A cornucopia of first issues this week, as the boys delve into the mind behind DC’s newest iconic villain, uncover the mysteries of Miskatonic, and … play golf with Taskmaster? DC Updates Punchline #1 X-Men Legends Returns Taskmaster #1 Miskatonic #1
Is DC Comics in trouble with the recent confirmation of an additional 10-15% reduction in their published titles? Also, the recent releases of DC Universe’s Doom Patrol and Netflix’s Umbrella Academy. Finally, in our comics discussion, we chat: Batman #65 (The Price crossover) Justice League #18 Return of Wolverine and the current state of the X-Men Universe
So I hope everyone enjoyed Comic Con this year. I enjoyed it flat on my back and unconscious – which is why this is a week late. So we have three weeks to cover, so let’s get started here at:
Welcome once more, readers. I’m back again though this time, I don’t have much to say. A good amount came out, just nothing that I can warm up to enough to talk about though there was some good stuff out there. And just one mildly annoying thing to talk about. But we have some news […]
First off, let me apologize for Paul’s sound quality this week. His Skype connection was not of the high caliber we usually enjoy and was in fact decidedly suckish. Second, I had several titles for this week’s show vying for selection: Mein Kampf 2: The Dark Fuhrer Strikes Again as well as Stealing Wolverine (and […]
How we spent Thanksgiving Fatman on Batman Star Wars rumors X-Men: Days of Future Past casting Jonathan Hickman bringing back Marvel’s New Universe Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4 Amazing Spider-Man #698 New Avengers #34 Indestructible Hulk #1 FF #1 Captain America #1 Journey Into Mystery #646 Thor: God of Thunder #2 All New X-Men #2 […]
The X-Men are about to face their deadliest threat…Vampire A Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse! No, that’s not right…but they are about to start a brand new ongoing series, an adjectiveless X-Men #1, written by Vampire A Go-Go and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse novelist Victor Gischler! Not only that, the premiere of the series […]
Back in Messiah Complex, the first new mutant was born since the end of House of M, which reduced the number of mutants in the Marvel U to 198. Hope, as the baby was named, escaped with Cable into the future, while Bishop, who believed the baby to be the fall of mutantkind rather than […]
Marvel made comic collecting easy for me. After Secret Invasion, I decided that the Marvel Universe was not a universe I was interested in. I love Spider-Man, but after making a deal with Mephisto and all the yada yada that followed, I just couldn’t get into Brand New Day. I even tried again when they […]