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Cullen Bunn came out strong this week with two fierce Indy books! You won't want to miss the wizard horror story of Manor Black (Dark Horse). Knights Temporal (Aftershock) paints a genre hopping master piece with mysteries galore!

We Skyped in to talk with the Jacks of Trades Podcast about JANE FOSTER: VALKYRIE out on Marvel Comics. If you want to hear more from Jacks of Trades find em here: Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jacks-of-trades/id1166712053?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wQnL1bGRcYZIgOH2pI9aG?si=MjgKplp0T1CPebe7yUuAkQ Website: http://jacksoftradespodcast.com IG: http://instagram.com/jackstradespod Twitter: Http://Twitter.com/jackstradespod

The club was so pumped for House of X that we spent the entire episode discussing it, only getting sidetracked about 5 times.

This week the club gets sucked in with Collapser on DC's Young Animals imprint and laugh at the hilarious exploits of Superman's Best Friend: Jimmy Olsen on DC. Also in this episode, the worry of celebrities writing comics, and we create our DJ set lists.

Mike and Greg catch each other up on the whirlwind of Marvel announcements to come out of San Diego Comic Con in this emergency special bonus episode!

The club returns from episode 100 with a ton of comic news. Then the long awaited Second Coming gets "saved" by Ahoy Comics. Finally Reaver blows up on Image for a violence soaked tail of medieval mayhem.

The entire club skipped town for the 4th to spend time with our families, so while we couldn't record a regular episode, comic book reading must go on! Because of this important rule of life, Mike D recorded an emergency voicemail episode where he breaks down his top four first issues of last week. Hope you state-side clubbers all had a wonderful holiday weekend as well, and to our overseas friends, we have no excuse for this really random weird episode. Please forgive us.

This week The Club takes a breaks from comics to celebrate 100 episodes with 100 minutes of non-sense. Highlights include, but aren't limited to: our first sponsor, parody songs, call-ins, commentary on our first episode, DC cover prices, regrets, emotions, thank you's, and what's next.

On Episode 99 The club spends the entire episode diving into DC Black Label's Superman Year One! Frank Miller - love him or hate him, we get into it. This is so much Superman stuffed into one episode that it made it's way into a special One Shot Episode!

In this episode the club discusses whats up with DC's Vertigo imprint, before getting into Silver Surfer Black from Marvel Comics, and Sonata out on Image Comics. We also question wether we've gone too far as Marvel "True Believers", and argue over Bruce Springsteens new album, because why not?

Thumbs (Image) imagines a cyber punk heaven. Ignited (Humanoids) comes out on brand new publisher and has a power house team in Waid & Osajefyo.

This week in the Club, we get into Batman news and the new #1, "Batman: Last Knight on Earth", as well as "Killer Groove" and its nostalgic noir.

The club fumbles over the title of IDW's new ROAD OF BONES, and ultimately find ourselves miles from our own road of cohesive conversation.

This week, FIC takes on WoTR double-time team-ups (hereby known as DTTUs) in "Spider-Man and the League of Realms" and "Giant Man" (which should really be called "Giant Men").

Agents of Atlas (Marvel) bringing in an all new amazing Asian fighting team and Excellence (Image) with a better, fresher more relevant Harry Potter! Plus some new sponsors!

As is typical, the club devolves quickly when Kaitlyn can't attend, and we lose track of our decency and get off topic quickly. Even still, we think there is just the right amount of DCeased and Savage Avengers discussed in this episode. Enjoy!

BONUS EPISODE! Kaitlyn and Greg joined our friends from the TWO VIEWS MOVIE PODCAST for a discussion on Avengers endgame. If you haven't seen the movie yet, what are you even doing here?! Delete this episode! If you have seen the movie, and enjoy the episode, give our new pals at TWO VIEWS a Club bump with a rate, review, or subscription.

Thanos has a new book (Marvel) by Tini Howard and it is just in time for End Game. Cullen Bunn is back (Valiant) with a Louisianan Immortal Ghost Summoning Neighborhood Punk!

The club really gets into it this week with "First Appearances" in both comics and our lives; ""Planet of the Nerds", where the geeks and the Chads get the switch; and, we find ourselves 'A Club Divided' over the historical fiction that is "Mary Shelley: Monster Hunter."

Faithless is all the pervy magic Boom! Could fit in a comic. Fair Lady is Columbo for Middle Earth. Comics literally don't get better! The club gets in it and even talks Hellboy with the latest in comic news. It's First Issues being read and discussed in podcast form. Now it's time to take my horse to the old town road.

For our audience people this week, tune in to hear about Planet Comicon experiences; what happened with Astro Hustle; War of the Realms delivering on its hype; and, Major X's Liefeldian x-citement over new characters.

This week on FIC, we hit the highlights of C2E2, get into the witchy world of Archie Forever's "Sabrina", and revel in the dark comedy chaos that is "Bad Luck Chuck".

This week, the club discusses the announcement of new comic book publisher AWA, and debates what makes a publishing company stand out from the crowd. Later, as always, the panelists feature a couple of last weeks first issues: Dark Red #1 out on AfterShock Comics is a vampire story set in small town America, while Spiderman: Life Story #1 is the first entry in a series that poses the question, "What if Peter Parker aged in real time?"

This week, the club members have a spoily-free Captain Marvel convo, talk trailers with Avengers: Endgame, and get into reviews on "Magnificent Ms. Marvel" and "Assassin Nation".

First, Marvel's MEET THE SKRULLS introduces us to an alien spy family trying to keep a low profile while infiltrating Stark Inc, while our second book, Dark Horse's ASTRO HUSTLE, takes us on a 1970s inspired Flash Gordon style romp featuring a band of space pirates with a deck full of the CUTEST animal buccaneers. Avast ye! Adventures are abound!

This week….love is the enemy with "Age of X-Man: X-Tremists" and "The Forgotten Queen" gives us a tale of bloodshed through the ages.

The club covers Sharkey the Bounty Hunter (a future Netflix show) and High Level (vertigo). Everything you want to know about comics and everything you didn't, it's comics y'all - they al fun!

In this variant edition, we discuss "My Boy Friend Is A Bear" in which a woman falls in love and begins a relationship with a bear. No…not a metaphorical bear…an actual freaking bear.

It's a yuckfest this week folks. "Wyrd" isn't quite weird enough, "Unit 44" is great…if you're a child…"Age of X-Men Alpha" primes our wallets to spend bank on more x-men books, and "Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt" rips "Watchmen". But you know what…we still had a blast reading and talking about em cause comics rule.

This week…the club gets nostalgic with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Plus, one of our favorite characters gets inducted into the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Our own Mike DiStasi joins the What's In A Game podcast to talk about Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and basically everything Spider-Man. Did we say Spider-Man enough times?

Our issues this week include our personal true crime stories; "Criminal", where the Lawless are the scumbags you root for; "Young Justice", where we get another fun and fast teen team-up; and, the Club's weekly pulls.

This week we talk two marvel returning number ones: Champions and Conan The Barbarian. In Champions #1 the club examines the new team and has high hopes for the far too large team of teen crime fighters. Jason Aaron is back with another fantasy book in Conan, and he wastes no time with violence and action.

The end of another year is upon us, and boy OH BOY do we have a lot of naughty and nice books to review. We've made our list, checked it twice, and now have in not one, but TWO, episodes, our Top Fives in multiple categories for all you beloved audience people. In Part I, you'll find our Top Fives for surprise hits, best covers, independent publisher releases, and best overall publishers. In Part II, you'll hear our Top Fives for Image releases, the Big 2 releases, and best overall authors.

The end of another year is upon us, and boy OH BOY do we have a lot of naughty and nice books to review. We've made our list, checked it twice, and now have in not one, but TWO, episodes, our Top Fives in multiple categories for all you beloved audience people. In Part I, you'll find our Top Fives for surprise hits, best covers, independent publisher releases, and best overall publishers. In Part II, you'll hear our Top Fives for Image releases, the Big 2 releases, and best overall authors.

Hello again, Clubbies! This week we're chatting multiple Batmen and multiple Jokers mixed with one confused Alfred in "Batman Who Laughs"; a futuristic, sharp, world-wide-web adventure in "Goddess Mode"; and, Miles Morales and Multiverse Friends tickle our funny bones and fancies in the new cinematic release "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse".

Dear Listeners, tune in this week for a modern D&D-fueled discussion on "Die"; the smartest, unbeatable stuntman alive in "Prodigy"; the removal of porn from Tumblr; and the robust, prisma-plasm world of "Martian Manhunter".Dear Listeners, tune in this week for a modern D&D-fueled discussion on "Die"; the smartest, unbeatable stuntman alive in "Prodigy"; the removal of porn from Tumblr; and the robust, prisma-plasm world of "Martian Manhunter".

This week! We read "Ironheart", and talk Riri Williams's engineering genius brilliantly engineered by Eve L. Ewing. In a fast format break, we also chat about the emerging trend of comic book-inspired TV, and the shows we're hyped on.

Hello again Clubbies, on this episode we cover the Midwest, fantasy, and epic promise in "The Middlewest"; the not-so-subtle race and reality thriller that is "American Carnage"; and, the 90s, rollerblading and thievery in "Smooth Criminals".

This time on FIC, the club's picks are "Black Order", an introspective for the dark henchman of Thanos; "Bitter Root", an Afrofuturistic trip into Harlem and the demons within; and, "Uncanny X-Men", where A and B teams of heroes and villains alike get tangled up in time and teleportation.

In this episode, we gab about the sci-fi horror romp that is "Outer Darkness"; creator double-threats and memory mysteries in "Marvel Knights"; and, the genius of Grant Morrison in the bonkers return of old-school glory in "The Green Lantern".

This week on FIC, club members discuss witchy women, oppression via suppression, and the complexities of identity in "Hex Wives" and "Sex Death Revolution".

For our spookiest episode yet, the club is visited by not one, but FIVE demons (Ahh!) as they contemplate the scariest of scaries and horror of horrors, such as near-death experiences, "Are We Haunted?", selling their souls, terrorizing treats and traumatizing tricks, and of course, the creepy classic Monster Mash.

Our issues this week include "Marvel Zombie", where The Defenders fight zombie hordes until they encounter a sentient undead; "Exorsisters" is a demon crime-stopping duo full of fire and brimstone; and "Shuri" gets deeper into Wakanda and Shuri's evolving part(s) to play in its future.

This week: neckbeards prove the exact point "X-Men Black Mojo" makes about having new and diverse superheroes; "Murder Falcon" shreds away depression; and "What If Peter Parker Became The Punisher" is more like "what if spider-man just had a skull on his costume".

Dear Readers/Listeners, this week we talk hidden worlds of magic in Blackbird; empowering survivors and the rise of revenge porn in "Jook Joint"; and, your regular, relatable, deadly-dangerous Boston man in "Dead Rabbit".

Subscribe Apple Podcasts Subscribe Stitcher On this episode: we get a heavy dose of female empowerment with "Man-Eaters"; DC's latest "Crisis" takes a look at the mental health of super heroes; and "Stranger Things" gets a comic book.

Well folks…there's no getting around the elephant in the room…we discuss the bat-a-wang controversy. Plus, is G.I. Joe for children or adults…sometimes it's hard to tell…and the ups and downs of stoner comedies.

Our first issue picks this week are "MCMLXXV", a supernatural cabbie story with soulful 70s vibes; "Low Road West" blows our minds with its seamless integration of Twilight Zone meets Narnia meets Stranger Things meets LOST; and "Iceman" depicts Bobby 'Dad Joke' Drake just doin' his best and learning the rest.

In this episode, "Bully Wars" takes us back to high school with bubblegum monsters and rat mascots; "War Bears" introduces us to the history of Canadian comics; and "Border Town" blows our minds with supernatural horror from another demotion and political ones from our own.