Give Me Comics or Give Me Death!

It's that time of year again - we mingled and marvelled at the UK's premier comic festival Thought Bubble, and we fill you all in on what you missed!Plus reviews; including the new Vertigo Revolution with Art Ops #1, Clean Room #1, Slash and Burn #1, Survivor's Club #1, The Twilight Children #1, and Unfollow #1.  We also cast our net wider to other publishers with The Goddamned #1, James Bond #1, and Papergirls #2.Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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In Episode 59 we play God (or publisher at least) and dream up our ideal creative teams on various titles from Marvel, DC, Image, Valiant, and more!Plus reviews of Batman Annual 4, Sandman Overture 6, Black Paths, They are Not Like Us 8, and Inhumans: Attilan Rising!Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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After a summer break we catch up with a ton of reviews, as well as overviews of our favourite current titles!Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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Its our annual analysis of comic book sales!  Probably more fun that it sounds!  Who's top dog?  How is the health of the industry?  These questions and more answered by amateurs!Plus reviews of loads of Star Wars comics, some Secret Wars comics, plus Bizarro, Material, Optic Nerve, Fight Club 2 and Airboy!Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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An explosive melting pot of stuff this episode; we give you the low down on Dynamite Entertainment, discuss Avengers: Age of Ultron and various comic movie trailers, and we throw in a bit of creator rights chat in there as well!Plus our usual review round-up including Southern Bastards #8, Superior Iron Man #8, Convergence: The Question #1, Velvet #10, Rebels #1, Kaptara #1, Never Boy #1, Vacancy, and more!Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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We get all Fox Mulder this episode as we discuss aliens - in comics!  The good, the bad and the ugly, and why they aren't alien enough for us.Plus reviews of Descender #1, Convergence #0, Ultra Comics, Black Vortex, Avengers and Miami Vice Remix #1Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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He's the definitive X-Men artist! He reinvented Superman before reinventing Superman was a thing!  He's worked on pretty much every Superhero comic there is!  He's the latest entrant into our Hall of Fame!  He is John Byrne.  Plus a ton of debut issues in our reviews round-up including;

Howard The Duck #1, Southern Cross #1, Chrononauts #1, Hawkeye #1, Invisible Republic #1, The Surface 1, Shamballa, Sex #20, and Hound Comics.Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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In Episode 52 we take a look at long-running series and discuss which creative teams produced the DEFINITIVE takes on those characters and which produced the BEST!  Don't worry we (try to) explain what we mean!  Plus our usual review round-up including Criminal, They're Not Like Us #3, Jupiter's Legacy #5 Curb Stomp #1, Effigy #1, Storm #8, Magneto #15, Crossed One Hundred #2 and All New X-Men #38.Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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In episode 51 we preview the who-knows-what-they-are big 2015 events from Marvel and DC; Secret Wars and Convergence.  We also get all practical and advice-like discussing cataloguing your comics collection.In our reviews round-up we give the yay or nay to Star Wars #1, The Sculpture, Ivar Time Walker #1, Uncanny Avengers #1, Inhuman #11 and New Avengers #29.Follow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

us at givemecomicsorgivemedeath.blogspot.com, and come and 'like' us at FacebookPart 1 00:00:00 - 01:10:56 Secret Wars and ConvergencePart 2 00:10:57 - 01:50:22 Cataloguing ComicsPart 3 01:50:23 - 2:23:26 Reviews

Not only is this our 50th episode, its also our annual awards episode - The Gimmies!  We decide what was hot and what was not in 2014.  Our nominees are listed below - listen in to find out who were the deserving winners!Best Single IssueMultiversity: Pax AmericaCyborg M85Silver Surfer #5Outcast #1Best Mini-SeriesStray Bullets: KillersSandman: OvertureAnnihilatorTrilliumBest WriterJason AaronMatt FractionBrain K VaughanGrant MorrisonBest Graphic NovelJust So HappensSecondsHereHilda & The Black HoundBest ColoursJordie BellaireIve SvorcinaJavier RodriguezTula LotayBest Writer/ArtistDavid LaphamJeff LemireLuke PearsonLandoArtistJason LatourFiona StaplesJ H Williams IIIFrazer IrvingTalent Deserving of Wider RecognitionBenjamin WrightLandoTsemberlidisBest Ongoing SeriesSagaSouthern BastardsSex CriminalsLazarusBest PublisherImage ComicsHumanoidsNobrowVertigoFollow us on twitter @comicsordeath, download us from iTunes and visit

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