Welcome to the inaugural FIRST ISSUE CLUB COMIC BOOK SUMMER SLAM! This week you’re getting TWO episodes, and we need YOU...YES YOU...to vote to decide the winner. After listening, go to our social media pages on Twitter or Facebook and let us know who won!
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This week: "The Immortal Hulk" imagines our monstrous green friend as a horror story, "Sword Daughter" gives us a mysterious origin story and "Justice League" takes us to the extreme.
DC Comics
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Valiant Comics
This week we cover "Man of Steel", "Valiant High", and "Glacier City". Plus, what type of guy are incels, are all comics expected to be tv shows now and is Superman gonna cheat on his wife?
DC Comics
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This week: riding off the success of the movie, "Black Panther" gives us something totally unexpected with a dash of afrofuturism. "Adventure Time: Beginning of the End" kicks off our sad goodbye to the TV show, and "TMNT: Urban Legends" takes the turtles back to their gritty 90s roots.
Kaboom Comics
Marvel Comics
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This week: "A Walk Through Hell" gives a slow burn horror take on our Trump era politics. Then, "Flavor" uses food to tell a story of female empowerment, and "Ether: The Copper Golems" uses alternate realities to tell a story of male selfishness.
Image Comics
Dark Horse Comics
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Archaia Comcis
This week: "Venom" humanizes a character we realize we don't actually know a lot about: the symbiote. Plus, "Barrier" dissects the importance of language in our charged debate about immigration, and "Fraggle Rock" reminds us the childhood joy of creating for creating's sake.
Image Comics
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This week: "Avengers #1" brings the gang back together and "Death Or Glory" tries to make antiheroes out of some "real America" preppers.
Image Comics
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This week: "Thanos Annual" gives us a clip show special of Thanos' nihilistic hijinks. Plus, "Aliens: Dust To Dust" gives us new insight into xenomorphs and "Jeepers Creepers" gives us a good laugh.
Dark Horse Comics
Dynamite Comics
This week: we cover our first book on film: "Avengers Infinity War"! That's right, we can't ignore the biggest thing in comic books this week...a movie. But, before that, we cover Image's "Skyward"!
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This week: "Robocop: CItizen's Arrest" takes the neighborhood watch to a whole new level. Then "Exiles" gives us the anime wolverine we've always wanted...just not yet. And, "The Immortal Men" doesn't quite live up to the hype.
Marvel Comics
DC Comics
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This week: have you ever been close to a comic you loved, or close to folks who have? Well the odds stack up so high with “Analog”, we feel a pain so powerful with “Isola”, and knock on wood with “Demi-God”.
Image Comics
IDW Comics
In this variant edition of the podcast, we focus in on Marvel's new Fresh Start initiative. Who will be affected by this shift, what's going to change, and why are they doing it now? There's a lot of important questions to explore.
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This week: "Weapon H" mashes up Wolverine and The Hulk...that's right. Then "Lucy Dreaming" takes us into some deadly teenage dreams and Stand Sakai continues his incredible, "Usagi Yojimbo".
Dark Horse
Boom! Studios
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This week: "Eternity Girl" gives us something entirely new...a superhero with depression. Plus, "Vampronica" takes another look into the horror Archie universe and "The New Mutants" reminds us of classic X-men.
Marvel Comics
Archie Horror
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This week: the author of "The Walking Dead" starts his next saga with "Oblivion Song". Then, "Gideon Falls" gets heady with a priest and a person who collects trash. And finally, "The Highest House" begins a tragically beautiful new series.
IDW Comics
Image Comics
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This week: honestly, "The Terrifics" is just trolling The Fantastic Four, right? Plus, the founding editor of Clickhole writes one of the funniest damn comics we've ever read, and "The Beef" is takes a new look at revenge.
Image Comics
Marvel Comics
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This week: "Multiple Warheads: Ghost Throne" reminds us why we fell in love with comics. Plus, "Pumpkin Head" revives an 80s horror film, and "Deathbed" gives us some full frontal violence.
Dynamite Comics
Vertigo Comics
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This week: "Death of Love" critiques the "nice guy" stereotype. DC continues a pretty good winning streak of launching new superheroes with "Sideways". Then "Kickass" re-launches with an all new character behind the iconic green and yellow suit.
Image Comics
Image Comics
