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NEWS

1. New 'Before the Fall' X-Men one-shots to set up Fall of X event and tie-up plotlines
2. Marvel unveils the third annual X-Men vote nominees
3. Marvel adds X-Men expansion book to 'Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game' in 2024
4. New ‘X-23: Deadly Regenesis’ details reveal villain Haymaker
5. Marvel sheds light on ‘Planet of the Apes’ launching in April 2023
6. Peach Momoko’s ‘Demon Wars’ to conclude with ‘Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin’ #1
7. 'Star Wars: Battlefront II' comes to comics with 'Star Wars: Bounty Hunters' #32
8. The Giant Kokjü #1 announced at Image
9. Prestige series ‘Arcade Kings’ coming from Skybound May 2023
10. DC Studios slate revealed
11. Vinegar Syndrome launches Vinegar Syndrome Publishing for comics and novelizations of cult movies

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Where Monsters Lie (2023) #1 (Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski)
2. Batman: Legends of Gotham (2023) #1 (Andy Diggle, Karl Mostert)

Nathan:

1. Miles Morales: Spider-Man #3 (Cody Ziglar, Federico Vicentini)
2. Avengers #65 (Jason Aaron, Javier Garrón)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Scarlet Witch #2 (Steve Orlando, Stephanie Williams, Sara Pichelli, Chris Allen)

Dave - Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 (John Jennings, Valentine De Landro)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Storm and The Brotherhood of Mutants #1 (Al Ewing, Paco Medina)
2. Nathan: Poison Ivy #9 (G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Alien #6 (Harren Cover)
2. Nathan: Daredevil #8 (Elena Casagrande Stormbreakers cover)

Off-Topic Top Shelf: The Last of Us

NEWS

1. Dawn of DC details EXPAND
2. ‘Unstoppable Doom Patrol’ #1 scratch-off variant covers revealed
3. Next evolution of Warlock, Eve Warlock, coming in 'Warlock: Rebirth' #2
4. Marvel sheds light on ‘Captain America: Cold War’ titles out May 2023
5. Marvel rolls out Women’s History Month covers for Star Wars and Marvel heroes
6. Music video director Jay Martin to bring ‘Lost Boy’ to Dark Horse Comics
7. Dark Horse Comics reveals Free Comic Book Day 2023 plans

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Saga #61 (Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples)
2. Sins of Sinister #1 (Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck)

Chris:

1. Lovesick #4 (Luana Vecchio)
2. JSA #2 (Geoff Johns, Mikel Janin)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Chris - Plush #3 (Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard, and Rico Renzi)

Dave - Amazing Spider-Man #18 (Zeb Wells, Ed McGuinness)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Dark Web: Finale #1
2. Chris: Harley Quinn Romances

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Venom #16 (Martin Coccolo)
2. Chris: Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 (Taurin Clarke)

Interview: Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbel about Superman!

How does this tie back into 2015's Superman: Lois and Clark? 

What's it like to work together again? 

Why go back to the farm for this story RIGHT NOW? 

About Jon's childhood/ How does the massive change w/ Superman (power stuff, transformation Metropolis) impact this story? 

What do you make of the change to 3 stories? 

What's it like to work in this bright and shiny new era of Superman? 

Teasers for the next chapter?

NEWS

1. Comixology lays off workers
2. Glaad Nominees announced
3. Heavy Metal Magazine CEO Matthew Medney Steps Down (EXCLUSIVE)
4. Full April 2023 Marvel Comics solicitations: New licensed series and Star Wars Ewoks too
   1. Marvel expands 'Marvel's Voices' with Spider-Verse one-shot
   2. ‘Loki’ scores new four-issue series by Dan Watters and Germán Peralta
5. WEBTOON announces adaptations of fantasy, LitRPG, and romance web novels coming in 2023
6. Creature-feature horror ‘All Eight Eyes’ arrives in comic shops on April 19th
7. IDW's 'The Rocketeer' anthology one-shot is coming May 2023
8. ‘007: For King and Country’ #1 to kick off 70 years of 007 at Dynamite
9. Carnage and Spidey collide in 'Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis' May 2023
10. ‘Extreme Venomverse’ #1 launching to celebrate 35th anniversary of Venom
    1. Marvel teases ‘The Death of the Venomverse’ for summer 2023
11. Captain Marvel led ‘Avengers’ #1, launching May 17th
12. Full April 2023 DC Comics solicitations: New Green Arrow and Superboy coming soon - DC Speechless, Nightmare Country: The Glass House

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Strange #10 (Jed MacKay, Marcelo Ferreira)
2. Batman: One Bad Day - Bane (Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter)

Nathan:

1. Batgirls #14 (Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jonathan Case)
2. Strange #10 (Jed MacKay, Marcelo Ferreira)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Batman: One Bad Day - Bane (Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter)

Dave - Nightwing #100 (Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Saga #61 (Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples)
2. Nathan: Detective Comics #1063 (Ram V, Rafael Albuquerque, Ivan Reis)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Harley Quinn #26 (Alex Garner Card Stock Cover)
2. Nathan: TMNT: The Last Ronin - The Lost Years (Clayton Craig variant)

Interview: Ram V - Detective Comics and a little Carnage too

1. Ram, thank you for being on the AIPT Comics podcast! When it comes to your Detective Comics run so far, an interviewer with less skill than I might say Gotham is a character, one that feels unique in that it’s noir, but also ornate, how important was it for your approach to get Gotham right?
2. Visually Detective Comics is dark, dank, grungy, what makes Rafael Albuquerque and Ivan Reis the perfect fit for the vision of the book?
3. A lot of the dialogue and captioning has a poetic nature to it, do you write poetry in your free time?
4. Ram, I’m curious about the song in the club in Detective #1063. Is that a real tune, or something written just for Harvey?
5. Themes of sanity are present in Detective Comics, like Two-Face facing his own duality, why do you think these themes resonate with audiences?
6. Two-Face consistently tells Harvey that he’s the only one looking out for him, that he cares about him. Is there some truth there, or is this the most insular abusive relationship ever?
7. There are so many tools at your disposal when crafting a comic, from letters, to formatting of a page, which we see you do a lot of in Detective Comics #1068. As someone with a lot of impressive comics under your belt, do you ever find yourself trying to disassemble how a comic story is told and then reassemble it?
8. For those that read only Carnage or only read Detective Comics, is there a connective tissue of themes or your approach that could be said to swing their attention to the book they aren’t reading?
9. You’re always working on so many titles at once--50 issues written in 2022--can you give us any hints or details on what your 2023 will look like?

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NEWS

1. Marvel sheds light on Free Comic Book Day 2023 titles
2. New 'Storm' solo series explores the X-Man's punk era in May 2023
3. Groot gets new origin limited series Spring 2023
4. Darth Vader follows Deadpool and Wolverine with his own ‘Black, White & Red’ anthology
5. Marvel sheds light on Sins of Sinister finale
6. Marvel releases new Disney/Marvel mashups in Disney 100 Years of Wonder covers
7. Marvel Comics honors Carlos Pacheco in full page comics tribute
8. Marvel sheds light on ‘Captain America: Cold War’ crossover event starting April 5th
9. IDW launching first-ever Star Trek comics crossover event 'Day of Blood'

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Danger Street (2022) #2 (Tom King, Jorge Fornes)
2. Dark Ride (2022) #4 (Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas)

Nathan:

1. Black Cloak #1 (Kelly Thompson, Meredith McClaren)
2. Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season 3 #1 (Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Jordan Gibson)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Savage Avengers #9 (David Pepose, Carlos Magno)

Dave - Avengers: War Across Time (2023) #1 (Paul Levitz, Alan Davis)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Lazarus Planet: Assault On Krypton #1 (Various!)
2. Nathan: Strange #10 (Jed MacKay, Marcelo Ferreira, Roberto Poggi, Javier Tartaglia)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #4 (Rahzzah)
2. Nathan: Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: Legion of Bats #4 (Dan Hipp)

Off topic top shelf - Philomena Cunk - Diane Morgan - airing January 31 on Netflix

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NEWS

1. Guardians of the Galaxy returns in April 2023!
2. XMenVote is back! 
3. 'Hulk' #14 serves as finale to Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley's run
4. ‘She-Hulk’ celebrates its 175th milestone issue April 19th
5. DC releasing unlettered, inks only version of ‘Batman/Spawn: Unplugged’ February 14
6. A New Member Of Congress Explained Why He’ll Swear His Oath Of Office On The US Constitution With A First-Edition Superman Comic

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Gotham City: Year One #4 (Tom King, Phil Hester)
2. Spider-Man #4 (Dan Slott, Mark Bagley)

Nathan:

1. Scarlet Witch #1 (Steve Orlando, Sara Pichelli)
2. Fantastic Four #3 (Ryan North, Iban Coello)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Dark Knights of Steel #9 

Dave - Poison Ivy #8 (G. Willow Wilson, Atagun Ilhan with Arif Prianto)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Lazarus Planet: Alpha #1 (Mark Waid, Gene Luen Yang, Billy Tan, Riccardo Federici)
2. Nathan: Batman: The Adventures Continue - Season Three #1 ((Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Jordan Gibson)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Miles Morales: Spider-Man #2 (Stephanie Hans Classic Homage Cover)
2. Nathan: Lazarus Planet: Alpha #1 (Al Kaplan)

Off topic Top Shelf - M3gan

Before we dig into the exciting year ahead in comics, we talk about some of our favorite guests/moments of the year.

Dave: 

1. Fall of X, Summer of Symbiotes! Link
2. Unstoppable Doom Patrol March 2023
3. Rogue and Gambit March 2023
4. Green Arrow – Joshua Williamson Sean Izaakse – April 2023
5. Mark Millar and Frank Quitely to launch ‘The Ambassadors’ March 2023
6. Chip Zdarsky’s Batman
7. Miracleman ANSWERS!!!!!!

Nathan:

1. The conclusion of Human Target
2. New Doom Patrol series
3. Sins of Sinister
4. The Vigil from Ram V
5. Kevin Conroy’s final performance as Batman

NEWS

1. Marvel Solicits March 2023 part 1
   1. Something big is coming to Marvel in 'Avengers Beyond' #1 out March 2023
   2. ‘Venom’ #17 features Eddie vs. Bedlam with new artist Cafu joining creative team
   3. X-Statix returns in March 2023 with 'The X-Cellent' #1
2. ‘Warlock: Rebirth’ #1 set to explore character’s early days in April 2023
3. Mark Millar and Frank Quitely to launch 'The Ambassadors' March 2023
4. Jim Starlin and Dark Horse launching ‘Order and Outrage’ #1
5. Dark Horse Comics and Yoe Books partner with 'BLAB!' Vol. 1 out in 2023
6. 1983 Dungeons & Dragons cartoon returns in IDW series
7. Frightening supernatural cat adventure 'Hairball' coming April 2023
8. Stan Sakai set for ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen’ miniseries in 2023
9. AfterShock's 'Party & Prey' gets film deal with Legendary Entertainment
10. DC Comics solicits
11. New Greg Rucka space opera, ‘Forged’ launches at Image in March 2023

Best Single Issue

Nathan: The Silver Coin #14 (Pornsak Pichetshote, Michael Walsh)

Dave: Batman - One Bad Day: The Riddler #1 (Tom King, Mitch Gerads)

Best Graphic Novel

Dave: The Forgotten Blade OGN (Tze Chun, Toni Fejzula)

Nathan: ​​Galaxy: The Prettiest Star (Jadzia Axelrod, Jess Taylor)

Best Writer

Nathan: Christopher Cantwell (Briar, Iron Man, Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body, Gold Goblin, The Blue Flame)

Dave: Tom King (Batman: Killing Time, Riddler, Gotham City Year One)

Best Artist

Nathan: Justin Mason

Dave: Federico Vincentini (Miles Morales: Spider-Man, X Deaths of Wolverine) 

Best Series 

Dave: The Nice House on the Lake

Nathan: Rogues Gallery

Best Anthology

Nathan: DC Pride 2022

Dave: Amazing Fantasy #1000

Best Letterer

Nathan: Aditya Bidikar

Dave: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou 

Best Colors

Nathan: Mike Spicer

Dave: Jordie Bellaire

Best Comics film or TV?

Dave: She-Hulk

Nathan: Catwoman Hunted

Best Comics Event?

Dave: A.X.E.: Judgment Day

Nathan: X-Lives/X-Deaths of Wolverine

Wild card options: 

Most improbable survival

Nathan: Batman falls to earth

Dave: Magneto keeps his blood flowing after his heart is ripped out

Most gruesome death 

Dave: Banshee gets skinned by Moira

Nathan: Poison Ivy eating Jason Woodrue

Favorite couple

Nathan: Harley and Ivy

Dave: Batgirl and Nightwing

Best Reboot/Relaunch

Dave: Venom: Lethal Protector 

Nathan: Fantastic Four

Best Newcomer

Dave: It’s Always Teenage Wasteland

Nathan: Briar

Biggest Surprise

Joe Quesada back at DC Comics

Donny Cates is leaving Hulk

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NEWS

• DC launching 10-issue 'Superman: Lost' written by Christopher Priest
• 'Shazamily Matters' anthology written by Zachary Levi and other film stars out in 2023
• Final chapter of 'Marvel's Wastelanders' launches today on SiriusXM
• Venom to fight Doctor Doom in new ‘Lethal Protector II’ prequel series
• New 'Doctor Strange' ongoing launching March 2023
• Epic MCU Phase 3 variant covers celebrate the 'Infinity Saga' era
• Comixology launching horror sci-fi ‘Retroverse’ December 13
• ‘A Radical Shift of Gravity’ gets feature film deal at Hidden Pictures
• Emma Kubert's 'Stoneheart' coming March 2023
• Dark Horse returns to Hawkins with 'Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins' #1 in 2023
• New Hellboy video game 'Hellboy Web of Wyrd' announced at The Game Awards

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Teenage Wasteland #1 Curt Pires Jacoby Salcedo
2. Thanos: Death Notes #1 Various 

Nathan:

1. Fantastic Four #2 (Ryan North, Iban Coello)
2. Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1 (Cody Ziglar, Federico Vicentini)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Do A Powerbomb! #7 (Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer)

Dave - Batman #130 (Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Danger Street #1 (Tom King, Jorge Fornes)
2. Nathan: My Brother’s Blood Machine #1 (Claudio Sanchez, Steve Niles, Andrew Ritchie)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Dark Ride #3 (Spawn cover by Andrei Bressan)
2. Nathan: Batman/Spawn #1 (Gabrielle Dell’Otto variant)

Interview: Claudio Sanchez My Brother's Blood Machine out Dec 14, 2022.

1. Claudio Sanchez, thank you so much for joining us on the AIPT comics podcast! To start, what’s the elevator pitch for My Brother’s Blood Machine?
2. You released an ashcan of the first issue at SDCC. What has the response been like thus far?
3. So the original album was conceived as a side story to Amory Wars. Do any of those connections still exist in the adaptation?
4. And what made now the time to bring MMBM to comics?
5. We’re getting vibes of classic horror flicks like Phantasm and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What were some of your inspirations behind this story?
6. What has the collaboration process been like Steve Niles, at this point he’s a horror guru in comics!
7. Andrew Ritchie’s work is mesmerizing, I can’t stop looking at the faces, what was the process like getting him on the project? Have you gotten a page that’s blown you away so far?
8. My Brother’s Blood Machine is a six-issue series, how far along is the team with scripting and drawing the series?
9. Next year is the 20th anniversary of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (congrats)! What do you have planned to celebrate that milestone?
10. Any current plans to continue with a No World For Tomorrow miniseries?
11. Are there any other projects you’d like to hype today?
12. Off-topic top shelf

Join Nathan and Dave in celebrating 200 episodes of the AIPT Comics podcast! It has been a real trip, and it got even trippier this week as each of the current ongoing Spider-Man writers got into one room to chat Spidey! Amazing Spider-Man writer Zeb Wells, Spider-Man writer Dan Slott, and Miles Morales: Spider-Man writer Cody Ziglar all talk about the webhead. We dig into when they started reading Spider-Man, what's in store for their series in 2023, and so much more!

Oh wait, but there's more, don't miss our lengthy chat about She-Hulk! Ziglar and Wells were both writers on this year's incredible Disney+ show. Get insider stories, they discuss their love of the character, and more!

Interview Questions:

1. Thank you all for joining the AIPT comics podcast for its 200th episode! To start, I want to take us all back to the beginning…of your relationship with Spider-Man. What was your first Spider-Man comic growing up?
2. Fans might wonder, with the three “heads of state” of spider-man, how often are you collaborating or reading each others scripts?
3. You each have your own realms of Spidey to tackle, how far out have you plotted their exploits?
4. Dan, DID YOU KILL SPIDER-BOY?
5. Beyond Board was created with a bunch of great writers, what brought that together?
6. All three of you are closely tied to She-Hulk, what is it about the character that you love the most?
7. Zeb and Cody: You’re MCU canon now. How was that day on set and how difficult has it been to keep this a secret?
8. Cody, tell us a bit about Rabble! Is this someone totally new to the scene, and should the rest of the heroes in New York be watching their backs? How’s the collaboration been with Federico Vicentini so far?
9. Zeb and Dan, you both are currently working with veteran Spider-Man artists, what’s it like working with such seasoned artists?
10. Zeb, how important was it to you to get Peter on his own again? 
11. Since it’s the 200th episode, I’m curious about 200’s for you guys, is there something you’ve created 200 of, or collected 200 of, that you hold dear?
12. What else are you working on that you’d like to hype today? Maybe a tease of Dark Web?

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NEWS

• Comics creators join Hive en masse as Twitter volatility continues
• Eminem rap battles Spider-Man in new 'Amazing Spider-Man' #1 variant cover
• Miracleman Omnibus sells out, gets second printing
• Donny Cates & Ryan Ottley leave ‘Hulk,’ Donny Cates responds
• Superman and Son Get Secret Identities Back

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise (2022) #1 (Tradd Moore)
2. Star Wars: Yoda #1 (Cavan Scott, Nico Leon)

Nathan:

1. Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise (2022) #1 (Tradd Moore)
2. The Human Target #9 (Tom King, Greg Smallwood)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - DC vs. Vampires #11 (James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg)

Dave - Amazing Spider-Man #14 (Zeb Wells, Kyle Hotz)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Avengers Assemble Alpha #1 (Jason Aaron, Bryan Hitch)
2. Nathan: DC’s Grifter Got Run Over By A Reindeer (various)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Plush #1 (Tula Lotay variant)
2. Nathan: Briar #2 (Tiffany Turrill variant)

 Wiper (Out now!)  interview with John Harris Dunning

1. John, thank you for being our guest on the AIPT Comics podcast! Wiper is your new graphic novel from Dark Horse Books, can you tell listeners what they’re in store for with this series? 
2. The first Dark Horse press release stated this is Tropical Noir, which is such a cool concept, but one I hadn’t heard of, can you talk a little about how Wiper is tropical noir?
3. Ricardo Cabral’s art is so vivid, do you have a favorite panel or page from Wiper where Cabral took what you wrote and surprised you?
4. I understand you created Wiper during the lockdown, did that experience change how you write or think about story?
5. Your first work, Tumult is also a noir, what is it about this genre you find so compelling to keep exploring?
6. Having put together the ‘Comics Unmasked’ exhibition at the British Library in 2014, did you come away with new revelations about British comics you didn’t have before? 
7. Why are British comics so rebellious? 
8. Is there anything else coming up?