[SPEAKER_02]: What is up everybody?
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the stack on Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am Pete, and on the stack we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, and we review them with our mouths and listen to each other with our fears, and we feel them with our hearts.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you gonna emotional on me?
[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to start crying any second because we're going to kick this off talking about absolute flash number eight from DC Comics, run by Jeff LeMier, art by Travis Moore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, no pun intended, but DC's absolute line has been on a real run these past couple of weeks with some huge books coming out and huge revelations.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been talking about that for weeks so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: absolute flash number eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would argue certainly gets towards that realm potentially by flashing that, oh my gosh, by going back and showing us, but I did not be that.
[SPEAKER_02]: By showing us of the origin of absolute universe is Barry Allen, we find out about
[SPEAKER_02]: and I should put a spoiler warning here for all the books for going to be talking about in the stack, but we find out about absolute eovard fawn.
[SPEAKER_02]: We find out about absolute jay garrick.
[SPEAKER_02]: We find out about where grod came from.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to see what sure looks like the legion of doom's headquarters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that building the hall of doom, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it seemed like it crazy stuff happened in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is I think been one of the slow burn titles We were kind of at on it with the first issue, but man, it's really and I'm going to try to avoid these puns as much as possible Really getting going and this issue and I liked a lot in particular
[SPEAKER_02]: because we're starting to fill in a lot of the pieces that we've seen throughout previous issues in terms of this mystery of how Wally West got his powers.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's more mysteries here, but I'm going to start to understand this is like a sci-fi conspiracy book.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what's happening here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm starting to dig it more.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what about you, Pete?
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're not a big flash guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not a flat guy and, you know, not to disagree with you here, but for this issue for me, I felt like this is starting to be more like a flashbook than I wanted it where before, it started out and it didn't feel like flash at all, which I thought was very refreshing and cool, and then as we've been going, the later issues have kind of been like,
[SPEAKER_01]: getting a little too flashy for me and so uh it's yeah but man just kind of seeing the hall of doom and here he got me very excited um but yeah I uh other than the flash stuff uh I feel like the art's really great and uh I don't know this this book is it's tough because I was having a great time and then uh not so much a late
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah i'm very curious it is starting to have a cumulative fact like i said for me but we'll see i don't know yeah time will tell time will tell next up fantastic for x gargoyles number one for barvel written by grape weissman art by edded belam there's a long way to cross over between the Manhattan clan and the first family as they battle
[SPEAKER_02]: a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of stuff going on this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you feel about this?
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're not necessarily enthused about Fantastic Four, but how do you feel about Gargoyles?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Team Gargoyles, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a huge fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got very excited when I saw this cover because I was like, oh, hopefully this will be more Gargoyles and FF, and man was I right.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was so much gargoyles.
[SPEAKER_01]: It got real deep into the gargoyles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord, this is a lot of characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we start off with Demona.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it is chaotic because they dropped so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was having a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many cameos.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But man, fun gargoyles story at the center of all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love this kind of idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it was maybe a little
[SPEAKER_01]: much, but I still loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, it was a little too much for me because I liked, like you're saying, a lot of the ideas that they're, and it is funny to have the fantastic forward gargoyles fighting gray gargoyle, and then beat the gargoyle.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I get like all of these things, but then when they start later on with, and also there's Tiboda, and there's whatever those robot gargoyles are.
[SPEAKER_02]: And additionally, here's Diablo.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, too much.
[SPEAKER_02]: too much this is too large and I wish I wish it had simplified a little bit more down to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: just these two teams working together because that part is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Greg Weissman has a handle obviously on the voice of the Gargoyles.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does have a fantastic form pretty well as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought frankly the seat of the meeting was the most fun I had in the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a little aside the bedgrip as where he's like, oh man we're not going to do the thing where you have a misunderstanding and fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a good cross-in for you, yeah, it's fun, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like this was the I'm shooting my shot issue and I wish there was a little bit of that and a little more focus on just a nice simple fun story, but it is what it is
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, you'll tide number one from Odie Press, written by George Northeart by Rachelle Aragno.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a original story about a bunch of kids who live in a town called Christmas that is obviously all big about Christmas, particularly around Christmas time, and they get embroiled in a supernatural mystery plot involving an artifact
[SPEAKER_02]: that releases some of the bad folks who want to take over the old tide and rule winter.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've been definitely pitching this as Goody's but set with winter mythology stuff, which always frankly puts me off a little bit when people call out Goody's and like,
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a thing back in the 80's.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, watch your mouth now.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's still a thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Say is a great book that vibe and very few people get even close to it when they're trying it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: This book tells it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will give it a great big ups because this doesn't try to ape goonies and static gives us some very fun characters that look
[SPEAKER_02]: great, like they look like they walked just right out of an animated show, some really good kind of terrifying beasts and monsters, and it's fun, it's quick, it's witty, I super dug this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the look of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the the kind of whole kind of tone of it really well executed idea the kind of like less scary in parts because of the art which I really appreciated, but I am cannot wait for the next issue more please loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's in the box?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is this is just this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did such a great job in this first issue of getting you.
[SPEAKER_01]: on board and excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, they're really delivered.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Twilight Twins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Titans.
[SPEAKER_01]: Twins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Twins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Titans.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number 28 from DC Comics written by John Laban Art by Pete Woods.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a DC KO tie-in showing how the Titans are per the cover as you can see if you're watching us on
[SPEAKER_02]: video evacuation earth they're evacuating the earth because it's about to become a heart of a apocalypse they got to get everybody out and that's what the bulk of this issue is taken up with we haven't been tightens for the past couple of issues because I think we were necessarily enthused with this new run
[SPEAKER_02]: but I thought it was worth checking back in as a DCKO time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what do you think, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, Tara talking to some shit about beesboy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, little spice.
[SPEAKER_01]: A little spicy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some ex-talker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've got this kind of crazy evacuation madness everywhere And then granny good news showing up with her.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's quiet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So fun last panel You know, not too much happens, but it's kind of a cool check-in so we know what's up with the titans Yeah, and the little hot gas, but yeah great job Pete woods.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do really like Pete Woods art a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think maybe this is what you're kind of getting to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very similar to the Garcolil's fantastic for issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like there was too much going on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the stuff that's focusing on, we got to evacuate the Earth, even if they seem to all be in very well-bredded T-shaped ships, which are like, okay guys, like just calm down, calm down with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta have the T. You gotta have the T, you gotta have the T. You gotta do the breading.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta have the ship that's not in the shape of a T. I mean, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, how do you know the titans are still here with stout of tea?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the adventures they always have A shape ships, whatever the flag everywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our queen jets shaped like that because they're shaped like A's.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had probably that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: In any case, I felt like there was a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot of time spent at the beginning with the Titans being like, well, goodbye.
[SPEAKER_02]: We may never see each other again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, you're going to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why are we wasting time on this?
[SPEAKER_02]: We know they're going to see each other every moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: The evacuation thing was interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think the Teracy and like you said it was interesting I do have a question for you as the original Grammar lover, which is I believe the sticker you have on the back of your car How do you is how do you feel about Grady goodness at the end there because when Grady goodness pulls up on our little Kirby sled I'm kind of like I don't find that that threatened
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got so many parodemons with her.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's intimidating.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, it's just like sort of the grattie in the middle there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm questioning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the parodemons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, you know, someone's got to roll with the parodemons and it's granny goodness.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have laughed at them when they were like, oh no, it's granny goodness.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also her name is a grattie goodness.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a granny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she is a granny.
[SPEAKER_01]: She has many wonderful grandkids.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that's true, but yeah, you know, she's kind of a ridiculous character, but I still thought it was a fun O-shape kind of moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm a Granny Goods defender, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're the original granny lover.
[SPEAKER_02]: As it says, I'm going to make you that sticker.
[SPEAKER_02]: What were all the under doom?
[SPEAKER_02]: Number eight from Marvel Written by Ryan North, art by RB Silva.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, some big stuff is going down as the assembled heroes of earth are trying to fight back against doom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Valeria is trying to talk him down from this fight, leading to a devastating moment at the end here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you are cheering, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'd say I'm surprised by it, but I know exactly why you're cheering, but take it away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well first let me start by saying every time you say RB Silva, Silva, I want you to be saying RBs for some reason, and then I just, I'm like, oh, RB still, I guess from the art perspective, do you think he's got the beats?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well first off, this cool cover, this is a very cool cover, this is the thing punching out Dr. Doom, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and so I think the thing that we're both talking about is Dr. Tumes love of Valeria is just such a sweet, beautiful thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It kind of gets a little ruined by the end, but I love this about to.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this kind of like,
[SPEAKER_01]: part of his character, part of his history, this thing of like he's sure he's evil, he destroys worlds, he's that whatever, but you know he's an uncle and you know he loves his niece, so it just gets me every time it was such a touching moment, and of course the end was heart-wrenching, but man alive,
[SPEAKER_01]: I was having a great time up until that point.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm shocked, Pete, because I thought the reason you were cheering is the thing that happens in the middle of the issue, which was the one page that made me laugh out loud where the assembled heroes charge up Thor's hammer, not me onlyer, but the other one which are playing on the day above.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had thing picks it up and it's like, oh hell, yeah, I knew I was worthy.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what time it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, this is a wrestling page.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my favorite part of the issue because just watching him, I love the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a great guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm watching him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Slav Dr. Dube was awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was very satisfying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also like that this issue actually put it in Dr. Doom's perspective, something that I've been talking about a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the series has been lacking from, and may be wish that we gotta go back and have the whole thing as a, this is focused on Doom rather than the heroes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that would have made it maybe a little more interesting from the perspective wise.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like the hilarious stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's to, I have a question at a knock for this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: question for the issue is so at the end of this issue, Dr. Doug does a finishing move where Dr. Doom, Dr. Doom does a finishing move where he shoots his armor at everybody he says like I didn't kill them but I had to capacity them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that cool?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm supreme.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't realize the Valeria has teleported in at the same time and she's riddled with these doom armor,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and falls over and it sure looks like sharded all over the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure it looks like in the last petal that her head slides off and did you get that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure did, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That did happen, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like she did what she did about.
[SPEAKER_01]: By last petal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it to capitate a child?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing about last panels, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: They can be the next issue, they're like, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you're talking about, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, or I think this points to my knock at the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: The bigger problem, I don't think the art is good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think, I think it is easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is very hard to tell what's going on in this issue at most points, the backgrounds, as I mentioned in previous issues, are just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: noise washes, and there's ways of making that work.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to think about, like, why do I like this from some artists and not others?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm thinking about Russell Daughterbend does say a lot of colors in the background, but the front is clear, and the characters are clear, and the action is clear when he's doing that versus this, that just seems like a jumble where by the end of the issue, either Valeria is falling over or head is sliding off in either way we don't necessarily know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, that is taking away quite a bit from the story for me, which is a real bubble in the second to last issue here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, don't kill that child.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hear you, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at the kind of last panel.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: It should not be that hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like if they're trying to be like she fell over her fine But if the stage direction is her head slides off.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a crazy thing To drop it a like mostly silhouetted final paddle of an issue That's not even it like oh wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a good cliff anchor for next month That's like maybe I'd ever want to read a comic again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kind of paging through the art here and there's some really impressive splash page action stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's also some like the smaller like him like golden version floating in space stuff is also really beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's pretty colors in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think it's the pencils or inks that are not working for me and I feel like the colors are working over time to compensate for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know, Man, if I agree, I just think that they're purposely not making you clear on that last panel.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that, you know, that's the way they kind of wanted it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I would don't blame the artists as much as that's kind of what they wanted to kind of make it seem like could it be this or could it, you know, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I guess we'll find out next issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will.
[SPEAKER_02]: When we attend with a child's funeral.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: That'll be rough.
[SPEAKER_02]: That'll be a real.
[SPEAKER_02]: That sure will be rough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not before to that funeral.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hector Plasm hunt, the big foot number one for the image comics written by Medino Sereno art by Derek Hunter.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is part of not an ongoing series but a series of bitty series that has come back after a long while about a supernatural investigator who fights only specific types of monsters, not all monsters, and gets recruited, or did I, is getting recruited.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does not want to be recruited to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: hunt for the big foot of the title.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, this is writing to wheelhouse, so I'm a good way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the imagination.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the creativity.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the shading.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the coloring.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the letter boxing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just this comic spoke to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a whimsical.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's creepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all the things in such a cool art style.
[SPEAKER_01]: It reminds me a little bit of Jim Davis with the eyes and just kind of the way he draws human.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's
[SPEAKER_01]: there's something about this that really speaks to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just had such a blast with this, this felt really refreshing and cool in all this other kind of superhero stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I just really was impressed by this.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did such a great job on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed this too.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a very funny fun book with some really charming art by Derek Hunter.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've read a lot of supernatural investigator mysteries, but having a cranky one who doesn't
[SPEAKER_02]: So I enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, more, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, Mouse Man knows that mice have years.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's time for Wonder Woman Number 26 for DC Comics, written by Tom King, art by Daniel Sam Perry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wonder Woman is on an island ruled by Mouse Man.
[SPEAKER_02]: and this issue we find how he came to power though we don't get all of the answers because was he fired by the issues and he's actually able to go to toe with wonder woman strength wise what's going on there will definitely find out and wonder woman is any bad place by the end as well Pete you're wearing the shirt what do you think well first off
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this book, I love what's going on here as far as the overarching story.
[SPEAKER_01]: This issue was rough because our team is losing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mouseman is winning, and so that's frustrating, but I'm very excited to keep reading.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully we can turn this around.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So the good guys could win, but man, this is such amazing art, tons of action.
[SPEAKER_01]: and saying twists and turns and stuff like this makes me glad I don't live in New York City and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those fucking rats are huge for a fucking huge.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really liking this art at Ark as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Particularly as we are experiencing a rise in fascism here in the United States.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's tough read, but
[SPEAKER_02]: watching or rather reading Tom King plumbing into the origins of this sort of thing at the same time through a superhero context makes it feel very timely.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's also really putting Wonder Woman on her back foot in a surprising way.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you feel nervous for her and you want her to win.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything in this arc has been so easy up until this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, Dad Y'all said, Perry is incomparable in the action arena.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amazing Spider-Man, number 14 from Marvel Written by Joe Kelly, art by Ed McKinnis and Todd Nock.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the part of the story that I was focusing on.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's happening on Earth?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're Norman Osborn is the Spider-Man costume, and Ben Riley is trying to be Peter Parker.
[SPEAKER_02]: While we got that revelation, this issue shows how it's actually kind of difficult for both of them in different ways to be stepping into these roles.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, it gives you a real appreciation for Peter Parker and everything that he does, I think, right, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just excited that you're having such a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Joe Kelly is an amazing writer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm just happy that this is like hitting such a chord with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's very sweet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is hitting a chord with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really enjoying this amazing spider-bad run quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was an interesting one because it does complicate things for these two characters and it jumps around to a lot of different places.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I feel like the last couple of issues were a little more focused, but
[SPEAKER_02]: I like what they're doing with Ben Riley and Kazum.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like what they're doing with hollows Eve in this house.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Solosy favorite characters in the past couple of years and the Norman stuff giving him new villains at a rogue's gallery of his own is pretty neat as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's move on then and talk about G. I. Joe number 12 from sky bowed to image comics written by Joshua Williamson art by Marko Fodera.
[SPEAKER_02]: This issue is not exactly a done in one, but we are focusing on a new joke called shooter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, prison.
[SPEAKER_02]: How she gets to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why she gets out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you're our G.I.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joe guy, take it away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, shoot him again.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's up?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is, uh, yeah, I mean, I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just, uh, as a shooter's tour, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to your shanties.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, I, I think that this is just kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get Lady Jay in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get Beachhead.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, who does the love Beachhead?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Imagine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see Beachhead.
[SPEAKER_02]: He does the same to have like a sad deep whole
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, man, it's been a long time since I remember the origins of this shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is why we hired you for the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Beach Hat.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's had a lot of great fun stuff, and this, and it's nice to see him be in himself and here, but then we get major blood, teams of with Destro and Cobra, but Destro's got some side projects, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some evil side plans.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This really feels like it's an extension of the cartoon that I love from back in the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, this just is hitting on all cylinders for me and it's an absolute blast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this issue was all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a solid but unspetacular issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoy the shooter character.
[SPEAKER_02]: There seems to be a lot of pieces there to being sent in place for other things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Frankly, this left me with more of an appetite for the next issue, when we're getting Tom Riley back on heart.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing against the art for this one, but Tom Riley is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: on this title and the focus of the dreddock war that's coming up and i think that's going to help a lot to give it a lot of uh... a lot of uff going for cool yeah well but uh... crazy shooter is uh... you know might not be the best uh... good guy so you know i mean that was some of some co-blotting shit
[SPEAKER_02]: Justice League read at number three from D.C.
[SPEAKER_02]: Comics written by Selidan on bed, art by Clayton Henry.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a team put together by Red tornado that is doing basically some tasterly deans and gets them well to try to stop the rise of apocalypse.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very curious given that revelation this issue because he lays out like, hey, I've seen apocalypse is coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing we can do to stop it unless we do these things and I think we'll be successful.
[SPEAKER_02]: and the they're leading up to a mission.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're almost definitely not going to do next issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm wondering whether how this ties into DCKO, which is kind of the same thing, like are we going to find out an issue 5 or 6 that they failed and DCKO happens or what happens or what happens or is it too parallel training running?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hear you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But fun kind of last panel.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we got the fun bad guys, the church of blood here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Green lanterns just ridiculous for using sticky hands to fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that just drives me insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I love the pace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: This really does feel like a kind of just sleep book.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can't trust red tornado.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've said it once.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, you never stop saying that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'd ever stop saying it is time for the age of revelation to begin.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is once again a con us, as we're going to be talking about this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is hand gesture.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is doing the side of the train.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would do a better gesture if we didn't have like a small stream yard window going out here, but I would have to reach around.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you just said no, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have that trickle to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got that and all that out too, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, that's a lot of work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm not going to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be talking about this week's age or Revelation titles, the expeditals where they've been eating X-years into the future where Revelation has destroyed and wrecked a budget.
[SPEAKER_02]: Revelation!
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about each title individually, but we got a breakable X-Men, Iron and Frost, Rogue Storm, Sinister 6.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was about to skip to the next one, which is a similar title.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those are our titles for this week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, we won't do this every week, but just two weeks in, I know we were like cut a 50, 50 last week about the beginning titles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we're two weeks in, now we haven't even more titles.
[SPEAKER_02]: How are you feeling about this event?
[SPEAKER_01]: Not good?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, worse, worse, than before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say, yeah, worse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I still am on cut of the same track where there were some titles.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this week, some titles.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't quite into, but the thing that was weird to me about this week that I think they did last week, but I didn't notice as much is, ostensibly, they've had just gotten 10 years into the future, but they're also showing us,
[SPEAKER_02]: here's what happened six years of the future and seven years and I appreciate they put in the work to figure out the whole timeline but also I'm like just job ten years of the future and show us what's good like hit the ground and let's go for there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, anyway, I'm not quite sure what we're doing with this event.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't like all of this for a play is what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, let's get to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's get to the reach around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unbreakable, that's man.
[SPEAKER_02]: This week by Gell Simone, Art by Lucas Wernick, and this is focusing on the new or leads, X-Men or at least what are left of them, and this is where we get to see what happened to Rogue, what happened to Gambit,
[SPEAKER_02]: bunch of other things going on here that are pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, what do you think about this one?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, I really love the art style.
[SPEAKER_01]: So cool, I had such a cool tone to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has this kind of like, they're like, all right, this starts seven years from now.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has this kind of future kind of look to it, which I really appreciated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is heartbreaking, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is heartbreaking to see kind of what happens with the road.
[SPEAKER_01]: soul galactus thing and then you know Remi is blind but you know a sick long hair you know um yeah so uh it's uh it's a tough start because it's like hey uh one of your fucked up story about some characters you love uh i'm not sure well tough shit buckle up asshole so it's uh it's uh it's not fun to watch uh people you root for and uh
[SPEAKER_01]: Dyer get frozen as giant beings.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you on Lucas.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're next art.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was great throughout as it always is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Galsawon just has a great handle on Gambit and Rogue.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this beginning of the issue that really focuses on the relationship.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you're saying, very hard breaking throughout.
[SPEAKER_02]: It starts to
[SPEAKER_02]: get into more of the mythology that she set up in uncanny X men in the second part of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sort of about two minds of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: One, it's complicated.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it loses a bit of that strong emotion of those first couple of pages.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I also lawn her for continuing and expanding out the story she is already telling versus wiping a clean and essentially telling a new story that takes place ten years later.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That makes it fit right in without any X-Men.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like I said, the beginning was so such a strong shot across the bow that when we eventually got to like, okay we're dealing with the dark artery and Galactus under the sea and all of these other things that I like.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not quite as emotionally attached to these things as I have to real good get that what are the great low stories of comics So yeah, that's all but happy to follow us by going why don't we turn to the next one another love story
[SPEAKER_02]: number one from Marvel by Kevin Scott, Art by Rari Coleman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, we get jumping back a few years to show what happened to Emma Frost.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't exactly get to see what to have to start, but at least as you can tell from the title, this book is dealing with the romance that they had towards the end of the Kukohara and extrapolating into this new era.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's too bad just it or third co-host isn't here because this is definitely his thing and like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves this team up He loves Iron Man and Frost so this is right in his alley and if just what he's hearing Pete if you have someone's here You just talk about how great this is so just you know have a nice moment for that, but yeah, yeah, I mean
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha, uh, frost is kind of uh, I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, it's hard to root for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the reveal at the end, I'm like, oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Iron King, uh, uh, Google, Google, who the fuck is the Iron King?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm not sure what's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: The reveal, the Iron King at the edge is just maybe Tony Stark died.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he served like a, uh, tin would's been type deal now who is all Arbor.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't exactly know.
[SPEAKER_02]: maybe he's protecting himself from the virus also we don't know about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I don't know, I kind of like the stuff with Amber Frost in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was well done.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do think there's very clearly a wizard of Oz the going out with the fact that she doesn't have a heart and Tony Stark is the kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: Woodman, I guess we'll see what happens with any of the other characters and whether they got a journey to see the wizard being revelation probably or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just hard for me when it's like, oh man, Frost has gone through all those kinds of stuff
[SPEAKER_01]: she's kind of the worst.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to rude for a character you don't like.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this couple as well, maybe not as strongly as just it, but I'm curious to see what they do with this romance going forward because I'm happy to see it again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm happy to play with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: What about, so let me just to recap you like to reach around and you like to play with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're doing good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, what are you?
[UNKNOWN]: 12.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rogue Storm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one is also from Marvel, right by Barry, a Yodale art by Roland Bosky.
[SPEAKER_02]: And again, we're getting these two jumping timelines.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're seeing this as a theme here with this week where we find out
[SPEAKER_02]: Then at some point in the past, Rogue split into two robes, Rogue Red and Brod, and that's how the Rogue is dead in the breakable X-Men.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's still alive at Rogue's store.
[SPEAKER_02]: She tried to kill Storm because Storm was going crazy and out of control with her powers and destroying the Sahara, and then in the future Storm is coming after Rogue and wants to kill her.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to have to the story.
[SPEAKER_02]: which is plainly depicted on the cover here.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, sick cover, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is cool, really does a great job of setting things up for the inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is heartbreaking, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like to see these two queens fighting.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're unbelievable characters, some of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I love the art, but, you know, it's also heartbreaking when you got Korean and red and like one gets love and the other gets to hide behind a tree and cry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just heart breaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: But storm being a badass at moments is really cool and those sick knuckle dusters are fucking badass for rogue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm enjoying this as much as I hate to see them fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still think this is a really badass idea and well drawn.
[SPEAKER_01]: But of all this, this is the thing that I'm joined the most.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to shout out the rogue red, rogue greed is my favorite thing that has come out of this event so far, just because it is the only thing that doesn't feel like, yeah, cyclops, but he has kind of a bigger beard now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we're like, oh, it's Wolverine, but he's lost his memory again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now he has a different costume.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Rogue Red Rogue Green is such a like classic comic book thing, and to throw in there, oh, yeah, there was this event that you missed where they were split into two people and now there's two
[SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly the sort of thing you would have seen like a X-Men story line play out over the course of 12 issues a year or whatever before they're integrated.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so to throw that in there, be like, oh yeah, it's not just all about revelation and everything that's happening, but also like other comic book story lines have been going out at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to see Rogan Storm fight, but the idea of setting them up as these diabetic opposites giving us paired stories of the coming to each other is what's again, just such creative structure for Merua Yodelay who is crushing it out the story book as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this is just a good comic that I really enjoyed reading that almost barely has anything to do with the age of revelation of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And frankly, maybe that's like, that's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's using it as a springboard to be like, like he does in every issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I can do whatever I want with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: So why don't I do whatever I want?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't I choose the most interesting possibility rather than the safest possibility?
[SPEAKER_02]: So really good stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And last one, Sinister 6, number one, for Barvel rid by David Marquez, Art by Rafael Louraro, for the title, this is a team run by Mr. Sinister and in this issue, they're trying to track down Vettum and by the end of the issue, it's revealed that Sinister is trying to send his team to take down Revelation.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, that is what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got the heroes from higher here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're not the prize, but they're bait.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a kind of fun line.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was delivered there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and bait for Venom, and then we see Lord Sinister, which I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel about that title.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And Lord Sinners seems like he's got somebody's kid, he's holding, which I don't like that either.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but the Lord wants to stop their revelations, so hopefully that'll happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: As opposed to Rogue Storm, this is the most classic crossover comic book to me, where you just got this team, they're going to go on a mission, you throw it a couple of camios and you're good to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I thought this was fine, this was solid, but
[SPEAKER_02]: It also plays into one of the things that I just do not get as of yet with this event at all, is why any of these characters have signed up with anybody else?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, definitely what they're like, I believe in what Revelation is doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got one of his sorrows.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, why?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why did you choose this side?
[SPEAKER_02]: What exactly is going on here?
[SPEAKER_02]: And is the same thing with the sinister team where I'm like, why are they working for sinister?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't quite understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess for is it like he has things on all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why maybe I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just didn't seem abundantly clear to me in this first issue and again it was just like hey let's put some cool X4C style characters together and turn black cat into another cat character and then when we already have several X bed cat characters at this point then go and get some extreme stuff and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I just want something a little more, a little more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the revelation is over this week.
[SPEAKER_02]: The revelation block move on and talk about rogue son at number 30 from image comics for it by ride parrot and to cotton art by able, uh, wanted to read through this one of the stack because, uh, come on, it's heaps up with rogue side and verse the Gargwell's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, for one, this is more classic.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then the earth.
[SPEAKER_02]: and we get a tease that there's more to come next year which is pretty cool Pete, you're more the spawn guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm more the roguest son guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can we agree on this book?
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see spawn and roguest son kind of team up.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you know, to fight this witch, and you know, spawn just kind of stomps out her heart, which is co-blooded, but that's how spawn rolls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then we get the fun kind of violator reveal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, this was a nice comic package.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt very seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why.
[SPEAKER_01]: because they went with like spawn in the medieval times but not medieval spawn, which I was a little like as a huge fan of medieval spawn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, why didn't we use medieval spawn here, but maybe that had been too confusing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let me ask you a question, medieval spawn is like on night, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I think that's why, because what I really liked about this issue that I thought was very smart is, I don't know why that happened, which is very smart, is that
[SPEAKER_02]: You think Rook's son who looks like a knight is going to be the good guy and Spawn who is a hellspawn is the bad guy, you know, whatever we know about the characters like that's other presenting themselves, but Spawn is the one who's actually better and conflicted about everything that's going on and Rook's son is kind of a joke and not particularly great.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there was a really nice flip there in terms of the expectations and I'd imagine that's why they didn't use medieval spawn.
[SPEAKER_02]: they are going to be using this upcoming crossover because they do it have these two night characters versus two people that are coming at this problem from very different directions.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well thank you for explaining to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes me feel better.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my take on it because I really like this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was a really good crossover issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, really fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, best issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: The best crossover event of red people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, we're really plused it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's see if we plus this one up crypto the last dog of crypto number five from DC comics written by Ryan Northart by Mike Norton The final issue of this title is going to finally makes his way home tonight This has been a rough emotional journey for our beloved Had you feel about how it wrapped up Pete
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was really impressed how much I like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this a lot more than I thought I was really just kind of touching story, you know, talking about crypto, not the currency, you know, save in a family and then find Superman and they're finally together at last and just sweet ending.
[SPEAKER_01]: great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was really impressed by this kind of like crypto walk in the earth, help them people along the way, kind of kung fu thing that this was.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome, pressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought it was really sweet how it wrapped up.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that I've been saying every issue so far is Mike Norton is really evolved his style for this book in a surprising way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really clean.
[SPEAKER_02]: It really beautiful and it just feels timeless in the same way that
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very different style with the same way tib sales, art fields, super bad for all seasons and other things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a great volume, definitely pick it up if you want to ask.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, the Punisher Red Ben number two from Marvel, written by Benjamin Percy, art by Julius Ota, the Punisher is being controlled by the Kingpin,
[SPEAKER_02]: who is decided he wants to clean up New York and the bloodiest way possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get to see more of that this issue has Frank wrestles with being mind-controlled as well as tube stone, bloodily doing stuff and one thing that I have said with the last issue that I will continue to emphasize with this one, it actually in a rare case since earning it's red-bad rating because some real gross stuff happens in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it sure does, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is tough.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is really tough for me because every time I'm like, yes, another punishment for comic, I'm so excited to read this and then at some point during the comic they lose me, which is weird, but hey, you know, it selfish of me to think that I'm going to love every, every punisher comic or every comic is going to be in my world house.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got to learn to share.
[SPEAKER_01]: And but some of the fun parts for me were old lady sock on the phone and then Frank shoes the phone At a very edge.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's trying to call 911 So there were some fun over the top moments, but it lost me when Kingpin started getting naked and whipping himself He was graduating himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's something that he was doing in Daredevil as well, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so, but anyway
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know, I was having fun up until there.
[SPEAKER_02]: This issue wasn't as strong to me as the first issue, which was this.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, big statement piece here, we're getting more of it and continuing it, but there wasn't really a standout scene or revelation like there was in the first issue, it just kind of kept going with what it was doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the, there was a badass like, Mama with the jewelry shooting the semi-truck, you know, that was kind of badass, that was okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did like the description of, was it him heading through the Lincoln Tuttle, like a bullet through the barrel of a gun?
[SPEAKER_02]: That was some good right it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a good run in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Invincible universe, battle beast number six from Skybass.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's comics written by Robert Kirkman, art by Ryan Otley, battle beast is fighting one of these two gigantic, classices, one of whom he thought he killed spoiler.
[SPEAKER_02]: He did not as we fight out of this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other one he is going head to head with as she is unprepared for the fury of battle beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then by the end of this issue, we get some
[SPEAKER_02]: huge, huge cameos and teas of more for the invincible universe that are very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I continue to really enjoy this comic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's silly.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's over the top.
[SPEAKER_02]: It knows what it is, which is just big things fighting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I fucking love this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: This continues to be one of my favorite in the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I wish I could go back in time when we were talking about the DCKO event.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we were asked who we want to see, because battle beast would be an unbelievable fun character reveal that would be such a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this book continues to kick so much ass and be such a fun exploration of battle beast.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is kind of taking on this giant monster.
[SPEAKER_01]: and then is like about to win and the monster calls the timeout which is kind of hilarious and then just kind of throws him across the world to give themselves some time to heal before the battle rages back on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I'm having such a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is so insanely violent in all the right ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing art and action, cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been just having an absolute blast with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I'd throw out there beyond everything you said because this is very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get our little prince guy who got smooched last issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: He very quick ago grows back his tidy limbs, which is very nice, and that the ships computer that they would ride around is now into his former robot armor body.
[SPEAKER_02]: They started drawing that robot armor body is kind of like a sexy lady, and I think there's going to be some romance going on between our shrunken prince and the ship armor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh wow, I think he had to hit you, ship in the ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I'm ship in the ship, but the kind of teas of the Vulture might throw in conquest, our way is also very exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then we have a five month break, so we'll see you back here today.
[SPEAKER_01]: See you in five months.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be here waiting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Captain America number four from Marvel written by Chipsodarsky art by Valerio Shiba.
[SPEAKER_02]: Captain America is fighting Dr. Doom or Rarity for the Marvel Universe, meanwhile David Colton, the other Captain America who was brought in while he was on ice is wrestling with the Dastardly D is that the United States government is making them do, leading to potentially a confrontation next issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been a little iffy about this run, but how are you feeling
[SPEAKER_01]: Well yeah, this is tough because we get two stories here.
[SPEAKER_01]: One story, I absolutely love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second one not so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of watching cats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which one do you love and which one do you not love?
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked the one I am fighting doom.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the one where he's kind of going bad is, it's heartbreaking as fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but that's a different cap.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's David Colton.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, still, it's not fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's not fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still, I keep hunting this off, but I got a red next issue to know how this actually comes together because so far like you're saying, down to the coloring, there are two trades, right, I get the same time, and I don't understand how these two stories gel together.
[SPEAKER_02]: They both move on their own.
[SPEAKER_02]: but I'm very curious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman on limited number six from DC Comics written by Dan Slot, art by Raphael Albofield.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mike Norton in this issue, Superman is down in the old Kryptonite city.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Emerald city had battling for a Sunstone, I believe it is, which is a
[SPEAKER_02]: fight between Louis and also superman, of course, and this nation, Pete, which you think about this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, I want to shout out the Kirki Big fan of the Raphael Albuquerque's work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just here for the Super Bowl Bill because that is a sterical thing for my childhood where it's a Superman spaceship with just, you know, arms and hands in the front that can punch and grab things.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that just kind of always brings me back to an nostalgic place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was just kind of having a fun time with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Lawrence is great in it, a salad art, fun to use the spaceship.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I I enjoy this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is fun and like you're saying it's classic dad slot to be like I'm gonna bring a toy into this That's a good time and that's okay now everything needs to be serious sometimes it could be ridiculous So I don't mind me The spider mobile 100% yeah Yeah, yeah, exactly what it is, and that's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun comics are really sometimes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's have a good time
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Fred, here's another great time.
[SPEAKER_02]: The incredible Hulk at number 30 from Marvel, written by Philip Kennedy, Johnson, art by Dick Clyde.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a huge issue that Philip has been promising.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll change everything for the Hulk and the biggest status quo that we've got.
[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe he was a little overhypigate, but like I don't know, not completely because big stuff goes down here as he finishes this stage of this overarching storyline with eldest and the mother of hers with some surprising revelations there a big fight between not exactly the abomination of the Hulk so big changes going down here what you think Pete will first off fantastic cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a crazy ish bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the banner gets ripped out of the hall too.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was so gross.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then this kind of idea of the infernal hall, where we just kind of see a giant fist.
[SPEAKER_01]: So join us next time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy crap.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just body-hormer horror, but it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having a great time, I'm also nervous, but I'm excited, yeah, this is just really incredible and super badass and shit is going down quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited to see what's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lobbies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is a great team on this, Nick Klein has been fantastic on the art drawing the most terrific image is possible and like you mentioned with that ripping batter, out thing, and I think it was like, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
[SPEAKER_02]: pretty grass.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you stand with me for a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: Curious to see the implication seems to be that this fertile Hulk is going to go after the Marvel Universe and I'm excited to get out of this like dreamlike wasteland and see what happens when that Hulk gets back on earth and starts tangling with people.
[SPEAKER_02]: So great run so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, lucky devils never five from the image comics written by Charles Sol art by Ryan Brown.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of big stuff goes down to this issue as are made to devils who are trying to corrupt two people and up as you can see on the cover here are fighting.
[SPEAKER_02]: They haven't quite seen eye to eye this whole time about what to do next as things get worse at hell.
[SPEAKER_02]: The news is tightening on them and we even get a big curse words not even at least.
[SPEAKER_01]: a paddle with a word come on I mean that's just fun what do you think about this one Pete so yeah yeah you kind of got these two demons in hell and unfortunately they were kind of on board with this plan and now they're on different sides
[SPEAKER_01]: and it's heartbreaking because Vell is kind of, you know, pulling away and she wants to kind of keep doing horrible things and he's like, you know, maybe we should.
[SPEAKER_01]: be telling these humans to be doing good stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, classic, you know, fights in area where, you know, relationships are hard, and you can start out on the same page.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, things happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Life changes people and even demons.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I don't know, man, it's, it's heartbreaking, but I'm pulling for these devils to work things out and that you hurt humans in the process.
[SPEAKER_01]: If that's possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like the love the other layer love the pace.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, love the art love the pace.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's always some fun weird funny stuff that's going on here as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're losing track of the humans and the essential concept a little bit as they start to layer on all of these different things of this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm still intrigued by it and I'm curious about whatever mission statement they're going to end up at.
[SPEAKER_02]: because Charles has always very smart about that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's a very smart writer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Artificial number two from image comics by Marielle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is about a woman who has hired a sex cyborg for a weekend.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she hasn't really paid attention to the directions.
[SPEAKER_02]: We all do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get something.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't really do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, that's fine, I doubt it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this is going to be pretty bad for her as an old flame comes back that she has to reject while.
[SPEAKER_02]: This android is still in role play mode.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that things are going to get worse for there and as usual with a very 11-book There's a lot of sex going on
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of tech, and there's a lot of sat down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't read this in a public setting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Particularly not if you take it and you turn it around and show you have jumpy bull, yeah, don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't read this to a group of second graders.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like don't break that in as you're reading material, be like, hey kids, you want to hear the story?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's story time, it's story time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got to learn about sex side effects.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, listen.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the future, we all might be fucking cyborgs, so we gotta learn the lesson to be clear.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not really... We're fucked around.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're fucked around.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna be fucking cyborgs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just to be clear.
[SPEAKER_02]: Case.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you look over the t-shirt and the t-shirt's like, thumbs up!
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two things up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, while you're getting kicked out of class, play moss.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll give you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll write you a pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll write you a note.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, the arts glorious, the artist does unbelievable artistic work here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, go ahead out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, I, I just think this is like a good.
[SPEAKER_02]: smart, funny tech nightmare.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like that she keeps getting further instructions.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, yeah, in the garbage, which is just this is even like, she's done anything particularly wrong, which is going to be punished for by this android going out of control.
[SPEAKER_02]: So much as doing the thing we all do, like I was saying of, you got to glance at the instructions.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: and familiar with something, and done it a bunch of times, I don't read the instructions.
[SPEAKER_01]: But first time, yeah, yeah, I'm a read them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think it's very typical behavior, though, and I like this as extrapolating it to the worst extreme possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is, it's funny, it's arch, I don't know, and like you said, great art from love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't move on to our last book here, Godzilla destroys the Marvel Universe number four from Marvel, written by Jerry Dougett, Art by Havier Grown at the dog Zina after batterishing Godzilla for many years.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is back and coming for the Marvel Universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what do they do?
[SPEAKER_02]: They form a giant neck to take him down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Voltron Stiles and Cyclops, you're the heat vision.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, this is fun, this is just a fun idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we get Hulk fighting Godzilla, then the Submariner, I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: really was super nice to help out Hulk and it kind of brings a giant crab like lobster to fight Godzilla and distract for a little while and then the Black Panther is able to build this Voltron suit we get to see where all the heroes are in the Voltron suit which I'm sure won't be a problem when they start fighting Godzilla but hey this is just fun set up and
[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of fun versus, you know, type of thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I like the the art has a light playful tone to it Which I think makes a lot of sense for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is just yeah exactly what it sets up to do in delivers
[SPEAKER_02]: I am surprised about the light joky tone that has been throughout the series, but we're four issues in, so that's nothing I can fight against.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like the cross-section showing all the different heroes of the different part of what is a jet Jaguar suit or whatever they're building there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the one like...
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that I don't love about the art, Justin and I this weekend talk to Sars Farrow Pay who's doing TMNT, Godzilla over at IDW.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we talked a little bit about how you capture scale when you're doing something like this because TMNT, small, Godzilla big.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can listen to that interview.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's going on later on this week, but it really struck me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I won't, but thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: No problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tim Sealy, we also talked to Tim Sealy in Farrow Pay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But fine, fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, thanks, Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, the scale was off in this issue just because like, you saw Hulk injecting the pin particles, but he was the same size throughout, at least in terms of what we were seeing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we weren't seeing the background, we weren't seeing him grow big.
[SPEAKER_02]: which destroyed the size matchup between oh bad, we have a Kaiju size Hulk taking on Godzilla, you don't get the sense of how huge that is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the same thing when the Jet Jaguar suit first came in, it was just kind of the same size which makes it feel small.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there was a little bit of those issues that I was having throughout the issue, issues through the issue, but
[SPEAKER_02]: You know it's fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like it is what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't issues with the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what I'm excited for is I'm hoping Godzilla will knock off the Head and it will just knock off sideclubs and then continue fighting without sideclubs and we'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll see you obviously
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is it for the stack.
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