This week we're choppin' it up about the return of Cates, murder mysteries, the official beginning of a new Crossover arch, and animation cels for some reason... HOORAY!

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Cross Talk: Crossover #8

DC FanDome happened and there was a lot of news. We Talk The Batman trailer, Black Atom announcements, Flash announcements, Wonder Woman announcements and all that DC can pack into your little bitty eyeballs.  DC also made comic book news with another sexual orientation announcement for one of their mainline characters. Finally we cover Batman The Imposter this week. So it's all DC all the time here.  

DC FanDome / Bisexual Superman

Wow - So many great comics to talk about, and we threw Amazing Spider-Man into the lot since it is a new jumping on point, or as some might call it... a spiritual number one. 

Top 7 First Issues This Week / New Amazing Spider-Man Arc

Some say that the 5th Wednesday in a month is a slump, well it ain't! We got comix to hit! Gun Honey from the crime imprint Hard Case (Stephen King likes it!). and Deathstroke Inc, Williamson is on this one and it's a D.C. adventure that probably means something.  We watched Hellraiser because we know it is going to be a show and we wanted to make sure we gave you the proper preview!

The 5th Wednesday Slump / Deathstroke Inc. / Gun Honey / Hellraiser (the film)

This week we get a folky take on an aging super hero in Frontiersman on Image comics, followed by an Ablaze period book set during WW2 called He Who Fights With Monsters. Both books with some lessons and takeaways to think about. What do you think?  

Frontiersman / Confused by Spider-Man / He Who Fights With Monsters

We have news from D.C. and a bunch of first issues that we will eventually cover. The Hawkeye Trailer dropped and we have the thinking mans take on it. Y The Last man is finally show, and thank God it's updated for our times.  For the books we have 2 fantastic indies! Jeff Lemire is back this week with a sci-fi space adventure on Image Comics. Maw from Boom! a first time author and a heck of a book start to finish! DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS BOOK!

Hawkeye Trailer / Primordial (Lemire) / Maw (Doyle - Boom!)

This week we talk about the big Substack Contracts going around, before reading two first issues by club favorites! First, we'll tackle Deadbox (Vault Comics) by Mark Russell, and follow it up with Jeff Lemire's Mazebook (Darkhorse Comics) which has got us in the feels.

Substack Contracts / Deadbox (Russell) / Mazebook (Lemire)

Special Episode: First Issue Club joins the Unite The 7 comic book podcast experience!  A bunch of comic pods took Justice League characters and did a big old episode about it - we dunk an Aquaman episode for Unite the 7 with knowledge, an interview, facts on facts, and the best water info you can find on a podcast.  We also covered the 80th Anniversary Aquaman 100 page spectacular book. This episode does not mess around. 

Unite the 7: Aquaman

Budget King just listened to the new Spiderman Trailer... So we'll talk about what he heard before we get into our comics today, which are the very panoramic Echo Lands from Image Comics, and your favorite rad 90's dude Darkhawk, who is back on Marvel! 

Echo Lands / Darkhawk

Yeah, we got those comics in the title, but we also got Hickman Leaving X-Men, additional creators joining sub-stack, and so much more! If you wanna get right to the comics, we hit 'em at around the 21 Minute Mark. 

FCBD! / House of Slaughter / Al Ewing's Venom / Donny Cates's Hulk

This week we talk all the comic news fit to print! We've got  the discussion on James Tynion IV moving off of Batman on D.C. and starting a Substack empire. We dive into bi-sexual Robin. We round the news with the Walmart ratio variant controversy.  Then we cover two awesome books! James Patrick's (from The Kaiju Score) Campisi: The Dragon Incident and Defenders the new Al Ewing book! 

James Tynion IV to Substack / Campisi / Defenders (Al Ewing)

This week we've got offerings from AWA, Image, and DC! In other news, we're sad to see Runaways go away, but happy to learn theres more Barbaric (on Vault) coming soon!

Not All Robots / The Me You Love in the Dark / Joker: Puzzle box

Watch out horn dogs! This a sex filled episode.  Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika rocks the comic book racks from here to Italy, it's the Image book of the summer! Amazing Fantasy returns to marvel and is a sleeper hit! Cullen Bunn drops "The Last Book You'll Ever Read" on Vault with a secret variant that we spill all the details on. 

Sweet Paprika (Mirka Andolfo) / Amazing Fantasy (Marvel) / The Last Book You'll Ever Read (Cullen Bunn)

So many good first issues last week - it was hard to choose just three! But we're talking Mother of Madness, by the Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke - Dark Blood on BOOM! Studios which is by LaToya Morgan (Who's also worked as a screenwriter on some of your favorite comic book shows like Walking Dead) - And Lastly, we cover Moon Knight to see how Jed MacKays take on Moon Knight stands out from the pack of recent volume restarts. 

M.O.M. by Emilia Clarke / Moon Knight / Dark Blood

Valiant has a new volume of Ninjak with amazing art, that some may be surprised by. Ed Brisson has a new alternative world tale packed with adventure on Dark Horse. And Aftershock released a light hearted horny She-Ra with Savage Hearts. 

Beyond The Breach (Ed Brisson) / Ninjak #1 / Savage Hearts (Aftershock)

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