Podcast appearances and mentions of Russell Dauterman

Marvel artist and Thor legend RUSSELL DAUTERMAN stops by to talk with Ryan and Faz about his career, designing Thor's world, and what he's up to these days! Follow Russell on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/rdauterman/?hl=en Consider supporting the show on PATREON: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/user?u=65477484⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Theology Beer Camp 2024 - Use our code "BIFROSTHOBBIT" for money off your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/theology-camp-the-return-of-the-god-pods-tickets-824208298207 Join the conversation on DISCORD: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/XHA3a2b2uH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our INSTAGRAM: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/manypathspodcasts?igsh=Nm15MjQ2dW10cXZ3&utm_source=qr⁠

We talk about how we did at the first BEC3 Ohio Valley qualifier. We recalibrate Sentinel MK4. Fred is awful at comics trivia. Finally, we rate Storm, the Queen of Sol. You can find a list builder and reference webapp at https://cerebromcp.com Watch us on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/crithitwild Comic art by Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson Dice rolling sound from https://soundbible.com/ Music from https://www.bensound.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crit-hit-wild/support

In which artist Russell Dauterman joins us to discuss super-powered costume design! X-PLAINED: Why it's important to get a professional to design your superhero costume Why Miles doesn't trust the government Russell's history at Marvel Designing for the Hellfire Gala Mutant fashion The word “fashionize” Iconic looks Modernizing superhero costumes Powers vs. personality Punk goddess Storm Designing for drawability Magic hair Russell's influences Definitive Rogue costumes X-Men ‘97 Best X-team costumes Jay's holy grail cosplay Magic hair, cosplayed Costume retrospectives Where to find Russell online Evil twin trends of the 1990s Fuck You Pink NEXT EPISODE: Jay & Miles Live at the Clinton Street Theater! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

Feral's back - just in time to wreck Jay's voice again! (And Siryn's, but we'll get to that later.) (X-Force #88) In which timeline math is almost never worth it; Tarot comes back from the dead (kind of) (maybe); Magma makes a heel turn; “King Bedlam” would be a great name for a ska band; not every nude man can turn into a bear; and you don't have to talk to your supervillain relatives. X-PLAINED: The Triune Understanding Birthday party follow-up X-Force #87-90 Legacy and continuity Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson) Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert) Goat Simulator King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson) The New Hellions Perils of body-swapping Linear time Science Armageddon Man Paradigm Senator Owen Danville Family A fancy hat Madame Web Many natural disasters Early Genoshan history Longshot as a villain NEXT EPISODE: Dressing the X-Men with Russell Dauterman! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

Welcome to the (Not So) New 52, a real-time retrospective of DC Comics' New 52 imprint! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:51 - Justice League of America #13 (Matt Kindt and Tom Derenick, Eddy Barrows) 0:12:08 - Constantine #12 (Ray Fawkes and Beni Lobel) 0:20:40 - Batman #29 (Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo) 0:33:03 - Batgirl #29 (Gail Simone and Fernando Pasarin) 0:42:55 - Nightwing #29 (Kyle Higgins and Russell Dauterman) 0:49:16 - Superboy #29 (Marv Wolman and Andres Guinaldo) 0:58:19 - Superman / Wonder Woman #6 (Charles Soule and Tony S Daniel) 1:06:57 - Green Lantern Corps #29 (Van Jensen and Bernard Chang) 1:17:02 - Justice League 3000 #4 (Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Porter) 1:27:25 - Next Week's Books patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast (Use #New52) discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz Find out more at https://the-not-so-new-52.pinecast.co

Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes. The 2024 Super Bowl was the most-watched program in American television history with 123.4 million viewers. The House of Mouse let loose several bits of exciting news after their quarterly earnings call on February 7. Animation fans were surprised with the release of a teaser trailer for Moana 2, which will be in theaters in November. Bob Iger also announced that Zootopia 2 will release in 2025 and Frozen 3 and Toy Story 5 will drop in 2026. Fans of the recent Percy Jackson and the Olympians series officially received the news that season two has been greenlit. Disney is investing $1.5 billion Epic Games - known best for Fortnite. CEO Bob Iger explained that the goal is to create a gaming universe that features beloved characters from Disney's hottest franchises such as Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and more. And last - but never least - it was announced that Taylor Swift's concert film The Eras Tour will stream exclusively on Disney+ beginning March 15.Last week we discussed the seemingly-rushed new Jurassic World movie, which had announced that its director would be David Leitch. But talks between Universal and Leith fell through and the director is no longer attached to the project.  In a surprising move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences governing board announced a new category that will first be given away in 2026 - Best Achievement in Casting. It's been nearly 25 years since a new category was announced - the last one being Best Animated Feature Film in 2001. A joint statement from the Academy Casting Director Branch governors expressed appreciation for the acknowledgment and recognition for casting directors. Official rules will be announced in April 2025 and films of that year will be the first ones considered for the award.  Paramount released the first trailer for its limited series and Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off, Knuckles, starring Idris Elba in the lead voice acting role. The six episode show will debut on Paramount+ on April 26. This March, Marvel Comics will release a prelude comic for the X-Men ‘97 animated show. The first issue features a wraparound cover by Russell Dauterman. The limited series will be four issues long. Celine Song is reuniting with A24 for her second feature film following her Best Picture directorial debut Past Lives. The new film, titled Materialists, is described as a romantic comedy with Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans in early talks to star. Sony is shutting down its Funimation app and moving subscribers over to Crunchyroll, but the move does not include their already purchased content. Seven Star Wars comics will feature variant covers featuring some of the women of the galaxy far, far away for Women's History Month in March. HBO is developing an Aegon's Conquest Game of Thrones series, which will serve as a prequel to House of the Dragon. Mattson Tomlin, who wrote parts of Matt Reeves' The Batman and is co-writing the upcoming sequel, will write the series. Michael Chaves, who has directed previous installments in The Conjuring franchise, including 2021's The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Nun II is in negotiations to direct what is being eyed as the fourth and final outing in the franchise currently under the working titled The Conjuring 4. After being saved from a tax break death at Warner Bros., the John Cena and Lana Condor movie, Coyote Vs Acme is officially being shelved forever. Although Warner Brothers did attempt to shop the film to other studios including Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount, their asking price of between $75 and $80 million for the film was too high to attract a buyer. Wicked author Gregory Maguire will release a new prequel titled Elphie: A Wicked Childhood on October 1. Maguire has written eight Oz-inspired books.

Welcome to the (Not So) New 52, a real-time retrospective of DC Comics' New 52 imprint! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:03:27 - Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion #5 (Brian Buccellato and Scott Hepburn) 0:11:24 - Justice League of America #12 (Matt Kindt and Tom Derenick, Eddy Barrows, R.B. Silva) 0:20:55 - Suicide Squad #28 (Matt Kindt and Jason Masters) 0:29:01 - Constantine #11 (Ray Fawkes and ACO) 0:37:58 - Batman #28 (Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Dustin Nguyen) 0:46:41 - Batgirl #28 (Gail Simone and Fernando Pasarin) 0:57:28 - Nightwing #28 (Kyle Higgins and Russell Dauterman) 1:07:37 - Superboy #28 (Marv Wolman and Andres Guinaldo) 1:17:47 - Superman / Wonder Woman #5 (Charles Soule and Tony S Daniel) 1:26:25 - Green Lantern Corps #28 (Van Jensen and Bernard Chang) 1:37:00 - Justice League 3000 #3 (Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Porter) 1:49:23 - Next Week's Books patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast (Use #New52) discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz Find out more at https://the-not-so-new-52.pinecast.co

We're brining out our August Patreon exclusive episode from the vault and we're talking Jonathan Hickman's X-Men omnibus with art from Lenil Yu and Russell Dauterman. How did Jake survive the worst natural disaster of his life? Was the California hurricane as bad as anticipated? How have the Maui wildfires effected us? Will they be able to listen to Comics and Chronic? What are the ridiculous right wing conspiracies about the wildfires? What is the creepy TikTok sound? Is Jake a flat-Earther? Did the X-Men barely survive high school? Is Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters equivalent to getting a GED or the ROTC? What is an omnibussy? How does this comic and episode connect to House of X/Powers of X? What's been happening on Krakoa? How many dark secrets is Cody revealing this episode? What were our favorite arcs in this omnibus? Who is Nimrod? Do the X-Men always lose? What is ORCHIS? How do they use A.I. and monkey to fuck the mutants up? Is this omnibus inconsistent? How do we feel about the art? How did we feel about the one-shots in this omnibus? Did we love the silent issue? Why were the U.N. and Crucible issues our favorites? Does Wakanda Forever borrow from the U.N. issue? Does that issue have Jason Bourne vibes? Is Cyclops a badass in this run? Is Apocalypse a badass in a suit? What is The Crucible? How did anyone on Krakoa agree to it? Is Nightcrawler more religious in this run? Would we rather see a live-action or animated Krakoa adaptation? Should the MCU adapt this story? Can Cody stay awake to finish watching Secret Invasion? Does Storm have cancer? Who is Fantomex? Who are the Children of the Vault? Who is Synch? What is Arakko? What role does Magneto take on Krakoa? Why can't Mystique resurrect Destiny? Who is Betty Yayo 2069? What is Namor up to? What happens at the end of the first Hellfire Gala? And in this episode we draft the Comics and Chronic X-Men squad!! Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComicsandChronic Check out our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.comicsandchronic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ New episodes every THURSDAY Follow us on social media! Instagram // Twitter // TikTok : @comicsnchronic YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC45vP6pBHZk9rZi_2X3VkzQ E-mail: comicsnchronicpodcast@gmail.com Cody Twitter: @Cody_Cannon Instagram: @walaka_cannon TikTok: @codywalakacannon Jake Instagram: @jakefhaha Anthony Instagram // Twitter // TikTok : @mrtonynacho YouTube: youtube.com/nachocomedy

Adam and Khelan catch up with the absolutely astonishing artist, Russell Dauterman. We discuss his process for creating STUNNING Hellfire Gala costumes, costume covers, and get into a special X-Men: TAS edition of "Hated It or Hoteded It". Plus, we talk about his career journey, his Mighty work on Thor, what's next for him in 2024, and even get into his acting career -- wait, WHAT?! You'll just have to listen to find out ;-). Creator Crush is an interview series where we chat with our favorite comic book creators, learning more about their work, their thoughts on the industry, and what makes them so darn special. Homo Superior Podcast is five obsessive queers unapologetically dishing about the X-Men and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Smart analysis and dumb jokes weekly.

The Wasp turns 60! Janet Van Dyne is a mother figure, a good friend, a team leader, and was responsible for naming the Avengers! In honor of 60 years of the Wasp, we're celebrating all the ways Janet has supported her friends, family, and many teams. Plus — of course — we can't have an episode about Janet without talking about fashion!Ellie and Preeti bring in Marvel editor Alanna Smith, Marvel's queen of variant covers and fashion connoisseur Emily Newcomen, (real life) wasp scientist Dr. Seirian Sumner, and writer Rainbow Rowell to help explore all facets of what make Janet so special.Check out Marvel Unlimited's Women of Marvel Reading List for The Wasp!: https://www.marvel.com/articles/podcasts/listen-women-of-marvel-wasp-janet-van-dyne-podcast-episode-highlightsTo follow along with Emily as she surveys The Wasp's 60 years of looks, you can find Russell Dauterman's variant cover here: https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/107651/wasp_2023_1_variant/variant

Comic Reviews: DC Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Max Dunbar, Sebastian Cheng Knight Terrors 2 by Joshua Williamson, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, Caspar Wijngaard, Frank Martin Knight Terrors: Action Comics 1 by Leah Williams, Vasco Georgiev, Alex Guimaraes, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mico Suayan, Romulo Fajardo Jr. Knight Terrors: Angel Breaker 1 by Tim Seeley, Acky Bright, Brian Reber Knight Terrors: Detective Comics 1 by Dan Watters, Riccardo Federici, Brad Anderson Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn 1 by Tini Howard, Hayden Sherman, Triona Farrell Knight Terrors: Titans 1 by Andrew Constant, Scott Godlewski, Ryan Cody Poison Ivy Uncovered Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor 1 by Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch, Kevin Nowlan, David Baron Marvel What If…? Dark – Spider-Gwen 1 by Gerry Conway, Jody Houser, Ramon Bachs, Dee Cunniffe Star Wars: Darth Vader – Black, White and Red X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 by Jonathan Hickman, Gerry Duggan, Adam Kubert, R.B. Silva, Matteo Lolli, Javier Pina, Valerio Schiti, Kris Anka, Pepe Larraz, Russell Dauterman, Luciano Vecchio, Joshua Cassara, Rain Beredo, Matt Wilson, Marte Gracia, Erick Arciniega, Ceci de la Cruz Marvel Unlimited Marvel Meow by Nao Fuji Image Purr Evil 1 by Mirka Andolfo, Laura Braga Dynamite Godzilla: Monsters and Protectors – Summer Smash by Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening, Luis Antonio Delgado Boom Alice Never After 1 by Dan Panosian, Giorgio Spalletta BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness by Steve Skroce, Keanu Reeves, Dave Stewart AWA Ribbon Queen 1 by Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Guillermo Ortego, Dan Brown Scout Quarry 1 by Mike Salisbury, Marvin Luna ComiXology Wraith and Cat by Henry Paul Perlowski OGNs Sofia: Red Chair Beach by Davide Tosello Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow by Joris Chamblain, Fabrizio Petrossi Misfit Mansion by Kay Davault Additional Reviews: Clone Wars s1, Invincible/Atom Eve bonus episode, Barbie, Haunted Mansion, Dragon Prince s5, Stranger Things s4, Secret Invasion finale, Miraculous Lady Bug, My Adventures With Superman News: Spider-Man 4 in development, Donald Glover show-running and writing Lando series, new Tom King/Peter Gross book from Boom, Sony delays everything, Loki s2 on Oct 6 Trailers: Strange Planet, Loki s2, Nandor Fordor and the Talking Mongoose Comics Countdown (25 Jul 2023): 1.      Bone Orchard Mythos Tenement 2 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart 2.      BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness by Steve Skroce, Keanu Reeves, Dave Stewart 3.      Rogue Sun 14 by Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, Abel, Natalia Marques 4.      Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor 1 by Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch, Kevin Nowlan, David Baron 5.      Seasons Have Teeth 4 by Dan Watters, Sebastian Cabrol, Dan Jackson 6.      w0rldtr33 4 by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, Jordie Bellaire 7.      Incredible Hulk 2 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Matt Wilson 8.      Newburn 9 by Chip Zdarsky, Jacob Phillips 9.      Traveling to Mars 7 by Mark Russell, Roberto Meli 10.  Dead Lucky 7 by Melissa Flores, French Carlomagno, Mattia Iacono

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon!NEWSTitan Comics announces ‘The Savage Sword of Conan' for 2024Women of Marvel panel reveals new ‘Spider-Gwen' and ‘Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi seriesEverything we know about the ‘Howard the Duck' 50th-anniversary one-shotMarvel sheds new light on 'Daredevil' #1 series relaunchNew details and covers revealed for 'Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld' #1Sequel 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II - Re-Evolution' out December 2023Full October 2023 DC Comics solicitations: Gotham War and Godzilla, oh my!‘Beyond Real' psychedelic and ambitious series launching October 2023AWA partners with ILP for new slate of literary projectsOur Top Books of the WeekDave:Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #1 (Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch)X-Men (2021): Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 (Gerry Duggan, Adam Kubert, Luciano Vecchio, Matteo Lolli, Russell Dauterman, Javier Pina, R.B. Silva, Joshua Cassara, Kris Anka, Pepe Larraz)Nathan:Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #1 (Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch)Hellcat #5 (Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness #1 (Keanu Reeves, Steve Scroce, Dave Stewart)Dave - Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #1 (Dan Watters, Riccardo Federici)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Astonishing Iceman #1 (Steve Orlando, Vincenzo Carratu)Nathan: Doctor Strange #6 (Jed MacKay, Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, Juan Gedeon)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Fantastic Four #10 (Alex Ross)Nathan: The Sacrificers #1 (Tula Lotay)Segment: Interview - Kelly ThompsonFOC (August 13 Release Date SEP 5TH, 2023) Artist: LEONARDO ROMERO, Jordie BellaireBlack Canary, Cassandra Cain, Batgirl, Big Barda, Zealot, and Harley Quinn,Black Cloak #6 out next week!We can already tell Birds of Prey is going to be a blast, if you were to describe the vibe you're going for in a sentence or two, what would it be?I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a book that means a great deal to me: Jem and the Holograms. I can't help but see some parallels! How did your work on that series about a girl gang with a badass lead vocalist prepare you for Birds of Prey?With a few issues under your belt at this point, I'm sure, is there a character that floats to the top of most fun to write? Follow up, who is a character that surprises you the most?We all know Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire are gosh darn gifts to the comics community. Were there particular visual moments that impressed you or surprised you in the first issue or two that you'd like to shout out?Something that always impresses me is your dialogue, particularly with groups! I've come to learn after interviewing different writers the approach to writing good dialogue can be different. Is there a particular technique you use in writing dialogue, or feeling out how different characters will approach one another?We're greatly enjoying Black Cloak at AIPT, which presents a fully realized new world. How do you approach worldbuilding? Is there a Black Cloak Bible? (Folks should definitely check out the finale next week.)You also have The Cull coming out from Image Comics on August 16th, described as horrifying and delightful with a group even the press release calls reminiscent of the Goonies. When creating an entirely new friend group, how do you go about crafting their personalities and making them a unit, but separate?Anything else you'd like to promote today? Where can people find you?

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon!NEWSMarvel Comics October 2023 solicitations are here!The death of Moon Knight begins October 18thNew Marvel variant cover program showcases heroes reading top comicsWerewolf Captain America returns in 'Capwolf & the Howling Commandos' #1Marvel scares up 'Crypt of Shadows' #1 anthology for HalloweenNew 'Spine-Tingling Spider-Man' #1 launching October 18th'Superior Spider-Man Returns' October 11th'Rom: The Original Years Omnibus Volume 2' coming June 2024​​'Hack/Slash: Back to School' gets Zoe Thorogood headliningNew details emerge for DSTLRY series 'Gone' by JockArmy of Darkness sequel in the worksA supernatural road war ignites in 'Drive Like Hell' #1Dynamite reveals 'Savage Red Sonja' coming November 2023Digital Comics Platform GlobalComix Announces $6.5M Investment Led By Point72 VenturesMike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's 'Giant Robot Hellboy' coming October 2023Our Top Books of the WeekDave:A Vicious Circle #2 (Lee Bermejo, Mattson Tomlin)Tales of Titans #1 (Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Javier Rodriguez)Nathan:Hawkgirl #1 (Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan)Blade #1 (Bryan Hill, Elena Casagrande)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - Harley Quinn: Black, White, and Redder #1 (Chip Zdarsky, Kevin Maguire)Dave - Knight Terrors: Superman #1 (Tom Reilly, Josh Williamson)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Hellfire Gala 2023 (Gerry Duggan, Adam Kubert, Luciano Vecchio, Matteo Lolli, Russell Dauterman, Javier Pina, R.B. Silva, Joshua Cassara, Kris Anka, Pepe Larraz)Nathan: Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor #1 (Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Storm #3 (Russell Dauterman Hellfire Gala Cover)Nathan: Knight Terrors: Angel Breaker #1 (Chuma Hill)Segment: SDCC extravaganza! Eisner Award 2023 winners!Trick-bowling and vigilantism combine in ‘The Holy Roller'DC Comics news:Gotham Panel (Thursday) – Embargoed until 1:45pmPTBatman: Outlaw (new story arc in Detective Comics)Outsiders (new series by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing)(AIPT link) Jim Lee & Friends panel (Friday) – Embargoed until 7:00pmPTBeast World (Tom Taylor, Ivan Reis, Travis Moore)Superman 30th Anniversary SpecialJustice League vs. Godzilla vs. King Kong (AIPT link) World of Metropolis (Saturday) – Embargoed until 1:30pmPTKneel Before Zod (Joe Casey) Return of Joe Casey to DC Dawn of DC Knight Terrors (Saturday) – Embargoed until 2:45pmPTAmazons Attack (new Josie Campbell series following Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman, not spinning out of)Marvel Comics news:Designing the X-Men: A This Week in Marvel Special Event (Thursday, 7/20, 4:00-5:00pm PT)X-Men Blue: Origins #1 New One-Shot, On Sale November 2023 Written by Si Spurrier, Art by Wilton Santos, Cover by Francis Manapul Asset: Main Cover  THE DEFINITIVE NIGHTCRAWLER ORIGIN STORY! This is the one you can't miss, True Believer! You think you know how the beloved blue devil came into this troubled world? You think you know the tale of his mendacious mamma Mystique? You don't! Mother and son reunite in a mold-shattering tale that exposes secrets held for decades and redefines both characters forever. A collector's item in the making. "Who Are The New X-Men?” Teaser  X-Men #29 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale December 2023  Written by Gerry Duggan, Art by Joshua Cassara, Cover by Joshua Cassara ENTER: DOOM'S X-MEN! With the X-Men at their lowest point, yet another group has moved to claim their title…this one a band of patriotic Latverian mutants loyal only to the great and terrible Doctor Doom! Beloved and celebrated by the nation they are bound to protect, this is one squad of X-Men for whom the Fall of X has given way to glorious summer. https://aiptcomics.com/2023/07/20/sdcc-2023-designing-the-x-men-panel/RETAILER PANEL (Friday, 7/21, 12:00-2:30pm PT)Superior Spider-Man #1 New Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Dan Slott, Art by Mark Bagley, Cover by Mark Bagley A Superior Reckoning! SPIDER-MAN faces a NEW VILLAIN from his SUPERIOR past. As she fries New York with all the power of a living star, DOC OCK makes a life-changing discovery! MARK BAGLEY and DAN SLOTT continue their Spider-Man run with this 10th-ANNIVERSARY celebration of everything that made Spider-Man Superior. (AIPT article)Wolverine #37 Variant Cover by Greg Capullo Variant Cover for Upcoming Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale September 2023 Art hereDeadpool: Seven Slaughters #1 New One-Shot, On Sale November 2023 Written by Rob Liefeld, Cullen Bunn, Cody Ziglar, Marc Guggenheim, Justina Ireland and Gail Simone; Art by Rob Liefeld, Greg Land, Whilce Portacio, David Baldeon and Phillip Sevy; Cover by Greg Capullo Seven kills in seven days! Welcome to a week in the life of Wade Wilson, the best mercenary Marvel's ever had (just ask him)! From facing off with rival killers to top secret assassinations, DEADPOOL has a lot of work to do in this blood-soaked oversized issue full of fan-favorite creators past and future!https://aiptcomics.com/2023/07/21/marvel-teases-two-new-rob-liefeld-projects-at-sdcc-2023/Daredevil: Black Armor #1 New Limited Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by D.G. Chichester, Art by Netho Diaz, Cover by Mark Bagley BACK IN BLACK!  D.G. Chichester returns to Hell's Kitchen to spin an all-new DAREDEVIL story set during his landmark run with the character! Joined now by rising star NETHO DIAZ with covers by industry legend MARK BAGLEY, this is one DAREDEVIL series you can't afford to miss! Peach Momoko's Demon Saga: Demon Days Black & White Edition  New Collection, On Sale 2024 Written by Peach Momoko, Art by Peach Momoko, Cover by Peach Momoko  Artist phenom Peach Momoko's acclaimed reimagining of the Marvel Universe - presented in stunning black and white! A wandering swordswoman with a psychic blade arrives at a village targeted by demons. One is black-and-white with a horrifying tongue, and another may be the strongest demon there is! Mariko Yashida hears mysterious voices and has strange dreams that feel real. Maybe her redheaded maid who dresses all in black might know more than she lets on? But as Mariko embarks on a wondrous journey, deadly creatures lurk in the woods — including a mysterious blue-skinned woman and a giant with super-strength and claws! Enter a creative and mysterious new world of demons, monsters, mutants and magic! COLLECTING: Demon Days: X-Men (2021) 1, Demon Days: Mariko (2021) 1, Demon Days: Cursed Web (2021) 1, Demon Days: Rising Storm (2021) 1, Demon Days: Blood Feud (2022) 1, King in Black 4 (Demon Days Prelude), Elektra: Black, White & Blood (2021) 4 (Demon Days story) Howard the Duck #1 New One-Shot, On Sale November 2023 Written by Chip Zdarsky, Daniel Kibblesmith, Merritt K & More; Art by Joe Quinones, Annie Wu & More; Cover by Ed McGuinness  CHIP ZDARSKY, JOE QUINONES & FRIENDS HELP HOWARD CELEBRATE HIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY IN THIS ALL-NEW ONE-SHOT!  Meet Howard. He's a hard-boiled P.I. with problems by the duckload. But a cosmic, all-seeing friend(?) known as the Peeper(!) is giving him a chance to see what his life COULD be! The joys he COULD have! All the ways his life COULD suck way less than it does now! In other words: “Whaugh If?”  Nightmare Variant Covers by Peach Momoko New Variant Cover Program, On Sale December 2023 Art by Peach Momoko  Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 New Limited Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Tom Defalco, Art by Pat Olliffe, Cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli AFTER NEARLY FORTY YEARS, THE MYSTERIES OF THE SECRET WARS DEEPEN! Get ready for an ALL-NEW cataclysmic battle from when SPIDER-MAN first got his ALIEN COSTUME, when a mysterious being called the BEYONDER assembled super heroes and villains from Earth to do battle on a patchwork planet – yes, witness now an untold adventure set during the original SECRET WARS! MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS set the standard for Marvel Comics events (as well as action figures and the characters existing on the forefront of pop culture), and this new story will at last reveal some secret connections and MISSING CHARACTERS going back to the 1984 original series, just in time for its 40th Anniversary! What SECRET TEST are the BEYONDERS conducting…and how will SPIDER-MAN, the HUMAN TORCH and the whole cast determine the fate of the universe? (PLUS: Surprise super-villain appearances inside!) MARVEL: Heroes, Hulks and Super-Soldiers (Friday, 7/21, 3:00-4:00pm PT)Punisher #1 (New Character)  New Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by David Pepose; Art by Dave Wachter; Cover by Rod Reis Is this the return of Frank Castle—or the start of something else?Frank Castle has disappeared, but evil will always need to be punished. With all-new threats rising to claim innocent victims, criminals will need to beware of a dangerous vigilante hunting them from the shadows. Who is the new Punisher? What put him on his path of vengeance? And when the smoke clears, will he even make it out alive?  (AIPT article) Cover & Trailer RevealsCaptain America #1 Previously Announced Upcoming Ongoing Series, On Sale September 2023 Written by J. Michael Straczynski, Art by Jesus Saiz, Cover by Jesus Saiz (AIPT Article) Captain America #3  New Issue of Upcoming Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by J. Michael Straczynski, Art by Jesus Saiz, Cover by Jesus Saiz Misty Knight has uncovered a string of murders with seemingly supernatural origins – and Captain America's been marked as the next target. Something about the crime scene strikes Steve as familiar…but can he find the connection between the murders and his past before this mysterious new threat finds him?  Incredible Hulk #6  New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Art by Nic Klein, Cover by Nic Klein ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE GHOST RIDER!  Charlie reminds Bruce that he's more than a man on the run – he's an Avenger, a hero. And heroes help people. When their travels lead them to a Texas town under attack by dreaded monstrosities known as war devils, it's time for the Hulk to step in... but he rouses an undead Spirit of Vengeance from his eternal slumber, summoning a 100-year-old Ghost Rider to ride down the Hulk! (AIPT article) Moon Knight: City of the Dead #5 New Issue of Limited Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by David Pepose, Art by Marcelo Ferreira, Cover by Rod Reis Having fulfilled his sinister ritual, the JACKAL KNIGHT's ultimate ascendance is at hand – by conquering the land of the living with the endless hordes of the City of the Dead! Outnumbered and overwhelmed, can Moon Knight dig deep within himself to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? With all the blood on his hands, can a man like Marc Spector find redemption even at the end of the world? And what might the future hold for the Scarlet Scarab? Don't miss the thrilling conclusion of Moon Knight's most death-defying adventure yet! Rob Liefeld projectsMARVEL: Next Big Thing (Saturday, 7/22, 3:00-4:00pm PT)Timeless #1 2023  New One-Shot, On Sale December 2023 Written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Art by Juann Cabal, Cover by Kael Ngu BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE - FEATURING THE DEBUT OF TWO NEW MARVEL ICONS! In a devastating future borne from the choices of today, all of time and space is threatened by the ascension of an ancient evil. The MOON KNIGHT UNENDING has risen - a nightmare borne of StarkTech, the Eternal Machine, and the God of the Moon - and now all of Earth bows before his overwhelming power! But one man stands against Khonshu's coming tide of chaos: POWER MAN, the Marvel Universe's final living superhero. But who is Power Man - and how did he come to wield the unstable powers of the Sentry, the Hulk, and the Iron Fist? What dark, deeply personal conflict underpins this mind bending apocalypse? And at the end of the line, can the Marvel Universe ever truly be saved? Featuring shocking glimpses into the next year of Marvel stories! Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant  Previously Announced New Limited Series, On Sale August 2023 Written by Iman Vellani & Sabir Pirzada, Art by Carlos Gomez, Cover by Sara Pichelli KAMALA KHAN IS BACK…AND SHE'S AN X-MAN!  That's right - the good news is that fresh off her world-saving death, Kamala has been brought back via Krakoan Resurrection Technology! What a way to learn she's a mutant! The bad news is her debut at the Hellfire Gala didn't go exactly as planned, and now all of mutantkind are being hunted worldwide! Into this world of hate and fear, Kamala has a secret mission to pull off for the X-Men, all the while struggling to acclimate to this new part of her identity! PLUS: This huge new chapter of Kamala's story is being co-written by the MCU's own Kamala, Iman Vellani, and Sabir Pirzada of both DARK WEB: MS. MARVEL and her Disney+ series! Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War (Crossover)New Crossover, On Sale November 2023 Amazing Spider-Man Gang War: First Strike #1 New One-Shot, On Sale November 2023 Written by Zeb Wells, Art by Joey Vasquez, Cover by John Romita Jr. PRELUDE TO GANG WAR! The super-crime landscape of New York has been on edge. This issue, they jump over that edge. What incites the war?! Who hired Shotgun and took out Tombstone? What, if anything, can Spider-Man do about it? Everything you need to know before GANG WAR officially kicks off next month is HERE. Luke Cage: Gang War #1 New Limited Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Rodney Barnes, Art by Ramon F. Bachs, Cover by Caanan White GANG WAR: FIRST STRIKE!  In the wake of the Anti-Vigilante Act, Luke has been trying to save the city from behind a desk. But a meeting with old friend DANNY RAND reminds him of the good old days when problems could be punched in order to solve them. As New York descends into a GANG WAR, Luke must use every power he has to protect the innocent and save his city! Spider-Woman #1 New Limited Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Steve Foxe, Art by Carola Borelli, Cover by Leinil Francis Yu GANG WAR: FIRST STRIKE!  The Web of Destiny restored Spider-Woman's life, but even CAPTAIN MARVEL and MADAME WEB can tell something's changed. Now SPIDER-MAN wants to recruit her for a new team because VIPER has engineered a deadly union between HYDRA and DIAMONDBACK that's about to tear the city apart, bringing forth a new foe powerful enough to destroy the city while burning Spider-Woman's world to the ground. DON'T MISS OUT on this action-packed premiere that features CAPTAIN MARVEL, SPIDER-MAN, VIPER and DIAMONDBACK…and introduces a terrifying new force of evil in SPIDER-WOMAN's world! Miles Morales: Spider-Man #12 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Cody Ziglar, Art by Partha Pratim, Cover by Federico Vicentini GANG WAR: FIRST STRIKE! SPIDER-MAN is on the hunt to find a terrifying new foe before they sink their fangs into Miles' best friends. Only the vampire hunter BLADE and his daughter, BLOODLINE, may know the secret of the villain's past – but are the vampire hunters keeping secrets of their own? And what is Hobgoblin secretly scheming while Spidey is completely overwhelmed? Last issue before GANG WAR! Amazing Spider-Man #37 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Zeb Wells, Art by Ed McGuinness, Cover by Ed McGuinness GANG WAR: FIRST STRIKE! Rek-Rap returns! Spider-Man's fun-house reflection might just be the thing to help the wall-crawler out of the darkness he can't seem to shake. Well, Rek-Rap MIGHT help if he weren't targeted by the scariest new Spidey-Villain in decades! GANG WAR IS COMING! Amazing Spider-Man #38 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale November 2023 Written by Zeb Wells, Art by Ed McGuinness, Cover by Ed McGuinness GANG WAR: FIRST STRIKE! Can Spider-Man and Rek-Rap both survive the repulsive REPO?! THE LAST ISSUE BEFORE GANG WAR! Amazing Spider-Man #39 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale December 2023 Written by Zeb Wells, Art by John Romita Jr., Cover by John Romita Jr. GANG WAR STARTS HERE! Super-crime is running rampant, and Spider-Man can't solve just one problem at a time. So Spidey builds a team to take down ALL the super-criminals of NYC in 48 hours. Good luck, Spidey. Miles Morales: Spider-Man #13 New Issue of Ongoing Series, On Sale December 2023 Written by Cody Ziglar, Art by Federico Vicentini, Cover by Federico Vicentini AMAZING TEAM-UP AS THE GANG WAR RAGES ON!!! New York is under siege as super villains and criminal gangs violently carve the city up like pie. Miles Morales' job? Save all of Brooklyn from destruction! But there are too many fires for the Spider-Man to put out on their own. The most unlikely super-allies will rise on BOTH sides. And while Miles has his hands full fighting criminals and escaping Scorpion and the anti-super Cape Killers taskforce, HOBGOBLIN is making his big move!!! Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Gang War #1 New Limited Series, On Sale December 2023 Written by Greg Pak, Art by TBD, Cover by TBD  

Marvel's Stormbreaker artist Lucas Werneck joins the show to discuss the ultimate influential issue on his artistic career - New X-Men 121 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly. What an amazing issue that stands the test of time and even got it's own homage duplicate in Giant-Size Jean Grey and Emma Frost in the Krakoan era, drawn by Russell Dauterman. Lucas debuted in the comic book industry in 2016, with works published by DC Comics, Boom Studios, and is currently a Marvel Exclusive artist, acting both as a penciller and cover artist.Main Credits include, X-Men: Hellfire Gala, Immortal X-Men, The Trial of Magneto, & Marauders.Also! We have new theme music by GRAMMY-nominated, BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory! We're gobsmacked. Wintory is best known for his iconic video game score to Journey, plus so much more. https://www.austinwintory.com/ Find us on the AIPT Podcast Network. Follow our show to be alerted when new episodes appear the first and third Wednesday of the month. Check us out on social media @xreadspodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. For business inquiries, email xreadspodcast@gmail.com. Our theme music is by Austin Wintory. Learn more at https://aiptcomics.com

Christian Bladt, Michael Shirley, Kaitlin Cornell and Eric Conner discuss one of the books that heavily influenced this year's "Love And Thunder", Jason Aaron' and Russell Dauterman's "Mighty Thor : Thunder In Her Veins" from 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Django is still out in Montana sipping and dipping in a mermaid lounge, so this week it's just Coco, Jojo, and Roro. That means secrets are spilled, Django gets a little ca-djoled (all in good fun, of course), and tangents are discussed at length! So come on in, friends, and join us for this reverie!0:06:55 - Amazing Fantasy #10000:19:45 - Fantastic Four: Full Circle0:32:55 - Thunderbolts #10:42:40 - Wonder Girl 2022 Annual #10:46:50 - Trial of the Amazons Discussion w/ Roman0:48:46 - Phantasmagoria #10:51:30 - Colette's Cover Cornucopia (feat. Russell Dauterman's amazing work)0:52:30 - Check-in with Djangorbitron!0:59:12 - Cosmic Detective1:09:44 - New stuff the crew has been watching!SPOILERS! Tread carefully dear listener, because we're going to talk about what happened in these books. So maybe pause this, read your books, and come back. We'll still be here!And an enormous thank you, as always, to Andrew Carlson for editing this mess into something listenable.Subscribe to us on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts.Email in questions at jeff@thecomicsplace.com! We love hearing from you and there's a good chance we will read it on air!You can also join the Comics Place Discord here: https://discord.gg/rW8EBftHx8Special this week: Follow Django on TikTok and follow his Montana adventures: @prettygoodtiktokvideos

¡TRUENO Y ROCK! Y amor, claro... Charlamos de la más reciente película del MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder, con nuestros amigos Lisandro y Mario de Hablando en Globitos. Todo lo que pasa en la peli de Taika Waititi y compañía, todo lo que significa para el universo Marvel en pantalla, los temas y arcos de los personajes, y más. Además, el volumen cuatro del comic Thor (por Jason Aaron y Russell Dauterman, de donde surge Jane Foster como The Mighty Thor. Con música de Michael Giacchino & Nami Melumad, KISS, y Twisted Sister. Próximo programa: Ms. Marvel (TV y Comics).

Comic Reviews: DC Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman 1 by Tom King, Chris Burnham, Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown, Fico Ossio, Sebastian Cheng, Adriano Lucas Batman Urban Legends 17 by Ryan Cady, Joey Esposito, Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Riley Rossmo, Amancay Nahuelpan, Serg Acuna, Gleb Melnikov, Scott Hanna, Trish Mulvihill, Jordie Bellaire, Luis Guerrero, Alex Guimaraes Superman: Son of Kal-El 13 by Tom Taylor, Nicole Maines, Clayton Henry, Marcelo Maiolo Zatanna and the Ripper web comic by Sarah Dealy, Rachel Koo, Syro, Ayumumum Marvel A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment by Kieron Gillen, Pasqual Ferry, Dean White Daredevil 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Rafael de Latorre, Matt Wilson Star Wars: Mandalorian 1 by Rodney Barnes, Georges Jeanty, Karl Story, Rachelle Rosenberg X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2022 by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Kris Anka, Carlos Villa, Russell Dauterman, Rain Beredo, Frank Martin, Matt Milla, Matt Wilson Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic Image 7174 Presents Haunted Universe 1 by T.P. Louise, Ashley Wood Above Snakes 1 by Sean Lewis, Hayden Sherman Impact Winter by Travis Beacham, Stephen Green, Matt Hollingsworth ComiXology Beatrix Rose: Vigilante by Stephanie Phillips, Valeria Favoccia, Ellie Wright Boom Flavor Girls 1 by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky, Eros de Santiago Dynamite Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator: Necronomicon Rising 1 by Erik Burnham, Eman Casallos Legendary Three Little Wishes GN by Paul Cornell, Steve Yeowell, Pippa Bowland, Simon Bowland Vault Barbaric: The Harvest Blades by Michael Moreci, Robert Wilson IV Ray's OGN Corner: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen Additional Reviews: Ms. Marvel finale, Kung-Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, Batman: The Adventures Continue s2 News: Irredeemable returns… via Kickstarter?, Alden Ehrenreich cast in Ironheart (Hood?), FF casting rumors, the demise of Oni Press, Harley s3 release date Twitter Challenge from Gary Hogan (FF casting) Trailers: Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Munsters, Surfside Girls, Harley s3 Comics Countdown: Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman by Tom King, Chris Burnham, Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown, Fico Ossio, Sebastian Cheng, Adriano Lucas Eight Billion Genies 3 by Charles Soule, Ryan Browne Rogues 3 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs, Jason Wordie Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones 3 by Cullen Bunn, Emily Schnall, Tyler Crook Daredevil 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Rafael de Latorre, Matt Wilson Three Little Wishes GN by Paul Cornell, Steve Yeowell, Pippa Bowland, Simon Bowland Superman: Son of Kal-El 13 by Tom Taylor, Nicole Maines, Clayton Henry, Marcelo Maiolo Undiscovered Country 19 by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Leonardo Marcello Grassi, Matt Wilson Punisher 4 by Jason Aaron, Paul Azaceta, Jesus Saiz, Dave Stewart Ordinary Gods 7 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Felipe Watanabe, Frank William, Clayton Cowles

Listener, we would have words with thee! As the Odinson and the Mighty Thor swing their hammers onto the big screen in Thor: Love and Thunder, Paul and Arlo revisit some of the film's influences for this month's Four-Color Flashback. The boys dig deep into the early part of Jason Aaron's run on the golden-haired Avenger, with Thor: God of Thunder #1-25 and Thor (2014) #1-8. Topics of discussion include the dynamite art of Esad Ribić and Russell Dauterman, Thor's crisis of faith, why Jane Foster wielding Mjolnir makes for such a great reinvention of the character, and more.   NEXT: anything is possible.     BREAKDOWN 00:00:32  -  Intro / Banter 00:04:55  -  Main Topic 00:11:54  -  INTERLUDE: Giving Arlo $#!& 00:14:01  -  Back to the Main Topic! 01:55:21  -  Outro / Next     MUSIC “Divine Hammer” by The Breeders, Last Splash (1993) “Sweet Jane” by Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Sessions (1988)     GOBBLEDYCARES Abortion Funds in Every State: https://bit.ly/AbortionFundsTwitter National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/  Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/ Support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ The Trevor Project provides information and support to LGBTQ youth: thetrevorproject.org Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/  US (877) 565-8860 Canada (877) 330-6366 National Center for Transgender Equality: transequality.org Advocate for writers who might be owed money due to discontinuance of royalties: https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/  Help teachers and classrooms in need: https://www.donorschoose.org/ Do your part to remove the burden of medical debt for individuals, families, and veterans: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

Updates 3:18 Speculation and MCU Chat Comics 13:31 Captain Marvel #39 19:34 X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 (Gerry Duggan and Kris Anka, Russell Dauterman, Matteo lolli, and cf villa) 33:28 Immortal X-Men #4 (Kieron Gillen and Michele bandini) 42:22 AXE: Eve of Judgment #1 Book club: New X-Men 10-12 [46:48] Rewatch: Ms. Marvel Ep. 6 Finale [52:48]

On this week's comic book review podcast: Star Wars: The Mandalorian #1 Marvel Written by Rodney Barnes Art by Georges Jeanty Dark Crisis - Worlds Without a Justice League - Superman #1 DC Comics Written by Tom King, Brandon Thomas Art by Chris Burnham, Fico Ossio Impact Winter #1 Image Comics Written by Travis Beacham Art by Stephen Green Daredevil #1 Marvel Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Marco Checchetto, Rafael De Latorre Superman: Son of Kal-El #13 DC Comics Written by Nicole Maines and Tom Taylor Art by Clayton Henry Flavor Girls #1 Archaia By Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 Marvel Written by Gerry Duggan Art by Kris Anka, Russell Dauterman, Matteo Lolli & CF Villa Rogues #3 DC Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Leomacs Above Snakes #1 Image Comics Written by Sean Lewis Art by Hayden Sherman Avengers/X-Men/Eternals: Eve Of Judgment #1 Marvel Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Pasqual Ferry Wonder Woman #789 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire Art by Emanuela Lupacchino & Eduardo Ponsica, Paulina Ganucheau 7174 Presents Haunted Universus #1 Image Comics By T.P. Louise and Ashley Wood Punisher #4 Marvel Written by Jason Aaron Art by Jesús Saiz & Paul Azaceta Wonder Woman Evolution #8 DC Comics Written by Stephanie Phillips Art by Mike Hawthorne Eight Billion Genies #3  Image Comics Written by Charles Soule Art by Ryan Browne Wolverine #23 Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy Art by Adam Kubert Naomi Season Two #5 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker Art by Jamal Campbell Justice Warriors #2 Ahoy Comics Written by Matt Bors, Ben Clarkson, Kirk Vanderbeek, Robert Jeschonek Art by Ben Clarkson, Matt Bors, Peter Bagge Undiscovered Country #19 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcello Grassi Slumber #5 Image Comics Written by Tyler Burton Smith Art by Vanessa Cardinali SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM 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: Star Wars: The Mandalorian #1 Marvel Written by Rodney Barnes Art by Georges Jeanty Dark Crisis - Worlds Without a Justice League - Superman #1 DC Comics Written by Tom King, Brandon Thomas Art by Chris Burnham, Fico Ossio Impact Winter #1 Image Comics Written by Travis Beacham Art by Stephen Green Daredevil #1 Marvel Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Marco Checchetto, Rafael De Latorre Superman: Son of Kal-El #13 DC Comics Written by Nicole Maines and Tom Taylor Art by Clayton Henry Flavor Girls #1 Archaia By Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 Marvel Written by Gerry Duggan Art by Kris Anka, Russell Dauterman, Matteo Lolli & CF Villa Rogues #3 DC Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Leomacs Above Snakes #1 Image Comics Written by Sean Lewis Art by Hayden Sherman Avengers/X-Men/Eternals: Eve Of Judgment #1 Marvel Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Pasqual Ferry Wonder Woman #789 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire Art by Emanuela Lupacchino & Eduardo Ponsica, Paulina Ganucheau 7174 Presents Haunted Universus #1 Image Comics By T.P. Louise and Ashley Wood Punisher #4 Marvel Written by Jason Aaron Art by Jesús Saiz & Paul Azaceta Wonder Woman Evolution #8 DC Comics Written by Stephanie Phillips Art by Mike Hawthorne Eight Billion Genies #3  Image Comics Written by Charles Soule Art by Ryan Browne Wolverine #23 Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy Art by Adam Kubert Naomi Season Two #5 DC Comics Written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker Art by Jamal Campbell Justice Warriors #2 Ahoy Comics Written by Matt Bors, Ben Clarkson, Kirk Vanderbeek, Robert Jeschonek Art by Ben Clarkson, Matt Bors, Peter Bagge Undiscovered Country #19 Image Comics Written by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Leonardo Marcello Grassi Slumber #5 Image Comics Written by Tyler Burton Smith Art by Vanessa Cardinali SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us on our Discord soon!NEWSMarvel sets 2023 for Ultraman and Marvel superhero crossoverMarvel launching ‘Wakanda' #1 October with ‘History of the Black Panthers' backupsMarvel unveils SDCC 2022 Comic-Con panel scheduleEscapade returns in three issue 'New Mutants' story arc on October 26thComixology launches kindle betaEve gets follow-up series this OctoberOur Top Books of the WeekDave:There's Something Wrong With Patrick Todd #1 (Ed Brisson, G​​avin Guidry)Poison Ivy (2022) #2 (G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara)Nathan:Poison Ivy (2022) #2 (G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara)Suicide Squad: Blaze #3 (Si Spurrier, Aaron Campbell)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - Batman #125 (Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jiminez)Dave - Ghost Rider #4 (Ben Percy, Cory Smith)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Hellfire Gala (Gerry Duggan, Russell Dauterman, Kris Anka, C.F. Villa, Matteo Lolli)Nathan: Barbaric: The Harvest Blades #1 (Michael Moreci, Robert Wilson IV)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Daredevil #1 (Marco Checchetto)Nathan: X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 (Adam Hughes)Interview with Nicole Maines and Tom Taylor (art by Clayton Henry)You're both writing Superman: Son of Kal-El #13, tell us in three words or less what we might expect with FOC just a few days away!What has the collaboration process been like?What made now the right time to bring Dreamer into the DCU?I've seen a few unlettered and uncolored pages from issue #13 and it appears Jon and Dreamer are in a bit of a conflict, do these two superheroes get along or will there be a conflict between them?Nicole, I'm curious were you a comics fan growing up, what were some titles on your pull list?Eleven issues into Superman: Son of Kal-El, looking back is there anything you'd change or tweak?There's a cliffhanger in Superman: Son of Kal El #10 that reveals Jay may not be trusted, with character reveals like this do you seed the story in earlier issues in subtle ways, or do you try to avoid hinting at these sorts of things?Nicole, what can you tell us about the teased Dreamer project with Rye Hickman, is it an OGN or a series?The full page splash by Jess Taylor featuring Galaxy and Dreamer was super fun, any chance we see a team up with these heroes?

Con la adaptación en el MCU a la vuelta de la esquina, le dedicamos un programa a la etapa completa del Thor de Jason Aaron. Nos centraremos sobre todo en Jane Foster y repasaremos y analizaremos todas las series, eventos y la cronología desde El carnicero de los Dioses hasta La Guerra de los Reinos. Jason Aaron junto a artistas como Esad Ribic, Russell Dauterman, Olivier Coipiel y muchos más nos trajeron una de las mejores etapas del personaje con una longevidad rara vez vista en la editorial.

CAPÍTULO #311… Asgardianos id invocando él Bifröst y preparaos para la guerra que se avecina por que esta semana lucharemos por ser dignos para hablar del Thor de Jason Aaron. Repasaremos la etapa completa centrándonos en Jane Foster como la Diosa del Trueno y pasaremos por todos los diferentes eventos y series hasta la Guerra de los Reinos. Hablaremos también de la última serie que ha llegado a Disney+ que expande Star Wars centrada en Obi-Wan Kenobi con el regreso de Ewan Mcgregor. Y como no puede ser de otra forma os traeremos toda la actualidad del mundo del cómic, noticias, avances y toda la metralleta de lanzamientos de novedades como Stray Dogs, la biblioteca Alpha Flight, Batman Vs Lobo, El espíritu de Lewis, Marvel Legacy y mucho más. Gracias por estar al otro lado agentes.¡Nos oímos! NOTICIAS [00:08:41] Robert Kirkman y Ryan Ottley vuelven al universo de Invencible Jeff Lemire y Sorrentino vuelven para Ten Thousand Black Feathers Neil Gaiman y Mark Buckingham vuelven a Miracleman Titan Comics se hace con la licencia de Conan Novedades Ecc Agosto Novedades Diabolo Julio Marvel se hace con la licencia del Planeta de los Simios Novedades Aleta Julio Novedades Yermo Julio NOVEDADES Y RELECTURAS [00:32:52] Batman vs Feroz Marvel Now Deluxe: Legacy El Pacificador: Perturbar la paz Conan el Cimmerio El incidente Darwyn La doncella de la nieve de la brisa primaveral El espíritu de Lewis Stray Dogs Diamante en bruto Biblioteca Alpha Flight New X-Men de Grant Morrison ANÁLISIS: JANE FOSTER, LA DIOSA DEL TRUENO [02:09:41] Con la adaptación en el MCU a la vuelta de la esquina, le dedicamos un programa a la etapa completa del Thor de Jason Aaron. Nos centraremos sobre todo en Jane Foster y repasaremos y analizaremos todas las series, eventos y la cronología desde El carnicero de los Dioses hasta La Guerra de los Reinos. Jason Aaron junto a artistas como Esad Ribic, Russell Dauterman, Olivier Coipiel y muchos más nos trajeron una de las mejores etapas del personaje con una longevidad rara vez vista en la editorial. SERIES: OBI-WAN KENOBI [04:04:04] Charlamos y comentamos sobre la última serie que ha llegado a Disney+ del universo de Star Wars de Obi-Wan Kenobi. Situada cronológicamente entre los episodios 3 y 4, esta serie tratará la vida del maestro Jedi tras escapar de la orden 66, pero veremos cómo los inquisidores siguen tras su pista y se verá obligado a salir del exilio. Ewan Mcgregor y Hayden Christensen repiten sus roles como Obi-wan y Darth Vader respectivamente en este tan esperado reencuentro tras 17 años. . CORREO DEL AGENTE [05:33:17] Leemos todos vuestros mensajes dejados en las redes y nuestra sección de la voz de los Agentes de Hydra, ¡Habla pueblo Habla! ¡Muchas gracias por escucharnos y todo vuestro apoyo y participación! Tomos y grapas es un medio de comunicación transmedia, disfruta de nuestros contenidos también en nuestra web, YouTube y redes sociales. VISITA TAMBIÉN NUESTRA LIBRERÍA En la Calle Alcalá 211 o nuestra TIENDA ONLINE con el mejor servicio y atención 👉👉 tiendatomosygrapas.com

On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion, Rosie Knight and Cody Ziglar fend off Battra, have a jam sesh with Spider-Punk, and more! That's right: it's volume three of X-Ray Vision's Comics Corner (patent pending). First in Previously On (1:50), Jason and Rosie discuss the greenlit Batman sequel from Matt Reeves, Kevin Feige's announcement at CinemaCon of ten more years of the MCU, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness being banned in Saudi Arabia, and the recently dropped Doctor Strange ‘Time' trailer before the movie's release on May 6. Then, they recap and discuss Moon Knight episode 5, “Asylum.” In the Airlock (39:47), Jason and Rosie are joined by co-host Cody Ziglar to dive deep (deeeeep) into the comics they are reading (and writing) right now, including Zig's fantastic Spider-Punk, Rosie's epic-looking Godzilla one-shot, a host of hero and non-hero comics recommendations, PLUS a comics reading list to prepare you for Doctor Strange. Finally, in Nerd Out (1:16:04) a listener pitches us on Team Starkid. Tune in every Friday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Nerd Out Submission Instructions! Send a short pitch and 2-3 minute voice memo recording to xray@crooked.com that answers the following questions: 1) How did you get into/discover your ‘Nerd Out?' (2) Why should we get into it too? (3) What's coming soon in this world that we can look forward to or where can we find it? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Rosie's IG, website, author archive, & Letterboxd. The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! Spider-Punk – written by Cody Ziglar, pencils by Justin Mason, letters by Jim Charalampidis and cover by Olivier Coipel. Godzilla Rivals vs. Battra – By Rosie Knight, illustrated & cover by Oliver Ono. Hulk (2021-) – By Donny Cates & Ryan Ottley. Bonus: Enemy Mine (1985) – starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. Available to rent on Amazon or AppleTV. Marauders (2022- ) – By Steve Orlando & Eleanora Carlini with covers by Kael Ngu. Marauders (2019- ) – By Gerry Dugan and Matteo Lolli and Phil Noto with covers by Russell Dauterman.  The X Deaths of Wolverine (2022- ) – by Benjamin Percy & Federico Vicentini  Arrive in My Hands by Trinidad Escobar from Black Josei Press. Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion (2019) – by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba. Immortal X-Men (2022- ) – By Kieron Gillen and Lucas Werneck with covers by Mark Brooks. Maison Ikkoku (1980-87) – By Rumiko Takahashi; available from Viz Media. Gleem (2019) – By Freddy Carrasco  Mawrth Vallis (2021) – By EPHK.  A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance (2021- ) – By Rick Remender and Andre Lima Araujo.  DOCTOR STRANGE READING LIST Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment (1989) - Written by Roger Stern with pencils and covers by Mike Mignola and Mark Badger. Captain Carter (Began March, 2022) - Written by Jamie Mckelvie, pencils by Marika Cresta, cover by Mckelvie. The Death of Doctor Strange (2021-2022, 5 issues) - Written by Jed MacKay, pencils by Lee Garbett, covers by Kaare Andrews. House of M (2005, 8 core issues w other crossovers & tie-ins) - Written by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils by Olivier Coipel, covers by Esad Ribic. Marvel Zombies (2005-06, 5 issues) - Written by Robert Kirkman, art by Sean Phillips, covers by Arthur Suydam. Time Runs Out (2014-15) – Running from Avengers #35 - Avengers #44. Written by Jonathan Hickman and art by various, including Jim Cheung, Kev Walker, and Mike Deodato, among others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight revisit Westview New Jersey, the world of sit-coms, and all things chaos magic! First in Previously On (2:51), Jason and Rosie discuss America Chavez co-creator Joe Casey's comments in The Hollywood Reporter on creator compensation, break down the Thor: Love & Thunder trailer with lore, theories, and a relevant reading list for Jason Aaron's incredible and immense run on Thor. Then, they recap and discuss Moon Knight episode 4, “The Tomb.” In the Airlock (1:09:28), they dive deep (deeeeep) into the series WandaVision with a primer on how the series will affect Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness and beyond in phase four of the MCU, with tons of lore-inspired theories direct from the comics. Finally, in Nerd Out (1:40:14) a listener pitches us on best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. Tune in every Friday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Nerd Out Submission Instructions! Send a short pitch and 2-3 minute voice memo recording to xray@crooked.com that answers the following questions: 1) How did you get into/discover your ‘Nerd Out?' (2) Why should we get into it too? (3) What's coming soon in this world that we can look forward to or where can we find it? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Rosie's IG, website, author archive, & Letterboxd. The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! Avengers (2016) by Mark Waid and Mike del Mundo; subtitled “Kang Wars” so you know it's relevant to phase four of the MCU; available on Amazon, Marvel Unlimited, and more. Thor: God of Thunder #1 - 25 by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic; available on Amazon, thriftbooks, Marvel Unlimited, and more. Thor (2014) #1 - 8 by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman; available on Amazon, thriftbooks, Marvel Unlimited, and more. Bonus Material: Original Sin #0 - 8 by Mark Waid and Jim Cheung; available on Amazon, thriftbooks, Marvel Unlimited, and more. Moon Knight by Jeff Lemire, Greg Smallwood, and more; available on Amazon, thriftbooks, Marvel Unlimited, and more. The Vision & The Scarlet Witch (1982) - Volume 1, 4 issues, written by Bill Mantlo & pencils by Rick Leonardi; available on Marvel Unlimited or comixology. The Vision & The Scarlet Witch (1985) - Volume 2, 12 issues, written by Steve Englehart & pencils by Richard Howell; available on Marvel Unlimited or comixology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us in our Discord soon!NEWSRam V takes over 'Detective Comics' with Albuquerque in ‘Gotham Nocturne'DC Pride 2022 creative teams revealed plus sneak peeksNicole Maines to co-write and intro Dreamer in ‘Superman: Son of Kal-El' #13DC Comics expands ‘Batman: White Knight' universe with ‘Red Hood'Marvel releases official ‘All-Out Avengers' series announcement‘A.X.E.: Judgment Day' details surface including tie-in info and event checklistValiant adult novels coming soon with Blackstone Publishing partnershipCharlamagne Tha God expands media empire with graphic novels and comicsArchie Comics teams with Palm NFT Studio for Archieverse collectionMatt Kindt launches Flux House imprint at Dark Horse Comics‘Ms. Marvel & Wolverine' #1 kicks off team-up series by Jody HouserRussell Dauterman slays with ‘Hellfire Gala' looks on Spider-Man, X-Men, and moreOur Top Books of the WeekDave:The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #1 (James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Yanick Paquette)King Spawn #9 (Sean Lewis, Todd, Thomas Nachlik)Nathan:Rain #4 (Joe Hill, David M. Booher, Zoe Thorogood)X-Men ‘92: House of XCII #1 (Steve Foxe, Salvador Espin, Israel Silva)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - X-Men ‘92 #1Dave - Superman Son of Kal-El #13 (Tom Taylor, Cian Murphy)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Captain America #0 (Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Tochi Onyebuchi, Mattia De Iulis)Nathan: Captain America #0JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Captain America #0 by Mark BrooksNathan: Batman/Superman: World's Finest #2 by Pete WoodsSegment: Interview - Cody Ziglar - Spider-Punk! 2 p.m. EST (issue 2 out May 11, 2022)Judging from Twitter, it looks like shops can't keep Spider-Punk on the shelves! Congrats! What has the fan response been like so far?What is it about Hobie Brown that you think pulls people in and makes him so relatable?You've written two really fun Kraven stories now! Is there something about that guy that makes you wanna see him get punched?Slight spoilers, but that Taskmaster redesign is a thing of genius. Was the Danzig element in the script, or was that more of a team effort?Speaking of which, what was the collaboration process like on this book? It has such a wild visual identity. What has it been like working with editor DANNY KHAZEM? He's killing it on these side-spidey books.We talked a bit about the PS4 games the last time you were here. Spider-Punk had THE best suit power, right?Switching gears to What If Miles Morales. How was this project plotted with the other writers?Do you feel like Uncle Aaron is always destined to disappoint Miles?Any other projects you'd like to plug today?

In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by Kate Moran (@kickasskmo) as they discuss Cameron Bess becoming the first openly queer (pansexual) person to go to space, the latest trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, and stan the new look of Storm (designed by Russell Dauterman) for our Strong Female of the Week.  This Week's Topics Include: BIG OPENING:   KEVIN: Final trailer for The Matrix Resurrections KATE:  Glitch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons causes unexpected nudity   DOWN & NERDY:    KEVIN:  The Bitch Who Stole Xmas, Single All the Way, A Clusterfunke Christmas, Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker KATE: Sesame Street, Hawkeye, The Baby-Sitters Club     STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER: Russell Dauterman unveils new look for Storm   THIS WEEK IN QUEER: Cameron Bess becomes the first out pansexual person to go to space   CLIP OF THE WEEK: New trailer for The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window THE WEEK IN GEEK:  MOVIES Director of Shang-Chi signs on for sequel and Disney+ series New trailer for Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon In 2022 Peacock will be streaming Universal movies 45 days after release New trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2   TV New trailer for Halo series on Paramount+ New trailer for season 14 of Drag Race Shudder renews Dragula for season 5 HBO MAX series spinoff of The Batman to feature Colin Ferrell as The Penguin Kevin Feige confirms Charlie Cox will return as Daredevil  New trailer for The Book of Boba Fett Cast announced for The Fall of the House of Usher Netflix cancels Cowboy Bebop after one season   COMIC BOOKS  In surprising news Kickstarter announces its moving to blockchain   SHILF KEVIN:  Kazi KATE: Echo

This week we talk about The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill by Walt Simonson and George Roussos and The Unworthy Thor by Jason Aaron, Olivier Coipel, Kim Jacinto, Matthew Wilson, Esad Ribic, Frazer Irving and Russell Dauterman. We talk about the very beginning and origin of the fan-favorite, BETA RAY BILL and how he plays a pivotal roll in both stories. We talk about the interesting mirrors each story has, and shines on the other as well as the broader techniques each story brings and displays. We also talk about the MCU... ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookraiders/

In our 100th freaking episode, we talk Jane Foster Thor and what makes her so worthy, discussing her history in the comics, why the Aaron/Dauterman run is so iconic, and why she makes us weep.Our Comic of the Week is: Dazzler (1981), Issues #1-4, script by Tom DeFalco, pencils by John Romita Jr., inks by Alfredo Alcala, colors by Glynis Wein, Letters by Joe Rosen.Read more about Jane Foster Thor in the following issues: Might Thor, Issues #1-23 and #700-706 (2015) written by Jason Aaron with art by Russell Dauterman.What a way to celebrate 100 episodes of your favorite bitches talking comics! We love you!

Welcome to Collecting Issues. This week Mick and Ben discuss Thor Vol. 1: Goddess of Thunder from Marvel Comics, by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman, first published in 2014. Join our new Discord server and chat about this issue's comic; Collecting Issues Book Club Find us at www.seomrabeag.com/collectingissues

On this week's Stack podcast: Far Sector #12 DC Comics Written by N.K. Jemisin Art by Jamal Campbell X-Men #21 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Nick Dragotta, Russell Dauterman, Lucas Werneck & Sara Pichelli Birthright #50 Image Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Andrei Bressan Wonder Woman #773 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire Art by Travis Moore, Paulina Ganucheau Six Sidekicks #1 Image Comics Written by Kyle Starks Art by Chris Schweizer The Joker #4 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns Art by Guillem March, Mirka Andolfo The Good Asian #2 Image Comics Written by Pornsak Pichetshote Art by Alexandre Tefenkgi Rorschach #9 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Geiger #3 Image Comics Written by Geoff Johns Art by Gary Frank The Secret Land #1
Dark Horse Comics Written by Christofer Emgård Art by Tomás Aira Karmen #4 Image Comics By Guillem March Wynd #7 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Michale Dialynas Black Hammer Visions #5 Dark Horse Comics Written by Kelley Thompson Art by Leonardo Romero 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 Stack podcast: Far Sector #12 DC Comics Written by N.K. Jemisin Art by Jamal Campbell X-Men #21 Marvel Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Nick Dragotta, Russell Dauterman, Lucas Werneck & Sara Pichelli Birthright #50 Image Comics Written by Joshua Williamson Art by Andrei Bressan Wonder Woman #773 DC Comics Written by Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire Art by Travis Moore, Paulina Ganucheau Six Sidekicks #1 Image Comics Written by Kyle Starks Art by Chris Schweizer The Joker #4 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns Art by Guillem March, Mirka Andolfo The Good Asian #2 Image Comics Written by Pornsak Pichetshote Art by Alexandre Tefenkgi Rorschach #9 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Geiger #3 Image Comics Written by Geoff Johns Art by Gary Frank The Secret Land #1
Dark Horse Comics Written by Christofer Emgård Art by Tomás Aira Karmen #4 Image Comics By Guillem March Wynd #7 BOOM! Studios Written by James Tynion IV Art by Michale Dialynas Black Hammer Visions #5 Dark Horse Comics Written by Kelley Thompson Art by Leonardo Romero 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.

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us in our Discord soon!NEWSMarvel Comics reveals Al Ewing, Ram V, and Bryan Hitch taking over ‘Venom' ongoingDonny Cates and Ryan Ottley join forces for Hulk this NovemberMarvel reveals new details on X-Men series 'Inferno' by Jonathan HickmanHeavy Metal Entertainment announces partnership with GlobalComix digital platformDark Horse Comics to launch Dark Horse Games gaming and digital divisionKodansha Comics adds over 800 manga to Nintendo Switch app InkyPen‘Marvel Multiverse' tabletop role-playing game coming in 2022Batman: Secret Files – The Signal #1 announcedMarvel reveals new Captain America Ari Agbayani for ‘The United States of Captain America' #4Marvel announces ‘The Death of Doctor Strange.' Our Top Books of the WeekDave:Heroes Reborn (2021): Double Action #1 (W: Tim Seeley, A: Dan Jurgens)Catwoman: Soulstealer (W: Sarah J. Maas' Adapted by: Louise Simonson A: Samantha Dodge)Nathan:The Swamp Thing #4 (W: Ram V, A: Mike Perkins)Out of Body #1 (W: Peter Milligan, A: Inaki Miranda)Standout KAPOW moment of the week:Nathan - Batman: The Adventures Continue - Season Two #1 (W: Paul Dini & Alan Burnett, A: Ty Templeton)Dave - Hellions #12 (W: Zeb Wells, A: Stephen Segovia)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: X-Men #21 (W: Jonathan Hickman, A: Russell Dauterman and more)Nathan: DC Pride #1 (W/A: various)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Magic: The Gathering #3 (100 Copy Del Mundo Cover)Nathan: Heroes Reborn: Squadron Savage #1 (David Blatt variant)Segment: Interview: Robbie Thompson - Suicide Squad!

Visit our Patreon page to see the various tiers you can sign up for today to get in on the ground floor of AIPT Patreon. We hope to see you chatting with us in our Discord soon!NEWSDC Comics news Roundup:DC Comics announces 'Superman vs. Lobo' #1 out in AugustReveals ‘The Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox’ #1 coming this AugustDC is launching ‘Batman: The World’ across the globe on September 14DC Comics reveals Infinite Frontier plansDC finally reveals FCBD booksImage Comics announces ‘The Silver Coin’ getting new writer lineupMarvel Comics adds new X-Men series ‘Inferno’ by Jonathan Hickman September 2021Marvel announces another High Republic series for October.Marvel First Look: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ #15 sets ‘The Last Annihilation’ into motionChris tells us about Marvel’s Voices: Pride and Hellfire Gala X-Men Monday stuff!Our Top Books of the WeekDave:The Blue Flame #1 (W: Christopher Cantwell, A: Adam Gorham, C: Kurt Michael Russell)Chris:X-Men #20 (W: Jonathan Hickman, A: Francesco Mobili)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Fire Power #12 (W: Robert Kirkman, A: Chris Samnee, Matthew Wilson)Chris: Marauders #21JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Marauders #21 (Dauterman)Chris: Marauders #21 (Dauterman Connecting Cover)Segment: Interview: Benjamin Percy - Wastelanders, X-Force, X-MenBen, we know you from X-Force, Wolverine...your great run on Green Arrow, with two seasons of Wolverine: The Long Night under your belt, how does it feel to kick off a second scripted podcast series with Wastelanders that’s kicking off a podcast universe?Comparatively speaking, how does scripting a 30 minute podcast compare to a single issue? Is 30 minutes roughly the same as 20 pages of comic, or more?For fans of Ethan Sacks and Robert Gill’s Old Man Quill, does their series tie into the podcast?The Long Night ended up getting a comic book adaptation, it’s early yet, but can we expect the same for Wastelanders?You’ve got Chris Elliot, Vanessa Williams, Danny Glover - Of the voice talent on Wastelanders, who has been your favorite so far?We know Marvel has invited literal celebrities to the Hellfire Gala, any chance we might see any of the actors working on Wastelanders appearing at the Gala as well?X-Force #20 is out this week and your cast is on security detail. Are you jealous the other X-Writers get to have fun inside, getting into all sorts of trouble… or is the real fun on the outside?Have you ever worked security yourself?Of the X-Force members, do any of them actually look forward to running security?What does Ben Percy wear to the Hellfire Gala?I never expected to see Dracula play such a large role in an X-Book again. How did the idea to bring Dracula and vampires into the Krakoa era come about?After the Gala, we get the long-promised return of Solem in the pages of Wolverine. How excited are you to play with this character again?What is the story of old man Percy?Off-Topic Top Shelf - Benjamin Percy - Gentleman in Moscow, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

In this week's episode of Off Panel, writer Gerry Duggan joins to chat about his work in the X-Office. Duggan discusses his recent run of news, Cable's ending, the story they're telling, finite stories vs. ongoings, writing for different artists, the X-Men line as a glacier, the joyfulness of the X-Office, Russell Dauterman's design game, Marauders and continuity, the X-Men vote, the new X-Men team, and more.

In this extended episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by Bobby Hankinson (@bobbyhank) as they discuss all the hawt lewks Russell Dauterman designed for Marvel's Hellfire Gala, check out the new trailer for Cruella, and celebrate the new queer Captain America being introduced by Christopher Cantwell, Josh Trujillo, Jan Bazaldua, and Dale Eaglesham in This Week in Queer.  This Week's Topics Include: BIG OPENING:   KEVIN:  Marvel unleashes Hellfire Gala fashions  BOBBY:  New vocal cast announced for Rugrats reboot   DOWN & NERDY:    KEVIN:  Minari, Servant, Watchmen, Blown Away BOBBY:  Justice League: Snyder Cut, Falcon & Winter Soldier, The Muppet Show, Fortnite     STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER:  New trailer for Birdgirl   THIS WEEK IN QUEER: Marvel introduces a new queer Captain America from queer creative team   CLIP OF THE WEEK: New teaser for Cruella   THE WEEK IN GEEK:  MOVIES The 2021 Oscar nominations announced New trailer for Arlo the Alligator Boy The Venom sequel has been pushed to September   TV Ryan Murphy confirms the name of season 10 of American Horror Story New trailer for Cruel Summer First look at Eclipso in season 2 of Stargirl Syfy renews Resident Alien for season 2 Peacock orders mystery series Poker Face New trailer for Rutherford Falls New trailer for The Irregulars New teaser for the revival of Behind the Music First poster released for Loki Sneak peek at season 2 of Tuca & Bertie   COMIC BOOKS Marvel announces Gamma Flight series featuring trans lead from trans writer   SHILF KEVIN:  Daddy Falcon BOBBY:  Daddy Affleck 

NEWSFull line-up of Free Comic Book Day 2021 titles announcedKickstarter partners with Bookshop.org in new deal which could stoke comic salesSimon & Schuster signs deal with AHOY and Heavy MetalDark Horse announces ‘Black Hammer: Reborn’ for June 23rdDark Horse launching ‘Norse Mythology II’ #1 June 16thDark Horse announces ‘Parasomnia’ #1 by Cullen Bunn and Andrea MuttiMarvel Solicitations for June are here!Al Ewing’s ‘Immortal Hulk’ to get ‘Gamma Flight’ spin off this JuneMarvel’s X-Men are a triple thread in new Russell Dauterman costume designsMarvel Comics reveals new hero Captain America of the Railways‘Captain America’ #30 marks Ta-Nehisi Coates’ final issueStar Wars Pride Month variants coming at yaArchie to publish Rob Liefeld’s ‘The Mighty Crusaders: The Shield’ #1 for JuneDC's adult-oriented Black Label has a new boss: Chris ConroyImage dropping Vinyl and Compass in June.EXCLUSIVE BOOM! First Look: New series Good LuckOur Top Books of the WeekDave:Iron Man (2020) #7 (W: Christopher Cantwell, A: Cafu, C: Frank D’Armata)Nightwing #78 (W: Tom Taylor, A: Bruno Redondo)Nathan:Ultramega #1 (W/A: James Harren, C: Dave Stewart)Radiant Black #2 (W: Kyle Higgins, A: Marcelo Costa)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Detective Comics #1034Nathan: Batman: Black & White #4 (Various)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Carnage: Black, White, And Blood #1 (Ottley Cover)Nathan: Alien #1 (Skottie Young variant)Off Topic Top Shelf: Snyder Cut

In Episode 15 of CEREBRO, Connor and comics critic Sara Century become fire and life incarnate! The only woman on the 1963 X-Men team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Jean Grey began publication as the danger-prone Marvel Girl. Under writer Chris Claremont she was reimagined as Phoenix, the most powerful superhero — and threat to the universe! — at Marvel. The CEREBRO character file on Jean Grey begins at 49:12. (Content Advisory: Jean's story includes brainwashing, rape, genocide, slavery, and suicide.) The episode cover features art of Jean Grey by Jack Kirby, Werner Roth, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Walt Simonson, Jim Lee, Phil Jimenez, and Russell Dauterman.

Dec Solicits New Comics Reviews: Detective Comics 1027 by Peter Tomasi, Dan Jurgens, Tom King, Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Dan Jurgens, Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka, Mariko Tamaki, James Tynion IV, Marv Wolfman, Lee Bermejo, Chris Burnham, Jamal Campbell, Emanuela Lupacchino, David Marquez, Dan Mora, Ivan Reis, Eduardo Risso, Walt Simonson, Brad Walker, Chip Zdarsky, Riley Rossmo, John Romita Jr., Andrew Hennessy, Kevin Nowlan, Joe Prado, Bill Sienkiewicz, Hi-Fi, Jordie Bellaire, Tamra Bonvillain, Nathan Fairbairn, Marcelo Maiolo, Laura Martin, Trish Mulvihill, Ivan Plascencia, Arif Prianto, Alejandro Sanchez Catwoman 25 by Ran V, Juan Ferreyra, John Paul Leon, Fernando Blanco, Ivan Plascencia Amazing Spider-Man: The Sins of Norman Osborn by Nick Spencer, Federico Vincentini, Edgar Delgado Giant Size X-Men: Storm by Jonathan Hickman, Russell Dauterman, Matt Wilson Immortal Hulk 0 by Bill Mantlo, Peter David, Al Ewing, Mike Mignola, Adam Kubert, Mattia De Iulis Iron Man 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Cafu, Frank D'Armata Marvels Snapshots: X-Men by Jay Edidin, Kurt Busiek, Tom Reilly, Chris O'Halloran Stillwater 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon K Perez, Mike Spicer Edgeworld 1 by Chuck Austen, Pat Oliffe, Lee Loughridge Danger Devil 1 by Tong Doug Wright, Joseph Haemmerle, Magnus Dry Foot 1 by Jarred Lujan, Orlando Caicedo, Warnia Sahadewa Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp 1 by Marieke Nijikamp, Yasmin Flores Montanez, Rebecca Nalty Heavy by Max Bemis, Eryk Donovan, Cris Peter Riptide: Draken 1 by Scott Chitwood, Danny Luckert You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy 1 by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, I.N.J. Culbard, Nate Piekos Vampirella: Trial of the Soul 1 by Bill Willingham, Giuseppe Cafaro Additional Reviews: Frankenstein, White House Farm, Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen, Adult Life Skills, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous,  News: Jonathan Majors cast as Kang for Ant-Man 3, another new Snyder creator-owned book, Leinil Francis Yu retires from interiors, WandaVision in 2020, Stumptown cancelled, Tatiana Maslany cast as She-Hulk, secret X-Men launch in December, Tom Hardy might be Bond, Emily Pearson, Archie goes day-and-date w/ Comixology Unlimited, SWORD by Ewing and Schitti, Peacemaker series by Gunn/Cena for HBO Max, all MCU movies pushed back to 2021, Supergirl cancelled, Harley s3 Trailers: Baby Yoda s2, WandaVision Comics Countdown: Stillwater 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon K Perez, Mike Spicer Detective Comics 1027 by Peter Tomasi, Dan Jurgens, Tom King, Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Dan Jurgens, Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka, Mariko Tamaki, James Tynion IV, Marv Wolfman, Lee Bermejo, Chris Burnham, Jamal Campbell, Emanuela Lupacchino, David Marquez, Dan Mora, Ivan Reis, Eduardo Risso, Walt Simonson, Brad Walker, Chip Zdarsky, Riley Rossmo, John Romita Jr., Andrew Hennessy, Kevin Nowlan, Joe Prado, Bill Sienkiewicz, Hi-Fi, Jordie Bellaire, Tamra Bonvillain, Nathan Fairbairn, Marcelo Maiolo, Laura Martin, Trish Mulvihill, Ivan Plascencia, Arif Prianto, Alejandro Sanchez Thor 7 by Donny Cates, Aaron Kuder, Matt Wilson Head Lopper 13 by Andrew MacLean Money Shot 8 by Tim Seeley, Sarah Beattie, Rebekah Isaacs, Kurt Michael Russell Seven Secrets 2 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Walter Baiamonte Marvel Snapshots: X-Men by Jay Edidin, Kurt Busiek, Tom Reilly, Chris O'Halloran Batman 99 by James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez, Tomeu Morey Finger Guns 5 by Justin Richards, Val Halvorson, Nalty, Esposito Once and Future 11 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain

Dylan and Regina discuss last weeks X-Men, Excalibur both preludes to X OF SWORDS and they write a audio love letter to Russell Dauterman for his art on Giant Size X-Men Storm

On today's Stack podcast: Iron Man #1, You Look Like Death: Tales From The Umbrella Academy #1, Batman #99, Thor #7, Stillwater #1, Detective Comics #1027, Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1, Big Girls #2, Justice League #53, Seven Secrets #2, The Immortal Hulk #37, Dryad #5, Catwoman #25, Once & Future #11, X-Men #12, Faithless II #4, The Amazing Spider-Man: The Sins of Norman Osborn #1, and Head Lopper #13. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Transcript: Alex:                 What is up y'all? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin:              I'm Justin. Pete:                I'm Pete. Alex:                 And on The Stack we talk about a bunch of comics that have come out today. Pete:                Sure do. Alex:                 We review them, unless they're DC comics, those rap scallions, they come out on Tuesdays. They go out for 24 hours. You already know about them. Justin:              Yes, but you can read them today. You can read comics whenever you want. That's the freedom of the comic book industry. Alex:                 Right. And if you break into writer's brain, you can read comics that haven't even been made yet, man. You know what I'm talking about? Justin:              Yes. I know what you mean by breaking into a writer's brain too. You talk about with like a hammer? Alex:                 Yeah, man. But six feet away, keep your safe distance. Let's get into this because I don't know where I was going. Pete:                Wait, what? Yeah, what the fuck. Alex:                 I don't know where I was going with this, Pete. Iron Man, number one from Marvel written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Cafu. This is, as you can imagine, another new start for Iron Man, a back-to-basic start after the big robot war. And this book spends quite a bit of time with Tony Stark, the man, before it puts him in a classic Iron Man costume, throws him up against a new, old threat. What'd you think about this book? How'd you feel about this versus the last couple of years in Tony's life? Justin:              I don't know if I'd call it an Iron Man costume, but other than that I think this is a fun book. I feel like Tony Stark is popping a little bit more here. He feels a little bit on his own, less tied up in a sort of the galaxy brain, worried about everything, stuff that he's mostly been in for the last few years and more just like the guy who puts on the suit. Pete:                It's nice to see him not being a robot or a dead version of himself or whatever it is. It's nice to see Tony being Tony, but there's a lot of interesting things in this comic. I didn't really get past the sad girl playing her violin outside of an Apple store and then asked to leave where she was crying and walking away, that was fucking heartbreaking, man. That was cold as ice. But I'm interested to see what happens. The problem is what I didn't like was there was this moment where it was just like the movie where Tony Stark's like, “Oh yeah.” And then someone comes out to him at a party and was like, “Hey Tony, I got this thing to pitch you.” And he's like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, later.” And then that person becomes the villain. And that was like we saw that in this comic as well. And I was like, “Well, it's kind of played out, but all right, I'll see what's up.” Alex:                 But it plays out differently, right? Because he turns around to the guy- Pete:                A little differently. Alex:                 I mean, that's a classic Iron Man, Tony stark scenario. What I liked about this book is I spent most of the running time thinking we were going to be running out of time that I was like, “Jesus, why are they spending so much time on Tony Stark out of armor? Get to it already, you're going to run out of the page length here. But this was well paced. It was well thought out and they clearly gave it a little bit of extra time to breathe. You could spend time with Tony Stark before putting him in an action scenario. I don't know if it's going to pay out with the page length every issue necessarily like that, but it's refreshing and nice. Like you were saying Justin, to see him on a back-to-basics level, Tony stark, because we haven't really seen that in a very, very long time. Justin:              Yeah. Reading this I was like, “Oh yeah, he used to be sort of a dude who dealt with his own stuff. And now he's been trapped in the Neanderthal age in a cave for a while.” Also a couple more details I love, Terrax as a villain. One of my favorite villain characters, cosmic villains, who you don't see hardly ever, like cool acts, cool look, cool looking dude. And I love the triangle shield in the first couple of pages and the Iron Man armor. Alex:                 I agree. Good stuff. Art by Cafu as well, yes. Pete:                Yeah. The art was great. The moment where he, spoiler alert, flies through a helicopter blade was pretty bad ass. Alex:                 Yeah. All very cool stuff. Let's move on and talk about You Look Like Death: Tales from the Umbrella Academy, number one, from Dark Horse Comics, story by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, art and colors by I.N.J. Culbard. This of course does not have the regular artists Gabriel Ba on Umbrella Academy. And that's because- Pete:                Yeah, what the fuck. Alex:                 Hold on. You can probably tell from the title, this is a spinoff. This is a side story focusing on Klaus as he gets kicked out of the Umbrella Academy and heads off to Hollywood. Man, there's just a lot of fun. You got to love this, Klaus high on drugs. Justin:              You know Alex is going to love this. The original Klaus head. Alex:                 I love Klaus. I also love going back to the Umbrella Academy after being so deep into the show with Umbrella Podcademy our Umbrella Academy podcast, to revisit the characters in the original format. It's like, “Oh right, Kraken's actually a badass and not just a sad sack. That's nice to see, that's fun.” Justin:              Yeah. What's your favorite type of hero, bad-ass or sad sack? Alex:                 Great question. It's very much a toss up. Pete, you got to love the vampire buggy, right? Pete:                Yeah. [crosstalk 00:05:44]. That was really fun. First of, [crosstalk 00:05:47]. Justin:              Wait, hold up, Why'd you go to Pete for the vampire monkey? Alex:                 Because I was reading the book and I was like, “Pete's going to hate this, but he's going to like the vampire monkey.” Justin:              Is that true? Pete:                Well, I didn't hate it. I mean, what's upsetting is the father just kills me in this, just how cold this fucking dad is, it's hard to get past and it's just hammered all the time during the book, so it's tough. If this father had any compassion, these kids would have such a better chance in life, and it is just heartbreaking. Justin:              Pete shitting on fatherhood, going after the whole enterprise. Pete:                That's right. Just you guys better fucking get your shit together and fucking [crosstalk 00:06:33]. Alex:                 I just kicked out my son. I told him he was cut off. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 He headed to Hollywood. He got crazy high. Justin:              Nice. He's going to love it out there. Pete:                Yeah. Anyways, Klaus is fun. It's nice to revisit this a little bit, but I like Gabriel Ba. Justin:              Are you crying, Pete? I love, the art really pops in this, especially once the story moves out to the West coast, I feel like the scenes are really great, really fun. Great all around. Alex:                 Yeah. Let's move on then to Batman number 99 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV and art by Jorge Jimenez. This is the I think penultimate chapter of the Joker war storyline- Justin:              It seems that way. Alex:                 … this is the Joker has basically destroyed Gotham city, taken over Bruce Wayne's fortune. Finally Batman and the crew are fighting bad Batman by appealing to his family saying, “I messed up, get back together with me all. Let's take this town.” Catwoman meanwhile is attacking financially trying to get the funds back. Man, this is the stuff that happens in this issue. And I almost don't want to spoil it, but particularly towards the end made me exclaim out loud. There are two moments towards the edge of the issue that I went, “Haha,” just like that, out loud. What'd you guys think about it? Pete:                Well, I was really … This is a lot of fun. This book is great. Part of me does really want to kind of get back to the bat and cat stuff, that was kind of set up before this. So seeing them kind of a part is driving me crazy a little bit. But man, the whole start of this, like Joker rolling in his fucking limo, this is really insane to kind of see where things are right now. And it really does get you kind of like hyped for that and in such a great way. I mean the panels where Batman just kind of lands in front of the spot where he's supposed to be, so epic, so well done. I love this kind of show down kind of atmosphere that is being set up. And the reveal at the end was holy fucking shit. Justin:              Yeah. James Tynion is such a tactical writer. He comes at the full story and the individual scenes with different angles than we've seen before. We get to spend more time with the Joker than I feel like we get to see normally. Normally the Joker is just cackling and plotting against Batman. In this we get to see a little bit more of him doing the logistical bits of his plan, and then executing in the way leading up to that last page reveal. And that stuff is fun and smart and makes this story seem fresh despite the fact that we've been … I want to say drowning in Joker for the past couple of years. Alex:                 Yeah. Well that, and also that it is another Gotham city is in flames story, but it's still … which we've seen a million times. I don't know why anybody lives there, but to your point, it's still feels dangerous. It still feels like it could go either way at the end of the day. Great, great stuff. Pete:                Just before we move on, we were talking about some oh shit moments towards the end. But also some touching stuff that happens in this too just before Batman kind of gives his speech or right after it, someone gets a gift, very touching. Alex:                 You're talking about the Nightwing costume, right? Pete:                Yeah, I am. I'm trying not to spoil it you fuck, but cool. Alex:                 Well, I mean, I think that's okay. We've already seen him in the costume several times because of the publishing schedule. But yeah, it's good bad family staff, James Tynion gets it. It works really well. This is a great issue. We went on to another one, Thor number seven from Marvel Comics written by Donny Cates and art by Aaron Kuder. This is pick it up after the death of Galactus last issue. And Thor's big vision, that some bad things are coming not just his way, but the Marvel universe's way. And he is throwing [inaudible 00:10:52] down on Broxton once again, because he feels like he is not worthy to pick it up. Turns out more people might be worthy to pick it up. As usual Donny Cates just find some fun, unique angles on his characters. And I love Aaron Kuder's art so much, just I love it. Every time it's just a pleasure to see his name. Pete:                Yeah. It's very enjoyable. The art is fantastic. Sorry, Justin, I didn't mean to cut you off. Justin:              No, please, it's your time to shine. Pete:                Well, this is such a fun back and forth between Tony and Thor that I love very much. Yeah, this is what a cool kind of setup for this new kind of arc. Very excited to see where this goes. A little kind of twist on the unworthy. But I'm very much on board and it's also great to see the kind of blanking on his name there [crosstalk 00:11:55]. Yeah, thank you. I'm just going to say horse Thor. Justin:              Speaking of Beta Ray Bill, when he takes his helmet off that dude's fucked. Alex:                 It's weird. Scary. Very weird. Yeah. I don't like it. He looks much less like a horse without his helmet. Justin:              Yeah. And much more like a nightmare that I'm going to have tonight. I mean, this book reminded me of a conversation we've had a lot about Batman. Thor is a character that is often pretty serious. Like God dealing with God level things speaking in very heightened language, yet Donny Cates finds a way to make this fun. There's a lot of humor here and that Thor can play around, something we've been talking about a lot lately with Batman is like, why does it always have to be doom and gloom, there's room in our ability as fans to take two sides of a character, someone who takes their job seriously, but also likes to play around a little bit with his friends. And this book does a great job of keeping the action fun, the stakes high, I mean two issues ago, everything was hell. And now here we are where we're having fun with words on [inaudible 00:13:04]. Pete:                Yeah, just leave words on the hammer, man. Alex:                 Words on the hammer, that's what I always say. Moving on to one that I know Justin is super psyched about, Stillwater number one from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky and art by Ramon K. Perez. Now this is a bit of a spoiler because they only eventually get around to it in the second half of the book, but it is the concept of the book is about a guy who loses his job, gets an inheritance or so he thinks, that brings him to the small town of Stillwater. And it turns out in the small town of Silverwater, nobody ever dies. Things get darker from there. Justin, talk about this book a little bit. Justin:              I mean the art by Ramon K. Perez is so good. I love his work on everything that he does. I think the first book that really caught my eye he did was I think called Tale of Sand, I want to say, based on a Jim Henson script. And great book and this just art really shines. The story itself reminded me a lot of Lovecraft Country actually, the first two episodes of that, except with none of the race elements and it's just sort of spoiled white dudes doing the … going on a similar journey. But the way the story ends is exciting and curious what the next move is, if that make sense. Pete:                Yeah, this is the new like, hey, I'm a prince, and if you send me money I'll send you money tenfold. When you get the letter that somebody died and there's inheritance, you don't fall for that. All right. That's a trap. It's clear. If you didn't know that person- Alex:                 Wait, sorry. Pete, did you just say somebody died and left me money? Let me know where I need to go to pick it up. Pete:                Oh, okay, well you got to go to Stillwater. Justin:              And let me say on the other side, Pete, your rich great uncle did die and you have to go get that money. You can't just leave that hanging there just because you're scared. Pete:                I'm not going to fall for that, all right. It's some creepy town where- Alex:                 No, I back up what Justin is saying, this is true and accurate. And if you give us $50 right now, we'll tell you where to go. Pete:                Oh, okay. All right. Well, I'll just Venmo you guys then. Alex:                 Yeah, that sounds great. Actually, you know what might be easier is if you gave us your credit card number. Pete:                Oh okay, sure. Yeah, why don't I give it to you right over here? Alex:                 All right, go ahead. Pete:                Five, five, five, five, five. Justin:              It is weird it's all fives. It is crazy. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Wait, actually I had a question just to step back. Thor, I didn't try this yet. The phone number he puts down on me on [inaudible 00:15:52] for Tony, that's just like a regular two on two number, right? That's pretty weird. Justin:              Yeah, let me, I guess you're right here. Two, one, two, nine, seven, zero, four, one, three, three. Alex:                 Ooh, I don't get any phone service down here. You want to give it a call? Justin:              Yeah, I'll give it a call. Alex:                 Okay. That sounds great. Pete:                Oh man, that's exciting. Alex:                 Yes. Meanwhile, I'll talk about Stillwater. This reminded me a little bit of Revival, the Tim Seeley book, just in terms of concept, which is a great book that everybody should check out. It does feel a little more [inaudible 00:16:26] and a little more focused on this character. I'm also sure Chip Zdarsky is aware of revival and trying to do something different in that. But I'm curious to see how it delineates itself from that going on, just in terms of the pure people coming back to life. You're about to call the number Justin? Justin:              Yes. We have not planned this, so we truly have no idea what's going to come up here. Alex:                 There's going to be an old lady that's going to be like, “Hello.” Speaker 4:        Yes, this is Iron Man. However, due to some big blonde jerk, I no longer use this number. But hey, nice try anyway. For all things Tony stark, please visit www.tonystarkironman.com, and try and stay safe out there, yeah. I'm busy enough as it is. Alex:                 Ah, that's fun. Justin:              Is that Downey? Alex:                 That's cool. Maybe. Justin:              It could be, it sounds like him. Alex:                 Yeah. Fun stuff. Good [inaudible 00:17:22] comic books. Pickup Stillwater number one, moving on to, this is going to be a mouthful, are you ready? Detective Comics number 1027 from DC Comics. This isn't an anniversary issue, so it's a bunch of stories. It is written by Peter J. Tomasi, Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka, James Tynion IV, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Marv Wolfman, Grant Morrison, Tom King, Scott Snyder, Dan Jurgens and Mariko Tamaki. And the art is by Brad Walker, David Marquez, Chip Zdarsky, Eduardo Risso, Riley Rossmo, John Romita Jr., Emanuela Luppachino, Chris Burnham, Walter Simonson, Ivan Reis, Kevin Nowlan and Dan Mora. Justin:              You read so fast, it sounded like you said Snot Snyder. Pete:                It did sound like Snot Snyder. Alex:                 Oh man, thank you for picking on the thing that I screwed up out of 20 names. Justin:              Alex, I just wanted to say, you really nailed it when you said Peter J. Tomasi, Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka and the rest. Alex:                 I like this package. I know we talk a lot about short story [inaudible 00:18:30], this is like- Pete:                Justin loves talking about nice packages. Justin:              Wow. Alex:                 This is a good set of Batman stories. I was fully prepared to be like, “Yeah, I don't know, I like this one.” But I like most of them. Justin:              Yeah. No, it was hard to pick a favorite as well. I really liked the masterclass story was a good use of the bat family where everyone really got to pop for a second. The Grant Morrison detective number 26 story was like- Alex:                 So funny. Justin:              So fun. And I was like, “Oh, Grant Morrison. Yes. I haven't seen that Grant Morrison in quite a while.” Where it's just like finds a little fun bit and just needles it into a story. Alex:                 I mean, I'll mention with the idea of the story is as you can figure out, it's the guy who came to the issue before Batman and he's already to be the next big vigilante. He's going to be the silver ghost. He has the whole plan. He has his origin story. He has his motivation, everything. And then he goes out of his first mission and he sees Batman and he's like, “Ah, shit.” Justin:              This guy's got good branding, good ears. Alex:                 To your point it's great, I want more of that out of Grant Morrison. I don't need crazy musical notes from Superman saving the universe anymore, just give me that fun stuff. He did that on Klaus as well at least at the beginning where it's just the simple idea of what if Santa was battle Santa. That's great, more of that fun stuff. Pete, which ones did you like? What are you into? Pete:                I really loved the fraction happy returns, the Rocco rookie story was really great that we've had an eye on you was a awesome moment. Justin:              That was cool. Pete:                Love the shout-out to the old costume and generations fractured and the Dan Mora art and the gift, yes please, just fantastic. Alex:                 Yeah. Just such a good package across the board. Pete:                It really is. It's one of those ones where you're like, “All right, a collection,” but then you're like, “Holy shit, this is worth it.” Alex:                 Yeah, pretty much every story is good. The art is great, definitely pick this up. Next step, Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp, number one from IDW written by Marieke Nijkamp, and art by Yasmin Flores Montanez. This is a new story, I guess, set in the Goosebumps universe. This is honestly something that is very much out of my wheelhouse. I never read Goosebumps as a kid or anything like that. But it's about a kid who is a gamer. She has one prosthetic arm, so clearly she feels uncomfortable about going outside. But she meets another friend who's a prominent gamer and they begin exploring their town that has some spooky monsters in it. What'd you think about this book? Pete:                Well, yeah, I'm not really a big Goosebumps head, but I really like the start of this. This is a solid first issue. Does a great job of introducing interesting characters and then throwing into a shit show. And I understand like you look up to some hero, somebody you admire and they're like, “Oh yeah, kid, you want to roll with me? Guess what? We're going out into the nightmare that is this world.” Alex:                 And I appreciate you explaining all ages, mostly kids book as throwing them into a shit show. Pete:                Well, what would you call that fucking swamp land that they live in? Justin:              There's nothing wrong with swamp. Pete:                I'm not saying that, but the swamp with monsters- Justin:              What's so scary about a swamp, Pete? Because it feels it's moist. Pete:                No, they have straight up monsters in their fucking swamp. Justin:              But you seemed like hung up on the swamp. Pete:                You're the one hung up [crosstalk 00:22:03]. Alex:                 Fill the swamp, fill the swamp. Justin:              That is what you always cheer. Even your time cheerleading at Cornell University, you were a huge fill the swamp. Alex:                 See you, go big red. Pete:                Oh my God. Justin:              Just building out some of our background on the show. I liked this a lot, I also didn't read Goosebumps, so I don't know what Goosebumps brings to this story. It's just like a creepy story I guess, the branding on it, because this story of these people coming together sort of through gaming and then the gaming becoming real. And then they go on the swamp to face a monster, could stand on its own in a fun way. Pete:                Yeah, it's a fun- Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:22:51] a story, like you said, I like the character, so I wanted a little more out of the story. But I feel like obviously we're going to get that in the second issue. Pete:                Issue two is a good spot to look for that. Justin:              Yeah. Wait for it. Alex:                 There you go. Let's move on to another one, Giant-Size X-Men: Storm, number one from Marvel, written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Russell Dauterman. Now we have talked incessantly, but these Giant-Size X-Men books about what is going on here, these seem like half finished stories. What is happening? Well, [inaudible 00:23:21] as one might say. Pete:                Nope. Alex:                 No, but I would not say that. This issue- Pete:                I also wanted to say though that this Jordan D. White said that this issue would change things for Storm forever. So there was a lot of hype going into this issue. Justin:              Well, and can you pinpoint what that is? Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              What? Pete:                Turns out Storm is sick and she's got some things going on, and it makes me very sad. Justin:              Well, but she- Alex:                 No. Justin:              But she's cured by the end, spoiler. Pete:                Yeah. Is she though? Because it seems like that demon they pulled out of her is just going to grow. Alex:                 The only thing that I was going to say, just to kind of finish up the thing that I was saying that we can turn over to the rest of it, is this is finally bringing together some threads specifically from the Giant-Size X-Men issues. We get the Nightcrawler one, which focused a little bit on Cypher. We get the Storm one obviously which, or I guess it was the Jean Grey one maybe- Justin:              I think so. Alex:                 I honestly don't remember. Whatever it was, it was a Storm story and they're finally picking up on that. And we also get the [inaudible 00:24:31] one picking up with that as well and started to loop all of these disparate threads together. Justin, what did you think about this? Because you've been very, critical is probably the wrong word, but I would say dubious at least about [crosstalk 00:24:44]. Justin:              Yeah, surprised just in general that these have been sort of off the main character standalone stories or seemingly standalone stories. But to your point where you were just saying, I do think this amounts to a lot, it feels like, I don't know if maybe it's faded in our minds because of how much has happened in the X universe since the Dawn of X. But so much of those first issues were about sort of the artificial intelligence that will eventually destroy not only the mutants but the humans and be the real enemy. If humans and mutants can get over their shit and face AI. Justin:              And it feels like maybe this is the moment where it starts. That being in the world which the whole premise of the world is that it accelerates time, it accelerates evolution. They pull this techno organic virus that Storm picked up in a recent issue where they went into … what is the place they went into? Alex:                 The orcas, I think. Justin:              Yeah. Orcas and The Children of the Vault is what I was trying to think of. And she pulls this techno organic virus, The Children of the Vault also a hyper evolving hyper time place, and takes it to this other even more pocket dimension where the time extends, it happens even faster. And I think that is the AI evolution that will eventually lead to some of the real monsters that the X-Men face in the Dawn of X issues. And the people we have at the end of this issue, sort of being there are Phantom X, Phantom X's sort of twin, I guess. And then a random dude from AIM. Alex:                 Yeah. And the other thing that's kind of messed up about it, particularly as of a fan of the character is Cypher and Warlock seem to know what's going on and seem to be kind of cool with it, which is not great. There's definitely been some weird, potentially dangerous stuff going on with Cypher and Warlock over the course of this entire run. And that certainly seems to be the clearest tip of the hat to what's happening here. So yeah, I 100% agree with you, Justin. This is like, I think the important thing, it's surprising you said Storm, because I think the important thing is to the overall plot of what is happening with the X-Men line since the very beginning, versus necessarily Storm. Justin:              Yeah. It feels like a bigger thing. That's why I always say, “Don't trust the guy that speaks all the languages.” He's up at the bar, he's talking to the bartender, ordering you a weird drink because he knows too much. Alex:                 But yeah, good issue. Particularly if you've been reading these Giant-Size X-Men books, if you've read House of X and Powers of X, you really like those. I think this is a good thing to pick up on to kind of get potentially the ongoing story. Let's move out to Big Girls Number two from Image Comic story and art by Jason Howard. I think we were pretty into but a little reserved on the first issue of this book, takes place in a post apocalyptic world where women grow to gigantic size, men also grow to gigantic size, but become monsters and are attacking one of the last remaining cities. We've been following one of the so-called Big Girls who was fighting back against them. We get more fleshed out about the world, this issue. I like this issue a lot more personally, because of the details and the nuance that it added. How'd you guys feel? Pete:                Yeah, this is good because it's like, all right, now we're kind of really getting understanding of who's who, where's what type of situation. Justin:              Who's big, who's little. Pete:                Yeah. Men are monsters, women are saving the world, it's great. I do think though that the kind of reveal at the end is really what's going to kind of take this concept and kind of push it. But the art's great, the action's phenomenal. It's a interesting world, so I'm excited for more. But I'm glad that and agree with Zalben that issue too kind of like solidify things a little bit better. Justin:              Yeah, I agree. I mean, it's nice to sort of, like you're saying, Pete, see the sides of where everyone is. We have our main character who's a little bit dubious about the status quo. And then we have this sort of rebel faction in the back half that is maybe- Pete:                Also I was a little worried about how slow that one main character was to pull the trigger to save that other person's life there. I was like, thought that would be a bigger issue and might come back. Alex:                 We'll have to see what happens. Justin:              I love the double page spread in the middle of the book of our main Big Girl being operated on, and sort of repaired like really- Pete:                Oh yeah, that was fun, some of the like- Justin:              Cowgirl as she's known. Pete:                Yeah. Alex:                 Very Gulliver in that moment. Pete:                Yeah, Gulliver, and I was going to say like, Fraggle Rock reminded me of the dozers a little bit. Alex:                 Yeah. [crosstalk 00:29:49]. Justin:              You say Fraggle Rock a lot, just in general. Pete:                Down at Fraggle Rock. Down at Fraggle Rock. Alex:                 Down at Fraggle Rock. Justin:              That's not a criticism, that's just an open ended statement. Pete:                Every time I walk by a construction society, I want to take a bite out of it, what? Justin:              Every time I walk past a pile of garbage, I want to talk to you. Pete:                Yeah. Justin:              You walk past a construction site and you're like, “What up dozers?” And they're like, “Get the fuck out of here.” Alex:                 We're trying to build radishes here, come on. Justice League number 53 for DC Comics written by Joshua Williamson and art by Xermanico. This is tying into Dark Nights: Death Metal. This arc is called Doom Metal, and focuses on one mission of … I think it's fair to call them sub Justice League members, slash- Justin:              Woo, spicy. Alex:                 Yeah, I'm sorry. [crosstalk 00:30:43]. Justin:              Shots fired. Alex:                 It's Detective Chimp. It's hot girl. She's a member of the Justice League. But they are going after Perpetua's throne. Pete, you raised your hand, what would you like to say? Pete:                I would say cute start, what a touching adorable start. Little Robin trying to sneak up on Batman [inaudible 00:31:05]. Justin:              Great. I guess I agree with Pete technically. But I do like- Pete:                I mean the POV angles, it really was a kid looking up at these heroes. I thought that was such great attention to detail that really gives- Alex:                 This really is not helping my theory that you don't read beyond the first page or two, Pete. Pete:                Okay, fine. Justin:              That's one conspiracy theory I can get behind. Pete:                How about they born on a Doomsday panel that was later your dick, that was awesome. Alex:                 I mean that was page four. Justin:              Oh, he's flipping through the book right now. Alex:                 How about this thing at the last page that I just looked at. Justin:              Yeah. You see this UPC code on the back cover? Woo, did not see that coming. That's how you buy the book, they scan it. Alex:                 What were you going to say, Justin? Justin:              Ah, yes. I thought Pete was going to have a slight rebuttal. Pete:                No, I'm just enjoying how much you guys enjoy shooting holes in everything I'm trying to do. Justin:              Trying to do? Alex:                 Oh man. Justin:              What are you going to do? Pete:                I don't know, give my opinion, but apparently it's not good enough because it only is stuff that happens in the beginning. Alex:                 It's a very good opinion. It's a very good opinion. I'm just doing a classic comic book club La Zalben. Justin:              That's why they call him Alex La Zalben. I agree with Pete. There's a lot of fun of this book. I love this sort of … it feels like a side quest in a fantasy game or a fantasy series in a fun way. I could read a lot of this Death Metal stuff for maybe a long time. It's fun. [crosstalk 00:32:48]. Alex:                 It's surprising, right? Justin:              Yeah. Alex:                 Because it's silly. Pete, you did bring up the born on a Doomsday, [inaudible 00:32:56] who are also Doomsdays, it's the sort of thing where you get to this point you're like, “This is so stupid, but it works at the same time.” It's just mashing your toys together, that's all it is. But they're having such a good time with it. It's fun to read. Justin:              Aaron and Garney arm falls off, you put a Doomsday on. Alex:                 Exactly. All right. Let's move on to Seven Secrets number two from Boom! Studios written by Tom Taylor and art by Daniele di Nicuolo. We really like the first issue of this though. I think there's a little criticism from some of us about the end perhaps being a little confusing or not sure where it was going necessarily. But it is about a world where there's a secret society. They hold seven secrets. We're focusing on one character who's part of that, who is the son of two of the characters who hold two of those secrets. At least one of those characters dies in the last issue. And that there's a big villain who's trying to take them all down. We flash back this issue and get an origin. I thought not only was this issue great, but the cliffhanger was superb. One of the best that I've read in a really long time, the last sentence of the book, and made me even way more into this book than I was before. Pete:                Wow. I read that like last part and was like, “Oh man, that's more heartbreaking than we need. You didn't need to do that at the end.” But I agree, this is information that we needed and it's important. Moving forward I'm glad they kind of took a breath to give us this kind of flashback type of thing. Yeah, I'm really into this book now. This issue got me more hyped about it. Justin:              Yeah. Especially in an issue that felt like he was laying a lot of groundwork, it felt like sort of an exposition issue. A lot of like sort of drama in the King's court style drama. And then to end on that emotional, just build up to that last panel was really well done. Pete:                I can't even look at … I'm sorry. Alex:                 No. All I was going to say was that I'd be really fascinated to hear how Tom Taylor structured this, because it almost feels like you have this very Harry Potter sort of training section that potentially would come first. Then you go out to the inciting incident, which is the thing where the society gets messed up. And then you follow through from there, but he flipped it. He went from first issue, the second issue and he reversed the order of them and it works so well, it's very, very smart. Justin:              Yeah. The words I was trying to come up with earlier were palace intrigue. This issue is so much palace intrigue, and ending on a real strong emotional beat. Pete:                I was just going to say that I can't look at a gold little ducky without getting choked up anymore. Alex:                 Oh man, sad stuff. Let's move on to something that probably creeps you the fuck out, Pete, the Immortal Hulk number 37 from Marvel- Pete:                Oh, Jesus Christ. Alex:                 … written by Al Ewing Alan and art by Joe Bennett. The door is finally open. We finally know who the big villain of this book is. It's the leader of course. Pete:                Yeah, of course it is. Alex:                 Or maybe it is. There might be something behind that. But the leader is looking to manipulate the green door the way that the Hulk and other gamma radiated heroes have been resurrected constantly, hence the Immortal Hulk of the title. While the Hulk is outside fighting in the real world, the leader is inside this hellscape or whatever is going on there. He has taken over Rick Jones. He has taken over … who's the second one he's taken over? I don't remember. Oh, he's taken over the irradiated guy, whatever the irradiated guy from the early on the run. Pete:                Yeah, from the [crosstalk 00:36:57]. Alex:                 And there's nobody else that he's taken over as well that he hits at, we don't know who that is yet. But, oh God, I cannot say enough about how terrifying it is to read every issue of this book. Pete:                Yeah, it's too much, man. It's too much. It's gone too far. It's gone too far. Justin:              I love this book and the way, the sense of dread that's been building from issue one and it just keeps extending to end, not only with the writing, but the art, despite all of the body, just disaster that's happening on all these pages. You still get references too older Hulk artists. The last page feels like right out of the Hulk history, and so much of it, it feels just so big, every issue big and horrifying, just like I want everything to be. Alex:                 This is a very meta way of looking at it, but it is very exciting to be reading an all timer. You don't get that often when you're reading a book, but you read this book and you're like, “This is a Hulk run that people are going to talk about for decades.” This is going to be talked about in the same breath as Peter David's run, as the original run, as all these other classic runs of a Hulk and other characters. And I don't know how this is going to add up, I don't know where this could go. But being in the middle there between Al Ewing's writing and Joe Bennet's art, which is like Cronenberg-esque in exactly the right way. It's very exciting to read every issue of this book. Pete:                Yeah, 100%. Alex:                 Great. Thanks. Glad you agree, Pete. Just [inaudible 00:38:50], no thanks. Pete:                Well, I mean, I'm glad you guys are having fun. Alex:                 That's nice. Justin:              Pete's scared. Pete:                This is a horror book with one of my favorite characters, so you guys enjoy your time, I'll wait until we get Hulk. Justin:              Is there another book you could read where the Hulk does something like, I don't know, like smash. Pete:                No, I don't think there is. [crosstalk 00:39:13]. Alex:                 Dryad number five from Oni Press written by Kurtis Wiebe illustrated by Justin Osterling. I'll give a little pluggy plug here. Go check out our bonus episode where we talk to the team behind this book in the comic book club feed, it was a blast and a pleasure to talk to them about the last issue of the book, as well as the run. But Dryad number five, we have our main characters now in the city, they are battling folks, they are trying to figure out what's going on, the kids have no idea. There's a big twist as usual towards the end of this issue. What'd you think about this one? Justin:              This book continues to go its own way. You cannot predict the storytelling here and it's fully into sci-fi, big sci-fi, Blade Runner-esque, corporate intrigue. And did not see that coming, curious with some still fantasy elements popping through. But it's one of the few books I feel like we read where it's like, “I have no idea where we're headed.” Pete:                Yeah. It's very interesting. Each issue is kind of like its own thing, and what's great is you don't know what you're going to get when you pick up this book, but it continues to tell a story just somehow more creatively in different ways. It's impressive to kind of see this thing move forward. I continue to be impressed by the art and the storytelling. This one, we get a lot more action. And then some of the stuff that Zalben likes at the end, but like it's … Alex:                 What does that mean? Pete:                You know what I'm talking about, that hot tub shit at the end, got a little weird that you're into. Alex:                 What? No, come on, Pete. I mean, that was pretty hot. Justin:              I mean, I love a hot tub. I wish there was another book you were talking about [crosstalk 00:41:07]. Alex:                 You know what's best about that is the hot tub scene. The hot tub scene being cut between the guy who had his legs blasted off, I was like, “Fuck yeah. Give me more of that, inject that into my veins.” No, it was good, that was fine. That was a good Ted scene and fleshed out more about the world, but I'm way more into what's going on with the kids and what's happening at the end. Great, great stuff. Alex:                 Catwoman number 25 from DC Comics written by Ram V, an art by Fernando Blanco. This is a bunch of different things. This is tying into the Joker War. Almost an essential chapter of it, as we find out what Catwoman does with Bruce Wayne's money. But also setting up a new classic status quo for Catwoman that I thought was great. I like this book across the board. I had a little burp there at the end, I'm sorry. Justin:              How dare you. Pete:                Okay. I really love the amazing flashback sequences with the kind of tiger stuff that was almost like this orangest type painting kind of thing, that was really cool. Plus the way they kind of drew the action with Catwoman was really a lot of fun, where you're kind of on the same page, you see her kind of doing different moves. To me that's kind of like old school comic book style and I really enjoyed that. Justin:              We talked about this a little- Pete:                I also burped at the end, that was weird. Justin:              That is weird you guys, gas management, gas management bros. Alex:                 Justin has covered for you. Justin:              No, I am fully in charge. Pete:                Oh God. Justin:              I think we talked about this a little bit earlier when we were talking about the Batman books. But I want some resolution on the Batman Catwoman relationship, because it feels like we've been in this space because of whatever happened with changing up the creative teams when they did. We're in this place where it's like, wait, she's just moving his money around and sort of not hanging out, what's the deal? Want to know about their relationship. But aside from that sort of unrelated bother, this was an essential chapter I think. Seeing Catwoman doing this makes you understand the main story a lot more for the Joker War. Alex:                 Yeah, I agree. All right. Let's move into a little part of the show. And this is the end of the show here, which I like to call the Pete sandwich. And the reason I call it the Pete Sandwich is because we got a book Pete really wants to talk about, three books Pete does not want to talk about, and then a book Pete wants to talk about. Pete:                Yeah, sandwich. Alex:                 Pull back the curtain a little bit. But let's get to it. Justin:              And the best way to eat a sandwich is you start with the piece of bread that you really like, then you eat the middle, and then you get to the other piece of bread, which is the other thing you really like. Pete:                Bread's nice, man. Sometimes nice, fresh bread makes everything better. Justin:              You just mash the sandwich bread first into your face and chew your way up. Alex:                 Whenever I go to a deli, I'm like, “Hey, I'll have a Italian Hero. Then take the Salami and the pepperoni and the Capocollo, you throw that out, [inaudible 00:44:20] you throw that out.” Justin:              Capocollo, I love it. Alex:                 You get rid of it. [crosstalk 00:44:24]. Justin:              Just some slightly oily bread. Alex:                 [crosstalk 00:44:28], no, you put it out there and you throw it out. I don't like it. Oil and vinegar, you throw it out. Once & Future number 11 from Booms! Studios written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Dan Mora. Holy shit, the end of this issue is fucking insane, not to curse too much. But they have been fighting Grendel of the Beowulf myth, they took care of Beowulf. This issue, they fight, they take care of Grendel. You can kind of see where this is going. You know where this is going. But the way Dan Mora draws this is so horrific and so perfect. This issue is great. I like this series anyway, but this is one of my favorite issues in a while. Pete:                Yeah. This is really just kind of back to what started this thing and made us love it so much, just unbelievable action. This amazing grandmother in the heart of it. I can't, I mean, if you don't like this book, I don't know what to tell you. This to me is great comics, unbelievable art, unbelievable storytelling. The action and violence is mwah, chef's kiss, just fantastic. I'm having so much goddamn fun with this book. Justin:              Yeah. Shout-out to our interview with Kieron Gillen, where we talked about this book a lot. Because it really informs a lot of the process and it makes it so much richer to read this book, hearing him talk about it. Because you get to see in this issue the story that they're sort of caught up in and fighting catch up with them simultaneously. It feels like they've been sort of alongside the story or ahead of the story a little bit. And this last panel, last couple of panels or pages, you really see the story come up and be like, you're done, we got you here. And that's really satisfying to see on top of the fact that it's just a great action story and sequence and wildly bloody in a fun way. Alex:                 Yeah. So good. This is just great. Let's move on to the … sorry, I got a little sick there even thinking about a Capocollo of the stack. X-Men number 12 from Marvel Comics written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Leinil Francis Yu. In this issue- Pete:                What the fuck? What the fuck is going on? Justin:              Uh-oh. He's in [crosstalk 00:46:58]. Alex:                 This is a classic. Pete:                No, no, no, no, no, this, okay, all right, fine. You're going to have fuck island, you're going to … you can't keep adding crazier shit on top of crazier shit. Alex:                 No, man. This is classic- Pete:                You have to deal with it, you can't keep just fucking adding crazy shit. Justin:              Can't you? Pete:                How did Hickman say … how did he pitch [inaudible 00:47:22]. Okay guys, I'm going to change X-Men forever. And just when you think it can't get crazier, I'm going to keep adding crazier … I'm not going to deal with that, I'm just going to keep going to crazy town and then walk away. Alex:                 The reason I said this was the Capocollo is because it has the surprising, sliced peppercorns in the middle where you're like, “Whoa, where did that come from?” Justin:              Woo, spicy. Alex:                 Yeah, classic X-Men book. As we all know, Apocalypse originally came from the dimension of our Rocco separate Island next door to- Pete:                What the fuck. Alex:                 That has since had sex with and enjoyed with [inaudible 00:47:59]. His grandchildren have kept on his legacy. There is the opposite of apocalypse, the evil apocalypse, because as we all know, the apocalypse is good now. Justin:              Famously heroic. Pete:                What is happening? Alex:                 I don't know. Pete:                This doesn't make any sense. Alex:                 This is definitely like, it's funny to read this after the past couple of the issues where Jonathan Hickman was like, “I don't know, [inaudible 00:48:26] is killing shit out of the moon or whatever,” I don't know what's going on. This is fun. They're just killing some plants. We're having a good time, isn't this fun? Pete:                Is he throwing darts at a board? Alex:                 Yeah, this is fun [crosstalk 00:48:35]. He's like, “Did you forget that I'm Jonathan Hickman?” [crosstalk 00:48:43]. Justin:              I think I can shout out everyone's favorite panel from this issue, for everyone's favorite page, excuse me. The info page sort of two thirds the way through where we list the [inaudible 00:48:54]. And it's an infographic where we find out about the summoners from the school of [inaudible 00:49:01], this world that we just invented and arrived at, and how you can either be a shitty summoner, a decent summoner or a kick ass summoner. And can summon Pete, this [inaudible 00:49:12] is fun. You can summon our hoard of elementals, and up to three major [inaudible 00:49:17]. Alex:                 It is wild that at the course of one issue Jonathan Hickman is like, “Oh yeah, Apocalypse had a wife and also a evil opposite Apocalypse who is going to kick off his Ten of Swords type thing or whatever, because there's all these powerful swords. It's not big deal. Anyway, let's go into a hole, it's all good.” And then it picked up this random game that he introduced and that got away from in the last issue is insane. Justin:              Yeah. And he's like, “Oh, don't worry. In case you're of worry this isn't an X-men book focused on the heroic X-Men, don't worry because we got Banshee and Unus the Untouchable coming along for the ride.” Alex:                 Also they're all mutants and one of their powers is to never lose, which is crazy. Justin:              That's a hell of a thing to say. Alex:                 Yeah. I mean, this is saying a lot. This was the most Jonathan Hickman issue of X-Men so far. Justin:              I mean, it's a full on fantasy story at this point. That's why I think this issue is a real, is pointing us to what Ten of Swords is going to be, and it's going to be this. It's going to be epic grand scale battles with people and places that we don't know too much about and may never.” Alex:                 But that's okay. Well, all I'm going to say is, I've been enjoying this enough and this has been crazy enough that I'm willing to follow them down this rabbit hole into your insaneville that I don't understand. Justin:              100%. Alex:                 But I also think … Hold on. Pete, I do want to hear what you have to say, but the only thing that I want to say is you think back to nineties, two thousands, X-Men they were like, “Oh yeah, there's a mega level mutants. Oh yeah, now there's externals.” All of these things that we 20, 30 years down the road are like, yes, yes, that's part of canon and I get that and I understand that. That's what they're doing right now. That's what he is doing is he's adding in these insane details to the X-Men Mythos that decades down the road we're going to be like, “Yes, I remember that. That is Arakko. That's what happens there.” Justin:              Alex, what are you crazy? Immortal mutants that don't know they're immortal that's normal. Ten Swords, that's insane. Can you imagine Ten Swords? Alex:                 You're right. I'm sorry. That's too bad. I apologize. Pete:                I just want to start by saying I'm not willing to follow them into this crystal anus that they're walking into. All right. This is too insane. It's not an X-Men book. I don't know what the fuck's going on anymore. Justin:              I guess I'm changing your birthday plans, Pete, because it's very similar to that. Pete:                Okay. Well, I have no idea what the fuck is happening, who fuck is doing what. Cool. I'm glad people are having fun, but wake me when the X-Men show up. Alex:                 I don't usually like to talk about further episodes of The Stack, but next week we're going to be reading Dawn of X of Swords, Enter the Crystal Anus number one. And I hope you're going to read it, Pete. Justin:              I have a feeling you're going to love it. I feel bad because the Crystal Anus is on my favorite bars in Brooklyn and it closed because of COVID. Pete:                Oh, it's too bad. Alex:                 All right, let's move on to the … let's say salami of this particular Stack. Faithless number two, number four- Pete:                Here we go. Alex:                 … from a Boom! Studios written by Brian Azarello and art by Maria Llovet. I feel like we were a little down on the last issue of Faithless. Justin, I'm talking specifically to you because Pete doesn't want to talk about this at all. This issue I thought was very good. This is, Faith finally shows off her art. She goes on a tour of Turin I believe, with maybe a demon or a fallen angel or something like that. Very weird, very dark. What were you going to say? Justin:              I was going to say, I feel like what we've been talking about is it feels like this book has been spinning its wheels for a couple of issues where it's like, “We get it. She's an artist.” There's all these like dark clouds gathering around her with demonic intentions. But I think this issue, especially the back half for the back third, we get sort of what the book is about a little bit. And it's about her being this conduit through sex to connect with ghosts and sort of use them in her art. And that feels, knowing that is great, is helpful to maybe giving her a power in the story to guide it as opposed to just be this innocent washed up in all this chaos. Alex:                 Yeah. I mean it's interesting because it's kind of a battle for her soul type thing, right? They've been pretty clear about that, it's [inaudible 00:54:12] et cetera. But you have this master artist who is coming in, who is encouraging to go further in the darkness, versus she has this guy who comes out of the devil's door, but he's good in a way, he inspires her to be better. But it's fascinating, this is … Pete, you must've loved this issue, right? Justin:              The devil's door was actually the back entrance to the Crystal Anus and again it closed forever. Pete:                Yeah. I mean, what sucks is I thought we were going to kind of get away from all the madness a little bit and then it's like, “Oh, this is a nice date.” But then it's like, “Oh yeah, of course the dead person with an open head wound is going to still get some, because this is a fucking weird ass book.” Alex:                 It gives you hope though, right? If you ever [inaudible 00:55:03]. Pete:                Yeah. I had a little hope and then the douchebag showed up at the end again. Alex:                 No, I mean if you ever get a head wound, you might still be on the market. Pete:                Yeah, still bangable. Yeah, it's true. Just because you got an open head wound doesn't mean you still can't get some I guess is the moral- Justin:              That's the spirit. Alex:                 That's what it says on my Tinder profile. Justin:              Alex, you've been married for so long, you got to shut that Tinder profile down. Alex:                 I did actually not to veer into a true story. I don't think we're married yet, but we're definitely for like- Pete:                How the fuck. Alex:                 No, I had a Nerve profile and four years into dating my wife right before I proposed to her I was featured on nerve as a single. And I was like, “Oh shit, oh no.” Pete:                That's hilarious. Justin:              Bummer, metal pocket the ring for a couple of weeks. Alex:                 Yeah. I honestly went on only like three or four dates before I shut it down off of that. But yeah, then we got married. Justin:              That's a beautiful story and was a great toast at your wedding by the way. Alex:                 Thank you. All right. Let's move on to the serrano ham of The Stack. The Amazing Spider Man- Justin:              Oh, this is a high-Class sub. Alex:                 It's a good sub. It's a brooklyn style sub. The Amazing Spider-Man, Sins of Norman Osborn number one from Marvel Comics written by Nick Spencer and art by Federico Vicentini. This is another essential chapter of the storyline it feels like, that I don't understand why it's a one shot other than them trying to maybe hit the timing right for anniversary issues or something. But Spider-Man is trying to save Norman Osborn. The spider family is trying to decide whether to stop him or not from the Sin-Eater. I thought this was very good. I've been liking this storyline quite a bit. Justin:              I mean, I agree. I've been loving the Sin-Eater stuff, like such a departure from what Nick Spencer was doing before. This storyline is wild. There's so much happening here touching on a ton of continuity- Alex:                 So much stuff. Justin:              The fact that the Sin-Eater kills negative man, and then adapts his powers, it's like, oh, you have to know, you have to have been reading Spider-Man for a long time to know what the fuck is happening. Pete:                Yeah. Also it's just so much like stuff that you're like, oh, that could have been an ending, oh, that could have been an ending. And then the whole juggernaut thing is just such a couple panels that could have been such a huge thing. I was just really surprised at how much shit is jam packed in this issue and what the actual like oh shit reveal at the end is. There's just so much stuff packed in here, it's kind of surprising a little bit. Alex:                 Yeah. But it's a good issue, particularly if you've been reading Amazing Spider-Man, definitely pick this one up. Last one, back to the bread as we expected. Head Lopper number 13 from Image Comics story and art by Andrew Maclean. Pete, I got to say, there is no head lopping of this boo

In the GIANT-SIZE Episode 3 of CEREBRO, Connor and culture writer Alex Abad-Santos swear their fealty to Emma Frost, the White Queen! An ice-cold femme fatale, Emma debuted in 1980 as a vicious villainess, but developed into a core member of the X-Men. The CEREBRO character file on Emma Frost begins at 35:36. (Content advisory: Emma's story includes involuntary institutionalization, sexual abuse, homophobic 'conversion therapy', substance abuse, survival sex work, animal murder, and genocide.) The episode cover features art of the White Queen by John Byrne, Chris Bachalo, Phil Jimenez, Terry Dodson, and Russell Dauterman.

NEWSDC FanDome: Explore The Multiverse schedule revealed and there are free comics tooBeast Boy creators are there...and on tourDC Comics reveals Represent!DC Generations event returns reimagined with the homecoming of "the original" 1939 BatmanBatman: Black and White returns in DecemberMore Dark Multiverse stories comingNew Bat/Cat coming December 1Bendis off SupermanEndless Winter finally hypedKing in Black tie-in info came out FridayKing in Black is showing up in cover artMarvel relaunches Black Cat ongoing just in time for 'King in Black' crossoverChampions gets resolicited/relaunched in OctoberChildren of the Atom gets a sale date!Empyre State of Mynd tidbitsIDW adds DC veteran Kobashigawa and promotes Hughes and StotterLittle Bird prequel, Precious Metal revealedSegment - Pitch a book for a character who doesn’t have a book right now?Forrest:Kieron Gillen Javier Garron Superior Spider-ManLeah Williams Daniel Warren Johnson X-23Dave:Jeff Lemire & Christian Ward StarjammersChristopher Priest Chris Samnee BishopOur Top Books of the WeekDave:Amazing Spider-Man #48 (W: Nick Spencer, A: Mark Bagley)Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1 (W: Cullen Bunn, A: Miguel Valderrama)Forrest:The Rise of Ultraman #1 (W: Kyle Higgins, Matt Groom, A: Francesco Manna)Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1 (W: Cullen Bunn, A: Miguel Valderrama)TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Detective Comics #1027 (too many to list)Forrest: Giant-Size X-Men: Storm (W: Jonathan Hickman, A: Russell Dauterman)JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Slaughterhouse-Five (Albert Monteys)Forrest: X-Men Marvels Snapshot #1 (Alex Ross)Off Topic Top Shelf - Dave - Raised By Wolves

NEWSBRZRKR now getting Kickstarted for graphic novel lovers and making a ton of cashBatman Day festivities revealedWonder Women announcedHarvey Awards 2020 nominees announcedThe McElroys, First Second respond to THE ADVENTURE ZONE payment controversyTristen Jones reveals his art may have been swiped by Greg LandVault starting young adult imprint WonderboundRandom House Graphic Preview: New books coming in 2020 and 2021IDW joins BOOM! Gives full returnability through 2020 to LCS’Announces Nachie Marsham as new publisherSales early look at August (tweet)X-Men Monday #75 - X of Swords edition plugOur Empyre State of Mynd  column wraps up next week!Our Top Books of the WeekDave:The Dreaming: Waking Hours (2020) #2 (W: G. Willow Wilson, A: Nick Robles)Alien: The Original Screenplay #2 (W: Cristiano Seixas, A: Guilherme Balbi)Chris:Cable #4 - Gerry Duggan, Phil NotoNew Mutants #12 - Ed Brisson, Marco FaillaTOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEKDave: Empyre Aftermath: Avengers #1 (W: Al Ewing, A: Valerio Schiti) Chris: Marauders #12 - Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Russell DautermanJUDGING BY THE COVER JR.Dave: Dark Nights: Death Metal: Trinity Crisis #1 (Francis Manapul)Chris: Rise of Ultraman #1 (Classic Photo Variant)Segment - Interview - Christopher Cantwell about Iron Man (out September 16nd), Doctor Doom, and more.Off Topic Top Shelf - Christopher Cantwell - Watching Unsolved Mysteries and his children.

Ryan 'Agent M' Penagos and Tucker Markus go through the new comics of the week and then Russell Dauterman joins in the conversation for the reading club pick of the week, GENERATION X (1994) #1-4!Check out the series on Marvel Unlimited, Marvel’s premier digital comics subscription service for instant access to over 27,000 Marvel digital comics.

This week we start off with "The Story of Gerd and Frey", courtesy of Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology", followed up by my convention report from C2E2 2019!! This episode contains overspending, a golden boar, Russell Dauterman, a bunch of giants, Esad Ribic, gay erotica, Valhalla, original comic art, and a sword that fights by itself! (not necessarily in that order...) Music courtesy of Adrian Van Ziegler

Hey Handsomites! Eric and Robbie are talking hammers this week, as they dig into The Mighty Thor! They talk about Jane Foster's arc, the fantastic art team, and decide how definitive Jason Aaron's run on the character really is! They also review Batman #50 and Captain America #1! Floppies Fortnightly Batman #50 Catwoman #1 Death […] The post 217 – The Mighty Thor Vol 1-5 by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman, & Matt Wilson appeared first on Handsome Boys Comics Hour.