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Better late than never as a full crew is here as we say bye to Vertigo before diving into our usual antics.

Red Sonja: the Ballad of the Red Goddess OGN by Roy Thomas, Esteban Maroto, Santi Casas (2019; Dynamite Entertainment)

DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Pulp Comics by Nicky Wheeler Nicholson Includes reprints of the comics from the 30’s and bits about Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson. (2018; Hermes Press)

PSI Lords #1 by Renato Guedes and Fred Van Lente and a bit more Valiant as always. (Valiant)

Foot Soldiers Vol 1 and Vol. 2 (AiT/PlanetLar) by Jim Krueger and Michael Oeming (Image)

Superpatriot Mini-Series by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker (Image)

Grunt: the Art & Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe (2019 Hardcover; Dark Horse)
The Art of Ploog vol. 2 (Hardcover 2019; FPGUniverse)
Illustrators #25 (2019 U.K. Magazine)
https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/Illustrators-Quarterly.html

Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored by John Wagner, Pat Mills, Brian Bolland and Mick McMahon but in the book the credits are often under their pen names. Progs 61-85 is where the material is excerpted from the late ’70s. Some 2000AD chatter in general. (2016; 2000AD)

Usagi Yojimbo #1 by Stan Sakai (IDW)

Shout Outs:
Mitch Gerards on the Activity (Image)
Action Figure chitchat
Jack of Fables
Wizards by Ralph Bakshi
Greg Hildebrandt
Auction site Hakes https://www.hakes.com/
The Mighty One by Steve McManus
Eagle Comics reprint of Judge Dredd comics (in colour)
Movie novelizations/fumetti books
Dick Tracy/Mr. A
El Deafo by Cece Bell

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Not the last episode or is it? (It isn’t) as Kevin, Phil and Andy are here this time to talk some comics and related media.

Deadly Class TV show (Rick Remender/Wes Craig) and general adaptions

Which Image founder would you want to be?

The Boys #1-14 in preparation for the TV. (Dynamite)
Reread of the complete Bomb Queen by Jimmie Robertson (Image)
Dragon Ball Z by Akira Toriyama and adaptions of Manga (Viz)

Road of Bones #1 by Rich Douek and Alex Cormack and the issue of setting English language comics in foreign settings. How slang to use? Footnotes? Manga translations. (IDW)

Mathematical Solutions for a Global Crises by Jesse Jacobs
Space Jellyfish by Jesse Jacobs

Double and how do you know what to buy again and buy for the first time.
Modern Nostalgia and compression

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – City at War Storyline by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Dave Wachter, and Ronda Pattison. Countdown to issue #100 (IDW)

Shout Outs:
Super Steve
Voracious: Appetite for Destruction #1 by Markisan Naso, Jason Muhr, and Andrei Tabacaru (Action Lab)
Walking Dead #192 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Stefano Gaudiano (Image)
Xena and Hercules Complete TV series on DVD
My Little Pony (IDW)
Crossed (Avatar)
Downsizing the movie
Wonderland (Manga)
Skyward
Safari Honeymoon by Jesse Jacobs
They Live in Me by Jesse Jacobs (Kevin does not mention the title but he reviewed that book in Indie Ep 406 from May 23, 2018).
Michael DeForge
Wolverine (Marvel Comics) and Giant Size X-men #1
Monster House (movie)
G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero! #262 by Larry Hama, Netho Diaz, Jadgish Kumar, Brian Shearer and J. Brown. See Indie Ep 417 from 2/8/29 where the current run is brought up in a proper review. (IDW)
Usagi Yojimbo #1 by Stan Sakai new series and a bit on the old series (IDW)
Criminal Hardcover
Bob Bretall of Comic Spectrum
Go-bots by Tom Scioli (IDW)
Clue comic by Dash Shaw
Jem (IDW)
Anniversary issues – Spawn and Walking Dead
Valiant fans

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Andrew is up to his “Is this the last episode?” gimmick with a full boat of hosts (Steve, Kevin, and Phil) as the show comes out like clockwork and teases it being replaced by Manga Noise and Black Hammer Noise.

Comic Con Revolution Ontario (Mike Zeck, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Connor, first appearance of Thunderbolt characters and Spider-Ham)

TCAF – Toronto Comic Arts Festival (the Wicked + the Divine (McKelvie, Gillen), Gabriel Ba, Jason, Junji Ito, Fabio Moon, James Stokoe, Jesse Jacobs, Study Group Comics)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1-4 by Jordie Bellaire and Dan Mora. Not connected to the Dark Horse comic series. (Boom!)

The Walking Dead re-reading from issue 1 (but he started originally at around #6). Phil is also watching the show. (Image)

Manga talk – The Drifting Classroom Vol 1-3 by Kazuo Umezu and Dragon Head (all volumes) by Minetaro Mochizuki. Reading backwards? Don’t Mettle with My Daughter by Nozomu Tamaki (Viz) (Seven Seas)

Dark Ark #6-15 by Cullen Bunn and Juan Doe. Series ended at #15. (See also Indie Comic Book Noise Episode 405 from May 21, 2018 for the first issues) (Aftershock)

Dick Tracy Forever #1 by Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma (with some comparison to the just completed Dick Tracy series). (IDW)

Lady Frankenstien and the Mummy’s Brain #1 by Manuel Martin, Shane George and Kevin Glover.
www.fracturedscarytales.com (Scary Tales Publishing)

What catches your eye in artist alley?

Black Hammer (Dark Horse)

Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds #1 by Paul Allor, Adam Bryce Thomas (IDW)

Tales of the Buddha before he got enlightened by Alan Grant and Jon Haward (Renegades Arts Entertainment)
New Adventures of Jesus. The Second Coming by Frank Stack (Fantagraphics)

Shout Outs:
Batman The Animated Series
Wizard World – Toronto, Los Angeles, and Kitchener
John Workman
Sullivan’s Sluggers (James Stokoe and Mark Andrew Smith)
Milo Manara
Pope Hats (Hartley Lin)
Charles Soule (Daredevil)
Black Mask
The Beguiling
Go-Bots (IDW – Tom Scioli)
Joss Whedon’s Angel #0 (Boom!)
Sweatin’ to the oldies (Exercise series)
Savage Dragon (Image)
Buying comics from the library
Animosity (Aftershock)
What is a Glacier? by Sophie Yanow (see Indie Comic Book Noise Episode 414 from December 23, 2018)
Frank Miller’s Robocop
Kaijumax (Oni Press)
Planetary/Batman crossover
Batman/TMNT
Gilbert Shelton
Groo

Enjoy! Twitter: @indiecomicbookn