Planes, Trains and Comic Books

This week we discuss the shocking conclusion to the DC Comics Epic Maxi-Series, Crisis on Infinite Earths.  Universes will fall, while Villains and Heroes team up to save the last remaining Earth from the Anti-Monitor!!! 

On this weeks Matt's Minis, while Swamp Thing, Matt, and Abby are overwhelmed by the monsters from Matt's brain, Arcane tells the captive Harry Kay the story of his last encounter with Swamp Thing.

This week we begin our DC Crisis journey as we discuss the first half of Crisis on Infinite Earths! Heroes from different Earths band together as their worlds are erased one by one. it's going to take the combined powers of two Supermen, the Flash, a new Superboy, Supergirl, Alexander Luthor and countless more to fight the madness. And not all will survive.

In this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing learns of the marriage between his two friends: Abigail Arcane and Matthew Cable. However, he also learns of the despicable acts Matthew has been forcing on his wife!

This week we discuss Justice League: Identity Crisis. When the wife of the Elongated Man is murdered, the superhero community is devastated. They come together in mourning, hold their loved ones closer, and immediately begin the search to find her killer.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing and his friends head for Washington, D.C. to uncover the roots of the conspiracy against them.

This week we discuss the follow up to 300, Frank Miller's Xerses. King Xerxes sets out to conquer the world and create an empire unlike anything the world has ever seen... Until the Greeks produce a god king of their own, Alexander the Great.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, transformed into crystals, the Swamp Thing and the Phantom Strange must find a way to revert back to normal in order to stop Nathaniel Broder from gaining power over all computer information!

This week we discuss the Frank Miller Epic, 300. The armies of Persia-a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known-are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction are a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing goes against Nathaniel Broder, an electronics genius who transforms his body into living crystal. But Swamp Thing's not alone in this fight as he's joined by the Phantom Stranger!

This week we discuss the somewhat controversial comic Wolverine Origin. Before the X-Men, before Weapon X, Wolverine's struggle with his subconscious savagery first flourished in family tragedy. 

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Trapped in the Fortress of the Beast, the evil spirit of Casey Clancy and Grasp toy with Swamp Thing, Liz, Dennis, and Harry Kay, running them through a gantlet of death-traps.

On this weeks Matt's Minis Swamp Thing continues to battle against the Golem seeking to destroy Casey Clancy.

This week we discuss volume two of the Topcow series Genius, Cartel. Seventeen-year-old Destiny Ajaye took on the LAPD in her South Central Siege and won. But now having made a deal for her life, she must do the dirty work of those she once fought.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, A dark revelation is made regarding Casey Clancy--one that could spell doom not only for the Swamp Thing but also the entire world!

This week we discuss Batman: The long Halloween.  Batman and Lt. Gordon work with District Attorney Harvey Den to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing and his allies discover an adult Casey Clancy while in search of the mystic pendulum of one of Hitler's most powerful occultists.

We discuss the comic that made zombies a household horror, The Walking Dead #1. Sheriff Rick Grimes wakes up in a hospital after being shot. Rick finds the world he knew abandoned by the living, now filled with walking undead,, Rick sets off to Atlanta to search for his family.

We discuss the Marvel MAX series Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft #1. A castaway washes up on an unknown island in the South Pacific, where he discovers a society of barbarians and mutant fish people who worship a strange, alien god.

We discuss the 2006 surprise hit Marvel Zombies #1. On Earth an alien virus has mutated all of the world's greatest super heroes into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it... but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?!?

This week we discuss the 2001 IDW breakout hit 30 Days of Night.  As Barrow, Alaska is plunged into its annual month of darkness, the town is attacked by vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

We Discuss that one time Cap got turned into a Werewolf in Captain America 405. It's man versus wolf!!!

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Casey Clancy uses psychic power to grow her body into adulthood. Meanwhile, General Sunderland gives Grasp the order to kill the Swamp Thing.

We discuss a comic so controversial that it was its printing was cancelled in 1999 and remained so for over 10 years, Hellblazer: Shoot. When mass school shootings break out all over the US, John Constantine is called to find an explanation for these horrific events.  

We discuss the cousin to the 60's Creepy comics magazine, Eerie #1. Slithering out of the archives comes a collection of the seminal horror anthology magazine Eerie.