Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics

The Escapies debrief on some of their favorite new issues, new books to hit the shelves, and some older stuff we think folks are sleeping on! In this episode: Batman #4, Fantastic Four #6, Batman the Animated Series, Squirrel Girl, and more!  

The escapies talk turbulent times in the peaceful french countryside with news about Angouleme, France's premiere comics festival!

Talkin' floppies and we ain't talkin flapjacks on Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics Episode 5.2!

The Escapies talk Supergirl, Batman Dark Patterns, Superman Kryptonite Spectrum, and much much more! Looking for a good holiday present for that special someone?? Tune in to hear our favorite picks hitting the shelves this week! 

Perl is back for Episode 5.1 and the Escapies talk about their favorite squarebound books, including some wonderful BL manga with Waka Hayashi's In the Twilight of Our Adolescence, and some weird outsider or perhaps insider artist comics from Fletcher Hanks's Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!

In other comics news, we discuss the late IDW, Dark Horse, and Marvel shipments for all of the west coast and Utah and Idaho for some reason. Also! Brian Michael Bendis announces his return to the Avengers!

This episode is sadly without Perl as she is off doing gamer things. But stick around to hear Persephone and Tate's favorite new monthlies on the shelf! We talk Assorted Crisis Events, Batman, Gotham Academy and much much more on the show today!

Only one episode for episode four this week y'all, we have no news, nothing happened this week actually.

In this episode of Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics the Escapies talk comics news and what you should get your besties for Christmas! In news this week, a few lingering messages from New York Comic Con including a new direction for DC Comics mainline continuity, as well as some sad news for Moebius-Jodorowski fans.

The Escapies talk about their favorite new issues to hit the shelve October 22, 2025 including Johnathan Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man, Kelly Thompson's Absolute Wonder Woman, and Peach Momoko's first time doing a mainline Marvel comic in Ultimate X-Men! 

We're all big Hickman and Peach fans here at the store, but the real hit of the week is the thrilling conclusion of Kelly Thomspon and T Tokitokoro's Jeff the Land Shark! 

In Episode 2.1 of Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics, the gals talk comics news from the unexpected end of the Ultimate Universe, announced at NYCC, to the revival of Vertigo comics under James Tynion IV.  

Episode Two is continued in 2.2 where we talk about what we're reading, loving, and a bit of what we're hating! Looking for book recommendations? Head on over there for our favs this week!

Quintessential Issue 0, foil cover variant!

Perl, Persephone, and Tate introduce themselves, their favorite books of all time and what the podcast will hopefully look like going forward!