The Last Comic Shop Podcast

More leftovers from the "Year of Chad" this week as we take a look at our co host Chad Smith's favorite run on the God of Thunder told by the legendary Walt Simonson! Plus we pit more mighty Marvel comics against each other tournament style to pick which will be worthy of being our next "Read Pile" selection on a future episode of the Last Comic Shop Podcast!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Sm...

Go nuts, folks! It's time to tackle a leftover from "The Year of Chad" with the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volumes 1 & 2 by Ryan North and Erica Henderson!   Plus we look back at the music, movies, and other comics released around the time Squirrel Girl issue 1 hit stands back in 2015!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott Guest Panelist: George from Shortbox Summary (@shortbox...

Another wonderful comic book review comes your way this week as we look at the recent ongoing series of "Wonder Woman" by Tom King and  Daniel Sampere! Plus with all the recent love around the Gal Gadot movie interpretation of Wonder Woman, we ask what other actor castings in super hero movies have forever changed comics?   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott & Mikey Wood

It's the End of an Era! The Last Comic Shop takes a look at the finale of the multi year story arc in the X-men books known as The Krakoan Age by reviewing "Fall of the House of X, Rise of the Powers of X" by Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillen & countless more!   Plus the gang takes a hard look at the realities of massive comic book crossover events and if they are truly good for the comic book indus...

Don't sleep on this week's episode of the Last Comic Shop Podcast as we check out a modern interpretation of the classic Golden Age version of the Sandman by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo Plus we school you on how to get your own comics bound into customized omnibus collections perfect for your comic book libraries!    Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott & Mikey Wood

Rewind to this year's Live Stream For the Cure event as the Last Comic Shop Podcast takes a look at a series that went where no comic fan went before with the Star Trek/X-men Crossover by Scott Lobdell, Marc Silvestri & more! Plus fans challenge us to come up with some of the greatest hypothetical comic book/TV Show mash ups ever! From M*A*S*H* and GI Joe to All in the Family and Howard the Du...

Going on a Quest this week? We sure are as the Last Comic Shop crew takes a look at one of the longest running fantasy related comic book series out there with Volume 1 of Elf Quest by Wendy & Richard Pini!   Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media, including the winner of this year's Last Soda Shop Tournament Bracket!   Host: An...

It's an Avengers Reunion of Epic proportions as we take a look at the alternate future version of Earth's Mightiest Heroes attempting to stave off a Dystopian nightmare for America in "Avengers Twilight" by Chip Zdarsky and Daniel Acuña!   Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Sco...

It's a Double, Triple, Quadruple Dose of Deadpool this week as we take a look at the team up of a whole lot of Mercs with Mouths with Deadpool Corps by Rob Liefeld & others! Plus will the MCU be saved by the team up of Deadpool & Wolverine on the big screen? We got our movie review for ya, kids!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

We continue our march towards the 2024 Eisner Awards this week with "Beneath the Trees, Where Nobody Sees" by Patrick Horvath nominated for "Best New Series" at this year's awards. Plus hear our predictions for the rest of the winners of comic books most prestigious industry award to be given at San Diego Comic Con later this week!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Travel back to the old west with one of the most legendary comic book series featuring cowboys. Yes, its our review of Blueberry Volume 1 "Chihuahua Pearl" by Jean-Michel Charlier & Jean "Moebius" Giraud Plus we play another round of our classic comic book related games "Scenarios" where we dare to ask questions like "Which super hero would make the best community pool lifeguard?"   Host: Andy...

We are gearing up for comic book award season with our review of one of the nominees for Best Continuing Series at the 2024 Eisner Awards, Birds of Prey by Kelly Thompson and her gang! Plus hear about many of the awesome comic book creators both past and present that are getting inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame this year!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Get ready for some fireworks as we continue our annual tradition of covering a Captain America comic series in honor of the Independence Day of America! This year's entry is the team up of Batman & Captain America by John Byrne! Plus we're pitting the most famous soft drink brands against each other in "The Last Soda Shop" tournament bracket challenge! Make sure to vote @lastcomicshop on socia...

We are celebrating Comic Con season at the Last Comic Shop with some great interviews straight from the floor of this year's 3 Rivers Comic Con in Pittsburgh PA!  Listen to some tremendous industry stories from artists drawing some of your favorite licensed characters in comic books today! Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott, & Mikey Wood   Interview Guests:   Dave Wachter (Godzil...

It's time to revisit Marvel's Ultimate Universe thanks to the latest epic by that master comic storyteller, Jonathan Hickman! Yes, it's the recent Ultimate Invasion story arc with art by Bryan Hitch and the Ultimate Universe one shot with art by Stefano Caselli. Plus we look back at some the highest grossing movies released around the dates of major events in Marvel's Ultimate Universe history!  ...

Get ready for some serious comic book discussion as we review the World War II drama "Victory Parade" by Eisner Award nominated author Leela Corman. Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott & Nicole Larson

We are honored this week to welcome to the Shop legendary comics writer, JM DeMatteis, to talk about one of our favorite runs of Spider-Man of all Time: Spectacular Spider-man 178-200 with Sal Buscema! Plus we pick JM's brain about this work on Justice League, Moonshadow, his ongoing Kickstarter series: The DeMultiverse, and more!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott, & Mikey Woo...

Movie "May"hem for 2024 concludes with our review of both the legendary Comic & Movie called The Crow by originally created by James O'Barr. Plus we welcome Jon Engel, the Regional Manger of New Dimension Comics & show runner of the annual Pittsburgh based 3 Rivers Comic Con to talk about this year's event!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott Guest Panelist: Jon Engel  ...

Movie "May"hem month continues with a celebration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton's Batman movie in 1989 starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton! Plus we're pairing that movie review with the Batman '89 Comic book series by original Batman screen writer Sam Hamm and Joe Quinones!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott & Nicole Larson

 It's an assignment we couldn't refuse! Time to tackle one of the longest running and best selling manga series in history with: Golgo 13! First it's our review of Volume 1 of Viz Media's English adaptation of the series with "Super Gun" by Takao Saito! Then it's a review of the anime movie featuring Golgo 13 with "The Professional" from 1983!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott, &a...

We kick off our annual Movie "May"hem month by covering Todd McFarlane's entry in the Image Comics Universe: Spawn! That's right! It's Volumes 1 & 2 of the Spawn Origins Collection! Plus we're pairing that comic book review with our review of the original 1997 Spawn movie starring Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo!   Host: Andy Larson Co Hosts: Chad Smith, JA Scott & Mikey Wood  

Prepare to go cosmic with a look at the legendary European space adventure series "The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane" by Philippe Druillet! Plus the results of our recent fan polls which you can vote on weekly out @lastcomicshop on social media!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

This week we take a look back into Batman's family tree with the 50s era film noir inspired mini series, Gotham City: Year One, by Tom King and Phil Hester! Plus learn about some of the more strange and bizarre fan theories out there about everyone's favorite Caped Crusader!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Your wish is granted! We are reviewing 8 Billion Genies by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne which will be a future television show on Amazon Prime! Plus find out what The Last Comic Shop Podcast gang would wish for if they could change one thing about comics!   Host: Andy Larson  Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott

Get ready for the upcoming Comic Con season with an interview with the wonderful Paul Cornell, writer of the recent Ahoy Comics release "Con & On" (with artist Marika Cresta) all about the history of one of the world's most famous Comic Book Conventions! Plus we pick Paul's brain about this work on Doctor Who, Captain Britain and MI-13, and who exactly killed the Loch Ness Monster?!?   Host: A...