One of the biggest comics conventions is taking place this week, so you know Dave and Nathan will recap all the biggest news on the AIPT Comics podcast! After we get through all that, check out our interview with Charles Soule and Will Sliney to talk Hell to Pay.

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NEWS

1. 2022 Harvey Awards winners revealed
2. Marvel and Pfizer team up for COVID-19 vaccine awareness comic featuring Ultron and the Avengers
3. Marvel and New York City Public Library team up for special-edition Spider-Man library card on October 11
4. Marvel NYCC 2022
   1. Marvel reveals designs from Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s secret 2023 project
   2. Dark Web event gets series checklist and new details for January titles revealed
   3. MARVEL’S VOICES: The World Outside Your Window (Saturday, 10/8, 11:15 – 12:15 PM EST)
   4. MARVEL COMICS: Next Big Thing (Saturday, 10/8, 4:00 – 5:00 PM EST)
5. DC Comics NYCC news
   1. DC’s 2023 event ‘Lazarus Planet’ springs from ‘Batman vs. Robin’
   2. NYCC 2022: DC’s Jim Lee & Friends panel reveals ‘Batman’ cover art by Joe Quesada
   3. Action Comics continues with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Dan Jurgens to supply backup with Lee Weeks: Jurgens and Weeks will explore a tale of young Jon Kent on the farm with his parents, learning about his abilities, coming of age… and battling the Doombreaker. The final story in Action Comics will feature Power Girl returning in a three-part story by Leah Williams and Marguerite Sauvage. This story spins out of the Lazarus Planet event.
   4. Superman Son of Kal-El ends, gets Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent launch in early 2023 with Clayton Henry on art and Taylor writing.
   5. Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell to launch new Superman series: Superman has returned to Metropolis and his greatest enemy Lex Luthor is finally behind bars. The future of the Superman family has never been brighter! As Clark Kent settles back into his life, iconic and new enemies erupt from the shadows to strike down the Man of Steel!
6. AfterShock signs former DC Comics Senior Story Editor Brian Cunningham as editor in chief, their editor moved to Mad Cave
7. Publisher Charlie Stickney exits as Scout Comics publisher
8. Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla's horror comics series 'Night of the Ghoul' gets film deal
9. Vault's 'West of Sundown' gets expanded to ongoing series
10. 'Breath of Shadows' reunites Rich Douek and Alex Cormack in February 2023

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Gotham City: Year One (2022) #1 (Tom King, Phil Hester)
2. Dark Ride (2022) #1 (Josh Williamson, Andrei Bressan)

Nathan:

1. Poison Ivy #5 (G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #1 (Erik Burnham, Tim Lattie)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Spider-Man #1 (Dan Slott, Mark Bagley)

Dave - Batman #128 (Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Namor: The Sub-Mariner - Conquered Shores #1 (Chris Cantwell, Pasqual Ferry)
2. Nathan: Namor: The Sub-Mariner - Conquered Shores #1 (Chris Cantwell, Pasqual Ferry)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: DC's Terrors Through Time #1 (Steve Beach)
2. Nathan: 007 #3 (Rus Wooten B&W variant)

Interview: Charles Soule and Will Sliney: Hell to Pay interview: Out November 2, 2022!

1. What would be the Hell to Pay mission statement?
2. Since announced in December 2020, late-stage capitalism seems to have only gotten worse, what was the motivations to make that element so important in Hell to Pay?
3. The official summary dubs this series Hellboy meets Indiana Jones, what is the collaboration process like creating the creatures in this series?
4. There's some historical connections introduced in the first issue, for the history nerds out there should they expect more?
5. Hell to Pay was being created over Twitch which was quite exciting, how did that affect your process and did it end up making you look at the work in a different light?
6. This series has been years in the making, but when did the first bud of the idea start kicking around?
7. Will, your layouts are fantastic in the first issue, along with the buildings and structures, what was the collaboration process like creating the truly disturbing locations in this book?
8. When diving into a story that has Hell in its title, how much research do you do as far as Hell in fiction and historical texts?
9. Will, there seems to be a lot of symmetry with how you frame the page, are you going for a specific effect with page design?