[SPEAKER_02]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the stack on Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Pete and on the stack we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week comic books specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I know just to clarify what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, did you read a bunch of novels?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let me put my copy of mobile dig down.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just like
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, too big.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's my review.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Worth it for the well.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we get into these comic books because there's lots of great ones to talk about kicking it off with absolute Batman number ten from DC comics written by Scott Snyder, art by Nick Trigoda and the last issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bruce was investigating Ark M, a strange facility off the side of Gotham City and was attacked by the future of the usual bayon.
[SPEAKER_02]: This issue finds him imprisoned in Ark M and slowly broken emotionally and physically by bayon as bayon is want to do leading to some shocking changes to several characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: We followed this far.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you're given the devil horns.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe you may have liked this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a fucking blast man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, this is so bad as this is just I mean, do you want to see heavy metal Batman fuck shit up?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the comic man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't believe how much fun I'm having reading this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: The art isn't sane.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's perfect for this version of Batman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn, I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It continues to be just such a great kind of vibe and I
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I feel like people are going to be talking about this run for years to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just glorious.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I really liked about this issue is we saw Batman get beaten up by black mask in the first arc and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it feels so much more palpable here where he has lost.
[SPEAKER_02]: and he doesn't know he's lost he keeps thinking he's going to win and he keeps losing over and over again which is what this book is all about what's working about this book that we've talked about a lot is even as they change and tweak the characters they stay true to the core of them and the core of vain
[SPEAKER_02]: is despite his whole exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: He actually is very smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a platter.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is somebody who looks forward to enjoy slowly breaking somebody down.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was leading in the comics to breaking the back of that man.
[SPEAKER_02]: that's become something that's really evolved over time into that's what he likes to do and that's exactly what he's doing here not only that we get like I said some really big changes specifically to Bruce that I'm really curious because this book has anything goes said civility
[SPEAKER_02]: whether they're going to keep with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm dancing around the spoilers here, and I will put like a black at spoiler warning for all the books we could talk about.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's the thing that happens with the book that intrinsically changes the physicality of Bruce Wayne, which in a normal bad bad book, I'd be like, ah, I'll be fine by the next arc.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here I don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, like I don't know what's going to happen to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's always a very exciting place to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last but not least, just got to wrap this up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say, Nick Trigoda is crushing it on this book every issue, really pushing himself harder and harder, fantastic stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all that and then some but also like I love that scene where they're like the doctors are kind of examining his body and they're like we found all these hidden compartments where he has stashed like all these different brought me so much joy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just such a cool idea that is so well executed and got him having so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Imperial number two, from Marvel, written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Federico Vincetidian Ivan Quello.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the second of four parts.
[SPEAKER_02]: The big cosmic event where Jonathan Hickman is remaking the fabric of Marvel's outer galaxies.
[SPEAKER_02]: There were a bunch of burners in the first issue, and this issue, everybody, the galaxy is gunning for the Wakundans
[SPEAKER_02]: But we as the readers know they're not behind it.
[SPEAKER_02]: They in fact have been framed.
[SPEAKER_02]: We find out a lot more about that this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some big power struggles and changes by the end tier as well as more of a tease of who the big villain is behind it.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about this one, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, this is action packed and a lot goes down on this issue, but also cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: It kind of reminds me a little bit of civil war covers where they had those black or just like those solid cover parts on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And anyways, yeah, oh man, black Panther fighting two halques.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I didn't want that to end.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted more of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's just so much war, so much going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is such, this is really kind of getting into it and get going.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I cannot wait to read what's coming next and the art is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: A couple of things that I really liked about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was very chaotic at the beginning and I think purposefully so because we are thrusted to the middle of a doorbass battle scene.
[SPEAKER_02]: But once it really settled out, it focused on the characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really appreciated and this is a big spoiler here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I sure he gets captured and held out the ship by Nova and Starlord.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are not being idiots.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I, there was a point to this book where I was like, all these people don't each other and I feel like somebody at some point could be like, hey, what contents did you actually do this?
[SPEAKER_02]: They'd be like, nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they kind of move out for there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's almost exactly what happens at that conversation where they're like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: This seems a little weird, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: and start to figure out that something is wrong behind the scenes so they're jamming through that quickly which is great and I agree with you on the whole thing the moment would back panther
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I don't know about you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you have a dog in the fight here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think when you come into this, you're like, that guy could be that guy, which is a lot of what this is about.
[SPEAKER_02]: But once Black Panther pulls up with the condons, we're like, well, everybody's screwed.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is one thousand Batman's in a Panther series.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's going to be he has a million plans to beat them all the ready.
[SPEAKER_02]: And having a Hulk at Obbeda, I show Joe Joe up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a great moment because you feel that like, oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit is right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was this going to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was this going to work because a show is the smart Hulk and now I was like, yeah, I mean, like how you go to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's very exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: At the beginning, I was home-fing a little bit and be like, I don't know about this, and we're just gonna have non-stop space battles.
[SPEAKER_02]: This may be a little hard to follow, but by the end, I was all in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a theory?
[SPEAKER_02]: I had thrown out last issue that I felt like Loki and Games Baster are behind this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not one hundred percent sure about the Loki thing anymore, though it probably is Games Baster, but do you have any theories?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's got that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be Games Baster.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, put down the chess piece and
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, you know, he's all sitting in space playing games.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will see what happens next up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Star Trek red shirts number one from IDW.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now this is probably the red block.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: We go red coat red shirt.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like right back to back, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, no, that's later on in the stack.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I shook him a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Start truck red shirts number one for my DW written by Christopher Kent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, art by Megan Levins.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody was a Star Trek fan, and I'm sure other folks know as well that red shirts is a running joke with Star Trek universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: The going back to the original series where anybody with a red shirt would go out of the way, but it should be like, oh, that guy's going to die.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the concept here is all of these red shirts are sent on a dangerous suicide squad style mission together.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that I was really surprised about with the series, particularly because, I don't know if you read it, I never put out this name, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: But John Slasey has a book called Red Shirts that is about this, that plays with it, it's very funny throughout.
[SPEAKER_02]: This pretty serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I was shocked by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a tone, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, but I also love the idea of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we open on this guy and it's like parents are all proud of them for making it through the academy and get it on like you're a red shirt bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like don't celebrate too early, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, this is well executed idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very scared about how this is going to go down.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I love the start of this, you know, stakes are high.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know what happens with the red shirt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think for me, I need to get past.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was expecting this to be like a bunch of like, oops, they died.
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that funny thing?
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's on the less of the deaths, just cops that like, oops, fell off the planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's one hundred percent now, but it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, it's like very much more of a suicide squad type thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of characters right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I do sort of whittle down.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, once that is and once speaking like focus in on a couple of characters a little harder, I think that'll grab me a little more, but like you said, interesting concept, curious to see where it goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me, absolutely flash number five from DC Comics, or by Jeff Lamier, art by A.L.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kaplan.
[SPEAKER_02]: This issue, the flash, little baby gorilla grud, are taking on a heat wave, one of the escaped experiments.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to see last issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's mostly a big battle scene in this issue, which I thought was interesting, though we do get some big revelations by the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: We haven't exactly been going back and forth on this, but I think this is one that's like, sometimes sits towards the middle or bottom, at least when we're talking about absolute books.
[SPEAKER_02]: So how are you feeling about this issue in particular?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I do, I'm enjoying this flash more than I do normally enjoy flash.
[SPEAKER_01]: That says something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really love the pace and the action level on this, but the impending doom is getting to me a little bit with the monkey because it's like, God, but it's a young baby grad who's cute and adorable and I'm just like, stop fucking getting close to this goddamn monkey bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is gonna trust the monkey.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you can't, it's God, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, the impending doom of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're kind of, you know, cop on issues.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, maybe you'll be right, but I'm not getting impending doom in the reason I'm not.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just a lot of times comics say it to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a new world that anything can happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: All this new thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything can happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we still kind of end up in the same place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, all right, but I feel like there's a lot of stuff going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Killer crock got changed into a giant crocodile and Batman wrote it, which was amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, they're not enemies, they're friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's friends with a crocodile.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, why can't flash be friend with a monkey?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why can't they all have animal friends?
[SPEAKER_01]: I have no problem with animal friends, but that's gorilla grunt.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't be crock is also you like it with killer crock dates people though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a soft spot for crock.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're not going to get me with this example.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Never mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we move on to talk about another big lizard Godzilla just as the lovely
[SPEAKER_02]: The universe number one for Marvel, run by Jerry Duggen, art by Javier Goron.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're reading all the one shots where Godzilla goes around at fights, characters, one-on-one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Forget about those.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a totally new continuity where Godzilla is attacking because of stuff that the Mulman did and a fantastic horror trying to stop them.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are some big things that go down with Marvel characters by the end here and some new ones join the fray.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you're the big Godzilla guy, so what do you think of this?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a great set up, a fun cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good tone for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a lot of really funny moments in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love to when Ben Graham broke into J. Jonah James or broke through John Jonah Jameson's office and was like, I'll men spider-man try the lizard serum and turned into giant monster.
[SPEAKER_01]: J.J.
[SPEAKER_01]: jumps up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, I knew it, just hysterical.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that like after Mulman
[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Pan-Tex is like, everybody be quiet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody upset Godzilla, mobile management, zaps him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Mr. Pan-Texing punches him in the face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a fun idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: And right now they're executing it well.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in great hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the art is bright and fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: To the point that you're making, I was surprised how comedy-heavy this was versus the red shirts book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, this might just be adjusting by expectations, but given the title and the cover and everything, I was like, here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: It could be real serious destruction of the vault.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did really like how they are grown so hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here it reminded me it's not quite as extreme, but it reminded me a little bit of Aaron Kuder and oh my gosh, I'm forgetting the name of the late great artist who did fantastic for Iron Man big in Japan.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's nowhere near us exaggerated his stuff and I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not remembering his name.
[SPEAKER_02]: That book is fantastic, by the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's definitely like more cartoony that I was expecting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: This ends tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, this is part of our Dougian block from image comics, by Jerry Dougan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Newcels and Mal, Robert Wimdom, art by Jay Lee.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you remember correctly, this is three interlocking stories.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can see if you're watching the YouTube version from the cover here.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a riff on the bride from Kill Bill.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is very Tarantino inspired where there are these three stories happening over one night in vacant Vegas that Chris Cross and kind of affect each other a little way.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one is a absolute wild one with two women who are on a night out and maybe fairies get involved possibly or baby dot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say I was super excited to see Jay Lee on interior series because
[SPEAKER_02]: never doesn't tear us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Always covers not in tears anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that alone made the book worth it to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you saying it's worth it for the art alone?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying it's worth it for J. Lee's art alone for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also great cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a couple of great covers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I grew with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really think the art is the hero here, and it's unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_01]: The twist in turns got a little too much for me, but I love these main characters that we're dealing with, and the art is tripped out in all the right ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, like any good movie, they say the title a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could not believe how many times they said this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, the first time I was like, oh, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I kept saying it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was like, I guess it's going to end tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if we see another night, I'm going to be super pissed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's take a little map and I'll see you tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am very curious to read the second issue of this because like you said, there it gets real weird of the last five pages or so.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious whether like we're done with this story or we're going to get more illumination about it by the time we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: flashback to another night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this is we're essentially going to be following like at certain points.
[SPEAKER_02]: They run through something else happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, but that's a story for another time.
[SPEAKER_02]: That story is going to be told to the next comic book.
[SPEAKER_02]: So my question is, are we going to get some clarification of what happens at the end of this issue?
[SPEAKER_02]: If the next issue or have we just moved on?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I feel like we'll walk away from it and then come back to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Crypto, the last dog of Krypton, number two from DC, comics written by Ryan North, art by Mike Norton at the end of the last issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is telling a new origin for Krypto.
[SPEAKER_02]: Krypto was picked up by Lex Luther and Lex Luther is a bad dog owner.
[SPEAKER_02]: bad bad bad bad person I think bad person yeah mm-hmm Pete you hate dogs and you like to hit them what the hot though well well well I'm sorry was I'd out supposed to reveal your truth oh don't don't put that on me you fucking asshole
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not funny, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have here, this is sad, and it's not fun to watch crypto get abused.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the movie, or he's everybody's favorite, and this is just heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, God, this is not Italian.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the opposite of what the movie was doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, spoilers.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets free and I felt really good about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, I was worried he died.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a great intense intense issue that I'm not always the biggest fan of seeing like young Lex Luther for whatever reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just something that just doesn't hit me.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're quite right.
[SPEAKER_02]: But man, Ryan North makes him so interesting in this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Obsedingly interesting and very negative, but
[SPEAKER_02]: a lot of that is tied into Mike Norton style and I said this was the first issue as well but I just think he's really like evolved his art style in a way and refined it for this series in particular so I've been really impressed with the images that Mike Norton has been putting in here right north makes something complicated and sad and figures out a way
[SPEAKER_02]: to make crypto a hero while also pushing Lex Luther forward emotionally.
[SPEAKER_02]: So really fascinating issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also didn't realize I guess maybe this series is season themed, which is interesting as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is the fall and next we're going to get winter.
[SPEAKER_02]: So great series so far, but a hard read particularly if you do not like watching animals get abused.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I feel like there's one guy listening out there's like, I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not a house of Ed number one from Marvel written by Colin Kelly and Jackson.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's solid in a mad art by Francesco Manna and Martin Cucalo.
[SPEAKER_02]: The front story is continuing Miss Marvel's journey through time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now per the title.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is in the house of Emma era while Legion or at least the powers of Legion are trying to do something at the background.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is all leading up to the climax in giant size X-Men number two, which comes out probably next week or the week after I honestly don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we get a backup story featuring Wolverine from back of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wolverine?
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you feel about this, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I thought the art was amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the Peter David and Memoram was very touching.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I liked the
[SPEAKER_01]: the kind of some of the things that happened in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the vote will bring back up was interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think where it got to.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we have Scarlett Witch in Legion kind of doing their no more mutants.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're like, oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no more mutants.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it's like, oh, there's a hundred and ninety eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was the decimation event.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what happened there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a good case that there's some left.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so I don't know what the fuck is going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I've been a little back and forth about this series of one shots.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the idea of Miss Marvel exploring her mutant heritage through these different eras is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some real fun stuff in this issue like seeing Legion go head to head with Scarlet Witch was pretty crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I wish we had gotten more of that because I really liked the idea of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a cool matchup and battle not to turn this into wrestling, but sometimes it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's some really funny moments at the end where Miss Marvel has decided to screw it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care about the Times Tree anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they figure out what they need to do and they're like, but we'd have to travel back in time to fix this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And immediately, she's like, Beast has a time machine and he's like, well,
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, I was going to tell you eventually.
[SPEAKER_02]: That may be left out loud at the last moment where she says we have to go back to the future.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was also very funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like I want a little more of that like I want a little more of that levity because you thought that was funny the back to the future at Wolverine's reaction to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Big leg cupcake.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are we doing here?
[SPEAKER_02]: That that was really played out like the rhythm of it was very fun and that sort of thing where it's like
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been saying this all along with these one shots the fact that every time travel story except this one is like we gotta be really careful with time and we're gonna screw this up and it's got the repercussions and Miss Marvel literally at one point in this is like
[SPEAKER_02]: And whatever happened happened, I don't know what we changed this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not how time trouble works.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's literally at a piece of media ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you're going to do that, if she is going to be Ms.
[SPEAKER_02]: Marvel destroys time in the Marvel universe, let's just go for it and do it and make it as insane as possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm hoping that that's what happens the next issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, GI Joe number nine from Skybound and image comics written by Joshua Williams in art by Andrea Malana picking up on the last issue of the Baroness and cover girl are in Paris.
[SPEAKER_02]: Baroness is there to visit her parents, but they are attacked by Baron blood and a raptor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to say yeah raptor, come on bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who has maybe the funniest origin possible in this issue?
[SPEAKER_02]: I like birds so I became one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's major blood just so you're where oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did he get a promotion all this Yeah, congrats Pete you're they let me take it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me take it from here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you solid cover first off This is just I mean you want to talk about childhood fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just you know in your backyard in the sandbox playing with these characters
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having such a, I thought like major blood and raptor versus baroness and cover girl is such a fun versus this is tons of action.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit, the last panel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what the fuck tune in next time?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I still wish they did like I really think
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex, they should just spend the last couple of panels just doing like a PSA.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't follow the septicons kids, you know, some like that were, you know, they just don't follow a septicon to a second location.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I'm just having such a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you are like these names mean nothing to me, but I'm a bit aside.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I like about this issue and what I like about this arc, you know, we do jump to some of the other characters at points of this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think focusing it on two of the Joe's who couldn't be more different and figure out what the relationship is to each other is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm liking following Baroness and cover girl and see how they work together and potentially against each other in this situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of it is very silly, like Raptor is very silly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're kind of winking at the camera, but they're winking at the camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: Same with Major Blood is also a little ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Major Blood's legit, so don't talk and mess with that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he always has a patch and, you know, it's still a marksman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think, but just a kind of geek out a little bit, but so cool about the Baroness and CoverGirl is a Baroness is Cobra and CoverGirl is Joe, and so the kind of clash of these two in this kind of new world is very interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I kind of just clarify for anybody, he is part of the Joe's in this continuity.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm trying to tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's nice is if you're, you know, you can just walk in and just kind of enjoy this for what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the old school kind of continuity adds a nice layer of like these two.
[SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't be together at all, which is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, Baroness is rich with dark hair and cover girl seems nice and she has blonde hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do they need a red hair joe that they can fight over?
[SPEAKER_02]: To a mud scarlet bro, you're talking about... No, like a guy, like a... Well, it can be scarlet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is she, is she a Archie type character, which I say?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, she's a joe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there a joe who is like a Archie type character?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a lot of them are.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many shit for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's me, Redhead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, that would be hilarious.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've just given up.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, this guy's called Redhead.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one's freckles.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're out of names.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate to tell you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they ran out of names all those to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm dare you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robin and Batman Jason Todd number two from DC comics written by Jeff LeBeehr art by Dustin Widdness back in the day when Jason Todd was still Robin per the title and he's being tempted by a new vigilante on the scene named a wrath.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I love this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dustin Widdness art is always gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_02]: His watercolors are next level in this issue in particular and
[SPEAKER_02]: This book is like sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very sad because Bruce, the ending hurts bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, not even the ending, but just like Bruce being like, I don't know, did I do wrong?
[SPEAKER_02]: Should I be giving Jason back?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like Bruce thinking about Jason almost like a foster puppy that he's taken in versus a boy and everybody around him being like, what are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: is just it's it's upsetting and it's meant to be upsetting but it makes it for a mix for a very interesting read also Jeff LeMier is doing an interesting thing what we see Batman a lot of times it's just this force of nature that gets knocked down and gets up again and this you're never gonna keep him dead thank you I just I got to do you a ridiculous I just think that like
[SPEAKER_01]: Having Batman's stop in question, you know, is something we don't see a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I shouldn't have tried to get this kid involved in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, as someone who reads a lot of Batman comics, I was really surprised by the twist and what they're doing here and I was like, oh shit, this is sad and hurts and I hope things get better.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's only issue two so that the good news is it could.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I just think that watercolors, it's definitely worth it for the art alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, they're doing a lot of big things in this and it's in great hands.
[SPEAKER_02]: Marvel nights the world's come number two for Marvel written by Christopher Priest art by Joe Cassada there was a bomb drop at the end of the last issue that Black Panther may have been succeeded by a son who is white and we get a lot more elaboration about how exactly that happened there were some tricks and feints that we didn't know about in the last issue so we find out who this son is though in fact
[SPEAKER_02]: That's one there for the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has succeeded Black Panther for the throne.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're jumping around in time a whole lot here, particularly through the lens of Everett Ross and finding out more about his history.
[SPEAKER_02]: What'd you think about this one, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's, you know, great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like, you know, we had Captain America be Nazi, and now we're going to have, you know, Black Panther be a white guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I know we got to sell comics and we got to try ideas, but I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this is certainly pre-spying provocative, but he also comes up with a reason why it's happening, and I think
[SPEAKER_02]: But to specifically spoil it, it's not Black Panther's son.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's another baby who is adopted.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know what the eventual point is here necessarily because we haven't read the whole comic book, but I do think it's interesting the idea of how we read this whole comic book, but we haven't read this yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what exactly priest is saying in terms of him being a useurper and a co-opter, we're not sure yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is also very dense as usual with a priest book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like there's a lot going on at all times a lot of history here and wild swings and things where it's like, oh, you probably remember that round to be a shoe black pattern with this happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to tie it to that here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a cyclopideic in a certain way as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I will once again, like I did with the last issue, shout out joke as on this art here, which I think is fantastic with Richard Eisenoff's cover colors, which are also cool, beautiful, great stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tread the hall, age number one for English comics written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryle, art by Chris Anderson, Nelson Danielle, Piorter Kowalski and Jimmy Kusage.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a anthology of horror and horror, ask and comedy horror stories all set around a Comic Con that may be happening in a place called San Diego.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, first off, I mean, this is emotional roller coaster because I was like, oh, interesting cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I looked at it more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, no, this hurts.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a zombie is eating a graded comic that's, the comic is no longer maintaining that grade.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just so sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then when I started reading this, I laughed out loud at this comic con bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just thought this as someone who is supposed to be asking questions and sometimes there's a rambles on a guest and holds them a hostage.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt very seen.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I also just love this idea of keeping this going and cutting away and then coming back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I just I laughed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, you know, we've seen a lot of comedy done well and interesting ideas and bits, but I just thought this was such a fun
[SPEAKER_01]: execution I feel like it's also a fun side of nerd culture where like you know people are who they are and you put a microphone in front of you and they're gonna talk out there gonna talk and it's kind of a fun thing and a slice of life so I don't know I thought this was a blast and really great art and yeah I'm excited to see what's gonna happen next and yeah I think this is just a one shot
[SPEAKER_02]: So, but I really like this as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was very funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well-constructed anthology was some great stories that tie very specifically into the Conexperience.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, the Sadie go Conexperience in particular, but critically done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like this team, but I was a little bit go ahead to this being like, I don't know, this is going to be inside baseball.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, there are their riffing off things that happen at all cons, but it's packed with jokes throughout that'll appeal, whether you have been to San Diego, Comic Con or not, but great stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman on limited number three from DC Comics with my dad's slot, Art by Raphael Albuquerque.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is taking place in the current continuity where Kryptonite has been released all over the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman has new gold powers.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in this issue, we are focusing in on Krypton,
[SPEAKER_02]: And as a relationship to crypto tying into a certain feature film that is now and I'm talking of course about Megan to point oh because this presents the terror of toy man Pete You love crypto?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I mean, you know crypto being the star from the movie here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nice to see I'm not getting beat So this was a fun change of pace and a nice kind of tie into the movie I felt like yeah, I mean, this is just classic slot a fun idea well executed
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just think that, yeah, this is just, I felt Dan slot in this and it's, I feel like.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is, this is a good, all ages, Dan slot story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say, given that we're on the third issue of this title, I thought this was a little weird to throw in here, it felt like
[SPEAKER_02]: a classic dead slot went off one shot when we've been following this new world of kryptonite which this ties into certainly and these new gold powers.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I want to see go a little harder on that in the third issue and here.
[SPEAKER_02]: We took too much of a step back to focus on crypto maybe that'll pay off the series.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know but I think you know the brass and dc said we can't just have one crypto cook book come out after the movie work crypto just gets fucked up so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, do you think we had a whole meeting where they're like, we're investing heavily in crypto?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, listen, we shouldn't go all in on crypto, and so we were like, I think we should.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you guys, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, anyway, did you want to give us some financial advice real quick or no?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to think of an NFT's joke, but I couldn't figure out what it stood for.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: You did want to, oh, no, I'm not going to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, I'm not going to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no flying, Toy Men.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Predator versus Spider-Man at number four from Marvel, written by Benjamin Percy, art by Micello Ferrara.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the final issue of this story that really doesn't include Spider-Man all a lot to be honest.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's mostly Craven versus a bunch of predators and Mary Jane running away for a predator and Spider-Man blowing up or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it is setting up a big thing that Benjamin Percy is building towards.
[SPEAKER_02]: We get the tease here.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to get Predator kills the Marvel Universe that's going to build on all the previous series that Benjamin Percy has done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: you know there's all these predators here but Craven's coming for him Craven's a hundred two and it's like oh shit let's get this show down and I was so excited for it and then finally we get it Craven this issue takes down a predator and I was like yes, but it's cut short and then there's this
[SPEAKER_01]: really cool idea that kind of blew my mind where the predator recognizes that Craven's a badass and it's like why don't you roll with me and I'm like oh shit Craven's gonna go up in the ship and learn to be a predator oh man he's gonna come back to earth and fuck it the fuck up with all this predator buddies holy shit this is crazy um yeah I couldn't believe they just left it like that words Craven just walked out of the predator ship I was like oh man
[SPEAKER_01]: but great idea I wish we could have got more I understand because of the kind of ending but man I would have loved they built it up so much like all once Craven gets here once Craven gets there and he fights one predator and I was like come on dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer because the Wolverine series and even the Black Panther series felt more self-contained this one
[SPEAKER_02]: Didn't seem to care much about Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_02]: It clearly seemed to be teeing up the next bigger series.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think like what all three of us wanted, just and obviously is not here this week.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think what all three of us wanted was Craven's last hunt, but with the predator.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would have been cool, but that's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would have been sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, give us a little bit of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got a Peter M. J. Kiss.
[SPEAKER_02]: How'd you feel about that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for reminding me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, man, I got to turn into a brother series to get the love story that I want, but I was very happy to see it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ghost Pepper, never one from the image comics by Ludu Lullaby.
[SPEAKER_02]: This takes place in a puckling world where cooking and fighting happens and it's very pretty to look at.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell yeah, I was really surprised because I was like, okay, Ghost Pepper, and then the lady makes one little dish, and we're gonna call it Ghost Pepper, but hey, it's the first issue, you know, I shouldn't judge.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I like this art very much, and I feel like the action is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to see what this is going to be about.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like image has enough credit with me that I will keep reading.
[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't really hook into the story and all on this one, which is a bummer I was looking forward to this, but the image is a really nice, and this is for an artist who is, I believe, stretching out to right as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I needed a little, I'm always in on all cooking, fighting stuff, and I needed more cooking and a little more story, and I don't know, maybe I need to read this one again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe, in this next issue, we'll save it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see, Wonder Woman number twenty three from DC Comics written by Tom King, Art by Daniel Sampari.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a tease a couple of weeks ago that the baby Amazon, who was coming not Trinity, but the other baby, have a side for the first issue, was in fact born is with Eddie Candy and there being held captive by Mouse Man, who's created a fascist state.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here Wonder Woman goes to find them and rescue them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And things are even weirder that you might expect.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we got a first off sweet cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got the old baby back.
[SPEAKER_01]: you know you love that baby back baby back exactly yeah and uh... this uh... mouse cult is awful oh my god this is hard to watch mouse mouse mouse mice have you on to don't even with that that was so fucking creepy dude i was like this is pretty much ready to read it the only thing they say on this island that's run by the house man is mouse man knows and mice had years over and over it's really effective
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the only dialogue they say over and over and it is very unsettling throughout the book.
[SPEAKER_02]: So unsettling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, Batman, what the fuck are you doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: one woman says hey I got to go out in the solo mission and you have the fucking god to say no that's all you do bro is say fuck off Justice League I'm doing my own thing and then you have the balls to look at one woman say no you can't go on your fucking solo mission I couldn't believe that shit made me so mad I will say to back you out there was a little weird character
[SPEAKER_02]: that the Justice League is like, I don't know, Wonder Woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you could go and do the thing that you do all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It felt very, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Manored.
[SPEAKER_02]: It felt very much like, yes, we get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been following Wonder Woman at odds with the US government the entire time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now she needs to be as odds with the Justice League as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they know she's going to do it, but I'm not quite sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: why we needed that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, is this an act for somebody else that's watching because I didn't buy it at all?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do love Wonder Woman and I'm definitely can't wait to see what's happening next.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great art as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Sampary is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: The new Avengers number two from Marvel written by Sam Humphrey's art by Tony Lima.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this issue, this new, not exactly a team is trying to stop the kill-luminati.
[SPEAKER_02]: or evil clones who have been created from the Illuminati members.
[SPEAKER_02]: And by the end of the issue, the team has sort of assembled the going to recruit more members to take down the rogue kill Illuminati.
[SPEAKER_02]: One little thing that I'll say is, I was okay with the first issue of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: The second issue, and I know you guys loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the second issue, it really doubled down on the idea of, oh, we are doing what happened to the original new Avengers.
[SPEAKER_02]: which is this weird team that shouldn't be together got together to stop a breakout from the raft that's the exact same thing we're doing here and I think that's okay like that's okay to riff on that set up if the team is like why are we together why are we doing this stuff all right let's just go and see what happens um that's interesting to me
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I thought this first off fund cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was a funny issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to Cleo Strange.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the Collins collection of characters, a clown convention that was hilarious.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Dr. Strange being like, hey, vibes are weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he's like, what is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a guru strange, the evil clone of Dr. Strange.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, just him talking about, you know, the, don't let the haters steal your piece, just hysterical stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just, that's just fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fun writing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, weird last panel, but this is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: More of this, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Blood and Thunder, number three from Skybout at image comics room by Benino Serena, art by E.J.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sue.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a big alien convict that has escaped and blood our human person, a thunder, our gun, our going after him in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's mostly a big chase scene right up until the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lots of action here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete you like action.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do, I do love all this action and also cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm excited that the guy on the girl are getting along and we're learning more about her.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she could be a monster, which is a fun reveal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to read more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm a little worried about this message of this, but I'm not trying to think about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just trying to have some more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which message?
[SPEAKER_01]: That, you know, you should talk to your guns and act like they're a person, that kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, within the United States, guns are more important than people.
[SPEAKER_02]: We protect guns rights and let people die all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a hurts word like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's try that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Death of the silver surfer number two for Marvel written by Greg Pock, art by Sumit Kumar, per the title.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are leading up to the death of the silver surfer.
[SPEAKER_02]: But first,
[SPEAKER_02]: He, the tide is turning against aliens and they are hunting the silver surfer among other people, including Scar, a son of Hulk.
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, our tech billionaire is drilling into the corpse of Galactus, by the way, this takes place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unspecified time in the future, I believe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fantastic issue, as usual, Greg Pock has so much to say about the world we're living in, while still making it very wildly entertaining, so really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, epic comic alert, holy shit, this is awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: First off, cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, oh my god, cool last panel reveal too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, what a cool moment when you kind of realize that like,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this douchebag could have just woken up, you know, silver surfers on a little vacation because, you know, galactuses dead or in the stasis or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this fucking rich douchebag, I can't believe he just shot that little guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that little guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, there's only death there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't come.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a warning, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice accent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you hear that accent?
[SPEAKER_02]: You're head when you're reading it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I play all of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, hey, hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of Mayor Quimbee from since a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, do you hear voices for all the characters like are they all doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it your voice really all the parts?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's selfish, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's selfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never really thought about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I guess I guess I don't hear different voices from so much as intonations.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to talk just about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we're just the crazy ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, this is an epic tell that's brewing here and I cannot wait to read it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unbelievable art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really interesting story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was so moved by the silver surfer thing like he's just trying to be nice and humans or assholes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just brutal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that's not exactly true because I know that like
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was really interesting because like
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you do like Sue Storm's voice like what are you doing like is that I mean I think like some of the voices are very generic but bed and grim for example he's the fantastic for like he has a voice to be like bed grim is like a bed grim yeah come from the streets you know like that's one hundred percent bed grim like he's rocky and whatever and I know because when I heard epic boss backracks voice of the trailer for the new fantastic for us like that's not right so clearly I have a thought on that
[SPEAKER_02]: Huh, and I was going to say the X-Bad, like the part of this is the X-Bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's, what's, what's, what the kitty pride doesn't have a voice, but gab it definitely is like, when you hear gab it on the X-Bad cartoon, you're like, that is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Rogue is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Storm is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wolverine is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you do it on Wolverine voice?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's like, come on, bum.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can't just read it regular.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: a new thing, every podcast, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Invincible universe, battle beast number three from Skype out in image comics written by Robert Kirkman, art by Ryan Otley, and this issue battle beast is still looking for a big battle, but his ship has portrayed him and said to be the middle of an arbata does that stop battle beast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I can't really stop battlebees.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, bad ass cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, this is so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the idea that the computer hates battlebees and is trying to kill him, but it's actually kind of helping him in a crazy way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I geez, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is such a fun idea that so well executed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's over the top.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's bloody in tons of action.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then kind of twist-lend ending here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of in this savage land kind of world.
[SPEAKER_01]: So cannot wait to see what we're doing next.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just a blast.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is over the top fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're just having a good time, but with this one, as much as I wish there was more emotional development for Battle Beast, we're not going to get that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So instead, there's a dude who used to be happy in the prince, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ship are providing a lot of good comedy on the side.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just, they're having a good time and right not leave just draw some great battles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exceptional X-Men, number eleven, from Marvel, written by Evil Ewing, Art by Federica Mansid.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, for the cover, the kids, the Exceptional X-Men, kids, are teeming up with iron heart.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kitty Pride is pissed off at Bobby, and then some other stuff goes on with a tiny little portal, it a bench.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just heard when you were talking, I heard the Bobby's voice from, oh my God, what was it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Bobby's world?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, that one from sweet to Bobby from sweet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very similar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, when you talk, that's what I hear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, yeah, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the brightness that kind of sets such a cool vibe for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, I mean, you guys, you got to be careful for them for growing portals on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad some comic is finally talking about it because it's a real problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I also like the fun they're having with re re here where she's like shows up to save the day and then needs to be saved.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a seven to fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes sense to bring iron heart in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say there's a little bit since there was a mixed reaction to the TV show where it feels like another one of those appearances of like iron heart is here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You love iron heart from the TV show.
[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't
[SPEAKER_02]: what should okay all right that's fine she's still here and she's great like she's a fun character so yeah fun to see her but like it was definitely special guest our crossover episode when i wish there was maybe more of a reason for bringing her and yeah it's like hey uh just
[SPEAKER_01]: play on the fact that there's a TV show and we need to get a little some on it so we're going to slide there and write it now you want to see another media time we've got a book about beating a dog
[SPEAKER_00]: different publishers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was a fashion school serial killer number four from huge comics written by Doug Wagner or by Daniel Hillyard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now per the title, this is following a serial killer who is making people into skin suits and doing it very successfully in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her best friend ends up in a sticky situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: not the blood sticky type, but another type of sticky situation that she's going to rescue her while the body is really piling up here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know this this issue is ridiculous the the other ones I was like
[SPEAKER_02]: I get the satire that you're doing here.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one, she, it all goes up with this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: The skillless corpses is just lying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lines of the everywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: So quickly, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I think there's the thing that struck me in this issue, which is probably been going on along.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like, there's a little bit of American psycho going on in here, or maybe a lot of bit, where that book and movie are ludicrously satirical.
[SPEAKER_02]: And particularly if you read the book, there's a lot of what you're like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this really happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if this is really happening because I don't think this could actually a person could actually do these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think they're taking this here to an even bigger extreme.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really still really like the art and I'm still having fun with this book, but this is the one where we're went from high school versus serial color plot to something else entirely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's alright, but
[SPEAKER_01]: yeah this this got a little too much the art is amazing um yeah all the killing is just really upsetting uh but don't get wrong I at now have to root for her to kill the dude who's beyond the human trafficking but after that I wanted to stop because this is just so so fucked up but yeah they're leaning into that in a way uh that kind of suits this
[SPEAKER_02]: They are I think the two since you brought up the human trafficking thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think like they're getting away from the fashion school part and leading too much into the serial killer part and the thing that's interesting is the contrast between the two of those.
[SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully they get back to that before the end, but I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any Brock carnage number six from Marvel written by Charles Sol.
[SPEAKER_02]: art by H. H. Suicide.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe this is a serial killer you can get more into.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we got a couple of them in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any Brock is wrestling with cardid symbiotes who now seems all in on helping him kill serial killers, but you should probably be suspicious of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, muse is somehow back alive and gunning for cartage in the background.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete did this serial killer book strike you better than the previous serial killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It sure did buddy and fun you should say that because it seems like I have issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, crazy cover and fun kind of justification of this cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was like a great setup reveal.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean of like, wow, this is a crazy cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then kind of later mu's kind of reveals it and I thought that worked really well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I like this idea of building up this carnage versus mu's showdown.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a great idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited for what's going to happen next.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do have questions about how to use as a live again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder particularly because we the comics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we last left him in hell in their devil on Lee shell.
[SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully there's going to be some backstory there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: But otherwise, yeah, I really like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: The carnage, any Brock relationship is really interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard now that, and how you just got to do a really good borrower at a pressure, and then you can get right out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, they love that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I definitely feel like I've been held every time I hear more out of pressure and so agreed.
[SPEAKER_02]: TDH mutant Ninja Turtles number ten from IDW written by Jason Aaron art by Juan Ferreira.
[SPEAKER_02]: Big issue here.
[SPEAKER_02]: The turtle partners are finally back together just in time to be put on trial for their lives.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete was the moment you've been waiting for since the first issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got to tell you, uh, this, this was a real emotional roller coaster for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they hugged it, I just started balling my eyes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really not, yeah, I couldn't believe, uh, because if we're so
[SPEAKER_01]: Rect, they were this team that I was like, how are they gonna get back together again, you know, and it lasted like ten seconds before it all came crashing down.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was just so excited because it was like, oh my god, he's not talking to a dead rat anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna be fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna talk to each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna hug it out and work everything out and then just all went so bad and Then it went from like I'm not talking to his dead rat again to I'm leading this courtroom because I have a dead rat my suitcase so I'm listening to is so funny I'm opening up his suitcase and be like I'll take care of this and there's a dead rat inside he's doing
[SPEAKER_02]: If I ever end up in court, that is one hundred percent what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I would recommend.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't recommend.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to allow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, anyways, yeah, I'm just, I'm so worried about our team and I'm also so worried about the lawyer skills of, you know, our turtle, our skinny turtle buddy there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I'm just,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I went from like a ray of sunshine to no hope, but fun last panel reveal Casey Jones come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's not Casey Jones that's April in Casey Jones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she's going to be playing the part of Casey Jones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, no, we've seen that over the past couple of issues.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was very cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: This issue, this comic book is killer every single time out.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a fantastic, all-tyber Turtles run.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fascinating villain really curious to see what's going on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of the turtle stuff is great as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you about April and Casey and everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just building a really, really exciting world here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the arts great, the writing's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Continue our red block red coat number thirteen from ghost machine at image comics by Jeff Chauds art by Brian Hitch our titular red coat whose name is Simon pure but he's anything but as you'll soon discover it is to be up with the guy named the northerner who is a time traveler who's trying to stop another time traveler from changing time so that the south of the north stayed separated at the end of the civil war which
[SPEAKER_02]: I should imagine, you can cause a couple of problems there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: The art for Brian Hitch is always great.
[SPEAKER_02]: The time travel stuff is interesting, like this is definitely leading more and more into Jeff Johns as it goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's building up some crossover elements in his whole section of the Gospelschewing world, but I'm taking it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like the kind of build up to the fun tease for the crossover event at the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's hard because it's like every time, like, okay, houses.
[SPEAKER_01]: And each time this comic proves me wrong, it does such a good job of being creative and taking big swings and trying stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm continuing and pressed by this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great team and I'm interested to see what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Deadpool Wolverine, number seven from Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy, art by Robert Gil.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had a big reveal, the last issue that's strife isn't our ultimate bad guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's actually a apocalypse.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's trying to come back through Stripes body by using zombies and boat dragons and a bunch of other stuff that's going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also Wolverine and Deadpool are two of his horsemen and maybe Maverick is a third unclear.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this issue, we get more of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete over to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so fun cover first off.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I mean, this is stuff because the apocalypse seems to me winning.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's always tough.
[SPEAKER_01]: But man, the Deadpool joking here, where he's talking is like, hey, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good way to tell if it's really me as if I've made a butt joke in the last five minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: If the answer is no, then it'll probably take me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just a classic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Deadpool there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_02]: Here is, and I know this is one of the joys and trials of being a comic book fan, but I don't understand how this squares up with anything else that's happening in the world of the expert.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't just want to have to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't just mean in terms of the partitionation of Deadpool, Wolverine, I mean specifically the inclusion of apocalypse, who there's a whole ongoing plot where he's like, well, I'm leaving Earth forever from Mars, goodbye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now Doug Rabsie, Cypher, you are Revelation, you're in the new apocalypse, see you later.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're leading up to a whole event called Age of Revelation that is coming at October.
[SPEAKER_02]: How any of this square man would you lie?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it won't.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's something where I'm like, how does this work?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is this happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on here?
[SPEAKER_02]: And out of continuity?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Art's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Art's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Benjamin number two from Odie Press written by Ben H. Winters art by Leo Max.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want to find out more about this book, listen to our live show with Ben H. Winters where we talked about this book a couple of weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Talked about this book.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: We really messed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is about a sci-fi offer author who is also named Ed who died many years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: So do the finds himself back alive.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in fact, he may be living through one of his own sci-fi plots.
[SPEAKER_02]: or perhaps more of them because things get pretty trippy and wild by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I love this.
[SPEAKER_02]: The art is so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: The story is just getting weirder and weirder and more interesting, but not forgetting about the humor inherent it at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really like this a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: A trippy cover, tripped out comic, awesome panels.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the fun board game panels we got in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like the questions of existence, what is real?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is great stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm very interested in these ideas and how this is kind of kind of moved forward.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do such a good job of kind of walking that balance.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, Jesus, I mean, the art, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Phantom Road, number fourteen from image comics written by Jeff Lamir, art by Gabriel H. Walta, this is a flashback arc showing us what happens on this weird purgatory road and to investigators who are looking into it, leading to a big conflict that is teased at the end of this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gabriel H. Walta, our Jeff Lamir writing weird, what's not to like about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: This continues to impress and creep me the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every time I think like, okay, I got an understanding of what's happening here.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it goes to a whole another level.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I have no idea what's going to happen, but I love every time I see this in the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Jeff LaMier is really kind of in his bag here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's this creepy bear that we kind of get as a little stuff toy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just like, it kind of reminds me of ice cream man because you were looking at things and being like, oh, you know, but yeah, really impressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait to see what happens next.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm super great down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is it for the stack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Justin, get out of the flood.
[SPEAKER_02]: That sounds horrible for anybody who doesn't know what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Justin died.
[SPEAKER_00]: They sit on crack big catches and they let us see what we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's just not being able like that special destiny.
[SPEAKER_00]: So grab your ring, hammer, don't win.