11 O'clock Comics Podcast

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2, Spider-Man and Sony, From Hell's Heart: An Illustrated Celebration of the Works of Herman Melville from A Wave Blue World, 2000AD Progs 2141 - 2145: Control, Powers of X #3, Charlie Adlard and Walking Dead, Punk Mambo from Valiant, Batman Universe #2, Press Enter to Continue and The Anthology of the Mind from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Michel Fiffe drops by to class up the joint and discuss COPRA, process, superheroes, and more, plus, we stick around after the dust settles to bounce around Coffin Bound #1 out of Image, Disney Frankenstein Starring Donald Duck from Dark Horse, Silver Surfer: Black, Trek-O-Rama: I Am Captain Kirk, I Am Mister Spock, and Too Many Tribbles Little Golden Books, Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts from Berger Books/Dark Horse, Powers of X #2, The White Trees #1 from Image, Second Coming from Ahoy, Teen Titans, Once and Future #1 from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

House of X #2, BTTM FDRS by Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore from Fantagraphics, John Wick from Dynamite, The Ballad of Sang from Omni Press, Batman: Last Knight on Earth from DC's Black Label, Berserker Unbound from Dark Horse, The Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon from Fantagraphics,  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob from One World, plus a whole mess more!

Powers of X #1, Exilium from Alterna Comics, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died from Titan, Jon Sable: Freelance Ashes of Eden from ComicMix, In Waves by AJ Dungo from Nobrow, The Spirit Volume 1: Angel Smerti, The History of the Marvel Universe, Marvels: Epilogue, Invisible Woman #1, Coda Volume 2 from BOOM!, Miles Morales: Spider-Man #4, The Boys on Amazon Prime, Frank Cho's Ballpoint Beauties from Flesk, Matthew Allison's Sweet Sepulcher II, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Excalibur Classic Volume 1: The Sword is Drawn by Chris Claremont, Alan Davis, Paul Neary, and Glynis Oliver and company, plus, the Marvel marathon continues with talk of House of X #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, Conan Volume 1: The Life and Death of Conan by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, and company, Guardians of the Galaxy #7, Giant-Size X-Statix #1, the Eisner Awards, HBO's Watchmen, plus a whole mess more!

Zack Kruse pops in to help us with Criminal #5-6 and Too Old to Die Young, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dave Wachter, Wally Wood and Gil Kane, Drawing Blood: Spilled Ink by Kevin Eastman and company, Transformers/Ghostbusters #1 from IDW, Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen #1, Metalshark Bro from Scout Comics, Mark Millar, September 12 by Robert Sergel from Kilgore Books, Noah Van Sciver, Steve Ditko, Naomi #6, Young Justice #7, Apocalypse Taco by Nathan Hale from Amulet Books, plus a whole mess more!

Titanic Tom Scioli rockets to the top of the Baxter Building to lay down the science on his upcoming Fantastic Four: Grand Design project, Superman: Year One #1 and Frank Miller, Morrison and Sharp's Green Lantern, Batman Universe #1, Zagor: The Alien Saga from Epicenter, Squirrel Girl, Sea of Stars #1, Space Bandits #1, Bitter Root Red Summer Special #1, Atomic Habits, Lynda Barry's What It Is from Drawn and Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

In the first hour or so, we have some fun detailing our spur of the moment lists of Top Five Favorite Funny Animal Comics, plus, in the next hour and change, we go deep on Vérité: Comics For Adults #1 from Comix India/Studio Ekonte, Teen Titans and Deathstroke in The Terminus Agenda, Spider-Man Annual #1, Dark Knights Rising, Through a Life by Tom Haugomat from Nobrow Press, Action Comics #1011-1012, Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers from Drawn & Quarterly, The Walking Dead, plus a whole mess more!

Josh Bayer drops by to give us the lowdown on All Time Comics Season Two from Floating World Comics, Zerosis: Deathscape, Blind Justice #2, Theth: Tomorrow Forever, his creative process, Dave Sim, the punk aesthetic, and a whole mess more! Plus, we drop more than a couple words on Bubbles: An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga, The Weatherman Volume 2 #1, Gideon Falls, and more!

Book of the Month: Saga of the Swamp Thing Volume 1 by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Dan Day, Rick Veitch, Tom Yeates, Tatjana Wood, and company. Plus, we've time dangling to discuss Spawn #295-297, Batman Beyond #32-33, and The Terrifics!

Sonata #1 from Image, Supple Dumps by Daniel White, Superman: Year One #1, Skreemer, I Love This Part by Tillie Walden from Avery Hill Publishing, Warlord of Mars Attacks #1, Event Leviathan #1 and Superman #12, Prodigy, Batman and Harley Quinn, Flash #72, Orphan Age from Aftershock, Excellence #2, Cartoonist Kayfabe, G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte from IDW, Young Frances from AdHouse, plus a whole mess more!

Heroes Con, Blues for Lady Day and Basquiat: A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi from Laurence King Publishing, Gates of Plasma from Carlos Gonzalez from Floating World Comics, Marvel Comics #1000, Absolute Carnage, Silver Surfer: Black by Donny Cates and Tradd Moore, Curtain Call by Wilfrid Lupano and Rodolphe Guenoden from LionForge, Grand Abyss Hotel by Marcos Prior and David Rubin from Archaia/BOOM!, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips from Image, Fearless Dawn: Shorts #1 by Steve Mannion, Junji Ito's Shiver from Viz, A Walk Through Hell, plus a whole mess more!

In this Patreon-sponsored themed episode, we delve into newspaper comics, our discussion culminating in our choices for top five favorite strips! Plus, we have some time dangling to get into Dark Garbage from Floating World Comics, Thumbs #1 from Image, The Joker, Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale, plus a whole mess more!

Doomsday Clock #10, Immortal Hulk, Clue: Candlestick #1 from Dash Shaw and IDW, All Time Comics' Zerosis Deathscape #0 from Josh Bayer and company out of Floating World, Star Trek: Year Five from IDW, Brightborn, Young Justice #6, Jungle Comics #1 from Antarctic Press, Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1, Waves from BOOM!/Archaia, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Demon - From the Darkness by Matt Wagner, Art Nichols. Adrienne Roy, Bernie Mireault, and Anthony Tollin, plus Bloodlines, Hitman, Avengers: No Road Home, Superman: Leviathan Rising #1, Flash #71, Superior Spider-Man #5, Killer Groove #1 from Aftershock, DC Special: Dog Days of Summer #1, plus a whole mess more!

Tom King, Canopy by Karine Bernadou from Retrofit, Come Again by Nate Powell from Top Shelf, The Replacer from Aftershock, Naomi, Avengers: Endgame, Criminal, War of the Realms, Flash #70: Flash Year One, Little Bird #3, Fair Lady, Scarred for Life, plus a whole mess more!

Frank Frazetta, Carl Barks, record-setting art auctions, Mary Shelly Monster Hunter #1 from Aftershock, Gold Digger, LIGHTNING ROUND: Punisher Platoon, Snap Flash Hustle #3, Major X #2-3, Moonshine Volume 2, West Coast Avengers #10, American Carnage #5-6, plus Calamity Kate #2-3 from Dark Horse, DCeased #1, Batman and the Outsiders #1, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #3-4 from Dynamite!, The Girl in the Bay from Dark Horse/Berger Books, Amy and Jordan by Mark Beyer from Pantheon, Superior Spider-Man #4-5, plus a whole mess more!

We go back to basics with Dan Slott's Fantastic Four and Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man, plus some Dr. Stone Volume 3 and 4 from Viz, Bad Girls from Gallery 13, Eve Stranger #1 from Black Crown/IDW, LionForge's Infinity 8 Volume 4: Symbolic Guerrillas, plus a whole mess more!

Recent developments with LionForge and Oni Press, Free Comic Book Day, Batman Beyond #31, Action Comics Volume 5: What Lies Below and Superman: DOOMED, Weapon Brown, The Sound of the World by Heart from LionForge, Transformers #3-4 from IDW, Alienation from Fantagraphics, Dick Tracy Forever #1 from IDW, Gogor #1 and Excellence #1 from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Matt Wagner joins us to discuss Mage: The Hero Denied and a bunch of other stuff, plus, we have a good amount of runtime dangling to get into Avengers: Endgame (no spoilers), Harley Quinn, Heroes in Crisis, Femforce, Star Trek: The Q Conflict, plus a whole mess more!