First Issue Club Comic Books

We cover Land Of The Living Gods by Isaac Mogajane and Santtos on Aftershock This indie comic is quite the trip, we discuss the dieing earth scenario in depth!  Also we get a rundown of the top movers and shakers in Comic Value - it's Spec. Nation in it's fullest.   

Until My Knuckles Bleed (Behemoth) By Victor Santos is covered this week, and it's a bloody noir 90s must check out.  Monkey Prince (DC) drops a new character and you guessed it, he's a monkey.  It's Greg and Budget King. We talk about all the hottest comic news including we very intently cover Diamond's misleading sales chart.

We're so excited Saga is back (with issue #55 after a hiatus that seemed to last forever), so we're devoting an entire episode to just this book. You have until the ad break to dip out before we get into spoilers if you haven't read the series leading up to its return, so you can safely join us for some build up and other news. 

This week we're talking mostly Marvel, covering Rainbow Rowell & Roge Antonio's new She-Hulk run (with amazing covers by Jen Bartel!), and get into the Moon Knight Trailer that debuted last week. Also, the Justice League Dies?

This week we're choppin it up about the vote for the new X-Men member, Ace the Bat Hounds Origin, Thor hitting 750 issues, and of course we read our book of the week Joe Hills Rain #1 out on a new Image imprint called SZYGY ran by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood. This comic is actually a novella written by Hill that David Booher (Canto), Zoe Thorogood (The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott), & Chris...

This week brings us a really cool future noir mystery on Aftershock with Bylines in Blood! What is it about? Is it good? Was there subtext? Perhaps interesting themes? Well, I have a great way for you to find out. Listen!!!

2022 has a lot in store with Marvel and they are showcasing their stuff the one-shot first issue Timeless!  Get all the sneak peaks, specs, updates and more. Read along, or just dive in for spoilers - your choice!  Also all the news on Bad Idea and what they are doing with their crazy invisible comics stunts!

It's our year end extra long special, and there's a lot to discuss! I went to C2E2 for the club, and give a recap/review of the experience. Next, we'll discuss Becky Cloonans Batgirls #1 - one of the highlights of firsties for December. Lastly, we're saving our discussion for Spidey and Hawkeye spoilers toward the end so you can shut the show off if you haven't caught up yet. 

We (John Mayer & Mayor John) are back one last time to cover an issue of Cates & Shaws Crossover, after finally getting confirmation of who our narrator is in this landmark super special entry (in the way like every issue of Crossover is super special & holds a dear sweet place in our hearts) of Crossover. 

New Batman #1 - in the form of a #118 from Josh Williamson.  Chip Zdarsky drops his Daredevil mini-series with Devil's Reign  Also we take sometime to celebrate George Perez with the rest of the industry. 

Weird week for first issues! We try to make sense of Justice League Incarnate after navigating the Spider-hype, and the announcement of a new online comic book publisher. 

First issues abound! This week we read new volumes of two classics from Marvel. Its Black Panther, its Hulk. What else do we need to say? Nothing. Press play!

Get stuffed on more than stuffing this thanksgiving, get your fill of the best #1 comics! And finish off with a side of comics news, goodbye cranberry sauce!  Radio Apocalypse by Ram V on vault is a smash and a chance for us to finally chat music.  Robins gets released for the real Robin heads and Tim Seeley serves it it up right!  Diamond got hacked, Jessica Jones turns 20, and Burger King has a...

Al Ewing and Ram V give us symbiotes in space, on earth, and maybe even on the celestial plane? We're not sure, but what we do know is that symbiotes are everywhere and we're here for it. Also, Matthew Rosenberg teams up with Tyler Boss again to bring us a tale of music loving teens on the worlds leading publisher for dystopian future comic books, Image!

2 noir books! Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips rlease Newburn on Image - and it is a crime thriller full meal from start to finish. D.C. wasn't going to be the only Noir title in town so Tom King and Greg Smallwood created Human Target that has the best Lex Luther story ever to have been written.  Lots of first issues last week, we list them all! We also discuss the Image Comics news of workers att...

The Who-Dun-It continues in one of our favorite issues of Donny Cates & Geoff Shaw's Crossover! As always the club speculates as to what the meaning behind it all may be, and are probably wrong like usual. Twists, turns, intrigue, reveals, words, pictures, Cross Talk!

James Tynion IV wrote the 2 hotest books this week, and we are covering them (what can't this guy do?) House of Slaughter is the backstory to Something Is Killing The Children, and it meets every expectation.  D.C. vs. Vampires is the best rowdy romp of vamps exploring the Justice League you will find.  Image isn't printing 2nd prints anymore, Cracker Barrel Has some exclusives, and Mike Alred is...

We're back to chop it up about comic delays, shows looking for a new networks, big anniversaries for some big indie publishers. For our books, we're covering club favorite writers Vita Ayala & Stephanie Williams, who co-penned Nubia & the Amazons. Then Cliff Chiang wrote and illustrated Catwoman: Lonely City. What did we think of these books? Do we like them, or do we LIKE-like them? Listen to fin...

This week we're choppin' it up about the return of Cates, murder mysteries, the official beginning of a new Crossover arch, and animation cels for some reason... HOORAY!

DC FanDome happened and there was a lot of news. We Talk The Batman trailer, Black Atom announcements, Flash announcements, Wonder Woman announcements and all that DC can pack into your little bitty eyeballs.  DC also made comic book news with another sexual orientation announcement for one of their mainline characters. Finally we cover Batman The Imposter this week. So it's all DC all the time he...

Wow - So many great comics to talk about, and we threw Amazing Spider-Man into the lot since it is a new jumping on point, or as some might call it... a spiritual number one. 

Some say that the 5th Wednesday in a month is a slump, well it ain't! We got comix to hit! Gun Honey from the crime imprint Hard Case (Stephen King likes it!). and Deathstroke Inc, Williamson is on this one and it's a D.C. adventure that probably means something.  We watched Hellraiser because we know it is going to be a show and we wanted to make sure we gave you the proper preview!

This week we get a folky take on an aging super hero in Frontiersman on Image comics, followed by an Ablaze period book set during WW2 called He Who Fights With Monsters. Both books with some lessons and takeaways to think about. What do you think?  

We have news from D.C. and a bunch of first issues that we will eventually cover. The Hawkeye Trailer dropped and we have the thinking mans take on it. Y The Last man is finally show, and thank God it's updated for our times.  For the books we have 2 fantastic indies! Jeff Lemire is back this week with a sci-fi space adventure on Image Comics. Maw from Boom! a first time author and a heck of a boo...

This week we talk about the big Substack Contracts going around, before reading two first issues by club favorites! First, we'll tackle Deadbox (Vault Comics) by Mark Russell, and follow it up with Jeff Lemire's Mazebook (Darkhorse Comics) which has got us in the feels.