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Politicians, publishers, and Cyclops - oh my!

Episode Summary

A comic book news and review show where we talk about our favorite books out January 9, 2019, we discuss the new Marvel podcast-verse, talk about the hottest comics news of the week, and discuss our favorite books and comic covers out January 16th 2019.

Episode Notes

The show opens talking about comic book news:

Top 3 books from last week:

Connor

  1. Prodigy #2, 2. Oblivion Song #11, 3. Star Wars: Age of Republic: Jango Fett #1

Dave 1. Captain Marvel #1 , 2. Justice League #15, 3. Wrong Earth #5

Forrest 1. Martian Manhunter #2 , 2. Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #4, 3. Uncanny X-Men #9

ComicBookRoundUp 1. Bitter Root #3- David Walker with Chuck Brown and Sanford Green- 9.2, 2. Prodigy #2- Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque- 9.1, 3. Criminal #1- Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips- 9.0

Trending Now: Podcastception! Wolverine: The Long Night, an adaptation of their popular podcast series, hit the stands last week and Marvel has said this is only the beginning of a bigger podcast-verse. What’s the endgame here? Does the audio-first format translate well to comics? Vice versa?

Top Book for Next Week:
Connor - Gideon Falls #10 - David

Cover of Next Week:: Connor- Red Hood: Outlaw #30 Cover B Phillip Tan Variant - David - Conan The Barbarian #2 (Mark Brooks) - Forrest - Detective Comics #996 Variant (Brian Stelfreeze)

Segment of the Week: Tales from the Back Catalogue!: Discussing recent back issue pickups or reads we’re excited about, big differences we see between these and more recent stories, etc.
Dave: What if #2 - What if Hulk had the brain of bruce banner? Roy Thomas & Herb Trimpe
Forrest: What mysterious benefactor dropped off first prints of Venom: Lethal Protector for me to find?
Connor: Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #71- SJW liberal snowflakes apparently started ruining comics in 1982!