First Issue Club Comic Books

How many times will you see Avatar to collect mini-marvel trailers?! We'll talk about them a bit, as well as Archies move to ONI before getting into our comics this week WHICH INCLUDE: Absolute Batman ARK M Special, Hank Howard Pizza Detective: The Two Hollwoods (Best title of the week award winner), and Carmen Red Claw from the world of Hellboy. 

We'll talk through some of our favorites from the last year! Also in the news... Blind bag woes. 

Another issue, but this time THE ABSOLUTE MOST HAPPENS! Mike D breaks it down for Vargas.

It's a holiday week, so I'm taking some time off from writing podcast descriptions. We do have an episode for you though! The books we cover are in the title!

A lot to talk about this week! Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow's influence is all over the new Supergirl teaser, and we'll break it down. In addition to the books in the title, we'll also discuss The Darkness on Image & Our Soot Stained Heart on Mad Cave.  Upcoming on the patreon: Vargas has nerdy gifts for his nerdy co-hosts Greg and Mike!

In this solo episode of the First Issue Club, Greg reflects on the challenges and quirks of hosting a podcast alone. 

Happy November Halloween! Let's break down Exquisite Corpses issue 7 together!

We've got some stuff to talk about!!! (It's comics. It's been comics the whole time!) - In addition to the books in the title, we'll also try to make sense of X-Men of Apocalypse

This week, one of the audio editing tools we use suggested a synopsis to me that said this episode was about the liberation that freeform jazz provides... WHAT? My garauntee to you is that our episode descriptions will remain written by the same idiots talking on the podcast. In this episode we talk about eating habits, James Gunn movie updates, Felix Variants, and the DC/Marvel digital crossovers...

It's late because we recorded a couple long ones tonight! In this episode Vargas and Mike talk about collections too big for their britches before getting into comic books like Planet She-Hulk, Knightfight, Die! Namite: Blood Hunt, Harley & Ivy: Live & Crimes, Alien V Captain America, No Place, AND the first comic released as a DECK OF CARDS?! Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle. 

We're back in Oak Valley, and these time we had a death that busted the bracket of one of the club members... WHO WILL IT BE!??!!?

Okay - We just found out our first upload of this failed, so here it is! Not-so-fresh out of the oven one month later... Here's our takes on issue 5 of Exquisite Corpses. We'll be posted issue 6 reactions on Monday!

It's an audio oopsey episode of first issue club! It's mostly intact but beware spooooky tech trouble this halloween. In addition to the books in the title we'll talk about the Absolute Batman Annual, Supernatural and a new volume of The Beauty!

Giddy-up for episode 409 of the First Issue Club! This week we're chatting about the death of Godzilla, and remembering President Crow. For first issues, we'll be talking about Age of Revelation issues Omega Kids & The Last Wolverine. In the Hellboy universe we have Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time. There's a Halloween anthology from Boom Studios that we'll briefly cover, and Vargas brings...

This week its just Vargas and Mike. We'll talk about what we're feeling FOMO about from NYCC, along with a heap of first issues. Aside from the books in the title we'll talk Iron & Frost, Sinister's Six, Rogue Storm, Marian Heretic, Mary Sue, and Hector Plasm!

I'M WALKING HERE! In this episode, Greg and Vargas dive into a variety of topics ranging from pranking schools to the latest news from NYCC. What happens when the Ultimate Universe ends? Fun implications of Superman entering the public domain? We're your home for breaking and exclusive THURSDAY-related NYCC coverage.  We dive head first into the controversy surrounding the newest DC event, DCKO. N...

On this weeks episode, we pour one out for the passing of Zdarsky Comic News, and speculate what the next Marvel DC Crossover to be announced might be. On the first issue front, we've got a lot to cover! Al Ewing pens Absolute Evil, and Spider-Man super-star Erik Larson writes Spider-Man Noir! Beyond our headliners we talk Starship Godzilla, Author Immortal, Roots of Madness, Gunpoweder Prophets,...

Lotsa firsties as usual! We're talking Madcave's Phantom, Detective Comics 1101 (which is a first issue in spirit by modern day standards), Ultimate Hawkeye, Robert Kirkmans Skinbreaker on Skybound via Image Comics, Viking Moon also on Image, and Twilight zone! Maybe another one I'm spacing on, but is that not enough for you?!?! I also check with Vargas on how much I should freak out about these c...

This week we talk the biggest release since Batman 1 a couple weeks ago... and its another batman book! In the news Batman books sell a lot, and theres speculation about the Villian in the new Matt Reeves Batman movie. BATMAN BATMAN BATMAN! When asked about this weeks episode, Robin was heard saying "Holy Batman, Batman!" On our Patreon, we'll be covering WAY more first issues from the past 2 week...

MORE FREAKY DELIGHTS AWAIT, in Exquisite Corpses Issue 4 - And it might be our favorite of the series thus far! Featured creators in this issue are Che Greyson & Adam Gorham.

This week we're living in a version of Earth that has two volumes of Batman running simultaneously! Are we blessed or are we cursed?! Find out on this weeks episode of F.I.C.!!!! Also, does Jim Lee have a conflict of interest between Image & DC!?! What are 5 things to get rid of at cons?!? AND MORE!!!

Hey everyone! Mike here — I'm sick and my house is filling with water, so Greg and Vargas gave me the night off. They have an Immortal and Mortal book to cover in the same week. WHAT A WORLD WE LIVE IN?! The boys are talking about Marvels Mortal Thor from Al Ewing & Pasqual Ferry, with covers by Alex Ross. Next up, Mastermind out on Dark Horse from Zack Kaplan and Stephen Thompson. Immortal Legend...

Since last week we had a very special episode, we're talking two weeks of first issues! Vargas has us covered for last week with Superman: Kryptonite Spectrum and Predator Kills the Marvel Universe. This week, the club at large covers a nice swath of firsties with Event Horizon Dark Descent on IDW's Dark imprint, Rick Remender and Daniel Acuna bring us a Giant Generator firsty called Escape, club...

We take a break from first issues to celebrate a landmark episode, and look back on the best things that have happened in comics since we started the show.

This week is all comics no news! It's a shorty, but come back next week for a whopper, when we'll be celebrating our 400th episode!