The Devil in Detail

We pick right back up from last ish' and Christine's about to feel the Devil's Lash. Tujiro is PISSED and throws her out the window! She stumbles into the arms of studly Stage Manager Brian Li-Sung for help and the two have pancakes. When Christine follows one of Tujiro's sharks into the Red-light district and hell breaks loose. Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comi...

Christine lands in San Francisco and is hot on Tujiro's tail. She has a meet/cute with a handsome stage manager named Brian Li Sung and begins to leverage their sparks for access to Tujiro and his sharks. Christine dons the mantle for her first big outing as Grendel...did she succeed??? You're gonna have to listen to find out... Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comi...

The Christine Spar Saga has begun!! This week we cover Grendel Vol. 2 #1 aka Devil's Legacy #1. This run, originally published by Comico, was reprinted and recolored by Dark Horse. So we'll not only be tracking the growth of Christine but we'll also compare and contrast what changes the coloring went through after 14 years. (1986-2000). This issue we pick up with Christine's life right after her b...

WOW!! Vivat Grendel indeed!!! This week we are joined by the All Star creative team behind Devil Child. Diana Schutz, Tim Sale and Teddy Kristiansen and our new guest co-host, Matt Wagner!! (kinda?) We really captured an amazing reunion here of a creative family that has not been together for a long time. Truly amazing to see and hear! Enjoy! Diana Schutz: Read every book she ever edited. Tim Sale...

We return to the epic tale of Stacy Palumbo. This time we see her dealing with the birth of her baby girl, Christine. Stacy grows more and more melancholic and the memories of her life with Hunter and Eric continue plague to her. Her daughter Christine comes back to visit and the final chapter that bridges the gap between Hunter and Christine is sown. Written by Diana Schutz, Art by Tim Sale, colo...

With the end of Hunter Rose's saga we take a look at the bridge between our first two Grendels, Stacy Palumbo. Stacy's life was never easy, she lost her parents and her uncle and was adopted by the dashing socialite, Hunter Rose. Stacy grew up not only with Hunter but with "Uncle Argent" as well. Then, one fateful night, she overheard the news that would change her life...Uncle Hunter is GRENDEL!!...

And just like that...The end of the Hunter Rose era of The Devil in Detail. We see the last stand of Lucas Ottoman and a fiery confrontation with Liz Sparks. We'll see Hunters final thoughts and Larry smoking his last cigarette and we'll see the end of the Hunter Rose story...for now? There's always room to tell more tales of Hunter but for now, that's all he wrote. Vivat Hunter...and onward into...

This week, Grendel finally comes face to face with his pursuer and is sent through Huxley's proverbial doors of perception on a vision quest into the Grendel Cycle. These pages burn with intensity! Vivat Grendel!! What an issue...wow...  Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x... @CosmicLion  on Instagram Ben Gran...

Knowing they've got hell to pay, the Korean mob shacks up in a Bronx safe house where Grendel brings his signature brand of the samurai-film-action-gore theatrics whose occult-ritual-finale blows the lid off one of the greatest mysteries of his saga... Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x... @CosmicLion  on Ins...

Behold the Devil #5: Polyglot Grendel reconciles with the unknown supernatural and humbles himself by enlisting aid from Voodoo King Toro while Ottoman's interviewing yields a cameo by Ben's favorite supporting character, Hunter's editor: Locutious Bradley. OH HAPPY DAY! Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x......

Behold the Devil #4 finds Hunter Rose shaken by paranoia and losing control (unacceptable!) as Detective Liz Sparks begins to suspect the weight (but not the subject) of Ottoman's secret investigation into mysterious author-socialite Hunter Rose. Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x... @CosmicLion  on Instagram...

Behold the Devil #3 puts readers in the shell-shocked shoes of New York Times Reporter Lucas Ottoman as he witnesses a clash of the Uber-Creatures that leaves him just as horrified by The Wondrous Wolf as Grendel, leading him to a shocking revelation... Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x... @CosmicLion  on In...

We jump right back in where we left off. Grendel is being watched...so much so that he's making mistakes...and in his place, mistakes are deadly. We see more of what home life is like for the strange family-unit that is Hunter, Larry and Stacy and get some heated pillow talk between star crossed and, at odds, lovers, Lucas and Liz. Then we ends things where all trouble happens...the docks...all th...

This...is...THE MAIN EVENT!! BEHOLD THE DEVIL!! Part one of Matt's eight part final (as of now) Hunter Rose tale. It's a super pulpy mystery that follows ace cop and leader of the Special Grendel Unit Liz Sparks and reporter Lucas Ottoman as they follow leads and find clues on the mysterious new crime boss in town...Grendel. Seems like they are also picking up feelings. Part one of Matts eight par...

We're in between books this week so we brought back Brennan Wagner and we're also joined by The Godfather himself... Matt Wagner. Matt geeks out about his love for The Shadow, we talk to Brennan about their first time working together and what it's like working with their dad/son.  We'll also dive into the impetus for Behold the Devil...a certain Auntie Di... Also stay tuned at the end of the show...

We conclude our coverage of the prohibition era tale of romance and crime that is Grendel vs. The Shadow. Brennan Wagner also returns to shed light and color on his lights and colors. This week, the final seduction of Hunter Rose by mob heiress Sofia Valenti and The Shadow finally corners Grendel for a battle of the blades and we see them mano a mano, tit for tat, blow for blow and blood for blood...

We return to the gritty, prismacolor bathed streets of prohibition era New York. The battle is beginning between the Shadow and future phenom Grendel. Their tête-à-tête also continues in their alter-egos' lives as Hunter Rose and Lamont Cranston finally meet-cute. Also this week, the colorful Brennan Wagner joins us to talk all things Grendel and especially his adventure coloring this series with...

This week we go back in time with Grendel.  Back...way back, to prohibition era New York. A whole new seaboard to massacre and no wolf to stand in his way. However, something knows what evil lurks in the heart of Hunter...The Shadow knows.....  Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Comic MegaZine here:  https://cosmiclionproductions.com/t/x... @CosmicLion  on Instagram B...

Vivat Grendel!! Three more amazing stories from the the Matt Wagner written Red, White, & Black anthology collection. First, the story of a Doctor who's bad luck finally leads to the Devil and a giant G carved in his chest with art by Mike Huddelston. Then we get a gritty, on the move, nasal passage rupturing Argent story with art by Darick Robertson. Third, we find Grendel and the boys loading a...

We return to our RWB anthology coverage with three more amazing stories by Matt Wagner and a guest artist. First, in Stan Saki's Devil Say, Devil Do , we hop on board a non-stop chase between a bag man and Grendel. Then, in Devil, Devil, On The Roof by Zander Cannon we see a super paranoid Mob boss cloistered away in his secret suite slowly realize that even he can't hide from Grendel. Finally, th...

This week is the final issue of the Argent miniseries Silverback. We finally see Argent in the modern world of the 1980's. We meet Evan, Argent's Larry. Also, the question of when did Argent first meet Stacy is finally answered. We also see Argent and Barry Palumbo's fated first meeting to plan the double cross of this new fiend in town Grendel. A fine ending to the series. Eli Schwab https://cosm...

This week we return to the origin story of Argent the Wolf. Almost 100 years has passed and Argent has wondered the mountain sides with an unquenchable thirst for carnage and his love, Wind-in-leaves. Argent finds some rough Trappers awaiting Benedict Arnold outside a fort. Find out what happens this week on...The Wolf in Detail! Eli Schwab https://cosmiclionproductions.com/ Grab a Wizerd: The Com...

This week we take a detour into the wolf, Argents' history in Silverback Chapter One: The Dreamer. We meet Dream Picker and Wind in Leaves, two young lovers in Canada. The year is 1684 and they are part of a native tribe heading into a heavy winter. Dream Picker is having dreams and is on track to becoming a Shaman. One night the spirit of Death MASLUN visits Dream Pickers dreams and forever chang...

         After two weeks of mind blowing guest appearances Eli and Ben finally get back to the exhaustive task of meticulously dissecting every Grendel story, panel and page as only two obsessed cartoonists could! This episode features three stories from the Red, White and Black anthology that elaborate on the 'Devil by the Deed' graphic novella which play with the living, literary structure of on...

The Grendelin' continues as Eli and Ben sit down with iconoclast cartoonist Farel Dalrymple for a career spanning interview about his Grendel story 'Devil's Retribution', The secrets behind the shared universe in his stream of rollarcoaster-consciousness graphic novels, SVA and the Meathaus collective, David Lynch, Laura Ingalls Wilder, god, the universe and everything! Eli Schwab https://cosmicli...