The Last Comic Shop Podcast

Twelve issues. Four Eisners. And the strangest-looking superhero comic DC has published in years.

Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez were given six issues to do something with Martian Manhunter — a character most readers think of as the fifth-most-interesting person in the Justice League. What they made instead was an abstract horror comic that DC extended to twelve, and that Camp and Rodríguez then chose to end on their own terms rather than let run.

Andy, Chad, and JA read the whole thing: what Rodríguez is doing with page layout that nobody else in mainstream comics is attempting, how Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's lettering carries as much of the story as the art, whether the horror framing works for a character built on loneliness — and whether the ending sticks the landing.

At the 2026 Eisners the book took Best Limited Series, with Rodríguez winning Best Penciller/Inker and Best Cover Artist, and Otsmane-Elhaou winning Best Lettering.

NEXT ON THE READING LIST: Fantastic Four: Unthinkable by Mark Waid & Mike Wieringo    

Host: Andy Larson  

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott    

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#MartianManhunter #AbsoluteUniverse #DCComics #Eisner #DenizCamp

There's no plot in Nocturnos.

Laura Pérez just walks you through the night — a collision on a dark road, a bedtime story that stops being a story, a path through the woods toward symbols nobody carved.    

Andy, Chad, Nicole, and JA get into Pérez's vignettes: what holds a book together when there's no narrative to hold onto, how the color work carries the dread, and why a book with this little happening in it landed on the Washington Post's best-of-the-year list. Translated by Andrea Rosenberg. Published by Fantagraphics. Winner of the 2026 Eisner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material.    

Then we play Scenarios — matching comic book characters to the nighttime jobs they'd actually be good at. Who do you want on the night shift? Who's driving the bus at 3am? Who do you trust to tell a bedtime story?    

Did You Know?: Laura Pérez was nominated for an Emmy for designing the Only Murders in the Building title sequence.

NEXT ON THE READING LIST: "Absolute Martian Manhunter" by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez

Host: Andy Larson

Co Host: Chad Smith and JA Scott

Guest Panelist: Nicole Larson 

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Illyana Rasputin steps through a portal as a little girl and comes back a teenage sorceress. This week we're reading Magik: Storm and Illyana, Chris Claremont's 1983 limited series about the seven years Colossus's little sister spent trapped in Limbo — while barely a moment passed on Earth.

We get into Belasco, the Soulsword, the bargains Illyana makes to survive, and how startlingly dark this book is for a mainstream Marvel comic in 1983. We also talk about where Magik goes after this, and why she's found a much larger audience in the last few years than she ever had at the time.    

Plus we put ourselves on the spot with a Jeopardy-style X-Men quiz — five categories, escalating difficulty, and at least one answer none of us had any excuse for missing.

NEXT ON THE READING LIST: "Nocturnos" by Lauren Perez

Host: Andy Larson

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

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Host: Andy Larson

Co Host: Chad Smith

Guest Panelist: Mikey Wood

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#DoctorDoom #AvengersDoomsday #DoctorStrange #MikeMignola #Marvel

A true crime podcast that kills the people who listen to it. That's the premise of Murder Podcast - the debut title from Ignition Press, which sold out in 24 hours! 

Andy, Chad, and JA dig into Jeremy Haun and Mike Tisserand's horror comic: the podcast-as-curse conceit, Nick Fillardi's colors, and whether the first issue earns the hype it got.

Then JA Scott recaps Super Manila Comic Con - What the floor was like, who he talked to, and what the Philippine comic scene looks like right now from someone that was actually there! 

If you liked our Trese episode, JA's Manila recap is the natural follow-up! 

Host: Andy Larson

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

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#Murderpodcast #Truecrime #Horrorcomics #comiccon #Manila #Phillippinecomics #Comicbooks

What if...your best friend invited you to this amazing lake house for the weekend, and then the world ended?

Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, & Jordie Bellarie seeks to answer that question over 12 gripping issues.

We decide if it was a question worth asking to begin with. 

Plus the legendary Hammer Films put out a list of the Top 10 Horror Graphic Novels of All Time! We review the list and make our own recommendations of comics they might have missed! 

Host: Andy Larson

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Guest Panelist: Mikey Wood

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Two Batmans, one $2.99 comic. DC's Batman Day centerpiece gives you a mainline Batman story from Matt Fraction and Javi Fernández, and an Absolute Batman story from Scott Snyder and Nick Derington — two completely different versions of the same character, back to back.

Andy, Chad, JA, and Ethan review both halves: whether Fraction's Batman works, what Derington brings to Absolute, and whether a two-story sampler is the right way to sell Batman Day.

Plus we play Blind Ranks, three rounds deep. Commit to a placement before you know what's coming next, then live with it:

NEXT ON THE READING LIST: Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Host: Andy Larson

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Guest Panelist: Ethan Larson 

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#Batman #BatmanDay #AbsoluteBatman #MattFraction #ScottSnyder

Host: Andy Larson

Co Host: Chad Smith and JA Scott 

Guest Panelist: John Davis (Terror Destruction Death Drones Series), Website

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Time plays a critical role in this week's show as we review the 2026 Eisner award winner for "Best New Series" with Assorted Crisis Events volume 1 by Deniz Camp & Eric Zawadzki! 

Plus we place 8 other Eisner award winning comics from the 2026 awards in a tournament bracket to see which one we will read on the podcast before the end of the year! Will it be Absolute Martian Manhunter? Lord of the Flies? Purgatory Funeral Cakes? Listen to find out!    

Host: Andy Larson 

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

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You don't need Excalibur to listen to this week's podcast covering DC Comics first ever maxi series with "Camelot 3000" by Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland.  

Plus we play a round of "Team Builder" where the Last Comic Shop gang will assemble an evil "Knights of the Round Table" out of famous comic book supervillains! Which baddies will be our brave King Arthur, our magical Merlin, and our sexy Guenevere?

Host: Andy Larson

Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Guest Panelist: Mikey Wood

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