Planes, Trains and Comic Books

This week We discuss Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Hunter. The Hunter is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

In this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing sneaks aboard a train to the Louisiana swamp where he was "born." However, he is unaware that an alien has landed there to repair its spaceship.

This is it! Our final episode discussing Frank Miller's Dark Knight Universe, The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. It's been three years since the events of Dark Knight III. A terrifying evil has returned to Gotham City; Lara and Carrie must team up to stop this growing threat-and they have a secret weapon. Young Jonathan Kent, "the golden child," has a power inside of him unlike anything th...

On this weeks Matt's Minis, People in the town of Perdition have been disappearing. Swamp Thing decides to help, but a dying old man warns him not to venture into the town!

This week we discuss the last of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Trilogy, Dark Knight: Master Race. It's been three years since the Batman saved the world from tyranny. But now a new war is beginning. An army of unimaginable power, led by Superman's own daughter, is preparing to claim Earth as their new world.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing goes to Gotham City and encounters Batman. Both are after Mr. E, who is leader of the Conclave and the man responsible for Swamp Things transformation!

The tale of Batman's last adventure before his retirement and eventual return years later. Batman struggles to train the new Robin, Jason Todd. While a new string of bizarre killing sprees involving Gotham City's elite take up Batman and Robin's attention, what is the Joker planning?

In this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing, Matt Cable and Abby Arcane go to Burgess Town, where humanoid robots reside--including dupes of Alec and Linda Holland!

On this weeks episode, Batman has been watching the world go to filth, It's is up to the Dark Knight to emerge from the underground shadows and once again return order to chaos. Joined by Catgirl, an elderly Batman wages a final war against a diseased world.

On this weeks Matt's Minis, Swamp Thing stows away on a ship and befriends a woman and her brother. But he soon learns his new friends may carry a dark secret after they are accused of being witches.

This week we begin our breakdown of the Frank Miller Dark Knight universe with Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Gotham City's gone to rot. After 10 years of retirement, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence.

In this weeks Matt's Minis, The lord and lady of a castle take in Matt Cable and Abby Arcane after a plane crash. But their intentions are anything but altruistic as they intend to use Matt in an experiment to cure their son of being a werewolf.

This week we discuss Alan Moore's Saga of Swamp Thing Book 1, In which Swamp Things true nature is discovered as he and others battle a growing evil that is infecting everything he loves.   

In this episode, Matt reads Swamp Thing #3. Swamp Thing battles the Patchwork Man, who has captured Abigail Arcane, the niece of his enemy Anton Arcane! 

He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is fall in love with Japanese women? This week we discuss the Chris Claremont and Frank Miller mini series Wolverine. Logan goes to Japan for the love of his life. It's ninjas, claws, and blood as only Logan can deliver!

This week Matt reads Swamp Thing issue 2 where the Un-Men capture Swamp Thing and take him to their creator, Dr. Anton Arcane, who wants to become a Swamp Thing himself.

Marvels first family is having serious personal issues, will they survive the emotional turmoil? Join us as we Discuss Fantastic Four: 1234. After receiving their amazing powers, the Fantastic Four finds its members divided. Each chapter focuses on one member of the cosmic quartet as the team's greatest foes band together in an all-out assault on the FF!

While working on a restorative formula that can make forests out of deserts in the Louisiana swamps, scientist Alec Holland is killed by an unknown evil. Shortly thereafter, a humanoid plant being rises from the swamp, the Swamp Thing!

This week we discuss the true crime graphic novel, The Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen. The Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women. With the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. 

For the debut episode of Matt's Minis, Matt begins his weekly issue by issue breakdown of the classic 70's run of Swamp Thing, starting with Swampy's origin from the 1971 DC comic, House of Secrets #92. 

He's the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator. Join us as we discuss Hellboy: Seed of Distruction. From his apocalyptic origin in World War II England to the modern-day case of the sole survivor of a doomed Arctic expedition, Hellboy must battle vampire frog creatures,19th century sorcerers, Nazis and worse...

We started Black History month with a revolution and were gonna end with a revolution. This week we discuss Genius by Marc Bernardin. What if the greatest military mind of our generation, who's known nothing but violence since birth, was a teenage girl from South Central, L.A. And what if she decides to secede three blocks of the 'Hood from the Union? Who is going to take it back from her and her...

We continue our celebration of Black History month as we take our first dive into the Milestone universe, with Dwayne McDuffies' Static Shock. Virgil Hawkins' life changed dramatically when a mutagenic gas accidentally gave him super human abilities, Virgil was reborn as Static, the electrically powered teen super-hero. 

Love is in the air, weird air... Join us as we discuss the hilariously terrible social expectations of romance, from bygone comic book eras, in Weird Love Vol. 1.

We celebrate the second week of Black History month with the Dwayne McDuffie story, Batman: Blink. A serial killer is loose in Gotham. He has no pattern, and he leaves no clues for the police or Batman to follow. The only certainty is that he will strike again!