[SPEAKER_03]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the stack.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: And on the stack, we talk about a bunch of books that carry out this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: And ooh, this is a big week at the old comic shop.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let's get into a kick-and-off with the old comic shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: with absolutely evil.
[SPEAKER_03]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely evil.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number one from D.C.
[SPEAKER_03]: Comics, run by All-U.ing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Art by Giuseppe Camacoli and Stefano Nessie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this is a new one shot in the absolute universe and the ostensible idea here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to put like a big blanket spoiler warning for everything that we're going to be talking about at the podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take care, Lee.
[SPEAKER_03]: for this issue starting off right here.
[SPEAKER_03]: The thing that we knew going into this, or most people though, I think going into this was that the villains of the DC universe, which so far, to absolute universe, who so far have been in their own separate titles, all to get together to meet for some reason.
[SPEAKER_03]: That does happen here, but there are also some enormous things that go down that I was absolutely not expecting in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought, frankly, this was the wildest issue of the week in terms of the crazy big swings that took.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was personally a little nervous about taking these very like disparate Lego pieces of the absolute universe and seeing how they stick together, and I think it 100% worked.
[SPEAKER_03]: in exactly the way it should have.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's big cultural things that are going on here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Political things that are going on here as well as the plot machinations.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, I also really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_05]: This book feels like it's the most absolute book of all this feels like this could have been the first Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I'm not knocking the other books.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love them, but this one like feels like it's sort of really setting the table in a really smart way P must have loved it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got to see green arrow just absolutely murdered.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, this
[SPEAKER_02]: the first off intriguing cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I love hands.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a hand free all in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I
[SPEAKER_03]: Like there are, I'm probably going to get this wrong, but there's like five characters we knew about.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we saw in the preview that Oliver Queen was going to be in there and I was like, oh, okay, it's Oliver Queen.
[SPEAKER_03]: But there's still one more hand we didn't know who's hand that was.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't know who's hand that is until the final page.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Pete, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well great, let me ruin the rest of it for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not enjoy the inside because it was all meetings.
[SPEAKER_02]: We sat in on fucking meeting after meeting and then there was like a dead ghost in a meeting and I was like, and then they brought in a body to the meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, you can't bring in a dead body to a conference room.
[SPEAKER_02]: How does that work?
[SPEAKER_02]: That just makes no sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sounds like somebody needs a vacation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, so I was just like my life sucks enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need more meetings in it, you know?
[SPEAKER_05]: So I could usually have to bring the corpse in and throw it on the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just that's a lot to clean up, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then security's always like, hey, what the fuck you do with this step body?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, listen, I need to make a point in this meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know this, and then it will be very opinion and they don't want to hear about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Security hates point.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah security hates this kind of stuff and it's so hard to clean And you got the dragon from different floor to different floor and what if you go in the wrong conference room There's all conference rooms look the same it's just you bump into another guy carrying another day Spilled that air like is this your guts and blood?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, these are my guts and blood
[SPEAKER_05]: I was the have that dead that corpse.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I'm sorry I dropped this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a little stuck on the dead ghost thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you explain first of all, who you thought was a dead ghost?
[SPEAKER_04]: And second of all, what is the difference between a dead ghost and a live ghost?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm sorry, I misspoke it wasn't a dead ghost.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was when they brought the dead guy into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was very intrigued.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I was really a dead ghost and a living person.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, just dead ghosts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a dark way of looking at it, but all right, I guess so.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like the plot machinations here, and I, I'm sorry, Pete, I disagree with you on this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand if it was just a business meeting, but the way that they lay out the whole history of the future.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but they're in a conference room, having a fucking meeting.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just an interesting information.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a horrible way.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was also a really interesting PowerPoint presentation at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've gone down to hell.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've gone down to hell.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've gone down to hell.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, share the slides.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, evil.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a huge thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, I'll throw out a couple of things that I absolutely loved about this book.
[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, the green arrow thing because they announced back in San Diego, Comic Con, they're doing absolute green arrow.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's coming out from porn sack, piece of shote, and Rafael Albuquerque, great to come up with.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's great team on that book.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: But when they talked about it said, you know, Comic Con they're like, yeah, you're going to first meet him in absolute evil.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's this billionaire who's fighting other billionaires and I was like, this is, I don't, what is the take?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, what is the take of this?
[SPEAKER_03]: The makes this the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turns up the take of the universe is he gets murdered by a hawkbad.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... and most likely based on the t's i would assume it's could be roi harper trying to avenge his death against these unstoppable forces that's cool i'd love that idea we also get absolute hawkman here who betrays the justice society to the house on american fifty
[SPEAKER_03]: activities community committee excuse me and then we see him this one concerned me a little bit we see him just like this mask silent tassass guy i'm a little worried it might be close to the ultimate Wolverine take um oh i'm sorry that i'm boring you peat by talking about things that you're in
[SPEAKER_02]: How are you capping a meeting?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know how ridiculous this is?
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's like a bookside a meeting and interesting things happen, but it was during a meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So nobody gives this shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pete, you've been into many meetings.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I'm going to throw out that I agreed.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this was the best just I just as a kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope there's a meeting with some superheroes and because that was a great meeting as an a meeting you've made your point that we
[SPEAKER_05]: mute that the we've seen the absolute universe from all these perspectives and it felt just very disparate and like yes darker takes or there's like a different ideas that play for our main Trinity heroes.
[SPEAKER_05]: What I love about this book is it showed the small in cities choices that the Omega energy made happen like
[SPEAKER_05]: how Sandman is just killed, how other heroes decide it, you know what, I'm gonna take the money and not be a hero, like that's interesting to me because those are the small things that we haven't really seen and I think that plays in in the other direction.
[SPEAKER_05]: At the end of the book we get a reveal and this is a spoiler of Lex Luther live in a sweet full head of hair country life as a very smart farmer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, we'll see how we answer the phone.
[SPEAKER_02]: The look is just great reveal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that reveal and what I love about that I made and will see what happens but to continue what you're saying just and there's this whole speech that Joker gives at the end of the issue that really gets the heart of how billionaires feel about the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's talking about how they serve justice.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are the ones who keep the world ordered and keep the world right and these anarchists like Superman and Wonder Woman Batwoman are trying to knock the world into
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's saying these Omega particles, which we know as dark-sized energy, that's effused, the absolute universe, means that God is in their favor, and again, we're seeing that happen right now with these tech-to-crats that are running all sorts of companies and pushing very specifically AI, despite all reason and profit.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are worshiping it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are worshiping this big and pushing it forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's what Alluring is playing off of here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I thought it was so smartly done and so of the moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great plus great art throughout from Giuseppe Cavacoli and Stefano Nessie.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do we move on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Something that was not a meeting.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm sure Pete loved.
[SPEAKER_03]: X-Men age of revelation over chore number one from Marvel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Written by Jed McCay, art by Ryan Stegman.
[SPEAKER_03]: picking up on the weird cliffhanger for the last issue of X-Men Cyclops had a headache, but it wasn't just a headache.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was actually had his brain taken forward into the future, 10 years in the future, where Doug Ramsey, as Revelation, has changed the entire world, and Cyclops, and it turns out Beast had been taken forward to help the remaining X-Men
[SPEAKER_03]: a mix between age of apocalypse at a reverse in days of future past.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, when we were talking about this concept in the discord, the patreon discord, you're pretty stoked for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: How did you feel about it in execution?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, execution.
[SPEAKER_05]: I, I mean, I like it mostly.
[SPEAKER_05]: The, the Cyclops stuff, and this was in the scene they released in the preview of this, it's, I wish there was a little bit more like fun being had here.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just a little like he's doing business.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I, you know, we're even though this is obviously a dark future, a dystopia for the X men, but like, the,
[SPEAKER_05]: us as a reader are excited about getting into this new huge crossover into even though age of apocalypse was like a dark version of the Xman universe it was told in an exciting like ushering us into this like surprising take on all the Xman and this one just has like a little bit of negativity
[SPEAKER_05]: The absolute universe and other example, dark take, but it's all so great and so heroic and juiced with good energy.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so I wish there was a little bit more of that, but I like some of the choices here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited for the books that's been out of this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that revelation is like a very, it has become an apocalypse style villain.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like his wife and what the storyline that
[SPEAKER_05]: the takes seem interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I was surprised, you know, sideclubs and beasts are kind of thrown forward in time, you know, they're kind of robbed of their present and, you know, they were kind of immediately cool with it, which is super nice to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would have been a little bit more cranky about it, but I thought I like this idea that they're setting up here where it's the Cyclops versus this kind of other Wolverine, and I also thought it was very smart that this kind of other Wolverine took out Magneto first.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, I don't trust whitebeast, so this ought to be interesting, making some big kind of swings, love the art style, so yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he just went great, Pete.
[SPEAKER_05]: Something that like, we could say is happening to... Yeah, you're saying I'm kind of slowly turning into whitebeast.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're sort of our whitebeast, though, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't trust me then.
[SPEAKER_03]: you're starting with the man in the mirror.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I thought this is all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not this is your age Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is my age.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the age of revelation a character that I love.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the thing is that we talked about I'm forgetting the exact number, but I want to say it was like X-Men 19 where they brought back Doug Ramsey as real revelation after
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... the era of apocalypse story line which i had it loved and then i read this issue and i was very pleasantly surprised by it that issue presented an interesting way he was trying to be the era of apocalypse but in his own dug-away-rimsy way about it which
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely was gonna go wrong, but what we've done here is completely skipped to the it went wrong part I assumed the other side of this as we come out and we're like, hey, man, Doug don't do that And then we play with like will he turn into Revelation or not?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know over time That's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm fine with that if that's like the eventual outcome here
[SPEAKER_03]: The thing is it's hard, it is impossible for me to not compare it to these other things, specifically at the age of apocalypse in days of future past, and in particular days of future past, was setting Kitty Pride back in time to be like, we can prevent this future.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here, they brought Cyclops and Beast forward because they're like, you guys are stowed cold killers, help us kill your friend, which yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: doesn't have the same level of stakes and urgency to me as days of future past, so I'm not quite sure why they went in that direction, but like you guys said, I think Glob Herman Commando is fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great to have a fun innocent character be a killer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't I don't like this sort of stuff, but like I'm trying to keep it open mind here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like you said, there are some interesting sounding mini series and a lot of comics are coming out of very curious also about the
[SPEAKER_03]: span of the story of this event because we have this overchore issue and then we have like 16 3 issue MIDI series and then we have the finale.
[SPEAKER_03]: The thing that I'm worried about is the story is in the overchore of the finale and that there's
[SPEAKER_03]: whatever 60 times three is, you know, that's the answer is lots.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, 48.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean the thing is I'm hoping that the main the creators from the main titles will still carry some spine to the for the story and it won't just be this one this one seems big enough that it's not just going to be a classic alpha omega and everything else is sort of like if you like it give it a shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but we'll see we're in the age of revelation and we're going to hold on if we I'm having a revelation and did I hate to say this to you, but we might be in a meeting right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, see what you ever thought of that this is like a me why hate these things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you hate this thing adventure time the Budline college special number one from Otypress by Caroline Cash.
[SPEAKER_03]: We had Caroline Cash on the live show a couple of months back checking out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that we did actually because we did actually because we finally had it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Finally Pete gets a win.
[SPEAKER_03]: sort of asterisk.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is an AU following what if Princess Bubblegum and Marseille had went to college together and fell in love and following that forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was adorable and fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought Caroline Cashis.
[SPEAKER_03]: Art style was perfect for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Justin, you are our adventure time master here.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I thought it was great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I love the idea that we can have these A-U things like the adventure time showed it's such a great job of building out the mythology and just a ton of different directions.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so to have this and to have this to follow up on that is really great, I'd care like cash is so good in this world.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we should get, I would like to have more of this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been re-watching adventure time on and off of my kids even though they're definitely too young to be watching that and We just got to the first episode where peppermint butlers reveal that is being so sort of evil for Seemingly no reason and then that's just something that is just Core canon to the show that that dude is even monster and that's very fun So yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just, uh, this is very enjoyable, love the kind of slice of life and the art does such a great job of kind of like separating it enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so it kind of creates this space for the special kind of story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, yeah, just really enjoyable art just sets such a beautiful tone for the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's yeah, it's, it's touching, it's cute, it's fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I very much loved it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Moving on to another big issue from DC Comics, Justice League, the Omega Act special number one from DC Comics, written by Joshua Williamson, Art by CN Tormey, and Yasmin Poo-Tree.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is set not in the absolute universe, but the mainline DC universe, picking off of the Ark and Superman where he had booster gold, fought Dark Sides, Legion of Super Villains, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now they're trying to rally the whole Justice League and get them on board with what's going to happen next.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is, as it says in the cover, I prelude to DCKO, which comes out next week.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's basically about them figure out they need to gather this Omega Energy to figure out how to beat Dark Side, though they don't quite know it yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think, you know, a lot of this week's comics are really just kind of like getting us to this point where it's like, hey, we need to talk to you all, just to kind of set up everybody in the conference room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like, and I'm like, oh, man, here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's set up this sick meeting, but I do think that like, beyond the, hey, booster gold and Superman need to talk to all of you guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still think that this is kind of interesting and cool and great art and yeah, I'm looking forward to what's going to happen next.
[SPEAKER_05]: I would want to compliment just DC editorial.
[SPEAKER_05]: The way they've been able to line up this event with the absolute universe and the absolute evil book that we just talked about at the same time, it's incredibly complex.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they're able to imbue all of these with just a great drama with bigger ideas beyond just the sort of like setting up the event.
[SPEAKER_05]: like, you know, and I don't want to go back and just slog on age of revelation, but that feels like a very plot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Here's what we're going to be dealing with going forward.
[SPEAKER_05]: While this book and the absolute evil feel like there's a larger idea here about what good versus evil mean, what influences us, how we would be different if different things were in our environment, like Omega particles.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I really like these are just full meals of books to
[SPEAKER_05]: feel this book feels big, it's setting up so much.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just really impressed with the work.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think the art in this book is excellent.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everything feels high drama.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a flashback sequence here that is menacing and also feels like just a great use of character and smart to position this story as that running through this larger story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, it's definitely a lot of like, okay, we need to lay some of the groundwork between what happened in super bad at DCKO, just so everybody to piecepoint is on the same page before we get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But credit to Joshua Williamson for making it a fun adventure at the same time with like I said, Justin,
[SPEAKER_03]: some dark overtones.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, speaking of dark overtones, Vettum, number 250 from Marvel, run by Al-U-A-N-Trol, Seoul, Art by Carlos Gomez, Terry Dodson, and Todd.
[SPEAKER_03]: Knock, there's two stories here, celebrating this milestone for Vettum.
[SPEAKER_03]: The front story, Mary Jane, and Vettum, are still figuring out their place, working together, while in space.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe, Craig Ryebrog, the first guy to wear Vettum,
[SPEAKER_03]: Donnie Catesrun or something like that, you know, imagine that whatever it is, he's rocketing back to earth to warn people that no is back, even though there's a bit of a twist by the end of the issue, and then there's a backup story with Charles Sol writing a story of Eddie Brock and his old school adventures.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys think about this, excited to see all smile face, back in action?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, smile.
[SPEAKER_05]: Smile.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smile?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, he's got too many teeth.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smile and teeth.
[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of smiling characters in the Venom universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I'm so about the smile.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess the dentistry that... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's people.
[SPEAKER_05]: For goofy people.
[SPEAKER_05]: But think about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just a dentist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Justin's breaking like a lot of internet news here that Venom is pushed by a big dentist.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they want you to eat up the Venom comics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, four out of five dead to disagree.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eat brains, he brains, he brains.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: At first, I thought, like, okay, great, 250, this is going to be, oh, fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to be a kind of venom celebration that we have a bunch of venom stories.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we only got two, but there were still two good ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we got kind of the fun MJ venom, mass fight, and the kind of,
[SPEAKER_02]: twist here with you thinking to know but then it's uh we also get a little how-and-o-vaz guard so that was fun and then the second story is uh you know throw back Eddie Brock so great uh i feel like this is a fun celebration i wanted like old covers and stuff like that but uh you know it's not i guess they don't always roll out all the stuff we've seen them enough haven't we seen all the covers not enough i've never enough i love it
[SPEAKER_05]: The, well, I, I love Mary Jane's venom.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been really enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's definitely feeling the anxiety that she really should have made that meeting, so she could book her part in the movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, running late to auditions, you know, it's a rough lifestyle.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so that was that was great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I felt seen.
[SPEAKER_05]: I, Mary Jane feels like she's broken up with Paul sort of tacitly here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, and the book itself feels like it's cheating on him even more than the internet is.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, I forget who he said is a venom who's like, yeah, your boyfriend made that dumb device almost killed you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, fine, so nasty, that's, you know, that's like she said, you know what I mean because they're like a part of each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's this real soft breakup vibes for Paul.
[SPEAKER_05]: So for all you Paul haters out there, you're going to get your wish, I believe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you, I actually loved the agency because when they got into her agent was like,
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a terrible washed up career and started listing all the insane things she does.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh right, that's who she's supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_05]: We haven't seen that in years.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, and I think she's become Peter Parker in this story and that's cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's such a such a smart funny idea that is backed by continuity because of course she's flaky.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's was with Peter Parker forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's had a million different careers in tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the no twist as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Starship.
[SPEAKER_03]: God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Zilla.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number one for IDW.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing's going to stop them now, written by Chris Geuch, art by Oliver Guno.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is part of the new Kaisei universe and we've seen two those books so far.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one for the name is set in space and dealing with Kaiju's in space, space, peace.
[SPEAKER_03]: You seem to like Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gathering what did you come up?
[SPEAKER_02]: What did you think?
[SPEAKER_02]: First up, fun cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... gets me excited for the inside bits uh... yeah love the art style kind of a cartoon anime style which is fun to love it and uh... uh... yeah i was having a great time with this i thought the story was cool like what if godzilla was a spaceship uh... all you got me i don't need to ask you this i don't
[SPEAKER_05]: What if it was like broken down Pontiac, Godzilla?
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like he was by anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, big little trash can, Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude, do you know how hard it is to drive by these old cars and the road that's out here?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's so hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Biggest pilot dog shit, Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a real stumper for you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_03]: Godzilla business meeting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how you feel about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, because you can't just show up and destroy it, you have to sit in, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, if it's all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like Godzilla, Mothra, King Kong, King Ghidorah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not in your pronounce it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they all sitting around a table talking about the quarterly performance?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, would you like that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's still Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, wouldn't like it there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well anyway we like this this is fun the art is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we move on and talk about absolute superman number 12 from DC comics written by Jason Aaron art by Rafa Sandovall this is the beginning of the battle of Kansas storyline as superman Jimmy and Louis arrive in smallville find some allies
[SPEAKER_03]: some enemies including Gratial Ghoul and Taliyah all Ghoul are coming for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll also get some more backstory stuff going on with Superman and his cape.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another great issue with the tape talk.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is like, what a Superman had a cape like spawn or something, or like a doctor's syringe.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a male cape.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like Magneto's cape in Revelation, where it's all tiny, tiny capes are in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was that, he had like a feathered cape, and I didn't understand why.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, is he a bird?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is he a bird?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's made of 120 metal pieces.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you can shoot him around.
[SPEAKER_03]: look like a bird.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, we got to find a big feathers, but it's not feathers.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've got the beef and can't get as tiny pieces.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't mean you have a real bird.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alex, you're not a fair point.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just saying Magneto traditionally doesn't have bird powers, so I've got quite sure why in the future has bird powers, but I'm sure they have a mini series like Magneto colon bird and we'll find out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Magneto sings like an angel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Magneto karaoke.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have a beef cape kind of intense cover here and I enjoy Did you say beef cape?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're saying that the Rake superman's cape.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, I thought I also thought you said beef cape And I was like, that's good thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I did say that that I guess if you guys think that's Just a quick edit Reap.
[SPEAKER_05]: Would you mind saying beef cape beef cape?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so if you like it at that all together the way we're a great set as I think he actually said beef cape the first Yeah, if you like capes you're gonna love this
[SPEAKER_05]: We broke him on that one.
[SPEAKER_05]: This book, like all the absolute books are good.
[SPEAKER_05]: This one, the exploration of Superman, we have this underlying mystery of something bad happened with the kids.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's going to be bad, I feel like when we finally find that out.
[SPEAKER_05]: but and we get to see Superman be not good at being Superman something that we don't really ever see much of.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I really like that and I like this rage-filled kid still making the choices the right choices for a Superman.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's, it's a really good fresh take.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and I'd extend that to Lois and Jimmy who are now part of his team and it's an interesting contrast to what they're talking about an absolute evil where there, like we said, Joker is laying out this universe bends towards what he considers justice, but we know is injustice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Superman is showing the opposite way.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is building these people around him.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we also get to see the people in smallville doing the classic like We're threatening, but actually we're very friendly and we support you thing and that like Really gets me like that moment of when New York's like we got you spiderbed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that stuff
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that's why we read the super hero stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so seeing moments like that, it fights against this idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: That this Omega energy infuses every single part of the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I love seeing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it gives you that clear of hope, even way you know, like we're saying Jason Aaron will keep kicking you in the nuts over and over again with this title.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, great seeing Ralph a sand of all back on here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really feel like the title is not the same without him, so it's happy to see that back on art.
[SPEAKER_03]: Spirits of violence number one from Marvel, written by Sabir Prisata, art by Paul David sin.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you thought that one ghost writer wasn't enough and you wanted to see all the ghost writers on a ghost writer team fighting an evil ghost writer, Pete, this book is for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I first of cool as cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: This looks so badass.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so excited for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh my god, they made a comic just for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is such a beautiful moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And unfortunately the art
[SPEAKER_02]: It felt so like, you know how sometimes in movies they show like a fight too close where you can't see all the things that are happening and it kind of drives you nuts That's what happened with me and this and I couldn't enjoy it because it was like they didn't zoom out to show like how amazing this is that all these kind of ghost writers together It was all zoomed in and so dense and I just couldn't
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it just kind of really messed it up for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I went from such a excited point to like, oh no, my oldness is not letting me, I feel like the guy who's at the bar going, is it loud in here?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's too loud in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, it's just the, the panels were so busy and kind of, uh, I pulled me right out of this story.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I had a hard time enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I take your point, Pete.
[SPEAKER_05]: I sort of agree with you there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought the the team of bad guys here was wild.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've remand Sweeney Druid, which is the combination of two musicals, I think.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's some, that's a good solution.
[SPEAKER_03]: One is a play.
[SPEAKER_03]: One is a music one is a play.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you what, with the introduction to that team, I was instantly talking, thinking about how we talk about constantly everybody's trying to get their own black order by taking five weirdos and putting them together.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one worked for me because they are so off the rails.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad it did.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: More than the Ash and Cobb by it, I would say.
[SPEAKER_05]: aren't out there you don't you come for the ash and come by in the in lieu of the black order and the uh who are the blood the vampire guys one for me I remember the blood storm was that what it was no blood coven is right uh blood storm was probably something said and these are blood storm was the enormous cloned version of Dracula who was part of that team uh
[SPEAKER_05]: These are what's called the decayed when we know we need just like nonsense words to really be a team these days.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: The author immortal number one from image comics written by Frank J. Barbier art by Morgan beam.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is focusing on a just okay writer who really wants to be a novelist and he ends up getting hired by somebody who seems very similar to the old J.K.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rowling
[SPEAKER_03]: and ends up getting hired to co-write or really write the books from a character.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to assume it's like ethically valid C.S.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lewis, but I'm not 100% sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Goes out to the house with his kid and ultimately spoilish the end here, but I think this is like the kickoff of the...
[SPEAKER_03]: book really gets sucked into a fantasy world out of the book itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's also some dark creatures and dastardly things coming on just as I know you were excited about this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take it away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I really like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like a lot of stories like this when we when it was when I was just getting into it I was like, okay, yes, authors book becomes real and these modern people have figured out But then the choice to make the main character a sort of not great writer who's called in by a JK Rowling type figure
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, oh, that's interesting, and then when they owned the negativity, the badness of JK Rowling, I was like, oh, okay, this is feels like very of the moment and a useful way of digesting things that are happening.
[SPEAKER_05]: So like, that I thought was just a really, it had me leaning in on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so when they get sucked into the fantasy world, and we get a little bit of the mystery around the J.K.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rowling author and like what she's doing and she seems seemingly cursed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think there's just a lot of interesting elements that really came together well from here.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I like this a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what's nice is it's a big comics.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got 40 pages of this so there's a lot of great art it's a weird story The hard part for me is like who am I rooting for here besides the kind of kid who loses his childhood Because the father is an asshole he's cheating and a piece of shit So I think the idea here is they're like
[SPEAKER_05]: and everything's a little more complicated on the surface.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like you're gonna end up rooting for the father and his.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I don't want to say so.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this is a crazy idea because this is the first comic book I ever read.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I feel like he might be a piece you should be getting about learn some lessons.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think over the course of the story?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Better in some way.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's getting played by a demon and it's just maybe he starts as a piece of shit and gets even worse by the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, probably that's probably a classic Rob Cobb structure there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly like you were saying, just did every new detail made it more intriguing, really like Morgan Beam's art in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very co-tuny, but engaging as well, the fantasy elements are very dark and disturbing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I mean, we'll see how it goes, but it feels like
[SPEAKER_03]: if you like hellet of wind horn and are looking for something next this might be an interesting one to pick up uh but also potentially the me who love the dark because the shadow monster sets that as well so i don't know what's the stuff going on here i'm excited to follow this i thought and keeping our dentistry theme going because there's a lot of sick teeth in this one i thought you were like if you like Anna wind tour you're gonna love this
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, who would it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who would it?
[SPEAKER_03]: She's a legend.
[SPEAKER_03]: Batman, number two from DC Comics, written by Matt Fraction, art by Jorge Menes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this issue, Robin, is on the run, and only Batman could help him, maybe, Pete, two issues in, how are you feeling about this new run?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, first off, cool cover, and I loved seeing Batman actually being patient with Robin and nice to Robin.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was just like such a nice dress, really, for me, but then the cops just shoot and everybody was really fucking stressing me the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I liked this fun way of telling, you know, this kind of story about Robin learning to drive the bat mobile and I enjoyed that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it was also weird because it was like almost like Damien was like a punchline, almost like comic relief, which I was like, well, I don't know, I feel about that, but I'm having a blast with this amazing art, interesting ideas, big swings happening, yes, please.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like the new take.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like this is a Bruce Wayne that is at least has a little bit more personality than a lot of the recent runs where he's just so stoic.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's able to respond be a little bit funny.
[SPEAKER_05]: He takes a pretty intense blast to the head and it's still able to talk like a human.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I thought that was cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I also really like setting up.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we have Vandal
[SPEAKER_05]: and they're now leaning into like cops versus vigilantes, which that's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I think getting back to a basic core idea here, they're going to be more on the run.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're going to be more fighting with Vandal Savage, who I think is a good villain and a good position.
[SPEAKER_05]: The arts really cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like this run.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, White Tiger Reborn, a number one for Marvel, written by Daniel Jose Older and Cynthia Palayo, art by Bruno Adias and Moistius Hadelgo.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are getting two stories here, plus some ancillary matter about White Tiger as the new White Tiger takes on the mantle of Hector Ayyalla, and then we get a follow-up story there as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_02]: First off, like, love this, uh, white tiger god, like super chill, very cool, um, you know, great art.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I feel like I'm enjoying this kind of origin story, but I'm excited to see, like, once this is now that we've told that, like, what this character's going to be about and what kind of action and kind of, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: different choices they're gonna make out there in the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I'm excited for what's to come and I thought they did a good job of kind of setting up this, getting the kind of storage and storage out of the way so we can kind of be off and running on some adventures next.
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was interesting like the white tiger like oh there's uh there's a lot of white tigers out there so like everyone has to sort of catch up once dead some aren't getting along but they need to get get it back together which I think is cool and um I like did you what's that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you like the uh talking tiger got?
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you see him think that was pretty cool?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: White chill.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's White Tiger, the God, White Tiger, the Ghost Man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you think the White, the Ghost God, and the Ghost Man hang out?
[SPEAKER_03]: I would have, so, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And do you think it's a dead ghost or a living ghost?
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: that is tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're having a tough time with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do we move on to talk about kill all mortals to number one from dark horse comics written by Zach Kaplan art by Fiko Ocio per the title.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a sequel to the first series kill all mortals, which I think we all liked quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was about a family of mortals and the
[SPEAKER_03]: one woman who is part of the family at his trying to kill them to save her boyfriend.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were some big changes at the end of the last series that kicks in here, picking up off the cliffhanger there that they are not the only immortal.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, now they are not abortals at all and this other family is trying to kill them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Still bloody, it's still brutal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still had a fun time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the stakes just went up when in this new arc, like the fact that they aren't immortal and they're constantly being attacked by other immortals is like more stressful for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: They seem pretty confident their ability to survive and I'm like, guys, you maybe don't understand mortality because it's, it comes pretty fast.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, I should have passed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh man, does it first up fun, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, right beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, get excited about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Life is not a moral.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why, beast, wait, hey, wait, beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know White Tiger?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we chill sometimes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think that I had a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sort of club for White, sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you call it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, for Beast.
[SPEAKER_03]: For Beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you call it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't make it for Beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a beast supremacist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fun last kind of page reveal great art tons of action blood and guts.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is very cool and I'm enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely, Green Hellet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely, Green Hellet.
[SPEAKER_03]: That dude's dad, Alex.
[SPEAKER_05]: That dude's dad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely, Green Hellet, you're number seven from T.C.
[SPEAKER_03]: comics written by Al-Uing, art by Jason Howard, and a Riley Rosmo.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the issue that takes us away from the main action to focus on what's going on in space.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now that we have a wild about to mythology that has been built out here, we know that MoGo is a black star and it is MoGo.
[SPEAKER_03]: destroy the universe, take over the universe, not sure, certainly hates other planets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, but we get at least two other reveals it here that are pretty crazy, paired with the absolute evil issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: One, we get an evil kilowag, it here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I never been so scared of someone saying pooser.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you what, that is a really upsetting because he's like the best guy in the DC universe,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, oh man, oh, I don't like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This would make it be very uncomfortable, which is the point.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we get a reveal of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a bigger villain by the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: What did you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool cover, love the art style.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some real badass villain stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just kind of stack in the hype towards the end of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just think this is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a ton of fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, in a book that has been sort of like good, but like a little like, oh, I don't know exactly what's going, where this is going.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it was nice to get out and just see some things that we knew we could see very clearly what was happening in Evil Kilawang, different interpretations of the spectrum powers of the
[SPEAKER_05]: turn about to have life's coming at kilowag fast in this issue for sure so that's that's cool like this book is one of the weirder ones of absolute sort of like is just moving like a butterfly but i do like where landed here
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, Spider-Man Noir, number one, from Marvel, written by Eric Larson, Art Buy, and Drambrok Hardo, this is a classic Spider-Man Noir tale featuring Peter Parker, he's detective in the 1930s, when Stacey comes to hire him for a mission, goes a little wrong and gets messed up, and clearly this is to have a book on the stands for when the TV show comes out on a prime video.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's basically the idea, but also it's kind of to eat to see Eric Larson on a Marvel book because I think it's been a very long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: When I saw his name, I was like, is this the same Eric Larson?
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, I had must be.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but I was definitely surprised.
[SPEAKER_05]: But cool, and then honestly, I was a good read.
[SPEAKER_05]: I liked this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like there's a lot of talk about like, you shouldn't be shooting people, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Spider-Man, and he's like, I get... Oh, but I like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, I, I think this is, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you, were you done?
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you have more to say?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I'll chip in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was shy.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not shy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hear.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just didn't want to cut you off.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was excited because I love the, uh, Spider-Verse, uh, Spider-Man noir.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the Nicolas Cage voiced.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought maybe that was going to be the tone, but this is more like the Spider-Man or he's joking just kind of back in time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was a little kind of disappointing that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, I still thought the kind of Gwen stuff was fun and, you know, there was some interesting choices with the Nazi bat and stuff like that, but, yeah, that was all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the only thing that I'll throw out there that is a little weird to me, and I don't know if this is 100% confirmed, but I believe on the Spider-Noir show, Nicholas Cage is Ben Riley, not Peter Parker, so it's weird to me that this book is clearly like so that we have something on the shelves, but it's not Ben Riley, that's all, just a little thing where I'm like,
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a, I don't know, it's freaking out of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a crazy big sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: The only thing, the little thing I had to mix me a little bit is there's the referencing the multiverse in this book.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, yeah, and then I know Spiderman.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, that's not, don't say that.
[SPEAKER_05]: that damages every year to our tone guy he's like I also know a talking pig and then I can go visit other spider people anytime a lot of my little no let's just do the noir stuff yeah I'm free poker used to say that stuff all the time
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know a ham.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know a ham with my name on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Department of Truth, number zero from image comics written by James to the fourth art by Martin Simmons.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a zero issue, which is something to Pete usually hates some curious to see if he likes this, because this is actually a big mythology issue, the reason for the number zero takes place, not back of the day, but right now,
[SPEAKER_03]: pretty much or at least 2016, 2016 leading up to our current objective reality in a very upsetting way.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys think about this one?
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I heard about this book on the Communist Club Trivia section in the recent episode.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that was cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I learned that the biggest fan of it on the podcast is named JT says.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now that's made me think about how Josh
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't get an earphone.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: This feels like was the story that got James Tine in the fourth to write Department of Truth.
[SPEAKER_05]: This, the first issue came out in 2020.
[SPEAKER_05]: This book said in 2016, the start of the Trump, the first Trump administration, like I feel like and that's we're dealing with a lot of that stuff here, pretty outwardly.
[SPEAKER_05]: with the language.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, not by name at all, but like in the language that is chosen in some of the attitudes of the characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I just thought that that crystallized so hard.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm speculating here, but what JT4 was doing when he was developing this idea and bringing it together.
[SPEAKER_05]: and it just works so well.
[SPEAKER_05]: So much happens in this book on the time.
[SPEAKER_05]: The idea just keeps getting deeper and more concerning to me as a reader and to the characters who are on either side of the issue here.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's, I really, I thought this is one of the best issues of this series at them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it feels like, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: this is a fun idea of having the zero issue kind of be like the last issue you know where we're kind of like wrapping this all up in this very interesting cool way and this was really impressive what they did artistically every issue with this comic I normally don't
[SPEAKER_02]: you know zero issues yeah thank you but what they're kind of doing here kind of goes beyond that so I tip my head to it to kind of make the point but man just really impressive the Trump stuff was just really impressive this is just the art was just so cool really hell of a ride and worth it and I enjoyed the crap out of this this is great comics
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we on the live show, and I know you guys know this, but I'm mentioning for other listeners, we're talking a little bit, we had a whole panel on sci-fi, we were talking about how you reflect the world's outside of your window, when people are kind of like missing the point of subtlety, and it really does feel like Department of Truth has never been exactly subtle, but like you were saying just in
[SPEAKER_03]: getting down to the brass tax of here's pizza gate add specifically this guy go into a pizza shop and being like there are kids down there and i got to save this kids the whole idea of this book is you can melt reality based on what you believe your truth is
[SPEAKER_03]: Tying that very directly to the Trump administration, the first time around, is a stark reality of where we are now and the worst manipulation of reality that we're in right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's pretty upsetting the whole book to read, but like you said, very timely, very well done, and every song page that Martin Simmons delivers is like, put that directly at a museum.
[SPEAKER_02]: And once again, Alex, you have not seen the movie 23 with Jim Carrier, but you are kind of describing the plot or it's like, if you look at numbers and kind of put so much on to it, you can kind of like, all of the most started to store your own reality around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely streaming.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Head on down.
[SPEAKER_05]: In this theater of Pete's mind right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: One last thing about it though, to your point, Alex, like, it's crazy for a book that's been running for this many issues to come back and just
[SPEAKER_05]: double a nail down its premise to really push its premise even further into your brain.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I feel like most sci-fi gets away from the premise eventually and build or builds it out or heightens it away.
[SPEAKER_05]: This I feel like is actually recommitting so hard with this and it really really gets you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, let's move on to something a little lighter, Gotham Academy first year, number one from DC Comics, written by Carl Kirchel, bread and fletcher and Becky Klunin, art by Marco Ferrari, let's bring back the beloved YA title set at the Gotham Academy of
[SPEAKER_03]: the title probably a bunch of students there.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is tangentially related to Batman stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: This particular issue gets more into tying it to Batman than I think it did previously as we follow some new students at the school and some returning characters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, I have always liked this team that worked on this, but there's something about Gotham Academy that like I
[SPEAKER_03]: in terms of the tone or the pace of the writing or something like that, but this really worked for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they really nailed this first issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: We centered the premise, gave us some interesting characters, tied it a little tighter to the bat mythology, and I thought it was very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love this as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the art style.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's got such a great kind of feel and vibe to it, which I really enjoyed.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, this main character is going through a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please stay away from Dr. Crane.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just a little pro tip there, but I'm worried about the future, but I kind of love this first issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think the thing that really works here is a lot of these stories you meet a bunch of people and so that you're a little diffuse on the characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: This one really locks in on our main character and really you get to know her what has brought her here, what she's struggling with, and sort of landing her, she we meet everyone through her and I think that works really well to get us into the book.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ultimate Wolverine at number 10 from Marvel Written by Chris Condon art by Alex Lens in this issue somebody gives Wolverine a sword and I don't know why you would do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're a rat gift.
[SPEAKER_03]: He already has six swords.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like giving you a human figure now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not true at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: He can appreciate a good story.
[SPEAKER_05]: I always have in more fingernails on my Christmas.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's the hell, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wish people would give me swords in a stocking, you open up their stockings, you're like, ah, it's all fingernails.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got him from a corpse.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is my family.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, first off, bad ass cover, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: She was absolutely glorious.
[SPEAKER_05]: What did you mean bad ass cover?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you don't like it, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, bad ass.
[SPEAKER_02]: That covers the most.
[SPEAKER_02]: Orious cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: That cover is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's cool looking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Have you guys, did you guys get tickets for that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the Billy Bob Thornton movie, bad ass.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's gonna be really, I saw the trailer.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's so nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's the same donkey from Shrek.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: How'd they get it?
[SPEAKER_03]: What was his name again?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, the donkey.
[SPEAKER_03]: P to your pepper.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you call it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: The donkey.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's his name?
[SPEAKER_05]: Donkey.
[SPEAKER_05]: That movie is a creative tour to force.
[SPEAKER_05]: They wouldn't just call the donkey donkey.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everyone just do something like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, if we could talk about how great this count was, because I really loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got like a seven situation here where you send it a box, had an a box, which I don't recommend.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really hard to do, and it leaks, and it's just a real mess.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is when you have to bring one in for your conference meeting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but I tell you, uh, this is just kind of, uh, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got evil, uh, Russian Colossus here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, um, um, you know, I'm happy for Saber to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's going to get out.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to start his own family and just kind of get out of the business.
[SPEAKER_02]: and i feel like that's a great kind of move for him so i'm excited for his future but this kind of blood sore thing looks really amazing i really wish uh... we would kind of lean into Wolverine's origins and kind of when he trained in japan as a samurai uh... and just kind of really went down that path but uh... it was a regular will bring you on to see more
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not what I'm talking about, like maybe he, you know, puts the claws in and just uses the sword a little bit, you know what I mean for fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: I apologize in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the Colossus column Wolverine went to soldier is just kind of a, it's kind of weird kind of jab to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was just like, how man, why is that sting so much when he says it like that?
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, this is cool, and I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I like this as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's funny how Colossus has become such a vipopular villain.
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't see him get to be a hero much.
[SPEAKER_05]: He just gets to be a straight up monster and we get that here.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, Sabre tooth, saying like I just want to get out and start a family has big.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep, just going to do one last thing before I quit the force.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I worry for his future.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like he might have a head in the box here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, don't say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like Alex Linz's art.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought that was really good on this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little lighter than we've been getting with this title from Alessandro Capuchio, so I'm surprised about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it worked for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has a very cute, beardy Wolverine in this issue, so fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Minor threats.
[SPEAKER_03]: The last devil left alive at number one from Dark Horse Comics, written by Pat and Oswald and Jordan Bloom, art by Scott Hepburn.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unlike a lot of the other minor threats titles, this is continuing the main story focusing on playtime.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in fact, there's the kickoff of the final miniseries of the playtime saga, at least for this phase of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know if she's going to make it out alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: the title, basically.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've been really enjoying just the minor threats universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they're doing so much there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we get a lot of titles from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It reminds me a little bit of a combination between black hammer and invincible.
[SPEAKER_05]: We get the lightness, light tone of invincible.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's some fun happening here.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a lot of characters happening at the same time.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then the just consistently and overall tone
[SPEAKER_05]: black hammer has been doing for a long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's really good.
[SPEAKER_05]: This we meet the scalpel, where you follow scalpel, going around and having sort of a tough day, but a real, here I go again, energy to scalpel.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm getting to old for this shit and that was cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like the reveal of play time at play time The art is really just really nice super hero art.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know yeah, I really just unbelievable panel designs There's some really cool splash pages some like
[SPEAKER_02]: That one word's just like the silhouette of a woman with all the kind of panels inside of that really cool just really creative artistic and forward panel page layouts that are just masterful pieces of art and I'd also throw
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the plot of this mini-series or at least this first issue though.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the continuing which is multi-versal super villain gentrification which feels like exactly the perfect final boss for playtime who is character that we met being down on her lock downtown in like the bad part of town and
[SPEAKER_03]: So, of course, she would be fighting against a landlord in the final bid of this series.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, great stuff all around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Adventures of Superman Book of Al, number two from DC Comics, written by Philip Kenny Johnson, art by Scott Godluseki, very similar to everybody's favorite character.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cyclops, Superman also has been sent to the future, which is a dark dystopian future that is ruled by some of his enemies.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is discovering more about that as well as what happened to the house of Elle that made them fall.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys think?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got old man Olson, so fun kind of reveal great arts tons of action.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like how he's waiting to pop his claws as well, just like old man Logan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he'll do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He'll do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think that.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not gonna.
[SPEAKER_05]: He could have possibly.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna give it a shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: You ever try to pop your claws?
[SPEAKER_02]: You shouldn't, it's dangerous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because when it happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, especially if you're on an airplane or something.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I try not to pop anything on an airplane, but smart.
[SPEAKER_05]: You keep squeezing.
[SPEAKER_05]: You might just prolapse your colon.
[SPEAKER_05]: I really liked the, uh, Jimmy Olsen reveal that scene was really sweet and nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great stuff for really enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm excited to see what Philip Kenny Johnson has to say about Superman going forward, sort of his big mission statement.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, the amazing spider man, number 13 from Marvel, run by Joe Kelly, art by Pepe, Rob's, and this issue, we're focusing on space spider man who just needs to get stronger.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has a new costume, a new crew that is backing him up as well as a new mission.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, with the last issue which followed Earth Spider-Man is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm having a great time reading this book, Joe Kelly, understand Spider-Man knows how to make it work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this has the feel of like the classic Crossroads storyline with Hulk, where it's said to be to do an entirely new situation with an entirely new cast, but it kept that core of the Hulk at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is such a fun time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I agree with that.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's really fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Peter Parker is like, guys, guys, he's up on the killing and rocket is such a good foil for him and he's like, I can just kill, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, no, he's stopping.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then this gold character that we see on the cover here is also really cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like what she's bringing to this as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is just fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they kind of
[SPEAKER_02]: the little pet symbiote is okay, but yeah, gold kind of okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see all things.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not ready for Jeff status yet, but you know, let's take it easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great art and action.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then we said, I said it, let me say this stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do like the little symbiote more than Jeff.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's just me.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's doing stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: Come on, dude.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jeff likes save the universe.
[SPEAKER_05]: But Jeff just is like trying to skateboard and stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, this symbiote is doing cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, dude.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, bro.
[SPEAKER_05]: Help him out in a battle.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll see you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Check in on symbiote.
[SPEAKER_05]: just one one thing about this what do we think because we're setting up a spider-man end of this issue I have to get stronger his whole time is space and been like I have to get stronger we're setting him up for a battle with a hellgame a character we met but know nothing about
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that a little going to be a little weird when he's like, I'm finally strong enough to beat you a stranger?
[SPEAKER_05]: The only thing we know is that like Helgate's meant to learn from Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, is the idea of... Well, let's get to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I smell a training montage coming, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: 100% on that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had said this a couple of issues back, but it has this weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: It had this weird trope that I had drives me crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: They do it on TV a lot where if the characters just like actually listen to what they were saying versus what the writer wants them to do, that you get past this conflict really quickly and exactly what you're saying just it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It
[SPEAKER_03]: That's it, but oh, he was kicking his ass also, I think is exactly, but like they're just like in a rom-com if they just meet Q and then talk Then we don't need a moving right.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's just falling in love.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess we'll see like I at this point I'm excited to see how long they can string this long.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's two different parallel storylines because they're both very fun So get eventually all come back together, and that's okay, but
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm having a great time so far.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good devils from image comics by Nick Tragota and David Brothers, this is a series of short stories by this team, ranging the gamut of a lot of subjects and what he's saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: um well first off very cool cover um yeah i thought this was awesome collection of stories really fun paste tons of action dynamic art panels real movement in the panel work uh really enjoyed this uh loved all the stories this rocked
[SPEAKER_05]: I love the art here, and this feels like, just the way, it's part of the, the Nictergo's art that, this feels like sort of a jam-sash type book where the first story is all black and white, just pencils in a really nice way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then we get some color, and then we get a sort of a longer story at the end.
[SPEAKER_05]: and I like all of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: It made me want to see this as just an ongoing anthology of work, and then maybe that's what we're going to get here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, some of the stories are better than others, but like you said, Djurgotas Art is so great throughout, it's weirdly mostly a little more restrained.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that an absolute Batman, but I still really like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: or that other book was the other book he did a ghost something yeah I know it's like a ghost going crazy into a corporate right he's a west which I lose fantastic yeah art but yes there's a book that he did that I think the ghost when I think he also I think they did it together I think that was David Brothers and Nick Trigoda as well and that was really yes that was somebody like fighting their way up a tower
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, and it was like a little wilder just in sort of both the care the art and then just what was happening.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, this is sort of insane across the board ghost cage was there you go and that was Ghosts Nick was going and Caleb Goldner.
[SPEAKER_03]: Never mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: David Brothers said I believe Caleb Goder are both old school comic book journalists.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why I'm next to them up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh wow anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was, and the story was if Nicholas Cage was a ghost.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You would really like it be.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Were they both comics Alliance people?
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I got to look into this.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I was going to say.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to elaborate on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or can I elaborate on it?
[SPEAKER_03]: What am I going to go ahead?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you got bad girl jumping straight towards the camera.
[SPEAKER_03]: The bat signal right above her through the snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird because it doesn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man is coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anything in the book, but it's a really good Christmas cover.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I wish they had saved it for December.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I got to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's a it's a foreshadden with things to come.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, Christmas.
[SPEAKER_02]: Halloween's coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gets colder.
[SPEAKER_02]: Halloween's so burr Halloween.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cold snow, sledding, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: My pumpkins for the fingernails.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I like this here where we got a, you know, we're trying to find out more about background, we're learning about her family, and all these kinds of things that she's going on the side quest here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, it's, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's you know, she makes a sad call with a friend to miss her, but you know, she's trying to figure her life out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I like all the drama.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like what's happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, let's have back girl kicks more butt.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm all in.
[SPEAKER_05]: The series has done a good job of starting with some big back-roll action, then jumping back and giving us some very distant Lady Shiva stuff that was her just observing and now slowly bringing back-roll and super herox back into it I like the the other all-gool off spring here, which is cool as a yeah, nissa That's fun and different life path then
[SPEAKER_05]: Talia so that's cool and yeah, let's see what happens next.
[SPEAKER_03]: The umbrella academy plan B number three from dark horse comics written by Gabriel Gerard way art by Gabriel B and this issue more umbrella academy stuff
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't know what's happening in this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's why I'm the problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love this book and I love the vibe.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a pig where class has a therapy session with a bunch of, I would call them dead ghosts properly.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's space boys doing some stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's things going on with the Sparrow Academy and they give it an interview.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yes, I am, after really liking the first two issues, this has got off the rails in issue three.
[SPEAKER_05]: I said this a little bit last issue.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, I'm starting to lose the thread and this issue is like, you don't know it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who are you talking right now?
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't test me book.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I'm just so happy that this is back and this is amazing cover that we're kind of looking at here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, that I'm okay with it getting.
[SPEAKER_02]: jumping off the rails and getting crazy and getting weird because I'm just like I'm just so happy to be kind of back in this world and I love this art and this kind of tone and number five is just always so enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel like I don't get enough clouds, that's normal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the cool kind of check in with the family at different times here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Another great
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you're probably right because I bet in next issue, it's going to be like, all right, we have to get the umbrella category back together and then it will start to make more sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then ex-domain can be like, who are all those people talking and they should do in three?
[SPEAKER_03]: birds of prey never twenty six from DC comics or by Kelly Thompson art by Sammy Bosery and Vicente Quintantes.
[SPEAKER_03]: The birds are trying to find out more about the enemies who have prayed on them pretty much since the beginning of this run in various aspects they're teaming up with some of their older enemies and also they're getting a disguises and go into it all the scapegoat fun time.
[SPEAKER_05]: This book is so fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's so consistent.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's very upsetting that it's ending soon.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sadly canceled seemingly.
[SPEAKER_03]: in a not great way, I mean Kelly Thompson wasn't saying that she was sort of screwed over here and she said she put out a blog post where she was saying that like she talked to editorial they were like hey you may need to wipe this down she said she felt like if she pushed they would keep it going but ultimately
[SPEAKER_03]: if she could end it on her own terms when they're on a relative high note that's what she's doing so i think it ends in with issue 28 i want to say and so no yeah well sad to see it go because i really like this book yeah this is great this continues to be awesome
[SPEAKER_02]: If we only get two more issues of greatness, we got 28 issues of greatness, so I'll take it but man, this is just such a blast, part of as a Gargoyle is just so fun, it's like the Gargoyle's TV show in such a cool way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm just that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, it makes me think it when you see part of as a gargoyle, let me see if they give it some a bargoyle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, anyways, uh, yeah, I just, I love the art so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the creative choices that they're making.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun to see them work as a team.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't get tired of it and this is just, uh, really impressive comics and sad to see that it's winding down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rook Exodus, number seven from Ghost Machine, an image comics written by Jeff Johnson, art by Jason Fabouque, after a long break, I believe this book is back.
[SPEAKER_03]: It takes place in the world where a bunch of people have animal masks that allow them to control animals, but also make them more animalistic in the process and a Rook who controls birds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who is trying?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was about to say, Rooks, but you know,
[SPEAKER_03]: that out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, he is trying to bring the planet back and get everybody to work together unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some admiral mask people that just don't want to work with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's classic scenario.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool cover.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, this reminds me of Magneto birds.
[SPEAKER_05]: The upcoming books spinning into a derevelation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, are they doing Magneto birds?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing Magneto bird.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that, but is that spinning off into Magneto birds?
[SPEAKER_05]: if actually it's that's called a progression back to some of the good words we got make a birdman lawyer joke in here or something let me come on come on we got a yes let's get to that let's add that to the um itinerary for our next meeting okay great yeah circle back and get okay don't it's honestly it's a pain point that we haven't gone to you have a little circle back oh hey you so much all right yeah this you this is your will be you should
[SPEAKER_02]: so I don't for a reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, I love this art.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love all this action.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny though because it's like I'm like, oh, this is so cool controlling animals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my god spiders.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got really freaked out and scared, but yeah, you got a dear guy fighting dog eye here and
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is some great kind of action, but men's spiders really creep me the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I can control spiders.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really?
[SPEAKER_02]: With your mind or what are we talking here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, do you have a flute?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a spider flute or something?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that would a spider.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is the best way to control people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anytime I get to my flute, it does make the people leave.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that would be sad.
[SPEAKER_04]: Spider flute?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm spider flute, but it's a spider seed, my boot.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's all keep working on that one as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fun to say that Alex because I'm actually going to try to send a spider to Pete's house wherever it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you'll work out.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sending spiders to you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you let me not.
[SPEAKER_05]: You let me know if a spider if you come crosses my you are welcome spiders are not welcome my home.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've never been invited but this time setting my right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I literally just invited you.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't count anybody when you don't tell us where your house.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know we don't usually talk about the other show you do just a but isn't the other show you do you call spiders not welcome?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yes, and yeah, that's, it's spin off and it takes place at Pete's house.
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember once I went to about Rook or Exodus or literally whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do have a question for you guys because I thought the implication for the first issue of this was the planet was literally falling apart, but this issue, Rook is like, we're going to get everybody to work together and bring this planet back.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I feel like it was actually metaphorically falling apart.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I think the planet, it was meant to be a place where everyone was going to go live on this nice planet and they were going to have control over it all the animals and stuff and then they lost control and so everyone's like get us out of here and they left behind all the workers.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so they had to just be there controlling the animals and then the bear guy was just going to kill them.
[SPEAKER_05]: to take all their masks back for the corporate overlords, whatever.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think that's like there's falling apart in that way the whole system and there's a good for the first is yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was literally like there's a line that was about to crack apart.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a way to read it where you're following the plot and there's a way to read it where you're like masks make animals go.
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, I think you can enjoy it on either level, but this is also just some brings up a good point This is a good jumping on point because they do do a lot of recapping of stuff in this issue Yeah, and reminds you it's a recap of animals or you're like oh, yeah, yeah, it's a spider And of course birds
[SPEAKER_03]: Cheetah and Cheetah are speaking of animals, rob the Justice League number three from DC Comics written by Greg Ruka, art by Nikola Scott.
[SPEAKER_03]: In this issue, the gang is all together and now they're talking through their plan to rob the watch tower, yet another meeting peak where everybody gets together, but I know you guys are not as high, I feel like not as high on this book as I am, but I'm really enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like the character dynamics.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some good betrayal and twists and turns that are going out of this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I do think there is an underlying thing going on with Cheetah.
[SPEAKER_03]: They keep talking about how she is controlled by this God that gives her a non-stop hunger.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's going to pay off down the road emotionally in very nice ways.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I like this too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I like the characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think the arts great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like we have some potential romance happening here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like the heist dynamic that we get in this issue and all the different takes from the different factions that have been gathered here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm also enjoying this great art fun last panel reveal kind of a real ride tag team thing happening here if they're going to pull this off.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is an interesting idea and I'm excited to see how this all goes down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something is killing the children number 44 from Boom Studios written by James Tyler the fourth art by Werther Deladera and this issue we're continuing the
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a lot of snow in comics in this week's thing and I am here for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a season.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a cool cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the starts.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some really beautiful scenic panels here with snowfall that are just quite lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I think that this is such an interesting issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're kind of getting some information here which I'm always excited about and we're kind of learning about kind of how things are working behind this scene which is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: We kind of get a real join us next time at the end but I cannot wait and I've been loving this so I'm
[SPEAKER_05]: just a micol this is a middle-ing issue but I still very much loved every bit of it and I'm pretty sure this comic is a middle-ing issue because you know it's very funny to me that you hated absolute evil because it was a meeting there's a maybe what a third of the book is someone being like can I get this reference material and they're like no I'm still not meeting
[SPEAKER_05]: It felt like there's the action is, no, you can't.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I guess you can.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about the snowy mountaintop that they... Yeah, it's cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Caught tight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Clearly we're going to get something eventually.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, and I do like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just truly, this is the most spare comic on the stands.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we just can't make it work for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got a word for it, bro.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I say about everything I enjoy.
[SPEAKER_03]: poison ivy number thirty seven from dc comics my jee willow willson art by addigan ilhun after the events of the past couple of issues poison ivy is kind of delving back into villainy this issue she finds out what's up with Janet from HR and it is not good what you guys think about this one
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah this is heartbreaking man i mean the sole janitor from hr thing is been a real roller coaster of emotions for soft cool cover um yeah and uh i you know the fact that janitor might be a rat is just fucking heartbreaking you know what you mean and um you know hopefully um you know the green's gonna help but uh
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know how I feel anymore, you know, I think I did go and down Janet really broke my heart and I don't know if I'll be okay
[SPEAKER_05]: Imagine, like thinking about how far this book is come from the first arc way back in the day where she was going around just killing the world essentially with her spores.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now she, I feel like this issue is very reflexive on the how much poison I've be has changed.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she talks about like, I never cared for people, oh god, I messed this up.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's feeling guilty, then we get the, the reveal at the end that
[SPEAKER_05]: that Janet Janet finally tells her that she has betrayed her.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the look on her face just got me.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's like, I'm going to kill you.
[SPEAKER_05]: And like, it's rare to have a character like Poison Ivy go on such a long emotional journey.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we're really paying dividends on what we learned at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what sorts of Janet had all these kind of like,
[SPEAKER_02]: you know love triangles and all these kind of things where we were rooting for her and this kind of like she's been a rat this whole time it's just so fucking heartbreaking you know it's like a balance was like hey I worked for the FBI you know it's like Jesus this was a long con and uh... i feel so dumb Alex volunteered at the FBI i do as bait
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You mean, it's worth of being an FBI stands for.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Good stuff, guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't really have the bandwidth to keep going.
[SPEAKER_05]: So let's circle back right up the flag pole and really take this to HR.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because there's a pain point happening right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're my pain point.
[SPEAKER_00]: They sit on crappy couches, and they let the sick and the lick And he's just a monkey, they're like fast, they're so fast speaking So grab your ring, hammer, don't relay, or it'll fail