11 O'clock Comics Podcast

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!