[SPEAKER_03]: What's up, everybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Stack on Alex.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Justin.
[SPEAKER_03]: And on the Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: We review them, and I'm going to put a spoiler warning right here for everything we talk about in the Stack.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a spoiler, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, which my whole life's his spoilers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't give me the answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you how it ends.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, could you please, that would be great.
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be great information, actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my secret.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's my burden.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to kick it off with nothing but spoilers, energon universe 2026 special sky bound from image comics written by Dan Waters, Robert Kirkman and Joshua Williamson Art by PiPAR, Jason Howard, Connor Hughes, and Tom Riley now.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was given up for free on free comic book day, but as usual in case you missed it or couldn't get it,
[SPEAKER_03]: skybout is putting it out for not free on Wednesdays.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're not going to talk about the rest of the free comic book day books though.
[SPEAKER_03]: We did chat about it a little bit over in the live show this week so you can go listen to that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But what do you think about this?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to get a couple of short tales from throughout the Evernage on Universe, Little Teases, Little Peaks.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think, Justin?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a university, you know, uh, I've been critical of, especially if we're rivals being like, what's, what this, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: But, man, this issue really stiles the excitement of all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got some big reveals.
[SPEAKER_00]: The shame Pete's not here to tell us who some of these people that they are gesturing at are because he would definitely be like, what, you don't know snake face or whatever?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, lady inside transformer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I was like, ladies, I transformed her.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that to be so, the first story is the mask story, which will be talked to Dan Waters.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can listen to the interview.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said that was supposed to be the beginning of the issue one, and they cut it out and put it into this free comic book, taste special, and you're the mask fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This got me hyped for mask.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was excellent, very,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we talk a lot about how the main character of the energon universe is unsurprisingly energon, which is weird because that's like making the main character of a rom-com the son, but it is and so like this comic says energon like truly ten times, but it's still cool and mask feels like the energon is not as important which I like because it's not just
[SPEAKER_00]: fun action oriented stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: The two standouts to me, I did find that transformers, two pager, or whatever it was, pretty intriguing.
[SPEAKER_03]: That got me pretty hyped for whatever is going on at transformers.
[SPEAKER_03]: But to my mind, the absolute best thing in the issue was Joshua Williams and Tom Riley's Sartén story at the end, just, yeah, it shows how Sartén has taken over GI Joe, why he's taken over GI Joe, told a really intriguing story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tom Riley's art as always is great, so that was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Essential that that story especially felt essential to understanding the G.I.
[SPEAKER_03]: Joe universe and in a way that made me lean in and sort of want to re-read what I've already read about the Now here's one thing that I'll throw out about it is I think this actually works better as a special that they are selling on Wednesday Then a free comic book day book.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because picking it up on free comic book day reading through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like
[SPEAKER_03]: If I was a person on the street being like, oh cool, G.I.
[SPEAKER_03]: Joe Transformers, I would have no idea what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yes, I think that's accurate, but it's got, uh, it's effectively teasing interesting stories, good art and lots going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, the void rival stuff, I actually think spoiler for a connection point in here, but.
[SPEAKER_00]: Connecting the void rivals to the universe through Shangrile, uh, Jekyll Brala feels like the smartest entry point for that and I'm care better than the transformer side, which felt a little like a little too right there, like felt too too active.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are also transformers there certainly, but I actually, I thought what was set up in this issue may be much more excited for how void rivals might actually come sort of come home here to, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We shall see what I'm going to talk about Jubilee Deadly reunion number one from Marvel written by Jean Loan Yang, art by Michael Igg, this is a Marvel Voices Special Celebrating A-A-A-P-I Heritage Month, where Jubilee, per the title, has a deadly reunion with a friend from her past, heads back home and tracks down a relative of hers and tangles with some new enemies at the same time, just as much as you think about this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also enjoyed this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've long thought that Jubilee's a character that needs a like a reboot.
[SPEAKER_00]: The vampire continuity that we've had for.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, seven, eight years now sort of messed up Jubilee as a character and then her being a parent really cool, but it just doesn't match.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they need to change Jubilee like get her out of the like 90s raincoat look and make her be that or sort of get that stuff out of the continuity and bring her back to sort of that like.
[SPEAKER_00]: retro 90s character but like she just feels a little bit out of time this story does a good job of of bringing her back to relevance using her current world and telling an interesting story of her breaking out from that but what I really want from this is an alias style reboot of Jubilee where she does something separate from everything and we can actually reckon with her life and what she is and what she wants to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and that's what we get here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought there was a nice amount of emotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a ton of culture going on as well, as she takes a tour of her ancestral home.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess with the way you put it, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it is, she's definitely learning more and revisiting things that means something to her and reconnecting with us.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I totally agree with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just generously got all the vampire stuff, her having a baby, all of these weird things that they've put on her.
[SPEAKER_03]: that don't improve the character, they haven't really added anything, they feel like side steps rather than steps forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tying her back to a family, giving her that part of her continuity, not the other part of her continuity is.
[SPEAKER_03]: very smart and very.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we get it, we have kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been vampires.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can move on from that stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a story that we need told.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_03]: DCX, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Metal Legion, number one from DC Comics, written by Ian Flynn, Art by Adam Bryce, Thomas, Tomas, Tomas, and I talked to Ian.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is in the podcast feed.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a whole interview about this
[SPEAKER_03]: and his 20 years, if I remember correctly, right Exonic, which is wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he talks about that, having longevity on a title.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a sequel series to the first crossover between the two properties, which I thought was a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here, the worlds of Sonic and the Justice League, literally get joined together by a bunch of people.
[SPEAKER_03]: portals that pop up and most of this issue is spent with two teams reconnecting with each other and hanging out and introducing some new sonic characters and introducing some new DC characters before it picks up on the cliffhanger from the previous series which is the Lex Luther and Eggman are teaming up for nefarious purposes.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think Lex and Docs are Eggman or how are they talking how are they hanging out?
[SPEAKER_00]: You think they're sitting down being like is Lex taking Dr. Eggman seriously?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're probably talking about like a bald techniques or something if you can How to regrow hair is one thing that they probably talk about Yeah, they get their hymns prescriptions in line.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like this, you love this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, no, I do love this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just has a sweet earnest tone to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think continually pairing Batman and Shadow, which was a big moment to the first series, is really fun and earnest and emotional here too.
[SPEAKER_03]: We get some of the weirder characters that I don't even really know anything about, like cream and cheese show up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and like I don't want to say this feels made up for this comic, but it does.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not, though, my son has told me all about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was like, oh, no, it's creepy.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's Funko Pop, and I was like, but you're just saying words right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then he explained it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, this is angry.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: The writing ends writing really like just moves very efficiently into the fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think with a crossover like this, you have to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so effective and it's such a steady hand being like, we don't need to belabor all of the, like, how did this happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are these people to say, well, let's have the fast one go with the fast one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the dark one go with the dark one and it's like, oh, and there's a princess, what if she met another princess?
[SPEAKER_00]: Really smart connection points.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, I'm like, they all have these qualities in common.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is real.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, another tie in property, Star Wars Rogue One, Cashin and Door Number 1 from Marvel Written by Benjamin Percy, Art by Luke Ross.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is celebrating a series of one shots that are to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Rogue One starting with this Cashin and Door One.
[SPEAKER_03]: that leads him pretty much up to where we find him in Rogue One.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, Andorra was a huge series that we both loved to you think this measured up to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's not, it's a one shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not the depth of what was going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is one of the best TV shares of all time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I toss it over to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm glad you asked that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really glad you asked that question.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what it's doing here is it's really doing, okay, it's doing, it's doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The, it is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The art is really nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really takes you to the Andor TV series into the way,
[SPEAKER_00]: The panels are framed and the way we sort of approach Cassie and throughout the whole story.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it as a one shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there's a nice, very indoor fight sequence here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have an indoor on the brain because Disney dropped their, like, or Nielsen, I think, dropped the rankings.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many people are watching the stuff and an indoor was the most watched hours property.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, people are here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's working.
[SPEAKER_00]: The formulas were nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we could say it's better than ever, it's going to be just, it's just as good as the inevitable Mandalorian and Grogu movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, can't wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: Backbap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, I really liked how Benjamin Percy wrote to K2SO in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought he really captured that voice in particular.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is tough because Andor went so hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: on the ideas of fascism and anti-fascism and rebellion to be like, and here's something that's a fun little adventure with cash at Ender, where he stamps some guys with schiskbub obscures.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like, well, that is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if we get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, this has been raised to such a level that it's hard to meet that, but as another story of the character, I think it's nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I didn't expect this comic to really finally crack open the anti-fascist formula to succeed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But here's one that may do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: If destruction be our lot number one from image comics written by Matthew and Mark, Elijah Rosenberg, art by Andy McDonald, we talked to Matt about this a couple of weeks back on the podcast so you can go and listen to that in the feed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great Kava, great guy, smart writer.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is about a robotic Abraham Lincoln who goes on a journey of self-discovery in a world that is completely seemingly been taken over by robots.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is an oversized first issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's huge, it's gorgeous, it's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: beautiful storytelling and writing throughout, you know, we were joking a little bit about concrete on the live show, it's not quite there, but it is similar levels of thoughtful at the same time as it's funny and there's a fair amount of action and world building going on here, just great stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's really, it's also oddly sort of prescient given the AI dystopian thinking that I'm certainly having a lot of and that feel exposed to a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was written of Farah, you know, Farah while ago, yet it still feels very current to the new cycle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst, by while being about artificial intelligence, it feels very human, Abraham Lincoln, who we're following here, it feels like an antiquated thing trying to find its place in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's sort of the way I feel at the time as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this book is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really,
[SPEAKER_00]: keyed into the emotional quotient as well as the sci-fi world that's on display.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I brought this up when we talked to Matt, but do you think this book would have been better if they used Baberham, like instead of Abraham, like if?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yes, I so and I know that's your your PhD paper that you've been working on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I got my paper ham Lincoln, uh, four score and seven bros ago, uh, nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is paper ham Lincoln a picture a character who you've seen or that's, that's a Wayne's world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a Wayne's world preference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, paper handling, can I do four score and seven swings ago?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that better?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that like a stronger now I get it now it makes sense now it makes sense saying that now
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mark Spector, Moon Knight, number four for Marvel by Jed McCay, art by Devil Yaw, promenadek, Moon Knight has broken out of the prison that Zodiac slash Bushmaster through him in only to discover that parts of Manhattan are under darkness.
[SPEAKER_03]: This issue we find out kind of how that happened thanks to the midnight mention and Moon Knight goes after it.
[SPEAKER_03]: to save his friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a bunch of weird entities in a sword and a building and stuff going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Big sword.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really love the thirst three issues of this series.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Alex, I got a newsflash for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what's up?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your hot newsflash?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was that this is the fourth issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a bit of a bummer to be after three really strong issues
[SPEAKER_03]: three strong like premise driven issues that had the very segment of the most yes this one was like and now we're back to the previous series which is good like the art is gold and this issue oh my god it's amazing and jett became always writes a solid comic book but it was a bit of a bubble to be after three banger issues to be like all right here's the midnight mission and they're going out of the biggest an odd guy story when i was really digging the rhythm of this so far
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think the pendulum swing of the changes which you're feeling, and I will read the last line of the comic, and I guess it's technically a spoiler, but I don't know if it will bother you.
[SPEAKER_00]: The line is a living building has eaten everyone I care about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to kill it, and that feels that they're decidedly un-psychological in comparison.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like you said, the art is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious what what Jed wants this series to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Starting it with that that real in the minds I look at Mark felt like what it was, but now it feels like something totally different.
[SPEAKER_00]: And is there a medium ground that we're going to get to?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm definitely curious enough to read another issue after this.
[SPEAKER_03]: So,
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Particularly for the gorgeous heart.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely superman number 19 from DC Comics written by Jason Aaron, Art by Rafa Sandeval.
[SPEAKER_03]: Boy, there were a lot of super guys around here.
[SPEAKER_03]: A superman is battling King Suzanne who is Black Adam.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also steel has shown up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hawkman pops his head back in this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got a huge character death that happens almost
[SPEAKER_03]: in an off-hat matter and lots of other stuff going on at the same time, it's funny on our discord a lot of people have been saying that this is a favorite arc so far, I think I still like this but this is by least favorite arc so far and the reason is it's so busy, there's so many things going on at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say similar like it just feels like everything's vibrating very intensely in this comic and it's the art and the writing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Jason Aaron feels like he's been building toward this and this is the reign of the Superman.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're getting a bunch of competing ideas of what the Superman is.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get John Henry Iron's talking about how he was robbed here of his patent and he's
[SPEAKER_00]: is still out here trying to fight the good fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like that thrust of the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do agree with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like this is back in main continuity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Superman would just like a big bunch of characters coming together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's something.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one part I do really like is the way that this absolute Superman reformed.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... it's not vandal though it is vandal savage uh... uh... uh... uh... re-sharkle over a circle sorry yeah uh... the the absolute re-sharkle and i think that's such a smart way of uh... of having this character be a villain and then be different as it's going forward
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and I get what he's going for here, like you're saying, they're all different aspects of Superman as he figures out who he is, but similar to what we were talking about with mood diet after 12 plus issues of a slow build, the battle with racial gold to be like, here's five other characters is a little much all at once when each of these could potentially
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, but I'm curious how much how much longer is like Jason has been writing this for 19 issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is he going to do five more and then take a break or how's that going to work?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, because it feels like this is a big climactic point.
[SPEAKER_03]: It could be, but at the same time, well, maybe he's writing the absolute universe event that's coming up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe he's going to put this on pause, do that, and then either come back to it or something else.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I guess we'll see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Storm, earth's mightiest mutant number four from Marvel, written by Merua Yodale, art by Frederick E. Manson.
[SPEAKER_03]: The cover tease is that, for the daughter of Storm, finally, arrives this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've got to tell you, there's a bunch of, as usual, in state ideas going into this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: The craziest thing that happens is that legitimately but teasing this for a month, like, get ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: Storm's daughter is going to arrive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: a character shows up and she says mama and storms like fur haha and they don't come back to that like they move on it's literally one page which is crazy yeah well not to base it by entire review on that but i was like okay how are we going to work in storms daughter and introduce this new character in the answer is she's just there and then she's got
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I have got on that tip, I have complimented this book for so long about how much is going on in how specific they're able to still craft these great moments.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this feels too much as happening at once here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're jumping around through so many things, there's so many sub titles on different panels and I'm like, I just want to slow it back down a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think this book has just been ramping really intensely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's sort of like with with absolute Superman.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels intentional, but I actually feel like I need a breath to come back to storm as the character.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we can snap back into this stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially the daughter seems really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see this scene on the cover here.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the comic and really explore that and then get back to the wild gods and time periods multiverse's storm is like a mythological being but also a baby in the first few pages of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: there's like so many things happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to quietly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's a bunch of great moments throughout here like you're touching on like that first scene showing storm when she's a little kid and her parents talking about her lovely character work of that then on the opposite end there's a want to say two-page spread where she's falling through the multiverse and we just see these
[SPEAKER_03]: long page high paddles of different parts of the multiverse and some of them are very funny and very weird is also great But it is it's like Somebody snorting 50 pixie sticks and being like, I'm not a story to tell you
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Alex, that's cocaine.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's, that's actually a cocaine.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, if you're putting a pixie stick in your mouth, I think you're doing cocaine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I don't think it's in your mouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's going in your mouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: Daddy would not be doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_03]: We also got to see a little bit about what's going on with Erica Slotter, who is the big off-screen poochie that's going on here where every type of Erica Slotter is not on screen.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to be talking about Erica Slotter.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's definitely the character that is missing in this is everybody vise to take control of the house of slaughter as the grand dragon is slowly dying in his bed Just a bit feel like you've been Detractor is probably too strong, but not the biggest fan of this whole franchise had you feel about this issue
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I do like, this at least feels like it's tightening the threads a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very much a like, Erica Slatter, like you said, is the character on the tip of everyone's tongue, but I think it's effective the way the story ends, this issue ends.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am curious, I like the, the backstory on how a sentient and the transfer of power works in the, in the different houses, that's a cool thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think tape rumbles work across the board on these.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the satellite titles to something's killing the children has been like laying out and establishing what this larger superstructure of works around the ericoslater character who gets to be like the gritty on the ground fighter So this feels like a natural extension of that, but I actually sort of want ericot to be in this I think it's essential given what's established here, but She never comes to this to these other titles
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and she's not going to because she is off pretending to be dead and she's going to get her own adventure when she returns to something, is killing the children, so it is a gaping hole there that makes this feel like a midpoint with whatever they're doing with this universe versus its own mini-series.
[SPEAKER_03]: I could be wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've only read one issue of it, but it is this
[SPEAKER_03]: distracts your attention elsewhere other than the interest in character dynamics are going on here a pretty gross monster kill scene that we get right in the middle so there's there's as always fascinating stuff going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I think you need bring home America.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, bring her home.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fantastic for number 10 from Marvel written by Ryan North, Art by Ambert Arraynuss is the final issue of the invidcible woman woman story line, which has introduced a evil invisible woman who looks like malice, but it's not malice.
[SPEAKER_03]: She has overwhelming invisible powers.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's come to Earth, tracking the fantastic for while everybody else fights back in alien invasion.
[SPEAKER_03]: And here the fantastic for the rest of Earth heroes try to stop the invincible woman from destroying everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: leading to a really disgusting scene with Wolverine Deadpool, a bug, other things.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought the shark was great, really done as usual for Brian North.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like, there's also a bit a lot of our discord, a lot of discussion about the Birdle Ramos art.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's perfect for what Brian North is doing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is very exaggerated.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some big
[SPEAKER_03]: wild action happening throughout this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like how they resolve the problem at the end too.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's something we had right on the show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Talk about flash a couple of weeks back.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's just very good about coming up with satisfying solutions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and like this, while I was reading this, I was like, oh, I wish this is what one world under Doom was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it feels like concise, big with all the other characters that are involved in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But still, like laser focused on the fantastic form in this case, visible woman and what it, you know, sort of posing in an answering the one question, like what if she went bad?
[SPEAKER_00]: What if she had no?
[SPEAKER_00]: Emotions, what if she was a sociopath?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that was really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to highlight.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a button seen at the end of this issue between the thing and Sue That I thought was like, you know, you would expect it to be read or or Sue alone or something But I really love the choice to make it then and Sue talking about What happened and sort of having the final statement on this arc and it was just really smart nuanced storytelling.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I enjoyed greed
[SPEAKER_03]: Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, Green Guy Gardner, number one from DC Comics, written by Jerry Duggan, Art by Matteo Loli, Laura Braga, and Vasco George F. Now, we had Jerry on the live show this past week.
[SPEAKER_03]: This yesterday, in fact, to talk about this very issue, so give that a listen, but Guy Gardner.
[SPEAKER_03]: is on the trail of solving a mystery.
[SPEAKER_03]: Meanwhile, John Stewart has been split into two.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of them is died and Guy Gardner is not sure which one came back.
[SPEAKER_03]: The real John Stewart or the fake one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so they're going into their friendship a little bit at the same time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this on the live show a bit, but I really love the way this, the progression of the story in this one shot, like we get, just like some fun guy stuff, and then we get to the John stuff, which is very reflective of what's going on in the continuity and not a joke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Feel very real.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like making guy highlighting the sort of conspiracy theory nature of it, but at a very active conspiracy theorist who tests his theory and finds solution and walks away being like,
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's such a guy, such a smart guy arc that is on is in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just to have a one shot they really speaks to the world while also feeling like just a fun standalone story.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to do and that's what this is.
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah this is really fun now i was surprised how continuity based it is i expected giving the team that it would be out here's a fun larke of a guy gardener story and it's not that it's actually moving these characters forward in a big way which i thought was very cool so looking forward to whatever jury has lined up a dc next
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing Spider-Man number 28 from Marvel Written by Joe Kelly, Art by Cory Smith with Francesco Monna.
[SPEAKER_03]: After the big arc, we just got out of the Death Spiral crossover.
[SPEAKER_03]: Spider-Man has to tie up some other loose ends for the 8th of Spider-Man, specifically close up a time loop and a typical Spider-Man fashion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything else is getting in the way of him doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: as he travels and checks back in on the past couple of storylines, particularly things that he has been missing while he was off in space.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just another bagger issue of a basic fighter badge from Joe Kelly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I keep shouting out free comic book day, but one of the biggest surprises to me is in Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm forgetting what it was paired with.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was amazing Spider-Man something else, whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Joe Kelly wrote the best short Spider-Man story, it was so good, it's just about Spider-Man doing New York stuff, writing into a new villain, beating the villain the way only he can through kindness.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's funny, it had a huge amount of heart, it actually had some legit good New York references in it at the same time, which we could play it about all the time, so it was nice to
[SPEAKER_03]: he got uh... where you got reference in he over here's with us no he was like and they he broke down with the correct pizza you have to get at different places in the york where he's like if it's really late if you're feeling gross go to roses pizza and pen station which might you doesn't exist anymore but i was like all right good chat that is i mean my my treat for myself after a show in uh... my king and square is just pizza and
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's good stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, shows isn't busy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Josie and go to and actually get your slides.
[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.
[SPEAKER_03]: So my point being the reason I brought this up though is like in one short week, Joe Kelly turned in like a classic beautifully told spider bad story on a free comic book day and then another killer issue that like got me choked up and then laughing by the next page.
[SPEAKER_03]: in one week, it is less than a week.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Joe is doing three things, I think, that is just working so hard with Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the comedy, which works, and it is not overdone, it's done just perfectly.
[SPEAKER_00]: The pathos, which I feel like he's heightening and also deepening,
[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man is upset about so many things and it's just absent in so many more things than just his relationship than ever before that's good But the pathos also is extending down into his memories of his past where we've been getting throughout Joe's run These flashbacks two different times when he was misbehaving as a kid something we don't usually see
[SPEAKER_00]: interactions with his uncle Ben that we don't usually see and like that depth is adding so much of this But the third sort of part of the tripod leg of the tripod is it's also do he's also doing so many wild and weird things Like going to space now Peter has this The alien who came back and like like kisses him and there's this great sequence of him and Johnny Storm and Johnny's jealous that spider man sort of has this girlfriend and like
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want that all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like that, those three areas, Joe is just excelling at and it's making for a very unique spider-man run that is making, it's refreshing the character in a way that I just hadn't realized until I this issue really highlighted that because it is like a
[SPEAKER_00]: a catch-up issue where Peter's swinging around being like, how much of this did I fuck up?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you see all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then he catches up with a new hero who we saw, and I think in this Spider-Man annual, a couple, maybe like a month ago, that was just a fun, light-hearted little moment with Spider-Man that felt like he was talking to a younger self, and it's just really operating.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't been reading this, highly recommend picking up this run.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, Royals number two from image comics written by Derek Kirkkin, art by Jacob Perez.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is about two psychic twins who were able to talk to each other through their minds.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all they're able to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of them is the wild band who
[SPEAKER_03]: of sex and drugs and partying.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other one is a little more reserved and down to earth, but they used their powers to cheat on cards in the last issue and that all comes back to hunt them in a big way this issue because the
[SPEAKER_03]: cheated on a gangster who really does not like that very much, you know, I'm really like the first issue of this a lot, but I remember us talking about like, oh, that ended in a very pleasant place.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, things like go off a cliff this issue and get so dark by the end here, still really loving it, loving the art style.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think these are great characters, exciting, fun situations,
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen it before, this is really smartly done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, committing to a very specific premise, like these do have a basic power that they're using to do a very basic thing and they immediately fuck it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some emotional, there's a great like date scene that doesn't play out like a typical date scene at all that I really enjoyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this just feels like a very unique type of book.
[SPEAKER_00]: To, I'm trying to think of like a good comp to get someone to come on board for this because I do think it should.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rounders, it has like gambling, energy, so anything like that, but like a comic that the type of storytelling is similar.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it feels a little bit like early,
[SPEAKER_00]: like massive verse titles like what it has like very you know it just feels different from the way that it feels very modern the way the story is being told yeah great stuff definitely get on board with royals
[SPEAKER_03]: Next up, here's another second issue from a little known title, Daredevil, number two, from Marvel, run by Stephanie Phillips, art by Lee Garbett, Matt's really going through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot going on with him.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to be honest with you, including he has a new villain that is targeting Matt Murdock, not Daredevil.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's also teaching law at Empire State University, and people are investigating him and others things going on at the same time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Plus the regular array of villains including the owl are in the mix.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're all really impressed by the first issue here How do you think the second issue stand hand stood up stand up second issue because I think you're doing a great job
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I also am enjoying this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the, um, it's less full pathos driven.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like Daredevil pathos isn't a constant.
[SPEAKER_00]: He seems to be reacting to what's happening in the moment as opposed to having him having a the darkest cloud over his head.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that's a better, more interesting Daredevil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think the R is like,
[SPEAKER_00]: horror adjacent, like it feels like hellboy, a little bit, maybe that might be Neola but that hellboy universe titles.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that actually is helping, I think, as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some good, you see, like, a loose eyeball, which I think the horror stuff is actually making me leaning a little bit more on this, because it's not something we usually see in their devil world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I like where this is going.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do feel like the revelation that Matt has halfway through here where he's like, wait a second.
[SPEAKER_03]: This feel it's not going for Daredevil.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going for Matt Murdoch.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got that at the end of the first issue and we know that all the way through the second issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm not quite sure why that was mystery to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it was weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he feels like he knows it at the beginning when he's calling foggy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm like?
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, I don't know, maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you just really hit him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, doubly sunk in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, boy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Batman number nine from DC comics written by Matt Fraction art by Ryan suck in this issue vandal savage is going after the entire bat family and they decide to make a move a big one to execute a bigger plan to take back the city from vandal savage leading to one will fall as the cover says and will it be bat girl will it be bat men there's a series calling
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and I will say I was able to not know that until minutes after I read this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, oh, perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, but this, yeah, this I think this run is just epic like it feels I said this in the live show, but it feels like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, every issue feels like a Steven Soderberg movie, uh, and this continues to, like I like the way that Batman is not again, not brooding, questioning himself a little bit and actually acting on it rather than just being mad or sad about stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to highlight, um, we have an AI Alfred.
[SPEAKER_00]: in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that was we, when Matt Fraxman was on the show, we asked it about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still can parse whether it was Joe Kager, not as going on, but like, I'm starting to think this is just that an imaginary of Alfred, and that's all that's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing, I would have agreed with you, up until this line, where we have Alfred talking about how he wants him to just like connect with Damian,
[SPEAKER_00]: And he talks about Jason and when I was faced with some onerous task or another or another during his upbringing, he would say, not up, but her cup.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, huh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was thinking of Alfred, stately Alfred, saying, not up, but her cup to his youth, his son, Batman.
[SPEAKER_00]: feels a little AI driven to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will see.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't feel like there's some secret there, potentially, but I get back to what you were saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: before.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is an exactly right, but it feels every issue of this feels like you're flipping around the channels and suddenly you get to the middle slash third act of a batman movie.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're like, oh, let's this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've never seen this one before and that you're already in the middle of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's already going.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're already like finding the solution to the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it just keeps cutting in on these different places in the bat methods.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really
[SPEAKER_00]: The action is excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Ryan's took our love Ryan's took and he's it's a little slicker and a little like more like super hero We I guess I would say then Ryan's look is usually doing and that's awesome So I like I'm very excited for this and on the out for thing like I agree with you It's not gonna be a I at the end of the day because
[SPEAKER_00]: No writer would be like, is it an AI cool?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I imagine it's going to be something either a memory or like a mild hallucination that he's having, but it is that sequence was very funny to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Captain Marvel, dark past number two for Marvel, right by Paul Jenkins, art by Lucas Wernick, and per the title, Captain Marvel is investigating a mystery for her past that she doesn't even remember the reason for that if you didn't know yourself is that rogue stole most of her memories.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what does she do this issue?
[SPEAKER_03]: She goes back to road to see if rogue has those memories so that she can track down what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has something to do with her family, which she doesn't quite remember.
[SPEAKER_03]: but starts to over the course of this issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought the first issue of this was really strong.
[SPEAKER_03]: And thankfully, I think the second issue was as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a really good character work throughout with Carol Danvers.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some fun continuity connections going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: The villains are weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this second issue was even better than the first.
[SPEAKER_00]: You really feel the Paul Jenkins, like, understanding the emotionality of characters in his writing here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's this scene where Captain Marvel has to go back and talk to Roe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're do a full page of,
[SPEAKER_00]: All the characters being like, hey, this is fucked up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I fund them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry and I was like, oh, most most writers I feel like wouldn't take the time to do a full page on like addressing the the core beliefs of the characters in their emotional States when they come together.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that happens really appreciate it and then they get into like just a very great way of solving the problem using the white queen which I thought was really cool I like also so separately then into the family stuff and the much darker things that are happening and what I think is going to happen with who the villain is I think is super interesting
[SPEAKER_00]: and like getting into like what we inherit from our parents as different siblings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is just really clean.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really really really really really love this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what did you think about the fact?
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I'm getting the day wrong, but Carol admits that she has tuna fish Tuesdays.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I eat anything weird stuff like, I'll be like, any sort of sausage, Haggis, Sully Haggis for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tunifish is disgusting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_00]: When I read that, I was like, you're disgusting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I will say I used to have two to fish all the time when I was a kid.
[SPEAKER_03]: My mom would make it for me all the time, but I don't think I've had it since then ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: at my wife, again, had a town for a long time, so haven't had to miss her dearly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haven't had to contend with the fact that she likes the tuna fish nearly every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she's like, I'm like, oh, she's like, stop being down on my tuna fish.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I'm sick when I smell your little lunch.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now, not many people know that your wife is a little kitty cat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that correct?
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: It lives in the alleyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just miss her so much for perring.
[SPEAKER_03]: her little mehamiouse and what i don't make cleaning out my wife's litter box uh oh wives if i write uh she's a huge fan so she's definitely gonna hear this and she'll love it absolute green lantern number 14 from dc comics written by al-yuaeg art by said kodian in this issue there's a lot of things that are happening
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely have we reached critical bass with plot in this book because I would say maybe how about this stack I feel like so many books.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, okay You're doing a lot here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're waiting to enhance the thing that holds me up about this a little bit And it's funny because it points I thought this is the strength of the book is the mixing around of terms from the regular DVC universe
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're for example when Toma Ray and Joe Mullen are talking and Toma Ray is like, well, you're a Tomar.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, what?
[SPEAKER_03]: But you're a Tomar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're a Tomar.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's your name.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was, it was especially working when it was a little smaller when they was like, actually the powers.
[SPEAKER_03]: this great the orange lantern powers the opposite of what you might expect and I was like that's interesting now with them all talking to each other I'm like hey slow down guys what do you mean when you say I told Mar well and particularly with all these colors hanging out together it is really starting to feel like to be like radiant black which itself is very much like power Rangers and there's different stuff going on but it is very power Rangers adjacent in a way
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the Green Lantern was Green Lantern series of book, your character was spectrumized.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we're just what we got with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it works mostly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, it works here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way that the Joe and Tomer's confrontation, I thought, was really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Joe, a Green Lantern who we don't get to see much of these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this book is really doing her right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I like this fight that happens at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a surprise for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: A pleasant surprise after you were like, wrap in for Toma on the live show.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you get to see what a delight, what a delight.
[SPEAKER_03]: My favorite Green Lantern character.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still a board on this title, but it's definitely the hardest one to get into of the absolute line.
[SPEAKER_03]: Versus, I mean, I think absolute Martial Batonter is as
[SPEAKER_03]: difficult sometimes in terms of the material.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it feels more focused on the feeling of how you feel about the world today.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is like, well, we're going to throw some terms at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a glossary.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're interested and also lots of colors.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I feel like Marshall Marshall Marshall Man Hunter is, yeah, there's a tone and a vibe to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's about like,
[SPEAKER_00]: of feelings like you said and it's like using superhero metaphor and very unique art to show feelings on the comic book page through the images and this feels like it's like here's what you thought and I'm going to turn it a little bit on the end and I'm not going to exactly explain why and what I meant by that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still I'm still liking this but I do want to have a little
[SPEAKER_03]: Cyclops, number four from Marvel, written by Alex Paxton, all art by Roushay and Tonyo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cyclops has lost his visor and therefore his vision, but he is fighting back against the reverse who are trying to kill him, meanwhile a bunch of kids who have been imprisoned by Donald Pierce are trying to fight their way free as well with devastating results by the head.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, you've been super into this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: How does it hold up in issue four?
[SPEAKER_00]: Very much enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was I had forgotten while I was reading it if this was the final issue if there was one more and I was so happy to find out We get a whole another Issue coming after this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this the rehabilitation of Scott Summers is working very heroic Getting to be a badass without feeling like
[SPEAKER_00]: a brooding maniac like he's been for so long with just guilt being the driving force I feel like he's like about doing the right thing and like getting out of solving a problem and being tough
[SPEAKER_00]: which is a great place for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this was great, but we're getting, so we're getting a rehabilitated scott summers, but I also think the rivers are being built back home.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just great villains in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like annoying, funny, and scary all at the same time, which I think is just a great foil for the X-Men.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totally agree with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two things that I'll throw out.
[SPEAKER_03]: One is that this issue in particular is like predator, but what if Cyclops was the predator?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because you basically want to take all of these macho men through the woods, and that's rad.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other thing, and this is a big spoiler, or not a big spoiler.
[SPEAKER_03]: I won't say specifically what it is, but a thing happens at the edge of the issue with Donald Pierce, where it
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe if you're like, maybe they're gonna win.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I really am very curious to see what this is leading towards because there's a big swirl right on the last page of this issue that sets up something potentially very different for the final issue this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, if the Revers would could be a powerful force because like, Scott Summers has a line in this where he's like, what makes you destroy your bodies for your hatred of me and people like me?
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was just such a great, like, take on what the rivers are because it makes them worse than the humans.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just like, we hate you and we're going to kill you and we're the military.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is someone who is like literally ruining their lives, making themselves monsters to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: and uh... that's cool i think that's not a ring too much into it but i wonder if Alex is at all playing with the idea of people who vote against their interests you know he's british so he's probably not talking about necessarily what happens in america but that's certainly happening in the u.k. breaks a lot
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah everything hence Brexit so people who you know the whole leopards eating my face party joke that gets passed around there is a little bit of that in this conversation but more seriously so I don't know I wonder yeah cutting off my nose despite my face is that there you go that's something
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's definitely something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why's an Ivy number 44?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the Revers actually cut their faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: They do, they cut off their noses, but not to spite their face pretty to like jack up their faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I want to jack up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, give me that, give me that metal nose.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it sneezes like crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not going to believe it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Poison Ivy number 44 from DC Comics, written by G Willow Wilson, art by Jame in Fonte.
[SPEAKER_03]: Poison Ivy is dealing with corruption of the government the only way she can by killing everybody she can get her heads on and people are starting to be like, please stop doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please stop killing people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love this book, I love every issue of this book, but I also, this mayor arc has been great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really been diving into the thing that Julia will have also been talking about all along in this book that can Ivy fight against her essential nature and the answer here is absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_03]: She can't even hold it in for one office meeting.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was going to say that but this book is on a bash, like I think she might be doing the right thing but can't me see it and I was like okay this feels like such a in the same way we're talking about the politics of the Cyclops book this feels sort of like a fantasy of like what if someone took power who is like I'm going to do Right and I will do it in the way that the bad guys do it
[SPEAKER_00]: sort of like ends justifying the means but for good when we live in so many societies, both in the comic book world with villains and a little bit in the world maybe depending on what you believe where it feels like that ends in the means don't even touch each other and everyone's just fighting for the scraps of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really identifying with this story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this cover is so funny, where it says, BAD BEST!
[SPEAKER_00]: For the next commission point, and they're sort of being pressed by some camera frame.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this definitely to be feels like we need to get a cover several months back, and put it on, and it doesn't quite match the story at all, but that's okay, it's some nice art.
[SPEAKER_03]: Last but not least, civil war unmasked number one from Marvel, my Christo's gauge art by Edgar Salazar.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a new mini series that focuses in on unseen moments from civil war also in honor of, I don't know, the 10th anniversary to 20th anniversary, a civil war.
[SPEAKER_03]: I should really look at that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, look it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, it's sad that I think it's 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: Earlier today, I forget what it was, but I told by Sid, oh, we were talking about the parrot trap.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he was saying, oh, we saw parrot trap at school.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, oh, did you see the original one or the more modern one?
[SPEAKER_03]: And he was like modern one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, yeah, the one, did you have red hair or blood hair?
[SPEAKER_03]: It is like red hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, oh, that's the modern one.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was like, that came out a while ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, well, but it's more modern.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, civil war unmasked in this issue, we are focusing on our 20.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's big time, 20.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like that, I don't like that at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, Iron Man is trying to decide whether to sign the, I was about to say it's a COVID-19.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not what they'd actually do in the comics, the sign, the Superhuman Registration Act or not, and to try to decide weirdly, he had self-adventure with Bishop to the future, which was a big surprise.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I enjoyed this though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a great nostalgia in a reminder of like, like there's this point where they're like, well, they're only 198 mutants left.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, right, remember that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Remember what that happened 20 years ago?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, coming out of a house of am, wasn't it like, it was the only the mutants in within a specific like force field where everyone else was like, depowered?
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like it was kind of random.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was decimation was the day of the event or like, line-wide label that came out of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the first mutant that was born was Hope Subbers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was great to see Bishop in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This issue starts with Tony Stark and White Queen Tang.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, my couple, my lovers.
[SPEAKER_00]: When will you get together in my life?
[SPEAKER_00]: but this was like a nice little trip backwards and it's interesting so this is like this is a one shot but then we're going to get a couple other one shots in the same Civil War universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a fun exploration like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I like this in Christo's cage.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's been doing a couple of these throwback mini series in different ways.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's just such a smart, able writer that he does had to find this little slot in the middle of something and make it make sense and make it work as it's own adventure.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like you said, very fun, very unexpected going to the future with Bishop, but great character work, great action.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a good villain in this issue as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is it for the stack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll keep growing my facial hair like Tony Stark until I meet my white queen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kitty Cat, you mean, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep, exactly, that's what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got a cat.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love her.
[SPEAKER_04]: They sit on crap-bake couches and they let the secret link.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's just nothing, they look like a special guest speaker.
[SPEAKER_04]: So grab your ring, hammer, don't be late for a hell's fair girl.