[SPEAKER_02]: What's up everybody?
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the stack of Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Pete and on the stack, I get the name of this show right every single time the first time we don't have to stop and redo it because I made a mistake.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would never happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not here on the stack.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're so professional after all these years, he wouldn't bring it up as a mistake.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that would just be no reason to.
[SPEAKER_02]: introduce the show that way that's just confusing for people plus a waste of everybody's time you know you're wasting your time so I'm glad we're not doing that instead we are going to be talking about some great comics that came out this week and maybe some not growing so great ones I don't want to I don't want to say we're not biased here we don't love that everything sometimes we don't like things sometimes we have weird fights about one specific part of a comic book let's see if that happens almost immediately as you jump in
[SPEAKER_02]: With DCKO boss battle number one from DC Comics written by Jeremy Adams, heart-by-card by D.G.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ed DeBedico, Ronan Glickett, Keren McCallin, Pablo M. Coller.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, we're splitting out of the DCKO of that takes place right after the events of DCKO number three, where we found out that the four remaining challengers, which are Lex Luther, the Joker, Superman, and
[SPEAKER_02]: opportunity, which is pretty messed up, but before they do, they've got to gain some more on mega energy.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not strong enough yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what happens is that the Gorilla Groud and due to looks like a giant elf that a blanket got the day above the world for a jerk, is that what it is?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was introduced during the Scottsonator run on Justice League, whatever I always forget his name.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks like a large health, let's be honest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, anyway, he, they decide they need to send them throughout the multiverse to challenge other folks.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we get a wild assortment of characters, including Vampirella, Red Sonia, homelander for the boys, out of the bell for the conjuring that is not a joke, subrede to the
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, so bad this strong from beneath the trees for nobody sees They also bring in some challenges who are down because the goal is to just build out the energy Not necessarily beat them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will mention we had Jeremy Adams on our show and talked to about this book There are other books Great timing
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, very great timing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go listen to the interview about that because we dealt into a lot of these matchups of the reasoning behind it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Pete, what do you think about this mash-up boss battle?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first off, this was an awesome issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It jumps off the page how much fun Jeremy Adams is having with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he also made that clear in our interview with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a blast for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He kills this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, uh, this mother fucking bear has been haunting my fucking existence.
[SPEAKER_00]: And never in my life have I rooted for Lex Luther more than I have in this fucking comic book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, but,
[SPEAKER_00]: other than that, I was having the best time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want the homelander superman fight to end.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was just so just the tone and all that was just so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, also I thought like the Joker sitting there with that creepiest doll known to man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought Joker would just like spin out, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was just such a cool take all the different kind of pairings which is some interesting ideas.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it was just jam packed with action.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought this did feel like a boss battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of interesting to see different sides of characters in these different kind of fight scenes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel so gross for rooting for Lex Luther.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, yes, this is very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is what you want out of a book like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did really like this about the strong Lex Luther fight, the panel of Lex, screaming and running away and being like a bear with the day before it's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's how Lex rolls up on the bear is so fucked up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just like, got, oh, that was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about this on the show a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think my favorite part of the issue was Joker fighting at a belt because the fact of the matter is you've seen any of these movies out of both doesn't do anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: She sits in a box, the entire stuff, entire time, and things happen around her is the way that she works.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the way the Joker interacts with her, where she's not doing anything, and he's constantly like, no, what's happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: was again very funny it's very goofy it's very silly and that's been it's fun coming through this entire event the only thing and again like not to keep piping up this interview but i think Jeremy talked about this a little bit i wanted more because we just got like these little tastes of the fight particularly the whole blender super bad one where it would have been so much more satisfied to see
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, I should have mentioned spoiler warning for everything here, everything kind of ends in a draw, which I guess you could understand because
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't want the mortal cut back characters to lose DC doesn't want the DC characters to lose So you got to kind of play it even there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you don't get that satisfaction of watching super bad Absolutely obliterate the worst version of him in the whole time.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no fatalities and we don't want you Exactly, you know, you know, you want some you know Though when there's a second mortal cutback character shows up that is very fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is cool
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what this should be.
[SPEAKER_02]: The art is also good at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do actually think the homelander superman section Look the best out of any of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: It channeled Derek Robinson without being Derek Robertson But good stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and this is the first of many mashups we're going to get into the stack today, but whatever we move on to another big event ultimate ed game number two from Marvel Read by Dennis Cap art by Jonas Sharf and Terry Dodson The end of the last issue we found out that the maker had turned into a big tree that was now the entire city The bubbles not open ironbed America Shave Spider-Man and Doom
[SPEAKER_02]: are trapped inside, meanwhile the ultimate network is fighting the supporters of the maker outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember how you felt about the first issue here, Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know you haven't been the hugeest fan of the ultimate universe, but what did you think about issue number two?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one I like to thought it was interesting kind of set up as I recall, but we talk about some of the comics maybe I'm wrong, but this one was super bleak and depressing, it was super sad, future sucks man, holy shit, but
[SPEAKER_00]: The the arts absolutely fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was also really cool to see Death's Head and Doom in the same comic together as a nerd.
[SPEAKER_00]: I of both those things it was kind of I was geeking out about the fact that both of them were together so.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, those are my thoughts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I give a comment like you Pete?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very talking.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a very talking issue which is
[SPEAKER_02]: Dennis Camp is a super smart guy, a super smart writer, but there's a certain point where this felt like this was getting a little bogged down with the conversation that was going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of exposition going on inside of the city as Howard Stark explains what's been going on over the past thousands of years in there to Tony Stark.
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, outside, we're getting a lot of text stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: updates people and some of it is a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some fun dialogue in there, but it ended up being a little overwhelming to me just in terms of the amount of text that was going out of the issue, which sounds crazy, but maybe it's the expectations of, this is ultimate ed game, everything should be on the line, every issue should be the direst issue of all time, and I'm not quite getting that yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, you know, in case you're wondering, you know, J. T. Sizzle, who is in with us, he's camping.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's usually, you know, a huge, huge fan of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's camping with Jesus now.
[UNKNOWN]: He died.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, that's dumb, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Heaven is a great cab crowd of the sky, I don't know what to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he's fighting.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's on a trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Archie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Army of darkness never went from dynamite ridden by Eric Burnham, art by Bill Galvin.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can figure out let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got here from the title, but the Archie kids had to a cabin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Five the neck or now the con.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oops, they read it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And tonight's come out.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then we got a flashback and five out that Archie has been working.
[SPEAKER_02]: with Ashley J. Williams, and there's some deadlines there too, and that's going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, would you think about this mash up?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's been a lot of dark crossovers with Archie lately.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this first off really cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look at this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the army of darkness cover, but with Archie and Veronica.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just so just right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also one of my favorite ships right there on the cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm winning twice with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is just hilarious and fun and a great use of characters and just hilarious to see kind of ash in this world and what's going to happen and.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... the fun of kind of the archie tone to this darkness so this is i mean great use of talent and this this is such a fun idea so well executed uh... i can't wait to read more in the art is just so awesome it is weird seeing a ashley ash say a common call of ash
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash rendered in a slightly more realistic style next to Archie who is in the cartoody style that gave me a little bit of cognitive dissonance.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's something that they play with in the Biter Threats crossover because the Biter Threats characters are drawn more realistically than the Archie characters, but I felt like they jelled it better than they did here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just disagree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want some kind of differential.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't want to see Ash totally archified.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I like that there's a little kind of barrier to him completely giving over to the kind of sunshiney bullshit.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: So.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I definitely hear you.
[SPEAKER_00]: The weird part for me was the dogs because, you know, Archie everything, so I'm like, is that supposed to be a real and I was like, no, no, they're not real dogs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they had that kind of seam going down the middle where I was like, what's happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: The, also the flashback through me a little bit, the fact that they're in the cabin, that they go back to an entirely different story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I assume they're going to bring the timelines together, and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a little hard to sus out how they connected in this first issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're saying it was a little sus.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a little sus.
[SPEAKER_02]: But still fun, so there you go, fun, fun, fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see if this one is fun, fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: DC AEW, number one from DC Comics, ridden by Steve Orlando, art by Travis Mercer, yet another intergalactic wrestling match here, the heroes of the AEW need to team up with the heroes of the DC.
[SPEAKER_02]: So finally, we're getting some overly muscled,
[SPEAKER_02]: Costumed freaks coveted to the DC universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did it have enough of those.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's pretty exciting People what did you think about this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what's funny is you said is this fun fun fun and if I can read my notes word for word I said fun team up
[SPEAKER_00]: It's classic team up fun and great ideas and fun action.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it is fun fun fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's hilarious.
[SPEAKER_00]: You an AEW guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like wrestling and I'm not like so tuned in where I'm like WWE WWE F like a you know I mean like I kind of like at all at this point
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not gonna kind of like hate which you know what I mean, but yeah, I wasn't asking you to choose a baby I was just saying I don't know anything about a W so this is completely foreign to be I don't know how much you know And those girls I know the characters So but yeah, I just thought it was cool tons of action Just kind of fun team up To kind of see them worked in these kind of units was cool
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know anything about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This seems like I appreciate the fact that this is going to be sold at AEW matches.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's cool just on a great get comic sad to more people level the artist good by Travis Mercer, Steve Orlando.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is what he's doing here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did appreciate that we got a heel turn at the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was pretty fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say I'd be more psyched if this was DC-X-A-N-W because a more of a root beer fan than a wrestling fan, but, you know, maybe that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Pete, you're balloon just like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the end of you, Joe got me like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever drive out, you know, when you were at Cornell, did you ever drive out to Corland to that and W drive through that thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: I never been to an end of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, you were so close.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have 15 minutes from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I messed up that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it was one of the greatest drive-throughs
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's pouring about to the car dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to go back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to go back back, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: If there's one take away from our review of DC AEW, it's go to the A and W in Portland.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, check it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Ultimate Wolverine, number 14 from Marvel Written by Chris Condon, Art by Alessandro Capuchio, Wolverine, and fetix are on the trail of Iliana Rasput, while we get her origin in the ultimate universe at the same time, and oh, there will be blood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you seem psyched.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is such a cool issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're kind of hunting Eliana here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I think that they set up the fact that like, okay, you know, there are 20 places that she can be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But man, if I'm Wolverine, you gotta go to the last place on the list because it's always the last place you look.
[SPEAKER_00]: as we're early on is going to be uh... but make your keys man she's always in the couch check the couch first check the couch first yeah exactly so for some time uh... yeah i i i just thought this was just uh...
[SPEAKER_00]: had like such a cool tone to the art and the kind of moodiness of ultimate Wolverine.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I just think this is artistically done and it continues to be kind of a fun idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm having a blast with this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think this is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about quite a bit how Chris Condon extended the right of this past the natural end, but this is really making an argument for this kind of good have gone on for a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's beautifully drawn really well and carefully plotted.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's brutal at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's exactly what you want out of an ultimate Wolverine book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, I'm going to guess this is one of your favorite books of the week, Pete Dork.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one from Image Comics by Brett Bean.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the artist of I Hate Fairyland.
[SPEAKER_02]: Breaking out of his own writing and drawing this and it's about a half dwarf half ork who may bring about the end of the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete.
[SPEAKER_02]: take away on this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is just, first off, cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Such such a fun, light tone that the comic really delivers on, but the name, door coming, come on, dwarf and orca, that's just such a great idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you got an overly violent shield.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is all my things combined.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got fantastic art over the top action and violence, very creative, built-out world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, checking all of the boxes for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had a blast with this comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the chicken.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a total package here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just started with a really cool map.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I couldn't believe all the things that were lining up for me in this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like this as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I was expecting to do the play on Dork.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was expecting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate fairy-led to just something a little more over the top comedic.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there are funny parts to this, but it is a lot more focused on lore and world building in this first issue and prophecy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it was not exactly what I expected.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do think the funny parts are fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, there's a floating ghost chicken head who can hate that and this seems like a nice character to be following going forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know who you're rooting for.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I ball shield that loves violence is just a fun choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fun choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a fun choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, I'm pretty excited about this one, the nice house by the seed of her seven from DC comics and vertigo, written by James Todd of the fourth, art by Alvaro Martinez, Wayne O'Neill, vertigo partners, the thing that, frankly, I'm most excited about, I like.
[SPEAKER_02]: this series, I like the previous series, Dice House by the lake, but this is the first Vertigo book we're getting in the rebooted line, we're going to get new Vertigo titles every week for Seable Future, which is awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one though is a continuation of Dice House by the sea, which if you haven't been reading it, there are now two houses,
[SPEAKER_02]: who are the last people in the world and what house the nice house by the sea has decided to kill everybody in the nice house by the lake and that's what we start getting towards the end of this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: This title, if you have a good reading, it definitely go back to the beginning and read it for there.
[SPEAKER_02]: This not a good jumping at point at all, but it is upsetting to read beautifully
[SPEAKER_02]: just nothing like it on the stats it's great to have it back and I do think even though it is the seventh issue of a sequel series this really good mission statement kick off for a vertical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree with all of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a really cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is just so amazingly beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: The colors are really impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: The splash pages, just leaning into the art and helping it to tell this creepy fucked up story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just think that I can't say enough about the amazing art style.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not my cup of tea because it is so intense.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it you know the last panel is really well done but yeah also really cool character guy in the last two pages but creepy and scary as hell if you like that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Godzilla infinity roared number one for Marvel, right by Jerry Duckin, art by Havier Geron and Eiddog Varra.
[SPEAKER_02]: Following up on Godzilla destroys the Marvel Universe, he is now in space and been taken over and controlled by null God of the symbiets.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as we pick up, Godzilla is being used to destroy and take over the Universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically, the plot of Kagan Black, that crossover by, you know, with Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, with Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_02]: with Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, as you do, as one does Pete, you're the Godzilla fan, you're wearing a shirt, you're drinking the beer, how's the comic, how's the, what's the hat trick?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is, this is just crazy fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun, over the top huge ideas, very epic, so well executed, it melted my nerd brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the whole blackbolt thing was so cool then the kind of reveal at the end Like seeing galactus like sitting there and that fucked up chair and then just being the fantastic for being like Hey, do you want to call him my planet need a giant lizard?
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: So cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: So awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I melted my nerve brain and I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, this was just an absolute blast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's fun to see them taking big swings like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's my one problem with this book, Pete, and maybe you have an answer to this question.
[SPEAKER_02]: When Godzilla has the symbiot, it's like just sort of like a little ripped t-shirt right on his front.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't have the symbiot covering him entirely.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on there?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's the thing, God's little is so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was trying to kind of, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it ended up being like a wood or a t-shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, he's like, I'm so metal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, you can't hold me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he cut off the sleeves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, he's got the sleeves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like dude, it's cooler with this sleeves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got to see now, love the music.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to cut the sleeves off the sleeves.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, I mean, I mean, it's a big band, so much of a buy the shirt, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: It is kind of embarrassing that he's wearing the Null Shirt to the Null Cuts.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what's going to be more embarrassing is when, you know, Galacta shows up and he's rocking his Galacta shirt, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thunder of the barbarian.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: From Dynamite Rid by Jason Arrid, Art by Cuber Ball.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the, I believe, first time ever this classic cartoon property has been
[SPEAKER_02]: In comic book form nobody correct me if I brawn there but Jason Aaron is very excited about it he's been talking about it forever and it is set on a post-apocalyptic earth that has been changed so it's like coded but it's also come on D and a bunch of other things at the same time uh... Pete
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: There were a rat man in a barbarian dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, this was awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was really Jason Aron is killing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was, I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember the cartoon is a child as a wee lad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is just so well done.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we kind of see Thunder, the barbarian.
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of tied up and being misused.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he kind of sets this trap and then his buddies join them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it's kind of insane because like, you know, thunder is a barbarian and then there's this moment where he's like, hey, do you want to talk about your feelings?
[SPEAKER_00]: You was like, listen, woman, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to talk about my feelings.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's also such a fun nostalgia bath that I'm very much enjoying and the art is amazing
[SPEAKER_00]: As somebody who doesn't have nostalgia for this, there's a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why they take away.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot, and there's, you would think like, one of these ideas would be good for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's my only thing is it felt so fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it feels like Jason Aaron, it was like, hey, do you want to come over and see my toys?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, yeah, that sounds great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, here you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he takes my head and shums it right at his toy box.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, look at these toys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God, I'm following them.
[SPEAKER_02]: all of them at the same time like I okay maybe just show me a couple and out by facers you know so I'll read anything that he writes he's great but this was a little overwhelming for me and I want to get a better head doll on this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it'll come down a little bit yeah yeah it's not gonna happen but I guess we'll see
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jesus, we did check out the next one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman, chains of love, a special number one from DC Comics written by Leo Williams of Dad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Slot, Art by Clara, and Rosie Kemp, and the front story, the creeper and live wire are striking up a romance, just a ties for Valentine's Day.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the back up story, a guy named Bill Zaro and Zapaq, the sorrow world.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like both of these stories.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I thought the front story, you know, I had just never really thought about the fact that the creeper is a TV host and live liars or radio host.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just that basic idea of like, hey, what if we host a show together and the kind of fellow love is so simple?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: But executed in such a fun, sweet, nice way over the course of this extended story, I thought that was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the backup story,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just, and I say this complimentary, is classic stupid pun from Dan Slot, and where he's like, what if there's a guy that builds our own, what would happen to him?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's very funny, one-to-one world, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the, and it's like a very dark twilight-sooty place in the end of the story, which I was very surprised by, but again, I enjoyed both of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was a to use the Turbule as you say, fun package.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a great package while executed on both stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's weird to root for a creeper and live wire, but they do it in such a good way that makes sense in his cool for characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what a fun kind of switcher will kind of twist on it, twist idea with the bizarre world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought both were really executed well and the art was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you're looking for a little fun and kind of light-heartedness and some nice couples, you should check this out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Storm, Earth's mightiest mutant number one from Marvel Written by Murrowa, a Yodalei art by Fred O'Recha, Madsen, though this is a number one issue, this is just continuing Murrowa, Yodalei's rod odd storeb, so there's a lot of stuff going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is part of the Avengers now, as well as related to the X-Men.
[SPEAKER_02]: and also she is now a storm goddess after the thunder war storyline and this issue in that is picking up with that villain from that arc she needs to make some dealings with him meanwhile there's a lot of other things going on in the world and oh man there is no other book
[SPEAKER_02]: like this on the stads.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is just absolutely unique.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're the storytelling.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just working on an entirely different level.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it finds time to be really funny in the middle of all of that, which is always surprising to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I almost, I loved how calm and interesting the tea ceremony was.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was just total madness around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I just think that this is an interesting idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great to see storm doing so much and doing more.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very happy with everything that is happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm interested to see how this is all going to kind of unfold.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's an interesting set up in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I'm looking forward to how it kind of all breaks down.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also really like Frederica Manson's art on this issue, Lucas Wrenack has been such a quarterstone of this book to have somebody else always gives me a little pause, but I think this is a really nice compliment.
[SPEAKER_02]: He draws a good storm.
[SPEAKER_02]: The action is good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, tons going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a similar feeling to what I would say with Thunder and the Barbarian or your like.
[SPEAKER_02]: things happening all the time, but I think the difference here is it's showing these little snippets of things that slowly come together at a fascinating way by the end, which is very surprising.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think just the way, I know I get a lot of heat for you, so this word, but the way this issue is structured is pretty fascinating.
[SPEAKER_02]: Night City, number one from Dark Horse Comics Room by Matt Kint, art by David Lappem.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is showing us a new superhero who's very tired all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's at the end of his rope so much that he almost kills his arch enemy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when he finally does go to sleep, he wakes up as a normal guy in a normal world.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on here?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we explore over the course of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then,
[SPEAKER_02]: over the course of the series.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yet another bagger from the Matt Kent I would say.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that he's been doing that's really fascinating is like...
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to talk about it about another book later on that is very much his riff on the Legion of Superheroes.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is his riff on like Superman or Shazam or some dual life character like that, but coming up with his own property around it and really just exploring what it means that this guy can never sleep and what happens next.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gorgeously drawn by David Lappham.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, agreed.
[SPEAKER_00]: A solid first dish.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art style is just so cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a sucker for water color.
[SPEAKER_00]: So just love the kind of style of art.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bunch of twists and turns.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is real?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is dream world crazy last panel?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hope he isn't dead because man, there would be a tough start to a great idea if it only goes one issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: But man, just a really solid first dish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Poison Ivy, number 41 from DC Comics by G Willow Wilson, art by David J. and Flieche, after killing a lady last issue, Poison Ivy's in jail and waiting to find out what happens next.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's where we spend most of the issue as Jennifer Meach are tries to get her out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great, I kind of wanted to throw this in the middle here because we always leave it for the edge and we're like, this series is really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so I wanted to see if we had any more to say before we get really tie tie, but I will, again, just say as usual, this is one of the most solid books on the stands.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some great moments throughout.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love everything that's going on with Jennifer from HR, and also a spoiler, but there is a appearance by Harley here that I thought was a lot of fun as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I knew this was coming because they spoiled it in solicitations, but the thing that happens at the end of the issue, I thought was pretty great as well, and I'm excited to
[SPEAKER_02]: where that goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're not reading poison ivy already, you absolutely should be.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just month after month, one of the best books on the stands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is unbelievable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was really kind of like how was poisoned.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be going to get out of this, especially after she straight up murdered death killed somebody.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the thing that happens is something that we see in comics and in cartoon
[SPEAKER_00]: what if the bad person runs for mayor?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, wow, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I'm learned here is, I should shut up because this team is phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, this has been like 41 issues of bangers.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, I should shut up and not say anything because
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything they've been doing is is awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see, but I was this is with a little the first time where I was like, I don't know, I bought I am, but I'm still going to show up for 42 and I'm sure it'll be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Magic and Colossus, number one from Marvel written by Ashley Allen, art by German Paralta.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the team that was on the magic book.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe her at least Ashley Allen definitely wrote it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember where the German Paralta was the artist.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is taking place.
[SPEAKER_02]: The current ex-bed facility, Colossus, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of bummed out lately.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has gone through some more times thanks to being on X-Force.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where Iliana encounters him as he's tracking down some weird magic in Russia.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're also having flashbacks to their younger days.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love these characters, but what do you think, Pete?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I also very much enjoy these characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a crazy issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Magic catches classes like sacrificing himself, and she's like, you bro, like, yeah, get a little dark on me, which is funny for her to say, you know, with all that she's been through.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, well, both of them, actually, but men, and really grabs your attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, great job for her first issue, kind of really,
[SPEAKER_00]: setting a new kind of status quo aligned for these two, but really amazing art, big swings, so I'm an interesting to see how this is all going to kind of unwind and unravel, but great last panel, so cool reveals, so I'm excited for more.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I really liked about this was after doing such a great character study on magic in the previous series, this flips even though magic is still the headlighter here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is about Colossus, and it's exploring Colossus in a similar way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious to see where we net out because
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I can still remember very clearly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Colossus was always the sweet night's gigantic guy on the X-Men, and then they spent years just hammering on him, taking away everything, tried to turn it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about this in the podcast before and to dark Colossus.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I wonder if this is going to be about netting him back to a place where he can like,
[SPEAKER_02]: paint again, you know, or something or be like a little bit happier.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that's going to happen, but that certainly seems to be what they're exploring with him, so I'm excited to follow that journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Supernatural Valentine's Day special number one from Dynamite, Written by Pretty Cheaper, Art by Pasquale Quallano.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, the Winchester brothers are exploring a weird town where nobody is in love and it turns out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I won't spoil it, it is, but it might be some sort of monsters, maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a really great super fun one shot that channels the supernatural tone and the characters absolutely nails them, but brings in an entirely different flavor of supernatural mystery than I think we're used to from this sort of property.
[SPEAKER_02]: The art is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mystery is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: The creatures are great as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd a real blast reading this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, same.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a touching special tons of action.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice ending.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great art.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely super bad number 60 for TC Comics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Written by Jason Aaron once again, art by Juan Ferreira picking up off the cliffhanger of the previous issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Superman is met the Hawkman of the absolute universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here we find out a lot more about him after his brief appearance in the absolute evil,
[SPEAKER_02]: We find out as origin.
[SPEAKER_02]: We also find out as a different philosophy from Superman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Another bigger issue of this one as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am really intrigued by this new Hawkman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love what they're doing here, but even more, I love what they're doing with Superman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now that he is doing Superman stuff and saving people, seeing the way that he treats this Hawkman is fascinating.
[SPEAKER_02]: And men, Jason Arrid and Juan Ferrar are just a great team.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great, yeah, cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just what a crazy fight, you know, a Hawkman just being a dick, you know, the back and forth between him and Supes, the tension, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, then the other story, the horrifying twists and turns,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everyone run for your life birthday party.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it was crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great art and both stories, especially the soups, fight panels, the splash pages were insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the page or Superman, like punch us, Hawkman, like down levels into the subway, just fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: just account book pages.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just, oh man, so cool, so well done, so much action.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely true, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hidden.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, Avengers 35 from Marvel Written by Jed McCay, art by Sergio DeVia.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lots of stuff going on with the Avengers.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's their teaming up.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Twilight Court to take down Kang who was activated the grill, which will destroy the cosmos and create the next cosmos and meanwhile enter the Ash and Combine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, fun cover Pete.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, funnish.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the the good guys kind of tricking the bad guys here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, a little trickery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so kind of, uh, interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of weird to see, but awesome art that plan was pretty cold as ice real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who's your favorite member of the Twilight court?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's tough to just, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was, that was too hard because they're all great.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about the Ash and Combine?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's your favorite member of the Ash and Combine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, how do you choose just one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, that's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: How about the Avengers?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are they in this book as well?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's...
[SPEAKER_02]: Not really.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really want to go to the Ash and Cobb.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really want to like this every issue and I do like the art and I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the trick the way that they beat the villains was pretty well done that was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're just having gotten the Avengers in this series.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just...
[SPEAKER_02]: It isn't as bad this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: But by the way, I want to be clear.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I like Jen McKay's writing and I was just written some great stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know whether something clicking here with this Avengers run and I think part of it, I keep thinking about those seeds of the more recent mission impossible movies where they're like, Hey, what's going on with the editing and then 10 people all stand around and basically say different lines from the same model angle, chopped up between them.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're all essentially the same character.
[SPEAKER_02]: and that's what's going on with the Avengers in this book.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're doing the exact same thing all the time and it's driving me a little that's what it was kind of you know where it was like hey Black Panther you can't do this because then you would have to sacrifice to yourself you know and it was like or we could just have them do it right and then it was like oh shit
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, anyway, we'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're heading towards the end with this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thundercats.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last eight times.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thundercats lost in time to everyone from dead of I read by Ed Bryson, art by Chris Compania, Alessandro Maracolo, uh, Gerardo Gamboon, Edvin Chedzo, Federici, and in this issue, we're following the team from Thundercats lost who end up, I believe on the Silverhawks planet, where they're holding,
[SPEAKER_02]: Chitarah leading to the upcoming Thundercats Silver Hawks War.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pete, you got to be losing your mind over here and your nostalgia bath.
[SPEAKER_02]: Childhood, you feel like a child to get because children go ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, first off, just like JT sizzle is the huge Silver Hawks fan, so it kind of stays not having him here for this comic, but yeah, this is also my mean Thundercats
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of in this but it's setting up this huge war which is exciting um i'm just rooting for thundercats because that was the show i watched and didn't really watch thundercats are it it's just the thundercats
[SPEAKER_00]: It's different Thundercats from the Thundercats lost comic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I not, I realize that, but I'm saying like the the main Thundercats.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we get as Chitara as the kind of cameo and she doesn't look what she's doing to well in this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, but yeah, next issue, I cannot wait to kind of get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of really sets things up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, as far as my childhood goes, this is, this is just fun, this is just fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I generally like the storytelling, Thedercats and Silverhocks are not my thing, but I do think there is a fair amount of danger here and at Bryce and knows how to set up intrigue and mystery.
[SPEAKER_02]: But really killed me was the amount of artists on this book, like the ArtCeps switching every couple of pages, and it really threw me.
[SPEAKER_02]: it's that it's just a bobber like I know it needs to happen sometimes but as soon as you see what is it for different artists of the book it sets up a large bells a little bit and they might be good individually but it definitely starts to feel like well we had to get this product out and that's kind of what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: So
[SPEAKER_02]: that that I didn't love.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, but the key Tara pages looked very good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who did those but those were very good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That band number six from DC Comics written by Matt Fraction art by Jorge and then as the big cliffhanger at the end of the last issue was the lady.
[SPEAKER_02]: that that there was on a date with found out that David Wayne was his son and this issue hilariously starts with her being like, oh god, that must be tough him running off with that on the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which I thought was such a great move that is like so steeped in comic books but somehow I didn't see it coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: At the rest of the issue has Batman fighting
[SPEAKER_02]: monster man and doing lots of batman stuff as well as bonding with Tim Drake who's decided to leave being a Robin.
[SPEAKER_02]: Damien is unhappy about it too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man this book is just great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just the tone of the bat fraction is put in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so much fun and hooray.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man as this art is excellent every issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm having a blast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Matt fractions a hell of a writer, cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we get the monster smash here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I
[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought this was so kind of talking at your heartstrings, like the amazing heartbreaking story, and the Damon stuff as well, I mean Batman just sitting on the steps was heartbreaking love the art huge intense last panel yeah this is just this is just very
[SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic kind of stuff and matte fraction is really kind of dive into some interesting cool takes here that I can't wait to see kind of play out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, this is kind of you laugh you cry it's better than cats fat man check it out
[SPEAKER_02]: Captain, uh, planet of the apes versus fantastic for number one from Marvel written by Josh Truleo, art by Andrade Divido, and this issue, it does what it says, the fantastic for head to the planet of those damn dirty apes, and there's some twists, there's turns, uh, the most hilarious part is they get their courtesy of, of course, the red ghost who says them to do an ape planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know what, I got to be honest, I was not looking forward to this,
[SPEAKER_02]: sounds dumb.
[SPEAKER_02]: This, like, how are they going to make this work?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've planted the apes is very much the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand fantastic form as explorers, but you don't want this was very fun and funny and light and it made some ridiculous moves by the end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you had a great time.
[SPEAKER_00]: They blew it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the art was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, did you not like this?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like planted the apes, so don't you like about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do all the apes.
[SPEAKER_00]: What don't you like about it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just, I can't get into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've tried numerous times.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the famous birthday kind of with J.T.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sizzle, where, you know, I'd rather see anything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I just, but you like the Tim Burton one though, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was good with Marky Mark?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that one was bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_02]: He bring up, put him in comic with form.
[SPEAKER_02]: I tried.
[SPEAKER_02]: interesting man.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is making me want to watch the newer platter of the hips we was again because they are so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, event horizon you got to love this beat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Event horizon dark to set number five from I.D.W.
[SPEAKER_02]: written my Christian word, art by Tristan Jones and Christian word.
[SPEAKER_02]: The final issue of this prequel to event horizon were a bunch of flip spobes are doing their flesh
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is scary as hell, the space house, space demons, you know, amazing art, but this is creepy and so fucking scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: The welcome to hell, come find me line.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna haunt my fucking nightmares man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for putting that into my nightmare bank.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just a loved one coming up to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, just go to hell close.
[SPEAKER_02]: Find close.
[SPEAKER_02]: Physically as your nightmare back to your spag back later.
[SPEAKER_02]: They like next story to each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a sub-toucher like I'd like to be able to draw all of you like.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the nightmare bag.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I never messed up my bags, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: don't want to take a deposit for the wrong place.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the series was, it was, it was like reading a living nightmare.
[SPEAKER_02]: The entire time, front to back, every single issue, which is exactly what event horizon should be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love this final pages by Christian Ward, just because I love this art, but Christian Jones is stuff as great as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love how this, without completely spoil again, I love how this found a satisfying,
[SPEAKER_02]: and to this story about this other crew without contradicting what happens event horizon.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's a tricky thing to do to like find that correct pocket there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I thought this was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really looking forward to and I'm sure you are a peat.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to be doing a sequel that's coming out so we'll read every issue of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll just be under your bed reading it for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: fuck you man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely great lot to number 11 from DC Comics, we're by all viewing art by a general linsey in this issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are focusing on Joe Muleon on the run, we're picking up some stuff with Obsidian, and how Hector Hammond is controlling him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of plastic stuff going on after several mythology issues, this is a big one for just like some action and strategizing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really enjoying this series and I've enjoyed it more every issue I'm just getting further and further into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think Pete?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, Greenland turns out my favorite, but this absolutely green lantern book has been really crazy and cool, a lot goes down in this issue, I just, the fact that we stopped action to kind of be like, hey, wait, I was out for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did I eat?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was like, well, because we're green lanterns, we can like pass it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, this is gross,
[SPEAKER_00]: chewing up his energy and like bird feeding it to him, green lantern style.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you could do that though, wouldn't you do that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, if I could chew up your food and then put my hand on you and give it to you, I'd just say we're more efficient.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I,
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it was like why are we stopping action to get into the minutiae of how green lanterns can feed each other was just like I was like this is weird man But the real hero of this is the art as we see on this amazing cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is just some fantastic
[SPEAKER_00]: like splash pages and really great kind of like last panel, like just the colors and that the art is just really impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, fun last panel, this is cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just got a little weirded out by the, hey, if you're a green ranger, I'm a green lantern, like I can crush up energy and like, said that to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I like this, and I have to have a problem with the eating thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amazing Spider-Man, number 21 from Marvel Written by Joe Kelly, art by John Remeda, Judea, and Todd Knock.
[SPEAKER_02]: In this issue, Norman Osborne is still pretending to be Spider-Man, and he is under attack by a bunch of spider slairs, as well as the Hobgoblin, meanwhile, he has a bunch of spider-man's, and Spider-Gweads of what not backing him up.
[SPEAKER_02]: all leading to the return of Peter Parker at the end of the issue, another great issue of this run on amazing spider bad, the characterization that Joe Kelly braised in Norman Osborne, I think is excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: The only little knock I have on it has nothing to do with Todd Nock, but rather that John Reed and Judeo is kind of drawing Spider-Man like Peter Parker, instead of Norman Osborne.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like there was a couple of issues back when he first showed up that he was a little thicker and I thought that was interesting to indicate that it's a different character.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here the body type seems the same as Peter Parker, so I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: First off, I'll dare you attack John Roman Jr.'s art.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I just think that, you know, fun hug at the end, but yeah, this is just this whole kind of Norman Peter, but Norman in the Spider-Man outfit, it kind of really very costume.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little too weird for me to get into, but I can appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, but it's over now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the whole point of this arc was proving to Norman that he can't be Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm the goblet, that's who I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a little bit of a spoiler for future.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we know that he is going to prepare for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: He knows that's going to happen at some point.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll throw it out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've been teasing pretty heavily.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amazing spider bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: 1,000 is coming down the road.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably that's when that's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I thought this was a nice prick in the road there towards that point, that inevitability of, yeah, he's going to become the green goblet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, we know it's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's very cool, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if Green Goblin showed up to me and was like, hey, kind of trying your costume and try to be a good guy for a while, I'll be like, hell, no, but...
[SPEAKER_00]: Spiderman, it's like, all right, cool man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Check it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, weren't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not scoring, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do we move on then talking about the twilight zone never for a variety of W by Nate Powell.
[SPEAKER_02]: I gotta say, I haven't been in love with this series.
[SPEAKER_02]: But every issue, they put a artist or writer or writer artist on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're unlike, I
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to read this though, this is really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this one, Nate Powell, is so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll tell you what, I'm glad I've read this because I thought this was the best issue of the four or so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is focusing on a guy who is celebrating his birthday at a boat with his twin sister and her boyfriend.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they don't like it because he's a real asshole.
[SPEAKER_02]: They find out they have a glass bottom, both they can swim through and some weird stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not only is Dave Powell's art absolutely gorgeous, particularly the water scenes are beautiful, but this is the one that like 100% nails that old black and white twilight's own.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's exactly what I wanted out of this book and I have a quite big get-a-get, but this one gets it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this one really nails it cool cover, just great art, the black one, art, such a great tone for this idea that's so well executed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard the theme music playing, it felt like such an episode of the show, so I feel like this really nailed it in all aspects, and I thought it was cool and twisted and well done, so yeah, great job, great team, they killed it with this dish.
[SPEAKER_02]: TCKO night fight number four from DC comics written by Joshua Williams in art by dead mora in this issue that man has been presented with his eye deal world where debyan has made everything better he has a grand son he's growing older um... but part of apocalypse he knows is torturing him with all of this is going to have to get out some way somehow
[SPEAKER_02]: get back to the DCKO tournament.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, just a great series.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we've talked about this incessantly, but the DC has been doing such a good job with the DCKO tie-ins, giving them each their own feel, their own purpose.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this one, Joshua Williams, it really do have down on the emotional life of Batman and his relationship to the Robins, which has made it work.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has been off.
[SPEAKER_02]: It does tie into the main series, but
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really an exploration of Batman, and that's what's made it great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus, Denmark are always good.
[SPEAKER_00]: A great, a great, a great, a great, a great, yeah, really cool cover, amazing art, kind of a heart-breaking story about Batman fighting Damien and yeah, I'm excited to see what's going to happen here, touching family panels with Batman, so yeah, love this, love what they're setting up nervously scared and clutching my pearls as we move forward here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uncanny X-Men, number 23 from Marvel, written by Gal Simone, art by David Mark has two things going on simultaneously.
[SPEAKER_02]: One, Gambit is getting corrupted by the eye of the Agamoto that he has and the X-Men have to take them down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, inside the outliers are being told a story that parallels the main action.
[SPEAKER_02]: by the dudes who are the house that they're living in, and haven't house.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a couple of things going on here leading to a surprising end of the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was really well done and fascinating juxtaposition between the two stories that were going on throughout the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the fight with Gabby was really brutal and heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_02]: So one of my favorite issues of the series so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun last panel, yeah, this was cool, you know, I wasn't sure what happened but neither did our heroes for a little while here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did kind of, I was pulled out a little bit when they were like, what's wrong with you and he pulls out like this vampire cat from his code.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it was just a regular cat that he was going to eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been eating kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... what but uh... they said that they said that you you eat like trees and uh... that don't stay straight because uh... you know um... i'm setting up here the uh... the fact that uh... you know this last panel the monsters want in New Orleans and they can't have it because stray bullies and his amazing family lives there and that's not cool
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think do our leads is going to become monster town USA, but I guess we'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, you know, probably try to stop them is the Punisher that they could don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some sort of don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: cool dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, but I was good to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Frank Castle space counts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number three from Dark Horse Comics, run by Matt Kid to art by David Ruby and this is the final issue of this series.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe that has been following what I mentioned earlier, sort of a very far away riff on the Legion of Superheroes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't die.
[SPEAKER_02]: We started with a reality show contest to find to hero, but what it turned out was the actual heroes who were strong enough
[SPEAKER_02]: and get recruited for a forever war, which is what we deal with here, it's clearly that can't using this idea of future superheroes as a way of talking about the forever wars that America and other countries find themselves in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's just a smartly done and so present for a lot of the things that we're talking about right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also David Rebyns Art was just great throughout.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is another great series for Matt Kent.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know I'm in the Kit Tank, like Justin's in the camp camp, but I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, fun dossier pages.
[SPEAKER_02]: How about can I call you now going to kindergarten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, again, it's really creepy, but you can say that they're like Billy Madison, your favorite movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: It definitely is up there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun dossier pages in the back of this amazing art really, really love all the colors The just the panel work is just really amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is solid stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I I really enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought creatively This is well executed and yeah, it's just a blast
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of blast, Pete, what a week for you, Godzilla number seven from I.D.W.
[SPEAKER_02]: Read by Tib Silly, art by Hendry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, yeah, eventually every comic book is going to be a Godzilla comic book.
[SPEAKER_02]: But last issue, Godzilla died.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now, one of the members of G, for us, seems to have the power of Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_02]: Contrary to Godzilla, or Godzilla, can turn into him or something like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's all I was going to dream.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like this and I don't want to be too much of a jerk, but Nikola is this bedja who was doing the art of the first six issues.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a little too kinetic, sometimes it was hard for me to follow the action.
[SPEAKER_02]: Henry Pasechius art is a little clearer, and I like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel bad about it, but I was able to follow the action here.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some good character work where is it Jason the name of the kid who has Godzilla powers ends up in a club with one of his team members.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a little bit of a flirty night.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some good romance going on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: All the stuff that's going on with these Godzilla powers is interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was like a new good jumping on point for the book if you're interested.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lots of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, two seals constantly killing the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is no different cool cover, cool stuff, you know, it's a lot of talking, you know, because it's all about the humans, but then once a human turned into a Godzilla that I was like, oh, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta go back and reread this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, this is badass.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I love the highlighter green for Godzilla.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a good look for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited to see how this is all going to kind of unfold from here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a catchphrase for you if you want to use a peat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, ready?
[SPEAKER_02]: How about club me over the head because Celia's got another banger?
[SPEAKER_02]: there's a little long but all right and yeah work with it you're better at this than anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right last but not least the Department of Truth number 35 from image comics run by James time of the fourth and Scott Snyder art by Martin Simmons and Joshua Hickson in the front story we are dealing with black hat finally beating the Department of Truth or at least Lee Harvey Oswald meanwhile everybody else who is defected from the Department of
[SPEAKER_02]: are starting to form their own organization to fight back.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the backup story, we get another Elvis riff by Scott Snyder and Joshua Hickson.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think about this one, Pete?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's too bad the JT sizzle is near because this is his kind of jam, but yeah, this continues to be just
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the art on this is another level, you know, uh, people are going to be talking about our classes and bring up this book because it is so unique and cool the way it kind of tells the story, but, uh, yeah, I thought they were having some fun here with White Head versus Black Hat, I mean, well, what is this five versus five, but yeah, um, all the stuff was great, I really can't say enough about the art, um, but yeah, this is sometimes
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, creatively, it's just worth checking it out always and that is it for the stack.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll let's just turn back to number one There is you and I get that I want to be That no don't mind, we'll take time and see ourselves And it's turn now, let's take it out of the sea And I'll cover it
[SPEAKER_03]: They sit on crappy couches, and they let the secret link And he's telling nothing, they'll let fast, let your destiny To grab your ring, hammer, don't be late, hurry up