In addition to the title topics we'll talk a bit about "What if... Venom", Roy Thomas's return to Conan, Josh Gad is another celeb coming to comics, Alan Moore's last comic, Marvels new freebies titled "Must Haves", and I share some recent slabs I got my hands on. 

Yes, Blasfamous is spelt right! It's a new comic from club Favorite Mirka Andolfo out on DSTLRY right now. We're also talking about the sister series to The One Hand (which we covered a couple weeks back), The Six Fingers by Dan Watters out on Image comics.  Before getting into those titles, we're talking comic book news! Hear our takes on DC releases moving back to Wednesdays for new comic book day, The announce of DC's Absolute Power, Jason Aaron apparently writing a Scrooge McDuck comic, EC Comics being reborn at Oni, and oh so much more.

This week, MCU fans were bombarded with news! We'll discuss the reception of Madame Web, The X-Men 97 and Deadpool & Wolverine trailers, Fantastic Four casting, and Midnight Sons movie rumors. Beyond the cinema, we're telling 70s and 80s babies to pick up Thundercats issue 2 if you want the first appearance of a new Thundercat "Calica". We're also talking a few additional comics like Jackpot 1 which features a super-powered Mary Jane Watson, Sinister Sons 1 which gives us a DC comics villian version of the Super Sons, and Blue Book 1947 issue 1, which will be another mini-series documenting encounters, AT LEAST of the second kind... maybe third kind by the time the series is through!!?? Need more? Hop over to the Patreon, where next week we'll be discussing error variants, and a few buzzworthy comics.

This weeks First Issue Club is all about comic book news! It was a heavy week for announcements, controverseys, and factoids. If you dare press play, you'll hear about the Cadence Comic Art exodus, the hobby of collecting art, the El Muerto movie moving forward without its star Bad Bunny, the state of the super hero movie, Rob Liefeld retiring from Deadpool, Black Panther Unlimited having 12,000 copies go missing, AND MORE! Thats about 40-45 minutes worth of news before we get to comics, so if you wanna head straight to the reading club, skip ahead to somewhere in that range. 

This week in addition to the comics in the title, we're talking DC's Power, which is the return of their Black History Month anthology, and trying to explain Dead X-Men 1 as best we can. In the news we're talking the casting of a new Super Girl, another actor drops from Marvels Thunderbolts, unauthorized celeb comics, and Ghost Machine's creator exclusivity.

This week we're focusing most of our brainpower on trying to understand the Ghost Machine timeline - A new connected and unconnected universe of comics on Image from Geoff Johns & friends, which is related to Gieger which you might remember from a few years back, also on Image. Then, Mike D takes us back a couple months to cover a book we missed! Red Light on on AWA, was a fantastic first issue that we recommend for adult readers. 

This week the club is BUZZING with excitement to get into Jason Aaron picking up TMNT on IDW, and the big change in X-titles thats just around the corner. We're also covering the comics in the title in addition to a couple extras like Garth Ennis taking on 007, The Bloody Dozen from Charles Soule, and Fall of the House of X.

Ha-Cha-Cha! It's another episode of the First Issue Club. This episode Vargas, Mike, & Greg immeditaley get off track talking about the Dice-Man, and Morgan Wallen (I think the throughline being cancellable people who were controversally on SNL). Then, we're getting to comics with a quick chat about Marvel Comic's The Hood before we cover our first issues, speaking of which: Greg talks us through Sean Gordon Murphy's Zorro, and Jonathan Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man. Andy goes back a week to cover the books we missed over the New Year (due to our best of episode... Check it out), & talks us through The Agent, Skeeters, Kyle Stark's Pine & Merrimac & Joshua Williamson's Duke. Lastly, Mike goes even further back into December to cover Jason Aarons Batman Off-World.  If you can't get enough, join us over on our Patreon for bonus episodes, or check out our guest appearance on this weeks BLVD Brewcast where Greg & Mike talk comics and beer with our pals at Boulevard Brewery. 

Welcome to the 2023 First Issue Club BESTIES! We've got categories like BEST COMICS WRITER, BEST COMICS ARTIST, BEST INDIE COMIC, BEST MARVEL OR DC COMIC, BEST COMIC EVENT, and BEST NEW COMIC. All this and more as we get into rapid-fire besties of more obscure categories after our main besties. Press play to see what we liked & why we liked it. If we missed something this year, let us know what to add to our reading lists on social: @firstissueclub

First Issue Club looks into the crystal ball for another years end, to gaze upon the possibities the next year holds. We'll be speculating on trends in comics including stuff like AI, Crowdfunding, Representation, Digital Comics, Grading, and much more!  We'll see ya next year for our best of 2023 episode. Thanks for listening and supporting FIC for another year!