First Issue Club Comic Books

This week, the club talks some format changes, gets off track pretty quick, and discusses the Dr. Strange red carpet, before we FINALLY get to our book of the week: TWIG on Image Comics by club favorite creators Skottie Young & Kyle Strahm. 

This weeks show features a couple indie treats! Ones about a Vampire, and the other follows Santa Claus... and somehow they both seem to be leading to killing sprees?! Join the club to find out what the deal is! 

Break Out (Dark Horse) is arriving from hit maker Zach Kaplan. We Only Kill Each Other (Comixology) from Stephanie Phillips is a great history hit. Dark Beach on Behemoth is VR Noir, yeah you need this in your life!  Matt Kindt news, everybody loves Matt Kindt get with the picture!  This is Part 2 of the Beefy April Comix special, too much news, too many books! Had to be 2 episodes! We love you! 

So much celebration! Image turning 30! G.I. Joe Turning 40. And they both have comics to celebreate!  Image makes the best anthology, and we talk about it! G.I. Joe celebrates the most influential comic ever made (their words) and we love it!  Bunsen Beaver on Bad Idea gets discussed. The most expensive comic ever sold! Ram V is on batman.  We have so many comics and news that this is Part 1 of th...

Immortal X-Men is out by Kieron Gillen. It launches a new look at the Quit Council of X-men.  In news SDCC is taking it to the big leauges in their franchise adventures. Also Longshot is going to return!

Ghost Cage from Nick Dragotta comes to image and it's jam packed with all the best sh*t a comic can contain.  Rob Leifeld is up to his weird antics again, Ed Pisker is making weird variants, Behemoth Publishing got optioned and Paul Dano is writing a new comic for D.C. It's all the comic book news that matters, in a pod. 

Dark Horse Comics is Acauired by a videogame company. Ms. Marvel released a trailer to let us know what the series will be like, and some fans aren't happy - good thing is though...they are wrong.  We cover Slumber out on Image. This book is a can't miss, show stopper of a first issue. New author Tyler Burton Smith along side Vanessa Cardinali providing stunning artwork! It's horror, noir, art hou...

On this podcast (lovingly brought to you by Boulevard Brewing Companies Space Camper Cosmic IPA), we're going to be covering LITTLE MONSTERS #1 on IMAGE COMICS, by club favorites Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen (a team you know and love from Ascender/Descender). We'll also catch up a little on the new Punisher logo, and fan reactions to the new comic. 

The Radiant Black Universe is expanding quickly with it's first tie in book Rogue Sun landing this week by Ryan Parrott! Plus news!

Step By Bloody Step is a wordless comic by Simon (Si) Spurrior on Image, and it is truly wonderful in every way! Then we have the newest Ghost Rider #1 by Benjamin Percy, come see what the "hell" is up with your favorite flaming skull. Lots of news (not news) storing comics, comic haters, recycling.   

This week we've got a lot on our plate. A new Iron Fist's identity is revealed, and a Comixology update has fans sweating. As always we're brought to you by BLVD Brewing Company, who is helping us by donating some items for a fundraiser for Hope House KC on March 6th, at Cinder Block Brewing! Mark your calendars and help us and other KC podcasts support Hope House KC!

We cover Land Of The Living Gods by Isaac Mogajane and Santtos on Aftershock This indie comic is quite the trip, we discuss the dieing earth scenario in depth!  Also we get a rundown of the top movers and shakers in Comic Value - it's Spec. Nation in it's fullest.   

Until My Knuckles Bleed (Behemoth) By Victor Santos is covered this week, and it's a bloody noir 90s must check out.  Monkey Prince (DC) drops a new character and you guessed it, he's a monkey.  It's Greg and Budget King. We talk about all the hottest comic news including we very intently cover Diamond's misleading sales chart.

We're so excited Saga is back (with issue #55 after a hiatus that seemed to last forever), so we're devoting an entire episode to just this book. You have until the ad break to dip out before we get into spoilers if you haven't read the series leading up to its return, so you can safely join us for some build up and other news. 

This week we're talking mostly Marvel, covering Rainbow Rowell & Roge Antonio's new She-Hulk run (with amazing covers by Jen Bartel!), and get into the Moon Knight Trailer that debuted last week. Also, the Justice League Dies?

This week we're choppin it up about the vote for the new X-Men member, Ace the Bat Hounds Origin, Thor hitting 750 issues, and of course we read our book of the week Joe Hills Rain #1 out on a new Image imprint called SZYGY ran by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood. This comic is actually a novella written by Hill that David Booher (Canto), Zoe Thorogood (The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott), & Chris...

This week brings us a really cool future noir mystery on Aftershock with Bylines in Blood! What is it about? Is it good? Was there subtext? Perhaps interesting themes? Well, I have a great way for you to find out. Listen!!!

2022 has a lot in store with Marvel and they are showcasing their stuff the one-shot first issue Timeless!  Get all the sneak peaks, specs, updates and more. Read along, or just dive in for spoilers - your choice!  Also all the news on Bad Idea and what they are doing with their crazy invisible comics stunts!

It's our year end extra long special, and there's a lot to discuss! I went to C2E2 for the club, and give a recap/review of the experience. Next, we'll discuss Becky Cloonans Batgirls #1 - one of the highlights of firsties for December. Lastly, we're saving our discussion for Spidey and Hawkeye spoilers toward the end so you can shut the show off if you haven't caught up yet. 

We (John Mayer & Mayor John) are back one last time to cover an issue of Cates & Shaws Crossover, after finally getting confirmation of who our narrator is in this landmark super special entry (in the way like every issue of Crossover is super special & holds a dear sweet place in our hearts) of Crossover. 

New Batman #1 - in the form of a #118 from Josh Williamson.  Chip Zdarsky drops his Daredevil mini-series with Devil's Reign  Also we take sometime to celebrate George Perez with the rest of the industry. 

Weird week for first issues! We try to make sense of Justice League Incarnate after navigating the Spider-hype, and the announcement of a new online comic book publisher. 

First issues abound! This week we read new volumes of two classics from Marvel. Its Black Panther, its Hulk. What else do we need to say? Nothing. Press play!

Get stuffed on more than stuffing this thanksgiving, get your fill of the best #1 comics! And finish off with a side of comics news, goodbye cranberry sauce!  Radio Apocalypse by Ram V on vault is a smash and a chance for us to finally chat music.  Robins gets released for the real Robin heads and Tim Seeley serves it it up right!  Diamond got hacked, Jessica Jones turns 20, and Burger King has a...

Al Ewing and Ram V give us symbiotes in space, on earth, and maybe even on the celestial plane? We're not sure, but what we do know is that symbiotes are everywhere and we're here for it. Also, Matthew Rosenberg teams up with Tyler Boss again to bring us a tale of music loving teens on the worlds leading publisher for dystopian future comic books, Image!