Comic Book Club

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 30, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Amazing Spider-Man #60, Poison Ivy / Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1, and so many more!

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Caroline Cash ("PeePee PooPoo"), and Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones ("Dracula: Book II - The Brides").

It's a literal power struggle in Gotham City as we recap The Penguin Episode 6 "Gold Summit" on our podcast. While Oz tries to get the power back on, Victor is dealing with Squid making moves. Sofia and Sal try to track down Oz, including a showdown with Eve Karlo, and a cliffhanger that will take your breath away. Plus: it's a beer summit!

Lilia Calderu's timeline comes together in a big way as we recap Agatha All Along Episode 7, "Death's Hand In Mine." While Billy and Agatha enter the next trial, Lilia and Jen wander under the road, and we get to discover Lilia's origin -- and her ending. Plus, we discuss what we're predicting for next week's series finale.

Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wjingard sit down with the podcast at New York Comic Con 2024 for a big, spoiler-filled chat about The Power Fantasy #3 from Image Comics. How did they develop the world of the book? What's next after that big change at the end of the issue? Plus, Gillen chats about We Called Them Giants and the return of DIE, and Wjingard talks about whether there will be more Home Sick P...

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 23, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Absolute Wonder Woman #1, Iron Man #1, and so many more!

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Brent Bristol ("Ordeal") + Patrick McDonnell ("Mutts")!

The Gotham City villains rise as we recap The Penguin Episode 5 "Homecoming" on our podcast. With the Falcones all dead, it's time for Sofia to embrace her roots and look forward to the future as Sofia Gigante. Meanwhile, Oz makes moves to get his shrooms back from the Maronis. And Vic is tasked with protecting Oz's mom. Plus, we discuss some of the highlights from The Penguin New York Comic Con p...

Scott Snyder is a busy guy. From writing the multiple-sold-out Absolute Batman to launching new titles through Comixlogy, to books through DSTLRY, to writing an animated adaptation of his book Wytches, to his work with Tom Hardy and Frank Tieri on Arcbound, the guy is everywhere. When Comic Book Club caught up with Snyder, he was on the roof of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, having just wrapped up...

IDW's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is an enormous hit. Not only did the recently released trade of the "cozy horror" series hit number two on ICv2's sales charts, just below Marvel's monster hit Ultimate Spider-Man, but every issue of the initial series sold better than the last. And as just announced by IDW at New York Comic Con, not only is Beneath the Trees getting a sequel series titled...

We jump back in time to get Billy Maximoff's origin story on Agatha All Along Episode 6 "Familiar By Thy Side" and we're recapping on our podcast. How did William Kaplan become Billy Maximoff? Why is he on the Witches' Road? And what does it all have to do with Ralph Bohner?

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 16, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Mystique #1, Wonder Woman #14, and so many more!

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Tim Leong ("Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Universe") + Matt Bors ("Justice Warriors: Vote Harder") + Tiffany Babb ("The Comics Courier")!

MCU: The Reign Of Marvel Studios is now out in paperback in stores everywhere, a non-fiction book breaking down the entire history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe... So far.

We jump back in time to learn the true identity of The Hangman killer, and Sofia makes some big moves in the present as we recap The Penguin Episode 4, "Cent'Anni" on our podcast. With Sofia knocked out after the cliffhanger of last week's episode, we flash back to when her father, Carmine Falcone, was still alive. How did Sofia get accused of being Hangman? What happened to her in Arkham? And wha...

Agatha All Along finally reveals one of its big mysteries in Episode 5, "Darkest Hour, Wake Thy Power" and we're recapping it all on our podcast. With the Salem Seven on the Witches' Road, Agatha and her coven escape to the next trial. Which, twist, is Agatha's. And it all crests in yet another death, and the reveal of who Teen really is.

Joshua Williamson returns to the podcast for a special bonus episode teasing everything G.I. Joe for the upcoming Skybound and Image Comics series. Find out how he put the team together, how it ties into the greater Energon Universe, and much more.

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 9, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Absolute Batman #1, Sentinels #1, and so many more!

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Anthony Del Col ("Romeo vs. Juliet: A Kill Shakespeare Story"), King Klaus ("Digital Bardos"), and John Jackson Miller ("Batman: Resurrection").

It's time to party we recap The Penguin Episode 3, "Bliss," on our podcast. Now that Sofia Falcone and Oswald Cobb have teamed up, they're making a big move to take over the Gotham City drug trade with their new party drug, Bliss. Meanwhile, Victor's origin story is revealed and it's even sadder than we thought. Plus, Johnny Viti gets a phone shoved in his mouth.

Joker: Folie À Deux has arrived in theaters! And we're getting twisted by reviewing every single singing, dancing, and wince-inducing moment of the movie on our podcast. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is rotting in Arkham. That is up until he meets Joker super-fan Harleen Quinzel (Lady Gaga)... Who teaches him that he has a song in his heart. He learns to live, laugh, love... And then presides ove...

The coven pulls off a jam sesh in Agatha All Along Episode 4 "If I Can't Reach You Let My Song Teach You," and we're recapping on our podcast. With Sharon dead, Rio Vidal joins the group on the Witches' Road, and they enter Alice's house where they need to play a song to stop the devil. Meanwhile, we get a lot of clues about Rio's identity, and Teen's identity. And we go absolutely crazy with theo...

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 2, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Absolute Power #4, DC All In Special #1, Storm #1, and so many more!

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Saurabh Bhatia (Comix.one) + Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski ("Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Goddess of Manhattan")!

The noose tightens around Oz Cobb as we recap The Penguin Episode 2 "Inside Man" on our podcast. With Alberto's body amping up tensions between the Falcones and the Maronis, Oz tries to manipulate the situation to turn a drug heist in his favor. But when it goes wrong, it may blow his secret -- that he's working both sides -- out of the water. Meanwhile, Sofia is trying to unravel who in the Falco...