Hey everyone! Mike here — I'm sick and my house is filling with water, so Greg and Vargas gave me the night off. They have an Immortal and Mortal book to cover in the same week. WHAT A WORLD WE LIVE IN?! The boys are talking about Marvels Mortal Thor from Al Ewing & Pasqual Ferry, with covers by Alex Ross. Next up, Mastermind out on Dark Horse from Zack Kaplan and Stephen Thompson. Immortal Legend Batman from the Radiant Black crew. AND FINALLY!!! My most anticipated book of the week is James Tynion, Brad Simpson and Dani taking on the Invisible Man as the next entry into Image Comics Universal Monsters set of mini-series. Have a safe and lovely holiday weekend to our US folks. We'll see you next week with another episode or two!

Since last week we had a very special episode, we're talking two weeks of first issues! Vargas has us covered for last week with Superman: Kryptonite Spectrum and Predator Kills the Marvel Universe. This week, the club at large covers a nice swath of firsties with Event Horizon Dark Descent on IDW's Dark imprint, Rick Remender and Daniel Acuna bring us a Giant Generator firsty called Escape, club favorite Stephanie Phillips pens the reset of Spider-Gwen in the 616, G. Willow Wilson takes Black Cat on a heroes journey over at Marvel, AWA has a magazined sized "Future of Fear" one-shot called Kill or be Killed, Mad Cave launches an immortality succession type tale with Eat Your Young... And if thats not enough first issues for one week, I don't know what to tell ya! Happy comic book reading!

We take a break from first issues to celebrate a landmark episode, and look back on the best things that have happened in comics since we started the show.

This week is all comics no news! It's a shorty, but come back next week for a whopper, when we'll be celebrating our 400th episode!

Join us for another bonus episode where we discuss the issues of Exquisite Corpses out on Image comics!

This week, the club debriefs on San Diego Comicon & the Eisners, talks the fates of DCs Absolute & Marvels Ultimate universes, and gets into some Fantastic Four takes before talking... you guessed it: FIRST ISSUES! This weeks offering includes WAR (A Hello Darkness Spinoff on Boom!) from Becky Cloonan and Garth Ennis, Werewolf by Night by Michael Giacchino (who wrote/directed the MCU Werewolf by Night film), & Speed Racer by David Pepose out on Mad Cave! Keep reading comics and being nice!

This week, were going over day one of SDCC news, talk some exclusives, and slowly make our way to and through this weeks comics which include the new Godzilla on IDW, The Voice Said Kill & Texarcanum on Image, and Look into my Eyes from Boom!

Today, the club discusses their reactions to the Superman movie from Soup(er) to nuts! The cast, the plot, the reveals - we'll talk about it all. That means spoilers folks! Be aware that we'll meander into spoiler territory a little bit at a time, so if you haven't seen the movie, you might want to avoid this one. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! In addition, you know we gotta cover first issues (its our core premise afterall). We'll talk about Ghost Pepper, and manga inspired double sized indie debut on image comics from Ludo Lullabi, then we get a double dose of Duggan with his indie offering also on image with "This Ends Tonight". He's joined by Kelvin Mao, Robert Windom, Jae Lee, and June Chung in this action fantasy. His big two entry was Marvels "Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe". 

This week we're talking 2 Fantastic Firsties! Fantastic Four 1 by Ryan North is the star of the week, with its new jumping on point to the classic series (It had 20 variants!), and to follow it up, we'll talk about last weeks Fantastic Four: First Steps by Matt Fraction, which gives MCU fans a taste of whats to come.  In the indies, you'll hear our takes on Beneath the Trees Vol 2, Archie Meets Jay and Silent Bob, Planet Death, The Unchosen, and Wild Animals! What a week for first issues! Hope you saved your pennies and used them wisely at your local comic shop this week. 

In addition to talking the big book of the week (Captain America - duh), we'll cover Sisterhood and Gehenna: Naked Aggression, both out on Image Comics. These are going to be fun to talk about, but please - I beg of you... Don't forget the news! We'll talk about the reveal from the X-Men Hellfire Vigil, Bots comic book Reddit needs, and a goodbye to the legend Jim Shooter.