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Chaîne d'Hisokaparker : https://www.youtube.com/@hisokaparker3090Chaîne de Neo : https://www.youtube.com/c/LeN%C3%A9ophyteDesComicsChaîne Manga Saucisse: https://www.youtube.com/live/GUvefvPs54Y?si=ZlLoDOI2GykBC0oE=======================================Réseaux de la chaîneDiscord: https://discord.gg/6jWpVxPrnrSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZwxEAU13PoVLua0JdIYJh?si=23eb9d545b224601Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/QynphwNFRNGQSG9d9Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0964898a-c810-48ff-97ab-f0a6e9e66fa5/d'encre-et-de-bullesApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/dencre-et-de-bulles/id1733018809Instagram de Mindphobia: https://www.instagram.com/mindphobia.comics/=======================================Cette semaine la part belle est faite à l'indépendant. En VO nous traiterons de Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku par Alex Segura et Stefano Raffaele. Côté indie pur on traitera d'un récit "neo noir horrifique" avec Godfather of Hell par Cavan Scott et Pius Bak. On parlera de transhumanisme avec Vicarious par Ryan Parott et Eleonora Carlini. Et enfin on aura un des Batman de la semaine avec Batman & Robin: Year One par un duo déjà remarqué chez Marvel, à savoir Mark Waid et Chris Samnee.Pour la VF nous traiterons d'Automnal par Daniel Kraus et Chris Sheehan paru chez 404 Graphics. On apportera du fun et de la légèreté avec Fluff Fairyland tome 2 par Skottie Young et Brett Bean. On visitera le futur de Dawnrunner par Ram V et Evan Cagle et enfin nous aurons le 2e Batman de la semaine par Christian Ward. Sans oublier le traditionnel Stop ou Encore.=======================================Time Code et lien d'achats00:00 Générique + Intro 41:34 Batman & Robin Year One (Waid/Samnee) par Hisoka 59:32 Vicarious 1 (Parott/Carlini) chez Boom Studios par Neo1:24:16 Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku 1-2 (Segura/Raffaele/Kirk) chez Marvel par Adas1:48:18 Godfather Of Hell 1 (Scott/Bak) chez Vault par Mindphobia 2:04:06 Stop ou Encore (Profane 5, I Heart Skull-Crusher 6, Jupiter's Legacy Finale 1, Uncanny X-Men 3 et 4, Pedestrian 3, Falling in Love in a Path to Hell 5, Flash Gordon 3)2:36:29 Fluff Fairyland 2 (Young/Bean) chez Urban Comics par Hisoka (https://www.pulps.fr/item/fluff_fairyland__tome_2_405048)2:47:26 Dawnrunner (V/Cagle) chez Hicomics par Neo (https://www.pulps.fr/item/dawnrunner_398381)3:21:59 Batman: City of Madness (Ward/Ward) chez Urban Comics par Adas (https://www.pulps.fr/item/dc_black_label__batman__city_of_madness_404574)3:39:39 Automnal (Kraus/Sheehan) chez 404 Graphics par Mindphobia (indisponible chez Pulps pour le moment)4:04:36 A venir chez nos invités + Générique de fin=======================================#batman #batmanandrobin #dccomics #dc #markwaid #chrissamnee #starwars #starwarsbattleofjakku #starwarscomics #alexsegura #stefanoraffaele #marvel #marvelcomics #godfatherofhell #horror #neonoirhorror #thriller #cavanscott #piusbak #vaultcomics #indiecomics #vicarious #ryanparott #eleonoracarlini #scifi #scificomics #boomstudios #automnal #theautumnal #danielkraus #chrissheehan #404graphics #fantastique #horreur #halloween #indiecomics #flufffairyland #fantasy #fantasycomics #urbancomics #skottieyoung #brettbeans #dawnrunner #hicomics #ramv #evancagle #batmancityofmadness #christianward #comics #comicbooks #dencreetdebulles #live #comicslive Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Comic Reviews: DC DC's Batman Smells, Robin Laid An Egg by Dorado Quick, M.L. Sanapo, Arif Prianto; Drew Maxey, Marianna Ignazzi, Giovanna Niro; Ricardo Sanchez, Aaron Conley, Ivan Plascencia; Alexis Quasarano, Marcial Toledano Vargas; Marv Wolfman, Paul Pelletier, Norm Rapmund, Eren Angiolini; James Reid, Francesco Francavilla; Zipporah Smith, Andrew Drilon; Calvin Kasulke, Anthony Marques, Wil Quintana Two-Face 1 by Christian Ward, Fabio Veras, Ivan Plascencia Marvel All-New Venom 1 by Al Ewing, Carlos Gomez, Frank D'Armata Deadpool/Wolverine: X-Traction by Ryan North, Javier Garron, Edgar Delgado Marvel Holiday: Tales to Astonish by Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto; Daniel Kibblesmith, Pat Olliffe, John Kalisz; Gene Luen Yang, Dylan Burnett, KJ Diaz Marvel Unlimited Astonishing X-Men 1 by Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy It's Jeff 38 by Kelly Thompson, GuriHiru Ahoy Archaic 1 by Melissa Olson, Sally Cantirino, Gab Contreras Archie Archie Christmas Spectacular by Ian Flynn, Holly Golightly, Jim Amash, Glenn Whitmore Boom Flavor Girls: Return to the Mothership 1 by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky, Angel De Santiago Dark Horse Christmas 365 1 by Mikey Way, Jonathan Rivera, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson Dynamite Powerpuff Girls: Winter Snowdown Showdown 1 by Daniel Kibblesmith, Carlo Lauro, Nicolo Laporini ThunderCats: Apex 1 by Ed Brisson, Rapha Lobosco, Roshan Kurichiyanil IDW Monster High: Howliday Haunt by Ben Kahn, Sonia Liao Image Dread the Halls 1 by Jordan Hart, Chris Ryall, Lee Ferguson, Jimmy Kucaj, Walter Pax, Fabio Veras Juvenile 1 by Jesus Orellana Top Cow Holiday Special: All Through the House by Marguerite Bennett, Giuseppe Cafaro, Juan Fernandez; Marv Silvestri, Tina Valentino, Fabio Mantovani, Ellie Wright; Matt Hawkins, Atilio Rojo Mad Cave Long Cold Winter 1 by Francesca Perillo, Stefano Cardoselli OGN Countdown Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Vol 1: Ripley by Marieke Nijkamp, Tyler Walpole Blake Laser by Keith Marantz, Larissa Brown Kill Me and Other Curiosities by Chad Lambert, Apri Kusbiantoro, Christine Larsen, Tom Williams Slightly Exaggerated by Curtis Clow, Pius Bak, Roman Titov Birdking Vol 3 by Daniel Freedman, Christian Ortiz Backflash by Mat Johnson, Steve Lieber, Ryan Hill Additional Reviews: Penguin (Max) First two episodes of Creature Commandos That Christmas News: Omninews, new Lemire by OGN, Mandalorian and Grogo casting Trailers: Section 31 Comics Countdown (04 December 2024): Absolute Superman 2 by Jason Aaron, Rafa Sandoval, Ulises Arreola Two-Face 1 by Christian Ward, Fabio Veras, Ivan Plascencia Batgirl 2 by Tate Brombal, Takeshi Miyazawa, Mike Spicer Ultimates 7 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee JSA 2 by Jeff Lemire, Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero Birds of Prey 16 by Kelly Thompson, Sami Basri, Vicente Cifuentes, Adriano Lucas Kosher Mafia 4 by David Hazan, Sami Kivela Christmas 365 1 by Mikey Way, Jonathan Rivera, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson Dick Tracy 6 by Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, Geraldo Borges, Mark Englert Batman 155 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Fornes, Tomeu Morey  

Jan 2025 Solicits (DC, Image) Longbox of Horror 2024 Part 3: JLA by Chuck Austen Comic Reviews: DC o        All In §  Catwoman 69 by Torunn Gronbekk, Fabiana Mascolo, Patricio Delpeche §  Titans 16 by John Layman, Pete Woods o        Batman and Robin: Year One 1 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Matheus Lopes o        Batman: Full Moon 1 by Rodney Barnes, Stevan Subic Marvel o        Blade Red Band 1 by Bryan Hill, Carlos Villa, Javier Tartaglia o        Crypt of Shadows 1 by Steve Orlando, Claire Roe, Luiz Zavala; Chris Condon, Djibril Morissette-Phan, Mattia Iacono; Benjamin Percy, Raffaele Ienco, Bryan Valenza; Jason Loo, Carlos Magno, Espen Grundetjern o        Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu 1 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, Rachelle Rosenberg o        Mystique 1 by Declan Shalvey, Matt Hollingsworth o        Marvel Unlimited §  Astonishing Spider-Man 1 & 2 by Scott Aukerman, Salva Espin §  Beastly Buddies 1 by Steve Foxe, Armand Bodnar Boom o        Vicarious 1 by Ryan Parrott, Eleonora Carlini, Mattia Iacono, Luca Mattioni Dark Horse o        Jupiter's Legacy Finale 1 by Mark Millar, Tommy Lee Edwards o        Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Halloween Special by Tate Brombal, Morgan Beem; Soo Lee, Patricio Delpeche; Nick Robles; James Tynion IV, Isaac Goodhart, Miquel Muerto; Tate Brombal, Fernando Blanco, Patricio Delpeche o        Where Monsters Lie: Cul-De-Sac 1 by Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski, Vladimir Popov IDW o        Exorcism at 1600 Penn 1 by Hannah Rose May, Vanesa Del Rey, Jordie Bellaire Valiant o        Eternal Warrior Resurgence 1 by Fred Van Lente, Alvaro Papagiana, Camila Jorge, Nobi, Exequiel Fernandez Rosel, Ludwig Olimba Vault o        Godfather of Hell 1 by Cavan Scott, Pius Bak, Raul Angulo OGN Countdown o        Kids Are Still Weird and More Observations From Parenthood by Jeffrey Brown o        Spirited Vol 4: Fangs for the Memories by Liv Livingston o        Noodle and Bao by Shaina Lu o        Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio, Paulina Ganucheau o        Squire and Knight Vol 2: Wayward Travelers by Scott Chantler o        Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari o        Boy vs Shark by Paul Gilligan o        Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson Additional Reviews:         Agatha All Along ep6         Plume by K. Lynn Smith         Flintstones by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi         Lego Avengers: Mission Demolition News: Mad Cave picks up Pop Kill from Palmiotti/Conner, IDW hires new EIC, new announcements from Image and Dynamite at NYCC, DC joins GlobalComix, Krypto confirmed to appear in Superman movie, new Iron Man Disney Jr. series, Many Deaths of Laila Starr opera, new Image series from Aaron and Remender, IDW new logo, Ultimate Wolverine, new Marvel collection line ala DC Compact, DSTLRY announcements, No One movie, Doctor Doom event, Justice League: Atom Project, Aquaman by Adams and Timms, new horror line from Tiny Onion, John Ridley next up on Action Comics, new IDW horror line including Event Horizon comic, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Magic the Gathering/Marvel team-up, return of Vertigo, Hush 2 confirmed, DD: Cold Day in Hell, Eddie Brock: Carnage, Venomverse/Spider-Verse crossover, another Flanagan/King project, Blade probably canceled Glenn's Continuity Corner Trailers: The Monkey, Invincible s3, Cross, Wolf Man Comics Countdown (16 October 2024): 1.     Wonder Woman 14 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, Tomeu Morey 2.     Radiant Black 30 and 30.5 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Eduardo Ferigato, Marcelo Costa, Rod Fernandes, Raul Angulo 3.     Ultimate Spider-Man 10 by Jonathan Hickman, David Messina, Matt Wilson 4.     Department of Truth 26 by James Tynion IV, Alison Sampson, Jordie Bellaire 5.     Local Man 25 by Tim Seeley, Tony Fleecs, Felipe Sobreiro, Brad Simpson 6.     Nightwing 118 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Caio Filipe, Adriano Lucas 7.     Batman and Robin: Year One 1 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Matheus Lopes 8.     Batman: Full Moon 1 by Rodney Barnes, Stevan Subic 9.     Green Lantern 16 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Romulo Fajardo Jr 10.  Flash Gordon 3 by Jeremy Adams, Will Conrad, Lee Loughridge

The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 328 Epitaphs From The Abyss #4 (EC Comics) from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): J Holtham   |  Artist(s): David Lapham Claire Roe Leomacs  |  $4.99 Prodigy Slaves of Mars #3 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Stefano Landini $4.99 Hard Case Crime Minky Woodcock The Girl Called Cthulhu #1  from  Titan Comics  |  Writer(s): Cynthia von Buhler   |  Artist(s): Cynthia von Buhler  |  $3.99  Hate Revisited #4 from Fantagraphics Books (W/A) Peter Bagge $4.99 Witchblade #4 from Image Comics (W) Marguerite Bennett (A) Giuseppe Cafaro $3.99 Godfather Of Hell #1  from  Vault Comics  |  Writer(s): Cavan Scott   |  Artist(s):Pius Bak  |  $4.99 Black Cloak #9 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Meredith McClaren $3.99  Where Monsters Lie Cull-De-Sac #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Kyle Starks  | Artist(s): Piotr Kowalski  |  $3.99 Ice Cream Man Presents Decompression In A Wreck Deluxe Special #1 (One Shot) from  Image  |  Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince   |  Artist(s): Martín Morazzo Chris O'Halloran  |  $7.99 House Of Slaughter #26  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Sam Johns   | Artist(s): Letizia Cadonici  |  $3.99 Vicarious #1 from BOOM! Studios (W) Ryan Parrott (A) Eleonora Carlini  $4.99  Best New Comic Books Gatchaman #4 from MadCave Studios  (W) Cullen Bunn (A) Chris Batista $4.99  Tin Can Society #2 from Image Comics (W) Peter Warren (A) Francesco Mobili $3.99  Voices in my Head #1 from Image Comics (W) Joe Pruett (A) Juan Doe, Phil Hester, Andrew Robinson, Michael Gaydos $5.99 (cover Brian Bolland)  Void Rivals #13 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Patricio Delpeche $3.99 Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2024 #1 (One Shot)  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): David Dastmalchian   |  Artist(s): Lukas Ketner  |  $7.99 Creepshow Vol 3 #2  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Eugenio Mira John Ridley   | Artist(s): Stefano Raffaele Jorge Fornes  |  $3.99 The Feeding #1 (One Shot)  from  Image  |  Writer(s): David M. Booher   | Artist(s): Drew Zucker  |  $4.99 The Moon Is Following Us #2  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Daniel Warren Johnson  | Artist(s): Riley Rossmo Daniel Warren Johnson  | $3.99 Universal Monsters Frankenstein #3  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Michael Walsh   | Artist(s): Michael Walsh Toni Marie Griffin  |  $4.99 Babs #3  from  Ahoy Comics  |  Writer(s): Garth Ennis   |  Artist(s): Jacen Burrows |  $3.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #16  from  Titan Comics  |  Writer(s): Jim Zub   | Artist(s): Doug Braithwaite  |  $3.99 Cursed Library #2 Omega  from  Archie Comics  |  Writer(s): Eliot Rahal   | Artist(s): Craig Cermak  |  $4.99 Hello Darkness #4  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Garth Ennis   |  Artist(s):Becky Cloonan  |  $5.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #24 from  Warrant Publishing Company  | Writer(s): Don Glut   |  Artist(s): Various  |  $6.99 MORE FUN Monsters on the Prowl #29; cover dated August 1975; cover priced 25 cents. This week's that guy that was in that show is  Ken Berry Today our Frenzy Faves is a favorite Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple's, Season 5 Episode 33, Original air date May 15, 1964

The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 327  Lady Mechanika The Devil In The Lake #2  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Joe Benitez M.M. Chen   |  Artist(s): Siya Oum  |  $3.99 Scarlett #5 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Marco Ferrari, Lee Loughridge $3.99 Transformers #13 from Image Comics (W) Daniel Warren Johnson (A) Jason Howard, Mike Spicer $3.99 MAD magazine #40 (W/A)  The Usual Gang of Idiots $5.99   Plastic Death & Dolls #5  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Doug Wagner   |  Artist(s):Daniel Hillyard  |  $3.99 Autumn Kingdom #2  from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): Cullen Bunn   |  Artist(s):Christopher Mitten  |  $4.99 Minor Arcana #2  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Jeff Lemire   |  Artist(s): Jeff Lemire  |  $4.99 Seance In The Asylum #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Clay McLeod Chapman  |  Artist(s): Andrea Mutti  |  $3.99 Rocketeer Breaks Free #3  from  IDW Publishing  |  Writer(s): Stephen Mooney  | Artist(s): Staz Johnson  |  $4.99 The Toxic Avenger #1 from Ahoy Comics (W)  Matt Bors (A) Fred Harper $3.99   Best New Comic Books Black Cloak #9 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Meredith McClaren $3.99  Prodigy Slaves of Mars #3 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Stefano Landini $4.99 Where Monsters Lie Cull-De-Sac #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Kyle Starks  | Artist(s): Piotr Kowalski  |  $3.99 Ice Cream Man Presents Decompression In A Wreck Deluxe Special #1 (One Shot) from  Image  |  Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince   |  Artist(s): Martín Morazzo Chris O'Halloran  |  $7.99 Epitaphs From The Abyss #4 (EC Comics) from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): J Holtham   |  Artist(s): David Lapham Claire Roe Leomacs  |  $4.99 Godfather Of Hell #1  from  Vault Comics  |  Writer(s): Cavan Scott   |  Artist(s):Pius Bak  |  $4.99 Hard Case Crime Minky Woodcock The Girl Called Cthulhu #1  from  Titan Comics  |  Writer(s): Cynthia von Buhler   |  Artist(s): Cynthia von Buhler  |  $3.99 House Of Slaughter #26  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Sam Johns   | Artist(s): Letizia Cadonici  |  $3.99 Nostalgia Josie and the Pussycats #57 cover dated September 1971; cover priced 25 cents This week's that guy that was in that show is  Paul Sand Favorite Twilight Zone episode The 16 Millimeter Shrine, Season 1 Episode 4, Original air date October 23, 1959

Today, Danika is here to tell you about a couple of sapphic backlist comics: one horror, one sci-fi, both weird and wonderful. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We'll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Roman Titov Motor Crush, Vol. 1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just in time for Christmas, Emmy-winning writer (and co-host of The Flop House) Dan McCoy joins us to unwrap a trio of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories by the late, great Carl Barks!  In “Only a Poor Old Man,” Uncle Scrooge's first full-length adventure, everyone's favorite spats-wearing billionaire fights to protect his fortune from the Beagle Boys in a rollicking heist tale! In “Luck of the North,” Donald drags his nephews to rescue his insufferable cousin Gladstone Gander in a madcap, Tintin-esque adventure.  And in “A Christmas for Shacktown,” Donald, Daisy and the boys try to raise money to give the denizens of Duckburg's poverty-stricken neighborhood a memorable Christmas celebration. Can Donald and company prevail against industrious thieves, a polar bear and a bottomless pit? And can these tales safely find their way to that Island of Misfit Toys known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode: ·         There's a lot to admire about the Beagle Boys ·         Isaac Asimov's iCarly ·         Kevin shares an embarrassing story ·         Pogo by Walt Kelly ·         I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast ·         Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak ·         Iron Man # 215-216 Join us in two weeks as we pause to take a look back before plunging ahead into 2024! Until then:Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Facebook or the platform formerly known as Twitter! And as always, thanks for listening!

The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 283 Midnite Show #3 from Dark Horse  | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn  | Artist(s): Brian Hurtt | $3.99 Creepshow Holiday Special 2023 #1 (One Shot) from Image | Writer(s): Daniel Kraus James Asmus  | Artist(s): Jonathan Wayshak Letizia Cadonici | $3.99 Nasty #5 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): John Lees  | Artist(s): Adam Cahoon | $4.99 Archie Christmas Spectacular #1 (One Shot) from Archie Comics (W) Tom DeFalco (A) Holly G $3.99   Stuff Of Nightmares Slay Ride #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): R.L. Stine  | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $7.99 Transformers #3 from Image Comics (W/A Daniel Warren Johnson) $4.99 Dark Spaces Hollywood Special #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Jeremy Lambert  | Artist(s): Claire Roe | $3.99 Midlife or How to Hero at Fifty #3 (W) Brian Buccellato (A) Stefano Simeone $3.99    Todays New Books Masterpiece #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Brian Michael Bendis  | Artist(s): Alex Maleev | $3.99 Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Patrick Horvath  | Artist(s): Patrick Horvath | $3.99 Dark Spaces Dungeon #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Scott Snyder  | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $4.99 A Haunted Girl #3 from Image | Writer(s): Ethan Sacks Naomi Sacks  | Artist(s): Marco Lorenzano | $4.99 Phantom Road #7 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire  | Artist(s): Gabriel Hernández Walta | $3.99 Beyond Real #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Zack Kaplan  | Artist(s): Jorge Corona Various | $0.00 Captain Ginger The Last Feeder #2 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Stuart Moore  | Artist(s): June Brigman Roy Richardson | $3.99 House Of Slaughter #20 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sam Johns  | Artist(s): Letizia Cadonici | $3.99 Invasive #1 from Oni Press | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn  | Artist(s): Jesus Hervás | $4.99 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Holiday Special #1 (One Shot) from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Kelly Thompson Danielle Paige  | Artist(s): Andy Fish Various | $3.99 Wrong Earth We Could Be Heroes #2 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer  | Artist(s): Jamal Igle Juan Castro | $3.99 The Madness #5 of 6 from AWA (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A) ACO $3.99 Void Rivals #5 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Lorenzo De Felici, Matheus Lopes $3.99    This week's that guy that was in that show is Frank Ferguson Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite Christmas Specials

The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 282 Something Is Killing The Children #35 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV  | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $3.99 Crave #1 from Image | Writer(s): Maria Llovet  | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Conan The Barbarian Vol 5 #5 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Jim Zub  | Artist(s):Doug Braithwaite  | $3.99 Fire Power #29 from Image  (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Chris Samnee $3.99 Swan Songs #5 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince  | Artist(s): Alex Eckman-Lawn | $3.99 Whats The Furthest Place From Here #16 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg  | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | $3.99 Barbaric Wrong Kind Of Righteous #1 (One Shot) from Vault Comics | Writer(s):Michael Moreci Nicholas Eames  | Artist(s): Julius Ohta | $6.99 Dark Spaces Halloween Comic Trick-Or-Read 2023 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Scott Snyder  | Artist(s): Various | $3.99 Local Man #7 from Image | Writer(s): Tim Seeley Tony Fleecs  | Artist(s): Tony Fleecs Tim Seeley | $3.99 BRZRKR Fallen Empire #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Mattson Tomlin Keanu Reeves  | Artist(s): Rebekah Isaacs | $9.99 Grim #15 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips  | Artist(s): Flaviano | $3.99 Todays books  Midnite Show #3 from Dark Horse  | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn  | Artist(s): Brian Hurtt | $3.99 Dark Spaces Hollywood Special #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Jeremy Lambert  | Artist(s): Claire Roe | $3.99 Creepshow Holiday Special 2023 #1 (One Shot) from Image | Writer(s): Daniel Kraus James Asmus  | Artist(s): Jonathan Wayshak Letizia Cadonici | $3.99 Nasty #5 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): John Lees  | Artist(s): Adam Cahoon | $4.99 Stuff Of Nightmares Slay Ride #1 (One Shot) from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): R.L. Stine  | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $7.99 Archie Christmas Spectacular #1 (One Shot) from Archie Comics (W) Tom DeFalco (A) Holly G $3.99   Transformers #3 from Image Comics (W/A Daniel Warren Johnson) $4.99   This week's that guy that was in that show is James Best Today our Frenzy Faves are Favorite breakfast cereals

In this episode of The Comic Book Lair, we look at Eat The Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Becca Carey. Published by Boom Studios. We also discuss our favorite reads from the week and what we are looking forward to for next week. Please remember to leave us a review, and subscribe to our show! If you enjoyed what you heard, we'd be eternally grateful if you shared it with a friend. Next week we will be Hangin' In The Lair and catching up on all that we have been reading and watching! So jump into our Discord and join the conversation.Show Information:InstagramWebsiteDiscordSupport The Comic Book LairKeep Reading Comics! Cowabunga Nerds!Books Mentioned in this Episode:Once Upon A Time At The End Of The WorldDon't Spit In The Wind*The Comic Book Lair crew can get 15% off their order at Coffee and a Comic if you enter code "COMICBOOKLAIR" at checkout.We are really stoked to be able to bring this to our listeners! Frank is awesome and is doing really cool things for us Comic Book fans! Make sure to check out @coffee_and_a_comic on Instagram as well!* **Like the sound of the Comic Book Lair Podcast? Our audio production is provided by RoseKat Audio. Check out RoseKat Audio at rosekataudio.com**

Written by Sarah Gailey. Art by Pius Bak. Cover by Jenny Frison. What unspeakable horror eats away at the heart of Crestfall Bluffs? With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to summer with her boyfriend Astor in his seemingly perfect hometown of Crestfall Bluffs. It's a chance to finally meet Astor's family and childhood friends, all while enjoying a vacation with every need attended to by servants. But beneath the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot… will Joey discover the truth before it's too late, and if she does, can she survive to tell the tale? The bold, horrifying psychological thriller from Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Gailey (The Echo Wife, Magic For Liars) with artist Pius Bak (Firefly, The Magicians), perfect for fans of Stillwater and Nailbiter! 24 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/message

Featured Books: Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times By Azar Nafisi The Candy House by Jennifer Egan Mouse Guard (Series) by David Petersen Pollack's Arm by Hans von Trotha Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey Illustrated by Pius Bak and Roman Titov 2022 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Cette semaine, Simon nous parle de « X of Destiny », des sorties Blu-ray de la semaine et de la rencontre improbable entre Drew Barrymore et Danny Trejo dans le film « Doppelganger ». Jeik nous suggère la BD « LowReader » des éditions Rue de Sèvres et nous annonce la sortie du prochain long métrage de Panos Cosmatos. Laurent revient sur la nouvelle concernant l'acteur Bruce Willis, le jeu « Return to Monkey Island » et documentaire sur Jim Henson. Benoit discute en rafale de l'antépisode de « It », du film « Mad God » de Phil Tippett et du retour potentiel de Gillian Anderson à « The X-Files ». En dernière partie d'émission, nous discutons de « Eat the Rich » par Sarah Gailey et Pius Bak publié aux éditions Boom! Studios. Depuis 16 ans, les Mystérieux étonnants c'est votre balado (podcast) québécois dédié à la culture populaire. Diffusion originale : 4 avril 2022
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Comics  Eat The Rich #5 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99 Snelson #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Paul Constant | Artist(s): Fred Harper | $3.99   Joy Operations #2 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Stephen Byrne $3.99   Radiant Black #11 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins | Artist(s): Marcello Costa | $3.99 Once & Future #23 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Dan Mora $3.99  My Bad #2 from Ahoy Comics (W) Mark Russell, Bryce Ingman (A) Peter Krause  $3.99   Stray Dogs Dog Days #1 of 2 from Image Comics (W) Tony Fleecs (A) Trish Forstner $4.99    House Of Slaughter #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Werther Dell Edera | Colors: Miquel Meurto | Letters: Andworld Design | $3.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #5 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Maw #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): AL Kaplan | $3.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #7 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Various | Artist(s): Various | $5.95 Mirka Andolfos Sweet Paprika #6 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Boston Metaphysical Society Book Of Demons #1 (One Shot) from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Madeleine Holly-Rosing | Artist(s): Gwynn Tavares | $4.99 Upcoming Comics Basilisk #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn  | Artist(s): Jonas Scharf | $3.99 Bylines In Blood #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Van Jensen Erica Schultz  | Artist(s): Aneke | $4.99 Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #8 from  | AWA  | Writer(s): Garth Ennis  | Artist(s): Goran Sudzuka Miroslav Mrva | $3.99 Not All Robots #5 from  | AWA | Writer(s): Mark Russell  | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr Lee Loughridge | $3.99   The Fourth Man #1 (of 4) from AWA/Upshot (W) Jeff McComsey(A) Mike Deodato, Lee Loughridge $3.99  Hellcop #3 from Image Comics (W) Brian Haberlin (A/CA) Brian Haberlin, Geirrod Van Dyke $3.99 Nocterra Special #1 from Image Comics (W) Scott Snyder (A) Denys Cowan, Chris Sotomayor Monkey Meat #1 from Image Comics (W/A) Juni Ba $3.99 Magic Order 2 #3 from Image Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Stuart Immonen $3,99  Will cover some of the following books next week:   Apache Delivery Service #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt  | Artist(s): Tyler Jenkins | $3.99   Mazebook #5 from Dark Horse | Script and Art: Jeff Lemire | Letters: Steve Wands   Impossible Jones #2 from Scout Comics | Script: Karl Kesel | Art: Karl Kesel, David Hahn | Colors: Tony Avina | Letters: Comicraft Human Remains #4 from Vault Comics | Writer: Peter Milligan | Art: Sally Cantririno | Colors: Dearbhla Kelly | Letters: Andworld Ice Cream Man #27 from Image Comics |Writer: QW. Maxell Prince | Art: Martin Morazzo | Colors: Chris O'Halloran | Letters: Good Old Neon Echolands #5 from Image Comics |  Writer: JH Williams III and W Haden Blackman | Art: JH Williams III | Colors: Dave Stewart | Letters: Todd Klein   Daisy #2 from Dark Horse | Story and Art: Colin Lorimer | Colors: Joana LaFuente | Letters: Jim Campbell   The Blue Flame #6 from Vault Comics | Writer: Christopher Cantwell | Art: Adam Gorham | Colors: Kurt Michael Russell | Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Trade EC Archives Weird Science Vol 1 TP from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Bill Gaines Various  | Artist(s): Al Feldstein Various | $19.99

Comics  Cloaked #1 of 4 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Mike Richardson (A) Jordi Armengol $3.99 Hard Case Crime Gun Honey #4 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Charles Ardai | Artist(s): Ang Hor Kheng | $3.99 Adventureman #7 from Image | Writer(s): Matt Fraction | Artist(s): Terry Dodson Rachel Dodson | $3.99 BRZRKR (Berzerker) #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Keanu Reeves Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Ron Garney | $3.99 Primordial #4 from Image Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | $3.99 Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter Of Death #3 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer Bryce Abood | Artist(s): Greg Scott Rick Geary | $4.99 Mazebook #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Jeff Lemire | $5.99 My Date With Monsters #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Paul Tobin | Artist(s): Andy MacDonald | $3.99 Witchblood #9 from Vault Comics Writer(s): Matthew Erman | Artist(s): Lisa Sterle | $3.99 Other He Who Fights With Monsters #4 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Francesco Artibani | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Heathens #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn Heath Amodio | Artist(s): Sami Kivela | $3.99 Regarding The Matter Of Oswald's Body #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Christopher Cantwell | Artist(s): Luca Casalanguida | $3.99 Rush #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Si Spurrier | Artist(s): Nathan Gooden | $3.99 Upcoming Comics Mirka Andolfos Sweet Paprika #6 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Radiant Black #11 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins | Artist(s): Marcello Costa | $3.99 Boston Metaphysical Society Book Of Demons #1 (One Shot) from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Madeleine Holly-Rosing | Artist(s): Gwynn Tavares | $4.99 Chicken Devil #3 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Brian Buccellato | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman  |$4.99 Eat The Rich #5 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99 House Of Slaughter #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #5 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Maw #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): AL Kaplan | $3.99 Snelson #5 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Paul Constant | Artist(s): Fred Harper | $3.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #7 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Various | Artist(s): Various | $5.95 Joy Operations #2 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Stephen Byrne $3.99 

Comics  Groo Meets Tarzan #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Mark Evanier Sergio Aragones | Artist(s): Sergio Aragones Tom Yeates | $3.99 Hard Case Crime Gun Honey #3 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Charles Ardai | Artist(s): Ang Hor Kheng | $3.99 Primordial #3 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | $3.99 Eat The Rich #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99 Not All Robots #4 from | AWA | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr | Colors: Lee Loughridge | Letters: Steve Wands | $3.99 Maw #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): A.L. Kaplan | Colors: Fabiana Mascolo, Federica Mascolo | Letters: Cardinal Rae | $3.99 Chicken Devil #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Brian Buccellato | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou | $4.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #4 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | Letters: Saida Temofonte | $3.99 Radio Apocalypse #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Ram V. | Artist(s): Anand Radhakrishnan | Colors: Anisha | Letters: Biikar | $3.99 Wasted Space #25 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $3.99 Upcoming Comics Echolands #4 from Image | Writer(s): JH Williams III Haden Blackman | Artist(s): JH Williams III Dave Stewart | $4.99 Friday #1 from Image | Writer(s): Ed Brubaker | Artist(s): Marcos Martin Muntsa Vicente | $3.99 Grrl Scouts Stone Ghost #1 from Image | Writer(s): Jim Mahfood | Artist(s): Jim Mahfood | $3.99 Mirka Andolfos Sweet Paprika #5 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Radiant Black #10 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins | Artist(s): Marcello Costa Igor Monti | $3.99 Vinyl #6 from Image | Writer(s): Doug Wagner | Artist(s): Daniel Hillyard Dave Stewart | $3.99 Beyond The Breach #5 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Ed Brisson | Artist(s): Damian Couceiro | $3.99 Blacks Myth #5 from Ahoy Comics | $3.99 writer Eric Palicki and artist Wendell Cavalcant Good Boy #1 from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Garrett Gunn Christina Blanch | Artist(s): Kit Wallis | $3.99 House Of Slaughter #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Human Remains #3 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Peter Milligan | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $3.99 Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #7 from AWA | Writer(s): Garth Ennis | Artist(s): Goran Sudzuka | $3.99 Miskatonic Even Death May Die #1 (One Shot) from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Mark Sable | Artist(s): Giorgio Pontrelli | $6.99 Shudder Magazine #2 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Various | Artist(s): Various | $5.95 Tales From The Dead Astronaut #1 from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Jonathan Thompson | Artist(s): Jorge Luis Gabotto | $3.99 Joy Operations #1 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Stephen Byrne $3.99  Fight Girls #5 from AWA/Upshot (W/A) Frank Cho $3.99  Moths #6 from AWA/Upshot (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A) Mike Choi $3.99     

Comics  Six Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton #6 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Starks | Artist(s): Chris Schweizer | $3.99 Snelson #4 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Paul Constant | Artist(s): Fred Harper | $3.99 What's The Furthest Place From Here #1 from Image | Writer(s): Matthew Rosenberg, Tyler Boss | Artist(s): Tyler Boss | Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou | $4.99 Edgar Allan Poes Snifter Of Death #2 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Dean R. Motter, Holly Interlandi | Artist(s): Dean R. Motter, Greg Scott | Colors: Andy Troy | Letters: Rob Steen | $4.99 Man-Eaters The Cursed #5 from Image | Writer(s): Chelsea Cain | Artist(s): Lia Miternique Kate Niemczyk | Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg | Letters: Joe Caramagna | $3.99 Mazebook #3 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Jeff Lemire | Letters: Steve Wands | $5.99 Stillwater from Zdarsky & Perez #11 from Image | Writer(s): Chip Zdarsky | Artist(s): Ramon K. Perez | Colors: Mike Spicer | Letters: Rus Wooton | $3.99 My Date With Monsters #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Paul Tobin | Artist(s): Andy MacDonald | Colors: DJ Chavis | Letters: Taylor Esposito | $4.99 Provenance Of Secrets #1 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Kiyarn Taghan | Artist(s): Christian Dibari | Colors: Simon Gough | Letters: Kiyarn Taghan | $3.99 Regarding The Matter Of Oswald's Body #1 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Christopher Cantwell | Artist(s): Luca Casalanguida | Colors: Giada Marchisio | Letters: AndWorld Design | $3.99 Witchblood #8 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Matthew Erman | Artist(s): Lisa Sterle | Colors: Gab Contreras | Letters: Andworld | $3.99 Unbelievable Unteens From The World Of Black Hammer #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Tyler Crook | $3.99 Canto III Lionhearted #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): David M. Booher | Artist(s): Drew Zucker | $3.99 Sea Of Stars #11 from Image | Writer(s): Jason Aaron Dennis Hallum | Artist(s): Stephen Green Rico Renzi | $3.99   Upcoming Comics Groo Meets Tarzan #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Mark Evanier Sergio Aragones | Artist(s): Sergio Aragones Tom Yeates | $3.99 Primordial #3 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | $3.99 Chicken Devil #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Brian Buccellato | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $4.99 Eat The Rich #4 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99 Hard Case Crime Gun Honey #3 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Charles Ardai | Artist(s): Ang Hor Kheng | $3.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #4 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Maw #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): A.L. Kaplan | $3.99 Not All Robots #4 from | AWA | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr Marco Lesko | $3.99 Radio Apocalypse #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Ram V. | Artist(s): Anand Radhakrishnan | $3.99 Wasted Space #25 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $3.99   Trades Shadecraft Vol 1 TP from Image | Writer(s): Joe Henderson | Artist(s): Lee Garbett Antonio Fabela | $16.99 Rat Queens Deluxe Edition Vol 3 HC from Image | Writer(s): Kurtis J Wiebe Ryan Ferrier | Artist(s): Owen Gieni Various | $39.99 Dark Red Year One HC from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Tim Seeley | Artist(s): Corin Howell | $39.99 I Walk With Monsters Complete TP from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Paul Cornell | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $15.99 Something Is Killing The Children Book 1 Deluxe Edition HC Regular Edition from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James TynionIV | Artist(s): Werther Dell'Edera | $49.99

Comics  Bermuda #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): John Layman | Artist(s): Nick Bradshaw | $4.99 Hellcop #1 from Image Comics (W) Brian Haberlin (A) Geirrod Van Dyke $3.99  Gun Honey #2 from Hard Case Crime imprint of Titan Comics (W) Charles Ardai (A) Ang Hor Kheng $3.99 Fight Girls #4  from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Frank Cho | Artist(s): Frank Cho |  $3.99 Eat The Rich #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99    Maw #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): AL Kaplan | Colors: Fabiana Mascolo, Frederica Mascolo | Letters: Cardinal Rae | $3.99 Not All Robots #3 from | AWA | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr. | Colors: Lee Loughridge | Letters: Steve Wands | $3.99 Tales From Harrow County Fair Folk #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Emily Schnall | Letters: Tyler Crook | $3.99 Ice Cream Man #26 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo | Colors: Chris O'halloran | Letters: Good Old Neon | $3.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #3 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | Letters: Saida Temofonte | $3.99 10 Years to Death (One Shot) from Aftershock | Writer: Aaron Douglas | Art: Cliff Richards | Colors: Guy Major | Letters: Dave Sharpe Vampiress Carmilla #6 from Warrant | Writers: Don Glut, Lou Mougin, Billy Grim, Artie Godwin, Steve Ringgenberg | Art: Nick Poliwko, Reno Maniquis, Paul McCaffrey, Santos Zaballos, Rodel Noora | $5.95 Critical Role Tales Of Exandria The Bright Queen #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Darcy Van Poelgeest | Artist(s): CoupleofKooks | $3.99 Sleeping Beauties #7 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rio Youers | Artist(s): Alison Sampson | $3.99 Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #1 from Image | Writer(s): Rodney Barnes | Artist(s): Jason Shawn Alexander Patric Reynolds | $3.99 Beyond The Breach #4 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Ed Brisson | Artist(s): Damian Couceiro | $3.99   RetroFan magazine #17 from Two Morrows Publishing - features inc.  Dark Shadows' Lara Parker interview; Aurora Monster model kits, and more $9.95       Upcoming Comics Lady Baltimore Witch Queens #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Mike Mignola Christopher Golden | Artist(s): Bridgit Connell | $3.99 A Man Among Ye #7 from Image/Top Cow | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips | Artist(s): Josh George John Kalisz | $3.99 Echolands #3 from Image | Writer(s): JH Williams III Haden Blackman | Artist(s): JH Williams III Dave Stewart | $4.99 M.O.M. Mother Of Madness #3 from Image | Writer(s): Emilia Clarke Marguerite Bennett | Artist(s): Leila Leiz | $4.99 Mirka Andolfos Sweet Paprika #4 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Vinyl #5 from Image | Writer(s): Doug Wagner | Artist(s): Daniel Hillyard Dave Stewart | $3.99 Boston Metaphysical Society Ghosts And Demons #1 (One Shot) from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Madeleine Holly-Rosing | Artist(s): Gwynn Tavares | $4.99 House Of Slaughter #1 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Chris Shehan Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Human Remains #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Peter Milligan | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | $3.99 Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #6 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Garth Ennis | Artist(s): Goran Sudzuka | $3.99 We Dont Kill Spiders #2 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Joseph Schmalke | Artist(s): Joseph Schmalke | $3.99 We Only Find Them When They're Dead #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Al Ewing | Artist(s): Simone Di Meo | $3.99   Adventureman #6 from Image Comics (W) Matt Fraction (A) Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson $3.99 Cross to Bear #1 from Aftershock Comics (W) Marko Stojanovic (A) Sinisa Banovic $4.99  Crossover #9 from Image Comics (W) Donny Cates (A) Geoff Shaw, Dee Cuniffe $3.99  Made in Korea #5 from Image Comics (W) Jeremy Holt (A) George Schall $3.99  Moths #5 from AWA/Upshot (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A) Mike Choi $3.99  Once and Future #21 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Dan Mora $3.99     

Comics  ET-ER #1 (one shot) from AWA/Upshot (W) Jeff McComsey, Dan Panosian (A) Javier Pulido, Shawn Crystal $3.99 Six Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton #5 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Starks | Artist(s): Chris Schweizer | $3.99 Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina #9 from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Roberto Aguirre Sacasa | Artist(s): Robert Hack | Letters: Jack Morelli | $3.99 Blacks Myth #4 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Eric Palicki | Artist(s): Wendell Cavalcanti | Letters: Rob Steen | $3.99 Deadbox #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Ben Tiesma  | Colors: Vladimir Popov | Letters: Andworld | $3.99 Second Coming Only Begotten Son #6 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Richard Pace Leonard Kirk | Colors: Andy Troy | Letters: Rob Steen | $3.99 Mazebook #2 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Jeff Lemire | $5.99 Man-Eaters The Cursed #4 from Image | Writer(s): Chelsea Cain | Artist(s): Lia Miternique, Kate Niemczyk | Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg | Letters: Joe Caramagna | $3.99 Electric Black Dark Caravan #1 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Joseph Schmalke Rich Woodall | Artist(s): Rich Woodall Joseph Schmalke | Color Flats: Jul Mae Krostoffer | $3.99 Witchblood #7 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Matthew Erman | Artist(s): Lisa Sterle | Colors: Gab Contreras | Letters: Andworld | $3.99 Other No One Left To Fight II #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Aubrey Sitterson | Artist(s): Fico Ossio | $3.99 Unbelievable Unteens From The World Of Black Hammer #3 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Tyler Crook | $3.99 He Who Fights With Monsters #2 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Francesco Artibani | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Wasted Space #24 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Michael Moreci | Artist(s): Hayden Sherman | $3.99 World Of Darkness Crimson Thaw #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Tini Howard Various | Artist(s): Julius Ohta | $3.99     Upcoming Comics Critical Role Tales Of Exandria The Bright Queen #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Darcy Van Poelgeest | Artist(s): CoupleofKooks | $3.99 Tales From Harrow County Fair Folk #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Emily Schnall | $3.99 Bermuda #4 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): John Layman | Artist(s): Nick Bradshaw | $4.99 Sleeping Beauties #7 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Rio Youers | Artist(s): Alison Sampson | $3.99 Ice Cream Man #26 from Image | Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince | Artist(s): Martin Morazzo Chris Ohalloran | $3.99 Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #1 from Image | Writer(s): Rodney Barnes | Artist(s): Jason Shawn Alexander Patric Reynolds | $3.99 Beyond The Breach #4 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Ed Brisson | Artist(s): Damian Couceiro | $3.99 Eat The Rich #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Sarah Gailey | Artist(s): Pius Bak | $3.99 Fight Girls #4  from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Frank Cho | Artist(s): Frank Cho |  $3.99 Maria Llovets Porcelain #3 from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Maria Llovet | Artist(s): Maria Llovet | $3.99 Maw #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Artist(s): AL Kaplan | $3.99 Not All Robots #3 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr. | $3.99 Vampiress Carmilla Magazine #6 from Warrant Publishing Company | Writer(s): Don Glut Various | Artist(s): Nik Poliwko Various | $5.95   Gun Honey #2 from Hard Case Crime imprint of Titan Comics (W) Charles Ardai (A) Ang Hor Kheng $3.99  Hellcop #1 from Image Comics (W) Brian Haberlin (A) Geirrod Van Dyke $3.99 RetroFan magazine #17 from Two Morrows Publishing - features inc.  Dark Shadows' Lara Parker interview; Aurora Monster model kits, and more $9.95      

In this episode, Greg and Leon discuss the following comics: BATMAN '89 #1 (https://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-89-2021/batman-89-1) BLACK (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soaringpenguinpress/black-3) this book is currently live on Kickstarter so back it here! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soaringpenguinpress/black-3) and set for release October 2021! EAT THE RICH #1 (https://www.boom-studios.com/wordpress/archives/eat-the-rich-in-sarah-gailey-and-pius-baks-new-original-series-from-boom-studios/) Send any questions or feedback to (mailto:acecomicals@gmail.com) acecomicals@gmail.com. And also please subscribe (http://www.acecomicals.com/subscribe) and leave us a review! If you like what we do please consider donating to us (https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals) at https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals. All contributions will be used to defray the cost of hosting the website. Ace Comicals, over and out!#

Nov Solicits Comic Reviews: Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter 1 by Ed Brisson, Rosi Kampe, Andrew Dalhouse Superman: Red and Blue 6 by Rex Ogle, Tom King, Darcie Little Badger, Matt Wagner, Sophie Campbell, Steve Pugh, Mike Norton, Paoloe Rivera, Brennan Wagner Kang the Conqueror 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Carlos Magno, Espen Grundetjern Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual 1 by Jed MacKay, Saladin Ahmed, Luca Maresca Juan Ferreyra, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo X-Men: The Trial of Magneto 1 by Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, Edgar Delgado Warhammer 40K: Sister of Battle 1 by Torunn Gronbekk, Edgar Salazar, Arif Prianto Second Chances 1 by Ricky Mammone, Max Bertolini Eat the Rich 1 by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, Roman Titov Black Hammer Visions 7 by Cecil Castellucci, Melissa Duffy, Bill Crabtree Killer Queens 1 by David Booher, Claudia Balboni, Harry Saxon Warcorns: Birthday Bash by Garrett Gunn, Kit Wallis At Death's Door 1 by Phil Jones JISEI 1 by Miguel Hernandez 99 Cent Theatre 2100 Samurai 1 by Nick Keith Gibson, Ami Agisi, Brian Quiroga, Michael Ensminger Project Axis 1 by Nick Keith Gibson, Jason Johnson Stellar Death 1 by Frank Nivicela Vyper by Dan Butcher Additional Reviews: Mitchells vs. the Machines, Queens Gambit, Escape Room, Devs, Another Bad Film, Reminiscence, What If Ep2,  Gibson's Alien 3 News: Omninews, Captain America 4, Black Canary movie, second He-Man animated series coming, Wool series with Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson Trailers: Night House, Nightbooks, Eternals Comics Countdown: Ascender 18 by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen,  Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow 3 by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes Nocterra 6 by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Tomeu Morey Tales From Harrow County: Fair Folk 2 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall, Tyler Crook Snow Angels Season Two 3 by Jeff Lemire, Jock Time Before Time 4 by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran Radiant Black 7 by Kyle Higgins, Marcello Costa, Melissa Flores, Eleonora Carlini, Mattia Iacono, Natalia Marques Black Hammer Visions 7 by Cecil Castellucci, Melissa Duffy, Bill Crabtree Bermuda 2 by John Layman, Nick Bradshaw Killer Queens 1 by David Booher, Claudia Balboni, Harry Saxon  

On this week's Stack podcast, we've got reviews for: BRZRKR #1 Boom! Studios Written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt Illustrated by Ron Garney Stray Dogs #1 Image Comics Written by Tony Fleecs Art by Trish Forstner The Amazing Spider-Man #60 Marvel Written by Nick Spencer Pencils by Mark Bagley Two Moons #1 Image Comics Written by John Arcudi Art by Valerie Giangiordano Future State: House of El #1 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Scott Godlewski Future State: Aquaman #2 DC Comics Written by Brandon Thomas Art by Daniel Sampere Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #2 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Riley Rossmo Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #2 DC Comics Written by Mark Russell Art by Steve Pugh Future State: Suicide Squad #2 DC Comics Written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams Art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin Future State: Dark Detective #4 DC Comics Written by Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Williamson Art by Dan Mora, Giannis Milonogiannis Future State: Batman/Superman #2 DC Comics Written by Gene Luen Yang Art by Scott McDaniel, Ben Oliver & Steven Segovia The Department of Truth #6 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Elsa Charretier Faith #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Jeremy Lambert Illustrated by Eleonora Carlini X-Men #18 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mahmud Asrar Something is Killing the Children #15 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera Nailbiter Returns #10 Image Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Mike Henderson Firefly #26 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Pius Bak Crossover #4 Image Comics Written by Donny Cates Art by Geoff Shaw Skulldigger: Skeleton Boy #6 Dark Horse Comics Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Tonci Zonjic Ice Cream Man #23 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo Crimson Flower #2 Dark Horse Comics Written by Matt Kindt Art by Matt Lesniewski Post Americana #3 Image Comics Story and Art by Steve Skroce You Look Like Death #6 Dark Horse Comics Written by Gerard Way Art by Shaun Simon The Scumbag #5 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Wes Craig Rain Like Hammers #2 Image Comics Written and art by Brandon Graham 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's up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, or do we? Or do we? Justin:              Way to create some intrigue. That's right. Alex:                 Because the first book that we're going to talk about is a book that doesn't come out until next week, but we're going to do a spoiler-free review of it. It is- Justin:              A preview review. Alex:                 Preview review. It is Berserker #1 from BOOM! Studios, written by none other than Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, illustrated by Ron Garney. Pete:                Oh, no wonder. Justin:              I've been following Keanu Reeves's comic book work for a long time, and it's great to see just a brand-new book with his name on it. Alex:                 Yeah. It was great. Pete:                That was driving me fucking crazy. I did not notice that he wrote this. Alex:                 Wait. Really? Pete:                That's hilarious. Yeah. I was like- Alex:                 You were like “Oh, it looks like Keanu Reeves in this book?” Pete:                … “Why does the guy look so much like fucking Keanu Reeves?” Oh, that's hilarious. Alex:                 Well, I mean, I got to say, I mean, who knows how much he was sitting down at his typewriter being like “Scene one. Berserker. Open on me”? But a lot of times, I feel like there are these insert-style comics that just don't work. They're star vehicles. They're trying to set up a movie, and they just … They're not comics. They're pitch sheets, and that's pretty much it. That's not what this is at all. Not only do you have Ron Garney's phenomenal art throughout- Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              I love Ron Garney, and I feel like he hasn't been doing enough stuff lately. So it's great to see his work here. Alex:                 So that's great, but also you got Matt Kindt, who knows his way around an intrigue storyline, a sci-fi storyline. Again, we're going to skirt spoilers but not get into any here. But even though the main character is clearly Keanu Reeves, this is a really interesting sci-fi story. It's a great action story. A lot of times, they just step back and let Ron Garney do his thing. I was very surprised and very impressed by this book. Justin:              Yeah. It's one of those books that when you're reading the first bit of it, it's like “I see what this is,” and then by the end you're like “I was completely wrong. It's totally different, and I am excited by where it landed.” Alex:                 Pete? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, I've been reminded numerous times not to give away anything, but man, that ending. Am I right? Oh, shit. No, but yeah. The art and action is phenomenal. This is definitely in my wheelhouse, less dialogue, more action. Come on. Alex:                 It's really good stuff. I mean, this is already a huge selling comic book. I think they sold 600,000 copies, making it the best-selling original property comic book in like five years or a decade or something like that. I'm forgetting what the exact stat is. Pete:                Wait. It hasn't come out yet. What are you even talking about? Alex:                 Well, the way comics book work, Pete, is that people pre-order them through their comic book shops in order to guarantee that they're going to be there. So that's what they've been doing. So they sold that many copies to comic book shops. So obviously, big deal. People are really excited. The thing that I think is not a happy accident, but happy surprise about it, is that they're going to get what they paid for. They're going to get a good, very cool comic book. So I'm excited for everybody to check it out when it hits stands next week. Justin:              Exactly. Next week. If you love The Lake House, you're going to love Berserker. Alex:                 I'm sending that directly to BOOM! Studios. That's their pull quote. Justin:              Two great Keanu [crosstalk 00:03:36]. Pete:                I don't know if I've seen that, but okay. Justin:              It's not a spoiler when I say the mail is in the mailbox with this comic. Alex:                 Hold on. Hold on. Let me try this. Pete:                Oh, my god. Alex:                 If you love Always Be My Maybe, check out Berserker #1 from BOOM! Studios. Pete:                Wow. Wow. Justin:              The comic book club bump is coming for Berserker right now. Alex:                 Has he done any other movies, Keanu Reeves? Justin:              Keanu Reeves? I can't think of any. Pete:                A ton. A ton of movies. Justin:              Well, there was Bill and Ted's Excellent Lake House. Pete:                Right. Alex:                 Bill and Ted's Excellent Always Be My Maybe. Justin:              Yep. There's that. I think that's the whole thing. Alex:                 I think that's it. Anyway, this book is great. Definitely pick it up if you haven't, or pre-order it if you haven't already. Next up, here's a book that's actually out this week, Stray Dogs #1 from Image Comics, written by Tony Fleecs, art by Trish Forstner. So this is about, as you can tell from the title, it's not like stray … I honestly thought, because it was an Image book and it was called Stray Dogs, and it's like “What's up? We're a bunch of criminals called the Stray Dogs.” No. It's literally stray dogs. There's still a crime element. There's still a mystery element, but I was surprised about this. I'm curious to hear what Pete thought in particular. Justin:              Yes. Pete:                All right. So first- Justin:              Because he's a cat guy. He's a cat guy. So- Pete:                Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. But I saw that cover, and I was like “Oh, this is going to fucking break my heart,” and it did. It's got some feels in this thing, and I was really impressed with the story. I thought maybe it was just going to be cute dogs, which would have been fine, but yeah. I thought it really ended well. It sets up this whole arc. I'm impressed with this, and I can't wait for more. I'm really on board here. Justin:              This book also surprised me, and I did … The last third of it is so good. They assemble like an Avengers: Endgame level group of mid-period Disney dogs here. This is like your Fox and the Hounds, your 101 Dalmatians, your Lady and the Tramps. They're all here, and I don't think we want to spoil it, maybe, but I think there's going to be some bad dogs in here. There's going to be some good girls and some bad dogs. Pete:                Oh, my god. Love it. Alex:                 Yeah. Good stuff. Again, a nice surprise. Let's move on with our next book, and I'm going to tell you what it is, and then I'm going to give you a little peek behind the curtain here. Okay? So our next book, before the shouting begins, is The Amazing Spider-Man #60. Pete:                Oh, fuck you. Justin:              Oh, no. Alex:                 Hold up. Written by Nick Spencer, pencils by Mark Bagley. Now, we've been talking a lot about Amazing Spider-Man, the Last Remains storyline, this whole thing about Kindred, this villain that turns out to be Harry Osborn, who's been [inaudible 00:06:18] Spider-Man in the background. Pete:                But- Alex:                 Hold on. Let me just finish what I'm saying, and then I'm going to allow you to shout, Pete. But I think we kind of agreed that it sort of started to fizzle at a certain point. They're dragging out the Kindred reveal for too long. I've still been reading it. I've been reading each issue because I like Spider-Man and I enjoy reading it, but I haven't felt like … We don't need to talk about the same story [inaudible 00:06:43] again and again. So before I set down the stack for this week with the choices of issues, particularly Marvel, I was like “Well, let me just read and see what happens in Spider-Man,” because the cover of this is Mary Jane and Peter surrounded by the centipedes from Kindred, and I read this book, and I was like “Oh, we got to talk about this.” Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 We have to talk about this, because I want to hear Pete shout. Go ahead, Pete. Pete:                Okay. So first off, to kind of peek behind the curtain a little bit, Zalben has been pushing the envelope for how many fucking comics we talk about, and he sends out this ridiculous list that we have to read all these comics. Alex:                 Nobody is forcing you to do that. Pete:                Hey. I love reading comics, but I got a full-time job. We got other stuff going on, and he keeps pushing the number. He said “Oh, we'll cap it at 20.” Alex:                 I never said that. Pete:                Hasn't been capped at 20 in a long time. Alex:                 I never said that. Pete:                So then he gives us this giant fucking list, and then goes “Oh, two more,” and guess what one of the fucking two is. Amazing Spider-Man, and I was like “You motherfucker. Always pushing.” Justin:              This is not the shout I expected to hear, just FYI. Alex:                 Not at all. Justin:              Imagine tiny- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:07:50]. Justin:              Imagine- Pete:                I was saying that “Oh, there has to be a reason he pushed this,” like “Oh, just these two Marvel. No big deal. We're just going to just do two Marvel because we got so many other comics,” and I knew. I knew Spider-Man had to be a fucking doozy. Otherwise, he wouldn't have fucking pushed it through, and yeah, and here we go again. Here we fucking go again. You want to open a fucking wound and fucking relive some nightmares? Well, guess what. We got fucking Mephisto, and it's going to fucking relive some god damn nightmares. Justin:              Here's the thing though, Pete. First off, let me say, imagine little Pete LePage, Petey, as we call him- Pete:                No. Justin:              … dreaming of his future as an adult, and your biggest complaint right now is that your friend is making you read too many comics? Little Petey LePage would drive his little big wheel right into a brick wall if he heard that. Alex:                 “You're telling me this is my job?” I mean, well, let's not go that far. Justin:              Well, not technically a job, but it's like- Pete:                You get paid to do a job, asshole. All right? Alex:                 That's what I'm saying. Pete:                We're not … Yeah. So I do have a job where I work and get paid, and then we go this out of the love of our hearts, and then one person keeps fucking pushing the envelope by overloading us. Justin:              I love comics. I would read more. Give me more. Alex:                 I agree, and to clarify, we said we would cap it at 50 to 75 books a week, tops. Justin:              Let's talk about this Spider-Man book, because let me see- Alex:                 No. I don't think so. Can you also give us a peek behind the curtain, Justin? Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Yeah. Give us a peek behind the curtain, Justin. Justin:              Sorry. The only curtain I'm behind is a shower curtain, and it's sheer. It's invisible. I'm nude in front of you all, all the time. I'm [crosstalk 00:09:33]. Pete:                Gross. Justin:              Just a little imagery to preface this review. So this book though, Pete … It's got Peter and Mary Jane being as close as they've been in a decade. Pete:                Yeah, and then it does the classic bullshit where Peter leaves and then Mary Jane's got some weird shit going on with the villain. Justin:              Well, here's the thing. To your point, Alex, I actually didn't really like a lot of the lead up to the reveals here. I feel like Nick Spencer used to have a really good Spider-Man and a really good Peter Parker. It felt like it was back to the very core of the character, struggling to get by, has a bunch of roommates that he shouldn't be hanging out with, messing up all the time, and now it's like it's so sentimental. It's this sort of sanctimonious Peter Parker that we see a lot over the course of the years, but it's not the fun Peter Parker, and it's too melodramatic for me, and then by the end of it, I was excited about the reveal at the end of the book and even the stuff that Pete's talking about with the villain. At least that's interesting, because this Peter Parker's not a person I'm loving right now. Alex:                 Well, and that's the point of the book, right? I think they're taking a really long time to get around to it, but what is nice about this issue is it feels like one of those classic Ultimate Spider-Man issues that Brian Michael Bendis would do, where it's just a conversation, and in this case, it's Peter talking to Mary Jane. She's trying to help him through the stuff he's going through, and he says exactly what you're talking about, where he's like “Why is my life like this? Why am I still in this place that I'm in? What is going on here?” and by the end … Spoiler, but we've already spoiled it. The revelation is it's probably Mephisto all over again fucking with Peter Parker's life. Probably, there's no way around. If they don't loop back to One More Day at this point, I don't know what he's doing in this storyline, but that's fascinating to me, what direction they're going in. It's nerveracking, but it's fascinating. Pete:                Yeah. Well, I'm not fascinated, but I did really like the part of MJ talking about this exercise that helps you kind of work through shit, and I thought that was very cool to have a superhero kind of do a therapy exercise and be like “Hey. Therapy's okay. It's okay to talk about your feelings in a safe space and get it out and see what it feels like to say these things out loud.” I thought that was very powerful and very cool, but then you got to fucking ruin it with Mephisto shit, and it's like, either we're moving on and that bullshit happened and somehow we have to live with it and move forward, or you better fucking undo that bullshit and then we can get back to our lives. Fucking make a choice, man, because I'm sick of this shit. Alex:                 All right. Well, let's move on to Two Moons #1 from Image Comics, written by John Arcudi, art by Valerio Giangiordano. This is set in the Civil War following a soldier who starts seeing some demons or something. We're not 100 percent sure what's going on, but the art in here is terrifying and scary. Pete:                He sees the monster from Critters is what it looks like. Alex:                 But it's just somebody's head, to be clear. Justin:              Yeah. He's got a critter on his head. Pete:                Yeah. It's a critter head. Alex:                 Classic critter head. Yeah. Yeah. Justin:              You guys both sort of felt like you were saying something that you shouldn't be saying, for a second. Alex:                 I mean, in my family, when I grew up, we were never supposed to say critter head. Justin:              Yeah. Say it three times, and then you have yourself a critter head. I like this book as well. This was a good sort of scary story in a time we don't see very much, especially from this perspective. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, the art's really unbelievable. This is a very interesting story. It's also the take about the nurse getting upset about the fact that when you run out of ammunition, they'll use whatever scraps of metals they can, and then kind of her reaction is very interesting and very intense. So I think this is a really kind of interesting, original idea set in a shitty time period. Alex:                 Sure. There you go. Couldn't disagree with that. Let's move on to our Future State block, as we've been doing all the past couple of weeks, talking about everything that's come out from Future State. I'll list the books, and then we'll talk about some of our highlights. We've got House of El #1, Aquaman #2, Legion of Superheroes #2, Superman vs. Imperious Lex #2, Suicide Squad #2, Dark Detective #4, and Batman/Superman #2, and to give you a little peek behind the curtain here, it's interesting that Pete was complaining about too many titles being in our stack, because at least the past two weeks we've talked about the Future State block, Pete has read extra titles from DC and then talked about them on the show. Justin:              Yeah, and dropped them in. Alex:                 There you go. So Pete, any extra titles you want to talk about here? Pete:                No. No, but if we would like to peek behind the curtain, I think you're a piece of shit. Alex:                 All right. That's fine. Justin:              Again, here's me, nude behind a very crystal-clear sheer curtain. Alex:                 Pete, what jumped out at you? What did you like this week? Pete:                All right. Well, I liked a lot of things, but the one book I didn't want to like, but then the sappy ending kind of got me in the feels, was the House of El #1. Sometimes we get in the house of stuff. I don't know. Justin:              Yeah. You don't like houses. Pete:                Yeah. I don't like houses. I don't like the kind of historical Superman shit where everybody is talking about their logos and all the weird shit. It doesn't get me excited, but I was really impressed with this book because I read it like “Harumph. I don't want to like you,” and then it won me over. I would say one of my favorites was Batman/Superman- Justin:              Here. Wait. Can we talk about that real quick? Pete:                Sure. Sure. Justin:              Sorry. Sorry, but I loved this book. I know I feel like I've been on a Phillip Kennedy Johnson love fest, but man, this is another great book by him that is just a hundred percent fun. It's mixing a lot of the stuff he does in The Last God with a Superman-focused version of the Legion, and it reads like just a great Legion book with all these different version of Superman kin that are out there trying to just save the world and maintain their household and mix in with these sort of light fantasy elements. It's just a great book. Alex:                 Pete, what about you? You were about to call out Dark Detective, I believe. Pete:                Well, I have been enjoying that, and yes, I did love Dark Detective #4. Very intense. I love this no more shadows, like “Oh, shit. What does that mean?” Also, great backup story. I thought this was a very intense, cool Batman book. I'm very excited to see where this goes. Anybody else want to jump in on this one? Alex:                 Yeah. Sure. Was that not the one you were going to call out? I thought that's what you started saying. Pete:                No. It was Batman/Superman #2. Alex:                 Oh, okay. Sorry to put you on the spot there, but I do really like the backup. We talked about this last time, this Joshua Williamson and Giannis Milonogiannis, and they're doing basically Red Hood, but Akira, and it's super fun. I had a blast reading that. But you want to talk about Future State Batman/Superman #2? Justin:              Real quick. Alex:                 Oh, yeah. Justin:              It's very funny seeing the Red Hood hood on him, where it just goes right to the … It's just such a weird looking thing, but this has been one of the best version of Bruce Wayne that I feel like we've seen in Batman comics in a long time, this Dark Detective series. Pete:                Yeah. Yeah. It's really cool. But Batman/Superman #2, really unbelievable action. I really am loving the kind of mystery and the kind of who-done-it with this team up. I love it when Batman and Superman get along, but I also like it when they fight, and I feel like this was a really cool, great kind of fight between Superman and Batman, and I thought this was really cool. Alex:                 Yeah. It's a good book as well. For me, man, it's tough. Again, a very good week for books from Future State. All of this stuff has been really good. It's a little bit of a tie. There's one that eked it out a little bit more. Future State Superman vs. Imperious Lex #2 is kind of my number two here, written by Mark Russell, art by Steve Pugh. Super fun. Great Lois Lane in this book. As usual, just hilarious and pointed satire from Mark Russell. So really enjoyed that book, but the one for me that killed it was Aquaman #2. Justin:              A hundred percent. That was mine. Pete:                Yeah. That's what I was going to … Yeah. Alex:                 Everybody was leading up to that, written by Brandon Thomas, art by Daniel Sampere. Again, like I said with the first issue, I am not an Aquaman fan. I don't usually like an Aquaman story. This is god damn amazing, and if you didn't tune in to the first book, the first issue of the book, it was all about this confluence of oceans from the universe that former Aqualad, now Aquaman, and Aqualass, who by the end of the book, spoiler, is Aquawoman, have gotten trapped in. They get separated. Aquaman is imprisoned most of the last book and then finally finds out that Aqualass is alive at the end, and then we loop back and find out what happened with her. The action is so big. Everything that happens is so emotional and creative. I was blown away. Justin:              I agree. This book was so good. Of all the books in Future State that I would want to replace the main title going forward, it's this. I want to see these characters going forward and seeing where they go next, because it's so good. Pete:                The let go moment was so nice. Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, I don't know how cool a water leg would be, but man, they really sold it in this book. Alex:                 It's a fish leg. It's not a water leg. It's a fish leg. Pete:                Oh, okay. My bad. Justin:              I mean, a fish leg would be much worse, because that shit … You've only got like two days max on that things. Pete:                Before it starts smelling? Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Don't microwave it. Not in the office. That's all I'm saying. Justin:              Oh, definitely. Alex:                 That would be gross. Justin:              [crosstalk 00:19:49] case of scallop- Alex:                 All right. Let's move on and talk about some other books. Justin:              One last thing I want to shout out. Alex:                 Oh, yeah. Please. Justin:              We didn't talk about Legion of Superheroes #2. Want to shout out Riley Rossmo's art on this. I'd love to see a Legion book with Riley drawing it. Alex:                 Absolutely. Moving on, one of your favorites, Justin, The Department of Truth #6 from Image Comics, written by James Tynion IV, art by Elsa Charretier. Justin:              Oh, what an accent. Alex:                 This is a switch up of artists for the book- Pete:                Yeah. I was going to say. Alex:                 … and also a switch up of time periods, as we jump back in time and find out the origins of The Department of Truth. This is a awesome issue that continues, personally, to remind me of a vintage Vertigo book, where it'd be like five issues, take a break, show us some times passed thing, and then go forward with the ongoing story. So good. Justin:              So good. This book is doing just such a great job of fleshing out the world of the series sort of slowly and really easing into it, and this book does a great job of sort of bringing into focus in the sort of micro with the flashback story. It's sort of a double flashback. We flashback to right after the Kennedy assassination, and then flashback to Doubting Thomas and sort of the origin of rewriting the world with a new truth, and this book is one of my favorites on the stand right now. If this were a religion, I would believe in it. Alex:                 Wow. Pete:                Oh, shit. Wow. Justin:              I'm not a religious guy, but this is the closest. I'm like “I could buy this. I could buy this fully across the board.” Pete:                Wow. That is crazy. I think it's really impressive that this book can look so different from kind of book to book and still feel like a part of the same story. It's really impressive what they're pulling off here creatively, artistically. They're taking some big swings at some big ideas, and they are killing it. It's really impressive. Yeah. The paneling, the art, the way this story flows. This is a really, really impressive book that is tripping me the fuck out. Alex:                 This employs a technique that I usually hate in storytelling, but it completely works here, where they have a story in a story in a story. In this book, Lee Harvey Oswald, who in our current time is the head of The Department of Truth goes to his first day there, finds out the origin, so you have one … I think this is the reason it works is the art style changes with each level of the story, where it goes back in time, he's reading the origin of the story of The Department of Truth, and then one of the characters in the story starts telling the story to the other character, and then the art style changes again. It's just these multiple layers that feel very purposeful versus the usual accidental employment of that technique. Fantastic book. Definitely pick it up. Alex:                 Let's move on and talk about Faith #1 from BOOM! Studios, written by Jeremy Lambert, illustrated by Eleonora Carlini. This is a weird book that I was no expecting- Justin:              This is a weird book. Alex:                 … that follows Faith as she's trapped in a movie theater, and there's some Watchers watching her, strange stuff going on. What'd you guys think of this one? Pete:                Yeah. It's fantastic art. It was a little confusing because we kind of had this shadowy figure behind the main character. So I was having a hard time follow what's happening, because I was so worried about her present, in-the-movie-theater self. So it was hard to kind of let go of that and follow the story, but yeah. This is interesting. Unbelievable art. Some great action. I'm not quite sure what's happening though. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, I agree. Really expressive art, I thought was … There were so many good little horror moments, and Faith's reactions throughout are great. I don't know much about Faith in the background. I don't have faith. Alex:                 You got to have faith. Justin:              Yeah. That's the thing. Pete:                The faith, the faith, the faith. Justin:              But I believe in the comic book we just talked about before this one. So yeah. I didn't know much about the character, but it was a good read. Alex:                 Yeah. Moving on, X-Men #18 from Marvel, written by Johnathan Hickman, art by Mahmud Asrar. Give you a little peek behind the curtain. I felt like Pete would be pretty mad about Amazing Spider-Man. This one involves Laura, Wolverine, which Pete likes a lot. So I thought this would be kind of like a gimme, like balance the scales a little bit. So this is as three of the X-Men characters wander into a weird future place, as they usually do in this run of X-Men. What'd you think about this one? Justin:              The Vault. Pete:                Well, I'm curious about something. So why is she called Wolverine now? You know what I mean? I know Wolverine died for a little bit, and I know she was X-23, and that's cool, but then when they were referring to her as Wolverine, I was like “Why? What's-“ Justin:              Well, because Wolverine doesn't … He's on the moon popping something else besides claws. So he's not really … Pete:                You don't have to be an asshole when I ask a question. You could just answer it. Justin:              I mean, I think there's some truth to that. Alex:                 There's more than on person named Pete. Justin:              Wow. Pete:                Yeah. Yeah. Justin:              That's true. Pete:                Got that, and there's also more than one person named Pete LePage, but what's your fucking point? Alex:                 My point is, when I search for Pete LePage, the other one comes up. Pete:                Okay. So it's okay that she's called Wolverine is what you're saying? Alex:                 Yeah. It's fine. It's not a problem. Justin:              I like it. I like her as a character. I like her as the Wolverine. I think Logan can just be Logan now, and he can go do all of his Logan stuff. Pete:                That's cool. I just didn't know. I was like “Maybe I missed something,” like the passing of the Wolverine mantle or whatever. I love X-23. I have no problem with her being Wolverine. I was just like “Oh, they're straight just calling her Wolverine now.” Justin:              Well, I think they're both called Wolverine. I think it's just like they're both Wolverines. There's no reason to differentiate. Pete:                Then I was like “Is Wolverine a title of the fucking muscle when you going on …” I don't know. I was just wondering if maybe I'd missed something that you guys knew about, but usually, as usual, I ask you something and you just make fun of me. So all right. Alex:                 Oh, Pete. Justin:              I'm not making fun of you. We're explaining an important plot point in the X-Men universe right now that Wolverine fucks in the moon. Pete:                Cool. Cool. Alex:                 It did stand out to me too, to be totally- Justin:              The gravity's only one-sixth. So he's floating a little bit. You know what I'm talking about? Alex:                 To be totally fair, it stood out to me too as son as they called her Wolverine, and then I was like “All right. They're calling her Wolverine,” and I kind of moved on from there rather than sticking with it. This is a good story. It's crazy that they introduce this whole villain team to eliminate them in one issue, but that's classic Johnathan Hickman at this point. Justin:              Well, these guys have been around. The Vault was introduced a while ago. In fact, I feel like Hickman is oddly … He keeps sort of edging on the Vault. He's like “Look. The Vault. Watch out for them,” and then in this issue, they go in there and wreck shit. So it's weird what's happening here. I thought this issue was great. This issue reads like an annual standalone issue where they're just like “Let's have a fun mission,” and it's a great tactical mission. I love Darwin and Synch. Great. It's all so smartly done, but I think, in general, I'm like “What's the next move here with the X-Men?” and there are no clues. It's hard to read the tea leaves. Alex:                 No. It's definitely the sort of thing that I think we're going to look back at it in 15 to 30 years when Johnathan Hickman is done with this run and be like “Okay.” Pete:                Yeah. “Oh.” Alex:                 “I get it it.” Pete:                “I see now.” Yeah. Yeah, but- Justin:              “Oh, The Vault.” Pete:                The art's amazing, and the kind of thinking-man Sentinel thing was really awesome to kind of see as well. Yeah. I think it was really cool to kind of like “Oh, we're going to send you on this mission. You guys sweep the Vault,” and you're like “Okay. No big deal. How long will that take?” and then they realize a Vault is a whole fucking city. Pretty cool kind of “How are we going to do this?” moment. I don't know how any of this makes sense, but I thought it was a cool issue. Alex:                 I agree. I'm glad to hear that too, Pete, because you've been very down on the X-Men. Let's move on and talk about another James Tynion book, Something is Killing the Children #15 from BOOM! Studios, written by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell'Edera. Justin, I'm curious to hear from you because this is the end of the story that they've been telling for 15 issues at this point. They wrap things up. They leave things open for the next story, but that's kind of where we are, and you've been very back and forth about it. So how do you feel about this as a whole? Justin:              James Tynion's a great storyteller, but I guess I still have the same feeling where I'm like “Oh, that was the whole story.” I thought there was going to be, I guess, more of a crescendo in here. I like all of the storytelling. The art in this book is fantastic. The eating of gummy worms has never been so gross. Pete:                Oh, man. Yeah. Alex:                 Maybe you want some gummy worms, I'll tell you what. Pete:                Yeah. You're so creepy, dude. Justin:              Yeah, but you see regular worms, you're like “Yum, yum, gummy.” Alex:                 Put those in my mouth. Give me some of those sweet dirt dudes. That's what I call them. Justin:              But yeah. That's my- Pete:                I don't know. This felt like a ending that wasn't an ending. It felt like an ending that's like there is a bigger story to tell here- Justin:              For sure. Pete:                … and hopefully they will get to tell it, because this is a really great world. I've loved every single issue of this. Art's unbelievable. Love the character designs, and this cool … I feel like this is what our life is going to be like eventually. Since we're all going to be wearing masks, it's going to be just down to what does your mask say, and that's your gang affiliation or your kind of tribe, if you will. So I feel like this is a book of the future before we even know it. Alex:                 It's surprising to me because a lot of this specific issue was them talking about houses, which you've already got on record as not liking in this very podcast. Justin:              Yeah. This guy hates houses. You want to see the apartment of El, the condo of El. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Nailbiter Returns #10 from Image Comics, written by Joshua Williamson, art by Mike Henderson, another surprising ending for a series here as we wrap up Nailbiter returning with some big revelations for the series. How'd you feel about this one? Pete:                I loved it. I thought this was a cool kind of end but also tease to the to-be-continued thing at the end. That was pretty neat, but I mean, you guys have kids. So you tell me. When you guys sit around the fire to tell stories, do their faces go blank like that? Is that a normal thing that happens? Justin:              Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pete:                Oh, man. That's got to be tough. Alex:                 Every parent knows that. When you're about to have the kid in the hospital, they talk you through the birthing process. They also talk you through the fact that, hey, when you sit around a fire, kids are going to have no faces. Pete:                Oh, wow. Well, I'm glad that you had the heads up on that, because as somebody who didn't know that, that was pretty scary. Justin:              Well, that's because they're listening so hard, and so the rest of their features just fade away because the ears are really the focus. It's just using your resources. Alex:                 This book was fun. I had a blast reading it. It's definitely a big action movie versus the overall dark mystery that the first one was. Super fun, and I'm glad that they kept it to 10 issues and pretty much done, kept the story really focused. I had a good time. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              I agree, and it really got into some dream logic dreaminess that I really appreciated throughout this whole series and in this issue as well. Pete:                Also, it's great for people who collect eyeballs, you know? Alex:                 Mm-hmm (affirmative). Justin:              Yes, which I think we all do, and great nail biting. We got some biting of nails. Alex:                 Good stuff. Pete:                Finally got some nail biting in this one. Yeah. Alex:                 Next up, Firefly #26 from BOOM! Studios, written by Greg Pak, art by Pius Bak. The last issue we called a fresh new start for Firefly. It was taking us after Serenity, the movie, moving us forward here. The cliffhanger at the end of the last issue was it looked like Wash was alive. Here, spoiler, not exactly. There's a good twist on it. I loved the twist with Wash, actually, and I think this is a great … Without spoiling exactly what happens, this is a great way of pushing the story forward, and it feels like a tried-and-true sci-fi idea that's going to pay really good dividends with the characters. I think it's neat. Justin:              It's so- Pete:                I'm going to go out … Oh, go ahead. Justin:              You go. Pete:                I was just going to say I'm going to out on a limb and just say Greg Pak is a fucking phenomenal writer. He makes great choices. I've just not yet read something from him and not been impressed by it. Even though we knew what kind of happened, the whole thing needed to be explained to us. I was really impressed. I thought this was a fun book. Amazing art. Really cool. Justin:              How is it on that limb, Pete? Because I feel like you've been out on the Pak limb for years. Pete:                Yeah. Yeah. It's just me out here. Loving the Pak. Justin:              I think your parents conceived you out on the Pak limb, and you've just been birthed there. Your parents heard about the facelessness around the fire, out on the limb, and now here you are, still living on the limb. Pete:                Nothing like limb living. Justin:              Limb living. I think it's so smart that they did a long story in the past. It was great. Greg Pak really understands the characters and really put them out there, and then to jump forward in time where we get to sort of collect them again is super fun. Well done. Alex:                 Yeah. I agree. Next up, Crossover #4 from Image Comics, written by Donny Cates, art by Geoff Shaw. In this issue, we're picking up with our adventurers who met Madman, the character, from Mike Allred and Laura Allred, last issue. He is going to help them get inside the dome that has covered Denver, I believe, if I remember correctly, and locked in a bunch of comics characters. We again get a bunch of cameos and fun stuff in this issue. We also get some shout outs to Donny Cates and, I believe, Geoff Shaw's own work as well. This is great. This is a blast to read, and even Donny Cates self inserting himself here is super fun. Justin:              I mean, it's great to see Madman in action. That guy can yo. Alex:                 Yeah. Yo, yo. Pete, you got to be happy. There is a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in this issue. Pete:                Oh, yeah. You got to love that. I also impressed with the art here, because it has the kind of dot, kind of old-timey kind of comic book style, which is really interesting with Madman, with kind of more vibrant characters as well. It's just really cool to see them all standing in a room. So I'm glad we got that moment. The kind of torture shit freaked me out a little bit, but man, really great story. Fun stuff. Alex:                 Good stuff. Next up, Skulldigger Skeleton Boy #6 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Jeff Lemire, art by Tonci Zonjic. We've been talking about a lot of the Black Hammer books. We kind of missed this one in terms of reviewing. So I figured it was worth catching up with the last issue here. I'll tell you what. I … This is all me … forgot about Tonci Zonjic. Amazing artist. Justin:              Yeah. Great art. Alex:                 I was so happy to read this again. I was like “Oh, my god. I'm sorry I forgot you. You're so good.” Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Yeah. It's so dynamic. It almost has a little Darwyn Cooke to it, but a little bit of just great, I don't know, Greg Capullo style action. Really good, and the story was great. I feel like the Black Hammer universe is just prime time right now. Pete:                Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I agree. The panels, the layout, the way the action flows. Really, really fun and impressive, but also some really touching moments, like the look on the kid's face. They just keep just showing the kid's face, so different in each panel in the way that it's just kind of colored. Really impressive, the way they can kind of show emotion through this still panel here. Yeah. I was just really kind of moved by this. I thought it was a really solid issue. Justin:              The last page, which is almost like an epilogue to the book, just a standalone splash page, was so emotional and great. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 We're not really talking about the plot here, because we didn't read the previous five. This is the last issue, but the fact that they can get across enough of the emotion and story in one issue that is the last one to people who have not read the previous five is very impressive. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Next up, let's talk about it, Ice Cream Man #23- Pete:                Oh, here we go. Alex:                 … from Image Comics, written by W. Maxwell Prince, art by Martín Morazzo. I know Pete is scared of this one. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Yeah? Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 So another standalone issue of Ice Cream Man, as a lot of them are, mind you, but in this one, it's text pages interspersed with splash pages of essentially our main character, the Ice Cream Man, going on a talk show with a bunch of animals, until a snake bites the shit out of the talk show host's face. The thing that is so terrifying about this is the text pages takes place after it. So you're reading the story of the horrific things that happen to him, and you're like “Oh, we're going to see this. We're going to see this at some point. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming-“ Pete:                I was like “Don't show me. Don't. You wrote about-“ Alex:                 “… It's coming. It's going to happen,” and the entire issue, and finally they pulled the lid off, and it's great. Another incredible one-shot issue of Ice Cream Man. Not enough good things to say about this book. Justin:              I feel like W. Maxwell Prince is just sitting at home tactically trying to break down how to engineer scares in the paper and the printed medium. It's wild that he is able to continue to find new ways to stress us the fuck out. Pete:                That's what's so impressive about this is each comic is so different but has that same tension, and they've done so many different creative ways to scare the shit out of us, and you think “All right. Well, how's this going to stack up? It can't be as great as the last issue.” It continues to deliver. Unbelievable, and I don't know. It seems like shots fired at Jimmy Fallon in these, but this is a crazy book that made me read, and I don't want to read, and it's still so well done I read and didn't hate it. Alex:                 It's good stuff. Moving on to Crimson Flower #2 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Matt Kindt, art by Matt Lesniewski. Pete, you seem to like this book. Pete:                Oh, my god. Alex:                 This is about a bounty hunter, I guess, who is going crazy, something like that? Pete:                Well, yeah. It's about a lot of things, but it's mainly about this person trying to get revenge, trying to find out who killed their father, I believe is what she's freaking out about, and just the fact of she's just driving angry, just chomping pills and half seeing reality, half seeing this tripped-out evil shit is really crazy but also very impressive what goes down, and then the whole fact of she's not going to do well but keeps kind of playing this trickery and then kind of reveals, throughout, she's telling a story within the story … I was just really impressed with this. Very creative. Very fun. Amazing art. Just really fun story. Justin:              Yeah. I really liked this as well. It feels like fairy tale stories. She's like a Little Red Riding Hood but who grew up to become an- Pete:                A badass. Justin:              … assassin out for revenge, who crosses over with some other dudes who are sort of giants, maybe, but also just shit-head other assassins. It's really fun. Pete:                What's awesome is it starts off and it kind of reminds me a little bit of Locke & Key, the paneling and just the different kind of character designs, but then just kind of goes off into its own completely different thing, and yeah. I just think it really worked on a lot of levels. Alex:                 Next- Justin:              That art's sort of reminiscent of … Sorry … of Black Hole. Alex:                 Oh, yeah. I can see that. Justin:              In a good way. Alex:                 Next up, Post Americana #3 from Image Comics, story and art by Steve Steve Skroce. As we've been talking about with the last couple of issues of this book, this is a satirical, post-apocalyptic tale about a guy who's kind of trying to save the world but mostly messing it up. Continues to be gross and funny in exactly the right way. I'm enjoying this book. I'm having a fun time reading it. How about you guys? Justin:              I agree. The art, I feel like, really took a step up in this issue. We get a lot of close-ups on the characters, and it really … I think the earlier issues were a little wild, and it's like cannibals fucking around. So it was a little loose. Everything really tightens up in this issue. We get a lot of back story, and I think the art mirrors that in a way that I thought was just very smart. Pete:                Yeah. I agree. I think the art is great. There's amazing action, and the story does tighten up, and things start to kind of make more sense, and we're able to kind of follow things a little bit easier, which is great, but the classic … When somebody comes to visit unannounced, you almost kill them. So you really got to be careful when you go to somebody's house, guys. Justin:              Yeah. By the way, Pete, we're coming to your house at 4:04. So put your ax down when we stop by. Pete:                Yeah. You might want to text me, because I just want to not accidentally ax you. Justin:              Ax-identally. Alex:                 Ax-identally. Thanks for [crosstalk 00:42:27] audio podcast. Justin:              It'll work in court. Pete:                Yeah. No problem. Alex:                 You Look Like Death- Justin:              Joke heard and acknowledged. Alex:                 You Look Like Death #6 from Dark Horse Comics, written by Garard Way- Pete:                You look like death. Alex:                 … art by Shaun Simon. This is a tale from the Umbrella Academy. We are wrapping it up of Klaus's time in Hollywood. It wraps back to the beginning. You had to love this, Pete, another mention of relish, your favorite topping. Pete:                Well, I don't know about that, but I do love the characters in this. Klaus is one of our favorites. So it's just very kind of interesting to kind of see it in this kind of art style, and I'm just so used to the show. It's almost weird to read the comic, but yeah. This is a really cool story, really fucked up. Spiders scare the fuck out of me. So this is kind of a nightmare, but yeah. This is just great Umbrella Academy fun. Justin:              I love relish. I love- Pete:                Really? Justin:              Yeah. Relish is one of my favs. Pete:                Have to have it on a hot dog? Or what's up? Justin:              A hundo percent. Pete:                Really? Justin:              Yeah. I'm a mustard- Pete:                Get that shit away from my dog, bro. Justin:              Mustard, relish. I'll do sweet. I'll do dill. Pete:                Oh, wow. Justin:              If you pickle anything, JT's there. If you want me to pop by, pickle something, and this book is fun too. Alex:                 Yes. It's like the pickles of comic books. Moving on to the The Scumbag #5 from Image Comics, written by Rick Remender, art by Wes Craig. Get the old … Oh, my god … Deadly Class team back together again for this issue, so a switch up of the artist, but we're still following the same old Scumbag as maybe he finally grows a little bit of a heart this issue. This is super fun. I really liked seeing Wes Craig's take on this book in particular. I enjoyed that quite a bit. Yeah. This book is a blast. It's fun to read. Justin:              It's very fun. The characters, our main characters … I love watching their relationship between the Scumbag, his handler, and the sex android who drives them around and refuses to have sex with him no matter how many times he asks. It's all very fun stuff in that sort of reverent Remender tone. Pete:                Yeah. I think what's nice is I was getting a little tired of Scumbag being a scumbag. So it's nice to see the Scumbag evolve a little bit so we can have somebody to root for in this, but man, Remender, dude. Holy shit. You think you're like “Okay. I know what this is about.” Nah. He loves the twists and turns. He loves to keep you guessing, and then when you're not ready, he'll break your heart if you're not careful, but man, guys, don't listen to magical Christmas trees that smile way too much. All right? Alex:                 Very fun bit though. Justin:              Good advice. Alex:                 Last but not least, Rain Like Hammers #2 from Image Comics, written and art by Brandon Graham. I'll tell you what. I was very surprised to find out this was an anthology with this issue. That's not what I was expecting. Justin:              Well, I feel like a lot of Brandon Graham's stuff are loose anthologies where there's some connection, there's a lot of tonal overlap and everything. I definitely like sort of the rules of the world are the same. Man, I love this book. Of any issue this week, this was the most just transporting book that I read. It's so funny. It's beautifully drawn. It's so interesting. There's just a ton of ideas at play here all the time. Great, great book. Can't recommend this highly enough. Alex:                 That's it. If you can't recommend us highly enough, then hey, support us on patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. @comicbooklive on Twitter. Comicbooklive.com for this podcast and many more. Alex:                 Until next time, we'll see you at the virtual comic book shop. Justin:              Just pull back the curtain, and we'll be right there, fully nude, as usual. The post The Stack: BRZRKR, Stray Dogs And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. 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On this week's comic book review podcast: Riverdale Presents South Side Serpents #1 Archie Comics Story by David Barnett Art by Richard Ortiz Captain Marvel #25 Marvel Written by Kelly Thompson Art by Lee Garbett The Department of Truth #5 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds Firefly #25 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Pius Bak Future State: Suicide Squad #1 DC Comics Written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams Art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #1 DC Comics Written by Mark Russell Art by Steve Pugh Future State: Dark Detective #2 DC Comics Written by Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Williamson Art by Dan Mora, Giannis Milonogiannis Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Riley Rossmo Future State: Aquaman #1 DC Comics Written by Brandon Thomas Art by Daniel Sampere Future State: Batman/Superman #1 DC Comics Written by Gene Luen Yang Art by Ben Oliver Post Americana #2 Image Comics Written and art by Dave Skroce Daredevil #26 Marvel Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Marco Chechetto & Mike Hawthorne Monstress #31 Image Comics Written by Marjorie Liu Art by Nana Takeda The Other History of the DC Universe #2 DC Comics Written by John Ridley Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli Nailbiter Returns #9 Image Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Mike Henderson X-Men #17 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Brett Booth Spawn #314 Image Comics Written by Todd McFarlane Art by Carlo Barberi The Last God #12 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici Something is Killing the Children #14 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera Strange Adventures #8 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Mitch Gerards and Evan “Doc” Shaner An Unkindness of Ravens #5 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Art by Marianna Ignazzi Colonel Weird: Cosmagog #4 Dark Horse Comics Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Tyler Crook SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: As Alex:                 What is up everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of comics that have come out this week, kicking it off with Riverdale Presents: South Side Serpents from Archie Comics, story by David Barnett, art by Richard Ortiz. This is part of a slate of comics that Archie has started releasing that aren't exactly in continuity with the shows, but they include the characters the way they appear on the show. They're kind of like halfway between the monthly comics and the shows themselves. This with a Madam Satan one-shot spinning off and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that we talked about. This one of course is spinning off of Riverdale [crosstalk 00:00:46]. Pete:                I wish I would've known that before I read it, because I read it and I was like, “Holy shit, everything's going to change.” Alex:                 Yeah. Well, no, it's out of continuity. Pete:                They killed some people in this comic. Alex:                 They straight up killed some people. I got to tell you, I mean, to start there, I was surprised how hardcore this was. Justin:              Me too. This book went hard from beginning to end and I will say, “I like this.” To me, I mean Archie Comics for a decade has been taking big swings with a lot of their choices, a lot of their … especially their one shots like this and they're limited series. But with this like putting it in between Riverdale featuring Toni Topaz here which was great. And then having both Hot Dog show up drawn like Hot Dog from the Double Digest. As well as a murder happening involving Hot Dog, I was like, “Okay, we're going for it here.” Alex:                 So the plot of this book if you haven't picked it up is that Jughead is tasked by FP to go rejuvenate the serpents, FP can see that they're getting older. He wants them to go out, get some young blood in there. Things go very, very wrong. The thing that I think this book did so well is the serpents are way too friendly on the TV show. They're supposed to be the most hardcore biker gang, but they was like, “We're hardcore, we're fucking helping out with community service. And now we're going to assist the police department. Look how hardcore we are.” Here they're an actual biker gag, and they're treated like an actual biker gang. And it works really well to the devastating end of the book. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. It was also nice to take you back to this time in Riverdale, we're all Riverdale fans, and to sort of position us sort of earlier, this was like season two Riverdale it felt like, was really fun as well. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Good stuff. Definitely check. Oh, go ahead. Justin:              Wait, Pete's going to weigh in. Pete:                I really liked this. I loved all the action, it moves really well. It feels like Riverdale, but it has its own kind of flavor, which is cool for the comic. And I thought the art was great and the storytelling was really impressive how well this moved. I had a great time. Justin:              A lot of biker gangs have a crown that the head of the gang wears. Alex:                 This is true, like the hell's angels. Justin:              Yeah, fairy famously, and some anarchy. Alex:                 [inaudible 00:03:17] biker gang that we can name which is, what is that, Justin? Justin:              That biker game, there's the wheels, the wheelies. Pete:                The Wheelers. Justin:              The wheelers, that's it. Alex:                 Yes. Captain Marvel number 25 from Marvel written by Kelly Thompson, art by Lee Garbett. This is a title that we haven't talked about too much, but as it is hitting an anniversary issue, we do like Kelly Thompson in particular here on the show, I figured it was worth talking about. Captain Marvel is trapped in a post-apocalyptic future where the son of Namor and Amara has lead ways everything, using captain Marvel for his evil plan. As usual with Kelly Thompson book, I thought this is a lot of fun. I had a blast reading this. What about you guys? Pete:                Yeah. I mean, as parents, you have to feel that if your son or daughter stabs a stuffed animal dolphin, you better address that early. Otherwise that's really going to get out of hand and lead you [crosstalk 00:04:14]. Justin:              Well, the question is, at least in my household is it during stabbing practice or is it [inaudible 00:04:19]. Pete:                Oh, oh, oh. Justin:              Because if it's during stabbing practice it's good. Pete:                It's fine. Alex:                 I'll tell you what, quarantine school has been weird. Justin:              Yeah, they're doing a lot of real post-apocalyptic lessons are going around. Obviously Pete you're not a parent, but there is a lot of zombie preparation- Alex:                 Smart. Justin:              … how to, like early cannibalism stuff. Pete:                Is it like machete upkeep and stuff like that? Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:04:44] and the teacher on the Zoom was saying, “Okay first graders, are you distilling your pee properly so you can drink it?” Pete:                Oh my God. That's so creepy. Justin:              That's why it's really important to potty train them, so you don't lose that precious pee. Alex:                 What'd you think about this book, Pete? Pete:                I loved it. Oh, that was gross. Justin:              Precious Pete. Pete:                Oh man, I don't want it. Yeah, I really liked this, a lot of over the top action, which I enjoyed. Fun kind of Namor a story, classic tale of raising somebody who is going to murder their father. It was just classic fun stuff. You guys have to be worried about that, getting murdered by your own kids. That's got to be something that waves on you. Alex:                 You keep throwing this back on us. Pete:                I mean, that's something that you got to be worried a little bit about as a parent that you're raising the person who's going to kill you. Alex:                 I'm much more worried about you killing me Pete than I have my kids at this point. Justin:              100%. Pete:                Oh well, that's smart. Justin:              That's the real threat, keeps us up nights. Alex:                 Speaking of things that are … Oh, go ahead. Pete:                But I love that art. I love the action. This is some great, yeah, the Thor was just fantastic and this is really fun. Justin:              Yeah, Bridget. It's funny reading this alongside Future State over on the DC side of things, because it feels very much like a Future State book in the Marvel Universe. And it's fun, I like books that take us into alternate futures where shits fucked up. Alex:                 Well, let's go to an alternate present where shit is fucked up in The Department of Truth number five from Image Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Martin Simmonds. This is a big one for anybody who's reading the series. It's about a department that is tasked with taking care of conspiracy theories here. Our main character is finding out a bunch more about the other side, Black Hat, and what's going on with them. Maybe this doesn't change everything, but it certainly comes close to it. How'd you feel about this issue? Justin:              I've not been shy to say I love this series. I think this series is just so present, it's feels so real. It's about how if enough people believe in conspiracy theories, they become real. And like what truth is, it is something I think we as a nation, as a world grapple with literally every day. And so this book does such a good job between the art and the story of really just getting inside my brain. Pete:                Yeah, this is really kind of crazy cool. The conspiracy stuff is one thing, but just the art and the storytelling, unlike how this all kind of unfolds for the main character that we're following here is tripped out in all the right ways. It's just really great kind of like conspiracy story telling that kind of feeds into fears and kind of deep thoughts in all the right ways. I think this is a really creative book that is really doing an amazing job. Alex:                 I feel like we've said this here on the show before, but it struck me with this issue in particular, this feels like a lost Vertigo book down to the art and the writing and everything, and it's awesome. Firefly … Oh, go ahead. Justin:              I was going to say just an excellent Vertigo book. Alex:                 Yeah. A lost Vertigo book that should have stayed lost was what I was saying. Pete:                Whoa. Alex:                 Should've stayed in Karen Berger's drawer. Pete:                Oh, come on, what? You mean drawer? Alex:                 Come on. Pete:                You saying drawer? Alex:                 Yeah, I was trying to say that. Pete:                Okay. Alex:                 Firefly number 25 from BOOM! Studios written by Greg Pak- Pete:                Greg Pak. Alex:                 … art by Pius Bak. We talked about the special, the end of The Blue Sun Rising, just being an awesome Firefly story. Here after all of this prequel stuff, we're moving beyond serenity. We're showing what happens years later. There's a big twists here. I thought this is great. As much as I like the stuff that went before, I'm very excited about this direction for the book. It tells a good story. If you have watched all the Firefly and Serenity, you can jump in right here, you don't have to read anything previous. And that is very exciting. Justin:              Yeah. For Greg Pal to tell a great story that really nails all the characters, but it also feels like it's expanding the universe as a prequel, and then to jump into sort of where the story is continuing from any fan, whatever they've taken in for this show and movie is great, such a smart move, I love that he's guiding this ship. Pete:                I wanted to read something, speaking of fans, a fan of our show reached out to me and was just wondering, we had Fred Van Lente on a bunch, but they're asking me when the fuck Greg Pak is going to be on, so I wanted to kind of turn that over to Alex and just be like, “Hey, when the fuck is Greg Pak going to be on the show so we can talk to him.” Justin:              Let me throw this out to you Pete, are you the fan that reached out to you? Pete:                No. Justin:              Sounds a lot like you. Alex:                 We'll try to have him back on scene, we always love having him of the show. Thanks for writing in, Pete. Let's move over to our Future State block. Here's the issues that came out of Future State this week. Future State Suicide Squad number one, Future State Superman Versus Imperious Lex number one, Future State Dark Detective number two, Legion of Superheroes number one, Aquaman number one, Batman and Superman number one. Now, as we've been doing in the past couple of weeks, instead of talking about absolutely everything, I want to call out what our favorites were, and I'll turn to you Justin first. What was your favorite or favorites from these Future State titles this week? Justin:              Once again, I liked a lot of these books. I feel like they'd been really crushing it, but my favorites were, let me throw it to Superman versus Imperious Lex. Alex:                 Oh, that's what I figured. I say that's what I figured because that was also my favorite. And that's a book, it's written by Mark Russell, who's one of our favorites here on the show, art by Steve Pugh. And it shows a Future State, a future society where Lex has taken over a planet, Superman and Lois come head to head with it. Ridiculous parodied, a lot of fun at the same time, Justin. Justin:              And I do think Mark Russell has done such a good job. He's so good at bringing real issues into his comic book work, famously first on the Flintstones book that he did. And then a bunch of other things that he's done. And this to really weave big interesting ideas about how people, populaces are controlled by their leaders and economics, how economics drives people into a far Future Superman United Planets, Lex Luther story, I think was great. There's a bunch of humor here as well. It's just a book of ideas and I love that. Alex:                 Pete, what about you? What jumped out at you this week? Pete:                I liked Future State Dark Detectives number two. I really liked this kind of like a gritty future Batman. And I also really liked the second story with a Rose, guessing Slade's daughter. But just- Alex:                 That's an in continuity character by the way. That's not just a Future State character. Pete:                Oh, okay. Alex:                 Just for clarification. Pete:                Thank you. Alex:                 But just to mention before you get too far into it, written by Mariko Tamaki and Joshua Williamson, art by Dan Mora, who you love from Once & Future, and Giannis Milonogiannis. And the first story is about Bruce Wayne after he's been “shot and killed” coming back and try to figure out what he is now. The second one is a Red Hood story, which is basically straight up Akira in a very fun way. Justin, what'd you think about this one? Justin:              I like both of these stories. The Bruce Wayne story at the front of this is so good. The art, the Dan Mora art is excellent, and really I would love to see this as just an ongoing series of Bruce Wayne in a future where he has been killed, figuring out what he's going to do next and finding his way back is great. And then the backup story really felt a lot like Nightwing [inaudible 00:13:02] relationship, but put on with Red Hood and Rose, which I thought was a cool sort of mapping, and with the Akira stuff you're talking about as well. Alex:                 The one that I was completely surprised that I loved was Future State Aquaman number one, written by Brandon Thomas, art by Daniel Sampere. I don't usually like Aquaman stories at all, but this one is showing Aqualad all grown up training the daughter of Aquaman and Mera. They accidentally ended up in this conjoining of seas, I think it's called the conjunction or something like that, that travels across different planets. They get trapped, they get separated, Aqualad's been in prison for years. And finally, spoiler, but he gets some hope that the girl he's been in charge with maybe still alive somewhere. This was bad-ass, like we were talking about, this is something that I'm like, “I want to read this book.” And this is such a strong concept right here. I want to see where this goes. I want to see them go through all these seas, go through all these worlds, try to find each other. That's very exciting. And the art from Daniel Sampere- Pete:                Oh my God. Alex:                 … is awesome as well, but fantastic. My jaw dropped, I was so surprised, I like this so much. Pete:                Yeah. And I really liked the Black Manta stuff as well. It was like the right amount of beautiful tripped out colors for all these different kinds of worlds and stuff. I was really impressed by it. Justin:              I also want to throw it out to the Suicide Squad Future State book. This was really great as well. Really surprising, well-written dark take, featuring a ton of characters that I didn't expect to really see together and just really smart observations of these characters. Pete:                The second story, Black Adam really looks like The Rock, it's like holy shit, all right guys, we get it. Alex:                 Yeah, that was a weird one for me. But just to mention the writing team of that, written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams, art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin. And real quick, before wrap up, here are the other ones, Future State Legion of Superheroes number one written by Brian Michael Bendis, gorgeous art as always by Riley Rossmo. And then there's also Batman Superman number one, which is interesting one. Pete:                That's the one I wanted to talk about. Alex:                 Written by Gene Luen Yang and art by Ben Oliver. Because this actually isn't very Future State. This is, if Future State is 10, 15, 20, whatever years down the road, this is five years down the road with our Batman and Superman right before things go wrong, which is a fascinating tack to take, Pete, take it away. Pete:                Yeah, I really thought this was, first off the banter back and forth between Superman and Batman was amazing. I also really liked this kind of false face thing. And then Superman realizing why masks are good was really cool. And I really liked this toad character that was introduced. Yeah, I was really impressed with this. Might not have been that far in the future, but man, this was a really cool book. I really liked it. And I'm trying to think, I also read the Batman: White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn, number four. And that was- Alex:                 Pete. Justin:              Totally [inaudible 00:16:24]. Pete:                I'm just putting it out there, we're doing a quick review thing here. Alex:                 No, no, no, but it's not Future State. Pete:                Well, it is DC. Alex:                 You keep doing this. I send you a list of comics and you are like, I read these five other comics. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 I just think that the story is really- Justin:              I just love comics. Alex:                 Great. Pete, when we get to it, I read Amazing Spider-Man as well, so I just want to talk about that. Pete:                Great. I'm just wanting to say real quick though, the Harley Quinn thing at first, the White Knight Presents, I didn't, but now it's really going well and I'm really impressed with it. And I thought it was a really great story and it's worth checking out. Justin:              Really grabbing the mic. Alex:                 How was Usagi Yojimbo, Pete? Pete:                I look forward to checking that out. Alex:                 Wow. Justin:              Wow, shame. Alex:                 What a hater. Post Americana, oh. Justin:              Hold up. One last thing about Future State. I think that DC should do this, pick a month every year, do this. It introduces so many interesting ideas. They could reflect whatever the ongoing stories are in the main titles in their Future State titles, introduce a bunch of new artists and writers into this world. Pete:                I think that's what they're going to do. Justin:              I don't think they're going to do that, but I wish they did. Pete:                I think they are. Alex:                 That's a great idea. I mean it's clearly like it was originally there to give everybody space on the schedule and everything, at least in terms of the writers and artists, but this is great. I'm so happy with all of these books. Pete:                I also wanted to say in the Future State Legion one, the amazing last page, that was a really fun issue. Alex:                 Sure. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 Post Americana number two from Image Comics written and art by Dave Skroce. This is a wild book, we talked about the first issue of this taking place in post-apocalyptic world. When we left off, our main characters have been captured by cannibals who wear human skin. That's where this issue picks up. Pete, you got to love that, picks up right where it left off basically. Pete:                Huge fan. Alex:                 This book is fucked up at exactly the right way. It's like Crossed, but not as dark I guess, with a little bit more of a mission to it. Justin:              I don't know. It feels a lot just like Crossed. I don't know where you're seeing the less darkness. There's less like coming on bullets before you shoot them at people. Alex:                 Sure, that's fair. Pete:                I would say- Alex:                 But the main lady has no limbs, but she calls her robot limbs and then kicks the ass of the cannibals, so that's pretty fun. Pete:                It's like Iron Man. I would say this is like a really dark version of Wall-E a little bit, like a real fucked up Wall-E. Justin:              Oh, Wall-E, interesting. I don't get that. Alex:                 Well, there's a male character and there's a female character like Eva. Justin:              Oh, interesting. None of them are robots. And there's a lot of other people there and many of them cannibals, which if I remember Wall-E correctly it's very light on cannibalism. Am I wrong there? Pete:                Yeah, it is. Alex:                 Did you watch the director's cut? Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 It's on Disney plus. Pete:                I was just talking about the people who are on vacation, looking at the news and kind of taking it all in. And that kind of little bit was very Wall-E. Justin:              Oh, I see. Yes. I mean, to be fair, that is reminiscent of Wall-E. That was one panel. Pete:                Still reminded me of Wall-E dickhead. Justin:              You said this book is like a fucked up wall-E, and that is taking one panel and being like, this is … If I heard that description, I was like, “Oh, okay, fucked up Wall-E. I love Wall-E, I wish he was more fucked up. Let me read it.” And I was like, “What's that dude Pete talking about?” Pete:                Because there's one panel that really reminds you of Wall-E. Justin:              Okay, it's hard to argue with you. Alex:                 It's a fictional story like Wall-E. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              My life's a lot like Wall-E in that I occasionally watch a silent film. Alex:                 This book is insanely over the top odd purpose, but I'm enjoying it two issues in- Pete:                I am too. Alex:                 … and I'm excited to see where it goes. Let's move on to talk about Daredevil number 26 from Marvel written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Marco Checchetto and Meek Hawthorne, Mike Hawthorne. Excuse me, I don't know why it's spelled Meek, like the character for the Guardians of Galaxy, not Guardians of Galaxy, [inaudible 00:20:39], and World War Hulk. Justin:              Yeah, we can just cut this part out of there. Pete:                World War Hulk is right. Alex:                 Mike Hawthorne, this is taking Daredevil who was in prison, mixing it up with King in Black. It is, Ted's fucked up with an amazing last paddle. I'll tell you what, I am vehemently against venomizing everything in the Marvel Universe, yet I love this, and I'm not 100% sure why. Justin:              Well, I think it's just really well handled. There's a sort of kid and parent venomization here that is legit scary. I love the Electra taking over from Daredevils in prison. I love Electra being the Daredevil on the street. That's such a fun story. To see them all having to handle the King in Black stuff is wild. And I loved that it didn't take over, all the characters get to shine still. And this last bit where we … spoiler, but Daredevil gets venomized and you get to be in his head. Pete:                You love that. Justin:              I loved it. I thought it was so smart. Pete:                Yeah, I was really … There's a lot in this comic which is great. A lot of very interesting ideas in this comic, the whole prison scene, and where Daredevil's getting kind of lectured and talking about the difference between white and black. He can just take off the mask and be somebody else, really powerful stuff, really cool. It's very interesting to see Kingpin. I am not tired of this idea of Kingpin being a public figure. And we know him as this evil person and he's like, it's just very … I love this idea and I'm not sick of it. And I hope it continues around Daredevil. Alex:                 One thing that I really loved was getting to see the moment when the mayor of New York finds out that venom symbiotes have attacked the city. I feel like that's something that you'd never really get to see at all in a comic book crossover, because it's always focusing on The Avengers, focusing on the superheroes. You never get to see the government, except later on when captain America is like, “Can you send out the national guard?” And they're like, “Yeah, absolutely.” You never get to see that moment they're like, “Oh, aliens attacking again. You got to get out of here.” Justin:              It's funny too because I feel like I've heard mayor de Blasio talk a lot about them, the venomization of New York. Alex:                 Oh yeah, he always talks about that. Pete:                I'm sick. Justin:              I mean, to be fair, he's often jumping to conclusions. Alex:                 Right. Well, you remember when those venom symbiotes attacked New York, he was like, “Alternate side of the street park [inaudible 00:23:18].” It's very niche content. Pete:                Yeah, it is. Justin:              It is very New York focused content. Alex:                 Great comic though. Let's move on and talk about Monstress number 31 from Image Comics written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda. Now we had talked about Monstress: Talk Stories, the two-part book that came out before this, after not talking about Monstress for a very long period of time. I thought those were awesome, so I thought it was worth checking out this book, the main book and seeing how it's going. I still love the art in this. This is such a weird wild world that is fascinating to jump in with, the mythology is so different and interesting to read. But what did you guys think about it? Justin:              Yeah, I agree with you. This is very much to me, and I haven't read a lot of this book, but it's very much to me like all of the cut scenes from Final Fantasy game just sort of put together. And I love that, so I thought this was a fun read. Pete:                The art is really impressive in this book and it's really a lot of fun, the different monsters and stuff and the different kind of animal people that we kind of see in this is very cool and worth checking out alone. But you guys, this has to be a dream of yours. Just sit down and have a father, daughter conversation as you sit on a pile of skulls and just kind of have a father daughter talk or a father son talk, that's got to be something that you guys look forward to as parents. Justin:              Hmm, didn't go where I thought it was. Yeah, sure. I mean, after stabbing practice obviously we do sit on skulls after. Pete:                Obviously after, yeah. Alex:                 Exactly. Let's move on and talk about The Other History of the DC Universe number two from DC Comics, written by John Ridley, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, where the first issue of this book focused on black lightning, here we're jumping over to the Teen Titans and looking to two characters there. I got to tell you, I mean, this issue was phenomenal as the first issue is phenomenal. Justin:              It's so good. Alex:                 It's fascinating personally reading this for me because I am much more familiar with what happened with black lightning. And there's much more touchstones in that book than here, because I never read Teen Titans growing up. I had no idea what was going on there, the continuity. This is definitely, I understand this feels like the decades, but none of these stories, other than Titans Hunt which we talked about at a live show a couple of months ago, and some of the Deathstroke stuff, none of it really feels familiar with me. But at the same time I love this story and I love the idea of taking two characters who were in Teen Titans showing their diverse opinions, their diverse ideas, views of what was going on throughout the history of the DC Universe. This is such a cool project. It's very exciting. Justin:              It's just so smart the way it takes two characters and really weaves their stories together with observations that … A lot of the things that happen in this from the original comics are ridiculous. But to then weave them into one story with actual commentary of what a real person would think, I think it just works so well, on top of that weaving in like real-world events and the perspective of these two African-American characters in a world where, which they talk about a lot where everyone else is white essentially, it's just really well done. This is necessary reading I think right there. Pete:                Yeah. I didn't know how much I wanted this until it happened, just to have that kind of commentary on the stuff that we know from the years of reading comics is just so rich and great and such a cool idea. Art's amazing. I'm really impressed with the writing and storytelling. It's a must pick up. Alex:                 Great stuff. Let's move on and talk about Nailbiter Returns number nine from Image Comics written by Joshua Williamson, art by Mike Henderson, not Meek Henderson or anything like that. Justin:              No, that would be [crosstalk 00:27:24]. Alex:                 That was so much fun. Justin:              Well, I guess we'll have to cut this out too. Alex:                 Yes. In this book we're finally getting a lot of answers about what has been going on in Buckaroo with the butchers. We get the [inaudible 00:27:38] back on the villain of this series. Another just great issue, like the theology that they keep fleshing out here is so impressive and so much fun. Justin:              And we finally get the eyeball licking that I think we've all been asking. Pete:                Oh, man. Alex:                 Absolutely. I've been begging for it. I've been writing them every week. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Pete:                Yeah. You guys are big eyeball lickers, this is right up your alley. This book has started at such a crazy place. And I think every issue like, oh, okay, now I understand. But it keeps getting more and more insane in such a great way. It heightens and makes things even better than you thought. I've been really impressed with the kind of unraveling of the stories, if you will. And man, this is so intense and gross and over the top in all the right ways, the arts fantastic. And man, eyeballs are gross. Justin:              Yeah. But I agree and the amount of sort of dream logic that's been used in this book, I was really surprised by, but it's been great and it really keeps you guessing throughout. Alex:                 Next one, I'm very excited and I mean this earnestly to find out what Pete thought about this book, X-Men number 17 from Marvel Comics, written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Brett Booth. In this issue the X-Men in classic uniforms, X factor uniforms journey to Shi'ar space and have a classic nineties style fight to save [inaudible 00:29:18]. Pete. Justin:              Save Xandra. Alex:                 Oh yes. Justin:              This generation's [inaudible 00:29:24]. Alex:                 Yeah, sorry. Pete, if there is any issue of X-Men, it had to be this issue, right? Pete:                Sure. I mean, it was very kind of like, it was a little nineties art that was a little bit like, holy crap, when does this take place in the timeline? But man, yeah, it was enjoyable. I mean the phone call was a little ridiculous. And there was still something that I was supposed to read that didn't in the middle of it. Alex:                 Oh my God, that was so much fun. [crosstalk 00:30:00] Bobby. Justin:              It was very fun. Pete:                I'll never know. Alex:                 Chilling out having a hilarious time. So funny. Pete:                I mean, it's nineties excellent fun is what it is and all the right ways. And so that part is very cool. Justin:              This to me was such a wild read. Coming off of X of Swords and everything that's been going on in the X-Men books, to read this sort of love letter to the Chris Claremont era of X-Men, drawn by Brett Booth with all this really goofy shit going on between Sunspot and Cannonball. Throughout the whole issue I was like this, it just feels like Jonathan Hickman is like, I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want. And this is what I want to do right now as a palette cleanser after X of Swords, and here it is. Alex:                 It's great. I could not believe where they had that splash page of Jean Gray and psych labs in the X-Force uniforms storm in her classic uniform, just walking out and like posing in [inaudible 00:31:03] field style. That's great. Justin:              There's this panel on page nine or something with storms in the front and then behind you got like Cyclops and Jean just flirting in the background. I was just like, this is so … And I love seeing that. Alex:                 Me too. Justin:              I was like, it's such a flashback. Alex:                 And the other thing that we get a tease of here is there's going to be an actual vote online to choose the new member of the X-Men, which is so fun. I just love the fact that they're having fun. Pete:                You think that's fun? Alex:                 What? Pete:                You think that's fun? Justin:              I do think it's fun. Here, let's list the options here, and then let's hear who everybody thinks. We've got Banshee. Pete:                Can we talk about the … in the middle of this giant epic fight, she calls home for help. And we got to listen to this douchebag talk about a fire sale and how he's making money off of it. Do you guys know what a fire sale is? Do you know what … I mean, this is like, it's very … Alex:                 It's for Sunspot. Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 That's what he does. Justin:              Yeah. It was fun. It was weird and fun. That's what the point of it was. Pete:                Cool. Alex:                 What is your problem with the X-Men vote, Pete? Is it that you have to use a computer, which you don't know how to use yet? Pete:                Yeah, that's exactly it. Justin:              Let me throw it down. Let me list the X-Men, Banshee, Polaris, Forge, Boom Boom, Tempo, hugely famous Tempo, Cannonball, Sunspot, Strong Guy, Mero, Armor. Pete:                Armor. Justin:              Who's your pick? Alex:                 I do like Armor. Pete:                I go Armor. Alex:                 Wait, who is on it then? Who is already on the team? Because I don't know the list, obviously seen Cyclops, Jean Gray, Storm. Justin:              Yeah, I mean, I don't know either. I think it's sort of up in the air maybe or maybe it's decided. Alex:                 Who's the first batch again? Justin:              Banshee, Polaris, Forge, Boom Boom, Tempo. Alex:                 Ooh, I want to see if Storm is on the team. I want to see Forge on this team. Because I want to see that old nineties tension between them. That'd be fun. Justin:              Yeah, they had a lot of tension. Alex:                 Yeah. Justin:              I'm definitely going for Strong Guy. Pete:                Really? Alex:                 Love it. Justin:              I love Strong Guy. Alex:                 All right. Pete:                No Boom Boom. Justin:              Fun character. Funny character. A lot of pathos underneath his his powers, great, great character. Alex:                 I got to assume Wolverine is the other one, right? It's Wolverine and Storm, Cyclops, Jean Gray and whoever the fifth one is. Justin:              It's a bunch of X-Men. I don't know. We don't know. Remember every other X-Men book has been like, look, a bunch of random experts. Alex:                 It's true. All right. Let's throw it out to Pete the page here with a [inaudible 00:33:49], Spawn number 314 from Image Comics, written by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi. In this issue Spawn meets a larger Spawn. Pete:                Yeah. And is immediately confused why this larger spawn would be attacking him. He's like, “Hey, wait, we look similar, we should be on the same size, giant spawn.” Alex:                 What I love about this giant spawn, having not read many issues of Spawn before this, is it is entirely possible this large spawn was introduced prior or this large spawn was just introduced this issue. But either way is fine. Justin:              Let me just throw out there, he fights a larger spawn, is captured, and then that larger spawn is like, “It's time to meet my master, who is the large and even larger spawn.” Pete:                And even larger spawn, because [crosstalk 00:34:39], well, you can't get larger in that spawn. And by the way our spawn is so small in comparison to the large spawn and then even larger one. But what's fun- Alex:                 Here's my question, why do they keep calling each other spawn? Because that's like their designation, right? It would be like, if we kept calling each other a human or something like that. Justin:              Yes. Alex:                 It's weird. Pete:                Well, human. Justin:              It is weird. Yeah, they should have a short hand, because they're all in the spawn business together. Pete:                I really liked this twist at the end where it's like, oh man, you giant spawns are going to get taken down by even smaller spawn. What a twist. Alex:                 Remember that he's not a spawn, I think he's sharp night guy. Pete:                He's night spawn, that's [crosstalk 00:35:24]. Alex:                 Oh, he's night spawn, was that medieval spawn? Pete:                It's medieval spawn. I don't know if it's medieval. It looks like a night spawn. Justin:              I think, and it wasn't introduced in issue six or something crazy, way back in the day. Pete:                What, medieval spawn? Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                That was- Alex:                 Before we move on here- Pete:                No, no, that was a crossover event where medieval spawn was its own comic series for a little, dark ages spawn. Justin:              Yeah, that's right. I'm starting to think this Todd McFarlane guy is trying to sell some action figures. Pete:                Well, he is, he makes a lot of them, and it's smart. Because if I was a kid I would want all the spawns, but the dark ages spawn is where [crosstalk 00:36:01]. Alex:                 But as an adult you know better. Justin:              As an adult you put away childish things. Pete:                That's right. Justin:              And you'd have no interest in having any of these action figures. Alex:                 Pete, before we move on, I just want to ask, did you like this comic book? Pete:                Yeah, what's not to like? Alex:                 Your voice was very high. Justin:              Wow, really high-pitched answer there, Pete. And let's just, for the listener, Pete, is sitting on a pile of spawn action figures as if they were skulls. Pete:                Yes. Alex:                 The Last God number 12 from DC Comics written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Riccardo Federici. This is wrapping up the first maybe arc of this book. But it definitely wraps up the story that we have here as our friends to try to take down The Last God, I guess. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Big revelations here, some big deaths. What'd you think? How'd you think about this story as a whole over the course of 12 issues? Pete:                Epic. I really love the storytelling, and [inaudible 00:36:58] is like we see them in action, but as the issues go on, we get little bits and pieces of their backstory, I think done so well, while telling a bigger story. The action and the lead-up of the ending of this was just really well done. And I wasn't the biggest fan of songs or whatever, but it really kind of fit. I loved all the back matter and the maps and stuff. This was just a fantastic epic story that I think really 12 issues of just gold. Justin:              It's really beautifully drawn. The story's great. And the fact that it ends with this just great song where we see all the characters, it feels just like a montage at the end of a epic trilogy. I want to see this as a TV series more than I want to see The Lord of the Rings series that's in development at Amazon. Pete:                Wow. Alex:                 Couldn't agree more. Let's move on and talk about Something Is Killing the Children number 14 from BOOM! Studios, art by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell'Edera. Here we're getting our hero finally fighting back against the monsters who are the ones killing the children. Justin, I know you've been, frustrated is probably too strong a word, but you've definitely felt like this title needs to get somewhere. Did you feel like it got there with this issue? Justin:              Yes, it does feel like this is the issue that's sort of moving into what this arc is about. When so many of the issues in this arc were very much like we got to fight this stuff, we got to get out there and do this. And we were getting little tidbits. Let me start over, this arc felt like it was going to be this huge backstory arc, really getting us to the next phase. And then it didn't do that. And then this feels like it does it. Alex:                 What about you, Pete? How'd you feel about this issue? Pete:                I disagree a little bit with Justin. I think this continues to be amazing. I didn't think- Alex:                 It's very good. The art is very good. The fight sequences are awesome in this book. Pete:                Yeah. I've just been impressed with it from start to finish, but I think that we do kind of get to see the main girl kind of views her kind of veteran's styles to kind of work her kind of magic a little bit. I'm glad we got to finally see that. And I love the whole bit about her working out some anger issues, oh, that just spoke to me in ways that you can't believe. But I want to get one of those mass to walk around with the light that she has. I think that'd be really cool. But yeah, I can't say enough great things about this book. This is really glorious. Alex:                 It's good staff. Moving on to Strange Adventures number eight from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Mitch Gerads and Evan Doc Shaner. In this issue the Pykkts finally attack earth. The whole Justice League is on the offensive, Adam Strange of course is caught in the middle. And in the backstory, finding out more about what's gotten with Adam Strange, and it is starting to feel like maybe he's the bad guy here. What do you guys think about what's going on? Justin:              I mean there's … Go ahead. You go. Pete:                Yeah, so I've been a little frustrated with this up until this issue, because I felt like we haven't really had enough information to really kind of piece together what's going on. In this we get a lot of information which is great and much needed. The very crazy cool touching stuff with the daughter here. Yeah, I felt like this finally started to click for me and I was like, “Oh my God. Okay. Now I'm understanding things a little bit more and I want to go back and read it from the beginning.” Justin:              I mean, this book is so good. It's such a stressful read, like a lot of Tom King stuff. The tension in this book, it's just palpable throughout. And we have Adam Strange in the last couple of issues. We found out that he's been tortured basically for a million lifetimes, just absolutely brutalized. And in this issue, it just rephrases him. He's gone through so much trauma. He's like a fully broken person. And Doc Shaner's art like, he still has these perfectly clear blue eyes, but you just see the pain that he's in and how he is just not capable of being a hero. And that adds so much dread to the scenes with his daughter. And then meanwhile, you have Mr. Terrific and Batman trying to sort through with great sequences of Mr. Terrific answering trivia questions from one of his fears. I'm so excited to see where this is going. Alex:                 I am starting to feel despite what I said at the beginning, that this is more about perspectives on war and how nobody is right. That there isn't really a villain. I know I said maybe Adam Strange was the villain, but I think he committed atrocities, the Pykkts committed atrocities. That's what happens in war. We know that Tom King has been in wars. He was in the CIA. He knows how this works. And I think that's what he's writing about here is that from the perspective of your side, of course you're right, but that doesn't mean that you're right for the perspective of the other side. And I think that's what he's playing with here. Justin:              There are no heroes. Alex:                 Exactly. Justin:              It's very hard to have a hero when you're in a war where both sides are fighting to kill and fighting for their lives. And I think that's what we're going to get next issue. Alex:                 Yeah. Next up, An Unkindness of Ravens number five from Boom! Studios written by Dan Panosian, art by Marianna Ignazzi. This is the end of the first arc, first book, whatever you want to call it, of this title. We've had our main characters try to figure out what's going on in this weird small town here, spoiler, but she finds out her mother is alive. She had a twin sister who had some power maybe, but it turns out actually she didn't. It turns out she might have the power. She might be the one that is supposed to complete this coven of witches or whatever is going on here. We were big fans of this from when they started. How did you feel about how it wrapped up? Justin:              I liked this so much. I think it's set up a good mystery. I really, the art is so approachable, it makes you really feel like you're right alongside the main characters. And this last couple of pages reveal is just so sweet. And it does such a good job, especially with the art of being very like Archie or comic books Sabrina. But having more mature themes and more sort of deeper storytelling than those original comics. Alex:                 Pete, what about you? Justin:              I really like this, this continues to be a fantastic book. I've been really impressed with kind of how we're finding out the information as this story is going. And this whole thing about this kind of coven of witches called the ravens. And it's just very cool. And I really liked this kind of mother daughter interaction. I feel like it's very kind of like old timey versus now times. This kind of like, there's a bigger picture and then … But somebody just so caught up in their own shit, they can't kind of see the bigger things going on. I was really impressed with that. The art is glorious. I'm really into it and I'm excited to see how this kind of unfolds what choice she makes moving forward, what team she's going to choose. Alex:                 Good stuff. Last but not least, Colonel Weird: Cosmagog number four from Dark Horse Comics, excuse me, written by Jeff Lemire, art by Tyler Crook. This is also wrapping up this title exploring one of the members of Black Hammer. There's a big emotional catharsis that happens here as he moves forward in his history. I thought this title was awesome. Just Tyler Crooks art is phenomenal. Justin:              So good. Alex:                 The writing is great. We've talked about this before. I've said this before, but it's like Slaughterhouse-Five in space. Good stuff. Justin:              Centered on an Adam Strange type of character. I mean, we've talked a lot about eyeballs in this episode The Stack. Pete:                Yeah, sure have. Justin:              And in this comic like- Pete:                Eyeball heavy stack. Justin:              Yeah, eyeball heavy. I've been just licking these eyeballs, lapping them up. And this, you just see so much pain in the different versions of Colonel Weird throughout time, throughout this book. And it's just so good. It's such a well done story. Pete:                I think the cover says so much. It's like The Little Prince and Outer Space, but sad. Alex:                 That cover is so good. Go ahead, Pete. Pete:                Yeah, it's really unbelievable. I feel like I want to read it all again because it ended and I was like, “Wait, what?” I wasn't sure how great the ending is until I want to go back and read it all again. But it was really cool, very creative and the art's unbelievable. Alex:                 And that is it for The Stack. If you'd like to support our show, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out, we would love to chat with you about comics at Comic Book Live on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast, and more iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen. Until next time, keep supporting Dim Comics. Justin:              Time for stabbing rehearsal. The post The Stack: South Side Serpents, Captain Marvel And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's comic book review podcast: Dark Nights Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns Art by Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin & Richard Friend, Paul Pelletier & Norm Rapmund King in Black #2 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Ryan Stegman Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Dan McDaid Ice Cream Man #22 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 Archaia Written by Lara Elena Donnelly Illustrated by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge and French Carlomagno King-Size Conan #1 Marvel Written by Roy Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman and Steven S. DeKnight Art by Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman and Jesús Saiz An Unkindess of Ravens #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi Sea of Sorrows #2 IDW Written by Rich Douek Art and Color by Alex Cormack The Last God #11 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici The Department of Truth #4 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds The Comic Book History of Animation #2 IDW Written by Fred Van Lente Art & Letters by Ryan Dunlavey Doctor Doom #10 Marvel Written by Christopher Cantwell Art by Salvador Larroca Sea of Stars #8 Image Comics Written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum Art by Stephen Green Transformers/Back to the Future #2 IDW Written by Canan Scott Art by Juan Samu Action Comics #1028 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by John Romita Jr. The Scumbag #3 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Eric Powell Scarenthood #3 IDW Story & Art by Nick Roche Color by Chris O'Halloran U.S.AGent #2 Marvel Written by Priest Art by Georges Jeanty Undiscovered Country #11 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcelo Grassi Something is Killing the Children #13 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's comic book review podcast: Dark Nights Death Metal: The Secret Origin #1 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns Art by Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin & Richard Friend, Paul Pelletier & Norm Rapmund King in Black #2 Marvel Written by Donny Cates Art by Ryan Stegman Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Greg Pak Art by Dan McDaid Ice Cream Man #22 Image Comics Written by W. Maxwell Prince Art by Martín Morazzo Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 Archaia Written by Lara Elena Donnelly Illustrated by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge and French Carlomagno King-Size Conan #1 Marvel Written by Roy Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman and Steven S. DeKnight Art by Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman and Jesús Saiz An Unkindess of Ravens #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Dan Panosian Illustrated by Marianna Ignazzi Sea of Sorrows #2 IDW Written by Rich Douek Art and Color by Alex Cormack The Last God #11 DC Comics Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Art by Riccardo Federici The Department of Truth #4 Image Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Martin Simmonds The Comic Book History of Animation #2 IDW Written by Fred Van Lente Art & Letters by Ryan Dunlavey Doctor Doom #10 Marvel Written by Christopher Cantwell Art by Salvador Larroca Sea of Stars #8 Image Comics Written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum Art by Stephen Green Transformers/Back to the Future #2 IDW Written by Canan Scott Art by Juan Samu Action Comics #1028 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by John Romita Jr. The Scumbag #3 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Art by Eric Powell Scarenthood #3 IDW Story & Art by Nick Roche Color by Chris O'Halloran U.S.AGent #2 Marvel Written by Priest Art by Georges Jeanty Undiscovered Country #11 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcelo Grassi Something is Killing the Children #13 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Werther Dell'edera SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Speaker 1:        Three, two, one. Alex:                 What is up everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack we talk about a bunch of Comics that have come out this week and woo boy, did a bunch of Comics come out this week. Justin:              Oh, and we're going to talk about them all. It's like Pokemon, but for comics and talking instead of collecting and it's us instead of a kid named Ash. Alex:                 Yes, but- Pete:                What? Alex:                 … we do still keep our comics inside of a ball. Starting with Dark Nights Death Metal The Secret Origin number one from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns. Art by Jerry Ordway, Francis Manapul, Ryan Benjamin and Richard Fred, Paul Pelletier, and Norm Rapmund. This is not what I was expecting at all. Justin:              Agree completely. Alex:                 But what it turns out to be is a deep dive into Superboy-Prime and in a weird way, the last ever Superboy-Prime story, it also I don't know if it spoils or shows us or jumps ahead of a huge moment in Dark Nights Death Metal, but this is not just a throw away one-shot, this is an important part of the overall story. I was very hesitant going into this, but completely won over by the end both by the emotion and the storytelling and the art throughout, I was very impressed. Did you guys feel the same? Justin:              Yeah. I mean, this was written by Geoff Johns and Scott Snyder. A collab, a classic collab, and it really shows. I feel like this… You hear both of their voices in a nice synergy in this book. I've never been a huge Superboy-Prime guy, but this story I thought was really good. It takes the character and really humanizes him in a way that I didn't see coming and was just a great book, great little standalone story focusing on the character. I love where it ended. Pete:                Yeah, the title was a little misleading. It is kind of a Prime story which I did not see coming. Yeah, I mean, it's Supeboy-Prime still being a dick, but then he kind of gets a little bit less annoying and it's amazing art and then of course dogs are awesome and dogs can make any asshole a better person. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 100%. Couldn't agree more with that. Like you said, you got Geoff Johns who invented Superboy-Prime coming in, Scott Snyder who has been the maestro of Dark Nights Death Metal and they're working together. The thing… It is a huge spoiler, but the thing that surprised me that I could not believe happened in this book is Superboy-Prime beats the Batman who laughs and essentially wins in this issue, which is wild. Justin:              It was wild, but- Pete:                Is that it? I mean, is it going to happen in another book. Like it just seemed crazy that this was it. Alex:                 I don't know. Justin:              It did feel weird that it would come down to this. There's has to be a ton more story to be told in the main book, but I do think like the Space Wolverine focused book who'd colloquially known- Pete:                Fuck you. You don't know anything. Justin:              He's known as the Lobo- Pete:                Thank you. Tell people what you're talking about because that doesn't make sense. Justin:              No, I think that's a perfect description. Pete:                No. Justin:              Like if I were to describe you, I would say regular bones Wolverine and I think that makes a lot of sense. I just see the world through Wolverine tinted glasses. Pete:                That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Justin:              Regular bones Wolverine? Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              But the Lobo book… I forget what it was called, but it really told the Lobo side of the story, but it all was a part of the main story, we just got to see this little fragment fully told in the side book. So I think this is real. This is part of it. Pete:                [crosstalk 00:04:03], said frag. Alex:                 I mean, I'll tell you what. This is an event that really could have used a checklist in the back of every book, which seems like such a dumb thing but we're about to talk about King in Black in a second and a lot of those tie-ins kind of matter, but maybe not as much as the main King in Black book matters, but it's very handy to look through and go, okay, have I read that? Have I checked that off yet mentally in my mind yet or does that come after this other thing? There's so many different spinoffs and other things that it would be very easy to skip this issue and discount it as, Oh, it's just another tale of the dark multi-verse or something like that, which mind you those books have been good as well, but I think there would have been a better way of executing that instead DC seems very allergic to recap pages and ways of letting people know how to follow their events and I wish they would do that a little better because I think ultimately that would be even more rewarding for the constant fans. Justin:              The constant fans. Pete:                I mean, that's the thing though [crosstalk 00:05:02], by not kind of making anything about it, they're really rewarding the people who read every DC book. Alex:                 They just need to put a note be like, Hey, this one's important. Justin:              [crosstalk 00:05:17], strategically fraud choice if I may. Alex:                 All right. Well, let's move on to another big event. King in Black, number two from Marvel written by Donny Cates and art by Ryan Stegman. This is picking up split seconds after the end of the last issue of Venom, which I know I said mostly King in Black is important, but we got to watch Venom falling down a building for 32 seconds in the last issue of Venom. That he's been tossed off by the King in Black by- Pete:                [crosstalk 00:05:44], don't say he's been tossed off. That's not- Alex:                 What are you talking about? Justin:              I mean, that's- Alex:                 What do you think that is? Justin:              … exactly. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:05:52], like. Justin:              Is that degrading? Alex:                 You can't say you toss somebody off. That's not good. Justin:              [crosstalk 00:06:00], he had his salad tossed off the building. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:06:06], Oh my God. Is that what you want me to say? Pete:                No. Justin:              Yeah. He got- Pete:                No. I'm trying- Justin:              Someone brocked his world. Pete:                Somebody brocked his world. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:06:18], is dealing with the fallout of the last issue where the world has been taken over by [crosstalk 00:06:24], or at least New York city. Some of the Avengers are trying to rally to get Venom, and unfortunately spoiler, by the end of the issue they fail at Eddie Brock dies. Oh, I couldn't believe that… I was like, Oh, this will cut and then [inaudible 00:06:41], will swoop in and save him. He's not going to hit the ground. Smash. Justin:              It's about time somebody killed this maniacal Spider-Man villain. Pete:                Oh my gosh. Alex:                 So where do you think this is going from here? Do you think Eddie Brock is actually dead? He's going to come back to life, is his son Dylan going to be the new Venom? What's the goal here, granted that we're only a couple of issues through the King in Black event at this point. Justin:              I like this event a lot because it's going hard yet we're still getting the emotional bits. I think Donny Cates is very tactical. Like the issue of Eddie falling did feel like a sendoff and then to have him die in this issue feels like maybe he is dying, but I'm pretty confident he's going to come back. He'll become a full symbiote or some version of that will be where he goes. Pete:                I hope so because I really got into the father son relationship here and it was weird that while he was going through all this… Like they just had his son playing video games in another room, I was just like… I feel like someone should have- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:07:45], a son? Pete:                Ooh. Wow. That's [crosstalk 00:07:51], like a jilted father. A jilted dad. Justin:              No. Pete:                Yeah. Jesus Christ. Justin:              The other day Alex's son, it was bring your father to school day and he brought in his Xbox. That's true. Pete:                He was like Master Chief is my dad. Alex:                 Great book. Next up let's move to the end of an event Firefly: Blue Sun Rising number one from Boom Studios. Written by Greg Pak. Art by Dan McDaid. This is as I just indicated wrapping up the Blue Sun Rising event where now Reynolds and the crew of Firefly are taking it to Blue Sun, the evil organization at the heart of a lot of things in the Firefly universe. Even if you haven't been reading this event religiously this is great. This is a good- Justin:              So good. Pete:                Fucking Greg Pak man. Alex:                 … chapter in the Firefly universe. Love this stuff. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, Greg Pak has done a great job of really… Took the characters from Firefly and Serenity and put them in a very different place at the start of this run and then he's really brought them back. It really feels like a great episode of Firefly or even the sort of climax of the Serenity movie. Like really great action puts the characters in a situation where they know how to succeed by fucking everything up. Introduces these other characters that aren't part of the main crew, but still fit really well. I think this event is just such a great run on this book Pete:                I've kind of been an outsider for this world, but this book did such a great job of bringing me in getting to care about these characters. This was an emotional ending. I thought it was really, really well done, and so well-written. This Greg Pak guy is unbelievable. I just really love that last panel and the let no one take the sky from you. Oh, just beautiful. Alex:                 Great stuff. Definitely pick that up. Moving on to another surprisingly emotional issue, Ice Cream Man number 22 from Image Comics written by W. Maxwell Prince. Art by Martine Morazzo. Now we've talked about every issue of this book. Pete:                Every goddamn issue. Alex:                 Well, every goddamn issue because it's fantastic. The art is absolutely gorgeous. It's terrifying in exactly the right way. All these small or big heart tales that parse out may have a loose continuity with them, but this one is very different. This is a advent calendar focusing on a character who's trying to deal with the fact that she's pregnant, her parents are over religious, what should she do about it? And it ends up having kind of a sad, but very hopeful ending for Ice Cream Man. This was a very refreshing change of pace and I really liked this quite a bit. Pete:                Well, that's the thing. Like I couldn't enjoy the refreshing because I was so worried about how this was ending. I was just like, “Oh God, what are we doing in this issue? Is the horror going to go too far? Like holy fucking shit.” But I was really impressed with the ending. I thought it was very touching and a nice turn. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, this was so refreshing that you might as well call it Lemon Sorbet man, because- Pete:                There we go. Justin:              … it's such a nice bright change of pace. I do think that it's sort of fitting at the end of a long difficult year to have even one of the darkest comic books on the stands really have a bright ending, but still able to talk about really interesting stuff, bring us to the edge of that horror. It's great. This book is always great. Pete:                I also really like how the house in the last panel, the way the windows are opened. It almost makes the house look like an advent calendar. It's just really, really impressive. If you haven't checked this out, please do. Like every panel it's just… They're really playing chess with this. It's just very impressive. Alex:                 Totally agree. Let's move on to one that I was pleasantly surprised by Labyrinth: Masquerade number one from Archaia. Written by Lara Elena Donnelly. Illustrated by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge and French Carlomagno. What Pete is alluding to is Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies of all time. Pete:                You're, goddamn right it is. Alex:                 But I've been kind of iffy on the whole idea of continuing Labyrinth at all. What I really liked about this book is I feel like it found a fresh angle on the whole thing. We're told a story that takes place semi in parallel to the movie, has some new things to say with some new characters. Has some good things to say about memory. Adds some stuff to the continuity, and just the whole mythology of it and the art is really good as well as the coloring. I like this quite a bit. Again, I know it seems like I should be in the tank for this, but I definitely came into it being wary and was won over by the end. What was your guys' take? Justin:              I think that Alex is fucking tanked, is what I think. He's in the tank, he's on the tank. This guy has tanked for this book. Pete:                He's under the tank. Justin:              Yeah. He's swimming in the tank. He's Scrooge dunking ducking the tank. I remember Labyrinth not perhaps as much as you. I remember if someone peeing into a fountain because we watched that in school and [crosstalk 00:13:15], a very salacious moment in my life, but this played like a book. If you're not familiar with Labyrinth, but want to give it a shot, it's very much like an issue of the dreaming in the same end universe or even an issue of fables. It plays by those same rules, it's a great story and you get to just sort of explore this world following this character. I thought it was fun. Pete:                Yeah. I mean the whole time I was just thinking about how much [inaudible 00:13:43], loves this. Justin:              There you go. Pete:                But yeah, it was impressive. It was a new take on something that we've seen a ton. So it was nice to kind of like… I was impressed that it was fresh and the art was different, but it felt like it fit in the world. Yeah, I wasn't really a huge fan of the Labyrinth, you know? I mean, I respect the Bowie and stuff like that, but I was really impressed with this take and with this story. Alex:                 All right. Let's move from a book that Pete was sure that I was all over to a book that I was sure Pete was all over. King-Size Conan number one from Marvel written by Roy Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman and Steven S. DeKnight. Art by Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman, and Jesús Saiz. So this is a tribute to Conan. It is a bunch of short stories about different parts of Conan's life. As usual the short story collection, I think mileage may vary, but for my money I thought the last story by Steven S. DeKnight was awesome. I love that one. I thought that was great. The rest of them were like your standard hack and slash fair, but that was the one that I was really into personally. Pete:                All right. You don't have to shit on the other ones [inaudible 00:15:06]. Alex:                 The other ones were pieces of shit. Pete:                No. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 Is what I definitely think. They're not good art and good writing through out. Pete:                Yeah, the Claremont one I enjoyed, but the Eastman one, it was like I got into a cozy sleeping bag from the '90s and just wrap myself self in nostalgia and was just so happy. It's just great to see his art. I mean, it's a little weird in color, but it's still just it's so grimy and fantastic in all the right ways and I think it fits with Conan. It's cool. Alex:                 Did you find any poggs at the bottom of your sleeping bag? Pete:                No. Justin:              Get out of that sleeping bag dude. Pete:                I was never a pogger. Justin:              Okay. Pete:                Never into the poggs, but yeah, I think this is great. A lot of great stories. Yeah, and the last one was cool. Also the art themselves we're very different, but really worked. It was impressive. Justin:              Yeah, I liked this a lot too. Conan's one of those characters that has these three iconic eras. Then I think if you haven't read Conan, Jason Aaron's run on Thor sort of echoed in a really good way, where it's like young Thor, young Conan, middle sort of Thor, that's confident and a great warrior and it sort of seeded all and then King-Conan who is sort of a little bit over it, and I like all these stories. The first one I thought it was really cool because it dovetails so nicely with the original publication of Marvel's Conan: The Barbarian, which that was a cool little note and then my favorite version of Conan the more recent books of the last decade or so are the ones when he's with Bêlit his pirate queen. So it was nice to see her again here. Alex:                 Yeah. Good stuff overall. Next up An Unkindness of Ravens number four from Boom Studios written by Dan Panosian and illustrated by Marina… Marianna, excuse me, Ignazzi. Here we're finally kind of getting some answers about what's been going on, but this book there is a teen witch not named Sabrina who has come to a small town, find some weird goings on. There seems to be two warring factions who were both gunning for her, and here a lot of the things that we have suspected since the first issue come out. I like that they aren't wasting a lot of time on this mysteries in this book and they're finally pulling the lid back on them so to speak. Justin:              Agree. Though that I will say the beginning of each issue has some good mystery building stuff where we're getting a totally different sort of art style and some backstory stuff that I think is really cool. Dan Panosian who we had on the show is the writer of this book and he… The Panosh as he has never- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:17:56], calls him that. Justin:              As he's never been called in his life. He illustrates the beginning of each book, which I think is very cool and then the main story it's really good. The art style is sort of in that Archie world, but telling a story that sits right alongside Sabrina, if you're a fan of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Pete:                Yeah, I agree. It's cool. It's almost like making fun of the Archie style in a way, where it's just like a little edgier. Also I think it works great. I'm impressed with this story. Also you shouldn't take old timey pills in a paper cup and then drink. You know that's just a bad combo. Justin:              What are the oldest pills you think are safe to take? Are you talking about… Like when you say old timey, do you mean like… Because the oldest pills were just little pebbles that people would take. Pete:                Oh, thanks man. Just the- Alex:                 Yeah. OG pills? Pete:                OG pills- Justin:              Yeah. Pete:                Yeah. The original gangster of pills. Yeah, it looked like those old little paper cups that you see and he was just kind of tossing back some classic red and white pills there, and yeah. The art style is kind of like this Archie, but different, but the facial expressions are really great and especially in the main character. I think this is fun and different and cool. I like it. Alex:                 Next up Sea of Sorrows number two from IDW written by Rich Douek. Art and color by Alex Cormack. We had- Pete:                [crosstalk 00:19:38], we had Rich on the show. Justin:              Yes. Take it easy guys. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Yeah, not too rough. This is a story about a bunch of treasure hunters who encounter, or maybe some deadly mermaids. This is great. This is terrifying. This is the scariest issue I've read all week easily. Justin:              Yeah, the tone of this book is just so good. The way they draw the depths of the water is scary. The way the art is from, it's so much… Like this is a very specific note, but it's like so much up and down like vertical when they're under water. Like when you read an issue of Aquaman or Namor. It's sort of a scene like you'd see on any other book except under water. With this I could see these real long angles of these people under water and just add so much tension to it. All the characters are sort of greedy, up to no good. It's great. Pete:                Yeah, this is dark on top of dark and then scary as fuck, man. This is like a crazy book and it's intense to read because there is no hope, there's no chance. It's all going bad and the sea is a dark, dark place in this book and it's filled with things that are going to kill you. So this is intense and definitely worth picking up if you're into that type of shit my man, but get ready. Justin:              Have you guys ever been in water before? Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              You guys are like really- Alex:                 Oh, man. No, I haven't tried it yet. Pete:                Well, it was funny because Rich was talking about like… You know he's from New York City and he would go to the beach, but there's a real big difference. The first time I went into the ocean off of a boat where there's no land in sight, it's scary as fuck and I think this book kind of does a good job of really kind of grasping that. Alex:                 I panic when I get into the deep end of pools because I imagine there's a shark under me if I can't get to the bottom, so. Justin:              Wow. Pete:                Yeah. I'm ready to go to the ocean. Let's do this. Alex:                 No, man. You will- Justin:              You really don't like the ocean? Alex:                 No, I really… Like I get an overactive imagination when the water is too deep and I can't see the bottom. We used to go snorkeling when I was a kid quite a bit and if we were on the low part, we're kind of swimming up to a reef or something like that. All good, but once we got past that where I couldn't touch the bottom with my feet, it really became like, “Okay, something is going to bite me. Something is going to eat me. What's coming? What's going to happen? Oh God.” And I would just get this spiraling panic until I got back to the shore. Justin:              Oh, man. I can't wait for our triple Caribbean vacation. We're going to have a blast. Pete:                No way, man. Alex:                 Good times. Let's talk about The Last God number 11 from DC comics written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Art by Riccardo Federici. Another guest that we had on the show this week. We had Phillip talking about this issue. This is the second to last issue of the first series in Felspire Chronicles. Yes. Pete, do you have a question or a statement? Pete:                I have something I wanted to point out. Usually you do such a great job with your transitions, but I just feel like you really missed an opportunity from going from Seas of Star Wars to Sea of Stars. I just wanted to point that out real quick. Alex:                 You know what? I purposely separated them because I kept confusing them. Pete:                Yeah. [crosstalk 00:22:58]. That makes sense. Alex:                 There you go you are absolutely correct. Later in the podcast, we're going to be talking about Sea of Stars number eight, but I kept them separate because I thought it was weird. All right. So let's talk about The Last God instead. This is a big dark issue where things go down. Justin:              Holly shit. Alex:                 I don't think they're going to get out of this one. Pete:                There's plucky kids. Justin:              It doesn't look great. I mean, every time we talk about this book, it's all about there's just so much depth here of the fantasy, the mythology it's so well thought out. The art is amazing. It feels like the… Every page feels like the cover of a fantasy novel in the best way, and it does feel like a new take. It's like a ruined fellowship as Phillip said on the podcast and to get to be in that with them and still have it, it's not so stiff as it might come across. It's not like these people aren't saying we must continue. Like sometimes the sort of the token characters come across like they're still joking around, they're still like being real people and that's great to see. Pete:                I got to tell you hearing PKG get worked up about this in how… And do it, he gets with just seeing the back matter in the songs and stuff in this issue really lets you know how deep this rabbit hole goes. Like you think you have an imagination of what you want to have happen. He has it worked out tenfold and it's really impressive. The art is just phenomenal. Each issue kind of takes you to this kind of creepy magic place. Yeah, this was a fantastic issue. Great ending. I really can't wait to see how this is all going to kind of go down. Yeah, man, the battle stuff is just glorious. Alex:                 Next let's talk about The Department of Truth number four from Image Comics written by James Tynion IV. Art by Martin Simmonds. Now earlier I said that Sea of Sorrows was the scariest thing that we read all week, I think I lied. I think this actually was. This book is incredible and this issue in particular is so expert at getting under your skin and making you feel uncomfortable. The writing is phenomenal. The art is phenomenal. If you haven't been reading this, this is about a organization, a part of the US government maybe devoted to not debunking conspiracy theories, but stopping conspiracy theories before they could become true based on everybody's belief. Here we get the belief that the characters of the organization is having challenged on their own as we find out more about Black Hat, the organization that's fighting against it and the stuff that they lay out here is so upsetting to read in exactly the right way. A fantastic book, but as I said very scary and very uncomfortable to read at the same time. Pete:                I want to hear Justin take because he was saying this is his pick of the week. So I'm excited to hear what he's going to say. Justin:              Yeah. I love this book. Like I'm a big news junkie and this book is like, Oh, this makes me feel so much better to have someone sort of digesting these things and making it make sense in a fictional context, but it actually is quite stressful to really feel these beliefs that real people in our world believe, and have it… The premise of the book is that if enough people believe in a very simple idea that is false, it still manifests in the real world and I think that is such a smart premise and scary and feels real to us. Like the book does this just great sort of loop-to-loop mentally for us as the reader, because the premise is about flies becoming real, but that's also happened in our world. It's such a smart book. Pete:                That whole thing about Barack just blew my mind. I- Alex:                 And you believe it now, right? Pete:                Yeah. It was just one of those things where they in this book were able to pull off kind of like a trope that we've seen in a lot of horror movies and spoiler, but the whole like “The room in the next room.” I was like, “Oh shit.” But like that's such a thing that I should have seen coming. It's just… Oh, man. It's intense. It uses real life that makes it scarier. Yeah, the art's phenomenal. This is a crazy read and it's really impressive. Alex:                 Two things that I wanted to mention about this book in particular. One, a couple of issues back they introduced these… Issue two actually I think, they introduced this star face man who are our main character that we are following who is new to The Department of Truth was maybe, or maybe not tortured by this being years back, wants to track him down and wants to stop him and it uses a lot of antisemitic tropes and as a Jewish man myself, I was very uncomfortable about it. Reading this issue the targets conspiracy theories around birtherism and Barack Obama made me realize in retrospect that, “Oh yes, of course they are trying to make me feel uncomfortable with this plot line. They're trying to make me feel this is upsetting.” And so to elicit that reaction, I think is the right thing. Alex:                 The other thing that I wanted to mention is the end of the book, and this is a big spoiler, but by the end of the issue our main character is told, okay, this Washington Post reporter and presumably his editor, you got to kill them. You got to just shut this down because even if they say they're not going to follow this up, at some point they're going to mention it and it's going to take on a life of its own and the Washington Post reporter I believe says something to the effect of, “Hey, you're one of the good guys, right?” And while he's crying, he says, “I think so.” And shoots them, and that in essence kind of defines and redefines the entire series because we realize, Oh, okay. We have a predilection to think that people we're following the heroes, maybe they're not. Justin:              Yeah. And I think I had that same feeling of dread reading this about just controlling the truth is a slippery slope to be on. So that's a great tension for this book. One of the things I want to mention, there's an ad on the back of this book for the new Anthology series from W. Maxwell Prince, the writer of Ice Cream Man called HaHa, coming out in January. Very excited for that. Alex:                 Me too. Pete:                I don't know if I'm ready for that. Alex:                 Neither am I. I feel like my wife, who is a clown is going to be hypercritical of it. We'll see what happens. Maybe we'll have her on the show. Next up [crosstalk 00:29:52], History of Animation number two from IDW written by Fred Van Lente and arts and letters by Ryan Dunlavey. Just a little note, we're going to have him on the show I believe next month or maybe February. Pete:                Fred. Alex:                 Have a chat about this book, so that should be a lot of fun. This book is great. I know we talked about this the last time, but here we're finally getting to the point where Disney is ascended and Walt Disney at least in this world and probably in ours as well is a sociopath. Justin:              Yes. Pete:                Yeah. It's super crazy to read this. You know that Fred Van Lente just did all this off the top of his dome. Like this guy knows so much about Animation. Alex:                 He made it all up, right? Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 He made up all this shit? Pete:                No, no. He just knows it- Alex:                 The Department of Truth. Pete:                … because he lived it, man. He lived it all. Alex:                 Oh, God. That's crazy. Justin:              He lived it. I love that little facts you learn every time you read any books that these guys do together, and this is so interesting. Like just one from the beginning here Marjorie Sullivan I think wife of the creator of Felix the Cat, notable drinker fell out of her window and died trying to hail her chauffeur while she was drunk. Just those little details, these little stories that are just so interesting, and then the way they incorporate imagery from the actual cartoons and animated projects they're talking about is really cool. Alex:                 And it's also funny. You know it could just be a history lesson that feel like reading Wikipedia, but they make it engaging, they make it fun as they have done with every comic they've done across the board. This is great. I'm very excited to keep reading this book and see how they get up to modern history. It's really fascinating so far. Next one Doctor Doom number 10 from Marvel written by Christopher Cantwell. Art by Salvador Larroca. This is the last issue of this title. I believe the last one we read was the first issue of this title. So I figured it was worth checking in. Part of the criticism I believe we had with the first issue was it seemed a little light and fun for a Doctor Doom book. This issue was not light and fun, [crosstalk 00:32:00], but definitely very dark in exactly the right way. I thought this was a great ending for the series. How'd you guys think? Justin:              I agree like the first issue I think was called Pottersville last issue called Bedford Falls, I think those are two references to its wonderful life. My favorite movie at the holidays. So this felt very timely and it's just a great character study of Doctor Doom that we get to see played out here, cementing him as a straight up villain. He gets played a lot in Fantastic Four as sort of a little bit of a softie. He has a connection with Valerio thanks to Hickman's run, but I think this is the best Doctor Doom. He's a petty, very powerful super villain and we get to see that on display. Pete:                Yeah. Just to me the way it ended was great. When it started, I was like what are we doing here? I don't want a different Doom, but just the way he's like never was, never will be good. Like that was just so bad-ass, such a great Doom kind of like ending. So I was really impressed with how this ended. Justin:              You were like here comes the Doom? Pete:                Yeah. “Here comes the Doom.” Alex:                 Well from Sea of Sorrows to Sea of Star number eight from the Image Comics written by Jason Aaron and Dennis Hallum. Art by Steven Green. So we had Dennis Hallum on the show, live show a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was really fascinating frankly reading this now knowing that… Unless I got it wrong, Dennis writes the dad stuff and Jason Aaron writes the kids' stuff and knowing they kind of write on their own tracks, definitely redefined how I read this book, but still another good weird issue of the story of a dad and his son trying to find each other in the universe. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, really knowing that about the book it definitely changes how you read it. This book reminds me so much of sort of last season late episodes of Adventure Time where it's like a little bit trippier it's a little bit like you don't quite know where the deeper underpinnings are blending with the fun mythology stuff and I'd love that. So I love this. Pete:                Yeah. This continues to be just kind of like I'm worried about the kid and if they're going to find each other, but I'm also having such a great time with the amazing stuff that is happening and to see that the dad kind of get to have some fun in this issue was great. Before he was just kind of just scared shitless for his son and kind of panicking. This was I feel like a cool kind of turn where now both characters are kind of like looking for each other, but they're all both also kind of having fun out here in the Sea of Stars. Alex:                 Next up Transformers/Back to the Future number two from IDW written by Cavan Scott. Art by Juan Samu. I got to tell you I was fine with the first issue of this book. I thought it was fun, but okay. We get of course time travel story where the Decepticons take over the past of Hill Valley, turn it into a despotic future. Marty McFly has left there, but the reveal at the end that the DeLorean is a transformer was like, “Great. Now we're into it.” This issue paid off of that promise. It was a blast to read, super dumb and silly and fun in exactly the right way. Like I said, I had a blast reading this. I had a lot of fun. Pete, I'm sure you had fun as well. Pete:                Yeah. This is just a ton of just kind of like mash up fun. You know like what's better than DeLorean being a transformer, spoiler also the goddamn skateboard is a transformer. Justin:              Yes. Oh, you're not a fan of Skills. The transformer who's also a skate board. This makes me think like, can any wield object be a transformer? Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              Like- Pete:                Well, also I got to say the ending was also a lot of fun. Doc Brown, looking like he's got the Mando gun going on and I tell you what, I don't know what future those ties are, but I can't wait to get there because that's a fun looking tie and I'm hoping to rock one, one day. Justin:              Yeah, sort of the bandolier tie? Pete:                Yeah, man. Justin:              Here's what want to pitch given what I just said sort of an Amish wagon transformer series [crosstalk 00:36:46], wheelbarrow, there's a Turner, there's- Alex:                 My name is Rumspringer. I'm an auto bot. Pete:                Rumspringer. Alex:                 Yes. There's more than meets the eye. Yeah, this is a blast read. It's very silly but it's very fun the right way. Next step action comics number 1028 from DC comics written by Brian Michael Bendis. Art by John Romita Jr. This is the last issue of Brian Michael Bendis's run on the title. He's wrapping everything up with the super family before he move on with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, who again we had on the live show talking about his new run so go check that out- Pete:                [crosstalk 00:37:22], key guests. Justin:              We're topical. Pete:                Man. Alex:                 But what do you think about this issue? What do you think about Brian Michael Bendis's run on the super family as a whole? Pete:                I thought you were going to be like, what do you think of this Brian Michael Bendis guy? Alex:                 Do you think he's going to do well? Pete:                I thought this was very swing issue, cool ending, love the thank you notes by the desk cubicle, amazing art, touching story. I thought this was a great Superman comic. Justin:              I mean, this is Bendis doing what he does best and Bendis writes great sum up issues for his runs, where he… Because his whole thing is like really bringing characters down to earth, having them having a take and really connecting with the other characters in their universe and that is what this is all about. We get to see this stuff from the Jimmy Olsen series where he has purchased The Daily Planet. Perry's very fun, we don't get a ton of time with actual Superman stuff happening here which I thought was interesting, but I love the family stuff. That's what I really liked about the run before Bendis took over so I'm glad we're sort of landing there because I hope that we'll play a lot in going forward and honestly, I don't feel as burnt by the Superman and Clark Kent revealing themselves to the world as I did initially. Alex:                 Yeah. I think that's a fair estimation of it and overall, this is a good fun issue. It doesn't feel particularly essential necessarily. It's been weird reading the sum-up issues before they move on to Future State where it's like well, see you later, is kind of what they feel like, but John Romita Jr art, it's good. He's drawn a good superman. It's a nice time. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Next up The Scumbag number three from Image Comics. Written by Rick Remender. Art by Eric Powell as considering the story of the worst guy on earth who can save the earth. Here, I think we kind of complete the first arc and move into the second arc or at least the second villain for our dirt bag hero naturally saves the world, but does some terrible things in the process. This book continues to be very timely in an interesting way and funny at the same time. Justin:              Yeah. I mean, I agree. It's a classic Remender book where it's like a strong, good premise for a story. It's very funny, but there's always some stuff underneath. It's really like commenting on our world in a way that is really nice. Pete, give me your take on this 1978 Firebird trans in. Pete:                Come on, man. I mean I was a little disappointed with the sex doll edition, but that is like, Woo-hoo, baby. Justin:              Now that's a transformer, right? Pete:                Yeah. it should be. Justin:              I do like the last page that sets up our next field and as you said Alex, the sort of accolade looking people hundreds of them on laptops typing on the bright side of the moon with a mysterious villain watching over them is a great setup. Pete:                I also like how there's this line with the scumbag, you know what I mean? Like okay, the scumbag gets to be a scumbag at different moments, but it's also like, “Hey man you can't be a piece of shit and have superpowers. That's not how it works, you know?” And that really kind of comes back to- Justin:              Oh wait Pete. Actually, have you ever met villains? Have you ever met any supervillains? Pete:                No, I haven't. Cause I'd probably be dead if I did, but thank you for asking? Justin:              No. I mean, have you ever read about them, because those people are mostly assholes who have super powers. Pete:                Oh, okay. Interesting take, but- Justin:              And I'll also mentioned Eric Powells art, which is like what if Mad magazine, but super fucked up, which is fun to read. Alex:                 It's just a fun book across the board. Let's move to a slightly more serious one Scarenthood number three from IDW. Story and art by Nick Roche. Color by Chris O'Halloran. In this book we've been following a father and his friends, who have to deal with some weird going on in their town, around the school that their kids go to. Here a lot comes out about our main character that makes him I think in a really interesting way less palatable as well as we get the lid blown off when it comes to the supernatural storyline. It was definitely a big issue. Justin, you've been really liking this book in particular I think. Justin:              I like this book a lot because of those swerves that it keeps taking. It's interesting we've spent the first two issues really in the head of our main character and then the perspective totally flipped. I love being inside people's heads except for the year that I was trapped inside Pete's head being John Malkovich style. That was a weird ride. Pete:                Yeah. You almost didn't make it out, man. Justin:              That's true, but boy I learned a lot about your schedule, what you do on your private time. Check out the upcoming memoir- Pete:                Yeah. I think this is definitely what it's like to be a parent. Justin:              … if I did it the page story. Pete:                You know, like you've got your responsibilities to your kid and then you have a group of parents that you get together with and you solve crimes and ghost stories and stuff like that. So I feel it's nice to have a representation of what it's like to be a parent in this world. Alex:                 Yeah, I agree. Let's move on and talk about US Agent number two from Marvel written by Priest art by Georges Jeanty. This is continuing a story where US agent is dealing with a lot of things. I'll tell you what, I honestly had a little bit of trouble following this issue even though I remember what happened to the last issue which I think we all liked quite a bit, but the Georges Jeanty art still reliably very good. Justin:              Yeah. I agree. It is. I don't quite know the full take of this story, but I do like it. I like the scenes, I like the issues we're touching on here and I just like US agent as a character. Like what if captain America was sort of a jerk, but really had an inferiority complex, but was always trying to do the right thing. So I like where this book is living. Pete:                Yeah. I had a little bit of a hard time following what was happening, but it's cool. Alex:                 All right. Well, next stop then Undiscovered Country number 11 from Image Comics written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule. Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Leonardo Marcello Grassi. In this issue we're starting to get into the, if not wrap up, at least the back half of the unity storyline. We are in the second ring of a closed off America that has all followed focused on tech, turns out it's terrible. They're powered by baby brains. There is a basically dead woman living in a giant vagina who runs everything and she wants our heroes brains to join them. Alex:                 Here's something that I thought was fascinating about this issue, and this is definitely a spoiler for the issue, but I certainly realized this and the characters realized in this book, they're given a challenge. There said Aurora, who's the person who runs America wants you to either choose a ring of America or keep moving to the next ring until you choose one, and by the end of the book they all realize they say, “Hey, you know what I think we need to do is we need to see all of these rings and get to Aurora and then bring what we've learned. That's the challenge here.” And that's certainly what I thought. I was like, “I'm ahead of this book. I know what's going on here.” But the fact that they said that out loud, that is 100% wrong, right? Pete:                Yup. Justin:              Yes. I think that was a classic bait and switch move that we get a little bit of a pay off right here. Pete:                But also we're plug for the first-generation iPod in the middle of this. Alex:                 Still good man [crosstalk 00:45:23], click wheels are really good. [crosstalk 00:45:27], plus all crazy bass they had for songs on those things. Justin:              You can listen to one whole U2 album on there, and that's the only thing. If I remember correctly, that's the only thing you can listen to on it. Yeah, I really liked this arc especially. Like we talked about it before, but it really focuses up a lot of the ideas and you have more of a sense of the characters coming out of the first arc. So it really moves in a nice way, and so many ideas. Pete:                I think it's an interesting idea just like, Oh, you just got to give up your second born. Not your first born to be a floating brain just your second born, you know what I mean? No one really cares. Alex:                 I think I can do that. Justin? Justin:              Yeah. Wait a second. Are you a first born or a second born? Because I think- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:46:16], I'm a firstborn. Justin:              I'm a first born. Pete, aren't you this younger brother? Pete:                Nope. I'm a firstborn as well. Alex:                 Oh, great. Well this is all working out so well. The book is really good, definitely pick it up. Next up at last something… Oh yes. What's up Pete? Pete:                I did want to say though that every time I think I have a handle on what's going on, they're like nope, not even close. Which is not really frustrating, but impressive that I could still be confused after this long, but man the art and the paneling it's just really impressive. Okay, sorry. Alex:                 No. It's all right. Last but not least Something is Killing the Children number 13 from Boom Studios written by James Tynion IV. Art by Werther Dell'Edera. We're finally getting an event that's been promised pretty much since the first issue where our main characters compatriots come to town and start killing everybody. She wants to shut down the monsters that are killing the children as quickly as possible. Every issue… I know I say this every issue, but so little happens but it's of such import to the characters, it still feels media at the same time and Werther Dell'Edera art is phenomenal. Another great issue of this book. Justin:              Every single issue of this is just so great and the art is just… There's at least one or two panels where you're like fuck man I would love to have that. It's like a desktop background or a poster or something. It's just glorious. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:47:49]. That would be so cool to have it as a desktop background. Pete:                Yeah, because you get to stare at it every day you fucking dick. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:47:57], a laptop. I don't want to brag or anything. Justin:              Mr. Desktop over here. I would love to have it just as printed on my sheets. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:48:05], to have it on my van. Justin:              Yeah. The inside or the outside are both? Alex:                 Inside. I don't want other people to see. Justin:              Nice. Alex:                 It's for me. Justin:              That's for you. That's for daddy. Yeah, I like this book a lot. I will say the pace of this book is gotten, it's pretty… Not a ton of story happens each issue, and I'm curious if that will change. Because I think it needs to make some larger moves. So maybe- Pete:                So you're saying this wildly popular book that is really impressive they should just change it? Justin:              I think it could pace up a little bit. I feel like we've been in this narrative moment for quite some time. Pete:                Yeah, but if you read in the trade then you're fucking fine, they don't have to change anything. Justin:              Don't tell me what to do. Pete:                Well, don't tell it what to do, enjoy it for what it is. Alex:                 Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to tell those of you listening what to do. If you'd like to support us patrion.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come hang out. We would love to chat with you about comics. iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app is you are trying to subscribe and listen to the show @comicbooklive on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next time we've been Comic Book Club, peace out. Justin:              Oh, when I lived in your head Pete, I told you what to do all the time. (singing). The post The Stack: Dark Nights Death Metal, King In Black And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. 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Wonder Woman fights the bad guys through the ages! Jason Inman is here to talk the 2019 Comic Drive! Plus, we review The Magicians #1, Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Death of Superman #1, Robotech Remix #2, and Jojo Rabbit! What are you waiting for? Take the jump and get to listening to the Major Spoilers Podcast. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) INTERVIEW Jawiin Comic Drive for Service Members 2019 REVIEWS STEPHEN THE MAGICIANS #1 Writer: Lilah Sturges ARTIST: Pius Bak Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 6, 2019 MEET THE NEW CLASS OF BRAKEBILLS COLLEGE! * Series creator Lev Grossman returns to BOOM! Studios for an all-new story in the world of The Magicians with Lilah Sturges and artist Pius Bak that features the first appearance of the next generation of heroes and villains! * Long after Quentin Coldwater has graduated from Brakebills, Dean Fogg welcomes the first class in Brakebills history to include hedge magicians, who are known for being dangerous practitioners of unsanctioned magic. * As these two student bodies clash to prove their superiority, everyone at Brakebills is forced to take a side - not realizing a new threat has targeted them all! * But the reason for this change at Brakebills will rock them to their core - and shock longtime fans of The Magicians! [rating:4/5] MATTHEW TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE: DEATH OF SUPERMAN #1 Writer: Jeff Loveness Artist: Brad Walker/Andrew Hennessy/Norm Rapmund Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $5.99 Release Date: October 30, 2019 In a broken world much like our own, Lois Lane, twisted by rage and grief, becomes the Eradicator and takes revenge on those who let Superman die, and the corrupt world he could never defeat. Now, with the power of a god, she's going to end the battle by any means necessary...and the Reign of the Supermen will be over before it begins! [rating:3/5] RODRIGO ROBOTECH REMIX #2 Writer: Brenden Fletcher Artist: Elmer Damaso Publisher: Titan Comics Cover Price: 3.99 Release Date: September 19, 2019 Dana Sterling travelled back in time and saved her past - but has she lost her future? Faced with new enemies, old friends, and parents who barely know her name, can the half-Zentraedi Robotech ace carve out a place for herself in the cosmos? Brenden Fletcher (Motorcrush, Isola) and artist Elmer Damaso (Robotech/Voltron, Speed Racer) continue the first arc of Robotech: Remix! [rating: 3/5] ASHLEY JOJO RABBIT Writer: Taika Waititi Director: Taika Waititi Studio: Fox Searchlight Release Date: Oct 18, 2019 Description Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend -- Adolf Hitler -- Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on. [rating: 4/5] DISCUSSION WONDER WOMAN: HER GREATEST BATTLES Writers: Various Artists; Various Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $9.99 The perfect companion piece to 2017's highly anticipated film Wonder Woman is here. With the powers of a god and the fighting spirit of an Amazon, Wonder Woman is Earth's fiercest defender. On Themyscira, Diana was trained from birth to be a warrior. Her skills in battle are unmatched, as are her bullet-stopping bracelets and Lasso of Truth. Now, relive her greatest triumphs! CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.