Living Between Wednesdays

It's the first week of the Living Between Wednesdays summer book club! This week Rachelle and Dave are revisiting the classic DC Elseworlds tale, Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. It's twenty years old this year! It's the comic that inspired Jay-Z to return to hip hop, at least as far as Rachelle is concerned.

Before that they talk about the sudden and tragic death of actor Anton Yelchin. As well they discuss the latest Spider-Man: Homecoming casting announcements, the reports from the Justice League movie set visit, and Rachelle's woes over the Spider-Man event in the Avengers Academy game. In the This Week in Winter Soldier segment, Rachelle is very excited about the Captain America gay porn parody.

It's the 50th episode of Living Between Wednesdays! Holy smokes!

Dave is back from L.A. and he's got big news! Rachelle has nothing of note to announce! They both discuss all the DC Rebirth titles, as well as the latest comic book news. This week also sees the return of the very important This Week in Winter Soldier segment!

In the second half, Dave and Rachelle share their own 'secret origin' stories, or how they got into reading comics and loving super heroes. AND they announce this line-up for their summer book club, which starts next week! Read along all summer!

Dave is away this week so Rachelle calls up a couple of fellow female fans to chat about fandom, fanfic, comics, Marvel movies and more!

Rachelle is joined via Skype this week by Rebecca, a long-time comic book fan in England, and Jacqui, a newer comic fan by way of the Marvel movies in Philadelphia. Many, many things are discussed, including inclusion in comics and in Marvel casting, fanfic preferences, Bucky, meeting celebrities, the Winter Soldier, Tumblr, Sebastian Stan, meeting people through online fandoms, and James Buchanan Barnes.

Also in this episode, it's the return of Rachelle's son Mitchell, who shares some thoughts on the new all-ages book, Brobots, by J. Torres and Sean Dove! 

Dave is on vacation! Rachelle is joined by Strange Adventures comic shops owner, Cal Johnston, who is an all-around super guy. They discuss some of the more controversial comic books and comic book arcs from the last few decades, including Superior Spider-Man, Death of Superman, Identity Crisis, The Killing Joke, One More Day, and the Death of Captain America. Before that they talk about the possible casting of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, and a whole lot about fan entitlement.

Woah. What a week, huh guys? Rachelle and Dave were spared having to see X-Men Apocalypse this week because there was so much to talk about in the world of actual comic books!

The uproar caused by Steve Rogers Captain America #1 (and, to a lesser extent, DC's Rebirth) perfectly demonstrated the challenges faced by comic book publishers, creators and fans in this age of social media. Dave and Rachelle talk about many, many things this week, including fans and publishers spoiling major comic events, and then how these events are scrutinized by the non-comic-reading public. They also get into the plethora of issues that were raised this week in the comic (mostly Captain America) fandom: racism, misogyny, homophobia, fan entitlement, projection, trolling, mob mentality, censorship, fictional characters vs real life, fiction as a mirror of real life, fictional evil, and more! They also talk about the actual content of Captain America #1 and DC Rebirth, and Dave has some thoughts about the first episode of Preacher!

Rachelle and Dave head to Moncton, New Brunswick for the East Coast Comic Expo! They had a great time and talk all about it. 

Also in this episode, they discuss Wonder Woman: Earth One, the spoilers for DC's Rebirth, the Thor: Ragnarok casting announcements, and the first issue of Future Quest. In the This Week in Winter Soldier segment, Rachelle is very interested in Bucky's ability to gently caress plums with his metal arm.

The news of Darwyn Cooke's death this week was absolutely devastating, not only to those who knew him, but those who love his work. Rachelle and Dave were lucky enough to not only be fans of Darwyn's, but also to call him a friend. In this episode they share their own memories of him, and look back at his incredible body of work. There is a lot of very therapeutic laughter.

The second part of the episode covers a few hot topics from the past week in comics, including new casting announcements for the Black Panther movie, the cancellation of Agent Carter, and the announcement of a Harley Quinn movie. Also, Rachelle watched the Civil War cast episode of the new Chelsea Handler talk show and still has no idea what the hell she watched.

Dave and Rachelle are joined by star artist/nice guy/friend J.Bone this week to talk about CIVIL WAR!!!!!!

Warning: this episode contains SPOILERS! In fact, it is nothing but spoilers! But that's ok because you've seen Captain America: Civil War at least twice by now, right?

Before they talk about that, a few other things are discussed, including Free Comic Book Day, Thunderbolts #1, Sharon Stone maybe joining the MCU, and Ben Affleck becoming an executive producer on the Justice League movie.

Big thanks to J.Bone! Check out his art in The Rocketeer at War #3, which hits comic shops this week!

Happy Civil War Week everyone (in North America)!

Dave and Rachelle's excitement levels are out of control for

But first: Dave is excited about a possible Wonder Man

The comic book world was stunned last week to learn that DC had

Also in this episode: Rachelle and Dave mourn the sudden death