Live from the Boom Tube!

It's the final episode of 2019, and on the eve of Rise of Skywalker, Captain and Vinny debate the previous two Star Wars films, and the universe itself, before jumping into the omni-sphere of dark space known as the Boom Tube. In Chip Zdarsky's Doom 2099, a man falls from out of space and time...a man who once built himself, and his people, from nothing, and must do so once more. His name? Doom...Doctor Doom! With help from a couple Kryptonians, a new Bat must tackle the chaos in Gotham City as the wake of the Trump election takes hold of its citizens in Frank Miller's one-issue story: The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child! Onboard a luxury yacht in SPACE!...Predators kill people, and...yeah, it's cool...in Jeremy Barlow's Alien vs. Predator: Thicker Than Blood #1!

In Live from the Boom Tube's first special episode, Captain and Vinny take a close look at the history and work of one of comic books' most acclaimed, yet bizarre writers: Grant Morrison. As they discuss Morrison's writing style, the two share their favorite 'Morrison moments', including an Ultrasphinx's impossible riddle Superman must answer, a 'backup personality' that erupts from a mentally-deteriorated Batman, and a particularly 'special' moment for Vinny, where Animal Man directly confronted him from the page of the book. 

Captain reiterates his love for Batman and Vader. Vinny burps a few times.

Captain returns from the supermarket after buying grapes. In DEADPOOL #1 from Marvel Comics, our favorite Merc with a Mouth is crowned King of the Monsters, which is definitely not the best birthday present he's ever received. We have QUESTIONS that can only be ANSWERED by THE QUESTION in THE QUESTION: THE DEATHS OF VIC SAGE, a QUESTIONABLE mystery from DC Comics' Black Label. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you dropped a cybernetic samurai in the middle of a futuristic, Mad Max-styled American wasteland? Wonder no more, as Valiant Comics' RAI #1 provides the ANSWER! Colin Daniels is here for you. Abstor begs you to buy a hardwood floor.

In brightest day and blackest night, a new Green Lantern must protect a planet at the edge of the universe when a murder takes place for the first time in 500 years in DC Comics’ Far Sector #1; in Family Tree #1 from Image Comics, the apocalypse has begun in a small town in Maine, but instead of fire and brimstone, it arrives in a much...greener way; Vinny burps more; once a doctor, now a blood-thirsty vampire, the brilliant Dr. Michael Morbius ponders Greek philosophy and virtue as he tears through his enemies in Marvel’s Morbius: The Living Vampire #1.

Music by Filmstro and Captain!

Hey you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me? Vinny and Captain are here to warm the cockles of your heart in Issue #4! When American finally builds its wall and seals itself away from the rest of the world, unexpected horrors come out to play in the Land of the Free in Image Comics’ Undiscovered Country #1 by Scott Snyder and Charles Soule. Rev up your engines, scream for vengeance and ride the lightning with Johnny Blaze as he continues his quest to return escaped demons from hell in Marvel Comics’ Ghost Rider #2. CALLING ALL LEGIONNAIRES! Join the movement to rebuild the Earth with Superboy and his new friends, the Legion of Super-Heroes, in DC Comics’ long-awaited new series Legion of Super-Heroes #1 by Brian Michael Bendis(sssssss). Learn the anatomy of Aquaman’s penis. Vinny burps again. 

In the third installment of Live from the Boom Tube!, Captain and Vinny take a close look at John Constantine as he is confronted by cancerous demons, the apocalypse, and... his future self in Hellblazer #1 by Simon Spurrier; Vinny recounts the 'holy scripture' that was Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four saga, and the impact it had on the comic book world as we know it through Fantastic Four: Grand Design #1 by Tom Scioli. From within the darkest reaches of the endless void, something contacts the Boom Tube! Captain gets fired up as Darth Vader takes on lava zombies in his own, Vader-y way in Return to Vader's Castle #5 by Cavan Scott. Vinny burps.

This week on Live from the Boom Tube!, Vinny and Captain have their minds melted by the awesome power of the Cosmic Hulk in Al Ewing's Immortal Hulk #25. Then, Black Adam defends his people from an infected version of Shazam's plans to put a shopping mall in the middle of the desert in Black Adam: Year of the Villain #1 by Paul Jenkins. Finally we search for a means of sexual expression in a world that wants to suppress it in the first issue of Image Comics' new hit series Safe Sex #1 by Tina Horn. And all the while, strange transmissions from another dimension have crossed paths with the Boom Tube...

Live from the Boom Tube, Vinny and Captain bring you three new comic book issues from three publishers: DC Comics, Marvel, and a third publisher chosen differently every week. This week, weird romances and family life are emerging out of Krakoa, the secluded mutant paradise of X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman; in 1940s Metropolis, Superman tackles white supremacy and xenophobia in Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang; ghost-monsters and goddesses disguised as stuffed animals claw at each other at the cost of children’s lives in Boom Studio’s latest mystery-horror, Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV.