Robots From Tomorrow!

Another Previews catalog showed up on their doorsteps, so it's time for a glimpse into the tomorrow of August 2014 and see what catches Mike and Greg's eyes. THE Multiversity! Jaegir! Steven Universe! Food Wars! Mega Man! Blacksad! The Strain! The Bus! Tomboy! Henry & Glenn Forever! All that, plus artistic intentions in modern recoloring of vintage comics, the difference between video game propert...

Picks for Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Mike - Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - Fallout  TPB & Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey OGN Greg - Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever #1 & Glory: The Complete Saga HC For this episode, the one hundred thirtieth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These...

They say nobody's perfect, and that is certainly the case with Jaime Hernandez's most popular creation Maggie. Over the last 30-plus years, he has shown us how flawed, and yet perfectly realized, a character she is. Mike and Greg catch up with Maggie in Hernandez's latest graphic novel The Love Bunglers as she tries to find happiness with her on-again, off-again love interest Ray. The amount of st...

Picks for Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Mike - That's Because You're A Robot  HC & Amazing Spider-Man #1.2 Greg - Infinity Man and the Forever People #1 & Edgar Allen Poe's Morella and The Murders in the Rue Morgue HC For this episode, the one hundred twenty-ninth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited t...

Being from the future, we know things you don't. In our efforts to not completely destroy the space/time continuum, we keep most of those future secrets from you for your own protection. But every once in a while, we like to slip a little truth your way, just to keep things interesting . . . This week, Mike postulates a future where Marvel's Cinematic Universe and Comics Universe are in lock-step...

Picks for Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Mike - Lobster Johnson: Get Lobster #5 & Adventure Time Flip Side #6 Greg - PunisherMAX HC & Toshiro OGN For this episode, the one hundred twenty-eighth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nuggets are the perfect way to kick o...

Every once in a while, a comic comes along that looks to stir things up. Pop the balloons. Kick over the table. Show everyone that the emperor has no clothes. Sometimes this is done for shock value, sometimes for sales, and sometimes because the creators have that contrarian streak inside them that just needs to come out. Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill are in that last category, and their Marshal Law...

Picks for Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Mike - Chew/Revival #1 & Deadly Class #5 Greg - Trees #1 & Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying  HC For this episode, the one hundred twenty-seventh installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nuggets are the perfect way to kick off t...

Another Previews catalog showed up on their doorsteps, so it's time for a glimpse into the tomorrow of July 2014 and see what catches Mike and Greg's eyes. The Black Market ! DKW: Ditko, Kirby, Wood ! Dark Engine ! Supreme: Blue Rose ! Robin Rises ! The Goon ! Ragnarok ! Street Angel ! R. Crumb Sketchbooks! All that and a whole phonebook-sized helping of more! And if that wasn't enough, Greg and M...

Picks for Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Mike - Gangsta Vol. 2 & Celeste  HC Greg - Genius Animated: Cartoon Art of Alex Toth  HC & Dark Horse Presents #36 For this episode, the one hundred twenty-sixth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nuggets are the perfect way...

The term "all ages" tends to be used as a shorthand for kid's books in comics, but on this episode, Mike and Greg take a look at a book that truly has something for readers of every age: KOMA by Swiss cartoonists Pierre Wazem and Frederik Peeters. Published by Humanoids in 2012, KOMA follows a young girl named Addidas (but not like the shoe) as she and her chimney-sweep widower father Julius try a...

Though it might not be the same in other circles, when someone in comics describes a job as "Workman-like", that is a compliment of the highest order. John Workman has done just about every job in the industry and done so with a consistent excellence for over four decades. Known primarily for his award-winning lettering for such projects as Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol , Paul Pope's 100% , Tommy L...

Picks for Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Mike - Hellboy In Hell #6 & Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #5 Greg - Red Star Treasury Edition & Starlight #3 For this episode, the one hundred twenty-fifth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nuggets are the perfect way to kick o...

Once again, the boys go without a net on this one and land straight into a talk about Marvel's Marvel Unlimited app. What's good? What's bad? How much more are they reading from the a la carte service than they would from pay-per-issue Comixology? And how has Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X run held up over the years? The art, colors, the volume, the . . .  humor? Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly c...

Mike sits down with Douglas Wolk and Ulises Farinas! These guys are about to wrap up their IDW mini-series Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two , a story that sees the Lawman of the Future character dropped into an environment unlike any he'd seen before. The series captures some of the zany magic of the early Dredd stories, while introducing readers to all sorts of new characters with distinctly California...

Picks for Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Mike - Andre the Giant: Life and Legend & Bee and Puppycat #1 Greg - Day Men: Pen & Ink & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics #7 For this episode, the one hundred twenty-fourth installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nugget...

Picks for Saturday, May 3 (Free Comic Book Day) 2014 Mike - 2000 AD FCBD Special & MOUSE GUARD/LABYRINTH/RUST HC Greg - Hip-Hop Family Tree & Sonic X For this episode, the one hundred twenty-third installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These bite-sized audio nuggets are the perfect way...

The book that launched the black & white boom of the 1980's, spawned a thousand imitators, spun off into every conceivable media, and taught millions of kids the names of four Renaissance artists is the subject of this week's episode. Mike and Greg look at the "Return to New York" arc of the Mirage-era Turtles, but like everything else Turtles-related, the talk mutates into a green-skinned juggern...

Picks for Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Mike - Judge Dredd Classics Vol. 1: Apocalypse War  HC & Vertigo Quarterly #1 Greg - Love Bunglers  HC & Atomic Robo Knights of the Golden Circle #1 (of 5) For this episode, the one hundred twenty-second installment of our weekly "Pull List" series, the lads pick a couple of books hitting shelves this week and talk about why they're excited to read them. These b...

For those of you who weren't able to make it to AwesomeCon this past weekend, don't worry -- Greg was there to grab almost two hours of audio interviews. Steve Niles, Justin Jordan, Carla Speed McNeil, Jamal Igle, Chris Pyrate, Jeremy Whitley, and Andrew Carl took time out of their busy con experience to give you updates on their current projects. So if you wanted to know about things like Bartkir...

This week, Greg gets a chance to talk with the creative duo of artist Shawn Martinbrough and editor Joseph Illidge. Their partnership started in turn-of-the-century Gotham City, with Shawn's run on Detective Comics , and has spanned the last 15 years. Over that time the two have collaborated on Shawn's art book How To Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling , and have an upc...

Picks for Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Mike - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #33 & Eltingville Club #1 Greg - Thief of Thieves #20 & Someplace Strange HC 

This week the guys look deep into April's Previews to see what'll be hitting shelves in a couple of months. Mike's wish for an Ernest Shackleton bio-comics come true, Greg shocks the internet with some DC excitement, new Bryan Lee O'Malley, and much more! 

Picks for Wednesday, April 16, 2014 Mike - Translucid #1 & Superior Spider-Man #31 Greg - CBLDF Presents Liberty Comics HC & Doctor Solar #1 

Counterculture and Madison Avenue collide in the topic of this week's episode: the Denis Kitchen/Stan Lee-conceived Comix Book ! Greg and Mike take a look at the recent collection of the best of that magazine's six issues, from 1974 to 1976, put out by the Kitchen Sink Books imprint of Dark Horse. What was Stan thinking in courting the underground scene? Which artists were thought to be selling ou...