11 O'clock Comics Podcast

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!