[SPEAKER_00]: What is up, everybody?
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the stack on the Alex.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: And on the stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have a little bit of a shorter stack, but that's all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody loves a short stack when they go in the summer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's summer time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just relax.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, just a light stack of pancakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it's hot out, I'm like, no, no, not my regular large stack of pancakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just a little, just a bunch of silver dollars or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love sell my dollar pancakes, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you gotta have your pancakes, but not as petty pancakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, not going to link this anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about super bad the kryptonite spectrum number one from DC Comics written by W Maxwell Prince art by Martina Morazo as well as Chris O'Hallorin and good old neon was the entire team from the image comics ice cream man
[SPEAKER_00]: What are absolute favorite books on this show?
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of over to DC doing a black label series about what if Superman discovered a bunch of new types of kryptonite from different colors in the spectrum?
[SPEAKER_00]: He decides over the course of the book to test them under Batman's watchful eye to see what they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he'll know in case they fall into the wrong hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pete, I was certainly hyped for this, knowing the ice cream and team is so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did you feel about the outcome?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, I just think this is such a great idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Superman is such an iconic character, and to have it kind of in the creepy hands, if you will, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, ice-cream man is known for being scary, creepy, what's going on, what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like
[SPEAKER_01]: What a cool idea to be like, what if they got to have Superman for a little while and what would they do?
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is such an interesting, cool, well executed idea of like, let's explore other kinds of kryptonite and have it to be in the mischievous hands of the ice cream people.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I am all on board on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: The artist adds such a level of like, oh shit, what's going to happen?
[SPEAKER_01]: the tension on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just, I just so happy that this got made because it means that somebody's paying attention and having some fun because if like, I was in control of things, this would be something that I would want to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's take these guys over here who does such a specific thing and see what they can do over here and, uh, all man, so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I totally agree with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love what DC has been doing in terms of their swings on things taking a chance here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I screenband does really well sales wise, so it's not a huge like out of left field chance, but you could see them being like
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's get W Maxwell prints to write Superman period.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they were like, no, we're going to let you do Superman, the way that you would do Superman.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what we get here, spoiler, and I'll give a blackout spoiler warning for everything here, is we get Superman going to get with Kryptonite that knocks his time out of wax, so he starts experiencing time
[SPEAKER_00]: in verbal order kryptonite fuchswood time yes and so he the way that they execute this is the panic pages are in the wrong order the panels are in the wrong order and it's playing with the comic book form which is exactly what they do on ice cream and well telling a good
[SPEAKER_00]: much more positive story than they usually do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it still fits in the super red ethos that is in Superman, Neltagre, Bung's Crawling out of his face at least yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great great stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: One other thing that I wanted to shout out here, I'm glad they're doing this book and very happy about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a little sequence that they have with Batman and Gotham that is so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It made me feel like
[SPEAKER_00]: that is obviously the more natural fit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So throw away the bit to super bad at having a kind of work against it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get the impulse there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a panel that W Maxwell Prince draws of that bad kicking, where he's just like straight out to the side, kicking in front of it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's really funny and fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it made me, I stopped to that page and I'm like, let them do bad bad next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let them do a bad bad story after this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I like the idea of this because he is the kind of like,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the icon and, you know, seems like all you can't really touch, you know, Batman, you can fuck around with a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Superman, I like the fact that they gave them Superman because it makes it that much, I hear what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that Batman book would be amazing, but I also like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: this is where we're going and you know because it just is like what are they going to do like what do these mean and what how are they going to because it's visually such a great read every time you open an ice cream man book and bringing that kind of like what's going to happen to Superman is something you don't normally get so it's a fun kind of feeling with something that you know is usually just kind of a staple so I'm excited
[SPEAKER_00]: Giant size X-Men, number two, from Marvel, written by Colin Kelly and Jackson Lansing, and Jen McCay, art by Adam Cubert and Koffew, was bringing to a close the many event that has seen Miss Marvel travel throughout time, battling not Legion but the powers of Legion that have been separated for the man itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, it all comes down to a fight between Miss Marvel and Legion.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we've been a little back and forth of the series of one shots, but how do you feel about how it wrapped up Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, just some amazing pages and panels in this comic really felt to me like a giant size issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they were doing some real artistic shit in here, which was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes they put giant size and like this is a regular X-Men book, but I really felt like this was big enough and epic enough here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I felt like
[SPEAKER_01]: great.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and also interesting kind of twist here where, you know, Legion doesn't get murdered or killed or, you know, maybe some of the things that you deserve, but gets a second chance here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then that really kind of turns things around.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fun twist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I disagree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like the Legion hug, the Legion on Legion hug.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very good page signed by Adam Cuber.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so clearly you can sell it later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Looks good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good poster material.
[SPEAKER_00]: This did not feel like anything beyond a regular X-Men story to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't really feel giant size.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been the way that this tie it tied up where they kind of like yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada y
[SPEAKER_00]: It was fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was totally fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: It brought her back to the modern era, but didn't really feel like it tied.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a moment when I thought she'd put together a time loss team of X-Men from Oliver Adventures thus far, and that's not what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just all the modern X-Men from the different teams and books, which is fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I liked the focus on Ms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel figuring out what her mutant identity is.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her own identity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good emotional thread through all of these one shots that was nicely done.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just kind of came down to a requisite, big old punchy punch fight and it just didn't grab me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_01]: What about the different panels?
[SPEAKER_01]: We had to turn and you didn't think that was cool?
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked it when I had to turn it in the last book we talked about, but I didn't like it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: Art is subjective.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is what you have just thought of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you're having a bad bad day and you're bringing that to the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the bad day.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's a great day, cause I'm talking about comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's keep it going with Transformers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is if a pedal playing the ultimate issue of Daniel Warren Johnson's run, he is exiting after this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is all coming down to this and you're not going to believe this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Autobots and the Decepticons, I just want to pause here for a little bit of emphasis.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're on opposite sides and they're fighting and it might come down to Optimus Prime versus Megatron, which is crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dude, first off, fuck you for your tone.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just talking about X-Men and it comes down to Magneto and Professor X, and you know, you can say that anywhere, but the fact that you're like, holy, toidi about Transformers, you're like, you know, I'm a nerd.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love a lot of nerdy things, but Transformers miss me, so I'm gonna look down upon it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fucking awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, this cover is fucking great.
[SPEAKER_01]: DWJ is killing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've seen Transformers, they animated movie, which you fucking should have because it's glorious.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just a evolution of that taking and bring it to a higher ground, just an amplification of how badass that was in comic book form.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I got chills reading this book.
[SPEAKER_01]: when you get the final showdown that we've seen a lot of times, but it's still the fact that he's just, you know, Optimus Prime says one roll rise or one show fall.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my fucking battle cry dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: I jumped up out of my seat and I was like, ah!
[SPEAKER_01]: this is just so great so much fun nostalgia bath whatever you want to call this is just Glorious it's fucking glorious I know what you want to call it which is nostalgia bath which you just did
[SPEAKER_00]: This issue has had an equal measure, what I liked about this run, and what I don't like about this run.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll start with what I don't like is what I anticipated earlier is the battle scenes are just a lot of, yeah, ooh, pew, pew, ah, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: out what he's here get it's just this non-stop wash of like I don't know what the stakes are I don't know who is fighting who exactly I don't know what we're fighting for or why we're fighting at Chicago other than the auto-abots and decepticots on his fight I don't get any of that none of that is working for me because I think it's just too
[SPEAKER_00]: piecemeal it would work in animation but it is not working for me on the still page.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that is working for me is there is a scene where Optimus who has been shut down is I assume in the matrix of leadership and he encounters spikes father who previously sacrificed himself to bring his energy on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The books slows down there gets into character talks about things talks about being a father and that to me I was like this
[SPEAKER_00]: is what I expect from Daddy of our Johnson is a true beating heart in this case quite literally of a buck and I have not been getting since the first arc of transformers.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if Robert Kirkman's going to bring that going forward, maybe we'll get more of that in the next and final issue of DWJ's run, but that is what I've been missing and I did get here, but I wish there was more of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you just don't like transformers because it's all there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what I said.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is not what I said.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the hearts on the page.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, maybe it's in the red ink, I guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: Predator kills the Marvel Universe, number one, from Marvel, written by Benjamin Percy, art by Marcelo Ferreira, and Daniel Piccioto.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is following up on the one-on-ones that Benjamin Percy has been writing with Predator vs Wolverine, Black Panther, and Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this takes place in that same alternate universe and what that means is anybody can actually die in here and they do
[SPEAKER_00]: And they set the stakes pretty clearly by having the predators murdered the guardians of the galaxy in the opening scene, which I was like, all right, bold move.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see who dies next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the Wolverine series.
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt the Black Panther series was a little codvaluted.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we talked about, there were some fun stuff at the Spider-Man series, but it was a little silly overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this one really got me with the first issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: This feels like they what they've actually all been building up to with real stakes, real danger for the characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good, good start.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what I liked about this is they're kind of continuing like you said this idea that Craven is now kind of on team predator and what's that going to mean for the Marvel Universe and it means that Craven's going to with the predators take down everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: So fun idea and fun kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: carry from everything that's going on really rewarding the people who are reading which is awesome and this is a cool continuation of that idea and also love craving being like hey listen let's get a murder everybody I've got a plan to do it I've been planning this for years but hey uh... butterman's mind right fucking hands off I got some idea so I'm surprised you didn't mention yet that they go out to the fantastic for for the winner oh you're getting there
[SPEAKER_01]: So then we get to the fantastic four which is a weird thing because in the stack we have two times later we're gonna get it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're a fantastic four just coffee talk man, you know, I don't know what the theme about for coffee and fantastic four is but something was going on in the bullpen because we get that joke a couple times here so weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that what you meant when I was gonna talk about the fantastic four?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, that was exactly what I meant and not the fact that one of your least favorite characters read Richards gets attacked horribly first and has his arm cut off and is bleeding to death would relieve the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, big stakes here in some big moves.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it feels very similar.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to say it feels like of a piece of Ali and the Versus Avengers, but and it does because the alien series has always been about big, huge wild swings, a big ideas, not just the scares and the blood and predator has always been about like who we get a kill next.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to die and the coolest way possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, both of them have been like, oh, people died in this who shouldn't have died.
[SPEAKER_00]: So fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that man dark patterns number nine from DC comics written by Dan Waters art by Hayden Sherman.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the close of the third arc that is all about seeing patterns where they were not there to begin with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here Patman has been down by an old man who wants to bring the red hood gang back, but as we discover, of course, the issue of things not quite the way they seem.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we talked about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This arc maybe felt the weakest of the three, but I think it really ended very strongly in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were a number of powerfully emotional moments here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Batman was very down, and I thought they really landed the plane in terms of the patterns theme, not to specifically take off the title of the book, but this book has been great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Barnaut and one of the best Batman books at a very long time, and there are a lot of Batman books.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I really love the art is awesome on this, but this gets real sad at the end here and a little too dark for me, but I was having a great time right up until the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's right there in the title, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Dark Patterns.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not happy patterns.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear you, but like, would you later on in this tackle talk about Batman happy little trees?
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like, you know, when the, you know, guys shot the kid, I was like, man, that could have been
[SPEAKER_01]: But Jesus, you know, it's it's grim.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty grim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about something maybe less grim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uncle Scrooge Earth's mightiest deck number one from Marvel, right in my Jason Aaron, art by Mammutas Rajasepicam and Koli, Cyril Kangal, Kangaliosy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I add dead yellow or lead, D.D.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apologies about those names, but
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a follow up on the best-selling infinity dime one shot that Jason Aaron did last year at here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a bunch of aliens who are coming after Uncle Scrooge's money.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it seems like there's going to be a big problem potentially throughout the multiverse or throughout time as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are attacking him throughout time.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first off, this cover really throws me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it brings up an interesting thing that a lot of people talk about sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, does Disney, you know, and Marvel kind of being owned, ruin things a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in this cover, we get
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we got old Donald in the carbonite freeze from star wars and it's this weird thing of like in my brain.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't put these two together.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're under the same umbrella, so I guess you can play with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But seeing this, I was just like, man, this is
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, like not everything has to cross over and be everything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, Star Wars and, you know, Scrooge's McDuck should be separate, but I don't know, maybe I'm an asshole.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, rare not great cover, Pete?
[SPEAKER_00]: It just threw me like it really I was like this hurts my brain to look at I will agree with you that I don't think it's supposed to be carbonite and handsolo because that doesn't happen anywhere in the book and that doesn't happen Donald and it's not a Star Wars book or anything like that, but it does look like that I agree with you
[SPEAKER_00]: In terms of the contents, I found this story a lot busier than the previous one.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of things going on at all times and there are some fun bits as Uncle Scrooge travels through time and encounters other versions of himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I kind of got to see where this is going because it hits the ground running and it does not let up until the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, getting past the cover a little bit, I did like this the kind of art where we had some splash pages, kind of like showing all the adventures, you know, and I thought that was really amazing, really kind of cool history, enjoyable, fun, last panel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked all the action, I liked things that were going.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jason Aaron is having a great time with this and that kind of shows through.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's fun to see Uncle Scrooge fighting and kind of be in the scrappy dude that he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, you know, I'm having a blast with all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: The power fantasy, number eleven from image comics written by Kieran Gillin, art by Casper, Wingard, and this issue some big stuff goes down if you haven't been paying attention to this book.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about a bunch of people with superpowers.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're supposed to never meet or potentially could destroy the world, but they've got to meet because there's a new super power who has been born to one of them and they need to figure out what to do with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a couple of them
[SPEAKER_00]: at the same time, are pulling a plan to kill one of the other ones, Etienne, who is the professor, Axe of this book.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think about the best way of describing it, but a lot of this book feels like a chess match constantly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're watching it as they move the pieces around the board, as they're all strategically playing against each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one where it feels like they're making that big power move where they take the queen, and you're like, oh my God, what's going to happen at this chess game now?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all over.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's more twists and turns, but this continues to be one of the tensest, gorgeously drawn books on this tab.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, there's a little bit of kind of moving things around in this issue, so it's not kind of like my favorite, but I love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the kind of tenseness, the vibe of this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very much enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to see what's happening next.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I definitely am still enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not my favorite issue, but I'm still gonna can't wait to see what's happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like this one a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like the action was very clear, and also helped that they had a recap in the front, which happened this week for a couple of issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kieran Gillett even talks about it on the back, or is like, well, I don't think I did it, but other people do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I had to figure out how to put it together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So keep that going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very helpful for this book, which is often, a lot ofably, very complicated.
[SPEAKER_01]: You also prefer a birthday party, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's why you like this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like a birthday party that is very true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the cake.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the candles.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the presents.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ultimate Spider-Man Encursion number three from Marvel Written by Dennis Kappa Cody Ziegler, art by Jonas Sharfe, and this issue Miles Morales has tracked down his baby sister to the home of the ultimate X-Men, so he's crossing over with those characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This issue that's going to lead into a confrontation next issue before he returns to the six one, six.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll say why I don't love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think for similar reasons that I didn't love the second or first issue is that it should feel like a natural fit to have miles return to the ultimate universe, even though it's drastically different ultimate universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this feels
[SPEAKER_00]: purposefully very like Miles Morales meet this character and it's very presentational in that way that's off putting it feels like
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, like the movies you watch when you're waiting at the queue for a theme park ride rather than the actual ride itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a bit of a bummer particularly because I like the creative team.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other thing about it that is throwing me, and I know this was an inevitability, but seeing the ultimate aspect characters outside of Peach Mavocos art is very weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, sometimes an artist is so it to kind of put their stamp on something.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to kind of see it other places.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I did think that it was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was fun to kind of get these, you know, part of kids meeting and kind of figuring things out, even though it was I agree, Alex, a little muddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also weird that Silver's samurai is a babysitter now.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I mean, we set up a bad guy, so I'm excited to see what's next.
[SPEAKER_01]: even if this wasn't my kind of favorite issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trinity, daughter of Wonder Woman, number three from DC Comics, my Tom King, art by Bill and Ortega.
[SPEAKER_00]: The three versions of Trinity, the daughter of Wonder Woman have been traveling throughout time to bring transformed multiversal corgis back to their present to help save time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very silly, it's very fun, but
[SPEAKER_00]: This issue presents the oldest one with a real quandary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does she save the corgi or does she save her mother from service and into the mix come Steve Trevor?
[SPEAKER_00]: Another great issue of this book I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just I love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a fun tone for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I the fun with the kids and then the kids kind of reacting to the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like that was such a cool thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's nice to kind of have like
[SPEAKER_01]: as a reader have somebody also kind of reacting to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I know you don't like reaction videos, but I felt like this is a fun kind of use of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also like, yeah, I have some interesting twists and turns happening here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's fun to see kind of like Tom King storytelling and such kind of bright kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun kind of contrast to his normal stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any Brock carnage number seven from Marvel written by Charles Sol, art by Hesu, Saeys, Carnage, and Eddie Brock have a tentative daytime where everyone's well, they got a kill a bad person so they can stay alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in this issue, Eddie and Carnage are searching for somebody new to kill.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, I'm using this back and searching for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's total soul is a halver writer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've ever noticed that, but he's does great, great work.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I love this cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this showdown that they're building to is going to be fun, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Carnage, Eddie Brock versus the Muse.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like that's a really fun set up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I feel like Muse in good hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: which Charles Sol is a great character.
[SPEAKER_01]: It takes a little moment in the car to admire the beauty of his work.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just great stuff in great hands, so I'm excited to get this show down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this too and I like the mystery elements of this title in particular.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lady from a green Phoenix organization that keeps popping up in Eddie Brock's mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's intriguing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like very losty to be at the same time as all of these
[SPEAKER_00]: other things are going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one little quam I have with this, and maybe this is in other issues and to stand out to me as much, but there's a little bit of like the digital coloring that I don't love, digital shading, I guess is what I mean, that always feels a little too smooth to me and a little too shiny.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was honestly like a page or two, specifically focusing on any Brock lying there where it was just a little too shiny.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know, just not my favorite technique or testically in comics, that's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a fashion school serial killer number five for her.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a confession.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got it on tape.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cops.
[SPEAKER_00]: Written by Doug Wagner, art by Daniel Hillyard.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the final issue of this title per the name.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was a fashion school serial killer, but her friend has been kidnapped by human traffickers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she is going to get horrible vengeance upon them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the series was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even wedded wed to Looney Town, even more so in the last two issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the mid character was a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: The deaths were gross and cartoony at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's super, super bloody for the title, but I really liked it a lot and there's a great set up for a potential second series at the end here, so I do hope they get to do it because I had a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, glad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that the art was so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did such a cool job artistically of undercutting all the violence a little bit by having the art kind of be this really kind of fun choice, which is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, this was a little too kind of like Syria killers are great, but I do think there was this interesting kind of moment at the end where the
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, the slidie is rescued by this serial killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, oh my god, yes, thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, you know, I would love to be able to, you know, as Justin says, like to brain hump a little bit and kind of get inside their head to see if they, he's not here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says it all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, is she scared of this lady?
[SPEAKER_01]: Does she think she's cool?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, I mean, so there's no way she's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a question for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it that you like the two serial killers in Eddie Brock carnage?
[SPEAKER_00]: The previous title we talked about, but you don't like the serial killer.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was a fashion school serial killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and carnage is a monster.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are kind of like, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just having this person be like killing and no repercussions and like she's like, yeah, I'm a silly killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where the line is, but it's weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll find out together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, maybe it also goes back to the fact that I hated Dexter, you know, maybe there's a little bit of that in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think that like it would have been cool if we were got to be the person who was saved a little bit and she was like, thanks for saving me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's scared because she was like, oh my God, you're so killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great news.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we can continue to be best friends and I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want a little bit more out of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, fair enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic forward number two for Marvel written by Ryan North, art by Emberto Ramos.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fantastic forest been split up throughout time by Dr. Doom and have to figure out a way to get back to each other, which they do over the course of this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I continue to really like this run, and I like this new storyline, which they are going to be continuing next issue as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I talked about the first issue, they did such a good job with mostly done in one of the stories of the previous run on Fantastic Four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a little nervous how this worked out, but right now it's still focusing issue by issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some great family dynamics here, some lovely fantastic four stuff, some great gamesmanship going on between the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is very fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, really cool cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, Alberto Ramos is doing the art on the.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew I love this art.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't realize that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really good job on this, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had a little discussion on our discord of bout and murder remas who is not always everybody's favorite, but I think my favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: up to his game in a really clear way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he could be very exaggerated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of his work on I think Spider-Man was a little too exaggerated at times, but this feels a little more restrained and it's really working for the title.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I also like the story and I think it's just kind of like this cool fantastic four verse and doom scenario where it is just like talking to them like at least in I can control time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You go with the cool plan, I go back in time with fucking foil it.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you gonna beat me?
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, I had a blast with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Action Comics, ten eighty-nine from DC Comics, written by Mark Wade, art by Skylar, Patrick, this takes place during Superboy Times in Smalldale, and Superboy has been confronted by another Supergirl named Captain Comet, who wants to help train him a little bit, and that's what we get in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a pretty fun run.
[SPEAKER_00]: This definitely in Mark Wade's sweet spot, and I like Skylar patrises.
[SPEAKER_00]: Art here, it feels very classic.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is interesting enough story here where we're kind of getting a different origin story than what we're used to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we get kind of a Martian man-hunter idea kind of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the twist at the end, I was kind of like, whoa, usually a fan of Martian man-hunter, but maybe not in this sort of man-hunter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the captain coal ball to wherever the fuck his name is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Captain comet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to me, these, you know, I feel like he's marching man to enter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but he's not marching man to enter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, but it's a similar thing where Martian man under was pretending to be somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was like, um, just trying to see who's going to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he took characters in comics who would pretend to be other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Martian man under in Captain comet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like it had a Marsement under vibe to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for apologizing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you apologizing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so great.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a good moment to our show.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ultimate number of fifteen from Marvel written by Dennis Cap art by Vaughan Randall in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are meeting ultimate shung she and the ultimates are going back to fight one of the accolades of the Hulk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pete, you like shung she, what do you think about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, first off, I'm a, you know, since JT Cisler isn't here, I'm going to be the camp counselor and say Dennis camp is in session and might be the end of the summer, but it camps just getting started here and this is just bad ass from the beginning and we get a little
[SPEAKER_01]: She ain't cheating the beginning fucking shit up and then later you get she Hulk rip and heads off hell yeah, now this is some good times.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the action.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a badass cover right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So hells to the motherfucking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was my least favorite issue of the ultimate so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: I found the art was actually hard to follow in a little cramped in terms of the panel layouts.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot of talking and a lot of stuff going on, but not the big idea forward movement that I usually expect from this title.
[SPEAKER_00]: So sorry to disagree with your Pete, but I was disappointed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apology accepted.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... bug war is never six from image comics written by jacid arid arid bibibood as rarid is the finale of the first book as laid slaymaker it is back yard shrunk it down to tighty little bug size is trying to stop an army of different test bugs from killing his full sized brother peat and this is one of your favorites of the week so take it away
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, first off, look at this cover, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what, having a yard is about, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta go do battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta, if I can battle the elements.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you're gonna win and some days you're gonna lose.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I love this idea of bug wars.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Jason Aaron is making, taking a fun idea and kind of turning on it, I said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just feel like the arts are awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: The action is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very cool over the top story that kind of takes place in maybe everybody's backyard.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, this is a ton of fun and more please.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this team.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like this as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was nice wrap up to the first arc.
[SPEAKER_00]: The previous issue was a little confusing what happened to the end, but they jumped back in time to explain it better in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a weird order to roll out information, but aside from that, it really worked for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there was real stakes in terms of the relationship between the
[SPEAKER_00]: brothers, which I thought was interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good wrap up at the end there and good tee up for book two as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And last but not least, Batman and Robin number twenty four from DC Comics by Philip Kenny Johnson, art by Miguel Mendoza, Carmine D. John Tomenico and Judy Bob.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is wrapping up the arc of Batman versus Memento
[SPEAKER_00]: A villain he may have fought back in the day who has some horrible supernatural powers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's all wrapping up and re-sentering the relationship between Batman and Robin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pete, what'd you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, first off intense cover, great though, loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the action.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a fun issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also love to see Batman working as a team member, working with others always makes me very happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then kind of like, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: As far as creepy bad guys go, that was a great, you know, this kind of like momento monster thing was awesome, more of this please, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am particularly really like the final pages drawn, I believe by Judy Bob, that show a kid version, sort of like a crayon version of Batman and Robin, and going on adventures.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was really cute and fun, and I've learned more of that as well, great back up there.
[SPEAKER_00]: and a great one on the book so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: And folks, super short, stack, as I said, but that is it for the week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now let's just turn back to number one.
[SPEAKER_02]: There will be some day night and night.
[SPEAKER_02]: One week, there will go mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: We stay coming to see ourselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's time now that it's been a lot of this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: They sit on graphic cultures and they let us see what we can.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's showing up, they feel like fast, they're so messy.
[SPEAKER_02]: To wrap your hair and hair, don't be late, or it'll fail.