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May 05, 2019Comic sales rise, FCBD, and garbage fire Gambit
THE NEWS
Comichron report indicates comics market is growing, not through single issues
Major Comic Book/Graphic Novel Distributor Stops Sales To Individual Comic Stores & Bookstores
Batman/Superman returns from Josh Williamson and David Marquez
Year of the Villain will end in a giant battle, continue through 2020
DC will release 8-bit series leading up to Batman: Curse of the White Knight
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave
The Green Lantern #7 (W: Grant Morrison, A: Liam Sharp)
Justice League #23 (W: Scott Snyder, A: Jorge Jimenez)
Spider-Man #1 FCBD (W: Donny Cates, Tom Taylor, Saladin Ahmed, A: Ryan Stegman, Cory Smith)
Forrest
War of the Realms #3 (W: Jason Aaron, A: Russell Dauterman)
DCeased #1 (W: Tom Taylor, A: Trevor Hairsine)
ComicBookRoundUp
Critic: Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #7 (9.7)
Fan: Paper Girls #28 (9.2)
SEGMENT: Trash it or Treasure it. We trash Gambit!
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
The Flash #70 (W: Joshua Williamson, A: Howard Porter)
Forrest
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6 (W: Tom Taylor, A: Yildiray Cinar)
JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.
Dave
Marvels Annotated #3 (Gabriele Dell'Otto)
Forrest
Black Hammer: Age of Doom #10 (Dean Ormston)
SEGMENT: Character Trivia!
Off Topic Top Shelf: Dave - Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight Netflix mini-series
1 hr 14 min
April 29, 2019Avengers: Endgame - The Comics Take Special
Our thoughts. What was good and what was bad.
BIG EVENTS
Pepper’s RESCUE (Mk 1616) Armor- Invincible Iron Man #10 (2009) Matt Fraction, Salvador Larocca
Professor Hulk- First appearance Incredible Hulk #377 (1991) By Peter David and Dave Keown
Ronin- New Avengers #27 (2007) Brian Michael Bendis, Lenil Yu
New Asgard- Thor by J. Michael Straczynski (Oklahoma, not Norway)
“Hail Hydra” - Secret Empire by Nick Spencer
Cap wields Mjolnir - 5 times. First: Thor #390 (Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz) Most recent: Secret Empire #10 (Nick Spencer, Steve McNiven)
A-Force - Big finish we get a shot of Shuri, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie, Pepper, Okoye, Scarlet Witch, and Wasp. By G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Jim Cheung
Falcon becomes Captain America - Secret Empire - Falcon series Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol. 1 by Nick Spencer Daniel Acuna
Extra things of note
Jim Starlin Cameo
Namor
Ant-Man’s original helmet
Carol’s Haircut
Hulk holding a mountain of rubble
Black Widow’s Ballet Shoes
Cap wears a Roscoe name tag
Asgardians of the Galaxy
Howard the fucking duck
Cosmic Ghost Rider - kill baby thanos
Where do we go from here.
1 hr 8 min
April 28, 2019Comics in crisis, Eisner noms, and Batman sells out
THE NEWS
Sienkiewicz and Claremont pitching New Mutants return to Marvel
Image Comic Solicits for July include new series from Jason Aaron, Cullen Bunn
Detective Comics tops March sales, Marvel still wins units sold
Heroes in Crisis Killer Revealed
Endgame and comic talk, next special episode!
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave
Freedom Fighters #4 (W: Robert Venditti, A: Eddy Barrows)
Rick and Morty #49 (W: Kyle Starks, Karla Pacheco, A: Marc Ellerby, Ian McGinty)
Forrest
Coda #11 (W: Si Spurrier, A: Matias Bergara)
Thanos #1 (W: Tini Howard, A: Ariel Olivetti)
ComicBookRoundUp
Critic: Fearscape #5 (9.1) W: Ryan O’Sullivan, A: Andrea Mutti
Fan: Wildstorm #22 (9.2) W: Warren Ellis, A: Jon Davis-Hunt
SEGMENT: EISNER Award Nominations
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Gogor #1 (Ken Garing)
Forrest
Beasts of Burden: The Presence of Others #1 (W: Evan Dorkin, A: Jill Thompson)
JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.
Dave
Green Lantern #7 (Liam Sharp)
Forrest
Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #3 (Gerardo Sandoval)
Off Topic Top Shelf: Forrest - “Lush” by Snail Mail
1 hr 25 min
April 21, 2019Marvel in July, Panels of Purpose, and super kart racing
THE NEWS
Marvel teases the conclusion of Uncanny X-Men, Jane Foster is Valkyrie this July, and more!
INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Co-Writer PHIL LORD Writing SPIDER-MAN (and Possibly SPIDER-HAM)
DC Universe starts adding 10,000 comics this week
Mark Millar’s Space Bandits might not be as original as it thinks it is
** TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK**
Dave
Spider-Man: Life Story #2 (W: Chip Zdarsky, A: Mark Bagley)
High Level #3 (W: Rob Sheridan, A: Barnaby Bagenda)
Forrest
NextGen #3 (W: Ed Brisson, A: Marcus To)
Meet the Skrulls #3 (W: Robbie Thompson, A: Niko Henrichon)
ComicBookRoundUp W/ MORE THAN 3 REVIEWS*
Critic: Little Bird #2 (W: Darcy Van Poelgeest, A: Ian Bertram) 9.6
Fan: Miles Morales: Spider-Man #5 (W: Saladin Ahmed, A: Javi Garron) 9.4
SEGMENT: SQUARE UP! It’s a Big Two all-out brawl of who can do...mostly not fighting the best? One random DC character VS. one random Marvel character VS. a Superfight selected scenario! Who comes out on top?
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Doctor Strange #13 (W: Mark Waid, A: Barry Kitson)
Forrest
The Replacer (W: Zac Thompson, A: Arjuna Susini)
**JUDGING BY THE COVER JR. **
Dave
The Flash #69 (A: Mitch Gerads)
Forrest
Ghost Tree #1 (A: Simon Gane)
Panels of Purpose
Anything that struck us from the last week we want to point out be it meaningful, insane gore, insane whatever as long as it's insanely good!
Dave - Avengers: No Road Home #10 by Sean Izaakse
Off Topic Top Shelf: Dave - HBO's Barry
1 hr 9 min
April 14, 2019Star Wars tops comics, DC delays, & soapbox truths
THE NEWS
Marvel teases “Acts of Evil” for July
Robert Kirkman addresses lack of Walkers in The Walking Dead
DC’s Young Animal returns
Saga to end with issue #108
Major X #1 selling for 2x cover price on Ebay & Rob Liefield’s speculations
Death probably dissolved Cyclops and Jean Grey’s Marriage
** TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK**
Dave
STAR WARS: AGE OF REBELLION – GRAND MOFF TARKIN #1 (W: Greg Pak, A: Marc Laming)
Faithless #1 (W: Brian Azzarello, A: Maria Llovet)
Forrest
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5 (W: Tom Taylor, A: Yildiray Cinar)
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion - Princess Leia (W: Greg Pak, A: Chris Sprouse)
**ComicBookRoundUp
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Critic Murder Falcon #7 (9.7) Critic
Fan Dead Man Logan #6 (9.2) Fan
SEGMENT: Trending now: Delays and other issues at DC… Batman: Damned #3 pushed back 2 weeks, Doomsday Clock #10 2 months
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Star Wars: TIE Fighter #1 (W: Jody Houser, A: Roge Antonia)
Forrest
Bloodborne #11 (W: Ales Kot, A: Brad Simpson, Pitor Kowalski)
**JUDGING BY THE COVER JR. **
Dave
Barbarella / Dejah Thoris #3 (Julius Ohta)
Forrest
Spider-Man Life Story #2: The ‘70s (Chip Zdarsky)
**SOAPBOX: WWSMD - Forrest
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Off Topic Top Shelf: Forrest - “It’s Alive!”
1 hr 17 min
April 07, 2019Indiegogo hits, Holy grails, and Hawkeye’s verbal hug
THE NEWS
Batman is the first Comic-Con hall of fame inductee
Image co-founder Erik Larsen returning to Marvel for select short stories
Jim Lee will draw Spawn, first Image series to reach 300 issues
Dark Horse cancels Astro Hustle amid abuse allegations against Jai Nitz
Icarus and the Sun is the most funded Indiegogo comic of all time
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave
War of the Realms #1 (W: Jason Aaron, A: Russell Dauterman)
Justice League #21 (W: Scott Snyder, A: Jorge Jimenez)
Forrest
Conan #5 (W: Jason Aaron, A: Mahmud A. Asrar)
Marvel Team-Up #1 (W: Eve Ewing, A: Joey Vazquez)
SEGMENT: Holy grails! What single issue or comic related figure, poster, etc. would be the one that you would trade over a $150k X-men collection for?
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Faithless #1 (W: Brian Azzarello, A: Maria Llovet)
Forrest
Symbiote Spider-Man #1 (W: Peter David, A: Greg Land)
JUDGING BY THE COVER JR
Dave
Superman #10 (Adam Hughes)
Forrest
The Flash #68 Variant (Mitch Gerads)
Trash it or Treasure it - We spin a list of characters to determine who we’ll get. We then must defend or diss that character for their merits in 2 minutes or less.
Off Topic Top Shelf Pick: Mandy
1 hr 2 min
March 31, 2019WonderCon news, Marvel contracts, and Batman’s birthday
THE NEWS
Tini Howard signs Marvel exclusive contract
Steve Ditko’s self published work collected for bookstore market
IDW for sale? JP Morgan hired to review
More Hickman X-ads
WonderCon news grab bag
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave
Flash #67 (W: Joshua Williamson, A: Scott Kolins)
Star Wars: Vader - Dark Visions #2 (W: Dennis Hallum, A: Brian Level)
Forrest
Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #2 (W: Leah Williams, A: Georges Jeanty)
Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #3 (W: Kieron Gillen, A: Caspar Wijngaard)
SEGMENT: Obscure character bio: let’s try this a bit differently, I list off details of a character and you guess who it is! I have one picked out from Marvel. I start with obscure facts until we get closer to more widely known ones.
TOP BOOK FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave
Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #2 (W: Vita Ayala, A: German Peralta)
Forrest
Redlands #12 (W: Jordie Bellaire, A: Bellaire, Vanessa R. Del Rey)
JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.
Dave
The Dreaming #8 (Tiffany Turrill)
Forrest
Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History #2 (Marcos Martin)
SEGMENT: Detective Comics #1000 is here! We talk the issue, our favorite bat stories and characters, the legacy and impact of the bat-verse at large and that controversial Zack Snyder statement that he definitely kills people.
1 hr 7 min
March 24, 2019Hello Hickman, Absolute Carnage, Popstar Poison Ivy
THE NEWS
Hickman is coming July 2019! But to do what!? X-Men!
Absolute Carnage is coming August 2019.
A look ahead to the Marvel mystery event yet to be revealed starting December 2019.
ALTERED CARBON is getting a comic book at Dynamite Entertainment.
Batman Who Laughs the only comic to top 100k in Feb 2019.
New Service Brings Free Comics to Your Nintendo Switch.
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave
Justice League #20 (W: Scott Snyder & Jorge Jimenez, A: Jorge Jimenez)
Meet the Skrulls #2 (W: Robbie Thompson A: Niko Henrichon)
Forrest
Meet the Skrulls #2 (W: Robbie Thompson A: Niko Henrichon)
Invisible Kingdom #1 (W: G. Willow Wilson, A: Christian Ward)
SEGMENT: SQUARE UP! It’s a Big Two all-out brawl of who can do...mostly not fighting the best? One random DC character VS. one random Marvel character VS. a Superfight selected scenario! Who comes out on top?
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave Detective Comics #1000 (W: Various, A: Various)
Forrest Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #3 (W: Kieron Gillen, A: Caspar Wijngaard)
Best COVER OF NEXT WEEK
**Forrest: **
Alien 3 #5 (A: Johnnie Christmas)
**Dave: **
Detective Comics #1,000 (A: Steve Rude variant cover)
**Soap Box: **
Forrest talks about marketing language which talks about how long a story has been in the making.
59 min
March 17, 2019New series reveals, Marvel teases, and 'trashing' Professor X
**THE NEWS
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Second Coming goes from DC Vertigo to AHOY Comics
Jonathan Hickman coming back to Marvel?
Marvel Studios Producing ‘What If’ TV Series For Disney+
All new comic series!
Bloodshot ongoing is coming this September, from writer Tim Seeley and artist Brett Booth. Timed so that a collected edition will be out coinciding with Sony's Bloodshot movie on February 21, 2020.
WOLVERINE: Exit Wounds #1 Chris Claremont, Larry Hama, Sam Keith, Salvador Larroca and more
Donny Cates & Tradd Moore launch new Silver Surfer title.
Matt Wagner's Grendel Prime returns with Devil’s Odyssey
DC ZOOM & DC INK - new titles.
Superman Year One by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. release schedule announced.****
**TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
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**Dave
** - Avengers: No Road Home #5
Chris- Amazing Spider-Man #17 by Nick Spencer and Humberto Ramos
**Trash it or Treasure It **-
We randomely select a character and then the host must defend or diss (based on a coin flip) that character for their merits in 2 minutes or less.
**TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
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Dave Justice League #20 (W: Scott Snyder and Jorge Jiménez, A: Jorge Jiménez)
Chris Uncanny X-Men #14 (W: Matthew Rosenberg, A: Salvador Larroca)
**Best Comic Book COVER OF NEXT WEEK
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**Chris:
**- Uncanny X-Men #14 - Art by Salvador Larroca
**Dave:
**- Captain Marvel #3 - Art by Amanda Conner
Soap Box: Spider-Man: Life Story is something we should see more of:
In 1962, in AMAZING FANTASY #15, 15-year-old Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and became the Amazing Spider-Man! Fifty-seven years have passed in the real world since that event - so what would have happened if the same amount of time passed for Peter as well?
54 min
March 10, 2019Scott Snyder talks comics projects - plus X-Men Monday news
THE NEWS
Mike Deodato Jr. leaves Marvel after Savage Avengers
IDW CEO stepping down & IDW Board Member accused of fraud
BAT-SIGNAL to be Lit at Cities Worldwide for BATMAN's 80th Anniversary on Batman Day
The Orville Soars Into Comic Books With Dark Horse
TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK
Dave Age Of X-Man: Prisoner X #1 (W: Vita Ayala, A: German Peralta)
Chris Uncanny X-Men #13 (W: Matthew Rosenberg, A: Salvador Larroca)
TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK
Dave Batman Who Laughs the Grim Knight #1 (W: James T Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, A: Eduardo Risso)
Chris Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men #2 (W: Lonnie Nadler, Zac Thompson A: Marco Failla)
An interview with SCOTT SNYDER which took place on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
1 hr 33 min

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