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Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:11:48 - ComiXology Top 10 0:16:05 - August Solicits 0:53:15 - Superman Trailer 1:11:12 - Absolute Batman #8 (Scott Snyder and Marcos Martín) 1:22:13 - Action Comics #1086 (G Willow Wilson and Gavin Guidry) 1:27:20 - Supergirl #1(LGY #270) (Sophie Campbell) 1:50:30 - Green Lantern Corps #4 (LGY #107) (Morgan Hampton & Jeremy Adams and Amancay Nahuelpan & V. Ken Marion) 2:04:23 - Batman & Robin #21 (LGY #87) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Javier Fernández & Carmine Di Giandomenico) 2:19:32 - Aquaman #5 (Jeremy Adams and John Timms) 2:34:29 - Batman: Dark Patterns #6 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 2:45:45 - PATREON American Vampire 1976 #8 2:59:10 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:18:01 - ComiXology Top 10 0:20:16 - Absolute Batman #7 (Scott Snyder and Marcos Martín) 0:38:08 - Action Comics #1085 (G Willow Wilson and Gavin Guidry) 0:51:07 - Green Lantern Corps #3 (LGY #106) (Morgan Hampton & Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin) 1:05:04 - Batman & Robin #20 (LGY #86) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Miguel Medonca & Hugo Petrus & Juni Ba) 1:13:53 - Aquaman #4 (Jeremy Adams and John Timms) 1:25:44 - Batman: Dark Patterns #5 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 1:38:45 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:22 - ComiXology Top 10 0:17:08 - Absolute Superman #5 (Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval) 0:29:07 - Action Comics #1084 (John RIdley and Inaki Miranda) 0:39:20 - Green Lantern Corps #2 (LGY #105) (Morgan Hampton & Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin) 0:52:46 - Batman & Robin #19 (LGY #85) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Miguel Medonca & Javier Fernandez) 1:04:52 - Aquaman #3 (Jeremy Adams and John Timms) 1:17:50 - Batman: Dark Patterns #4 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 1:34:48 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:05:07 - ComiXology Top 10 0:09:46 - Green Lantern Corps #1 (Morgan Hampton & Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin) 0:30:30 - Absolute Batman #5 (Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta) 0:47:40 - Action Comics #1083 (John RIdley and Inaki Miranda) 1:00:01 - Batman & Robin #18 (LGY #84) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Miguel Medonca & Javier Fernandez) 1:17:30 - Aquaman #2 (Jeremy Adams and John Timms) 1:28:26 - Batman: Dark Patterns #3 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 1:41:45 - PATREON American Vampire 1976 #5 1:53:05 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:18:33 - ComiXology Top 10 0:24:47 - Aquaman #1 (Jeremy Adams and John Timms) 0:46:25 - Absolute Batman #4 (Scott Snyder and Gabriel Hernández Walta) 1:07:59 - Batman & Robin #17 (LGY #83) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Carmine Di Giandomenico & Javier Fernandez) 1:33:04 - Batman: Dark Patterns #2 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 1:48:10 - PATREON American Vampire 1976 #4 2:00:03 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:06:50 - ComiXology Top 10 0:23:14 - News 0:42:58 - Action Comics #1079 (Mark Waid and Michael Shelfer) 1:02:56 - Batman & Robin #16 (LGY #82) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Carmine Di Giandomenico & Miguel Mendonca) 1:27:24 - Green Lantern #18 (LGY #554) (Jeremy Adams and Xermánico) 1:40:46 - Superwoman Special #1 (Joshua Williamson and Laura Braga, Nikola Čižmešija & Edwin Galmon) 1:53:21 - Batman: Dark Patterns #1 (Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman) 2:06:05 - Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #3 (Jeff Parker and Lukas Ketner & Michele Bandini) 2:15:48 - PATREON American Vampire 1976 #3 2:27:50 - PATREON: Batman and the Outsiders #20 2:42:22 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:32 - ComiXology Top 10 0:06:26 - February Solicits 0:32:25 - Absolute Batman #2 (Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta) 0:57:56 - Action Comics #1075 (Mark Waid and Clayton Henry & Michael Shelfer) 1:14:40 - Batman & Robin #15 (LGY #81) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Javier Fernández) 1:26:11 - Green Lantern #17 (LGY #553) (Jeremy Adams and Xermánico) 1:40:20 - Black Lightening #1 (Brandon Thomas and Fico Ossio) 1:47:34 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age #6 (Andy Diggle and Leonardo Fernandez) 2:00:19 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:45 - ComiXology Top 10 0:18:13 - Absolute Batman #1 (Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta) 0:52:22 - Action Comics #1070 (Mark Waid and Clayton Henry) 1:12:25 - Batman & Robin #14 (LGY #80) (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Javier Fernández) 1:21:25 - Green Lantern Corps Special #1 (Jeremy Adams & Philip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larroca) 1:37:12 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: The Kryptonian Age #5 (Andy Diggle and Leonardo Fernandez) 1:53:58 - PATREON: Batman and the Outsiders #18 2:11:23 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:08:27 - ComiXology Top 10 0:12:11 - Superman #17 (#860 LGY) (Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell) 0:23:38 - Wonder Woman #12 (LGY #812) (Tom King and Tony S Daniel) 0:38:17 - Nightwing #117 (LGY #304) (Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo) 0:53:33 - Titans #14 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 1:04:01 - Green Lantern: War Journal #12 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:18:11 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #30 (Mark Waid and Gleb Melnikov) 1:29:55 - Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter #2 (Jay Kristoff and Tirso Cons) 1:50:31 - Jenny Sparks #1 (Tom King and Jeff Spokes) 2:15:02 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Chaîne de Comics du Prof: https://www.youtube.com/@comicsduprofChaîne de Hisokaparker: https://www.youtube.com/@hisokaparker3090-------------------------------------------------Bienvenue à vous pour cette 12e émission d'encre et de bulles. L'émission où l'on vous chronique nos dernières lectures. Ce soir pour nous accompagner, Comics du Prof. On vous parle de nos dernières lectures VO et VF. On y trouve du Jonathan Hickman, Philip Kennedy Johnson, Juni Ba, Rodney Barnes, Ryan Parott, Chris Cantwell,... Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:08:57 - ComiXology Top 10 0:13:26 - October SOLICITS (All In, Absolute Universe) 1:18:08 - Superman #16 (#859 LGY) (Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell) 1:35:36 - Wonder Woman #11 (LGY #811) (Tom King and Tony S Daniel) 1:48:06 - Nightwing #116 (LGY #303) (Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo) 2:00:56 - Titans #13 (Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo) 2:12:36 - Green Lantern: War Journal #11 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 2:23:54 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #29 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 2:34:09 - Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter #1 (Jay Kristoff and Tirso Cons) 2:56:26 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:07:45 - ComiXology Top 10 0:12:59 - Batman #149 (LGY #914) (Chip Zdarsky and Michele Bandini & Steve Lieber) 0:28:12 - Wonder Woman #10 (LGY #810) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 0:55:00 - Nightwing #115 (LGY #302) (Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo) 1:05:56 - Titans #12 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 1:21:02 - Green Lantern: War Journal #10 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:30:28 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #28 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora & Travis Mercer) 1:38:39 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
WE ARE BACK! Another great and thoughtful interview with Philip Kennedy Johnson. This time about the first full year of of PKJ's Hulk run. Wide ranging talk about a lot of the new characters Philip has introduced to the Hulk cannon and some of the real life influences that brought them to the comics. All that and a little SMASHING NEWS! Your hosts: Russell and Justin. Your Editor: Knol Tate. Your music: Deleter. Join our Patreon. Follow Gamma Charge on Instagram. Check out our Facebook page.
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:17:20 - ComiXology Top 10 0:33:21 - Superman #14 (LGY #857) (Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval & Miguel Medonca) 0:49:17 - Wonder Woman #9 (LGY #809) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 0:58:14 - Nightwing #114 (LGY #301) (Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo) 1:13:44 - Titans #11 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 1:39:10 - Green Lantern: War Journal #9 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:52:41 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #27 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora & Travis Mercer) 2:03:36 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #7 (Brian Buccellato and Tom Derenick) 2:16:48 - The Bat-man: The First Knight #3 (Dan Jurgens and Mike Perkins) 2:39:50 - PATREON: Noctera: Nemesis Special 2:48:05 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:05 - ComiXology Top 10 0:15:21 - JULY SOLICITS 0:59:27 - Superman #13 (LGY #856) (Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval) 1:12:38 - Wonder Woman #8 (LGY #808) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 1:36:03 - Nightwing #113 (LGY #300) (Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo, Bruno Redondo) 1:49:40 - Titans #10 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 2:03:48 - Green Lantern: War Journal #8 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 2:15:12 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #26 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 2:27:23 - Jay Garrick: The Flash #6 (Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui) 2:34:28 - Batman: Off World #4 (Jason Aaron and Doug Manhke) 2:47:35 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Découvrez les incroyables (!!) coups de cœur d'avril d'Émile et Aurélien qui en profitent pour vous dévoiler TOUS les secrets de la toute nouvelle collection MARVEL POCHE ! Titres abordés : Ultimate Spider-Man T01 & T02 (Panini Poche) - Brian Michael Bendis & Mark Bagley Ultimates T01 (Panini Poche) - Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch Avengers Vs. X-Men T01 (Panini Poche) - Collectif Incredible Hulk T01 : L'âge des monstres (Marvel 100%) - Philip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein & Travel Foreman Howard le Canard : L'intégrale 1973-1977 (T01) (Marvel Classic) - Steve Gerber, Gene Colan, Val Mayerik & Frank Brunner Recommandations : Aurélien : Radiant de Tony Valente (Ankama Editions) Emile : Venus Wars de Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Editions Naban) Tous nos remerciements à Emmanuel Peudon pour le montage et à ClemB pour le générique. Plus d'infos sur notre site internet : https://www.panini.fr/
We revisit the creative collaboration of Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith on three Uncanny X-Men books; LifeDeath 1 and 2, focusing on Storm (184 and 198) and a Wolverine solo story (205). Plus Superman talk, including Jason Aaron, Philip Kennedy Johnson, Action Comics, and the Silver Age, Fables: The Black Forest, Predator Last Hunt, Alien, and Iron Fist. Follow us on: Facebook: Comics Discourse 114 Instagram: ComicsDiscourse114 Threads: ComicsDiscourse114 Bluesky: @comicsdiscourse114.bsky.social Twitter: ComicsDiscourse
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:14:50 - ComiXology Top 10 0:27:48 - Top 10 DC Writers Since May 2016 1:22:53 - Superman #12 (LGY #855) (Joshua Williamson and David Baldeón) 1:40:20 - Wonder Woman #7 (LGY #807) (Tom King and Guillem March) 1:52:56 - Nightwing #112 (LGY #299) (Tom Taylor and Sami Basri) 2:01:50 - Titans #9 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 2:15:40 - Green Lantern: War Journal #7 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 2:25:56 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #25 (Mark Waid and Steve Pugh) 2:41:46 - Justice Society of America #9 (Geoff Johns and Mikel Janin) 2:48:18 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #6 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce & Tom Derenick) 3:01:03 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:49 - ComiXology Top 10 0:07:50 - NEWS: Absolute Power, Back to Wednesdays 0:14:40 - Batman #144 (LGY #909) (Chip Zdarsky and Giuseppe Camuncoli & Andrea Sorrentino) 0:25:30 - Superman #11 (LGY #854) (Joshua Williamson and David Baldeón) 0:42:18 - Wonder Woman #6 (LGY #806) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 1:06:12 - Nightwing #111 (LGY #298) (Tom Taylor and Sami Basri) 1:19:05 - Titans #8 (Tom Taylor and Steven Segovia) 1:30:58 - Green Lantern: War Journal #6 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:40:02 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #24 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 1:52:05 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #5 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce) 2:03:40 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
We're back! And so is Philip Kennedy Johnson! We sit down with PKJ for the second time to talk about his recently wrapped runs on Action Comics & Alien. Listen now! Intro Apologies for delay in episodes - see blog post for more PKJ Last time we spoke was Feb. 2021, discussing Last Sons of America, Kill A Man and end of The Last God Superman (3:42) What was something you wanted to do with Superman that hadn't been done before? Exploration of Clark-Jon relationship - so many emotional moments Warworld Saga - why go with Mongul for main villain of storyline? Love Osul and Otho - their lack of exposure to anything resembling compassion and love, and the welcoming by the Superman family, is best addition to mythos in a long time Superman family gets major focus here - family is thru-line running across the entire arc Special point on Kong Kenan and his “defection” Blue Earth movement - *chef's kiss* Alien (22:28) Another instance of a father doing anything for his son in first arc Was it always the plan to have 3 separate arcs across 2 volumes? How much input did you have into Xenomorph designs, or was that all artists? Ending (34:00) Next episodes: Speedball, Deathstroke Plugs for social GonnaGeek Network Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:33 - ComiXology Top 10 0:15:23 - APRIL SOLICITS 0:44:42 - Superman #10 (LGY #853) (Joshua Williamson and Bruno Redondo) 1:01:06 - Wonder Woman #5 (LGY #805) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 1:38:33 - Nightwing #110 (LGY #297) (Tom Taylor and Sami Basri) 1:48:40 - Titans #7 (Tom Taylor and Travis Moore) 2:00:25 - Green Lantern: War Journal #5 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 2:15:16 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #23 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 2:22:53 - Jay Garrick: The Flash #4 (Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui) 2:36:30 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #4 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce & Tom Derrenick) 2:50:16 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
هلا يا شعب و حياكم في حلقة جديدة من بودكاست جبهة فيرس. في البداية نذكر انفسنا و نذكركم بالدعاء لأخواننا في فلس_ط_ين و السودان بالرحمة و ان الله يرفع عنهم كربهم و ينصرهم. للأسف هذي موب حلقة جوائز الجبهة للسنة اللي راحت لكن لا تخافوا راح نسجلها قريب، و على هذه السيرة ترانا ما زلنا نستقبل مشاركاتكم (الى نهاية الأسبوع اللي تنزل فيه هذه الحلقة) خلونا نشوف وش اختياراتكم و نستمتع بمشاركاتكم. في هذه الحلقة رجعنا بعض من نقاشاتنا القديمة و اعطيناها فاصل من الحلطمة عن وضع الكوميكس في الفترة الاخيرة. و اكيد تكلمنا عن بعض الكوميكس اللي قريناها اخر فترة. أقسام الحلقة: 1:18 - الأخبار 13:50 - الاصدارات "السابقة" لأن الحلقة نزلت بعد تاريخ الاصدارات هع هع 21:22 - نقاش عام عن وضع الكوميكس في الفترة الأخيرة 49:03 - فقرة الكوميك مع كوميك سيكرت وورييرز 55:13 - بيغ قيم 1:0053 - هولك 2023 1:06:04 - فويد رايفلز 1:11:32 - كونان البربري 1:14:34 - كيل يور دارلينغز 1:19:19 - G.O.DS الكوميكس اللي تكلمنا عنها في الحلقة: الشركة: مارفل Marvel اسم الكوميك: Secret Warriors اسم الكتاب: جوناثان هيكمان و براين مايكل بينديس Jonathan Hickman & BMB الرسامين: كثار حالة الكوميك: مكتمل سنة الإصدار: 2009-2011 اسم الكوميك: Big Game الشركة: إيميج Image اسم الكاتب: مارك ميلار Mark Millar اسم الرسام: بيبي لاراز Pepe Larraz اسم الملون/ة: جيوفانا نيرو Giovanna Niro حالة الكوميك: مكتمل سنة الإصدار: 2023 اسم الكوميك: The Incredible Hulk (2023-) الشركة: مارفل Marvel اسم الكاتب: فيليب كينيدي جونسن Philip Kennedy Johnson اسم الرسام: نك كلاين Nick Klein مع رسامين ثانيين اسم الملون: ماثيو ويلسن Mathew Wilson حالة الكوميك: مستمر ب 6 أعداد للحين سنة الإصدار: 2023- اسم الكوميك: Void Rivals الشركة: إيميج Image اسم الكاتب: روبرت كيركمان Robert Kirkman اسم الرسام: لورينزو دي فيرليتشي Lorenzo De Ferlici اسم الملون: روس ووتون Rus Wooton حالة الكوميك: مستمر ب 6 أعداد للحين سنة الإصدار: 2023- اسم الكوميك: Conan The Barbarian (titan comics) (2023) الشركة: تايتان كوميك titan comics اسم الكاتب: جيم زوب Jim Zub اسم الرسام: روب دي لا توري Rob De La Torre اسم الملون: خوزيه فيلارروبيا Jose Villarrubia حالة الكوميك: مدري بس عزيز جحفلني سنة الإصدار: 2023 - اسم الكوميك: Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer (2022) الشركة: اوبوس كوميكس Opus Comics اسم الكاتب: ميتش ايفرسون Mitch Iverson اسم الرسام: ستيفانو مارتينو Stefano Martino اسم الملون: لويس انتونيو ديلقادو Luis Antonio Delgado حالة الكوميك: مزرية سنة الإصدار: 2022 اسم الكوميك: Kill Your Darlings الشركة: إيميج Image اسم الكاتب: إيثان اس باركر و غريفن شيريدان Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan اسم الرسام: روبرت كوين Robert Quinn حالة الكوميك: مستمر ب 4 أعداد سنة الإصدار: 2023- اسم الكوميك: G.O.D.S. الشركة: مارفل Marvel اسم الكاتب: عمي جوناثن هيكمان Jonathan Hickman اسم الرسام: فاليريو شيتي Valerio Schiti اسم الملون/ة: مارتي قارسيا Marte Gracia حالة الكوميك: مستمر ب 3 أعداد سنة الإصدار: 2023 - نتمنى ان الحلقة تعجبكم و كالعادة لتعليقاتكم و اقتراحاتكم، تابعونا على حسابات الجبهة في السوشال ميديا تويتر: twitter.com/JabhaVerse انستقرام: instagram.com/jabhaverse?igshid=vulklvmem تويتش: www.twitch.tv/jabhaverse يوتيوب: youtube.com/c/JabhaVerse تويتش خالد: https://www.twitch.tv/shaggiekay تويتش ألعاب: https://t.co/UqKRenbQtO يوتيوب ألعاب: https://t.co/IZRvfXyuiV تويتر ألعاب: https://twitter.com/AlaabGa
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:06:22 - ComiXology Top 10 0:16:50 - Titans: Beast World #3 (Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer) 0:29:11 - Titans #6 (Tom Taylor and Travis Moore) 0:43:47 - Detective Comics #1080 (Ram V and Jason Shawn Alexander & Mike Perkins) 1:04:00 - Action Comics Annual 2023 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Max Raynor) 1:17:25 - The Flash #4 (LGY # 804) (Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato Jr.) 1:33:54 - Green Arrow #7 (LGY #340) (Joshua Williamson and Carmine Di Giandomenico & Trevor hairsine) 1:41:30 - The Penguin #5 (Tom King and Rafael de Latorre) 1:56:12 - Amazons Attack #3 (Josie Campbell and Vasco Georgiev) 2:06:52 - Justice Society of America #8 (Geoff Johns and Mikel Janin) 2:20:47 - Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #4 (Jeff Parker and Danny Kim & Stephen Segovia) 2:28:09 - Power Girl #4 (Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica) 2:33:58 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:12:01 - ComiXology Top 10 0:18:30 - Titans Beast World Tour: Central City #1 0:34:39 - Superman #9 (LGY #852) (Joshua Williamson and Bruno Redondo) 0:54:03 - Wonder Woman #4 (LGY #804) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 1:18:39 - Nightwing #109 (LGY #296) (Tom Taylor and Stephen Byrne) 1:31:01 - Green Lantern: War Journal #4 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:47:28 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #22 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 2:05:34 - Batman: Off World #2 (Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke) 2:16:50 - Jay Garrick: The Flash #3 (Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui) 2:24:50 - Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #3 (Jeff Parker and Michele Bandini & Trevor Hairsine) 2:36:29 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #3 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce) 2:50:59 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:08:05 - ComiXology Top 10 0:15:51 - Titans: Beast World #1 (Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis) 0:51:26 - Detective Comics #1078 (Ram V and Jason Shawn Alexander) 1:11:27 - Action Comics #1059 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Eddy Barrows & Eber Ferreira) 1:33:05 - The Flash #3 (LGY # 803) (Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato Jr.) 1:47:47 - Green Arrow #6 (LGY #339) (Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse, Phil Hester & Trevor hairsine) 1:55:05 - The Penguin #4 (Tom King and Rafael de Latorre) 2:09:45 - Amazons Attack #2 (Josie Campbell and Vasco Georgiev) 2:20:19 - Alan Scott: Green Lantern #2 (Tim Sheridan and CIan Tormey) 2:31:53 - Power Girl #3 (Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica) 2:38:24 - City Boy #6 (Greg Pak and Minkyu Jung) 2:46:20 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:05:52 - ComiXology Top 10 0:11:18 - News 0:34:34 - Batman: Off World #1 (Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke) 0:52:22 - Superman #8 (LGY #851) (Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov, David Baldeón & Jamal Campbell) 1:03:00 - Wonder Woman #3 (LGY #803) (Tom King and Daniel Sampere) 1:39:11 - Nightwing #108 (LGY #295) (Tom Taylor and Stephen Byrne) 1:49:14 - Green Lantern: War Journal #3 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:57:41 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #21 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 2:04:00 - Titans #5 (LGY #129) (Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott) 2:16:32 - Justice Society of America #7 (Geoff Johns and Marco Santucci) 2:27:34 - Jay Garrick: The Flash #2 (Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui) 2:35:21 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #2 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce) 2:56:59 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Even if the improvisation of serialized fiction is eternal, nothing stays the same. All is change. The mainstream comics world has new blood, writers who have entered the scene since 2017. We decided to find out who they were and then pit them against each other. We wanted blood. And we got blood. A river of it. Gerry Duggan vs. Tini Howard, Kelly/Lanzing vs. Tom Taylor, Kelly Thompson vs. Saladin Ahmed, Steve Orlando vs. Philip Kennedy Johnson, Zeb Wells vs. Jed MacKay, Leah Williams vs. Ram V, Ed Brisson vs. Al Ewing, and Joshua Williamson vs. Torunn Grønbekk. After nearly two hours, a champion stood at the crimson mouth, arms raised, challengers strewn or drowned. It was good. "He loves you Selina. And so do I."
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:58 - ComiXology Top 10 0:16:47 - Detective Comics #1075 (Ram V and Francesco Francavilla) 0:31:19 - Action Comics #1058 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Rafa Sandoval) 0:55:06 - Wonder Woman #2 (LGY #802) (Tom King and Daniel Sempere) 1:11:13 - Amazons Attack #1 (Josie Campbell and Vasco Georgiev) 1:26:36 - The Flash #2 (LGY # 802) (Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato Jr.) 1:32:18 - Green Arrow #5 (LGY #338) (Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse) 1:42:37 - The Penguin #3 (Tom King and Rafael de Latorre) 1:55:43 - Alan Scott: Green Lantern #1 (Tim Sheridan and CIan Tormey) 2:05:44 - Power Girl #2 (Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica) 2:12:50 - Unstoppable Doom Patrol #7 (Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham) 2:22:15 - Tales of the Titans #4 (Andrew Constant and Ted Brandt) 2:29:17 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Russell and Justin bring you another NEW comic review In Incredible Hulk #5 from Philip Kennedy Johnson & Travel Foreman, The Hulk teams with Man-Thing to save Charlie from the maw of the Swamp Witch In Crypt of Shadows, Hulk forges an unlikely alliance with Jack Russell to take on a classic Spider-Man foe
Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon!NEWSFull January 2024 Marvel Comics solicitations are here!New four-part series ‘Dead X-Men' rises January 31stCable scores new four-issue series starting January 2024'Alien: Black, White & Blood' set for bloody debut in February 2024Everything we learned about Star Wars comics at NYCC 2023DC January 2024 solicitations are here!DC Power 2024 anthology coming this JanuaryJames Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming's ‘Blue Book' returns with ‘Blue Book: 1947'Todd McFarlane Launches Ten More Spawn Titles For 2024Our Top Books of the WeekDave:Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 (Patrick Horvath)Sensational She-Hulk #1 (Rainbow Rowell, Andres Genolet )Nathan:Swan Songs #4 (W. Maxwell Prince, Caitlin Yarsky)Kill Your Darlings #2 (Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Bob Quinn, John J. Hill)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - The Incredible Hulk #5 (Philip Kennedy Johnson, Travel Foreman)Dave - Daredevil #2 (Saladin Ahmed, Aaron Kuder)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Giant Robot Hellboy #1 (Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo)Nathan: Alan Scott: Green Lantern #1 (Tim Sheridan, Cian Tormey)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Detective Comics #1075 (Kelley Jones Card Stock Cover)Nathan: Green Arrow #5 (Alvaro Martinez Bueno)Interview: Michael Avon Oeming & Victor Santos - Project Monarch - Out October 18, 2023Project Monarch is complex, yet reads effortlessly, where did this crazy journey about conspiracy theories and film directors start for you and Victor Santos?A few sci-fi classics are referenced like Valis and The Matrix, plus we have a main character that's a kind of modernization of Stanley Kubrick, why was film such an important part of this graphic novel?At one point Stanley points out he left room in his films for folks to create their own story, have you found fans of your other comics work doing this? How do you feel if they go down the wrong path?Do you have a favorite conspiracy?I found it interesting Stanley is a director of films, and later a director of assassins, do you think there's any similarities in these kinds of work?If someone were to direct the TV or movie adaptation of Project Monarch, who would it be and why?The end seems to suggest a new battle is coming, could a sequel be in the works?
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:06:00 - ComiXology Top 10 0:11:52 - January Solicits 0:41:38 - Superman #7 (LGY #850) (Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov, Dan Jurgens & Edward Galmon) 1:04:26 - Nightwing #107 (LGY #294) (Tom Taylor and Stephen Byrne) 1:14:48 - Catwoman #58 (Tini Howard and Nico Leon) 1:27:14 - Green Lantern: War Journal #2 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:41:36 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #19 (Mark Waid and Dan Mora) 1:51:14 - Titans #4 (LGY #128) (Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott) 1:59:39 - Jay Garrick: The Flash #1 (Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui) 2:14:17 - Justice League Vs Godzilla Vs Kong #1 (Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce) 2:08:42 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:10:59 - ComiXology Top 10 0:23:17 - Detective Comics #1074 (Ram V and Dustin Nguyen) 0:41:52 - Action Comics #1057 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Rafa Sandoval) 1:04:24 - The Flash #1 (LG 801) (Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato Jr.) 1:30:40 - Green Arrow #4 (Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse) 1:40:29 - The Penguin #2 (Tom King and Rafael de Latorre) 1:50:05 - Unstoppable Doom Patrol #6 (Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham) 1:57:13 - Batman: Brave and the Bold #5 (Tom King and Mitch Gerads) 2:14:55 - Power Girl #1 (Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica) 2:22:55 - Spirit World #5 (Alyssa Wong and Haining) 2:35:09 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:27 - ComiXology Top 10 0:10:47 - Wonder Woman #1 (LG 801) (Tom King and Daniel Sempere) 0:41:52 - Superman #6 (LG 849) (Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov) 0:53:25 - Nightwing #106 (Tom Taylor and Stephen Byrne) 1:07:40 - Green Lantern: War Journal #1 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Montos) 1:25:31 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #18 (Mark Waid and Travis Moore) 1:33:29 - Titans #3 (Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott) 1:42:21 - Hawkgirl #3 (Jadzia Axelrod and Amancay Nahuelpan) 1:49:07 - The Vigil #4 (Ram V and Sid Kotian & Dev Pramanik) 1:59:30 - Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1 (Rafael Grampa) 2:08:42 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz
Fecha de Grabación: Lunes 28 de agosto de 2023. Algunas noticias y temas comentados: Los X-Men de Ed Brubaker y los de Jonathan Hickman ¿Que esperar de Tom Brevoort al frente de los X-Men? Al Ewing y su historia "secreta" de DC Comics Algunas buenas historias de The Demon (DC Comics) Expectativas del Hulk de Philip Kennedy Johnson y Nic Klein Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Además: Books of Doom (Brubaker y Raimondi), D.G. Chichester en Daredevil, el Deadshot de John Ostrander, Delicate Criatures (Strackzynski y Zulli), ¡...y mucho más! Comentario de series y películas: Ahsoka, serie de Star Wars desarrollada, escrita y dirigida por Dave Filoni, con las actuaciones de Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ray Stevenson, Ivanna Sakhno, Diana Lee Inosanto y la voz de David Tennant. (Lucasfilm/Disney) Blue Beetle, película de superhéroes dirigida por Angel Manuel Soto, con Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine, Susan Sarandon, George Lopez, Damián Alcázar, Adriana Barraza, Raoul Trujillo y Belissa Escobedo, entre otros. (Warner Bros. Pictures) Invasion, serie de ciencia ficción desarrollada por Simon Kinberg y David Weil, con Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shioli Kutsuna, Billy Barratt y Sam Neill, entre otros. (Apple TV) Silo, serie de ciencia ficción distópica desarrollada por Graham Yost, con Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez y Chinaza Uche. (AMC Studios/Apple TV) Foundation, serie de ciencia ficción desarrollada por David S. Goyer y Josh Friedman, con Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell y Leah Harvey. (Skydance Television/Apple TV) Pueden escuchar el podcast en este reproductor: Descarga Directa MP3 (Botón derecho del mouse y "guardar enlace como"). Peso: 103.2 MB; Calidad: 128 Kbps. El episodio tiene una duración de 1:52:43 y la canción de cierre es "We Want the Airwaves" de Ramones. Además de nuestras redes sociales (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), ahora tenemos una nueva forma de interactuar con nosotros: un servidor en Discord. Es un espacio para compartir recomendaciones, dudas, memes y más, y la conversación gira alrededor de muchos temas además de cómics, y es una forma más inmediata de mantenerse en contacto con Esteban y Alberto, así como con otros escuchas. ¡Únete a nuestro servidor en Discord! También tenemos un Patreon. Cada episodio del podcast se publica allí al menos 24 horas antes que en los canales habituales, y realizamos un especial mensual exclusivo para nuestros suscriptores en esa plataforma. Tú también puedes convertirte en uno de nuestros patreoncinadores™ con aportaciones desde 1 dólar, que puede ser cada mes, o por el tiempo que tú lo decidas, incluyendo aportaciones de una sola vez. También puedes encontrar nuestro podcast en los siguientes agregadores y servicios especializados: Comicverso en Spotify Comicverso en iVoox Comicverso en Apple Podcasts Comicverso en Google Podcasts Comicverso en Amazon Music Comicverso en Archive.org Comicverso en I Heart Radio Comicverso en Overcast.fm Comicverso en Pocket Casts Comicverso en RadioPublic Comicverso en CastBox.fm ¿Usas alguna app o servicio que no tiene a Comicverso? En la parte alta de la barra lateral está el feed del podcast, el cual puedes agregar al servicio de tu preferencia. Nos interesa conocer opiniones y críticas para seguir mejorando. Si te gusta nuestro trabajo, por favor ayúdanos compartiendo el enlace a esta entrada, cuéntale a tus amigos sobre nuestro podcast, y recomiéndalo a quien creas que pueda interesarle. Deja tus comentarios o escríbenos directamente a comicverso@gmail.com
We discuss two new Marvel number 1s; Incredible Hulk by Philip Kennedy Johnson & Nic Klein and Ultimate Invasion by Johnathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch. Plus a buffet of comic talk including Lore Olympus, X-Men: Before The Fall – Heralds of Apocalypse, Christopher Chaos, Savage Strength of Starstorm, Unwritten, and classic Steve Ditko Blue Beetle. Follow us on: Facebook: Comics Discourse 114 Instagram: ComicsDiscourse114 Twitter: ComicsDiscourse
Russ and Justin invite on new Incredible Hulk writer Philip Kennedy Johnson to discuss his upcoming run. Great interview plus some Hulk news and the like. Your hosts: Russell and Justin. Your Editor: Knol Tate. Your music: Deleter. Join our Patreon. Follow Gamma Charge on Instagram. Follow Gamma Charge on Twitter. Check out our Facebook page.
THIS EPISODE WAS ORIGINALLY STREAMED LIVE Russ and Justin discuss the brand new Hulk Annual from David Pepose and co. Plus, lots of talk about Found Footage horror and the upcoming run from Philip Kennedy Johnson
Episode 693: Action Comics 1054 and Superman 3: Sean and Jim continue a Dawn of DC look at Superman with Action Comics 1054 and Superman 3. The road to 700 continues! Speeding Bullets : DC News updates! Sean is a regular cohost on Is it Jaws? Check it out here : https://twotruefreaks.com/podcast/qt-series/is-it-jaws-movie-reviews/ Upcoming: Batman, Shazam, Superman Lost and Green Arrow, a look at the Bat books, Wonder Woman, Unstoppable Doom Patrol, more Dawn of DC and announcements about episode 700. Contact Info (Social Media and Gaming) Updated 4/16/23: https://ragingbullets.com/about/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/401332833597062/ Show Notes: 0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://cbldf.org/,http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype, and more. 2:15 Action Comics 1:02:10 Superman 1:22:25 Speeding Bullets 1:41:05 Closing We'll be back in a week with more content. Check our website, Twitter and our Facebook group for regular updates.
Updates: - MCU Secret Invasion Debuts June 21 - Quantamania a flop? - Ike Perlmutter fired from Disney, Joe Quesada hired at Amazon -Demetrius Grosse cast in Wonder Man, Liv Tyler returning as Betty Ross for Captain America: New World Order -New Marvel Comics series G.O.D.S. #1 -New Blade comic book series by Bryan Hill and Elena Casagrande coming in June Comics: -Action Comics #1053 (Philip Kennedy Johnson and Rafa Sandoval) [29:43] -Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #2 (Tini Howard and Vasco Georgiev) [34:44] Mentions: Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #2, Blood Stained Teeth #10, X-Men: Unforgiven AR Club: Avengers Arena #1- 5 (Next week: 6-10) [41:10] Relaunch: LZ Relaunch - Wiccan - Excalibur Sorcerer [58:12]
Episode 678: Action Comics 1050 and John Stewart The Emerald Knight #1: The Dawn of DC is here and Sean and Jim look at the status quo changing issues of Action Comics and Green Lantern, John Stewart's book. Speeding Bullets: DC News and comic conversation, including a shout out to Danger Street #1 Voicemail from Rasul Upcoming: Action Comics, John Stewart the Emerald Knight, Tales from Earth 6 : A celebration of Stan Lee, Wonder Woman Historia – The Amazons Contact Info (Social Media and Gaming): https://ragingbullets.com/about/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/401332833597062/ Show Notes: 0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://cbldf.org/,http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype, and more. 2:50 Action Comics 31:15 John Stewart : The Emerald Knight 1:02:15 Speeding Bullets w/voicemail 2:04:42 Closing We'll be back in a week with more content. Check our website, Twitter and our Facebook group for regular updates.
Updates Happy New Year Comics Timeless #1 (Jed McKay, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Patch Zircher & Salvador Larroca) [6:58] John Stewart: Emerald Knight #1 (Geoffrey Thorne, Marco Santucci) [14:13] Action Comics #1050 (Philip Kennedy Johnson, Tom Taylor, Joshua Williamson - Mike Perkins, Clayton Henry, Nick Dragotta) [24:43] Wonder Woman Historia #3 (Kelly Sue Deconnick and Nicola Scott) [31:24] Mentions: Shang-Chi & The Ten Rings #6, She-Hulk #9, AR Club: Wolverine and the X-Men ep 23-26, Justice League Unlimited Ep. 1 [38:51] Relaunch: Best of the MCU 2022 [01:07:59]
Episode 676: Kal El Returns and Dark Crisis War Zone: Sean and Jim take a look at Kal El's return to Earth in the Superman Kal El Returns Special. They also being a two part look at the wrap up to Dark Crisis beginning with a look at Dark Crisis War Zone. Speeding Bullets: DC News and comic conversation Upcoming: Dark Crisis Big Bang, Dark Crisis 7 Contact Info (Social Media and Gaming): https://ragingbullets.com/about/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/401332833597062/ Show Notes: 0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://cbldf.org/,http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype, and more. 2:50 Speeding Bullets 48:00 Kal El Returns 1:12:10 War Zone 1:38:30 Closing We'll be back in a week with more content. Check our website, Twitter and our Facebook group for regular updates.
On this episode the bro's review Alien Vol. 1: Bloodlines. Written by Philip Kennedy Johnson with art by Salvador Larroca.
Episode 661: Superman Warworld Apocalypse and Superman Son of Kal El 14: Sean and Jim are back to take a look at the conclusion of Superman's big event with Warworld Apocalypse and check in with Jon Kent in Superman Son of Kal El. Speeding Bullets (Thank you to our Facebook Team!): DC news Upcoming: Dark Crisis 4, Flashpoint Beyond 5, Batman Dear Detective, Dark Knights of Steel Tales of the Three Kingdoms Contact Info (Social Media and Gaming): https://ragingbullets.com/about/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/401332833597062/ Show Notes: 0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://cbldf.org/,http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype, and more. 3:30 Speeding Bullets 29:20 Warworld Apocalypse 1:19:12 Son of Kal El 1:38:40 Closing We'll be back in a week with more content. Check our website, Twitter and our Facebook group for regular updates.
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July, 2022 brings many new things, both expected and unexpected, to our door, and one of them is this, our first episode of the month! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk for a hale and hearty two hours about Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser; the Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis era of Justice League; the current big swings being taken by DC creators these days; the first ten issues of the Alien comic by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larocca; Eternals Vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic; Dr. Strange in Multiverse of Madness and much, much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!
Look out for some changes coming soon... Until this, here are the comics of the week: 5:43 Actions Comics #1042 - Philip Kennedy Johnson and Riccardo Federeci 11:36 Aquamen #3 - Brandon Thomas/Chuck Brown and Max Raynor 19:24 Justice League #75: Death of the Justice League - Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval 29:35 Trial of the Amazons #2 33:20 Knights of X #1 - Tini Howard and Bob Quinn Another Rewatch: Moon Knight Ep 5 [42:15] Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Leave us a comment and subscribe to the youtube channel! Twitter: - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ
Welcome back! Lot's of exciting new things coming to Another Relaunch and can't wait to start showing them to everyone! This week Keenan and LZ discuss and review these comic books: 4:14 Winter Guard #2 - Ryan Cady and Jan Bazaldua 9:27 Action Comics #1035 - Philip Kennedy Johnson and Daniel Sampere 17:50 Astonishing Times #3 - Frank Barbiere and Arris Quinones, Ruairi Coleman 23:54 S.W.O.R.D. #8 - Al Ewing and Guiu Vilanova 36:41 Inferno #1 - Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti Panel time and this week it's Star-Lord! Are you a fan of the cosmic Guardian of the Galaxy? Let's chat about Peter Jason Quill! Another Relaunch! Ok, full disclaimer, LZ repeated his relaunch for Eve Bakian as Nova. I guess he really wants to see her...oops! Let us know if you have other ideas for her! Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Leave us a comment and subscribe to the youtube channel! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com
Welcome back! Lot's of action packed comic books this week! Keenan and LZ review and discuss: 4:51 Robin #5 - Joshua Williamson and Glebe Melnikov 9:46 Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom #4 - Brandon Easton and Fico Ossio 13:27 Action Comics #1034 - Philip Kennedy Johnson and Daniel Sampere 18:31 Winter Guard #1 - Ryan Cady and Jan Bazaldua 24:19 Black Widow #10 - Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande and Rafael De La Torre Another Panel: Darkstar! Laynia Petrovna aka Darkstar is a mutant who can control and manipulate dark force energy. She's a member of the Winter Guard and it's time to give her a spotlight! Are you a Darkstar fan? Let us know! Another Relaunch! Wow! 2 in a row?? Keenan and LZ relaunch some characters and try to give them new ideas! Did you agree? Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Leave us a comment and subscribe to the youtube channel! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com
Welcome back! This week Keenan and LZ review and discuss the following comic books: 3:55 Seven Secrets #10 - Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, colors Walter baiamonte 8:11 Barbarella #1 - Sarah Hoyt and Madibek Musabekov, Ivan nunes 13:28 Action Comics annual #1 - Philip Kennedy Johnson, art by Siya Oum and Scott Godlewski. Hi-fi colors 22:38 Way of X #4 - Simon spurrier, Bob Quinn, colors by Java tartaglia 29:01 Excalibur #22 - Tini Howard and Marcus To, colors by Erik arciniega Another Panel: The Multiverse! Do yall like the multiverse? Do you have any multiverse or alternate reality favorite characters? Keenan and LZ chat about the multiverse and want to know what you think! (40:01) Another Rewatch: Loki Ep 6 Season Finale! The reveal of He Who Remains... (1:03:36) Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Leave us a comment and subscribe to the youtube channel! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com
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With Tom Taylor’s latest Batman comic out, you know we had to cover it! Not only that, but Joe and Vi also talk about Philip Kennedy Johnson’s Superman #30 and Jed Mackay’s Black Cat #5! And Vi gives her “excited” reminder for next week’s Women of Marvel #1! Want us to cover a specific comic next week? Let us know! You can follow us on Instagram, Parler, Twitter, Tumblr, and Youtube @CourtofOwlets! You can also follow Joe on both Twitter and Instagram at @JoeCoOwlets! Follow Vi on Twitter and Instagram at @SelinaCoOwlets! You can follow Muse only on Twitter @muse0ica! |This week's comics: Superman #30 (0:48 - 15:13), Black Cat #5 (20:27 - 26:04), Batman: The Detective #1 (26:14 - 43:30).| |Intro/Outro song “Retro Gamer” provided by Purple-Planet.com|
On this week's comic book review show: King in Black #3 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Ryan Stegman Future State: The Next Batman #2 DC Comics Written by John Ridley, Vita Ayala, Paula Sevenbergen Art by Laura Braga, Aneke, Rob Haynes Future State: Superman Worlds of War #1 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Brandon Easton, Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jeremy Adams Art by Mikel Janín, Valentine de Landro, Gleb Mlenikov, Siya Oum Future State: Catwoman #1 DC Comics Written by Ram V Art by Otto Schmidt Future State: Shazam #1 DC Comics Written by Tim Sheridan Art by Eduardo Pansica Future State: Nightwing #1 DC Comics Written by Andrew Constant Art by Nicola Scott Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan & Michael W. Conrad, LL McKinney Art by Jen Bartel, Alitha Martinez Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #1 Marvel Written by Larry Hama Art by David Wachter Rain Like Hammers #1 Image Comics Created by Brandom Graham Rorschach #4 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Abbott 1973 #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Saladin Ahmed Art by Sami Kivelä Black Cat: King in Black #2 Marvel Written by Jed MacKay Art by C.F. Villa Batman/Catwoman #2 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Clay Mann The Scumbag #4 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Eric Powell Once & Future #15 BOOM! Studios Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Dan Mora Maestro: War & Pax #1 Marvel Written by Peter David Art by Javier Pina Stillwater #5 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K Perez Seven to Eternity #16 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Jerome Opeña SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex: What is up y'all, welcome to The Stack, I'm Alex. Justin: I'm Justin. Pete: I'm Pete. We're The Stack. What is up? Justin: Oh, he wants a little editorial time at the beginning. Alex: Pete, do your what's up section, go for it? Pete: Hey, everybody, what is up? Alex: [inaudible 00:00:30]. Justin: What a fun way to Kick it up? You sound like [inaudible 00:00:38]. Pete: He's my guy. Alex: We're going to talk about a bunch of comics that came out this very week. We're going to review them, we're going to talk about them, we're going to offer up our unfiltered opinions. We're going to kick it off with King in Black number three from Marvel written by Donny Cates and art by Ryan Stegman. This issue spoilers Venom is dead. And what remains to the Marvel heroes are going right up against Knull, that includes Venom's son, but also includes Thor, who is finally come back to take on Knull. There's some brutal stuff that happens in this issue. We're almost through this event, I think at this point. We're definitely at the halfway point. What do you think about it so far? Would you been thinking about this issue in particular? Justin: What I really like about this event is, it has a unique structure. I feel like so many events are built around the idea of heroes having normal lives, problem emerges, everything gets bad, heroes rally, they win. And in this, it was for everything is bad immediately out of the gate. And then now we're seeing some things getting worse. We're seeing little pops of different hero moments. And in this issue we get Thor popping, and it's really good. I love the last page reveal, the arts fantastic in this issue. And it's also funny how little knull, knull it's just sort of hovering at the center of it, but we haven't seen a lot of Knull doing stuff. Alex: Yeah, I mean, this issue it definitely mixes it up though. I think this is just a lot of fun, a really a great kind of event. I've been really happy with the action and this, it keeps things getting worse, but there's little glimmers of hope. I've been very much enjoying the over the top action adventure and fun that they're having on this. This is just a really cool, very bad shit going on here, giant dragons and flaming monsters, and the last page reveal is just bad-ass. This might be the goop on the Chrysler building, but this is starting to remind me a lot of Inferno, the crossover from back in the day when demons took over New York. Partially… Pete: Wait, was that Ghostbusters II reference with ooze on the… What do you mean the- Alex: 100% absolutely not. It was a reference to the X-Men: Crossover Inferno. We just had… well, it's very iconic thing of the Empire State Building to be taken over by the demons from LeBeau, and it just got bigger and bigger over time, and people would be like, hey, that's weird. The Empire State Building is bigger than I remember it is. This reminds me a lot of that, but it also reminds me a lot of that because you have these disparate elements from these other mini-series and other things going on, and kind of starting to come together in this issue, different threads. Alex: Justin, you mentioned this couple of issues back, but I think that one thing that Donny Cates is doing very well, is giving the spotlight to other characters. Like there's a great Iron Man moments of this issue. Thor knocking Knull's jaw off is very bad ass. It's high octane thriller in the same way that Dark Nights: Death Metal was. And I think that's fun. It's fun to read right now. Justin: Agree. Donny Cates is a big used the whole Buffalo writer and he does it here. With a lot of the stuff he's been setting up across all the titles he's been working on, and just stuff that goes on with the other characters in the Marvel universe. Pete: Justin, I appreciate your Buffalo reference and go bills. Justin: That's right. I've said use the whole Buffalo bills. Alex: Now, as we were doing for the past two weeks, on to week three, let's talk about Future State over at DC Comics.[crosstalk 00:04:33]. This is an interesting week because we bought a bunch of number one Future State issues, but we're also getting our first number two with Future State, the next Batman number two. There's also a lot of developing story at some big points that we start to get about what's going on in this future world. As we have been doing, why don't you guys call out the things that you particularly liked, that you thought were interesting? Pete, let's start with you, at all offer up the writing to you as we go through. Pete: Alright, great. I really liked the next Batman. I think this is kind of a fun Batman in the future with tack and kind of shit that he's up against. I'm enjoying this. Alex: Well, let's talk about that one first, because that is as mentioned the first number two of this Future State slate. This is written by John Ridley, Vita Ayala, and Paula Sevenbergen, art by Laura Braga, Aneke and Rob Haynes. Pete, what did you like about this one in particular? Pete: Well, I like where we're kind of picking up here. This feels like a Batman book, kind of in the middle of things picking apart who's doing what to whom, we've got some bad guys kind of closing in on Batman, and yeah, I also, Batman's hurt. It's nice to see it's not this Batman that has no flaws, or can't be hurt with the tech armor that he's got on. So it feels like a Batman book. It's a new kind of take on Batman. So I'm excited about it. I think it's I'm enjoying it. Justin: Yeah, I agree. I mean, I like this a lot. It definitely, just the voice is different with Batman throughout here, and that's just great to see. And it really feels like it's paying off the promise of Future State. Like we're doing new versions of these characters and let's see. And then I also thought [inaudible 00:06:29] is it Gotham city sirens at the end which plays like a… The art is almost like Dan Parent Archie Comics, which I thought was really fun and just a different sort of vibe to the whole thing. Alex: Is that, we read a lot of these, so forgive me if I got this wrong. Was that's the one was Spoiler and Cassandra [Canaan 00:06:52] in jail, right? Justin: Yes. Alex: That was great. Justin: I love that. Alex: That was one of my favorite things this week. I thought that was really fascinating. That picks up on some of the threads that we've gotten on some of the other books with Spoiler in particular. And just this idea that the magistrate, whoever the magistrate is, who is running Gotham City now, is throwing good guys and bad guys in jail, just because of his zero-tolerance policy. I think it was a really fun idea. I mean, I don't know if I completely buy this, but I'll just throw something out to you that was my impression halfway through reading all these Future State books, I almost wish DC had gone for it and said, “This is the DC universe now, this is what we're doing going forward.” Like to be- Pete: That would be too big of a shakeup, that would be- Alex: It would be huge. I understand why they did it, but if you remember back in the day, there was the one year later stuff, I believe after 52, where there's apocalyptic event that jumped forward a year, and then they kind of filled it and stuff later. The idea of doing that and just jumping forward in unseen unspecified amount of time later, I kind of loved that. Particularly because, well, a lot of what we got this week, was the idea that we're told in week one Batman is gone, Superman is gone, Wonder Woman is gone. They're not gone, they're just in kind of different status quos at this point. So instead, it does feel like the DC universe just, there are some holes to fill it at this point. Pete: What I like about this event is, I feel like they are shaking things up. They're getting different people on different projects, and you're getting new takes on it. And it feels like a fresh take, which is great. I think they're doing it smart. If things start to do well, maybe it takes over the regular title. I think that's a smart way to do this. Alex: They are continuing next Batman. I mean, that's clearly seems like the one that they're all in on, they have John Ridley on it, that's a big deal. They're continuing that title that you've heard of the universe. So to your point Pete, I think there's a couple of others that could roll off of. Before we get two other leads here though Justin, any other titles that jumped out at you? Justin: I'm going to give it up for Superman – Worlds of War. Alex: Yeah, gladiator Superman. Justin: Which yeah. And I really like this because it takes Superman, to your point you mentioned before, about how the main trinity are sort of off the board. Here we get to find out where Superman is. And he's on war world, and there's a bunch of bad shit happening there. And I thought- Alex: It's… Let me just interrupt with the creative team for this one, written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, Brandon M. Easton, Becky Clinton, and Michael W. Conrad, Jeremy Adams, art by Miquel Janine, Valentine Delondra, Glib and Melnikov and [inaudible 00:09:47]. Take it away Justin. Pete: I would, Justin, if I could interrupt you for a moment. I'm really hoping it's going to be like planet Hulk, and Superman comes back and he is so pissed, and blows up New York. Justin: Yeah, that's a solid guess. I really liked the Phillip Kennedy Johnson story that kicks it off is so great. Focusing on Smallville, he talked about this a little bit when he was on our show a few weeks ago, and just a great sort of retrospective about what Superman is, what he does, it's so good. Alex: I also really liked the Midnighters story in this book. This is great and very key to everything that's going on in Future State, because unless I misinterpreted it, and this is a spoiler here, but we find out the identity of Trojan, the person who's been running Metropolis in Superman's absence, and it is none other than Apollo. Pete: Yeah. Alex: What do you think about that Pete? You love Apollo and Midnighter, so what was your take on this twist? Pete: I was very a gasped, I clutch my pearls, I wasn't ready for it. Justin: Those pearls look lovely by the way. You look gorgeous. Pete: Thank you. [crosstalk 00:10:55] Justin: They really accentuate your neck. Pete: You guys. Justin: Beautiful neck. Pete: Becky Cloonan is writing the crap out of this, this is… I really want more of this. This is a very, very cool kind of story that we have here in this book. Justin: I like this quite a bit as well. Like you said there, a bunch of them they're really good. I like…What's up Pete? Pete: I was just going to say the art across the board has been really impressive. It's because for me, DC seems very certain style of art, and I've been really impressed with how they're pushing that out a little bit. They're not as cookie cutter as they normally are. So I'm really impressed with that. Alex: I thought a mortal Wonder Woman was the one that I was really looking forward to, and art wise and in particular, I thought it was really gorgeous, Justin: Really nice art. Alex: I like the stories quite a bit, written by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, L.L. McKinney, art by Jenny Bartelle and Alitha Martinez. You have two stories, one about Wonder Woman kind of an end of time Wonder Woman thing going on, and then another one about Nubia, who is Wonder Woman's twin sister. I thought this was a really solid book, particularly on the Wonder Woman story, which was really fascinating though I liked a Nubia as well. But the other one that a lot of call out that I was very surprised by it.[crosstalk 00:12:20] Pete: Justin before you say anything, I thought this was going to be your pick, because you were inside the head of Wonder Woman at the start of that, and you love that shit. Justin: I love being inside people's heads. I'm still trying to crack my way into that [inaudible 00:12:39]. Pete: [inaudible 00:12:39] this. Justin: I feel like in this story, it's sort of positioning Wonder Woman, almost like Superman. Almost like Jor-El on Krypton in the last days trying to save it, while everyone's like, “Nope, we got to do this other stuff.” And I thought that was an interesting sort of blending of Wonder Woman and Superman's [inaudible 00:12:58]. Pete: The ghost Batman moment with Wonder Woman was very touching. I thought that was very nice. Justin: Yeah. So good stuff but the other one I [inaudible 00:13:09] call was Future State Shazam number one written by Tim Sheridan, art by Eduardo Pansica. This is the one that really drove home for me. What I was saying earlier about feeling like, oh, they just could have done this. This doesn't need to be Future State because there's going to be a thing. This is what we get here is Neron, has separated Shazam and Billy Batson. Billy Batson is, big spoilers, but Billy Batson has been chained to the Rock of Eternity, to lock in some prisoner we don't find out what it is, but it's very bad. And Shazam has left on his own and basically spiraling out and becoming a merciless killer of villains. And this just feels like such a clear Shazam idea at a very different way. It's something that's like, you don't need to do this 40, 50 day years down the road. This is just a good dark Shazamm idea, that I like quite a lot. Yeah, I also really liked Legion. I thought that was… Alex: Legion? Justin: Yeah, Legion number 12. Was that not part of the Future State? Alex: No, [crosstalk 00:14:18]. Pete: No, but great that you're reading. Justin: Yeah, sorry about that. Alex: That's all good. Justin: But I liked the end, the reveal and Catwoman, I thought they also had great art and I liked the last page reveal very much. Alex: That was super fun as well. That was written by Ram V, art by Otto Schmidt and that is just Catwoman going on a great train robbery in this magistrate run Gotham City, super fun. Justin: I agree, I really liked the Catwoman one. It was a good use of genre to really tell an interesting story. And the other one we haven't talked about yet is the Nightwing, which I also thought was cool as well. A lot of different takes. Alex: Yeah, written by Andrew constant, art by Nicola Scott, and this finds Nightwing kind of getting fed up with the status quo of Gotham City and decided to make a big move there. I'm more excited for the second issue of this one. I think that the first issue, but very solid done the less. Justin: Yeah, I really, I thought all of these books from Future State this week really had something to really enjoy in them. And that was exciting. Alex: Yeah, I think what they're trying to do is cool, it's fun to mix things up. Pete: I'm definitely at the point and I know I'll change my mind in a couple of weeks, but I'm definitely at the point where I'm like, I kind of don't want to go back to whatever the status quo is. Alex: Oh, wow. Pete: I'm enjoying it, I'm having a fun time. Justin: Maybe there's no status quo ever again, in the world. Alex: There's no status quo baby. Let's move on to shock one that I think is probably a gimme for Pete Iron Fist, heart of the dragon number one from Marvel written by Larry Hama, written by David Wachter, Pete, what'd you think about this? Pete: First off, the Hamas writing this book is really fantastic. Touches my heart in all the right ways. Hama, who famously writes a ton of G.I. Joe, this makes a lot of sense, putting him on this book. And this the issue was just glorious. Really a lot of fun, some cool characters. I loved it. Plus anytime you got Luke Cage and Iron Fist together, I'm a happy camper. Art's unbelievable. This is just a really cool bad-ass story, and I want more. Justin: I mean, is there any more G.I. Joe type story than this with guys named Iron Fist, Taskmaster? It's right over the gate. If we're going to get snow jabbing here, I think we have a full set. Alex: Yeah, this is fine. This is Taskmaster is stealing a bunch of dragon hearts and messing up the seven kingdoms. So Iron Fist has to go after him. There's a bunch of other things- Pete: Heart of the dragon. Alex: Yes. Lady Bullseye is in there, like you mentioned, Luke Cage, yeah, it's fun. Justin: Yeah, and I will say it did take some fun turns. I liked seeing Luke Cage in here really getting up and doing some fighting here. Pete: Yeah. Also daddy Luke Cage, he starts off so lovable, but he's not scared to throw down, you know what I mean? Alex: Exactly. Justin, let's move on to one of I believe your favorites of the week, Rain Like Hammers, number one for, which comics created by Brandon Graham. This is a, I don't even know if it takes place in the future. It's definitely a sci-fi book but… Justin: This is present day. Alex: It follows a guy… its present day. Follows a guy who works, he watches TV, he eats, then things go terribly wrong. Justin: This is the prequel to Wally, is what this is. Alex: This book is gorgeous, but Justin, you go ahead. You talk about it. Justin: I love Brandon Graham's art and storytelling. They'll… One of the books that really first turned me on is, he was doing the art on profit, the image book that it used to be just like a Rob Liefeld, like a knife and pouch situation, and then took on this trippy Sci-fi space take in the latter issues. And this sort of feels very much in line with that. This could be a stand-alone issue. And what's the other book that Brandon Graham did, is it Warheads? Something Warhead? Also very good, but this, in the back batter, he talks about this was inspired by him sort of being at home and feeling a little like just in a rut. Pete: Yeah, bro. Justin: So it's, in the end talking about healing Manga, a processing comic and how this sort of is- Alex: Yeah, multiple Warheads. Justin: Multiple Warheads. This comic is a little bit about processing the stuff that he was going through when he was writing it, and I love that. To be able to take something you're going through and really make a beautiful piece of art out of it is great. Alex: It reminds me a little bit, it's almost like sad idiocrasy in a way. It's not funny, it's just sort of people sitting, ingesting TV, eating things, honestly things have pretty good that the guy's eating, but he's just living his life- Justin: They did sound good. Alex: Right? And being a drone and kind of going through it, but gorgeous, gorgeous book. Highly recommend picking it up. Yes Pete? Pete: The art alone is worth it. It's just the way it starts off, and like sets this tone, and the paneling of just this kind of vast thing that he's on, is really just, it's very moving and powerful. Alex: There's a panel towards the end of the book where the main character is standing outside finally at the place that he's living in, there's sort of a massive tank or whatever it is. It's double page spread, and it's so sad and awesome, and just so many things at the same time. It's wonderful to see, definitely pick up this book. Next up, Rorschach number four- Pete: It's just like a cruise ship that has elephant legs on it. Alex: Sure. Rorschach number four, from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Hore Fortes. In this issue, we're getting a bit more of the origin of the kid. And if anything, this used to be pivoting to be less about Rorschach, and more about the kid, this kind of cowboy character that we met over the course of it. In here we find a man that she- Pete: Muscle man. Alex: I mean, it's arguable, I think. But tricked into thinking he was the reincarnated soul of Rorschach after Dr. Manhattan destroyed him, a lot of what we were dealing with in this title and also here, is about conspiracy theories, which I think really gets to the theme of what Tom King is doing. Another fantastic issue, I don't know what the thrust of this title is, and I don't think we will know until the last issue, but man, every issue individually is so impeccably done. Justin: You go ahead Pete. Pete: I was just going to say, if Tom King wasn't a good writer, I'd be so pissed. Because I have no fucking idea what is happening, but I'm still having a great time. And part of me is like maybe muscle man was, I mean, how do we know? Justin: I think that's part of the take here, and what my… I've really loved reading this series and really love sort of thinking about it after I finished each issue. And with this one, it feels like Tom King is taking some of the Rorschach stuff that's happened since Watchmen ended, where Rorschach is sort of being put in as like, oh, he was a precursor to a lot of the way people are feeling now politically. Like isolated, believing conspiracy theories, and just chasing them up all that kind of stuff. Justin: And so to take that sort of version of Rorschach and then remix it again for our age where she makes this guy believe that he is Rorschach, believes this sort of fake news, this conspiracy stuff, and then he acts on it. I mean, it feels so prescient given the politics that have been happening in the last couple of weeks with the January 6, insurrection and all that. This feels like it's all speaking to these same issues and to be able to write something that feels that topical when it comes out, is amazing to me. Alex: Pete? Pete: Yeah, I just think that, I kind of said how I feel about it as far as it's impressive, but it's also confusing. But the way that the kid is portrayed is very, very interesting. And I think it's really great kind of personification of somebody in this way, but also as I was kind of reading it, I wrote down in my notes. I think I'm crazier now after I've read this book. Justin: Yeah, you're next. I mean, the kid is like a charismatic sociopath who believes in this stuff and convinces other people to believe in it. Alex: And it's funny too, because there's a line in here where it's like, What's the kid's name?” And it's like, “I don't know, we call him the kid.” And I have a friend like that, if they knew that I didn't know his actual name, we just call him the kid. He'd be pretty upset. I will say, and I don't know if I can completely believe this premise, but I do feel like there's a certain hesitance on King's part to touch Watchmen. And I say that fully knowing there is a scene in here, that shows the characters and Watchmen interacting in a new way. But there's something about it that feels like you have a book called Rorschach. You're not actually focusing on Rorschach. What exactly is going on? Pete: Is it all about Rorschach? Justin: See, I disagree. I think what this book does, it takes the ideas of Rorschach, and really puts them on the table, and looks at them with a modern eye, in a way that I think gets deeper than just having Rorschach be like, hey, what's up? Hey, what's up blue guy? Alex: Classic Rorschach line. What's up dudes? Pete: What's up? It's me the Rorschach, [crosstalk 00:24:25]. Alex: I'm hanging 10 in here with you. Pete: Yeah, I just think it's like a classic inkblot scenario. We're all bringing our own things to the story and it's just reflecting our own bullshit. Alex: I don't know how that connects it anyway to what we're talking about. Justin: Yeah, exactly. What is that in relation to? Alex: What are you even talking about Pete? Justin: Are you trying to test us? Alex: [inaudible 00:24:53]. 1973, number one for Boom! Studios written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivela. This is pick it up, of course, on previous series of Abbott. She is an investigator, She's got some supernatural powers. I feel like I've only read one or two issues of Abbott, but this was a good jumping on point anyway. And I felt like as a pulpy, 1970s, supernaturally inflected mystery, it was very enjoyable to read. Pete: Abbott. Justin: Abbott. I agree. I mean, we don't get much of the supernatural side of it. Just little gestures to it until the very end, but I really love the table setting in this issue and the sort of, just the vibe, it's got a good sort of irreverent vibe throughout. Pete: Abbott. Yeah, I think that first off give a nod to, this is the year [inaudible 00:25:56] was born. So just want to give a shout out to that there. Justin: Not true. Pete: I know, I'm just messing with you [crosstalk 00:26:02]. Justin: Pete loves telling lies about us. That's what his bit for quite some time. Alex: Pete was born in 1942. Yeah, that's right. Sailed the ocean blue. But what I do… What's nice is it's an interesting way to deal with this kind of the creepy feeling of someone. I liked the Reveal at the end, and it kind of made sense with the things that happened. It's one of those things where you're like, you read it and you're like, oh, okay. So I'm enjoying it. It's weird, but I like it. Let's move on to talk about Black Cat, King In Black, number two from Marvel, written by Jed McKay art by CF Villa. Of course, we had Jed McKay on our live show this week. So definitely- Pete: We did? Alex: We did Pete, you were there and everything. So Black Cat is been tasked with stealing Dr. Strange from Knull, the king in Black, we get to see that heist this issue, this is so much fun. Justin: So much fun. I've said this, I said this a lot on the live show. I love this book. This book is so smartly done. It's rare for me to see a character where she has multiple sides. So many superhero characters are… It's like they do their one thing and we just see it a bunch of different ways. But the Black Cat really gets to be different things to different people, she gets to feel things, be very serious, be a little bit more lighthearted. And then just the heist of it all, is just so well done. Throwing on an antivenom suit to dive into the goop is such a smart idea, and it's dramatic, it's tense, there's some spider immobile stuff. Pete: Really plugging the hell a lot of goop on the show. Yeah, I really… There's also a lot of fun nerd stuff in here. Like the fact that she gets to fly on the goblin glider, and then the spider-buggy later. This is just… They have a lot of fun with this character, which is great to see. I love the baby bjorn with the Ghost Dog. I mean, this is just good shit. And it's cool to kind of see this. I'm not a huge Black Cat fan, but I'm having a lot of fun. Justin: You love cats. Pete: It's true, it's a good point. Alex: Speaking of which, let's move on and talk about Batman/Catwoman number two from DC comics, written by Tom King, art by Clay Mann, and this issue, we're jumping through multiple timelines here. We're getting to see Batman and Catwoman do some stuff where the tracking down the Phantasm, I believe, who is killing the edge man of the Joker. In the future timeline, Cat woman has come to kill the old Joker. And maybe there's another timeline in there. I got to be honest with you. Clay Mann's art, gorgeous. Tom King's write, good. I like reading this book. I am having a very hard time following what is happening in these issues. Justin: Well, it's only the second issue. So, because I do sort of agree with you. It's hard to connect the plots as it's going. Pete: No, it's too early. I don't try to do that, this is Tom King guys. Just let's lay off a little bit, enjoy the ride. Alex: The thing is like, there's not enough of an artistic or textual indicator for the timelines right now where, I understand part of the idea is that all of this mashed together. It's all happening at the same time. It all connects to each other. But just from a reader perspective, there are some pages where it's jumping between three timelines, and it takes me a second or two to realize, oh, okay, this is taking place at the middle timeline. This is duplicate of the first timeline. And that takes me out of the story a little bit. Justin: Well a second or two, you don't have that kind of time to spare [crosstalk 00:29:58]. You were born in 1973. Pete: Easy speed reader. You don't have to just plow through everything. Sometimes you got to stop and think about what's happening a little bit. Alex: I was a child of the love generation man. Justin: It's true. Conceived in wood stack, born in the back of the Crosby Stills Nash and Young van. Pete: [inaudible 00:30:21] with all due respect, I disagree. I'm having a lot of fun on this book because I miss that Catwoman/Batman relationship. Alex: This is a bizarre mirror world that we're in, but go ahead, Pete. Pete: Yes. And so also I thought it was touching the way Joker wish Catwoman a Merry Christmas. I thought that was very nice. But yeah, we're getting a lot of different worlds and different timelines mashed up. We've been getting an old villain from Batman, the animated series. But Tom King does an amazing job on Batman, and I'm going to let this breathe a little bit before I start getting to what timeline are we in. I'm just enjoying the ride, and the artwork and man is it great? Justin: Clay Mann, is he great? I do think part of it was, I think this book was, the expectations for this book were fun romance between Batman and Catwoman. It's just not that, it's like a whole new storyline and- Pete: No, but they're dealing with stuff though. You can tell the [crosstalk 00:31:26] back and forth. Justin: Of course I think they are… Pete: Well, if you make it, it's not always sunny, beaches, you know what I mean? Sometimes relationships get real. You got to have tough conversations man. Justin: I've never had a difficult conversation with anyone. Its all smooth sailing for old JT. No, my point is, you're walking into this book and it's just a different, it's a whole different thing. There're multiple timelines. There actually is very little romance in this. It's about the Joker pretty exclusively so far, and the introduction of the Phantasm. Justin: But what I do think is amazing about this, it feels like Tom King is really writing toward Clay Mann. Every panel in this book feels like it's so specific, it's so curated. And it is just something to behold. Even the small panels are just perfect. There's this section where the… It's a close-up on the Joker with a candy cane, everything is so deliberate. And I think it's great. Pete: Now I don't know about you guys, but the part where the subway scene and getting a little spoilers, someone dies in the subway. I was like, oh man, that is the worst. You finally get a subway car all to yourself, and someone murders you, oh man, classic New York. Justin: You sound almost nostalgic for it, Pete. But I actually don't think you live, you're a new Yorker anymore, so you get that name out of your mouth. Alex: The Scumbag, speaking of Pete, number four, [inaudible 00:33:02]. Its written by Ric Remender, art by Eric Powel. In this issue, our main Scumbag is heading on a discreet mission to eyes wide shut style orgy that is going on, things go predictably wrong. We had Remender on the show last week where we talked about this title. So it was fun to get his input, but what'd you think about this issue? Pete: Yeah, this is just insanity. But I do like how everybody's skeeved out by The Scumbag, and that's kind of funny how he can't get himself into the one place he wants to be. But yeah, this continues to be amazing storytelling, fantastic art, creepy ass fucking dude that I don't know why we're rooting for, but we are. And just kind of this scenario keeps getting more and more intense. Justin: Yeah, I mean, I think the Pete bag is sort of one of Remender's real good another great book from him. The art is fantastic and the way that he is just, you could tell, he's having such a great time writing The Scumbag, for who he is. And I think Ric Remender with this, and another book we need to be talking about very soon, Seven To Eternity, it's really playing with, why does the protagonist have to be good? And why is the villain bad? Maybe we can mix those. And I think he just does that really well. And same thing here. This guy's a scumbag, but we still root for him. But he does a bunch of bad stuff, but he seems inherently good. And the bad guys seem like they're just trying to do what everyone's doing, getting by as best they can. It's interesting storytelling. Alex: Once & Future number 15 from Boom! Studios written by Kieron Gillen. Pete: Sorry, Justin. Alex: Sorry Justin? Pete: Yeah, he was clearly teeing up Seven To Eternity, but you were like fuck that, we're going Once & Future. Alex: So I said out a list. Pete: Here we go, behind the scenes. You can't stray from the list. If something comes up organically, we got to stick to the list here. Justin: Looking back, I don't think we should have given Pete that much power at the beginning to have his little what's up corner, because I think it's really gone to his head. Pete: Yeah, I think the vodka is what- Alex: You wanted to talk about Once & Future, I'm sure Pete, because the grabba is in this a lot. In this issue we find out about Lancelot, we also find out more about the backstory of what was going on, a great issue, fun as always, high octane drama and action, with some terrifying things going on as usual. Just another good issue of Once & Future. Pete: Good is an understatement man, this is great. The art's unbelievable, the action is over the top, this continues to be one of the must pick ups of the week. Every time there's an issue of Once & Future, it's just continues to be phenomenal. The drama keeps getting more and more bad-ass, and we get to kind of see the other half, the why we're kind of in this mess, in this issue. And I also really love the, I'm going to tell you a story, you're going to tell me a story moment, and that first story is fucking really powerful, especially when you reveal scars. Justin: Yeah, I do… I like that we're getting to really learn the rules of this comic as it's going on. And this is your especially where, it's a story about stories. But in this it's about sort of who's taking power, and who's the storyteller, and which story are they telling? It feels like that's the hat that everyone continues to pass over. Like, wait, who are you? Who are you in this story? Oh, I'm this? I started telling this story. I think that refreshes that sort of trope of a story about stories in a fun way. And the artists fantastic. Lancelot screaming in French, I mean, I'm here for it. Alex: Yeah, absolutely. Let's move on, talk about Maestro: War and Pax, number one from Marvel written by Peter David and Javier Pina. This picking up on the first Maestro mini-series here, the Hulk finally fully as the Maestro, but he hasn't consolidated all of his power as of yet. So he's going past the remnants of the Marvel universe. I think we talked about the first issue of the Maestro mini-series previously. So I thought it was worth checking in with this one. How do you think it's holding up? Pete: Well, it's kind of upsetting to see kind of a evil Hulk. So, Justin: Really? Pete: Usually I'm on the green guy's side, so this is, it's a little tough to see how this guy goes about business. Justin: Wow, heartbreaker. I like this a lot. I really like seeing the Pantheon from Peter David's run way back in the day, characters that no one else has really touched since. And I like them. I also liked that the Hulk and… The Maestro and his squad just jump onto the Staten Island Ferry, and drive down to DC to go confront them, which is just a fun visual choice. And it's great to see that the Maestro sort of messes up. You expect him to just dominate and it's about him sort of not doing so had. Alex: Yeah, I mean, Peter David is a baster of the comic book form. Just everything is perfectly paced out. His jokes work, everything works. The action works. It's always a joy to read one of his books because they're just, they're firing on all cylinders every single time, even decades into his career as is at this point, and it's great. Let's move on talk about StillWater number five from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Ramón K. Perez. Pete: He's really going to make you wait, Justin. Sorry buddy. Justin: I'm fine, I wasn't [inaudible 00:39:14]. Alex: Oh my God. I mean, for those of you listened to the podcast, Justin is furious right now. You can see it just like flames coming out of his head. StillWater number five from Image Comics, this is a big issue here, as our main character has taken residence in StillWater, the town where nobody dies. Everybody has taken this as an opportunity to let the judge, the guy who rules the town know that, hey, they want to change things. They want to leave, they want to let the outside world know about stuff. Things go terribly wrong, and then they get more wrong from there. Then even then there were five issues in, it feels like this is whipping through story at this point. Justin: Yeah, but I think it's really coming into its own. It's starting to remind me a little bit of Southern Bastards. [crosstalk 00:40:12]. I think the judge has some coach boss vibe to him, and I just think the energy has that Southern Bastards is a great book by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour from years ago, that to sort of think was left open-ended, that I just wish we could see more of. But this is fun, it really is like, I don't know what's going to happen. It's feels like bad stuff is happening all around in this town that [inaudible 00:40:37]. Pete: Yeah, it's unfortunate that at this town, there's a kind of a power hungry judge who's not willing to hear the people. I think that this book continues to, with the twists and turns. We're kind of finally getting everything all out on the page here in this issue. So we kind of know where everybody stands and what the kind of moving forward is going to look like. But man, even with all that, the kind of twists and turns that happen in this comic, we're still pretty powerful and pretty crazy. Alex: Yeah, last and definitely least. Pete: Sorry, Justin. Alex: Seven To Eternity number 16, from Image Comics written by Rick Remender art by Jerome Opena. This is the second to last, I believe issue of this title as we talk to Rick Remender about. Here, we're starting to wrap things up at an enormous battle way. This feels to me, I mean, they're obviously very different stories, but it feels to me very much like the end of low, where we're just getting these insane over the top battle scenes with all of our characters as he starts to wrap things up. But it's great. I mean, in particular Jerome [inaudible 00:41:53] art is stunning on every page. Justin: Very good. And he's managed to tell a story, like following up on what I was saying, honestly so long ago, but to flip the hero and the villain here and still surprise us. And at the same time telling like an epic Avengers or justice league style, like cosmic stakes battle with all original characters, it's just really excellent comic making. Pete: Yeah. I mean, I can't stop paging through the art. I mean the splash pages with the kind of waterfall, fallen giants thing is just, it's really unbelievable. The monsters, it's just really, really impressive. Yeah, the twists that happened, man, what a great book. I cannot wait to see how this wraps up. This is really, really great comic book, right here where we get to read. Alex: Well, and I'll tell you how The Stack is going to wrap up. It's going to wrap up right now. If you'd like to support us patrion.com/comic book club. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube, come hang out. We'd love to chat with you about comic books. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice, just subscribe and listen to the show at Comic Book Live on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and more, until next time, we'll see you at the Digital Cottage Book Shop. Pete: What's up? 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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. 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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. 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On today's packed comic book review podcast: X Of Swords: Creation #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal – Speed Metal #1, An Unkindness of Ravens #1, Spider-Man #4, The Last God #9, Voyage to the Stars #2, Wynd #4, Wicked Things #5, Low #25, Canto II: The Hollow Men #2, The Immortal She-Hulk #1, Undiscovered Country #8, MegaMan: Fully Charged #2, Juggernaut #1, Black Magick #14, Power Rangers: Drakkon – New Dawn #2, Maestro #2, The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #3, Judge Dredd: False Witness #3, and Bliss #3. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Transcript: Alex: What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Pete: I'm Pete. Alex: On The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out today. Oh boy, we have a packed stack for you today. This is a- Pete: Yeah. Alex: Too many. Too many books, Pete. Pete: Yeah. What's the deal here, buddy? Alex: Why did you do this, Pete? Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex: Why did you do this? Pete: Yeah. Yeah. Alex: This is your fault. No, I really didn't mean to do this. I feel like I looked through what was coming out. Every email was like, “Oh, here's three or four from IDW. Here's five from Image. Oh, no.” I didn't realize what a snowball it'd become until the end when we were finally getting ready for it. I'm sorry, Pete. We read a lot of books, but we got to get into it. Pete: We do. Alex: This is important. People come to us as a resource. Pete: I don't know about that, but- Alex: Let's kick it off. Pete: … we'll do what we can. Alex: This is a biggie. From Marvel Comics, X of Swords: Creation #1 from Marvel. Written by- Pete: X of Swords for $7. Alex: For $7. By Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard. That's $350 each if you don't give any money to the arts by Pepe Larraz, which would be rude. I wish you would give it to somebody. Pete: That's very rude, but it's a part of either- Alex: This is a monster, one of 22 right on the cover. One of 22, 68 pages long, huge story. Pete: First, I just want to say, if we weren't doing this show and this was life before COVID, I would walk into a comic book shop, say, “Fuck you” and walk out, because $7 part one of 22, what the fuck are you doing? Alex: Think about it. When you buy a book, right? Pete: Yeah. Alex: You know it's a certain amount of chapters. You're paying about $7 per chapter, usually, for a book, if you think about it. Pete: No. No, it's like four bucks bro. Alex: No, man. No, absolutely not. Yeah, it's- Pete: 22 pages. Alex: It's $154 per book for a 22-chapter book. That's how much I pay. Pete: Wow. You're getting ripped off and maybe. It's a lot, man. It's a fucking lot. Alex: It is a lot. Here- Pete: I was hoping like, “Okay, if we're going to pay this much money, hopefully, this will settle down. We'll be able to deal with all the madness it has been having with X-Men.” No, it just takes it to an even crazier place because Hickman doesn't like to deal with things. He just keeps building towards the sky. Alex: Yeah. That is a fair way of poking it. I don't disagree with you, but what I was so surprised about with this particular book, and I think we can get into spoilers here, so if you don't want to hear them, obviously, turn away, is that for most of the beginning, it was definitely that a Hickman dense this, talking about Otherworld and Arakko and the original Four Horsemen and them tacking Otherworld, and laying out all this like, “Here's the different level of Otherworld. Here's a map of what the Citadel looks like,” and all these things. Wild terror readings and everything, but once it had all of the setup out of the way, I was stunned about how relatively straightforward and fun it was. That the plot of this crossover is, basically, Apocalypses' even more evil children and grandchild are like, “Fuck you for joining the X-Men. We're going to kill you. We're going to destroy your island. We're going to destroy the X-Men. Here we come.” Alex: The only thing that is stopping them is the leader of Other world saying, “Hey, instead of doing that, why don't you go find X of Swords and then beat the shit out of them?” If that's the plot of the thing, that's great. I felt such a weight lift off of me by the end of this issue that it was just like a good old fashion brawl to the death story. Obviously, there's a couple more insane Hickmmanian flourishes on it, but that's awesome. I went from being cautiously interested to the book to totally onboard by the end. Pete: No. Alex: No? I tell you what, I was happy that it did kind of be like, “Okay, this event is about this kind of showdown of who's more evil with the evil people of the evil worlds,” but it, also, was this kind of like weird like, “Hey guys, this whole portal thing, I've got a bunch of people invading. They're going to probably kill some people.” I think I sit around and it's a meeting. It's like, “Well, why don't we just shut the portal?” Well, you can't do that. Well, why can't you?” You know what I mean? That part grinded to a halt of like, “I don't want my comic books to turn into my work where I got to explain to some asshole in marketing while there's a fucking attack coming through a portal. You know what I mean? Pete: Yeah. Alex: Like, “Where do you work?” Pete: I work in a startup, okay? It's not- Alex: No, I'm just saying that like attacks are coming through portals all the time. That's not a normal thing, Pete. Pete: Yeah. Well, you know- Alex: Nobody can relate to that. Pete: When you have an online job, things get weird. Alex: Got it. Pete: I just think that like, that part was a little kind of like, “All right,” but I did really like the island stance. I was happy that they were kind of like listening to the island, but I felt like Magneto the whole time where he's bored out of his fucking skull just staring on this cool helmet being like, “When do we get to fucking fight?” Alex: Yeah. Pete: I do like this match up coming of like, “Hey.” It's a little weird though when she was like, “Yeah, in three days, we'll fight you.” I'm like, “Oh, something is going to happen before three days, but all right.” Alex: No, that's to give them time to find the sword. It's just wild to me, at least, in terms of the setup. I was this good old fashion split into teams, find these secret things, come back together, fight some bad guys in a fight to the death. There's going to be twist. Pete: It's just Apocalypse's kids, so why does everybody have to fight his family's bullshit? That will be weird if you called me like, “Hey, listen, my son wants to kill me. Do you mind like helping” … Alex: Well, but also on a textual level because I know you've talked about this a lot, Pete. I appreciated the fact that they're dealing with the fact that Apocalypse is there on Krakoa. That, to me, is the thrust of this crossover, at least, now. This idea that his children being like, “Yo, you're not Apocalypse. You're just hanging out with the X-Men. What are you doing?” That the X-Men are like, “Apocalypse, what are you doing?” It's almost this fan conversation in a way that is bleeding through into the comic books. It feels so smart to me. It's not just Apocalypse is on the team. It's, why is he on the team? Why is he here? Why is he doing this? What does it mean that he's here? Do we defend that he's here? How do the X-Men, who have taken the stance of mutant stumper want always forever, deal with the idea of, “Do we defend the guy that is trying to kill us multiple times and take over the world, to destroy the world? How do we do that?” Again, that is a thrust for a big crossover idea. It seems so smart to me. Pete: All right. Well, I'm glad you're having fun, man. Alex: I'm having a good time. Pepe Larraz's art, just great superhero art, really fun, really clear stuff. Just good time. The horrible moments throughout big moments, Rockslide getting chopped in half, oh my God. Pete: What a great panel, but man, that is heartbreaking. I did not like seeing that, but it was really well done. Alex: Just to mention, the last page of the issue. Such a dumb, obvious, but smart move to have Cyclops, Jean Grey and Cable go off and be like, “Okay, the key to solving this and saving everybody is, we got to activate this thing. What's this thing?” They go in. They activate the thing. They're like, “Oh, good. We turned on the sword.” Of course, its sword, the organization, and they've turned on the gigantic space station that they used to operate in and it's exactly the sort of thing like, “Oh, of course, you're going to work in sword.” That's so smart. Pete: X of Swords. I get it. Alex: X of Swords. There you go. Great stuff. I enjoyed it a lot. I just thought it was so much more fun than I thought it was going to be. I had a good time. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Let's move to another one, another big event, Dark Nights: Death Metal-Speed Metal #1 from DC Comics written by Joshua Williamson, art by Eddy Barrows. We talked about this one a little bit on live show. Pete, you're usually down on the Flash, but you seem super into this one. Pete: Well, slow your fucking roles elves. Alex: Right. Pete: First of- Alex: This is your favorite comic of the week is what I'm hearing. Pete: No. No. First of, great title, Speed Metal. Hilarious. Love it. I love this idea of over the top Death Metal kind of fun things. Just amazing art, over the top characters. It's fun to go back to this. Well, to see what they're doing. What hurts about this issue a little bit is, you get all this amazing art, this cool concept to new characters and then this is a bunch of fucking Flash is talking about their life and their fucking trials and who gives a shit. That part really dragged into a slow stop for me, but overall, the art is amazing. I love the concept. I'm excited for more. Alex: Yeah. I had a good time reading this book as well. I think there were some diggy things that happened as you mentioned. There was a lot of like, “Okay, there's a whole army outside. Let's just hang around and walk through the Flash Museum,” which Joshua Williams was going for. As usual, he is just very nostalgic about the Flash. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I think, doesn't is probably too strong, but having them walk around the Flash Museum was like, “Okay, I get it. I get what you're going for.” Pete: There were some funny bits. Alex: On the other hand of such a sucker, seeing Wally West run and get himself back into the red costume, I lost it. I loved it. Pete: Wow. Really? Alex: He's getting his whole history back and seeing his whole family. I love Wally West. Pete: You do. Alex: I love his family and I love that arrow, The Flash. That really got me emotionally when that happened. I think it really does come down to, what are you into? What are you excited about with the Flash because he just … Josh, again, just digs into that nostalgia factor. Then there's that great moment where he's sitting on the Mobius Chair and sees the darkest night coming towards him and just gives him the finger, great. Pete: That was unbelievable. Alex: I laughed out loud. Pete: “Yeah, black label. Here we go. Yes, let's do it.” Alex: Yeah. Yeah, good stuff. It's surprising and weird that everybody is looking for chairs in this series of our … because that's also happening over in Justice League, but good, solid issue. I'm excited to see how to entice it. Pete: If you're going to have a black label, that's what I want to see. I want to see super real straw on the bird around like, really having some fun. Alex: Well, let's talk about birds then and talk about what are the biggest surprises of the week for me. Unkindness of Ravens #1 from Boom Studios, written by Dan Panosian and illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi. This is about a girl who moves to small town, finds out that there is a girl missing who looks exactly like her, except with glasses. Pete: Oh, man. That's so creepy. Alex: Finds out even weirder stuff is going out in the town. If you are a fan of the craft, very specifically, you are going to love this book. Pete: Yeah. I also think it's more than that. This, I was really impressed with this book. The art is unbelievable. I love the storytelling. We kind of, “Okay, here's the story of this girl and did whatever, whatever. Okay, go to new town and start a new high school,” but just like they give us little magic, they give us little teen drama, the karate moment was badass. I'm very excited for this book moving forward. Love the last page. I think this is going to be a really good book and I'm very excited about it. Boom Studios put together a great- Alex: Yeah. This feels like exactly … If you're a fan of the modern Sabrina books, in particular, I think this fits right into that niche as well, but this feels like one of those ones that just got to bubble below the surface and maybe explode, because it really is that good. It feels like it had such a mythology setup to it. Also, Marianna Ignazzi's art is great in this book. The characters are so good. The designs are so good. It's something, and this is necessarily the only thing she's been before, but if I was a Netflix executive, I would be snapping this up in a second for a TV show. Pete: Yeah. Yeah. Alex: Great stuff. Let's move on to a belated comic book, Spider-Man #4 from Marvel. Surprising, it's only had four comic books so far given that it's such a popular character, but it happens. Written by J.J. Abrams and Henry Abrams, art by Sara Pichelli. This is continuing the Abrams father and son story of the young, new Spider-Man fighting a guy named, Cadaverous in the future. After Peter Parker, Spider-Man, has been broken. I will tell you, I continue to really like Sara Pichelli's art because Sara Pichelli is amazing at art. Pete: Unbelievable. Alex: This is, maybe, suffering from the slow release time, which isn't entirely their fault. By the time I read this, it felt like just such a small snippet of the story. I needed more. What do you think, Pete? Pete: Yeah. The art is the real hero in this book. It's really fantastic and worth it just for the sprawling pages alone and the creepy spiders, but especially like the first couple of opening panels, holy shit. Anyways, yeah, I think this is interesting Spider-Man story. I'm excited to see where this goes. The problem is, so long in between, like you said, I just got back into it and now it's over. It's a little tough, but I'm excited to see what this father and son is going to do with such a legendary character like Spider-Man. I'm trying not to judge it yet until we kind of get more into it. Alex: Yeah. It doesn't really feel like they've got into their mission statement yet. Pete: Yeah. Yeah. Alex: Like the thing they want to say about Spider-Man. Pete: They're just moving pieces and getting things setup. Alex: Exactly. Pete: Yeah. Alex: It does feel like it's getting to that and we're towards the end here. We'll see what happens. Next up, The Last God #9 from DC Comics. Written by Philip Kennedy Johnson and art by Riccardo Federici. Man, every issue of this book is good. The end. It just really is. In this issue, again, they're heading through their, I guess, Helm's Deep. I don't know. I'm forgetting my Lord of the Rings references, but they're heading through the underworlds in the past and present, different things are happening. There's a big cliffhanger at the end, but as usual, even with a smaller character driven issue like this, it's still a very, very good book. Pete: The art is really worth picking it up alone, all right? I tell you- Alex: I just drank. I just drank, Pete. Pete: Good. Speaking of cliffhangers and that kind of stuff, there is a fun, really kind of cliff moment that says a lot about the characters. I just think that the storytelling and the art is so at a next level in this book. It's very interesting what they're doing and yeah, I can't wait for more. Alex: Yeah. Great stuff. Next up, Voyage to the Stars #2 from IDW. Story by Ryan Copple and James Asmus, art by Connie Daidone. Now, we talk about the first issue of this book, which is based on the podcast, I believe, with the same name. That is fun, enjoyed it. I figured we check in on the second issue and see how it's doing. Pete, what's your take? Pete: Yeah. This is the old weekend to burn this issue. This is cool. It's very creative characters, fun, a lot of nice bits and comedy stuff in here with the classic proponent dead guy up trying to get away with some stuff, but yeah, I think this is an interesting book. The characters' voices push this thing through. Yeah, I'm enjoying this. I think it's definitely worth picking up. They seem to be having a lot of fun with it and that comes through in the comic. Alex: Yeah, I agree. As we mentioned the last time, James Asmus knew how to do bits. They're just well-paced out here, whether it's him or the artist or collaboration of the booth. It's just fun. It's dumb, fun, stupid, purposely stupid space jokes. It just works out really well. I like this issue much more than the first one even. I felt like I want to follow this. Maybe I'll listen to the podcast. Who knows. Pete: Whoo. Alex: Yeah, I know. That's the next step in a relationship. First step is the comic book step and then when you get really serious, you'll listen to their podcast. Pete: Yeah, it's serious stuff. Alex: Then third step, you move into a house with them in Philly. Pete: Yeah, the source. Alex: Next up, WYND #4 from Image Comics. Written by James Tynion IV, art by Michael Dialynas. Dialynas. Dialynas? Dialynas? I don't know. I'm sorry. Pete: Dialynas. I don't know. Alex: Dialynas. Maybe. There we go. Well, regardless, this book is very good. Another fantasy book. This is a mildly all ages book. A kid who think he is weird. He's traveling out of town with the prince he has always had a crush on. Some bad things happened to this issue, but also, some wonderful things. I love the fact that, finally, it feels like widening open the world of this book, finding out more about the outside world, about what's really going on. Great stuff. This is the issue that I have been waiting for. Pete: Yeah. This book keeps getting better with every single issue; the art, the storytelling. It's next level. This world that they created really feels like its own very unique kind of thing. It's just great. There's a lot of heartfelt stuff. It's action. It's adventure. There's just so much stuff kind of all wrapped up. They're really killing it. This book, really, is one of those ones that stays with me and then when we kind of look at it the next time around, it keeps getting more and more built up and more and more exciting. Camera come out and it's enough. This is a lot of fun. Alex: Next up, let's talk about one of my favorite books currently running. Wicked Things #5 from Boom Box. Created and written by John Allison, art by Max Sarin. I got to tell you, I was super bub to find out the next issue is the last issue of the book. Pete: What? Because I know. It should be concluded at the end. Alex: No. I know, man. It's such a blast with it. This is about a teen detective, frame for murder, ends up teaming up with the police department after she is arrested. It is- Pete: They have so much more they can do. Alex: Just so much fun. Every issue. Max Sarin's art is so great. Everybody is so charming. This is a compliment. It's almost the opposite of Voyage to the Stars where it's like, it's not even bits. It's more character situations that are causing the comedy throughout. It's great. It's just, I enjoy. I want to read these adventures forever. I want to just read an odd-going detective series with these characters. Pete: Yeah. It's such a fun character. I feel like I'm just, now, really getting into it and understanding the voice and cadence of everything. It's really clicking for me and I'm sorry to see that it's going to be wrapping up because I feel like there's so many different places we can go. I love this world so much. I feel like we can kind of put this on a lot of different situations, but man, yeah, they're really killing it right now or hitting the stride, that's next level. It's just fun. It's coming from such an earnest kind of cool place. The main character is kind of starry-eyed, but still, there's a lot of greatness to her. I really enjoy it. Alex: The mysteries are fun too. This issue, there's a bunch of casino robberies happening throughout London. She ultimately figures it out in absolutely ridiculous way, but in a way that proves that she is the smartest one in the room, anyway. It's fun. Pickup this book. Definitely check it out. Great, great stuff. Next up, another penultimate issue, Low #25, from Image Comics. Pete: Oh, man, too bad Justin is not here. Alex: Written by Rick Remender, art by Greg Tocchini. Yeah, I must have put this in here because I want to talk to Justin about it because I know how into this book he is. This is the second to the last issues of the book. Huge battle issue as everybody is fighting for the future of the human race. The phenomenal thing about the pace of this book is the entire issue. People are just being blasted apart by this helm suit. We don't see it the entire time until the very last paddle. It's the pacing of that, just is this jaws pacing almost where the monster is off screen the entire time until the very end is great. This issue is one of my favorite issues of Low in a very long time. Pete: Yeah. I can't agree with you more. It's such a unique, weird, creative book. It's so intense. The reveal is so insane. Remender is just killing it. Justin knew it early and called it, but yeah, I didn't really figure it out until the last couple of issues, so how crazy good this was. Really impressive. Makes me want to go back and start over again. Alex: It's good stuff. Next up, Canto II- Pete: The art. Come on. Alex: The art. Pick it up for the art alone. Canto II: The Hollow Men #2 from IDW. Story by David M. Booher, art by Drew Zucker. It was continuing the adventures of little Clockwork Man as he tries to save the entire world. Pete: Yeah. Alex: I like this issue quite a bit. I think this is a very engaging character. It's a weird, pretty dark world, but good stuff. Pete, what do you think about this one? Pete: Yeah. I really like the art and the storytelling in this. It's very imaginative. These like little, fun creatures that were following around. It's interesting the way they battle and the way they go about things. It's definitely unique and stuff like that, whole town of scarecrows was so crazy. They do a great job of not only storytelling through action, but also giving you a lot of the creativity behind different character designs and ideas. It's a nonstop thrill ride with a little bit of heart and fun because they're so small and cute. Alex: Yeah. That's a nice way of putting it. Let's turn to something I'm sure we're going to definitely agree on. The Immortal She-Hulk #1 from Marvel Comics. Written by Al Ewing and art by John Davis-Hunt. Man, this issue is so good. I love this issue so much. Pete, I'm sure you agree with me, but this is showing what has been going on in the She-Hulk side of things as she, like the He-Hulk I believe it is called, has come back to life and discovered that he is immortal with the whole thing with the green door and he who lives below and all of these horror elements. What happens with She-Hulk? She's come back to life a couple of times as well. That's when this one shot deals with and it's as creepy and as alarming and as upsetting as anything Al Ewing has been doing in the main title, except with her fave Jen Walters. I love that this comes off of Empyre, where she died, yet, again. I love the pacing of the story. Alex: Particularly, if you've been reading Immortal Hulk, you'd be wondering what's going on there. This really pulls the veil back quite a bit and shows you a lot more information about what's going on. I thought it was great. Pete, of course, you agree, but I'll turn to you anyway and take a big sip of this beer that I'm drinking for when you agree. Here we go. Pete: Yeah. This is completely insane and then falls down of a whole of insanity through a green door. Then we get a very- Alex: What? Pete: … unlikely conversation with Wolverine, which I didn't appreciate. Later, we get Thor stuff, which I felt like it was a little bit better character voice-wise, but the reveal at the end, again, is hitting home. The leader is really fucking shit up as he is an immortal hulk right now. It was really cool to see that tie in, but man, alive, this is just so crazy and creepy. Like, “Oh yeah, you think hell is easy. We're below that.” I don't want to know that. I don't want to know what gets worse than hell. Alex: Yeah, there's a hell below hell. Pete: Yeah. Alex: It's all good. Pete: Great. Alex: I think it's- Pete: Wait. What are you going to say? Alex: I think this is insane and a little too scary for me, and I'm looking forward to, maybe, trying to get things back to normal. Pete: Like a happier Hulk but- Alex: Yeah. Like just someone gives me a little hope Hulk. Pete: The happy Hulk? Alex: The happiest Hulk. Yeah, we'll see that pretty soon. Undiscovered Country #8 from Image Comics. Written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Leonardo Marcello Grassi. I don't even want to say heroes of this book, but characters in this book have made it to the second ring of the walled-off America, called it Unity. They have discovered in this issue that it is a tech wonderland, seemingly, but of course, not everything is how it seems. I love how much this new arc has changed things up. It's great. It's exciting. It feels weird and nerve-racking. We had Scott Snyder on our live show a couple of weeks ago. He talked pretty heavily, not just about this book, but about how they're adapting it for the movies, which I think revealed a lot of information about how this book is going to go. It's fascinating to read this book through that lens. Pete: Yeah. I also think that, now, this book is really cooking in a way that I can follow or before, I was very much confused to how this all works, but now, it's like, we've got more of a sense of this world and where they are in it and how they're trying to navigate. Yeah, I really like that whole coin bit. I really liked the introduction in some of the newer characters in this arc. I think this is very, very interesting. It's been a while since I've been excited about a writer's take on an idea, and this take of America and what it is and what it is in this very interesting, especially in this post Apocalyptic world. Alex: I also can't believe that we're eight issues in and they're still coming up with new America jokes. Pete: Yeah. It's very impressive. Alex: Very impressive. Yeah. Next up, Mega Man: Fully Charged #2, from Boom Studios. Story by A.J. Marchisello and Marcus Rinehart. Written by Marcus Rinehart. Illustrated by Stefano Simeone. I think you like this issue a bit more than I did, the first issue of the series, Pete. I figured, again, let's check in with issue #2 here. This is a darker, more modern take on Mega Man that gives it more of serial overtone. What do you think about this issue? Pete: Yeah, I very much liked it. It's like this idea of, okay, Mega Man, how do we deal with this in technology? What's too much? Who has control? That kind of thing. I feel like it's dealt with, in this issue, in a cool, unique way or really inside Mega Man's head as Justin likes to get inside character's heads. We get a lot of what they're thinking about, why they're doing what we're doing. We're meeting all the players as we move forward in an interesting way. I think it's cool. I'm very much enjoying this great, kind of like last page hype up for next issue. This is just fun. To me, Boom is just taking something that's cool and spitting it out in a way that's fun. Alex: I like this as well. I like this a little bit more than the first issue, but I still, as somebody who is not totally into Mega Man, I'm a little lost in some of the continuity stuff. The things that I liked or the things where Mega Man is out of costume and himself, it made me feel like not to backseat write it, but it made me feel like I would love to see a Mega Man ultimate Spider-Man type of reorigin of him. Pete: Whoo. Alex: That feels like they're skirting up against, but they're also leading into what fans know. That's the part where it confuses me a little bit. I like the parts when he's out of costume and he's finding out more about this world. That's very interesting. The other parts are a little too deep divy for me, personally. Pete: All right. Alex: Still, the art, very good in here. I enjoyed that quite a bit. Let's move on to one of the big surprises for me in The Stack. Juggernaut #1 from Marvel Comics, written by Fabian Nicieza and art by Ron Garney. I thought this was great. I was completely surprised. This is Juggernaut working for damage control. Some stuff has happened to him in the past where he lost his powers. He's regained them again. We're slowly getting information about that. He is mixing it up with who he thinks is a new mutant named D-Cell. This is just so good. I should've known, but like Ron Garney, of course, amazing on art. Fabian Nicieza knows his way around the story, but this character with the issue of Juggernaut is so interesting to me. I was fascinated in the entire issue. Pete: Okay. Nonstop action, like the cover looks insane. All right, let's do this, and then it gets into this touching story about Juggernaut and what he goes through and what he has to deal with. It's very interesting. Also, the introduction of D-Cell, very cool. I like this. I'm very impressed by this #1. I also just got to say, the red on Juggernaut's- Alex: Yeah, I agree. Pete: … uniform is tops and Garney is killing it with this black and white with the splashing of red. Alex: Right? Pete: Yeah. Alex: It's a very good redesign- Pete: Yeah. It's like a little Sin City. Alex: … for the coloring on this book. I should've- Pete: Having a black and white and then popping with colors, but man, it really works great. Alex: Yeah. Again, I was very surprised about this book. There's something about reading a scene of the Juggernaut in a hospital and a nurse being like, “Okay, Juggernaut, you could go now.” I was like, “What? What am I reading? What's happening here?” It totally fits. It makes sense for the character and the way that Fabian sets him up. This is a very good issue and the cliffhanger at the end is super fun. It's a good setup. I'm excited about this book. I just sort or randomly threw it on here because it was #1, but I'm real glad we did because I loved reading it. Alex: Next up, I know this is one of your top picks, Pete. Black Magic #14 from Image Comics. Written by Greg Rucka and art by Nicola Scott. Picking up out of that cliffhanger for the last issue where one of our main witches is driving through a creepy little girl while the other main witch is sleeping with a girl in her house and thinks a little bit- Pete: Okay. Well, all right. Well, first of- Alex: What do you think, Pete? Pete: Don't put extra creep on things, all right? Yeah. Sleeping with a aged person, it's not a little girl that she's sleeping with as well. It's not some kind of weird- Alex: A woman. It was two beautiful responsible women. Pete: Okay. All right. You just sound so creepy. All right. First of, yeah, we got the car driving- Alex: Some lovely ladies. Pete: Why? Why are you so creepy? Alex: Lovely ladies. Pete: Stop being creepy. Yeah. We have … the art is the real hero of this book. These ghost kind of Ghoul, creepy kid things are unbelievable. Just the way it's like they're drawing the ghost and the shading, it's just next level art in such a cool way. I was so scared of this girl in the car accident even though it's a comic book. When she twisted doll's leg and then the lady's leg twist like that, oh, that is so creepy. Alex: Yeah. This book is very good. Like you were saying, Nicola Scott's art and the way things are drawn throughout this book are the real hero. Greg Rucka, always good, but Nicola Scott's just designs of everything, a very creepy and exactly the right way. Pete: That cover is so creepy in all the right ways too. Yeah. I also really love a black cat in this book. Really cool. I like that it's a character. I'm really hoping it stays a character in the book. Every once in a while, we get a little bit more from that. It's a nice little side thing that keeps happening. Alex: Next up, Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn #2, from Boom Studios. Written by Anthony Burch, illustrated by Simone Ragazzoni. We have talked about the last couple of Power Rangers books, which takes places in this apocalyptic future where everything has been destroyed and the Power Ranger's last hope to save everybody. I've been pretty open. I have been hiding the fact that I don't care about Power Rangers at all, whereas, I didn't love two issues back the one shot. I did like the first issue of New Dawn. I was curious to check out the second issue. I liked it even more. This is good. This is a good, dark, adult's reinvention of the Power Rangers. I really enjoyed it. I'm onboard and I'm very surprised. Pete: I'm also very surprised because I liked Power Rangers and this is not like Power Rangers … I haven't really read a lot of the comics, but the TV show. I'm very impressed that how much I'm onboard with the story and what's going on. The writing is doing such an amazing job of sucking you into this world and giving you these characters in such a great way that's such a compelling kind of thing that gets you very excited for this kind of big fight that's coming up. Yeah, I'm very impressed with this book. Alex: It's basically like stripping all the things from them that make them Power Rangers and finding out what make them tick as heroes, right? I feel like, most of the time, you watch a Power Rangers episode and the deal is, should we use our swords? Yeah. All right. Let's use our swords. We did it. We won. That's the main conflict of Power Rangers versus this, they're dealing with actual real human issues, there are actual conflicts, there are actual problems they need to deal with and big overwhelming things, but they're not losing the sense of humor at the same time. It's just so much more fun to read. This is great. I'm very excited about this even if it's … I'm actually going to get back to the status quo. I think this is very good and I'm very surprised that I'm saying so. Alex: On the other hand, I do want to talk about an issue that I'm a little disappointed in for very specific, very stupid reasons. Maestro #2 from Marvel. Written by Peter David and art by German Peralta. This is the origin of the Maestro, the Dark Hulk by Peter David. Love the first issue of this book. Pete: Yeah. You're going nuts. Alex: I thought it was great. Yeah, this issue- Pete: Really? Alex: … I had some problems with, honestly. Pete: I love this. Alex: Yeah. Here's my problem, and I'm going to spoil some of the plot stuff, but Peter David's writing, good as always. German Peralta's art, great. The idea and- Pete: You got problems with colors? Alex: Here's what happens. Pete: What are you … what's your- Alex: Last issue, Hulk wakes up, finds the world has been destroyed. It's like, “You know what, I've given up on humanity.” They're like, “Ooh, this is good. We're going to go on a slow progression to finding out how it became the Maestro.” What happened her? How did he build up a civilization? What is going to happen? Then in this issue, he finds the civilization and Hercules is the Maestro and it's already happened. Pete: Dude, that's a fucking last page reveal you just did. Alex: No, I know. I said I was going to talk about spoilers, but my point is that it's like I waitlisted to the fact that he became the Maestro because somebody else was the Maestro and he took over that stuff versus the Hulk going in his descent to the darkness. I'm still going to read this. I like the art. I like the Maestro. I like Peter David, but it was a real bummer of an issue. Pete: Your problem was, you have a better idea than what the comic did. That's what your problem is. Alex: No, I don't have a better idea. It just felt like it was going in a different direction after the first issue than what happened in the second issue. It felt like we skipped all of the work. Pete: I think you got to wait for it, man. I think you're judging it too fast. Alex: What do you think then, Pete? Pete: I think I should like it. Alex: Do you like it? Pete: I like the idea of sad Hulk in the wastelands talking about humanity. He took some fair shots, man. You know what I mean? He's not lying. Poor animals. Alex: I like all of that stuff. I think that's good. Pete: It's like, “Okay, he stumbles across people” and now, it's like, “Okay, what's going to happen? Can he go see this Maestro.” Okay and then Maestro isn't who you think it is. Great reveal. Classic comic. Boom. I don't know why you're mad. I think it's interesting to see how this is going. I think this is a solid second issue of ramping up the story. I'm sorry, you had a better idea. I would like to just quickly, while we're talking about our Marvel book, the rest and power, Chadwick Boseman kind of things at the top of the comics. I think we're really classy and well-done. I'm happy that they did that because it's fucking really nice. Alex: Yeah. Me too. I agree. Man, it is very hard to read Marvel books with Black Panther right now, which I know is such a weird thing and I keep checking myself of the emotional reaction there because it's not like he wasn't actually Black Panther. The Black Panther in comics is a different thing than Black Panther in the movies, but whenever Black Panther comes into a comic book panel into a comic book story, it's crushing because it feels like it's Chadwick Boseman coming into the scene. I know it's not. Intellectually, I know it's not, but emotionally, it feels that way. I agree with you. It is nice to have that acknowledgement on the front cover. It's so sad. Let's very diligently transition into talking about The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #3 from Image Comics. Written by Jason Aaron and art by R.M. Guera. This is continuing the story line of two versions we're trying to escape from. Not where angels have their way with him. It's horrifying. Alex: Pete loves this book. Cannot stop talking about it. We get off camera and off the podcast and Pete is like, “Let's talk about The Goddamned” in an open voice. It's very impressive, but another great issue of this book, R.M. Guera draws the crap out of it as our girls continue to escape for the mountain and find out things are not quite as they seem, of course, but it's so dark and it's so sad. It just brings you further and further down every issue. Pete: Yeah. This is really impressive. What's nice is, and this issue we're not really dealing with the angels raping. We can move past that a little bit, which is good. We've got these two heroines fighting for their lives as they're trying to make it out of this mountain range, but the reveal at the end is a little crushing. Man, it can say enough about the art. Just the whole part where you thought, maybe, she was going to die and they later rest and then like, it's the action, the storytelling. This is really a great story even though a lot of the story makes me uncomfortable. I'm still very much impressed with the product that they're putting out. Alex: Yeah. That's Jason Aaron writing about faith, writing about religion and making it dark, making it realistic but not throwing it away entirely. He's not like, “Fuck you. You're stupid for believing this stuff.” It's more about what do we believe in if the things we believe in are evil. That's a great thing to drill into right now and he's doing such a good job with it. All right. Let's move on then. Judge Dredd False Witness #3 from IDW. Story by Brandon Easton, art by Kei Zama. Oh my gosh, I really mess this one up, but we finally get what we've been asking for with this series. We got a meeting between our two main characters between a guy on the run for a murder he didn't commit and Judge Dredd who is tracking him down. This title continues to over perform in my mind. It's a good Judge Dredd story. There are some really good, interesting class and race stuff that's played with right here. It's very smart and well done while, still, being a good action thriller. Pete: Yeah. It's just hard. I don't want a Judge Dredd Comic right now. I don't want a story about cops fucking all powerful cops that are judged, jury and executioner right now. I didn't really feel it as much with the other issues, but right now, I was just like, “Fuck this, man.” Alex: I see what you're saying. Not to interject and to cut you out, but I do think … I guess, we'll see where it goes, but it does feel like the story is doing the opposite thing. The story is presenting Judge Dredd with a case that is not cotton dry. I could be wrong with the coloring, but we get a case of a black dude getting plastic surgery to look like a white dude and become basically like a proponent of the rich. There's that thing going on. He gets murdered. His former friend is framed for it. Judge Dredd is tracking him down. I think we're getting a story here where Judge Dredd having to confront the idea that things are not cotton dry, that I cannot be judged jury and executioner right now. If that is the way the story is going, that's an incredibly timely thing to happen. Pete: Yeah. I hear you. It's just a little painful to just see … Just the panels where they're so imposing over people, the judges. When they walk by and there's all these people lined up in attention and it's very, very intimidating. It's heading me in a different way right now that, normally, it can be like, “Okay, this is comic book. This is fun. Judge Dredd is great. I love Judge Dredd,” but it's just like, right now, it's just a little bit … I agree with you that it is trying to do that. It's hard to see the uniform and not flinch a little bit. Alex: All right. Last one we're going to talk about is Bliss #3 from Image Comics. Written by Sean Lewis and art by Caitlin Yarsky. We love every issue of this title, but this is pulling off some big things, some very big things. Specifically picking up the cliffhanger where a kid has been telling the whole history of his dad. We find out that his dad is not as clean and doing much worse things than we thought he was. Also, welcome to Justin who popped in the last time of the podcast. Pete: Hey. Justin: You got to choose your angles. I think, just really, Bliss is the comic that I really wanted to weigh in on. Because I've actually been here the whole time. Really great reviews. Alex: Oh, wow. Justin: I didn't want to chime in because you guys, I think, really covered the basis, especially the X and sword stuff. Pete: Oh. Well, thanks yeah. Alex: I'll tell you what, actually. We talked about a lot of books on The Stack today. I think, it would be worth before we finish up talking about Bliss. Why don't you just give a thumbs up or thumbs down, like a yay or nay to all the titles. I'll read through all the titles, okay? Justin: Great. Yeah. Alex: Here we go. X of swords: Creation #1. Justin: Perfect. No notes. Pete: Wow. Alex: Dark Night: Speed Metal #1. Justin: Fast as I wanted it to be. Alex: Wow, and Unkindness of Ravens, number one. Justin: More ravens. Alex: Spider-Man #4. Justin: You know how I feel about this. This guy should be making more quips. Alex: The Last God #9. Justin: Good fight. Alex: Voyage to the Stars #2. Justin: Yeah, get off earth. Earth sucks. Alex: WYND #4. Justin: Good. Not enough wind. It's very still. Alex: More wind. Wicked Things #5. Justin: Chilling. Alex: Low #25. Justin: Oh, no. Fun. It was fun. Alex: Yeah. That was fun. Wait. Okay. Low #25. Can we actually stop for a second? I know we're very much versed in the podcast, but the whole reason I put that in The Stack was to get your take on it, Justin. Low #25, penUltimate issue of the series. What do you think? Justin: We look at this as a whole. My review of the last issue was, I can't believe he's willing to take us here and I bought it and then it was like, “Oh, no. Rug-pull everything is terrible.” I don't know where we're going to go with this at the end of the day. Pete: How about that reveal though? That was fucking bananas. Justin: Everything about this book is bananas. They push everything in every direction all the time. That's why the series is one of the richest series we've reviewed in this. Maybe top Remender. Maybe top Remender. Alex: Yeah. This has really blown me away as for what Remender is doing in this comic. I didn't really, really appreciate it until this second to the last issue, like everything that he's doing. Justin: Yeah, 100%. Alex: It's making me feel like we should probably do a separate podcast about Top Remender. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Yeah. Pete: We just got to determine like break it down, top 10. Justin: The remaining Remenders. The Remenders that remain. Pete: Right. Yeah. Alex: Getting back to the list, Canto II: The Hollow Men #2. Justin: Really, Canto? Can? No. Alex: The Immortal She-Hulk #1. Justin: Legit. Love this book. I can't believe they're making She-Hulk terrifying now too. Alex: Yeah. Yeah. Undiscovered Country, number- Justin: I'm worried that this is going to become my job from here on now. Don't say anything and then just give us the one liner nonsense thing. Alex: Yeah. We're almost through it. There's a lot of titles though. Undiscovered Country, number eight. Justin: Perfectly clear of what's happening all the time. Alex: Mega Man: Fully Charged #2. Justin: Playing the video game, except my fingers are not sore. Alex: Nice. Yeah. Juggernaut, number one. Justin: This guy is unstoppable. Alex: Yeah. Black Magic #14. Justin: Somebody stop him. Alex: I'm definitely getting the impression that you've read all this book. Justin: 100%. Alex: Black Magic #14. Justin: Great to see this book back. I've missed this book. Alex: Yeah. Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn #2. Justin: Once again, surprisingly into the Power Rangers. Time to do a rewatch. Alex: Great. That was my reaction too. Pete: Go, go Power Rangers. Justin: I [crosstalk 00:51:58]. Alex: Maestro #2. Justin: This guy, I wanted more music. I feel like he's not doing any conducting. Alex: The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #3. Justin: This book really makes you want to get back into the bible. Alex: Judge Dredd False Witness #3. Justin: I'm not prepared to be judged. Alex: Okay. Justin: This book was judging me. Alex: Great. Finally, that brings us to Bliss #3. Once again, this is a great issue of this book. This really flips the premise in a certain way. We spent the first two issues knowing and loving this dad. In this third issue, we find out he is not all, he's cracked up to be. It's real dark, real sad, but I thought real good. Pete, what was you takeaway from this one? Pete: Yeah. I was really impressed with this issue. A lot of things click into place in this issue. We get a lot of forward movement and a way we can all follow, which is great. Yeah, it went from being like tripped out stone or what's going on to like, “Oh, shit. There's a lot of evil fucked up shit going on in a way that is very much pointed at this family.” I think that really grounds it in the son-mom stuff was just so touching and powerful. The panels of the mom's face are just unbelievable. Justin: Yeah. The art on this book, I think, really crushes. It adds some air, this air of tension in fantastical remorse and just loss throughout the book. It reminds me of like the dark crystal a little bit or- Alex: Yeah. Justin: … especially with the non-human creatures. Even Neil Gaiman's Coraline a little bit. It feels like a more adult version of it. The scenes at the end where the dad reveals what he's capable of are just tough. Alex: Yeah. Pete: Yeah. Justin: The coloring as well throughout is just beautiful. Pete: Yeah. It's really intense. Alex: Great. Great book. Definitely pick it up. That is it for The Stack. If you like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. to Crowdcast and YouTube. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher or the app of your choice. To subscribe and listen to the show, did I say pateron.com/comicbookclub to support the show? Pete: You did now. Alex: Okay. There we go. At Comic Book Live on Twitter. Comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. 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