First Issue Club Comic Books

Marvel Comics 1000 hit stands with splash of surprises, news, and nostalgia. Dive in deep with Greg and Budget King here. Also Mountainhead (IDW) will leave no reader uninterested, so make sure you check out this episode!

First Issue Club gets into it this week with the Sony/Disney breakup fallout; Batman tragedies; Dark Captain Marvel and our first picks of the week! "Strayed" has cats talking, astral projecting, working for the gov., will it be anarchy?! And "Pretty Violent…with lots of swears." which is exactly the brutal mess you think, with a pretty violent-ly good twist.

It's Gregs Bachelor party, and to celebrate, the boys get a lesson in a new kinky way to have fun, before deep diving into this weeks comics. Once & Future out on BOOM! Studios, and The White Trees, were both from club favorite creators, and a complete delight, but only one stayed on theme with our sex-fueled intro. Interested?

This week in the club we have bound-ti-ful topics with the surprising debut of "Berserker Unbound", and the dark and wild landscape of "Coffin Bound".

We interview Cullen Bunn to talk about his two new indie. books! He also drops serious knowledge on the industry experience and growing up nerd, don't miss this interview. If you don't know Cullen Bunn, now is the time to check him he delivers on everything he touches from Harrow County (Dark Horse), to Unearth (Image), and Uncanny X-men and X-men Blue (Marvel).

Cullen Bunn came out strong this week with two fierce Indy books! You won't want to miss the wizard horror story of Manor Black (Dark Horse). Knights Temporal (Aftershock) paints a genre hopping master piece with mysteries galore!

We Skyped in to talk with the Jacks of Trades Podcast about JANE FOSTER: VALKYRIE out on Marvel Comics. If you want to hear more from Jacks of Trades find em here: Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jacks-of-trades/id1166712053?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wQnL1bGRcYZIgOH2pI9aG?si=MjgKplp0T1CPebe7yUuAkQ Website: http://jacksoftradespodcast.com IG: http://instagra...

The club was so pumped for House of X that we spent the entire episode discussing it, only getting sidetracked about 5 times.

This week the club gets sucked in with Collapser on DC's Young Animals imprint and laugh at the hilarious exploits of Superman's Best Friend: Jimmy Olsen on DC. Also in this episode, the worry of celebrities writing comics, and we create our DJ set lists.

Mike and Greg catch each other up on the whirlwind of Marvel announcements to come out of San Diego Comic Con in this emergency special bonus episode!

The club returns from episode 100 with a ton of comic news. Then the long awaited Second Coming gets "saved" by Ahoy Comics. Finally Reaver blows up on Image for a violence soaked tail of medieval mayhem.

The entire club skipped town for the 4th to spend time with our families, so while we couldn't record a regular episode, comic book reading must go on! Because of this important rule of life, Mike D recorded an emergency voicemail episode where he breaks down his top four first issues of last week. Hope you state-side clubbers all had a wonderful holiday weekend as well, and to our overseas friend...

This week The Club takes a breaks from comics to celebrate 100 episodes with 100 minutes of non-sense. Highlights include, but aren't limited to: our first sponsor, parody songs, call-ins, commentary on our first episode, DC cover prices, regrets, emotions, thank you's, and what's next.

On Episode 99 The club spends the entire episode diving into DC Black Label's Superman Year One! Frank Miller - love him or hate him, we get into it. This is so much Superman stuffed into one episode that it made it's way into a special One Shot Episode!

In this episode the club discusses whats up with DC's Vertigo imprint, before getting into Silver Surfer Black from Marvel Comics, and Sonata out on Image Comics. We also question wether we've gone too far as Marvel "True Believers", and argue over Bruce Springsteens new album, because why not?

Thumbs (Image) imagines a cyber punk heaven. Ignited (Humanoids) comes out on brand new publisher and has a power house team in Waid & Osajefyo.

This week in the Club, we get into Batman news and the new #1, "Batman: Last Knight on Earth", as well as "Killer Groove" and its nostalgic noir.

The club fumbles over the title of IDW's new ROAD OF BONES, and ultimately find ourselves miles from our own road of cohesive conversation.

This week, FIC takes on WoTR double-time team-ups (hereby known as DTTUs) in "Spider-Man and the League of Realms" and "Giant Man" (which should really be called "Giant Men").

Agents of Atlas (Marvel) bringing in an all new amazing Asian fighting team and Excellence (Image) with a better, fresher more relevant Harry Potter! Plus some new sponsors!

As is typical, the club devolves quickly when Kaitlyn can't attend, and we lose track of our decency and get off topic quickly. Even still, we think there is just the right amount of DCeased and Savage Avengers discussed in this episode. Enjoy!

BONUS EPISODE! Kaitlyn and Greg joined our friends from the TWO VIEWS MOVIE PODCAST for a discussion on Avengers endgame. If you haven't seen the movie yet, what are you even doing here?! Delete this episode! If you have seen the movie, and enjoy the episode, give our new pals at TWO VIEWS a Club bump with a rate, review, or subscription.

Thanos has a new book (Marvel) by Tini Howard and it is just in time for End Game. Cullen Bunn is back (Valiant) with a Louisianan Immortal Ghost Summoning Neighborhood Punk!

The club really gets into it this week with "First Appearances" in both comics and our lives; ""Planet of the Nerds", where the geeks and the Chads get the switch; and, we find ourselves 'A Club Divided' over the historical fiction that is "Mary Shelley: Monster Hunter."

Faithless is all the pervy magic Boom! Could fit in a comic. Fair Lady is Columbo for Middle Earth. Comics literally don't get better! The club gets in it and even talks Hellboy with the latest in comic news. It's First Issues being read and discussed in podcast form. Now it's time to take my horse to the old town road.