Robots From Tomorrow!

This week finds the lads diving headfirst into a world of Cat Masters, alien races and mythic demons: Brandon Graham's King City. King City is Graham's first long-form comics work and one that nearly fell victim to the Tokyo Pop implosion. But after a time in limbo, the project was revived and completed at Image Comics. The collected edition is as thick as a phonebook, with plenty of back-ups and...

Picks for Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Mike - Furious #1 & Superman Golden Age Sundays 1943-1946  HC Greg - Warlock By Jim Starlin: Complete Collection & Siegfried Vol. 2: Valkyrie  

Greg chats it up with Joe Keatinge, fresh off of this month's Image Expo, and you'd better have a comfy chair to listen to this one in, because it is a behemoth! Over two and a half hours of comics talk straight from the man who brought you Hell Yeah! , Glory , and your soon-to-be-favorite title Shutter (announced at the Expo with artist Leila Del Duca), Joe is candid as always, and speaks his min...

Picks for Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Mike - Deadly Class #1 & Midas Flesh #2 Greg - Judge Dredd Mega City Two #1 (of 5) & Serenity: Leaves On the Wind #1 

It's previews time! This week Mike and Greg comb through the January previews to talk about some of the gems that'll be hitting shelves in March. Lots of good picks, conversation and page rustling ahead! 

Picks for Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Mike - Skyman #1 & Department of Monsterology #4 Greg - Miracleman #1 & Must Read Valiant Greatest Hits #1  

Everything old is new again! Mike and Greg decide to tackle Bob Fingerman's 90's alt-comic fave from Fantagraphics, recently re-released in oversized hardcover form from Image Comics. Greg went new school and read the HC, while Mike went old school and busted out the FB trades. But it's all the same stories, right? Ummmm.... yes and no.  For the new release, Fingerman (by his own admission) pulled...

Picks for Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Mike - Elephantmen #53 & Minimum Wage #1 Greg - Atomic Robo: Savage Sword of Dr Dinosaur #5 (of 5) & All New X-Factor #1  

Another month has passed, so it's time for us to take a look back to where we came from and see what's coming for the rest of you to your comic shelves in February 2014. That's right - It's another Previews episode! Find out which Artist Edition finally makes Mike throw in the towel and pre-order one! Hear Greg talk about one of his favorite Iron Man runs, now making its complete collection debut!...

Picks for Wednesday, January 1, 2014 Mike - Baltimore: Chapel of Bones #1 & Where Bold Stars Go To Die Greg - Bad Blood #1 & Siegfried Vol. 2: Valkarie HC 

This week the guys dive into a work that, courtesy of the good folks at Humanoids, was translated and released in English earlier this year. From the incredibly inventive minds of Pierre Gabus and Romuald Reutimann, District 14 is a comic that pushes convention and genre into all sorts of new places. Part noir, part sci-fi epic, and with a cast of both humans and funny animals, District 14 is the...

Picks for Wednesday, December 25, 2013 Mike - Private Eye #5 Greg - Saviors #1 

Picks for Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Mike - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #29 & Dark Horse Presents #31 Greg - The Wake: Part One & Superman vs. Mongul TPB 

The lads end up talking about street gangs from both sides of the Atlantic in this episode. An off-air chat about Katsuhiro Otomo's masterpiece spills onto the show as a prelude to our upcoming Akira talk. The 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray with DVDs included and all possible language combinations available is out, and you should buy it! Start reading and watching now, because our Akira talk is coming!...

Picks for Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Mike - Dead Body Road #1 & 2000 AD  Prog 2014 Greg - Parker's SLAYGROUND & Lazarus #5   

Guy Adams is a writer who will be reintroducing a little know character to readers in this week's 2000 AD Prog 2014. Back in 1987 maniac-for-hire Ulysses Sweet appeared in the pages of the weekly British comics anthology 2000 AD . He made three appearances, all written by a young Grant Morrison, and then promptly disappeared (we ran said strips here , here and here ). We talk to Guy about what it'...

Continuing the Marvel streak, Mike and Greg launch into a discussion about the Claremont/Miller Wolverine mini-series, having just revisited the work for the first time in years. Does it still hold up? What works? What doesn't? Is Logan dancing a jig in a bar while holding a man five times his size over his head? It goes without saying that these four issues cemented in the eyes of an entire gener...

Mike - Hellboy In Hell #5 & Prophet #41 Greg - COPRA #12 & Numbercruncher HC

Mike - Black Science #1 & Judge Dredd #13 Greg - Judge Dredd Classics #6 & G0dland Finale

B rian - The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story  HC & Green Lantern: New Guardians #25 Mike - Maxx Maxximized #1 & Adventure Time #22 Greg - Dark Horse Presents #30

Having not yet reached his breaking point, The Hour Cosmic 's Brian Salvatore returns to the show and, like any good guest, brings with him a gift. Lo, there shall come a topic! Jonathan Hickman's run on The Fantastic Four : great comic magazine or The World's Greatest Comic Magazine? Is it too soon to call for this series? What works and what doesn't? And did Marvel drop the ball in continuing th...

This week we flip (and click) through the latest issue of Previews to see what's coming up in January that you should keep an eye out for. Considering the magnitude of such a task, we asked The Hour Cosmic 's Brian Salvatore to stay a while and give us a hand. But before that, we run Brian through a gauntlet of questions about his own podcast and Multiversity Comics in general, as this is the firs...

With the release of Action Presidents #1 this week, we take this opportunity to bring you a chat with the creative team behind that book, as well as Action Philosophers , Comic Book Comics , and a whole host of other titles from publishers as diverse as Valiant, Marvel, IDW, and Clarkson Potter: Fred van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey! Greg managed to carve out some time from their busy schedules to talk...

Brian - Abe Sapien #7 & The Manhattan Projects #16 Mike - The Sabertooth Swordsman & Rocket Girl #2 Greg - Unity #1

Rounding out our coverage of New York Comic Con 2013 is this trio of interviews with Tony Fleecs, Corrina Bechko, and Gabriel Hardman. Greg managed to squirrel away a few minutes with each of these creators to find out what they have worked on that you should check out, and what they have coming up for you to look out for. It turned out to be quite the Noah's Ark of an episode, as talk ranged from...