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June 22, 2025Wayne’s Comics Podcast #698: Interview with Tyler Kirkham
Tyler Kirkham is the guest for this week’s podcast episode, #698! Tyler is crowdfunding his new book, The Marvel Art of Tyler Kirkham, now available for preorder on Kickstarter!

Tyler updates us on this new book, the latest edition in Clover Press’ The Marvel Art of… line. Here’s how this deluxe art book is described: “Whether its Spider-Man swinging through New York or the Mandalorian in a galaxy far, far away, artist Tyler Kirkham has touched every corner of the Marvel universe. Now Clover Press will collect Kirkham’s most beloved Marvel artwork in The Marvel Art of Tyler Kirkham, which is currently available for pre-order via Kickstarter.” We discuss how Tyler started his career as a comic book artist, what he’s doing now, and what else he might be interested in achieving in the coming months and years. This crowdfunder will be completed at midnight on Friday, July 4, so be sure to back it once you’ve listened to this fun interview!

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52 min
June 20, 2025 Critical Hit #790 - Graduation Day (MWS01-E01)
In this installment of Critical Hit, a Major Spoilers TTRPG Podcast, a group of kids graduate from Monster Academy and take on a group of rivals - ON THE PITCH!
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2 hr 13 min
June 20, 2025 Legion Clubhouse #190: The Validus Plague
The Curse of Validus comes to pass as Lightning Lad is caught in the plague. Plus, WHAT happened to Phantom Girl, and does Jo Nah have a type?
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LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES V4 #2

December 1989 - On Sale October 19, 1988

w: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon/Tom and Mary Bierbaum

a: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon
Ultra Boy is targeted by assassins. Can a new friend save the day?
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES V4 #3

January 1990 - On Sale November 16, 1988

w: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon/Tom and Mary Bierbaum

a: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon
The Dominators claim the life of a former Legionnaire and the powers of another!
45 min
June 18, 2025 Major Spoilers Podcast #1131: The Podcast Smurfers
We're having a Smurfy Good Time as we look at the story that came before the Magic Flute. We also review Godzilla vs. The Avengers and New Avengers #1 from Marvel Comics.
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REVIEWS
STEPHEN

GODZILLA VS. AVENGERS

Writer: David F. Walker

Artist: Georges Jeanty

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Price: $4.99

Release Date: June 18, 2025

The original New Avengers return to face an unstoppable enemy – GODZILLA! In the aftermath of a massive battle between Godzilla, Fin Fang Foom, the Avengers and Jet Jaguar, S.H.I.E.L.D. tries to make sense of what went down – but everyone’s telling a different story!

What really happened during that fateful clash? Find out when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes take on Earth’s Mightiest Kaiju!

[rating:4/5]
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MATTHEW

NEW AVENGERS #1

Writer: Sam Humphries

Artist: Ton Lima

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Price: $4.99

Release Date: June 11, 2025

Carnage. The Hulk. Namor. Clea. Wolverine. Five of the most dangerous loners and antiheroes in the Marvel Universe. Nothing could make them work together...but Bucky Barnes and the Black Widow are going to give it a shot. Demented duplicates of the Illuminati are threatening the world, and if they figure out how to work together, they'll be as unstoppable as the originals. Bucky and Natasha need allies who will do anything to take the duplicates out - but wrangling a team of killers and monsters presents its own dangers. Welcome to the New Avengers - hope you survive the experience!

[rating:4/5]
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DISCUSSION
THE SMURFS AND FRIENDS

Writer: Thierry Culliford and Luc Parthoens

Artist: Jeroen de Connick

Publisher: Papercutz

An all-new collection featuring The Smurfs, and their friends! In this first volume Benny Breakiron returns in "The Red Taxi," Johan & Peewit embark on a never-before-seen adventure, and the Smurfs return with comic strips galore. This is a collection Peyo fans will not want to miss, and that will look great on any bookshelf.
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1 hr 8 min
June 15, 2025Wayne’s Comics Podcast #697: Interview with Tyler Chin-Tanner
Wayne catches us up on A Wave Blue World and their related projects by talking with the return of co-founder and co-publisher Tyler Chin-Tanner this week in Episode #697!

There’s a lot happening with AWBW, which is described this way: “Founded in 2005 by Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner, A Wave Blue World is an award-winning independent publisher of high-quality graphic novels, anthologies, and art books, focusing on socially conscious storytelling and providing a platform for a multitude of creative voices.” Tyler updates us on several new happenings with their high-power company, including their series Mezo (coming to Kickstarter soon), their new model for publishing comics, and their opening a new store in the New York City area! Be sure to check out their website for more information after you finish listening to our fun conversation!

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53 min
June 13, 2025 Critical Hit #789: Monster Wrangler - Session Zero
In this installment of Critical Hit, a Major Spoilers TTRPG podcast, the group sits around and discusses Monster Wranger and the characters they are thinking about creating.
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1 hr
June 13, 2025 Top Five Snacks (2025 Edition)
There's a rumbling in our tummies, and we need to fill that growling with snacks! SNACKS! But which snacks will make our list this time?
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38 min
June 11, 2025 Major Spoilers Podcast #1130: Good Ol' Major Spoilers
Good grief! We're talking Peanuts this week on the show. We also review Ancestral Recall #1 from AHOY Comics, Avengers Academy #1 from Marvel Comics, and Benjamin #1 from Oni Press.
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REVIEWS
STEPHEN

ANCESTRAL RECALL #1

Writer: Jordan Clark

Artist: Atagun Ilhan

Publisher: AHOY Comics

Cover Price: $4.99

Release Date: August 6, 2025

Black History: For painter Melvin Waring, it's an actual super power! When Melvin's wife mysteriously disappears, he must call on the most important Black figures of all time to help him in his search. A gripping new saga from two Milestone Initiative members: writer Jordan Clark (Aquaman, Star Wars Adventures) and artist Atagun Ilhan (Poison Ivy, Milestone Universe: The Shadow Cabinet).

[rating:4.5/5]
MATTHEW

AVENGERS ACADEMY #1

Writer: Anthony Oliveira

Artist: Carola Borellia/Bailie Rosenlund

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: June 11, 2025

SCHOOL'S IN SESSION! Welcome to Avengers Academy! Seeking to guide the next generation of super heroes, CAPTAIN MARVEL assembles a misfit team of super-powered teens: CAPTAIN AMERICA OF THE RAILWAYS, BLOODLINE, ESCAPADE, MOON GIRL, RED GOBLIN, and new hero on the block, KID JUGGERNAUT! But classes are the least of their concerns as they fend off super-villain attacks, make new friends - and new foes - and learn what it really means to be Earth's mightiest heroes. For the FIRST TIME IN PRINT, read issues #1-6 of Marvel's hit infinity series AVENGERS ACADEMY by rising star ANTHONY OLIVEIRA and visionary artists CAROLA BORELLI and BAILIE ROSENLUND! Featuring the first appearance of an all-new SINISTER SIX, this is one book you don't want to miss!

[rating:3.5/5]
RODRIGO

BENJAMIN #1

Writer: Ben H. Winters

Artist: Leomacs

Publisher: Oni Press Inc.

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: June 18, 2025

IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT BEGIN.... Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award-winner Ben H. Winters (EC's Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss, Refrigerator Full of Heads) unravel a three-part, prestige format series exploring the hallucinatory second life of a brilliant author who imagined our desperate future but never imagined he'd become part of it . .

More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Across 44 novels and hundreds of short stories-including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn't Erase-Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers' perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess finally ended a mind-bending career that always just escaped mainstream success. He died in 1982.

Until 2025 . . . when Benjamin J. Carp awakens, alive, in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles. He remembers dying. He knows he shouldn't exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios intensely through his fiction-and, now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he will be called to investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.

In the tradition of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard . . .

[rating: 3/5]

DISCUSSION
PEANUTS 1950

Writer/Artist: Charles Schulz

This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination toPeanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected before―in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we're all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members―Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus―initially show up as infants and only "grow" into their final "mature" selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Thus The Complete Peanuts offers a unique chance to see a master of the art form refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day, week by week, month by month.
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1 hr 10 min
June 10, 2025Munchkin Land #724: Codenames gets updated versions
Codenames is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and CGE will be releasing an updated version of the game. All this and more gaming news in this week's Munckin Land episode.
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NEWS
Happy Camper will release a new Co-Op game by Matt Leacock, Matt Riddle and Ben Pinchback called The Fours Doors, Aug 25 ($20- Preorder)
CrowD Games will release a new trick taking game called Stella Quest, Aug 25 (`$20)
Upon the 10th anniversary of Codenames, CGE will be releasing updated versions of Codenames, Codenames Duet and Codenames Pictures.
After a successful KS last year North Star Studio will launch Nature, the new (shorter) game based on their previous game Evolution, at Gen Con ‘25 ($65?)
Thunderworks Games will release a drafting card game by Phillip Dubary Citizens of the Spark, Aug 25 (~$50)
Emberleaf from City of Games will release in the US this fall now that it is in the middle of fulfillment. (~$60)
Star Wars Villainous: Cold Tactics adds Grand admiral Thrawn and Count Dooku and Disney Villainous: Treacherous Tides which adds Tamatoa (Moana) and Davy Jones. (Both early Aug $20)
ATOM SPOTLIGHT
Laura from Obsessed with board games
Scott from Boardgaming Bud
DIGITAL
Frosthaven Digital Demo this week!
Steam Next Fest and the Public Demo run from 6/9 at 10am PT (7pm CEST) to 6/16 at 10 am PT (7pm CEST) and Frosthaven will be playable for that whole time
CROWDFUNDING
KICKSTARTER
Gametoppers 5.0

The Tabletop Inn: A Board Game Bed & Breakfast

Hagia Sophia (Print and play roll and write)
GAMEFOUND
Agricola Special Edition

SolForge Fusion: Shadows Over Solis

Nexus Card Game
19 min
June 10, 2025Flash Family MEGA EPISODE (Barry Alan, Iris West, Wally West, Bart Allen)
Today, in celebration of the comic book series Absolute Flash, which is jumping off shelves worldwide, we've entered the Speed Force to summon the assistance of The Flash Family from some of our favorite Flash-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:
GHL 228: The Flash (Barry Allen) with Stephen Schleicher – Explore the science fiction origins of investigator Barry Allen, who redefined the role of The Flash.
GHL 462: Iris West (The Flash) – Study up on the smartest woman in Central City and discover what led to her romance with Barry Allen
GHL 146: Kid Flash (Wally West) – Discover the boy who grew up loving The Flash then perfected what it meant to be The Flash
GHL 365: Impulse (Bart Allen) – Follow the journey of the slack speedster who became The Flash and died to save the world
Suit up in red and gold and time travel your way through this epic celebration of the Flash Family! (Additional research and writing by Meredith Harris)

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