Steve Orlando

Episode 143: Purple Monkey Slashfic

As we move slowly into convention season, there is kind of a dearth of interesting comics news to work through some weeks. Oh sure, we could weigh in on Marvel’s comments at ComicsPRO that the reason their sales are down is because of DC shipping cheaper books, but that’s a little inside baseball even for us. And besides: we all know that the people at Marvel will say absolutely anything if it means Issac Perlmutter turns his Sauron doom-eye back toward Kevin Feige.

So this week, we stick with talking this weeks’ comics, including:

Justice League of America #1, written by Steve Orlando with art by Ivan Reis,
Darkness Visible #1, written by Mike Carey and Arvind Ethan David with art by Brendan Cahill,
The Old Guard #1, written by Greg Rucka with art by Leandro Fernandez
Hulk #3, written by Mariko Tamaki with art by Nico Leon, and:
The Amazing Spider-Man #24, written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage with art by Giuseppe Camuncoli!

However, the disclaimers:

This show contains spoilers. If you don’t want to know how many of this week’s comic books actually feature The Hulk (hint: it’s one fewer than you’d think!), then consider yourself forewarned.
This show contains adult, profane language, and is therefore not safe for work. Let’s just say that Rob curses enough about The Clone Conspiracy this week to make the phrase “Ben Reilly” an obscenity by association. So consider using earbuds.

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Thanks for listening, suckers!

February 27, 2017 by Rob

Episode 140: The Soft Emo Underbelly of Batman

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It was a weird week for comics and genre news. Having recorded this episode one day before the announcement of the official title of the new Star Wars movie (spoiler alert: the spoiler is that the title is Star Wars: The Last Jedi), the only comics related news was whether it was still kosher, so to speak, to sucker-punch a Nazi, Captain America style.

(Editor’s Note: we discuss the Nazi-punching issue very, very briefly, only to come to the conclusion that, to paraphrase a famous American: if Jake Blues does it, it cannot be illegal.)

So this week, we skip most of the news, and go straight to the comics. We discuss:

Batman #15, written by Tom King with art by Mitch Gerads,
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy #4, written by Dan Slott with art by Jim Cheung,
The Ray: Rebirth #1, written by Steve Orlando with art by Stephen Byrne,
Angel: Season 11 #1, written by Corinna Bechko with art by Geraldo Borges, and:
Curse Words #1, written by Charles Soule with art by Ryan Browne!

And, as always, the disclaimers:

This show contains spoilers. If you don’t want to find out why, thanks to Catwoman, Batman is no longer the M Night Shaymalan, turn back now.
This show contains adult, profane language, and is therefore not safe for work. If you don’t want your significant other to learn what happens when you mix juniper and romilar, get some of those Airpods or something.

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Thanks for listening, suckers!