January 2015 Comic Solicitations with Industry Guests

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Pole Bag. Ladies and gentlemen, it is year three

of the Pole Bag. I am your host TFJ1Mike. And

this year I wanted to do something for the previews,

for the solicitations, to kind of talk about

some comic news. And I know we do this generally

in the After Dark as far as general comic discussions,

but here I want to highlight for you, the listeners,

what's out now, and for you to be able to go

get it. So, little disclaimer, this episode's

a bit long. I talk with Nicole Halestorm for

the IDW, publishing solicits. The Weird Science

of DC Comics blog guys, Jim and Eric for the

DC solicits, Jeremy Fine for the Image Comics

solicits, and JT from Saskatoon for the Marvel

solicits. This episode is the January solicitations

episode. This is all stuff that is coming out

or came out in January. Or some of it might be

advanced solicitations like for trades and hardcovers

and special things like that. This episode is

going to run a little long. I want to really

try to shorten these up a little bit, but you

know we get to talk and we get on some tangents

Hopefully everyone will have fun Please comment

on the post and let me know what you think and

if there's anything about these types of episodes

We're calling them profiling previews That you

think we should change or improve on. Thank you

very much Here's the episode starting with IDW

going into DC image and then Marvel Alright folks,

it is time to talk about the IDW January solicitations.

These are books that were released in January

2015 from IDW Publishing. Joining me for the

IDW solicits is none other than the Hailstorm

herself. Because let's face it, we all know she

is the eye of a lot of storms around here. I

know, right? We have Nicole, aka Beatlesdiva,

hello. I guess I'll say hi. So yes, as I said

in the intro to this very first profiling previews

episode here in the pull bag, it's going to be

myself and various others on the various companies.

I pretty much limited it to four companies. I

do have a section for like Boom Studios and various

other publishers, but it's pretty much profiling

previews here in the pull bag for year three

is pretty much going to be IDW, Image, DC, and

Marvel. Because let's face it, those are the

big four. I guess you could count Dark Horse,

but Dark Horse doesn't do digital comics outside

of their own website. Valiant's been doing some

good stuff too, though, but they're fairly small

compared to, you know. Yeah. So we, and this

link will be in the podcast post, so people can

go to, I'm getting this from comicbookresources

.com. The link for these solicitations will be

in that post so you guys can get that there.

The first thing from IDW that came out in January

2015 that we're going to talk about is Zombies

versus Robots number one. I can't even get out

the number one after that. The writers are Chris

Rial, Steve Niles, Art is done by Anthony. I

see you do. There you go. There you go Ashley

would and Val Marek That's what it looks like

to me. Okay. Yeah Ashley what is on color first

ever ongoing zombies versus robot series bringing

you new robots a revived a renewed zombie threat

new human survivors in an all -new world ready

for taking from one of the more from One or more

of these factions part one of inherit the earth

and the orphans start here done done done Okay,

and I picked this up. I haven't been able to

read it yet, but the artwork is awesome Plus

it's zombies and robots What's not to love on

it? Absolutely. There's two things. I love reading

about it's robots and zombies and now I got into

one Yes Yeah, this looks very interesting for

people like you who are into zombies. Wait, wait,

wait! What does that mean? Yeah, people like

you who are into zombies and robots, whereas

I could give a crap less about zombies. I don't

mind robots, I like robots, but zombies are just

not my thing. But no, it does look very... If

you say that out loud, you might be their first

victim. I, you know, I've been accused of worse

things, so there's that. And actually, they're

putting out a bunch of things to kick this series

off. They've got the issue one. They've also

got solicited here, Zombies vs. Robots, 100 Penny

Press, already. So there's that, and then they

also list Zombies vs. Robots, War Book, Omnibus.

The war book omnibus is 30 bucks for 440 pages

The the solicit on the war book says zombies

robots war throw in some Amazons and you've got

everything you need to know Collects all of the

series by co -creators Chris Rial and Ashley

would plus Adventure and under city also includes

the short pro story meaner than a junkyard dog.

So wait a second here. If they're just coming

out with the first issue and then they have this.

Now I assume this is gonna be an I assume that

this solicitation for the war book here is an

advanced solicitation. I don't think that's out.

Yeah. the Amazon Amazon in the solicit so yeah

let's see what it says here I don't searching

and it's on pre -order will be oh wait says the

pre -order is available February 24th Okay, so

it the okay people the war book omnibus is An

advanced solicitation. I was gonna say there's

no way that they would do something like this

With them just starting the series Yeah So there

is that all right moving on we've got Millennium

number one of five written by Joe Harris art

by Colin Lorimer and the cover is or colors I

guess is going to be Mentioned three fifteen

years ago the end of the world and anticipated

Millennium event was avoided thanks to the efforts

of Frank Black and FBI agents Fox Mulder and

Dana Scully or was it Frank's psychic gifts have

been showing him that evil has continued to grow

Unabated in the world he is trying his best to

ignore it, but as soon as the research into the

Millennium group their quest to find Frank's

daughter Jordan will put him into the fray once

again whether he likes it or not I I think I

saw like the first episode of the Millennium

TV series and then I just kind of drifted away

I totally forgot it was a TV series and that

tells you something yeah you know yeah but these

covers are beautiful Yeah, the covers look amazing.

Oh boy. I had a crush on Fox Molder for a long

time. Well, watch him in return to me with Mini

Driver and you'll forget all about that. I kind

of like that show. Thank you. California Cation

is the one that's like, oh, you're no Fox Molder.

What happened? What happened, Fox? So that is

currently out from IDW also out now from IDW

in January where they launched their next new

franchise title Galaxy quest the journey continues

number 104 for a miniseries It is gonna be written

by Eric Burnham and the art is done by nacho

once upon a time a troupe of has -been actors

that starred in an old sci -fi show were enlisted

by an alien race to save them from an intergalactic

tyrant despite being way out of their depth and

cast somehow managed to save The cast somehow

managed to save the aliens and stay alive, but

their actions in outer space may have had dire

consequences for another world. Join us in January

as the cast of Galaxy Quest returns for another

bombastic journey into space. I'm excited. Yes.

You know when I saw the galaxy quest movie and

looking back on it now after I've seen another

certain galaxy questing film I'm like yeah Tim

Allen's character could really be the father

of Chris Pratt You want to know if there's one

thing guardians the galaxy was missing It was

Sigourney Weaver. Ain't that the truth. And this

does actually pick up where the movie left off.

So this isn't just like, you know, I don't want

to say a cash grab because I don't think I, everything

that IDW does pretty much has a purpose behind

it for fans of whatever franchise it might be.

And let's face it the movie itself like like

it says it's 15 some odd years old now, so I

mean, it's not a lot of cash to grab Well, the

thing is I mean everyone let's check transformers.

I mean everyone always says that oh, they just

sell the comic books So they can sell toys or

not. The thing is everyone that reads transformer

comics knows that's not well It's somewhat true,

but there's also a really good story behind it

Everyone likes the comics better than the movies

or even the cartoons the comic book fans are

let's continue That's who knows maybe this series

is the same They're not I don't know if they're

gonna be selling galaxy quest stuff, but it's

got a great story Yeah, you never know Alright

up next we're gonna head to the world of GI Joe.

I thought this is interesting for me I might

end up picking this one up. I might pick it up

in trade, but it's a GI Joe snake eyes agent

of Cobra number one of five is written by Mike

costa with art by Palo villain annual I probably

destroyed that name, but yeah Yeah Uh, Destro,

one of - Lenny, Lenny, well, Val? Let me get

it here. Valinelli, there we go. Valinelli, there

you go. Or Villinelli, yeah, that sounds better.

Villinelli, okay, there we go. I apologize again.

He's some sort of villain people. That is a cool

ass name, though. My gosh, that's an awesome

ass name. Destro, one of Cobra's top operatives

has been captured as the - Metal Mast Maverick

gets transferred into a new prison, a prison

break he's instigated by none other than Snake

Eyes? With Destro free and Snake Eyes under Cobras

control, a mission that will rock the world of

G .I. Joe begins. This sounds very interesting

to me. Because it's just like, Snake Eyes, wait,

he's supposed to be the good guy. What happened?

Yep. He got sick of Duke's crap. Scarlet is being

a total twat. He's like, I can't take it anymore.

We're to the other side. I don't know. I don't

know. Just kidding. Scarlet has a temper. I don't

blame him. Don't blame him. Oh my god, I can

see myself getting into this as a new series,

and it does say one of five, so it's only gonna

be a miniseries, which is great, and IDW does

the miniseries very, very well for the most part.

Dexter's lab, notwithstanding. But yeah, no,

I mean, for me, someone who is... At best a casual

GI Joe fan. This looks really interesting The

only thing that kind of has me worried is the

fact that it's Costa writing it and I've heard

nothing but bad stuff about him actually Costa

would he did transformers? No, no, but his GI

Joe stuff is fairly good. I will I read Joe for

the longest time Spoiler alert people would they

replaced? Cobra Commander, it kind of did go

downhill a little bit, and well, I just had to

drop some things, and that was one of the things

that got dropped. But from when I read him in

G .I. Joe, it was good. All right. He knows how

to just people. He just doesn't know how to do

robots. Man, that's so hilarious. All right.

Now, people, we get into more giant robots with

Transformers punishment. Written by Captain Continuity

himself, Mr. John Barber, art and color done

by Livio Rivendeli. Optimus Prime returns to

Cybertron and someone is killing Decepticons.

Prime teams up with Windblade to uncover the

identity of the vigilante, but the answers will

uncover darker secrets than anyone expected.

Dun dun dun. Now, this is a larger comic. It's

like a one -shot, but it was made from the motion

comic that was free with Windows 8. Now, I read

this months ago, and I've had two people to talk

about this. Finally, it's coming onto paper form.

People, if you haven't read Transformers forever

because you thought, oh, Prime's... This is a

prime. Go pick this up. This is the prime that

we've been wanting for years. Have you read this

yet, Mike? No, I have not yet. Okay. I am so

far behind in Transformers stuff. Okay, that's

fine. Just pick this up. This right here is the...

No, this is a high bar. This is the best thing

John Barber's ever wrote. Wow. I will say that.

Because he brings back... the prime I grew up

with, the prime that I know and love. It's prime

like you remember him, the nostalgia. It is not

emo prime, not take your face prime. It's optimist

at his best being optimist. And it's a good like

murder mystery. People you gotta go. I'm not

kidding. This is what the best things I read

all last year Unfortunately, like I said, it

was a motion comment that hardly anyone read

but the people that I did read it with we sat

for hours talking about it I don't I don't think

I think it's a made fire that came out with this

originally I don't think they'll ever do one

of those deals again because It was limited as

you said to Windows 8 users and the windows 8

platform and if you didn't have windows 8 or

whatever you know on pc or device or whatever

you're basically screwed out of everything um

now this does say on here uh the stage is set

for combiner wars optimus prime and wind blade

on the hunt for a killer will the autobots stand

up when decepticon lives decepticon's lives are

at stake dun dun dun Okay, also out in January.

Like I said, go read it. Really, people, if you

buy one comic this month, it better be that.

Again, John Barber's best. Prove me wrong. uh...

also from the world of transformers we have transformers

the book formally known as robots in disguise

number thirty seven days of deception barbara

griffith uh... barbara and griffith uh... on

the creative team here the onyx protocol as prowl

confronts spike over the humans betrayal of the

mystery of gb black rock and the onyx interface

deepens, meanwhile Tokyo becomes a battleground

as RC faces the Constructicons and Galvatron.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am so far behind on both

of the Transformers ongoings. I... Did you call

me a sinner? Yes. I just can't get into them.

I don't know what it is. It's like after Dark

Cybertron something is just... sucked the life

out of the enjoyment for me from reading the

book. I don't know what it is. You need to read

this one because it has a little bit of Thundercracker

in it. Oh, Lord. That's the last thing I need.

What? You heard me. Thundercracker and Buster's

the best team up they've had in a long time.

Yeah, when he's not prattling on about his dumbass

play. He's not, though. Oh. I love that cover.

I love that. That was a cracker buster cover.

For the next illicit, it has been dual - It's

a joke, people. It's just a joke that hasn't

even happened yet. for the next solicit people

uh... it was supposed to come out in january

it has not it will be out according to my sources

february fourth 2015 Transformers more than meets

the eye number 37 days of deception Roberts and

Milne on the creative team desperate measures

four million years ago as Cybertron teetered

on the brink of all -out war a group of Autobots

decided it was time to take matters into their

own hands Everyone concerned would be subsequently

agree that this was a very very bad move Again

ever since the whole split like I was like when

we got to issue 33 which we haven't yet in the

pullback coverage but when I got to reading issue

33 of more than meets the eye I was like okay

I get it there was a rift in the timeline and

that became two lost lights and two crews and

two different it's basically you know Bar not

barber. I'm sorry Roberts basically gave us a

Doc Brown scenario here, and it's like okay That's

cool, and ever since then I have just been like

What the fuck is going on? I? Don't I don't I'm

not saying I don't enjoy it anymore I'm just

saying I am so far behind on both these titles

that I have no friggin clue I thought we should

bring this up considering a lot of people might

have missed a boat on this but Transformers animated

the complete All Spark Almanac. If you missed

out on AllSpark Almanac book one and book two

separately, seriously, go pick this up. If you're

into Transformers animated the cartoon series

at all and you want further in depth kind of

thing, it's going to be amazing having this all

as one. Oh, it's I have the two separate volumes

from back in the day, you know. Yeah. It's amazing

work. That team of Bill and Jim, sorry Jim, lost

your day for a second. You did such a great job

putting this together. And so many fun little

Easter eggs. And of course, even have like McFeely

and Vangelis added in there, which is awesome.

And so, yeah, yeah. So well done so well put

together Absolutely and also another one for

you guys that might have missed out on it that

didn't get it singly or didn't get the actual

Trade paperback version of it. They are releasing

transformers dark Cybertron and hardcover for

50 bucks I don't know if I can recommend it but

I'll recommend the the actual trade paper back

more than the hardcover, because it doesn't seem

like from the solicitation that there's anything

new or different in the hardcover. I'm not sure

if there is. No, it doesn't say that there's

any... I just like hardcovers because they last

longer. True. Next, before we jump off the Cybertronian

train ride here, we have... Something that Mikey

just doesn't get. Mikey was hurt by Decepticon

lately, so his joy is running low. We have Angry

Birds Transformers number three of four written

by John Barber with art by Marcelo Ferreira.

Rampage when the Angry Birds precious eggs become

leg -having weapon -bearing Rampaging eggs of

mass destruction the auto birds must team up

with the Deceptahogs to save Piggy Island How

much more mixed up can this mashup possibly get?

This is just like I told people it's Angry Birds

versus Transformers that title alone should let

you know it's not Shakespeare. It's just fun,

and it really is. There's so many hidden little

gems in this series. It makes me laugh. It does.

Like I said, the last issue I reviewed, I gave

it a four and a half out of five stars. I had

so much fun with it. I did. There you go. That's

all right. Alright folks this might shock some

people because everybody always asks me, you

know, oh you've done transformers Oh, you've

done mask. You've done he man. You're you're

about to do Shira. You've you're gonna do Jim

When are you gonna do a My Little Pony podcast

never? Maybe maybe maybe one day folks. This

is very that category Mikey Come on now. Come

on now. So this is probably about as close as

we're gonna get, folks. My Little Pony, Friendship

is Magic number 27. Are you currently reading

the series or no? I am currently reading it.

I am not caught up, though. How far back are

you? A couple issues behind. Alright. So be warned

there might be spoilers. I'm fine To buy a little

pony Create a creative team on this is Katie

cook on the writing Andy price on art price and

Tony flex or Felice on colors Timberwolves invade

ponyville. They're just the start of the troubles

for our ponies though as many other mystical

creatures emerge from ever free forest. What

could be causing the mass migration and how can

the balance of nature be restored? Dun dun dun.

Pony's have some great adventures and I know

like probably what you're thinking is little

girly and they have real danger. They have real

adventures and it's fun. I mean they use like

Timberwolves. These Timberwolves are not going

to be like your friendly little thing. They will

give you nightmares if you see the picture. What

the? I mean, because I know that the Timberwolves

have been in the cartoon. They're freaky. They

kind of freaked me out when I saw them. I'm like,

what? Yeah, they're not friendly. So this could

be kind of a yeah, I'm excited. Yeah. Okay, my

only my only real problem with ponies is Sometimes

in the cartoon series and in some of the comic

drawings they make them they try to make them

look human in their movements and My logical

brain is telling me No horse or pony should be

able to move the way that so are you talking

about Pinkie Pie? No, I'm not talking about Pinkie

Pie. Because she doesn't have bones. I'm not

talking about Pinkie Pie. I'm talking about the

ponies in general. It's a cartoon. Anyway, I'm

sending you a picture of the Timberwolves. Go

look at the Timberwolves. You can't tell me those

aren't kind of freaky looking. And they are freaky

looking they look like they come from Cybertron

actually. They are actually timber. They're logs

Wolves, you see? Yeah, I got it Look how creepy

they look. You should see how those things move

Alright, are you reading the other series, Friends

Forever? I am. I'm reading everything. What are

you talking about? Who are you talking to? How

long have we known each other? What? Yeah, true.

I should have figured. Jeremy Whitley is the

writer on this one. Agnes Garbowska? Hope I do

that right. And is on art and Amy Meberson is

on colors. When Sweetie Belle gets sick, it's

up to Big Sis Rarity to entertain Bab Seed on

a visit to... ...Main -hattan? Oh, God. Wow.

The only problem is the two seemingly have nothing

in common. Will the two find a way to overcome

their differences and find a way to have fun

in the big city? Oh, Lord. Okay. So the friends

forever, if you guys haven't heard this, it's

kind of like their little spotlight series. What

they do is they team up two ponies or two characters

and they put them in a situation and they work

things out. They have their own little venture

and it's always two different ponies. So this

is the first time that Rarity and Sweetie Belle

get together. Let's see, I'm trying to think,

one time it was Rarity and Pinkie Pie, so yeah,

they switch it up every month. It's a fun little

spotlight series. It's one of those things, if

you're not up to date with the ponies comic book,

you can pick this up, it's one little spotlight,

and you can kind of get to know the characters.

So Friends Forever is kind of like what... new

animated adventures is for Turtles, where it's

a one -shot kind of book each issue. Yeah, okay,

that's cool. That'll work. Also out in January

was My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Volume

6. This collects issues 21 to 24 of the series.

So there's that. And the last one we'll be talking

about. Now I did talk about these with Joe Reed

when we did our Turtles coverage, but I figured

since... you probably read about the turtles

i'm i'm so far behind in turtles though that's

the one that i'm really far behind on how far

behind are you issues early 30 20 27 26 oh my

god you need to catch i know Oh my god, you need

to catch up. Okay, you catch up on Transformers

and Ponies, I'll catch up with you. Well, Ponies,

I won't make any promises, but Transformers,

yeah. Since I've never read the pony books. But

if you're on issue 2728, you're just ending City

Fall, starting in Northampton. Oh my god, that

is so long ago. Don't make me do this. Oh my

god. It's not my fault. So long ago. I have a

big pile of shame, people. A big pile of shame.

See, I've still tried to catch up from when I

was in my accident. Oh, dang. Well, when I was

in my accident, I had over 200 comics to catch

up on. Oh, wow. Yeah, so I'm still trying to...

And turtles was the main thing, so it's just

like... Another big crossover from IDW ended

in January. TMNT Ghostbusters 404 came out. Eric

Burnham, Tom Walts on writing, Dan Shoning on

art and colors. The supernaturally awesome conclusion

to the Blockbuster crossover is here. Ghostly

forces converge on the Ghostbusters headquarters

and the Turtles opportunity to get back home

is fast -windowing. The two teams' last -ditch

efforts may come too late. Dun dun dun. Have

you read this series? I have read the mini -series.

I have read the crossover, yes. Okay. I love

this crossover. Did you enjoy this crossover?

I did. I had a little bit. I had a lot of nitpicks

about the actual Ghostbusters. Since I'm not

reading that series. Oh, okay. It's not the personalities.

It's not the writing. It's the art for me. Like

these, like I can't hear. Bill Murray, I can't

hear Harold Ramis in my head when I read lines

from these. It's just the way they're drawn and

colored. It just doesn't make me think. It doesn't

even make me think of the real Ghostbusters cartoon

series versions either. I do enjoy this. I did

very much enjoy this. Actually, coming up here

in the first week of February, Joe Reed and I

are actually going to review the whole series.

Oh good, that's good. Absolutely. Yeah, so I

think that's going to do it for the IDW portion

of the first profiling previews for January 2015.

Up next is going to be the DC books with myself

and the weird science of DC blog guys, Jim and

Eric. So we'll be back. I was just going to say

something before we leave. If you guys have a

good idea, W suggestions, send them my way. I'm

more than willing to read some stuff. So if you're

enjoying something, let me know. We'll be back

after this. Oh, quiet you. Alright folks first

up we had IDW now we head over to the DC camp

in the January 2015 solicitations for this profiling

previews episode of the pull bag Joining me for

the DC stuff is the weird science of DC guys

Jim and Eric. Hello guys. How are you? I am great.

I'm good as well That's right And yay DC January

2015 now for anyone who went back and listened

to our after dark where we kind of Previewed

the first three weeks of convergence go listen

to that This all happens before the move to LA.

So yes it does So this should be normal stuff

Thank God. Yeah Because let's face it DC is anything

but normal. Yeah, it's getting worse and worse,

too So basically folks what I had Jim and Eric

do is I told them pick out three books or three

titles you want to talk about and make sure that

our listeners check out as they are released.

So one of Eric's choices is the Multiversity

Guidebook number one written by Grant Morrison,

art by Nicola Scott, Gary Frank, Klaus Jansen,

Cameron Stewart, Dan Jergens, Chris Sprouse.

I wonder if he's related to Dylan and Cole. It

might be. Ben Oliver and others. This came out

January 21st. It is 80 pages. It's 799. The guidebook

to the greatest adventure in DC's history is

here, with a detailed concordance featuring each

of the 52 worlds in a multiverse, a complete

history of DC Comics universe -shattering crisis

events, a map of all known existence, and an

action -packed dual adventure starring commande

of Earth -51 alongside the post -apocalyptic

Atomic Knight Batman of Earth -17, and a chibi

Batman of Earth -42, this 80 -page mountain of

multiversity madness cannot be missed. The Multiversity

Guidebook contains everything you ever wanted

to know about DC's parallel worlds and their

superheroic inhabitants. Meet the agents of wonder,

the Light Brigade, the Super Americans, Wow.

And The Love Syndicate, Meet the Accelerated

Man, AquaFlash, Biomac, and more. Overflowing

with today's top artists and completely written

by Grant Morrison himself, readers of the DC

Universe can't afford to pass up this oversized

sixth chapter of Multiversity. Why did you choose

this, Eric? And did you pick this up, or are

you going to pick this up? Oh, no, I picked this

up. I love lists and getting to see all the worlds

that encompass the DC multiverse, which is a

huge thing for me. Unlike the solicit, you don't

get to meet all of these things. You just have

a page or a half a page where it tells you the

Earth and a little bit like a brief description

about them. But besides being like a guidebook,

it actually had a big story to it as well that

took a lot of the stuff that we've already been

dealing with in Multiversity and kind of tying

it together so we can get ready for our next

leg of the story. So would you say for anyone

that hasn't been picking up Multiversity, would

you say this is a good jumping on point? No,

it's not really a good jumping on point because

it has a lot to do with the other Multiversity

issues. I would get this just for the guidebook.

If you like lists and like to know about the

different worlds like I do, it's a good thing

to have. All right. Awesome. Jim, any interest

in this thing? No. And I'll tell you, that solicit

is long enough for me. That's like a normal size

issue, just the solicit. It was getting me as

my head was spinning. But yeah, I haven't read

it. I haven't read any of the multiversity. That's

Eric's thing. But man. He tries to even tell

me about it, and I'm telling you, I start getting

dizzy, so I gotta sit down every time he does.

It's Grant Morrison, so it's like, everybody

always says he's layered. It is a messed up,

confusing story that you have to read. Like,

each of us, you have to read more than once and

try to get your head wrapped around it. But this

does a pretty good job of just laying it out

for you and tying some other stuff in that you

were thinking about with other books of it. And

I really liked it. Alright folks, you can check

that out now from DC Comics Multiversity Guidebook

number one. Wait, if that says number one, does

that mean there's gonna be a two, three, four,

five, oh my god. No, as of right now it looks

like there's only gonna be a Multiversity number

two. Like each issue is the Multiversity and

then another title number one. So each one is

like that, but it'll go up to, I think there's

three more issues and the last one will just

be the Multiversity number two. Okay. Another

one of Eric's choices is Constantine number 21

written by Ray Fox art by Jeremy Han Covered

by Han for era on sale this came out January

14th It's 299 with legions of parademons on the

attack Constantine forges an alliance with dr.

Fate But as time begins to run out will they

escape earth to or help destroy it? I'm not a

fan of Constantine. I liked him in the DC Universe

Masters crossover, but that's about all I could

handle. So why should we be picking this one

up, Eric? Well, ever since Constantine has been

pushed over to Earth -2, it's this big Earth

-2 tie -in which goes congruently with Earth

-2 and Earth -2 World's End. A lot of people

getting sick of the Earth -2 stuff, but... Ever

since Earth 2, I mean, Constantine's gone to

Earth 2, the stories have become so much better.

Ray Fawkes is writing a really internal story

that just deals with what Constantine is feeling,

and the writing has just gone through the roof

since he's made the jump to Earth 2. Mm -hmm.

Jim, are you reading Constantine? I actually

read this issue. Because Eric had pushed it so

much and I enjoy it. I really like Jeremy Han's

art I'm with you though. I'm not a huge Constantine

fan So when it when I read it though like it's

okay, but if you're not a Constantine fan I don't

know that you'd enjoy this. I Mean, I like like

I said, I enjoyed the character when he was like,

you know trading wenty witty banter with queen

marlena in the dc over mo to cross over but other

than that and don't really care and i haven't

even checked out the tv show yet yeah i i wish

that he eric loves that i've watched the first

two issues and i really enjoyed it but and not

enough for me to keep watching i for me to watch

a weekly show and stick with it it really has

to grab me and that it didn't grab me as much

Alright, Eric's final choice for January releases,

Earth 2, World's End, number 17, written by Daniel

H. Wilson, Marjorie Bennett, and Mike Johnson.

Art by Andy Smith. The cover is by Gilliam March.

It is a 299 book. Earth 2 becomes infected by

the soul of Apocalypse. Can former surgeon Thomas

Wayne and the Batman of Earth 2 find a cure,

or is it already too late? It's so weird to me

that Thomas Wayne is alive. I know it's earth

to people I get it, but it just Boggles my mind.

Well, actually he's not supposed to be he actually

faked his death and came back after Bruce died

in the first issue Yeah, it just that's just

one of those things where Thomas being alive

and Bruce being dead just seems all kinds of

wrong to me Why should people be reading this

one, Eric? Well, the reason everybody should

be reading this because for the past like two

months, this is a weekly book though, but for

like the past two months, Earth -2 has been garbage.

Well, Earth -2 World's end has been garbage.

But this issue seems to be like the light at

the end of the tunnel. This is like a turning

point in the series, it seems like to me, where

things start becoming better and you can actually

get behind reading this book. If you're an Earth

-2 fan, which I am. So that's the main reason

it's on my list, is because I didn't hate this

issue. Jim, any love or hate for World's End?

I'm not a big fan. Because it's a weekly book,

I actually on our site, I do Batman Eternal,

and one weekly book is enough for me, but I do

read this only because... It seemed at first

to be very important to where DC was going with

this and then into Convergence now I kind of

think that it's not as important as I thought

it was supposed to be a big deal So yeah, I tried

to keep up with it. It hasn't been good. Like

Eric said, it's been pretty much garbage and

But this issue is a little better But again as

a whole the the series itself, I'm not a big

fan of All right moving on to Jim's three choices

for January folks out now is Batman number 38

Scott Snyder Greg Capolo With the backup story

by Snyder and tinny in the fourth We have a flash

75 variant cover by Tony s Daniel on this issue,

so that's that's interesting 399 book also DC

will get an extra dollar out of you and give

you a digital copy for $4 .99 we got it not not

today folks but at some point at some point in

the pullback after dark I'm gonna get a bunch

of people on here and bitch about why the hell

DC is charging an extra dollar just to give you

a damn digital code it's ridiculous anyway Yeah.

Endgame, part four, the Joker is back. This time,

no more funny stuff in the backup story. Five

Arkham Asylum escapees share their encounters

with the Joker. This issue also offered as a

combo pack edition with redemption code for a

digital download of this issue. I've made my

opinions known about the Endgame storyline because

it takes place after the end of Eternal. and

Eternal doesn't end until March 2015, I need

to just fast forward to issue 50 of Eternal and

read that and then go back and read this. And

basically, I know, I realize that this Batman

number 38 is a pretty lame choice only because,

you know, it's Batman. That's not a big surprise.

But yeah, I picked it because it is a big story.

Scott Snyder. I love Scott Snyder. I may kind

of get tired of him now and again, but I do like

his run, and this issue itself really ties in

a lot of his whole run in the new 52. Have you

read it, Mike? I've read Court of Owls, I've

read Death of the Family, I've read Zero Year,

and honestly Zero Year is where he lost me. After

Zero Year I was done. I don't care if you bring

the Joker back, I am waiting for the trade on

this storyline. I hear that. Well it is that,

and the Joker is back and the big... The big

pull of this is that the claim or what you, Scott

and I want you to believe is that the Joker has

been immortal. He's been in Gotham and in the

world. He has lived forever. So basically he's

turned him into a character out of I, Vampire

or whatever that other book is that he writes.

Yes, yes. Yeah, American Vampire. Oh, thank you.

Basically they're Batman and the but the reason

I like this this issue itself is not Really because

of the Joker and in fact the Joker is only in

it for a couple panels this one But it is the

new 52 debut of crazy quilt He's in there which

I love but also this is a story that like zero

year which I was not a big fan of too but what

I I did like of it is that Scott Snyder doesn't

write a Batman that is this godlike Batman that

can solve everything and he's having issues and

in this issue in particular He's really struggling

trying to figure out what to do on how to deal

with what's going on in Gotham. He calls Dick

Grayson He's looking for all these he goes to

crazy quilt for help But then things go wrong

and then I know am I allowed to spoil things

here? I don't want to spoil it. Let's not in

case anyone hasn't picked it up yet. I don't

spoil it, but at the end it's a cliffhanger that

actually ties into Scott Snyder's other big stories

in The New 52, which I really loved. It's weird

because Scott Snyder, when you read a Scott Snyder

book to me, a lot of times it starts to become

almost like homework. Because it seems like he's

trying to prove how smart he is and how much

he knows But then when I'm done and think about

it, I love it But in the meantime while I'm reading

it, sometimes I struggle just because I start

to get a little annoyed but I did really enjoy

the cliffhanger in this issue is so good and

Crazy quilt. So those two are the reasons why

I think people should grab it And the next one

Jim chose he chose just to piss me off just because

every time I see this series now I just go Too

much teen egg stop rubbing your hand Gotham Academy

number four Rick written by Betty Becky Clunen,

god I can't even say her name right, and Brendan

Fletcher, art and cover by Carl Kerschel. Now

I know why one of the reasons why you like this

series is because of the art by Carl so I know

that's that's one good thing for it. It is a

$2 .99 book and the only thing the solicitation

says is the hunt for the ghost of Gotham Academy

begins. Yes. I made it through two issues of

this series, folks, and I had to drop it because

it was too much crappy Americanized version of

friggin' Hogwarts. It is. It definitely is. But

I love it. I have my notes here, and I actually

have, in my top five books right now, I have

that written. I love this book. And it is...

I'll tell you, Carl Kersl's art was what initially,

I looked at it and it was just great, but also

I fell in love with the two main characters,

Olive Silverlock and Maps Mizuguchi, that I think

they're great characters. Here's the thing, I'm

45 years old. I'm an old man. I read this book.

I actually am embarrassed that I like it that

much it actually I don't yeah I start thinking

there's something wrong with me, but I'm telling

you the charm of this book And also the other

thing you have to realize is I like this book

seemed to be right before this new turn in DC

to kind of get things more cartoony and more

all ages friendly. This book, I think, does it

right. And it's an adventure story. And like

you said, it is DC's Hogwarts, which I love.

And some people don't like it. I love it. But

also in the story, They throw a lot of Easter

eggs from the DCU the issue After this the number

five actually throws in gray ghost is in it But

they just they kind of hint at them and I just

it's just a charming book that I think it's a

book that anybody could read you can pick it

up if you have kids if you have a Wife who likes

this sort of thing a young girl young boy, whatever.

I think anybody can like it and for me that goes

a long way Eric, please tell me you've your senses

and don't read this stuff Jim has me start reading

this for our Oh go I beg them I Read the first

issue and I couldn't get into it, but I read

the last week's issue, which I don't even remember

what issue that was That was five. Okay, so I've

read one in five But I cannot get into this.

It's just, two, wannabe anime, like, you know,

little girls in school outfits running around

having adventures in their Hogwarts thing. I

cannot get behind it. Both of you have no souls.

That's what it is. No, our souls are gone. Jim's

final choice for January solicits folks is The

Flash number 38 written by Robert Venditti and

Van Jensen art and cover by Britt Booth and Norm

Rapamond The Flash 75 variant cover by Howard

Porter and is a $2 .99 book The all -new all

-murderous Flash is posing as Barry Allen while

the real Scarlett Speedster is trapped in the

Speed Force What in the hell is going on? This

is a weird story. Basically, Barry Allen, future

Barry, came back, fought present day Barry, and

there was an explosion of the Speed Force, and

somehow future Barry de -aged to look like present

day Barry, while the present day Barry got stuck

in what they call the savage land of the Speed

Force. And what the Savage Land of the Speed

Force is almost like a land that time forgot

type of deal where everything from around time

is sucked in there. And in this issue, they even

claim Barry even says there's robots, dinosaurs

and robot dinosaurs in the Savage Land. Yeah,

it's the land of the lost. It is. In the meantime.

Hey, Cassada, you better sue DC already. Yes.

Yes. So and then there's there's the future Barry.

in the regular and he is trying to write the

wrongs that happened by basically killing everybody

who was bad so he's gone through the time on

the way here and this work he is a vicious killer

who is actually to put it in it reminds me a

lot of how superman is in injustice where things

have gone wrong he's changing the game well future

barry wants to change the game by killing everybody

And in the meantime, you get a weird sort of

vibe because he's with Patty, his girlfriend,

but it's his future self and it's a little odd.

The only thing that I don't like about this whole

storyline and this issue itself is I think that

the promise of these two storylines, even though

how crazy it sounds, I don't think they do enough

with them. I think that they could have done

a... thing with the Savage land where Barry stuck

in here with some pretty cool things. Like I

said, there's dinosaurs, robots, anything from

around time and robot dinosaurs. And they don't

seem to really want to grab onto that and go

with it. In this issue, you find out a little

bit of a history of the speedsters that you find

out. They say that they're telling Barry about

all these different. Speedster speed force powered

guys in the whole history of the world and then

in the meantime future Barry is fighting the

rogues who after forever evil have been trying

out different heat villains since heatwave died

in the rogues rebellion and forever evil and

they keep going bad and this one it's a guy named

napalm who is just i hate to say they're hotheads

but uh that's basically the joke and they're

trying to break this guy in or try him out and

he's awful and uh the future barry kind of uh

puts the end to his career as a heat villain

i'll tell you i won't spoil it but yeah and uh

basically i think what's happening is these Future

Barry is making everybody in Central City hate

Flash just in time for the real Barry to come

back and have to deal with it. I think that's

what it is. But I enjoy it. A lot of people are

a little torn by this whole savage land of the

speed force and this. I really like it. I just

wish that they would have done a little more

with it. All right, folks my three choices for

DC's January Solicits First up we have He -Man

the eternity war number two written by Dan Abnett

art by pot Mahan cover by Stefan Cedric I can't

say his name. I think that's right. I could be

wrong This is a 299 book. The battle begins as

He -Man leads his newly acquired army of snake

men into battle to make a surprise first strike

against the Dark Horde. Men in Arms, Shaves,

reveals his secret plan to overtake the Horde's

defenses. How will the Masters take down the

Dark Horde's devastating orbital disruptor? Find

out as this new MOTU epic continues. So far eternity

war has been great go pick this up folks You

don't even really need to read any of the other

DC stuff that they've done I will suggest reading

the blood of greyskull storyline from the 2013

ongoing but I Mean they've pretty much set this

up to be a whole new series and it's starting

with the war and it's awesome I'm loving the

hell out of it. You open the book up, you see

He -Man leading an army of snake men. You're

just blown away immediately. Absolutely. I had

such a good time reading this book. I can't wait

to see what happens next. Jim, I assume you're

not a Masters fan. No, it's not that I'm a...

I'm not a fan in particular, just most... You're

10 years too old. Yeah, I am. I am. And it's

weird, I did kind of watch the original show

for a little bit, but yeah, it's a little bit

beyond me. Though I like Gotham Academy, if I

didn't mention that yet. Oh Lord. I'll just keep

mentioning that. Next choice for me Scooby -Doo

team up number eight written by Shole fish art

by Scott Gerald's The cover is done by Dario

Brizuela. This is a 299 book Scooby and the gang

meet George Jetson and his boy Elroy. You can

sing the rest of the theme song for yourself

In the far -flung future everyday people like

the Jetsons don't like to believe in superstition

But people are people and they flip their jetpacks

to overdrive to flee from the unexpected appearance

of the space age specter Nice I Have a love -hate

relationship with scooby -doo team up uh... series

overall i loved it when they did the whole batman

thing in the beginning i loved it when they did

the bat might scooby might story i thought that

was cool i read both of those and really uh...

when it when it gets to the fact that they team

up with the super friends and wonder woman and

all that i just kinda just stepped away from

it issue seven came out a few months ago uh...

which is them in the flintstones actually have

that one i have not read it yet as i need to

read it eventually and i need to read this one

i actually had to go back on the comics ology

and reactivate my subscription to get this uh...

so you you're you're out there are now you're

not a scooby fan or a jetsons fan huh i have

a lot of hate relationship with scooby in general

because while i love paranormal stuff and ghost

hunting, it just always pissed me off as a kid

because you knew it wasn't gonna be an actual

monster. Now they've changed that up in recent

years, like, you know, they actually fight monsters

and ghosts and whatnot, but I just cannot get

it back into it. Jim? Well, I love Scooby -Doo,

and I always liked the Jetsons, even though...

I don't know, the Jetsons, now that I look back,

all those are pretty one -dimensional, but man,

the Jetsons are real one -dimensional, and I

in fact like, or actually really like, the Flintstones

issue that you were talking about. I'm more of

a Flintstones guy than a... Jetsons guy, but

I like the Jetsons too, and I love I actually

love the scooby -doo team up So I've actually

read a bunch. I did review a bunch at the beginning.

I kind of fell off reviewing them Only because

I don't know the the people that are going to

our site weren't really into it I don't think

but I really yeah, I really enjoy it though.

So yeah, I did team ups. I think are great I

think the best thing the Flintstones and the

Jetsons ever did was when they met each other

That in that movie that was the best thing now

I've forgotten about that. Yeah. I love that

I was actually I was to kind of sidetrack just

for a moment folks. I was actually Hospitalized

when that came out I had I had had a seizure

and For the ten days I was in the hospital. They

had that on video cassette. I broke the video

set from watching it so much and rewinding it

and all that stuff. Alright folks, my last choice

for January is the Batman Adventures Mad Love

Deluxe Edition Hardcover. This is a advanced

solicitation. It will be out March 18th. It is

96 pages, full color. It is $17 .99. Written

and drawn by the masterminds behind the Batman

animated series, Paul Dini and Proust Tim, this

epic reveals the origins of Harley Quinn as she

proves her love to the Joker by trying to eliminate

the Dark Knight on her own. Now in deluxe format

with exclusive extras and bonus material, dun

dun dun. I can't wait for this, actually. I already

bought it once, I'm not gonna buy it again. See,

I've never bought it. And I bought this well,

okay. Well, I take it back I bought the single

issue the digital issue that just has the Harley

story But yeah, I might actually have to pick

this up because man Just like It's it's gonna

be so interesting for me looking at this and

comparing it to what they did on the cartoon

series because I know it's Bruce Tim and Paul

Dini, but It's really cool Well, no, yeah, I'm

sure it's I'm sure it's very close But it's one

of those things where you're used to seeing these

character these versions of the characters on

a cartoon series Versus in a comic book run.

It's gonna be interesting to see you know what

the differences are Alright folks, that's going

to do it for the DC solicitations here in the

Profiling Previews episode for January. Up next,

Jeremy Fine and I are going to be talking about

the Image Comics solicitations, so stay tuned

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questioned. All right, folks. Up next here in

profiling previews inside the poll bag, I've

got Jeremy Fine with me. Hello, sir. How you

doing there, good sir? pretty good pretty good

and we're going to be talking about the image

comics january solicitations now these did come

out in november of twenty fourteen as i already

said in the i d w and d c portion of this of

the episode that this is basically uh... stuff

that's out now some of them might be advanced

solicitation so it might not be out right this

at this moment but most of the stuff is out now

uh... in january We're going to go through several

Image Comics titles and briefly talk about them

and let you know what we think you should be

checking out. So the first thing I have on the

list for January for Image Comics, The Dying

and the Dead Number One. The story is by Jonathan

Hickman, art and cover by Ryan Bodenheim. says

today tomorrow the grave this is a four dollar

fifty cent comic a murder at a wedding reveals

50 year old a 50 year old secret at a great cost

a man with a dying wife is given the opportunity

to save her a lost tribe is reborn another time

seemingly disparate events that force relics

from the greatest generation to come together

for one last hurrah brought to you by award -winning

writer Jonathan Nickman and fan favorite artist

Ryan Bodenheim the dying and the dead is high

adventure meets end -of -life care it's an Indiana

Jones for old people there are no fedoras only

bedpans oh my god this solicitation makes it

sound like it's Star Wars like Well, you know,

I guess there is going to be life after Star

Wars and Indiana Jones and they've always tried

I mean we all know it didn't work with Kingdom

of the Crystal Skull So now it's gonna work with

image comics with dying of the dead and I have

to admit going through this reddit Haven't memorized

it but you know, there's some of the solicitations.

This one looks like we're gonna be discussing

this somehow On you know later issue of the pullback

I I have to give I have to give image credit

where creditors do where they know They're not

worried about the capes. They're worried about

just taking a visual story and This and what

I like is they are taking submissions and they

seem to be taking a lot of submissions. So for

me this one works Absolutely I'm only bringing

the next one up here just because it's the 250th

issue of it Which is because I honestly folks

have zero interest I saw the movie You know 20

some odd 30 some well 20 some odd years ago,

and I just still just it's not my thing But I

thought for the listeners we should bring this

up spawn number 250 obviously Todd McFarland

Seisman Kudransky is on art and it has several

different variant covers. It is a $5 .99 book.

This huge triple size 250th anniversary issue

marks only the second time an Independent comic

book has reached such a lofty number this issue

marks the cataclysmic climax in the story of

the current spawn Jim Downing's final struggle

against his costume while the fate of New York

City lies in the balance From the ashes that

battlefield comes a long -awaited return of the

original spawn Al Simmons The celebration of

this anniversary issue will feature covers from

Todd McFarlane, Greg Capolo, Scotty Young, Jock,

Sean Murphy, and Philip Tan. Are you a Spawn

fan at all? You know, it's funny. I actually

became a fan of Spawn after the movie, because

of that HBO show that... You know, if you ever

watch robot chicken, you know that the plot makes

sense. No, no, no. I mean spawn to me Back then

was interesting how you had the antihero because

the 90s for me were all about the antiheroes

and spawn was He wasn't good. He wasn't evil.

He was in between but he wasn't good enough for

heaven Wasn't evil enough for hell and had a

fight both worlds while trying to accept the

fact that his wife remarried. And I thought it

was interesting. The problem was that the movie

left a bad taste in people's mouths. And I think

that's one of the reasons why people were turned

off by Spawn. And then, of course, we got our

good friend the HBO series. I think Spawn could

work as a movie, but it works better as a comic

book. Yeah. Mean I love you know antihero stuff

depending on what it is Depending on the type

of story it is But but yeah, no I mean hey, you

know congratulations to spawn for 250 issues

That's amazing people if your spawn fans go pick

that up I will say one last thing on spawn for

we move on here You mentioned that Hollywood

didn't know what to do with it. Yeah, I'm pretty

sure no one knows what to do with a Blue Luigi.

Yeah, you know what? One day we'll talk about

that movie, John Leguizamo, but he is the one

who helped save that movie in a way. Yeah, I

know. When did... This is completely off topic,

folks, I know. When did it come out? Uh, 1990.

Oh, damn, I was gonna say... uh... john leguizamo

is the nineties version of it but since it came

out in nineteen ninety but anyway um... all right

moving on folks uh... image comics also has coming

out or came out this month in january uh... ninth

generation number one now this is spelled roman

numerally i x t h uh... so the story is by matt

hawkins art and covers by Stefan Sejic? I believe

is how his name is pronounced. So 399 comic.

Do the ends truly justify the means? Is Utopia

built on genocide worth the price? Aphrodite,

Velocity, Hades, and the other nines establish...

I... I don't know. In the year 2525, yeah. Oh,

five of them, okay. In an attempt to rule, their

internal clashes have escalated and they are

forced to put that aside as they face off against

the relentless hordes of the darkness. Sins of

the past have come to claim those who would pretend

to be gods. The cybernetic future established

in Aphrodite 9 and Cyber Force finally comes

face -to -face with the supernatural artifacts

side of the top cow universe wait this is an

image title why is that top cow oh okay i see

what it is um this is probably not something

i'm gonna pick up folks uh twilight i guess you

know it's it seems to be like one of those books

you walk into barnes and noble that i see that

like all the twilight knockoffs for tweens uh...

yeah i i don't think will be least i know i'm

not going to be one of the swan no i mean it

looks it sounds interesting but doesn't sound

as interesting as you know uh... as the dying

in the dead number one was uh... moving on and

one of the reasons why do all these number ones

folks uh... here in january is because i want

people to start from the beginning on some of

these new series that are starting up so that's

one of the reasons why i'm doing this uh... we

have rain number one story by kell simons art

and cover by nathan stockman wonderful into baxter

uh... this uh... three dollar and fifty cent

book rain is a freelance swordsman and monster

hunter who also might be the last of the legendary

wardens of the land of fate whose ranks long

since faded into myth he is haunted and driven

by visions from a guiding angel who sets him

on the path of a great quest. Though Reign's

hardly the errant night -type, he'll rescue and

partner with the sorceress Seff, a member of

a coven known as the Followers of Tech, hunted

as heretics for their beliefs, but who may know

what secrets fate holds? Uh, Thunder the Barbarian,

anyone? I mean, here's the thing. I understand,

you know, nostalgia is a great thing, but it

just feels like it's cut copy and paste for somebody

watch too many thunder or mystery science here

3000, you know, that the world ended and we're

going to start all over, but technology, we don't

want to use it because it would doom the world

to begin with. But there's somehow sorcery. It's

thunder the barbarian. I'm not saying that's

a bad thing. I don't know if there's the mock

in this or anything. but you know it's like 21st

century everybody's taking what they took years

ago movie wise trying to cookie cut it and sometimes

it works and sometimes it doesn't if you have

better dialogue maybe but i i've been down this

road too many times how world ended technology

is evil we don't want it but we'll throw in a

sword of sorcerer and somebody with you know

the sick net in that mcpass I just feel like

been there done that one too many times Mm -hmm.

Oh Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, like I said

folks. I'm just pointing these out in case anyone

is interested Doesn't mean that we are going

to be interested Up next is stray bullets sunshine

and roses number one story art and covers by

David Laffam Stray Bullets continues with the

beginning of a brand new arc of stories. Sunshine

and Roses is about violence, love, and really,

really bad decisions. The Baltimore underworld

is falling apart at the seams and blood has been

spilt. Where and when things went to hell in

a handbasket can be traced back to a time a few

years earlier when a man named Harry ran the

city. Spanish Scott and Monster and... Spanish

Scott and monster enforced the rules and an insecure

young man named Orson met a wild and crazy girl

named Beth the two together cooked up the boldest

most outlandish and just about the stupidest

plan ever devised a plan to steal a whole lot

of Harry's money and Drugs and get a little revenge

along the way while every issue of stray bullets

presents a complete story the start of each new

arc is the perfect place to jump on board and

see what everybody else is talking about. This

sounds kind of fun. This sounds like Sex Criminals

Lite. It also sounds a little bit like the 90s

cult movie True Romance. Yeah, it does. I mean,

all the movies I've seen, but no, I mean, that's

not if you take it and put in comic book form.

I mean, it'll work. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. um

the next one folks is pretty much um getting

all of your sex in one big hardcover because

we have big hard sex criminals hardcover story

by mad fraction art and cover by ziggy chooch

um uh well uh obviously uh chip oh what's his

name I should know. I just followed him on Twitter.

Chip Zdarsky, thank you. You know, so Big Hard

Sex Criminals is basically a hardcover collecting

the first ten issues of the Eisner and Harvey

award -winning Time Magazine best comic of the

year for 2013. Sex Criminals in an oversized

hardcover format guaranteed to embarrass you

to order. Uh, you know, I'll say this. We are

still waiting on volume two of Sex Criminals

to come out. It's been delayed a few times. It's

supposed to come out later in February, which

is actually issues six to ten. If you're someone

that wants to get into Sex Criminals right away

and not by the single issues, go out and get

this hardcover, because it's the first ten issues

of the series. Well, as I said when we recorded

it the last time, it's one of the most tasteful

sex Comics that I've reviewed. I mean the last

one I read was Barbarella years ago when I get

my hands on and I and of course I do have to

rerecord because this was an episode that I lost

about Sex and comics, but we discussed this a

few months ago. Oh, absolutely and You know,

I'll stick by what I said before it's been a

while since I read volume one So I know we're

in on volume two, but I like the characters and

I like the idea. It's not so much that sex is

wrong. It's the power of orgasm that it's so

powerful. It stops time and how you have these

two people that had bad experiences with sex

and how they're now using it to their advantages.

The only con that I still find is that underground

society, like in the science fiction, we have

to have the organization of the society. Mm -hmm,

but you know kind of like the matrix we had to

have the agents Right. I'm almost waiting for

them to say mr. Anderson But past all that I

like to see where we're gonna go down the rabbit

hole and Why they were able to put sexual orgasm

as a weapon so Yeah, I mean this one is also

gonna be interesting to get your hands on the

hardcover and it's reasonably priced Yep Forty

bucks for ten issues. That's not bad people Up

next is bitch planet number two story by Kelly

Sue DeConnick art and cover by Valentine de la

Landro Now framed for murder inside the prison

cam is offered a leniency if she'll train her

crew For a death sport about against a visiting

team of male prisoners from 2014 best writer

Eisner nominee Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentin

DeLandro with colorist Chris Peters. We have

Bitch Planet number two. We might cover this

in a future episode, but I'm not sure. That first

issue, while I enjoyed it, it didn't like knock

my socks off. You know, here's the thing. It

reminds me of a 70s grindhouse movie. You know,

all those exploitation. Um, the problem is that

you never get a second chance to make a first

impression but Maybe it's because i'm a huge

fan of the john waters trash trilogy of the 70s

a female trouble and pink flamingos And because

that's you know, what was it big bertha? I think

her name was Yeah that she reminded me of divine.

I Put in a subscription for Bitch Planet. Now

I don't know if we'll ever discuss it on the

poll bag again or I'll just do it on Hunnic Outcast

but I maybe just because I'm a fan of these type

of movies and that's where it belongs in a grindhouse

but it works for me because I'm kind of curious.

I'm gonna give it one more chance. Yeah, I am

too. I mean, issue number two, the issue I just

read the solicit for is already out. So go get

it, folks, if you're interested and like to try

it. I mean, we'll cover it eventually, but right

now it most likely won't be until closer to summer

or even fall at this point. But I mean, yeah,

it is interesting. It is cool. I just don't know

if... It's just one of those books where I enjoyed

it, but it didn't let like It didn't really grab

me either way whether I really love it or whether

I just don't want to read it all anymore I'm

just kind of like straddling the fence with that

one so Alright folks cowl number eight Kyle Higgins

and Alex Siegel on writing Rod Rice on art the

cover is by Trevor McCarthy This was actually

pushed to February 4th, so this actually hasn't

come out yet. Thanks to Camden Stone, Jeffrey

Warner has the villains he desperately needed,

but at what cost, and how long can Jeffrey keep

the lie going? Are you reading, Cowell? You know

what? I listened to your podcast, or the episode

on Paul Beg for Hugh and Dane. I did download.

Uh, I am getting a subscription. I have not read

it yet. I was busy with my own work. But I definitely

want to sit down and read Cowell. Cowell to me

sounds interesting. Because if I understand this,

you have to be in a union to be a superhero.

Is that how it works? It's, it's what if there

was a superhero labor union in 1960 Chicago?

Oh, that's awesome. You see that, that is smart

writing. The only thing I'm going to say is...

i know we keep bringing up this does you know

how comic books have become like this huge property

where they could be made into movies sex writer

please stay away from this see that's the thing

i don't think as you as a thing though this actually

this comic series spawned out of kyle higgins

is college film the league this is his creator

own type of thing i don't think you're gonna

see unless Kyle does something else with it for

film, I pretty much can guarantee that this is

probably just gonna be a comic series. It is...

I mean, I know various other comic books and

comic book characters have soundtracks in their

various other media forms like Batman and Justice

League and Superman and all that stuff, but right

now, as far as I know, Cowell is the only one

to have a soundtrack for the comic itself. And

that's good marketing and I know you reviewed

it. So, oh, yeah, absolutely Um, yeah people

please I have not read it, but I've heard of

it and please listen to that episode Yeah, cowl

is definitely going to be another underrated

classic If I understand this correctly, huh?

Hopefully it won't be too too much underrated.

It kind of reminds me of though Yeah, much even

watch, you know with Beetlejuice the cartoon

series like he wanted to be a superhero, but

he had to be in a union Hmm. Yeah, a little bit.

I'm sure this is much better though, so. Oh,

absolutely. We got two more on here, folks, and

then we're gonna head on over to Marvel to wrap

up this January episode. We covered number one

of this. I have not picked up any other issues

since then, but January, we had release from

Image Comics Rasputin number four. Story by Alex

Gresham art by Riley Rossimo and Ivan placentia

Betrayed Rasputin's life changes forever when

he's asked to save the prince's life But first

the mad monk has to let someone else die his

road to infamy begins here Rasputin was another

one where I really think that I hate to say this

but I really think Doc Brown and Meg Ryan and

Anastasia have really spoiled me on my feelings

on Rasputin. I just can't see this guy as an

anti -hero. It's just too strange. You know,

and I defended this comic when I read issue one.

And again, out of the subscription series for

Image Right Now, when we talked about, I think,

Bitch Planet and Rasputin. Yeah, I definitely

put one in. I have not had a chance to read the

other issues, but I love the artwork. And I just

love the fact that we're taking somebody like

Rasputin and giving him a comic book series,

which is the most bizarre comic book series you

can give a guy. um i'd recommend it i just haven't

had a chance to read the other issues yet i'm

sure we're gonna get back to it one day but for

me right now yeah give it another chance though

for you know even if we don't review it on the

pullback um i will probably I don't know if I'll

discuss it down the road, but that's another

one you should keep on the list, though, for

anyone who's... I know Anastasia left a bad taste

in people's mouths, but it could be worse. It

could be Vigo the Carpathian, even though I would

like to see what they would do with that type

of character. And that's where I thought they

were going with this. Like, they couldn't get

the rights from, you know, Reitman or Columbia

to do a spinoff of, you know, Vigo, so they got

Rasputin anyway. It's 50 -50, but it's... you

know it's pretty much you know i guess a sorcerer

yep um so okay so we actually have one more after

after this one before we get to the last one

we have god hates astronauts volume one this

is a trade paperback it is a new printing uh

for 1799 uh the story art cover are all done

by ryan brown God hates astronauts follows the

story of a group of incompetent Small -minded

super powered narcissist called the power persons

five What the hell? Hired by NASA to stop all

farmers from launching themselves into space

and homemade rocket ships unfortunately for NASA

this goal is scarcely even addressed as the book

focuses more on the Extra marital affairs, bank

robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost

cow heads, old time boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers,

in the crab nebula, buffalo judges, and tons

of aggressive swearing. Not so much a superhero

book as it is a parody of basically everything

and a celebration of weird that is jam packed

with references to Robocop and Die Hard. What

the hell is this? This is a love letter to everything

and anything I grew up watching from Mystery

Science Theater 3000, Lost in Space, Guardians

of the... Not Silverhawks, but Guardians of the

Universe. You remember that other 80s show? Battle

of the Planets, that's what it was. Yes, Battle

of the Planets. Robo tech you take all that in

put it in a blender and you hit frappe and you

throw in some 1960s surrealness and you have

God hates astronauts now there is the trade for

1799 if you go to comics ology, however, you

can purchase each individual issue right now,

so you don't have the exactly Breakdown and buy

the trade yet. If you're not too sure what you

want to do or how you want to take this It does

seem like a lot crammed in but I guarantee you

you will leave this series satisfied This is

another one. I am on the hands and knees Begging

that we got to sit down and talk about we're

gonna roundtable this one, too We got to get

you me Dane I guess yeah, we you know JT we definitely

have to because if he loves Boba the the redneck

werewolf We definitely got to discuss this one

oh god boba the redneck werewolf what if boba

fett turned into a werewolf holy crap okay folks

last one we're going to talk about um and it's

something i've been wanting to bring into the

pull bag it's something i will never cover because

i hate uh zombies in general as we already found

out in this episode when i talked with nicole

uh on the idw solicits but uh the walking dead

number 136 story robert kirkman art by charlie

Adlard and a Stefano guy. Why I don't know and

yeah, so basically There's no solicitation here.

It just says found That's all it says brains.

You know this yeah had brains and here's the

thing Kudos to AMC on what they did for the adaptations.

The problem is with this comic right now is that

They don't know where to go anymore and the fans

are getting nervous because they think that Sheriff

Rick Grimes is in a coma while all this is going

around and all the other people are marking different

parts of his personality. That's not true. There

was another rumor that aliens from outer space

are the ones who sent the virus down so this

way humanity will kill themselves and you know,

aliens will take over. That's not true. I don't

know where this virus is going to go. But when

we discussed about death of comic book characters

on an episode of The Pullback a few months ago,

I was going to talk heavily about Walking Dead,

about a few of the story arcs. There were some

great story arcs and deaths in this series. But

the problem is, is that I feel once we got to

the character Negan, and now that he's out of

the picture, it almost feels now like a video

game, like you had Iggy Koopa and Luke Ving von

Koopa and Kami Koopa and now you've got Bowser

which was Negan and now that he's out there are

rumors that Rick will finally get killed off

and Carl you know will take over the group or

whatever the case may be and the problem is that

the show is different from the comics they adapted

a little but then they've changed the rules here

and there it's a great story about survival or

at least it is what other zombie movies should

have been the characters are likable but the

problem is is that i don't know where else these

characters can go now because we had one character

who claimed he was a scientist and he really

wasn't and there there's all this tension and

we're just trying to kill off characters to sell

comics and that's where it gets a little long

in the tooth so I'm still defending the series.

I love the show. I love the comic, but I feel

that I don't know where else these characters

can go anymore. Yeah, I don't know. All as I

know about The Walking Dead, whether it's the

comic or the show, is that these people either

survived a zombie apocalypse or they're still

trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. And for

me personally, zombies, not my thing at all.

so uh... uh... i'd folks uh... j t and i are

going to take over for the marvel solicitations

and after that i will run that round out the

end of the first uh... profiling previews episode

so we'll be back with marvel after this All right,

folks, it is time for the Marvel January 2015

solicitations. Again, these are stuff that is

already out. We're wanting to inform you on what

is going on with Marvel Comics. I am, of course,

TF2 and Mike, as you've heard me throughout this

whole episode. Joining me this time for the Marvel

stuff is JT from Nickelback Country. I'm back.

How you doing, Mike? It's going. It's going.

All right, so we're gonna start off with uncanny

avengers number one written by rick remender

art by daniel, uh tuna I think it's pronounced.

I say akuna Okay, it seems Whatever. Yeah, i'm

sure somebody will correct us in the comments

and i'm sure and that's fine They'll sound like

some point dexter with tape on their glasses

Anyway, but yeah, we better be careful about

poindexters because they can turn out in out

into becoming freakazoids So this one counter

evolutionary part one from the ashes of access

and all new all different Avengers Assemble the

tragedy at the end of access has left the uncanny

Avengers Vulnerable and someone is taking advantage

of it one of the Avengers oldest foes returns

with a terrible secret that will All hyperbole

aside, shatter the lives of two members of the

squad. What is Counter -Earth? What terrible

secrets does it house? Dun dun dun. Did you pick

this one up? Yeah, I actually picked up most

of the... Well, I got the entire Core Axis mini

-series, which was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it

for what it was, and is also part of setting

up Marvel's eventual reboot. Which we will talk

about in a future. Yeah So, you know post access

the uncanny Avengers was essentially the Avengers

X -Men Collabo They're they're broken up for

everything that's happened. So in this new one,

we've got the now in touch with his Inner his

conscience saber -tooth. We've got a newly redesigned

vision Brother voodoo who got resurrected Quicksilver

and Scarlet Witch and Rogue. And this is... Basically,

it's the return of Counter -Earth. Counter -Earth

is something that's been in Marvel Comics two

or three times over its history. Originally,

it was created by the High Evolutionary, which

is on the opposite side of the Sun from, you

know, Earth -616. You know, we saw it in the

Spider -Man Unlimited cartoon where he basically

created his own world to... you know work on

his genetic experiments and you've got the high

of the knights of the high evolutionary and all

that and at during access for those that may

have not noticed when scarlet witch went you

know bug nut crazy she created a blood spell

that was going to kill you know the rest of her

family and intending to kill magneto and then

that didn't work on magneto and everyone's like

you're not my real father which and this is something

we can talk about another episode but basically

this storyline in addition to bringing back uh

you know counter -earth and you know what's the

high evolutionary up to this is also marvel trying

to finesse scarlet witch and quicksilver out

of being mutants and into probably being in humans

which goes to the whole reason why there's potentially

not going to be any X -Men or Fantastic Four

comics past Secret Wars because Marvel doesn't

own the film rights and they don't want to share

or they don't want to promote somebody else's

product. But overall, this first issue is a lot

of fun, mainly because of the gorgeous art by

Daniela Coelho. Also, I forgot, looking at the

cover here, the all -new Captain America is part

of the squad, Sam Wilson. Because Daniel Akuna

had his art. There's no really solid lines and

a lot of the characters. It has this very It's

a soft color palette, but it's not Watercolor

like it's just it's all it's almost painted So,

you know, it's setting up this mystery of what's

going on in the counter -earth And again, this

seems to be the original counter -earth not the

one that Franklin Richards created in with Heroes

Reborn that will come into play later on in another

comic we'll talk about but they're basically

trying to uh you know find scarlet witch and

they track her down to wonder gore mountain which

is this unholy abomination of the arcane and

the technological you know we're not reviewing

yeah no i'm just trying to set up okay i just

want to make sure so yeah they go there and wacky

shenanigans happen where they get transported

to counter earth And overall, it's a it's a really

I think it's a solid setup for a pretty interesting

story, you know that counter earth is back again

Where it's thought to have been destroyed and

they're all separated on the planet So it's a

matter of the Avengers getting back together

and trying to figure out, you know What kind

of shenanigans high evolutionary is up to? So

all very solid definitely looking forward to

where this is going Up next we have Star Wars

number one which came out and you can check it

out a written review by Jeremy Fine over on geekcastradio

.com written by Jason Aaron art by John Cassidy

The greatest space adventure of all time returns

to Marvel. Luke Skywalker and the ragtag band

of rebels fighting against the Galactic Empire

are fresh off their biggest victory yet, the

destruction of the massive battle station known

as the Death Star. But the Empire's not toppled

yet. Join Luke along with Princess Leia, Smugglers,

Han Solo and Chewbacca, droid C -3PO and R2 -D2,

and the rest of the Rebel Alliance as they strike.

Out for freedom against the evil forces of Darth

Vader and his master the Emperor written by Jason

Aaron obviously with art by John Cassidy This

is the Star Wars saga as only Marvel Comics could

make it Are you picking this one up? Well, technically

I am and I'm not because as I told Mike off air

folks the day this came out They sold out so

fast the pat the owner of the comic book store

I go to here in Saskatoon Was unable to put any

copies in the files for file customers such as

myself So this this is why you go digital people

That's an episode in and of itself I definitely

want to pick this up. I have checked out some

of the previews on like comic you know, comic

book resources and newsarama. It's some gorgeous,

gorgeous art by John Cassidy, who was the premier

artist for, I think, pretty much the complete

run of Planetary through Wildstorm Comics years

ago. If you want to see some of his best work,

it's definitely in there. And I'm looking, this

is the, like it said, Star Wars returns to Marvel.

This is the second series Marvel had the license

through the... 70s and into the 80s just passed

Return of the Jedi and I don't know what happened

there but then you know Dark Horse picked it

up and ran with it for like almost 25 years and

put out some great stuff but this I'm definitely

looking forward to it I mean you got the gorgeous

uh is that Alex Ross in the painted cover you

know uh and you can't go wrong with a good Alex

Ross cover right you know it's very very movie

poster there's the Scotty Young you know little

Star Wars with the you know puppy -sized Chewbacca

and little Rapscallion and not yet a scoundrel

Han Solo yeah the covers are some of the best

things like I haven't read it yet so I can't

you know honestly give a quick recommendation

I'm very much looking forward to it I have it.

I haven't even looked at it yet. I want to I

just I'm saving it so we can cover it eventually

So I haven't even it's sitting on the comics

ology for me. I've already got it in my books

I love the fact that Alex Alonso like editor

-in -chief of Marvel. He has his own little text

crawl Yeah, and the interior page, you know It's

like oh Yeah, it's absolutely awesome All right,

coming up next that came out in January, we've

got Ant -Man number one written by Nick Spencer,

art by Ramon Rosanis? Rosanis or something like

that. Rosanis, yeah. Scott Lang has never exactly

been the world's best superhero, heck. Most people

don't even think he's been the best Ant -Man.

And the last guy invented Ultron and joined the

Masters of Evil, so that's saying something.

But when the superior Iron Man calls with a once

-in -a -lifetime opportunity, Scott's going to

get a chance to turn it all around and be the

hero he's always dreamed of being. Sure, he's

been to prison. Sure, he's been through a messy

divorce. Sure, he's been, um, dead. But this

time is different. This time, nothing is going

to stop the astonishing Ant -Man. I have this

in my wish list on Comixology. I'm not sure if

I'm going to pick it up. The only reason why

I'm halfway interested is because I want to see

what the difference will be between this new

number one and what the eventual film will do.

Yeah, because from what I understand, at least

with the films, they're going to have a two -part

prelude comic. But in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

Hank Pym, Mike Douglas, was active in the 50s

and 60s as Ant -Man. And that's like a look back

at that, you know, in the days of Peggy Carter

and the SSR and all of that. So I'm looking forward

to that too. This first issue was a lot of fun

where, you know, Tony Stark, cause if you don't

know Superior Iron Man, basically Tony Stark,

because of Axis has reverted to what he, who

he was prior to, you know, getting the shrapnel

near his heart. building the suit to survive

and all that and so now he's a d -bag of the

highest order but he comes and it's like this

is smarmy businessman you know Tony Stark so

he hires Scott to become his new you know chief

of security and then Scott's got to deal with

the fact that his ex is taking his daughter away

who He was dead and then Cassie sacrificed herself

I forget how to resurrect Scott and she was dead

and then something happened that brought Cassie

back It's a whole convoluted mess people just

go check out ant -man number one exactly it basically

ends with him following his wife and Cassie to

Miami and He wants to be a father to his daughter

and that's really good Ramon I'm not even going

to try and butcher your last name Ramon. Ramon's

art is great in this. It's nice and solid, and

it conveys the action of the story very well.

And I'm looking forward to what's going on. And

if you look down the road, there's, you know,

they do like 80s variant covers. And there's

one coming down the road where I guess the Grizzly,

who's like this D -list Marvel villain. is gonna

team up with Ant -Man in one issue, but the cover

is done up like Miami Vice, with Ant -Man being

Sonny Crockett, and it's so good. So, definitely

pick it up, people. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

number one, Ryan North on writing, Erika Henderson

on art and color. Would you like me to read this

one? No, I got it Wolverine Deadpool, dr. Doom

Thanos There's one hero that's beaten them all

and now she's got her own ongoing series not

that she's bragging That's right. You asked for

it. You got it. It's squirrel girl. She's also

starting college this semester It's the start

of a brand new series of adventures starring

the nuttiest and most upbeat superhero in the

world so All I'm waiting for at this point is

the Squirtle Girl Rocket Raccoon wedding. That

would be so... No, wait, wait. I quote young

Frankenstein. It could work. Oh, I'm waiting.

Hey, well, they do have a Guardians Team Up comic

coming out. I mean, it could happen. So... Mike's

not live. They're not lying with this ad folks

in her very first appearance. I'm just gonna

look up on her wiki here, which was Marvel superheroes

volume to number eight aka Marvel superheroes

winter special winter 1991 in her first appearance

Squirrel girl and she is a mutant who can mentally

Control squirrels the way Aquaman controls fish

cuz sure why not it's comics she Basically takes

out Dr. Doom with hordes and hordes of squirrels.

She took out Doom. She is a badass. Absolutely.

And the last time we saw Squirrel Girl, she was

the super powered nanny for Luke Cage and Jessica

Jones' daughter Danielle Cage. And she kind of

walked off into the sunset with them. hasn't

been seen since and here we see you know she's

trying to better herself and one of the best

i i'm not entirely sold on erica henderson's

art it's not bad it's just her squirrel girl

is like she's got this like pudgy face and this

kind of upturned nose and oh that's it's squirrels

kind of are well i know but I mean this is on

a human so I'm just saying I'm not and that's

not that I'm not sold because the art the story

and it's great where she takes on Craven the

hunter and kind of defeats him by giving him

a life lesson right and use one of the best things

about this comic was the uh she can speak fluent

squirrel so her pet school partner tippy toe

when you see them talking to each other you will

see tippy toes speaking english but if there's

anyone else around tippy toes all of a sudden

comes to that Look sweet sweet, you know squirrel

talk it's just The squirrel girl she was created

to bring back that Light -hearted anything goes

joy of the comic books. I'm quoting her creator

will Murray here, right? No relation to bill

And that's what she does and that's what's this

so great about this comic is it's fun and it's

light -hearted and The next issue she's potentially

going to be taking on Galactus, and I was like,

I'm sold. And Galactus, the only thing I can

think of, especially probably when I read it,

you know, once I get the next issue of Squirtle

Girl, all I can think of is Galactus from Superhero

Squad as basically George Takei as the voice

of Galactus. Oh, my. I love the creamy center.

Wolverine's number one. Charles soul on the writing

Nick Bradshaw on art and color and cover from

the pages of death of wolverine the logan legacy

and weapon x program wolverine may be dead but

what will happen to his mortal remains encased

in something as rare and as powerful as adamantium

the battle for control of this valuable artifact

has begun but why does it matter so much and

why is a war brewing in logan's name death is

on the books for a dozen heroes and villains

and the mystique is playing mystique is playing

chess with them all including x23 saber tooth

dakin lady death strike and more murder mutilation

betrayal and trauma none will be spared dumb

dumb dumb Did you pick up Wolverine's number

one? I've actually picked up Wolverine's one

through four, but oh jeez, okay Well, don't don't

synopsize. Oh, no, I was basically spinning out

of the events of the death of Wolverine there

There is this group called though. They're called

the paradise team which came out of the weapon

X program You find out there were dr. Cornelius

the guy who basically created Wolverine back

in the days been trying to perfect his Creations

and so he won't be known as some as the guy who

created like the world's most murderous mutant

and There's these characters who end up teaming

up with the Wolverines And that comes out of

the Logan Legacy, which is a mini series that

see how Sabretooth, Dawken, Mystique, Lady Deathstrike

and X -23 are dealing with the death of, you

know, somebody who's such a huge part of their

lives. And Wolverines is a weekly comic book

series. This is something Marvel hasn't done

before. I mean, DC's done it before. I mean,

and there was a hit and a miss because there

was 52, which was great. And then there was countdown,

which was bug nut crazy. Doesn't even begin to

describe that. But it's the overall, it's a pretty

interesting story. If you're in, if you follow

the death of Wolverine and the Logan legacy and

weapon X, like there is a cool kind of black

ops conspiracy story going on here involving

these superhero characters. And I'm definitely

in it for a Well, I don't want to say the complete

long haul, but I'm going to be here still for

a while because I want to see where they're going.

Yeah, we will eventually cover death of Wolverine

and all that stuff in the pullback at some point

this year, hopefully. But no, this looks really

interesting. And I remember when I first saw

the solicitations when they came back, came out

in November of last year, I was like, Wolverine's

number one. What in the Sam? How are they done?

Like, oh, OK. Yeah. Up next we're not gonna talk

too much about this folks, but I thought I'd

bring this up This is Marvel's the Avengers number

two of two Will Corona Pilgrim is on the writing

Joe Bennett is on the art get ready for Marvel's

the Avengers age of Ultron with this official

adaptation of the first blockbuster film So this

is going to be interesting. Even though we've

all seen the Avengers movie at this point, it's

going to be interesting to see it adapted into

comic form. Yeah. And you would think for a studio

that is spawned from a comic book company, it

would take them less than three years to get

this comic book out. Because I mean, the Thor

comic book like Iron Man, like all their adaptations

of their movies have all come out like a year

to two years after the movie's been out in theaters,

which I just don't understand the logic there,

but no this this to issue Adaptation here is

absolutely gorgeous art by Joe Bennett You know

nice solid, you know cinematic And it's just

yeah, I mean it's it's a great adaptation of

a great comic book film They like they knock

this one. I mean they even have the the particularly

what I liked in this one was the Little back

and forth that Coulson has with Loki in the scene.

We all know that they share together in the movie

Is it was absolutely great? So I definitely recommend

picking this one up. Yeah All right moving on

we have spider verse number two of two by slot

and Emonen along with Jed McKay and others Let's

see here Spider verse tie -in the spider verse

anthology continues So many spider men and women

in this issue video game spidey punk rock spidey

fairy tale spidey Mexico's own spidey tale in

Spanish. Oh Are you telling me that they actually?

Translated an entire story for spider -man for

Spanish speaking people. Well, no in this one

what happened is One of the tales is a Mexico

spider -man from you know Let's say it's universe

taco, not trying to be culturally and sense of

anything. I just honestly can't remember the

universal designation for it. Uh, where the they,

it's a very short story and the art is absolutely,

uh, I think that was David Lafuente that did

it. I'm not entirely certain. Uh, but you read

the first detail in Spanish and then they give

you the English translation. Okay. And there's

this other thing where like, you know, punk rock

Spidey is. It's like Hobie Brown from this anarchic

universe. And you've seen Punk Spidey in the

Spider -Verse crossover so far. He's the one

with the ripped -off sleeves, jean jacket, vests,

and the punk metal spikes in his mask. And he

shows up. And then there's, from Marvel Fairy

Tales, there's the Spider Knight. Oh, jeez. And

the video game Spidey is like, in the course

of the Spiders, you see Moreland and his family,

specifically Moreland, these one shots take out

of some of the more lesser known Spidey's, like

he tried taking out the Spider -Man from the

black and white newspaper strip and eventually

said nuts to this and went home because as they

go from panel to panel, sometimes characters

repeat what they said before and Moreland couldn't

deal with that. So he you know buggered off and

then he took out uh spider -man and his amazing

friends spider -man and then he took out the

hostess fruit pie spider -man oh jesus and in

this one he takes out the uh video game spidey

is the spider -man that we've seen in all the

marvel versus capcom video games so he's like

web fist web bomb you know and then you know

marlin has his inheritor fist and she takes out

spidey and that's some of the more slightly amusing

things like it's not that i actually i crave

death of characters but you do don't lie well

in this respect i kind of enjoy it because i

mean come on he took out the freaking hostess

fruit pie spidey and he's like wait why aren't

you eating that you know he's like why aren't

you placated by these chemically produced pie

pockets you know that's one of the best things

about these spider verse uh the team ups like

this and all that is you see all and literally

they're using every version of spider -man and

they've brought in you know the manga verse spider

-man they've brought in the black and white uh

japanese original manga spider -man they've brought

in the supita man from the live -action 70s tokusatsu

show it's the spider -verse has been great and

this issue just kind of highlights the overall

insanity and god i love this of the comic. Absolutely.

Alright, up next we have Amazing Spider -Man

Number 13, slot on writing, Giuseppe on art.

Spider -Verse Part 5, the final battle begins

here. Every Spider -Man ever must fight, and

no spider is safe. Dun dun dun. Um, I'm... I'm

still... I still have not gotten into Amazing

yet. I'm still on my whole trip of oh they had

to reboot the entire series just because that

second movie came out so I'm gonna go back we're

gonna be doing Marvelous March and we are gonna

be covering the first volume the first trade

for Amazing Spider -man and I'm gonna see if

I'm gonna like going from superior back to amazing

but I gotta say folks I'm not Through I'm I mean

very interested to see what spider verse is and

we may have to do like a spider verse September

or something like that to actually cover spider

verse in its entirety, but I'm just not I'm still

in my whole mode of I would rather see Doc Ock

and His adventures as superior spider -man well,

they actually have at the end I think it was

this issue where they basically they're trapped

on a world that's been annihilated by nuclear

war and Radiation is like the one weakness that

Moreland and the rest of his fam family, which

are called the inheritors Right like they're

susceptible to this This was established, you

know in I think it's like Moreland second appearance

back in the day when J Michael Straczynski was

still writing or when he was writing spider -man

back in the day and so they and they also find

the only man that survived this that's the only

human left alive in this world is living in the

same bunker that cindy moon or silk was living

in and it's uncle ben and uncle ben is this world

spider -man oh no it's actually not that bad

Moving on to something superior, folks. Superior

Iron Man number four. Written by Tom Taylor.

Art by Ildre Senar. Covered by Mike Choi, welcome

to Daredevil on the Rocks. Daredevil discovers

the secret to Tony's success. How far will Tony

go to stop Matt Murdock from revealing this shocking

secret to the world? As Tony's actions become

even more questionable, who will conspire to

take him down, leading up to the battle you thought

you'd never see? I want to read Superior Iron

Man. We will be covering Superior Iron Man, at

least the first five issues in Marvelous March

this year. I have not read it at this point,

but I have the first, I think, three issues.

Yeah. It's, uh, but I don't want to spoil too

much, but Tony starts a dick. He's a dick of

the highest order. Who the whole set up in Superior

is that he's released the extremis. version 3

to as a web app and it allows people to become

pretty and Basically this results in everyone

like there's roving gangs of beautiful people

walking around San Francisco where Tony has set

his headquarters now And they're beating up everyone

who's ugly or not like them And then they're

robbing them because Tony Stark charges a hundred

bucks a day for this thing. It's not a one -time

payment is micro transactions oh lord and he's

up to something and in this issue daredevil kind

of susses it out or at least he knows the part

of it and yeah the like i said tony stark's a

dick uh and i'm reading this because a i've been

reading spider -man or iron man for years and

i want to see where this goes right right absolutely

all right because he's back on the sauce now

Yeah, he is. Fantastic Four, number 642. Anyway,

written by James Robinson, art by Leonard Kirk.

The countdown begins. The invaders meet the Fantastic

Four as the hunt for Reed Richards and the missing

kids of the Future Foundation continues. Meanwhile...

Mastermind Behind Everything unveils his ultimate

plan, but how does Franklin Richards factor in?

Guest starring Jim Hammond, Namor, the new Captain

America, and Doc Green? Dun dun dun. You wanted

to talk about this one, so in brief, don't summarize

it for us, but just give us your overall thoughts

here. Well, just briefly, just mention something

from the previous issue. You find out the villain

behind all the Fantastic Four Troubles of Lates,

you know, getting booted out of the Baxter building,

their kids taken away, Johnny Storm losing his

powers, the thing being framed for murder, is

the result of this villain called the Quiet Man

who, his entire motivation is he's pissed at

Reed Richards because he wanted to date Sue Storm

and he never drummed up the courage to ask her

out. I shit you not that is his entire motivation

Thank God. I'm not reading this series and in

this issue. It's just continuing that story.

They're building towards the conclusion because

this is now the beginning of nothing lasts forever,

which is essentially the swan song of the fantastic

four for the foreseeable future because I don't

know if I mentioned it earlier in the episode,

but Marvel isn't looking to really promote somebody

else's movies and thus they're gonna kind of

quietly, you know, shutter the X -Men and the

Fantastic Four and concentrate in other aspects

of the Marvel Universe, you know, the ones where

they own the movie rights. And the one thing

I want to mention for, because we mentioned Counter

-Earth with Uncanny Avengers. Well, the last

few issues, and certainly they show up in this

issue of Fantastic Four, is the Heroes Reborn

Avengers have come in and have started attacking

various of the members of Fantastic Four. So

there's like brown plant man costumed Hawkeye

and Tony Stark with like the two smokestack vent

things off his I you know his back and You know,

it's the it's all the heroes reborn version of

these characters because Franklin Richards who

Occasionally has cosmic phenomenal cosmic powers

and occasionally he doesn't somehow the quiet

man has resurrected Franklin's counter -earth

and is drawing out these versions of the heroes

to, you know, work his nefarious plans. And I

just love the fact that this entire, the whole,

the only reason this is happening is because

this guy couldn't get up and grow enough of a

spine to ask out a girl. You're setting a bad

precedent, sir. Alright folks up next we have

spider -man and the x -men number two. Hey wait.

That's a title of a video game Elliot Callan

is on writing Marco Phallelia is on art. Bad

teacher, Spidey has already gotten his ex -students

captured by Sauron and Stegaron? Can they stop

the savage land from colonizing Staten Island?

Traitor, has shark girl really betrayed her classmates

for these cold -blooded creeps? Romance, have

you ever seen a Pteranodon Stegosaurus shark

love triangle? You will if you buy this issue.

I have no idea what to say after that. Spider

-Man the X -Men is something that Marvel is doing

is if they keep the X -Men around it long past

Secret Wars, it's a rotating series of they'll

have like basically short little mini series

of different characters coming in to teach at

the Jean Grey school. So now Spider -Man is brought

in as like a guidance counselor slash ethics,

you know, professor. And on his first day, he

takes his class on his field trip, and they discover

Stagron, who is this dinosaur man, supervillain

who wants to turn the entire world into dinosaurs.

Of course! And Sauron, who's this vampiric, life

-sucking pterodactyl man mutant from X history,

they're trying to turn Staten Island into the

Savage Land 2. And it's it sounds exactly bug

nut crazy as that and it doesn't end there and

That's that's almost as crazy as me saying earlier

in this episode about you know Squirtle girl

and rockin raccoon having the wedding of the

century that that makes about as well Deadpool

got married and that marriage is lasted. So Well,

yeah but uh but yeah no this uh it this is again

this goes back into kind of the genre of like

you know like what i said about squirrel girl

light -hearted anything goes the sheer joy of

this comic book it's it's not super it's serious

because you know they're spider -man and the

x kids or x students are captured and they've

got to stop these two villains from taking over

the world and there's elements of a rom -com

mixed in here and you know because storm is really

really really really bad rom -com well let's

face it i mean come on now shark girls making

goo -goo eyes at like steger on to like turn

them against soran and but she's really got eyes

for one of the other mutant kids and storm is

now the you know dean or principal of the gene

gray school and she's she's not under the effects

of Axis anymore but she's still pissed that they

brought in Spider -Man and she's just basically

tells him like I wish you would die like you

know it's just all this all this stuff is thrown

at you and it all kind of works and they're going

to show and hunt just like I want the third issue

now Alright, the final one we're going to talk

about, ladies and gentlemen, is Rocket Raccoon

Volume 1, a Chasing Tale premiere hardcover.

I believe this is an advanced solicitation, so

it may not be out just yet, but this collects

Rocket Raccoon 2014 issues number 1 through 6.

written by Scotty Young, penciled by Scotty Young

and Felipe Andrade, covers by Scotty Young, Rocket

Raccoon has been a hero to the weak, a champion

of the good, and a heartthrob to many intergalactic

females, but his high -flying life of adventure

may be a thing of the past when he's framed for

murder, and the authorities aren't the only ones

on his tail. Get it? The real killer is an imposter

who seems to be one step ahead of Rocket every

turn. Now it's up to our hero and his best pal

Groot to find the truth. With Macho Gomez and

the X -Terminators tracking him down, can Rocket

make it out alive and clear his name? Superstar

creator Scotty Young brings his A -game as writer

and artist on the series we've been waiting decades

for. Because really, Rocket and Groot are the

only guardians of the galaxy you actually care

about. right yeah no this is uh scotty young's

got a very ab I want to say abstract style but

if you love if you love rocket in the movie you

will love this comic book it is he is the dashing

rogue he is everything uh that star lord is and

more and he's also kirtan furry Yeah Alright

folks, so that's gonna do it for this you know

actually that I don't know if I'll pick up a

hardcover version of this But once it hits trade

I will more than likely pick this up for for

Guardians of the Galaxy rocket raccoon Because

I I did dig I did see Guardians of the Galaxy,

folks, and I did enjoy it. I just didn't have

this, like everybody else, like you and all my

other friends on Facebook and Twitter, just basically

had this mind -numbing, mind -blowing reaction

to the fact that they were actually doing it.

Everyone was so attached to those trailers and

everything else. I just didn't have that kind

of reaction to it, because I didn't know a lot

about the... If it's Transformers or Turtles

or something, I already know I will have that

kind of reaction to it. But if it's something

I don't know about, I go in like kind of like

like walking on eggshells almost. But I did see

Guardians and I did enjoy it and I did enjoy

Rocket and Groot. So I'll probably pick this

up. Oh, yeah. Eventually. And it's it's almost

all Rocket like the other Guardians show up.

But this is, you know, it's a straight up Rocket

the Raccoon tail. Right, so, you know those like

well, I don't want to read another Gurdians comic.

No, this is straight -up rocket raccoon Yeah,

and that's what's awesome about it. Yeah. All

right, folks Those are the January solicitations

from IDW DC image and Marvel. I will be back

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you everyone's Twitter information and where

you can contact the other co -hosts that I've

had on these episodes and We'll see you next

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