Steve covers the last wave of new Star Wars stories set before Empire Strikes Back and Conan’s new footprint at the House of Ideas before Andrew and Kevin join in to discuss the passing of Joe Sinnott, as well as Daredevil: Fall From Grace (issues 319-325) and our second foray into Nova’s original series with issues 8-14….plus: Andrew unboxes his Marvel Unlimited Premium Member package of perks! #MN349 @marvelnoise
Phil convinces Steve, Kevin and Andy to do a themed episode again so no proper show notes as we just riff on titles for the most part. Listen to the show for comics that we find funny. We don’t list them all. Tweet at the show if you are unhappy with this.
Misunderstanding Comics by Mike Rosen and Tim Heiderich
Tales to Suffice by Kenny Keil (available on Comixology)
Rambo 3.5 by Jim Rugg
2 of Phil’s top 5 books of all time (Hyperbole or not? You decide): I Luv Halloween (3 volumes) by Keith Giffen and Benjamin Roman (Tokyo Pop) Norman (translated from French) by Stan Silas (Titan) (From Indie ep 407 July 2018) Other Phil Books: Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General by Jin (Seven Seas) Looking for Group comic which is in print but also online link to online comic https://www.lfg.co/
Die Kitty Die series by Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz (Chapterhouse Books)
Tales of the Buddha (before He Got Enlightened) by Alan Grant
Zeke Deadwood by Thomas Boatwright and Ryan Rubio (Comixology has booth issues for 99 cents each)
Comic Strips we used to read in the newspaper. We list many of them. Too many to repeat here.
Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés, Mark Evanier and Stan Sakai (various Publishers) Sergio Aragonés Funnies by Sergio Aragonés (Bongo Comics)
Fortune and Glory by Brian Michael Bendis (Oni Press)
“Clerks” comic book by Kevin Smith based on his movie with a slew of killer artists from Oni. A selection of books for the late 90s.
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga Choose your own adventure comic
Steve fires off about the last Deadpool and Starlin/Thanos OGN’s, Giant-Size X-Statix and the Marvels Epilogue and is then joined by Andrew and Kevin to discuss the loss of Denny O’Neil before diving into the first 12 issues of Doom 2099 and bringing fandom our 6th installment of New Warriors coverage with issues 15-17! #MN348 @marvelnoise
Pulled right back into that ICBN timeline are Steve, Kevin, Phil, and Andrew as secrets abound.
20 Years to Midnight by Al Ewing, Henry Flint, Chris Blythe, and Annie Parkhouse (Free online excerpt from the 2010 Judge Dredd Megazine #302 from publisher Rebellion)
Link to free comics: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/FREE004
The Original Artist Edition of Alien: Illustrated Story by Walt Simonson and Archie Goodwin. Published by Titan reprinting the 1979 Alien Graphic Novel from Heavy Metal in glorious full size.
Comixology Publisher Polite Strangers from Jason McNamara. Kickstarter projects that have gone digital. Different titles from him.
Nocturnal Commissions with Greg Hinkle and Sucker Vol 1 and 2 with Tony Talbert, John Heebink, Paul Little, and Peter Secosh.
Jack Staff by Paul Grist Collected editions. (Multiple publishers including Image)
Savage Dragon & Superman and Erik Larsen and the Birth of Image.
Hot comics to invest in, news stand variants, special covers, graded comics, single page purchases, real world event books, first appearances, media tie-in (cartoon).
Valiant and Image cross-over?
Shout Outs Power Records June Brigman (artist) Garfield cartoon I Kill Giants comic (Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Nimura) and movie Dorohedoro (Anime on Netflix)
The house is full with Steve, Kevin, Phil and Andy on the scene and ready to talk some comics in this Post-Episode 450 but Pre-Episode 500 tale of madness.
Is Vertigo indie or not? What about Epic? Icon? (Sounds like this might be a Controversy)
Minky Woodcock: The Girl who Handcuffed Houdini HC by Cynthia Von Buhler (Titan Comics/Hardcase Crime Imprint)
At the Mountains of Madness, A Graphic Novel by I.N.J. Culbard adapting H.P. Lovecraft (Self Made Hero)
Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente (Panel Syndicate)
Magnus Robot Fighter vs. Predator by Barry Windsor Smith, Jim Shooter and John Ostrander (Dark Horse) and asks about various Indie crossovers (Savage Dragon, TMNT, Hellboy, Madman, Marshal Law, Dreadstar, etc).
Mutant World/Son of Mutant World HC by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben (Anomaly Publications)
The Hero Comics #30 by Ditko and Snyder (SD Publishing Co)
The Displaced, vol.1 by Rick Troula (Chaos Factory Comics via ComiXology Submit)
Shoutouts
Walmart Comics Steve Rude Sketchbook Kickstarter Andy was remembering when Boom acquired Archaia because he gets confused. Ditko is Amazing by Steve Ditko, Stan Lee (Marvel)
Follow-up Reading: If you like old time magic, try reading this book, book, Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer (Da Capo Press). We have more fun books if you just tweet at us. Look at us, talking about books with just words.