Den 2: Muovum by Richard Corben, Karl Moline, John Cassady, Adventuregame Comics: Samurai vs Ninja, Dead Eyes, Joe Matt's Peep Show #15, Sea Serpent's Heir Book 3: Queen of Mercy, more Venom War, Shadows over Springfield by Harry Nordlinger, Dai Dark, Ms.Tree, Unico: Awakeniing, plus a whole mess more!

What If...? Donald Duck Became Thor, Houses of the Unholy, Get Fury, Hello Darkness, Night Club 2, Absolute Power, Bernie Mireault, Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Feelings, The Comics Journal #310, Grendel: Devil's Crucible: Defiance, Nice House by the Sea, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison creeps in to talk about Doomsday Clock, Batman: Year One Artist's Edition, Josh Bayer, Frank Miller, Dave Cooper's Dog Head, Robert Crumb, Barry Blair, Dave Sim, Jess Franco, Evil Dead, Venom War, Get Fury, Nemesis: The Warlock the Definitive Edition, Heavy Metal, plus a whole mess more!

Wolverine: Revenge, Deadpool and Wolverine, Robert Kirkman, Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage from New York Review Comics,  Adrift on a Painted Sea by Tim and Sue Bird from Avery Hill, Crowded, Nexus V2: The Battle for Thuneworld by Steve Rude, Future by Tommi Musturi from Fantagraphics, Ghost Machine, Power Rangers Infinity, Don't Let Go, plus a whole mess more!

Brandon Graham pops in to inform us on Moonray, Surviving on Mars (both from the great Living the Line), Matt Howarth, Frank Miller, porn comics, process, and a whole lot more, plus we have some time left over to throw down on DC Vs. Vampires: World War V, Jonny Quest, Defenders of the Earth, EC Fan-Addict Fanzine #6 from Fantagraphics, Kosher Mafia from Mad Cave, Gilt Frame from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Unread IP, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Charles Burns' Kommix and Search and Destroy by Kaneko Atsushi , Bubbles #20 and Brian Baynes, Grendel: Devil's Crucible: Defiance by Matt and Brennan Wagner from Dark Horse, Dummy #1 and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Alley by Junji Ito from Viz Signature, Absolute Power #2, Rescue Party!: A Graphic Anthology of Covid Lockdown from Pantheon, Annihilation 2099 #5, Tom Breevort and the X-books, The Power Fantasy #1 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard from Image, Uncanny X-Men #1, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner-nominated Tony Fleecs returns to talk about news from SDCC, MCU and Deadpool & Wolverine (SPOILERS!),Masterpiece by Bendis, Maleev and Herring, Brubaker and Martin's Friday, Blood Hunt #5, a Fleecs-O-Rama with Local Man and Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis #1, Braba: Brazilian Comics Anthology curated by Rafael Grampá, X-Force #1, Ryder's Intergalactic Guide to Robots, Saga, and much more!

Cue Bill Withers as it's just the two of us and some Q&A, plus Joshua Williamson's Superman (and the topic is not kicked off by DAP) with collaborators Jamal Campbell, Gleb Melnikov, David Baldeón, Bruno Redondo, and Rafa Sandoval, plus the House of Brianiac event; Destro #2 by Dan Watters, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas; Jason Aaron and Namor, Moon Knight by Jed MacKay and company, Ultimates (we out), Man's Best from Boom! Studios, Pornsak Pichetshote, and Jesse Lonergan; w0rldtr33, Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan HC by Jason Shiga; and more! Sanford Greene's 1000

Our man Mario returns (with a special surprise appearance by Brother Ray at the tail end) to throw down with us on Cashiers du Cinéma #2 and Josh Bayer from Obvious Fake Press, Roadside Daydream by Ding Pao-yen from Mangasick via 50 Watts Books, Vendetta: Holy Vindicator by Steve McArdle from Floating World, Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 by Peter David and Rogé Antonio, The Clitoris by Rikke Villadsen from Fantagraphics, From the DC Vault: Death in the Family: Robin Lives and Rick Leonardi, Millennium and New Guardians, The Day the Clan Came to Town by Bill Campbell and Bizhan Khodabandeh from PM Press, Dynamite Diva #4: The Engine Whispers by Jasper Jubenvill, One Piece: Ace's Story Volume 2 and Boichi, Nemesis: Rogues Gallery, Doom Patrol by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani, The Midnight Order and Mathieu Bablet, plus a whole mess more!

Fool Night Volume 1 by Kasumi Yasuda from Viz Signature, Grendel: Devil's Crucible: Defiance #1 by Matt and Brennan Wagner, X-Men #1 by Jed MacKay, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, and Marte Gracia, Wonder Woman and Tom King, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and Jason Aaron, Gatchaman by Cullen Bunn, Chris Batista, and Carlos Lopez from Mad Cave, You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more.

Annihilation 2099 [SPOILERS] by Steve Orlando, Ibraim Roberson, Dale Eaglesham, Neeraj Menon and Raúl Angulo, Moonray Book 2: Echoes of Ascension by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta from Living the Line, Indigo Children Volume 1 by Kurt Pires, Rockwell White, Alex Diotto, and Dee Cunniffe from Image, Curses by George Wylesol from Avery Hill, Zatanna: Bring Down the House by Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodriguez, plus a whole mess more!

Savage Dragon #271 and the genius of Erik Larsen, Absolute Power #1 by Mark Waid, Dan Mora, and Alejandro Sanchez, Ghost Machine-O-Rama: Geiger #3, Rook: Exodus #3, and Redcoat #3 by Geoff Johns and company, All the Things We Didn't Do Last Night by Maria Llovet, plus a whole mess more!

Top 5-O-Rama!

Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime by Jason Aaron and a host of supremely talented Italian artists, Cormac McCarthy's The Road adapted by Manu Larcenet from Abrams, Warren Ellis' Scars, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Destro #1 by Dan Watters, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, TMNT: Black, White and Green and Gavin Smith, Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

We recount our Heroes Con 2024 experience featuring Mark Buckingham, Sanford Greene, Alan Davis, Tana Ford, Howard Chaykin, John K Snyder III, John Workman, Richard Case, Simon Bisley, Daniel Warren Johnson, Andrew Pepoy, Skottie Young, Brian Stelfreeze, plus a little time left over for Jim Rugg's Conspiracy Comics, Blood Magic Tales, Cockney Kung Fu, and a whole mess more!

Prelude to Heroes 2024, Avengers Twilight, Once Upon a Time at the End of the Universe, the G. I. Joe Compendium, ATTABOY: Illustrated Instruction Booklet by Tony McMillen from Mad Cave Studios, Into the Unbeing Part One by Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman from Dark Horse, Cowlick Comix #7 from Dead Crow World Media, Pine & Merrimac, Windsor McCay, more Hobtown, Destro, plus a whole mess more!

Crocodile Black by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Som, and Patricio Delpeche from BOOM!, The Midnight Order by Mathieu Bablet from Magnetic, Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider, Savage Dragon and Erik Larsen, Spider-Punk: Arms Race, Falling in Love on the Path to Hell by Gerry Duggan and Garry Brown, plus a whole mess more!

Marvel-O-Rama: X-Men #35, Incredible Hulk by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Danny Earls, Nic Klein, and Matthew Wilson, and The Ultimates by Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri, plus TMNT Alpha, Torpedo 1972, Dawnrunner, plus a whole mess more!

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris from Fantagraphics, Her Frankenstein by Kawashima Norikazu from Smudge/Living the Line, Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Thistlebone by T. C. Eglington and Simon Davis from Rebellion/2000AD, Something Is Killing the Children, Hobtown Mystery Stories Volume One: The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes from Conundrum Press, plus a whole mess more!

Ian Bertram pops in to reveal some secrets on Precious Metal with Darcy Van Poelgeest, Matt Hollingsworth, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Little Bird, Moebius, Akira, process, Muay Thai, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Ice Cream Man #39 by M. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran and G.I. Joe + Destro + Scarlett, Blood Hunt and Union Jack the Ripper: Blood Hunt, Kneel Before Zod by Joe Casey and Dan McDaid, Eden II by Kay Wroten from Fantagraphics and The Great Beyond by Léa Murawiec from Drawn & Quarterly, Ms. Tree, Action Comics, Bea Wolf by Zack Weinersmith and Boulet from :01, plus a whole mess more!

Disciples of the Soil by B. Mure from Avery Hill, You've Been Cancelled by Curt Pires, Kevin Castaniero, Jason Wordie, and Micah Myers from Mad Cave, Love & Rockets, Ghost Machine, more Enfield Gang, Ashes by Álvaro Ortiz from Top Shelf, plus a whole mess more!

Mario sticks around while his shuttle home is stuck in traffic, joining the fun on Mythologies & Apocrypha by Tim Lane from Fantagraphics, Heroes Con 2024, House of Slaughter by James Tynion IV, Letizia Cadonici, and company from BOOM!, Frenzy by Tetsunori Tawaraya and Dangerous Drawings fron Desert Island, Sandman #19, Energon Universe 2024 Special, Dwellings by Jay Stephens, X-Men '97, plus a whole mess more!

Mario returns from exile on Planet Claire to help us out with The Enfield Gang Massacre by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips, The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago from Fantagraphics, the Eisner nominations, Moonstone Triple Threat May '24 and Kolchak, The Awesome Comics Podcast and Jeff Smith, Ginger Revenges by Victor Santos, Simon Hanselmann and You Will Owe Nothing and You Will Be Happy, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: The Infernals by Noah Gardner, Ryan Parrott, John J. Pearson, Lola Bonato, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Grommets by Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, Brett Parson, and Moreno Dinisio, plus The Blood Brothers Mother by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso from DSTLRY, The Boy Wonder and Juni Ba, Crossed Volume 6 and Garth Ennis, Dawnrunner, Tender by Beth Hetland from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Sanford Greene drops by to talk about DOOM Giant-Sized One-Shot with Jonathan Hickman and Rachelle Rosenberg!

If You Find This, I'm Already Dead by Matt Kindt, Dan McDaid, and Bill Crabtree from Dark Horse, Black Phoenix by Rich Tommaso, Power Girl + Green Lantern + House of Brainiac Special, Spectregraph by James Tynion IV, Christian Ward, and Aditya Bidikar, Duke, Lester of the Lesser Gods by Eric Powell, Lucky Yeates, and Gideon Kindle, plus a whole mess more!

Dutch by Joe Casey, Simon Gane, and Francesco Segala, Marvel-O-Rama: Blood Hunt by Jed MacKay, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, Deadpool/Wolverine: World War III by Joe Kelly, Adam Kubert, and Frank Martin, Dick Tracy from Mad Cave, The Art of Rachel and Terry Dodson from Flesk, plus a whole mess more!

The Micronauts: The Original Marvel Years Volume 1 by Bill Mantlo, Michael Golden, Pat Broderick, Steve Ditko, Howard Chaykin, Josef Rubenstein, Armando Gil, Rich Buckler, Bob McLeod, Al Milgrom, and company!

Our Top 5 Underappreciated Comics Creators!

Miguel O'Hara: Spider-Man 2099, Fables, The One Hand and The Six Fingers by Ram V and Dan Watters from Image, Undead by Pakito Bolino from Desert Island, Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down from Dark Horse, Green Arrow, plus a whole mess more!

Baffling dislikes, TMNT: Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan from IDW, House of Brainiac in Action and Superman, 7174 AD and Ashley Wood, plus a whole mess more!

Ghost Machine, Dawnrunner, Peter David and Aquaman, Time and Tide, and Atlantis Chronicles, Aaron and Bachalo's Doctor Strange, Transformers and Jorge Corona, Batman/Dylan Dog, Eden and Marc Laming, Illustrators Quarterly, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Birds of Prey, plus a whole mess more!

Trina Robbins, Tezucomi from Magnetic, Rat City and Erica Schultz in the Spawn Universe, Wonder Woman, #DRCL: Midnight Children by Shin'ichi Sakamoto from Viz Select, Pine & Merrimac from BOOM!, Saga, Spectators, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs just won't go away, sticking around long enough to help us with Cyberforce, Uncanny Valley and Dave Wachter, BRZRKR: Poetry of Madness: Pen & Ink Edition and Bloodlines and Steve Skroce from BOOM!, The Principles of Necromancy from Magma Comix, Hack/Slash: Kill Your Idols and Tim Seeley, Nightstalkers, Mark Texeira, and a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs takes a break from the grind to help us find words for Ed Piskor, Mark Bright, the Ghost Machine books: Redcoat, Rook: Exodus, and Geiger, Feral, Uncanny Valley, Conan and Roberto de la Torre from Titan Comics, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison joins us to freeform on OHotMU + Who's Who, music and comics, KISS, Metal Hurlant, psychotronic film, creative collaborations, Matt Wagner, Terror on the Planet of the Apes, OAX, Petrol Head, Sam & Twitch, Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, Night Flight, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison 'ports in to play the Big2 Switcheroo, plus Savage Dragon, Duke, Charles Foresman's Here Comes... Chesley, plus a whole mess more!

If You Can Find This, I'm Already Dead #2 by Matt Kindt, Dan McDaid, and Bill Crabtree from Dark Horse, When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll from Silver Sprocket, Something Is Killing the Children from BOOM!, Nacelleverse #0, W0rldtr33, Darkwing Duck and Negaduck from Dynamite, plus a whole mess more!

Tree of Death: Yomotsuhegui Volume One by Masasumi Kakizaki from Seven Seas, The Bone Orchard: Tenement by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart from Image, Spider-Punk: Battle of the Banned by Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason, and Jim Charalampidis, A-Do Volume 1 by Amano Jaku from Kodansha, Dawnrunner by Ram V and Evan Cagle from Dark Horse, Cobra Commander, plus a whole mess more!

Batman/Dylan Dog, Lastman, Rick & Morty Super Spring Break Special #1, Avengers: Twilight #4, Nightwing, future manga picks, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, plus a whole mess more!

Top 5 Favorite Sidekicks, Savage Sword of Conan from Titan Comics, Napalm Lullaby by Rick Remender and Bengal, Transformers #6, plus a whole mess more!

Gun Honey by Charles Ardai, Ang Hor Kheng, Asifur Rahman, and David Leach for Titan Comics' Hard Case Crime imprint, The Forged by Greg Rucka, Eric Trautmann, Mike Henderson, and Nolan Woodard, Superman, Weapon X-Men #1, Ultimate X-Men #1, Walking Dead spinoffs Dead City and The Ones Who Live, What If...Aliens #1, plus a whole mess more!

TMNT: The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution #1 by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Esau + Isaac Escorza, Ben Bishop, Luis Antonio Delgado, and Shawn Lee from IDW, I Am Legion by Fabien Nury and John Cassady from Humanoids, Spider-O-Rama: Giant-Size Spider-Gwen, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Spectacular Spider-Men, plus a whole mess more!

Bad penny Tony Fleecs turns up again to talk about Uncanny Valley with Dave Wachter, Image-O-Rama: Hack/Slash: Back to School #3 and Zoe Thorogood, Duke #3, Firepower, Ice Cream Man #38, Local Man, Comics Revue #453-454, Wonder Woman, Fearless Dawn, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs crashes the party to weigh in on Feral, Uncanny Valley with Dave Wachter, Local Man, ComicsPro, Savage Dragon #268 by Erik Larsen, The Incal by Jodorowsky and Moebius, Dune, Petrol Head, Phantom Road, Dwellings, plus a whole mess more!

Faceless and the Family by Matt Lesniewski from ONI Press, The White Lama by Jodorowsky and Bess, more Holy Roller, Frank Miller and Ronin Book II #6, The Sacrificers, Bastien Vives and The Blouse and A Sister, plus a whole mess more!

Unnatural Order by Christopher Yost, Val Rodrigues, and Dearbhla Kelly from Vault, Penthouse Comics, Pine & Merrimac, The Enfield Gang Massacre, Clusterfux Comix #6, World's Finest Annual, Cobra Commander #2, plus a whole mess more!

If You Find This, I'm Already Dead #1 by Matt Kindt, Dan McDaid, Bill Crabtree, and Jim Campbell from Dark Horse, Hypericum by Manuele Fior from Fantagraphics, The Cull, The Scorched, Transformers, and a whole mess more!

Cereal: Sweet Darkness by Mark Russel, Peter Snejbjerg, and company from Ahoy Comics, Pine & Merrimac by Kyle Starks and Fran Galan from BOOM!, Action Comics, Sunflowers by Keezy Young from Silver Sprocket, The Outsiders, plus a whole mess more!

ROM-O-RAMA: ROM #21, 26, and 27 by Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Bob Sharen, and Ben Sean, plus Everything Sucks: Noah's Millions by Michael Sweater from Silver Sprocket, Ultimate Black Panther, Klik Klik Boom, plus a whole lot more!

Longbox Roulette: Powers Volume 2 #13 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming, and Peter Pantazis, Love and Rockets Volume 4 #7 by Los Bros Hernandez, and Deathstroke, the Terminator #10 by Marv Wolfman, Art Nichols, George Perez, and Tom McCraw, plus White Mage Doesn't Want to Raise the Hero's Level Volume 1 by Kirie from Seven Seas, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #4, Spider-Boy, plus a whole mess more!

The Holy Roller, Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound, The Midnite Show, Dark Ride #10, King Spawn #30, Duke #2, Power Pack: Into the Storm, The Gull Yettin, plus a whole mess more!

The Evergreen Hunt, Incredible Hulk #8, The Cull, Somna, plus a whole mess more!

Avengers: Twilight #1, Savage Dragon #267, Ghost Machine #1, X-Force, plus a whole whole mess more!

Fall of X-O-Rama: Weapons of Vengeance, Iron Man, Iceman, and more, Giffen-O-Rama: Supreme Annual #1 and Images of Shadowhawk #1-3, Superman: Lost, w0rldtr33, Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances, plus a whole mess more!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2023 part two!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2023 part one!

Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russel, Troy Nixey, and Matt Hollingsworth from Dark Horse, Wolverine #41 by Benjamin Percy, Victor LaValle, Geoff Shaw, Cory Smith, Oren Junior, and Alex Sinclair, Superman-O-Rama: Action Comics 2023 Annual and Action #1061 by Jason Aaron, John Timms, and Lokus, Batman/Superman: World's Finest by Mark Waid, Dan Mora, and Tamra Bonvillain, and Superman '78: The Metal Curtain #3, Cobra Commander #1 by Joshua Williamson,  Andrea Milana, and Annalisa Leoni, The Sacrificers #6 by Rick Remender, Max Fiumara, and Dave McCaig, plus a whole mess more!

Marvel-O-Rama: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Chechetto, and Matthew Wilson and Marvel Zombies: Black, White, and Blood by Alex Segura, Javi Fernandez, Gail Simone, Dale Eaglesham, Yen Nitro, Steve Scroce, and Brian Reber, plus Dai Dark V5-6 by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed from Pantheon, Local Man, Watership Down by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin from Ten Speed Graphic, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top 5 O'Closcar Contenders for 2023, plus Dwellings by Jay Stephens from Oni Press, The Complete World Famous Creatures from Fantaco/Whiting Studio, Black Box Chronicles from Magnetic, Queenie, the Godmother of Harlem from Abrams, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: World Without End by Jamie Delano and John Higgins, Image-O-Rama: Duke #1 from Joshua Williamson, Tom Reilly, and Jordie Bellaire, Gunslinger Spawn and Todd McFarlane, and Local Man by Seeley and Fleecs, Danger Street by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #3, Wonder Woman #4, Roaming by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs joins us to talk about Feral, Hellboy-O-Rama: Giant Robot Hellboy by Mike Mignola, Duncan Fedrego, and Dave Stewart and Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat by Matt Smith and Chris O'Halloran from Dark Horse, G.I. Joe #302 by Larry Hama, Chris Mooneyham, and Francesco Segala, Incredible Hulk #6-7 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nik Klein, and Matthew Wilson, Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips, plus a whole mess more!

Silver Sprocket-O-Rama: Everything Sucks: Friends Forever by Michael Sweater, Pee-Pee Poo-Poo #69, #420, #80085 by Caroline Cash, Leftstar and the Strange Occurrence by Jean Fhilippe, Chromatic Fantasy by H.A., and Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox, plus Noir Burlesque by Enrico Marini, Origin Volume 1 by Boichi from Kondansha/Vertical, Scrapper and Crave #1 from Image, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #2 from IDW, Freak Force by Larsen, Giffen, Bridges, and Miller, Teen Titans and Mike Norton, New School by Dash Shaw from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Silver Sprocket-O-Rama: Everything Sucks: Friends Forever by Michael Sweater, Pee-Pee Poo-Poo #69, #420, #80085 by Caroline Cash, Leftstar and the Strange Occurrence by Jean Fhilippe, Chromatic Fantasy by H.A., and Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox, plus Noir Burlesque by Enrico Marini, Origin Volume 1 by Boichi from Kondansha/Vertical, Scrapper and Crave #1 from Image, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #2 from IDW, Freak Force by Larsen, Giffen, Bridges, and Miller, Teen Titans and Mike Norton, New School by Dash Shaw from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Bloodrik #1 by Andrew Krahnke, Petrol Head #2 by Rob Williams and Pye Parr, and Edenwood #2 by Tony S. Daniel and Leonardo Paciarotti, plus X-Men Blue: Origins #1 by Si Spurrier, Wilton Santos, Marcus To, Oren Junior, and Ceci de la Cruz, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes: The Scandalous Ticket by Cyril Lieron and Benoit Dahan from Titan Books, DC-O-Rama:  Alan Scott: Green Lantern #2, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #2, and Birds of Prey #4, The Cliff by Manon Debaye from Drawn & Quarterly, more Midnite Show, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, plus The Thing: Project Pegasus, Dan Clowes' Monica from Fantagraphics, Marvel-O-Rama: Carnage #1 by Torunn Gronbekk, Pere Perez, and Erick Arciniega and Captain Marvel #1 by Alyssa Wong, Jan Bazaldua, and Bryan Valenza, Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky from Pantheon, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to lead us through Mimi's Tales of Terror by Junji Ito from Viz, The Sickness #2 by Jenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler from Uncivilized Books, Kill Wolfhead by Brandon Thomas and Pete Woods from Humanoids, Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas from Image, The Deviant #1 by James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixon, and more Dutch #0 by Joe Casey and Nathan Fox, Wonder Woman #3 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, and Tomeu Morey, Rick & Morty: The Manga Volume 1: Get in the Robot, Morty! from Oni, Daredevil: Black Armor #1 by D.G. Chichester, Netho Diaz, JP Mayer, and Andrew Dalhouse, Batman & Robin #3, Dave Wachter and The Punisher, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Petrol Head #1 by Rob Williams and Pye Parr, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #301 by Larry Hama, Chris Mooneyham, and Francesco Segala, G.I Joe #1: Larry Hama Cut, Transformers #2 by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer, and The Big Game #5 by Mark Millar, Pepe Larraz, and Giovanna Niro, plus BOOM-O-Rama: The Space Between #1 by Corinna Bechko and Danny Luckert and Zawa + the Belly of the Beast #1 by Michael Dialynas, plus a whole mess more!

The Midnite Show #2 by Cullen Bunn. Brian Hurtt, and Bill Crabtree from Dark Horse, Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis by Steve Orlando, Justin Mason, Jordan Boyd, and Antonio Fabela, Ink & Drink: Long Beach: Sewer Boyz, The Cat from the Kimono by Nancy Peña from Humanoids, Superman '78: The Metal Curtain by Robert Venditti, Gavin Guidry, and Jordie Bellaire, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber by Juni Ba and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou from Dark Horse, Almost Dead by Galaxy and Ryan Benjamin from Ablaze, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Universal Monsters: Dracula #1 by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, Edenwood #1 by Tony S. Daniel and Jay David Ramos from Image, #DRCL: Midnight Children Volume 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto from Viz, World's Finest, Alan Scott: Green Lantern #1, M. S. Harkness-O-Rama: Six Mini-Comics and Time Under Tension, Todd McFarlane, Operation Sunshine Volume #1 by Henry Zabrowski, Marcus Parks, and David Rubin from Dark Horse, Spider-Gwen, Western-O-Rama: The Enfield Gang Massacre and Canary, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Clementine Book Two by Tillie Walden and Cliff Rathburn from Skybound, plus #DRCL: Midnight Children Volume 1 by Shin'ichi Sakamoto from Viz, Zoe Thorogood's Hack/Slash: Back to School #1, Joe Hill's Rain with David M. Booher, Zoe Thorogood, and Chris O'Halloran from Syzygy Publishing, Snarlagon by Andrew MacLean, plus a whole mess more!

The legendary Howard Chaykin joins us to discuss his forthcoming book John Benteen's Fargo: Hell on Wheels, Gil Kane, American Flagg, Black Kiss, Grant Morrison, Cyberella, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Blackhawk, Ken Bruzenak, illustration and design, Power & Glory, Star Wars, plus a whole mess more!

NYCC 2023, 2099 Unlimited #3 by Ned Sonntag, Dracula X Frankenstein by Michele Monteleone, Fabrizio Des Dorides, Giulio Antonio Gualtieri, and Francesco De Stena from Alien Books + FairSquare Comics, Minor Threats by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Scott Hepburn, and Ian Herring from Dark Horse, My Friend, Toby by Gregory Panaccione from Magnetic, Mobilis by Juni Ba from TKO, Ed Piskor's Red Room: Crypto Killaz from Fantagraphics, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman by Robert Venditti, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia, The Mysteries by John Kascht and Bill Watterson, plus a whole mess more!

Complete the Quest: The Poisonous Library by Brian McLachlan from Imprint, The Midnite Show #1 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, and Bill Crabtree from Dark Horse, Moonray Volume One by Brandon Graham and Xurxo G. Penalta, Blue Beetle by Josh Trujillo, Adrian Gutierrez, and Wil Quintana, G.O.D.S. #1, The Forged by Greg Rucka and Eric Trautmann from Image, Rick and Morty by Alex Firer, Fred C. Stressing, Marc Ellerby and Andrew Dalhouse from ONI, The Closet by James Tynion IV and Gavin Fullerton, Gen V, Gutter Hunter #3 from Robin Bougie, Peacemaker Tries Hard, Nimona, plus a whole mess more!

Tom Scioli warps in to discuss I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics both Ten Speed Press, Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors Starring Adam Starr and the Solar Legion from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to help us throw down on Children of the Vault #2 by Deniz Camp, Luca Maresca, and Carlos Lopez, The Sacrificers #2 by Rick Remender, Max Fiumara, and Dave McCaig from Image, Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham by Rafael Grampa and Matheus Lopes, I Am Stan by Tom Scioli, Rare Flavors by Ram V and Filipe Andrade from BOOM!, Batman and Robin #1 by Joshua Williamson and Simone Di Meo, Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, and Tomeu Morey, Uncanny Spider-Man #1 by Si Spurrier, Lee Garbett, and Matt Milla, Bloodborne: The Bleak Dominion #1 by Cullen Bunn, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson from Titan Comics, Deadpool: Badder Blood by Rob Liefeld and Chad Bowers, plus a whole mess more!

Marvel-O-Rama: Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance (Alpha + Ghost Rider #17 + Wolverine #36 + Omega) by Benjamin Percy, Geoff Shaw, and Rain Beredo, Avengers Inc. #1 by Al Ewing, Leonard Kirk, and Alex Sinclair, and Daredevil #1 by Saladin Ahmed, Aaron Kuder, and Jesus Aburtov, plus The Incal: Dying Star by Dan Watters and Jon-Davis Hunt from Humanoids, The Invincible Red Sonja from Dynamite, Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #6, Jazz Maynard Volume 2: The Iceland Trilogy, Shadowhawk and 1963, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Illyrian Enigma, The Boogeyman from Ablaze, plus a whole mess more!

Josh Bayer joins us to plumb the depths of Unended from Uncivilized Books, Birds of Prey #1, Scrapper #2, Splitting Image and Don Simpson, Incredible Hulk #3, Giant Days, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Tales to Enlighten: The New Testament by Matt King and a massive mess of disgustingly talented folks, plus Ice Cream Man #36 by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran, Millarverse: Night Club, Big Game, and Magic Order, Groot by Dan Abnett, Damien Couceiro, and Matt Milla, Godzilla Rivals: Spacegodzilla and Matt Frank, Chainsaw Man and Dandadan, plus a whole mess more!

Daniel Warren Johnson pops in to talk about Transformers and the Energon Universe, plus we have a little time left over to jabber on Godzilla: War for Humanity #1 by Andrew MacLean, Jake Smith, and Carlos Lopez from IDW, Marvel Unleashed #1 by Kyle Starks, Jesus Hervas, and Yen Nitro, All Tomorrows Parties: The Velvet Underground Story by Koren Shadmi, plus a whole mess more!

Venomverse-O-Rama: Death of the Venomverse #1 by Cullen Bunn, Gerardo Sandoval, and Jim Campbell and What If...? Dark Venom by Stephanie Phillips, Jethro Moralez, and Israel Silva, plus Rick & Morty: Crisis on C-137 by Stephanie Phillips, Ryan Lee, and Doug Garbark from Oni Press, A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll from :01 First Second, X-Men-O-Rama: Alpha Flight #1 by Ed Brisson, Scott Godlewski, and Matt Milla, Dark X-Men #1 by Steve Foxe, Jonas Scharf, Nelson Daniel, and Frank Martin, Children of the Vault #1 by Deniz Camp, Luca Maresca, and Carlos Lopez, and Immortal X-Men #14 by Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck, David Curiel, and Erick Arciniega, plus a whole mess more!

Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger from Tom Doherty Associates, Abrams ComicArts-O-Rama: The Bomb: The Weapon that Changed the World by Didier Alcante and Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, and The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Ominous Omnibus Volume 2: Deadtime Stories for Boos and Ghouls, Plush by Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard from Image, Mike Diana and Boiled Angel, Frank Miller's Ronin Book 2, Metal Eagle #1 by Matt Kund, Gonzalo Ruggieri, Wilson Gandolpho, and Noah Ray, Richard Corben's Murky World from Dark Horse, Masters of Comic Book Art, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to the fold to talk about Local Man Gold with Tim Seeley from Image, Army of Darkness Forever #1 with Justin Greenwood, Brad Simpson, and Troy Peteri from Dynamite, plus Conan the Barbarian #1 by Jim Zub, Robert De la Torre, and Jose Villarubia for Titan Comics, Deadpool: Badder Blood by Rob Liefeld and Chad Bowers, Tombs by Junji Ito for Viz, Blue Book by James Tynion IV, Michael Avon Oeming, and Klaus Janson from Dark Horse, Black Cloak, Altered Image, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips from Image!

Hellboy in Love by Christopher Golden, Matt Smith, and Chris O'Halloran from Dark Horse, XINO #2 from Oni Press featuring David and Maria Lapham, Zander Cannon, Artyrom Trakhanov, and company, TMNT Vs. Street Fighter #2 by Paul Allor, Axel Medel, and Sarah Myer from IDW, The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold Your Childhood by Box Brown from :01 First Second, World's Finest: Teen Titans #1 by Mark Waid, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Jordie Bellaire, Milk Maid by Jasper Jubenvill, The Big Game #1 by Mark Millar, Pepe Larraz, and Giovanna Niro from Image, Crazy Food Truck Volume 3 by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, Dandadan, Scrapper #1 by Cliff Bleszinski, Alex de Campi, and Sandy Jarrell from Image, True Crime Funnies by Jim Rugg, Weapon Brown: Aftershock by Jason Yungbluth, plus a whole mess more!

Ryan Stegman returns to talk about The Schlub with Kenny Porter, Tyrell Cannon, Mike Spicer, and John J. Hill forthcoming from Image Comics, Vanish, Venom, Absolute Carnage, King in Black, Todd McFarlane, I Hate This Place, The Sickness from Uncivilized Books, The Dirty Basement from Tribute Press, plus a whole mess more!

Tana Ford returns to help us with Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando, Sara Pichelli, Elisabetta D'Amico, and Matthew Wilson, Monomyth by David Hazan, Cecelia Lo Valvo, and Marissa Louise from Mad Cave Studio, Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, and Hank Jones from Oni Press, Pink Elephant #1 from E & E Plissken, Benson Chin, and Harumi Tokuyosi from Sumerian, Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist by Poppy Pesuyama from Viz, Butterfly House by Brenda Hickey and Troy Little from PegaMoose Press, plus a whole mess more!

Marvel-O-Rama: Incredible Hulk #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, and Matthew Wilson and Wolverine: SNIKT! by Tsutomu Nihei, DC-O-Rama: Titans #2 by Tom Taylor, Nicola Scott, and Annette Kwok and World's Finest by Mark Waid, Dan Mora, and Tamra Bonvillain, Red Room: Crypto Killaz #1 by Ed Piskor from Fantagraphics, a Magic Order tease, Elvira in Monsterland #2 by David Avallone, Kewber Ball, and Walter Pereyra from Dynamite!, Space Job by David A. Goodman, Alvaro Sarraseca, Jordi Escuin Llorach from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Kelly Thompson returns to talk about Captain Marvel, Birds of Prey, Black Cloak, The Cull, Meredith McClaren, Leonardo Romero, Rian Hughes, Mattia De Iulis, and so much more! Plus, Black Panther and Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons!

John Romita Sr., Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Mystic Debris by Justin Gradin for Fantagraphics Underground and Anais Nin: A Sea of Lies by Leonie Bischoff, Image-O-Rama: Void Rivals #1 and the Image/Skybound Energon Universe, Nemesis: Reloaded, and The Giant Kokju, Heroes 2023, Star Trek Annual 2023, Xino #1 from Oni Press, Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #4, Demon Slayer, plus a whole mess more!

Symbiote-O-Rama: Carnage Reigns Alpha, Miles Morales #6, and Carnage #13 and Venom: Lethal Protector II #1-3, Faithless by Azzarello and Llovet from BOOM!, Tao Bang from Magnetic, Rick and Morty Presents: Maximum Overture #1 from Oni, Shazam #1, TMNT Vs. Street Fighter #1 from IDW, Steelworks #1, Little Monsters from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Ryan Browne held us at sporkpoint until we agreed to have him on to pimp his new God Hates Astronauts Again!? Kickstarter, plus he overstays his welcome and jabbers on and on about Eight Billion Genies and Charles Soule, Curse Words, Diamond and Lunar, variant covers, Blast Furnace, baseball, death at sea, plus a whole mess more!

EOC All-Timers: PLOP! #4 by Sergio Aragones, Frank Robbins, Steve Skeates, Nick Cardy, and company, Thor #337 by Walt Simonson and George Roussos/Steve Oliff, and Detective Comics #526 by Gerry Conway, Don Newton, Alfredo Alcala, and Adrienne Roy, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Sandman Mystery Theatre Volume 1: The Tarantula by Matt Wagner, Guy Davis, David Hornung, and Gavin Wilson, plus the Lunar/Diamond news, DC/Marvel relationships, more Mark Millar and Ambassadors, Star Trek, plus a whole mess more!

The Steel Claw miniseries by H. Ken Bulmer, Jesus Blasco, and Garry Leach from Quality Comics, Titans #1 by Tom Taylor, Nicola Scott, and Annette Kwok, Elvira in Monsterland #1 by David Avallone, Kewber Baal, Walter Pereyra, and Dave Acosta from Dynamite!, Avengers #1 by Jed MacKay, C. F. Villa, and Federico Blee, Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham from Pantheon, Green Lantern #1 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, and Romulo Farjado Jr., plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison and Zack Kruse stop by to play Longbox Roulette: DC Comics Presents #97 (1986) by Steve Gerber, Rick Veitch, Bob Smith, and D'Angelo, Daredevil #225 by Denny O'Neil, David Mazzucchelli, and Ken Feduniewicz, and Doctor Who #11 by Steve Parkhouse, Dave Gibbons, Steve Moore, and David Lloyd, plus a whole mess more!

With Vince lost at sea old pal and BFF Tony Fleecs and our Slackers lend a hand as we start off at the far reaches of the galaxy expressing our decades-long affairs with Star Trek and Star Wars before coming home to check in on a Local Man. Along the way, we talk about Eight Billion Genies and Ryan Browne and Charles Soule; Mark Millar, Travis Charest, and The Ambassadors; Star Trek #7 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Mike Feehan, and Lee Loughridge from IDW, Peacemaker Tries Hard! #1 by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Jordie Bellaire; I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young, Brett Bean, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu; plus so much more!

Book of the Month: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Volume 1: Aphra by Kieron Gillen, Kev Walker, Marc Deering, Antonio Fabela, Edgar Delgado, and Salvador Larroca.

Dark Horse-O-Rama: Where Monsters Lie #3 by Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski, and Vladimir Popov, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #3 by Tim Seeley, Eddie Nunez, Claudia Balboni, Rico Renzi, and David Rubín, All Eight Eyes #1 by Steve Foxe, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson, and Grendel Omnibus Volume 2 by Matt Wagner and company, plus Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride #5 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, The Giant Kokjü #1 by Gerry Duggan, Scott Koblish, and Hi-Fi, Ambassadors #2 by Mark Millar, Karl Kerschl, and Michele Assarasakorn, and more TerrorWar, plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1 by Stan Sakai from IDW, The Mighty Barbarians #1 by Michael Moreci, Giuseppi Cafaro, and Barbara Nosenzo from Ablaze, Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1, Crazy Food Truck Volume 3 by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs pops in to talk up Star Wars via Ostrander, Duursema, Duffy, and Williamson, Image-O-Rama: W0rldtr33 #1 by James Tynion IV, Blanco, and Jordie Bellaire, a Local Man exclusive, TerrorWar #1 by Saladin Ahmed, Dave Acosta, and Jay Leisten, Black Cloak by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren, Dark Ride, Arcade Kings #1 by Dylan Burnett, Walter Baiamonte, and Sara Antonellini, and Nemesis: Reloaded #4 by Millar and Jiménez, Warren Ellis, Gryffen: Galaxy's Most Wanted #1 by Ben Kahn, Bruno Hidalgo, and James Peñafiel from Whatnot, Heavy Metal, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Grass Roots and Other Follies from Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides, and Dave Sheridan from Fantagraphics, The Great British Bump-Off, plus a whole mess more!

The Comics Journal and Chuck Rozanski, Planet of the Apes #1 and Dave Wachter, Image-O-Rama: Local Man #2 and Tony Fleecs, The Ambassadors #1 by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Blood Stained Teeth by Christian Ward and Patric Reynolds, and I Hate this Place #7 by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, Heimdall by Max Baitinger from Rotopol, Ronin Book 2 #2 by Frank Miller, Philip Tan, and Daniel Henriques from FMP, Wednesday, Wolverine, 2000AD Prog 2326 and Rogue Trooper by Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard from Rebellion, Waller Vs. Wildstorm, Praise-O-Rama: Hairball #1, Mister Mammoth, and Miss Davis, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Department of Truth Volume 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds from Image Comics!

Image O-Rama: Supreme by Rob Liefeld, Brian Murray, Shawn McManus, and company, Love Everlasting by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, and Matt Hollingsworth, Art Brut by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Mat Lopes, and Last Barbarians #2 by Brian Haberlin and Geirrod Van Dyke, Superman-O-Rama: Superman: Strength by Scott McCloud, Aluir Amancio, Terry Austin, and Patricia Mulvihill, and Superman: Lost #1 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, and Jeromy Cox, Star Trek-O-Rama, Spectreman Heroes #5 by Matt Frank and company from Antarctic Press, plus a whole mess more!

Bad Idea-O-Rama: Pyrate Queen, The Finder, The Ends, Burning Man, and Escape from Wyoming, Jazz Maynard Volume 1: The Barcelona Trilogy by Roger and Raule from Magnetic, Parker Girls and Terry Moore, Spy Superb by Matt Kindt, Wes Craig's Kaya, The Forged #1 by Greg Rucka, Eric Trautmann, and Mike Henderson from Image, Open Bar by Eduardo Medeiros from Oni Press, The Last Barbarians #2, Black Cloak #3, Adventures of Superman #1, Sins of Sinister storyline, plus a whole mess more!  

Local Man Tony Fleecs returns to blabber on about Rick & Morty Vs. Cthulhu by Jim Zub, Troy Little, and Leonardo Ito from Oni Press, Longbox Roulette: Action Comics Annual #1 by John Byrne, Art Adams, and Dick Giordano, Stormwatch #44 by Warren Ellis and Tom Rainey, and Leave it to Chance FCBD 2002 by James Robinson and Paul Smith, plus Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey from Drawn & Quarterly, The Tick: The Complete Edlund by Ben Edlund from New England Comics, Almighty #2 by Laroche and Simpson from Image, The Snowcat Prince by Dina Norlund from Oni Press, We Live from the Miranda Brothers and company out of Aftershock, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, plus a whole mess more!

Ice Cream Man by M. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim, Nicolas Keramidas, Brigitte Findakly and Christina Hwang from Fantagraphics, Kyle Starks-O-Rama: Where Monsters Lie #2 with Piotr Kowalski and Vladimir Popov from Dark Horse and I Hate This Place #6 with Artyom Topolin and Lee Loughridge out of Image, The Human Target #12 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood, DC Vs.Vampires, Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 by Stephanie Phillips, Juann Cabal, Espen Grundetjern, and company, Rick & Morty #2 from Oni, World's Finest #12, Guardian of Fukushima by Fabien Grolleau and Ewen Blain from TokyoPop, Phantom Road #1 by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel H. Walta, and Jordie Bellaire, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top Five Anthologies, more Bad Idea, Blue Book #1 by James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming from Dark Horse, Fantagraphic-O-Rama: SPA by Eric Svetoft and NOW: The New Comics Anthology #12 from Eric Reynolds and company, Captain America, The Last Barbarians #1 by Brian Haberlin, Hannah Wall, and Geirrod Van Dyke from Image/Shadowline, Mind MGMT: Bootleg from Dark Horse, Hypericon by Manuele Fior from Dargaud, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Jim Starlin's proto-Dreadstar Metamorphosis Odyssey and The Price!

Bad Idea-O-Rama: Orc Island by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli, and Matt Hollingsworth, They're All Terrible by Matt Kindt, Ramon Villalobos, and Tamra Bonvillan, Haunthology by Jeremy Haun, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 by Tim Seeley, Kelley Jones, Sergio Aragonéz, Eddie Nunez, Brennan Wagner, and Rico Renzi from Dark Horse, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Terry Moore and Parker Girls, Harrower #1 by Justin Jordan and Brahm Revel from BOOM!, Don Rosa and Disney, Icon Vs. Hardware, Star Trek, Nightcrawlers #1, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Almighty #1 by Edward Laroche and Brad Simpson, Lastman Book One by Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vivés, and Balak, and The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway from Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 by Al Ewing, Paco Medina, and Jay David Ramos, Amazing Spider-Man #19, Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver from Abrams, Renaissance by Fred Duval and Emem from Europe Comics, Avengers: War Across Time, Issunboshi by Ryan Lang from Oni Comics, Walt Disney Giant #3 and Don Rosa from Gladstone, Kamen Rider Kuuga, plus a whole mess more!

John Amor roars into the EOC treehouse to talk up Urban Animal, Big Medium, Teen Titans and George Perez, One Week in the Library, Bakuman, Skottie Young, Dungeons and Dragons, Where Monsters Lie #1, Action Comics #1051, Sins of Sinister #1, Chainsaw Man, Drifting Home, plus a whole mess more! Urban Animal

Single Issue Shuffle: Creepshow #5 (2022) by Steve Orlando, Clay McLeod Chapman, Marianna Ignazzi, Anwita Citriya, Fabiana Mascolo, Jordie Bellaire, and Chris Burnham from Image, Jonny Quest #6 (1986) by William Messner-Loebs and Adam Kubert from Comico, and The Pink Panther Super-Pink Special (2017) by S. A. Check, Jorge Pacheco, John Gallagher, and Warren Tufts, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Adventures of Tintin: In the Land of the Soviets and The Calculus Affair by Hergé, plus The Witcher: Ballad of Two Wolves from Dark Horse, One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring from Fantagraphics, A Taste for Blood by DeBuhme from Europe Comics, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and Jason Aaron from BOOM!, Rick and Morty #1 from Oni, Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula from Life Drawn, plus a whole mess more!

Bryan Clark joins us to reveal the winners of the 11 O'Closcars for 2022!

Blowing Minds by Jake Kelly from Stone Church Press, Everything Sucks: All Cats Go to Hell by Michael Sweater from Silver Sprocket, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 from Abrams, Action Comics #1050, Black Cloak #1, Gotham City: Year One, Days of Sand by Aimée De Jongh from Self-Made Hero, plus a whole mess more!

Finally, Tana Ford descends into the EOC treehouse to talk about Laguardia, The Space Cat, Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty, Duck, Silk, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, and Benedict Dimagmaliw!

Mike Del Vecchio joins us on an all-manga episode, highlighting Chainsaw Man by Tatsuji Fujimoto from Viz, Go! Go! Loser Ranger! by Negi Haruba from Kodansha, One Piece and Eiichiro Oda, Junji Ito, The Gay Who Turned Kaiju by Kazuki Minamoto from Yen Press, The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono from Viz, Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki from :01 First Second, plus a whole mess more!

Bloodshot Unleashed by Deniz Camp, Jon David-Hunt, and Jordie Bellaire from Valiant, Briar by Christopher Cantwell, Germán García, and Matheus Lopes from BOOM!, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar, Federico Vicentini, and Bryan Valenza, Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin from Panel Syndicate, Invincible Iron Man #1, Kamen Rider Kuuga Volume One from Titan Books, Image-O-Rama: Night Club #1 by Mark Millar and Juanan Ramírez, Kroma #1 by Lorenzo De Felici, and Gospel by Will Morris, Leonide the Vampire by Mike Mignola, Rachele Aragno, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann from Fantagraphics, Cat-Man and Kitten #1 by Jeff Parker, Joseph Cooper, and Arancia Studio from Dynamite, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Black Paradox from Viz and Boat Life by Tsuge Tadao from Floating World, Super Trash Clash from by Edgar Camacho Top Shelf, Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Hand-Drawn Thought Photography by Noah Pierce from Decoder Ring, Classified: The Black Box, Kepler’s Intergalactic Guide to Spaceships by Jake Parker, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison warps in to add to this month's Book of the Month: Pussey! by Dan Clowes from Fantagraphics!

Ronin Book II (no spoilers) by Frank Miller, Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques, and John Workman from Frank Miller Presents, Kamen Rider Zero-One #1 from Titan Comics, Lord of the Jungle #1 by Dan Jurgens, Benito Gallego, and Francesco Segala from Dynamite!, Humanoids-O-Rama: Psychoverse by Mark Russell, Yanick Paquette, and Dave McCaig and First Degree: A Crime Anthology by David F. Walker, Michael Lark, and company, Strange, PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama from Kodansha, The Thing, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to the fold to join in on Kim Jung Gi, Image-O-Rama: Kane Volume 3: Histories by Paul Grist, Deadly Class, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Old Dog by Declan Shalvey and Clayton Cowles, Above Snakes, plus Love & Rockets, New Mutants #31, Prophet, Terry Kavanagh, WildC.A.T.S, Comics Revue #437/438 and The Phantom by Lee Faulk and Sy Barry, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special, plus a whole mess more!

Kevin O'Neill, Carlos Pacheco, Grateful Dead Origins by Chris Miskiewicz, Noah Van Sciver, Aladdin Collar, and Tyler Boss from Z2 Comics/Rhino, Matt Wagner's Grendel Omnibus Volume 1, Manga-O-Rama: Night of the Living Cat by Hawkman and Mecha-Roots from Seven Seas and She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki from Yen Press, Wolverine 26-27 by Benjamin Percy, Juan José Ryp, and Frank D'Armata, Skottie Young-O-Rama, Star Trek #1 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Ramon Rosanas, and Lee Loughridge from IDW, Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson, Andre Bressan, and Adriano Lucas and I Hate This Place by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda from Abrams, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Stray Bullets Volume One: Innocence of Nihilism by David Lapham from El Capitán/Image Comics!

Top 5-O-Rama: Our Top Five Four-Issue Limited Series, Top Five Trios, Top Five Image Series, plus a whole mess more!

Heavy Hitters-O-Rama: Law Dog by Chuck Dixon, Henry Flint Henry, Marc Hansen, and company, Midnight Men by Howard Chaykin, and Sachs and Violens by Peter David and George Peréz, plus A.X.E. Judgment Day, Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin, plus a whole mess more!

Single Shuffle: DNAgents #10 my Mark Evanier, Will and Jo Meuginot, and Al Gordon from Eclipse Comics, plus Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki from Viz, The Silent Invasion by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas from NBM, Slash them All by Antoine Maillard from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Thrud the Barbarian by Carl Critchlow from Titan Comics, the Death, Destruction, Vice, and Sleaze series by Jake Kelly, Dynamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride by Jasper Jubenvill from Strangers Fanzine, Simon Hanselmann, Crime & Punishment: Marshal Law Takes Manhattan by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, and company from Epic, Tekno Comix, Manga-O-Rama: Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto from Viz and Dandadan Volume 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu from Shonen Jump, Always Never by Jordi Lafebre from Dark Horse, Back Issue #137 from TwoMorrows, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

New York Comic Con '22, Ryan Browne, Peach Momoko, Single Shuffle: Batman Vs. Robin #2 by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, and company, Scary Monsters #128, Superman: Son of Kal-El and Action Comics, Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: John Constantine, Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Rick Veitch, Alfredo Alcala, and company!

Vanish #1 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and company from Image, DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock Vs. the Army of the Dead by Bruce Campbell and Eduardo Risso, Madballs Vs. Garbage Pail Kids from Dynamite!, Tim Drake: Robin #1, Santos Sisters #2, Thunderbolts, patron questions, plus a whole mess more!

Chained Soldier Volume 1 by Takahiro and Yohei Takemura from Yen Press, The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, Star Trek: Below Decks from IDW, Ginka and Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe from Shonen Jump, Crazy Food Truck by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, Acting Class by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross and Josh Johnson from Marvel/Abrams Comicarts, How to Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pierce from Fantagraphics, Come Over Come Over by Lynda Barry from Drawn & Quarterly, Batman Vs. Robin, Kali by Daniel Freedman and Robert Sammelin from Dark Horse, The Changeling Volume 1 by Tina N. Lugo from Silver Sprocket, The Least We Can Do by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli from Image, Robin and Batman, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Gunslinger Spawn and The Complete Cyberforce Volume One, Ghost Rider, Boris the Potato Child by Anne Simon from Fantagraphics, Stages of Rot and A Frog in the Fall (and Later On) by Linnea Sterte from Peow Studio, more Curse of the Chosen by Alexis Deacon from Nobrow and Flying Eye Books, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye.

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The End by Anders Nilsen, Metax by Antoine Cossé, and Halcyon by Ron Regé Jr., Sandman on NetFlix, Spectreman Heroes #2: Lionmaru by Hiroshi Kanatani and Matt Frank from Antarctic Press, Titan-O-Rama: Bloodborne: Lady of the Lanterns #1 by Cullen Bunn, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson and Ms. Tree Volume Three: The Cold Dish by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, Curse of the Chosen Volume 1 by Alexis Deacon from Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press, Echolands by J. H. Williams III and W. Hayden Blackman, and Dave Stewart from Image, Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1, Ant-Man #1, plus a whole mess more!

Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part One by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido from Dark Horse, Patience & Esther: An Edwardian Romance by S. W. Searle from Iron Circus Comics, Dai Dark by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Batman: Killing Time, Junji Ito's The Liminal Zone from Viz Signature, more Miles Morales, Warlock 5 Omnibus from Outland Entertainment, Dinamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride from Strangers Fanzine, Black Panther, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner-nominated Tony Fleecs hangs with us to talk about Enzo Garza's Gutt Ghost, The Book Tour by Andi Watson, X-Men Legends #1 by Roy Thomas and Dave Wachter, Jordan Crane's Keeping Two from Fantagraphics, Parker Girls #1 by Terry Moore, a whole lot of Miles Morales, Dynamite's James Bond: 007 #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Marco Finnegan, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Ghost Cage, and more!

Brother Brian Newberry joins us on our quest to discuss ORCS! by Christine Larsen from Kaboom, recalling the glory days of Justice League/Europe, Devil Ecstasy V1 by Shuzo Oshimi from Kodansha, Action Comics, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Shadow War, Eerie Publications - The Complete Covers: The Whole Bloody Mess from FantaCo, The Bear, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence Volume 2, Once and Future from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden from :01 First Second.

Colorless Volume One by Kent from Seven Seas, Cankor by Matthew Allison, Dog Biscuits by Alex Graham from Fantagraphics, Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho from Top Shelf, Image-O-Rama: The Closet #1 by James Tynion IV and Gavin Fullerton and Skybound X #25 by Kirkman, Ottley, Williamson, Bressan, Lucas, De Felici and company, Nightwing, She-Hulk, Loeb and Sale's Batman: Dark Victory and Long Halloween, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Volume 1 from The Library of American Comics and Clover Press, Shadow War, Love Everlasting by Tom King and Elsa Charretier, plus a whole mess more!

Above Snakes by Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman from Image, The Men Who Created Gundam by Hideki Ohwada, Hajime Yatate, and Yoshiyuki Tomino from Denpa, more World's Finest, the X-Universe post-Hickman, Dark Knights of Steel #7, The Cimmerian Volume 1 from Ablaze, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #2 from Bad Kids Press, Deathstroke Inc., The Lonesome Hunters #1 by Tyler Crook from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Clementine Book One by Tillie Walden and Cliff Rathburn from Skybound Comet, Disciples by David Birke, Nicholas McCarthy, and Ben Marra from Fantagraphics, Captain Action: The Classic Collection by Jim Shooter, Gil Kane, and Wally Wood from Penguin Random House, Frog Boy: Punk Rock & Roller Derby by John Burgin, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #2 by Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, Dark Knights of Steel, Adrastée by Mathieu Bablet from Magnetic, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs and Caleb Alexander-McKinzie join us to recount the wonder that was Heroes Con 2022 (including  Jason's Bitter Root panel with David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene), plus we make time on the tail end to discuss Dan Slott's Fantastic Four, Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century, Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali: A Who HQ Graphic Novel from Penguin Workshop, Tony Osmond is a Movie Star by Tony Esmond, Cliff Cumber, and Ken Reynolds from Tribute Press, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground by Darwyn Cooke, plus Final Faction: First Impact, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Golden Boy: Beethoven's Youth by Mikael Ross and Disney Masters Volume 15: The New Adventures of the Phantom Blot by Paul Murray, Witches: The Complete Collection by Daisuke Igarashi from Seven Seas, The Junction by Norm Konyu from Titan Comics, Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz from Silver Sprocket, Tim Sale and The Long Halloween, Better Place by from Duane Murray and Shawn Daley from Top Shelf/IDW, Heroes Con, plus a whole mess more!

Revita, Ex.Mag 4 from Peow Studio, Twig #2 from Image, Urban Animal Volume 1 by Justin Jordan and John Amor from Rocketship Entertainment, Succubus & Hitman Volume 2 from Seven Seas, Jason Pearson and Body Bags, Rick Grimes 2000, Neonomicon, Heroes 2022, Heaven's Door Extra Works by Keiichi Koike from Last Gasp, World's Finest, Eternals, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, X-Universe, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young, Felix Lu, Matthew Allison, Tom King, and Tony Fleecs stop by to join us for our 800th uninterrupted attempt at weekly comic book podcasting! Maybe this time we'll get it right!

Book of the Month: Wolverine Epic Collection Volume 1: Madripoor Nights by Christopher Claremont, Peter David, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Klaus Janson, Al Williamson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Glynis Oliver, Gregory Wright, Mike Rockwitz, and Mark Chiarello, plus a whole mess more!

Project MK-Ultra: Sex, Drugs, and the CIA Volume 1 from Clover Press, IDW, Buz Sawyer Volume 2: Sultry's Tiger by Roy Crane from Fantagraphics, Ibrahim Moustafa's Retroactive from Humanoids, Tony Fleecs and Heroes, We Have Demons by Snyder and Capullo, Viz-O-Rama: Crazy Food Truck Volume 1 by Rokurou Ogaki and Death Note Short Stories by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Duo #1, Yellow Cab by Chabouté, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner Nominees Live: Zack Kruse (Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity), Daniel Warren Johnson (Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star), and Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs) join us in the EOC treehouse, plus Single Shuffle: I Hate This Place #1 by Kyle Starks, Artyrom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, 7174 Annual '22 by Ashley Wood and T. P. Louise (Image). and Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin #1 by Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart (Dark Horse), Fables #151, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Hit Me, plus a whole mess more!

George Pérez, Reckless: Image-O-Rama: The Ghost in You by Ed Brubabker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips, Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane, and Arrowsmith: So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, Ashes, Ashes from Magnetic, G.I. Joe: Saturday Morning Adventures #3 from IDW, Silver Sprocket-O-Rama: Hell Phone by Benji Nate and Good Boy Magazine #2, Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century #2, Mossvale by Travis Wells from Ageless Press, plus a whole mess more!

Neal Adams, TMNT: The Last Ronin by Eastman, Laird, and company from IDW, Twig #1 from Scottie Young, Kyle Strahm, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu from Image, Laura and Other Stories and Guillem March, Avengers and Jason Aaron, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: ATARI Force by Gerry Conway, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Ross Andru, Riccardo Villagran, Tom Zuiko, and Keith Giffen, plus a whole mess more!

Mario pulls into the EOC parking lot to help us through By the Horns Volume 1: The Wind Rises from Scout Comics, Chronophage from Humanoids, Fourth Wall-breaking comics, Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #1, Blubber by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, The Nib #8, Dark Horse Presents, Disney's Moon Knight, Donald Duck: Follow the Leader, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #2, plus a whole mess more!

Sheeply Horned Witch Romi by Yoichi Abe from Seven Seas, TMNT Annual 2022 by Juni Ba and Ronda Pattison from IDW, Chivalry by Neil Gaiman and Coleen Doran from Dark Horse, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Saturday Morning Adventures #2, more King of Spies, Gary Panter's Crashpad from Fantagraphics, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #1 by Roel Torres and Lukasz Kowalczuk from Bad Kids Press, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #1 from Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, The Final Night, X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Marauders #1, The Return of the Killer, more Secret Passages and What If We Were by Axelle Lenoir, plus a whole mess more!

Manga-O-Rama: Kamen Rider: The Classic Collection by Shotaro Ishinomori from Seven Seas and Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatso from Shonen Jump, patron questions, Secret Passages 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir from IDW/Top Shelf, Rogues #1 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs, and Matheus Lopes, Hulk: Grand Design #1 by Jim Rugg, Superman: Red and Blue, X-Men-O-Rama: Immortal X-Men #1 and X-Men: Red #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Enigma by Peter Milligan, Duncan Fegredo, and Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh

Scout-O-Rama: Kingjira: Hungry Like a Monster and Gods of Brutality, Magnetic-O-Rama: Carbon & Silicon by Mathieu Bablet and Pistouvi by Merwan and Bertrand Gatignol, World's Finest #1, Orochi by Kazuo Umezu from Viz, Matt Emmonds' Gardener, Black Widow, We Live by the Miranda Brothers from Aftershock, Lady Baltimore: The Witch Queens from Dark Horse, King of Spies, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Lure by Lane Milburn, NOW: The New Comics Anthology #11, and Olympia by Bastien Vives, Jérôme Mulot, and Florent Ruppert, Alley Oop - Book One: Dinny by V. T. Hamlin from Manuscript Press, A Thing Called Truth from Image,  plus a whole mess more!

Ryan Browne on Eight Billion Genies from Image, Charles Soule, God Hates Astronauts, Curse Words, process, Kickstarter, plus a whole mess more!

Desert Island Mystery Mail and Mirror Mirror Volume 2, Jason's OA escapades, Hit Me #1 from AWA, Death of Doctor Strange, The Seeds from Berger Books and Dark Horse, Punisher #1, Little Monsters #1, Star Trek: Discovery - Adventures in the 32nd Century from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El #9, plus a whole mess more!

Nick Dragotta descends from the heavens to talk up his forthcoming Ghost Cage from Image, plus we have time left to talk up Succubus & Hitman Volume 1 from Seven Seas, The Killer: Affairs of the State from BOOM!, Falconspeare and Mike Mignola from Dark Horse, Transformers: King Grimlock from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El, She-Hulk #2, Strange #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Fist of the North Star Volume 1 by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara from Viz Signature, plus King of Spies, The True Story of the Unknown Soldier by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, Cutting Edge from Titan Comics, The Cimmerian Volume 3 from Ablaze, Jeff Lemire-O-Rama: Robin and Batman and Primordial, Peacemaker, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs barges in once again to help us with G. I. Joe Saturday Morning Adventures from IDW, Book of Boba Fett, Transformers, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Deserter from Viz and Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge from New York Review Comics, Bermuda and Nick Bradshaw, Erik Larsen's Ant, Oswald's Body from BOOM!, Cowboy Bebop from Titan Comics, Rick and Morty, Terry Moore's Serial, Nightwing, Babyteeth Volume 4, Crossover, Randocomica: Hero Zero #1, Superman '78, Justice League 2022 Annual and Sanford Greene, The Human Target, plus a whole mess more!

Milo Minara's The Golden Ass from Humanoids, Lightfall: Book One - The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert from Harper Alley, 32 Stories by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, The Other History of the DC Universe, Solo by Oscar Martin from Titan, Disney Masters V18: Uncle Scrooge - Pie in the Sky by William Van Horn from Fantagraphics, I Am Gonzo My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books from Viaindustriae Publishing, Bolero from Image, The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs helps us out with January's Book of the Month: Maus by Art Spiegelman.

Mega #1 from Stonebot and Red 5, Balbuzar from Ablaze, So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess - Outsider Artist & Gender Visionary 1911-1977 from Microcosm, Maximum Volume from Kitchen Sink and Heavy Metal, Gamayun Tales II and Stig & Tilde: The Loser Squad from Nobrow, Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal from AWA, Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Strips from Dark Horse, Superman & Robin Special #1, Detective Comics, Human Target #4, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top Ten list of Comic Book Novelties plus Fantasy Sports from Nobrow, Spy Island from Dark Horse, Decorum from Image, plus a whole mess more!

A year in the making, it's the 11 O'Closcars, an assemblage of All-Winners from the year that was 2021, with our buddy, Brian Newberry, helping us lift this very heavy load! Will your favorites snag the gold? Listen and find out!

Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips from Ablaze, Jim Rugg and the Hulk, Municipal Threat from Fluke, Mazebook from Jeff Lemire and Dark Horse, Bendis and Miles Morales, Knight Janek #1 from Behemoth, A Thing Called Truth from Image, Frontiersman, Kaiju No. 8, Money Shot, The Secret to Superhero Strength by Alison Bechdel, Giant Sized Santos Sisters #1, Ken Landgraf and Apocalypse 5,000 from Floating World and Outlaw Comics, Tardi and Fog over Tolbiac Bridge from Fantagraphics, Rorschack, plus a whole mess more!

Manga-O-Rama: Kaiju No. 8 V1 by Naoya Matsumoto from Viz and Dai Dark V2 by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Juni Ba-O-Rama: Monkey Meat #1 from Image and Djeliya from TKO, Mike's Place from :01 First Second, H. P. Lovecraft and BOOM's Magic: The Gathering from Jed MacKay and company, Pound for Pound and Andy Belanger from TKO, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance #3 from Image, Arc Athena by Eric Canete, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown by Walt and Louise Simonson, Jon J. Muth, and Kent Williams, plus Ryan Bodenheim, Nobody's Child by Massimo Rosi and Ramiro Borallo from Behemoth, Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1 from DC/Black Label, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), Superman: Son of Kal-El Annual 2021, plus a whole mess more!

Dark Horse, White Ash from Scout Comics, King Conan #1 and Mahmud Asrar, Smart Girl from Titan Comics, Wolverine #19, Nightwing, My Date with Monsters #1 from Aftershock, Destroy all Monsters, Dark Knights of Steel #2, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), plus a whole mess more!

Mark Russell-O-Rama: Deadbox #2 with Benjamin Tiesma from Vault and One Star Squadron #1 with Steve Lieber, plus Made in Korea from Image, Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1 from BOOM!, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills: The Manga from Viz, Letters from Animals, and a whole mess more!

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Man in Furs by Catherine Sauvat and Anne Simon, Gil Kane's Savage!, and Popeye: The E. C. Segar Popeye Sundays Volume 1: Olive Oyl & Her Sweety.

ECCC 2021, George Peréz, DOSE! by Sean Ellis and John Gebbia from It's Alive, S.W.O.R.D., King of Spies, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge in World of the Dragonlords from Fantagraphics, Blue and Gold, American Vampire 1976, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Transmetropolitan Book One by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Jerome K. Moore, Nathan Eyring, Kim DeMulder, Ray Kryssing, and Dick Giordano, ECCC 2021, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs barges in once again to yap with us about Stray Dogs: Dog Days, plus The Heathens #1 from Aftershock, Crossover #9, Alberto Brecchia's Dracula from Fantagraphics, Marvel Meow by Nao Fuji from Viz, The Rush #1 by Spurrier and Gooden from Vault Comics, The Invincible Red Sonja and Moritat from Dynamite!, Robin Bougie's Gutter Hunter #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El, plus a whole mess more!

Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce from Fantagraphics, an exercise in filling voids in the comics industry, Snyder-O-Rama: Clear, Night of the Ghouls, and We Have Demons, TMNT: The Last Ronin Design Archive by Kevin Eastman and IDW, Farewell, Brindavoine by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, A Thing Called Truth from Image, The Thing #1, Hit-Monkey, The Bridgebuilder's Creed from Shawn Daley, plus a whole mess more!

Mycelium Wassonii by Brian Blomerth from Anthology Editions, Trots and Bonnie from New York Review Comics, Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips, Newburn #1, Nocturnals Omnibus and Dan Brereton, The Heroes Union from Sit Comics, We Don't Kill Spiders by Joseph Schmalke from Scout Comics, Dark Knights of Steel #1, Cyclopedia Exotica from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Magnetic-O-Rama, Klaus Janson, Comics Revue #421-424 and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, curating our collected comics collections by way of another Top Ten, Burton & Cyb Volume 1 by Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz from Catlan Communications, 80 Days from Archaia, Pre Code Classics: Web of Fear Volume 2, The Human Target #1, DC Vs. Vampires #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Silver Coin by Michael Walsh and company from Image, plus Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #1, House of Slaughter #1, more on 1000 Storms, PS Artbooks-O-Rama: Strange Terrors Volume 1 and Worlds of Fear Volume 1, Death of Doctor Strange #2, Deathstroke Inc. #2, Task Force Z #1, Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone from Fantagraphics, HSE: Human Stock Exchange from CineBook, Inferno #2, plus a whole mess more!

Refrigerator Full of Heads #1, Dirtbag Rapture #1 from Oni, The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard from Iron Circus, Superman: Son of Kal-El #4, Catwoman: Lonely City #1, Viz-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Sensor and The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezz, Vault-O-Rama: Deadbox #1 and Human Remains #1, Vinyl from Image, Strange Adventures, plus a whole mess more!

NYCC 2021 wrap, Fanzine-O-Rama: Monster Maniacs, Pulp Horror #7, and Pulp Horror: All Reviews Special Edition by Justin Mariott and company, Matteo Scalera, Gene Colan, Tom Scioli, Immortal Hulk #50, Hardware: Season One #2, Jonathan Kent, Noir is the New Black: Noir Stories from Black Creators from Fair Square Comics, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Himeros #1, plus a whole mess more!

On the eve of NYCC 2021, we meander through Our Encounters with Evil from Dark Horse, Sentient from TKO, Superman: Son of Kal-El, Letter to Survivors by Gébé from New York Review Comics, Soul Plumber #1 from DC Horror Presents, Superman and Lois, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Sword of the Atom by Jan Strnad, Gil Kane, Pat Broderick, Tom Ziuko, Dennis Janke, and Petra Scotese.

ERB-O-Rama: Beyond the Farthest Star: Warriors of Zandar #1 and Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas from American Mythology, Killadelphia, Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Saga, Frontiersman #1, Venom, Campisi: The Dragon Incident from Aftershock, The Death of Doctor Strange, Corridor, plus a whole mess more!

Second Issue Spotlight: Beyond the Breach #2, Blue and Gold #2, Runes #2, Superman and The Authority #2, Batman '89 #2, Amazing Fantasy #2, Bermuda #2, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #2, Groo Meets Tarzan #2, Lucky Devil #2, The Me You Love in the Dark #2, Jason breaks the streak with Soulwind, plus a whole mess more!

Matt King, author of the incredible Tales to Enlighten with James Edward Clark, drops by to... uh... enlighten us, plus we have some time left over to talk up Echolands, Maw #1 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and A. L. Kaplan from BOOM!, Justice League, Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land and Germán Garcia, FCBD 2021 Scout Comics' White Ash and The Game, Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, Y the Last Man, The Eternals, NYCC, plus a whole mess more!

Batman White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn, The Piano Tuner by Ignacio Noe from Embassy, mountains of Bat-books, The Army of Darkness 1979 #1, The Man Who Invented the World from Europe Comics, Magnetic-O-Rama: 1000 Storms by Tony Sandoval, After the Fall by Queyssi and Juzhen, and Monolith by Roberto Recchioni, Mauro Uzzeo, and LRNZ, NYCC, Static: Season One, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Five Rings, Conan #25/#300, Department of Truth from Image, more Eddie Gein, plus a whole mess more!

When Jason's away, Tony Fleecs comes to play... Join us as we talk up Cherry Blackbird and Gods of Brutality from Scout Comics' Black Caravan, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell & Harold Schechter, Star Trek: The Modala Imperative, Darth Vader, Superman Vs Lobo #1, Skybound X, Icon and Rocket, Rick and Morty: World's Apart, plus a whole mess more!

Books of the Month: Hellboy in Mexico by Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Mick McMahon, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse and 4 Kids Walk into a Bank by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss from Black Mask.

Terry Beatty and Scary Monsters Magazine, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey, Defenders #1, Todd Nauck and X-Men Legends #6, Fight Girls and Frank Cho, our Favorite Five Sidekicks and Legacy Characters, Campisi: The Dragon Incident #1, Hardware: Season One #1, Ruins #1 from Source Point Press, Count Draco Knuckleduster #1 from Scout/Black Caravan, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young returns to talk about Middlewest, The Me You Love in the Dark, Jorge Corona, Substack, Image Comics, White Lotus, reality TV, Cameo, and more!  Plus, Soulwind, Blue and Gold, and Something is Killing the Children!

Tony Fleecs comes home to discuss Lucky Devil #1 from Dark Horse, Elvira Meets Vincent Price #1 from Dynamite, Donny Cates and Babyteeth, Rob Liefeld, Finger Guns from Vault, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence, Maids by Katie Skelly, Emma by Kaoru Mori, Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Cankor: Anamnesis by Matt Allison, Cover Not Final: Crime Comics by Matt Huffman from AdHouse, something called Stray Dogs, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Concrete: Depths by Paul Chadwick, plus Groo Meets Tarzan #1, Amazing Fantasy #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El #1, and a whole mess more!

Jeff Lemire returns to talk about Sweet Tooth, Gideon Falls, Essex County, Descender, Black Hammer, Cosmic Detective, David Rubin, Primordial, Mazebook, plus a whole mess more!

Chris Pitzer and AdHouse, Wizards of Mickey from JY/Yen Press, Dragman, by Steven Appleby, 2021 Eisner nominees, The Good Asian #3, The BeQuest #4, Rain Like Hammers by Brandon Graham, Frank Herbert and Dune, Crush and Lobo, listener questions, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Skybound X #1, Ultramega, and The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #1, Always Never by Jordi LaFebre, Justice League #64, DIE!namite Lives #1, The Delicacy by James Albin, Space Pirate Captain Harlock #1 from Ablaze, Bloom #2 from Hero Tomorrow, Dope Rider: A Fistful of Delirium by Paul Kirchner by Editions Tanibis, plus a whole mess more!

The great Steve Englehart enlightens us on The Avengers, Captain America, Coyote and Chas Truog, Silver Surfer, sex and sexuality, DC Comics, Marshall Rogers, Shang Chi, Jim Shooter, Roy Thomas, Eclipse, Warren, Mantis, and more plus we reserve some time for Barbaric #1 from Vault Comics, Shadecraft from Image, Duggan and Larraz's X-Men #1, plus a whole mess more!

Friend of the show and all-around great human, Hassan Thalji joins us for this very special episode where we talk TV! Find out what makes our sci-fi, comic-related, and cartoon lists; plus our all-time favorites that tops everything and so much more!

Chris Samnee joins us to reveal the mysteries of Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters from Oni Press, Fire Power with Robert Kirkman from Image, and a whole bunch of other stuff!

Book of the Month: The Defenders Omnibus Volume 1

Red Room #1, Made in Korea #1, Magic the Gathering #2, The Hellfire Gala and Heroes Reborn, Karmen, Birthright, Mawrth Vallis, DC Pride, plus a whole mess more!

Karl Slominski drops in to unlock the secrets of Evermore Falls, Teeter Topple, and the upcoming Cult of Ikarus, plus Ant #12, The Good Asian #2, The Labyrinth: An Existential Odyssey with Jean-Paul Sartre, and a whole mess more!

Talking Art: The Search for Better Ways to Express the Inexpressible, plus Lovesickness, La Mano del Destino, Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Reckless: Friend of the Devil by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips and Nocterra by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, and Tomeu Morey, TMNT: The Last Ronin #3 from IDW, Savage Dragon #259/North Force #0, Turtlenecks from AdHouse, Savage Avengers #21, The Worst Dudes #1 from Dark Horse, In Pictopia from Fantagraphics, Aster of Pan from Magnetic, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Monsters by Barry Windsor Smith from Fantagraphics [spoilers].

Dai Dark Volume 1, The Good Asian #1, Ed Piskor's Red Room #1, Little Victories from Titan Comics, Nightwing, Comics Revue #419-420 and Milt Caniff, Green Lantern #2, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

John Paul Leon, Summoner's War: Legacy #1 from Skybound, Skybound X, Paris 2119, Eden from Aftershock, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1-5 from BOOM!, X-Corp #1 and the X-Universe, Wika from Statix Press/Titan Comics, Proctor Valley Road #1-3 from BOOM!, Heroes Reborn, Grand Odalisque from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Captain America by Jack Kirby Omnibus, plus The Invincible Red Sonja from Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Moritat, Goes by Luke Kruger-Howard at Goes Books, X-Force, Heavy Metal March 1992, Department of Truth, Taskmaster, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs and a Special Guest dig up the dirt on Stray Dogs, Way of X, Red Sonja Black and White, MAD and Cracked, Skottie Young, Barry Windsor Smith and Monsters, Maiden #1 by Michelle and Bart Sears from Heavy Metal, Usagi Yojimbo at IDW, Superman and Action, Vampiress Carmilla #2 from Warrant Publishing, Iron Man, Radiant Black, Shadecraft, plus a whole mess more!

Declan Shalvey plops his time machine in the EOC back yard and joins us to discuss Time Before Time with Rory McConville, Joe Palmer, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, Bog Bodies, Immortal Hulk: Flatline #1, Moon Knight, plus a whole mess more!

The masterful Dagger Dagger anthology edited by Al Gofa and Matt Emmonds, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The Bloody Cardinal by Richard Sala, The Garden of the Flesh by Gilbert Hernandez, Hotwire Comix Volume 1, and The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey by Matt Wagner, The Fall by Jared Muralt from Image, Green Lantern #1, Magic: The Gathering #1 from BOOM!, Department of Truth, Rain Like Hammers #3 and Brandon Graham, plus a whole mess more!

Abbott 1973 #1 from BOOM!, James Michael Whynot, Dr. Stone - Reboot: Byakuya by Boichi from Viz/Shonen Jump, Ted Sikora's Bloom #1, The Sleep Stories by Michael Walsh, Geiger #1 from Image, Vampirella Vs Purgatori #1 from Dynamite, Secret Origins #39, Red Rock Baby Candy from Fantagraphics, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation and Jim Starlin, Blade Runner Origins from Titan, Daredevil, plus a whole mess more!

Longbox Roulette: The Ray #9, Snotgirl #6, and Phantom Guard #1, plus S.W.O.R.D. #1-4, Children of the Atom #1, Al Ewing, IDW's Transformers and War for Cybertron: Siege and Earthrise on Netflix, Shadecraft #1, Bicycle Day by Brian Blomerth, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Star Wars: Legacy Book One: Broken by John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, Dan Parsons, and Brad Anderson, plus Marvel leaves Diamond, we play a fun crossover game, The Bequest #1 by Tim Seeley, Freddie Williams II, and Jeremy Colwell from Aftershock, Harley Quinn #1 and Riley Rossmo, Nightwing #78, Manhunter, plus a whole mess more!

Ultramega #1 by James Harren and Dave Stewart, Victor Santos and Paranoia Killer from Panel Syndicate, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Volume 1 by Andy Seto from Comics One, Justice League #59, Injustice: Gods Among Us Volume 1, The Adoption from Magnetic, Master of Kung Fu Omnibus Volume 1, Hollow Heart #1 from Vault Comics, Camp Spirit from Top Shelf, Non-Stop Spider-Man #1, plus a whole mess more!

Daniel Warren Johnson crosses the rainbow bridge to bring the thunder on Beta Ray Bill #1, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, professional wrestling, commissions, Felix Lu, Transformers: Escape #2 from IDW, Karmen #1 from Guillem March from Image, Aquatlantic from Fantagraphics, Taiyo Matsumoto's Ping Pong, plus a whole mess more!

Demon Days: X-Men #1 and Peach Momoko, Wolverine, BRZRKR #1 from BOOM!, variant covers, Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #1 from Oni, Nocterra #1 from Image, Superior Spider-Man, The Complete Ghita of Alizarr by Frank Thorne from Hermes Press, Comics Underground Japan from Blast Books, Back Issue #125, from TwoMorrows, DC through the '80s: Volume One: The End of Eras, Future State: Superman: House of El #1, Superman and Lois, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs storms the EOC bunker to pitch in on Stray Dogs, Trish Forstner, Rick and Morty: Worlds Apart, Extreme and Norm Rapmund, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Deathmate, Gen 13, Rain Like Hammers and Brandon Graham, Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy from Dark Horse, Warhammer 40K: Marneus Calgar, The Way of the Househusband from Viz, Satan's Library by Adam Falp, Batman: Black and White #3, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa by J. M. DeMatteis and Dan Green plus Cloak & Dagger: Predator and Prey, Gleipnir volumes 4-8 by Sun Takeda from Kodansha, Snow Angels #1 by Lemire and Jock, Alter Ego #167 and Syd Shores from TwoMorrows, Rorschach, Eternals #2, plus a whole mess more!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #2, Todd McFarlane and the Spawn Universe, HAHA #1-2 from Image, Hawkeye: Freefall, Future State: Nightwing, Aaron and Asrar's Conan the Barbarian, To Drink and to Eat Vol. 1: Tastes and Tales from a French Kitchen by Guillaume Long from Lion Forge, X-Men Legends #1, plus a whole mess more!

Wandavision, Blackhand & Ironhead by David López, Bug Boys 2: Outside and Beyond by Laura Knetzger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sophie Campbell, Radiant Black #1 from Image, Red Sonja-O-Rama: The Superpowers #1 and Sonjaversal #1 from Dynamite!,  Firepower and Chris Samnee, PS Artbooks-O-Rama: Amazing Adventures, Weird Mysteries, and Eerie Tales, Black Hammer: Colonel Weird: Cosmagog from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Fifty plus issues of the current Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Horse-O-Rama: Berserk Deluxe Edition V2-V4 by Kintaro Miura and Crimson Flower by Kindt and Lesniewski from Dark Horse, Far Sector, Cameron Hathaway and Clusterfux Comix #1, DIE!namite: Our Bloody Valentine #1, Future State: Dark Detective #3, plus a whole mess more!

Ibrahim Moustafa joins us to reveal all about his brand-spankin' new Count OGN from Humanoids, The Count of Monte Cristo, Savage Things, Mahmud Asrar, Mark Waid, Travis Charest, Jim Lee, Mike Norton, custom action figures, Todd McFarlane, hip hop, James Bond, Byrne's Superman, Chained to the Grave #1 from IDW, What if We Were... from IDW/Top Shelf, Terry Moore's Five Years, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Usagi Yojimbo / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Collection by Stan Sakai and Peter Laird from Dark Horse, plus Dave Wachter and Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #1, Transformers: Escape #1 from IDW, Future State-O-Rama: Dark Detective #2, Aquaman #1, Legion of Super-Heroes #1, and Imperious Lex Vs. Superman #1, Eternals #1, Last God #12, The Other History of the DC Universe Book 2, Rain Like Hammers #1, plus a whole mess more!

Phillip Kennedy Johnson climbs the Black Stair to confront Mol Eeohsee and lay down the law on The Last God, Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #1, jazz, Superman and Action Comics, Alien for Marvel, DC's 5G, Future State: House of El, Warlords of Appalachia, plus a whole mess more!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2020!

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam and Other Stories by Simon Hanselmann and Mind Viscosity by Matt Furie, Bendis and company's Legion of Superheroes #10-11, TV-O-Rama: WandaVision on Disney+ and Star Trek: Discovery, Strange Academy, Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino, Reginald Hudlin, and company from Vertigo, Tapas.io and FANGS, plus a whole mess more!

Our top five favorite licensed comics, Junji Ito's Remina, Future State: Green Lantern and Dark Detective, Reckless by Brubaker and Phillips from Image, Vampiress Carmilla #1 from Warrant Publishing, Kirkman and Samnee's Firepower from Image, The Wrath of Fantomas from Titan Comics, plus a whole mess more!

Future State-O-Rama: Wonder Woman #1, Flash #1, Swamp Thing #1, and Superman of Metropolis #1, Top & Bottom: X-Men, Death Metal #7, Generations Shattered #1, BANG! by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Batwoman: Hydrology by J. H. Williams III, W. Hayden Blackman, and Dave Stewart.

Vampirella-O-Rama: Christopher Priest's ongoing Vampirella, his Sacred Six companion title, and Vampirella: The Dark Powers #1 all from Dynamite!, Adrian Tomine's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Bionic by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Blade Runner 2019 from Titan, Ascender and Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen from Image, Post Americana #1 by Steve Skroce from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Future State Batman, Bendis' Justice League, Sean Phillips, Plunge and Hill House, Mountainhead, Dark Nights: Death Metal and The Last Stories of the DC Universe, Endless Winter, S.W.O.R.D. #1, plus a whole mess more!

Bad Idea: Dinesh Shamdasani + Warren Simons + Hunter Gorinson Out of respect for the Bad Idea crew and their upcoming efforts, no image gallery this episode. Go directly to their site and gaze in wide wonder at the amazingly-crafted comics that will no doubt energize your future.

Richard Corben, Disney/Marvel news, our lists of 5 Love at First Sight comics creators, Jungle Comics #3, More Other History of the DC Universe #1, I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Booster Gold: The Big Fall by Dan Jurgens, Mike DeCarlo, Gene D'Angelo, Nansi Hoolahan, and Tom Zuiko, plus Future State, Planet Paradise by Jesse Lonergan from Image, Justice League: Endless Winter #1, team books and why they don't top the sales charts, The Wizerd and the Potion of Dreams! from Oni, The Other History of the DC Universe #1, The Highwayman from Top Shelf, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse and Mario Muscar join us to talk about Johnny Dynamite from Yoe! and IDW, Comics Review #413-414 and Mandrake the Magician by Lee Falk and Phil Davis, All Together Now by Hope Larson, Paris 2119 from Magnetic, Tom King's Rorschach, Official Handbook of the Conan Universe, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity, Child Star by Box Brown, plus a whole mess more!

Caleb Alexander-McKinzie climbs up the ladder to the EOC clubhouse to weigh in with us on Scout Comics, Origins #1 from BOOM!, Punchline #1, Seeds and Stems by Simon Hanselmann, Bendis' Legion, Superman, and Action, Vault-O-Rama: Giga #1 and Devil's Red Bride #1, Rorschach #2, Barbalien: The Red Planet #1, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs crashes the joint to fill us in on his upcoming Stray Dogs miniseries from Image, Marvel Made and Chris Claremont, Marneus Calgar #1, Rick Geary's murder comics, Plastic Man: Rubber-Banded: The Deluxe Edition by Kyle Baker, The Recount from Scout Comics, Batman: Three Jokers #3, One More Year by Simon Hanselmann, Dark Nights: Death Metal: Infinite Hour Exxxtreme #1, The Windy Day from Tony Sandoval and A Glance Backward by Paquet and Sandoval from Magnetic, Darth Vader by Pak and company, plus a whole mess more!

Recent DC layoffs and the direct market, DIE!namite #1-2, Power Rangers #1 and Mighty Morphin #1 from BOOM!, Young Justice, Sweet Tooth: The Return #1, Sam Keith's Scratch DC miniseries, the 2020 11 O'Closcars, Crossover #1 from Image, Black Widow, Batman by Snyder and Capullo Omnibus Volume 1, Origins #1 from BOOM, Batman: Curse of the White Knight, plus a whole mess more!

The comics podcast equivalent to a three-hour bass solo.

Book of the Month: JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Laura Martin PLUS Patrick Gleason, Eastman and Laird and The Last Ronin #1, Junji Ito's Venus in the Blind Spot, Backtrack, Kickstarter-O-Rama, plus a whole mess more!

The Last Ronin #1 and Eastman and Laird, Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #1, Mars Attacks Red Sonja #1-3, Phantom Starkiller #1 from Scout Comics, The Ghost of Gaudi from Magnetic, Madam Satan #1 from Archie, Maids by Katie Skelly from Fantagraphics, Zorro: Galleon of the Dead #1 from American Mythology, Batman: Three Jokers #2, Moby Dick by Will Eisner from NBM, plus a whole mess more!

Rorschach #1 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, recent developments in the UCS and Lunar DC distro deal, Future State, Planet Comics #2 and Amazona by Kelsey Shannon, Far Sector, Sobek and James Stokoe, PLUS...a MASSIVE surprise midway through the episode (SPOILER: Tom King shows up.)

Future State, Bendis and Superman, The Low, Low Woods and Basketful of Heads from Hill House, Slaughter House-Five from Archaia/BOOM!, S. E. Hinton and The Outsiders, Junji Ito's Smashed and Shiver, Fred Perry and Gold Digger, Scumbag and Rick Remender, Sazan and Comet Girl from Seven Seas, Marvel Snapshots: Spider-Man and Howard Chaykin, Black Hammer: Colonel Weird: Cosmagog, plus a whole mess more!

An odd episode, as far as anniversary episodes go...

John Byrne's Generations, Empyre and Death Metal, Endless Winter, X of Swords, Superman: The Man of Steel #30 and Lobo, Jordi Lafebre, Marc Laming, The Department of Truth from Image, Jerry Ordway and The Power of Shazam!, New52 Flash and Francis Manapul, An Unkindness of Ravens and Dan Panosian, Basket Full of Heads from Hill House, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Black Panther by Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection Vol. 1

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The House by Paco Roca and Ghost Writer by Rayco Pulido, Green Lantern: Earth One Volumes 1 and 2 by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, and Jordan Boyd, listener questions, The Big Hoax by Carlos Trillo and Roberto Mandrafina from Titan, plus a whole mess more!

Fearless Dawn Meets Hellboy and Steve Mannion, Julian Lytle, Shawn Pryor, Superman: Panic in the Sky!, The Rise of Ultraman #1, Milestone Returns #0, Killadelphia, It's a Bird, Mooncop, plus a whole mess more!

We sit down with the spectacular Shawn Crystal, chatting about life without conventions, podcasting, commissions, teaching, finally making it, inking, and kids! We even throw in some Previews Picks, the Book of the Month nominees, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, G.I. Joe, and more!

Not one but TWO titans of comics -- Tony Fleecs and Tom Scioli -- join us this time around to drop science on Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, Elseworlds Superman: War of the Worlds by Roy Thomas and Michael Lark, Bendis' Powers, Doctor Aphra and Darth Vader, Conan the Adventurer by Roy Thomas and Rafael Kayanan, Zorro Year One: Trail of the Fox by Matt Wagner and Francesco Francavilla, plus a whole mess more!

Chadwick Boseman, Batman: The Three Jokers #1 by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson, Dawn of X Volume 1 (featuring first issues of X-Men, New Mutants, Marauders, Fallen Angels, X-Force, and Excalibur), Warlord of Mars Attacks by Jeff Parker, Dean Kotz, and Omi Remalante from Dynamite!, Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble, Ghost Spider, Locke & Key in Pale Battalions Go #1 from IDW, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Green, and Rico Renzi!

Elseworlds Special: JLA: The Island of Doctor Moreau by Roy Thomas and Steve Pugh, Superman: War of the Worlds by Roy Thomas and Michael Lark, Justice Riders by Chuck Dixon and J H Williams III, Superman: Distant Fires by Howard Chaykin, Gil Kane, and Kevin Nowlan, Batman: The Doom that Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, and Troy Nixey, plus a whole mess more!

Milestone Comics, Jim Cheung, NBM O-Rama: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Renaissance of the World and The Silent Invasion Volume 1: Red Shadows, Grendel, Kentucky #1 from AWA/Upshot, Savage Dragon #250, Blade Runner 2019 #8 from Titan, Thor #6, plus a whole mess more!

Our good buddy, Jeff Bouchard, joins us in the EOC digital treehouse to run through Haunted Horror #27 and The Eyes of Horror, Jeff's Top 5 Things That We Haven't Read but Know We Should, DC layoffs, Family Tree from Image, Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCauseland from Fantagraphics, Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1, Mister Invincible: Local Hero, Offworld Sci-Fi Double Feature from Antarctic, Rascal from Top Shelf, Oblivion Song from Image, Hickman and Huddleston's Decorum, plus a whole mess more!

Family member, Tony Fleecs, arrives to save the day, adding his insight to Brubaker and Phillips' Pulp, Comics Revue #407/408 and #409/410 with Rick O'Shay by Stan Lynde and Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, Transformers/My Little Pony, Gil Kane's Undersea Agent, Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli, Young Justice #16-17, A Gift for a Ghost by Borja Gonzalez, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #6, Empyre X-men, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Green Lantern / Green Arrow: Hard Travelin' Heroes by Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Frank Giacoia, Elliot Maggin, Dan Adkins, and Bernie Wrightson.

Doom Patrol, Felix Lu and Albert Moy, DC Digital First-O-Rama: Harley Quinn: Black and White and Red Chapter Five and Riley Rossmo, Superman: Man of Tomorrow #13 by Robert Venditti and David Baron, and Shazam!: Lightning Strikes #2 with Louise Simonson, Brett Blevins, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Chris Sotomayor, Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California by Dave Chisholm and Peter Markowski from Z2 Comics, Superman #22 and #23, Action #1022, Pulp by Brubaker and Phillips, Eisner Award winners, Steeple by John Allison and Sarah Stern, plus a whole mess more!

Roy Thomas joins us to discuss Marvel, The Avengers, Conan, fandom, and a whole mess more!

Dark Horse Manga-O-Rama: Gantz Omnibus Volume 5 by Hiroya Oku and Berserk Deluxe Volume 1 by Kentaro Miura, The Old Guard on NetFlix and the Image books by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, Close Enough and Regular Show, The Avengers: Loki Unleashed, Empyre #1, Old Growth, TMNT #106, Marvel and Scholastic, Stray Bullets and David Lapham, PLUS Tom Kelly drops by to school us on his Foot Fist Frankenstein Kickstarter!

Tony Esmond reaches across the big pond to talk about Tony Osmond is a Movie Star with Cliff Cumber and Ken Reynolds, Atomic Hercules with Adam Falp, The Sons of El Topo Volume 1: Cain and Volume 2: Abel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Ladronn from Archaia, Pat Mills, Thought Bubble, Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound, Let's All Die from Handwritten Entertainment, 100 Manga Artists from Taschen, Justice League of America Annual #1, Masters of British Comic Art from Rebellion, plus a whole mess more!

Magnetic-O-Rama: Gunland by by Captain Artiglio, GenPet by Damian and Alex Fuentes, and Ghost Money by Thierry Smolderen and Dominique Bertail, Super Friends: Saturday Morning Comics Volume 1 by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon, Alien and Predator at Marvel, Star Pig from Delilah S. Dawson and Francesco Gaston from IDW, Negan Lives! from Kirkman and Adlard, I Am Not of This Planet by Gary Edson Arlington from Last Gasp, Girl by Milligan and Fegredo from Vertigo, The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #1 by Aaron and Guera from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 5 ...and 9 by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Brian Bolland, Carlos Ezquerra, Steve Dillon, and company!

Old Head by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer, Nobody Is in Control from Black Mask, TMNT #104 and Sophie Campbell, Gail Simone and Plastic Man, Atomic Hercules #2 by Tony Esmond, Adam Falp, Nick Prolix, and Ben Marra, That Texas Blood #1 from Image, Rick Remender's forthcoming The Scumbag, plus a whole mess more!

Denny O'Neil, Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and Fco Plascencia, separating the art from the artist and cancel culture, Against Hope by Victor Santos from Dark Horse, Dick Tracy Forever by Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma from IDW, Roy Thomas Presents: Frankenstein - The Classic Series Written and Drawn by Dick Briefer Volume 8, Strayed by Carlos Giffoni and Juan Doe from Dark Horse, Psychodrama Illustrated #1 by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, Jack the Radio: Creatures Anthology from A Wave Blue World, plus a whole mess more!

Craig Yoe graces us with his presence to discuss the Eisner-nominated Life on the Moon by Robert Grossman from Yoe!/IDW, the upcoming Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books by Ken Quattro, Unknown Anti-War Comics, John Stanley and Little Lulu, Carl Barks, Marvel, Jim Henson, Harvey Kurtzman, plus we take peeks at The Postman from Space by Guillaume Perreault from Holiday House and You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons from Tom Gauld from Drawn & Quarterly!

Special Feature: DCBS’ Christina Merkler returns for another round on the direct market, DC, Diamond, and a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison and AdHouse's Chris Pitzer give us the lowdown on the recently-published Cankor collection, plus, we dive deep into both the comic adaptation and the film version of Creepshow by Stephen King, Bernie and Michele Wrightson, and George Romero, KISS, Frederic Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent, Dan Spiegle and Crossfire, fanzines, Bloodsucking Freaks, plus a whole mess more!

PTSD by Guillaume Singelin from First Second, The Megaman Robot Master Field Guide Updated Edition from UDON, The Mask World Tour by Fleming and Erskine from Dark Horse, Comic Art Fans and collecting original art, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Authority Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Paul Neary, and Laura DePuy

We take a long look at Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp's The Green Lantern: Season One and the Blackstars three-issue finale plus a whole mess more!

Fire Power: Prelude by Kirkman and Samnee from Image, Clue: Candlestick by Dash Shaw from IDW, Spirou in Berlin by Flix, Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven Volume 1: Arcadia from Abiogenesis Press, Video Noire by Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso, Legion of Superheroes #5, Jim Lee, Pirates from Yoe Books and Clover Press, Last God, Scoob! and free Scooby Doo comics, plus a whole mess more!

Fanzine Flashback returns in a mega-edition as we cover three issues -- 31, 43, and 119 -- of David Anthony Kraft's long-running and much-beloved Comics Interview, plus we play three rounds of a new game called Guess That Comic, and have some time left over to speak on Josh Bayer's RM from Tinto Press, Union Station and Bog Bodies from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse zooms in to drop a bunker buster on Steve Ditko and Mysterious Travelers, his soon-to-be-released book, plus Justice League International, The Iguana by Trillo and Mandrafina from Dark Horse and Strip Art Features’ Venture imprint, Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics from Dark Horse, Bob Powell Terror from Yoe! Books and IDW, New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi and company from Fantagraphics, November Volume 2 from Image Comics, Paul Is Dead from Image, Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffiths, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Volume 1

Book of the Month: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Volume 1

Tales from the New Universe: D.P.7, Rebellion-O-Rama: Ken Reid’s Creepy Creations and Ken Reid’s World-Wide Weirdies, 2000AD Progs #2174 and #2175, and 2000AD Annual 1981, The Banks from TKO, the future of comics distribution, Michael Mantlo, Batman Beyond, Deathstroke #50, Criminal, Dragon Hoops from :01 First Second, plus a whole mess more!

Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin from Panel Syndicate, Motel Universe by Joakim Drescher from Secret Acres, Round Robin: The Sidekick's Revenge, Mowgli's Mirror by Olivier Schrauwen from Retrofit Comics, Heavy Metal #298 and Philip K. Dick's Head Is Missing, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, Cat Shit One Volume 1 #1 by Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, Polar by Victor Santos, The Spirit: The 80th Anniversary Celebration by Will Eisner from Clover Press, Transformers The Manga Volume 1 from Viz, But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist by Margaux Motin, plus a whole mess more!

Batman Universe by Bendis, Nick Derington, and Dave Stewart, our favorite Big 2 character pairings and team-up books, Atomic Hercules by Tony Esmond and Adam Falp, NOW #7 from Fantagraphics, X-Ray Robot #1 from the Mike and Laura Allred from Dark Horse, the genius of Mort Drucker, plus a whole mess more!

Special Feature: DCBS' Christina Merkler and the direct market.

The World Is Mine Volume 1 by Hideki Arai, Superman Smashes the Klan, Kevin Eastman's Totally Twisted Tales from Clover Press, Picard, East of West, Haywire by Michael Fleisher and Vince Giarrano, Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier, patron questions, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad by Evan Dorkin from Dark Horse, Blood Realm by Robert Geronimo from Alterna Comics, more Gamayun Tales Volume 1, Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice, Archie Meets the B52s, Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova from Fantagraphics, Ghost Spider, Hidden Society from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Nobrow-O-Rama: Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It) by Luke Healy and Gamayun Tales Volume 1 from Alexander Utkin, Plunge #2, Robin 80th Anniversary Special, Moby Dick by Pierre Alary and Olivier Jouvray from Dibbuks, MCMLXXV by Joe Casey and Ian MacEwan from Image, Becoming Horses by Disa Wallander from Drawn and Quarterly, Spider-Woman #1, TMNT #103 and Jennika #1 from IDW, Artemis and the Assassin #1 from Aftershock, New Mutants, Wicked Things #1 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs crashes the EOC pad to pitch in on a special themed episode chronicling some of our most beloved comic-related memories, plus we have time to throw down on Bug Boys from Laura Knetzger from RH Graphic, Batman Beyond, Transformers: The Manga Volume 1, Dynamite's Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom, plus a whole mess more!

Dark Horse Double-Header: Gantz Omnibus Volume 4 by Hiroya Oku and I Pledge Allegiance to The Mask, The Man Who F-ed up Time from Aftershock, The Forever Maps from Scout Comics, Buffy/Angel and the Hellmouth miniseries from BOOM!, Artist Spotlight: Rodger Binyone and No-Man #13-14, Tartarus from Image Comics, Chuck Austen, plus a whole mess more!

Strange Academy #1, Strange Adventures #1, The Cimmerian: Queen of the Black Coast #1 from Ablaze, Billionaire Island from Ahoy, Evan Dorkin, Marvel #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Troublemakers by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, plus Punchline and publisher manipulation, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #3, The History of the Marvel Universe, plus a whole mess more!

Dan DiDio, Immortal Hulk and Al Ewing, seminal runs borne out of desperation, Far Sector #3 and N.K. Jemisin, The Pin-Up Artist by Ignacio Noe, No Longer Human by Junji Ito, Taemons and Kim Salt, plus a whole mess more!

Plunge #1 by Joe Hill, Stuart Immonen, and Dave Stewart from DC/Hill House, Protector #1 from Image, Wolverine #1, Thor #1-3 by Donny Cates, Nic Klein, and Matt Wilson, Young Justice #13, Thumbs by Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman from Image, King of King Court: A Memoir by Travis Dandro, plus a whole mess more!

Darth Vader #1 by Greg Pak, Raffaele Ienco, and Neeraj Menon, Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey Book One by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Paul Mounts from DC/Black Label, British Ice from Top Shelf, Killer Groove from Aftershock, Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons and Roland Boschi, Vertigo Crime, Erik Larsen, plus a whole mess more!

Mitch Gerads, TMNT #101-102 by Sophie Campbell and Ronda Pattison from IDW, Solo: The Survivors of Chaos by Oscar Martin from Titan Comics, Locke & Key on Netflix, CBS All Access Picard, Comics Revue #403-404 from Manuscript Press, Champions, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, plus a whole mess more!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2019!

Book of the Month: X-Statix Volume 1: Good Omens by Peter Milligan, Mike and Laura Allred, Darwyn Cooke, and Paul Pope, plus our comics artists Mount Rushmore, Protector #1 from Image, Criminal, Serpieri's Druuna, plus a whole mess more!

A Letter to Jo by Kelly Williams and Joseph Sieracki from Top Shelf, Batman Beyond, Dr. Mesmer's Revenge by Donne Avenell and Carlos Cruz Gonzalez from Rebellion, La Mano Del Destino by J. Gonzo from Castle & Key, Silver Surfer: Black by Donny Cates, Tradd Moore, and Dave Stewart, Superman #19, Power Rangers/TMNT #2, Guardians of the Galaxy #1, It Came Out on a Wednesday #9 and Frankongor from Alterna Comics, Basket Full of Heads, Plate Tectonics: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaux Motin from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Mutant-O-Rama: X-Men, Marauders, X-Force, New Mutants, and Excalibur, Gaji Sakamoto: Manga's Master - Prewar Strips 1934-35 from Presspop and Last Gasp, Dead Eyes from Image, Manor Black, Last God #3, COPRA, Black Hammer: Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs raids the EOC clubhouse once again, leading the charge through Stig and Tilde Volume 1 Vanishers Island and Volume 2 Leader of the Pack from Nobrow, Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love from TwoMorrows, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #1, con season OA tips and tricks, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: In a Glass Grotesquely, The Bloody Cardinal, and Violenzia by Richard Sala, Eric Haven's Compulsive Comics and Vague Tales, and Free Sh!t from Charles Burns, Hawkeye: Freefall #1, Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey by Akiko Higashimura from Seven Seas, Michael DeForge's Ant Colony from Drawn & Quarterly, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey and Matt Wagner, plus a whole mess more!

The Witcher, Manor Black from Dark Horse, Hill House: Daphne Byrne #1, TMNT #101 from IDW, Black Water Lillies from Europe Comics, Incoming from Marvel, Antarctic-O-Rama: Teether and B.A.D.A.S.S., Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, The Bad, Bad Place from Soaring Penguin Press, Rick and Morty #30 from Oni, Young Justice #12, The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Three hours of comics commentary, including Doomsday Clock and a rundown of our Favorite Comics of the Decade!

Book of the Month: Alone by Christophe Chabouté from Gallery 13 Comics/Simon & Schuster, plus some Hellboy, Star Wars, The Kill Lock #1 by Livio Ramondelli from IDW, Batman Universe and Nick Derington, When I Arrived at the Castle, V Wars, The Witcher, The Night by Druillet, Image-O-Rama: Head Lopper Volume 3: And the Knights of Venora by Andrew Maclean and company, Family Tree #2 by Phil Hester and others, and Assassin Nation by Kyle Starks and Erika Henderson, plus a whole mess more!

Merry Christmas! Comics Review #397/398 and The Phantom, Comics Interview, John Byrne and Bill Mantlo, TMNT #93-100 (and more): City at War, COPRA, Void Walker from Alterna Comics, Joker, Action Comics #1017, plus a whole mess more!

Titanic Tom King throws down on Jim Lee, Heroes in Crisis, Wally West, Batman/Catwoman, Mister Miracle, the convention experience, Big Barda, Jack Kirby, New Gods, Strange Adventures, Frank Miller, HBO's Watchmen, plus a whole mess more!

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampa, and Jordie Bellaire, Wonder Wart-Hog and the Nurds of November by Gilbert Shelton, Tales of the Dark Multiverse: Infinite Crisis and Judas Contract, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 from BOOM!, The Monster Art of Basil Gogos from Fantaco, Superman #17, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope, plus Stay by Lewis Trondheim and Hubert Chevillard from Magnetic Press, Sentient by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta from TKO, Young Justice #11, CODA Volume 3 by Si Spurrier and Matias Bergara from BOOM!, Criminal and Olympia from Image, Wyrd from Dark Horse, more on Maria M and Transformers Galaxies, plus a whole mess more!

Happy Thanksgiving! Titanic Hassan Thalji drops by to help us discuss Midnight Mystery: City of Ghosts from Alterna Comics, Monster World: The Golden Age from American Gothic Press, Battle Chasers, Archie Comics, Avengers #236-237, misunderstood characters, (New) Teen Titans, Comics Buyer's Guide, Dial H for Hero, X-Men Vs. Avengers/Fantastic Four, Werewolf Jones and Sons #3 by Simon Hanselmann and HTMLFlowers, Mysteries of Love in Space, Booster Gold: The Big Fall, plus a whole mess more!

Transformers Galaxies #1-2 from IDW, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Green Lantern: New Guardians Volume 3: Love and Death, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, plus a whole mess more!

Our man Tony Fleecs joins us to talk about his forthcoming book Time Shopper from Action Lab , Skottie Young, Nina Hartley, My Little Pony, Star Wars, Witch Hat Atelier from Kondansha, Ed Piskor, Algernon Blackwood's The Willows from Floating World Comics, Terry Moore, Tales from the Dark Multiverse, Gary Panter and Wildest Dream from Desert Island, GWAR from Rock and Roll Biography Comics, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #5, Doll House Family #1, War of the Realms: War Scrolls #3, plus a whole mess more!

Tom Spurgeon, The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television from Life Drawn/Humanoids, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Maria M by Gilbert Hernandez, The Comics Journal #304 and Simon Hanselmann, and The Empress Cixtisis by Anne Simon, Far Sector from Young Animal/DC, Locke & Key: Dog Days from IDW, Space Bandits #5 from Image, The Punisher: Soviet, The Mandalorian, November Volume 1: The Girl on the Roof from Image Comics, plus a whole mess more!

Lion Forge, Legion of Super-Heroes #1, Judge Dredd: Trifecta from Rebellion/2000AD, Mutant-O-Rama: Marauders #1, New Mutants #1, and X-Force #1, The Last God #1 from DC's Black Label imprint, Blade Runner 2019 from Titan Comics, Steel Commando: Full Metal Warfare from Rebellion, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey #2 from Dark Horse, Something Is Killing the Children #2 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Glenn Ganges in The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga from Drawn & Quarterly, Basket Full of Heads #1 by Joe Hill and Leomacs from DC/Hill House Comics, Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, 2000AD prog 2155 from Rebellion and Judge Dredd's Crime Files, Spider-Verse, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, Marauders #1 and Excalibur #1, plus a whole mess more!

Deadendia: The Broken Halo by Hamish Steele from Nobrow, separating the artist from their art, Image-O-Rama: The Marked #1, Nomen Omen #1, and Killadelphia #1, The Immersion Program by Leo Quievreux from Floating World, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, plus a whole mess more!

HBO's Watchmen Episode One, Howard Chaykin and Star Wars, Martin Scorsese and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, So Beautiful and So Dangerous by Angus McKie from Heavy Metal, Street Angel: Superhero for a Day by Jim Rugg from Image Comics, The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask from Dark Horse, The Search for Smilin' Ed by Kim Deitch from Fantagraphics, Superman Smashes the Klan #1 from DC, Ophiuchus from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Nancy by Olivia Jaimes, Bury the Lede from BOOM!, Strangers in Paradise XXV and Five Years by Terry Moore, The Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry from Drawn and Quarterly, Frogcatchers by Jeff Lemire from Gallery 13, Judge Dredd: Dark Justice and Dark Justice: Dominion from 2000AD, Gods and Gears #1 from Alterna Comics, Ruby Falls #1 from Dark Horse/Berger Books, Herakles from Lion Forge, plus a whole mess more!

We rundown our adventures at the New York Comic Con 2019 PLUS an hour-long commentary on Tod Phillips' JOKER!

We count the moments to New York Comic Con 2019 and talk about a whole mess of stuff in the process!

Book of the Month: Lobo by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant Volume 1

Phenomenal Phil Hester pops in to discuss Family Tree, his new Image ongoing with writer Jeff Lemire,  Aftershock, Caliber, Shipwreck with Warren Ellis, Swamp Thing, Green Arrow, Ande Parks,  Image, piracy, the comic industry, Dynamite! and Black Terror, growing up comics, collecting original art, the black-and-white explosion, Charlton, The Irredeemable Ant Man, and a whole lot more!

The Ups and Downs of Comic Fandom

Gotham City Monsters #1, Young Justice #8, Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1, Jason Aaron's Avengers, Black Star by Josh Bayer from Tinto Press, Jason Aaron's Conan, Batman by Tom King and company, Army@Love: The Hot Zone Club, by Rick Veitch and Gary Ersline from Vertigo, Blade Runner 2099 from Titan Comics, Immortal Hulk, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8, Something Is Killing the Children #1 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Marvel Comics #1000, Spawn #300 featuring Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Jason Shawn Alexander, J. Scott Campbell and more, Mountainhead #1 by John Lees, Ryan Lee, and Doug Garbark from IDW, I Am a Hero Omnibus volumes 8-10 by Kengo Hanazawa from Dark Horse, Battlepug #1 by Mike Norton and Shawn Pryor, The Fire Within by Shawn Pryor and George Kambadais, Ghost Spider #1 by Seanan McGuire and Takeshi Miyazawa, Invisible Kingdom, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz, Gaspar Saladino, and Jim Novak!

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2, Spider-Man and Sony, From Hell's Heart: An Illustrated Celebration of the Works of Herman Melville from A Wave Blue World, 2000AD Progs 2141 - 2145: Control, Powers of X #3, Charlie Adlard and Walking Dead, Punk Mambo from Valiant, Batman Universe #2, Press Enter to Continue and The Anthology of the Mind from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Michel Fiffe drops by to class up the joint and discuss COPRA, process, superheroes, and more, plus, we stick around after the dust settles to bounce around Coffin Bound #1 out of Image, Disney Frankenstein Starring Donald Duck from Dark Horse, Silver Surfer: Black, Trek-O-Rama: I Am Captain Kirk, I Am Mister Spock, and Too Many Tribbles Little Golden Books, Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts from Berger Books/Dark Horse, Powers of X #2, The White Trees #1 from Image, Second Coming from Ahoy, Teen Titans, Once and Future #1 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

House of X #2, BTTM FDRS by Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore from Fantagraphics, John Wick from Dynamite, The Ballad of Sang from Omni Press, Batman: Last Knight on Earth from DC's Black Label, Berserker Unbound from Dark Horse, The Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon from Fantagraphics,  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob from One World, plus a whole mess more!

Powers of X #1, Exilium from Alterna Comics, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died from Titan, Jon Sable: Freelance Ashes of Eden from ComicMix, In Waves by AJ Dungo from Nobrow, The Spirit Volume 1: Angel Smerti, The History of the Marvel Universe, Marvels: Epilogue, Invisible Woman #1, Coda Volume 2 from BOOM!, Miles Morales: Spider-Man #4, The Boys on Amazon Prime, Frank Cho's Ballpoint Beauties from Flesk, Matthew Allison's Sweet Sepulcher II, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Excalibur Classic Volume 1: The Sword is Drawn by Chris Claremont, Alan Davis, Paul Neary, and Glynis Oliver and company, plus, the Marvel marathon continues with talk of House of X #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, Conan Volume 1: The Life and Death of Conan by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, and company, Guardians of the Galaxy #7, Giant-Size X-Statix #1, the Eisner Awards, HBO's Watchmen, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse pops in to help us with Criminal #5-6 and Too Old to Die Young, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dave Wachter, Wally Wood and Gil Kane, Drawing Blood: Spilled Ink by Kevin Eastman and company, Transformers/Ghostbusters #1 from IDW, Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen #1, Metalshark Bro from Scout Comics, Mark Millar, September 12 by Robert Sergel from Kilgore Books, Noah Van Sciver, Steve Ditko, Naomi #6, Young Justice #7, Apocalypse Taco by Nathan Hale from Amulet Books, plus a whole mess more!

Titanic Tom Scioli rockets to the top of the Baxter Building to lay down the science on his upcoming Fantastic Four: Grand Design project, Superman: Year One #1 and Frank Miller, Morrison and Sharp's Green Lantern, Batman Universe #1, Zagor: The Alien Saga from Epicenter, Squirrel Girl, Sea of Stars #1, Space Bandits #1, Bitter Root Red Summer Special #1, Atomic Habits, Lynda Barry's What It Is from Drawn and Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

In the first hour or so, we have some fun detailing our spur of the moment lists of Top Five Favorite Funny Animal Comics, plus, in the next hour and change, we go deep on Vérité: Comics For Adults #1 from Comix India/Studio Ekonte, Teen Titans and Deathstroke in The Terminus Agenda, Spider-Man Annual #1, Dark Knights Rising, Through a Life by Tom Haugomat from Nobrow Press, Action Comics #1011-1012, Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers from Drawn & Quarterly, The Walking Dead, plus a whole mess more!

Josh Bayer drops by to give us the lowdown on All Time Comics Season Two from Floating World Comics, Zerosis: Deathscape, Blind Justice #2, Theth: Tomorrow Forever, his creative process, Dave Sim, the punk aesthetic, and a whole mess more! Plus, we drop more than a couple words on Bubbles: An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga, The Weatherman Volume 2 #1, Gideon Falls, and more!

Book of the Month: Saga of the Swamp Thing Volume 1 by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Dan Day, Rick Veitch, Tom Yeates, Tatjana Wood, and company. Plus, we've time dangling to discuss Spawn #295-297, Batman Beyond #32-33, and The Terrifics!

Sonata #1 from Image, Supple Dumps by Daniel White, Superman: Year One #1, Skreemer, I Love This Part by Tillie Walden from Avery Hill Publishing, Warlord of Mars Attacks #1, Event Leviathan #1 and Superman #12, Prodigy, Batman and Harley Quinn, Flash #72, Orphan Age from Aftershock, Excellence #2, Cartoonist Kayfabe, G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte from IDW, Young Frances from AdHouse, plus a whole mess more!

Heroes Con, Blues for Lady Day and Basquiat: A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi from Laurence King Publishing, Gates of Plasma from Carlos Gonzalez from Floating World Comics, Marvel Comics #1000, Absolute Carnage, Silver Surfer: Black by Donny Cates and Tradd Moore, Curtain Call by Wilfrid Lupano and Rodolphe Guenoden from LionForge, Grand Abyss Hotel by Marcos Prior and David Rubin from Archaia/BOOM!, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips from Image, Fearless Dawn: Shorts #1 by Steve Mannion, Junji Ito's Shiver from Viz, A Walk Through Hell, plus a whole mess more!

In this Patreon-sponsored themed episode, we delve into newspaper comics, our discussion culminating in our choices for top five favorite strips! Plus, we have some time dangling to get into Dark Garbage from Floating World Comics, Thumbs #1 from Image, The Joker, Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale, plus a whole mess more!

Doomsday Clock #10, Immortal Hulk, Clue: Candlestick #1 from Dash Shaw and IDW, All Time Comics' Zerosis Deathscape #0 from Josh Bayer and company out of Floating World, Star Trek: Year Five from IDW, Brightborn, Young Justice #6, Jungle Comics #1 from Antarctic Press, Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1, Waves from BOOM!/Archaia, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Demon - From the Darkness by Matt Wagner, Art Nichols. Adrienne Roy, Bernie Mireault, and Anthony Tollin, plus Bloodlines, Hitman, Avengers: No Road Home, Superman: Leviathan Rising #1, Flash #71, Superior Spider-Man #5, Killer Groove #1 from Aftershock, DC Special: Dog Days of Summer #1, plus a whole mess more!

Tom King, Canopy by Karine Bernadou from Retrofit, Come Again by Nate Powell from Top Shelf, The Replacer from Aftershock, Naomi, Avengers: Endgame, Criminal, War of the Realms, Flash #70: Flash Year One, Little Bird #3, Fair Lady, Scarred for Life, plus a whole mess more!

Frank Frazetta, Carl Barks, record-setting art auctions, Mary Shelly Monster Hunter #1 from Aftershock, Gold Digger, LIGHTNING ROUND: Punisher Platoon, Snap Flash Hustle #3, Major X #2-3, Moonshine Volume 2, West Coast Avengers #10, American Carnage #5-6, plus Calamity Kate #2-3 from Dark Horse, DCeased #1, Batman and the Outsiders #1, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #3-4 from Dynamite!, The Girl in the Bay from Dark Horse/Berger Books, Amy and Jordan by Mark Beyer from Pantheon, Superior Spider-Man #4-5, plus a whole mess more!

We go back to basics with Dan Slott's Fantastic Four and Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man, plus some Dr. Stone Volume 3 and 4 from Viz, Bad Girls from Gallery 13, Eve Stranger #1 from Black Crown/IDW, LionForge's Infinity 8 Volume 4: Symbolic Guerrillas, plus a whole mess more!

Recent developments with LionForge and Oni Press, Free Comic Book Day, Batman Beyond #31, Action Comics Volume 5: What Lies Below and Superman: DOOMED, Weapon Brown, The Sound of the World by Heart from LionForge, Transformers #3-4 from IDW, Alienation from Fantagraphics, Dick Tracy Forever #1 from IDW, Gogor #1 and Excellence #1 from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Matt Wagner joins us to discuss Mage: The Hero Denied and a bunch of other stuff, plus, we have a good amount of runtime dangling to get into Avengers: Endgame (no spoilers), Harley Quinn, Heroes in Crisis, Femforce, Star Trek: The Q Conflict, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Batman: Year 100 by Paul Pope and Jose Villarubia!

Daniel White and Mario join us to discuss Ronin Island #1 from BOOM!, Bronze Age Boogie #1 from Ahoy Comics, Cannabis: The Illegalizaion of Weed in America by Box Brown from First Second, Steve Ditko's Gorgo and Konga, Daredevil, Guardians of the Galaxy #4, Red Sonja: Ballad of the Red Goddess from Dynamite, Section Zero #1 from Image, G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte #2, Wonder Twins, Slow Leak #2 by Johnny Sampson, plus a whole mess more!

Star Wars: Age of Rebellion - Grand Moff Tarkin and Marc Laming, Justice League: Trinity War, Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys the Marvel Universe #2, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic, Faithless #1 from Dark Horse and Berger Books, Hicotea: A Nightlights Story by Lorena Alvarez from Nobrow, Sue Storm, The Green Lantern, Gold Digger and Fred Perry, Orphan Age from Aftershock, A Letter from Joe and Kelly Williams, PTSD by Guillaume Singelin from :01 First Second, Umbrella Academy, Batman: Europa, Invisible Kingdom #1 from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

600 episodes and counting! This time around. we talk up another milestone that is Detective Comics #1000! Plus. plenty of digital bits left over to dive deep on Major X #1, Polar, The Perineum Technique from Europe Comics, Kirby Genesis: Dragonsbane from Dynamite!, Marvel Team-Up #1, Guardians Team-Up, Gleipnir Volume 1from Kodansha Comics, Dial H for Hero #1, Marvel Team-Up #150, A Fire Story from Abrams ComicArts, plus a whole mess more!

C2E2 2019 is a wrap! We get into all the details of our adventures in the Windy City, during which we incorporate the dish on First Issue Special #10: The Outsiders, Tana Ford, Gilbert Hernandez and Birdland, RBCC (Rocket's Blast and the ComicCollector) #103 and 1973's Ten Most Powerful Men in Comics, Captain Marvel, Action Comics, Snap Flash Hustle from Black Mask, plus a whole mess more!

Live from C2E2 2019, it's a star-studded Book of the Month featuring Barrier by Brian K. Vaughn, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente from Panel Syndicate and Image Comics!

Live from casa Wood, we run down our top five favorite DC and Marvel characters, anticipate the glories of C2E2, and have a little time left over to speak on Red Sonja/Tarzan from Dynamite!, Avengers: No Road Home #6, Superman and Brian Michael Bendis, plus a whole mess more!

First Issue Special: Assassin Nation #1, Little Bird #1, and Die #1 from Image, Calamity Kate #1 from Dark Horse, Transformers #1 from IDW, and Ms. Marvel #1, plus Guardians of the Galaxy #2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer from BOOM!, James Warren: Empire of Monsters from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Mighty Benjamin Marra parts the waters to join us in discussing JESUSFREAK, his joint with Joe Casey and Brad Simpson for Image Comics!

Doomsday Clock, Astro Hustle #1 from Dark Horse, Zombie War from Fantaco/Tundra, Kevin Eastman, Avengers: No Road Home #4, Freedom Fighters #1, C2E2, Doctor Who, Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars: Weird Worlds from Dark Horse, Daredevil, Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker, Domino: Hotshots #1, Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #1, Wailing Blade #1 from Comix Tribe, plus a whole mess more!

We play another round of Puppet Master with The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (2018), Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise #1 and William Gibson's Alien 3 #1from Dark Horse, The Lone Ranger #1 from Dynamite!, Die #1 from Image, and Freedom Fighters #1! Plus, we have plenty of time left to discuss Abara: The Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei and Viz,  Infidel from Image, Stronghold #1 from Aftershock, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Dark Nights: METAL by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, FCO Plascencia and company!

Kelly Thompson joins us to discuss Mr. and Mrs. X, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, A-Force, Jem and the Holograms, Nancy Drew, Heart in a Box, Star Wars: Captain Phasma, and a whole mess more!

First Issue Special: Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho-Tep #1 and Turok #1 from Dynamite!, Marvel Tales - Black Widow #1 and Savage Sword of Conan #1 from Marvel, and Wyrd #1 from Dark Horse plus a whole mess more!

Savage Avengers and Conan, Avengers: No Road Home #1, The Magic Order #6 from Image, Captain Marvel #2, Mystery Men, Transformers: Unicron from IDW, Young Justice #2, Black Panther, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1 from Dynamite, Wonder Twins #1, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young finally returns to the EOC Clubhouse to talk about Middlewest with Jorge Corona and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Bully Wars with Aaron Conley, I Hate Fairyland, Deadpool with Nic Klein and Scott Hepburn, Jason Aaron, Avengers, Mike Huddleston, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The New Mutants: Demon Bear by Chris Claremont, Bill Sienkiewicz, and company! Plus, we have more than enough time left over to discuss the DC 100-Page Giant: DC Primal Age, The Collected Toppi Volume 1: The Enchanted World from Sergio Toppi and Lionforge, and Tom King's Batman!

Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Shonen Jump, Naomi #1, Martian Manhunter #1-2, Crypt of Shadows #1, American Carnage from Vertigo, One Piece, Buffy the Vampire Slayer from BOOM!, Outlaw Nation, Superior Spider-Man #1-2, Middlewest, and a whole mess more!

Invaders #1, George Perez, My Hero Academia, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Green Lantern #2-3, My Boyfriend Is a Bear, War of the Realms, Dr. Stone, The Weatherman, plus a whole mess more!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2018!

Immortal Hulk #1-11 Doctor Mid-Nite Uncanny X-Men Criminal #1 Young Justice #1 Murder Falcon #3 Spinning by Tilly Walden 8 Million Ways to Die Zorro: Legendary Adventures #1 Middlewest #2 Captain Marvel #1

Conan the Barbarian #1 by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, and Matthew Wilson from Marvel plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Catwoman: Selina's Big Score by Darwyn Cooke and Matt Hollingsworth.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

TKO-O-Rama: Sara by Garth Ennis, Steve Epting, and Elizabeth Breitweiser, The Fearsome Doctor Fang by Tze Chun, Mike Weiss, Dan McDaid, and Daniela Miwa, and The Seven Deadly Sins by Tze Chun, Artyom Trakhanov, and Giulla Brusco, Doctor Who, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Old Man Hawkeye by Ethan Sacks, Francesco Mobili, Marco Checchetto, and Andres Mossa, Cinema Sewer Volume 5 by Robin Bougie and friends from FAB Press, Junji Ito's Frankenstein from Viz, Eternal by Ryan K Lindsay, Eric Zawadzki, and Dee Cunniffe from Black Mask, Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay from Dark Horse, Defenders: Best Defense, plus a whole mess more!

In this episode, we run down our lists of favorite small-press publishers! Which publishers will make the cut? Listen and find out!

Stupendous SANFORD GREENE joins Jason and David to talk Bitter Root, 1000, David Walker, Chuck Brown, and more! Plus, the guys chat about Martian Manhunter, Ironheart, The Green Lantern, Shazam!, Hex Wives, and more! You get all of that and the usual good times!

Book of the Month: The Goon Volume 1: Nothin' but Misery by Eric Powell plus, we have a whole lot of time left over to discuss ROM, Walking Dead, Legends of the DC Universe, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Champions, Lionforge-O-Rama: Watersnakes, Upgrade Soul, and Fraternity, Savage Dragon, Dick Tracy, Caligula, plus a whole mess more!

Electric Warriors #1 by Steve Orlando, Travel Foreman, and HI-FI, The Mighty Thor V1: Thunder in Her Veins by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman, and Matthew Wilson, Ben Edlund's The Tick #1-12 from New England Comics, Deathbed by Joshua Williamson, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia from DC/Vertigo, Superman #5 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, and Alex Sinclair, Infinity 8 Volume 3 Number 1 by Lewis Trondheim, Fabien Vehlmann, and Olivier Balez from Lionforge, plus a whole mess more!

It's our First Issue Special-themed episode focusing exclusively on -- what else -- first issues, including Uncanny X-Men #1, The Black Order #1, Daughters of the Dragon #1, Lodger #1 from IDW/Black Crown, Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay #1 from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

In memoriam: Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 - November 12, 2018)

The Green Lantern #1, Midnight Mystery #1 from Alterna Comics, Ahoy-O-Rama: The Wrong Earth #3 and Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror #1, Skottie Young's Deadpool, The Red Hook Volume 1: New Brooklyn from Image, Infinity 8 Volume 2: ...Back to the Fuhrer from Lionforge, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Nexflix, Drowned Earth, Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary #1, Moth and Whisper from Aftershock, plus a whole mess more!

Heroes in Crisis #2 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Travis Moore, Tomeu Morey, and Arif Prianto, Marvel-O-Rama: Guardians of the Galaxy: New Guard volumes 3 and 4 by Brian Michael Bendis, Valerio Schiti, Richard Isanove, Art Adams, Kevin Maguire, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, Sara Pichelli, Mark Bagley, and more, Bronze Age Star-Lord, Doctor Strange by Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, Kevin Nowlan, and company, and Extermination #4 by Ed Brisson, Pepe Larraz, Ario Anindito, Dexter Vines, and Erick Arciniega, DC Nation #4, The Beautiful Death by Mathieu Bablet from Titan Comics, Mars Attacks #1 by Kyle Starks, Chris Schweizer, and Liz Trice Schweizer from Dynamite, Likely Stories by Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, and Chris Blythe from Dark Horse, DC foil covers, The Beastie Boys Book, Doctor Who, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: DuckTales Treasure Trove from IDW, plus, we have more than enough time to discuss Bernie Krigstein's Master Race,  Lodger #1 from IDW/Black Crown, Avengers #9, From Hell: Master Edition from IDW/Top Shelf, Action Comics #1004, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction Volume 2 from Viz Select, Domino #7, Middlewest #1 and Bitter Root #1 from Image, Dead Kings #1 from Aftershock, Stranger Things #1 from Dark Horse, The Sentry, plus a whole mess more!

DC Universe: Titans, The Thing: Project Pegasus, Exorsisters #1 from Image, High Heaven #1 from Ahoy Comics, Coda from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Captain Ginger #1 by Stuart Moore, June Brigman, Roy Richardson, Veronica Gandini and company from Ahoy Comics, Scooby Doo, Image-O-Rama: MCMLXXV #2 by Joe Casey, Ian Macewan, and Brad Simpson, Dead Rabbit #1 by Gerry Duggan, John McCrea, and Mike Spicer, Extremity by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer, and Savage Dragon #239 by Erik GOAT Larsen and Nikos Koutsis, Dr. Stone Volume 1 by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi from Viz, The Unbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #1 by Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba, and Nick Filardi from Dark Horse, Marvel Two-in-One: The Fate of the Four by Chip Zdarsky, Jim Cheung, Valerio Schiti and Company, Shuri #1 by Nnedi Okorafor and Leonardo Romero, House of Waxwork #2 by Donny Cates, Marty Davis, Rachel Deering, Raimi Sharkey, Christian DiBari, and Mike Spicer from Waxwork Records, Cursed Comic Cavalcade from DC, plus a whole mess more!

It's our New York Comic Con 2018 wrap episode!

Heroes in Crisis #1 by Tom King, Clay Mann, and Tomeu Morey, Image-O-Rama: Scales and Scoundrels Volume 1: Into the Dragon's Maw by Sebastian Girner and Galaad, Man-Eaters #1 by Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, and Rachelle Rosenberg, and The Weatherman #3 by Jody Leheup and Nathan Fox, Dark Horse-O-Rama: Xerxes by Frank Miller and Alex Sinclair, and Mammon by Michael Hague, all things Justice League, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Titanic TOM KING leaps into the night to discuss Heroes in Crisis, lots of Batman, Swamp Thing Winter Special, Mister Miracle, Stan Lee, Len Wein, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Matt Wagner, Mitch Gerads, Tony Daniel, Hush, The Vision, Mikel Janin, Lee Weeks, Uhura, PLOP!, plus a whole mess more!

The Wrong Earth #1 by Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, Andy Troy, Grant Morrison, and Shannon Wheeler from Ahoy Comics, Image-O-Rama: Cemetery Beach #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, Farmhand by Rob Guillory, Death or Glory by Rick Remender and Bengal, Days of Hate by Ales Kot, Danijel Zezelj, and Jordie Bellaire, and Murder Falcon by Daniel Warren Johnson, Aftershock-O-Rama: A Walk Through Hell by Garth Ennis, Goran Sudžuka, and Ive Svorcina and Volition #2 by Ryan Parrott and Omar Francia, The Terrifics by Jeff Lemire and Dale Eaglesham, I Am A Hero Omnibus Volumes 6 and 7 by Kengo Hanazawa from Dark Horse, Extermination by Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Crowded #2 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brant, and Triona Farrell, MCMLXXV #1 by Joe Casey, Ian Macewan, and Brad Simpson, and The New World #2 by Ales Kot, Tradd Moore, and Heather Moore, Spider-Man PS4, the DC Universe app, Dark Horse-O-Rama: Gantz Omnibus Volume 1 by Hiroya Oku, I Am a Hero Omnibus Volume 5 by Kengo Hanazawa, and Mammon by Michael Hague, Planet of the Apes Visionairies: Rod Serling by Dana Gould, Chad Lewis, David Wilson, Darrin Moore, Miquel Muerto, Marcelo Costa, and Paolo Rivera from BOOM!, more House Amok from IDW/Black Crown, Border Town #1 by Eric M. Esquivel, Ramon Villalobos, and Tamara Bonvillan from Vertigo, United States Vs. Murder, Inc. #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming, and Taki Soma, Domino #6 by Gail Simoneand Michael Shelfer, Kiki and the Killbot by Karl Slominski, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda!

David and Vince play Puppet Master with The Ray miniseries by Jack C. Harris, Joe Quesada, Art Nichols, and John Cebollero and Chamber of Darkness #4 by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith in conjunction with Starr the Slayer by Daniel Way, Richard Corben, and Jose Villarubia for the Marvel Max imprint!

Titanic Tom Scioli joins us to discuss the forthcoming Go-Bots from IDW, Jack Kirby, New Gods, Frank Miller, the Hasbroverse, '80s toys, Neal Adams, Daredevil, Hunger Dogs, ROM, Black Crown-O-Rama: Euthanauts by Tini Howard and Nick Robles and House Amok #1 by Christopher Sebela, Shawn McManus, and Lee Loughridge, West Coast Avengers, Pearl #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, X-Men: Grand Design by Ed Piskor, and a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: The New World #1, The Weatherman #3, Crouded #1 and Royal City, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, A Study in Emerald from Dark Horse, West Coast Avengers #1, Action Comics #1002, Patron questions, The Torch from Dynamite/Marvel, Volition #1 from Aftershock, Erik Larsen, plus a whole mess more!

Caleb Alexander-McKinzie from Southern Fried Geekery sits down with Jason and DAP as they speak on Red Hood and the Outlaws by Scott Lobdell, Dexter Soy, Alisson Borges, Veronica Gandini, and Trevor Hairsine; Catwoman #2 by Joëlle Jones and Laura Allred; Image-O-Rama: Crowded #1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, and Tríona Farrell; Mirka Andolfo's Unnatural; Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart; Terminator: Sector War by Brian Wood and Jeff Stokely; Star Trek-O-Rama: with Star Trek: Discovery Annual by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, Ángel Hernández, and Mark Roberts; the Kelvinverse and a Kirkless movie; Star Trek: Discovery from CBS All Access; Eight Million Ways to Die from John K Snyder III and IDW; plus a whole mess more!

Marvel-O-Rama: Fantastic Four #1 by Dan Slott, Sara Pichelli, Simone Bianchi, Skottie Young, and Marte Gracia, Doctor Strange #1-3 by Mark Waid, Jesus Saiz, and company, more Infinity Wars, and Domino #5 by Gail Simone, Michael Shelfer, and David Baldeon, Matt Wagner and DC, Come Again by Nate Powell from Top Shelf, Transformers: Unicron #1-2 by John Barber, Alex Milne, and Sebastian Cheng from IDW, Batman #52 by Tom King and Lee Weeks, Black Badge #1 by Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, and Hilary Jenkins from BOOM!, House of Waxwork #1 by Gabe Soria, Christian DiBari, Mike Spicer, Rachel Deering, Marc Schoenbach, Kevin Bergeron, Jonas Scharf, and Jordan Boyd from Waxwork Comics/Records, Nancy in Hell #1 by El Torres, Abel Cicero, Thone, and Ariel Olivetti from Amigo Comics, Superman #2 by Bendis, Ivan Reis, and Joe Prado, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: B.P.R.D. - Hollow Earth and Other Stories by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, Ryan Sook, Dave Stewart, and company from Dark Horse!

The Raleigh SuperCon, Cadence Comic Art, Chris Bachalo, Jose Delbo, Marvel-O-Rama: Infinity Wars Prime #1, Venom #4, Amazing Spider-Man #2, and The Sentry #2, Swamp Thing, Deadpool, The Unexpected #1, Image-O-Rama: The Magic Order #2 and Evolution #7, Valiant-O-Rama: Bloodshot: Salvation and X-O Manowar, Goodnight Punpun, plus a whole mess more!

Eric Powell and The Goon, SDCC 2018, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the Eisners, Monstress, Rob Liefeld and Youngblood, Greg Land, Marvel and IDW, A Sea of Love from Lion Forge, Geoff Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek from Dark Horse, 2000AD Prog #2091 and Leonardo Manco from Rebellion, James Gunn, Justice League Dark #1, The Life of Captain Marvel #1, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: The Weatherman #2 by Jody Leheup and Nathan Fox, Farmhand #1 by Rob Guillory, Hack/Slash: Resurrection #8 by Tini Howard and Celor, and Proxima Centauri by Farel Dalrymple, LEGO Voltron, Ant Man and the Wasp, Cosmic Ghost Rider #1, Batman #50, Catwoman #1, Black Panther #2, Captain America #1, Tony Stark: Iron Man, The Dark Judges: The Fall of Deadworld Book One by Kek-W and Dave Kendall from Rebellion, Korgi: Short Tails by Christian Slade from Top Shelf, Alterna Comics-O-Rama: Zero Jumper #2, Tinseltown #2, and It Came Out on a Wednesday #1, Infinity 8 Volume 1: Love and Mummies from LionForge, Ruinworld #1 by Derek Laufman from Kaboom, plus a whole mess more!

Gigant by Rune Ruberg from AdHouse, Die! Die! Die! by Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple, Chris Burnham, and Nathan Fairbairn from Image, Matt Kindt's Dept. H from Dark Horse, Go Nagai-O-Rama: Devilman Vs. Hades Volume 1 illustrated by Team Moon and Devilman Grimoire Volume Three illustrated by Rui Takato both from Seven Seas Entertainment, Superman #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, and Alex Sinclair, Domino #4 by Gail Simone, David Baldeon, and Jesus Aburtov, Bloodstrike, Brigade, and Michel Fiffe, The Teriffics #5, Ant Man and The Wasp, Rumble Volume Four, Luther Strode, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison, the maestro of monster mayhem, jumps in to discuss Calamity of Challenge Starring CANKOR, David Lynch, The Incredible Melting Man, American Pickers, Born Again, Psychotronic, Dan Clowes, Seth, Chris Pitzer and AdHouse, Zero Hour and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Legion by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Volume 1

Amazing Spider-Man #801, Crossed Plus 100: Mimic #1 from Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy/All-New X-Men: The Trial of Jean Grey and Guardians Disassembled, Daredevil: Born Again, Man of Steel #4, Geomancer from OG Valiant, Diamond Previews #358, Mister Miracle #9, plus a whole mess more!

It's our giant-size Heroes Con 2018 wrap episode!

It's our Heroes Con lead-in episode!

Justice League: No Justice by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson, Francis Manapul, Riley Rossmo, Marcus To, and Hi-Fi, Justice League #1 by Scott Snyder, Jim Cheung, Mark Morales, and Tomeu Morey, Alexis Ziritt, Deadpool #1 by Skottie Young, Nic Klein, Scott Hepburn, and Ian Herring, Savage Dragon #234 by Erik Larson and Nikos Koutsis from Image, Anno Dracula: 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem by Kim Newman, Paul McCaffrey, Kevin Enhart, and Bambos Georgiou from Titan Comics, Immortal Hulk #1, Coda #1 from BOOM!, The Last Jedi, Doomsday Clock #5, Man of Steel #2, Terry Dodson's Muse, the Where We Live anthology, Redline from Oni Press, Swing from Top Cow, Wallace the Brave by Will Henry, plus a whole mess more!

BOOK OF THE MONTH: Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 by Roy Thomas, Gil Kane, Barry Winsor Smith, Alex Nino, John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala, Jim Starlin, Pablo Marcos, Neal Adams, Vince Colletta, and more from Dark Horse, PLUS, we chew the fat on Amazing Spider-Man #800 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, Marcos Martin, Humberto Ramos, Nick Bradshaw, Edgar Delgado, Victor Olazaba, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, Java Tartaglia, Marte Gracia, and Muntsa Vicente, AND The Man of Steel #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Jay Fabok, and Alex Sinclair...plus a whole mess more!

JONATHAN GORDON, the Copic King, joins us to roundtable Seven to Eternity by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth, and James Harren from Image, Rockin' Jellybean, Stephen King, Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuna, Marvel Unlimited, Legion of Super-Heroes, Real Deal by H. P. McElwee aka R. D. Bone and Lawrence Hubbard aka Raw Dog from Fantagraphics, Maestros #6 by Steve Scroce and Dave Stewart from Image, Star Trek: Boldly Go by Mike Johnson, Josh Hood, and Jason Lewis from IDW, Ether: The Copper Golems #1 by Matt Kindt and David Rubin from Dark Horse, Robocop: Citizen's Arrest #2 by Brian Wood and Jorge Cohelo from BOOM!, The Toys That Made Us: Transformers, Alterna-O-Rama: Zero Jumper #1 by Patrick Mulholland, Tinseltown #1 by David Lucarelli and Henry Ponciano, and Go West #2 by Garrett Gunn and Saint Yak from Alterna Comics, Tokyo Ghost, Solo, and a whole mess more!

The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi from :01 First Second, Image-O-Rama: Flavor #1 by Joe Keatinge, Wook Jin Clark, Tamara Bonvillan, and Rich Tommaso, Mark Millar and The Magic Order, The Gravediggers Union by Wes Craig, Toby Cypress, and Niko Guardia, Street Angel Goes to Juvie by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker, Death or Glory by Rick Remender and Bengal, and Royal City by Jeff Lemire, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Volume 1 by Inio Asano from Viz Select, Deadpool 2, The Hunt for Wolverine, Bizarre Manga Artist Shintaro Kago's Pretty Girls Collection Super-Dimensional Love Gun from Fakku Books, Season of the Snake #1 by Serge Lehman, Jean-Marie Michaud, and Simon Roy from Titan Comics, plus a whole mess more!

DONNY CATES and RYAN STEGMAN, the powerhouse creative team behind Marvel's sold-out Venom #1, bond with us on a symbiotic level, instigating discussion on Venom, Thanos and Geoff Shaw, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Redneck from Image, the creative process, Infinity War, original art, Daniel Warren Johnson and Ghost Fleet, Doctor Strange, plus a whole mess more! (Including: Barbarella #5 by Mike Carey, Kenan Yarar, and Mohan from Dynamite!, Batman: White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth, Planet of the Apes: Ursus by David F. Walker, Chris Mooneyham, and Jason Wordie from BOOM!, VS by Ivan Brandon, Esad Ribic, and Nic Klein from Image,  and Avengers #2 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, and David Curiel.)

The amazing ERIK LARSENjoins us to discuss Savage Dragon, Marvel Fanfare, Doom Patrol, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, original art, his philosophy on creating comics, Thor, Vince Colletta, Kevin Eastman, James Owsley, publishing strategies, the Image Golden Age format, and a whole mess more!

Global Frequency, Infinity War, Jim Cheung and The Black Order, Immortal Men#1 by Jim Lee, James Tynion IV, Ryan Benjamin, Jeremiah Skipper and Alex Sinclair, Spectacular Spider-Man#303 by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones, Bloodshot Reborn#7 by Jeff Lemire, Renato Guedes, and Simon Bowland from Valiant, Avengers: No Surrender, Avengers#1 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, and David Curiel, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin, George Perez, Ron Lim, Josef Rubinstein, Tom Christopher, Max Scheele, and Ian Laughlin.

Amazing Spider-Man#799 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia, MAD#1 by Al Jaffee, Tom Richmond, Sergio Aragones, Peter Kuper, Bob Fingerman, Pete Bagge, and the Usual Gang of Idiots, Judge Dredd Mega Collection Volume 80: Dark Side of the Moonby John Wagner, Brian Bolland, John Smith, Paul Marshall, Ian Gibson and more from 2000 AD and Hachette and Judge Dredd Megazine#395 featuring the Nemesis the Warlock monograph by Matthew Smith and Kevin O'Neill from Rebellion, Infinity 8#1 by Lewis Trondheim, Zep, and Dominique Bertail from Lion Forge, Deathbed#3 by Joshua Williamson, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia from Vertigo, Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows #1 by Jeff Lemire, Max Fiumara, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

The remarkable Ryan Browne joins us to discuss the God Hates Astronauts Presents 3-D Cowboy's 2-D SpectacularKickstarter, Curse Wordswith Charles Soule from Image, Blast Furnace, Trash Bridgewith Steve Seeley and Jim Terry, Alan Moore, the Image Comics model, Skybound, James Harren, Goats Eat Castinets, John Severin, Fletcher Hanks and Fantomah, Secret Wars, Too, Valerian, Soul Liquid Chambers Volume 1by Nozomu Tamaki from Seven Seas Entertainment, The Realmby Seth Peck, Jeremy Haun, and Nick Filardi from Image, Infinity 8by Lewis Trondheim, Zep, and Dominique Bertail from Lion Forge, Howard the Duckand Steve Gerber, Star Wars Adventures#9 and Tony Fleecs from IDW, This Offbeat Townby Jake Smith, plus a whole mess more!

Happy Domino Week! We do Jason's number one gal proud with talk of Domino#1 by Gail Simone, David Baldeon, and Jesus Arburtov, plus, so as not to make all the other comics feel bad, we save a little time to discuss Avengers: No Surrender, Amazing Spider-Man#798 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia, Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander #1 by the legend himself, Frank Miller, and Alex Sinclair from Dark Horse, Analog#1 by Gerry Duggan, David O'Sullivan, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, Come Into Me#1 by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler, Piotr Kowalski, and Niko Guardia from Black Mask, The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Waxby Andrew Cartmel from Titan Books, Robocop: Citizen's Arrest#1 by Brian Wood, Jorge Coelho, and Doug Garbark, Gideon Falls#2 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart from Image, plus a whole mess more!