alex:                 The [inaudible 00:11:17] says that, right. If I'd [inaudible 00:11:19] I would like to piss on the grave. Pete:                That's right. Justin:              Speak now or forever hold it in your bladder, hold it. You don't want to be caught holding it. Pete:                Well, yeah, I mean because we know these characters so well, so I feel like this isn't a … new telling is just kind of like, these are where these characters are and pretty soon they're going to clash. But it's always tough when it's Kick-Ass versus Hit-Girl issue one, but they don't ever meet in the comic yet, so that's a little like, meh. Justin:              I have a feeling they will down the line. Pete:                Oh, okay. So that's it's just setting it up. I do think the art here is great. Marcelo Frusin really takes on the Jr. vibe, but gives it its own sort of flavor in a nice way. That was cool. A lot of heads being cut off in perfect hot dog sections, which I was like, “Okay.” Justin:              Well, if you've got a really sharp sword like that, it's going to cut right through it. Pete:                So easy to cut through the spine. Alex:                 Well, that's actually how they make hot dogs. Justin:              Yep, a 100%. And I won't tell you what body parts of what animals are doing that. But otherwise it was a real quick read. Alex:                 Yes, I agree. Resident Alien Your Ride's Here, number one from Dark Horse Comics written by Peter Hogan- Pete:                Oh, my rides here. Alex:                 … and art by Steve Parkhouse. I have not been a religious Resident Alien reader, but as far as I can gather from this issue, it's about an alley that just kind of hangs out with people and I love- Justin:              He's a resident. Alex:                 Yeah. I kind of [crosstalk 00:13:05] casual it is. I thought there would be more alien stuff in this book, there's not. He's just going to hang it out. Justin:              It's very chill. No one even talks about how he's an alien. Pete:                No, guys, we've read this before. This is a thing where he doesn't look like that to other people. He kind of wears the disguise, but he revealed himself to that girl that's getting the haircut in the book. This had previous arcs before, and this is a really kind of cool thing. Justin:              Yeah, I know. Pete:                Okay. All right. Justin:              This reminded me, and I think this is perhaps why you like it, Pete, remind me a little bit of Concrete. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              The old series back in the day. And it is fun. It is almost too like Slice of Life for the first two thirds of it. I like the vision quest stuff at the end. And I would be curious sort of where this opens up to, but man, this issue ends with sort of like, oh, that's just it. Alex:                 It is funny though. I mean, even if you're not totally familiar with the series, and like Pete said, we've read a couple of issues here and there, but just kind of picking this up and not necessarily having a media reader call of what we talked about before. There's still good solid jokes characterization here that make this very engaging. I enjoyed it even if most of the time I felt like, I don't know what they're talking about. Pete:                Yeah. I'm very into this comic. I really am invested in this relationship. And yeah, I'm excited for more. This is kind of an interesting new arc. I'm hoping that the alien and this lady can work it out. Justin:              How invested in the relationship are you, Pete? Pete:                I'm very, very invested. Justin:              Heavy? Alex:                 10K, he put 10K on it. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              I like those odds. Alex:                 American Vampire 1976 number two from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder, art by Raphael Albuquerque. As you could probably figure out from the title, this is picking up on the first issue set in 1976 as Skinner Sweet and his gang were trying to take over a train that holds all of the relics of America, feels almost like a little bit of a leftover from Scott Snyder's undiscovered country's ideas in a certain way. But Skinner Sweet is forced to team up with his brother who he thought was dead. We get a little bit of flashback that explains that here. Man, it is so good to have this book back. I am loving every issue of it so far. Pete:                I really like the start of it. The fun recap of like, gather round kids, uncle Skinner's going to catch you up. I thought that was great. I really appreciated kind of the walkthrough, their history there. I mean, you can't really say enough about the art, it's really unbelievable. And I love the Butch Cassidy and Sundance reference. Justin:              See, Skinner Sweet is such a great character. It's just great to be able to read new stories where we can follow him around. I like these series as a culmination point of a lot of the American Vampire dangling threads and the tongue is gross and the tongues that we see in this book are gross and it's great. It's a truly daunting villain for a title that's been able to maintain such quality over the years. Alex:                 Great stuff, definitely pick it up. Next up, The Amazing Spider-Man number 52 from Marvel Comics written by Nick Spencer and art by Patrick Gleason. Finally Spider-Man is facing down Kindred, the villain who has been taunting him pretty much all of Nick Spencer's run. We have gotten the reveal of who Kindred is, or at least who we think Kindred is. Personally I have some doubts there that the reveal is actually what we think it is. But in this issue, Spider-Man gives up, surrenders to Kindred to save all of his friends, all the men and the rest of the spider family. And it ends in a moment that I felt like such a sucker because I know this is not going to be permitted, but I legitimately gasped out loud at the end of this issue. I thought this was great. Pete is nodding his head. Yes, yes, yes, I can see him. [crosstalk 00:17:31]. Justin:              Yes, give me more. Alex:                 He loves it. Give me more. Justin, let's go to you first. What did you think about this? Justin:              We have never been closer to finding out how Kindred is than we are with this issue. And yeah, you could have said that for many issues in this run of 52. I really want to know now. Alex:                 Well, they've revealed that Kindred is Harry Osborn. That's been the thing that they've come out and said. Justin:              Yes. And was that the last issue or? Yeah, it was. Alex:                 There was two issues back, yeah. Justin:              And that feels, it feels weird to me. Alex:                 It feels wrong. It feels like a fate. Justin:              And I think you had the theory that it's Peter Parker from the future, like a dead Peter Parker or something who is very bitter about his life perhaps. And I think this issue I was thinking about theory a lot because it feels that Kindred is sort of like, you've wasted your life fighting for these people. And that's sort of the point. And I think that's a nice counterpoint for Peter, our present day Peter, to fight back and say, “It is worth it. You just took the wrong path or whatever.” My theory was that it was the robber who kills uncle Ben, the thief. That would be cool too, but I sort of like your theory a little bit better at this point, feels more on track with what the story they're telling. Because I don't know what Harry Osborn, while he is a big part of Spider-Man [inaudible 00:19:00], Norman overshadows him so much. And I don't know what the point of having Harry there does. Alex:                 I'll tell you also on that note, there's a big scene in here that is very reminiscent of what Scott Snyder did in death, not death in the family, Death of the Family. Justin:              Death of the Family. Alex:                 Joker, Hulk, where he gathered the Joker, gathered everybody around the dinner table. In this instance, what Kindred does is he digs up the skeletons of everybody who Spider-Man has let die and gathers some around. And the moment, it's so well paced and so horrifying because it goes around and it's like, here's captain Gwen Stacy, here's Jean DeWolff. Here's, what is it? Marla Jameson. Then he gets to Gwen- Justin:              Flash. Alex:                 … and Spider-Man and he's like, “Oh no, Gwen.” And then Flash, the last one was uncle Ben. And it's so upsetting to see that happen. Very well done in exactly the way that it should feel. I thought, Pete, again, nodding his head, yes, yes, yes, could not agree more it seems like. And Pete- Justin:              Before we go to Pete, who's opinion will no doubt really crown this review of the book. I want to give a shout-out to Patrick Gleason's art, it's so perfect for this run. To your point, we're seeing how horrifying this dinner scene is, Patrick Gleason's art is the perfect companion to this story. Pete:                I just can't wait for Nick Spencer to get the fuck off this book. It's just, he writes these fucked up twisted things and really fucks with you as a fan, who's loved something for many years and then makes you question that. I mean, to dig up these people and have their corpses sitting at a table, fuck you. And then have Spider-Man be like, “Fucking, I give up, kill me.” Fuck you, I'm sick of this shit. This just over the top fucking just bullshit to … It's grotesque. Justin:              I hear you Pete. Pete:                It's all ridiculous. Give me a fucking Spider-Man story, man. This is bullshit. Justin:              I want to see Spider-Man do something important, like catch a pulse snatcher. Has he done that? Has he stopped a purse snatching at any point? Alex:                 I think this is good. I'll also mention I know we did include this in The Stack. Pete:                You were like, when that moment happened, I yelled boo, and I closed my laptop and I was just like, I had to walk away for a little bit. Justin:              Boo. Good day. Alex:                 They're also releasing these 52.LR books, which I know I didn't send over for The Stack. But they're kind of taking place between the stories and focusing on the characters that are on Spider-Man. Also really good, really dark, this one focuses on Norman Osborn teaming up with Mary Jane, which is wild, and she hates it. Pete, don't worry, she does not want to work with him at all. But really good stuff. It just a very dark, it definitely feels like- Pete:                Spider-Man shouldn't be this dark. Alex:                 What is almost unequivocally the best Spider-Man story of all time, Pete? Pete:                I don't know. Alex:                 Kraven's Last Hunt. I think- Pete:                That's your opinion. I don't think- Alex:                 No. Justin:              What's your? Alex:                 I think if you ask almost anybody, if you asked what is the best- Pete:                I like a couple of Rhino stories, that are great. Alex:                 Sure. There's great Spider-Man stories, but the best one of all time is probably, obviously arguably Kraven's Last Hunt. Spider-Man dies, he's buried in that, Kraven takes over. He's covered in spiders, it's dark. And I think that's what Nick Spencer is going for here, and I think he's [crosstalk 00:22:49]. Pete:                Nick Spencer is just doing shock value shit. Justin:              I don't think so. And also like Spider-Man's origin is dark. His uncle dies and he lets him go. It's like guilt. Pete:                He doesn't know that at the time though. Justin:              Yeah, I know. Alex:                 Sorry. Justin, are you familiar with Spider-Man's origin story? Justin:              Yeah, he was there as a thief and he was like, “Should I stop this guy?” And then the guy was like, I'm going to go kill your uncle. And he's like, “Go ahead.” Pete:                Go ahead. Justin:              Get out of here you scum. Alex:                 As long as Caterpillar man finds my uncles corpse later, I'm good with it. [crosstalk 00:23:28]. Justin:              I'm just saying there's been a darkness to Spider-Man from the jump. I think this is well within the range to tell this. Pete:                No. Alex:                 Let's move on then to something that is perfectly purposely dark, Scarenthood number one from IDW by Nick Roche and Chris O'Halloran. We had Nick Roche on our live show this week. Let's be honest here. Let's be true to ourselves. What do we really think about Scarenthood? I'll come out and I've got to say it, this is the truth. I like this book. Justin:              Nice, bold. I mean, I raved about the book on the live show. But to boil it down, I really like how this book feels very like Slice of Life. It's about a father in Ireland, and I don't know what town it is, but in Ireland, he struggles with just the stress of being a dad, tries to connect with the parents. It's really funny. And then there's … we slowly get peppered in a couple of details about how the school is maybe a little haunted and it builds and builds and builds to a legit scary moment that combines the fear of the supernatural with the regular fears of being a parent in a way that I thought was a real great step forward. I'm very excited for more of this. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, this is more in you guys' sweet spot a little bit, because I was like, “I get it. You're a real dad in real life.” Okay. All right. Justin:              But Pete you're a cat dad. Think about it if it's a cat. Alex:                 Yeah. Your Twitter bio says cat daddy, right? Pete:                Yeah. That's exactly what it says. Justin:              I believe it's catty daddy if I remember correctly. Pete:                Oh my God. Anyways, I'm really- Justin:              The original catty daddy. Pete:                All that aside, I really liked the kind of horror ghost story elements. I thought it was really cool. I very much enjoyed this book, even though I'm not a parent and don't know the struggles that you guys deal with. But I thought it was really well done and interesting. And I'm very excited to read more. I think this is kind of like a cool team on this book. I think it's rich enough that I really want to kind of delve into it more. Justin:              Pete, being a parent is like your life, but with fewer cheesesteaks and fewer romantic comedies. Pete:                Boo, that doesn't sound fun. Alex:                 I really like this as well. The pitch that I didn't give on the show. Justin:              Wow. Pete:                Oh my goodness. I thought that was part of the pitch. Justin:              Oh, okay. You seem to be allergic to the pitch. Alex:                 Yeah. That was not part of the pitch. I just sneezed. This is like single parents meet stranger things is the way that I'd put it. Pete:                Oh, wow. Alex:                 We talked about this live show a little bit, but I was really impressed, particularly given we read a lot of first issues with how packed this was with details, and the fact that things slowly build to the supernatural, but it isn't the last page reveal. It's about halfway two thirds of the way through the issue that we get some weird supernatural stuff. We get even weirder supernatural stuff as it goes. And the character signs are really terrifying in the right way. This is a great debut. I was very happy to read this and I was glad that we got to chat with Nick for so long about it. Pete:                I agree. Alex:                 Let's move on to another title that we've been enjoying quite a bit. GI Joe number 10 from IDW written Paul Allor, art by Chris Evenhuis. Pete- Pete:                Yo Joe. Alex:                 … you got to like this one, because there's a bareness appearance in this one. But for the most part, this is about a secret lab that is trying to create half human half robot cyborg bats for a cobra- Pete:                Classic. Alex:                 … and how they end up taking it down. After being- Pete:                Classic Dr. Mindbender stuff, I mean- Alex:                 Classic Dr. Mindbender stuff. Justin:              Dr. Mindbender. Alex:                 After not being so crazy about the last issue, I was glad to personally just see this return to form for this issue. What'd you guys think about this one? Pete:                Yeah. I'm enjoying this. I'm having a lot of fun. Also kind of a crazy reveal because I'm used to … I'm sure you guys are the same. Lady Jaye, she used to roll with Flint or Snake Eyes. Alex:                 You don't need to tell us. Justin:              Yeah, we're right there. [crosstalk 00:27:56]. She used to roll [inaudible 00:27:58] with Flint or even Snake Eyes. Pete:                Yeah. Right. But then to see her with this new guy, and I know he's new because I was like, I'm not wrong in this. I went to the Hasbro website to look this up. Alex:                 We all did, you don't need to tell us. We all headed to the Hasbro website. Justin:              It's where I get my news. Pete:                Because I was like, wait a second, I wasn't … I don't remember [inaudible 00:28:19]. Alex:                 First stop, OAN. Second stop, [inaudible 00:28:22]. Third stop, Hasbro website. That's where I get my news. Justin:              Exactly. Especially if I'm like, what's my brother doing? I'm like Hasbro. Pete:                But yeah, I continue to have a lot of fun with this book. Some interesting stuff. Great art. I think they do a good job of sometimes doing fun stuff with names, sometimes holding it back a little bit more. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, I think I've said in the past, I was never a G.I. Joe kid. Pete:                Yeah. You weren't allowed to watch as a kid, and we feel bad for you. Justin:              We're not allowed to watch because they used guns, yes. But these stories I like, I like the way they're sort of one-offs story of the weeks with different tones. This one sort of has more of the action figure animated show feel, I think. But they treat the characters in a realistic way and I appreciate it. Alex:                 It also feels like with this issue that this is starting to build towards something, even though we've been focusing in on these individual characters, maybe I'm wrong, but issue- Justin:              Castle fall. Alex:                 What? Justin:              I think there's something called castle fall coming up. Alex:                 Yeah, that's coming up. And that certainly seems to be a tease that we're just going to start getting all these individual plot points mixing together in some way. And that's exciting. I mean, if they're really doing, focusing in on one, two characters every issue and that it's building something bigger, that's very cool storytelling. I'm excited to see where it goes. Next up, another one that I'm sure was in Pete's wheelhouse, Dark Nights: Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme, with so many Xs, number one from DC Comics, written by thank Frank Tieri, Becky Cloonan, Sam Humphries, and of course, Lobo. Art by Tyler Kirkham, Rags Morales, Denys Cowan, and again, Lobo. As you can guess, this is what Lobo's been doing during Dark Nights, Death Metal, what's been going on with him. It kicks off with a very Frank Tieri story. Pete:                Yeah, Frank, come on. I mean, this is the guy- Justin:              Perhaps the most Frank Tieri stuff. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, this is the guy you want on this book. You want this kind of goon squad guy to tell a story about one of the biggest goons there is, Lobo. And let's not forget we should make a Lobo Batman. And yeah, I think this was- Alex:                 The Batman man. Pete:                Yeah. The bat, who frags. Yeah, I think this continues to just be a ton of over the top fun, just taking the DC Universe and being like, let's throw a bunch of Xs on it, say it's extreme, death metal, yeah, turn it up to 11. And the whole headbutt joke was hysterical, it was just great. Bat Grundy, I mean, what more do you want? Justin:              Let me just say it was probably a lot to read three back-to-back Lobo stories. It's like getting just a bowl of a hot fudge sundae after the hot fudge sundae served in a bowl that's also made out of hot fudge sundae. And so it's not as … I didn't need that much Lobo. Pete:                Come on man. Justin:              I will say I liked the back-end of the second story. The other heroes being Lobofied. Pete:                Superman Lobo or are you talking about Wonder Woman Lobo or? Justin:              All of them. I thought those were funny. Pete:                Okay. Alex:                 Lobo gets his hands on some death metal and remakes the universe to reimagine everybody's origin stories as all being Lobo. I think that was the Sam Humphreys, Dennis Cowan section, I could be wrong. Justin:              It's hard to tell, it's the one that's called, it says it's by Lobo. I can't tell if it's the second story or the beginning of the third story, sort of flows. And then I'm curious, it does feel like Lobo is going to play a large part in the resolution of Death Metal, which I find- Pete:                Well, he has been popping up. [crosstalk 00:32:24]. Alex:                 Go ahead, Pete. Pete:                No, no. Alex:                 All I was going to say is he's been popping up almost every issue of Dark Nights Death Metal doing something in the background. And this is to explain what he has been doing. Pete:                And also if you're going to do a Death Metal book and not talk about Lobo, I mean, you're not really talking about Death Metal then. Justin:              If you're going to have a Wolverine who just has a longer cigar and shorter claws, then yeah, have him be in this space I guess. Pete:                This is not Wolverine. Alex:                 Okay. Justin:              No? Pete:                No. Justin:              What are some of the big differences? Pete:                All right. First off- Justin:              The healing factor? Pete:                … Wolverine doesn't talk this much. And Wolverine isn't as in love with himself as Lobo is. Justin:              Wolverine doesn't talk as much, got it. Pete:                You're just a [inaudible 00:33:09]. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Marvel Zombies: Resurrection number four from Marvel Comics written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, art by Leonard Kirk. This book has been, I say surprisingly great. Except Philip Kennedy Johnson has been consistently delivering excellent stuff across the board. Here, the main thing that I've talked up to multiple people who are like, “Ah, I don't want to read a Marvel Zombies book,” was the twist last issue, or at least the plot reveal last issue, that the excuse, the reasoning for the zombies is that it's a bunch of brood who have infested Galactus. So you get the reason they're infesting superheroes is they're the brood. The reason they have a cosmic hugger is because of Galactus. And here our heroes led by Spider-Man with the two Richard children and a bunch of other random folks are attacking the Galactus hive in limbo. It all ends here or does it? I really like this resolution quite a bit. What'd you guys think? Pete:                Yeah. This was just really unbelievable. Continually impressed with the twists and turns that this is taking. I didn't see any of this coming the way it is. Just action galore, some great story, a really impressive balance of story and action. And the art is just phenomenal. This book is one of those ones that I look forward to when I see it's on our kind of pool list, and it continues to impress. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, I agree. There's a lot of smart choices in this story, like smart, creative uses of different Marvel characters. And Pete, you must have loved how this is a fun Spider-Man. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, well, he gets emotional and it's nice. But also love the magic stuff and the Wolverine blade stuff. I don't want to spoil stuff for people. Man, just really cool. Justin:              I was being sarcastic because Spider-Man is just so sad the entire time, he's not having any fun. [crosstalk 00:35:23]. But I love the end as well. Alex:                 And I really enjoy the fact that we're getting both DCs from Tom Taylor and Marvel Zombies: Resurrection from Phillip Kennedy Johnson. They're both smart reinventions of zombie mythos. We're not just getting the zombies in the Marvel Universe, zombies in the DC Universe. They're coming up with canonical reasons for why they exist based on what the specific universes could bring to the table. And that's great, they're both very different stories as well. They're not just zombie stories. And I look forward to hopefully more to come. I was surprised, it seemed like it was tying into whatever that Thanos story that Donny Cates had been teasing is. But I guess we'll see down the road. Alex:                 Next up, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem number two from Dark Horse comics, story by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, art by Leonardo Romero. This is picking up obviously on the first issue. But as everybody is slowly regaining their mojo and fighting against the live type characters who are infesting the world specifically through the lens of cops who have been taken over by whatever is going out in this world. What'd you think about this one? I think we're really complimentary of the first issue. How'd you feel about the second? Justin:              I love the art on this book. It has such a good tone and vibe for the whole thing. And I mean, it's a little, like with a lot of Gerard Way stuff, you're not a 100% sure with what's happening. But it has a very musical vibe. This feels like a music montage from The Umbrella Academy TV show or something like that, very much like the action feels like there's a lot happening underneath it. Pete:                Yeah. I think the art is the real hero here. It's very stylized and kind of switches back and forth, which is really impressive and still feels about the same story. But yeah, this is … we don't know exactly, but we've got enough to kind of follow. It's interesting, action packed. You can kind of understand why the people are doing what they're doing. Yeah, I've been really impressed with this and I'm going to continue to keep reading it. I think it's great. Alex:                 Particularly with this issue, it feels like it's sort of thing that if you have acab in your Twitter bio, this is the comic for you. Let's move on and talk about Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp number two from IDW, written by Marieke Nijkamp, art by Yasmin Florez Montanez. You two in particular were particularly complimentary of this. This is a werewolf tale for the Goosebumps universe, I guess. You liked the first issue quite a bit as two girls teamed up to try to track down some werewolves. What'd you think about the second one? Pete:                Yeah, I was really impressed with the way this relationship kind of moved, because what I was worried about in the first issue is you have two characters who kind of force into this crazy scenario. And I was worried they were going to just fight the whole time and not be able to kind of move throughout the story and kind of take care of business. And I think they handled that in such a good way. I've been really impressed with the Goosebumps. This is a fun story. Art is unbelievable. I liked these depiction of werewolves and I thought it was endurable how that one werewolf just kind of curled up. I think this is very cool and interesting story. I'm excited to read more. Justin:              I have a feeling these werewolves are going to be people eventually. Pete:                What? Justin:              Not a ton habits in this issue as far as driving the story forward. It's mostly like we're scared in the swamp. But yeah, I'm curious to see, it feels like another shoe will drop next issue. Alex:                 Yeah. I still feel like it's not quite bringing all the elements together. The essential idea of two girls who are super into fantasy role-play games, tracking down real werewolves in the woods is a really smart idea, but it's not necessarily paying off with that premise. I hope we see more of that the next issue. Though, I do like the art. I think the characters designs are very nice. And I'm enjoying reading it. It's a nice light read. Next step, Getting it Together number two from Image Comics, co-creators and co-writers Sina Grace and Omar Spahi, art by Jenny D. Fine. We had Sina Grace and Omar Spahi on the live show a couple of weeks back talk about the first issue, which we like quite a bit. This is like Friends, but set in San Francisco and real. This second issue is picking up on that. As things only get more complicated for everybody's relationships. What'd you think? How did it pick up from the well-received premier issue of the title? Pete:                Yeah, I like this. I think being in a band is hard, there's a lot of moving pieces. I like how they're kind of diving into that a little bit, but mainly focusing on the relationships. The art's fantastic. You care enough about the characters to care about this story. It's relatable. I think it's very cool. I liked how they kind of handle it, going back and forth between the different people and their kind of sizes and stuff. I also thought it was very cool the way the art kind of pulls out and pulls in. Sometimes you see wider shots and other things going on and sometimes it's very close up. I think that's very cool storytelling. I also really liked the drinking that was going on there. I can relate to that as well. Justin:              I agree. I think this is a great second issue. First off, just reading this comic from a pandemic point of view, it is like reading science fiction. I'm so jealous of these characters. Pete:                Yeah. Oh my God. Imagine being able to go into a bar and just get a drink. Justin:              Oh, I know. That scene at the bar was like, yes, please, tell me more. How was it? What was it like? What did the bar smell like? Pete:                I even drove by like [inaudible 00:41:55] I was like, “Oh my God. I want to go in.” Justin:              I've never fallen that far. But outside of that, the relationships are really well done in this. And I want to say there are so many great standalone panels where you really see like a perfect encapsulation of a real human action in the moment. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 I like this titles willingness to make the main characters unlikable, which is not an easy thing- Justin:              I like that about us as well. Pete:                Shut up. Alex:                 No, I think that's really good. I mean, you have this main relationship that's broken apart. And the fact that you read both of these characters as they're talking about the relationship, they try to be friends. It just doesn't work. They're both really not very good at it. And there's always this temptation to make those sorts of characters come to some sort of resolution or one character to be better than the other, but it feels like a real relationship right at the middle of this where nobody's right, they just broke up. They are both assholes to each other. They shouldn't have been together. Things went horribly wrong and they continue to go horribly wrong. It feels very realistic in terms of the characterization. And I think that's very nice to see. Let's get to- Pete:                Also fun little story in the back as well. Alex:                 Absolutely. Last bit to talk about, let's get to our extra storage, [inaudible 00:43:27], which I know Pete has been eagerly awaiting. We're just talking about three issues this week. Marauders number 15 from Marvel Comics, written by Gerry Duggan and Benjamin Percy, art by Stefano Caselli. Excalibur number 14 written by Tini Howard and art by Phil Noto. Wolverine number seven written by Benjamin Percy and Gerry Duggan and art by Joshua Cassara. In the first issue, we get a resolution of what happened with the Wolverline after she stabbed. Let me just run through the plot here then you could complain to [inaudible 00:43:56]. Hold on. Alex:                 We get a resolution of the cliffhanger last week was that Wolverine decided to shut down the conflict between Arakko and Krakoa with other worlds stuck in the middle, by stabbing Saturnyne to death, we get [inaudible 00:44:11] to that, turns out she knows what was going on. She shuts it down. We could see the rest of the dinner party as everybody kind of feels each other out and figures out what the straights are. Excalibur 14, we finally get the first of the fights, and spoilers here, I'll go through these, but just to give you the rundown of the fights, the first one, Betsy Braddock, Captain Britain gets beaten up immediately. Pete has taken off his headphones, he is done, he is out of here. Betsy Braddock gets beaten immediately, then I believe the second fight is Doug Ramsey, which he is terrified about. Turns out the fight is to get married at [inaudible 00:44:51]. Justin:              The ultimate fight. Alex:                 The ultimate fight. The third one is a wrestling match between [inaudible 00:44:58] I believe, she loses that, which totally makes sense. At the beginning, drinking contest between Storm and Wolverine. That's a little bit of a tie over there. But then Wolverine gets sucked into a fight, a three-way fight. Pete, put on of your headphones, put on your headphones, Pete, you can hear what we're saying. Come on. Pete:                Can I rant now? Can I please? Justin:              Listen to what we're saying. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:45:21]. Why are avoiding spoilers? You got to at least hear what I'm saying. Pete:                I can't relive this bullshit again, that you're telling me and not react to it. It's so fucking painful the state here, and you recount the shitty fucking story. Justin:              You love sword fights. Alex:                 Here's what I think is phenomenal about this. I was going into this. Pete is taking off his headphones again. What I think is great about this, that I was not blown away by is probably too strong, but really impressed by, is I was going into this expecting, okay, then we're going to go through 10 sword fights, right? They start off with a sword fight that ends almost immediately. I was like, what the fuck is happening here? Why are we not getting a sword fight? This is, honestly, Pete put back the headphones. Put back on the headphones, Pete. I want you to hear this part. Pete:                Can I rant now please? Alex:                 No, I want you to hear this part that I'm talking about because my feeling when I was reading this, when Betsy Braddock immediately loses it like two pages, I was furious. I was like, “What is happening here?” And then when the second fight was marriage, it was like, where are the sword fights? I was promised sword fights. But by the time they get to the third fight and the fourth fight, I was starting to get really impressed by the structure of the storytelling here. Pete:                Oh, fuck you. Alex:                 Hold on. I was impressed by the structure of the storytelling here, because it's a total swerve. They're going for like, what are your expectations? It's going to be this gauntlet of Ted fights. Instead, we're coming up with different ways of hitting this, definitely getting into spoilers here, but it becomes clear through the storytelling what Saturnyne is doing. But our whole plan is not to have Krakoa beat Arakko, but to have Arakko realize, wait, we are the same as Krakoa and we need to join together. And we're not quite there yet, but that's such a fascinating, interesting, different swerve for the storytelling. I am very excited for where this is going, going forward. Pete, go ahead. Pete:                All right. Well, first off to address what you're saying. If you're going to do that, fucking do a fun issue where they're playing fucking volleyball or whatever, or having a barbecue and they can fucking get along or whatever. But you set up for fucking 14 issues, there's going to be this epic fucking battle. And the first epic battle is shit. The second battle is a marriage. What the fuck are you talking about? The third, fourth, fifth, they're not even fights, they're bullshit fucking side things that don't make any sense. People who won don't get points. Other people are getting random points. What the fuck is going on? You've teed this up for fucking, there's going to be 22 issues of this bullshit, and you've done nothing but rob us of good story with this bullshit where there's actual story that could be happening, but you're not addressing, not just sitting across from each other going, “Oh, you're doing well raising our children.” Fuck you. Pete:                If you're going to get into it, get into it, don't just fucking give us one piece of something to walk away. I'm so frustrated on so many levels with this fucking story. I've had it up to here. I was so pissed. Captain Britain, that whole thing … It's very upsetting when you build us something and then don't come close to even delivering it. You fucking piss in my face when it comes to the delivery and then walk away and go, “Yeah, this shit doesn't even matter.” Justin:              Pete, spoiler, the next issue is the two X men each other's faces for the- Pete:                Yeah, might as well. Justin:              That's the X. Alex:                 Pissing contest. Justin:              Oh, Pete, I feel like you might need to catch your breath for a second. Pete:                The art is very enjoyable. Justin:              Oh, nice. That's great. Pete:                Took a lot for me to say that. Justin:              I agree with Alex. This was such a surprise, but reading these three issues in particular, it really felt like, oh, they're doing like … even though it's not explicitly this, it feels like the fairy realm where nothing is what you expect. And so of course the battle is not going to be just a bunch of random sword fights. Everyone is being tricked. But I think what's smart about that is the Arakko. Pete:                We the reader are being tricked. Justin:              But in the same way that the best stories surprise you. Pete:                Out of our money. Justin:              You're not being tricked out of money. But let me say- Alex:                 Can I pull that [crosstalk 00:50:14] for a second. Justin:              The handful- Alex:                 You're getting these issues for free. Pete:                Yeah. I'm just saying, I'm talking about for the people who pay money for comic books, don't fucking shell out money for this book. You're going to be fucking pissed because- Alex:                 Hold on. Because this is … Obviously I have not read the issues beyond this week, but this is a build, right. And what we're building up to and I could be wrong is we're going to get a actually epic sword fight between apocalypse and annihilation, his wife. But if there were nine issues of sword fights before that, it wouldn't hit as hard when you finally get to that. Pete:                Well, then give me story and then just give me that last fight. Don't fucking promise me great battles along the way, and then fucking be like, no, two people are randomly going to get married for no fucking reason. And all of a sudden, a guy who all he does is talk to things can't talk. And that's the reason he falls in love with her. Are you fucking kidding me? Justin:              Here's what I was trying to say before. Pete:                Sorry Justin. Justin:              It is much more interesting to feel, to have these stories be surprising and interesting, especially at the beginning when like … especially Doug Ramsey, he goes in, either he's going to be straight up murdered or he's going to win randomly. Instead, it's something completely unexpected and I appreciate that. And it also like, as we've met the Arakko warriors, they're so intense, there's so much more, they've been raised in, they fought their entire lives for millennium. One of them has legit never lost a thing. The odds are stacked against the X-Men. And I think the X-Men, they're in one of these issues, they talk about this. They have had a happier world, a happier life. I think they can sort of figure out these games and win this without it being just a brute battle between different people that we've seen a hundred times in a hundred different comics. I think this is actually makes for some better storytelling. The fact that Wolverine issue, where he wins and also loses is fun. It's funny. Wolverine is outplayed twice in these issues. Alex:                 I love the Storm Wolverine drinking battle. That's great. Justin:              Did you see Storm leans in for a kiss? Alex:                 She does. There's so much … who did the art for that one? That was Joshua Cassara. The way that is laid out in that issue and it slowly builds until Wolverine disappears as they're about to kiss because they're completely wasted and they're going to hook up. That's great. I love the tension and inherited that scene. And the fact that Wolverine ends up in this three-way battle where he's just plastered the entire time is so much fun. It's good. Pete, you're upset. Pete:                Yes. I'm very upset because who the fuck … I don't understand why Wolverine is not acting like Wolverine. Wolverine, you know you can't just drink in the middle of a sword battle. You know you're going to have to fight. And also why are you trying to cheat beforehand? I have [crosstalk 00:53:34]. Justin:              They say that it's a drinking game is the battle, so he does it. Pete:                Listen, yeah, you know you can't smell, you're going to get fucked on that. I saw that coming a mile away. Justin:              I've never been fucked during a drinking game or I guess afterwards. Pete:                I don't know. Anyways, I just think that, hey, if you want to tell stories, great, but don't promise me one thing and then deliver another thing. I like a swerve, I like interesting stories. Yes, the marriage is surprising, whatever, great, great for you guys. But when you put me through these fucking origin stories of getting a sword and, oh, man, I got the baddest sword I can get. And now I'm going to go into a battle, the fight for my fuck island. Oh my God, and then you don't do that. You don't even come close to a battle. We haven't gotten one good one yet. And the scoring is all wrong. Justin:              You're really concerned with the score. Alex:                 Yeah, this is- Pete:                If you're fighting to the death and that- Alex:                 The title of the event is called X of arm wrestling. I don't understand what the problem is. Pete:                Fucking arm wrestling. Justin:              It's called ten of marriage. Alex:                 Well, clearly we have a disagreement here, and I think that's a great- Justin:              Two to one, we win. Later. Alex:                 There you go, Arakko wins. That's it for The Stack. [crosstalk 00:55:04]. Arakko, sorry, Justin. That's it for The Stack podcast. If you really like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. I choose Android and Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show at comic book live on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next time, keep getting married everybody. Justin:              Get out there, the ultimate sword fight. The post The Stack: Punchline, Taskmaster And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s live show, we’re welcoming guest Nick Roche (“Scarenthood”)! Plus prizes, Q&A and more! SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. The post Comic Book Club: Nick Roche appeared first on Comic Book Club.

Nick Roche had almost given up on his dream of becoming a comic book artist when he got his dream job working for one of the biggest publishers in the world. Since then he's worked on things like Spiderman, Star Wars and Transformers. However, for his latest series 'Scarenthood', he got to look a little bit closer to home for inspiration. Speaking to Pamela Joyce on Dermot and Dave, Nick revealed how parenting has influenced his latest release which he described as being like 'a grown up Goonies'. Scarenthood is out on the 11th of November. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/10/30132606/NickRoche.mp3"][/audio]

Orla talks to Marvel comic writer & artist, Nick Roche about his new comic series, Scarenthood, she also chats to the Clonmel man helping you to find your new best friend & a Wexford woman chats about the stark realities of her Endometriotis diagnosis.

Nick Roche has drawn on David Hasselhoff to shape his day-job as a comic writer. With an impressive CV that has seen him draw for global brands such as Transformers and Marvel comics. He is now looking forward to the publication of his own comic Scarenthood next month.

In this week's episode of Off Panel, cartoonist Nick Roche joins the podcast to chat about his comics life and upcoming IDW series Scarenthood. Roche discusses growing up in a small town, stories sneaking up on you, his likability, when he first started reading comics, the development of his art, how he broke into comics, whether he wanted to do something smaller with Scarenthood, the scariness of being a parent, the origins of fear, character acting, telling more personal stories, shattering trousers, and more.

Eliud Kipchoge's sub-2 attempt in the marathon wasn't only the chase of a human to do the impossible, but it also became one of the most significant moment's in running footwear innovation in recent years. And in turn, it became a chase for all shoe companies to develop their own carbon tech footwear. Welcome to our first installment of the “Flats and the Furious” where we dive into the footwear innovations that are pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible. We will meet the industry professionals who poured their lives into building the next generation of fast, and get an athlete’s perspective on how each brand's new models feel on foot. In our first episode we talk to Nick Roche from adidas to hear the story on how their answer, the adidas Adizero Adios Pro, came to be. We also get pro athlete insight from Reed Fischer.

Top 500, June Solicits Comics Reviews: Robin 80th Anniversary Special by Marv Wolfman, Tom Grummett, Scott Hanno, Adriano Lucas, Chuck Dixon, Scott McDaniel, Rob Hunter, Protobunker, Devin Grayson, Dan JUrgens, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, Tim Seeley, Tom King, Mikel Janin, Jeromy Cox, Judd Winick, Dustin Nguyen, John Kalisz, Adam Beechen, Freddie Williams II, Jeremy Colwell, James Tynion IV, Javier Fernandez, David Baron, Brad Anderson, Amy Wolfram, Damion Scott, Peter Tomasi, Robbie Thompson, Ramon Villalobos, Ramra Bonvillain, Jorge Jimenez, Alejandro Sanchez Titans Giant 1 by Phil Hester, Scott Koblish, Tom Grummett, John Kalisz, et al 2020 Iron Age 1 by Tom DeFalco, Christopher Cantwell, Fonda Lee, Damian Couceiro, Nick Roche, Matt Horak, Sobreiro, Ramos, Farrell Marvel's Avengers: Captain America by Paul Allor, Georges Jeanty, Deering, Andy Troy Outlawed 1 by Eve Ewing, Kim Jacinto, Espen Grundetjern Spider-Woman 1 by Karla Pacheco, Pere Perez, Frank D'Armata, Paulo Siqueira, Oren Junior Starship Down 1 by Justin Giampaoli, Andrea Mutti, Vladimir Popov X-Ray Robot 1 by Mike Allred, Laura Allred Jia and the Nian Monster by Mike Richardson, Megan Huang Archangel 8 1 by Michael Moreci, CP Smith, Snakebite Cortez Artemis and the Assassin 1 by Stephanie Phillips, Meghan Hetrick, Francesca Fantini, Lauren Affe Hexagon 1 by Michael Moreci, Don Diablo, Jheremy Raapack, Lee Dragon Whisperer 1 by Alex Deluca, Glen Fernandez,  Hotell 1 by John Lees, Dalibor Talajic, Lee Loughridge Legends of Log 1 by Ski Suharski, Bob Berry, Trey Baldwin, Ian Miller, Wes Locher Red Border 1 by Jason Starr, Will Conrad, Ivan Nunes Resistance 1 by J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin Wicked Things 1 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar Additional Reviews: 2nd Dan Jurgens' Thor Omnibus News: new Vault book Engineward by George Mann and Joe Eisma, Trolls release, She-Ra final season coming May 15, Snowflake and Safe Space, Harley Quinn & Birds pushed, Spider-Man pushed, Aspen and Vault shut-down, Diamond shuts down???? Comics Countdown: Ascender 10 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen X-Ray Robot 1 by Mike Allred, Laura Allred Runaways 31 by Rainbow Rowell, Andres Genolet, Dee Cunniffe DCeased: Unkillables 2 by Tom Taylor, Karl Mostert, Trevor Scott, Edwards, Lokus Wicked Things 1 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar Usagi Yojimbo 9 by Stan Sakai Undiscovered Country 5 by Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Grassi, Matt Wilson Middlewest 16 by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Jean-Francois Beaulieu Guardians of the Galaxy 3 by Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, Belen Ortega, Chris Sprouse, Nina Vakueva, Karl Story, Federico Blee Something is Killing the Children 6 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Miquel Muerto

Happy New Year! This is the second part of our 6th anniversary celebration. This episode has clips from another of our Declassified episodes as well as parts of interviews with Nick Roche, John Barber, James Roberts, and Mairghread Scott. Enjoy! This episode was edited by Michael Ordway (@minervion).  Please check out his work in 3D modelling and animation and video and audio post-production at www.michaelordway.com!  Huge thanks to Michael for his hard work! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Support us on Patreon or donate via Paypal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: TransMissions 137 – Nick Roche talks about getting into comics [00:52] TransMissions 159 – Barber and Roberts talking about writing Transformers [18:15]… Continue reading The post Alt Mode Episode 162 – 6th Anniversary Special (Part 2) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Happy New Year! This is the second part of our 6th anniversary celebration. This episode has clips from another of our Declassified episodes as well as parts of interviews with Nick Roche, John Barber, James Roberts, and Mairghread Scott. Enjoy! This episode was edited by Michael Ordway (@minervion).  Please check out his work in 3D modelling and animation and video and audio post-production at www.michaelordway.com!  Huge thanks to Michael for his hard work! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Support us on Patreon or donate via Paypal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: TransMissions 137 – Nick Roche talks about getting into comics [00:52] TransMissions 159 – Barber and Roberts talking about writing Transformers [18:15]… Continue reading The post Alt Mode Episode 162 – 6th Anniversary Special (Part 2) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

We review the classic Transformers G1 Season 1 episode Heavy Metal War featuring the Constructicons, IDW teases an image from the upcoming Transformers Galaxies #4, and comic artists John-Paul Bove and Nick Roche are heading back to TFNation in 2020. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! This episode was edited by Michael Ordway (@minervion).  Please check out his work in 3D modelling and animation and video and audio post-production at www.michaelordway.com!  Huge thanks to Michael for his hard work! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Support us on Patreon or donate via Paypal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Intro [00:36] Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop We’ve got new T-shirt… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 160 – Metalocalypse (Heavy Metal War G1 Classic Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

We review the classic Transformers G1 Season 1 episode Heavy Metal War featuring the Constructicons, IDW teases an image from the upcoming Transformers Galaxies #4, and comic artists John-Paul Bove and Nick Roche are heading back to TFNation in 2020. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode! This episode was edited by Michael Ordway (@minervion).  Please check out his work in 3D modelling and animation and video and audio post-production at www.michaelordway.com!  Huge thanks to Michael for his hard work! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Support us on Patreon or donate via Paypal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Intro [00:36] Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop We’ve got new T-shirt… Continue reading The post Alt Mode 160 – Metalocalypse (Heavy Metal War G1 Classic Review) appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Blurb Writer London/Brighton SILENCE! Podcast £6.34 per anus Experienced, imaginative blurb writer needed for upbeat podcast working with a highly motivated team committed to frequent regular content at the highest level... See More... Here we are again with a giant-sized container of content for you, the dear listener. Talking about stuff including Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die's recent trip to Glasgow Comic Con. Lorne Brown's Comics And Beer event in Brighton. Gary Lactus takes two boxes of childhood to tat dealer Lorne Brown and records the results in Gary Lactus Sells Out. It's off tom The Reviewniverse where your pals digest Third World War, People Protector Akay: The Devil's Pawn by Dom Regan, Giant-Size X-Statix, House of X, Secret Warps: Arach-Knight, Green Lantern, Marilyn Manor and a load of other stuff in a series of inevitable digressions. It's SILENCE! To Astonish with Gary, Mr. Die and Al Kennedy of House To Astonish bothering Nick Roche, Chip Zdarsky, Al Ewing and Kelly Kanayama in front of an audience of tolerant souls. @silencepod @bobsymindless @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

Welcome to Collecting Issues. This week Mick and Ben discuss Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Vol. 1 by IDW, collecting issues #1-3 of the monthly series by James Roberts and Alex Milne and The Death of Optimus Prime One Shot by James Roberts, John Barber and Nick Roche, first published in 2013.Join in the conversation on Facebook, on Youtube or on Twitter with #collectingissuesFind us at www.seomrabeag.com/collectingissues

Episode 64. We read The Wreckers Saga, an arc from the Transformers comics by James Roberts and Nick Roche. The Wreckers are a team of Autobots who fight the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines, trying to stay alive and keep their heads together. The war between them and the Decepticons isn't as black and white as it appears and they uncover terrifying secrets about their leaders, each other, and sometimes their own personal pasts. This complex story definitely has more than meets the eye! The Whatnauts Review Show is a weekly book club style podcast about all sorts of cool things from comic books, manga, anime, movies, TV, and more. New episodes come out every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts or as a video show on our YouTube channel.If you enjoy our shows, we would love to have your support. Get early access to all our episodes and exclusive content when you join our Patreon! For just $1 each month you can help us keep the lights on and help us keep growing.Find us on twitter and facebook and come join our Discord too!

Episode 64. We read The Wreckers Saga, an arc from the Transformers comics by James Roberts and Nick Roche. The…

Matt Crichlow jumps in the tub. -------- This is Full Tub with Nick Roche – a new podcast on the CITIUS MAG Podcast Network showcasing the members of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club. The plan is to have some deep and personal conversations with various members of the JBAC. Get to know some of Portland, Oregon's fastest and most thought-provoking characters. The group is just a couple guys and gals looking to crush miles and maybe have a beer or two. The show is now available to listen to on iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud. Subscribe now and leave a five-star review! If you forgot your bathing suit, have no fear. You can still hop in the tub in a pair of split shorts. The water is getting warm. Hop on in. Follow Full Tub on Twitter: twitter.com/FullTubPodcast Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/NickNRoche

William Zac Garrard joins the show to chat about how he's broken out as a rising star on the team after a successful career at Gonzaga. He's a civil engineer in Portland. Originally from Owensboro, Kentucky and why you should never go there. Then what happens when that kid goes to Spokane, Washington. As a Zag, he was primarily focused on the middle distance events but has now extended his range while with the Jacuzzi Boys. He's also training for his first Half Ironman. That's kind of dumb because the half marathon component is about four miles longer than the longest race that he's run. Anyway, he's known to rip 25-second 200s and wears Speedos to parties. We spit some hot takes like the fact that Morgan Pearson should stop doing the triathlon and just focus on running. Fun Fact: Zac has split 4 pairs of Banana Republic Chinos since our host has met him. This is a fun conversation. -------- This is Full Tub with Nick Roche – a new podcast on the CITIUS MAG Podcast Network showcasing the members of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club. The plan is to have some deep and personal conversations with various members of the JBAC. Get to know some of Portland, Oregon's fastest and most thought-provoking characters. The group is just a couple guys and gals looking to crush miles and maybe have a beer or two. The show is now available to listen to on iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud. Subscribe now and leave a five-star review! If you forgot your bathing suit, have no fear. You can still hop in the tub in a pair of split shorts. The water is getting warm. Hop on in. Follow Full Tub on Twitter: twitter.com/FullTubPodcast Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/NickNRoche

Matt Palmer and Scott Olberding join the show. Three fellas in a hot tub. What happens next? Matt makes shoes for Nike and runs in circles very fast. He holds the club record in the 1,500 meters with a 3:46 so what's got him running with a bunch of amateurs when other post-collegiate professional or semi-pro options were on the table? Palmer didn’t run in high school or college despite being the son of sub-4 miler. His dad also won Big 12 indoors at Kansas State so what's it like following in his footsteps? Also sub-four aspirations? Scott is the founder of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club and a data viz enthusiast. He is one of the co-founders behind the genesis of CITIUS MAG. How does he balance his full-time job at Columbia Sportswear with training and hopes of getting close to an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier. He also dives into the Minnesota high school running roots and ties with Elliott Heath – his former rival, current friend and coach. -------- This is Full Tub with Nick Roche – a new podcast on the CITIUS MAG Podcast Network showcasing the members of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club. The plan is to have some deep and personal conversations with various members of the JBAC. Get to know some of Portland, Oregon's fastest and most thought-provoking characters. The group is just a couple guys and gals looking to crush miles and maybe have a beer or two. The show is now available to listen to on iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud. Subscribe now and leave a five-star review! If you forgot your bathing suit, have no fear. You can still hop in the tub in a pair of split shorts. The water is getting warm. Hop on in. Follow Full Tub on Twitter: twitter.com/FullTubPodcast Follow Nick on Twitter: twitter.com/NickNRoche

Introducing The Full Tub Podcast, where Nick Roche will be showcasing the members of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club. The plan is to have some deep and personal conversations with various members of the JBAC. Get to know some of Portland, Oregon's fastest and most thought-provoking characters. The group is just a couple guys and gals looking to crush miles and maybe have a beer or two. The show is now available to listen to on iTunes, Spotify and Soundcloud. Subscribe now and leave a five-star review! If you forgot your bathing suit, have no fear. You can still hop in the tub in a pair of split shorts. The water is getting warm. Hop on in. This is Full Tub with Nick Roché. The first episode is out now. My first guest is Andrew Lemoncello. He is a husband, father, coach and one of the most accomplished members of the club. He is Scottish and represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Championships in 2005 and 2007. He competed in the steeplechase at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He has spent almost a decade on the roads since making his marathon debut at the 2010 London Marathon, where he ran 2:13:40 and finished 8th overall. Nowadays, he's one of the strongest members of the team and can boast a 200-mile week. Listen to this episode to hear about he found the team in Portland, memories from training at Flagstaff and what keeps him running. Get impressed by Andrew by following him on Strava: https://www.strava.com/pros/4328340 Follow Full Tub on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FullTubPodcast

We decided to check in briefly with our friend Nick Roche, who made his first appearance on the CITIUS MAG Podcast in April, and CITIUS MAG stats editor Scott Olberding. In his first appearance on the show, Nick publicly stated that he would like to get after a U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier even if his personal best is 2:27 from last year's Berlin Marathon. Scott also has OTQ dreams. Both these guys manage full-time jobs while training at a high level. Nick works at Adidas. Scott works at Columbia Sportswear. They train together as members of the Jacuzzi Boys Athletic Club. They're a group of fun guys with lofty, fast goals. Now they're both in Germany for this weekend's Berlin Marathon. Nick will go for the trials mark. Scott recently had an Achilles scare and will be looking to run his best. I decided to tap into their minds before their big race and get some insight into how two normal dudes approach their biggest race of the year. Follow them: Nick Roche - https://www.instagram.com/nickroche/ Scott Olberding - https://www.instagram.com/isthatsol/ This episode is brought to you by the Legs Are Feelin Good™. Get out there and get yourself the most popular running mugs! Link here: rdbl.co/2MWgkSZ

We're joined by a special guest to take on a new 80's nostalgia series, starting with "Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers" by Nick Roche and James Roberts. A squad of kick-butt robos is tasked with an infiltration and retrieval mission that seems to only ever get worse and worse. We talk about this book's capacity for quick character development in a frenetic, action-oriented storyline. Nostalgia plays a special role in this comic, too, as readers familiar with the franchise are confronted by their own expectations. Impactor's arc comes full circle, but a lot of good Autobots just don't make it. Plus, we talk about Deanna Troi a little bit. To hear past episodes, go to www.WelcometoComics.com. Support the show today and check out bonus content over at www.patreon.com/WelcometoComics. Next time: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Change is Constant" by Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz

TRANSFORMERS: REQUIEM OF THE WRECKERS. The beginning and the end.

Podcast Maximus interview Nick Roche, Transformers Wreckers scribe extraordinaire, a few days before the release of his new book, Requiem of the Wreckers.

We're ending our discussion about legacy characters by talking about "JSA: Black Vengeance" by Geoff Johns. In this book, the young members of the JSA travel back in time to inspire the team's original heroes after being disbanded by HUAC. We bring in our discussion of Starman with Courtney Whitmore while also talking about the overall theme of legacy that's all over this trade paperback. But more than that, how is Per Degaton this goofy while also being this evil? What's up with Atom Smasher? How disrupted and rushed is the story with the Infinite Crisis tie-in? To hear past episodes, go to www.WelcometoComics.com. Support the show today and check out bonus content over at www.patreon.com/WelcometoComics. Next time: “Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers" by Nick Roche and James Roberts

In this episode of the Twincast Podcast, "Requiem of the Twincast", the show celebrates its 200th episode with several special segments. To start the show, Transformers comics writer and artist Nick Roche, responsible for fan-favorite works Last Stand of the Wreckers, Sins of the Wreckers, and the upcoming Requiem of the Wreckers, sits down for a long chat about what's come before and what's yet to come in Requiem of the Wreckers. The interview includes topics about characters and the writer's process for defining them, with plenty of teases to get you ready for his latest work. A retrospective look at past works is also in store, and there are plenty of details that you won't want to miss within this special interview. After that, the current and former host of the show look back on the history of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast, including its origins and where it could go in the future. Then, a wider selection of podcasters takes questions and comments from the show's community of listeners. These lead to several topics, such as superlative Transformers toy lines that have been released since 2010, some of the crew's greatest hits and misses in their collecting, and even a look at each cast member's favorite Generation One Transformers toy.

Doomsday Clock (pt2), Feb 2018 solicitations, Demon: Hell is Earth 1, Imaginary Fiends 1, Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows 13, Thanos 13, Silver Sable and the Wild Pack 36, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 25, Void Trip 1, Betty & Veronica: Vixens 1, Maxwell’s Demons 1, Long Lost 1, Doppleganger 1 Comics Credits: Doomsday Clock 1 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson Demon: Hell is Earth 1 by Andrew Constant, Brad Walker, Drew Hennessy, Chris Sotomayor Imaginary Fiends 1 by Tim Seeley, Stephen Molnar, Quinton Winter Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows 13 by Jody Houser, Nick Roche, Ruth Redmond Thanos 13 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw Silver Sable and the Wild Pack 36 by Christa Faust, Paulo Siquiera, Jose Soares Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 25 by Brandon Montclare, Natacha Bustos, Tamra Bonvillain Void Trip 1 by Ryan O’Sullivan, Plaid Klaus Betty & Veronica: Vixens 1 by Jamie Lee Rotante, Eva Cabrera, Elaina Unger Maxwell’s Demons by Deniz Camp, Vittorio Astone Long Lost 1 by Matthew Erman, Lisa Sterle Doppleganger 1 by Jordan Hart, Emmanuel Javier Comics Countdown 22 Nov 2017: 10. Giant Days 2017 Holiday Special by John Allison, Jenn St-Onge, Kieran Quigley, Sarah Stern 9. All-New Wolverine 27 by Tom Taylor, Juan Cabal, Nolan Woodard 8. Astro City 49 by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Pete Pantazis 7. Thanos 13 by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw 6. Star Wars 39 by Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larroca, Guru eFX 5. Imaginary Fiends 1 by Tim Seeley, Stephen Molnar, Quinton Winter 4. Redneck 7 by Donny Cates, Lisandro Estherren, Dee Cunniffe 3. Detective Comics 969 by James Tynion IV, Joe Bennett, Sal Regla, Jason Wright 2. Doomsday Clock 1 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson 1. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil 2 by Jeff Lemire, David Rubin, Kike Diaz

TPB Back Issue Classics Episode 93 is here! Cue Stan Bush because we have THE TOUCH!!! Mike, Aimee, and Ryan are all sinful Transformers fans!!! Join us as we talk about Nick Roche's Transformers Sins of the Wreckers! You'll only find it here inside The Pull Bag! TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!! As always Make Your Great Escape Into Comics!!!GCRN Universal Ratings SystemGeeks:Mike "TFG1" BlanchardRyan "TheUnEvenFlow" MerkleyAimee "LadyWreck" MorganSubscribe to us using iTunes or use any other podcatching client by using:http://feeds.feedburner.com/GCRN-ThePullBag

TPB Back Issue Classics Episode 93 is here! Cue Stan Bush because we have THE TOUCH!!! Mike, Aimee, and Ryan are all sinful Transformers fans!!! Join us as we talk about Nick Roche’s Transformers Sins of the Wreckers! You'll only find it here inside The Pull Bag! TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!! As always Make Your Great Escape Into Comics!!!GCRN Universal Ratings SystemGeeks:Mike "TFG1" BlanchardRyan "TheUnEvenFlow" MerkleyAimee "LadyWreck" MorganSubscribe to us using iTunes or use any other podcatching client by using:http://feeds.feedburner.com/GCRN-ThePullBag

This week: Sins of the Wreckers returns and we try to guess who will survive the Dying of the Light. Spoilers ahead for SotW #4 and MTMTE #52!

Welcome to Iacon Underground's new weekly news-and-reviews podcast, Iacon Underground Radio! This week we talk Combiner Wars leaks, unsexy Leozacks, and RiD season 2. Our fiction recap is Sins of the Wreckers #3 -- which ties in neatly with our other podcast, Stasis Pod! Watch this space for information on new features, our expanding social media presence, and an upcoming IUR/Stasis Pod Patreon campaign!

In the 114th episode of The Pull Bag it's time to make a LAST STAND! That's right "Team Angel" reviews Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers! Tune into hear us gush about this 5 issue series from Nick Roche and James Roberts! Don't forget to inject your Hot Chocolate everyone! And always remember to MAKE YOUR GREAT ESCAPE into Comics!!!!LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERSMike "TFG1" BlanchardAimee "LadyWreck" MorganNicole "Beatlesdiva" HaleHeather "Ha-Hee Prime" SmithSubscribe to us using iTunes or use any other podcatching client by using:http://feeds.feedburner.com/GCRN-ThePullBagDownload TPB_EP114.mp3The post TPB – EP 114 – Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers! appeared first on GeekCast Radio Network.

a26b3b360f38895b49d48c076cefa256.jpghis special episode has Scotty P and Seibertron's News Administrator Va'al chatting with IDW Transformers comic author Nick Roche. Yes, you read right, this episode is all about the upcoming Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers from IDW Comics, and the author himself joins us to talk about the book and what it might bring readers. We'll tackle some truly hard questions and more!

Bobgar "Slurmo" Ornelas joins the discussion on The Rocketeer Artist's Edition and Dave Stevens, childhood memories (Gotham City playset, Planet of the Apes, Secret Wars toys, Spider-Man Treasury Edition, Marvel Premiere #57, G.I. Joe, Bronze Age Uncanny X-Men, and more), Mark Waid and Peter Krause's Insufferable for Thrillbent, Corporate Skull: The Many Deaths of Alan Buttons, Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski's SEX from Image Comics, Magic: The Gathering, Bob Fingerman's Maximum Minimum Wage, Thanos Rising by Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi, favorite X-characters, Disney's Superduck and comiXology, Last Stand of the Wreckers by Nick Roberts and Nick Roche from IDW, Jeph Loeb's Nova, Saddle Sore, and a whole mess more!

Just the interview with Mr Nick Roche from episode 228 of Moonbase 2

Matt and Aimee intro with news and comic highlight. And then we turn the podcast over to the interview from Auto Assembly 2011! Nick and James talk Ongoing 2012, Issue 125, and UK Classics Volume I. With all our bases covered things get a little silly and BOB could be the singularity that causes it all? * Intro, News, and Comic Highlight [@17 mins] * AA Interview with Nick Roche and James Roberts

We want to thank Nick for his time, you can see the full video version of this interview here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkqheta3GE