[SPEAKER_01]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we are here to talk about all of the comics that are coming out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all of the ones that have made it into our stack are personal stacks.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not talking about the poll list, the comics, the freshest that you get in your hands every Wednesday that you just race home.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember the feeling of literally running home.
[SPEAKER_01]: The last couple, you know, miles at least to get that first comic open.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, do you ever feel that?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the longest you've walked for a comic book?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, man, I've definitely done some, I mean, we're, you know, kids, we bite.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would bite to the, you know, the baseball card store slash comic book store when I was little.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, man, that was miles and miles, so I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my most distinct memory was walking like probably four miles to the local store called Pasco's in Way of State, New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: had a spinner rack and that's where I got the the summer annuals that's what I'm talking about the top of the top of the rags bro come on tops never stops bro let's do it yet tops never stops uh... well we're gonna say peat before because we got to get to these kind of stuff but my favorite part of the stack was once I would buy my comics
[SPEAKER_04]: putting it in my reading order was my favorite part where it was like, dude, you can't put that favorite up top, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: You got to save that bad boy, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, then hit us up with the comments with your feelings on this, because I was the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, it's not my favorite comic goes up top.
[SPEAKER_01]: The favorite goes like two thirds of the way through.
[SPEAKER_01]: The top is like sort of that, but it's too quickly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then later on, two thirds of the way through is when you get to the meat.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's like yum yum.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you get a couple of the back side that are just sort of the the day new mall.
[SPEAKER_01]: The sort of like, get you out of there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little bit of dessert.
[SPEAKER_01]: Appertief.
[SPEAKER_01]: Digestief.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get you out back on this little tap on the ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get you out back out on the street.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that last couple of the bottom of the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why it's the bottom because it's giving you a little just hard hand.
[SPEAKER_04]: JT sizzle saying the old tap on the ass get you back on the old tap on the ass.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys don't talk about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This deck's all about what's going to be tapping your ass and this deck will find out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well first we got to start the top of the stack.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about one of my most anticipated comics of the week and that's black at number one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Marvel Comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: G. Will Wilson art by Glev Melnakov.
[SPEAKER_01]: Black cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of my favorite characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've loved the series.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jed McCabe made black cat his like home was the comic that he sort of got in and up at Marvel on.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is now.
[SPEAKER_01]: G. Will Wilson is taking the mantle with a new number one here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, what do you say about this black cat?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's the thing with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: You go.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'd tell you what, this was a solid start.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we kind of later in the stack, we kind of figure out what's going on a little bit, but we see Spider-Man ghosting black cat and not engaging at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, yo, what the fuck is going on?
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, look at her, she's like, I'm sick of this shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, I feel you, man, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I feel like this is a great set up.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking forward to what's more to come.
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like maybe her and the bath was a little much, but you know, I feel about that bullshit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking about everyone's got to get clean.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll capture like to take baths, but they got it sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, when Felicia jobs in that time here for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get a nice, this is, the thing Pete's talking about is it is sat in like cutting edge, amazing spider-man continuity.
[SPEAKER_01]: something's happened with Peter Parker in this current arc that is making his relationship with Black Cat a little fraught and in general fucking up his life and so like that part I was like oh I don't think I need this to be so tied to Spider-Man because I think Black Cat can stand our own on her own but I really liked the focus on night nurse here we get some fun lizard stuff this comic
[SPEAKER_01]: has a nice, like, light tone to it with still having stakes underneath it and getting into some interesting stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the recent Black Cat comic book work has been focused on her history, her father, her connection to the larval, larger Marvel universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I like about this is it's rooted back in more Spider-Man, the Spider-Man corner of the universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get Lizard and we get some reveals at the end with some other Spider-Man villains that I won't say.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that area for her, and I think this is a nice start.
[SPEAKER_01]: Totally, this is right where I wanted to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's in great hand, so I'm excited to see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Solid first issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: A hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Solid number one, deaf pick it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's move on to just a sleek red number one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a red alert when it comes to DC Comics with this book written by Saladin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Ed, Art by Clayton Henry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we've seen up a premise like this many times before.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's too many problems out in the world for your main super team to deal with.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this case, the Justice League, so they have to have a separate splinter force, meant to deal with larger problems that haven't happened yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're sort of minority report type of heroes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We saw this recently in the Marvel Universe with the forge-led X-Force title, where they were dealing with stuff that hasn't really happened yet, but we've seen it
[SPEAKER_01]: So many times over over the years, but this one has a nice flip to it that I really like Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did you feel about this?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and you know as spoilers, we're gonna kind of spoil some shit here for a lot of these comics.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're just kind of heads up on that, but this was awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love this kind of setup where we're kind of like thought things were going in one direction and then it seems like, you know, this is how I was reading it.
[SPEAKER_04]: that red tornado set a trap to have black Adam notice what was going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh dude, that blew my fucking mind dude.
[SPEAKER_04]: That seems like a really cool interesting idea and I feel like they did a good job of setting that up in this first issue.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, let's do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: That seems fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm excited to see where this goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's cool about this is like we get the the setup the premise is sort of said by retornado but like Pete saying after we get into this sort of first origin adventure it feels like retornado may be leading them straight and I think in general for years we've had a lot of comics that are like the algorithm is helping these people fight crime
[SPEAKER_01]: And now we've gone to a point with AI in the real world that I think everyone in the comic book industry is turning a very reactive industry obviously because it's you know on a tighter schedule and so on than movies and TV so that's cool and this is starting to be like oh maybe maybe AI is not the right thing to get us in a better place and that's where
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic has the potential to go, which I am really interested in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk about the team we have here.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are some characters pictured on the cover that don't all appear in this issue, so I won't say all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: We do get Simon Baz Green Lantern, who I really like, sort of an underused Green Lantern.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like he was when he was brought into the green lantern full.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the green lantern with the gun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It never was like, okay, and then has been sort of left to the side, but Salad and I'm Ed Brings him in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like him here, and then we get Power Girl, which is also good.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I like how rooted in the current DC continuity this is and taking the premise that we think it's going to be and putting it just a little bit on its edge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Retornado, a character I've always liked since I had the action figure who was being a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He would just kick a little bit, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: He would just move his hands a little bit back in the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: He squeezed his legs in his hands moved.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, making me so cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just he did a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a height of technology back then, bro.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And back in the day, it would work or fresh out the box, you were like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa, he moves and then every time after that you're like, he doesn't quite move.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those plastic parts like our aging human body parts don't work as well as they used to, right, Pete?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't squeeze me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll kick you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's something that I never believed until it happened to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's move on to our next comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: One that I know P and I are both pretty hype on.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a scape.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one.
[SPEAKER_01]: From image comics written by Rick Romander, art by Daniel Akuna.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we're a reminder heads from way back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fear agent was a comic that we read from the jump and we were all on board with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rick Romander, one of the most
[SPEAKER_01]: diligent I feel like comic creators out there who really feels like he doesn't put out a comic unless he has the artist he wants to be working with on it and the book is in the exact right place for him he's you know he has his books under his own umbrella and brings books to the market that I am always excited about he takes creative swings all over the place we're gonna talk about another book of his later that I've been really enjoying but escape number one peat what you like about this world
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, first off, you went, kind of give a shout out to the team like you mentioned.
[SPEAKER_04]: R&D is killing it here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rick and Danielle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what they're calling themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, R&D.
[SPEAKER_01]: Research and development.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I can kill in this.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is such a cool thing here.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get this war story, but it's animal.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it kind of lightens it a little bit, but the art still kind of grounds it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, man, it's this tone, this vibe.
[SPEAKER_04]: First off, crazy cover.
[SPEAKER_04]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, but I do want to say you got a cute bear with a gun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's not it's not that first of serious.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a serious kind of a cute bear.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look serious, but he has a cute vibe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can be Kate Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got news for you can be cute and serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I will not.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to say something here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Read the back matter first before you read this course.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's really cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get to go down to that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it's all trying to save.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get to hear what Commander talk about the story and what he wants to do with it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that's important.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, read the back matter first.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be for better.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be for better if it was meant to be read first.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did I read the first?
[SPEAKER_01]: I dare you to read the back matter without spoiling the last page of this comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't read the last page of the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know how pages work?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have the word page that?
[SPEAKER_01]: The word page in your name and you should know that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know and that's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe in you and it's very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic, I'll lay out the premise a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a very hardcore World War II.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you ever seen the movie, Memphis Bell, or talked to anyone about the air campaign of World War II, this comic is firmly rooted in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, it's very much Memphis Bell.
[SPEAKER_01]: The back matter is excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would recommend just reading the whole thing, because Rick talks about how
[SPEAKER_01]: his family history associated with the world war two and then you look who now also had that that's the huge aren't he huge court with me my grandfather was a what have been one of these guys he flew out of north afghan war two he was the uh... the tail gunner in a
[SPEAKER_01]: So like this is like legit right in that world.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like super tight in especially reading the back matter when they were talking about Rick was talking about his connection to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mike yeah my grandfather, Florida, North Africa they had a pet monkey they would bring up in the plane with him and he flew like there's a twenty five mission cap and that's what they talk about in the book but they got extended that's the plot of Memphis Bell that's the plot of this book and same thing happened to my grandfather so man this like was right over the plate for me but man
[SPEAKER_01]: He also talks about how it's something true that humans empathize more in stories, especially visual stories, or an animal has heard over a human being heard.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and that explains about this monkey, then your grandfather, like, is with some monkey there to get orders and to help with shells, like, what was the monkey?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the general in charge.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wore like, and had, you know, back then it was just World War II's crazy time and I'm looking for a peanut's back then, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that monkey really did work for pianos.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like an air blood situation, but much more serious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Back there's no world that says that monkey can't be a general.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they just put him in charge.
[SPEAKER_01]: We asked a wild time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And obviously he really had some great ideas about how to push back.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was the one who had the inflatable tanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: The general patent was guarding when they were really making the push on D-Day.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true history if you want to look it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they weren't inflatable, but they were fake.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is all to say that this story is heartfelt.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's super upsetting what happens in this first issue, but from an action point of view, it really sets up for a fantastic series.
[SPEAKER_01]: So much happens in this first issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is one of my favorite reads of the week.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: This first issue grabs you and doesn't let you go.
[SPEAKER_04]: I cannot wait to read what's next for this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Love the team.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come on, R&D.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, now I makes me, I think I should, we should have a chimpanzee.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just really be put in charge of this show.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's basically what we have this week with me running everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's move on to our next book, which is the all-new spider band Ghost Spider number one from Marvel Comics and by Stephanie Phillips, art by Paolo Villanelli, bringing
[SPEAKER_01]: character.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really love especially in her own book Spiderman Gwen.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had a series that I want to say was written by Rob Williams for a long time that I really liked when she was in her other earth and she had a band which she was connected with her father and we saw a lot of different takes on different
[SPEAKER_01]: Spiderman villains and heroes, a lot of genders switching in that particular planet universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this book is actually dealing with a lot of sort of that Gwen's interest in recapturing that part of her life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, how did you feel about this?
[SPEAKER_04]: This is all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the art.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we got Venom on base here in the band.
[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, so despite everyone on drum.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I mean, I'm excited to see how this band's going to sound.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now the Venom ate the base player because we know how Venom reacts to certain noises.
[SPEAKER_04]: So playing in the band is risky, bro.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get some feedback on those mic stood.
[SPEAKER_04]: All Venom's going to be toast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so we'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Basis are famously ordering, but you don't really want to have a basis that hates music.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's a basis hate themselves, but they like music.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey, man, don't attack the basis, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: We need the base.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are fan base.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I just, uh, you know, you know, you know what, why don't you like Spiderman?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why, like why?
[SPEAKER_04]: Because you, it's when I'm more spider-man like, I get enough spider-man.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't need another spider-man type character.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: You clearly don't understand comic books.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you, the flavor hits, get more of that flavor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this comic a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's paying off like I said a lot of the stuff that was set up before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think it's crazy the way she pulls a band together.
[SPEAKER_01]: A friend stops by and then a bass is like you need to bathe or he's the guitarist.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, yeah, you need a guitarist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll do that for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was like, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: The little backstory on Spiderman as well, in the her recent continuity, she lost her powers and had a symbiote suit that was giving her her powers.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was cool and interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is, I think this is also going to be another way about what's about to go down.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some foreshadowing here about some
[SPEAKER_01]: death-trubs come in spider glints way.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I enjoy this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I like the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has sort of a horror feel to the book, which I think is interesting, not something in the past.
[SPEAKER_01]: It had an otherworldly feel that felt outside of continuity.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is obviously more in continuity because it's in the sixth one, sixth.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a horror feel like, I'm here for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll make it more different than the other spider books, Pete, which should make you feel something.
[SPEAKER_01]: For God's sake's Pete, feel something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you feel this next comic we're gonna talk about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: That man number eleven.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Published by DC Comics written by Scott Snyder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, Clayman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not clay face, but clay man on the art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, why don't you take this comic because you've talked about it, you've clapped your little hands about it, let's hear it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, our first off fucking sick cover, bro.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, holy shit, yeah, I mean, this is just
[SPEAKER_04]: They got those packs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just chilling on his throne bro, just kind of ready to start shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, just seeing that cover gets me excited for what's about to go down and what we get in this is just an over the top fight.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I was just, oh, this is just the first off.
[SPEAKER_04]: The art is
[SPEAKER_04]: just unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is chef's kiss kind of balance between storytelling and action.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just, I feel like this story is just awesome and all the right things are kind of helped happening right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you're not reading this comic, what's wrong with you, this is just a ton of fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, being ripped Batman's arm off, I mean, holy fucking shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I lost my mind reading this, and I'm still trying to put it back together.
[SPEAKER_04]: This just kicks so much ass.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a whole different level, and I just, I love this idea of like, let's juice up Batman, go over the top, just get crazy, and kind of see what happens, and Scott Snyder's having an absolute blast of a time, and I'm having so much fun reading this.
[SPEAKER_04]: God damn comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why are you reading this comic?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting because we were talking about this on the live show that we just recorded yesterday.
[SPEAKER_01]: This feels like all the other Batman stories, even the ones that go into the dark stuff, the dark metal stuff that's gotten air did.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're really pushing it, we're punk rock, whatever you want to say about it, metal.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's still felt like Batman is on a little bit of a leash.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it feels like what they've done with this book is fully unchanged the Batman universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where anything can happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now this is your particularly, we're introducing Bane.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a lot of takes about how Batman is thick, extra thick in this absolute universe and who can be a thick Batman, but an even thicker Bane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we get a dude that is like, he's got, I could, my apartment is the size of his handy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I could live inside Baines' handy, really.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's pretty big.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we get the story here that
[SPEAKER_01]: is a history of vain.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, we see Batman get like basically wrecked.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then another, like I think the sort of nightfall Batman come through, which I thought was interesting because, because it doesn't happen, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a vision of what could happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: What could happen, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Batman doesn't actually get his arm torn off.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, this whole issue is Alfred narrating a story when he was like, I should have warned you about being.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's coming for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: but it doesn't happen and then we get sort of a twist at the end that I won't quite say.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is interesting and it's going to set up for a great confrontation between Batman and Bane.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought it was interesting to have something be like a basically a flight of fancy here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like the Bane origin and the tweaks to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing I want to ask you though, Pete, there's this character that comes that lands down in Santa Priska and meets Bane once he's liberated the island.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that Bruce Wayne?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know the man in what yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think Bruce Wayne's ever been that Swav you don't even like it when he certainly looks like him.
[SPEAKER_04]: He definitely looks like him.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let me ask you this is there a chance that the man in white is a hush style absolute hush situation that we're introducing here or are we going to say that perhaps this actual Bruce Wayne was just more of an asshole at this at a point in his life
[SPEAKER_04]: Not to sound like a broken record, but I would like to back up the truck a little bit here, and you've brought up some interesting things that I would like to circle back around to.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you get this absolute Batman, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're thinking, oh my god, Jack Batman, how's this going to work?
[SPEAKER_04]: And then if Batman says Jack, how big is Bane?
[SPEAKER_04]: And they've done such a great job of like
[SPEAKER_04]: How sick would this battle be and like kind of letting it ramp up?
[SPEAKER_04]: But then we get this bane backstory that I get so lost in.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, what comic am I even reading right now?
[SPEAKER_04]: This story is so good.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that's what's really impressive about this package that we have here.
[SPEAKER_04]: This isn't just like fuck, like over the top metal fucking violence in, you know, like Batman just fucking shit up because he's avoided out juiced up Batman.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's still like amazing story telling going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like this bane backstory was phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_04]: And different from what we've seen, but also still feels like pain.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was just really impressed by what's happening and the level of this isn't just over the top kind of meat had action.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't get me wrong.
[SPEAKER_04]: You get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's fucking great.
[SPEAKER_04]: But there's also like a real depth to it, which really is nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I've just been super impressed with not only the writing, but the art and the action and this and
[SPEAKER_04]: You think it's going to be one thing, but it really does such a great job of seeding those expectations and giving you a whole other level here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like the twist that the venom actually makes bane super smart as well as super juice, which that's a cool twist.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a dangerous combo, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dangerous.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brains and bra.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a package.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Mr. Wright.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cute and serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: The, what did you think of the full plate page spread of the like sort of the nightfall style Bruce Wayne Batman, the sort of a punish or style Batman?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, of course, I'm excited about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like a badass Batman is a fun choice.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just worried that he's going to give his arms ripped off, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think there are already fake according to one of them is anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess we'll just have to wait and find out because we don't know what we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's run to our next comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but we will.
[SPEAKER_01]: We could speculate all day, air day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exclusive corpse is number four.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from image comics written by Jason with James time on the fourth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just, uh, I don't know why this isn't called Golden Crossbow number four, you know, come out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, that's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is not just called the exquisite corpses number four, uh, written by J Grayson with James Sanford, our by Adam Goreham, and with Michael Walsh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this book has been, it is an exquisite corpse in that it's James Tine and sort of, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: guiding the ship with different writers and artists coming in to tell the story of this hunger games esk tournament where a bunch of small town of regular people is taken over by the richest people in the world or in the United States anyway who come through with their own they need to brought their own serial killer great to have one on staff to come through and just rack up kills whoever has the greatest kill count
[SPEAKER_01]: wins, they have a weapon cache, they have to find in the town.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what this issue is concerned with as we see some characters just killing lots of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, you like this type of story.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, the start that opens with a personal nightmare of mine and that's a bunch of people dead in a ball crawl.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's got to be impossible to clean.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I mean, because you got to clean all those balls.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to be talking about like a Chuckie cheese style ball.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, the old ball pit of death.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but I, you don't have to clean just have to clean the top.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've been in, I don't know if you've been in a ball pit lately, but the bottom still got band aids and stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've declared it right.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've got to take a ball.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can't just clean the top of a ball curl bro.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're not doing anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: As long as it looks good enough for a kid to jump in, that thing's good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that is just so wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and if you want to find out who else thinks that, talk to the managers of a Chuck E. Cheeseer and make Donald's play play.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they're on my camp here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wish they weren't I wish they were Yeah, this is this is has such a great creepy tone with the art and everything and this is gross over the top fun you know a lot of blood and guts and You know I was you know as soon as I see it across ball.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like oh, I'm definitely rooting for her But then you get the threads kind of guy and it's you know It's hard to have a favorite.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean a lot of cool cycle pass in this
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, this is man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Put that on the cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lot of cool psychopaths.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a Pete LePage book jacket quote if I've ever heard one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just it's got all the horror of and violence of a lot of the comics we've been talking about in this stack, but in a very complex trap that I think we have some characters that we've lived in the town that were
[SPEAKER_01]: following and it doesn't look good for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious it's such a big story we get at the in the back matter we get sort of the
[SPEAKER_01]: anti-double a final four style brackets of the serial killers and it is cool to see that but I'm like there's not a for a good man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love I love a bracket.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to do it in my day-to-day with my kids and stuff just like who's gonna eat lunch bracket that kind of stuff really fun to come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, I want to really
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you don't have a sociopath that's harder to end up with one, but I'm trying, you know?
[SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate the dedication to the craft, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you know, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be my gift to you, Pete.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a real life serial killer.
[SPEAKER_01]: your dream.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this, I'm curious how we're going to get to all of this story here because there's so much happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: This also has big aspirations.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a game coming out around this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a big idea and a big story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the comic book story feels like it's matching that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just curious how we're going to get to so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a big meal.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a nice meal like some of the best speaking of a big meal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's jump to Marvel all on one large cover comic here is the fifty five pages baby Who we have the thing versus the marvel universe and this it's from Marvel comics run by Ryan North art by Ed McGinnis and this is a big book
[SPEAKER_01]: But it feels like it's mostly to show off Ed McGinnis' art where the thing gets to really cut loose and that's the vibe of this book from the jump.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's really cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Awesome cover, except for the fact that Wolverine and Ghost Rider are falling to their deaths.
[SPEAKER_04]: Other than that, it's a blast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's fun to see Ben Grimm fucking shit up here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he's ripping heads, you know, he rips off Iron Man's head here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Captain Marvel really fucks him up and then like he he he rips off of Spider-Man's arm and then he uses like cars as hall cans and then Yeah, it does a thing smash and then or there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hulk's hat goes flying off
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I love me some head ripping and this is just the thing kind of really, you know, clobbering and you know, it's about that time and he loves it and I do too.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then it's with a nice little, he's just relaxing and better after a long day of fucking people up.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: So what's not to love about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about a great day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like this cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: The lot of these big Marvel team up stories like blank versus the Marvel universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get a lot of the star characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: What I think is interesting is you got fire star and a very prominent position here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the center of the center left of the cover.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: A character I like.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't really see much of it in the book, but that was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Art of this is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just an all-out big fight, lots of explosions, Ryan North, great writer, has a nice comedic tone to it throughout a great synergy of just writer and artist coming together.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I want to say I love the way this story ends, the reveal of what's happening here is so sweet and such a nice story for the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: character that I think I've said that I thought was underserved in the Fantastic Fort for Steppers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So nice to see him get some real play here and you referred to it before, but I love the last page.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just the thing, laying in bed with Alicia and just smiling, bandaged up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a satisfying image.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... death pick up uh... and you know what else that's talk about is our next comic which is another big comic detective comics uh... number uh... one thousand and one hundred a.k.
[SPEAKER_01]: eleven hundred uh... for d.c.
[SPEAKER_01]: comics written by tom jailer gregg rock americo tomaki and dan waters with our by michelle jenine al vero martina's boino uh... mnk na huelpan and bill sinkwits
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of stories here, and I gotta say, come on, Sam, these were good.
[SPEAKER_01]: These were all, I really enjoyed these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, as a cool, like, Tim Sale kind of feel to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: But man, what a collection.
[SPEAKER_04]: The lost and found one right on the box was a fucking bang or dude.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think the feels.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read this issue at this first story is so good and it brought me to tears.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the fact that there was like no dialogue just really made it amazing loved all the art.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean the kid
[SPEAKER_04]: It's crying hugging Batman.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that was just so emotional.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and then the next one, you got to be like chasing down Joker, which is fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then the one that were the nurses at the hospital is a blast.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I just, it was just, it's such a great collection.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just one after the other.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I was a little disappointed because Robin was on the cover and we didn't get any Robin, but man,
[SPEAKER_04]: What a great collection of stories.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's such a good job of honoring detective comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, with collections like these, I feel like it's hard to balance them because, you know, you're just taking the stories that come in, you go reach out to writers, they pitch what they want to do or you pick up a pitch.
[SPEAKER_01]: and put it in, and this is just so well balanced.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first story just beautifully done, hyper-emotional, very spare with the words, the art by McClosionine is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second story, the America Tamaki, and Amanuke Nualpon is really nice, classic Batman Bruce Wayne balance story, which I thought was good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to have that in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The great ruckus story, the knife and gun club,
[SPEAKER_01]: So good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just great ruka like hardnosed, set and Gotham where it's about the people of Gotham more so than Batman, but we get a nice sort of spin.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we end with just a great like moment time where Bill sink with his artist just let shine and thank you, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sanky as he's never been called before, I don't think, but that's called the fall by Dan Waters.
[SPEAKER_01]: First time for everything, one of again, top rack for the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is definitely a pickup, I would say.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's go to our next one, the Cold Witch, a tale of the shrouded college number four, which I believe was Pete's safety school, the shrouded college.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: From image comics, written by Charles Sol, art by Will Sliny.
[SPEAKER_01]: This set in the world were dealing with a cold witch who has become sort of the object of the shrouded college's pursuit.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of this is the chase to capture the cold witch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, how do you like this?
[SPEAKER_04]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_04]: I also really love the back matter showing the art and kind of how it the different stages before it gets into the comic that we know and love.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm always a sucker for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a witch getting revenge, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great art, great action.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Charles, soul, we trust.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's got a great team behind it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So what's not to like.
[SPEAKER_01]: With the Shadow College Childs has been really sort of building out his personal universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: And each story, what I think is so smart about the way he's doing it, is each story starts very far away from what's come before.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then tracks back to sort of the main point, which is the Shadow College.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what this issue builds toward in a really nice way.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get a character we've seen before that sort of
[SPEAKER_01]: dozen die.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I should say like a lot of characters in this comic too.
[SPEAKER_01]: He moves quick through his story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Things happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really such a steady hand guiding this really enjoying this series as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's talk in period number three from the start by John and the Hickman are by Federico Vicente and Iván Cuelo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete you seem to have a reaction.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dude.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been waiting to talk about this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe one of the most badass panels I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Holy sick is shit alert.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean the black bolt entrance in this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we should say it's sort of a surprise that black bolt appears here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me set it up a little bit imperial.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jonathan Hickman's
[SPEAKER_01]: rewrite or writing or shredding the ship of the intergalactic characters in the Marvel universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got like Nova Cor, we've got, yeah, I was like a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: But then Blackball chills up and holy shit, things changed real quick, bro.
[SPEAKER_04]: One of the best panels I've ever seen, dude, it's blew my nerdy brain.
[SPEAKER_04]: It just melted me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've yet to recover, dude.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is, uh, I could tell you, see what they've had on set.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was just so well shown.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, that's the nice thing about comics is there's no budget.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can just do whatever you kind of your mind can envision.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this was just so cool, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: So cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and people will be talking more about it in his spin-off panel club podcast where he goes panel by panel talking about other panels that he likes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a much longer.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic is interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this issue is about a little bit of a sort of millionaires gambit type story between Maximus from the Inhumans, the brother of Black Bolt, the aforementioned Black Bolt, and Gamesmaster who have set this whole thing up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty dense story.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot going on in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, it reminded me of the last episode of Lost in a way that I was like, I want to see more stuff happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like the characters that are on Peter Quill that are sort of in play here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peter Quill, Richard Ryder, Nova, and what's happening
[SPEAKER_01]: With them, the last issue we went to the Wakanda part of space, which I thought was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're bringing characters together, but there's just so much exposition in this comment that I enjoyed it less.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious what we are going to get from this Blackbolt move and what Richard Ryder does here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I sort of wanted more movement here, rather than just some chatty Kathy saying now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they're kind of talking about their moves and yeah, I see everything.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a game of chess where they talk about that's the thing though, they make you earn the fucking moment that happens and I feel like it's just so well earned that really kind of blows things up for you and I'm really forward to what's going to happen moving forward and hopefully it'll be a little bit more
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting black bull because his powers are like he says a one word and it's really big a lot of stuff happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I always think it's funny that he actually says words though like someone's like, what do you think black bull he's like
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree and everyone dies, I would have like I feel like you would say I would have a yeah, yeah, I would have a catch phrase that I always said rather than answer no one's listening to him answer the question I would say you would say what's happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I would say something like boom shock a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have like a particular shock.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a mood.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have like a street fighter too.
[SPEAKER_03]: It would be the last thing you ever hear is someone going boom shock a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's the real revenge.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like, it's like, you know, high duke.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's like street fighter too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you want to have a little word to say with your sagu.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you would be dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you do an oracle quote to kill.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, kill him with oracle.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're going to be a good guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think of kindness?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think of oracle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be a great serial killer someday and probably soon.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, let's not move up that time, Jail.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: There's plenty of time for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, wait for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we won't wait for the flash.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolute flash number six from DC Comics, or by Jeff Lambert, or by Nick Robles.
[SPEAKER_01]: This, this comic, I feel like I was down on this when it first came out, but I've really been liking the layers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this comic of all the absolute comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: which I've enjoyed pretty much all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what is adding layers on layers to the storytelling.
[SPEAKER_01]: The premise started super simple and that was what I knocked it for.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now they just keep layering stuff on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I, I was, I can't every negative thing I said about it because I've been enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_04]: You fell for their trap.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're like, oh, we'll get you thinking it's one thing and then it's going to be completely mad and you'll have to eat your words.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm eating my words.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do agree with it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a fan of the flash, but I'm enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that says a lot because it's impressive what they're doing in this comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot bigger than the flash and flashes and in it much which I very much enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this issue sort of a side story focusing on the rogues that we saw in earlier issues of this and that we're definitely going to be sort of
[SPEAKER_01]: running into again very soon.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I also love the class that kind of reveal here where it's like you think somebody is cool, but then they're like, oh, no, I have a cane.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm actually an old villain and you know, that's just a kind of fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the old cane, the one reveal, you know, class.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anytime you see a cane, it's like, yeah, well, that's what comics and cartoons have told us over the years.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's why you've been in trouble a lot lately for really problematically fighting old and injured people.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't take shit out of my body.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a person walking with a king.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hide your case.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peel a page is coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't look at what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a high street number eight from Ghost Machine at Image Comics, or by Jeff Chance, R.P.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ivan Reyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic, dealing with a world where you, if you do wrong, sort of in this style of ghost writer, you will fall out of reality and end up
[SPEAKER_01]: Taking a wrong turn down a little street cold hide street, for a Twilight Zone, ask except...
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the way twilight's own sort of had rott rott's early definitely goryer had rott's sirling as um... and out of story narrator our our narrators are the main characters are these uh... people who have their own internal problems uh... we have x-ray specks uh... we have uh... a couple others that were meeting and i think the focus is shifting more toward them uh... as we go uh...
[SPEAKER_04]: little wolf boy kid I forgot what his uh well he is um uh the boy scout yeah the boy scout that's who Frankie Frankie that's the what I was trying to pick up uh first of cool cover you got a cover in his out of cover which is always fun you know that whole uh chestnut um but yeah I this
[SPEAKER_04]: this is great because sometimes on high street we get kind of like other people interacting with our characters but now these characters are kind of interacting with each other which is great seems like we're kind of really taking this to another level which is cool I am very excited about the kind of mixing and matching that's going on in the interactions here with all these cool worlds that they created that they're caching in because he's kind of back as a run in to each other now and
[SPEAKER_04]: Pranky kind of uh has a prank on wrong he goes for help and uh you know now some things uh are going south and the x-ray guy could be in trouble you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't give somebody your x-ray glasses that's like handing your powers over.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're in trouble after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I feel like Jeff Jones is just super giddy about this particular title.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's got a lot going on in Ghost Machine, but I feel like this is the one he personally is the most excited about when we talked to him about Ghost Machine a couple months back, probably six, five, six months ago now.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was the one that I feel like he's just the most hype about.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so you can feel that on the page and that's really nice to feel a creator's energy there.
[SPEAKER_01]: The arts excellent as you might have guessed with Ivan Reyes on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's expanding this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get Dr. Ego here and we're getting into
[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Oddman has revealed at the end here and just little extra pieces of the world and some of the rules of how it works.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm deaf enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not it's it's horror Tainted it's horror E, but it's not as bloody and glorious some of the other books we were talking about earlier.
[SPEAKER_04]: for instance if you're like pee in that sort of yeah I can still enjoy this and you know I have a hard time with horror but yeah it's doing such a great job of creating world and then playing within that world and yeah it's really impressive not only artistically but kind of what's going to go down
[SPEAKER_01]: What's about to go down and what's about to go down and the amazing spider man number ten from Marvel comics and by Joe Kelly art by Michael Daley bugle not amazing spider man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, this is what I get all of my news is a little confusing because I was like, wait, I didn't pick up the daily bugle.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's happening here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete seems to forget what a newspaper looks and feels like the type of the cover of this comic is a daily-buty little issue talking about how Spider-Man has turned brutal after his recent confrontation and fight with a giant warrior armor-clad warrior from another place we're getting
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I'm just going to say like sorry, didn't mean to cut you off, but it's important to note that you should read what do you think of this?
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like you should read black cat first, then amazing spider-man, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was really.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like you should read this first and then black cat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because the black cat's kind of like, hey, what's going on here?
[SPEAKER_04]: And then you get the answer here.
[SPEAKER_04]: where if you know the answer, it's almost not as much of a twist reading.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but I feel like Black Cat's more reacting to the situation when this actually explains the situation a little bit more, but it is a mystery.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you could read them sort of out of order, but ever since Peter Parker fought Hellgate where Hellgate just
[SPEAKER_01]: basically almost killed him on the streets of New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's turned into this much harder figure.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think our reveal here is going to be that it's not actually Peter Parker.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get that at the end of this issue.
[SPEAKER_04]: Last panel, it's two people
[SPEAKER_04]: one saying you're not spider-man, the other one saying you're not Peter Parker, so what the fuck is going on?
[SPEAKER_01]: Neither of them are who they're supposed to be, so yeah, there's a lot more story to be told here and I like
[SPEAKER_01]: I've said this before, but the joke Kelly's run on this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't really been enjoying the black and white flashbacks where he's really filling out Peter Parker's young life where it wasn't all him just being sort of an aweshox nerd trying to find his way in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had struggles that a normal people go through and that has colored
[SPEAKER_01]: the life of Peter Parker and the story we're telling here and especially good here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We see the we see young Peter sort of like not understanding who he is and who he's becoming and that's literally what's happened in this comic even though I think it's not gonna end up being Peter Parker by the end.
[SPEAKER_04]: So my question is who do you think do you think it's a mafisto situation or is this like a spider ham?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like who do you think is portraying these?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it just a halgate like a demon from hell type of thing loose or what do you think it's gonna be?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's definitely Helgates.
[SPEAKER_01]: The next issue is double-sized, which is, it's also, it's an amazing Spider-Man L-Evan also number nine, seventy-five, so I think we're going to get the reveal next issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just context clues, I think it is Helgate in the previous issue is like, what do I have to learn from this guy he's weak?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the way that Helgate is learning from Peter Parker and Spider-Man is by becoming him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to see that Peter is either in Helgate's body in another place or somehow trapped somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's has to watch Helgate be cruel to everyone around him.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to be... But the bracelets that we see on the cover here could be a clue of maybe who he is, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we do get the character who has the most similar bracelets.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shocker is the villain here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we see that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bracelets are because what I had a great detail in here is that this spider band, his web fluid is much harder and last longer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like concrete and can really is really hurting the people that he wraps up in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's such a smart little twist to this new Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the name Hellgate is like, it's a gate to hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think that's Peter is seeing sort of the darkest version of himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think from another place is what we're gonna get.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope, but I've been really enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's sort of a, it's a very different run than a lot of the recent Spider-Man stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I appreciate how different it is because it's deeper emotionally at the same time as it's weird or in what Spider-Man is facing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Which isn't just because Joe Kelly, phenomenal writer, love that Joe Kelly's work, but sometimes he's known for at least in my eyes more if he's done a lot of touching stuff, but he's also done a lot of humorous stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this is kind of neither of those yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm interested to see how this is all going to kind of land in unravel.
[SPEAKER_01]: a new flavor from Joe Kelly a care writer that helped make deadpool uh... who he is back in the day great uh... let's talk one woman number twenty flat he's a comics written by time king arpy denials and parry we have one woman on an island where a mouse man uh... is in charge and everyone is serves the mouse man
[SPEAKER_01]: speaks the mouseman's language, is a stochophantic two mouseman.
[SPEAKER_01]: One woman encounters a girl who is part of that and is being heard by some of the more militaristic mouseman people.
[SPEAKER_01]: She steps in and faces the eyeer of a lot of the soldiers and eventually the mouseman himself at the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which feel about this Pete?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well first off interesting cover kind of cool But I loved a Wonder Woman here being smart and kind of piecing things together and being like okay This kid can only say two phrases and by the way these phrases are repeated so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's haunting.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like It's like I'm so commanding It becomes so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like I've got to feel like I'm in a culture something just reading it over and over
[SPEAKER_04]: But I love the fact that Wonder Woman kind of sees this and then kind of uses it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, okay, this is the only thing you can say.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then gives her options where all she has to do is kind of say one of the things, but which thing says helps her out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that was such a cool way to kind of like use Wonder Woman and kind of use her fucking history and the fact that she's dealt with
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, language barriers were for people who want to help but can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that was such a smart, cool way to kind of use her backstory.
[SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, great art and action, very enjoyable kind of fun villain, but man, it seems like this, it don't make me miss all the rats and mice in New York City.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, Pete taking the mouseman rather literally here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can avoid rats in the country, but you know, you're going to find mice.
[SPEAKER_01]: That might be crawling all over.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is bad, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to get a cat.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is, this comic has done a lot of like solid satire, I think, over the course of Tom King's run.
[SPEAKER_01]: This may be the most direct political commentary.
[SPEAKER_01]: This feels very commenting on our politics in America right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: in a way that I think is subtle enough to be under the radar, but smart enough to sort of indicate what the autocratic nature of a lot of current things happening in the US government feel like.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it was really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's repetitive in a way that gets in your brain and sort of helps achieve the point.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the writing is going to the Daniel Sampary Art is excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to see the confrontation that is no doubt coming next issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: So very good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going on to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's been so good, so consistent.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the most consistent out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This ends tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, of course, about the stat podcast, which will eventually, this episode, anyway, come to an end.
[SPEAKER_01]: But also this comic, this ends tonight, number two, written by image or by image comics, written by Jerry Dugin.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Duke's a tug.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, Dougan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jerry Dougan, Kelvin Mao, Robert Windham, R. by J. Lee.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they love coming the art, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, J. Lee.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, you're like, oh, let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this is, um, like a, what, super spy, bachelor at party.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm a classic scenario, you know, a mercenary bachelor at party.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, even spies and assassins have, uh, get married and stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the, the bachelor read is the only one who's not a absolute badass warrior.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and they all have a price on their heads.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's an all-out dragout, um,
[SPEAKER_01]: fight in Vegas as it all goes down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete, how'd you like it?
[SPEAKER_04]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is just kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: The other assassins are trying to keep the bachelet in the dark and kind of juggle this evening and having fun as well as keeping her alive and nobody getting murdered and then getting her to the wedding on time.
[SPEAKER_04]: The classic ticking time bomb that is you've got to be at this wedding on time.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's kind of a fun premise easy, get behind and
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I mean, you really hear for the art and it's glorious.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: The premise, it's just pure premise payoff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's a great big fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: The J. Lee Ark is really nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: It adds a little bit of sort of flair or artistic tension to the action in a nice way, very expressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: These characters are fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really nice because they all care about each other in a great way in the midst of the increasing bounties on all their heads and the way they're just
[SPEAKER_01]: absolutely ripping everyone looking very much forward to the next issue which it seems like it might be the wedding itself which is very cool let's keep the the dug-in train rolling as we jump to Godzilla destroys the Marvel Universe number two from Marvel Comics written by Jerry Dug-in-Arpye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Xavier Guerrero and Paco Medina and Juan Caball so
[SPEAKER_01]: So now, you're a Godzilla, absolute Godzilla freak, Peter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is something that you might enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there's been such so many Godzilla comics, like that's this correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're starting, they've been so close together that the moves are starting to feel a little bit like we get fined fangphoom here, which is something we saw very recently in another Godzilla comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: How does that feel for you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone who loves Godzilla, but are you being inundated?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not, you know, sometimes you get sick of something.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am not sick of this yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm also not sick of seeing Fing Fing Fing Fung, he's one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was tough when they fought each other because I was like, who do I root for here?
[SPEAKER_04]: These are two of my favorites going ahead, dad.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, it kind of works out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, you know, I first off cool cover, the teasing Venom Godzilla, that seems insane and amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did enjoy that.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we didn't kind of get this although maybe hinted at because there was a little group on him afterwards.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully that pays off because they teased it and the cover here and it seems like it would be too cool to pass up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then you get kind of a doctor's strange and this can't be in continuity because these sources are supreme, somehow something like what the fuck is happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: but they zap it Godzilla way which come on man you guys tried that with the hall committed not go well so I don't know why you would try to do that you know you let Godzilla be Godzilla and they go back to the ocean and then you're fine so why would you try to zap them away that just doesn't seem
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he doesn't seem like he wants to return to the ocean in this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: He seems very mad.
[SPEAKER_01]: None of the normal stuff is working on him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hank Pym tries to zap him with some shrinking particles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't work.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get only the crimson bands of Cedarac work briefly, but that's about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone else fails, which I thought was very fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the rejection of van.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, hey, get that city out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't want him to.
[SPEAKER_01]: also have other powers, I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what I love about this in though the reason it is different to what I was speaking to earlier is the tone of this is fun and light, but still based in Marvel continuity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I like all the use of the different characters, the bar with no name is smash, getting all the villains to go after Godzilla, which is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the way that Godzilla is banished at a point and then the whole reality shakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, oh shit, Godzilla's gonna smash down the walls of this universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what time does that work?
[SPEAKER_01]: But really fun, the opening, dealing with an older, fantastic, for getting wrecked, I thought was really cool and really well drawn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the human torches, flame beard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wish he had that all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: The next issue, we get Godzilla and the X-Men, the X universe hanging out, so that will be fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's move on and talk about Superman Unlimited number four from these comments by Dan Slotfavorites of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nat Pick from our live show.
[SPEAKER_01]: He jumped in and joined us on the stream, written by Dan Slotf by Lucas Meyer and Raphael Albuquerque.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the notable thing here is Dan Slot has been writing this Superman book.
[SPEAKER_01]: His shot to tell all the Superman stories he's been wanting to tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're constructed in a such a slotty in way that I think is really nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this issue, Superman's just going about his business.
[SPEAKER_01]: He saves someone
[SPEAKER_01]: I should say we talked about this in the live show that dance thoughts been setting up a lot of new continuity ideas in the Superman universe, but he's not pushing them.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's letting them sort of live in the world in this title and is slowly rolling them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them is there's a lot more kryptonite hanging around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in this we see that Superman
[SPEAKER_01]: save someone but she's wearing a bunch of kryptonite jewelry and lipstick kisses him weakens him so when he goes to Gotham to help out Jimmy Olson and Tina a gorilla from gorilla city who's visiting Gotham with Jimmy for some scientific work I believe
[SPEAKER_01]: They encounter a new man-bad who bites Superman and turns him into a Superman-bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: So just a really nice little box that Dan Slot constructed here storytelling wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you like this?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ten slide has a lot of fun and this is a fun idea of like what a superman was a vampire.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not a October yet, but man, this is still a fun idea.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I love the kind of fighting the canary team and all that kind of stuff that was a
[SPEAKER_04]: ton of stuff and that also like slots a little kind of easter egg of like somebody keeps stealing the ease of daily planet and then so it makes it daily plant and so someone was like oh probably is Ivy but then the fun reveal and again spoilers but that Robin has been stealing all the ease I think that's just hilarious and like oh Dan's lot you what's he doing with those ease yeah it's a lot of ease bro
[SPEAKER_01]: But dance ad does just his stories are so constructed there little Swiss watches.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's speaking of watches he uses Jimmy Wilson superman and watch a great effect here like you can tell he's really thought these through he's a meticulous storyteller and that's what this book is all about also let's talk art by Albuquerque is phenomenal
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and Lucas Meyer on art.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's talk, exceptional X-Men number twelve.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from Marvel Comics, and by Eval, Ewing, Art by Federica Manson, or Mansine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we are, this is Alex's favorite X-Tetal, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: He really likes these characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a shame he's not here because this issue is such a kiddie pride issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're setting into a kitty pride arc kitty pride has vanished in time a new mutant accidentally teleported her into a different era And so this team of new mutants who are coached by the white queen and iceman has to head back in time to go find kitty Pete your thoughts Well, I mean first off
[SPEAKER_04]: Kitty Bride is got herself a dance studio.
[SPEAKER_04]: Leave her alone.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's living her best life now.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you kind of rip her out of that timeline, I mean, think about all those kids who won't get to learn to dance.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're talking about at the end of the issue, Kitty Bride is in front of a dance school.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not in front of, she started.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's her dance school.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can talk about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know that that's the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: You think that part of the story is that she started a dance school and she needs to dance?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: You got a letter dance, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see the way she's dressed?
[SPEAKER_01]: You think she's in a full, you think she's in a full-loose situation?
[SPEAKER_03]: You think you've banned dancing in the town?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I think they've banned something horrible and dances the only solution.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like a reverse foalous.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: They must dance.
[SPEAKER_03]: They must dance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is an absolutely unhinged take on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's happening in this comic?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, that's taking the emma being a shitty leader and mean and stupid.
[SPEAKER_04]: I, you know, I checked out on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, but when I saw the dance happening, I was like, well, you better not stop her from dancing because this is the best storyline I've seen about her and forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to really crush on panel club where you analyze this one panel and make a lot of wild assumptions about what's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's literally looking at the last page and being like, this is about dance when it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about these meetings, traveling back in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing
[SPEAKER_01]: something about this title just doesn't quite hit with me and I don't know exactly what it is because I like the characters we have iron heart guest starring here which I think is cool I like this new mutant that's introduced in the way that his powers work but there's just some like
[SPEAKER_01]: The characters are like, oh, it must be a time portal.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to find Katie, she's lost in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they show up in different clothes, but how do they know what era, her clothes, the clothes are supposed to be, but it happens to be around.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, there's some stuff that just catches me each time, each issue of this, I read.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, this is Alex's favorite, he will defend it till he dies, but he's not here.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he's probably taking a nice, long,
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's move over to talk to talk about undiscovered country number thirty to a night nap.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called sleeping on this covered country number thirty two from image comics written by Charles Solan Scott Snyder.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a talk of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: See an S just like R&D.
[SPEAKER_01]: Art by Gaseppe Kamen Koli and Leonardo Marcello Gracie.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic is like it's ramping up.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're on the moon.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting the backstory on our Uncle Sam character here.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been so much this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic has been just a wildest mix of ideas, bringing in any sci-fi concept you could think of.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's all coming together to what I think is building up to this is the final arc.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're very close to the finale.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you think it's coming together, Pete?
[SPEAKER_04]: really well this has been really impressive this journey just all over the place and it's hysterical because we like the kind of people in this comic are like another uncle Sam and he's like no no dude I'm the real one I yeah I just
[SPEAKER_04]: This kind of continues to be impressive and have really cool ideas and a tripped out premise that they pull off, which is really impressive.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is an amazing team on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I also love this idea.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll also go back matter really rocks on this, but I also love the idea that the Washington Monument
[SPEAKER_04]: is just a sword and it's like a person underground just waiting for the signal to fight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, I thought that was so cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and such an idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, real quick, that's such an idea of like when you're a kid in your just reading comics, you're like, oh shit, what if there's a general about just gripping the bottom of the Washington money like a sword?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they just pay it off here, which is really fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's very cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: But also the couple who kind of like kiss and hug and they're like, what do we need to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, get your hype, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is just really impressive.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, some issues, I'm like, what's happening?
[SPEAKER_04]: But then it just winds me back over.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I've been really impressed with this overall and cannot wait to see how this ends because it's been a really out there comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really nice, like you're mentioning, really nice emotional sort of core to this issue, particularly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my takeaway from reading this issue and sort of this final arc is that, you know, this comic is about America, sort of like, I think, undiscovered country is a direct, like,
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about America being walled and no one can get in and things change inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Time moves differently.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about taking American ideas and using science fiction and in some cases fantasy to just blow out these ideas.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I feel like over the course of their work on this book, America has changed a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to talk about how or what we feel about it, but I got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I be curious to talk to them as this comes to a close on how they're writing of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Scott has changed over the course because this issue particularly feels like it's about a different America.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's incorporating different ideas about America than what they were incorporating at the beginning of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So definitely a conversation I want to have next time we talked with those guys because
[SPEAKER_01]: This this issue is really nice telling the story about the pretty dark story about what happens on this moon base and the progress that they make.
[SPEAKER_01]: How they do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You should talk to Alice about them making a man the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, we're going to reach out and get them.
[SPEAKER_01]: get them going because it's coming to a close soon and they'd be great to have on to talk about it because it's there's a lot to talk about so definitely read this issue finish this series and we'll talk more about it soon but right now let's talk about crypto the last dog of crypto number three from DC comics and by Ryan North with art by Mike norton we there's been in the detective comics comic we talked about earlier there's a very emotional story about dogs
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that I said I tiered up reading.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I'm because I'm not with my dog right now, maybe I'm like
[SPEAKER_01]: having dog emotions but like this also go through a draw dog with draw I think maybe dog withdrawal the ultimate drug it's dogs but this issue was like really really got me to like it was highly upsetting and you know we this comic doesn't have a lot of dialogue it's just crypto out there living
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's kind of like kung fu, but crypto.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, crypto is just walking the earth, solving problems.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, he's a kid.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to save him.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then he's onto the next adventure, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and then we get a little teaser of Brainiac, which is always scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I love the art.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love the lack of words.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get to kind of fill up what we think is happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's such a cool idea.
[SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, this is a cool take on crypto and I'm really enjoying the execution this because it's really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like I said, it's just such an emotional.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many really well done emotional moments in this just a great blend of writing and a really evocative art.
[SPEAKER_01]: So definitely, if you're a dog lover, you gotta get to use some crypto.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk new Avengers number three from Marvel Comics and by Sam Humphrey's Art by Tom Lima.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we have a team of Avengers led by Bucky and they are dealing with the Kill Illuminati.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dark takes on the Illuminati characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pete's shaking his head, which means yes, yes, I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me some more.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I walked away from this comic.
[SPEAKER_04]: It lost me.
[SPEAKER_04]: You walked away.
[SPEAKER_04]: You sat down and walked away and have not walked back.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many steps you do?
[SPEAKER_01]: to get in, like, ten, ten geez.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, ten geez, easy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, I just think, you know, with the evil professor or whatever the fuck's happening, and he says, oh, uh, away my haters.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, no, no, I'm done.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can go fuck yourself on that line.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's just, he's bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's the kill luminality.
[SPEAKER_04]: I,
[SPEAKER_04]: There's something about like, hey, you're in on the joke.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're kind of like, you know why we're saying this, but it's also like making fun of me in a way that I don't appreciate.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: You don't get to say this to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: You don't know me well enough to do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I was like, no, fuck you.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's a great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been you are really a hyper-focused certain panels really light you up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why because it's like to me my X-Men but the opposite.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so it says away my haters and I was like fuck you you don't get to make that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's like bizarre the whole thing is their bizarreos.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, and the life is bizarre enough, I don't need the shit, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: So I thought you would like that because you hate regular.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate regular.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do and I don't like what he's been doing and I don't like the choices he's made so the fact that they're just going evil and then that line just hit me in a way that I it made me really mad and I just stopped reading it and so yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is like the Thunderbolt's movie, the Asterisk, new adventures.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this is a good follow up to that deeply rooted in Marvel continuity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we get an opening sequence of the team breaking into Hulk.
[SPEAKER_01]: the current Hulk who has Bruce Banner locked up inside him.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have to talk to him and get some info.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that was cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: The green blood was a lot.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, yo, what the fuck dude?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but like, I like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's taking the current Hulk, which is much more horror influenced the Philip Kennedy Johnson's doing and sort of brought that home.
[SPEAKER_01]: In times past, the Hulk would be impervious or definitely wouldn't be so bloody, but because it's not all blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get the blood and we get Wolverine being like, oh shit, I'm good at this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm killing the hog.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a nice tone to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little irreverent.
[SPEAKER_01]: The characters are having fun in their crisis points.
[SPEAKER_01]: The team is sort of weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Bucky Wolverine X-II-III.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Namor.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Clea.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Black Widow.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the current carnage, which over in Charles' Souls book is Eddie Brock.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we get him here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The twisted characters we get sort of the Kiluminati Dr. Strange as well as Professor X. I thought was cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad you like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You walk away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to sit down twice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck off, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very lit up by that one particular line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't say the wrong thing to paint the bar because he will walk away from you, which maybe is the goal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the season's number seven.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other side of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would never walk away from you in a bar Pete because you are often being bought drinks by the bartons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the season's number seven from Image Comics written by the remainder.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second remainder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Art by Paul as a Seda.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a score of eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got quadruple ours in this stack because we got R to the R times two.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this book a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about a family named with a daughter's name after the four seasons, which you can Google them on your own.
[SPEAKER_01]: They they're facing down a fucked up circus like more fucked up than the regular circus and it's an all-out this issue is an all-out like chase race I'm trying to get away from a lot of like handicapped tentacles coming for them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is like a nightmare come to life here.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is just insane what happens there first off one hall of a cover
[SPEAKER_04]: We got a winner on a motorcycle with a big ass knife.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, a house to the yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: This gets you so excited for what's inside and what's inside delivers, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this just continues to rock.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have kind of like summer who was the one who kind of got warned about the evil circus.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Calvin's not here to defend clowns, but yeah, this shit is fucked up and evil.
[SPEAKER_04]: That guy defends clowns.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, I mean, he married one, so like he's in it, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He married a clown.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's a clown.
[SPEAKER_04]: And an amazing person and clown, I should say.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, great.
[SPEAKER_03]: We love Alex's wife, but she's a clown.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's out with this clown right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, this is worth it for the art alone.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is magical.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just such a the colors, the panels.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is just so beautiful and such a world of imagination.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just
[SPEAKER_04]: really impressive artistically what's happening here but I just love this kind of like they're trying to outrun a circus tent and they're losing hard and it feels like a nightmare come to life in all the best ways and I'm having such a fun time reading this
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a blast and we haven't really got to spend any time Well, not really learning about the family I think because there's so much action Yeah, we learn a little bit like I mean character spring.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's on the run.
[SPEAKER_01]: She encounters summer here who's like caught up in her mirror a nice sort of touch on the money girl.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: So spring is the young girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but yeah, that's winter who's like the darker sister Yeah, but it is like mad cap.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not
[SPEAKER_01]: not even just a dream but it's like a fever dream or an anxiety dream where it's stressful how much is coming for them and we get some nice turn about at the end of this issue so looking forward to where it goes next but definitely not wait for the next issue this is such an epic tale i've been really loving this uh pick up the double reminder this week yeah but let's move on to the umbrella academy plan b number two from godcourse comics and brazier art way art by Gabriel pa now
[SPEAKER_01]: This comic is incorporating some of the characters from the Umbrella Academy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Netflix show that we watched, exhaustively, and covered in our... Yeah, I'm Bella.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pod Academy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Show, I think that was the name of that podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: But definitely, if you haven't watched that show, it is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're bringing in the sparrows into the actual Umbrella Academy comic book universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would like you to explain to me all of the things that happen in this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I will not.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I would like to just say that like, first off, amazing cover.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just seeing this brings me back to a time when Broly Academy was first coming out and what a fun world that was, you know?
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, it's the soldier factor of just seeing this coming out again makes me very happy.
[SPEAKER_04]: But starts with the maze, which is always fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love a good maze.
[SPEAKER_04]: I solved it on my laptop and used Sharpie and got all the way to the center of the maze.
[SPEAKER_04]: So pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really good, Pete.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just like when my mom used to give me the highlights when we were waiting to see the dentist, you know, just grabbing my Sharpie and going to town.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but then you got the kids playing soccer with the head, which, you know, it's important to get out there and have some activities, but man alive, that's a real twisted fucking turn on a lovely pastime.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Boller's gonna ball.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you got a ball, you got anything round to work.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just so great to see number five in this number five in the TV show such an amazing fun character also in the comics kind of finds a gray hair has a moment there and he's got tons of guns from Diego which makes me laugh
[SPEAKER_04]: This is I love the twists and turns that's happening this and like JT says was a looting to I'm not sure of everything that is happening but I am along for the ride because the the art is such a vibe and it's a whole thing and I I love it
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is the classic team.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a classic umbrella academy style story where they were jumping around.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's horrifying stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the characters we know.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a ton of other new characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one notch turned away from me understanding what's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's very close and I like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just one notch where I'm like, I don't know what all of this means.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of that in every umbrella academy issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just one not too many I think for me to like really be a hundred percent on board with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna keep reading it, but I just wish we knew it's a little bit more about what was happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll keep reading the next issue.
[SPEAKER_04]: What happened the next issue?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, yeah, it could be by the next issue of clicks in.
[SPEAKER_01]: It clicks in, but the next issue we're going to talk about, and the last issue of this stack is the Department of Truth, number three, three from Image Comics, and by James Time, the fourth art by Laticia Cado Nietzsche, this is sort of bringing in, we have this Hatman arc, and coming to a close here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the Hatman to the tune of the Scatman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say, I love this comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: This Hatman arc has been such a departure in stylistically and sort of just the story has been almost a standalone comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: that I've really enjoyed and this issue actually brings everything into the fold.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like what's happening here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the way that this arc was all about technology and how that's different in the way that the world of Department of Truth works where enough people believe something it basically comes true.
[SPEAKER_01]: This arc has been like
[SPEAKER_01]: the internet thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's how we would tell that story in this department of truth universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they folded it in so nicely and smoothly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I really like where sort of the trap is ready to be sprung jumping into the next start.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's exciting.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems like maybe the next start is going to deal with the devil.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems like something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it seems like we're bringing like a new idea Yeah, it feels like literally the line is we need to invite the devil to the party Yeah, it could be the full satanic panic thing that they gesture to a bit in this comic all the way from the very beginning But haven't really got all the way into and maybe that's literally like you're saying what's next?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, this comic is a little bit over my head, but the art is just really impressive.
[SPEAKER_04]: This cover here is creepy as fuck, but yeah, artistically what this comic is doing is really impressive.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's sometimes does like these newsprint kind of
[SPEAKER_04]: creepy things and other times there's like colors bleeding into other panels it's really impressive you never kind of every time I open up a department of truth comic I'm always surprised and impressed by the tone and the artistic kind of flexibility that it has it's creepiest fuck and it kind of does a lot of different things but man it's a it's a fun ride and I'm glad that we have Jake too sizzled to try to break it down for us
[SPEAKER_01]: Always trying to break it down and speaking of that we we just broken down the entire stack That's the end folks will be back next week with the whole another fresh stack In the meantime you can check us out every Tuesday at seven o'clock when we do our live show comic book club Join our patreon so you can come and be on our discord and hear about all the other wild stuff we're talking about a week in a week out that's at patreon.com slash comic book club shake up comic book club news or news podcast sons of a gun where we're about to be talking about
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sit on crap big cultures and they let us see the link And he's just a monkey, they look like fast, they're so messy So grab your ring, hammer, don't really hurry