Comic Book Club

On the last live Comic Book Club of 2022, we're welcoming guest Kyle Starks to talk about his upcoming book from Dark Horse Comics, "Where Monsters Lie". Plus, we're revealing our picks for Best Comic Books of 2022!

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The Best Comic Books of 2022:

15. That Texas Blood

Image Comics

Written by Chris Condon

Art by Sean Phillips

14. Ice Cream Man

Image Comics

Written by W. Maxwell Prince

Art by Martín Morazzo

13. Catwoman: Lonely City

DC Comics

By Cliff Chiang

12. I Hate This Place

Image Comics

Written by Kyle Starks

Art by Artyom Topilin

11. Superman: Son of Kal-El

DC Comics

Written by Tom Taylor

Art by John Timms, Cian Tormey et al

10. Deadly Class

Image Comics

Written by Rick Remender

Art by Wes Craig

9. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

DC Comics

Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Art by Gene Ha, Nicola Scott

8. The Closet

Image Comics

Written by James Tynion IV

Art by Gavin Fullerton

7. DC vs. Vampires

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV, Matt Rosenberg

Art by Otto Schmidt

6. The Massive-verse

Image Comics

5. Nightwing

Image Comics

Written by Tom Taylor

Art by Bruno Redondo et al

4. Punisher

Marvel

Written by Jason Aaron

Art by Jesus Saiz, Paul Azaceta

3. Rain

Image Comics

Written by David M. Booher

Based on the story by Joe Hill

Art by Zoe Thorogood

2. The Human Target

DC Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Greg Smallwood

1. Do A PowerBomb!

Image Comics

By Daniel Warren Johnson

Things get real dark, real quick as John Walker comes for the Flag-Smashers on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 4, “The Whole World is Watching.” With the Dora Milaje on the hunt for Zemo, the pressure is on for Sam and Bucky to try to turn Karli Morganthau, or take her down. And once the new Captain America and Battlestar get into the mix, things get complicated — and tragic. Let’s break down all the Turkish delight — sorry, Easter eggs, Marvel comic book references and much more.

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex: Welcome to MarvelVision, a podcast about Marvel, the MCU, and right now, Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I’m Alex.

Justin: I’m Justin.

Pete: I’m Pete.

Alex: And we are going to be talking about the fourth episode of the series, The Whole World is Watching. And it is true, this is a big show, lots of people watching, the whole world in fact, has been tuning in for every episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And that’s what the title is mostly about, is the ratings for the show, which we know of course are through the roof. So that’s very exciting.

Justin: That’s right. Anytime you can just guess about your ratings and throw that in the title.

Pete: It’s a boss move, it’s a boss move for sure.

Justin: It’s a baller move. Like of shows are like, “Whoops, no one watched and we’re canceled. Episode four.”

Alex: That was my favorite show for a really long time. I wish they hadn’t titled it that because I feel like more people have watched and it wouldn’t have gotten cancelled.

Justin: Anytime you can throw a “Whoops” in there at the beginning of anything, you’re really speaking to the people.

Alex: It was actually originally called, “Whoops Friends.”

Justin: Whoops, we’re friends. I mean that’s sort of what it was about.

Alex: Kind of, they just met. They were on a break.

Justin: Whoops, we’re podcasters. That’s us. That’s what this is.

Alex: Now requisite spoiler warning here. If you haven’t watched the fourth episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier please go do that because we’re going to spoil the heck out of it. But first a little pluggy poo over here of this-

Justin: Pluggy poo? We have not vetted that term.

Pete: And what just happened?

Alex: I’m just playing around with some stuff.

Justin: Sorry, Alex its just son who’s talking right now?

Alex: If you haven’t checked it out already, we did an interview with Olli Haaskivi, who is the actor who played Dr. Wilfred Nagel on the last episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Now, if you’re only subscribed, we rolled this out a bunch of different places. We usually roll these episodes out in the Comic Book Club feed and then the Marvel Vision feed. The Olli Haaskivi episode is exclusive to the Marvel Vision feed. So if you’re listening on Podcasts, go check it out over there. It was super fun. And I think we got a lot of interesting information about how it works, particularly for one scene or slightly more than one scene actor on a Marvel show. I thought it was-

Pete: It was really cool to talk to him. And after talking to him and then kind of re-watching his stuff, he’s a really good actor, like what he is and then what he became. Wow. Pretty awesome.

Alex: I mean, I’ll tell you when I was putting together the thumbnail for the episode and grabbed the still of Dr. Wilfred Nagel, I looked at it and there was a brief moment of like, “Is this not the guy? Would somebody do a weird prank to get us interview somebody as a fake Dr. Wilfred Nagel?”

Justin: But honestly, I think a lot of the interview really lets us in on the acting process.

Alex: Yeah, you were very excited to talk acting with somebody.

Justin: As a classically trained actor. I’ve talked to YouTube bozos.

Alex: You were like, “Ooh! Yeah, I know what you’re talking about!”

Justin: I was not woo-hooing.

Alex: You were like a little boy jumping up and down talking to him.

Justin: Sure, I was ju...

On this week's Stack podcast, we're not only reviewing the regular rundown of weekly comic books, we're also revealing some of our favorite original graphic novels and trade collections of 2022.

Here's the rundown of books we reviewed that came out this week:

Timeless #1

Marvel

Written by Jed MacKay

Art by Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Patch Zürcher & Salvador Larroca

The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1

DC Comics

Written by Pornsak Pichetshote

Art by Jeff Stokely

Book of Slaughter #1

BOOM! Studios

Written by James Tynion IV

Art by Werther Dell’edera

Murderworld: Spider-Man #1

Marvel

Written by Jim Zub & Ray Fawkes

Art by Farid Karami

John Stewart: The Emerald Knight #1

DC Comics

Written by Geoffrey Thorne

Art by Marco Santucci

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II #1

BOOM! Studios/IDW

Written by Ryan Parrott

Art by Dan Mora

The Amazing Spider-Man #16

Marvel

Written by Zeb Wells

Art by Ed McGuinness

Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee #1

DC Comics

Written by Michael Uslan, Mark Waid, Stephanie Williams, Becky Cloonan & Michael W. Conrad, Kenny Porter, Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Zac Thompson, Meghan Fitzmartin, Steve Orlando, Jerry Ordway

Art by Lee Weeks, Kevin Maguire, Belén Ortega, Pablo M. Collar, Karl Mostert, Juan Ferreyra, Hayden Sherman, Anthony Marques, Max Dunbar, Jerry Ordway

Once Upon a Time at the End of the World #2

BOOM! Studios

Written by Jason Aaron

Art by Alexandre Tefenkgi

Miracleman #3

Marvel

Written by Neil Gaiman

Art by Mark Buckingham

Action Comics #1050

DC Comics

Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Tom Taylor and Joshua Williamson

Art by Mike Perkins, Clayton Henry and Nick Dragotta

The Roadie #4

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Tim Seeley

Art by Fran Galán

Venom #14

Marvel

Written by Al Ewing

Art by Bryan Hitch

The Riddler Year One #2

DC Comics

Written by Paul Dano

Art by Stevan Subic

Plush #2

Image Comics

Written by Doug Wagner

Art by Daniel Hillyard

She-Hulk #9

Marvel

Written by Rainbow Rowell

Art by Takeshi Miyazawa

The Nice House on the Lake #12

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV

Art by Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Frankenstein: New World Order #4

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden and Thomas Sniegoski

Art by Peter Bergting

X-Terminators #4

Marvel

Written by Leah Williams

Art by Carlos Gómez

Tim Drake: Robin #4

DC Comics

Written by Meghan Fitzmartin

Art by Riley Rossmo

Damn Them All #3

BOOM! Studios

Written by Simon Spurrier

Art by Charlie Adlard

Harley Quinn #25

DC Comics

Written by Stephanie Phillips

Art by Matteo Lolli & David Baldeón

All-Out Avengers #4

Marvel

Written by Derek Landy

Art by Greg Land

DC vs. Vampires #12

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV and Matthew Rosenberg

Art by Otto Schmidt

Dark Web: X-Men #2

Marvel

Written by Gerry Duggan

Art by Rod Reis & Phil Noto

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #3

DC Comics

Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Art by Nicola Scott

Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #2

Marvel

By Tradd Moore with Jennie Eckwall

Blue Beetle: Graduation Day #2

DC Comics

Written by Josh Trujillo

Art by Adrián Gutiérrez

...and our picks for best graphic novels and trade collections of 2022, in no particular order:

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Image Comics

By Zoe Thorogood

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Drawn and Quarterly

By Kate Beaton

Clementine, Book One

Image Comics

By Tillie Walden

The Night Eaters: She Eats The Night

Harry N. Abrams

Written by Marjorie Liu

Art by Sana Takeda

Enter The Blue

Z2 Comics

By Dave Chisholm

Salamandre

Berger Books

By I.N.J Culbard

Fantastic Four: Full Circle

Harry N. Abrams

By Alex Ross

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

BOOM! Studios

Written by Ram V

Art by Felipe Andrade

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

DC Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Bilquis Evely

Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton: Volume One

Image Comics

Written by Kyle Starks

Art by Chris Schweizer

A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance, Volume 1 and 2

Image Comics

Written by Rick Remender

Art by André Lima Araújo

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

IDW Publishin...

On the Stack podcast for the week of September 18, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Darth Vader #50, Destro #4 and so many more!

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Full List of Comic Reviews for September 18, 2024:

Absolute Power: Super Son #1

DC Comics

Written by Sina Grace, Nicole Maines

Art by John Timms, Travis Mercer

Darth Vader #50

Marvel

Written by Greg Pak

Art by Raffaele Ienco, Paul Fry, Luke Ross, Adam Gorham

Destro #4

Skybound/Image Comics

Written by Dan Watters

Art by Andrei Bressan

Helen of Wyndhorn #4

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Bilquis Evely

Dazzler #1

Marvel

Written by Jason Loo

Art by Rafael Loureiro

Multiversus: Collision Detected #1

DC Comics

Written by Bryan Q. Miller

Art by Jon Sommariva

The Tin Can Society #1

Image Comics

Written by Peter Warren

Art by Francesco Mobili

Paranoid Gardens #3

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon

Art by Chris Weston

Spirits of Vengeance #1

Marvel

Written by Sabir Pirzada

Art by Sean Damien Hill

Jenny Sparks #2

DC Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Jeff Spokes

Ice Cream Man #41

Image Comics

Written by W. Maxwell Prince

Art by Martín Morazzo

Jim Henson’s Labyrinth #1

BOOM! Studios

Written by Kyla Vanderklugt

Art by Giorgio Spaelletta

Deathlok 50th Anniversary Special #1

Marvel

Written by Christopher Priest, Justina Irland

Art by Denys Cowan, Carlo Pagulayan

Superman #18

DC Comics

Written by Joshua Williamson

Art by Jamal Campbell

Ultramega #5

Image Comics

By James Harren

Ultimate X-Men #7

Marvel

By Peach Momoko

Gilt Frame #2

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Matt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt

Art by Matt Kindt

Wonder Woman #13

DC Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Tony S. Daniel, Khary Randolph

X-Factor #2

Marvel

Written by Mark Russell

Art by Bob Quinn

The Power Fantasy #2

Image Comics

Written by Kieron Gillen

Art by Caspar Wijngaard

The Masked Macher #1

Dark Horse Comics

Written by David A. Goodman

Art by Alex Andrés

The Avengers #18

Marvel

Written by Jed MacKay

Art by Valerio Schiti

Falling in Love on the Path To Hell #4

Image Comics

Written by Gerry Duggan

Art by Garry Brown

Lawful #4

BOOM! Studios

Written by Greg Pak

Art by Diego Galindo

X-Men #4

Marvel

Written by Jed MacKay

Art by Netho Diaz

Babs #2

AHOY Comics

Written by Garth Ennis

Art by Jacen Burrows

The Graveyard Club #1

BOOM! Studios

Written by R.L. Stine

Art by Carola Borelli

Witchblade #3

Top Cow/Image Comics

Written by Marguerite Bennett

Art by Giuseppe Cafaro

On this week’s Stack podcast, we’ve got reviews for:

BRZRKR #1
Boom! Studios
Written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt
Illustrated by Ron Garney

Stray Dogs #1
Image Comics
Written by Tony Fleecs
Art by Trish Forstner

The Amazing Spider-Man #60
Marvel
Written by Nick Spencer
Pencils by Mark Bagley

Two Moons #1
Image Comics
Written by John Arcudi
Art by Valerie Giangiordano

Future State: House of El #1
DC Comics
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Art by Scott Godlewski

Future State: Aquaman #2
DC Comics
Written by Brandon Thomas
Art by Daniel Sampere

Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #2
DC Comics
Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Riley Rossmo

Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex #2
DC Comics
Written by Mark Russell
Art by Steve Pugh

Future State: Suicide Squad #2
DC Comics
Written by Robbie Thompson, Jeremy Adams
Art by Javier Fernandez, Fernando Pasarin

Future State: Dark Detective #4
DC Comics
Written by Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Williamson
Art by Dan Mora, Giannis Milonogiannis

Future State: Batman/Superman #2
DC Comics
Written by Gene Luen Yang
Art by Scott McDaniel, Ben Oliver & Steven Segovia

The Department of Truth #6
Image Comics
Written by James Tynion IV
Art by Elsa Charretier

Faith #1
BOOM! Studios
Written by Jeremy Lambert
Illustrated by Eleonora Carlini

X-Men #18
Marvel
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Mahmud Asrar

Something is Killing the Children #15
BOOM! Studios
Written by James Tynion IV
Art by Werther Dell’edera

Nailbiter Returns #10
Image Comics
Written by Joshua Williamson
Art by Mike Henderson

Firefly #26
BOOM! Studios
Written by Greg Pak
Art by Pius Bak

Crossover #4
Image Comics
Written by Donny Cates
Art by Geoff Shaw

Skulldigger: Skeleton Boy #6
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Jeff Lemire
Art by Tonci Zonjic

Ice Cream Man #23
Image Comics
Written by W. Maxwell Prince
Art by Martín Morazzo

Crimson Flower #2
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Matt Kindt
Art by Matt Lesniewski

Post Americana #3
Image Comics
Story and Art by Steve Skroce

You Look Like Death #6
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Gerard Way
Art by Shaun Simon

The Scumbag #5
Image Comics
Written by Rick Remender
Art by Wes Craig

Rain Like Hammers #2
Image Comics
Written and art by Brandon Graham

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex: What’s up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. I’m Alex.

Justin: I’m Justin.

Pete: I’m Pete.

Alex: And on The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, or do we? Or do we?

Justin: Way to create some intrigue. That’s right.

Alex: Because the first book that we’re going to talk about is a book that doesn’t come out until next week, but we’re going to do a spoiler-free review of it. It is-

Justin: A preview review.

Alex: Preview review. It is Berserker #1 from BOOM! Studios, written by none other than Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, illustrated by Ron Garney.

Pete: Oh, no wonder.

Justin: I’ve been following Keanu Reeves’s comic book work for a long time, and it’s great to see just a brand-new book with his name on it.

Alex: Yeah. It was great.

Pete: That was driving me fucking crazy. I did not notice that he wrote this.

Alex: Wait. Really?

Pete: That’s hilarious. Yeah. I was like-

Alex: You were like “Oh, it looks like Keanu Reeves in this book?”

Pete: ... “Why does the guy look so much like fucking Keanu Reeves?” Oh, that’s hilarious.

Alex: Well, I mean, I got to say, I mean, who knows how much he was sitting down at his typewriter being like “Scene one. Berserker. Open on me”? But a lot of times, I feel like there are these insert-style comics that just don’t work. They’re star ve...