Doc and Friar discuss the collected editions of comic books you can add to your holiday wish list — or ones you should consider for the comic book readers in your life!

Plus, our normal weekly reviews!

Holiday Gift Guide Categories:

• First Volume of an Ongoing Series (39:20)
• Completed Series / OGN (1:02:25)
• Youth / Young Adult Books (1:21:00)
• New to Comics? Try These... (1:28:28)

Doc and Friar dip back into TLDR's main line of episodes with an-all DC Comics episode!

Doc and Friar go through all the new comics hitting shelves this week and throughout the entire month of November.

Week 2 - 44:15

Week 3 - 1:00:35

Week 4 - 1:12:58

Joseph Schmalke makes his long overdue TLDR debut to discuss all his work at Midnight Factory and how he came to co-found his own publisher.

Ahead of a particularly spooky Friar Side chat, Doc and Friar discuss the books dropping before Halloween.

Doc and Friar discuss all the new comic books hitting shelves this week!

Zack Quaintance joins the show to discuss his successfully funded Kickstarter story, Macbre Valley, which you can still get your hands on through October 31: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackq/macabre-valley

Also, Zack talks about news from NYCC with Doc and Friar while also trying to forecast what else is to come from comics in 2026.

Following their latest Friar Side Chat (and ahead of another), Doc and Friar discuss all the comics hitting shelves this week.

With his remarkable fantasy series, DIE, returning, Kieron Gillen checks in to talk about the newly titled, DIE: LOADED.

But that's not all: Kieron also digs in on THE POWER FANTASY (39:59) with the third arc having just begun.

DIE: LOADED #1 Final Order Cutoff (FOC): October 20

DIE: LOADED #1 On Shelves: November 12

THE POWER FANTASY Vol. #1 & 2: In Stores Note

Doc is back from his journey to the Southwest, so it's time for a little Main Line action on TLDR! This episode, the guys discuss a pair of indie titles.

(Main line begins at 39:19.)