First Issue Club Comic Books

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.

In this weeks episode the boys discover a new metric for rating books, and choose fur-sonas. They also manage to cover Alienated from Boom! Studios and Tartarus out on Image Comics. Be sure to rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts and leave that 5 star submission. You can also find other goodies at FirstIssueClub.com and even MORE premium content on our Patreon. 00:00 Intro 16:00 Alie...

This week, Budget King and Greg are joined by Writer/Educator/Futurist Mark Sable to talk about his new book Godkillers and what inspired him to write it. Mark is a professional writer and writing professor. He's written such characters as SPIDER-MAN (What If?) for Marvel Comics and BATMAN for DC (Two-Face: Year One). His passion however is his creator-owned work, including GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES (w...

The club went to see Birds of Prey during last Thursdays early bird showings. Since then, the movie has gotten and title change, had a variety of mixed reviews, and is teasing the line of box-office success & disappointment. Listen and see what the club thought of this flick! BONUS: At the end we run down some of our favorite non-super hero books from the last year or two. 

In this week's episode Mike D, Budget King and Greg cover the latest and greatest in comic book news and debate whether or not My Chemical Romance is a big deal or not. Also in the episode, we explore the arid and deadly world of Avengers of the Wasteland (13:00) and try to make sense of the highly researched Protector (30:00) Don't forget to rate and review wherever you listen to First Issue Club...

Al Ewing takes over on Guardians of the Galaxy, and Kidz out on Ablaze makes a few nods to Spielberg films in this zombie story that brings Super 8 to mind.

The future is now... and BOY it's a mess! Join the clubbies as we try to unravel "Iron Man 2020"; and stay as we discuss all the buzz surrounding the new girl in "Archie & Katy Keane". We also announce C2E2 news and run through the TOP 10 sexiest "comic book" cars. 00:00 Intro/10 Sexiest Comic Book Cars 00:16 C2E2 announcement 00:21 Archie and Katy Keene 00:39 Ironman 2020

Our pal Shan comes for a visit, helping us talk through a sciencey-thriller on Top Cow called The Clock, which takes on world problems both hypothetical and real. But not before we discuss Star #1 from Marvel Comics. A mini-series that stars the breakout character Star, (the titular Star, from the title "Star"...) from Kelley Thompsons current run of Captain Marvel. And as always, nerdy news, and...

We start the year off by getting way deeper into a conversation about Drake then we ever expected, but eventually find our way to discussing the much anticipated Thor #1 on Marvel Comics, penned by Donny Cates, and follow with lighter fare in Ryan Ferrier's new comic about a TV psychic thats hard up for cash, in I Can Sell You a Body #1.

The club takes a look back on 2019, talking through our favorite first issues and more. Later, we round out the year with a contest to name the very first First Issue Club Champion who will reign over 2020. 

This X-mas the club goes around the horn, pitching each other new ideas for comics books. 

This week, we discuss a new entry from club favorite Jeremy Haun in Red Mother #1 out on BOOM! Studios, and Dying is Easy #1 - the newest Joe Hill project on IDW. Join us as we get sentimental about our favorite media from 2019, and then argue about these comics.  00:00 - We moved! 05:00 - 2019 media faves 13:00 - Red Mother 30:30 - Dying is Easy