11 O'clock Comics Podcast

JONATHAN GORDON, the Copic King, joins us to roundtable Seven to Eternity by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Matt Hollingsworth, and James Harren from Image, Rockin' Jellybean, Stephen King, Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Daniel Acuna, Marvel Unlimited, Legion of Super-Heroes, Real Deal by H. P. McElwee aka R. D. Bone and Lawrence Hubbard aka Raw Dog from Fantagraphics, Maestros #6 by Steve Scroce and Dave Stewart from Image, Star Trek: Boldly Go by Mike Johnson, Josh Hood, and Jason Lewis from IDW, Ether: The Copper Golems #1 by Matt Kindt and David Rubin from Dark Horse, Robocop: Citizen's Arrest #2 by Brian Wood and Jorge Cohelo from BOOM!, The Toys That Made Us: Transformers, Alterna-O-Rama: Zero Jumper #1 by Patrick Mulholland, Tinseltown #1 by David Lucarelli and Henry Ponciano, and Go West #2 by Garrett Gunn and Saint Yak from Alterna Comics, Tokyo Ghost, Solo, and a whole mess more!

The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi from :01 First Second, Image-O-Rama: Flavor #1 by Joe Keatinge, Wook Jin Clark, Tamara Bonvillan, and Rich Tommaso, Mark Millar and The Magic Order, The Gravediggers Union by Wes Craig, Toby Cypress, and Niko Guardia, Street Angel Goes to Juvie by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker, Death or Glory by Rick Remender and Bengal, and Royal City by Jeff Lemire, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Volume 1 by Inio Asano from Viz Select, Deadpool 2, The Hunt for Wolverine, Bizarre Manga Artist Shintaro Kago's Pretty Girls Collection Super-Dimensional Love Gun from Fakku Books, Season of the Snake #1 by Serge Lehman, Jean-Marie Michaud, and Simon Roy from Titan Comics, plus a whole mess more!

DONNY CATES and RYAN STEGMAN, the powerhouse creative team behind Marvel's sold-out Venom #1, bond with us on a symbiotic level, instigating discussion on Venom, Thanos and Geoff Shaw, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Redneck from Image, the creative process, Infinity War, original art, Daniel Warren Johnson and Ghost Fleet, Doctor Strange, plus a whole mess more! (Including: Barbarella #5 by Mike Carey, Kenan Yarar, and Mohan from Dynamite!, Batman: White Knight by Sean Gordon Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth, Planet of the Apes: Ursus by David F. Walker, Chris Mooneyham, and Jason Wordie from BOOM!, VS by Ivan Brandon, Esad Ribic, and Nic Klein from Image,  and Avengers #2 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, and David Curiel.)

The amazing ERIK LARSENjoins us to discuss Savage Dragon, Marvel Fanfare, Doom Patrol, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, original art, his philosophy on creating comics, Thor, Vince Colletta, Kevin Eastman, James Owsley, publishing strategies, the Image Golden Age format, and a whole mess more!

Global Frequency, Infinity War, Jim Cheung and The Black Order, Immortal Men#1 by Jim Lee, James Tynion IV, Ryan Benjamin, Jeremiah Skipper and Alex Sinclair, Spectacular Spider-Man#303 by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones, Bloodshot Reborn#7 by Jeff Lemire, Renato Guedes, and Simon Bowland from Valiant, Avengers: No Surrender, Avengers#1 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, and David Curiel, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin, George Perez, Ron Lim, Josef Rubinstein, Tom Christopher, Max Scheele, and Ian Laughlin.

Amazing Spider-Man#799 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia, MAD#1 by Al Jaffee, Tom Richmond, Sergio Aragones, Peter Kuper, Bob Fingerman, Pete Bagge, and the Usual Gang of Idiots, Judge Dredd Mega Collection Volume 80: Dark Side of the Moonby John Wagner, Brian Bolland, John Smith, Paul Marshall, Ian Gibson and more from 2000 AD and Hachette and Judge Dredd Megazine#395 featuring the Nemesis the Warlock monograph by Matthew Smith and Kevin O'Neill from Rebellion, Infinity 8#1 by Lewis Trondheim, Zep, and Dominique Bertail from Lion Forge, Deathbed#3 by Joshua Williamson, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia from Vertigo, Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows #1 by Jeff Lemire, Max Fiumara, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

The remarkable Ryan Browne joins us to discuss the God Hates Astronauts Presents 3-D Cowboy's 2-D SpectacularKickstarter, Curse Wordswith Charles Soule from Image, Blast Furnace, Trash Bridgewith Steve Seeley and Jim Terry, Alan Moore, the Image Comics model, Skybound, James Harren, Goats Eat Castinets, John Severin, Fletcher Hanks and Fantomah, Secret Wars, Too, Valerian, Soul Liquid Chambers Volume 1by Nozomu Tamaki from Seven Seas Entertainment, The Realmby Seth Peck, Jeremy Haun, and Nick Filardi from Image, Infinity 8by Lewis Trondheim, Zep, and Dominique Bertail from Lion Forge, Howard the Duckand Steve Gerber, Star Wars Adventures#9 and Tony Fleecs from IDW, This Offbeat Townby Jake Smith, plus a whole mess more!

Happy Domino Week! We do Jason's number one gal proud with talk of Domino#1 by Gail Simone, David Baldeon, and Jesus Arburtov, plus, so as not to make all the other comics feel bad, we save a little time to discuss Avengers: No Surrender, Amazing Spider-Man#798 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia, Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander #1 by the legend himself, Frank Miller, and Alex Sinclair from Dark Horse, Analog#1 by Gerry Duggan, David O'Sullivan, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, Come Into Me#1 by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler, Piotr Kowalski, and Niko Guardia from Black Mask, The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Waxby Andrew Cartmel from Titan Books, Robocop: Citizen's Arrest#1 by Brian Wood, Jorge Coelho, and Doug Garbark, Gideon Falls#2 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama:Retconby Matt Nixon and Toby Cypress, Slots#6 by Dan Panosian, I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Nimura, and Analog#1 by Gerry Duggan, David O'Sullivan, and Jordie Bellaire, The Curse of Brimstone #1 by Philip Tan, Justin Jordan, and Rain Beredo, Marvel Two-In-One#3-5 by Chip Zdarsky, Valerio Schiti, and Jim Cheung, Invaders Now!by Christos Gage, Alex Ross, Caio Reis, and Vinicus Andrade from Marvel/Dynamite!, Prison Shipby Bruce Jones and Esteban Maroto from IDW, Come Into Meby Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler, Piotr Kowalski, Niko Guardia from Black Mask, plus a whole mess more!

J. H. Williams III and Wendy Wright-Williams stop by to discuss the upcoming Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology from Image, Promethea, process, Batwoman, Sandman: Overture, magick, Alan Moore, Greg Rucka, Echolands, Neil Gaiman, diversity, the collective unconscious, and a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: JSA by Geoff Johns Book One featuring the work of David Goyer, James Robinson, Stephen Sadowski, Michael Bair, Buzz, Scott Benefiel, Mark Propst, Derek Aucoin, Marcos Martin, Keith Champagne, Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, and John Kalisz!

Uncle Gil Colon crashes the EOC crib to pitch in on Dark Nights: Metal #6 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, and Fco Plascencia, Doomsday Clock #4, Weapon H #1 by Greg Pak, Cory Smith, Marcus To, and Morry Hollowell (incorporating Totally Awesome Hulk, Weapon X, and Weapons of Mutant Destruction), Miles Morales, William Messner-Loebs, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4 by Greg Rucka and Eduardo Risso, Flowers for Rhino, New Mutants: Dead Souls #1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Gorham, and Michael Garland, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SAGA and Mark Millar, action figures, Tom King, The Terrifics #2 by Jeff Lemire, Ivan Reis, Jose Luis, Vicente Cifuentes, Jordi Terragona, and Marcelo Maiolo, Jessica Jones #18 by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos, and Matt Hollingsworth, Isola #1 and Karl Kerschl, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, plus a whole mess more!

World War Hulks: Classified and Hulked-Out Heroes by Jeff Parker, Humberto Ramos, Ig Guarra, Carlos Cuevas, Chris Sotomayor, and Edgar Delgado, Greg Smallwood and Vampironica, Greg Land and Domino, James Whynot, Spider-Man/Deadpool by Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness, Mister Miracle #7 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, Declan Shalvey, Jim Lee, James Jean, John Byrne, Green Lantern: Earth One by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, Captain Marvel by Peter David and company, I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura from Image, Zero Girl and Zero Girl: Full Circle by Sam Kieth, Jim Sinclair, Jim Bell, and Alex Sinclair from Wildstorm/Homage, the New Gods movie, Death Bed by Joshua Williamson and Riley Rossmo from Vertigo, Ballad of Sang #1 by Ed Brisson, Alessandro Micelli, and Shari Chankhamma from Oni Press, Redlands by Jordie Bellaire, Vanesa Del Rey, and Clayton Cowles from Image, plus a whole mess more!

James Whynot, Dave Jordan and Valk, Avengers: No Surrender, Vampironica #1 by Greg and Meg Smallwood from Archie, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Leverage, Kamandi, Eleanor and the Egret by John Layman, Sam Kieth, and Ronda Pattison from Aftershock, I Hate Fairyland #12-17 by Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu from Image, Bloodshot: Salvation, Secret Wars, Camelot 3000, Ronin, Starman, Y the Last Man, JSA, Devilman Grimoire by Go Nagai and Rui Takano from Seven Seas, Dry County #1 by Rich Tommaso from Image, TEOTFW by Chuck Foresman from Fantagraphics

Image-O-Rama: Vs. #1 by Ivan Brandon, Esad Ribic, and Nic Klein, The Beef #1 by Richard Starkings, Tyler Shainline, Shaky Kane, and John Roshell, Slots #5 by Dan Panosian, and Savage Dragon #232 and #34 and 35 by Erik Larsen (with an assist from Mike Mignola), Bloodbourne #1 by Ales Kot, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson from Titan Comics, Hostage by Guy Delisle from Drawn & Quarterly, All-New All-Different Wolverine, Valiant's Bloodshot movie, Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe and NetFlix, The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui from Abrams, Niourk by Stefan Wul and Olivier Vatine from Dark Horse, the 24 Stories anthology, plus a whole mess more!

Daniel White, Zack Kruse, and Mario Muscar join us to discuss Amazing Spider-Man #797, The Face-Skull by Pat Dorian from Doom and Gloom Comics, Untold Tales of Spider-Man and Kurt Busiek, John Byrne, The Eagles, Punisher Platoon by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov, Blazing Combat, Harvey Kurtzman, Archie Goodwin, Bob Kanigher, Punisher Born, Jack What's-His-Name, Eternal by Eric Zawadski, Ryan K. Lindsay, and Dee Cunniffe from Black Mask, Andy Kaufman and Box Brown's Is This Guy for Real?, Avengers No Surrender, Donny Cates and Doctor Strange/Damnation, Green Lantern Corps Volume 2: Alpha War and Green Lantern Volume 7: Renegade, Todd Browning's Freaks and Jim Woodring, Inside Moebius Volume One, 17 X 23 and Golemchik from Nobrow Press, Superboy and Tom Grummett, Jim Shaw's The Hidden World, Steve Ditko, Buck Dharma, Ross Geller, and a whole mess more!

Our Book of the Month episode featuring Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, Dave McCaig, and Paul Mounts, PLUS much banter on Action Comics #1000, Domino, LEGO minifigs, The Terrifics #1 by Jeff Lemire, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, and Marcelo Maiolo, The Legion of Super-Heroes Vs. The Lantern Corps., Punisher: Platoon by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov, The Silencer #2 by John Romita Jr., Dan Abnett, Sandra Hope, Dean White, and  Arif Prianto, Spectacular Spider-Man #300 and Goran Parlov, Marvel's Fresh Start, Avengers: No Surrender and Avengers #682, Strangers in Paradise #2 by Terry Moore, Mark Brooks, Terry Dodson Vs. Adam Hughes, Barbarella from Dynamite!, Vero, Rick Veitch's The One, plus a whole mess more!

JOSH BAYER joins us to discuss RM (aka ROM). Theth, Mr. Incompleto, the All Time Comics line, The Black Hood anthology, Suspect Device, The Comics Journal, Jeffrey Brown, Crumb, Al Milgrom, Herb Trimpe, risograph printing, Trevor Von Eeden, Matt Rota, Michel Fiffe, Shaky Kane, Pat Aulisio, Mickey Zacchilli and RAV, Next Men and John Byrne, Gabrielle Bell, and a whole bunch of other stuff, PLUS we have some time left to throw down on Black Panther, Walking Dead, Maestros #5 by Steve Skroce and Dave Stewart from Image, Archie's Blue Ribbon Comics (featuring Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Alex Toth, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Brian Buniak, Gray Morrow, Steve Ditko, and more), X-O Manowar #10 by Matt Kindt and Renato Guedes from Valiant, Death Bed #1 by Joshua Williamson, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia from Vertigo, Kaare Andrews' Renato Jones Season Two from Image, plus a whole mess more!

Days of Hate #1 by Ales Kot, Daniel Zezelj, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, Briggs Land Volume 2: Lone Wolves by Brian Wood, Werther Dell'edera, and Lee Loughridge from Dark Horse, Dan Dare #4 by Peter Milligan, Alberto Foche, and Jordi Escuin Llorach from Titan Comics, The Cloverfield Paradox, Chilling Adventures in Sorcery TPB by Gray Morrow, Alex Toth, Frank Thorne, Francesco Francavilla, Dick Giodano, Howard Chaykin, Dan Decarlo, Vicente Alcazar, and many more from Archie Comics, Flash Annual #1 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, and Christian Duce, Mister Miracle #6 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, plus a whole mess more!