Podcasts about we only find them when they're dead

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2023 77:11

- All Against All #1 y #2. Alex Paknadel (W), Caspar Wijngaard (A/C). (Image). - Barbaric: Hell to Pay #1. Michael Moreci (W), Nathan Gooden (A), Addison Duke (C). (Vault). - Batman - One Bad Day: Catwoman. G. Willow Wilson (W), Jamie McKelvie (A/C). (DC). - Danger Street #1 y #2. Tom King (W), Jorge Fornés (A), Dave Stewart (C). (DC). - Immortal Sergeant #1. Joe Kelly (W), Ken Niimura (A). (Image). - Nemesis Reloaded #1 (de 5). Mark Millar (W), Jorge Jiménez (A), Giovanna Niro (C). (Image). - Sins of Sinister #1. Kieron Gillen (W), Lucas Werneck y un montón de invitados (A), Bryan Valenza (C). (Marvel). - Scarlet Witch #1. Steve Orlando (W), Sara Pichelli (A), Elisabetta D'Amico (I), Matthew Wilson (C). (Marvel). Los Irresistibles [00:45:25]: A Calculated Man #4, Astronaut Down #5, Batman Fortress #8, Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, Strange #10, The New Champion of Shazam! #4, The Silver Coin #15, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #15, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #3.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #234

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2023 52:34

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The Professor Frenzy Show #225

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022 63:31

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The Professor Frenzy Show #224

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2022 57:43

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2022 73:55

- Amazing Fantasy #1000. (VVAA). (Marvel). - Fantastic Four: Full Circle. (Alex Ross). (Marvel). - Thunderbolts #1 (de 5). Jim Zub (W), Sean Izaakse (A), Java Tartaglia (C). (Marvel). - Shock Shop #1. Cullen Bunn (W), Danny Luckert (A/C) y Leila Leiz (A/C). (Dark Horse). Los Irresistibles [00:39:34]: Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #4, Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #4 (de 7), Dark Knights of Steel #1: Tales from the Three Kingdoms, Ghost Rider #6, Immortal X-Men #6, Moon Knight #15, Once and Future #29 (de 30), She-Hulk #6, Tales From Harrow County: Lost Ones #4 (final), The New Champion of Shazam #2 (de 4), The Variants #3 (de 5), We Only Find Them When They're Dead #13, X-Force #31.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #212

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 56:47

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Episode 95: Avengers: Kang Dynasty Director, Detective Comics #1062, Action Comics #1045, Gambit X-Men Relaunch and More!

First Print - Podcast comics de référence

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2022 60:09

Updates: 5:33 Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi) will be the director of Kang Dynasty Comics: 14:29 Detective Comics #1062 20:33 Action Comics #1045 - Philip Kennedy Johnson and Will Conrad 26:34 Captain America: Symbol of Truth #3 - Micheal Onyebuchi, RB Silva, and Ze Carlos 31:07 Aquamen #6 - Brandon Thomas and Chuck Brown, Max Raynor Mentions: Strange #4, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #23, The Magic Order 3 #1, Patch #4 Book Club: New X-Men 19-21 [36:32] Next episode: #22-27 Relaunch: Gambit [47:40]

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Amazing Fantasy, Saison de Sang, WOFTWTD, The Scumbag, Radiant Black : nos lectures VF de l'été ! [Back Issues]

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2022 60:10

Les beaux jours et le soleil sont tout à fait propices à la lecture, et c'est pour cela, entre autres bonnes raisons, que nous sommes un nouvelle fois de retour pour un format Back Issues ! Avec une sélection de comics sortis tout droit de chez nos éditeurs VF préférés, pour vous inciter à lire des comics, des fois avec des super-héros, et des fois sans ! Alors, prêts à faire gonfler votre PAL ? Qu'emmener à lire pendant vos vacances ? Du Marvel par Kaare Andrews, le magnifique Saison de Sang dont on vous a déjà parlé quelques fois, les débuts de Radiant Black en France, le superbe 2e tome de We Only Find Them When They're Dead et le déjanté The Scumbag sont au programme de ce rendez-vous des Back Issues VF ! N'hésitez pas non plus à nous faire part de vos propres lectures récentes ou de vos envies de comics ! Et si le travail effectué avec nos émissions vous plaît, alors vous pouvez au choix (ou faire les deux) partager les podcasts sur vos réseaux sociaux, ou nous soutenir directement sur Tipeee, grâce au module implémenté sur notre site, qui vous permet de contribuer sans quitter notre page. Pensez-y, et merci à toutes celles et ceux qui nous soutiennent chaque mois, on ne pourrait pas faire First Print sans vous ! Le Programme Les liens vous renvoient chez notre partenaire Comics Zone. Une commande chez eux marquera votre soutien à un libraire indépendant, et nous filera aussi un petit coup de pouce ! Radiant Black Tome 1 - 04:15 Amazing Fantasy - 15:50 We Only Find Them When They're Dead Tome 2 - 29:40 The Scumbag Tome 1 - 42:35 Saison de Sang - 51:40 -- Soutenez First Print - Podcast Comics de Référence sur Tipeee

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Evil Squid Comics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2022 65:10

- Ant-Man #1 (de 4). Al Ewing (W), Tom Reilly (A), Jordie Bellaire (C). (Marvel). - Blink #1. Christopher Sebela (W), Hayden Sherman (A), Nick Filardi (C). (Oni Press). - Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel #1 (de 5). Peter David (W), Juanan Ramírez (A), Federico Blee (C). (Marvel). - Iron Cat #2 (de 5). Jed MacKay (W), Pere Pérez (A), Frank D'Armata (C). (Marvel). - Public Domain #2. Chip Zdarsky. (Image). - Sins of the Black Flamingo #2 (de 5). Andrew Wheeler (W), Travis Moore (A), Tamra Bonvillain (C). (Image). - The Variants #2 (de 5). Gail Simone (W), Phil Noto (A/C). (Marvel). Los Irresistibles [00:46:37]: A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance #10 (de 11), Batman: Fortress #3, I Hate This Place #3, Pearl III #3, Strange #4, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #12.

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Episode 4.14 - Love or Blunder?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 114:48

Film/Tv - Thor Love and Thunder, Spiderhead, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Stranger Things, Umbrella Academy. Flashback - Fables. Comics - Karmen, 20th Century Boys, The Passageway, Primordial, Newburn, Mazebook, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Kane and Able, Kick Ass New Girl, The Dark Room, Department of Truth

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Episode 4.13. - Heroes Con Haul

Evil Squid Comics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 88:47

Film/TV:Obi-Wan, Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness. Comics: Heroes Con, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, King of Spies, Red, Pablo, The Junction. Retro Review: Fables - Wolves

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The Professor Frenzy Show #207

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 59:11

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2022 60:52

- Beware the Eye of Odin #1. Doug Wagner (W), Tim Odland (A), Michelle Madsen (C). (Image). - Black Adam #1 (de 12). Christopher Priest (W), Rafa Sandoval (A), Matt Herms (C). (DC). - The Lonesome Hunters #1. Tyler Crook. (Dark Horse). - I Hate This Place #2. Kyle Starks (W), Artyom Topilin (A), Lee Loughridge (C). (Image). Los Irresistibles [00:38:35]: Blood Stained Teeth #3, Home Sick Pilots #15 (Final), Immortal X-Men #3, Moon Knight #12, Newburn #8, Nightwing #93, Silver Surfer: Rebirth #5 (Final), The Silver Coin #11, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #11.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #206

Who Watches the Watchers?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 45:47

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We Only Find Them When They're Dead (Issues 1-10) by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 67:29

This week we talk about the Boom Studios comic, WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEY'RE DEAD by Al Ewing, Simone Di Meo and Mariasara Miotti. We talk about the first ten issues of this complex and interwoven tale in this episode so strap in, we have a lot to talk about here. Follow us on Instagram for the love of god: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookraiders/

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BOOM! Addiction: S3E28 - Basilisk #7

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 136:14

Welcome to the show! This episode we take a look at BASILISK #7, MAW #5, SEVEN SECRETS #13, WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEY'RE DEAD #10, BUCKHEAD #3, and DARK BLOOD #6. We hope you enjoy! Contact info: Website: www.boomaddiction.com Facebook: Fans of BOOM! Studios YouTube: youtube.com/user/boomaddiction Email Address: boomaddiction@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/boomaddiction Ed: www.twitter.com/TealProductions Chris: www.twitter.com/chrispartin

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The Professor Frenzy Show #185

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2022 55:31

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Entre Cómics 369

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2022 97:23

- 20XX: Transport #1. Jonathan Luna. (Panel Syndicate). - Batman: The Knight #1 (de 10). Chip Zdarsky (W), Carmine di Giandomenico (A), Iván Plascencia (C). (DC). - Bolero #1. Wyatt Kennedy (W), Luana Vecchio (A/C). (Image). - Rain #1 (de 5). Joe Hill (Story), David M. Booher (W), Zoe Thorogood (A), Chris O'Halloran (C). (Image). - She-Hulk #1 (de 5). Rainbow Rowell (W), Rogê Antônio (A), Rico Renzi (C). (Marvel). - Silk #1 (de 5). Emily Kim (W), Takeshi Miyazawa (A), Ian Herring (C). (Marvel). - Silver Surfer: Rebirth #1 (de 5). Ron Marz (W), Ron Lim (A), Don Ho (I), Israel Silva (C). (Marvel). - We Ride Titans #1. Tres Dean (W), Sebastián Píriz (A), Dee Cunniffe (C). (Vault). - X Lives of Wolverine #1 (de 5). Benjamin Percy (W), Joshua Cassara (A), Frank Martin (C). (Marvel). Los Irresistibles [00:55:40]: A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance #4, Dark Ages #4 (de 6), Defenders #5 (final), Eternals #9, Home Sick Pilots #11, Hulk #3, Marauders #27, Mazebook #5 (final), Moon Knight #7, Nightwing #88, No One Left To Fight II #4, Primordial #5, Seven Secrets #13, Stillwater #12, Strange Academy #15, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #7 (de 8), Superman: Son of Kal-El #7, The Good Asian #8 (de 10), The Silver Coin #8, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #10.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #184

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2022 37:07

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BOOM! Addiction: S3E19 - House of Slaughter #1

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 117:35

Welcome back to the show! This episode has a LOT of comics. - We Only Find Them When They're Dead #9 - Dark Blood #4 - Good Luck #5 - House of Slaughter #1 - Once & Future #21 Enjoy! Contact info: Website: www.boomaddiction.com Facebook: Fans of BOOM! Studios Email Address: boomaddiction@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/boomaddiction Ed: www.twitter.com/TealProductions Chris: www.twitter.com/chrispartin

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BOOM! Addiction: S3E19 – House of Slaughter #1

Comic Book Noise Family

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021

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The Professor Frenzy Show #173

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 68:33

Comics Once and Future #21 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Dan Mora $3.99 Crossover #9 from Image Comics (W) Donny Cates (A) Geoff Shaw, Dee Cuniffe $3.99 Primordial #2 from Image Comics (W) Jeff Lemire (A) Andrea Sorrentino $3.99 Adventureman #6 from Image Comics (W) Matt Fraction (A) Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson $3.99 Moths #5 from AWA/Upshot (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A) Mike Choi $3.99 Pop Star Assassin #1 from Behemoth Comics (W) Ed Lavallee, Matt Cashel (A) Marcelo Basile $3.99 House Of Slaughter #1 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal | Artist(s): Chris Shehan | Colors: Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 Echolands #3 from Image | Writer(s): JH Williams III, Haden Blackman | Artist(s): JH Williams III | Colors: Dave Stewart | Letters: Todd Klein | $4.99 Lady Baltimore Witch Queens #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Mike Mignola Christopher Golden | Artist(s): Bridgit Connell | Colors: Michelle Madsen | Letters: Clem Robins | $3.99 A Man Among Ye #7 from Image/Top Cow | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips | Artist(s): Josh George | Colors: John Kalisz | Letters: Troy Peteri | $3.99 Human Remains #2 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Peter Milligan | Artist(s): Sally Cantirino | Colors: Dearbhla Kelly | Letters: Andworld | $3.99 Vinyl #5 from Image | Writer(s): Doug Wagner | Artist(s): Daniel Hillyard | Colors: Dave Stewart | Letters: Ed Dukeshire | $3.99 We Only Find Them When They're Dead #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Al Ewing | Artist(s): Simone Di Meo | Color Assists: Mariasara Miotti | Letters: Andworld Design | $3.99 Good Asian #6 from Image | Writer(s): Pornsak Pichetshote | Artist(s): Alexandre Tefenkgi | Colors: Lee Loughridge | Letters: Jeff Powell | $3.99 Swamp Dogs, House of Crows #1 from the Black Caravan Imprint of Scout Comics | Writer J.m. Brandt, Theo Prasidis | Art: Kewber Baal | Colors: Ruth Redmond | Letters: Steve Wands | $3.99 M.O.M. Mother Of Madness #3 from Image | Writer(s): Emilia Clarke Marguerite Bennett | Artist(s): Leila Leiz | $4.99 Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika #4 from Image | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $3.99 Boston Metaphysical Society Ghosts And Demons #1 (One Shot) from Source Point Press | Writer(s): Madeleine Holly-Rosing | Artist(s): Gwynn Tavares | $4.99 Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #6 from | Artists | Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Garth Ennis | Artist(s): Goran Sudzuka | $3.99 We Don't Kill Spiders #2 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Joseph Schmalke | Artist(s): Joseph Schmalke | $3.99 Cross to Bear #1 from Aftershock Comics (W) Marko Stojanovic (A) Sinisa Banovic $4.99 Made in Korea #5 from Image Comics (W) Jeremy Holt (A) George Schall $3.99 Upcoming Comics Lucky Devil #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn | Artist(s): Fran Galan | $3.99 Fire Power #17 from Image | Writer(s): Robert Kirkman | Artist(s): Chris Samnee Matthew Wilson | $3.99 Magic Order 2 #1 from Image | Writer(s): Mark Millar | Artist(s): Stuart Immonen | $3.99 Primordial #2 from Image | Writer(s): Jeff Lemire | Artist(s): Andrea Sorrentino | $3.99 - other covers? Radiant Black #9 from Image | Writer(s): Kyle Higgins | Artist(s): Marcello Costa | $3.99 Silver Coin #6 from Image | Writer(s): Joshua Williamson | Artist(s): Michael Walsh | $3.99 The Me You Love In The Dark #4 from Image | Writer(s): Skottie Young | Artist(s): Jorge Corona | $3.99 After Dark #1 (One Shot) from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Various | Artist(s): Various | $6.99 Bigfoot Frankenstein #2 from Action Lab Entertainment | Writer(s): Mark Bertolini | Artist(s): Vernon Smith | $3.99 Blue Flame #5 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Christopher Cantwell | Artist(s): Adam Gorham | $3.99 Chilling Adventures In Sorcery #1 (One Shot) from Archie Comics | Writer(s): Various | Artist(s): Various | $3.99 Heathens #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Cullen Bunn Heath Amodio | Artist(s): Sami Kivela | $4.99 Out Of Body #5 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Peter Miligan | Artist(s): Inaki Miranda | $3.99 Rush #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Si Spurrier | Artist(s): Nathan Gooden | $3.99 A Thing Called Truth #1 from Image Comics (W) Iolanda Zanfardino (A) Elisa Romboli $3.99 Guillem March Laura (and other stories) #1 from Ablaze Media (W/A/CA) Guillem March $3.99 Knighted #1 from AWA/Upshot (W) Gregg Hurwitz (A) Mark Texeira, Brian Reber $3.99 Last Flight Out #3 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Marc Guggenheim (A) Eduardo Ferigato $3.99 My Bad #1 from Ahoy Comics (W) Mark James Russell, Bryce Ingman (A) Peter Krause $3.99 Newburn #1 from Image Comics (W) Chip Zdarsky, Nadia Shammas (A) Jacob Phillips, Ziyed Yusuf Ayoub $3.99 Trades Beasts Of Burden Occupied Territory HC from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Sarah Dyer Evan Dorkin | Artist(s): Ben Dewey | $24.99 EC Archives Haunt Of Fear Vol 1 TP from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman Various | Artist(s): Al Feldstein Various | $19.99

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2021 53:51

- Cross to Bear #1. Marko Stojanović (W), Siniša Banović (A), Dorde Krajinović y Aljoša Tomić (C).(Aftershock). - House of Slaughter #1. James Tynion IV y Tate Brombal (Historia), Tate Brombal (W), Chris Shehan (A), Miquel Muerto (C). (Boom!). - The All-Nighter #1 y #2. Chip Zdarsky (W), Jason Loo (A), Paris Alleyne (C). (Comixology). - The Harbinger #1. Collin Kelly y Jackson Lanzig (W), Robbi Rodriguez (A), Rico Renzi (C). (Valiant). - The Rush #1. Si Spurrier (W), Nathan Gooden (A), Addison Duke (C). (Vault). - Inferno #2 (de 4). Jonathan Hickman (W), Stefano Caselli (A), David Curiel (C). (Marvel). Los Irresistibles [00:32:30]: Black Widow #12, Daredevil #35, Friday #4, Made in Korea #5 (de 6), Marauders #25, Moon Knight #4, Once and Future #21, SWORD #9, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #9.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #172

Thinking Critical Comic Book Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 60:07

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Comics Elite Present Best and Worst New Comics of the Week 10/27

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 87:32

Shawn and Drew from Comics Elite comic shop preview the best and worst releases of an enormous new comic book week. DC and Marvel Comics are debuting several new titles during new comic week October 27th including Batman/Fortnite: Foundation, Batman: The Long Halloween Special, DC vs Vampires, Task Force Z and Darkhold: Blade. Shawn and Drew lay out this weeks new releases you shouldn't expect much from or can outright skip. (00:00) Shawn and Drew then name his Top 10 must read new comics for the week. (55:43) Must listen for readers looking for the best bang for their new comic buck. Marvel Comics feature new issues of Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Inferno, Moon Knight and Wolverine. DC Comics feature new titles Batman/Fortnite: Foundation, Batman: The Long Halloween Special, DC vs Vampires, Task Force Z and Aquaman/Green Arrow: Deep Target. DC also release new issues of Deathstroke Inc., Detective Comics, Robin and Harley Quinn. The indie scene features new BOOM! sequel series House of Slaughter, Dark Horse's Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club, and Valiant's Harbinger relaunch. Image Comics release new issues of Adventureman, Crossover, Killadelphia, Spawn and The Good Asian. Other indie comics of note include; Once & Future, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Black Hammer: Reborn and Transformers. Comics Elite Info YT: youtube.com/channel/UCqomzHuP6X3QLXElMdzm1JA Website: comicselitecomics.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/comicselite/ Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content. Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical Thank you for supporting the channel!

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2021 66:14

- Dark Ages #1 (de 6). Tom Taylor (W), Iban Coello (A), Brian Reber (C). (Marvel). - Last Flight Out #1 (de 6). Marc Guggenheim (W), Eduardo Ferigato (A), Marcelo Costa (C). (Dark Horse). - Mazebook #1. Jeff Lemire. (Dark Horse). - Search for Hu #1. Jon Tsuei y Steve Orlando (W), Rubine (A), DC Alonso (C). (Aftershock). Los Irresistibles [00:32:35]: Captain Marvel #32, Daredevil #34, Defenders #2 (de 5), Mamo #3, Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #4, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #5 (final), The Me You Love In The Dark #2 (de 5) The Nice House on the Lake #4, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #8, X-Force #23.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #165

Nuff Said: The Marvel, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and Comics Fan Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 54:28

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Superconnectivity Ep #357: What If? Episode 4, Dark Ages #1

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 55:57

Superconnectivity Ep #357: What If? Episode 4, Dark Ages #1 Charlie and Phil discuss various topics including: Streaming and Cable What If? Episode 4 Stargirl season 2 episode 4 Abomination in Shang-Chi and She-Hulk New comics Avengers #48, Sinister War #4, Dark Ages #1, Hey Kids, Comics #5, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #8 Show notes: Superconnectivity Ep #357: What If? Episode 4, Dark Ages #1 Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Charlie Esser on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieEsser Produced by: Capes and Lunatics Podcast Production Team: Phil Perich Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

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Superconnectivity Ep #357: What If? Episode 4, Dark Ages #1

Capes and Lunatics

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 55:57

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The Professor Frenzy Show #164

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 51:32

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BOOM! Addiction: S3E12 - The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 86:43

Welcome back to the show! This episode we highlight new series and trades coming out in the September solicitations. We look over this week's Final Order Cutoff books. Ed dives into the entire The Many Deaths of Laila Starr miniseries that wraps up this week with issue #5. We look at Basilisk #4, Eighty Days hardcover, and We Only Find Them When They're Dead #8. Enjoy! Contact info: Website: www.boomaddiction.com Facebook: Fans of BOOM! Studios Email Address: boomaddiction@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/boomaddiction Ed: www.twitter.com/TealProductions Chris: www.twitter.com/chrispartin

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03: Wonder Woman Dead Earth

Attack Of The Stack

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2021 76:54

On this episode of Attack Of The Stack we get into some news about Jock's new Black Label project with DC as well as the announcement of a spin off series for Something Is Killing The Children. We then discuss some books we have each been reading including a check in on Hickman's X-Men universe. Other books we touch on include We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Wynd, Ninjak, Thor, Fire Power, and more. Then we conclude with our main topic where we talk about Daniel Warren Johnson's Wonder Woman Dead Earth. If you would like to follow us on Twitter our handle is @AttackOfTheStack If you have a desire to contact us our email is attackofthestackinbox@gmail.com

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On the Road to Immortal Hulk #50 with Al Ewing

The Marvelists

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2021 50:49

This week on The Marvelists, we are joined with Marvel Comics writer, Al Ewing. Al discusses with us the build-up to the upcoming finale of The Immortal Hulk, his future at Marvel, as well as his series at Boom Studios "We Only Find Them When They're Dead." Follow The Marvelists on social media: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @TheMarvelists Subscribe to The Marvelists on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGe72jbm8J5IXsINZvrJAhg Support the show on Patreon: http://www.Patreon.com/themarvelists Buy our t-shirt: http://www.belowthecollar.com/themarvelists

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Genre Equality #38: The Expanse, Star Trek: Discovery, Carmen Sandiego, His Dark Materials & more!

Genre Equality

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 93:53

Star Trek: Discovery's massive time jump, The Expanse's earth-shattering Belter coup, and the final season of Carmen Sandiego are our main topics this month! Plus we review the climax of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, His Dark Materials' improved 2nd season, Sharkboy and Lavagirl sequel We Can be Heroes, The Promised Neverland live-action movie, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson's experimental sci-fi film Last And First Men, Doctor Who's New Year special, and more. Finally, Hidzir spotlights comics like Al Ewing's celestial We Only Find Them When They're Dead alongside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' post-apocalyptic future in The Last Ronin. Intro - 00:00 The Expanse - 02:20 Star Trek: Discovery - 31:20 Carmen Sandiego - 50:58 His Dark Materials - 57:26 Last and First Men - 1:00:10 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - 1:02:46 Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks - 1:05:10 We Can Be Heroes - 1:06:55 The Stand - 1:07:58 The Promised Neverland - 1:10:01 Equinox - 1:12:42 Shadow in the Cloud - 1:15:11 Outside the Wire - 1:16:27 We Only Find Them When They're Dead - 1:20:07 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - 1:24:50 Outro - 1:29:16

Episode 11: The Ninja Turtles' Comic Evolution

Ten Cent Takes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2021 57:29

Hey, there, fellow heroes in a half-shell! This week, we're examining how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles evolved across approximately 30 years and four comic book series. In this episode, we're looking at: The original Mirage series TMNT Adventures from Archie Comics The short-lived Image Comics series from the 90s IDW's 2011 series ----more---- Episode 11 Transcript [00:00:00] Jessika: You're going to cut all this bullshit, Mike: Oh yeah, of course. Jessika: Okay. Hello? Hello. Welcome to Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we share hot and delicious slices of comic-flavored facts, one issue at a time. My name is Jessika Frazer and I am joined by my co-host, the man of mystery himself, Mike Thompson. Mike: Ooh. I like that. Jessika: You're mysterious. Mike: I'm really not. Jessika: You're just a voice to these people. Mike: That is true. Jessika: Let this parasocial relationship happen for them. Mike: Fine. Jessika: So, Mike, do you want to tell our listeners what this here podcast is about? Mike: This is payback for last week, isn't it? Jessika: Certainly is. Mike: Yeah, [00:01:00] fine. So here at Ten Cent Takes, we like to talk about comics and we like to talk about how they are interwoven with history and pop culture. Sometimes our conversations are weird, sometimes they're funny, but hopefully they are always interesting. Come for the deep dives, stay for the swearing. Jessika: Fuck yes. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Well, today we're going to be taking a deep dive into the comics of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, how they got their start, the people and the publishers involved, and some information and opinions about the different iterations of this beloved comic. But before we go any further, we have corrections and announcements. Mike, you want to start us off? Mike: Yeah, sorry. So I realized after the episode about the ninja turtles movies that I said, Howard the Duck was done by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, but it was George Lucas. Spielberg and Lucas worked together on some other major projects in the eighties, but not Howard the [00:02:00] Duck. You will be pleased to know that I was correct about Corey Feldman being a generally terrible human being. So, no apologies there. Also, we are going to continue our giveaway raffle in exchange for sending us a screenshot of a review that you leave for us on Apple podcasts. It doesn't matter what the rating is, we love five stars, but we'll take anything. We will enter you into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to NewKadia. If you can get your review in before August 5th, that will be roughly a month from when we first announced the giveaway, that would be great. And then we will contact the winner directly. just take a screenshot of your review, email it to tencenttakes@gmail.com, and that's all you have to do. Jessika: Go get you some prizes. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: All right. So good news, everyone. We now have both an Instagram and a Facebook account, so we will be posting episode updates and potentially bonus posts related to the [00:03:00] episode. So feel free to follow us. We're at Ten Cent Takes at both of those places. All right. So, Mike, do you want to mosey along to one cool thing that you have read or watched lately? Mike: Yeah, I guess I can be tempted to go that route. so I've been actually reading a lot of cool stuff lately. I actually just did a big run to Brian's Comics in Petaluma, and, and had a huge haul of stuff on my pull list, cause it had been about a month since I was there and I'd added some stuff to it. But, something I picked up just this week from Brian's is this new book called the Nice House on the Lake. It's published by DC under its mature Black Label imprint. And it's written by James Tynion IV who he's also writing Something is Killing the Children, which I've at least told you about in the past. I don't know if I've talked about it here. Jessika: I've started reading it. Mike: Yeah. I mean it's - Something is Killing the Children is also excellent. And this is his new [00:04:00] series and he's doing it with Alvaro Martinez Bueno, who has recently been doing art for Detective Comics. And it's hard to describe without spoiling it, but the gist is that there is a group of people who are invited for a nice weekend at this mutual friends, insanely luxurious lake house. And it feels like we're kind of getting set up for a murder mystery, and then things take a turn for the terrifying in a really unexpected way. And I'm really excited to see where the series is gonna to go. But if you haven't read it, pick it up. It's great. Jessika: You always tell me about the best horror comics, which is really cool. Mike: I mean, a lot of them come from Brian, to be honest. Jessika: Thanks, Brian. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Absolutely friend of the podcast, Brian. Mike: Yeah, no. Brian is fantastic. If you were in the North Bay, highly recommend going to check out Brian's Comics in Petaluma, it's an awesome little shop. And Brian is one of the friendliest people you could ever hope to meet. Jessika: it's so cute. You have to go underground [00:05:00] kind of you like walk downstairs. It's not really underground, but it feels like it. Mike: Also, he has a really sweet dog who hangs out in the shop too. Jessika: Yes. Mike: So that's what I've been consuming lately. What about you? Jessika: I myself have been on quite the half-shell recently and just deep diving into turtles. And I have found the- I can barely contain my excitement. I have found the absolute best thing. Listen up turtle fans! There's a 24-hour Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle network that plays nothing but the animated into turtle series. Like, all of the animated series, even the old school ones. it's called Totally Turtles. I found it free with ads through Pluto TV on my fire stick. This is not an advertisement, I'm just really excited and I wanted to share it with everyone. And I'm hoping that they're turtle enthusiasts listening. It's such a blast. And despite the obnoxious children's commercials, which are horrendous and on repeat by the way, I feel so sorry for all of you parents. Mike: So wait, so is this, can you select the episodes you want to watch or is it like [00:06:00] an actual TV channel? Jessika: No, it's like an actual TV channel. I know. So it is streaming. They kind of do this weird marathon thing where they play back like a block of one show. So I haven't seen the OG comic come up yet, but I've seen like all of the other ones, so it's pretty neat. Mike: I mean, there've been so many shows over the years. I can only imagine how much content there is for them to broadcast. Jessika: Yeah. They have like a whole like montage in there of all the different ones. And I was like, oh, oh, look at all these shows, all these turtle shows. Mike: Yeah. I'll have to check that out. I, I keep meaning to rewatch the original animated movie mini series, whatever it was that they did for that led into the cartoon. Jessika: Yeah, we used to have some movie that was probably some merchandising schwag from some company, but it was like a pizza monster that they were fighting. Mike: That sounds really familiar, but I'm not sure. Jessika: And on VHS Mike: Why. [00:07:00] Yeah. All right. Jessika: It's like a yellow case. Yeah. I'm just saying I can see it. So. So today we're going to be discussing the four main volumes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Comics. But before we get into it, I want to call out my resources, cause I had quite a few again for this episode, I'm sure you're sensing a theme here with me and research. So we have the Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle documentary, turtlepediafandom.com, which is my best friend, Kevin Eastman's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Artobiography. See what he did there. Mike: Yeah. I dig it. Jessika: Which that book, by the way, if you're a fan, Tom told me about this book, Tom Belland told me about this book and it is so good. And it goes through the first eight issues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and it's by Kevin Eastman, so it talks about the process of it and this. Mockups sketches that they [00:08:00] did, like actual sketches from the comic. It's just, it's really neat and lots of little details about how they were making it and stuff. So, back to my resource, I just got so excited about that. I read an article from Indiana University Bloomington's E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog, and a couple episodes of the Ninja Turtle Power Hour podcast, which is really fun. Mike: Yeah, that show's great. Jessika: Yeah. Got a couple of tidbits from them. So, yeah, thanks guys. Mike: Friend of the podcast as well. They are, they have been very supportive of us in our early days. Jessika: Yeah. So that's, that's really fun. Now we've previously talked about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on this show. In episode one, Mike ran us briefly through the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles history, like the startup, and mention a couple of the iterations of the characters. And in episode nine, I covered the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action films from the nineties. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out those episodes for more [00:09:00] turtle-y goodness. During this episode, we'll be going further down the rabbit hole, looking at the history of the start of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Comics, more in depth and how they evolved over the years. As another little tease, we won't be covering the rest of the merchandising television or other related media in this episode, but stay tuned because I fully plan on doing an additional episode about the Turtles. While we'll be touching on the main volumes of comics from the overarching storyline, just know that there are micro issues and single character adventures along with a whole slew of other comics, crossovers, and pot lines that I simply don't have time to get into today, but just know that they are out there. And, if enough of you ask really, really nicely, maybe I'll cover some of those issues in a future episode. You won't have to ask very hard. Mike: You really won't. Jessika: You won't. Mike: I don't think you guys understand how [00:10:00] excited Jessika was about this episode. Jessika: excited. Like it will, he, it will show in my voice. My face is bright red, by the way, I am Scotch-Irish, my face is showing it. All right. before we get too solidly into our main. Mike, which of the Ninja Turtles is your favorite. And has that favorite changed at all over the years as you grew up? Mike: I think that all six year olds identify with Michelangelo when they first get into the Turtles, and I certainly was no exception. I've bounced around since. I think I'm probably closest to Rafael these days, mainly because I nurse a grudge like nobody's business. Jessika: Oh, is Raphael petty? Mike: I'd like to think he is, He strikes me as the guy who would absolutely go and troll white supremacists on Facebook these days. Jessika: I don't know anyone like that. Mike: No. [00:11:00] No. Jessika: Oh, my goodness. Mike: Well, how about you? Which one did you identify with? Jessika: Well, I also really liked Michelangelo. I mean, he was the party dude after all, and he's still pretty solidly my favorite is I can absolutely relate to being a huge ham. Hi, everyone. But I have such a greater appreciation for Donatello these days, because he really is the brains of the operation. And should he be sorted into a Hogwarts house, he would definitely be with me and Ravenclaw. Mike: Which turtle would be sorted into Hufflepuff. Do you think? Jessika: Hufflepuff. I want to say that Michelangelo would be a Hufflepuff, cause he just he's just like so accepting of everyone. Mike: Yeah, I guess, Yeah. I guess Michelangelo would be a Hufflepuff. Leo would be a Griffindor. I don't think any of them would be Slytherin, so I think Raphael would also be Griffindor. Jessika: Not any of them probably, unless he was like, [00:12:00] Hmm, what if he was a little evil? He might be a Slytherin. Mike: Maybe. I don't know. Jessika: Because Slytherins don't have to be evil. I think they get a bad rap. Mike: It's like ambitious or something like that. Jessika: Yeah. I don't know. Raphael, Raphael might be ambitious. Mike: I mean, the first time that you met me and Sarah, Sarah had on a Slotherin t-shirt and I had on my Hufflepunk jacket. Jessika: I had huge appreciation for both of those things. So. And I have to say too, that some of the more recent TV series have portrayed him in an even nerdier way, like Donatello, I mean. That I connect with even more, which is really fun. And, that's what I like best about these characters is that they really do have different relatable characteristics that makes their storylines just that much more compelling to a diverse audience, in my opinion. Mike: Yeah. 100%. Jessika: So, as Mike mentioned, in our first episode, the series was started by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Throughout high school, Eastman had been trying somewhat unsuccessfully to [00:13:00] break into the indie comics market, and had had several of his proposals turned down before being picked up by a small publishing company, Clay Geerd's Comix Wave while he was still in high school. While he was still in high school, let me reiterate. After graduating, he moved to Portland, Maine to go to art school and founded a comic magazine called Scat with another person. After having more of his art rejected by local publishing company. One of the people at the company told him about Peter Laird with the belief that they had a lot in common. And indeed they did. They had very similar interests, shared a love of creating and of comic artist, Jack Kirby, and immediately started doing short stories together, each bringing different strengths and new ideas to their collective works. In fact, Jack Kirby would also be a future style inspiration for the turtles Comics. Interesting, huh? Mike: Yeah. That actually checks out based on how bombastic the [00:14:00] turtles series became because Kirby's art, I mean, Kirby was such an iconic artists that there's this whole style of. It's like an energy explosion, it's called the Kirby crackle, And it's those, those circles within energy beams that now it's just kind of a thing that you see in comics a lot of the time. Jessika: Oh, that's interesting. Mike: And he also had that very, very sharp edged geometric shape to all of his drawings as well. Jessika: Yeah. Oh wow. Mike: So yeah. Jessika: So this friendship and interest in the creation of comics led them to form MiragevStudios, which was named after the idea that their quote unquote studio was just Laird's living room. So it was really a play on their lack of having a physical studio space. Their goal was to be able to make their living doing the thing that they loved best, because at this point, making comics was still very much a side hobby while they both still worked full-time, Eastman stating that he had been cooking lobsters in Amherst to get by. One of their earliest comic [00:15:00] characters was Fugitoid, whom they would fold into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles storyline later down the line. Mike: That was the time-traveling robot, right? Jessika: Yes. Mike: I remember him. I had his action figure. Jessika: That's cool. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were conceived during what is described as a casual night of brainstorming Eastman drew a ninja turtle, finding the idea of such a clunky and notoriously slow creature being a ninja, really fun. He thought to himself: Okay. So what if Bruce Lee was an animal? What's the stupidest animal Bruce Lee could be? And he's like, a turtle. Mike: Yeah, that checks out. So this was what, like the mid-eighties? Jessika: Yeah, they drew this in '83. Mike: I mean, martial arts and ninjas were such a thing in pop culture back then, too. Jessika: They were. Mike: I just, I remember Chuck Norris had a really terrible ninja movie or two around then as well. And I just remember the eighties [00:16:00] and the early nineties still having this fascination. Jessika: that was actually part of why they drew the turtles. Mike: Ah. Jessika: Was, it was a play on the fact that it was, it was a parody. It was a parody on the fact that so many people were doing ninja movies and a few other aspects were also parody, but we'll, we'll get into those later. Very astute, Mike. So, Laird drew up his own rendition after Eastman first drew up that first stupid looking turtle. Right. It wasn't even super looking, it was really cool. And with Eastman then drawing four turtles, all with different weapons and he wrote Ninja Turtles over the top. And Laird was like, you know what? Nah. And he added Teenage Mutant to the top of the ninja turtles. So they each had a hand in making the whole collective thing. Mike: That's great. Jessika: Yeah. And the sketches together. You can see where both of their ideas formed the larger idea, which is super neat. Mike: Mhmm, [00:17:00] Jessika: So Mike, can you read this next section for me? It's an excerpt from Eastman's Artobiography regarding the sales of the first issue of the teenage mutant ninja turtles. Mike: Absolutely. Tired of rejection letters and inspired by the newest self-publishing movement, especially Davidson Cerberus comic, we pooled our money and borrowed some more from my uncle Quintin to come up with enough to print 3000 black and white comics we were sure would never sell. May 5th, 1984 we premiered the first issue at a local comic book convention. It was incredibly exciting, but I was back cooking lobsters in June. In early 1985, the sales for book two exceeded 15,000 copies. And by mid 1986, Turtles book number eight shipped more than 125,000 copies. I was drawing comics all day and supporting myself, the dream had come true. Jessika: That's so cool. Mike: That's awesome. Jessika: One of the things that they budgeted for were special drawing boards, which would update the black and white [00:18:00] comic to include shades of gray. This board is called Duoshade by Graphix. And because I'm a little Donny in my approach to, well, everything, I had to know how this worked. So I did a little digging. The artists would do the initial drawing and pen out the lines on a special pretreated board, then would go in with a paint brush and brush over the areas with a special developer that would reveal either a light or a darker tone hatching or pixelated pattern, depending on the developer used. This added an extra pop of shadowing without the effort of physically cross-hatching everything by hand. And because it was hatching instead of solid color, like paint, this fit the style of many different types of hands. The way this worked is through of course, science! You see the hatch lines or pixels are preprinted onto the special board using a chemical like silver nitrate that was subsequently blanched with a substance like mercuric chloride [00:19:00] to make it invisible to the naked eye. And two other chemicals are used to either reveal hatch or crosshatch marks, basically. One of the chemicals reveals one hatch causing the lighter shade, and the other revealed the crosshatching that was darker. And there are other chemicals that could be used in place of the ones I mentioned, and they don't seem to advertise the specific recipe ingredients for the updated formula, unsurprisingly. But this technique was invented in 1929 and was in use until 2009 when it was considered obsolete in the face of digital art and technology. Mike: That's so cool. I had no idea that this was a thing. Jessika: It's so neat. So, whenever you see like the pixelated comics and stuff, that's all that kind of board, I'm sure. Mike: That's a really slick, I mean it makes sense that it would be obsolete now because you can sit there and just do, you know, brushes and layer masks and things like that with comics, it's not that hard, but yeah, that's, wow. Jessika: Science! Mike: That must've been such a time-saver for them. Jessika: Oh yeah, [00:20:00] that definitely. They said literally it just took the stroke of a brush and you could give more depth and just shadowing to everything. Will you do me a favor and read this quote about this process that I found on the Indiana University Bloomington's E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog? Mike: Sure. This process is very far from magic, though it surely seem that way for artists. After dipping their brushes and clear liquid, the path of their brushstrokes immediately turned dark as it traveled across paper. The phenomenon was easy to overdo, leading to images with many toned areas that, when reproduced into small comics and magazine ads, turned out cluttered and unclear artists, commended peers who knew when to stop. Jessika: Yes. Gentle hand. And here, I'm going to send you a comparison. So, the top half of this, and we will post this on Instagram, the top half is just in inked, and the bottom half is the same couple of [00:21:00] frames that are also shaded with the Duoshade graphics. Mike: Oh, wow. This is really slick. Is this from the Artobiography? Jessika: Yeah, exactly. It's from the Artobiography. Mike: Okay. oh, okay. Yeah. So I recognize this, this is from the first issue of the original Mirage series. Jessika: Sure is. Mike: And it's when they're in their rooftop battle with the Foot. And the original, like just kind of sketch or line art. It shows Donatello, and the rest of the turtles and a couple of panels getting into these battles and it's, it's fine. It's black and white. And then you look at the difference in terms of shading underneath this. And it's insane how much depth there is. Like they added entire skyline with this. It's crazy. It's also, I feel like it's a little bit over done on the bottom. Like with the shading like this, very clearly like the early days of the turtles, but it looks really cool, especially when you do the comparison. Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. And I almost wonder how much, since they hadn't been producing very much, I wonder how much they were using these boards, [00:22:00] know, beforehand. I wonder if this has maybe, like you said, the early days. Mike: I would be willing to bet that they were pretty new to this and, we're learning when to stop. Jessika: Yeah. So, the turtles and their storyline were initially created as a parody, like we were talking about to some of the popular Comics of the time, especially Daredevil, with similarities and characters names, such as the Foot clan when Daredevil included the Hand. Mike: Right. Jessika: And in some of the situations, such as the highly unlikely way that the canister containing a radioactive solution flew out of the back of a truck, striking someone in the head hitting and subsequently breaking a glass aquarium containing four baby turtles who fall directly into a manhole where they're then covered in the radioactive liquid that leaked out of the container that broke upon hitting on the ground. This situation highlighted the unlikely way that Matt Murdoch got his powers to become Daredevil. When a radioactive substance fell out of a moving truck and blinded him as a child. So, very [00:23:00] much a play on that. There's also the funny correlation between Daredevil's mentor Stick and the turtles mentor being named Splinter. Mike: I never even thought about that before, but that's really funny. This is all stuff out of the Frank Miller, eighties run of Daredevil too, which he almost fetishized Asian cultures in certain ways and was very into ninjas and martial arts and noir, and you can see that later on in his other books like Sin City, but Daredevil, I feel was like, where that really got stuck. Jessika: Yeah. And definitely with, the parody, that's exactly what they were going for. They were making fun of that whole aesthetic. Mike: Well, yeah, because, everything about the Miller books of Daredevil are so grim and gritty and wrought. I can't read them with a straight face, but that's just me. Jessika: So, Eastman and Laird, like you read in that quote, didn't necessarily think that the comic was going to go anywhere. So much so that they actually killed off their main villain, the [00:24:00] shredder in the first issue. Mike: I was going to talk about that. Jessika: They killed him off. They just really didn't think that there was going to be an issue two. I find it really interesting that a comic that was initially thought to be a one-off has turned into such a world-renowned and beloved franchise. Mike: Mmhm. Jessika: Fun fact for all of you out there. The first volumes of the teenage mutant ninja turtles were in black and white with all of the turtles, sporting red bandanas when the covers were finally colorized after the boom in popularity of the series. The only way to really tell them apart where their respective weapons. Mike: That was the same case with the original Ninja Turtles video game on Nintendo. I remember getting this when I was a kid and I was sitting there going, oh, they, they have the same color bandanas, but we know who they all are because they all have different weapons, but they were all sporting red bandanas. Jessika: Yeah, I think I might remember that because we had the Nintendo games, too. Mike: Yeah. Uh, they sucked, They were [00:25:00] really hard and I hated them. I felt like I was a really bad gamer because I couldn't beat it. Jessika: No, honestly, in that, of course we're, unsurprisingly, we're in a Facebook group about the Ninja Turtles. Everybody that I've read talking about the games. It's like, oh, I never beat that game, I couldn't be that game. It was way too hard. It's, it's not just, you don't feel bad. So, we read the first few issues of the Mirage comics, the OG comics, which tell the origin story of the turtles and Splinter and their quest for vengeance, for the death of Splinters, former master and their ongoing rivalry with Shredder and his gang, the Foot Clan. What did you think about these first few issues? Mike: You know, I had never really read them all the way through before now, and it's really interesting when you're basically reading the first content ever created, when you're here at the point where you're 40 years later. It's kind of charming because there's so much exposition where they're setting everything up. [00:26:00] It's overly earnest. It's silly. it's also much more bloody and violent than you would expect. And the funny thing is, so I was reading this digitally via Hoopla and so they actually have the colorized versions now where, it's all been remastered and everything, but I remember, the giant two page spread where they're fighting the Foot on the rooftop and it's like real bloody. It's so strange to sit there and read all of this and have the knowledge of where they have gone with it since then. But at the same time, I can also understand why nobody in the eighties thought this was going to go anywhere. It's just, it's, for lack of a better term, it's just, it's silly. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And, It is a parody, but at the same time, it doesn't entirely feel like a parody, it feels a little bit overly earnest. I never would have sat there and said, this is going to be the thing that every kid under the age of 10 is going to be interested in because, it's really violent. Like, they sit there and they straight up murder, some street punks who are, I think mugging someone. Was that what happened? [00:27:00] Like at the very end when the cops drive up and you see the bloody hands leftover and. Jessika: Yeah, they were just street toughs. I agree. Mike: Yeah. And also, it was weird to see recurring acts of basically domestic violence, because Hamata Yoshi's girlfriend is first beat up by Shredders older brother, and then Shredder vows vengeance after Yoshi kills Shredder's brother. And then Shredder shows up in New York and basically murders first Hamata Yoshi, and then his girlfriend or wife at that point. It's more than I would have expected. Jessika: Yeah, well, and I love the convoluted storyline, cause I think they were having a laugh with that too. Everyone's on a quest for vengeance. Which is such a theme for the turtles. They're always going for some sort of vengeance because you know, of course that's their whole game. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: After this. So that's yeah, Mike: And then, like you said, shredder, when I read the first issue, he basically has a [00:28:00] thermite grenade, and gets knocked off the roof while holding it, and then they sit there and make a comment on, oh, well, I guess the shredder got shredded where they just find bits of his armor left. I was like, oh, that was a surprise. Jessika: Yeah, exactly. And then they turned around and went, oh shit. Oh shit. We have to make an issue two. Mike: Yeah. Ups. Jessika: Which, if you're playing it as a parody, it must be even funnier to have the person you just killed off, come back mysteriously. I found it really interesting that April started off as an assistant to a robotic engineer when she's most often portrayed as a reporter. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And she gave it, it comes back around, you know, she's she and other iterations. She becomes , a lab assistant again, or, something having to do with STEM. I also really, really liked the rough style of the comic and how the frames are very obviously hand drawn and hand lettered. Mike: Yeah. I like how, in some of the speech bubbles, you can [00:29:00] see the letters are squeezed a little bit more together at the end cause they just ran out of room. Jessika: Well, and Eastman even said he was so glad to have somebody when they finally got big enough to have somebody come in and let her, because he's like, I'm so bad at spelling. It's like, I was never this person who spelled, and so there's one place because I'm just a Donatello. Hi, here I am. It's like, I saw the little, like, they meant to put “were”, but they put the little apostrophe in there and I was like. Mike: Oops, Jessika: Eastman, that's adorable, but it's almost like having like a finger print or a thumb print on some, like something handmade, like a handmade mug or something like that. That's the artists' imprint. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And again, now that I know that this was written as a parody, I have a much better appreciation for the over-the-top twists and coincidences that led to the turtles' predicaments. Also, can we please address the insult, slime puppy, that April shouts of bags? Mike: It. [00:30:00] So it reminds me a lot of, in the X-Men animated series, Wolverine keeps on busting out, I think it's like, piece of gutter trash, or something like that. And you're like, oh, that's, that's cute. Mike: You're, you're trying guys. You're trying. Jessika: At what point was that, the thing? That's the thing you're going to write down right now. Okay. Right. So, after the success of the 1987 animated TV series, the comic was getting a little too hot for just Eastman and Laird to handle on their own. And after a few issues, they hired freelance artists to help with creating the series while they took on more of a business side of things. It was really important for Eastman and layered that the artists involved had ownership and received royalties for their work. So, there ended up being a lot of issues, not only with continuity, but also with rights and the use of the comics and the storylines created. To this day, it's difficult, if not impossible, to find copies of [00:31:00] some of the comics created by these other artists, especially since some of the artists refused to sell the rights to their storylines or characters back to Mirage, and therefore those issues were unable to be reprinted. So bye, bye. One of the interesting partnerships of that time was with Archie, and that's how Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was born. The first issue was on shelves and emblazoned with the Comics Code emblem, finally, in March of 1989. Wow, that was a big sigh. Mike: Anytime someone mentions the Comics Code Authority, I just, I feel like I need a good rainstorm to just stare at sadly. Jessika: While I agree with you, you have to admit that it was a rite of passage. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: For, like getting into mainstream and having your your shit recognized, you know? So that must've been huge. Mike: I mean, the comic [00:32:00] stores that I went to when I was a kid, they wouldn't put stuff out on the shelves. If it didn't have the comics code seal of approval. And then by the time I was like 11 or 12, because you started having more and more independent publishers that didn't adhere to it. Jessika: Exactly. No. I mean that's yeah, absolutely. Mike: Would you consider Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures? Would, would that be like, volume 1.5 almost? Jessika: Yes. Yes I would. So, now that the turtles were officially, family-friendly. Written and illustrated by Eastman layered and Steve Levine. These differed greatly to the original comics. In fact, they had the same style color, and kid-friendly vibe as the TV show, which makes a lot of sense because, well, Archie. Will you give us a rundown of these comics that we read and share your opinion with us? Mike: Yeah. So these seem to pick up immediately after that initial TV movie animated series thing, where [00:33:00] the turtles defeated Shredder and Krang, and then trapped them in Dimension X. Shredder gets sent back to earth by crying in the first issue and has to basically start from the ground up to get his revenge. There's a whole scene where he winds up in a park in town and some guys tried to mug him and then he basically intimidates them into giving him their money, and then he goes and takes over some, what was it Slash for Cash dojo, I think was the name of it. Jessika: Yeah. It was like a name nobody would have had, which I have to say about those, those street toughs, Shredder's, like, oh, I must be a New York because I just got mugged. Mike: That was great. And then he takes the dojo over from the leader whose name is Smash, which I thought was great. And then he basically starts going about getting his revenge against the turtles, which is, he has these toughs from the gym dress up as the [00:34:00] turtles, and very obviously bad turtle costumes, and then commit robberies. And then there's a media smear campaign where everyone is like, well, we thought we, uh, we thought that we liked the turtles. We thought they were good guys, but I, I guess they're actually criminals. It's so simple and kind of charming. I couldn't even get mad, it was ridiculous, but I, I couldn't believe what a flashback this was. It was nostalgia, personified, ya know. It's very silly and very innocent and the jokes are corny and the art's pretty simple, but I really got a kick reading through it. I haven't watched the cartoon in a couple of decades, but I immediately knew where the comic's story was picking up. The turtles, rely on slapstick gags rather than actual ninjitsu to defeat the criminals that they're encountering. Shredder and his crew are blundering morons, and there's this overall wholesome quality to the comic. It's very kid-friendly, but I [00:35:00] didn't feel like I was being patronized while I read it, even though I'm almost 40 at this point. Jessika: Yeah. It was, like you said, it was so nostalgia, like nostalgia alley, for sure. These are the turtles and April from my childhood. You know? Mike: Yeah, 100%. Jessika: These are the ones, the main characters were pretty closely based on the animated series while having the rest of the miscellaneous folks being like these goofy Archie type characters. Also, I really liked the way that they framed the TV shots to be shaped like the TVs. Like the frames of the comics were shaped, like the shape of a TV. Mike: Yeah, that 4:3 ratio and all that. Jessika: I really liked that. Yeah. With the rounded edges and everything. Mike: Yeah, it was cute. Jessika: You immediately understood that you were supposed to be seeing something on a screen. And it was light and it was frivolous, without the threat of any real danger.I call it a really decent kids comic. Mike: I've read worse. Jessika: So volume two, moving right along, was written and illustrated by Jim Lawson and was introduced in 1993, amidst the [00:36:00] fan success of the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle live action films. This was also after a falling out between Eastman and Laird caused the duo to stop working together until just recently. Mike: Which you can actually see them come back together in the Netflix series, the Toys That Made Us. Jessika: Yes. Yeah. Which I'm sure is going to play a large role in my next episode of this show. With this change came another: the comic was fully colored. In this series, the turtles part ways as they have no shared purpose after the defeat of the Foot Clan, they battle and defeat Baxter Stockman, who has placed his brain in a robotic body and deal with Triceratons, which are by far my favorite villains in the turtle verse. But despite the turtles as popularity, the series only lasted 13 issues. And a couple of years. Volume two ended with sad sales numbers, [00:37:00] and a literal flood in Mirage Studios, womp womp. In 1996, Image Comics published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles volume three, which was written by Gary Carlson and illustrated by Frank Foscoe. They published a total of 23 monthly issues and return the turtles back to their black and white roots, but did not include the duo-shading, which I found confusing. Mike: Mmhm, same. Jessika: This volume was kind of a trip. It was more intense and action packed, with even more plot twists. Also, they made the turtles much more battle-worn, with turtles missing appendages or in Donatello's case being forced to become a cyborg. And, because it was now being produced by Image, it allowed the turtles to do crossover issues with characters from the Savage Dragon series. Mike: I had those issues. I don't think I still have them anymore, but I remember, it was a big thing where the Savage Dragon basically [00:38:00] stood up his girlfriend, because he was, involved in some shenanigans with the turtles. I think she almost broke up with him at one point, because of that, in that one is. Jessika: I almost said good for her, but then you said almost. Mike: Almost. Jessika: Now, the drama with this issue is that it's no longer considered canon in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle universe, mostly because Peter Laird hadn't been directly involved in making the storyline. So, another situation where they got a little precious about the material. We also read the first few issues of this comic. What are your thoughts on the comic? What I just said? Anything. Mike: I gotta be honest if I were Peter Laird, I probably would have disowned this too. Cause it's really not that great. The art is just generally confusing because there is no sense of depth or shading. It starts you off right in the middle of a big battle. The turtles are getting shot, Splinter is kidnapped, they're being attacked by cyborgs for no real reason [00:39:00] that you can understand, Raphael if I remember, right, is disfigured pretty badly, there's a female ninja who shows up and she is nothing but T&A. And, if you look at the cover for the second issue, it's very male-gazey, where you see the back of a woman and it's really just her ass and legs while the turtles are facing the camera. And it's, everything about this feels like nineties extreme with a capital X. in all the worst ways. And it's funny because I was wondering if Eric Larson, who did the Savage Dragon was drawing this because the art style is very reminiscent of him, and he was also doing the covers. Tom Belland, our friend, I remember him telling me a story about how, at one point he was at Image Comics, and they were criticizing his art style, and he told them that they all draw women late 12 year old boys, because they're. Jessika: Because they do. Mike: They're all boobs and legs and not much else. Jessika: I mean, I don't see a lie. Mike: Yeah, [00:40:00] no lies detected my friend. It's I don't know. I, I really didn't want to read any more past the first issue either. It just, it felt very forgettable and dumb and shocking for the sake of being shocking, not for actually trying to do anything good storytelling-wise. Jessika: Yeah, these were just, they were like, we were talking about, they were difficult to read, they were super frenzied. I didn't know where to look. And it took me a lot longer to read them because I was trying to hash out what was happening. Mike: It was visually confusing, which is kind of the kiss of death in a comic, like the fact that it lasted 23 issues is just mind numbing to me. Jessika: Yeah. you know, you look at comics a lot of the time, the ones that I really connect with are the ones where you look at it and you can see the intended motion. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: I didn't get that at all here. I just felt like I was looking for the motion. It just wasn't there. Mike: Yeah, and even without that duo tone shading, they [00:41:00] didn't do anything, really in its place. Jessika: Yeah, it wasn't. Wasn't great. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And you had mentioned the outfits, it just felt like it was set in a futuristic BDSM party. Mike: A hundred percent. I mean, the first thing that we see is, uh, what's her name? Isn't Kimiko is that her Jessika: Kimiko. Yeah. Mike: Yeah. And she shows up and basically, she looks like she is wearing a leather bondage version of Leelou's outfit from the Fifth Element. It is straps and spikes and it makes no sense whatsoever. Jessika: And like, let's be real. Her boobs are too big for that. Like there's no way that that's containing anything, logistically. Mike: No. I mean it her outfit is body paint, basically. Jessika: Yeah, really is. Mike: So Image Comics in the nineties, they were kind of leading this artistic charge of just heinously unrealistic women. And as much as I [00:42:00] enjoyed the Savage Dragon and Eric Larson's various books, Tom, wasn't wrong, they drew women like 12 year olds did. Jessika: Mmhmm. Mike: We can talk about this at some future point, but I'm sure there's an entire generation of kids who grew up reading comics in that era who developed body dysmorphia or just heinously unrealistic expectations for what people were supposed to look like in general. Jessika: Yeah. Agreed. Well, what do you say we, uh, move on to volume four? Mike: Sure. Jessika: Volume four was first published in 2001, and was created by Peter Laird and Jim Lawson. There was a couple year hiatus in 2006 when Peter Laird stopped to work on the TMNT movie. Aliens have landed and are taking up what they say is temporary residence on earth, which brings with it the added side-effect of normalizing weirdos on the street. So, the turtles are able to come out of hiding and enter more freely into society and other shenanigans with aliens that [00:43:00] may or may not be trustworthy, of course happen. Oh, and apparently the turtles are in their thirties. Same, bro, same. What say ye about the IDW comics we read? Mike: I kind of dug them. It's one of those things where it feels like they are starting with the foundation that we all knew, and then they were growing it out in a different way. It's not bad, it felt kind of like a weird reboot, while also continuing a story that I wasn't overly familiar with. We opened with a rumble between the turtles and a gang that was led by another mutant animal. Jessika: It was a cat. Mike: Yeah. Did he have a name? I can't remember. Jessika: It was Old Hob. Mike: Ah. Jessika: He had an eye patch, Old Hob. Mike: Yeah. And, and he's clearly got history with Splinter, and after they defeat them, it's revealed that Raphael is split from the turtles and he's out wandering around and he ends up rescuing pretty randomly, he ends up busting into Casey [00:44:00] Jones' house to rescue a very young Casey from his abusive dad. We get back to April's original roots of her being a scientist, where she's working for Baxter Stockman's lab. And then also we find out that Krang is around, but he's shown only in shadow. I seriously got some Dr. Claw vibes from the way that they first introduced crane where he's only shown from the back. You only see the silhouette of his chair and then his hand on the phone. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: From the first issue on, you get the impression that they're taking familiar elements and then trying to. In a new way. And that was fine. I mean, my basic familiarity felt like the right starting point for where to go with it, but it, felt pretty cool and it felt like there was actually some pretty decent plot stuff that they were working with and they weren't trying to make it just all action. And also, I really appreciated that the women did not look like Playboy centerfolds. Jessika: Yeah, that was helpful. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: It's hard to be a woman and read comics, I'm just like, [00:45:00] man, this isn't for me at all. Is it? Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Well, I'm pansexual, it's kinda for me, but yeah, I thought the series was fun. The illustration is great as well as the coloring. And the action sequences is really fly off the page and make the reader feel like the pictures really could have been moving. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Again. Like you said, I'm loving that April gets to be a scientist again. And I like that in this one, she was the one who actually named the turtles. Mike: That was really cute. Jessika: Yeah. She was like, I'm in art history. Mike: Yeah. Cause she was like, she was like an intern at the lab basically. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Or work study or whatever it is. Yeah. Jessika: And I think it's really cute that their personalities were already showing when they were baby turtles. Like Raphael was already agro. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: He's the feisty one. Further into it, Raphael gets carried away after the whole, like breaking of the canister thing. And he starts getting [00:46:00] carried away by a cat. And that's why they there's this mutant cat, but Splinter had had some psychotropics. And so he was a little bit more with it, went and fought the cat, but he got swept up into the bag with the other stuff and got carried off by the bad guys, the baddies, and Raphael was just on his own. So he didn't have the development that the other turtles did. Mike: That's actually a really nice touch. Jessika: Yeah, it was super interesting. It's also interesting to me that the mutation and the growth was a lot quicker in this series. They really didn't turn into true teenagers because they haven't been alive for that long, they've only been alive for like, 15 months or something. So finally, I just wanted to touch on the current series that is happening right now. And one that Mike mentioned in episode one, which is the Last Ronin. Mike: Yes. Jessika: Yes. And I'm very excited about this one, and it's absolutely one of the [00:47:00] items on my pull list with another one of our local shops, the Outer Planes in Santa Rosa, the first three issues are available now. And if you have Hoopla Mike and I have had luck finding it to borrow for free, they also have a director's cut for issue one, which has some extra fun sketchies with back, everyone. So just saying that's the one I read, cause I actually own issue one, but I did borrow it on Hoopla too, to see what the little bonuses were. Mike: Yeah. And we've mentioned this before, but Hoopla is an app that, basically they work with libraries across the country and will just let you check out digital content. They limit it to a certain number of items per month. How many do you get. Jessika: I think it's like six or something. Mike: Yeah, I get eight. It's pretty low, but like insane. But in San Francisco it's like 21. Jessika: Ah, okay. Mike: But it's still a really great way to scope out contents legally, you're not pirating it, which is great. And you know, you're also, supporting the libraries because they're working with it, but it's free to you. So, it makes me feel good whenever I can read [00:48:00] content that way. And they've got a truly amazing selection of comics and graphic novels and a huge catalog of Ninja Turtles content. Jessika: Yeah. For those of you who are watching Netflix's is Sweet Tooth, that actually was a comic and that is on Hoopla as well. I checked it out and haven't started it yet. And then it checked itself back in, cause I waited too long. Whoops. Mike: If you get around to reading it, I would love to just hear your thoughts on it because. Jessika: Absolutely. Mike: I read the first volume and I thought it was very good, but I couldn't bring myself to read anymore because I don't like reading about people being mean to kids. And. Jessika: Oh no. Mike: And that's very much what it is, where , it's a guy who is kind of like a young teenager and he's very trusting and people keep abusing his trust or terrorizing him. Jessika: No. Mike: And I'm like, I think I don't want to read that. Jessika: That's why I had to stop reading Lemony Snicket. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Yeah. I like read the first book and I was like, oh, sorry. This is really mean to children and I, my little empathetic heart is just crying. Mike: Yeah. I don't like cruelty to kids., I don't like [00:49:00] cruelty to animals, and I don't like cruelty to old people. Jessika: Do you want to remind the listeners what the series is about and what you think so far? Mike: Sure. This is actually the comic that I'm most familiar with since I've been reading. As I said on Hoopla as the issues have been coming out. This is being billed as the final in quotes, Ninja Turtle story, which takes place in this dystopian, cyberpunk New York. That's now controlled by the Foot Clan. At some point in the past, the turtles were exterminated and only one of them survived. And now he's come back to town with kind of a bucket list of revenge. His identity is originally kept mystery, though it's really not that hard to figure out before the first issue reveals it on the final page. And the subsequent issues spin out both the world and the backstory. I've really been digging it so far. I'm sure that I am missing a lot of little details, because I'm not the most diehard fan of the Ninja Turtles. But, that said, I've been having a [00:50:00] lot of fun with it and I love the new character designs, and also I'm a sucker for anything cyberpunk. Jessika: Yeah, I'm really, really enjoying this comic. The illustrations. Absolutely beautiful and colorful, even though it's set in dystopian society. They didn't go with the whole like grunge, everything is dark, which I really liked. Mike: Yeah. It's really cool. Jessika: And I like the idea that the sole turtle is still being guided by this spirit or memory of his brothers, and that he still draws from the skills and strengths by, in a way, imagining what they would do or what advice they would give. So I thought that was really sweet and they did bring back elements of the original turtles. Like you said, like Stockman's robot mousers that have been upgraded, the Fugitoid and professor Honeycutt. You know, it was just like they're bringing in all of these other things. It's yeah. It's, it's super interesting. Oh, and, did you notice, there's an Eastman and layered cameo Mike: What? Jessika: In issue two. Mike: No, I totally missed this. Where is it? [00:51:00] Jessika: So it's an issue two, and they're eating pizza and they're like, what was that? Could it have been…? Nah. Like when like a turtle is going by and they're like, that didn't happen. Mike: That's great, I love it. Jessika: Yeah. It was like younger Eastman and Laird, so super fun. It's really sweet. So far. It's got a lot of depth to it. They have a lot of really meaningful conversations about mental health too, which I think is really. Mike: Yeah. they've handled PTSD and. Trauma and everything in. I'm not sure I want to use the word realistic, but in believable ways. Jessika: Yeah. I would agree with that description. Yeah. Now onto our Brain Wrinkles. Which is that one thing comics are comics-related that is currently captured within the crevices of our cerebra. Mike, why don't you start us off? Mike: Put me on the spot. [00:52:00] Yeah. So, there's been a bit of news the past couple of weeks about bisexuality being addressed and acknowledged in comics and comics related-media. So, last week on Loki, we had it revealed that Loki is canonically bisexual, which was, that was really nice. Jessika: Pew pew pew pew pew! Mike: As someone who is bi, it's always really nice to see it acknowledged because you know, bi-erasure is a thing and it sucks. But this week, in fact, I think it was yesterday or Tuesday, Al Ewing, the writer that I talked about in, I believe the last episode or the episode before that he's the writer for We Only Find Them When They're Dead, he officially came out as being bisexual. He acknowledged that like he hasn't really been quiet about it, but he he's never exactly aade a formal statement or anything like that. And so he wrote a really, a really thoughtful blog post about all this and talking about how [00:53:00] often people that are within this group have to deal with imposter syndrome and, he put it really well where he said I've always looked at myself through a lens of self-hatred and self-loathing, and that's affected this. I wasn't enough in this category because I wasn't enough in any category. My not being bi enough was just one more metric that I could hate myself on. And it really resonated with me becauseI spent a long time, not really sure how to feel about my sexuality. And then the other thing is that the queer community is not always the most welcoming of us. Jessika: Yeah. I've had those situations as well, where, I'll be on an online dating site and I'm, I'm pansexual. I will, I will date anyone. Gender is not a thing to me. And it's not that it's not a thing, but you know what I mean? That's not a, that's not a metric by which I choose my partners. Mike: Right. Jessika: But there were a lot of times where I would go onto somebody's profile. And when it would say no bi girls or [00:54:00] no bis or something like that. And it's just like, and actually I stopped listening to a podcast cause they started talking about the idea that women get nervous, that you're just going to cheat on them with a guy. Which is like, if I'm in a relationship with you and we're in a relationship, we're in a relationship, it doesn't matter what my orientation is. If I'm a cheater, I'm going to cheat on you, regardless of whether I'm like, you know, but I'm not, that's the thing you have to trust the person you're in a relationship with, and it doesn't have anything to do with their orientation. Mike: Yeah. I've dated a few people who felt they couldn't trust me because I had dated the other gender and, those relationships didn't last. Jessika: Nope. Mike: But yeah, that is what has been rattling around my noggin for the past couple of days. So, what about you? Jessika: So, I wanted to circle back about the Corey Feldman concert I attended a few years back. And [00:55:00] as I had been previously speculating on whether it was the very same weird winged and lingerie-clad, ladies, Corey's Angels. And, friends, I am so sorry to report that I have some unfortunate news that it was in fact Corey's Angels. I will post pics, they're very blurry picks from this concert on Instagram. Also again, my apologies for being complicit in this bad cult situation. Mike: You know, I will say that after our episode and I was reliving how terrible Corey Feldman was. I found myself rewatching a couple of his music videos, and there's such trash, but I am a little ashamed that I gave him the one 10th of a half penny on YouTube. Jessika: I know. Right. And then you sent it to me. So you gave him two, technically. Mike: I know. I I, mean, it is pretty funny though. When you read the Vice articles that make fun of his parties, [00:56:00] though. Jessika: Well, folks, that's it for this episode, be sure to join us again in two weeks for another riveting comic adventure. Mike: Thanks For listening to Ten Cent Takes. Accessibility is important to us, so text transcriptions of each of our published episodes can be found on our website. Jessika: This episode was hosted by Jessika Frazer and Mike Thompson written by Jessika Frazer and edited by Mike Thompson. Our intro theme was written and performed by Jared Emerson Johnson of Bay Area Sound, our credits and transition music is Pursuit of Life by Evan McDonald and was purchased with a standard license from Premium Beat. Our banner graphics were designed by Sarah Frank, who is on Instagram as @lookmomdraws. Mike: If you'd like to get in touch with us, ask us questions or tell us about how we got something wrong, please head over to tencenttakes.com, [00:57:00] or shoot an email to tencenttakes@gmail.com. You can also find us on Twitter, the official podcast is tencenttakes, Jessika is Jessikawitha, and Jessika has a K, not a C, and I am vansau, V A N S A U. Jessika: If you'd like to support us, be sure to subscribe, download, rate, and review wherever you listen. Mike: Stay safe out there. Jessika: And support your local comic shop.

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151. Comics Reviews - 30th June 2021 Releases

Coffee & Heroes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 90:36

INTRODUCTION COMICS: Death of Doctor Strange details, Black Panther delayed, Spider-Man Beyond, King of Spies, Task Force Z TV/MOVIES: Chariot to get a feature film adaptation, Loki finale, Black Widow this week. Check out the 150th Podcast interviews which are both live! DC - 24m 10s Catwoman Annual 2021, Teen Titans Academy Yearbook #1 Marvel – 29m 30s Beta Ray Bill #4, Cable #11, The Marvels #3, United States of Captain America #1, Shang-Chi #2 Indie – 47m 30s Barbaric #1, Crossover #7, The Department of Truth #10, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #7, Redemption #5, Two Moons #5, Undone By Blood or The Other Side of Eden #4 PICKS OF THE WEEK Alan – 1hr 7m 45s - Green Arrow 80th Anniversary #1 Keith – 1hr 16m 50s - That Texas Blood #7 Titles to look forward to next NCBD (07.07.21) – 1hr 23m 45s

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151. Comics Reviews - 30th June 2021 Releases

Coffee & Heroes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 90:36

BOOM! Addiction: S3E5 - Mamo #1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 94:20

Welcome back to the show! This episode we check out a new series with MAMO #1. We get caught up on WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEY'RE DEAD #7. We see what's happening in POWER RANGERS UNLIMITED: EDGE OF DARKNESS #1. SPECTER INSPECTERS #5 wraps up the miniseries, and we want more. Enjoy! Contact info: Facebook: Fans of BOOM! Studios Email Address: boomaddiction@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/boomaddiction Ed: www.twitter.com/TealProductions Chris: www.twitter.com/chrispartin

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BOOM! Addiction: S3E5 – Mamo #1

Comic Book Noise Family

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021

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The Professor Frenzy Show #156

Attilan Rising - An Inhumans Podcast

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Episode 103 – Important Questions about God Meat..

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 58:44

In this episode! Beta Ray Bill #3 and We Only Find Them When They're Dead #6!. Music by bensound. http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

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Issue 08: Marvel's Christian Comics (Part 2)

Ten Cent Takes

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 58:00

Picking up where we last left off, it's time to learn about Marvel's second attempt at comics for Christian audiences. Highlights include comic adaptations of "classic" Christian stories and the creation of an evangelical superhero, but the results were decidedly less impressive than the "Saint Series" from the early 80s. ----more---- Episode 8 Transcription [00:00:00] Jessika: Good, I can see, perfect. No sneaking up on me, Jesus. Mike: Welcome to Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we partake in comics' forbidden fruit, one issue at a time. My name is Mike Thompson and I'm joined by my cohost, the muffin of mayhem herself, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Hello. Mike: How's it going? Jessika: Oh, pretty good. Even better, now that you're calling me a muffin. I love it. Mike: I mean, it was either that or the scone of scorn and I liked muffin of mayhem better. Jessika: Oh, either way. I mean, it's very close. I do have a cupcake on my shoulder as you know. Mike: Yes. [00:01:00] Well, as always, the purpose of this podcast is to perform deep dives on comic books in ways that are both fun and informative. We want to look at their coolest, weirdest and silliest moments, as well as examine how they're woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we're picking up where we left off with our last episode and concluding our look at Marvel's short-lived run of Christian comics. Are you ready? Jessika: Yeehaw. Mike: Well, I'm going to give you a quick break before we actually get into that. What is one cool thing that you have read or watched since we last recorded? Jessika: I started reading the Princeless series by Jeremy Whitley. Mike: Nice. Jessika: Yeah. The art for the first book was by M Goodwin, but there are other artists involved, including Emily Martin, who is local to our area, which is super neat. Mike: Yeah. I met her at Luma [00:02:00] Con a couple of years ago. Jessika: Oh, that's rad as heck. Nice, nice. So, the story follows a princess, Adrienne, who from a young age, is not at all on board with the conventional helpless role she's expected to take as a princess, and is not happy about being locked in a tower alone. So she decides that she doesn't need to continue this path that has been chosen for her and escapes to help others. She's also a person of color and her hair care routines and style reflect that, which is wonderful. And I'm only one issue into the first book, but I'm so excited to see what destiny Adrienne writes for herself. Mike: I think I read the first volume a couple of years ago and I really enjoyed it. It was a really fresh feeling story. Jessika: That's how I felt about it, it was very refreshing. Well, what about [00:03:00] you? Whatcha been reading? Mike: So, one of the series that I have on my pull list at Brian's comics up in Petaluma is We Only Find Them When They're Dead from Boom. It's about six issues. And now it's this really cool sci-fi fantasy sort of series by Al Ewing who has really gotten big while he's been writing the Immortal Hulk, which I also highly recommend because that takes the incredible Hulk storyline and turns it into pretty much a horror story. Jessika: Oh, cool. Mike: It's really neat. And it's really unnerving and, he's been writing it for over 30 issues now, I think, but it's really solid. And the whole idea is that the Hulk is effectively an immortal being and he can't die. But how that comes into play is genuinely terrifying at times. But Al Ewing did this new series called We Only Find Them When They're Dead. The series is just incredible. And it's set in this weird dystopian future where [00:04:00] the bodies of these giant space gods, for lack of a better term appear out of nowhere. And then humanity is so stretched thin for resources that, that what they've started doing is they have these spaceships that will harvest the bodies for parts. And nobody knows where these gods come from until the crew of one of these harvesting ships decides to solve the mystery. It's this really tight kind of small scale story so far, but it's set against this really insane, massive cosmic backdrop. And it's also very queer, so, I think you would probably enjoy it more so than usual. Jessika: Very nice. Very nice. Mike: All right. Let's turn back to Marvel's Christian Comics. Would you be so kind as to give us a quick recap of where we left off after the last episode? Jessika: Sure. Last week we went [00:05:00] through the first years of the Marvel Catholic comics, how it got its start printing religious material, cue the power of asking that we keep discussing on this show, and who was involved in making these particular Comics. Our focal comics were the Saint series, comprised of the stories of St. Francis in Francis Brother of the Universe, Pope John Paul. I can't not do it that way. Mike: It's so good. Jessika: Pope John Paul II, and Mother Teresa. Oh man. Do we want to take a quick second and talk about the recent news? It was so timely about Mother Teresa. You wanna? You want to talk a little bit about that, Mike? I just had to talk about it. It was so freaking timely. Mike: Oh, absolutely. I think this happened a day or two after we recorded the article. So over the past couple of days there's been a number of stories that have come out, basically highlighting that [00:06:00] Mother Teresa was running a cult and I think the headline that I sent you was, “Are there still people who didn't know Mother Teresa was running an alleged cult?” And. Jessika: Cue. Mike: I think. Jessika: Cue me raising my hand. Mike: Yeah, I think this was a day or two after, after you and I had recorded and it just felt ridiculously timely. It was really funny. Jessika: Oh, serendipitous. Mike: No, she was not a good person by the increasingly numerous accounts that I've been seeing. She was quote unquote good by a very narrow definition that unfortunately it was kind of like what the media presented her as back then in the eighties. And since then, I mean, if she was operating today, there's no way that she would have received the Nobel Peace Prize. But. Jessika: Oh, no, absolutely not. Mike: But you know, we're talking, she received that 40 years [00:07:00] ago, so. Jessika: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh. Well, back to what we were talking about last week. After the St. series, after all of that wrapped up, Marvel seemed to decide to walk away from religious content after these winning Comics, we did however, land on a bit of a cliffhanger because Mike, you teased that they took another swing at religious comics in 1992. Mike: That is correct. So, to set the stage, the late eighties and early nineties were a massive boom for the comic book market. There was this huge speculation bubble that was going on, and as a result, Marvel and DC and other imprints were just seeing an unprecedented amount of success. On average, a lot of major books were seeing over a million issues in circulation, which, even today, they don't see. I think in 1991, X-Men number one, the new series that was [00:08:00] drawn by Jim Lee and written by Chris Claremont had something like 12 million issues move for the. Jessika: Oh. Mike: For - yeah. It's bonkers. And then shortly thereafter, the rug basically got pulled out from under Marvel's feet. So the early nineties really went from being awesome to really rough in almost no time flat. And that was because the company's top artists were freelancers and they weren't happy with Marvel's compensation plan. So they left and they founded Image Comics back in early '92. And that was essentially the top artists from really well-performing comics, like X-Men, Spiderman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and X-Force just to name a few, became Marvel's competition overnight. And DC was having some major commercial successes at the same time with events like the death of Superman, and Batman Knightfall, which is when he got his back broken. [00:09:00] So Marvel was suddenly scrambling to keep their share of the market in that light Christian book, publisher, Thomas Nelson, reaching out to former commercial partnership must have seemed like a, uh, well, for lack of a better term, a godsend. And up until that point, Evangelical Christian audiences were a largely untapped demographic outside of their specialty markets. Now that said, I haven't been able to find any old press releases from when this deal was announced. It honestly seems like both. Marvel and Thomas Nelson, would just like to have everyone forget about this whole venture since neither company mentions the partnerships on their sites. I can't even find them on archive or anything like that. Jessika: Oh, wow. Mike: That said - Yeah. It's, it's like buried pretty deep, but that said, I did find an article from Christianity Today, of all places, that fills in some of the details. So, it's kind of a long-winded meandering puff [00:10:00] piece, but there are a couple of relevant details. Would you do me a favor and read the first bit explaining why this deal came to be? Jessika: Sure. Some Thomas Nelson staff, whose young children were drawn to comics noticed there was little available from a Christian viewpoint. Realizing they did not have the resources in house, the publisher struck a deal with Marvel comics to produce a series of comics under Nelson's editorial direction. Using Marvel artists and writers that resulting comics would be marketed in Christian markets by Thomas Nelson and in comic bookstores by Marvel. Mike: Yeah, so, honestly, it sounds more like Thomas Nelson hired Marvel rather than the two were in a legit partnership. Thomas Nelson was even setting the price point for the books, which wasn't cheap. For reference the average Marvel comic cost $1.25 in 1993. The least expensive [00:11:00] Nelson comic, for its single issue Life Christ books, that we'll talk about a little bit, and each of those was going for $2.99, a pop. So that's almost $6 in today's money. Illuminator, which we're really going to talk about for a bit, was going for $4.99 a book, which means Thomas Nelson was expecting kids to shell out the equivalent of $10 bucks per issue for a comic with like zero name recognition. Jessika: Right. Mike: Yeah, and that's actually called out in the same article. Like Christianity today couldn't even give them a complete puff piece, they actually called out how maybe Thomas Nelson was a little bit high on their own fumes. If you'd be so kind to read that section as well. Jessika: The primary difficulty in selling the Illuminator to the secular comic book market is not the subject matter, but the price. As a book publisher, Thomas Nelson wants the comics to look as high quality and [00:12:00] book-like as possible. They have more pages than standard comics, carrying no advertising, and are printed using higher quality paper and ink than standard comics. Thomas Nelson likes to call them illustrated novels, a variation of the comic industry term graphic novel. Because of this, the 48-page Illuminator sells for $4.99. As one comic store owner put it, “that's a pretty stiff price for a comic with no well-known characters, artists or writers”. Yikes. Mike: When you can't even get to pull its punches for an article like this, that kinda says a lot. I feel, yeah, so I don't know what kind of marketing was done, but I haven't been able to find any ads for the Nelson comics in any of my Marvel issues from 1992 to 94, nor have I been able to track down [00:13:00] anything on the web. I mean, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but it certainly seems like the partnership got rolling and then nobody really wanted to draw the attention to the end results. Which, based on what we've seen of the end result of the product, uh, maybe, maybe that's kind of understandable. Jessika: Big sigh. Mike: Yeah, that said, I do have the Illuminator comics in my collection and they are definitely higher quality in terms of production. Like, you know, the colors still pop they're definitely thicker. But, if I had seen this in the comic store, I would have blown right past it when I was kid. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: So speaking of Illuminator, do you want to give us an elevator pitch for that comic? Jessika: Oh my, well, if you insist. I mean, other than calling it a hot mess? Mike: Other than calling it a hot mess. Jessika: Okay. So this high school-aged [00:14:00] kid named Andy Prentiss goes to summer camp, is bullied a lot, and gets tricked into going into the forest in the middle of the night where he is abducted? Mike: It's pretty vague. Jessika: By a beam of light? Yeah. Mike: It's super vague. Like, they don't ever actually, we'll get into that. Okay. Jessika: It's very strange. And he, he somehow becomes the light? And has powers for no explicable reason? I know there are a lot of question marks behind my, my sentences, because that's how it feels. He gets semi-brainwashed by a local reverend and convinced that his powers are from God himself. Mike: Was he actually a reverend was, I thought that dude was just like a… Jessika: I don't know. Or maybe he was just a janitor. I don't know what he was. Mike: It's never really explained. Like. Jessika: I'm giving him a lot of credit. Mike: Yeah. Sorry. I derailed it. Jessika: That's okay. Well, he [00:15:00] convinced him that his power, whoever this dude was who worked at this church. He was always sweeping, he was probably a janitor you're right. Convince him that his powers are from God himself and that he is acting because God directed him to. But like slippery slope my dude. Thus, the Illuminator was created after that all of the villains are supposed to represent really obvious, evil being demon-like creatures, trying, and being mostly successful at tempting the public into acting sinfully. There isn't a great explanation as to why any of this happened, like we said, or is being aimed at Prentiss himself, who didn't seem to be very religious in the first place when this thing started? Mike: No, he was just kind of like an earnest, sort of naive teenager. Jessika: Yeah. But I'll tell you what there is, there is a healthy amount of [00:16:00] slut-shaming. So that's certainly exciting for me because, you know, I hate that bullshit. So. Mike: Yeah. It's definitely uncomfortable to read. Also, I wanna note that his superhero design for the Illuminator persona feels like a rip off of Long Shot, who was this popular character in the eighties who palled around with the X-Men for awhile. Like, here's what he looked like. Take a look, tell me what you think. Jessika: Oh, he even has the little star. Okay. This does look really similar to the other comic we read. He's wearing like a black kind of jumpsuit, but it could, it really could be a motorcycle jacket and pants. He's got boots on. He has a little bullet necklace or a bullet sash? Mike: I believe the term is a bandolier. Jessika: A bandolier, thank you. He has a bandolier, I'm cutting all of that bullshit out. He has a bandolier [00:17:00] and he's throwing, like, I don't know, a little, are those knives? Mike: Knives. Jessika: Oh, okay. Mike: He, like that's Long Shot's thing, is that his power is he's super lucky. He has slightly enhanced strength and hollow bones, which makes him a better acrobat. Jessika: Got it. Mike: And then his weapon of choice is he throws knives that basically he just can hit anything with. Jessika: The problem is they kind of look like sharp popsicles. Mike: Kind of yeah. Jessika: So. Mike: But yeah, I mean like Long Shot is one of my favorite characters. Jessika: Nice. Mike: And I was reading this book again and I was just going, oh my God, they added a helmet and then kind of removed the bandolier and added some extra padding and called it a day. He's even got the mullet. It's just a different color. Andy's a dirty blonde and. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And Long Shot is platinum. Jessika: It's like three shades off, real close. Mike: So you gave a pretty solid summary of the comic itself. I gotta say [00:18:00] the comic series felt very unfocused. It doesn't feel like it really conveys much of a Christian message. Andy's powers are so vaguely delivered, as you called out, and there's no real specific link to Jesus or Christianity at that point. He only becomes the Christian super hero when he retreats into a church to escape, apparently a demonic opponent? Bu, the only reason that we know that he's demonic is because he doesn't want to go in the church. And then he gets a pep talk from this one-armed wise man who lives there, apparently. I feel like he still approached things in a very standard superhero way: punch first ask questions later. Did you notice that there was no trying to solve problems in a way that would result in anything other than a fist fight with powers? Jessika: Oh, no, it was just like, oh, there's a problem, I need to go beat someone up. That was absolutely the vibe. Mike: Yeah, I was genuinely surprised by that. I would have expected a little [00:19:00] more Jesus-inspired approaches such as turning the other cheek, or lifting people up who are suffering, things like that. But no, it was just a superhero fights with people or things that were designated as evil from an evangelical point of view. And I mean, we should talk about that. Like, each of the comics comes across a super victim-blamey. Like, there's that party where Nightfire, the first demonic entity, shows up and starts draining victims, and it shows they're all drinking or doing drugs or being slutty. Jessika: Yeah. They're at a party and there are girls on guys' laps and apparently, that's not good. Mike: Apparently, but then they all become Nightfire's sort of undead army. So it's that implication that sinful behavior leads to damnation later on. Um. Jessika: Okay. Mike: And then [00:20:00] in the second issue, the story paints college campuses out as godless places, full of temptation and being devoid of morality. So, they're susceptible to this mad scientist, who's splicing together weird animal human hybrids, which, I mean, that felt like something that was written by someone who has never actually been on a college campus. Jessika: Yes. Mike: And then the third issue was absolutely trying to link Satanism and Wiccan beliefs. I'm not crazy, right? Like that actually, that's how it felt. Like, Satanism and crystals, that they're just hand in hand. Jessika: Yeah, it was super gross. Mike: Yeah, it was really bad. I mean, the book only had three issues or illustrated novels or whatever they want to call it before it was canceled. So, I personally think that the probable lack of marketing that we discussed really hurt it, but it also seems like there were some production problems that caused it to be [00:21:00] delayed because the third volume has a cover date of August, 1993, but it turns out it didn't actually hit the shelves until February of 1994. I could not find sales figures for the months that the first two volumes came out, but the third issue doesn't even crack the top 100 issues being sold in the market when it actually hit the shelves. You brought up the slut-shamey aspect to it. And in the end of the third issue, it really felt uncomfortable where Andy was, these days it would be incel kind of logic, where he's really mad that the girl he saved didn't go to him. Jessika: That is so how it felt. I was just like pointing at you viciously right now, like, really aggressively. Mike: Yeah. When you were doing that, I was like, what did I do wrong? Jessika: Ya know that's exactly how it felt. It felt like he's like, well, I saved her and I'm the better guy. So she should just be with me. Mike: Yeah. And then. Jessika: He just expected it. It was gross. Mike: And then they kind of have a teaching moment where they're like, well, you know, that's not always how it works, [00:22:00] blah, blah, blah. And then she shows up to be another disciple of Christ or whatever, and blah. Jessika: Yeah. She's like, I broke up with that other guy. Mike: Oh yeah. That. Jessika: She's wearing a knee length skirt and like. Mike: Yeah. And before that she'd been wearing kind of form-fitting jeans and tank tops and. Well, the other guy, I can't even remember his name, but he was at the party. That's the only time we saw him. And he was basically trying to make it okay that everyone was drinking. So, you know. Jessika: Yeah. And then he was in the mall scene and he was like, trying to convince her like something stupid, something else stupid. Mike: Yeah. That was after they got returned to their bodies. That's right. I, I actually thought that she was the mom of one of the other characters originally because she had such a mom haircut and it was like, oh, it's kind of the sexy mom. And then oops. It was, the ages of those characters was very [00:23:00] ill-defined. Jessika: Agreed. Mike: And then, like I said, like this was clearly written by someone who had not experienced really anything of the real world, it felt. Nightfire is a drug dealer who just hangs out outside of high schools and tries to randomly sell drugs to kids? Like, my dude. Do you not understand how drug dealing works? Jessika: That's not how that works. Yeah. Your kids don't have enough money for drug dealers to be interested in them. And they're definitely not giving your kids free drugs. Like I know I say that a lot, but it's because I believe it a lot. They're not just going to get rid of their revenue. Mike: It was the same thing with that college campus, with the mad scientist professor who was, he was in a wheelchair for no really defined reason, he just was. And then apparently he's just creating an army of [00:24:00] man-animal hybrids. Which, again, I was sitting there and I'm like, man, I took biology classes in college and they were never this cool, like, are you creating an army of mutant supermen at your college? Yeah, sign me up. I'll pay that tuition. I'll take out a loan. Jessika: Well, and it was happening in this way that wasn't really logical, to where they were kind of meshing into this larger, like alligator with massive arms and walks around like a human, but then I don't know. It was strange. He was making them come apart with his, God-light. Like they could become two separate things. Again, it wasn't like he was chopping things up and sticking them back together or making a new creature. I don't really understand how this was supposed to be happening, from a scientific aspect. Mike: His powers were really, ill-defined like he, he could fly and he could shoot light. And then I guess, theoretically add super strength, but. Yeah, that whole, like God-light separating the things out, but then it turned out it killed them because they'd been bonded too long to get, I don't know, whatever [00:25:00] it was, it was fucking dumb. Yeah. So that was the thing was Trisha goes to a crystal store where it's apparently a front for a demon cult. And again, I'm like, I don't know, man, if I went to a crystal store and they told me that I could traffic with demons, I'd be much more likely to buy one of their ridiculously expensive geodes. Because I've been taken on a date to a crystal shop, because I was sick and my date wanted to buy me a healing crystal and I was. Oh, God, Jessika: That's, that is very sweet. Mike: I did not respond well to this. Jessika: I'm sure you did not. Mike: Which. I'm sure does not surprise you, but. Jessika: No. Mike: I'm just saying if he'd instead offered to induct me into a cult where they hung out with demons, I might've actually gone out for a second date with him. Hmm. [00:26:00] Do you have any more thoughts on Illuminator before we move on to our next entry? Jessika: I mean, I didn't care for this comic. Other than the first one that was establishing his origin story, it felt like the same story in each of the three issues. It was some demon character sucking the life out of people that were making bad choices. It was literally the same story each time, not even well masked. Mike: Yeah, exactly. Jessika: And, it was hard to follow and it was hard to figure out the incredibly vague, read not there, ties to Christianity that this character and his actions and powers were supposed to have, like we were talking about. It felt like a stretch at best. Mike: Yeah. They were just trying to shoehorn it in at the end where he would go talk to, the guy's name was George, I think, where he would go and talk to his mentor at the church. It felt like a very kind of vague, well, if you look at it this way, this could be your lesson from Jesus. [00:27:00] Jessika: Yeah, exactly. And you were bringing up another point that I also didn't like, they were just making fun of other religions, for example, naming someone Chakra, and mocking other spiritual practices with crystals, it was really disrespectful and in poor taste. Mike: Which, I mean, I can't say I'm really surprised given how evangelical culture typically goes these days. Jessika: Christianity, isn't the only religion and I'm tired of mainstream society being okay with Jesus-washing everything, and then being offended when any other religion is given any space. It's deplorable. Mike: Yeah. And then also, these stories just felt very lazy and dumb. The big one that I keep on thinking about is, again, that second issue where he's at a college campus and there's the mad scientist and it's revealed the mad scientist kidnapped a football player, like the star football player from the university's team, and then [00:28:00] turned him into, I think, the alligator hybrid that we were talking about. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I was sitting there going my dude. You're mad that they pulled your funding. What do you think they're going to do to you when you remove their giant cash cow of college football from the campus? Jessika: Yeah, exactly. And like, do you not know the cardinal rule of picking people who don't have people looking for them? Mike: Right? Jessika: But, like, I'm not planning on doing anything bad and even I know that. Yeah. So, yeah. And other than just the audacity that Andy has making assumptions that he and Trisha are gonna get together based on the fact that he saves her from what he perceives as a bad situation. Mike: He's a nice guy. He is that proverbial nice guy trope. Jessika: Hint to everyone out there: Don't you ever slide into my DMS and say you're a nice guy, because you will be [00:29:00] blocked so quickly. Mike: On that note, what do you say? We move on to the next books in our discussion. Jessika: Let's mosey. Mike: So, I mentioned the Life of Christ comics that were single issues. These are the two issues that were put out to retail; the Christmas and Easter stories. They were both written by Louise Simonson and illustrated by Mary Wilshire, as well as Eisner award winner Coleen Doran, she apparently helped with the Easter issue. Simonson is a major name in comics alongside her husband, Walt. She co-created the character, Cable, from the X-Men; she helped launch the long running series, Superman, the Man of Steel; and she was one of the major stakeholders in the death of Superman storyline. And she also helped out, if I remember right, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that she was a major [00:30:00] part of Walt Simonson's really acclaimed run on Thor, to the point where both of them appear in cameos in the original Thor movie. Like I think, I think they're both featured at the end when they're celebrating at the hall of heroes, or whatever it is. But it was a nice little nod because they created a lot of stuff like Thor: Frog of Thunder, and, Beta Ray bill, if I remember right. Likewise, Mary Wilshire did a ton of stuff for Marvel in the eighties and nineties. She was best known for her work on Red Sonja and Firestar. And then Colleen Doran, goddamn, she's this incredible illustrator who's worked on a ton of properties. I always associate her with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. So. Jessika: I just started reading that. Mike: Yeah, like all three of these women are Legit Big Deals, like capital letters at the start of each of those words. And that's why it's so weird to see their names in these issues. I can't believe how bland and [00:31:00] boring everything about them felt. Like, is that mean? Am I going out of line? Jessika: No. No. I'm surprised to hear about the acclaim that these illustrators have, because it felt very elementary. Am I supposed to have received this as a coloring book? Mike: Yeah, it's really flat, like, okay. So for comparison, here is a painting that Colleen Duran did for Sandman. Check it out. Jessika: Oh, wow. This is cool. Mike: Right? Jessika: Wow. Okay. There's a lot going on. So I'll just describe this really quick. There's a ton going on. So at the very top, there's a Swan couple swans, a swan and a, some sort of a harp, maybe a harpsichord thing. And you've got some planets and moons and a dude gargling some blood, it looks like. Mike: I [00:32:00] think that's supposed to be Orpheus. Cause he, if I remember right, he was Dream's son and then Orpheus is eventually ripped apart by the Bach the Bachinal. I dunno, whatever there. Jessika: And then there is a legit goth lady who has this amazing, I'm not too far into it, obviously, as you can tell. Mike: Right. So that is death. That is Dreams sister. I mean, Jessika: That's great. Mike: Yeah. If, if you're not too familiar with it, I don't want to spoil all the elements for this, but this painting features a ton of major characters from throughout the Sandman series, which she provided a lot of illustration for. And it's a beautiful piece of work. Jessika: It's a feast for the eyes, honestly. I mean, there's so many different elements, I mean, part of it looks like it's supposed to look like stained glass and other parts of it, don't look that same way. It's very interesting. Mike: Yeah. So it's very [00:33:00] much not what we got. Likewise, I want you to look at some of Mary Wiltshire's art, here. Jessika: Oh, wow. See, that's fun. Mike: Right? Jessika: Red Sonia. See, I want to read some Red Sonia. Mike: Yeah. The 80's series is fun. I think Marvel might have the rights back, because it's part of the Conan properties. Oh no, wait, I think Dynamite has Red Sonia. I don't know. You can probably find some books on Hoopla if nothing else. Jessika: This is great. I mean, the color vibe is great. There's all this shading, which there really wasn't in that other one at all. Mike: Yeah, I noticed that, too. It was just flat color, other than they used some crosshatching within the illustration, but that was kind of all they did, except for Jesus's hair. That was such a, like, it was a choice, I guess, they just, the only thing that had any sort of shading was, like, Jesus's hair looked like it was a tie dye masterpiece, so, [00:34:00] oh, wow. Mike: Both of these books feel very, for lack of a better term, very paint by numbers. Jessika: Yes, very much. So. Mike: I mean, we've all heard these stories before, too. There wasn't really anything new. The most exciting artwork for both of these books was on the cover. And, the one weird thing that really stood out to me, was that the Easter book felt kind of anti-Semitic, I don't know if I was just reading a little too much into that. Jessika: No, you you're. I've I read that too. Yes. Mike: I feel like there was an abnormal focus on making Pontius Pilate into not being the bad guy. And instead of keeping the blame on the Jewish elders, it felt very weird and very gross. Jessika: It did. Mike: And it's, I know that is an argument that is somewhat popular with certain extreme right-wing sectors of evangelical Christianity, too, is that the Jews killed Jesus, [00:35:00] which, I don't know how to respond to that. Like it, it just, just. Jessika: It felt very much like they were saying, yes, we know the Romans did it, but it's your fault, Jews. And it's like, what? No, no, no, no. Mike: Yeah. It was very uncomfortable to read. Jessika: Absolutely. Yeah. I agree. A hundred percent. The other thing that bothered me from the birth issue was the angels. Like, I've read what angels are supposed to look like. If it's not some beautiful human woman with wings floating down gracefully from the clouds. It is a terrifying multi-eyed creature that shows up in some really jarring way. The whole situation seemed way too peaceful for what I've read from the actual Bible. Like, I have read the Bible in its entirety. I was bored at [00:36:00] 13, don't ask, but yeah. So, but that's not the vibe. Like, people are always really terrified when angels come down and there is a reason. Mike: Yeah. And that's something that I remember is that when I was growing up, you know, I was presented with the very, kind of Renaissance style angels. And so I never understood when I was reading as a kid or having the stories read to me, why are people scared of the angels? Because you know, they're just glowing people with wings. And then later on it was, oh, oh, they're fucking monsters. They are, they are straight out of HP Lovecraft. Okay. I get it now. Jessika: Yeah. Because technically the humans are supposed to be the ones that are like, what? In God's image. There's nothing about angels being so. Mike: Nope. We're the, we're the mud people. Jessika: Yes. Mike: Well, moving on from that, aside from those aforementioned single issues, Nelson Comics published, [00:37:00] what was dubbed the Christian Classic Series, which are comic adaptations of kind of big name Christian literature. I was able to track down digital copies of the Pilgrim's Progress and In His Steps; What Would Jesus Do? Let's talk about that one first. I had actually heard of iIn His Steps before this, because it took that titular phrase and it kind of brought it into the popular culture. It was originally written in the late 19th century. It's basically about a reverend who is moved to challenge his congregation to use the question when making life decisions. It's a dry book and the comic was super dry as well. It just, it felt like a lot of expository dialogue set in late 19th century settings with a bunch of very prim and proper white people who, for the most part feel pretty monied and pretty privileged. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: There's occasionally some sort of [00:38:00] over-the-top situations where our Christian heroes are facing persecution, but it's like, it's made up persecution. It's that idea where Christians are like, we're the victims, people don't like us. And I think maybe because you're assholes, I don't know how to respond to that otherwise. Jessika: Yeah. Maybe it's not about your religion. Maybe it's just you. Mike: Yeah. If everyone's telling you you're an asshole, maybe it's not anything else, maybe it's just you. I agree. But yeah, it's just, it's a boring slog and it took me way longer than it should've to get through this. Jessika: They were awful. I'm not gonna lie. I read them, but I skimmed them because I couldn't sit there and like, let that infest my brain. Mike: No. There's also a sequel novel that they didn't adapt. Jessika: No. Mike: But basically, I think if I remember right, the sequel novel has Jesus actually showing up, like, it's like the second coming of Jesus. If I remember right. I Jessika: Man, they already got so close to that in this one, because they had that one [00:39:00] dude show up who is a scraggly stranger. And then the reverend has a dream that Jesus is actually lying in the bed and he's like, oh my God, it was Jesus all along. Mike: Yeah. Oh God, that was. Jessika: So heavy handed. Smacked me across the face with that message. Jeez. Mike: Oh, and what is it? The tramp has a daughter who the reverend and his wife take in to raise as their own. Jessika: Oh yeah. Mike: On what planet…? Jessika: Because apparently. Mike: Ugh. Jessika: No, it's awful. No, we all know that Christians don't care about the children once they're born. Mike: We, there are so many signs around my town, at least in our area because we live right near a Catholic church where it's the pregnancy crisis centers. And I keep on, resisting the urge to go spray, paint them or something, they're so gross. Jessika: Oh, we have the ones up that have a picture of a baby that say my eyes are formed after blah, [00:40:00] blah, blah days or whatever. Mike: Gross. Jessika: Yeah, I know they're awful. And every once in a while they do get spray painted. Mike: Good. Jessika: Obviously I have nothing to do with that, but I walk past and I go, okay. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Mike: Side tangent, completely unrelated to comics, but there was a Reddit post within the last year, I think, from some guy who was really upset about how his girlfriend would go and deface, the local pro-life billboards that would go up near their house. She would add things like citation needed for some of the claims, or just cross them out, or whatever. And he was saying, would I be justified in breaking up with her? Because I feel like, she's putting herself at legal risk doing all this. And literally every response was yo dude, you should break up with her and then give her my number because she sounds fucking rad. Jessika: Seriously. Oh my gosh. That's great. Mike: Anyway. Jessika: Hero of heroes. Mike: Yeah, the hero we need. [00:41:00] So, turning to the Pilgrim's Progress. This is a Christian allegory novel from the 1600's that's extremely surreal. I'd actually never heard of this book before now, and I had to do some basic research just to see how close they mirrored the plot. And I'm really bummed that actually, the comic is a pretty faithful adaptation of the source material. Which means there is a giant prose novel that is just this dumb and insane, but without at least the somewhat arresting visuals that we got. Jessika: It's basically Pinocchio. Mike: Yeah, I mean, it's not far off, except there's a second act where the dude's sinful family follows him, which. Jessika: Oh my God. They just kind of get abducted into the nether though. They don't do anything. [00:42:00] He's the one that does everything and then they're suddenly just there. Mike: Before we get into this discussion. It's about a protagonist named Christian, on his pilgrimage across this metaphorical landscape, where he confronts temptation and he learns, I don't know, moral lessons, I guess. I wasn't entirely certain about a lot of those, but whatever. And then after he makes it to heaven, his wife and kids follow him, because he couldn't convince them to come with him originally. This was written in the late 1600's, originally it is updated and adapted to what's supposed to be modern day, New York. And there's a lot of like really thinly veiled criticism being leveled at environmentalists for some reason, which I did not understand. Jessika: It was really strange. I don't know where that came from. I read that, too. Mike: Yeah. And then in the novel, after he makes it to heaven, confronting all these challenges, [00:43:00] his wife and his kids follow him. And then they have a sort of angelic guardian, who helps protect them along the way, who she shows up in the comic book, it's whatever, the kids, and this was actually kind of a weird diversion from the novel in the novel. The kids become adults throughout the journey, cause it's a long journey and they get married and they have families of their own. And so at the very end, they don't go with the wife, but they stay behind. And, basically they're living Christian lifestyles. And in the comic book for some reason, and it's not really explained well, they're left behind with their aunt who was also on the journey with them. And then the mom was just like, okay, bye. I'm going to go off to heaven now with your dad. Jessika: Yeah, he just like sticky handed her up there or something, like you earn the right to snatch your wife from earth. Maybe that was the rapture. Mike: Yeah, maybe. Well, and then at the very end, his friend, who was like, oh no, [00:44:00] you know, we're, we're doing our part. We're recycling and taking care of the planet. He's denied access to heaven by St. Peter for some reason, that's not really explained. Jessika: Which was so strange. Like, yeah, please, don't recycle friends. What, what a strange takeaway from this whole thing. Mike: It just, it feels kind of like this religious acid trip with occasional detours into misogyny and racism. Correct me if I'm wrong. Jessika: Not at all. Very, very same page as you. Mike: The one piece of praise that I can offer these books is that they definitely have the best art of the Nelson comics line. Jessika: It was decent. Yeah. So I found for both of these comics, both In His Steps and the Pilgrim's Progress, unsurprisingly, they keep replaying the same messages that have been consistent with these comics: be faithful against these huge temptations that are supposed to bombard you every day. I would expect there to be women and men of loose morals [00:45:00] falling at my feet to tempt me constantly is all I'm saying, like, let's make it happen. Disappointment. Mike: I'm, I always see these things talking about like women have loose morals or, or ill-repute, I clearly was not hanging out in the right neighborhoods. Jessika: That's what I'm saying. Mike: Yeah. Bums me out, man. Jessika: There's always some messages about staying on the path of God, which is always very vague and sometimes literally a path, which come on. And Beelzebub constantly shows up, because the only real villains are the devil and your inability to resist temptation, apparently. Once again, though, didn't see any queer people, which is fine because the Bible really doesn't say anything about them anyway. And I guess God didn't really start hating us in mainstream media until later on then. Huh? Mike: Man, I don't know. I mean, [00:46:00] like, there's that whole thing about Sodom and Gomorrah, and how we're all sodomized or whatever, but I don't know when, when it became really okay for Christian people to hate on the gays. Jessika: Yeah. I don't know. They need to step back. Oh, did I say that out loud? Mike: Yeah. Jessika: They're right behind me, aren't they? Mike: Not yet, at least. Jessika: And also, why is it such a theme that these main characters, low key become cult leaders every single time Mike: Right? Jessika: It's like, yikes, Catholicism, have some awareness about what a cult-vibe you give off, just like, generally. All in all, the religion is so forced in there that the plot lines of these stories rarely made any sense. It felt like the comics were a game of tug of war, trying unsuccessfully to write a cohesive storyline while still shoehorning in religion, which ultimately caused the comics to feel frenzied and disorganized. Mike: Yeah. On top of that, these are just [00:47:00] so dry. They're so dry. I get the Thomas Nelson was trying to adapt, quote unquote, major works of Christian literature. But, I can't think of anyone who really reads these books, let alone kids. I'm not really familiar with the whole Christian allegory genre of fiction, but there's gotta be better stuff out there than these books. I know the Thomas Nelson for this line, they also had CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters turned into a comic, I couldn't find it to read, but I'm kind of wondering why they didn't try adapting some of his other work, like the Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe, you know, Aslan is very much a Jesus' allegory and - Jessika: Yeah. Mike: It just, it doesn't make a lot of sense not to do something with more name recognition. I mean, hell, Thomas Nelson has an entire collection of fictional books in their catalog. I just scoped out their website today, and I don't understand why they didn't do a comic adaptation of something from there. But, [00:48:00] don't know, I guess that probably would have required extra effort involving research and the author's permission. And it seems - Jessika: Oh no. Mike: Like no, I mean, that, honestly, that seems like more work than the publisher really was interested in committing to this whole endeavor. Jessika: Fair. Mike: You know, and unsurprisingly, the Nelson comics imprint wasn't long for this world. And it was abandoned by 1994, reportedly due to low sales. Between the quality and the apparent lack of marketing and also the high price points, I can't say I'm surprised. I did find it really funny when I was looking at their website, they have some limited edition of Dracula on their website and Shakespeare, and I'm like, those things are not Catholic friendly, or evangelical friendly. Are these edited, are these just like, did he just decide to do like limited edition reprints? I don't know. Jessika: That's interesting. Mike: Weirdly though, Thomas Nelson's recently gotten [00:49:00] back into comic books with Bible Force, which was a comic or a graphic novel that went on sale this year. Here, take a look at this cover, just check it out and tell me and me what you think. Jessika: Yeah, let's see. Oh, oh, wow. Mike: Right? Jessika: Okay. So, who's supposed to be the dude in the middle? Mike: I don't know. I don't Jessika: Okay. So there's like some dude, there's some dude in the middle, he's got a sword, and it's thrusting out towards the viewer. There's. What is it? Joseph and his Technicolor coat, I'm assuming that's what that was. Um, Mike: That's what it looks like. Jessika: Uh, it's what it looks like. It's a color, her coat there's there's Noah's Ark. There's definitely Jesus with arms outstretched. Although, of course, white Jesus, because why be historically accurate? All of these people are Caucasian. I might add in this entire comic, all of these people were Caucasian, except for a very few in the Jesus [00:50:00] episodes. And those were just people from far away, quote unquote, everyone else was very, very light-skinned. Mike: Also, if you're going to give us white Jesus, can you at least give a shirtless white Jesus? I want to see some washboard abs. Jessika: That's what I'm saying. Mike: Right? Jessika: That's what I'm saying. So yes, this is just, it's very exciting. Says, Bible Force, the First Heroes Bible. I think that's Probably. Mary as well on the front. It's a woman also Caucasian, and she's got a head scarf of some sort on, it's pink, which they absolutely had magenta back in Bible days. I am sure, absolutely feasible. I'm there. Believe it. Isaac Mizrahi's in there like designing, designing Mary's outfit. Oh honey, you're going to look great in this. Mike: He is all about the [00:51:00] timeless looks, isn't he? Jessika: Yes. Mike: So, I mean, that's the Nelson comics. Short-lived imprint. Do you have any final thoughts? Jessika: Well, can't say I'm surprised that these didn't continue on. I can't imagine that they were really keeping kids' attention, or giving them any type of cohesive and thoughtful messages. Mike: No. I mean, probably not. I don't think many comic retailers were carrying them either because this was right at the height of my teenage collecting years, and I don't remember seeing any of this stuff in any of the shops that I frequented. Jessika: Yeah, it was pretty much like here: look at the colors. Oh, and have some antisemitism, enjoy. Mike: And some casual misogyny. It's fine. Jessika: Yes. Yes, exactly. Mike: If you could sum up the titles from this imprint [00:52:00] in one word, what would you use? Jessika: Confused. Mike: I was going to go soulless, but that's also good. Jessika: Oh, yours is better. Mike: Now is the time of the show where we discuss our Brain Wrinkles, which is the one thing comics or comics-adjacent that has been just stuck in our head for the last couple of days that we just want to talk about. I guess we should talk about the recent Highlander casting news. Would you like to take that away? Jessika: Oh, oh certainly. Certainly. Oh my goodness. So, during our Highlander episode, Mike, you mentioned that there has been a Highlander reboot in the works since 2008 Mike: Yep. Jessika: And we were speculating on who would be good to cast. Well, there is a reboot in the works, but we were both incorrect about casting, and sorry about that, Chris Pine and Channing Tatum, because either of you [00:53:00] would have been most fabulous in this role, but it landed and it turned out to be Henry Cavill who will be our new next Highlander. And I'm sure he'll have a new name because that's kind of how we trend with the Highlander series, which is good. Mike: Yeah, they haven't announced the actual role that he's playing yet, but it's assumed that he's going to be the MacLeod who's the main character. Jessika: I would think so. Wouldn't it be interesting if he was like the Kurgan or something that would be really funny. Mike: Yeah. I think I mentioned this, supposedly Bautista is going to be the Kurgan, but that he'd signed on, I think back in 2015. So it's been six years since then? Jessika: Well, I have to say though, I'm not all that upset about this turn of events. What about you, Mike? Mike: No, not at all. I just tore through the Witcher series on Netflix last week, over the course of a couple of days while I was working, I had it on in the background. And it was really nice to see Cavill in a role that wasn't [00:54:00] Superman, which is, you know, I use the term, unfortunately, he is just so associated with that role right now. And, honestly, I like him as Superman, I just wish they gave him better scripts and movies to work with. Jessika: Yeah. And it's hard to feel typecast as well. You don't, you know, you don't want to be Daniel Radcliffe, you know, playing Harry Potter for 20 years and then not being able to do anything else, although he's done very well. So I, can't say that. Mike: I was going to say I actually really - Jessika: You know, not a good example, I suppose. Mike: I love the choices that the Daniel Radcliffe has made since Harry Potter, Jessika: Yeah, me too. Mike: He has chosen so many insane roles. It's great. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Um, yeah, no, like, you know, honestly, Cavill. First of all, I just, I really like Henry Cavill, like, he's given the interviews where he's talked about how playing Superman makes him want to be a better person, because he is portraying this character who is a role model for so many, especially the little kids. And that just [00:55:00] makes me really fond of the dude. Jessika: That's so sweet. Mike: He seems like another Chris Evans, and I'm, fine with that. That said, he is fucking grumpy in the Witcher, and it's really fun. He basically just has this very surly charisma throughout the entire show. And he's still jacked, but he's not as yoked as he is for the Superman rules. Like he doesn't look like a bodybuilder, he just looks like an incredibly fit dude, and I'm fine with that. Also, he does action scenes really well. The guy who's handling the reboot is Chad Stahelski, who did the John Wick movies. Dude knows his way around an action scene. And if you ever want to see an example of Henry Cavill in good action scenes, watch the Witcher or the Mission Impossible movie that he was in, where he literally does that thing where he reloads his arms and then puts up his Dukes. I can watch that scene on repeat for hours. It's great. Jessika: Nice. I'll have to watch that. I haven't seen the Witcher [00:56:00] yet. Mike: Yeah. It's fun. We'll talk about that later on, but it's good. I really liked it even coming into it without having any real familiarity with the games or the books that it's based on. Also, I got to say that Highlander heart group that we were in, some of those people were grumpy at the casting. Jessika: Yes. Some people were very grumpy. It was, it was a mixed bag. Some people were very excited and some people were very, very, very grumpy. Mike: And even - Jessika: Okay. Mike: To their credit, even the people who were unhappy, weren't toxic, like in some other groups we've seen. Jessika: Oh, correct. Yes. That was very refreshing, cause, you know. Mike: Yeah. the backstory to your listeners is that we have been a part of other Facebook groups that are just heinously toxic nerd culture groups. And we swipe left pretty quick when we're in there. Jessika: Yeah, I don't want to feel like I can't like things or I don't want somebody telling me the amount of a fan. I am the type of fan I am. Mike: Exactly. Jessika: Gatekeeping is awful. Don't do it. Mike: Yeah, don't be a jerk, [00:57:00] I have to say the news that has been coming out about the reboot for Highlander sounds pretty promising. So fingers crossed that it doesn't suck but, we'll see. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I believe that's it for this episode, so we'll be back in two weeks, and until then, we'll see y'all in the stacks. Thanks for listening to Ten Cent Takes. Accessibility is important to us; text transcriptions of each of our published episodes can be found on our website. This episode was hosted by Jessika Frazer and Mike Thompson, written by Mike Thompson and edited by Jessika Frazer. Our intro theme was written and performed by Jared Emerson-Johnson of Bay Area Sound. Our credits and transition music is Pursuit of Life by Evan MacDonald and it was purchased with a standard license from PremiumBeat. Our banner graphics were designed by Sarah Frank, who goes by cut_thistles on Instagram. Jessika: If you'd [00:58:00] like to get in touch with us, ask us questions or tell us about how we got something wrong, please head over to tencenttakes.com or shoot an email to tencenttakes@gmail.com. You can also find us on Twitter, the official podcast account is @tencenttakes. 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The Professor Frenzy Show #150

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2021 73:57

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Los Cómics de la Semana 052 - Mayo 21, 2021

La Covacha Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2021 283:05

¡Sobre chicas maravilla e historias fantásticas de vida hablaremos esta noche en Los Cómics de la Semana!, y los más viejitos celebran el fin de la "DiDioctadura" en DC. DC COMICS - (4:01) Catwoman #31. Wonder Girl #1. Superman: Red and Blue #3. Justice League #61. The Flash #770. Nightwing #80 MARVEL - (84:09) The Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #1. Fantastic Four: Life Story #1. Shang-Chi #1. Heroes Reborn #3. Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade #3. Way of X #2. The Amazing Spider-Man #66. Daredevil #30. Runaways #36. MANGA - (175:42) To Your Eternity (Panini). Gigantomaquia (Panini) INDIES - (193:30) Stillwater #7 (Skybound). Stray Dogs #4 (Image Comics). We Only Find Them When They're Dead #6 (BOOM! Studios). Rangers of the Divide #1 (Dark Horse Comics). Luna #4 (BOOM! Studios). The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #2 (BOOM! Studios). Project Patron #2 (Aftershock). Home #2 (Image Comics). Jonna and The Unpossible Monsters #3 (Oni Press) FICHA COVACHA Mesa: Francisco Espinosa, Bernardo Arteaga y Valentín García Síguenos en Twitter, Facebook, YouTube y ¡ahora en Twitch! Fecha: Viernes 21 de Mayo, 2021 Música Midnight City by c152 feat. chirrrex Forgot About Me by DreamHeaven License Lofi Chill Hip-Hop by WinnieTheMoog License Vlog Lofi by RamolPro License Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod License

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Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 72:33

- Claire's Hair. Joe Kelly (W), Andie Desiderio (A/C). (Panel Syndicate). - Fantastic Four: Life Story #1 (de 6). Mark Russell (W), Sean Izaakse (A), Nolan Woodard (C). (Marvel). - Wonder Girl #1. Joëlle Jones (W/A), Jordie Bellaire (C). (DC). - The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #2. Ram V (W), Filipe Andrade (A/C). (Boom!). Los Irresistibles [00:44:17]: Daredevil #30, I Walk With Monsters #6 (final), Luna #4, Nightwing #80, Runaways #36, Stillwater #7, The Autumnal #7 (de 8), We Only Find Them When They're Dead #6.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #149

11 O'Clock Comics Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 74:23

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Comic Starting Points for of Week of 5/19/2021 |Wonder Girl | Shang Chi | Red Room | And More..

The Comic Concierge

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 24:03

One of the hardest questions to answer with comics is a very basic one, "Where do I begin?" Each week Starting Points helps answer that by going over this week's new comics to point out ongoing series starting new arcs, notable new series, and trades and graphic novels coming out.Time Stamps:00:00 - Opening New Series:00:28 - Wonder Girl #102:29 - Legends of the Dark Knight #104:09 - The Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters #105:56 - Shang Chi #107:53 - Red Room #1Ongoing Series Starting New Arcs: 09:36 - We Only Find Them When They're Dead 10:47 - Stillwater #711:49 - Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #12Graphic Novels/Trades13:14 - We Hereby Refuse 14:53 - Superman by Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason16:16 - Sengi and Tembo 17:37 - Aliens: The Early Years 1851 - Home Sick Pilots 19:51 - Harley Quinn/ Poison Ivy Pick of the Week21:21 - Pick of the Week (Fantastic Four: Life Story)

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11 O'Clock Comics Episode 738

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 157:37

John Paul Leon, Summoner's War: Legacy #1 from Skybound, Skybound X, Paris 2119, Eden from Aftershock, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1-5 from BOOM!, X-Corp #1 and the X-Universe, Wika from Statix Press/Titan Comics, Proctor Valley Road #1-3 from BOOM!, Heroes Reborn, Grand Odalisque from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

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Geek Down 5-4-21 - Falcon and Winter Soldier, War Tortoise 2, We Only Find Them When They're Dead

The Geek Down

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 67:55

The Falcon and Winter Soldier form a friendship in the face of corporate outsourcing, War Tortoise 2 is the slowest way to stage a military shock & awe blitz, and We Only Find Them When They're Dead takes a celestial approach to organ-harvesting and Charcuterie In the house: Pat B @ Twitter.com/TheGeekDown @ Instagram.com/TheGeekDown @ Geek-Down.com The Efocutioner @ Twitter.com/Efocutioner @ Instagram.com/Efocutioner Shayna Wakefield Abby Dudley

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Comics - 113 - The Year is...

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 63:19

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Comics - 112 - Voodoo

Handsome Boys Comics Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2021 47:14

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282 – We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol 1 by Ewing & Di Meo

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 93:44

Hey Handsomites! Eric and Robbie are talking about We Only Find Them When They're Dead this week! They talk about space gods, style over substance, and disappointment. They also review Eternals #2 and ORCS! #1! Floppies Fortnightly Immortal Hulk Flatline #1 Eternals #2 Sword #3 Future State Superman Worlds of War #2 ORCS! #1 Nerd […] The post 282 – We Only Find Them When They're Dead Vol 1 by Ewing & Di Meo appeared first on Handsome Boys Comics Hour.

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Episode 17: Movie News, Dino Camp, and Is That a Monkey?

Sis and Big Pop's Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 71:22

Join Sis and Big Pops for a talk about pop culture news fun things happening in movies, tv-shows, and comic books. Pops shares his pull list, some of his favs this week are Strange Academy, Batman Black + White, and We Only Find Them When They're Dead. What we're bingeing right now, Big Bang Theory and the Batman the Animated Series (Sis also took a break and watched the new Winx TV-show). We didn't review a comic this week, but we did watch Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season 1, where Dino Fun and shenanigans insued. We also watched and reviewed Kong: Skull Island. And we again end the episode with some WandaVision Spoilers, specifically, what Sis and Big Pops are hypothesizing and what we're confused about. Listen in for some Family-friendly nerd fun! This episode was originally recorded on 1/31/21. Check us out on twitter @sisnpopsculture Spoiler notice: WandaVision Season 1 Ep 4.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #134

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2021 36:20

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The Professor Frenzy Show #133

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 39:06

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The Professor Frenzy Show #131

Hero Man and Sidekick Boy | The Freebooter's Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2021 57:40

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Hero Man and Sidekick Boy – Issue 33: Squeaks and Geeks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 65:02

In this installment of monthly comic book chatter Andy and Ian discuss X-Force, Hellions, Star Wars Vader and Bounty Hunters, We Only Find Them When They're Dead and Immortal Hulk. They also review Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and look into what makes the Multiple Man tick.

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Hero Man and Sidekick Boy – Issue 33: Squeaks and Geeks

Freebooters Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 65:02

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The Professor Frenzy Show #128

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 50:10

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Episode 13: Taskmaster vs. Hyperion, The Justice League get a new roster, Wonder Woman Rewatch and More

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 81:09

Welcome back! This week we discuss, Taskmaster #2, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4, Seven To Eternity #15, Black Cat #1, New Mutants #13 and X-Force #15. Then we discuss some of the new stuff coming from DC Infinite Frontier! Do certain OG characters have to be on a team in order for the team to be considered "legit?" we talk about it! Lets us know what you think! Finally, we have #AnotherRewatch of Wonder Woman! Did it hold up a few years later? Are you excited for Wonder Woman 1984? *SPOILER ALERT* We get into some heavy Wonder Woman 1984 spoilers at 1:11, so if you don't want to hear those, skip that part! Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com

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The Stack: Black Cat, Blade Runner And More

The Stack

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 53:17

On this week's comic book review podcast: Black Cat: King In Black #1 Marvel Written by Jed MacKay Art by C.F. Villa Blade Runner 2029 #1 Titan Comics Written by Mike Johnson Art by Andres Guinaldo The Expanse #1 BOOM! Studios Written by Corinna Bechko Illustrated by Alejandro Aragon Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… #3 IDW Written by Joe Hill Art by Gabriel Rodriguez Commanders in Crisis #3 Image Comics Written by Steve Orlando Art by Davide Tinto Rorschach #3 DC Comics Written by Tom King Art by Jorge Fornés Decorum #6 Image Comics Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Mike Huddleston New Mutants #14 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala Art by Rod Reis Post Americana #1 Image Comics Story & Art by Steve Stroke Batman #105 DC Comics Written by James Tynion IV Art by Carlo Pagulayan & Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez & Christian Duce Stillwater #4 Image Comics Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Ramón K. Perez We Only Find Them When They're Dead #4 BOOM! Studios Written by Al Ewing Illustrated by Simone Di Meo Wolverine: Black, White & Blood #2 Marvel Written by Vita Ayala, Saladin Ahmed and Chris Claremont Art by Greg Land, Kev Walker and Salvador Larroca Head Lopper #14 Image Comics Story and Art by Andrew Maclean Dark Nights: Death Metal #6 DC Comics Written by Scott Snyder Art by Greg Capullo Seven to Eternity #15 Image Comics Written by Rick Remender Drawn by Jerome Opeña The Immortal Hulk: King in Black #1 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Aaron Kuder The Immortal Hulk #42 Marvel Written by Al Ewing Art by Joe Bennett Once & Future #14 BOOM! Studios Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Dan Mora SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Full Episode Transcript: Alex: What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin: I'm Justin. Pete: I'm Pete. Alex: And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that came out this week, kicking it off with Black Cat, King in Black number one. I wish that rhymed, but it didn't. Marvel, written by Jed MacKay, art by C.F. Villa. This is of course tying into the King in Black event, but it's also bringing back the Black Cat title that I know Justin liked ever so much. This one, Felicia Hardy is dealing not only with Knull, the king of the symbiotes, but she's about to pull off a heist of her own. What did you think about this issue, Justin. Justin: I think this is a great issue. I love this black cat series. I think Jed MacKay has a really great understanding of the character, the way that she speaks and we're in her head for a lot of the earlier series. Pete: You love being in the characters heads. Justin: I love. Isn't that the dream? God, if I could be in the head of Pete LePage and Alex Zalben on a daily Basis. Alex: Oh, that's delightful. [crosstalk 00:01:09]. Pete: No, no way. Would not be good for you. Justin: I spent a couple of weeks in Pete's head. I don't know what happened, if there was a lightning strike. [crosstalk 00:01:17]. Yeah, it was just as you'd expect. Pete: Well, it was like what women want situation, but just with Pete. Justin: I finally know what Pete wants, and it begins and ends with a meatball sub from the subway. And this issue, really great art, some fun stuff. Her and her team steal the Spider-Mobile and get to drive that one a bit. Pete: Yeah, the Spider-Mobile was fun bit. I loved seeing that. Justin: And this crosses into King in Black in such a fun, great way. It feels important and real, and the reveal, or the sort of mission at the end of the first issue is super fun. Pete: I got to say, this is a great example of tie-ins done right. We've been reading a bunch of kind of tie-ins to this and it's like, “Wait, what? Is that really a tie-in?” This is done really well. It fits, it makes sense. It's really cool for the character. It gets you excited about the event. I was really impressed with this book. Alex: Well, it's also really good in on the Black Cat book, because clearly a lot of stuff has gone on there, which frankly I have not been reading. I think we only talked about one issue maybe at one point on The Stack or the live show. But this fills you in on everything you need to do very ably. You're able to jump in on her supporting cast and understand what's going on with them as well as her previous adventures over the course of this book. I agree, really fun stuff. I was very surprised how much I like this, and I'll definitely be reading more. Pete: Also I just want to say the art is absolutely fantastic. Justin: Yes. Thank you. Thank you guys for getting on board with this. You've really made my 2020 a perfect year. Alex: Even better than 2020 though is going to be Blade Runner 2029 number one from Titan Comics written by Mike Johnson, art by Andres Guinaldo. This is of course- Pete: That's why you get paid the big bucks Zalbs. Alex: Thanks man. I do get so much money off of the show. This is clearly taking place in the very near future in the Blade Runner universe. Justin: You make it sound like it's real. You're like, “This is our future.” Alex: I'll be upfront and honest about something. Justin: Ooh. Alex: I've never seen Blade Runner. I've also never seen Blade Runner [crosstalk 00:03:33]. Pete: No of the movies? Alex: I know what's going on because I live in the world and you can't avoid understand what's going to go on Blade Runner, so it wasn't a big surprise. I actually liked this despite not having ever seen those movies. I thought it was a pretty solid story of tracking down replicants. The main character was interesting. Pete: Sorry, Alex. Alex: The character was interesting. I like this quite a bit. Pete: I'm sorry, Alex. Alex. Alex: Hold on. Mike Johnson is a good writer of tie-ins, so clearly he knows what he's doing here and I think that works. Yes, Pete. Pete: Because you've never seen any of the movies, no one gives a fuck what you have to say about this comic now. Justin: Wow. Yeah, exactly. Pete: Because if you haven't, if you don't know the material, shut the fuck up. Alex: No, I know. It is the ice skating competition movie. Justin: Yes. Alex: Where they have to do [crosstalk 00:04:21] the cutting edge. Oh, yeah [crosstalk 00:04:23]. Justin: Oh, that's [crosstalk 00:04:25]. Surely you've seen the director's cut of Blade Runner then. Alex: No, I've seen the directors kind of cutting edge. Justin: You just have seen the theatrical release. Alex: They called it the director's cutting edge is what they call it. Pete: Oh, wow. Justin: Yeah, the director's cut. Alex: I've also seen Cutting Edge 2049. Pete: It keeps getting better every time you see it. Justin: It's crazy, they're replicants. They're all replicants. I have seen the Blade Runner films. Pete: Thank you. Now I want to know what you think of this. Justin: Well, yeah, we shouldn't be allowed to comment on something if we haven't seen the underlying material. Hold on to that thought for anything else we're talking about this year. I thought this was really good and I agree with Alex, you don't actually really need to know a ton about Blade Runner except for Harrison Ford's theological underpinnings to his character when you're watching the director's [crosstalk 00:05:21]. Pete: Yes. Thank you. Yes. Alex: I have seen Firewall, does that help? Justin: No. If you've seen Air Force One, you've seen Blade Runner, my man. But the art of this book is really- Pete: If you've seen Regarding Henry, then you have seen Blade. Justin: Regarding Henry, I think that movie was fine. I look forward to the comic book adaptation. This book was good. It's a good story. The art is great. I love the tone of the art they have here. Pete: Yeah, I really agree. I love the tone that the art sets up. It does a great job of really fitting into the world. Yeah, I was really impressed with this book. It really has a great pace to it, a lot of awesome action, some really fun moments where the replicate kind of gets their haircut and stuff like that. I thought the whole wall thing was really impressive. Always really thought this was a great, great comic, even though I've seen the Blade Runners and like them, this comic was kind of above and beyond that. Justin: Classic flex. The art is almost Moebius like, I really like that. Pete: Ooh. Alex: Yeah, this is very good stuff. Easy to get into, even if you haven't watch the stuff. Let's move on to another one and talk about The Expanse number one from BOOM! Studios written by Corinna Bechko, illustrated by Alejandro Aragon. Now I got to say this is another one, I've seen the first season and change of The Expanse. And of course I've seen The Expanse 2049. But I'll tell you without slamming it too much, this felt like the complete opposite of Blade Runner 2029 to me where I had no idea what was going on for most of this book. And it felt like you had to have watched the show to understand the characters, to understand the settings. And that was a real bummer to me because I enjoyed the first season. I would be happy to pick up an Expanse comic books, see more of this world, but I don't want to have to have watched every episode of the show to necessarily get into it. Did you guys feel the same way? Justin: I've never seen The Expanse, but I understood every aspect of this comic book. Pete: I have seen every episode of The Expanse. I have read the Bubblegum comic book series that Joe Blow did for a little while. I have read fan fiction. I am very well-educated in this and I thought it was spot. No, I haven't read any of it [inaudible 00:07:50]. Alex: It's funny that you did. I was pretty sure you were lying, but the fact that you didn't mention the novels that it's based on. Bubblegum first. Justin: Joe Blow. Alex: But given that we don't necessarily have a familiarity with The Expanse. How do you feel this worked as a comic book? Justin: No, I mean, I agree with you. This is definitely for fans. It is so rooted in … You have to know, I think you have to fully know the characters when you come into this book, there's not even a preamble to get us into the world and what's happening. And I think that's fine, it's definitely just not a book for someone who's never read or watched the show. Pete: Yeah, it's tough if you're just kind of at a comic book shop or buy it however you do, because you're like Boom! Studios because they do great books. It's definitely a deep cut. I was definitely lost for a little bit. But kind of getting an idea of what's happening and by the end of it, it won me over. Art, I thought was fantastic. A lot of talking, but I'm kind of into it. I liked how it ended. Alex: Yeah. Justin: And this ties into the X-Men. Alex: Yes, it does. It's a direct spinoff of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, everybody's favorite X-Men movie. Next one we're going to talk about Locke & Key, In Pale Battalions Go number three from IDW written by Joe Hill, art by Gabriel Rodriguez. Of course, this is a series that we're all in on. But this is wrapping up [crosstalk 00:09:18] the mini series before the mini series, which is kind of fascinating thing that they've been doing. Initially was supposed to be the sad man crossover which we're about to get into called [inaudible 00:09:28] that's going to be, I believe two issues long at this point. Alex: But then very slowly, they expanded outwards the amount of issues they were doing for this prequel that leads directly into it after this issue. And I think after the last issue we kind of know what the setup is going to be for the sad man Locke & Key crossover. But this is still wrapping up this three issue mini series. The story of what happens when one of the old timey Locke family members goes to war in World War I, comes back, brings some German soldiers back with him. Things go very, very badly. And in this issue Key house fights back in incredibly graphic and bloody ways. Pete, there were attack teddy bears in this issue. You have got to have loved this. Pete: Oh my God, yeah. I love that whole teddy bear scene. This was just classic Locke & Key, amazing storytelling, the art going above and beyond in all the greatest ways. There's a moment where she's shutting the door, but it's like disappearing. It's just, Gabriel Rodriguez is a goddam legend. The moment where it was like, welcome to Key house motherfucker, it was just … This comic continues to be amazeballs every time these two team up is just absolute magic. It's just gross and fun and over the top and all the great ways. Yeah, I don't get tired of watching German soldiers die, and there's a fun little kind of ad in the back where it's Kinsey's comic corner, fantastic. Justin: This was so upsetting as a story, just so well done and heartbreaking. And especially the fact that this is connected, it's the same family from among the stars story from back in the day, the one where they are- Alex: Is it over the moon? Justin: Unlock the moon, sorry. Alex: Unlock the moon. Justin: Unlock the moon, among the stars is what's written on his grave, it's just so tough. But the art in this book is so good. It's just so intense. And there's just dread throughout. We talked about this a lot with Locke & Key, the way that they're able to sort of have this low level hum of great narrative stress as you're reading this, because you feel for the characters and you know bad things are happening is so good. Something I noticed while reading this, and I don't know if this has been featured in any other thing or if it's maybe something to curb in the future. They feature the graveyard a couple of times in this book. And one of the characters, Fiona Locke, there's a little key hole in her gravestone. Do you feel like that's a … maybe there's something to be done there? Alex: Yeah, potentially. I mean, maybe it's like a zombie Key or something like that, or it'd bring back the dead Key. I mean, I think we could delve into spoilers here, but certainly the goal seems to be the current Locke patriarch in this continuity potentially heading down to hell to try to rescue his wife or something like that. Justin: Yeah, maybe that's the doorway. He opens the door and goes down a pair of steps, a set of steps sort of Legend of Zelda style. One other thing I want to say real quick, the character- Alex: It's dangerous to go alone is what I have to say about that. Justin: You are the guy that hands in the wooden sword. The character, one of the main characters here, the kid that goes to war is named Jonathan Tyler Locke. Jonathan Tyler is my brother's name. When I saw that in the grave, I was like, “Yo.” Pete: Oh man, you should send them a screenshot, man. You know what I mean? Just be like, “Thinking of you bro. Hope you're good.” Because what's great is that you could cut it off because it says Jonathan Tyler, and then says Locke underneath. So you could totally do a little cut in there and just make it nice. Alex: Yeah, that'd be great to really fuck with your brother. To the point you were saying though Justin, I really liked that this story was in a very different mode than the Locke & Key title that we knew. It felt like it tells its own story with its own tone. It's a tragedy as opposed to the other one, which is a horror adventure story, and that's great. I'm really excited to see what they do with Helen gone. But the more different types of stories they can tell in this world, I think overall the better for its longevity, particularly as we know there is more coming. Alex: Let's move on and talk about Commanders in Crisis number three from Image Comics written by Steve Orlando, art by Davide Tinto. So Empathy is dead or is Empathy, because Empathy has come back to life and the commanders are trying to figure out exactly what's going on. I think we were pretty high on the first two issues of this book. Do you think it continues to hold up here on the third? Pete: Yeah, I mean, I see Orlando as having a lot of fun with this. This is really cool the way it's written in the way that characters are. I love the voices and the different stuff. It kind of starts off really grody and kind of crazy in the beginning. But yeah, it gets a little emotional, but then kind of right back into the kind of humor and action I was impressed with how this ends. It does a great job of giving us a little bit of getting excited for the next issue at the end of each comic. Yeah, I continue to be impressed with this team and the different voices and stuff on it. This is a lot of fun. Justin: Yeah, I agree. Steve Orlando is such an idea generator, you can see in all of his work his stories are super complex, calling on so much continuity. And I feel like with this, he sort of put it all, all of his just wild ideas in full throttle going forward. He's created all these characters and he has him just driving through all these different ideas. There's the multi-verse, there's superheroes just fighting on the ground. We have the villain here is the social callers. It's some sort of social media slash cell phone tech vampire or tech zombiefication for the situation. And it's just fun. It's a lot of new ideas all the time. Alex: From new ideas to old ideas, let's talk about Rorschach number three from DC Comics written by Tom King, art by Ori Fornace. In this issue we find out more about the cowboy character that we've met in the first two, who was actually assassinated in the first issue of the book. We go back in time, find out about her backstory as the main detective investigates further, what was going on with her, this new old Rorschach. I really liked the sushi quite a bit, not just in terms of fleshing out Tom King's take on the world, but also how the story purposefully unfolded confusingly in terms of the timeline at first, but became clearer as it went on. I still don't know how this connects to the main narrative or exactly what our overall dramatic thrust is here necessarily, but as a one-shot one-off issue, I thought this was very well done. Pete: Yeah, I agree. I'm really impressed with how crazy this is, but how this issue we're getting specific information about this main character that we're dealing with in this issue. And it's really impressive. There's just so much going on, but it's done in such a kind of cool way that keeps the story moving in such a creepy, but good way. Art and pace is phenomenal. This continues to be a very interesting, cool book, but it brings up this interesting point and I'm interested to get your guys' take on this. Sometimes to love your father, you have to shoot him in the head. How do you guys feel about that? Justin: As fathers? Pete: Yeah, as fathers with daughters. Alex: I have my kids sleep with a gun every night. Pete: Smart. Alex: And every night I go to bed praying that they'll shoot me in the morning and so far it hasn't happened. Pete: Wow. Alex: I just run right into the rooms and go [inaudible 00:17:43]. But then they say, “Good morning, daddy.” Pete: Oh man. Alex: Disappointments, both of them. Justin: What a startling vision of Alex's home life. Pete: Same thing for you, Justin? Justin: What's that? Pete: Same for you with your daughters? Justin: Yeah. No, I'm always waving a gun around the house. They're going to get there, I don't need to tell them quite as hard as Alex does. I want them to come to it on their own. Pete: Okay. Yeah. Justin: But I like this a lot. It's funny the last, this issue and the one before felt like a standalone issue with just lightly touching the events of the first issue. Pete: Agree. Justin: And I think, I mean this time, King does this a lot where you only realize the story he's telling a little bit into it. And I think it often works, I think it's working here. It's interesting that the characters we're learning about here are sort of conspiracy theorists. They believe that the squids affect your brain. And I wonder if that's, if Rorschach is going to believe that as well. Because it makes these characters maybe probably delusional. If he's commenting on believing in conspiracy theories, it feels like these characters are not understanding reality. Which Rorschach's whole thing was believing these outlandish things. But this one happened to be true in the watchman. Justin: So to have Rorschach believe something that isn't true is an interesting take. I'm very curious, it makes him less of heroes, less of a character you can get behind if he's totally on this crazy path. I don't know, it's just like a lot of time King stuff, it's really interesting to see where it's going. Pete: Agree. Alex: Next up, Decorum number six from Image Comics written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Mike Huddleston. We're finally bringing together this issue, which is wild that we're doing it in issue six. But we have this courier character that's been training to be an assassin. At the same time these weird [inaudible 00:19:52] beings who've been doing something, who even knows what. But in this issue they finally come down and hire the assassins and say, “Hey, can you find this egg for us?” And then we kind of avoid that in the back of the issue, but it's still- Justin: They're prepping for their egg mission. Alex: Sure, they're prepping for egg mission. There are points particularly on the assassin side of things that are so funny and so fun, particularly because they're coming in the middle of this wild, very dead sci-fi and Saturday. I am finding myself loving this book more and more with every issue. Justin: A 100% agree. I thought this issue was great. And all of the things we've talked about with Hickman, both in this book and with his X-Men work where it's like, what's he doing? What's all this information like. It was all worth it to get to this where it's super fun the whole time, the story's coming into focus, we're seeing the mission. And the characters are set up in a way where it's going to be exciting to watch them bump into each other. Pete: Yeah, I agree. This was a really solid issue. Justin: Yeah, Pete. Pete: I felt like this clicked into place for me. The art is phenomenal, a lot of different styles mixing here, but done in such a great way, it doesn't feel like a separate story. It's really, really impressive how well the art kind of makes this all work. Yeah, I'm excited for more. I'm a little worried about Hickman fucking me because there's all these weird symbols everywhere that don't need to be. But so far the art is really winning me over, so this is great. Justin: Pete, the original Hick maniac coming around for Decorum. I got to say though, the symbols and all of the extra pages, I think they do serve a purpose. They let you digest what you've seen before and see that it's all sort of a picture frame that holds the story. Alex: Because their chapter breaks is essentially [inaudible 00:21:49]. Pete: I thought you were going to say a palate cleanser, Justin. Justin: Maybe, I don't know. You're supposed to have a little bit of sorbet when you see the Decorum, just a light sorbet. Alex: Every time I get to one of those picture pages I eat an entire pint of Chunky Monkey. Pete: Nice. Justin: Chunky Monkey picture pages. Pete: I'm more of a, what is it? Chunky hubby or what was that? Hubby- Justin: Chubby Hubby. Alex: Chubby Hubby. Pete: That's the one that I like. Alex: Chubby Hubby is very good. Pretzels in that, always love pretzels in an ice cream. Justin: I don't like [inaudible 00:22:24]. Alex: Here's a couple of tastes that go great together, the New Mutants number 14 from Marvel written by Vita Ayala, art by Rod Reis. This kicks off Vita Ayala's run on the title, bringing a bunch of the original New Mutants together minus Cipher, which is a huge missed opportunity of course, I think we can all agree on that. But man, I love this issue. I thought this was so smart, so well done. As a lot of the recent X-Men stuff has been in terms of focusing in, here you have the older New Mutants teaching the younger New Mutants how to use their powers. They come up with a creative thing that I don't think we've ever seen on the X-Men before, where the new mutants characters combine their powers to figure out new ways of using them, which was paced out so well, it's so fun. Alex: There's a thing where I think it's two pages earlier, Rahne and Magik by their powers where they're one teleporting Wolf in, and then two pictures later, it's five teleporting Wolfs out, which is very funny. It was just perfectly paced out. The other thing that I loved about this book, and this is obviously very much on purpose, but bringing the Amahl Farouk, The Shadow King here, who also seems to be in some way on Krakoa, which is very suspicious. But clearly Rod Reis is channeling Bill Sienkiewicz, who is the definitive Shadow King artist here, also the definitive New Mutants artist. But it very much feels like its own thing. I love this from top to bottom. Pete, I know you're probably going to have some anti X-Men bias going on here with this book. Pete: Yes. Alex: But I thought this was really good. This is one of my favorite books of the week. Justin: Because you hate mutants. Alex: I thought this was so well done. And I was so happy with how it was executed. Justin: You call them flat scans, right Pete? Because you're a mutant hater. Alex: Pete by the way, since you guys can't see on Skype is wearing one of the smiley robot suits that the right has. Pete: I don't even know what you're talking about. All right. So the art in this is phenomenal. It's like some parts are almost like water color, it's so beautiful. Magik is just glorious in this, some really fun paneling. There's some stuff that's going on that I don't understand. But I do like the idea of bringing The Shadow King into this. I mean, if you've got fuck Island, you might as well have The Shadow King. Justin: That's your excuse for everything. Pete: And also it makes me want to rewatch Legion. Justin: Yeah. I feel like there's definitely some channeling of Legion here, which is great. And I agree with you, Alex, combining the New Mutants powers in that way, it's very like Final Fantasy, the video game in a cool way. And I really appreciated that. Great book. Alex: Yeah. Just super fun across the board. Next up, here's a wild one, Post Americana number one form Image Comics, story and art by Steve Skroce. This is a future society where everything has fallen apart in America. We start off with some sort of militaristic remnants of America who seem ready to take the country back. But of course, or maybe they're actually fascistic, we don't really know. One person escapes, encounters some insane people that are in the bad lands, including cannibals and other people, find a bad-ass woman who's ready to take the back. It is wild. It is bloody. It's over the top. It's often funny, like when chickens just rip apart a dude. Justin: That was funny. Pete: Don't fuck with chickens man. Alex: The art in particular reminds me a lot of Jose Von Ryp I think is his name, the guy who does a lot of stuff for Valiant, and he did Crossed as well. Pete: Oh, yeah, reminds me of Crossed. Justin: This feels very Crossed to me both in substance and style. Alex: But I enjoyed this, I enjoyed the tone of the characters and the dialogue a lot. Just, they felt very different to me in fresh and ridiculous in exactly the right way. How'd you guys feel about it? Pete: Yeah, I was really impressed with this. This was a lot of fun. It was really over the top, lot of action, lot of violence. You got to love that. This was a very cool interesting take. Yeah, it's hard to know who to kind of root for here with what's going on. I mean, America kind of looked like the evil empire but we'll see how this all unfolds. But man, what a great first issue to get you pumped up for what's going to happen? But yeah, man, it's exciting and fucked up. Justin: You don't know how to root for it Pete, so you're maybe rooting for the cannibals. Pete: Yeah, you don't know who to root for here, man. Justin: Because let me say the cannibals who we meet at the end of the book- Pete: Maybe rooting for the chickens. Justin: Lot of human skin fashion in this last page. Alex: A lot of them were wearing hair suits, I would call them. Justin: Like our facial, like faces sown into [crosstalk 00:27:16]. Pete: Or skull in front of your junk. Justin: The leader's wearing a button-down made of human faces. It's wild. Alex: Maybe they're good. Pete: Yeah. Justin: So you never know. Alex: Maybe they're the good guys. Justin: They clearly have a strong sense- Pete: Because you've got to use everything. You've got to use every part of what you're using. Justin: Well, let me ask you, don't you think- Alex: Just like I said to Jeanine back in the day of the comedy club, you got to use every part of the [inaudible 00:27:39]. Justin: Wow. Pete: Wow. Justin: Wow. Sorry, I'm still stunned by that. Do you think, if you're a cannibal and you're butchering the meat. Pete: Sure. Justin: Do you cut the skin off? I feel like if I'm eating Turkey or if I'm eating some other, sometimes I eat the skin. Pete: Yeah, definitely. Justin: Why are these people leaving all the skin behind? Alex: It's probably too thick, right? Humans whose skin is too thick. Justin: Not Pete skin. Pete: Only one way to tell Zalbs. Justin: Pete's very thin skin. Alex: Great point. I'll tell you what, after my children shoot me to death, I'll tell them to cook me and eat me and let me know how it goes. [crosstalk 00:28:27]. Pete: Yeah. Let us know how it goes. Justin: Yeah, let us know. And we can come over. Alex: [crosstalk 00:28:32] podcast. Justin: Let me work … We'll work out the menu. Alex: Yeah. You got to start with some survey I think between every dish. Good book, definitely pick it up. Batman number 105 from DC Comics written by James Tynion IV, art by Carlo Pagulayan and Danny Miki, Alvaro Martinez and Christian Duce. This is the final part of the Ghost-Maker story, and it doesn't end I think quite how anybody necessarily expected. It also seems to maybe be the end of James Tynion's run on Batman- Pete: What? Alex: … which is surprising in and of itself. Well, I don't know. I mean, he seems to be tying stuff up before a future state. Pete: Well, maybe he's just cleaning, getting a fresh start for his new story arc. I think this was a really great … It's nice to see Harley Quinn open up, get a little emotional here with the kid clown on her. I really liked the kind of flashback with the Ghost-Maker and Batman stuff, nice to get all that. And then we kind of had a nice moment. I don't know how much we want to spoil here, but reading I was like, “Aw.” I thought it was … you don't get to see as much. It was nice to see a little Batman being a little soft. Justin: I was sort of surprised about that choice at the end. I expected Ghost-Maker to be either a villain that is someone who bothers Batman in Gotham or someone who leaves and maybe works in the shadows to cause a problem for Batman. The way it ended, I was surprised by, and I don't know if I love it. Pete: Oh, come on man. Justin: But the everything else in the book I thought was great and I've really liked the art in this book and the way they're able to sort of seamlessly transition between artists. Alex: I liked it more for Batman than Ghost-Maker, if that makes sense. I like the idea that Batman is trying to be more compassionate [inaudible 00:30:29], but Ghost-Maker at the end and saying, “I've tried to kill you most of my life, but you know what, let's be friends.” Seemed a little- Justin: Let's be coworkers. Alex: Yeah. Which I don't know, I guess we'll have to see how it plays out. But I agree with you, I think it was a little quick there even though I enjoyed the issue. Pete: I mean if Batman can be friends with like Damian and a bunch of other people who are at different stages of maybe being evolved. Justin: Well, he's his father. Pete: Yeah. But still he's kind of a psychopath. And so I feel like this works, Batman's opening up to this person and might as well try to work with them to hopefully get Ghost-Maker to a better place. Alex: All right. Fair enough. Let's move on and talk about Stillwater number four from Image Comics written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Ramon K. Perez. This takes place in a town where nobody ever dies. One guy comes into the town, finds out about it from the outside, but turns out he was actually born there. This issue, we flash back and find out that his history, how he was taken outside of the town and exactly what happened. I like this issue quite a bit and particularly coming in issue four, I think that was a smart place to put this because waiting much longer to parse out these mysteries might've kind of frustrating. But I liked the answers that we got personally. Justin: I agree, and I love the … Ramon Perez's art is so good. I've been a fan of his for a long time and really like it here. This book has such a good tone. It feels like it's ready-made to be a TV show. And the characters are really well-made. Pete: Yeah, this is very interesting. We kind of have this … we're finally getting pieces that kind of make sense, clicking into place here about our main character and why he's coming back to this place and what it means and what he's a part of. And it's too bad they didn't kind of push this, I think earlier a little bit, because they could have had like a baby boss tie-in real easy. You had a very- Alex: Boss Baby. Pete: Boss Baby, yeah, sorry. But like that smart baby in the beginning, that could have really tied in nicely. Alex: Cool. All right. Let's move on and talk about We Only Find Them When They're Dead number four from Boom! Studios written by Al Ewing, illustrated by Simone Di Men. Di Men, Is that right? Or did that auto correct? Di Menco I think. Justin: Simone Di Men. Alex: Simone Di Men. Justin: Simone Di Meo. Pete: Di Meo, yeah. D-I-M-E-O. Alex: Thank you very much. My auto correct is out of control. Justin: That's crazy that it changed that letter from O to N, it's crazy. Alex: Nuts, it's disgusting is what it is. Justin: They're right next to each other in the alphabet. Alex: This book is fascinating to read because I think the art and the coloring in particular almost overpower the story of everything that's going on. It's beautiful to look at, but sometimes honestly a little hard to follow at this point. Justin: Yeah, it's funny, it's a book that I wish I had the hard copy of. Pete: Yeah, exactly. Justin: Because I really think that would make it a little cleaner. It's a book that I want to just be further away from when I'm reading it, because it is such a wash of color. I appreciate the choices. I think it is really cool and different. And I don't know enough about what's happening to know where we're headed. But I still trust the storytelling here. It's Al Ewing who I think is great. Pete: Yeah, I agree. I don't mean to kind of echo the old demand of what we're saying, like, “Oh, it makes it hard to read.” But I think it's- Alex: Did you guys look at it with your spectacles on? Pete: Yeah. I had one of the bifocals gone and it still didn't work, but yeah, it's really cool. The art, the paneling, the really pushing stuff, making the story move, helping the action, which is great. But just sometimes because the layouts are so intense, it's a little tough to kind of follow so it takes a couple of reads, but if we were holding the physical comic, I think it wouldn't be an issue. Alex: Next up, Wolverine: Black, White & Blood number two from Marvel written by Vita Ayala, Saladin Ahmed and Chris Claremont. Art by Greg Land, Kev Walker, and Salvador Larroca. As with the first issue, there's three stories of Wolverine, three different adventures. I got to tell you, I thought the first issue was pretty good. It was well done. I didn't love absolutely everything in it. This issue is great. Just really well done. And in particular, one of the things I was so impressed by was Greg Land takes a lot of knocks for his art and potentially rightly so. But stripping all the color out of it and all the metallic wash and shine that usually goes over his characters. And just in that story, focusing on the black and the white and the occasional splashes of red really emphasized how good and dynamic his art is. And Vita Ayala leaned into that with a story, which I thought was great as well. I was really impressed overall with nearly every story on this issue. Pete: Yeah, I agree. I think this issue is really kind of clicking. This makes a lot more sense, this whole black, white and blood. I was just blown away by the art, the action, the violence, it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, a lot of fun, a lot of great Wolverine kind of stuff, that if you're a Wolverine fan, you know about this character, so it kind of bounces all over, which is great. I was really impressed. Two or three really solid stories in this book. Justin: I thought the art was great across the board, I love, it feels like they put them, these stories in a particular order where it's sort of the most black and white, the first story, and it gets redder as the issue goes on. [crosstalk 00:36:36]. Yeah. It's funny on the live show, Alex, you talked about the cliche of Wolverine being in a bar and then having an adventure. And it felt like especially the first two stories were very like Wolverines in the woods and then somebody gets him. It felt like it was dealing with those tropes, living in those tropes a bit. But the Chris Claremont story I thought was … it was my favorite of the three, which I was surprised about. But in general I like the book. Alex: Well, I mean, to that point, I think the things that worked about both of these to me, the same thing that didn't quite work about the first two stories in the first issue of this, where that they stood back and let the art do their thing, that they were like, “Yeah, we're going to do classic Wolverine setups,” but it's all about setting up Greg Land. It's all about setting up Kev Walker to do the thing that they do, which I thought was really nice. Next up, Head Lopper number 14 from Image Comics, story and art by Andrew MacLean, continuing the Pete block we have here on The Stack. Justin: Pete block. Alex: In this issue some heads get lopped, I think a head. Pete: Yeah, maybe [crosstalk 00:37:45]. Justin: A head finally gets lopped. Pete: Huge head. Yeah, we get a Medusa, old head lopper goes up against Medusa. This is just glorious. I mean, plus it starts with a double page spread of a map, which I'm a sucker for. And yeah, this is just a fantastic story of kind of like Conan the Barbarian type of thing, wandering the earth, having adventures, hanging out with the witches as you do. And yeah, this is kind of a fun day, head lopper has a little bit of a team working with them now. This is just continues to be a bad-ass fantastic book that doesn't try too much and just stays in its fucking wheelhouse. Justin: That's the dream, stay in your fucking lane artists. But I do, this is a fun book. This is like a modern Usagi Yojimbo. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Did we say that last time? Because I see why Pete likes it, it's very good. I like it as well. I thought the witch head was going to get turned to stone, I really did. Pete: Oh yeah. Justin: I was worried. Pete: That would've been crazy. Justin: Yeah. I also liked that this is clearly a huge universe, a long adventure that we want to be able to go on for a long time, and I hope we get to. Alex: Next up Dark Nights: Death Metal number six from DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, art by Greg Capullo. We are getting towards the end here as the United forces of every single hero and villain in the DC Universe, fight back against the Batman who laughs and his united sources of dark Batmans and dark planets and things like that. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is off on her own mission to try to save the universe at the universal forge, I believe it's called. I continue to be struck by not so secretly, but how this is almost secretly like a Wonder Woman series, which I think is kind of great. It gets away from Superman and Batman always being the leads and turns the focus on her. And the solution she figures out towards the end here. I thought it was really fun and really simple and really great. And just overall, again, just a fun issue of this wildly over the top series. Pete: This continues to be a lot of fun. I really, really love this issue. Things are starting to finally maybe go in the good guys direction, which is very exciting, epic pages, some old school shout-outs and some touching moments with Clark and Lois and then Clark and Bruce. I fucking love this shit. Justin: I'm just waiting for the space Wolverine to pop his claws. It's about time he popped them and got into the action, you know what I mean? Pete: You're a piece of shit. Alex: If there's a low bow, why isn't there a high bow? Justin: That's so good, or a tie bow. Pete: Oh boy. Justin: I think it's very funny to me that in this book, the Batman who laughs has been elevated to a god. And it's funny to think that it's just a Bruce Wayne. That's just a regular Bruce Wayne under there, who's just had a couple bad days. Alex: The weirder part to me, there were two weird things in this issue. Not necessarily bad things, but seeing Barbatos' face finally whereas I was like, “Oh, that's not a weird looking dude in there, under that giant cloak. That's pretty strange.” And then the other one was Superman and Lois saying goodbye to each other. Everybody else was great. I loved everybody else. And even- Pete: What is your problem there? Alex: Then said goodbye, what did Superman say? Superman was like … Lois was like, “Superman, you're always the son that I looked towards.” And Superman is like, “You're the lead of my story.” Justin: Yeah. You're always my number one lead I think she says. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Yeah. That was the point where I was like, “Shut up.” Pete: Why? Justin: Wow. Pete: Why you cold hearted motherfucker? Alex: It's stupid. That's a stupid thing to say when you're about to die, don't say that. Justin: I have it here, “Lois, thank you for this life, for our son, for being my true home planet.” Pete: Yeah, that's fucking beautiful. Justin: Very sweet from a long haired mostly dead Superman. And then she said, “Thank you, Clark.” Pete: [crosstalk 00:42:02] complimenting his hair was hysterical. Justin: Thank you, Clark, for being the best lead a girl could ask for. And then someone off panel, get a room. Pete: All right. First off, Zalben fuck you man. I thought that was a great thing for Lois to say. Alex: I don't know. That was kind of like, and I worked in a newspaper. Pete: Fuck you. Justin: She doesn't love him. She just is with him to keep the news flowing. Alex: Yeah, exactly. Also, what is she doing there? Where has she been the entire time? The fact that she is [crosstalk 00:42:34] to be like, “And I'm also here.” Justin: She's covering the end of the universe for the daily [crosstalk 00:42:40]. Pete: You know what Zalb, she doesn't have tO prove shit to you. She can come and go as she pleases. Alex: She's just hastily writing out a newspaper on some dead Robin Skinner or something like that. Justin: Yeah, exactly. This just in, holy shit, [inaudible 00:42:56] dead. Pete: If you're reading this congratulations. Justin: Bear with me readers because this is confusing. So there's a dark forge of … Alex: There's going to be a lot of bi-lines on this one, but fun book. Let's move on and talk about Seven to Eternity number 15 from image comics written by Rick Remender, drawn by Jerome Opena. This is a huge issue for this book. Our protagonist has slowly been working way towards a place that potentially could make him immortal. We think it has been for reasons of helping his family. In this issue it becomes clear, 100% absolutely is not. And he goes from, I would argue being the hero of the book to turning out to be the villain the whole time, which I think is phenomenal in the best Rick Remender way of doing things. What'd you guys think about this? Justin: And conversely, the villain from the book, the Mud King is sort of becoming the hero. Alex: Yeah, 100%. Justin: And I would guess that was Rick Remender's perhaps goal for the series. And he's done a great job of really just slowly leading us away from our expectations from the very first couple issues of the series. But really this issue, the art is so good. It's a real like everything is just really well done from the beginning to the end, a lot of big splash pages, it's so good. Pete: This is classic Remender, just like you think you understand, you think … I was so excited. I was like, “Oh, this is great. Okay. We're finally going to have,” and then at the end I was like, “Wait, what? Goddam Remender, man.” He is a very impressive writer. This continues to be a ton of fun. And the twists and turns are very enjoyable. I'm very nervous about what's going to happen moving forward, but man, the art and the action are just glorious. Alex: Great stuff. Let's move on and talk about our Immortal Hulk block two issues [crosstalk 00:45:05]. Justin: Hulk block. Alex: The Immortal Hulk King in Black number one written by Al Ewing, art by Aaron Kuder. The Immortal Hulk 42 written by Al Ewing, art by Joe Bennett. Starting with the first one, this obviously again is a tie into King in Black. Here, so many things going on at the same time. There's no reason this should work with the amount of things they have happening. But it's not only an Immortal Hulk book, which is a thing in and of itself. It's not only a tie into King in Black. It's not only a Christmas story. It's also a completely silent issue at the same time. And it is phenomenal. Pete: One of my favorites. This is like, when people ask you like, “Oh, what's your favorite Christmas story?” This now goes to the top of the list, black Christmas. This is just so cool. And so much is said about Hulk without any words. This really is just a classic Hulk story. Oh my God, this is so great, so much fun. Justin: This is your favorite Christmas story now, more than the movie Christmas story. Pete: No. It's one of my favorite Christmas comics, [crosstalk 00:46:15]. Justin: If you have children, you'll read this aloud to them on Christmas. Pete: Yes, I will. Justin: Which will be [crosstalk 00:46:21] reading. Alex: Say, “Hey kids, gather around, it's time for the horrifically wildly smiling Hulk story.” Pete: Yeah. Alex: The way Aaron Kuder draws, this is these … If you haven't been reading Immortal Hulk, Hulk is kind of split into different personalities. He keeps morphing between different things. Here we mostly get the skinny childlike Hulk, who's been showing up. He also shows up in the next issue we're going to talk about. We also get Joe Fixit shows up for a little- Justin: Yeah, he does. Alex: … die hard style action at one point, which is super fun. But yeah, man, this is just great, just a great story. So well-drawn by Aaron Kuder, so well written by Al Ewing. Justin: The art is so good. Alex: Again, there's no reason they should work with the amount of things they have going on here, but it's a wonderful one-shot. Justin: Yeah, it's really, truly great. One of the best issues on the stands right now. Alex: Let's move on then and talk about Immortal Hulk number 42, which is the ongoing story of the Immortal Hulk. Here we get a little break as the Hulk fights The Thing, actually lays out everything that's been going on with him, which I think is the first time in 42 issues any of the superheroes have kind of found out what has actually been going on with the Hulk here, even though he understands the only part of it. And Thing figures it out too, understands the different [inaudible 00:47:38] Fixit and the other Hulk and everything that's going on, they eat some hotdogs at Coney Island. Pete: You're goddam right. You got to do it while you're there. Alex: Delicious. And it ends with of course, a very typical terrifying paddle right at the end there for what's coming up next. But again, a fantastic issue of this book. And I love seeing The Thing, Hulk rivalry in a new light, it's great. Justin: Yeah. You really get to see the tender side of The Thing coming out here, which I thought was really good. And their conversation at the hot dog shop was really nice- Pete: The hotdog shop. Justin: … getting into like, yeah, sandwich shop, hot dog I guess being a sandwich in that case. Pete: Oh man. Justin: Hot dog is not a sandwich. Pete: Yeah. And the way they talk about the afterlife, The Thing coming back and being bar mitzvah'd and rediscovering some sort of spirituality or having a second spirituality 13 years after they got bombarded with the cosmic rays, I thought was an interesting take. I'll talk about Joe, but just a really smart issue touching on a bunch of ideas and really sad watching the whole fight and cry. Alex: I mean, I'll just mention just on the whole thing story where he's talking about how the 13 years there that was him being reborn. I know that's something that [inaudible 00:49:02] covered and is one of the thing. But from a Jewish perspective, I got a little choked up, that's something that they don't really talk about a lot in the books is that aspect of The Thing. And I think Al Ewing wrote it in a really sweet way and paste it out in a really sweet way. That was very nice to see. It meant a lot. Justin: Now we talked about this on the live show, but the podcast just turned 14. Should we have had a bar mitzvah for you since we've been doing this for 13 years? Alex: Yeah, no problem. I'll shoot you guys a tow report and we could read that in the next live show. Pete: Oh, that would be great. Justin: I would love to. Pete: Yeah. Justin: Plus we get to go play video games and stuff or something, right. Alex: Sure, that's how that works. Justin: Isn't there some fun thing? Alex: Yeah, you get to have a party afterwards. Justin: Okay. I'm in. Pete: Yeah, this continues to be amazing. Really great use of The Thing in this, love The Thing's new kicks, glorious. Also really fantastic cover, really love the cover. Yeah, just when you think this story, it gets so weird and so grotesque, but also the heart in the story is really phenomenal, it's very touching. The humanization of these kinds of grotesque characters if you will is fantastic. I cannot believe what they're doing in this whole comic. It's really unprecedented. Alex: Last but not least, let's talk about Once & Future number 14 from Boom! Studios written by Kieron Gillen and art by Dan Mora. In this issue, we're wrapping up a couple of things as I believe they fight Guen, or they are Guen. I don't know, I honestly missed the last issue, so I'm not [inaudible 00:50:47] keeping up. But there's some bloody stuff, it's a fight continuity stuff that happens and this title continues to be a ton of fun. Pete: Yeah. I mean this whole game thing that it starts with, and I mean to say the art is spectacular is an understatement. It's just so breathtaking and makes things … you're feeling the stuff that is happening. It's just so intense and amazing. And then you just have this bad-ass grandmother right in the middle of it. Every issue is just glorious and it continues to be. I don't know why they don't turn this into a goddam movie or TV show. It's just so good. I want to see it in all the different iterations, if it could … Just so many great characters, so much fun. This is really just glorious. Justin: There's a lot of stories about stories, particularly in comics. And I think this one does a great job of making it more complex and it's a little bit trickier, it really feels like a heightened version of so many things are touched on, where it's like, no, the story's, the thing we're inside a story. And in this our main characters are inside multiple stories at once and they're competing, they're juggling them. But it's also like they're having a great time, the art is so like high-octane action movie. It's really fun. Pete: Yeah. Alex: Great stuff. All right. That's it for this week's episode of The Stack, if you'd like to support us, patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also we do a live show every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM to Crowdcast and YouTube, come hang out. Chat with us about comic books, iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, or the app of your choice to subscribe and listen to the show. At comic book live on Twitter, comicbookclublive.com for this podcast and many more. Until next time, this has been The Stack. Justin: This will always be The Stack. You're inside The Stack. We're all part of The Stack. Alex: Oh, my kids are coming in. Let me see what they want. Pete: Is that that creeping- Justin: Bam. The post The Stack: Black Cat, Blade Runner And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Professor Frenzy Show #127

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 42:07

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The Professor Frenzy Show #123

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2020 36:35

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Episode 8: Is Captain Britain broken? Taskmaster strikes, revisiting World War Hulk and More!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 94:04

Welcome back! What a week it's been, This week we discuss Taskmaster #1, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #3, Marauders #15, Excalibur #14 and Wolverine #7. After that, we take Captain Britain to court and discuss Betsy Braddock. This week was the first AnotherReread and we discuss World War Hulk (why is that so hard to say??). Thanks for listening! We really appreciate all the support! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com

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Los Cómics de la Semana 031 - Noviembre 13, 2020

La Covacha Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2020 183:51

La mesa covacha discute los cómics que salieron en Estados Unidos la segunda semana de noviembre. MARVEL Taskmaster #1 (0:01:34) Star Wars: Darth Vader #7 (0:11:38) Iron Man #3 (0:20:24) Marauders #15 (X of Swords 14) (0:29:48) Excalibur #14 (X of Swords 15) (0:36:04) Wolverine #7 (X of Swords 16) (0:39:08) The Amazing Spider-Man #52 (0:56:32) The Amazing Spider-Man #52.LR (0:57:36) Strange Academy #5 (1:04:25) DC COMICS American Vampire 1976 #2 (1:16:45) The Green Lantern Season 2 #9 (1:23:04) Dark Nights – Death Metal – Infinite Hour Exxxtreme #1 (One Shot) (1:29:40) Punchline Special #1 (One Shot) (1:43:38) Detective Comics #1030 (1:54:25) Superman #27 (1:59:12) The Flash #765 (2:02:29) INDIES Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Seven Wives Club #1 (One Shot) (Dark Horse Comics) (2:06:58) Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl #1 (Image Comics) (2:26:30) We Only Find Them When They're Dead #3 (BOOM! Studios) (2:32:30) Pound by Pound TPB (TKO) (2:40:46) Seven Secrets #4 (BOOM! Studios) (2:47:05) Penultiman #2 (Ahoy Comics) (2:53:55) FICHA COVACHA Mesa: Armando Saldaña, Bernardo Arteaga, Francisco Espinosa y Valentín García. Síguenos en Twitter, Facebook, YouTube y ¡ahora en Twitch! Fecha: Viernes 13 de noviembre, 2020.

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The Comics Agenda: Ain't No Party Like A Seven Secrets Party

The Comics Agenda

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 76:49

NewsWe start out talking about the news of more layoffs at Warner Brothers/DC Comics. Then we jump into news about a possible Bloodshot sequel. This week Michael brings us a story about a fish that plays Pokémon. We talk about what animals might do well playing games. ComicsThis week we return to a few series that we have really been enjoying. We revisit, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, That Texas Blood, and Seven Secrets. Then we head over to the Marvel Universe and talk about Iron Man, and the newest series Taskmaster. In between all of that we talk about a punk band in an airport called, Terminal Punk Comics Agenda is hosted by Michael (Twitter@mokepf7) and Greg (Twitter@Comicsportsgeek). We discuss new comicboook releases each week, in addition to news, movies, and tv.You can reach us on Twitter @TheComicsAgenda or email us at TheComicsAgenda@gmail.com

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The Professor Frenzy Show #122

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 35:35

Comics Crossover #1 from Image Comics (W) Donny Cates (A) Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe $3.99 Red Atlantis #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Stephanie Phillips | Artist(s): Robert Carey | $4.99 BANG #5 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Wilfredo Torres | $3.99 Fire Power #5 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Chris Samnee, Matthew Wilson $3.99 Happy Hour #1 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Peter Miligan | Artist(s): Michael Montenat | Colors: Filipe Sobreiro | Letters: Rob Steen || $3.99 Spy Island #3 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Chelsea Cain | Artist(s): Elise McCall | $3.99 Lonely Receiver #3 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Zac Thompson | Artist(s): Jen Hickman | Letters: Simon Boland | $3.99 Origins #1 from BOOM Studios | (W) Clay Chapman | (A) Jakub Rebelka | Colors: Patricio Delpeche | Letters: Jim Campbell | $3.99 Coffin Bound #8 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): Dani | $3.99 Wicked Things #6 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): John Allison | Artist(s): Max Sarin | Colors: Whitney Cogar | Letters: Jim Campbell | $3.99 Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology #2 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Neil Gaiman P. Craig Russell | Artist(s): P. Craig Russell Various | $3.99 Inkblot #3 from Image | Writer(s): Emma Kubert Rusty Gladd | Artist(s): Emma Kubert Rusty Gladd | $3.99 That Texas Blood #5 from Image | Writer(s): Chris Condon | Artist(s): Jacob Phillips | $3.99 Dryad #6 from Oni Press | Writer(s): Kurtis J. Wiebe | Artist(s): Justin Osterling | $3.99 Upcoming Comics Getting It Together #2 from Image | Writer(s): Sina Grace Omar Spahi | Artist(s): Jenny Fine Mx Struble | $4.99 Marked #9 from Image | Writer(s): Brian Haberlin | Artist(s): Brian Haberlin Geirrod Van Dyke | $3.99 It Eats What Feeds It #3 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Max Hoven Aaron Crow | Artist(s): Gabriel Lumazark | $3.99 Miskatonic #1 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Mark Sable | Artist(s): Giorgio Pontrelli | $4.99 Penultiman #2 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Alan Robinson | $3.99 Red Mother #10 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jeremy Haun | Artist(s): Danny Luckert | $3.99 Seven Secrets #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom Taylor | Artist(s): Daniele Di Nicuolo | $3.99 Something Is Killing The Children #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): James Tynion IV | Artist(s): Werther Dell Edera | $3.99 We Only Find Them When They're Dead #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Al Ewing | Artist(s): Simone Di Meo |$3.99 Scarenthood #1 from IDW (W/A) Chris Roche $4.99 Voyage to the Stars #3 from IDW (W) James Asmus (A) Connie Daidone $3.99 Trades Billionaire Island GN from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Mark Russell | Artist(s): Steve Pugh | $16.99 Mirka Andolfos Unsacred Vol 1 HC from Ablaze Media | Writer(s): Mirka Andolfo | Artist(s): Mirka Andolfo | $24.99

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The Professor Frenzy Show #118

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 49:43

Comics Adler #4 from Titan Comics | Writer(s): Lavie Tidhar | Artist(s): Paul McCaffrey | $3.99 Adventureman #4 from Image | Writer(s): Matt Fraction | Artist(s): Terry Dodson Rachel Dodson | $3.99 Fire Power #4 from Image Comics (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Chris Samnee $3.99 BANG #4 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Matt Kindt | Artist(s): Wilfredo Torres | $3.99 Penultiman #1 from Ahoy Comics | Writer(s): Tom Peyer | Artist(s): Alan Robinson | $3.99 Getting it Together #1 from Image Comics (W) Sina Grace, Omar Spahi (A) Jenny D. Fine & Sina Grace $4.99 Mad Magazine #16 (Midnight Horror Movie Marathon issue) $5.99 Spy Island #2 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Chelsea Cain | Artist(s): Elise McCall | Colors: Rchelle Rosenberg | Letters: Joe Caramagna | Co-Creator and supplemental art: Lia Miternique | $3.99 Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology #1 from Dark Horse | Writer(s): Neil Gaiman P Craig Russell | Artist(s): P Craig Russell, Lovern Kindzierski, Mike Mignola, Dave Steward, Jerry Ordway | $3.99 Locke & Key In Pale Battalions Go #2 from IDW Publishing | Writer(s): Joe Hill | Artist(s): Gabriel Rodriguez | Colors: Jay Fotos | Letters: Shawn Lee | $3.99 Lonely Receiver #2 from AfterShock Comics | Writer(s): Zac Thompson | Artist(s): Jen Hickman | $3.99 Coffin Bound #7 from Image | Writer(s): Dan Watters | Artist(s): Dani | Colors: Brad Simpson | Letters: Aditya Bidikar || $4.99 We Only Find Them When They're Dead #2 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Al Ewing | Artist(s): Simone Di Meo | Color Assist: Mariasara Miotti | Letters: Andworld Design | $3.99 Inkblot #2 from Image | Writer(s): Emma Kubert Rusty Gladd | Artist(s): Emma Kubert Rusty Gladd | $3.99 No Ones Rose #5 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Emily Horn Zac Thompson | Artist(s): Alberto Jimenez-Alburquerque | $3.99 Upcoming Comics Atlantis Wasn't Built For Tourists #2 from Scout Comics | Writer(s): Eric Palicki | Artist(s): Wendell Cavalcanti | $3.99 Bad Mother #3 from Artists Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Christa Faust | Artist(s): Mike Deodato Jr. | $3.99 Bleed Them Dry #4 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Hiroshi Koizumi Eliot Rahal | Artist(s): Dike Ruan | $3.99 Devils Red Bride #1 from Vault Comics | Writer(s): Sebastian Girner | Artist(s): John Bivens | $3.99 Grendel Kentucky #2 from Artists Writers & Artisans | Writer(s): Jeff McComsey | Artist(s): Tommy Lee Edwards | $3.99 Red Mother #9 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Jeremy Haun | Artist(s): Danny Luckert | $3.99 Seven Secrets #3 from BOOM! Studios | Writer(s): Tom Taylor | Artist(s): Daniele Di Nicuolo | $3.99 Once and Future #12 from BOOM! Studios (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Dan Mora Trade Dracula Motherf**cker HC from Image | Writer(s): Alex De Campi | Artist(s): Erica Henderson | $16.99

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Episode 3: Storm Strikes in X of Swords, Black Widow 2, Invincible trailer and more!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 51:40

Hey everyone! This week we talk Wolverine #6, Marauders #13, X-Force #13, Black Widow #2, American Vampire 1976 #1 and We Only Find Them When They're Dead #2. We also go over the recent DC movie schedule changes, Dr. Strange in Spider-Man 3, the Green Lantern HBO Max series and more! We hope you enjoy! Feel free to contact us! Twitter - Another Relaunch - Keenan -LZ or via email anotherrelaunch@gmail.com

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The Stack: Batman, Locke & Key And More

The Stack

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 58:08

On this week's Stack podcast: Batman #100, Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… #2, Amazing Spider-Man #850, Transformers/Back to the Future #1, American Vampire 1976 #1, Getting It Together #1, Wolverine #6, X-Force #13, Marauders #13, Sonic The Hedgehog: Bad Guys #1, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #2, Far Sector #8, Adventureman #4, Backtrack #7, Black Widow #2, Exosisters #10, DCeased: Dead Planet #4, Inkblot #2, Champions #1, and Decorum #5. 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? You're all welcome to The Stack. I'm Alex. Justin: I'm Justin. Pete: I'm Pete. And on The Stack, we've got it packed… Alex: … stack for you today. We've got [crosstalk 00:00:17], use. Justin: It's a packed stack. Alex: Big issues is coming out, so let's jump right into it. Talking about Batman number 100, from DC Comics run by James Tynion IV, art by Jorge Jimenez, Carlo Pagulayan and Guillem March. This is the culmination of the Joker world. Justin: Culmination. Alex: It's all been coming down to this. Big stuff happens here as the Batman takes on Joker [Mono-e-Mono 00:00:44], for all [crosstalk 00:00:49], translators. For all the [inaudible 00:00:52], there's some twists, there's some turns here, there's backup stories. What [inaudible 00:00:56]… Oh God. Pete: Oh no, Alex. Justin: Oh, wow. Don't die. [crosstalk 00:01:01]. Alex: That's a [inaudible 00:01:01], Joker guest. Justin: Joker mist. Alex: Joker mist. Pete: Oh, man. Alex: Yeah, I'm a joker mystique myself. Pete: Smart. Justin: Oh, nice. Just to clear up your throat? Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative). No, you got to build up a tolerance, so that way… exactly. Justin: Yeah, that's smart. Pete: Oh, yeah. Alex: What do you guys think about this issue and what do you think about the storyline as a whole? Justin: I liked it. Especially the battle, the Joker, bat uniform and that Joker becoming Batman, I thought was a nice thing here. There's some funny lines in here of Alfred's Corp saying he wishes he was the [crosstalk 00:01:40], butler. Had it up for [crosstalk 00:01:42]. Alex: That's not funny. Justin: No, man. Alex: That was painful. Justin: An underwater butler, so fun. How do you make tea? All the waters. It's all water. Pete: Yeah, I felt like, first off the art's fantastic. I feel like the landing didn't stick as hard as I would have liked it. Normally, when we have these big buildups, these huge fights. The wrap-up is great, but there was a lot of weird stuff that happened. I felt like there was this epic showdown and then it wasn't between the Joker and Batman because Harley Quinn showed up and then made it be like, “Yo, one of us are going to die tonight,” which is holy shit, raising the stakes, but it wasn't like the classic showdown. It was a real switch of status of Joker trying to be Batman. I did like the things that Joker was saying during the fight. I thought that was classic cool Joker shit. Pete: But the stuff I was a little disappointed with was the wrap-up and the Batman talking to the Clown Hunter, I felt like that could have been a little bit better. I had a weird feeling after that was over. Also, it was crazy to me that Catwoman seemed to be making moves, but then there was just a shot of her watching fights, which was weird to me. But I really think that overall, this was a really cool arc, very awesome twists and turns, a lot of fun. The Alfred shit to me was a little too rough, too soon. Seeing the corpse shit was really hard, but I- Justin: I was going to say, it's great to see Alfred back in his good shape, in perfect form. This is the Alfred I want to see. Pete: The Nightwing shit was bad-ass. Nightwing got a lot to do a lot of respect in this. So that was cool. Alex: I love the Oracle stuff. It was so much fun having Barbara back as Oracle. That was great. It just really shows the deep well of love that James Tynan has for DC Comics history that really came out on this issue. I agree with you that the execution of the ending felt a little asterisky, particularly given how big everything is built over the past couple of issues. But James Tynan came out on Twitter and said, “This was supposed to be as ending.” This was supposed to be his last issue of Batman, and then when he found out he would be ongoing on it, he had to scramble and change his plans and changes all outline to serve some other masters and serve some other storylines that are happening. Alex: So I think it's not purposeful, but that is a victim of circumstances, more than anything that rather than making it this big exclamation point, it became the dot, dot, dot in the middle of the ongoing Batman story. And I do like the place that he finds Batman at the end of this, I actually did really like Clown Hunter story. The idea that he- Pete: I like Clown Hunter story, for sure. I felt like Batman just lectured Clown Hunter in a weird way. Alex: What I think was different about this, this almost pivots off of what Jeff Johns is doing over in three Jokers, is this idea that Batman keeps bringing in these orphans, breaking them, ruining their lives, and then being like, “Well, time for new orphan,” that he's doing something different here, which is similar to what they did with the signal as well. Is I think smart, and it's a progression of the character that personally I like. Yeah. Justin: I mean, I agree. I also think despite the change in plan for James Tynion, I feel like his point was rather than have Batman play Joker's game the entire time in the end of this is like I haven't been… I'm not going to take the bait. And I thought that was a nice… Batman's usual tactic or at least for the past few years is he takes the bait and then suffers horrible consequences, but he endures because he's Batman and I actually liked- Alex: He got stabbed in the back-up bunch. That's suffering. Justin: I know, but rather than be like, “All right, I'm going to give it all up for the corpse of my butler,” he's like, “You know what? I'm not going to do that.” And I liked the different take on that for one. I agree the Clown Hunter stuff, I thought what was actually good. I agree with you, Alex. It's nice if we're going to walk away with this new character, I think that's cool. Clown Hunter is a cool character. It's like if Damian Wayne took the other path and didn't become a Robin, it feels like. The one thing with the Joker little epilogue at the end, Joker, he's become this chemist. Why is he such a chemist? I don't know why that makes sense. It's like [crosstalk 00:06:31]- Alex: I appreciate your- Justin: … gas that perfectly turns you into a Joker so much so that no one will be able to tell the difference in my body versus your body. Pete: But also he's really into newspapers and likes to get his news, old timey, just sitting down, stacking newspapers, go through each one, see that headlines, soak it all in. So it's this mix of, he's up to date on all the latest chemical stuff, but likes to get his news old school. Alex: It's crazy. It's crazy stuff is what I tell you, but [crosstalk 00:07:06]- Justin: Yeah. A lot of fans are definitely going to identify with Pete's point he just made the with the newspapers. Alex: This is a very good issue though. And I think this whole arc was good. Definitely pick it up in trade or individually if you like. Alex: Next up, Locke and Key in Pale Battalions, going number two from IDW storytellers, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. This is continuing a story of back in the day from Locke and Key as we follow John Locke. But a different John Locke, the last, as he goes to fight in the war, he has aged himself. Yup. He's using one of the magical keys. And this issue, we see things from the German perspective of the war as they are tagged. Justin: Creating a way to put that. Alex: But again, we talk about this every time. There were two different World Wars. One of them was the World War, the second one with Nazis. This is the first World War, which was also with the Germans, but it's not creepy in exactly the same way. Pete [crosstalk 00:08:04]. Oh my God. Pete: Different Wars. Justin: DC, Wolverine one, Pete. The Balkans were powder gig. And then all of a sudden the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand really set off a series of chain of events within tangling alliances that led all of these different countries to declare war on each other. And then of course, a further countries guy, eventually entangled. And here we are with John Locke, [AGM 00:08:26], self up to take part. Alex: There you go. So this comes from the German perspective, which is not a creepy thing to say. And we see John [crosstalk 00:08:33]- Pete: It's a creepy thing to say. Alex: Stop it. John Locke is attacking them. Just again as with the first issue, a bunch of classic Gabriel Rodriguez pages in here, this page with… and this is getting into spoilers, but there's a page where he uses the crown of shadows to attack that is just terrifying in exactly the right way. The twist at the end, which I won't spoil, it's so smart, so well done and clearly points to not just where they're going with this series, but also with Helen Gun, which is the Sandman Crossover. So I love seeing that path there. Pete, what do you think about this one? Pete: It's really fantastic. I mean, the art is unbelievable. It's crazy storytelling. I mean, the fact that I'm caring about these fucked up soldiers is way back to the days. It's really impressive to the art and the storytelling. But this is really interesting what happens at the end and how it makes sense to why we are seeing this in such a cool way. I'm very impressed with this comic. It's just so excited when there's a new Locke and Key comic, because you're like, “What the fuck is going to happen? How scared or freaked out am I going to get?” And it constantly delivers. Justin: And the fact that they were able to just tell a legit war story, I mean, this is a straight up war comic. There's not a lot of Locke and Key bells and whistles to it. We get a little bit of that, but it really is just a war story being told from the Locke and Key perspective, and obviously the German perspective, which I think we all find totally normal. And it's just a really good issue and the way they do find another, especially the art finds another angle on horror, war horror is so smart. Pete: And it's interesting that, it seems like in this issue, we got to shout out to the TV show with that fire key that I don't think was from the book. I think it was from the TV show, right? Alex: Yeah. The matchstick key. I can't remember honestly the continuity there. I think it was something they came up with, but didn't use, that they ended up using on the TV show first, versus in the comic book itself. I could be wrong about that. But yeah, that is interesting to see. And it's great, it's just good stuff. Always- Justin: It's great stuff. Alex: … an incredible issue out of the gate every single time. Next up, one I'm very excited to talk about, Amazing Spider-Man number 858 AK number 49, from Marvel written by Nick Spencer, Kurt Busiek, Tradd Moore and Saladin Ahmed, art by Ryan Ottley, Humberto Ramos and Mark Bagley, Chris Justin: Bachalo, Tradd Moore and Aaron Kuder. So this is a conclusion of the Sin Eaters storyline, The Return of the Green Goblin and also a couple of backups stories. Justin, I'm curious to hear from you. You seem to really like the Sin Eater storyline in particular, but what's your take on the ending here? Justin: It got a little muddled with the Green Goblin stuff. I thought the first couple issues of the Sin Eater Arc I thought were so good, so smart, felt very timely and responding to the world. It was such a total change from Nick Spencer jokey Spider-Man into this like very serious Sin Eater storyline. So it felt like a hard right turn into Peter Parker dealing with the Green Goblin stuff and so much more historical and it felt far less present to the modern world. And weird the way that he becomes like a juggernaut but with no… like a [crosstalk 00:12:24], hair. Alex: Could you talk about that for a second? So the- Justin: Just a raged out, no neck dude. Alex: Well, the weird thing is, so the Sin Eater, when he shoots people, now he gains their powers, right? So he shoots the juggernaut and then I liked generally speaking, just the voice of anything, the design of this, because he gets this juggernaut- Justin: Sorry to hear you [crosstalk 00:12:45]- Alex: … Vini head, which is pretty gross. But the juggernaut doesn't have a head like that. He has a normal head and he just wears a helmet. So what was going on there? Justin: I like the idea that maybe juggernaut just smooshed a little bit into his old- Alex: Yeah. Justin: The clothes fit the man. Pete: I think that how he starts to… your body forms to the helmet after a little while, and then it's like, you take a turtle and it looks like you still are wearing it a little bit. And I think that's what happened here. Justin: Pete, at this point, your feet have taken on the shape of your punisher's slippers, right? Pete: Yeah, exactly. Exactly, yeah. Alex: I did like the Green Goblin's stuff in this issue. I think Nick Spencer did a good job of driving up the, and I'm using this word appropriately here, creepiness of the character. Justin: Especially once all the other spider family characters were there, I was like, “Woof.” Alex: Oh yeah. That whole Gwen stuff was crazy. Justin: Gross [crosstalk 00:13:40]. Alex: The exact right way though. The way that Norman Osborn is gross that I don't think we've seen him this way in a very long time, but it's weird. I'm curious to see what happens to the next issue, because it seems like we're finally getting into all of the kindred stuff, which is this villain that he's been building up over the course of all the issues. Justin: But I got to say the fact that the reveal wasn't an issue. I was like, “Come on, man.” Alex: Yeah. Justin: It really felt like now is the time to do it and it feels like we've missed our shot to finally get the reveal. Alex: Particularly the way the end… sorry, Pete. I was just going to add that particularly the way the ending is paced and obviously the spoiler for the ending, but in the mix, everything that's happening with Spider-Man, with the Green Goblin, with everybody, with Kindred walking towards this grave and walking up. And it definitely felt like this is the point where we see kindred walking, looking at a grave and now we know who Kindred is, and instead we still have no idea. What were you going to say, Pete? Pete: Oh, I was just going to say, yeah, there's nothing like the old, “Hanging out next to a grave. You don't know who I am, moment,” that everybody loves. Yeah, it's a little frustrated. We don't have more information, especially after all we've been through, but I also really liked the backup stories. I'm a sucker for Chris Bachalo's art and also- Justin: [inaudible 00:15:06], wars are also very good. Pete: Yeah. The Ford shoes store with that art is so glorious and fantastic. Alex: Pete, Doug Wizard. Do you love a good Doug Wizard? Pete: Yeah. I mean, come on, dogs and wizards together. What's not to love? Alex: No way. Could I throw out at you before we talk too much about the backup stories? Theories about the identity of kindred. Pete? Pete: I'm trying to think of… What was the care bear with the little cloud on it? That's who I think it is. Alex: Okay, great. Great. Justin, do you have any theories? Justin: I mean, what are the third rails we're going to touch here? It's been built up so much, it has to be a big character. Is it the dude who killed uncle Ben? Alex: Hmm. I guess I can do that. I'll throw out one. This is not my theory. I read this today. What? Pete: I think it's Doc Cock. Alex: Doc Cock? Joe Chill. It's Joe Chill. I love this theory. I read this, I think it was on Nerdist or something today. They had a bunch of theories of who [crosstalk 00:16:22]. Justin: I've heard of that. Alex: The theory was, Pete, you are going to 100%, absolutely hate this theory, but I'm so excited about it. The theory is, it's Peter Parker, but it's Peter Parker from the pre one more day continuity because they fucked up the Mafesto curse by Maryy Jane and Peter Parker getting back together. So it split up the reality, and so Peter Parker who made that deal is now kindred tried to get it back. Pete: Wow. Justin: If we can finally undo that bullshit- Pete: That would be glorious. Justin: That feels so arch and unnecessary. Pete: Yeah. Alex: [crosstalk 00:17:09]. But I love the idea. I love the idea of it being Peter Parker, baby. I think that would be interesting. Pete: Or Peter Porker. Justin: Ooh, interesting. But here's the thing. So much of Kindred is like, “I was buried. I was under the ground.” It has to feel like it has to be a dead character come back to life. Pete: Yeah. Alex: And it sounds graves. Justin: Maybe it's their marriage. It's like- Alex: Yeah, there you go. The physical representation. As we all know, marriage is covered in giant centipedes. Alex: Let's move on to another title. Transformer is back to the future, number one from IDW, written by Ken and Scott, art by Juan Semeru. So this is exactly what you'd expect from the title. This is the Transformers, muck it up the back to the future continuity. And I'll get into a huge spoiler here, but I was getting very worried that they wouldn't do the thing that they do on the last page for most of the issue, but when they did, I was like, “Ah, thank you.” Pete: Yeah, glorious. Glorious last page reveal. This was fun. This was cool. I liked how they took the things that we know. We got different perspectives, a little POV and the mall scene. I thought that was really fun, and great use of clashing these two worlds together in a way that made sense. Justin: Yeah. I think this makes perfect sense. No one would ever be like, “This is an unnatural blending of two different properties.” Pete: Yeah. I mean, who doesn't love seeing [crosstalk 00:18:45]- Alex: Oh, go ahead. Justin: No, as they say in the famous line, “One point 21 megatrons.” Pete: Yeah. Alex: I do [crosstalk 00:18:54], think we're doing a good job here. I think when they finally get to it, to spoil a little bit of the book, but they do a back to the future too, with the transformers weaving their way through back to the future continuity saying, “Ooh, we could use some time travel to really take down the autobots,” and then of course, they finally do. We get the classic view of Hill Valley Square, except transformers have taken over the entire world. Beef Tatton, of course, is working for them. And Marty has tried to get away. It's just silly fun stuff. I had a much better time once they finally got to it, in the second half of the issue versus the first half of the issue- Pete: Don't fucking do that. Don't break it up [crosstalk 00:19:35]. Alex: But I do. Justin: It definitely felt like mashing up your toys when you're a kid in a fun way. Pete: Yeah. Alex: I agree. Next up, American Vampire 1976 number one, from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque. And we talked to Scott Snyder about this when he was at our live show a couple of weeks ago. So definitely go and listen to that podcast. But this is, as you could imagine for the title continuing and finishing the saga of American Vampire now in the '70s, there's disco, there's big Afros, everything that you'd expect going out on the title. This is also, I will say as much as I love this, and as much as I love Rafael Albuquerque's art in particular, this is definitely a deep dive into my subconscious to be like, “Who's that character from American Vampire?” I haven't read this in a while. But I enjoyed it nonetheless, personally. Pete: Yeah. I mean, speaking of the Albuquerque's art. I mean, it's just so nice to be back in his warm embrace. I mean, this art is glorious. They're having fun. The classic, killing vampires with disco. I mean, you don't get tired of that, that's just fun stuff. Yeah, I think this was a cool wrap up. There's a lot of tie ins that I didn't remember, like you were saying solves, but I still enjoyed them. And yeah, I think it's a great saying that comes out of this book, “Fuck history, shred it and forget it.” You know what I mean? Justin: Yeah. And that's how you failed social studies, right? Pete: Hard, failed hard. Justin: Yeah, I agree. I mean, seeing this altogether, the team back together that is, is so nice. Skinner is such an iconic character, even though he's not really in American Vampire anymore. It's just great to have this book back. There are so many great shots, the moment where Travis Kid is looking over his shoulder, it's just such a good blend, Scott and Rafiel working together, you don't get anywhere else. Yeah. Alex: Yeah. It's great. Yeah, they're really getting it together. And so is our next book, Getting it Together, number one from [crosstalk 00:21:59]. Justin: How did you come up with that? Wow. Alex: I mean, it was just up here. It was just up here in my brain and it came out of my mouth co-created and written by Sina Grace and Omar Spahi, art by Jenny Define and Sina Grace. We of course had Sina Grace and Omar Spahi on our live show. Justin: Oh, when? Alex: Just this very week. Justin: Oh, weird. Alex: So go back to this [inaudible 00:22:20], interview, despite the unfortunate tech problems. But I really enjoyed this book. If you did miss our live show, it's basically a more modern friend set in San Francisco. That's a little sexier and a little more inclusive, both from a cultural and sexual standpoint. And I thought it was fun. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. What do you guys think about it? Justin: I agree [inaudible 00:22:46], a lot. I talked about this my comparison on the podcast of, Being a Bit Like Scott Pilgrim, a more modern and more, I guess, real, version of Scott Pilgrim where the characters are fun and interesting. They're making jokes and they're dealing with their mistakes in their lives. And I liked it a lot. Pete: Yeah. I mean, unlike Friends, this is a little bit more, less shiny and more real, they get into things. So it's enjoyable. It's nice to just see a great image comic that focuses on relationships and the ebbs and flows of life and how we'd put up with each other's shit or don't and yeah, I think it's really well done. You got some interesting characters, some really fun, cool moments. Yeah, it's a solid book. Justin: And who's your favorite friend? Real quick. Pete: Oh, yeah. Alex: Good question. Pete: Favorite friend on the TV show [crosstalk 00:23:49]- Alex: Go with Joey on this. Pete: I'm going to say Alex. Alex: Gunther? Pete: Nice. Alex: Wow. Justin: Again, makes sense. You're the Gunther of this podcast. I got to say Pete was right. It's Joey. Joey is the best friend. [crosstalk 00:24:00]. Also, the seasons, he's the only one that isn't deeply unlikable by the end. Pete: Well, I do like the Power of a Good Hug here. It's a nice thing that's in this book here, and [crosstalk 00:24:15]- Alex: I mean, I just want to follow up though what Justin said, that's why Joey was the perfect spinoff and works so well. Justin: Yes. I can't believe it's still going strong, 15 seasons later. Alex: Incredible. Just a quick shout out before we move on. Jenny Define's art is great. In particular character designs are very good in this book. They're very unique, they're very different. They seem more realistic than your typical character designs and I think she does a good job here. Alex: Let's move on to our 10 of Swords Block. Three books came out today. We are going to talk about them as a little bit of a block, because this is an interesting event. And Justin, you haven't really been here to talk about this too much yet. Pete: Wait- Alex: Yes, Pete, what's up? Pete: Wait, I just wanted to point out, it's important that you read these in order. I fucked up the order [crosstalk 00:25:00]. Justin: Like a lot of things, it's important you do them in the correct order, like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, putting- Pete: No, you can have breakfast any time, mother fucker. Don't pull that shit. Justin: Okay. Alex: Matter of life, death? Justin: That birth, life, death. Alex: Yeah. Man, I'm very excited to hear what order you read these in. But just to read off all three titles right now. Wolverine number six written by Benjamin Percy and art by Viktor Bogdanovic. X-Force number three, also written by Benjamin Percy and art by Viktor Bogdanovic. Marauders, number 13 written by Vita Ayala and art by Matteo Lolli. So as you can probably tell here, the first two issues are basically one story. They're showing how Wolverine gets his sword. He's going after the Muramasa blade, which of course is the only thing that can kill him, as we learned from that very weird storyline, where he comes back from hell all the time. But that's sword he needs to go and battle for other worlds. And then Marauders 13 is a little more of a one-shot as it's showing how Storm gets her sword from Wakanda, which of course is a very personal mission for her. What do you think about the storyline so far? How'd you feel about these issues in particular? And Pete, what order did you read the bid? Pete: Well, I'm just noticing now there's the part three of 22, part [crosstalk 00:26:20]. If I would have taken the time, I could have paid attention and then not read it, but I read it. Justin: You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can read the cover to know what you're doing. Pete: Yeah. I read part five first. I did the Marauders and then I did Wolverine and then I did Acts of Swords. Justin: So that's all right. [crosstalk 00:26:44]- Alex: Not as bad as it could have been. You could have read Marauders in the middle or X-Force first and then Wolverine. Justin: The Last page of Marauders gives it away a little bit for Wolverine and then you [crosstalk 00:26:56]. Justin: Yes. Wolverine, it does get it together. See, I read the fifth panel on the sixth page of Marauders and I jumped over to X-Force and read the seventh panel on. [crosstalk 00:27:05]. Yeah, I know. Alex: Now, wait. Do you want to hear from Pete because you've been pretty dead on the exponent general and down on that storyline for the first two parts? Well, I think pretty positive about everything so far. I've been really enjoying this storyline. But you like these issues, right, Pete? Pete: Yeah. So yeah, I guess what you wanted to talk about how you're a more positive person than me and you can see the sunshine. Alex: Yeah, I'm like ray of sunshine and you're not. Pete: Yeah. I got a clouded like a ping pang thing going on. So yeah, what I like about this is, it's not 80 different fucking things happening at once. It's not fuck Island and you can't kill anybody anymore and golden eggs of humans, as well as the fact that you're no longer a part of everything. You give humans drugs on the side. It's just dealing with this 10 of Swords, like, “Okay, there's a showdown coming up, you've got to go get your weapon of choice and go get in your spot so that when it's go time, you're ready to go.” So it's like, “Great, this is what I want. I don't want this.” There's so much shit happening in X-Men right now we can just deal with this side story. And I was so happy, we just got three stories that make sense, that kind of like, okay, it's each person's journey to get to their place, so the raid to try to save the world. Justin: It's like a prequel to the Choose Your Fighter screen on Street Fighter II. Pete: Exactly. You're choosing what weapon and why. [crosstalk 00:28:49]. Yeah, I love it. Alex: I liked that you refer to this Wolverine story as nice and simple and straightforward where it's just classic Wolverine goes to Japan, goes down to hell, burns all of the flash off of his skeleton, meets a guy from other worlds who killed people who were the children of apocalypse. And has come back to getr an immortal blade that contains a person's soul that is also wanted by the beast who runs the hand, who wants to give them as wedding gifts, except the beast also hates Wolverine and Muramasa, so wants to eat their souls. Just classic which is very simple [crosstalk 00:29:31]. Pete: Yeah, give me straightforward story that I can fucking follow, man. Alex: Totally. All you need to do is read every expert book and every Daredevil book, and you got it. Pete: But if you don't know that Wolverine, when he dies, goes to hell and have to be reborn every time. I like the fact that they were picking up on that and playing with it a little bit here and… yeah, it sounds insane, but with Hickman's, all the stuff that he's changed, it's nice to just have a simple and say [crosstalk 00:30:02]- Alex: Go back to basics. Yeah. Justin: Let me ask you, how many of the text pages did you read? Pete: None. Justin: Yeah. Pete: Not a fucking one. Justin: I actually liked a lot of the text pages, especially in the Marauders book, which feels like a good way for them to keep the more fantastical aspects of the Hickman, X-Men world in these books. These much more straightforward titles where we are just assembling the Circle of Swords characters back on Krakola. And yeah, it's like these are two shot in a one shot where fun stuff happens. Alex: I enjoyed these. I had fun. I still like this crossover. My only little qualms- Justin: Wow. Alex: … with the Wolverine one- Justin: Of course, I like something you fucking [crosstalk 00:30:55]. Alex: No. I mean, here's the thing. Is that, I don't like the Wolverine Goes to Hell thing at all. I do not like that as a part of Wolverine mythology. Justin: I don't like that he can be- Pete: I also don't like that Spider-Man made a deal with the fucking devil. [crosstalk 00:31:09]- Alex: Hold on. Wait, Justin, are you to call out the skeleton thing? Justin: Yes. I don't like that either. Alex: What is that? Justin: He can't just go back to skeleton and grow back. He's not Lobo, another Wolverine. Pete: You don't know, that's not true. Alex: Yeah. That bothers me as well. I think Benjamin Percy, a great writer, the art is great. Justin: I'm sorry about this [crosstalk 00:31:27]- Alex: I love having this new, a [oracco 00:31:32], opposite to Wolverine. This person, new has adamantium skin or armor or whatever is going on there. Justin: Let's just say it's a microfiber. Alex: It's a great Wolverine villa. It's just a really good setup there. But those little things are just like, “Oh, this is so annoying to be,” but I pushed past them. Anyway, the Storm story I thought was very good. It's such a very smart thing to have her be like, “Goddammit, I got to go back to Wakanda with my ex-husband and ask for a sword somehow.” Vita Ayala puts great history of Storm in there. The art is excellent to the change of [inaudible 00:32:07], styles are great. I thought this was a very, very good issue in particular. So overall I'm a big fan of this storyline so far. Pete: Yeah, me too. Yeah, and- Alex: Moving on… Oh, go ahead, Pete. Pete: It was really cool to find out about the sword and the way they gave us the story. And yeah, and it was also tough because we're in Wakanda, rest in peace, Chadwick, Bozeman. There was that still, the amazing tribute thing. And then he didn't show up till later was cool and well placed and just caught her red-handed in the worst possible moment. But the conversation they had was great, and then the ending of the book with the other two waiting there was really fantastic, really setting things up and again it's excited for this 10 Swords event. I'm very excited for this and I hope this event can propel the X-Men into a place that is, I don't know, a little cleaner and less insane. Alex: I 100% guarantee you they're going to celebrate winning the 10 of Swords challenge with a big old fuck party at both ends. Justin: Yes. And oracco fuck party is wow. Alex: That's fucked up. Justin: I just hope they're not bringing 10 knives to 10 different gunfights. Alex: Oh man. That'd be bad. Son of a Hedgehog Bad Guy is number one from ITW story by Ian Flynn and art by Jack Lawrence. This is well outside of my wheelhouse. Justin: What do you mean Alex? Alex: What I mean is Son of the Hedgehog is one of those characters, I was like, “What is he doing? He's running fast and spitting rings out of his body. This is dumb, and I hate this game. I'm not going to play.” Justin: You don't like… because were an Nintendo person? Alex: Yeah, I was a Nintendo guy. Justin: See, I was Nintendo too, and I feel the same way, because I was like, “He's just so fast.” Mario is not fast. He jumps, that's his whole thing. Pete: First off, I was a Nintendo guy as well, but Sonic was fun. It was crazy, but it was a fun game. You all are [crosstalk 00:34:18]- Justin: Alex and I are like Sonic, too fast, slow down. [crosstalk 00:34:22]. Why are you obsessed with rings? Be happy with the simple life, be happy with the simple life Sonic. [inaudible 00:34:29], all these golden rings, Pete: All that aside, I felt like this was a very clean, fun idea of like, “All right, let's set up some villains. Let's set things up in a way that makes sense and moves things forward.” And I thought it was cool to see this team come together. Alex: Yeah. Ian Flynn knows what he's doing with these licensed properties. And like you said, taking a bunch of bad guys, even if I don't know a lot about them, he writes them well, he delineates them. Jack Lawrence's art is cartoony in front of the right way. Pete: Perfectly, yeah. Alex: I'm just getting fun, all ages title. Even if I don't personally feel a connection with Son of the Hedgehog. Justin: Now, Pete, how do you like this hedgehog when he's basically the flash with spikes? Pete: No, he's nothing like that. There's no bullshit speed force or a fucking one of the treadmills- Alex: The screen force is like a bunch of rings that he spits out when he's hit. It's the same thing. Pete: No, it's not true. Alex: Same concept. Pete: No. Alex: Okay. Pete: Yeah. I have no problem with Sonic, unlike you guys. I think this is a fun book, really well drawn. It's cool. Alex: We don't have a problem with it. It's a problem with you, Pete. Justin: Yeah. Alex: We Only Find Them When They're Dead. Number two from Boom! Studios, written by Al Ewing and illustrated by Simone Di Meo. This is continuing the story of a bunch of salvagers who fly around the universe, carving meat off of gods. They want to find a live god, they only find dead gods. I got to say that carving meat thing is probably my favorite part of the book right now, just in terms of how weird and gross it is. How are you guys feeling about it, two issues in? Pete: Well, I'm definitely going to change my will. And I want people to carve meat out of me and eat it. Justin: Oh yeah. I can't wait for a filly Pete steak. Pete: It's going to be fun. Justin: Suck it up at Pete steak. Pete: Oh boy. Justin: Suck it up on Pete Steak. Pete: Yeah. The art is fantastic in this book, it's very interesting as we piece together what's going on and this world where they live off dead gods. Yeah, this is very interesting different fun, space book, cool characters, good relationships. It'll be interesting to see how this goes, but I'm on board. I think this is a fun book. Justin: Pete, when we do eventually eat you because you asked in your will, would you mind if I use regular cheese instead of cheez whiz? Pete: No. You got use whiz. Also, I'll have a specific condiment, like the old country suite, [inaudible 00:37:20], dipping sauce, you know what I mean? Justin: And that'll be made from your hair or something? Pete: No, from the country [crosstalk 00:37:28]- Alex: No, of course, you're going to be a French dip. You got the [foreign language 00:37:30] Pete: Oh, yeah. Justin: Yeah. Alex: Nothing like the good old you. Justin: This reminds me, I've been watching the show, Raised by Wolves. [crosstalk 00:37:41]- Pete: God, how many times are you going to talk about [crosstalk 00:37:44]? What the fuck? Alex: No, keep bringing it up, I want to talk about it every time. Let's do it. Justin: [crosstalk 00:37:46]. I haven't quite finished it yet. Very excited. Two episodes left. This reminded me of that in a good way, a nice- Pete: Save it for a weekend geek, you asshole. Justin: Okay. But anyway, this is very similar. Totally, I think. Alex: Yeah, this is good stuff. This is just a big, hard Sci-Fi and I'm very impressed with this new world here. It's sometimes difficult to get through exactly what's happening, but I'm always intrigued to find out what's next. Alex: Talking about another hard Sci-Fi book, Far Sector, number eight from DC comics written by new MacArthur, genius grant recipients, N.K. Jemisin, art and color by Jamal Campbell. Yeah, take that other DC comics writers. This is tying up the storyline, but opening up some new mysteries. We have Green Lantern on this planet. She is fighting some digital beings. Finally, shuts them down, but as mentioned, it opens up new histories here. Every issue is just very good. How do you guys feel about this one? Pete: Yeah. I mean the art is amaze balls. Every issue is very impressive. I love the aliens reference, little George Carlin quote. I mean this book continues to impress. The main character is fantastic. You root for the whole time. This is a fun mystery, who done it thing, that's slowly unraveling. I just constantly impressed with how different this is from Green Lantern books and how much more I like it than Green Lantern books. Justin: Yeah. I think, in this issue, it occurred to me just the sense of place and characters is so unique in this book. You really feel like this city is difficult for the characters to understand or the main character to understand. That's as much of a part of the mystery as anything else. And I think it's very rare for a comic book to give that off. Alex: Yeah. Particularly when you have a Green Lantern comic book where they're usually flitting from planet to planet or going to [OA 00:39:54], and they're going somewhere else and then back to OA and then over to earth, that we're sitting here and living in this place is I think very smart and very good. This is a don't miss book every month. Alex: Next up, this is what I know you were excited about Justin, Adventure Man, number four from Image Comics. Script by Matt Fraction, pencils by Terry Dodson, inks by Rachel Dodson. In this issue, we're having our new adventure man, is dealing with the fact that she is much larger than she was previously. Justin: And denser. Alex: And denser. Pete: Denser. Alex: And we find out a lot more about the history of what went on with the previous Adventure Man. How'd you feel about this one? Justin: I like this book a lot. Obviously, the art by the Dodsons is fantastic. And the way the story really takes its time, I said this on the main podcast as well, it really takes its time- Alex: You sure did. Justin: … and we get to really explore the powers and origin of the character that so many books have to blow pass in one issue. And with this series, we get to really be like, to her discovering her powers. It reminds me of the first couple of Spider-Man movies and really like languishing in the origin and enjoying it, which is something that I've missed in a lot of new comic books. Alex: Yeah. I mean, some people might just say, “Get to it already,” but I see what you say. Justin: I hear you on that. But with this, it feels like we get to see the characters really enjoying the world that they're in and enjoying this. This is moment of discovery of- Alex: Enjoying the journey. Justin: Yeah. And enjoying the beginning of the journey. As for this character, I think it's cool. Alex: I agree. Pete: The arts, fantastic. You've got some great action, some fun storytelling, great character development. This is a really pro comic that is just taking it's time and being confident in the art and the storytelling. Alex: Well, and it's also, I don't know if it's going to pan out this way, but it's a really good all ages comic book at the same time. This is something that you could read with kids and have no problem. It's a little complex, but it's fun stuff. It gets a little dark, but good book across the board. Next up, Backtrack, number seven from Oni Press written by Brian Joines, art by Jake Elphick. We had Brian Joines on the live show a couple of weeks back. [crosstalk 00:42:20]- Justin: Wait, did you did you say Backtrack or Backstack? Alex: Backtrack. Pete: Okay, [inaudible 00:42:25]. Justin: Backtstack. Alex: So this is a car race through time. And in this issue, they find their [inaudible 00:42:30], cells not back in time, but forward in time, in the future, dealing with some big stuff here. I really like this issue a lot. This is a big mythology issue, building out exactly what's been going out of the background while they were doing this race. And I enjoyed finally getting to that stuff, as well as this glimpse of this future timeline. How did you two feel about it? Pete: Yeah. I mean, this is just over the top fun, the art is unbelievable and it's nice to see even in the future, you can just cocky robots, you just shoot them down. You know what I mean? Don't let those robots talk shit to you. Just shoot them in the face until they fall down. It's good stuff. Justin: Wow. Bad attitude when it comes to [inaudible 00:43:18]. You're the kind of guy that would shoot up C-3PO in Empire Strikes Back. Pete: No, come on. Oh, well 3CPO, yeah. [crosstalk 00:43:26]. Alex: As will Smith said in the classic movie, I, Robot, “Oh, hell no.” Justin: Yeah. That's what we were all thinking. Thanks for saying it, Alex. Alex: Anytime. Justin: When we had Brian on the show, we talked a lot about how the racing, the balance between the racing and the other side of the story is really well handled. And even in this issue, where there's so much about the mythology and just developing the world around these characters, we still have a lot of time for the energy of the race. And I think that the momentum behind the book is really part of that and I appreciate that. Alex: Yeah, they do- Justin: The colors in this book are also really exciting. Alex: Yeah, they do a great job of bouncing my story and action and it keep things grounded, even though it's such a chronic crazy over the top idea. Justin: It makes me, just when I'm driving my kids to school in the morning, I just feel the same way. I'm just going crazy. Pulling to a stop at a red light and slowly, getting in traffic and then stopping again. Alex: Oh, man. That's really cool. You should try going through time. Next up, let's talk about one of my favorite Marvel books that is rapidly going to the top of my stack, Black Widow, number two from Marvel, read by Kelly Thompson, art by Elena Casagrande. We've got a little hint of what's been going on with Black Widow in the last issue as something happened to her. And now she's being manipulated by Arcade. This issue Hawkeye, and with the soldier tracking her down. They find out she's living a happy family life, but of course, Black Widow still got a Black Widow with some hero stuff. This is great. This is such a great twist on Black Widow. This is such a different story for her, and I'm very excited to see where this goes. Justin: Yeah, I agree. Our expectations that we talked about at the first issue where it's like, “Oh, it's not the Black Widow book. Oh, she's dealing with her past, she's being taken advantage of. She's going to kill people to get back on top,” and to find that new spin on it like this. And I love the perspective shift, switching to Hawkeye and Bucky, Winter Soldier, just like trying to figure this out. And I do hope they get to the Winter Soldier Black Widow over relationship that was such a great relationship back in the Edward Baker run, and was just untimely dispatched with at the end of that run. And I would love to see that become a thing again, despite the fact that she has no memory at all. Pete: What do you guys think? This is the kind of the question. Do they interfere here or do they literally let her live this happy life that she seemed so pleasant and content with? Alex: Well, since she's being manipulated by Arcade and the Kabbalah villains, I would say they probably should get her out, but they don't know that part yet. Pete: They don't. I just wanted to go on record here and say if you guys see me living a brainwashed life, please don't hesitate to pull me out of that. Alex: Oh, I thought you're going to say let you stay in it. Pete: No. Justin: Do you think some of the younger henchmen that deal with Arcade are like, “What are you named after, dude?” Pete: Yeah, definitely. Justin: What is it? Core quarters? You put quarters in the machine? Alex: Apple Arcade. Come on, that's a thing. Everybody loves Apple Arcade. We are all subscribers. Justin: That's 100% true. Alex: Yeah. What's your favorite game on Apple Arcade? Real quick. Don't even look it up. Just mention one. Justin: Sorry. I'm just running through my favorite quippy shows. Let me just list those. Alex: Exorsisters, number 10 from Image Comics written by Ian Boothby and art by Gisèle Lagacé. This is the culmination of illustration [crosstalk 00:47:18], of the firsthand issues. We talked about this series on and off. This is about two sisters, as you probably figured out from the title. One of them is real, one of them is not. And they're battling forces of heaven and hell. Great climax in this issue. I thought just like a big, fun battle that didn't lose the sense of humor that it has throughout. I enjoyed this title quite a bit. How do you guys feel? Justin: Yeah, I feel the same way. The art has the classic Betty and Veronica, Archie vibe to it, well dealing with these big demonic characters, heaven and hell coming together around these sisters, these not technically sisters, sisters. It's very fun. Alex: Yeah, it's fun. Even in the middle of the fight, she's like, “Do you want to tag in?” It's just, they're having a good time, even though there's big stakes and things happening and I really liked the sister's relationship. Yeah, I think this is really a fun book that makes an interesting turn at the end. But yeah, this is well done, well drawn. You can run those ones when you look at the cover, you're like, “Oh, I get what this is.” And then you're pleasantly rewarded for that. Alex: Next up, Deceased, Dead Planet, number four from TC Comics written by Tom Taylor, art by Trevor Harrison. If you haven't been following along, we've been loving this title. This takes place in a world ravaged by the anti-life equation. They have found out that cyborg holds maybe the cure to the virus that it has going around. So this issue they're tracking down, Metron trying to get information from him to put it all together. Another great issue of this title. What'd you guys think about it? Pete: I mean, this comic is insane. This is so much fun. It's nonstop action and fun moments between heroes, great kiss. Some bad-ass reveal at the end, last page. Tom Taylor is killing this book. Justin: Yeah, I really liked the way the Superman and Batman are done in this storyline. It's one of the rare Elle swirled these storylines where I really think the heroes stand on their own. I could see these characters continuing on outside of this comic or just really living in this deceased world for a long time. Alex: That's great. I agree. Next up, Inkblot, number two from Image Comics written by Emma Kubert and art by Rusty Gladdest. Pete, you're a big fan of this one. Pete: Yeah. Alex: It's a fantasy book with a tiny little black cat. This issue takes a very different bed. Introduces subdue characters, keeps the same cat. How do you feel about this? Pete: This is fun book. I don't know what it is about this adorable cat, but- Alex: Is some of the cat is very… I can't stop looking at it. Pete: I don't know if it's the eyes or the cuteness or just the way it's drawn. Alex: It's probably the eyes, because the eyes are the only distinguishing features. Pete: But I really love it. I know it's ridiculous, but just seeing this guy who just says ‘Meow,” is just great and saves the day. Guys, just because dragons are big and scary doesn't mean they have big and scary problems. Sometimes you just have a small problem kike your old rat stuck in the nose. Alex: You worshiped the cat? The weight of the cat. Pete: Let's weigh the cat guys. Alex: You're a cat guy though, Pete. That's the thing. That's a secret that nobody knows. Pete: Well, I was a dog person my whole life, but now I have a cat. And so it's just me and Inkblot living the dream. Alex: I like this issue. I just want to know what's going on with this book, because as far as I can tell the second issue wasn't really connected to the first issue, [crosstalk 00:51:24]- Pete: Yeah, one and done type of scenarios. Alex: Yeah. But the first issue ended in a cliff hanger where they were going to continue the story. So I'd love to get back to that. No, that'd be cool. I think the art is very good. I like the world. There's a glorious picture of a bunch of [ellis 00:51:42], standing in front of this, I don't know if it's a portal or what it is in these tree branches that is gorgeous. So I want to know more about this world, but I feel like we're two issues in, and it's not quite giving me enough information at this point. Justin: Yeah. Alex: Well, I don't know what more you need. You got adorable cat who's solving crimes and helping people out. I mean, what the fuck else you want, man? Justin: [crosstalk 00:52:08]. Getting that rat. Pete: Got to get that rat. Justin: Got to get that rat. That's what I said to my coffee mug in the morning, I drink my cup of coffee and I'm like, “Ah, time to get that rat.” Champions, number one written by Eve L. Ewing, art by Simone Di Meo. This is picking up on the champions outlawed storyline that I think began 35 years ago. I'm not 100% sure, but the champions have been… they're not allowed to be superheroes anymore. Kids aren't allowed to be super heroes and being a little mean, but this is obviously a victim of the pandemic where things have gotten very, very delayed. Justin: Finally, we are picking up on this though. What do you think about this take on Marvel's Young Heroes? Pete: I mean, it just sucks that they're no longer allowed to be heroes and they're trying to be… there's sting operations to get them. I mean, it's heartbreaking stuff, you know what I mean? They earn their stripes, they should be a part of the team. Justin: Exactly. If I were in living in this world, I would want to [crosstalk 00:53:14]- Pete: You are living in this world. Justin: … 11, 12 year olds running around, shooting stuff through lasers. Alex: Yeah, being in charge of things, making big time decisions. I love it. Justin: Once the team comes together and this book starts moving, I like this a lot. I'm the Van [Astervicks 00:53:32], formerly Marvel boy, former new warrior. The fact that he's the bad guy here, now he's called Justice. I don't know if he's just this way now. That was interesting. And I guess, I'm not super familiar with the dynamics of this team. I like the way the reveal at the end, and I'm curious how, if this book does have that same vibe of the new warriors that I liked back in the '90s. Alex: Yeah. It's not quite there yet. It feels like the middle of whatever happened previously, whatever's coming next, but once it comes together, I am interested to read it as well. Alex: Last but not least, Decorum, number five written by Jonathan Hickman and art by Mike Huddleston. This might be my favorite issue of Decorum, so far personally. Justin: 100%. I like how we always save this book for last. Alex: All right, so at this book, who knows what really is going on? But in this issue, we are following our former courier character was now training at a school for assassins. And we follow her as she trains at that school over the course of many, many years. Man, this issue was great. Just a ton of fun, perfectly relayed out by Mike Huddleston phenomenal. Like I do, it's taken us a while to get here, but just a joy to read from beginning to end. Justin: Yeah. I agree. I think Hickman, especially on his non big to work really pops when there's a very clear format to the story so that he can live in that format and tell the wildest stories he can think of. I like to imagine that right after Krakola finishes, making love to a neighboring Island, Krakola falls asleep and dreams the comic book, Decorum. Alex: Wow. Justin: Hmm, wow. Alex: There's some- Justin: Delilah will be here all night, listening to your heartbreaking story. Pete: There's some amazing art, some amazing coloring and shading in this book. Really beautiful stuff, but it's also repetitive and it's also like you're getting these symbols, the graphics, the [crosstalk 00:55:56]- Justin: There's some amazing shading. There's some amazing shading right there for people to pick. Pete: I get it, man. You like symbols now, and now every book has to have these little pages, in between pages that don't have much, but have a little bit whatever- Justin: Dude, dude, dude, it is not now. He's been doing that same shit for years. Alex: Yes. Pete: Okay, cool. I guess I'm just catching on to it, but I don't know. I guess if you like it and it's in every book, you get used to it or grow to expect it. But I think the art is glorious, especially with… even though it's repetitive of the same shit, the kind of goriness of it is fantastic. And then you get the, okay, she finally steps up and what that means and the aftermath. So interesting, cool storytelling, but really took its time and art's great. Alex: Alright, there you go. No better place to wrap up than that. If you would like to support this podcast, patrion.com/comic book club, also do a live show every Tuesday ni

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The Professor Frenzy Show #117

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 40:53

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The Stack: Batman, Locke & Key And More

Comic Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 58:08

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The Professor Frenzy Show #113

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 57:42

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Episode 02 - Black Widow, Lonely Receiver, and more!

The Comics Haul

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 56:30

Listen along to the latest episode of The Comics Haul with Amy and Paul, Sideshow's official comic book podcast. This week, learn all about the biggest new comic book releases from Wednesday, September 2nd, including the series premieres of We Only Find Them When They're Dead from BOOM! Studios, Marvel's Black Widow, Lonely Receiver from Aftershock, and more! Keep in touch with us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @TheComicsHaul, and join us live on Wednesdays at 4pm PST on Sideshow's official channels. Don't forget to join our Facebook Group at https://side.show/lygss to vote on the Panel of the Week, answer our latest Holler at the Haul question, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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KRCP Episode 33

KRCP

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 35:26

In our podcast this week we feature a Top 5 as always and also two semi-quality pieces of speculation. Our books this week are Inkblot, Fire Power, The Question, Batman, and... We Only Find Them When They're Dead. Unfortunately that list doesn't contain any Marvel goodness, but these reads were killer to say the least. CHECK IT OUT!!

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The Stack: Shazam, Empyre And More

Comic Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 43:36

On this week's Stack, we've got reviews for: Shazam #14, Empyre #6, Spy Island #1, Inkblot #1, DCeased: Dead Planet #3, Bitter Root #10, Black Widow #1, Sex Criminals: Sexual Gary #1, Strange Adventures #5, Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #1, Ascender #12, Batman #98, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1, Sea of Stars #6 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn Vol 1 - From The Ashes. 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.

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The Stack: Shazam, Empyre And More

The Stack

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 43:36

On this week's Stack, we've got reviews for: Shazam #14, Empyre #6, Spy Island #1, Inkblot #1, DCeased: Dead Planet #3, Bitter Root #10, Black Widow #1, Sex Criminals: Sexual Gary #1, Strange Adventures #5, Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #1, Ascender #12, Batman #98, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1, Sea of Stars #6 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn Vol 1 – From The Ashes. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. The post The Stack: Shazam, Empyre And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Comics - 113 - The Year is...

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970

This week, we talk about The Marauders Vol. 1, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Static Shock episode 3, and the latest from The Walking Dead. Join us next time for My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, Season 1 of Vixens, and more from The Walking Dead. Thank you [DJ VON MIER](https://soundcloud.com/jo-good12) for "FROM DA GO". [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/GiraffesHBTPod/) [Twitter](http://twitter.com/GiraffesHBTPod) [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/GHBTPod/) [Ralf](http://twitter.com/ralfiel2) [Dave](http://twitter.com/DSTEWtheGOD) [Donny](http://twitter.com/DonnyOhm) [Patreon](http://patreon.com/giraffeshaveblacktongues)

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Comics - 112 - Voodoo