First Issue Club Comic Books

For our audience people this week, tune in to hear about Planet Comicon experiences; what happened with Astro Hustle; War of the Realms delivering on its hype; and, Major X's Liefeldian x-citement over new characters.

This week on FIC, we hit the highlights of C2E2, get into the witchy world of Archie Forever's "Sabrina", and revel in the dark comedy chaos that is "Bad Luck Chuck".

This week, the club discusses the announcement of new comic book publisher AWA, and debates what makes a publishing company stand out from the crowd. Later, as always, the panelists feature a couple of last weeks first issues: Dark Red #1 out on AfterShock Comics is a vampire story set in small town America, while Spiderman: Life Story #1 is the first entry in a series that poses the question, "Wh...

This week, the club members have a spoily-free Captain Marvel convo, talk trailers with Avengers: Endgame, and get into reviews on "Magnificent Ms. Marvel" and "Assassin Nation".

First, Marvel's MEET THE SKRULLS introduces us to an alien spy family trying to keep a low profile while infiltrating Stark Inc, while our second book, Dark Horse's ASTRO HUSTLE, takes us on a 1970s inspired Flash Gordon style romp featuring a band of space pirates with a deck full of the CUTEST animal buccaneers. Avast ye! Adventures are abound!

This week….love is the enemy with "Age of X-Man: X-Tremists" and "The Forgotten Queen" gives us a tale of bloodshed through the ages.

The club covers Sharkey the Bounty Hunter (a future Netflix show) and High Level (vertigo). Everything you want to know about comics and everything you didn't, it's comics y'all - they al fun!

In this variant edition, we discuss "My Boy Friend Is A Bear" in which a woman falls in love and begins a relationship with a bear. No…not a metaphorical bear…an actual freaking bear.

It's a yuckfest this week folks. "Wyrd" isn't quite weird enough, "Unit 44" is great…if you're a child…"Age of X-Men Alpha" primes our wallets to spend bank on more x-men books, and "Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt" rips "Watchmen". But you know what…we still had a blast reading and talking about em cause comics rule.

This week…the club gets nostalgic with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Plus, one of our favorite characters gets inducted into the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Our own Mike DiStasi joins the What's In A Game podcast to talk about Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and basically everything Spider-Man. Did we say Spider-Man enough times?

Our issues this week include our personal true crime stories; "Criminal", where the Lawless are the scumbags you root for; "Young Justice", where we get another fun and fast teen team-up; and, the Club's weekly pulls.

This week we talk two marvel returning number ones: Champions and Conan The Barbarian. In Champions #1 the club examines the new team and has high hopes for the far too large team of teen crime fighters. Jason Aaron is back with another fantasy book in Conan, and he wastes no time with violence and action.

The end of another year is upon us, and boy OH BOY do we have a lot of naughty and nice books to review. We've made our list, checked it twice, and now have in not one, but TWO, episodes, our Top Fives in multiple categories for all you beloved audience people. In Part I, you'll find our Top Fives for surprise hits, best covers, independent publisher releases, and best overall publishers. In Part...

The end of another year is upon us, and boy OH BOY do we have a lot of naughty and nice books to review. We've made our list, checked it twice, and now have in not one, but TWO, episodes, our Top Fives in multiple categories for all you beloved audience people. In Part I, you'll find our Top Fives for surprise hits, best covers, independent publisher releases, and best overall publishers. In Part...

Hello again, Clubbies! This week we're chatting multiple Batmen and multiple Jokers mixed with one confused Alfred in "Batman Who Laughs"; a futuristic, sharp, world-wide-web adventure in "Goddess Mode"; and, Miles Morales and Multiverse Friends tickle our funny bones and fancies in the new cinematic release "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse".

Dear Listeners, tune in this week for a modern D&D-fueled discussion on "Die"; the smartest, unbeatable stuntman alive in "Prodigy"; the removal of porn from Tumblr; and the robust, prisma-plasm world of "Martian Manhunter".Dear Listeners, tune in this week for a modern D&D-fueled discussion on "Die"; the smartest, unbeatable stuntman alive in "Prodigy"; the removal of porn from Tumblr; and the ro...

This week! We read "Ironheart", and talk Riri Williams's engineering genius brilliantly engineered by Eve L. Ewing. In a fast format break, we also chat about the emerging trend of comic book-inspired TV, and the shows we're hyped on.

Hello again Clubbies, on this episode we cover the Midwest, fantasy, and epic promise in "The Middlewest"; the not-so-subtle race and reality thriller that is "American Carnage"; and, the 90s, rollerblading and thievery in "Smooth Criminals".

This time on FIC, the club's picks are "Black Order", an introspective for the dark henchman of Thanos; "Bitter Root", an Afrofuturistic trip into Harlem and the demons within; and, "Uncanny X-Men", where A and B teams of heroes and villains alike get tangled up in time and teleportation.

In this episode, we gab about the sci-fi horror romp that is "Outer Darkness"; creator double-threats and memory mysteries in "Marvel Knights"; and, the genius of Grant Morrison in the bonkers return of old-school glory in "The Green Lantern".

This week on FIC, club members discuss witchy women, oppression via suppression, and the complexities of identity in "Hex Wives" and "Sex Death Revolution".

For our spookiest episode yet, the club is visited by not one, but FIVE demons (Ahh!) as they contemplate the scariest of scaries and horror of horrors, such as near-death experiences, "Are We Haunted?", selling their souls, terrorizing treats and traumatizing tricks, and of course, the creepy classic Monster Mash.

Our issues this week include "Marvel Zombie", where The Defenders fight zombie hordes until they encounter a sentient undead; "Exorsisters" is a demon crime-stopping duo full of fire and brimstone; and "Shuri" gets deeper into Wakanda and Shuri's evolving part(s) to play in its future.

This week: neckbeards prove the exact point "X-Men Black Mojo" makes about having new and diverse superheroes; "Murder Falcon" shreds away depression; and "What If Peter Parker Became The Punisher" is more like "what if spider-man just had a skull on his costume".