Ryan Browne held us at sporkpoint until we agreed to have him on to pimp his new God Hates Astronauts Again!? Kickstarter, plus he overstays his welcome and jabbers on and on about Eight Billion Genies and Charles Soule, Curse Words, Diamond and Lunar, variant covers, Blast Furnace, baseball, death at sea, plus a whole mess more!

EOC All-Timers: PLOP! #4 by Sergio Aragones, Frank Robbins, Steve Skeates, Nick Cardy, and company, Thor #337 by Walt Simonson and George Roussos/Steve Oliff, and Detective Comics #526 by Gerry Conway, Don Newton, Alfredo Alcala, and Adrienne Roy, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Sandman Mystery Theatre Volume 1: The Tarantula by Matt Wagner, Guy Davis, David Hornung, and Gavin Wilson, plus the Lunar/Diamond news, DC/Marvel relationships, more Mark Millar and Ambassadors, Star Trek, plus a whole mess more!

The Steel Claw miniseries by H. Ken Bulmer, Jesus Blasco, and Garry Leach from Quality Comics, Titans #1 by Tom Taylor, Nicola Scott, and Annette Kwok, Elvira in Monsterland #1 by David Avallone, Kewber Baal, Walter Pereyra, and Dave Acosta from Dynamite!, Avengers #1 by Jed MacKay, C. F. Villa, and Federico Blee, Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham from Pantheon, Green Lantern #1 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, and Romulo Farjado Jr., plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison and Zack Kruse stop by to play Longbox Roulette: DC Comics Presents #97 (1986) by Steve Gerber, Rick Veitch, Bob Smith, and D'Angelo, Daredevil #225 by Denny O'Neil, David Mazzucchelli, and Ken Feduniewicz, and Doctor Who #11 by Steve Parkhouse, Dave Gibbons, Steve Moore, and David Lloyd, plus a whole mess more!

With Vince lost at sea old pal and BFF Tony Fleecs and our Slackers lend a hand as we start off at the far reaches of the galaxy expressing our decades-long affairs with Star Trek and Star Wars before coming home to check in on a Local Man. Along the way, we talk about Eight Billion Genies and Ryan Browne and Charles Soule; Mark Millar, Travis Charest, and The Ambassadors; Star Trek #7 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Mike Feehan, and Lee Loughridge from IDW, Peacemaker Tries Hard! #1 by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Jordie Bellaire; I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young, Brett Bean, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu; plus so much more!

Book of the Month: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Volume 1: Aphra by Kieron Gillen, Kev Walker, Marc Deering, Antonio Fabela, Edgar Delgado, and Salvador Larroca.

Dark Horse-O-Rama: Where Monsters Lie #3 by Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski, and Vladimir Popov, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #3 by Tim Seeley, Eddie Nunez, Claudia Balboni, Rico Renzi, and David Rubín, All Eight Eyes #1 by Steve Foxe, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson, and Grendel Omnibus Volume 2 by Matt Wagner and company, plus Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride #5 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, The Giant Kokjü #1 by Gerry Duggan, Scott Koblish, and Hi-Fi, Ambassadors #2 by Mark Millar, Karl Kerschl, and Michele Assarasakorn, and more TerrorWar, plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1 by Stan Sakai from IDW, The Mighty Barbarians #1 by Michael Moreci, Giuseppi Cafaro, and Barbara Nosenzo from Ablaze, Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1, Crazy Food Truck Volume 3 by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs pops in to talk up Star Wars via Ostrander, Duursema, Duffy, and Williamson, Image-O-Rama: W0rldtr33 #1 by James Tynion IV, Blanco, and Jordie Bellaire, a Local Man exclusive, TerrorWar #1 by Saladin Ahmed, Dave Acosta, and Jay Leisten, Black Cloak by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren, Dark Ride, Arcade Kings #1 by Dylan Burnett, Walter Baiamonte, and Sara Antonellini, and Nemesis: Reloaded #4 by Millar and Jiménez, Warren Ellis, Gryffen: Galaxy's Most Wanted #1 by Ben Kahn, Bruno Hidalgo, and James Peñafiel from Whatnot, Heavy Metal, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Grass Roots and Other Follies from Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides, and Dave Sheridan from Fantagraphics, The Great British Bump-Off, plus a whole mess more!

The Comics Journal and Chuck Rozanski, Planet of the Apes #1 and Dave Wachter, Image-O-Rama: Local Man #2 and Tony Fleecs, The Ambassadors #1 by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Blood Stained Teeth by Christian Ward and Patric Reynolds, and I Hate this Place #7 by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, Heimdall by Max Baitinger from Rotopol, Ronin Book 2 #2 by Frank Miller, Philip Tan, and Daniel Henriques from FMP, Wednesday, Wolverine, 2000AD Prog 2326 and Rogue Trooper by Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard from Rebellion, Waller Vs. Wildstorm, Praise-O-Rama: Hairball #1, Mister Mammoth, and Miss Davis, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Department of Truth Volume 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds from Image Comics!

Image O-Rama: Supreme by Rob Liefeld, Brian Murray, Shawn McManus, and company, Love Everlasting by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, and Matt Hollingsworth, Art Brut by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Mat Lopes, and Last Barbarians #2 by Brian Haberlin and Geirrod Van Dyke, Superman-O-Rama: Superman: Strength by Scott McCloud, Aluir Amancio, Terry Austin, and Patricia Mulvihill, and Superman: Lost #1 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, and Jeromy Cox, Star Trek-O-Rama, Spectreman Heroes #5 by Matt Frank and company from Antarctic Press, plus a whole mess more!

Local Man Tony Fleecs returns to blabber on about Rick & Morty Vs. Cthulhu by Jim Zub, Troy Little, and Leonardo Ito from Oni Press, Longbox Roulette: Action Comics Annual #1 by John Byrne, Art Adams, and Dick Giordano, Stormwatch #44 by Warren Ellis and Tom Rainey, and Leave it to Chance FCBD 2002 by James Robinson and Paul Smith, plus Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey from Drawn & Quarterly, The Tick: The Complete Edlund by Ben Edlund from New England Comics, Almighty #2 by Laroche and Simpson from Image, The Snowcat Prince by Dina Norlund from Oni Press, We Live from the Miranda Brothers and company out of Aftershock, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, plus a whole mess more!

Ice Cream Man by M. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim, Nicolas Keramidas, Brigitte Findakly and Christina Hwang from Fantagraphics, Kyle Starks-O-Rama: Where Monsters Lie #2 with Piotr Kowalski and Vladimir Popov from Dark Horse and I Hate This Place #6 with Artyom Topolin and Lee Loughridge out of Image, The Human Target #12 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood, DC Vs.Vampires, Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 by Stephanie Phillips, Juann Cabal, Espen Grundetjern, and company, Rick & Morty #2 from Oni, World's Finest #12, Guardian of Fukushima by Fabien Grolleau and Ewen Blain from TokyoPop, Phantom Road #1 by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel H. Walta, and Jordie Bellaire, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top Five Anthologies, more Bad Idea, Blue Book #1 by James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming from Dark Horse, Fantagraphic-O-Rama: SPA by Eric Svetoft and NOW: The New Comics Anthology #12 from Eric Reynolds and company, Captain America, The Last Barbarians #1 by Brian Haberlin, Hannah Wall, and Geirrod Van Dyke from Image/Shadowline, Mind MGMT: Bootleg from Dark Horse, Hypericon by Manuele Fior from Dargaud, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Jim Starlin's proto-Dreadstar Metamorphosis Odyssey and The Price!

Bad Idea-O-Rama: Orc Island by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli, and Matt Hollingsworth, They're All Terrible by Matt Kindt, Ramon Villalobos, and Tamra Bonvillan, Haunthology by Jeremy Haun, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 by Tim Seeley, Kelley Jones, Sergio Aragonéz, Eddie Nunez, Brennan Wagner, and Rico Renzi from Dark Horse, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Terry Moore and Parker Girls, Harrower #1 by Justin Jordan and Brahm Revel from BOOM!, Don Rosa and Disney, Icon Vs. Hardware, Star Trek, Nightcrawlers #1, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Almighty #1 by Edward Laroche and Brad Simpson, Lastman Book One by Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vivés, and Balak, and The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway from Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 by Al Ewing, Paco Medina, and Jay David Ramos, Amazing Spider-Man #19, Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver from Abrams, Renaissance by Fred Duval and Emem from Europe Comics, Avengers: War Across Time, Issunboshi by Ryan Lang from Oni Comics, Walt Disney Giant #3 and Don Rosa from Gladstone, Kamen Rider Kuuga, plus a whole mess more!

John Amor roars into the EOC treehouse to talk up Urban Animal, Big Medium, Teen Titans and George Perez, One Week in the Library, Bakuman, Skottie Young, Dungeons and Dragons, Where Monsters Lie #1, Action Comics #1051, Sins of Sinister #1, Chainsaw Man, Drifting Home, plus a whole mess more!

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Single Issue Shuffle: Creepshow #5 (2022) by Steve Orlando, Clay McLeod Chapman, Marianna Ignazzi, Anwita Citriya, Fabiana Mascolo, Jordie Bellaire, and Chris Burnham from Image, Jonny Quest #6 (1986) by William Messner-Loebs and Adam Kubert from Comico, and The Pink Panther Super-Pink Special (2017) by S. A. Check, Jorge Pacheco, John Gallagher, and Warren Tufts, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Adventures of Tintin: In the Land of the Soviets and The Calculus Affair by Hergé, plus The Witcher: Ballad of Two Wolves from Dark Horse, One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring from Fantagraphics, A Taste for Blood by DeBuhme from Europe Comics, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and Jason Aaron from BOOM!, Rick and Morty #1 from Oni, Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula from Life Drawn, plus a whole mess more!

Bryan Clark joins us to reveal the winners of the 11 O'Closcars for 2022!

Blowing Minds by Jake Kelly from Stone Church Press, Everything Sucks: All Cats Go to Hell by Michael Sweater from Silver Sprocket, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 from Abrams, Action Comics #1050, Black Cloak #1, Gotham City: Year One, Days of Sand by Aimée De Jongh from Self-Made Hero, plus a whole mess more!

Finally, Tana Ford descends into the EOC treehouse to talk about Laguardia, The Space Cat, Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty, Duck, Silk, plus a whole mess more!