February 2015 Solicitations Preview

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episodes. For now though... It's time for IDW,

DC, Image, and Marvel once again. Here is Profiling

Previews, February 2015. This is getting expensive.

We are back, folks, with February's IDW Publishing

Solicitations, February 2015. Joining me once

again is the Hailstorm herself. Hello. Hi. Bonjour.

Hola. How are you? I'm good. And we promise folks,

our segment here for IDW will not be 30 minutes

like it was last time. It will either be longer

or shorter. It depends on what kind of rage or

rant or fangirl moment I get on. Oh boy. All

right. So these are all things that are supposed

to be released from IDW in February. Some of

them might be advanced solicitations, but most

of them are coming out in February. First one

I want to just briefly mention everybody is the

Rocketeer, the complete adventures. Yes, that's

right. written in art and color all by Dave Stevens.

Cliff Secord is a down -on -his -luck pilot and

is always looking for ways to make a fast buck.

Discovering a stolen rocket pack could be the

one thing that will turn his fortunes around.

But will it? What follows are government agents,

German spies, deception, danger, and adventure.

This is the world of The Rocketeer, all of Dave

Stevens' original comics collected in one book.

Oh, wow! This is, oh, this is the original stuff.

Cool. Uh huh. Oh, okay. Trade paperback, full

color, $20, 148 pages. This is going to be awesome.

Collected at Softcover for the very first time.

Oh wait, to the Amazon copy. I've got to get

this, I've got to get this because this is beautiful.

The visual right here was awesome. And of course,

I love movie still love the movie. Oh, wow. That's

a bad price. Okay Is a buddy of mine Doug Abel

who does the podcast talking about my generation

with I do that It's his show but I do it with

him. We had done a review on Rocketeer when it

hit Netflix Last year and we were talking about

these comics in you know in context of the movie

and at that time there was nothing really like

a full collection so it's kinda nice that IDW

is putting this out. This is gonna be a really

really big thing for people that love the original

Rocketeer and the movie. Well kids to pay trade

paper back on Amazon is really really affordable

you're talking about eight issues and it's less

than 16 bucks right now Yeah, that's awesome.

What's the release date on Amazon? It's saying

March 10th Not February it's March Well, it was

in the February solicits. Oh, that's okay. We're

still gonna talk about it. You can't get the

hardcover It's temporarily out of stock, but

you can probably get the hardcover Right Right,

right, right. Um, yeah, no, this looks absolutely

awesome. Oh, this is cool. Why did I know about

this before? Original rock tears awesome people

Absolutely is So also coming in February Dave

number one of five This is a spotlight written

by Ryan Ferrier. All right by Valentin Ramon

What a romantic name, oh my gosh Colors by Fiona

Staples Primetime TV mortgages traffic jams the

robots conquered earth Wiping out all life in

the galaxy, but nothing changed meet D4VE, the

greatest robot war hero now trapped behind a

desk at a soul -sucking day job. Can something

somewhere snap him out of his slump? This is

D4VE's midlife crisis. Okay, see, I originally

read this as Dave, not D4VE. Wow. It's Dave.

It's a Dave. It's a robot. Can you see why I'm

a sucker for robots? And he has a day, he has

a soul sucking day job. I'm like, I relate to

this guy. Okay. I made a joke about another podcasting

friend of ours last month in the January podcast.

And I'm going to make another one about him here

because it really sounds like this could happen

to Mikey. I don't know the man. Personally at

all whatsoever. I just know from hearing him

on the under base, but Yeah Mikey is just kind

of he's Irish he's kind of honorees, you know,

I love the Irish they're insane and I and I love

Mikey even more So this new spotlight series

from IDW. We'll have subscription covers. It

will be $3 .99 an issue. It is featuring cover

by saga artist Fiona Staples. D4VE is a masterclass

in robotic midlife crisis and is ripe with laughs.

So says bloody disgusting. Another quote from

Let's see here. The AV club, both Ferrier and

Ramon are relative newcomers to the industry,

but their outstanding work on D4V makes them

two creators to keep an eye on in the future.

I'm excited for this. I cannot wait to read this.

I mean, the solicitation that's been going on

has got me intrigued. Yeah, I mean, it does look

like something that the pullback might have to

review because it does sound very, very interesting.

Thankfully there are no zombies. It looks like

some crazy creatures are going to be in it though.

Yeah, crazy creatures, yeah. For those of you

trying to catch up on Teenager Ninja Heroes Volume

10, New Mutant Order is coming out in February.

This collects issues 37 to 40. It's $17 .99.

This is the one where Shredder and Krang finally

meet up, but will they be able to overcome their

differences and join forces? Meanwhile, Old Hob

has perfected the art of making mutants. With

the ranks of his mutant gang swelling, the Turtles

will have to determine if they can truly trust

Hob against the foot. See you're missing. Oh,

yeah, I know a bit together like wait And They're

also because Hobb has built his army and I've

talked about this with my buddy Joe Reid on the

show before because we've already done the solicitations

for What I'm gonna talk about here in a minute,

but also folks check out Oh my god, I can't believe

that's this month already. Holy crap, February's

just flying by. And it's only, yeah, wow. In

February here, they're gonna be releasing their

next spotlight miniseries for turtles. It's Chimentea

Mutanimals, and this is basically Old Hob slash

Herman the Hermit Crab, Mondo Gecko, and Pigeon

Pete. They have become a force to be reckoned

with. So it's basically taking Old Hob and his

mutant gang and putting them into their own little

mini -series adventure. This is going to be so

much fun. Oh my gosh. It really is. This is going

to be awesome. And we have the next one. We're

going to go to the giant robots this time. We

have Angry Birds, Transformers number 4 of 4,

Captain Continuity himself Barber, and Marcelo

Ferreira on Heart and Colors. The action heats

up as the egg spark begins to alter the fundamental

forces of Piggy Island itself, with the autobirds

and deceptahogs forming an uneasy alliance. Will

their combined might be enough to halt the inevitable

doom? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of

this year's most mind -bending mashup. Gotta

agree with that. I mean who you I mean when they

first announced Angry Birds Transformers people

like are you serious? And it's been amazing people.

I'm sorry. I'm surprised. It's only gonna be

four issues you want if If this is successful,

I wouldn't be surprised if they continue it down

the line Yeah, yeah, I know John's having fun

with it. So oh absolutely and see that was the

biggest thing when this was announced there was

like Oh no. It really was. It was a dividing

line from people that I had talked to online

where some of them were like, me and you were

like, oh yeah, that's going to be so cool. That's,

you know, it's going to be all in. And then people

are like, Wow, this is chocolate and peanut butter

all over again. Get your Angry Birds out of my

Transformers. Get your Transformers out of my

Angry Birds. I'm telling you people, listen to

us. This was a fun for issues. Like I said, people,

if you want to get your serious stuff when it

comes to Transformers, you got to serious. More

than BCI in the Transformers main series. Robots

in disguise. I'm still going to call it that.

Sorry. You know, they take other serious issues.

This is just like throw all caution to the wind.

Let's just have fun and It's just I mean, okay.

What was it? The December one? December issue?

When Vegatron pulled out a phone out of his chest?

I mean like an old -fashioned gigantic phone.

I was like, oh my gosh I love it And John Barber

knows how to make fun of the movie verse Really?

If you guys say to the movies, you'll like this

comic because he makes fun of the movie verse

a lot. Yeah, absolutely. And this is one of those

things where I said look, you know, to all those

people that were like, like I already said, you

know, get your anger breads out of my transformers,

get your transformers out of my anger breads.

I said, no, look, this is Barber being able to

let loose. This is Barber not having to be tied

down to anyone even though let's face it this

is basically classic g1 continuity with g1 transformers

but it's it's him being able to throw in the

jokes when he wants to or you know just having

these angry birds looking like transformers characters

and then spewing out transform like The whole

thing with Optimus Prime, I think it is issue

two, where he says the one shall stand, one shall

fall. He says one of the classic lines and it's

just, it's amazing seeing it come out of an angry

bird -like character. Well, and then the septahog's

shrubs is like, oh, please God, give it a rest.

Give it a rest, Optimus. Love it. Absolutely.

All right, folks, the next one we're not going

to spend too much time on because it's not something

we're going to pick up. But we want to just mention

it just because it might be something everyone

else might be interested in. IDW is starting

Garbage Pail Kids Love Stinks. Great for Valentine's

Day. Yeah, pretty much. We have Peter. Bagay,

Dean Haspiel, Mark Pignator, and Joe Semenko,

and various other writers and artists. In December,

the garbage -filled kids were dragged kicking

and screaming into the world of comic books.

Now, those miscreants are right where you'd expect

to find them, in love. That can't be right, you

say? Well, if loving GPK is wrong, we don't want

to be right. So join the kids as they celebrate

Valentine's Day the only way they know how. The

exchange of bodily fluids and solids. That is

disgusting. That is so disgusting. Okay, I mean,

that's a great line for a solicitation, but that's

so wrong. So wrong. It's almost as bad as the

DC line. You think you know Nightwing, but you

don't know Dick. Alright folks, let's head to

Ponyville with My Little Pony French of His Magic

number 28. uh katie cook and andy price on writing

an art um uh the root of the problem part two

twilight and friends journey to the heart of

everfree forest to find out what has been causing

its inhabitants to flee what they find can only

mean trouble for ponyville okay you get now that

you see the picture you get the cliche right

yes i get the cliche Okay, because the root of

the problem. Yes, the timber wolves are made

of timber actual no, I got They were in the Super

Bowl ads, you know Lord I Know we have friends

forever number 14 written by Jeremy Whitley and

artist by Agnes Garbowska again. When a dragon

problem in Philadelphia threatens to get out

of hand, Luna and List Spikes help to find a

peaceful solution. There are many suspects and

it's no easy and no easy answers as both Spike

and Luna must admit to a personal shortcoming

in order to find out the in order to find the

true culprits. See, that's another good little

team -up that hasn't happened yet. I love it.

This is why I love this series. You're just like,

well, what do those two have to do with each

other? Luna's a princess and basically Spike's

a servant, but to Twilight. So it's just like,

okay, so this will be an interesting little team

-up. I'm excited for it. And we have something

else here for ponies. We have My Little Pony

Adventures in Friendship Vol. 2 hardcover. Ted

Anderson, Bobby Kernow, Alex DeCampi are on the

writing team. Ben Bates, Brenda Hickey, Carla

Speed, McNeil are on art and Sarah Richardson's

on covers. The adventures continue with these

tales of fun and friends, featuring one -shots

about Pinkie Pie and Applejack, plus a third

story of the two friends entering a baking contest.

This should be right up your alley. It's ponies,

of course it is. Well, not that it's just ponies,

but it's Pinkie Pie and Applejack. Those two

characters don't seem to really sound like they

would get along that well. Pinkie Pie gets along

with everyone, that's why she's Pinkie Pie. She's

the party pony and she wants to be everyone's

friend. Applejack's a hard worker. Alright folks,

it's time to leave Ponyville and enter the world

of G .I. Joe. We're going to be talking about

G .I. Joe Volume 1, The Fall of G .I. Joe. Karen

Travis is on the writing, Steve Kurth is on art.

Jeffrey Varegg? Okay then. Vareggay? I don't

know. I guess you have to have a hard day to

be a comic book artist. I guess. Does the world

need G .I. Joe? Cobra has become an international

peacekeeping force and the future of G .I. Joe

looks bleak. Scarlet leads what's left of America's

ultimate fighting force, but will she be able

to keep the team together? Real world action

and politics collide and nothing will be the

same. This is one of those volumes where if you

haven't read Joe for a while, here's your chance

to get on board because this, if I remember right,

this is what takes place after the new covert

commander. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm sorry, your covert

commander that you grew up with is not the same

one. Died. Spoiler! That was an awesome issue

though Interesting yeah, I know for for Joe fans

wanting to To catch up on the new series that

yeah, this would be a perfect time We also have

GI Joe snake eyes agent of Cobra number two of

five snake eyes begins his mission for Cobra

tracking down the former Cobra commander's son

and bringing him in but snake eyes is not the

only Cobra agent on the hunt as Storm shadow

enters the fray looking for revenge Okay, so

Okay, okay, so wait a minute folks you mean to

tell me that they're just doing this mini series

or whatever It's gonna be just to have another

snake eyes storm shadow battle Probably or they're

gonna team them up Wow that just doesn't seem

as we all know there is no other GI Joe besides

I love GI Joe stories snake eyes is totally cliche

though. I'm sorry storm shadow on the other hand

I Just remind you that little I have I don't

know if you see that little comic strip is Cobra

commander talking to snake eyes It's like wait

you wear all black and your name is snake eyes.

How come you don't work for me? Alright folks

heading back to the giant robots we go to what

what robots We go to transformers the book formerly

known as robots in disguise days of deception

Barbara and Griffith are on creative The onyx

interface the Autobots and Decepticons face down

human forces and strange Battle lines make for

strange allies who will emerge with the ancient

enigma of combination and who will usher the

come usher in the combiner war and The so part

of the the notes on the under the subscription

variant it says all -out war in in the wilderness

Really they're actually gonna go out into the

wilderness now this is the last time I remember

them being in the wilderness is when Ironhide

had to go save the dino bots True Let's see transformers

more than meets the eye number 38 more days of

deception journeys and oh no Oh wait, why does

it say Journey's End on the More Than Meets the

Eye book when isn't Thundercracker over on Robots

in Disguise? He is. Yeah. Oh, Journey's End,

Journey -er, whatever. Stupid character. Across

time, across space, from pre -war Mesothene to

post -war Cybertron. It's all been heading towards

this, the moment when... Fate of the Autobots

and Decepticons is sealed. At the heart of it

all, three killers, two outcomes, and one terrible,

terrible choice. For a minute there, I thought

they were going to make a Partridge and a Pear

tree joke. I love both of these covers, let me

just tell you. Oh my gosh. They look amazing.

Rainstorm is being a douchebag lately. Looks

like he's getting what's coming to him. And then

of course, One of my favorites, we got Nick Roche

somehow having Rodimus being beat up again. Oh

God, here we go. He's like punching out rewind,

but it looks like we're all good. Like I said,

I love Rodimus, but for some reason it just gives

me great thrill when he's getting beat up. I

don't know why. I don't know why. Okay, I'm sorry.

You are just so so sadistic when it comes to

around us. I love Pratibus though. Mm -hmm Sure,

you do All right. We have the primacy trade paperback

coming out by Chris Metson and Flint Dilley with

Livia Remedeli on art and color Optimus Prime

versus Megachart Autobots versus Decepticons

at the dawn of the conflict battle lines are

drawn and sides are set now legends will be made

the war That would define a planet begins in

earnest and it's a revelations will shake the

transformers world to their core I Have not read

primacy yet because I have not read autocracy

and monstrosity So you want to talk about somebody

who's behind on comics? Yeah, I've tried the

privacy I don't want to spoil it but The first

three issues were really good. That last one

was like, hmm. Hmm, yeah. Yeah, it's not the

ending I wanted, and apparently not the ending

many people wanted, but yeah. The artwork's gorgeous.

There's some really good stuff in there. There's

a great way to use a junkie on ship. I'll admit

that, that was amazing. But yeah, that's all

I can say, because I don't want to spoil it if

you guys aren't ready yet. So the second to last

title we're going to be talking about this time

around is Galaxy Quest, The Journey Continues,

number two of four, Burnham. We've got four to

talk about. That's what I said, the second to

last. take your blonde wig off please i'm still

thinking about transformers that's what happens

you know just thinking about robots the cast

of the galaxy quest have enjoyed their career

resurgence since returning from their intergalactic

adventure but will but all that is about to be

interrupted by quint an alien with a very surprising

axe to grind against jason nesmith and the crew

of the and NC protector. As we already knew,

picked up where the movie left off. And it just

said the other note is that it's by Eric Burnham,

who did Ghostbusters and TMNT for a couple issues

as well. The galaxy quest stuff is interesting.

Like I might, I might be picking this series

up. And it's it's only five issues. So but if

it does well, they'll know an IDW they'll pick

it up again so yeah absolutely and the last one

we have to talk about since everybody apparently

except me everybody except me loves zombies and

robots but zombies and robots number two oh that's

what i was talking about well oh oh yeah yeah

okay um i forgot about that one Inherit the earth

part two even on a dead new earth the zombies

remain But how and both the dead and some of

the bots seem to have gained? Sentience but why

also new humans join the fight, but who some

answers and more questions are presented here

and in the orphan part two a new friendship is

threatened by of course hordes of zombies and

one very disturbed robot man that series sounds

better than what i thought it was last month

it is all right up next we have lock and key

master edition volume one written by joe hill

art and colors and covers by gabriel rodriguez

Named a modern masterpiece by the AV club the

critically acclaimed series takes on New life

and reformed hardcover collection in the lock

and key master edition volume one features the

first two arcs Welcome to lovecraft and head

games with all new cover art and design by co

-creator Gabriel Rodriguez Okay, why did you

want to talk about this one? Okay locking key

is probably one of the best suspense Not really.

It's not really horror. There's a little bit

of horror stuff in there, but It's one of those

ones that after you read each comic It gets you

thinking and you get you talking about things

that you thought you never would really talk

about supernatural stuff Mystic stuff go read

it But that's still not the one I really really

wanted to talk about the last one we're gonna

talk about Ladies and gentlemen, she's giggling

like a schoolgirl over here Is monster motors

the curse I Can't even get the title of monster

motors the curse of minivan Helsing number one

of two Written by Brian Lynch Amy's third husband

Nick Roche does the art colors and I swear he

drew himself as Frankenstein Because it's he

looks just I'm not kidding Okay, so apparently,

Transylvania, Kentucky, what the hell? See, that's

your part of the world. It's being overrun by

monster motors, vampire cars that suck gas from

their victims. I'm not kidding. Lunar powered

werewolf vehicles that grow fangs and claws when

them when the moon is full Someone has to keep

them all in check enter minivan Helsing four

-wheeled monster hunter It's his job to hunt

down the monster motors and bring them to justice

his new target genius mechanic Vic Frankenstein

and his Frankenride, a monstrous Mack truck made

from the parts of fallen cars and trucks. If

you have not read this one shot, it came out

August of last year, I want to say. It's brilliant.

It's so much fun, especially if you like the

classic Universal Monsters and stuff. Okay, so

the bad guy in that one is Cadlacula. Oh my god.

And that's Eric Cadillac. And then they've got

the invisible sedan. They don't know what it

looks like. Okay, what was the other ones? Oh

my gosh, Laguna buggy. Yeah It's a work of genius

and it's so much fun Because it has that great

adventure to has that monster filling to it And

so they didn't think it was gonna do that well,

so it was just a one -shot But that's one of

those comics that people kept on talking about

and they absolutely loved it's getting another

serious getting a little spotlight now It was

just supposed to be a one -shot, but now it's

it's getting a little mini spotlight. I'm like,

okay Go and read it, people. It's awesome. I

think you could get a Kindle for two bucks. Yeah.

I just added it to my Comixology wish list. It

is listed at two, I think 299, I think is what

it's listed. Oh my gosh. It's, uh, yeah, it's

299. And I'm, I'm hoping with Comixology, uh,

they have the actual, the actual little specials

at the end. And it talks about all the different

monster cars and stuff. It's It's so much fun.

Oh wait, I've got it on my Kindle, speaking of

which. So let me go and see what the other cars

are real quick. Okay. In event housing, wheel

wolf, wheel wolf, okay, Laguna buggy. Dr. Jekyll

and Mr. Hybrid. Invisible Stan. Frankenride,

yeah Cadillac Vula. It's just so much fun, people.

Like I said, I got it for my candle and I've

got the paper back. And the artwork, it's Nick

Roach. What more do you want? Go for it. It's

beautiful, you know? All right, folks, that's

going to do it for the February IDW Solicits

coming up next. I apologize. Coming up next.

We're gonna make Marvel hours for Marvel's February

Solicits. We'll be back after this. Oh folks,

you won't be hearing from Marvel. That'll be

at the end of the podcast. I misspoke when we

recorded the IDW section of the February Solicitations

here in Profiling Previews. Up next is DC. That's

not helping. Alright folks, you just heard the

IDW Solicitations. Now it's time for the DC Comics

Solicitations. Joining me once again for February

2015 in this Profiling Previews episode is the

Weird Science of DC Guys, Jim and Eric. Hello

guys! Hello. Hello. Hello. Let's get a little

sexy here. Yeah. All right. Way to bring the

podcast down. That's what we do. All right, folks.

As we did with last month, Jim and Eric have

each picked three solicitations that they want

to point out to you, and I've also picked my

own three. uh... eric's list we have the new

fifty two features and number forty written by

brian as a ralph jeff lemire and then jurgens

and keith giffen also that's where giffen went

they've got on their later on to uh... by steven

thompson covered by ryan suck it is a two ninety

nine book all stories converge as brainiac in

the blood moon arrive at the futures and I stopped

reading this title at like issue Five four Wow

The reason why I stopped reading this title was

because they were too busy introducing other

characters and not focusing on Batman Beyond

and the robot Alfred Like I want a seer like

oh my god if that new Batman Beyond series that

they announced That's what I think this will

be, honestly. Man, I hope if that's the case.

Because that was one of the coolest things. I

was really interested with Future's End. I wanted

to know more about that. And then it went into

all the other characters. Eric, why should people

pick up Number 40? Because like you're talking

about, a lot of people dropped off of this book,

Like Earth to World's End, because things hadn't

been that good. And for this title, it's been

really boring. Nothing's really been going on.

It's just been issue after issue of setup. And

each issue you think that things are going to

finally happen, and then you read it and nothing

fucking happens again. This one is the difference,

though, because things actually happen. Brainiac

has come to Earth. And everything, all the other,

like they said in the solicits, all the stories

converge to deal with this problem. Brainiac

coming around trying to take Manhattan. And it

just makes me so happy that things are happening.

I'm so happy. Oh man, I'm so hilarious. All right,

yeah. Go check out Futures Ed number 40, folks.

Also on Eric's list for February Solicits, we

have Constantine number 22 written by Ray Fox,

art by Jeremy Hahn, cover by Juan Ferreira? This

is a 299 book. The stakes have never been higher

for John Constantine and his plan to escape Earth

2 puts the fate of an entire universe at risk.

Way to mix it up, Eric. Another Constantine.

Look, like I said last month, this It's good.

I'm telling you the earth to Constantine writing

is the strongest the writing has ever been for

the series and I'm done and it only has another

month to go before it's cancelled for three months

and then brought back with you know, read numbered

and a retitle and I Think people should really

read this especially if you're an earth to fan

because it's solid writing solid art by Jeremy

on And he cut out I cut out. Yeah, just for a

second Yeah, okay, so So basically what Eric

is saying folks is solid art solid writing solid

everything There's no liquid here. No, it's all

solid I've been having a fight with Jeremy Hahn,

though, because I think Constantine needs to

trim his sideburns up a bit, but he's not listening.

Oh, lord. That's the big issue he has with all

the book. It's the sideburns. I don't like them

sideburns. Trim them up. Trim them. Maddingly.

Wow. It's crazy when someone has to pull a Don

Mattingly reference out of them Eric's final

choice for February is Batman and Robin number

39 Peter J Tomasci on writing art and cover by

Patrick Gleason and Mick Gray We have a Harley

Quinn variant as well for this issue has Damien

Wayne become something more than human and How

do you control a reckless child who now has superpowers?

Ugh, ugh, Damien Wayne. Worst Robin ever. Oh,

no. Yes. It is such a great dynamic having the

son of Batman be Robin and the whole thing where

he's been dead for a while now and just brought

back and trying to build up that whole dynamic

that Bruce and him had. It's a lot of fun to

read. And now he has superpowers. What could

be better? Do the superpowers make him even more

of an asshole than he already was? It kind of

just adds to the regular asshole. I think they

make him a little more of an asshole. I'll just

go in. It's not even that... The Batman and Robin

book to me is not all about Damien. What I like

is the dynamic of Batman trying to be a father.

That I really do like. Even if you hate Damien,

I really enjoyed Batman trying to figure out

that whole dynamic and he's not very good at

it. So it's a pretty cool thing. I think but

I love Damien too. He is an asshole But then

again, I kind of tend to like those type of characters.

So Bruce's had Dick Grayson. Yep. He said Jason

Todd. He said Carrie Kelly. He said He's had

he's had all these other Robbins before they

actually gave him his own son. Yeah, but he didn't

care about them there they were adopted You know

how it is. Oh my god. Nobody really loves adopted

children. That's the point of the podcast. Adopted

children are awful. Okay, moving on to Jim's

choices. Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special

Number One written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy

Palmiotti. Art by John Timms, cover by Amanda

Conner, variant cover by also Amanda Conner.

This one is a $4 .99 book. love is in the air

in new york city the planet's richest bachelor

bruce wayne is in town for a charity auction

and the highest bidder gets a date with mr toll

dark and brooding good thing harley quinn just

came into some money please whatever you do don't

ask how but can bruce really spend the night

with harley without her learning how he spends

his nights Um, I have not been reading the Harley

Quinn series I think I read the issue zero and

the issue zero was just because it was a celebration

of every single artist ever that ever had anything

to do with the character was a very weird issue

as a very weird issue and then DC went ahead

and Basically gave everybody drugs in issue 13

or whatever the hell that issue. I forget what

issue number it was Yeah, I'm just not into the

Harley series at all. But Jim, why should people

be checking this one out? Oh, remember the scratch

and sniff issue? If you weren't in the U .S.,

you actually just got clean cut grass smell,

not all drugs. Yeah, the rubbing smell, I call

it. But yeah, they had issues with the comic

going over the borders and stuff with drug smelling

dogs, actually. That was their claim. But this

issue itself... The Harley Quinn has had a bunch

of special issues. They had a comic con issue

They had a holiday issue and all of these special

issues have been really really good The actual

series itself. I really do like Eric actually

had it at first to review He didn't really like

it. So he gave it to me and I loved it and it's

basically Yeah, there's it's very story light

until recently there was a power girl story but

besides that these special issues are really

good because They are hilarious. They often have

a lot of crazy characters. Egg Fu was in the

holiday. Are you aware of Egg Fu? I'm telling

you, they grow a lot of stuff. It's just ridiculousness.

A lot of pop culture stuff. And to me, I don't

know why, but as a special issue, Harley Quinn

and Valentine's Day seems to go together to me,

just seems to click, and that Bruce is involved,

I think it's gonna be hilarious. So basically,

if you like hilarity, poop jokes, ridiculous

stuff, it's for you. So it's for me. I love poop

jokes. Would you say that this is similar to...

Is it holiday nights or Harley and Ivy? Yeah.

Yeah, there's one where I think it's holiday

nights episode of the new Batman adventures or

whatever Whatever where Harley and Ivy go out

in the town and Bruce has to not only stop them

as Batman But he they basically brainwise that

basically what I think it's gonna be pretty much

exactly that I have a feeling it's gonna be an

homage to that even but uh, yeah I think it's

gonna be hilarious. I think it's gonna be really

good Awesome. Alright, Jim's second choice doesn't

annoy me as much as Gotham Academy. I'm rubbing

my hands again. Come on. You can do it. Just

read it. And the funny thing is... I was recently

at my comic shop and I still haven't told them

to take the damn series still there my list And

I have five six and seven right there is like

oh god. No Grayson number seven written by Tim

Seeley and Tom King aren't in cover by Mikhail

Jainan Grayson and Helena must battle their old

foes, the Fist of Cain. Who the? Okay. Okay.

I know some people, I think we talked about this.

Yeah. Leave you pulled a Kevin Smith. So I know

certain writers write the solicitations and what

I want to know is who is the the pimply -faced

ad boys or copy boys that they give solicitations

to to write these short Like I don't want a full

spoiler in a solicitation, but I want something

like what we what I just read with the Harley

Quinn thing Yeah, I don't want just want a one

-line solicitation. That's just I mean, that's

like what DC did with, you think you know Nightwing,

but you don't know Dick. Come on. Wait till you

see what Batman does in the night. So I think

they just I have a feeling sometimes that they

just haven't gotten the issue done and they need

a solicit. So they go so generic. And like you

said, they just grab a guy. Hey, write this.

There's Grayson, Helena and Fista Kane in there.

All right. There they go. They battle their old

foes, Fista Kane. I kind of want this job. That

would be good. You still wouldn't be able to

do it. Nah, probably not. Wow. No, but I know

that you are a Nightwing fan. And I know that

you hate Grayson. And I think you have to come

on over. Just come on. Here's the thing. I've

come to terms with them killing the alter ego

Nightwing. But it just seems all, when I was

reading Grayson, I read the first three issues

and the future's end issue. It just seemed like

in those first three issues that they constantly

wanted to poke and prod us Nightwing fans of,

you know, there's, is it issue two or issue three

where he calls Bruce or Bruce calls him and it's

the super secret thing of only Bruce knows he's

alive and. Dick is sitting there saying, well,

how's Alfred, or how's this, or how's wanting

to know? And it just felt like I was being prodded

with a cattle prod, like, hey, Nightwing's not

here anymore. I just don't care. I don't dislike

this series as much as I dislike Gotham Academy.

It's great. It's what you're telling me. No,

not at all. But Grayson, I just have an indifference

to it at this point. Here's the thing. After

the issues you're talking about, especially after

The Future's End, I'm telling you this book turned

in a way that it actually became, it sounds very

corny, but it became a celebration of Dick Grayson.

It actually it became a book that actually seems

to be focusing on showing the reader how great

a guy Dick Grayson is and each issue is more

and more there's an issue that and Besides the

Midnighter has become one of it was one of the

main villains that was in it. I love Midnighter

It's funny because to me, not a lot of people

know Midnight, or not a lot of people care of

him, but because of this book, had to have been

the reason why they recently just announced that

he's gonna have a solo book. That's one of the

solo books in June, which I think is gonna fail

miserably. But because of the fact, it's so good.

Like I said, it is a celebration of Dick Grayson.

It's a thing. The book's main thing is not spiral

or spies or anything like that. It's basically

showing you that Dick Grayson is a great guy

who will do anything to help people. He'll do.

And in fact, this issue of number seven, there's

a point that basically they say. Dick has to

save the day, and the only reason he can do it

is because he is such a good guy. He doesn't

have a lot of hate in him. He doesn't have...

He hasn't been to the dark side, is what I'm

saying. And it is... He's not Bruce. No, no.

And what it is, what's really good, I think,

is that you have Bruce. Now, Midnighter himself

is a analog to Bruce, would you say? He's a Batman.

And it's... I really like the idea that... In

Forever Evil, Nightwing died, quote unquote,

and went. And still, he goes to Spyro, he's a

spy, and he still can't get away from that Batman

figure, and it's Midnighter stalking him down.

And to me, it really shows he is trying to grow

out of all that. He's trying to become his own

guy, and I think that he is, and I really, really

enjoy it. I say it in my reviews all the time,

and I'm telling you. I think of you when I do

the reviews and I know that sounds creepy. But

when I tell people in the review that if you're

a Nightwing fan, please give this a chance more

than just a couple issues because I really do

think that they are trying to not goad you in

or not cattle prod you. I think they're really

trying to celebrate Dick Grayson. That's how

I take it. I really come to love this book. Michael

Janin's art is awesome. I love it. I think it's

so good. The art is great, and you know, the

art's great. I have no problems with the art

at all, but it just... I'm telling you, if you

give it a shot and go into it with an open mind,

not that closed mind you have over everything

that greats... Well, see, here's... I don't want

to really get into this, but here's the thing.

It's like they, you know, and I know, I know

I need to get over this, folks, but I just can't.

I just can't. Kyle Higgins had this whole thing

and he had the rug pulled out from under him

twice. He got screwed over, I agree. Twice. I

think he's a great rider. He was going to do

an Amusement Mile storyline and then, oh, nope,

the Joker's coming back so the Joker gets to

blow up Amusement Mile. And then Kyle took him

to Chicago, Kyle's hometown, which was great.

It was great. Then it was amazing. It was canceled

because of no reason of anything except to make

a cheap Storyline and forever evil it was and

but I'm telling you And I know you think Dan

DiDio hates Nightwing and Dick Grayson, but he

does. But you know what? I think that if he does,

this book pisses him off every time it comes

out because it's that good. I'm telling you,

it is that good a Dick Grayson book. That's all

it is. It's a Dick Grayson book. He happens to

be in Spiral, Super Agent, Spy, whatever, but

it's more about... his own how he deals with

things and how he doesn't want to compromise

what he is and and he'll he keeps calling Batman

that's still involved and but again I don't really

that doesn't bother me as much as you but I I

get past that and just look at it as what it

is to me is just a a book about Dick Grayson

which I really like. Jim's final choice for February

is Justice League 3000 number 14 written by Keith

Geffen uh -oh there we go there I told you And

J .M. de Mateus, art and cover by Howard Porter.

Beatle and Booster, Fire and Ice, the Injustice

League, Etrick and the Demon, not to mention

the Justice League, no, not that one, the one

we're doing. Come on, people, we're bending over

backward here, at least meet us halfway, maybe

flip through the issue at your local comic shop.

Who the hell wrote that? Keith Giffen wrote that.

Yeah, I think Keith Giffen might have had a bit

of it. He's the funny guy. Yes, but... I don't

have a problem with Beatle. Okay, I have a huge

and it's only because of the Justice League unlimited

episode that he the only one he was ever in Thank

God. I have a huge problem with boosters. He

is an arrogant piece of And you know what so

much and you know what's the best about this

book is you're supposed to not like them you're

supposed to be annoyed by him because he is so

arrogant like that and The whole, this whole

book is, it's hilarious. And again, we go on

and on, Keith Giffin's the funny guy, but this,

this whole, this book is hilarious. If you enjoy

the characters, you like the Justice League and

want to see them in a different way that's hilarious,

but also has a story that's kind of an odd future

story that goes along with cloning and how you

treat people. And it's so good. Superman is a

jerk off Batman is Nobody what it is is they

have parasitically cloned the Justice League

if that makes sense And so these people were

normal people got cloned into being Superman

Batman Wonder Woman They had partial memories

of what they think they used to be but everything

is messed up from the time like they In the future

they have shit. It's almost like it Learning

something through the dark ages. You don't get

the full picture. Some things are wrong Some

things are right and so that's how they've cloned

them and because of that They're they're ridiculous.

And in fact like Superman himself Superman can't

fly. He is a clone of a guy He thinks he said

he still thinks he can fly jumps out windows

free balls all this stuff, but I'm telling you

Is this book when it came out I said that it

was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard

of I thought it was gonna be terrible I love

it. I really love it Howard Porter's art i think

a stupendous i'd love his art i'd think it's

it's just great and it's the book has so many

possibilities cuz every every issue you can throw

another clone of this they had firestorm was

in it earlier and he was a jerk off and flew

off to do his own thing he did these i don't

he has no you know care for the justice league

he started remembering that he doesn't really

care people walk they have at your hands and

which is that you're in And Ice was a great one

last issue. Ice showed up. She's immortal. So

she knew the Justice League when they were actually

the real Justice League. And she has issues with

this new Justice League. Beetle and Booster are

actually the pre -New 52 version of Beetle and

Booster that were cryogenically frozen and brought

back. So everything in this book is just craziness.

It's great. This is one of those that are going

to be that was, I guess, canceled, soft canceling,

I'd say, because coming back with Justice League

3001. And I think they're just doing that to

start a renumbering and hope more people jump

on. But I really think that this book, if anybody

out there likes a science fiction. Slash superhero

slash crazy funny thing that they want to have

as a parody of a normal Comic book then I think

this is for them Eric are you reading Justice

League 3000? No, I'm not All the only thing I

know about is from what Jim has told me Alright

folks for my choices here I have not been reading

it since issue 36, I think. I think issue 36

was where I set up. Nope, screw it. I think.

Let me just look here, folks, because it's been

a while since I looked at this. No, 37. So I've

been out for two issues at this point. Batgirl

38 is out, but... i'm going to be talking about

the solicitation for bad girl number thirty nine

written by cameron steward and brendan fletcher

art by babs tar cover by steward's uh... the

the only reason why i'm even bring this up is

because of the cover they just had to go and

do a killing joke homage didn't they it's the

only good thing so far about the series that

I absolutely love some of these covers. For months,

Batgirl has been hounded by an unseen threat

claiming to be the real quote -unquote Batgirl.

The truth of her enemy's identity will shock

her to her very core. Wait, what? Really? Seriously?

Very core, man. Very core. To the core. Uh -huh.

Um... Hey, you put this and you're struggling.

I only wanted to talk about it because of the

killing joke. Homage on the cover. I like you

had on your list they well What Stuart and Fletcher

have been doing on as writers on this series

is that as far as I know they basically They

basically become Ultrons they're pulling our

strings because They said, oh, well, this thing,

this guy who's dressing up as Batgirl in issue

37 is gonna be the, you know, this unseen threat.

And are they gonna reveal the threat in issue

39 or are they gonna wait until 40? Now, originally,

when the changeover happened, I said I would

give this series five issues from 35 to 40. And

after 37, I was just not. I did not enjoy reading

it. Folks, if you want a teeny -bopper Batgirl

story, if you want all the internet cliches,

all the technology of today cliches for teenagers,

read this book. This is basically a Gotham Academy

companion piece at this point. You son of a bitch.

Hey! Listen, I'm telling you, don't not read

Gotham Academy because you don't like this back

girl because this back girl has one thing that

Gotham Academy doesn't have and it's a back girl

who's horrible. She is so bad and there is no

way that I would ever want any back girl to act

like this back girl. Gotham Academy is great.

This book is garbage. It really is. What do you

say, Eric? Thoughts? I really, really, really

hate this book. I love Batgirl, and this abomination

has totally stripped all love I had for her out

of me. It is making girls look dumb, and especially

there's supposed to be a strong female character,

and that issue 30, no, it's 38, she got drunk.

I'm sorry, I don't know if she got drunk. She

had a few drinks. I don't know that she got drunk,

but yeah. Yeah, she had a few drinks and decided

she needed to take down a drunk driver that night.

By throwing grenades at him. And then making

him crash into a cafe. It's just that this is

not the kind of example I want Batgirl to set,

especially if this is meant for a younger audience.

Yeah, they seem to have... Me and Eric have actually

talked. We think that this Batgirl is... a trick

to get everybody to hate her so much and then

to switch around so that people love the next

one even more. That's what it seems like. That's

what, that's all we can think of. All right,

let's wash the horrible taste out of the mouth

of that thing with this one. He Man the Eternity

War number three. Dan Abnett on rating. Art by

Pat Mahan. The cover is by Stefan Szycik. High

above the Sands of Time, She -Ra leads Stratos

and an aerial squadron in search of the Eye of

Chrono. Their mission is jeopardized by the appearance

of Catra, Scorpia, and the Horde army! will the

princess of power defeat these women from her

past and retrieve the eye the attorney war is

just getting started now eric when you wrote

your review of of issue two i do remember you

saying in there thank god there's no sheer uh...

no nothing anything what do you think now not

that it's not based out that that i just uh...

like i said you want to do that now i'm fine

it's just i like to straightforward story it's

got going with the war instead of jumping back

and forth between them and their quest for the

jacks but i don't think you are taking issue

talk about she rod and sorceress i'm all for

see i think this is going to be another part

of the war though this isn't just this isn't

just the search for the jet well i understand

there's a big war going on but it says that i

don't want to be jumping back and forth between

them on the quest in like you know the big but

like the big battle i think and we also jump

back and forth between don't get in and try to

take out the horrible disruptor but i don't want

to cram too much story per issue Oh, absolutely,

right, yeah. uh... and my final one here because

i know jim again as we said last month is not

a motive and so no no no i just was shaking my

head you guys talking here your dirty talk he

meant my hero had you in your five -way eric

and i talked the nerdy talking yet you talk dirty

old man talk that's all right gotham academy

that's what we love them little girls alrighty

then uh... my final choice is an advance solicitation

this will will be out March 11th, 2015. Batman

Beyond, Justice Lords Beyond, trade paperback

written by Kyle Higgins and Christos Gage. Art

by Tony Silas, Dexter Soy, and others. Wonder

Woman is back, but what secret is she hiding?

Meanwhile, Batman's journey through the dystopian

world of the Justice Lords takes a deadly turn

as he faces Lord Superman. Collects Batman Beyond,

issues 9 through 12. I cannot wait to see this

thing in trade. They've already released Rewire,

the first trade, which has the Rewire story and

the Manbat story in it. I cannot wait. After

reading the issues where Terry faces Lord Superman,

Kyle Higgins basically crushes your soul, people.

He really really does I read the solicit. I'm

trying to think back of the And it doesn't even

matter because every issue is great So you can

never go wrong with any of these issues that

is was such a great series the whole thing But

yeah, now I'm starting to remember what I'm looking

at that and yeah, he does crush your soul She

basically kills your soul. And I do know from

Alex Anton, Anton on Twitter, he said that, because

I asked him about these traits, he had said that

there was going to be the Justice Lords Beyond

One and then he thinks there's going to be one

more or maybe two more. One more might be Mask

of the Phantasm, I'm sorry, not Mask, Mark of

the Phantasm. Mark of the Phantasm, and then

there'll be one that has the final stories in

it when Rewire comes back. Yeah, the Mark of

the Phantasm will be great. The other stories,

I still love them, but yeah, it seemed like when

they were going to end it, they should have ended

it, Mark of the Phantasm. But no, the Justice

Lord's story is just, it's great. It's the first

time that I had read any of the Justice League.

Stuff in that in that in that universe. Yeah,

I read any I didn't read the original run That

they had done or anything like that. I didn't

even read it when when Christos gauge took it

over Yeah, I first I started reading it from

the first of them them when but went back and

read the ones before but he the Justice Lord

or the Justice League Beyond was I really loved

that whole run too and unfortunately that ended

I think too soon as well That's because they

want nothing to do with the DC Animated Universe

anymore. I know. I know. All right, folks. That's

not exactly true. No, no, that's not exactly

true, because in that Multiversity Guidebook,

they actually have the Batman Beyond Universe

there and the Justice Words Universe listed there.

Well, yeah, they have that listed there, but

they've pretty much stated whether it's the comics

or the movies. I know for a fact, since Bruce

Tim is no longer the head of... Yeah. Yeah. WB

animation that it's James Tucker now. They're

more focused on the new 52 movies in which at

this point I don't know what the hell they're

gonna do now. It's not gonna make any damn difference.

But it might revert back to maybe they get more

interested in the old animated universe because

the new 52 stuff. I really don't know what they're

gonna do overall. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see

all right folks that is gonna do it for the DC

solicitations for February 2015 Join us next

month when we'll be talking about whatever the

heck's gonna happen in March The end of Batman

eternal folks there you go coming up next is

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It's time for the image comics segment of the

February 2015 solicitations for profiling previews

here inside the pull bag I have back with me

this month Jeremy fine. Hello, sir. I love you

image comic. So yes, I do The first thing we're

gonna point out to you people it's out now or

will be out now uh nameless number one story

by grant morrison art cover by chris burnham

and nathan fairbairn or fair barn um 299 book

uh an astronomer God, I can't talk tonight, folks.

An astron - astronomer kills - God, I can't say

that right - kills his family, and then himself,

leaving a cryptic warning. A veiled lady haunts

her victims through human nightmares, and a cult

hustler known only as Nameless is recruited by

a consortium of billionaire futurists for a desperate

mission, and the malevolent asteroid... Zebilbia?

spins closer on a collision course with Earth,

but nothing is what it seems. A terrifying inhuman

experiment is about to begin. Abandon all hope

and experience ultimate horror in Nameless. You

know, you really did say a mouthful. It is Grant

Morrison. I mean, I think we all know who Grant

Morrison is. If not, you know, you've been under

a rock or, you know, not in the Batcave under

a rock. You know what? heard of it uh have again

there is a huge library of subscriptions i have

on comixology for the image section um i mean

there's saga there's chew there's cowl there's

proof i can go on and on um as i said image is

interesting because they're taking risks uh unlike

the other One that I think we were talking about

before for the January this one Seems to be a

little bit more Not so far -fetched But this

one seems a little bit more interesting to give

a chance Yeah, absolutely All right, we have

the empty number one story by Jimmy Robinson

art and cover by Jimmy Robinson as well 350 book

death part one Tanor lives in an empty apocalyptic

world of poison and decay. Her village is all

that remains of humanity as they struggle against

mutant beasts and rotting bones. But Tanor finds

a chance to save her people when a stranger drifts

into town. A stranger armed with the power to

grow life from death. A stranger who could change

the world if Tanor can keep them alive in the

deadly world of the empty. Well, it feels like

something out of the 80s again, but what else

is no You know, it seems to me that image is

dependent on The apocalypse but then again who

isn't concerned about the apocalypse. It just

who has a better story about the apocalypse I

don't know. Maybe it's just me, but it's all

doom and gloom and this This one feels like,

to me, like the entire season, the entire premise

behind Power Rangers RPM. Really? Because, yeah,

because if you look at it, Power Rangers RPM

was, there was one city left on the entire planet,

the rest of it is nothing but wasteland. and

it's really what this sounds like to me I mean

or you could put it in the point perspective

of Judge Dredd where you know you have three

mega cities and the rest of it's just cursed

earth but I don't know it it sounds really interesting

and cool but like you said Between last month's

episode where we talked about a lot of post apocalyptic

stuff with image and now in this month It's like

wow image really likes their post apocalyptic

stories. It's like okay image The good thing

about image is that they just don't talk about

the apocalypse. There's other things that they

have on their plate Proof is one Rasputin is

one Just wish that if they're gonna take a post

-apocalyptic that's doing well. It has to be

walking dead If they want to move forward with

what the future is gonna be like there's bitch

planets I just feel like you can't keep going

thunder the barbarian every single time or teenage

caveman because you're gonna hit a rock of What's

gonna happen in the future? I mean, they're not

the only ones who've discussed it and they're

not the only ones who've discussed it well But

it's like, how many more of these post -apocalyptic

comics and image are we really going to discuss

tonight? There can't be any more. Who knows?

Postal number one. Story by Brian Hill and Matt

Hawkins. Art and cover B is by Isaac Goodhart.

This is a 399 book. The townsfolk of Eden, Wyoming

wake up to the first official murder. the town

has seen in 25 years their reaction to this isn't

normal and there's a reason for that Eden operates

as a haven for uh fugitive criminals who remain

here while new identities often including facial

reconstruction are created for them there is

a zero tolerance policy for any illegal activity

that might draw attention to the town and An

official murder is the last thing they want.

A single tight -knit family runs Eden with the

youngest oddball son, Mark Schifron, overseeing

the postal branch. The only means of shipping

in or out of the city. The FBI has repeatedly

been foiled trying to insert an undercover here.

They see Mark as the weak link to exploit. The

murder gives them a new opportunity. Okay. Potential.

It does. You know what? Again, it seems like

you're taking six different ideas, put it in

the blender, hitting frappe, like God hate astronauts.

Not a bad thing. My only concern will be what

can you do for an encore? You know, they're very

good setting up the premise. And they're very

good at showing us what everybody, you know,

is doing or what's happening in these little

closed -minded towns because this is another

something out of the 70s grindhouse movie where

it's the future and everything is held by the

government or Big Brother is watching. I have

no problem with that. But my question is... Besides

what happens after you try to overthrow the government.

Is this a miniseries? Is there gonna be other

characters? Are there gonna be arcs? You seem

to be throwing in a lot of things at once image

and I'm not blaming you I'm just asking Do you

want to make sure you're gonna put all your eggs

into one basket now? I know I defended God hates

astronauts Possibilities are endless because

there's so many things you can satire and pluck

and discuss and go from planet to planet because

the universe is big. But when you're in a tight

little area where there's a giant wall around

society and trying to free society, what are

you going to do next is my question. That's all.

I think this is for most of the part. I don't

think image does. I mean, they they have I've

seen them do one shots and stuff like that. But

I haven't seen them do a whole lot of spotlights.

Or mini -series, I should say. I see them launching

new titles all the time. And it's like, oh, hey,

this is a new title from Image. And that's great.

If we get into the story, we get into the story.

This looks really cool and interesting. I kind

of wish I knew what kind of timeline we're dealing

with here. But it could be really cool. Up next

we have secret identities number one story by

Brian joins and J Farber art and cover by Elias

Cuz ass I could be wrong and Charlie Kirchhoff

uh... this is a three fifty book of the supergroup

known as the front line have just invited new

hero crosswind to join them but what they don't

know is that crosswind is a mole sent to learn

all their secrets and the front line have lots

of secrets writers brian joins in jay ferrer

and the studying our team of uh... care is ease

Charlie Kirchhoff bring you a classic super team

action and intrigue for the 21st century behind

every mask is a secret You know It's comes off

like a watered -down version of Watchmen by Alan

Moore But I don't think it's gonna be where superheroes

are outlawed and I you know Would like to see

the alter ego and the cape so I I've heard of

this I've just not had a chance to read it again,

but I have heard of it So I will give it a chance

and just purchase an issue Right also out in

february we have chew volume nine chicken tenders

this uh... collects chew issues forty one to

forty five plus the blockbuster spinoff one -shot

chew warrior chicken polio uh... so there is

that j t and i really need to get back to doing

the chew record so we'll we'll talk about that

on a different day uh... the fade -out volume

one ed brubaker sean phillips uh... brubaker

and phillips newest hit series the fade -out

epic noir set in the world of noir itself the

backlots and bars of hollywood at the end of

its golden era a movie stuck in an endless reshoots

and writer Damaged from the war and lost in the

bottle and a dead movie star the look -alike

hired to replace her Nothing is what it seems

in the place where only lies are true the fade

-out is Brubaker and Phillips most ambitious

project yet I did like the fade -out number one.

I will be checking out more of it as we go along

But it's it's nice to finally see these in trades

Well again, it's nor and if you like me enjoyed

LA confidential and the video game LA nor Then

you're going to enjoy This type of comic book

series. It is, you know forties nor in You know

graphic novel or comic book form I Do you remember

us discussing this a couple months ago when we

discussed Image? You know, the possibilities.

I think this is between Bitch Planet and Rasputin.

I don't know if we're gonna go back to it, but

if we do, I would definitely be on board. This

happens to be a great love letter to those crime

novels of the 30s and 40s. Absolutely. God hates

astronauts. Volume 2. A star is born. A story

art and cover by Ryan Brown. The first collection

of the new sold out series of God hates astronauts

perfect for new readers behold the invasion of

king tiger eating a cheeseburger and a legion

of space crabs NASA must Utilize their every

resource a guy with a ghost cow head and a bunch

of magic bears and a Chicago cop with a robot

arms to avoid an intergalactic incident. This

collects God hates astronauts volume 2 issues

1 through 5 The more I read about this the more

I want to actually read this this book it sounds

great again Begging that we have to do a pullback

on on volume one at least before we get into

volume two You have to go with an open mind and

the other thing is like I said when we discussed

it for the January solicitations This is when

you take Every little thing from 1960s lost in

space during the final episode the giant vegetable

rebellion You take a little bit of animaniacs

where satire is smart. You know, it's not two

out of the three people from scary movie, but

smart writers You take the zaniness of Looney

Tunes and 90s Steven Spielberg presents cartoons

And you throw in a little Robocop, which of course,

as we know, you know, if you've seen Robocop,

you remember the advertisements. They were very

Gonzo -esque. You get, and of course, 1980s,

you know, cartoons, which is Thundercats and

Silverhawks and Battle of the Planets and Robotech.

You get God Hates Astronauts. And I'm telling

you right now, money well spent, you will not

have buyer's remorse reading these books. We

got bitch planet number three. This is a flashback

story this issue By Kelly sue to Connick of the

art is by Robert Wilson the fourth Too big to

fail reveals the specific events leading to Zaf

dig penny rolls incarceration There are only

three issues in and they're doing a flashback.

Okay, you know what it is There are comics that

they try to do this. I mean, you'll get issue

one of a comic or a story I mean, I hate to bring

this up and I don't know why I am but Desperate

Housewives kind of started with a flashback in

a way You know that the reason why they're doing

this is because there were a lot of questions

that we kind of asked with the first issue and

I remember asking this to the setup of Why, you

know, a heroine is on the planet, how the husband's

trying to get her off of the planet, what her

story was... It looks good on paper, and maybe,

you know, the flashback should have started first,

then we would get the... But I guess they wanted

to get the bitch planet first. They wanted to

cram a lot in to get readers into the story,

which is fine. I don't mind too much when you

do a flashback like this in Three Issues. Just

as long as you not dependent on too much, and

there's a point, but I guess it's gonna tie up

all the sense No, let's hope Chew number 46 by

John Layman and Rob Guillory Blood pudding part

one new partner new boss new problems also a

new storyline Dun dun dun. Again, I still need

to get caught up on Chew, so I'm glad there isn't

too many spoilers in this solicitation. Right

now, my favorite image comics are Cowl, Chew,

Sex Criminals. What else? There's a couple other

ones, but yeah, absolutely. It's interesting

that that 46 starts a new storyline See cowl

number nine Kyle Higgins Alex Siegel on writing

Rod Rice on art covered by Trevor McCarthy Jeffrey

Warner and Camden stones false flag operation

continues to escalate with the return of a Chicago

six villains Skylancer But who's under the Skylancer

mask will shock even Jeffrey dun dun dun Yeah,

Cowell, oh god, this book cannot get any better.

Every issue it gets better and better and better.

And I still have it under my subscription status.

Haven't the chance to read it yet, but I promise

you I will. I've heard so many good things about

Cowell. Absolutely. Alright, Rasputin number

five, Alex Gresham and Riley Rossimo for Story

and Art. Let's see here the death of Rasputin

shot by a sniper on the front lines during World

War one But that's not the way it's supposed

to happen. Something is very wrong. Oh You know

what? I don't know why but I'm gonna trail off

to Marvel Comics with somebody like mr. Sinister

Apocalypse where they kind of traveled and apocalypse

went one -on -one with Dracula Or even with Marvel

Comics with Wolverine, you know fighting every

war, you know You heard all the stories of rescued

you heard how he was stabbed shot castrated kind

of like Vigo the Carpathian and Ghostbusters

2 I mean, I know I'm showing off a lot, but that's

where they seem to be going. You know, I wish

they kind of There's this great anime called

The Devil's a Part -Timer, where Satan somehow

he got trapped into this teenager's body and

now he has to work part -time in a fast food

restaurant in Japan. That would have been perfect

for something like the Rasputin comic. I don't

know where they're gonna go with this. I did

defend the first couple of issues. I've read

them. Now I feel that they're just gonna use,

like we discussed, you know, Doc Brown and Meg

Ryan. And I'm just waiting for Bartok to come

in. It sounded good on paper, but I don't know

where they're gonna go with it now. Now they're

just gonna go with his deaths and him coming

back. He works in Hellboy Comics, if you're gonna

use him, but I just don't see him stand alone

now. Yeah, no. And the final one for Image Comics

we're going to talk about for February is Stray

Bullet Sunshine and Rose's Number Two by David

Lapham. You'll never find a happier person than

Rose, a single mom living among the worst killers,

thieves and drug addicts in the city. She's never

had a down thought cross her mind, not until

her least favorite person hooked up with a boy

she was more than sweet on. the day rose saw

beth and orson together something broke inside

her and now this air -headed happy -go -lucky

highly promiscuous fake blonde is out for blood

and she doesn't care whose or how much is spilt

can this buxom bombshell's heart be quote -unquote

fixed before she blows up baltimore and ruins

orson and beth's own revenge plans or will the

next bouquet of flowers she gets Be the ones

on her own grave. Man, I gotta pick this series

up. This sounds like a lot of fun. This is another

one we should be discussing. Absolutely. Yeah,

you know, this is gonna be like what true romance

would have been if they would have done sequels

or made into a series or natural born killers.

And that's what it feels like and it's an homage

to that and I'm fine with that. This is definitely

not the one we gotta read. Yeah, absolutely.

I mean it's just the solicitations make it sound

like it's a really really fun interesting series

Alright folks that's gonna do it for image JT

and I are gonna come up next with the Marvel

solicits after this Hey, it's your friendly neighborhood

spider -man here, and I'm swinging by the geek

cast radio network Alright folks, so we've heard

from IDW, DC, and Image. Now it's time here in

the February profiling previews episode to talk

about Marvel comics and all that they have to

offer coming in February or releasing in February.

And joining me once again this month for Marvel

is JT from Saskatoon. Hello, sir. Hello. How

are you? You know, another day, another dollar.

Mm -hmm. Or, another day, another $5 tip. Oh,

that was so good. That was from last month, ladies

and gentlemen. It made me smile so much. So Marvel

Comics, stuff that came out in February for Marvel

here. We're going to start with Darth Vader number

one and two. Oh boy, they are real. I mean, I

love that they're hitting these Star Wars things

just immediately. I think that's great. I mean,

seeing as how the franchise is back with Marvel

now. You know, Cassada or whoever's, you know,

Alonzo, the EIC at Marvel is like, there were

so many Star Wars comics from Dark Horse. We

must number them. We must go be better than we

need more. See the coolest thing is is that and

I'm just looking at this on my wish list here

the coolest thing is is they brought over a lot

of stuff from Dark Horse like I was not expecting

like on Comixology right now I can sit here and

buy Darth Vader in the ghost prison or I could

sit here and buy The Dark Empire trilogy or I

could sit here and buy the Thrawn trilogy, you

know, so Those will definitely be, I don't know

if it'll be with you, because I think I did the

original Star Wars stuff with Ryan Dross from

Star Joe's, but those are three Star Wars books

that you can expect coverage for here in the

pull bag eventually. If you don't get a chance,

you should check out the Tag and Bink stuff that

came out from Dog Star Wars Dark Horse. It's

these two characters who, they're basically the

J and Silent Bob of the Star Wars universe. oh

god uh it's they were younglings at the jedi

temple uh when anakin went to the dark side and

they escaped and they just they play with them

in the sense that they're they're always these

characters in the background like through much

shenanigans and space space hijinks they ended

up being those two uh Imperial red -suited guards

that like walk around the elevator when Luke

comes in the end of Jedi They they walk around

and you see that they walk around and they're

like wait a second. There's no door back here

I thought there'd be one it like they literally

walk that way because he thought there was another

entrance to the elevator so they could get the

F out of there and Then they end up as force

ghosts at the end of Jedi and geez alright so

darth vader number one and two written by karen

gillian and art uh... is done by salvador La

Roca, the original Dark Lord of the Sith stars

in his first ongoing series. Ever since Darth

Vader made his first on -screen appearance, he

became one of the most popular villains to ever

haunt an audience's dreams. Now follow Vader

straight from the ending of A New Hope and the

pages of a new Star Wars comic book into his

own series, showing the Empire's war with the

Rebel Alliance from the other side. Writer Ciaran

Gillian From Uncanny X -Men, Journey into Mystery,

and Iron Man, and Artist Salvador Larroca, Invincible

Iron Man, X -Men No More Humans, bring us a peek

behind the mask of evil. Dun dun dun. Issue 1

will be 48 pages and it'll be $4 .99. Issue 2

will be 32 pages and $3 .99. Are you going to

pick this up? Does the Jedi use the Force? For

a second there, I thought you were going to say

this Jedi shit in the woods. Oh, I'm not going

to lie. I almost did say I was actually would

have been does a wookie go in the woods? You

know, it is. And hands like, oh, sounds like

that tacos coming back on Chewie. Good Lord.

No, I'm definitely going to be picking this one

up. I mean, it's the dark lord of the friggin

Sith. And and every time I see that Karen Gillan,

I always. I think I want to say Karen Gillan

like Amy Pond from Doctor Who. No, it's Karen.

I don't know the man that well. I assume it's

some sort of Irish name is the only thing I can

think of as far as his first name goes. According

to Comixology, these first two issues will be

released or would have been released because

this The February preview profiling preview episode

won't go until February 25th. These were released

February 11th 2015 Yeah, I'm I'm kind of stoked

for this. I mean don't get me wrong folks Like

I said, I believe I said it in the January previews

episode When we talked about Marvel and Star

Wars and all this stuff don't get me wrong folks.

I friggin Love Star Wars the movies and from

what I've read of the Dark Horse Star Wars comics

when we covered blood ties Last year, I really

enjoyed it. So now that Marvel has it back in

there putting out new content For Star Wars.

I'm very very in I'm interested but at the same

time, I don't know if I'll dive all in I'm gonna

at least check out these first two issues though

for for uh for darth vader because it's going

to be interesting to see you know like the solicit

says you know from the other side you know what

i mean yeah no it's uh it's not something that's

really come up too often in the entirety of the

star wars comic book history that you know you've

had the odd miniseries here and there you know

there's uh was it Crimson Empire, which featured

like one of the Crimson, you know, Imperial guards

going off on his own and, you know, having shenanigans

and then there's been, you know, any number of

Boba Fett miniseries. Like it's not often that

you have something from the other side of the

Star Wars like that. So I'm definitely looking

for it. I mean, and again, it's when I read this,

I'm going to be hearing James Earl Jones voice.

Oh, yeah. I mean, that's the only voice you can

hear. I mean, you know. And it's one of those

things where, you know, this is being told from

the other side. This is, and you know, when I

read that in the solicit, the one thing that

makes me think, makes me think of when I read

that was like, hey, it's kind of like being on

the pork side of the force over an Angry Birds

Star Wars. Alright up next we have Star Wars

number two written by Jason Aaron art by John

Cassidy the greatest space adventure of all time

continues the rebel assault on Simoon one continues

Luke Skywalker cornered by Darth Vader Han Leia

and the others trapped done done done Seeing

it No, I'm kidding. It's uh Again, I'm like I'm

gonna be picking up this series because it's

friggin Star Wars Yeah, I I still have yet to

read issue one I know I need to but this is one

of those things where I was more so curious and

I just wanted to see I like I wasn't coming at

like I am by no means in any financial position

to You know add Star Wars add everything Marvel

Star Wars to my collection. So, it's one of those

things where I'll check out the first issue and

if I like it great and you know, whatever and

hey, down the line, I'll just wait for a trade.

Yeah. No, the the the first issue is great and

just the John Cassidy's art and it's it's Han

Solo like you hear Harrison Ford's voice and

and just him being a proper How could you not

want to read this? Yeah. Well, it's not that

I don't want. Anyway, up next we have Marvel

Universe Guardians of the Galaxy number 104,

adapted by Joe Caramagna. And it is based on

the highly anticipated new series coming to Disney

XD in 2015. Follow the further adventures of

Guardians of the Galaxy. With a galaxy full of

danger, only the Guardians stand between us and

the destruction of everything, featuring adaptations

of the upcoming animated series, with a mix of

screen grab and brand new stories for everyone

to enjoy. 32 pages, all ages 299. Now you had

asked me last month, it might have been off air,

but you had asked me in January when we did the

January profiling previews, if there was any

info on the cartoon series. Well, apparently...

It is coming this fall in 2015, because I think

I told you off here. I'm like, wait a second.

Why does that say... Anyway, so they're adapting

the cartoon series pretty much, which is pretty

cool, actually, when you think about it. No,

I'm definitely looking forward to it. It's, you

know, it's now we got to wait and I want this

cartoon now because I love the movie so much.

But I'm definitely looking forward to it like

I'm gonna be picking it up for sure cuz I pretty

much getting everything guardians right now Because

I can afford to it feels so good But the and

it's not like I'm not gonna like it. It's just

I hope that we get Past this miniseries if they

keep it going or they have a new one that they

have More make it more like the Batman adventures

comic book that we had back in the 90s where

it's you know Adventures that happen between

episodes and all that because I'm not a huge

fan of comic books that are screen grabs Yeah,

and see I always saw those like if you look at

them just briefly for me one of the next one

if you look at the stuff like IDW does with the

turtles, with the cartoon turtle stuff. They

have the new animated adventures, which is an

in -between the show kind of comic book. And

then you have the actual book releases that IDW

does that... The Digest -sized things. Right,

right, the Digest stuff that is screen grabs

from the show. I think this new thing, this Marvel

Universe Guardians of the Galaxy number 104,

since it's only a miniseries, It's kind of to

give us a teaser a taste of what's to come to

pardon the Shang Tsung pong, you know Of what's

to come for the the cartoon series, so that's

that's kind of cool They're giving us a little

you know look into it before we even get it Yeah,

and they say they're they're gonna have like

original stories to which I'm looking forward

to it's just It's it's a nitpicky thing for me.

It's You know, they're they're not They're doing

the screen grab thing, and I'm not a huge fan

of that. That's kind of like people bitching

about how the Godzilla movie last year was like,

there wasn't enough Godzilla. It was like, oh,

suck it up, Buttercup. But, you know, moving

on. Guardians team up numbers one and two. Brian

Bendis is on writing for issue one, Art Adams

on Art and Color. Launching directly out of Guardians

of the Galaxy comes the new ongoing series, bringing

the Guardians to the Marvel Universe's grandest

stage for an opening arc. Out of this world adventures

with some of the biggest hitters Marvel has to

offer. Kicking off with cosmic threats so massive,

it'll take more than just the Guardians of the

Galaxy to stop it. Assembled side by side with

the mighty Avengers, prepare for two titanic

teams to unite like you've never seen before.

And then we have issue two, Guardians of the

Galaxy and the Avengers follow part two of this

story as Guardians of the Galaxy slam their way

into the world of the Avengers and only working

together as a team will help them save the galaxy.

Tension runs high when survival is at stake and

when the likes of Gamora, Black Widow, Hawkeye,

and Rocket are forced to problem solve together,

it can mean only one thing is guaranteed, destruction.

boom boom boom I can't like for me at this point

when I think of the Avengers and Hawkeye I think

of Renner and the Marvel Universe film Hawkeye

and all as I can think of is Bradley Cooper and

Jeremy Renner doing these these lines trying

to snark yes but no this is this looks really

really cool the the cover on it is is great um

art adams has he's one of these comic book artists

that has like a super detailed art style i mean

this guy did he did some of the best godzilla

comics that i've ever read like coming out of

the original godzilla comics that came out in

like the very early 90s And his own create, I

think he's own creators or creative series, Monkey

Man and O 'Brien, which involves a hyper intelligent

giant gorilla from another dimension. It is absolutely

beautiful art like he gets like the full like

the lines in the face and you know, the the crease

and a coat like he's just got such fine detail

work. It's absolutely beautiful. And definitely

look, it's it's a team of comic book in the Marvel

universe and for some reason DC just doesn't

do this anymore You know, apparently we don't

like team ups and DC knows what's best. Oh God,

I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit But

overall definitely looking forward to this and

like I agree with Mike folks. It's Hawkeye and

rocket. That's like oil and water Nitro and glycerin

Yeah, it's it's one of those things where You

know how the in the last month we talked about

or was it last month or this month actually later

in this in this segment of the podcast we'll

be talking about I Think it's this one, isn't

it? I'm trying to think. Oh, yeah later in this

in this segment. We'll be talking about the trade

paperback for Hawkeye versus Deadpool Can you

imagine a separate series Hawkeye and rocket

team up? just the like Okay, I know if people

go back to episode 26 of the pull bag and listen

to myself and Ryan Merkley talk about the Matt

fraction Hawkeye series I was not too kind on

that series because I don't give a crap about

what Hawkeye is doing on his day off I just I

just don't care, but if there was a series That

had Hawkeye and rocket as a team up That would

be amazing, just the two of them. Like, if they

had introduced that into the Hawkeye ongoing,

I would have loved that. Alright, up next we

have Spider Gwen number one, written by Jason

Latour, art and covers by Robbie Rodriguez. Spider

Gwen spins into her own series because you demanded

it! The breakout hit of the biggest spider event

of the century is... taking comic shops by storm

this winter with her own new ongoing series,

Spider -Gwen. Gwen Stacy is Spider -Woman, but

you knew that already. What you don't know is

what friends and foes are waiting for her in

the aftermath of Spider -Verse. From the fan

favorite creative team that brought you Spider

-Gwen's origin story and edge of Spider -Verse,

Jason Latour and Robbie Rodriguez. Dun dun dun.

Are you going to be picking up Spider -Gwen?

Yes. Yes, I am. And as I said in last month's

Profiling Previews episode, folks, JT and I will

eventually get to Spider -Verse in the pull bag,

I'm hoping this year, but I don't know exactly

when yet, because I do want to figure out what

the heck is going on with Spider -Man. He does

whatever a spider can. Up next we have silk number

one Robbie Thompson on writing in Stacy Lee on

art. The cover here is done by Dave Johnson.

There are two variant covers as well. Cindy Moon

exploded out of her bunker and into the Marvel

Universe when we first learned that she had been

bitten by that same radioactive spider in the

first arc of Amazing Spider -Man. She then went

on to save Peter Parker's life more than once

and traversed the Spider -Verse alongside Spider

-Woman. Now as Silk, Cindy is on her own in New

York City searching for her past, defending her

own - future and webbing up wrongdoers along

the way. Robbie Thompson, writer from TV Supernatural,

fills in this new ongoing series with his unique

blend of antics and feels, featuring stunning

covers by Eisner Award winner Dave Johnson and

interiors by future superstar Stacey Lee. This,

I gotta say folks, out of all the Marvel stuff

we've talked about in the first two months of

2015, I'm really interested about this because

it's spitting out of a spider book, but it isn't

something I've... Myself, and I believe sometimes

you do it, and a lot of my friends sometimes

will complain about origin stories, about constantly

retelling origin stories with the same damn characters.

This is kind of cool, where we find out that

she was a character that also got bit by the

same spider that... that that that peter did

but this is her own thing this is her own story

and i'm really interested that on this one yeah

about you no i'm definitely good i'm definitely

giving it the three issue uh attempt attempt

well yeah the three issue rule because i mean

the in the backstory of cindy moon is silk she's

working at this news network that recently hired

ex -mayor jay jona jameson to or they brought

him on and he's got his own Bill O 'Reilly, you

know, style TV show where so now he's got even

more coverage of, you know, Spiderman is a menace.

So I'm kind of looking forward to the shenanigans

of Cindy working behind the scenes and possibly

screwing with Jolly Jonah from time to time.

And the fact that Robbie Thompson's writing this

and he's done some of my favorite episodes of

Supernatural over the last few years. Like you

did the one with the girl with the Dungeons and

Dragons tattoo, which is an episode that basically

highlighted Charlie Bradbury, who's played by

Felicia Day. It's one of my favorite new characters

on that show. I'm looking forward to this. This

could be a lot of fun. Absolutely. And what's

not to love about a spider woman? True. I still

miss Julia Carpenter, but that's a whole nother

She's not a web now other is she really yeah

that happened during the whole gauntlet storyline

We're okay. You can tell me later. I just I only

remember her from Iron Man 94 Cosmic shenanigans

all I'm saying And now it is time for the fantastic

farce. Oh, I'm sorry the fantastic for number

643 written by James Robinson by Leonard Kirk

The internet wrecking, the end is forever continues.

With the villains plans revealed, an invasion

of earth begins with the creatures from Franklin

verse as well as corrupted versions of the heroes

from Heroes Reborn. Will the Fantastic Four have

enough power to fight them on the streets of

New York City? Meanwhile, Sue Namor and Jim Hammond

resolve... Resolve into it's supposed to be dissolve.

I don't know whatever Franklin verse. Yeah Into

the Franklin verse to combat this threat at its

source But what they find is far more terrifying

than they expected plus the return of sleepwalker

and Bentley 23's finest hour Yeah, anything that

has a number 643 or any three -digit number after

it for issues Just I know you like this and I'll

let you talk about it a minute, but I just don't

care Well, it's marvel's attempt because they're

Again, like we said last time In the january

solicits that marvel's not like the the president

of marvel Uh, basically, you know, they they

they were they're trying they're still trying

to get spies something with sony worked out So

spider -man can be in an avengers film but uh

fox I'm not saying Marvel's even Fox and Marvel

both being a bunch of babies but the whole idea

with this the numbering at 600 is if you take

into account the All the issues of the ongoing

fantastic fours over the years like even when

Johnny storm was thought to be dead and it became

future foundation for a year That is they still

consider that a fantastic for comics. So the

numbering carries that these are They're lumbering

towards almost 650 issues of Fantastic Four.

So the numbering doesn't really bother me that

much. I mean, they started this as a new Fantastic

Four series and then last month they flipped

the script and number 12 or number 13, whatever,

I can't remember exactly what it was, would have

been the 642nd issue. But yeah, no, this is definitely

picking this one up. I mean it's again like I

said last time the villains motivation is entirely

he wanted to Make time with Susan Storm and He

hemmed and he hawed and Reed got there first

and he's like I must destroy him now So I'm looking

forward to this and yeah, it's like they're they're

using the heroes reborn Avengers which I kind

of like that idea. I read those comics back in

the day. You know, it's it's it's cool that James

Robinson is a great like he's got he's a writer

that has got like he's a dyed in the wool comic

books fan. Because when he was writing Justice

League of America, like pre 52, he had some of

my favorite Justice League stories in the like

the last 10 years because there was this sense

of fun. And, you know, WTF mofo moments and is

just It was a fun comic. It was a fun read. And

that's what I've been loving about this series.

And like I said last time, plus the fact that

the city of New York finally said the Fantastic

Four, get the hell out. I mean, like I said,

how many times has the Baxter building exploded

and they've never shut them down before? You

know, what did they just send the thing out?

He's like, yeah, we'll come back tomorrow. Good

decision. So definitely pick this one up, folks.

The unbeatable squirrel girl number two Ryan

North on writing Erica Henderson on art and colors

and covers and all that stuff We have let's see

starting college is hard enough, but now squirrel

girl has to deal with Galactus, too The fate

of the entire planet hangs in the balance and

only squirrel girl can save it also her squirrel

friend tippy toe she can help to Iron Man might

show up to kind of at least um okay like definitely

folks i'm just gonna say straight you don't buy

this comic you don't like comics like it's squirrel

girl versus galactus and when i was reading these

solicitations before the show when it gets down

to that iron iron man might show up and my mind

read might show up tool Because that's what's

Iron Man is right now. He's yeah big tool But

no, I mean again, it's Ryan North and Eric Anderson

Like I said was a huge fan of squirrel girls

face like Henderson's art, but that is like the

only nitpick I have Because this is bonkers pants

on head bug nut crazy, and I love it Speaking

of being nuts and crazy rocket raccoon number

eight written by scottie young art is done by

philippe andrade cover by scottie young uh...

the meanest toughest wittiest and furriest guardian

of the galaxy just broke out his biggest guns

because it's on or honor the most on whatever

you get it join superstar scottie young and sensational

artist philippe andrade from captain marvel and

figment In a rocket adventure that breaks all

the rules including grammar Yeah, I think I'm

gonna have to get them started to start getting

rocket raccoon series. Oh, oh just the This car.

It's been so good since from the beginning and

I love it all the artists like the Philippe Andrade

Scottie young in the original few issues and

Okay, I can't remember who's currently the artist

on guardians they whenever Rocket says something

Sarcastically, they always make him look like

his eyes are squinting and he's got this shit

-eating grin on his face Kind of like the way

he did in the movie very much. So yeah, and I'm

kind of looking for it because when they would

they have Paul peluche did like some of the the

original was the original artist on the Guardians

of the Galaxy title went like post the annihilation

events that spawned it and They had this I'm

waiting for the f -yeah piece of artwork with

Rocket in this series because in that first one

they had where he kisses her grenade he's like

do papa proud and he throws it fly my pretty

fly I'm waiting for that in this comic book because

if there's one thing people love about Rocket

Raccoon is the fact that he has absolutely no

regard for personal property I mean if it can't

get blown up it probably will And apparently,

he's taking his talents to the English language.

So, you know, because grabbers kind of get broken

and well, it should because it's rocket flipping

raccoon. Yep. All right, folks, Spider -Man and

the X -Men number three, Elliot Callan on writing

Marco Fahila on art cover by Stacey Lee. Grant

covered is according to this is to be announced

good news spider -man and his ex -students got

the 11 30 p .m. Late night talk show slot bad

news his executive producers are chameleon and

mojo and his first guests are the sinister 66

plus the return of wolverine well kind of not

really but sort of um Okay, yes I Don't want

to get into a long diatribe here, but Can I as

someone who has not followed the Marvel universe?

Lately Since the end of superior spider -man

can I pick to pick this series up without having

to read like a million other things Can I pick

this up from issue one and it'll be alright,

or do I have to read like a million other books?

No, you it's all fairly well explained in the

first couple issues Okay, you know because like

there was sorry you go because damn this sounds

so fun Yeah, well, I mean the whole idea is like

we saw last month with spider -man number two

that you know the Spider -man and the ex kid

ex students managed to stop Sauron and stay grounds

attempt to you know savage land eyes sat in island

and storms like where the flip are these guys

are supposed to be back because she's really

pissed that Wolverine would ask Spider -Man to

fill in this slot at the Jean Grey school and

then we see at the end they all get on this blackbird

and they're going back to the school and then

one of the students is uh there's not actually

a door for the cockpit and and Spider -Man's

like oh you That and then they all get gas and

they pass out and chameleons like you think for

a guy with a danger of warning sense He wouldn't

fall into so many traps And then you see that

he's getting jacked because mojo who mojo is

a giant obese man on a mecha spider Platform

that is a other dimensionally. He's an other

dimensional TV producer Right. Well, yeah, you

know, I knew who mojo was. Yeah, and I love that

X -Men always get great ratings You know, it's

so I'm definitely gonna be getting this picking

this one up. I mean, it's well again I've been

I've loved this title from the beginning and

It's spider -man the best thing about this is

a lot of the students including in this mutant

hellion Who's like a super he's like a powerful

telekinetic mutant Him and Spider -Man snark

back to each other so much. It's absolutely beautiful

because Kellyanne gives but Spider -Man gives

as good as he gets and if there's one superpower

that Spider -Man does have it's sarcasm. Absolutely.

I'm gonna show you something beautiful. Everyone

screaming for mercy. You want to protect the

world, but you don't want it to change. You're

all puppets. Tangled in... ...strings. Yes, there

are no strings on Ultron because right now we're

talking about Marvel's the Avengers Age of Ultron

Prelude trade paperback. This is an advanced

solicitation written by Will Corona Pilgrim Roy

Thomas Kurt Buzak and Brian Michael Bendis penciled

by Joe Bennett John Buscema George Perez and

Brian Hitch The Avengers make their explosive

return to the big screen this spring, and we've

got everything you need to prepare right here.

First, relive the historic first meeting between

Marvel's mightiest heroes as Loki's plot to gain

ultimate power sparks a worldwide manhunt, a

vicious battle against the invading Chitauri

in the heart of New York City. and the founding

of the Mighty Avengers next, thrilled to an all

-new infinite -style adventure in the Marvel

Cinematic Universe. What world -shaking threats

have the Avengers battled since their last film,

and can anything prepare them for the looming

peril of the mad mechanoid known as Ultron? Plus,

thrilled to classic adventures such as Ultron

manipulates the Vision, conquers a nation and

battles the avengers collecting marvels the avengers

number one and two avengers cinematic infinite

comic number one avengers 1963 number 57 and

58 avengers 1998 number 22 and avengers 2010

number 12 .1 this is 184 pages it is 1699 this

is gonna be awesome yes it just is this is going

to be absolutely amazing well i mean first of

all they've got the uh when you look at like

the they've got the original like the movie comic

they've got their infinite comic which is basically

marvel's did anything marvel infinite comic is

a digital comic so you when you read it on like

a tablet you have to read in like land like turn

it to the side so you read in the widescreen

landscape like that You know, they've got like

with the original Ultron vision story from I

think that's the original Ultron Avengers 57.

I'm just gonna while I keep rambling. I'm gonna

search for that quick, but but they have yeah,

it's the original appearance of the vision is

Avengers 57 from 1963, but they have One of its

one of my all -time favorite Avengers comics

written. It's Kurt Biasic by the way art by uh

oh god it's george something it's george perez

that's it thank you i just blanked i was like

oh god the alzheimer's is set again uh avengers

22 from the uh post here reborn series is ultron

had invaded this country called slovenia and

basically slaughtered everybody because he wanted

a base of operations And they have this awesome

scene where he's got, like, the Wasp and the

Grim Reaper and Wonder Man and Hank Pym strapped

up on a wall, and he's going to copy their brains

and use them to make his new mechanoid people.

And the Avengers bust through the wall, and there's

Thor, hammer in hand, pissed off. Ultron, we

would have woods with thee. I want to hear Chris

Hemsworth say that in the movie, man. I need

that. So I am definitely going to be picking

this up. I'm not so rich that I could have the

original Avengers 57 and 58, but true. I got

no problem picking this up. Yeah. I mean, this,

um, this looks like it's going to be amazing

and I'm trying to find a release date for it.

Um, I say according to Amazon, uh, let's see.

Is it already out? No, pre -order add to cart.

Title will be released March 7th. Well, not really

St. Patrick's Day. March 17th is when this will

be out, which is actually kind of cool because

it is like two weeks, three weeks before the

film actually comes out, because the film is

April 1st, right? May 1st. Oh, May 1st, so it's

a couple months. Okay, so it's two months. I'm

sorry. I don't know. So, there you go, folks.

Definitely looking forward to this one. Absolutely.

Absolutely. It's, you know, it's really gonna

be interesting to see what's in this because...

you know adventures between the two films i mean

that's gonna be kind of cool to see with the

avengers you know cuz we left off with that film

at the end of the original avengers film with

you know they're gonna go do their own thing

you know they're gonna scatter to the four corners

of the globe so it's gonna be awesome alright

folks the let's see next one we're gonna talk

about uh... is actually going to be Hawkeye versus

Deadpool trade paperback Written by Jerry Duggan

penciled by Matteo Lali and the cover is by James

Heron Once upon a time champions emerged to fight

the evil plaguing humanity They fought for all

that was good in the world. They were kind generous

and self -sacrificing They were heroes. These

are not those heroes. What do Hawkeye and Deadpool

have in common? It's Halloween in Brooklyn, and

a shield espionage mystery has both heroes racing

the clock. But things aren't what they seem.

Why are the bad guys dressed as good guys? And

what does the black cat have to do with it? Marvel's

most beloved and simultaneously annoying duo

is on the case. But with villains masquerading

as heroes, who can Deadpool and Hawkeye trust?

And no, it's not one another. as the baddest

brawlers in brooklyn tear up the town will deadpool

and hawkeye kill each other before they figure

it out collecting hawkeye versus deadpool numbers

zero to four this is a 1699 trade paperback it's

got 112 pages in it um since it's not hawkeye's

day off i might actually pick this up you gotta

let that go mike Nuh -uh. Never. There are certain

things with the Marvel Universe that I will never

let go. I'm not into reading Hawkeye's Adventures

on his days off, and I still think Agents of

S .H .I .E .L .D. is a farce because they basically

ruin the emotion of Coulson dying. Okay then.

Here's a spoiler for you. Uncle Ben is dead.

Yeah, but Uncle Ben's been dead for 70 years.

And you have to let that go. Anyway, this was

an absolute joy. This is another Marvel miniseries

that I had an absolute ball reading. It's the

whole idea that they mentioned this in the Avengers

of Symbol cartoon. It's like Hawkeye, for as

much as people look at him, they just see an

archer who's kind of a slob. part of his schtick

like he He is a sloth. Don't get me wrong, but

he uses that he lets everyone underestimate him

so You know he can take his shot And it's the

merc with a mouth the regenerating degenerate

the crimson comedian It's if there were never

if there were ever two more perfectly mismatched

characters in the Marvel universe to have an

adventure of I have yet to find them And the

whole thing is like they keep the at one point

they end up switching weapons and Hawkeyes flying

around with like this jet pack weapons platform

that Deadpool cobbled together and Deadpool gets

to steal like Hawkeyes sky cycle and they go

off into battle like that. And it's more so Black

Cat. I don't want to spoil it for people who

haven't read it, but more so Black Cat. She's

just really annoyed with the heroes for disrupting

her operation versus something actually happening

Yeah, I wish we had a current black cat series.

I Really do. I love that character No Hawkeye

in Deadpool the first trade paperback here for

this this zero to four. I assume this was a miniseries,

right? Yeah. This wasn't, this wasn't, this isn't

a current ongoing. No. Okay, yeah. Um, I, I would,

this is what I want them to do with Hawkeye and

Rocket. This is exactly the type of, you know,

just four or five issues, put them together,

see what kind of damage they can do. That would

be hilarious. No, that's exactly what it is.

Absolutely. Alright folks, I think that's gonna

do it for us here in the February solicitations.

As I mentioned, some of them are advanced solicitations.

I've tried to find the dates for everybody as

best I can. The Hawkeye vs. Deadpool is coming

out St. Patrick's Day. The Avengers thing is

also coming out St. Patrick's Day 2015. That's

gonna do it for us or take a quick break I'll

come back and give everyone's contact information

where you can find JT the weird science guys

Nicole and Jeremy fine as well on Twitter, so

I guess we'll see you next month for the March

solicitations. See you then, folks. St. Jarvis,

is it that time? The house party protocol, sir?

Correct. All right, folks, there you have it.

All of the stuff we want you to be checking out

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once again everyone for being patient with us

and with me specifically with this new type of

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know why i didn't start doing these things year

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