First Issue Club Comic Books

This week the club is whittled down to just two hosts, but Mike and Greg do their best to guide you through two new & exciting titles from the big 2! Mariko Tamaki starts her anticipated run on Wonder Woman #759 (what we're calling a 'spiritual first issue'), and Leah Williams pens the newest x-title that takes mutant detectives outside of the gates of Krakoa in X-Factor #1. 

This week, our featured first issues are both out on Image Comics! First, we discuss John Layman's CHU #1, a return to the world of his hit Image Comic series CHEW. Next, we shift our focus to BLISS #1, an original series from the club favorite creative team that brought you COYOTES - Sean Lewis, and Caitlin Yarsky. This series looks to be following a hitman to the gods, in a world where a drug ca...

SCOUT WEEK! WEEK 2! First up, Murder Hobo is based on the role-playing archetype of a player character known by the same term. (Think your friend who plays Dungeons & Dragons with no story or motivation, outside of killing, looting, & chaos.)  Next, It Eats What Feeds It follows a young man who's car breaks down while replying to a help wanted ad at a scary dilapidated mansion. This sparse horror-...

This week, Scout Comics released several first issues, and we're here for it! First up, we get into Loggerhead #1, a one-shot B-Movie style thrasher/monster story written and illustrated by Bryan Silverbax - kudos for doing double duty on this one Bryan! Next, we talk about Assassin and Son #1, penned by former WWE wrestlers Shad Gaspard & Marc Copani. Proceeds from the book go to the recently pas...

Robert Kirkman saves us from a light new comic book day with with two first issues! First, The Walking Dead creative team is back for a reprise with 'Negan Lives!'. 'Fire Power', is up next, wherein Robert teams up with club favorite artist Chris Samnee to bring us an original trade paper back origin story, along with a Free Comic Book Day first issue to kick off the new ongoing series. Both can b...

This week, the club decodes a prelude to Marvel's Empyre event, after checking out the comic book adaptation of Stephen King & Owen King's best selling novel Sleeping Beauties. 

This week Synder and Capullo are back with an encore to their popular DC series with Dark Knights: Death Metal, and club favorite author James Tynion IV releases his next title on Boom!, called Wynd.

This week in comic book news, we talk PS5 and the Miles Morales' price boom, DC ditching Diamond, Comicsgate vs Gamergate, and Christopher Cantwell taking the wheel on Iron Man in the fall. Then, it's on to last weeks first issues. Image comics brings us Matt Fractions Adventureman, which takes a sec to set in with the club, but once we get it, ooo baby! Next, Ryan Ferrier sends Rick & Morty to He...

We are missing Greg and Kaitlyn again this week, so it's up to Mike and BK get you your fill of first issues. After discussing "the cartoons are better" argument for DC, the club gets into Kelly Thompson's second volume of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, with Sabrina: Something Wicked #1 (art by the Fish family). Next,  Nailbiter is also back for a second volume in the horror inspired title Nailbiter R...

The club talks about some of this weeks comic book news, before getting into Cullen Bunns Rouge Planet, and Joe Harris's Disaster Inc.

This week, the club got to read some brand new first issues for the first time in a couple weeks! One of our favorite online publishers, Panel Syndicate, has a creative team that brings it for Bad Karma #1, and Ludocrats #1 sees Kieron Gillen & Jim Rossignol get even more absurd than the title of their new Image Comic suggests. 

This week, the club chats with Kelly Thompson, one of our favorite writers at Marvel Comics. You may know her work from her current runs on Deadpool, Captain Marvel, & Star, as well as her past work on some club favorites like West Coast Avengers, Hawkeye, and Captain Phasma. 

For our special 150th episode we discuss our favorite scenes from the legendary Snyder cut of the Justice League film!

This week we talk about DC branching out from Diamond and what that might mean for the future of comic book distribution. Next, the scales have never been more greatly tipped in regard to our differing reaction to the two books we're covering... The Panel Syndicate released Friday with its' traditional "pay what you want" model, and AWA releases Old Haunts for free on their website. Which one did...

This week the club reads Eat, and Love Yourself , an inventive YA graphic novel by Sweeney Boo, out now on Boom! Box. We also catch up on some great things creators are doing to support comic book shops, and others suffering from the effects of the Corona Virus. 

This week, the club checks out two offerings from TKO - discussing the first issue of Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta's Sentient, before moving to Garth Ennis and Steve Epting's first chapter of Sara. TKO offers these first issues for free on their website, if you'd like to dip your toe in and read along with us.

This week, we talk with Sean Lewis! Comic book writer and co-creator of club favorites such as Image Comics' Saints, The Few, Coyotes, & Thumbs. 

No new first issues this week, so the club sat down for a video chat to discuss comic book news and more!

After catching up comic book news, the club gets into: HELLIONS #1 (10:20) Zeb Wells' pens the newest entry into to the X-Men's Dawn of X world, where we see Mister Sinister getting his own team of misfits and misunderstood mutants to oversee. NO ONE'S ROSE #1 (24:00) Zac Thompson and Emily Horn write this complex sci-fi thriller about Earth long after a livable atmosphere is gone, and the classis...

The club was super excited to see what Karla Pacheco is doing with Jessica Drew in her premier issue of her new comic, Spider-Woman #1. We also check out what the Allred family has been up to, as the comic book superstar duo of Michael and Laura Allred team up again for X-Ray Robot #1. Intro @ 0:00 (Duh) Spider-Woman #1 @ 14:30 X-Ray Robot #1 @ 27:00

The club is in full blown overreaction & panic mode over Diamond shutting down distribution for comics. We got on the phone and to talk about what that means for shops, publishers, and consumers. 

This week, the club talks about the reality of life during Covid-19 setting in, before getting into this weeks featured issues: Jonathan Hickman kicks off Decorum on Image comics — his first independent comic since his tenure piloting the greatly acclaimed Dawn of X series on Marvel. We also discuss the newest title from the X-Men family, with Gerry Duggan's Cable! Stay safe, and catch up on comic...

On this weeks episode Mike D and Greg get STRANGE with DC's Strange Adventures and Marvel's Strange Academy. We also announce our panels for Kansas City's Planet Comicon and have more details about the New Mutants premiere with local duo Two Views Movies Podcast. We laugh, we cry, we cough into our elbows so as not to spread the dreaded Coronavirus. Don't forget to rate and review where ever you l...

We had a fun filled weekend in Chicago checking out C2E2. This week, instead of covering first issues, we download on the highs and lows of our trip. 

Club favorite author Matt Kindt pens a 007 inspired adventure that questions the fabric of the leads reality in BANG! #1, and our old friend Wolvie is back in his self-titled series that keeps up with his adventures in his new life and role in Krakoa.