Books of the Month: Hellboy in Mexico by Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Mick McMahon, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse and 4 Kids Walk into a Bank by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss from Black Mask.

Terry Beatty and Scary Monsters Magazine, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey, Defenders #1, Todd Nauck and X-Men Legends #6, Fight Girls and Frank Cho, our Favorite Five Sidekicks and Legacy Characters, Campisi: The Dragon Incident #1, Hardware: Season One #1, Ruins #1 from Source Point Press, Count Draco Knuckleduster #1 from Scout/Black Caravan, plus a whole mess more!

Skottie Young returns to talk about Middlewest, The Me You Love in the Dark, Jorge Corona, Substack, Image Comics, White Lotus, reality TV, Cameo, and more!  Plus, Soulwind, Blue and Gold, and Something is Killing the Children!

Tony Fleecs comes home to discuss Lucky Devil #1 from Dark Horse, Elvira Meets Vincent Price #1 from Dynamite, Donny Cates and Babyteeth, Rob Liefeld, Finger Guns from Vault, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence, Maids by Katie Skelly, Emma by Kaoru Mori, Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Cankor: Anamnesis by Matt Allison, Cover Not Final: Crime Comics by Matt Huffman from AdHouse, something called Stray Dogs, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Concrete: Depths by Paul Chadwick, plus Groo Meets Tarzan #1, Amazing Fantasy #1, Superman: Son of Kal-El #1, and a whole mess more!

Jeff Lemire returns to talk about Sweet Tooth, Gideon Falls, Essex County, Descender, Black Hammer, Cosmic Detective, David Rubin, Primordial, Mazebook, plus a whole mess more!

Chris Pitzer and AdHouse, Wizards of Mickey from JY/Yen Press, Dragman, by Steven Appleby, 2021 Eisner nominees, The Good Asian #3, The BeQuest #4, Rain Like Hammers by Brandon Graham, Frank Herbert and Dune, Crush and Lobo, listener questions, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Skybound X #1, Ultramega, and The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #1, Always Never by Jordi LaFebre, Justice League #64, DIE!namite Lives #1, The Delicacy by James Albin, Space Pirate Captain Harlock #1 from Ablaze, Bloom #2 from Hero Tomorrow, Dope Rider: A Fistful of Delirium by Paul Kirchner by Editions Tanibis, plus a whole mess more!

The great Steve Englehart enlightens us on The Avengers, Captain America, Coyote and Chas Truog, Silver Surfer, sex and sexuality, DC Comics, Marshall Rogers, Shang Chi, Jim Shooter, Roy Thomas, Eclipse, Warren, Mantis, and more plus we reserve some time for Barbaric #1 from Vault Comics, Shadecraft from Image, Duggan and Larraz's X-Men #1, plus a whole mess more!

Friend of the show and all-around great human, Hassan Thalji joins us for this very special episode where we talk TV! Find out what makes our sci-fi, comic-related, and cartoon lists; plus our all-time favorites that tops everything and so much more!

Chris Samnee joins us to reveal the mysteries of Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters from Oni Press, Fire Power with Robert Kirkman from Image, and a whole bunch of other stuff!

Book of the Month: The Defenders Omnibus Volume 1

Red Room #1, Made in Korea #1, Magic the Gathering #2, The Hellfire Gala and Heroes Reborn, Karmen, Birthright, Mawrth Vallis, DC Pride, plus a whole mess more!

Karl Slominski drops in to unlock the secrets of Evermore Falls, Teeter Topple, and the upcoming Cult of Ikarus, plus Ant #12, The Good Asian #2, The Labyrinth: An Existential Odyssey with Jean-Paul Sartre, and a whole mess more!

Talking Art: The Search for Better Ways to Express the Inexpressible, plus Lovesickness, La Mano del Destino, Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Reckless: Friend of the Devil by Ed Brubaker and Sean and Jacob Phillips and Nocterra by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, and Tomeu Morey, TMNT: The Last Ronin #3 from IDW, Savage Dragon #259/North Force #0, Turtlenecks from AdHouse, Savage Avengers #21, The Worst Dudes #1 from Dark Horse, In Pictopia from Fantagraphics, Aster of Pan from Magnetic, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Monsters by Barry Windsor Smith from Fantagraphics [spoilers].

Dai Dark Volume 1, The Good Asian #1, Ed Piskor's Red Room #1, Little Victories from Titan Comics, Nightwing, Comics Revue #419-420 and Milt Caniff, Green Lantern #2, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

John Paul Leon, Summoner's War: Legacy #1 from Skybound, Skybound X, Paris 2119, Eden from Aftershock, We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1-5 from BOOM!, X-Corp #1 and the X-Universe, Wika from Statix Press/Titan Comics, Proctor Valley Road #1-3 from BOOM!, Heroes Reborn, Grand Odalisque from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Captain America by Jack Kirby Omnibus, plus The Invincible Red Sonja from Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Moritat, Goes by Luke Kruger-Howard at Goes Books, X-Force, Heavy Metal March 1992, Department of Truth, Taskmaster, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs and a Special Guest dig up the dirt on Stray Dogs, Way of X, Red Sonja Black and White, MAD and Cracked, Skottie Young, Barry Windsor Smith and Monsters, Maiden #1 by Michelle and Bart Sears from Heavy Metal, Usagi Yojimbo at IDW, Superman and Action, Vampiress Carmilla #2 from Warrant Publishing, Iron Man, Radiant Black, Shadecraft, plus a whole mess more!

Declan Shalvey plops his time machine in the EOC back yard and joins us to discuss Time Before Time with Rory McConville, Joe Palmer, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, Bog Bodies, Immortal Hulk: Flatline #1, Moon Knight, plus a whole mess more!

The masterful Dagger Dagger anthology edited by Al Gofa and Matt Emmonds, Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The Bloody Cardinal by Richard Sala, The Garden of the Flesh by Gilbert Hernandez, Hotwire Comix Volume 1, and The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey by Matt Wagner, The Fall by Jared Muralt from Image, Green Lantern #1, Magic: The Gathering #1 from BOOM!, Department of Truth, Rain Like Hammers #3 and Brandon Graham, plus a whole mess more!

Abbott 1973 #1 from BOOM!, James Michael Whynot, Dr. Stone - Reboot: Byakuya by Boichi from Viz/Shonen Jump, Ted Sikora's Bloom #1, The Sleep Stories by Michael Walsh, Geiger #1 from Image, Vampirella Vs Purgatori #1 from Dynamite, Secret Origins #39, Red Rock Baby Candy from Fantagraphics, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation and Jim Starlin, Blade Runner Origins from Titan, Daredevil, plus a whole mess more!

Longbox Roulette: The Ray #9, Snotgirl #6, and Phantom Guard #1, plus S.W.O.R.D. #1-4, Children of the Atom #1, Al Ewing, IDW's Transformers and War for Cybertron: Siege and Earthrise on Netflix, Shadecraft #1, Bicycle Day by Brian Blomerth, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Star Wars: Legacy Book One: Broken by John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, Dan Parsons, and Brad Anderson, plus Marvel leaves Diamond, we play a fun crossover game, The Bequest #1 by Tim Seeley, Freddie Williams II, and Jeremy Colwell from Aftershock, Harley Quinn #1 and Riley Rossmo, Nightwing #78, Manhunter, plus a whole mess more!

Ultramega #1 by James Harren and Dave Stewart, Victor Santos and Paranoia Killer from Panel Syndicate, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Volume 1 by Andy Seto from Comics One, Justice League #59, Injustice: Gods Among Us Volume 1, The Adoption from Magnetic, Master of Kung Fu Omnibus Volume 1, Hollow Heart #1 from Vault Comics, Camp Spirit from Top Shelf, Non-Stop Spider-Man #1, plus a whole mess more!

Daniel Warren Johnson crosses the rainbow bridge to bring the thunder on Beta Ray Bill #1, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, professional wrestling, commissions, Felix Lu, Transformers: Escape #2 from IDW, Karmen #1 from Guillem March from Image, Aquatlantic from Fantagraphics, Taiyo Matsumoto's Ping Pong, plus a whole mess more!

Demon Days: X-Men #1 and Peach Momoko, Wolverine, BRZRKR #1 from BOOM!, variant covers, Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #1 from Oni, Nocterra #1 from Image, Superior Spider-Man, The Complete Ghita of Alizarr by Frank Thorne from Hermes Press, Comics Underground Japan from Blast Books, Back Issue #125, from TwoMorrows, DC through the '80s: Volume One: The End of Eras, Future State: Superman: House of El #1, Superman and Lois, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs storms the EOC bunker to pitch in on Stray Dogs, Trish Forstner, Rick and Morty: Worlds Apart, Extreme and Norm Rapmund, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Deathmate, Gen 13, Rain Like Hammers and Brandon Graham, Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy from Dark Horse, Warhammer 40K: Marneus Calgar, The Way of the Househusband from Viz, Satan's Library by Adam Falp, Batman: Black and White #3, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa by J. M. DeMatteis and Dan Green plus Cloak & Dagger: Predator and Prey, Gleipnir volumes 4-8 by Sun Takeda from Kodansha, Snow Angels #1 by Lemire and Jock, Alter Ego #167 and Syd Shores from TwoMorrows, Rorschach, Eternals #2, plus a whole mess more!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #2, Todd McFarlane and the Spawn Universe, HAHA #1-2 from Image, Hawkeye: Freefall, Future State: Nightwing, Aaron and Asrar's Conan the Barbarian, To Drink and to Eat Vol. 1: Tastes and Tales from a French Kitchen by Guillaume Long from Lion Forge, X-Men Legends #1, plus a whole mess more!

Wandavision, Blackhand & Ironhead by David López, Bug Boys 2: Outside and Beyond by Laura Knetzger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sophie Campbell, Radiant Black #1 from Image, Red Sonja-O-Rama: The Superpowers #1 and Sonjaversal #1 from Dynamite!,  Firepower and Chris Samnee, PS Artbooks-O-Rama: Amazing Adventures, Weird Mysteries, and Eerie Tales, Black Hammer: Colonel Weird: Cosmagog from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Fifty plus issues of the current Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Horse-O-Rama: Berserk Deluxe Edition V2-V4 by Kintaro Miura and Crimson Flower by Kindt and Lesniewski from Dark Horse, Far Sector, Cameron Hathaway and Clusterfux Comix #1, DIE!namite: Our Bloody Valentine #1, Future State: Dark Detective #3, plus a whole mess more!

Ibrahim Moustafa joins us to reveal all about his brand-spankin' new Count OGN from Humanoids, The Count of Monte Cristo, Savage Things, Mahmud Asrar, Mark Waid, Travis Charest, Jim Lee, Mike Norton, custom action figures, Todd McFarlane, hip hop, James Bond, Byrne's Superman, Chained to the Grave #1 from IDW, What if We Were... from IDW/Top Shelf, Terry Moore's Five Years, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Usagi Yojimbo / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Collection by Stan Sakai and Peter Laird from Dark Horse, plus Dave Wachter and Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #1, Transformers: Escape #1 from IDW, Future State-O-Rama: Dark Detective #2, Aquaman #1, Legion of Super-Heroes #1, and Imperious Lex Vs. Superman #1, Eternals #1, Last God #12, The Other History of the DC Universe Book 2, Rain Like Hammers #1, plus a whole mess more!

Phillip Kennedy Johnson climbs the Black Stair to confront Mol Eeohsee and lay down the law on The Last God, Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #1, jazz, Superman and Action Comics, Alien for Marvel, DC's 5G, Future State: House of El, Warlords of Appalachia, plus a whole mess more!

It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2020!

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam and Other Stories by Simon Hanselmann and Mind Viscosity by Matt Furie, Bendis and company's Legion of Superheroes #10-11, TV-O-Rama: WandaVision on Disney+ and Star Trek: Discovery, Strange Academy, Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino, Reginald Hudlin, and company from Vertigo, Tapas.io and FANGS, plus a whole mess more!

Our top five favorite licensed comics, Junji Ito's Remina, Future State: Green Lantern and Dark Detective, Reckless by Brubaker and Phillips from Image, Vampiress Carmilla #1 from Warrant Publishing, Kirkman and Samnee's Firepower from Image, The Wrath of Fantomas from Titan Comics, plus a whole mess more!

Future State-O-Rama: Wonder Woman #1, Flash #1, Swamp Thing #1, and Superman of Metropolis #1, Top & Bottom: X-Men, Death Metal #7, Generations Shattered #1, BANG! by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Batwoman: Hydrology by J. H. Williams III, W. Hayden Blackman, and Dave Stewart.

Vampirella-O-Rama: Christopher Priest's ongoing Vampirella, his Sacred Six companion title, and Vampirella: The Dark Powers #1 all from Dynamite!, Adrian Tomine's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Bionic by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Blade Runner 2019 from Titan, Ascender and Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen from Image, Post Americana #1 by Steve Skroce from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Future State Batman, Bendis' Justice League, Sean Phillips, Plunge and Hill House, Mountainhead, Dark Nights: Death Metal and The Last Stories of the DC Universe, Endless Winter, S.W.O.R.D. #1, plus a whole mess more!

Bad Idea: Dinesh Shamdasani + Warren Simons + Hunter Gorinson

Out of respect for the Bad Idea crew and their upcoming efforts, no image gallery this episode. Go directly to their site and gaze in wide wonder at the amazingly-crafted comics that will no doubt energize your future.

Richard Corben, Disney/Marvel news, our lists of 5 Love at First Sight comics creators, Jungle Comics #3, More Other History of the DC Universe #1, I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Booster Gold: The Big Fall by Dan Jurgens, Mike DeCarlo, Gene D'Angelo, Nansi Hoolahan, and Tom Zuiko, plus Future State, Planet Paradise by Jesse Lonergan from Image, Justice League: Endless Winter #1, team books and why they don't top the sales charts, The Wizerd and the Potion of Dreams! from Oni, The Other History of the DC Universe #1, The Highwayman from Top Shelf, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse and Mario Muscar join us to talk about Johnny Dynamite from Yoe! and IDW, Comics Review #413-414 and Mandrake the Magician by Lee Falk and Phil Davis, All Together Now by Hope Larson, Paris 2119 from Magnetic, Tom King's Rorschach, Official Handbook of the Conan Universe, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity, Child Star by Box Brown, plus a whole mess more!

Caleb Alexander-McKinzie climbs up the ladder to the EOC clubhouse to weigh in with us on Scout Comics, Origins #1 from BOOM!, Punchline #1, Seeds and Stems by Simon Hanselmann, Bendis' Legion, Superman, and Action, Vault-O-Rama: Giga #1 and Devil's Red Bride #1, Rorschach #2, Barbalien: The Red Planet #1, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs crashes the joint to fill us in on his upcoming Stray Dogs miniseries from Image, Marvel Made and Chris Claremont, Marneus Calgar #1, Rick Geary's murder comics, Plastic Man: Rubber-Banded: The Deluxe Edition by Kyle Baker, The Recount from Scout Comics, Batman: Three Jokers #3, One More Year by Simon Hanselmann, Dark Nights: Death Metal: Infinite Hour Exxxtreme #1, The Windy Day from Tony Sandoval and A Glance Backward by Paquet and Sandoval from Magnetic, Darth Vader by Pak and company, plus a whole mess more!

Recent DC layoffs and the direct market, DIE!namite #1-2, Power Rangers #1 and Mighty Morphin #1 from BOOM!, Young Justice, Sweet Tooth: The Return #1, Sam Keith's Scratch DC miniseries, the 2020 11 O'Closcars, Crossover #1 from Image, Black Widow, Batman by Snyder and Capullo Omnibus Volume 1, Origins #1 from BOOM, Batman: Curse of the White Knight, plus a whole mess more!

The comics podcast equivalent to a three-hour bass solo.

Book of the Month: JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Laura Martin PLUS Patrick Gleason, Eastman and Laird and The Last Ronin #1, Junji Ito's Venus in the Blind Spot, Backtrack, Kickstarter-O-Rama, plus a whole mess more!

The Last Ronin #1 and Eastman and Laird, Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #1, Mars Attacks Red Sonja #1-3, Phantom Starkiller #1 from Scout Comics, The Ghost of Gaudi from Magnetic, Madam Satan #1 from Archie, Maids by Katie Skelly from Fantagraphics, Zorro: Galleon of the Dead #1 from American Mythology, Batman: Three Jokers #2, Moby Dick by Will Eisner from NBM, plus a whole mess more!

Rorschach #1 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, recent developments in the UCS and Lunar DC distro deal, Future State, Planet Comics #2 and Amazona by Kelsey Shannon, Far Sector, Sobek and James Stokoe, PLUS...a MASSIVE surprise midway through the episode (SPOILER: Tom King shows up.)

Future State, Bendis and Superman, The Low, Low Woods and Basketful of Heads from Hill House, Slaughter House-Five from Archaia/BOOM!, S. E. Hinton and The Outsiders, Junji Ito's Smashed and Shiver, Fred Perry and Gold Digger, Scumbag and Rick Remender, Sazan and Comet Girl from Seven Seas, Marvel Snapshots: Spider-Man and Howard Chaykin, Black Hammer: Colonel Weird: Cosmagog, plus a whole mess more!

An odd episode, as far as anniversary episodes go...

John Byrne's Generations, Empyre and Death Metal, Endless Winter, X of Swords, Superman: The Man of Steel #30 and Lobo, Jordi Lafebre, Marc Laming, The Department of Truth from Image, Jerry Ordway and The Power of Shazam!, New52 Flash and Francis Manapul, An Unkindness of Ravens and Dan Panosian, Basket Full of Heads from Hill House, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Black Panther by Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection Vol. 1

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The House by Paco Roca and Ghost Writer by Rayco Pulido, Green Lantern: Earth One Volumes 1 and 2 by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, and Jordan Boyd, listener questions, The Big Hoax by Carlos Trillo and Roberto Mandrafina from Titan, plus a whole mess more!

Fearless Dawn Meets Hellboy and Steve Mannion, Julian Lytle, Shawn Pryor, Superman: Panic in the Sky!, The Rise of Ultraman #1, Milestone Returns #0, Killadelphia, It's a Bird, Mooncop, plus a whole mess more!

We sit down with the spectacular Shawn Crystal, chatting about life without conventions, podcasting, commissions, teaching, finally making it, inking, and kids! We even throw in some Previews Picks, the Book of the Month nominees, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, G.I. Joe, and more!

Not one but TWO titans of comics -- Tony Fleecs and Tom Scioli -- join us this time around to drop science on Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, Elseworlds Superman: War of the Worlds by Roy Thomas and Michael Lark, Bendis' Powers, Doctor Aphra and Darth Vader, Conan the Adventurer by Roy Thomas and Rafael Kayanan, Zorro Year One: Trail of the Fox by Matt Wagner and Francesco Francavilla, plus a whole mess more!

Chadwick Boseman, Batman: The Three Jokers #1 by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson, Dawn of X Volume 1 (featuring first issues of X-Men, New Mutants, Marauders, Fallen Angels, X-Force, and Excalibur), Warlord of Mars Attacks by Jeff Parker, Dean Kotz, and Omi Remalante from Dynamite!, Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble, Ghost Spider, Locke & Key in Pale Battalions Go #1 from IDW, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Green, and Rico Renzi!

Elseworlds Special: JLA: The Island of Doctor Moreau by Roy Thomas and Steve Pugh, Superman: War of the Worlds by Roy Thomas and Michael Lark, Justice Riders by Chuck Dixon and J H Williams III, Superman: Distant Fires by Howard Chaykin, Gil Kane, and Kevin Nowlan, Batman: The Doom that Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, and Troy Nixey, plus a whole mess more!

Milestone Comics, Jim Cheung, NBM O-Rama: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Renaissance of the World and The Silent Invasion Volume 1: Red Shadows, Grendel, Kentucky #1 from AWA/Upshot, Savage Dragon #250, Blade Runner 2019 #8 from Titan, Thor #6, plus a whole mess more!

Our good buddy, Jeff Bouchard, joins us in the EOC digital treehouse to run through Haunted Horror #27 and The Eyes of Horror, Jeff's Top 5 Things That We Haven't Read but Know We Should, DC layoffs, Family Tree from Image, Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCauseland from Fantagraphics, Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1, Mister Invincible: Local Hero, Offworld Sci-Fi Double Feature from Antarctic, Rascal from Top Shelf, Oblivion Song from Image, Hickman and Huddleston's Decorum, plus a whole mess more!

Family member, Tony Fleecs, arrives to save the day, adding his insight to Brubaker and Phillips' Pulp, Comics Revue #407/408 and #409/410 with Rick O'Shay by Stan Lynde and Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, Transformers/My Little Pony, Gil Kane's Undersea Agent, Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli, Young Justice #16-17, A Gift for a Ghost by Borja Gonzalez, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #6, Empyre X-men, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Green Lantern / Green Arrow: Hard Travelin' Heroes by Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Frank Giacoia, Elliot Maggin, Dan Adkins, and Bernie Wrightson.

Doom Patrol, Felix Lu and Albert Moy, DC Digital First-O-Rama: Harley Quinn: Black and White and Red Chapter Five and Riley Rossmo, Superman: Man of Tomorrow #13 by Robert Venditti and David Baron, and Shazam!: Lightning Strikes #2 with Louise Simonson, Brett Blevins, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Chris Sotomayor, Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California by Dave Chisholm and Peter Markowski from Z2 Comics, Superman #22 and #23, Action #1022, Pulp by Brubaker and Phillips, Eisner Award winners, Steeple by John Allison and Sarah Stern, plus a whole mess more!

Roy Thomas joins us to discuss Marvel, The Avengers, Conan, fandom, and a whole mess more!

Dark Horse Manga-O-Rama: Gantz Omnibus Volume 5 by Hiroya Oku and Berserk Deluxe Volume 1 by Kentaro Miura, The Old Guard on NetFlix and the Image books by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, Close Enough and Regular Show, The Avengers: Loki Unleashed, Empyre #1, Old Growth, TMNT #106, Marvel and Scholastic, Stray Bullets and David Lapham, PLUS Tom Kelly drops by to school us on his Foot Fist Frankenstein Kickstarter!

Tony Esmond reaches across the big pond to talk about Tony Osmond is a Movie Star with Cliff Cumber and Ken Reynolds, Atomic Hercules with Adam Falp, The Sons of El Topo Volume 1: Cain and Volume 2: Abel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Ladronn from Archaia, Pat Mills, Thought Bubble, Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound, Let's All Die from Handwritten Entertainment, 100 Manga Artists from Taschen, Justice League of America Annual #1, Masters of British Comic Art from Rebellion, plus a whole mess more!

Magnetic-O-Rama: Gunland by by Captain Artiglio, GenPet by Damian and Alex Fuentes, and Ghost Money by Thierry Smolderen and Dominique Bertail, Super Friends: Saturday Morning Comics Volume 1 by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon, Alien and Predator at Marvel, Star Pig from Delilah S. Dawson and Francesco Gaston from IDW, Negan Lives! from Kirkman and Adlard, I Am Not of This Planet by Gary Edson Arlington from Last Gasp, Girl by Milligan and Fegredo from Vertigo, The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #1 by Aaron and Guera from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 5 ...and 9 by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Brian Bolland, Carlos Ezquerra, Steve Dillon, and company!

Old Head by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer, Nobody Is in Control from Black Mask, TMNT #104 and Sophie Campbell, Gail Simone and Plastic Man, Atomic Hercules #2 by Tony Esmond, Adam Falp, Nick Prolix, and Ben Marra, That Texas Blood #1 from Image, Rick Remender's forthcoming The Scumbag, plus a whole mess more!

Denny O'Neil, Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and Fco Plascencia, separating the art from the artist and cancel culture, Against Hope by Victor Santos from Dark Horse, Dick Tracy Forever by Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma from IDW, Roy Thomas Presents: Frankenstein - The Classic Series Written and Drawn by Dick Briefer Volume 8, Strayed by Carlos Giffoni and Juan Doe from Dark Horse, Psychodrama Illustrated #1 by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage, Jack the Radio: Creatures Anthology from A Wave Blue World, plus a whole mess more!

Craig Yoe graces us with his presence to discuss the Eisner-nominated Life on the Moon by Robert Grossman from Yoe!/IDW, the upcoming Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books by Ken Quattro, Unknown Anti-War Comics, John Stanley and Little Lulu, Carl Barks, Marvel, Jim Henson, Harvey Kurtzman, plus we take peeks at The Postman from Space by Guillaume Perreault from Holiday House and You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons from Tom Gauld from Drawn & Quarterly!

Special Feature: DCBS’ Christina Merkler returns for another round on the direct market, DC, Diamond, and a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison and AdHouse's Chris Pitzer give us the lowdown on the recently-published Cankor collection, plus, we dive deep into both the comic adaptation and the film version of Creepshow by Stephen King, Bernie and Michele Wrightson, and George Romero, KISS, Frederic Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent, Dan Spiegle and Crossfire, fanzines, Bloodsucking Freaks, plus a whole mess more!

PTSD by Guillaume Singelin from First Second, The Megaman Robot Master Field Guide Updated Edition from UDON, The Mask World Tour by Fleming and Erskine from Dark Horse, Comic Art Fans and collecting original art, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Authority Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Paul Neary, and Laura DePuy

We take a long look at Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp's The Green Lantern: Season One and the Blackstars three-issue finale plus a whole mess more!

Fire Power: Prelude by Kirkman and Samnee from Image, Clue: Candlestick by Dash Shaw from IDW, Spirou in Berlin by Flix, Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven Volume 1: Arcadia from Abiogenesis Press, Video Noire by Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso, Legion of Superheroes #5, Jim Lee, Pirates from Yoe Books and Clover Press, Last God, Scoob! and free Scooby Doo comics, plus a whole mess more!

Fanzine Flashback returns in a mega-edition as we cover three issues -- 31, 43, and 119 -- of David Anthony Kraft's long-running and much-beloved Comics Interview, plus we play three rounds of a new game called Guess That Comic, and have some time left over to speak on Josh Bayer's RM from Tinto Press, Union Station and Bog Bodies from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse zooms in to drop a bunker buster on Steve Ditko and Mysterious Travelers, his soon-to-be-released book, plus Justice League International, The Iguana by Trillo and Mandrafina from Dark Horse and Strip Art Features’ Venture imprint, Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics from Dark Horse, Bob Powell Terror from Yoe! Books and IDW, New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi and company from Fantagraphics, November Volume 2 from Image Comics, Paul Is Dead from Image, Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffiths, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Volume 1

Book of the Month: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Volume 1

Tales from the New Universe: D.P.7, Rebellion-O-Rama: Ken Reid’s Creepy Creations and Ken Reid’s World-Wide Weirdies, 2000AD Progs #2174 and #2175, and 2000AD Annual 1981, The Banks from TKO, the future of comics distribution, Michael Mantlo, Batman Beyond, Deathstroke #50, Criminal, Dragon Hoops from :01 First Second, plus a whole mess more!

Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin from Panel Syndicate, Motel Universe by Joakim Drescher from Secret Acres, Round Robin: The Sidekick's Revenge, Mowgli's Mirror by Olivier Schrauwen from Retrofit Comics, Heavy Metal #298 and Philip K. Dick's Head Is Missing, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, Cat Shit One Volume 1 #1 by Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, Polar by Victor Santos, The Spirit: The 80th Anniversary Celebration by Will Eisner from Clover Press, Transformers The Manga Volume 1 from Viz, But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist by Margaux Motin, plus a whole mess more!

Batman Universe by Bendis, Nick Derington, and Dave Stewart, our favorite Big 2 character pairings and team-up books, Atomic Hercules by Tony Esmond and Adam Falp, NOW #7 from Fantagraphics, X-Ray Robot #1 from the Mike and Laura Allred from Dark Horse, the genius of Mort Drucker, plus a whole mess more!

Special Feature: DCBS' Christina Merkler and the direct market.

The World Is Mine Volume 1 by Hideki Arai, Superman Smashes the Klan, Kevin Eastman's Totally Twisted Tales from Clover Press, Picard, East of West, Haywire by Michael Fleisher and Vince Giarrano, Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier, patron questions, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad by Evan Dorkin from Dark Horse, Blood Realm by Robert Geronimo from Alterna Comics, more Gamayun Tales Volume 1, Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice, Archie Meets the B52s, Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova from Fantagraphics, Ghost Spider, Hidden Society from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Nobrow-O-Rama: Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It) by Luke Healy and Gamayun Tales Volume 1 from Alexander Utkin, Plunge #2, Robin 80th Anniversary Special, Moby Dick by Pierre Alary and Olivier Jouvray from Dibbuks, MCMLXXV by Joe Casey and Ian MacEwan from Image, Becoming Horses by Disa Wallander from Drawn and Quarterly, Spider-Woman #1, TMNT #103 and Jennika #1 from IDW, Artemis and the Assassin #1 from Aftershock, New Mutants, Wicked Things #1 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs crashes the EOC pad to pitch in on a special themed episode chronicling some of our most beloved comic-related memories, plus we have time to throw down on Bug Boys from Laura Knetzger from RH Graphic, Batman Beyond, Transformers: The Manga Volume 1, Dynamite's Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom, plus a whole mess more!

Dark Horse Double-Header: Gantz Omnibus Volume 4 by Hiroya Oku and I Pledge Allegiance to The Mask, The Man Who F-ed up Time from Aftershock, The Forever Maps from Scout Comics, Buffy/Angel and the Hellmouth miniseries from BOOM!, Artist Spotlight: Rodger Binyone and No-Man #13-14, Tartarus from Image Comics, Chuck Austen, plus a whole mess more!

Strange Academy #1, Strange Adventures #1, The Cimmerian: Queen of the Black Coast #1 from Ablaze, Billionaire Island from Ahoy, Evan Dorkin, Marvel #1, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Troublemakers by Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, plus Punchline and publisher manipulation, Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #3, The History of the Marvel Universe, plus a whole mess more!