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!

Book of the Month: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, and Benedict Dimagmaliw!

Mike Del Vecchio joins us on an all-manga episode, highlighting Chainsaw Man by Tatsuji Fujimoto from Viz, Go! Go! Loser Ranger! by Negi Haruba from Kodansha, One Piece and Eiichiro Oda, Junji Ito, The Gay Who Turned Kaiju by Kazuki Minamoto from Yen Press, The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono from Viz, Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki from :01 First Second, plus a whole mess more!

Bloodshot Unleashed by Deniz Camp, Jon David-Hunt, and Jordie Bellaire from Valiant, Briar by Christopher Cantwell, Germán García, and Matheus Lopes from BOOM!, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar, Federico Vicentini, and Bryan Valenza, Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin from Panel Syndicate, Invincible Iron Man #1, Kamen Rider Kuuga Volume One from Titan Books, Image-O-Rama: Night Club #1 by Mark Millar and Juanan Ramírez, Kroma #1 by Lorenzo De Felici, and Gospel by Will Morris, Leonide the Vampire by Mike Mignola, Rachele Aragno, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann from Fantagraphics, Cat-Man and Kitten #1 by Jeff Parker, Joseph Cooper, and Arancia Studio from Dynamite, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Black Paradox from Viz and Boat Life by Tsuge Tadao from Floating World, Super Trash Clash from by Edgar Camacho Top Shelf, Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Hand-Drawn Thought Photography by Noah Pierce from Decoder Ring, Classified: The Black Box, Kepler’s Intergalactic Guide to Spaceships by Jake Parker, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison warps in to add to this month's Book of the Month: Pussey! by Dan Clowes from Fantagraphics!

Ronin Book II (no spoilers) by Frank Miller, Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques, and John Workman from Frank Miller Presents, Kamen Rider Zero-One #1 from Titan Comics, Lord of the Jungle #1 by Dan Jurgens, Benito Gallego, and Francesco Segala from Dynamite!, Humanoids-O-Rama: Psychoverse by Mark Russell, Yanick Paquette, and Dave McCaig and First Degree: A Crime Anthology by David F. Walker, Michael Lark, and company, Strange, PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama from Kodansha, The Thing, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to the fold to join in on Kim Jung Gi, Image-O-Rama: Kane Volume 3: Histories by Paul Grist, Deadly Class, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Old Dog by Declan Shalvey and Clayton Cowles, Above Snakes, plus Love & Rockets, New Mutants #31, Prophet, Terry Kavanagh, WildC.A.T.S, Comics Revue #437/438 and The Phantom by Lee Faulk and Sy Barry, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special, plus a whole mess more!

Kevin O'Neill, Carlos Pacheco, Grateful Dead Origins by Chris Miskiewicz, Noah Van Sciver, Aladdin Collar, and Tyler Boss from Z2 Comics/Rhino, Matt Wagner's Grendel Omnibus Volume 1, Manga-O-Rama: Night of the Living Cat by Hawkman and Mecha-Roots from Seven Seas and She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki from Yen Press, Wolverine 26-27 by Benjamin Percy, Juan José Ryp, and Frank D'Armata, Skottie Young-O-Rama, Star Trek #1 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Ramon Rosanas, and Lee Loughridge from IDW, Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson, Andre Bressan, and Adriano Lucas and I Hate This Place by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda from Abrams, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Stray Bullets Volume One: Innocence of Nihilism by David Lapham from El Capitán/Image Comics!

Top 5-O-Rama: Our Top Five Four-Issue Limited Series, Top Five Trios, Top Five Image Series, plus a whole mess more!

Heavy Hitters-O-Rama: Law Dog by Chuck Dixon, Henry Flint Henry, Marc Hansen, and company, Midnight Men by Howard Chaykin, and Sachs and Violens by Peter David and George Peréz, plus A.X.E. Judgment Day, Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin, plus a whole mess more!

Single Shuffle: DNAgents #10 my Mark Evanier, Will and Jo Meuginot, and Al Gordon from Eclipse Comics, plus Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki from Viz, The Silent Invasion by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas from NBM, Slash them All by Antoine Maillard from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Thrud the Barbarian by Carl Critchlow from Titan Comics, the Death, Destruction, Vice, and Sleaze series by Jake Kelly, Dynamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride by Jasper Jubenvill from Strangers Fanzine, Simon Hanselmann, Crime & Punishment: Marshal Law Takes Manhattan by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, and company from Epic, Tekno Comix, Manga-O-Rama: Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto from Viz and Dandadan Volume 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu from Shonen Jump, Always Never by Jordi Lafebre from Dark Horse, Back Issue #137 from TwoMorrows, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

New York Comic Con '22, Ryan Browne, Peach Momoko, Single Shuffle: Batman Vs. Robin #2 by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, and company, Scary Monsters #128, Superman: Son of Kal-El and Action Comics, Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: John Constantine, Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Rick Veitch, Alfredo Alcala, and company!

Vanish #1 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and company from Image, DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock Vs. the Army of the Dead by Bruce Campbell and Eduardo Risso, Madballs Vs. Garbage Pail Kids from Dynamite!, Tim Drake: Robin #1, Santos Sisters #2, Thunderbolts, patron questions, plus a whole mess more!

Chained Soldier Volume 1 by Takahiro and Yohei Takemura from Yen Press, The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, Star Trek: Below Decks from IDW, Ginka and Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe from Shonen Jump, Crazy Food Truck by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, Acting Class by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross and Josh Johnson from Marvel/Abrams Comicarts, How to Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pierce from Fantagraphics, Come Over Come Over by Lynda Barry from Drawn & Quarterly, Batman Vs. Robin, Kali by Daniel Freedman and Robert Sammelin from Dark Horse, The Changeling Volume 1 by Tina N. Lugo from Silver Sprocket, The Least We Can Do by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli from Image, Robin and Batman, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Gunslinger Spawn and The Complete Cyberforce Volume One, Ghost Rider, Boris the Potato Child by Anne Simon from Fantagraphics, Stages of Rot and A Frog in the Fall (and Later On) by Linnea Sterte from Peow Studio, more Curse of the Chosen by Alexis Deacon from Nobrow and Flying Eye Books, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye.

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The End by Anders Nilsen, Metax by Antoine Cossé, and Halcyon by Ron Regé Jr., Sandman on NetFlix, Spectreman Heroes #2: Lionmaru by Hiroshi Kanatani and Matt Frank from Antarctic Press, Titan-O-Rama: Bloodborne: Lady of the Lanterns #1 by Cullen Bunn, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson and Ms. Tree Volume Three: The Cold Dish by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, Curse of the Chosen Volume 1 by Alexis Deacon from Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press, Echolands by J. H. Williams III and W. Hayden Blackman, and Dave Stewart from Image, Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1, Ant-Man #1, plus a whole mess more!

Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part One by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido from Dark Horse, Patience & Esther: An Edwardian Romance by S. W. Searle from Iron Circus Comics, Dai Dark by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Batman: Killing Time, Junji Ito's The Liminal Zone from Viz Signature, more Miles Morales, Warlock 5 Omnibus from Outland Entertainment, Dinamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride from Strangers Fanzine, Black Panther, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner-nominated Tony Fleecs hangs with us to talk about Enzo Garza's Gutt Ghost, The Book Tour by Andi Watson, X-Men Legends #1 by Roy Thomas and Dave Wachter, Jordan Crane's Keeping Two from Fantagraphics, Parker Girls #1 by Terry Moore, a whole lot of Miles Morales, Dynamite's James Bond: 007 #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Marco Finnegan, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Ghost Cage, and more!

Brother Brian Newberry joins us on our quest to discuss ORCS! by Christine Larsen from Kaboom, recalling the glory days of Justice League/Europe, Devil Ecstasy V1 by Shuzo Oshimi from Kodansha, Action Comics, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Shadow War, Eerie Publications - The Complete Covers: The Whole Bloody Mess from FantaCo, The Bear, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence Volume 2, Once and Future from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden from :01 First Second.

Colorless Volume One by Kent from Seven Seas, Cankor by Matthew Allison, Dog Biscuits by Alex Graham from Fantagraphics, Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho from Top Shelf, Image-O-Rama: The Closet #1 by James Tynion IV and Gavin Fullerton and Skybound X #25 by Kirkman, Ottley, Williamson, Bressan, Lucas, De Felici and company, Nightwing, She-Hulk, Loeb and Sale's Batman: Dark Victory and Long Halloween, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Volume 1 from The Library of American Comics and Clover Press, Shadow War, Love Everlasting by Tom King and Elsa Charretier, plus a whole mess more!

Above Snakes by Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman from Image, The Men Who Created Gundam by Hideki Ohwada, Hajime Yatate, and Yoshiyuki Tomino from Denpa, more World's Finest, the X-Universe post-Hickman, Dark Knights of Steel #7, The Cimmerian Volume 1 from Ablaze, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #2 from Bad Kids Press, Deathstroke Inc., The Lonesome Hunters #1 by Tyler Crook from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Clementine Book One by Tillie Walden and Cliff Rathburn from Skybound Comet, Disciples by David Birke, Nicholas McCarthy, and Ben Marra from Fantagraphics, Captain Action: The Classic Collection by Jim Shooter, Gil Kane, and Wally Wood from Penguin Random House, Frog Boy: Punk Rock & Roller Derby by John Burgin, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #2 by Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, Dark Knights of Steel, Adrastée by Mathieu Bablet from Magnetic, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs and Caleb Alexander-McKinzie join us to recount the wonder that was Heroes Con 2022 (including  Jason's Bitter Root panel with David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene), plus we make time on the tail end to discuss Dan Slott's Fantastic Four, Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century, Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali: A Who HQ Graphic Novel from Penguin Workshop, Tony Osmond is a Movie Star by Tony Esmond, Cliff Cumber, and Ken Reynolds from Tribute Press, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground by Darwyn Cooke, plus Final Faction: First Impact, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Golden Boy: Beethoven's Youth by Mikael Ross and Disney Masters Volume 15: The New Adventures of the Phantom Blot by Paul Murray, Witches: The Complete Collection by Daisuke Igarashi from Seven Seas, The Junction by Norm Konyu from Titan Comics, Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz from Silver Sprocket, Tim Sale and The Long Halloween, Better Place by from Duane Murray and Shawn Daley from Top Shelf/IDW, Heroes Con, plus a whole mess more!

Revita, Ex.Mag 4 from Peow Studio, Twig #2 from Image, Urban Animal Volume 1 by Justin Jordan and John Amor from Rocketship Entertainment, Succubus & Hitman Volume 2 from Seven Seas, Jason Pearson and Body Bags, Rick Grimes 2000, Neonomicon, Heroes 2022, Heaven's Door Extra Works by Keiichi Koike from Last Gasp, World's Finest, Eternals, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, X-Universe, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young, Felix Lu, Matthew Allison, Tom King, and Tony Fleecs stop by to join us for our 800th uninterrupted attempt at weekly comic book podcasting! Maybe this time we'll get it right!

Book of the Month: Wolverine Epic Collection Volume 1: Madripoor Nights by Christopher Claremont, Peter David, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Klaus Janson, Al Williamson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Glynis Oliver, Gregory Wright, Mike Rockwitz, and Mark Chiarello, plus a whole mess more!

Project MK-Ultra: Sex, Drugs, and the CIA Volume 1 from Clover Press, IDW, Buz Sawyer Volume 2: Sultry's Tiger by Roy Crane from Fantagraphics, Ibrahim Moustafa's Retroactive from Humanoids, Tony Fleecs and Heroes, We Have Demons by Snyder and Capullo, Viz-O-Rama: Crazy Food Truck Volume 1 by Rokurou Ogaki and Death Note Short Stories by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Duo #1, Yellow Cab by Chabouté, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner Nominees Live: Zack Kruse (Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity), Daniel Warren Johnson (Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star), and Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs) join us in the EOC treehouse, plus Single Shuffle: I Hate This Place #1 by Kyle Starks, Artyrom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, 7174 Annual '22 by Ashley Wood and T. P. Louise (Image). and Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin #1 by Geof Darrow and Dave Stewart (Dark Horse), Fables #151, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Hit Me, plus a whole mess more!

George Pérez, Reckless: Image-O-Rama: The Ghost in You by Ed Brubabker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips, Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane, and Arrowsmith: So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco, Ashes, Ashes from Magnetic, G.I. Joe: Saturday Morning Adventures #3 from IDW, Silver Sprocket-O-Rama: Hell Phone by Benji Nate and Good Boy Magazine #2, Star Trek: Discovery: Adventures in the 32nd Century #2, Mossvale by Travis Wells from Ageless Press, plus a whole mess more!

Neal Adams, TMNT: The Last Ronin by Eastman, Laird, and company from IDW, Twig #1 from Scottie Young, Kyle Strahm, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu from Image, Laura and Other Stories and Guillem March, Avengers and Jason Aaron, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: ATARI Force by Gerry Conway, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Ross Andru, Riccardo Villagran, Tom Zuiko, and Keith Giffen, plus a whole mess more!

Mario pulls into the EOC parking lot to help us through By the Horns Volume 1: The Wind Rises from Scout Comics, Chronophage from Humanoids, Fourth Wall-breaking comics, Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #1, Blubber by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, The Nib #8, Dark Horse Presents, Disney's Moon Knight, Donald Duck: Follow the Leader, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #2, plus a whole mess more!

Sheeply Horned Witch Romi by Yoichi Abe from Seven Seas, TMNT Annual 2022 by Juni Ba and Ronda Pattison from IDW, Chivalry by Neil Gaiman and Coleen Doran from Dark Horse, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Saturday Morning Adventures #2, more King of Spies, Gary Panter's Crashpad from Fantagraphics, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #1 by Roel Torres and Lukasz Kowalczuk from Bad Kids Press, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #1 from Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, The Final Night, X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Marauders #1, The Return of the Killer, more Secret Passages and What If We Were by Axelle Lenoir, plus a whole mess more!

Manga-O-Rama: Kamen Rider: The Classic Collection by Shotaro Ishinomori from Seven Seas and Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatso from Shonen Jump, patron questions, Secret Passages 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir from IDW/Top Shelf, Rogues #1 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs, and Matheus Lopes, Hulk: Grand Design #1 by Jim Rugg, Superman: Red and Blue, X-Men-O-Rama: Immortal X-Men #1 and X-Men: Red #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Enigma by Peter Milligan, Duncan Fegredo, and Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh

Scout-O-Rama: Kingjira: Hungry Like a Monster and Gods of Brutality, Magnetic-O-Rama: Carbon & Silicon by Mathieu Bablet and Pistouvi by Merwan and Bertrand Gatignol, World's Finest #1, Orochi by Kazuo Umezu from Viz, Matt Emmonds' Gardener, Black Widow, We Live by the Miranda Brothers from Aftershock, Lady Baltimore: The Witch Queens from Dark Horse, King of Spies, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Lure by Lane Milburn, NOW: The New Comics Anthology #11, and Olympia by Bastien Vives, Jérôme Mulot, and Florent Ruppert, Alley Oop - Book One: Dinny by V. T. Hamlin from Manuscript Press, A Thing Called Truth from Image,  plus a whole mess more!

Ryan Browne on Eight Billion Genies from Image, Charles Soule, God Hates Astronauts, Curse Words, process, Kickstarter, plus a whole mess more!

Desert Island Mystery Mail and Mirror Mirror Volume 2, Jason's OA escapades, Hit Me #1 from AWA, Death of Doctor Strange, The Seeds from Berger Books and Dark Horse, Punisher #1, Little Monsters #1, Star Trek: Discovery - Adventures in the 32nd Century from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El #9, plus a whole mess more!

Nick Dragotta descends from the heavens to talk up his forthcoming Ghost Cage from Image, plus we have time left to talk up Succubus & Hitman Volume 1 from Seven Seas, The Killer: Affairs of the State from BOOM!, Falconspeare and Mike Mignola from Dark Horse, Transformers: King Grimlock from IDW, Superman: Son of Kal-El, She-Hulk #2, Strange #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Fist of the North Star Volume 1 by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara from Viz Signature, plus King of Spies, The True Story of the Unknown Soldier by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, Cutting Edge from Titan Comics, The Cimmerian Volume 3 from Ablaze, Jeff Lemire-O-Rama: Robin and Batman and Primordial, Peacemaker, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs barges in once again to help us with G. I. Joe Saturday Morning Adventures from IDW, Book of Boba Fett, Transformers, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Deserter from Viz and Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge from New York Review Comics, Bermuda and Nick Bradshaw, Erik Larsen's Ant, Oswald's Body from BOOM!, Cowboy Bebop from Titan Comics, Rick and Morty, Terry Moore's Serial, Nightwing, Babyteeth Volume 4, Crossover, Randocomica: Hero Zero #1, Superman '78, Justice League 2022 Annual and Sanford Greene, The Human Target, plus a whole mess more!

Milo Minara's The Golden Ass from Humanoids, Lightfall: Book One - The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert from Harper Alley, 32 Stories by Adrian Tomine from Drawn & Quarterly, The Other History of the DC Universe, Solo by Oscar Martin from Titan, Disney Masters V18: Uncle Scrooge - Pie in the Sky by William Van Horn from Fantagraphics, I Am Gonzo My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books from Viaindustriae Publishing, Bolero from Image, The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs helps us out with January's Book of the Month: Maus by Art Spiegelman.

Mega #1 from Stonebot and Red 5, Balbuzar from Ablaze, So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess - Outsider Artist & Gender Visionary 1911-1977 from Microcosm, Maximum Volume from Kitchen Sink and Heavy Metal, Gamayun Tales II and Stig & Tilde: The Loser Squad from Nobrow, Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal from AWA, Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Strips from Dark Horse, Superman & Robin Special #1, Detective Comics, Human Target #4, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top Ten list of Comic Book Novelties plus Fantasy Sports from Nobrow, Spy Island from Dark Horse, Decorum from Image, plus a whole mess more!

A year in the making, it's the 11 O'Closcars, an assemblage of All-Winners from the year that was 2021, with our buddy, Brian Newberry, helping us lift this very heavy load! Will your favorites snag the gold? Listen and find out!

Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips from Ablaze, Jim Rugg and the Hulk, Municipal Threat from Fluke, Mazebook from Jeff Lemire and Dark Horse, Bendis and Miles Morales, Knight Janek #1 from Behemoth, A Thing Called Truth from Image, Frontiersman, Kaiju No. 8, Money Shot, The Secret to Superhero Strength by Alison Bechdel, Giant Sized Santos Sisters #1, Ken Landgraf and Apocalypse 5,000 from Floating World and Outlaw Comics, Tardi and Fog over Tolbiac Bridge from Fantagraphics, Rorschack, plus a whole mess more!

Manga-O-Rama: Kaiju No. 8 V1 by Naoya Matsumoto from Viz and Dai Dark V2 by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Juni Ba-O-Rama: Monkey Meat #1 from Image and Djeliya from TKO, Mike's Place from :01 First Second, H. P. Lovecraft and BOOM's Magic: The Gathering from Jed MacKay and company, Pound for Pound and Andy Belanger from TKO, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance #3 from Image, Arc Athena by Eric Canete, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown by Walt and Louise Simonson, Jon J. Muth, and Kent Williams, plus Ryan Bodenheim, Nobody's Child by Massimo Rosi and Ramiro Borallo from Behemoth, Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1 from DC/Black Label, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), Superman: Son of Kal-El Annual 2021, plus a whole mess more!

Dark Horse, White Ash from Scout Comics, King Conan #1 and Mahmud Asrar, Smart Girl from Titan Comics, Wolverine #19, Nightwing, My Date with Monsters #1 from Aftershock, Destroy all Monsters, Dark Knights of Steel #2, Spider-Man: No Way Home (no spoilers), plus a whole mess more!

Mark Russell-O-Rama: Deadbox #2 with Benjamin Tiesma from Vault and One Star Squadron #1 with Steve Lieber, plus Made in Korea from Image, Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1 from BOOM!, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills: The Manga from Viz, Letters from Animals, and a whole mess more!

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Man in Furs by Catherine Sauvat and Anne Simon, Gil Kane's Savage!, and Popeye: The E. C. Segar Popeye Sundays Volume 1: Olive Oyl & Her Sweety.

ECCC 2021, George Peréz, DOSE! by Sean Ellis and John Gebbia from It's Alive, S.W.O.R.D., King of Spies, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge in World of the Dragonlords from Fantagraphics, Blue and Gold, American Vampire 1976, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Transmetropolitan Book One by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Jerome K. Moore, Nathan Eyring, Kim DeMulder, Ray Kryssing, and Dick Giordano, ECCC 2021, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs barges in once again to yap with us about Stray Dogs: Dog Days, plus The Heathens #1 from Aftershock, Crossover #9, Alberto Brecchia's Dracula from Fantagraphics, Marvel Meow by Nao Fuji from Viz, The Rush #1 by Spurrier and Gooden from Vault Comics, The Invincible Red Sonja and Moritat from Dynamite!, Robin Bougie's Gutter Hunter #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El, plus a whole mess more!

Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce from Fantagraphics, an exercise in filling voids in the comics industry, Snyder-O-Rama: Clear, Night of the Ghouls, and We Have Demons, TMNT: The Last Ronin Design Archive by Kevin Eastman and IDW, Farewell, Brindavoine by Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, A Thing Called Truth from Image, The Thing #1, Hit-Monkey, The Bridgebuilder's Creed from Shawn Daley, plus a whole mess more!

Mycelium Wassonii by Brian Blomerth from Anthology Editions, Trots and Bonnie from New York Review Comics, Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips, Newburn #1, Nocturnals Omnibus and Dan Brereton, The Heroes Union from Sit Comics, We Don't Kill Spiders by Joseph Schmalke from Scout Comics, Dark Knights of Steel #1, Cyclopedia Exotica from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Magnetic-O-Rama, Klaus Janson, Comics Revue #421-424 and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer, curating our collected comics collections by way of another Top Ten, Burton & Cyb Volume 1 by Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz from Catlan Communications, 80 Days from Archaia, Pre Code Classics: Web of Fear Volume 2, The Human Target #1, DC Vs. Vampires #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Silver Coin by Michael Walsh and company from Image, plus Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #1, House of Slaughter #1, more on 1000 Storms, PS Artbooks-O-Rama: Strange Terrors Volume 1 and Worlds of Fear Volume 1, Death of Doctor Strange #2, Deathstroke Inc. #2, Task Force Z #1, Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone from Fantagraphics, HSE: Human Stock Exchange from CineBook, Inferno #2, plus a whole mess more!

Refrigerator Full of Heads #1, Dirtbag Rapture #1 from Oni, The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard from Iron Circus, Superman: Son of Kal-El #4, Catwoman: Lonely City #1, Viz-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Sensor and The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezz, Vault-O-Rama: Deadbox #1 and Human Remains #1, Vinyl from Image, Strange Adventures, plus a whole mess more!

NYCC 2021 wrap, Fanzine-O-Rama: Monster Maniacs, Pulp Horror #7, and Pulp Horror: All Reviews Special Edition by Justin Mariott and company, Matteo Scalera, Gene Colan, Tom Scioli, Immortal Hulk #50, Hardware: Season One #2, Jonathan Kent, Noir is the New Black: Noir Stories from Black Creators from Fair Square Comics, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Himeros #1, plus a whole mess more!

On the eve of NYCC 2021, we meander through Our Encounters with Evil from Dark Horse, Sentient from TKO, Superman: Son of Kal-El, Letter to Survivors by Gébé from New York Review Comics, Soul Plumber #1 from DC Horror Presents, Superman and Lois, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Sword of the Atom by Jan Strnad, Gil Kane, Pat Broderick, Tom Ziuko, Dennis Janke, and Petra Scotese.

ERB-O-Rama: Beyond the Farthest Star: Warriors of Zandar #1 and Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas from American Mythology, Killadelphia, Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Saga, Frontiersman #1, Venom, Campisi: The Dragon Incident from Aftershock, The Death of Doctor Strange, Corridor, plus a whole mess more!

Second Issue Spotlight: Beyond the Breach #2, Blue and Gold #2, Runes #2, Superman and The Authority #2, Batman '89 #2, Amazing Fantasy #2, Bermuda #2, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #2, Groo Meets Tarzan #2, Lucky Devil #2, The Me You Love in the Dark #2, Jason breaks the streak with Soulwind, plus a whole mess more!

Matt King, author of the incredible Tales to Enlighten with James Edward Clark, drops by to... uh... enlighten us, plus we have some time left over to talk up Echolands, Maw #1 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and A. L. Kaplan from BOOM!, Justice League, Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land and Germán Garcia, FCBD 2021 Scout Comics' White Ash and The Game, Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour, Y the Last Man, The Eternals, NYCC, plus a whole mess more!

Batman White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn, The Piano Tuner by Ignacio Noe from Embassy, mountains of Bat-books, The Army of Darkness 1979 #1, The Man Who Invented the World from Europe Comics, Magnetic-O-Rama: 1000 Storms by Tony Sandoval, After the Fall by Queyssi and Juzhen, and Monolith by Roberto Recchioni, Mauro Uzzeo, and LRNZ, NYCC, Static: Season One, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Five Rings, Conan #25/#300, Department of Truth from Image, more Eddie Gein, plus a whole mess more!

When Jason's away, Tony Fleecs comes to play... Join us as we talk up Cherry Blackbird and Gods of Brutality from Scout Comics' Black Caravan, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell & Harold Schechter, Star Trek: The Modala Imperative, Darth Vader, Superman Vs Lobo #1, Skybound X, Icon and Rocket, Rick and Morty: World's Apart, plus a whole mess more!