WEBVTT - Comics! - Best Introductory Arcs For New Readers & All-Time Favorites 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.640 Warning, this episode contains spoilers for a bunch of the 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.080 comic books that we are going to discuss. And these 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:14.760 are comic books from across a spectrum of publishers including Marvel, DC, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:35.560 Image and Onny and much more. So you have been warned. Hello, 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.920 my name is Jason Concepcion. Welcome to episode ten of 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.000 X ray Vision, The Cricket Podcast, where we dive deep 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.280 into your favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:46.720 To mark our first. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.920 Double digit episode, we're bringing on a double hit of 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.040 co hosts. Today up, first on Previously On, I'll be 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.040 covering all the news that's happened in the past week, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.200 and then it's time for an extended airlock where we 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.200 talk about comics, comics, comics, and to do that we're 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.720 bringing on our comics connoisseurs, writer Rosie Knight and Cody Ziggler. First, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:13.480 let's hit the news on today's previously on. First up, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.679 the Book of Boba Fett trailer is out. How best 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.640 to describe this, So it's like Boba Fett in his 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:25.080 role as the new crime lord of tattooing now that 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.080 job is out of the picture. I kept wanting to 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.959 hear the Sopranos theme under it because it's like a 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.120 lot of you know, Boba Fett meeting with the various 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:40.720 coppos of Jaba's former crime empire and getting them all 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.560 in line with the help of mgno Win's Fenixshand This 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.800 will start streaming December twenty ninth on Disney Plus. Of course, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.680 ep'd by Dave Filoni and John Favreau. This looks super fun. Next, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:59.200 the trailer long awaited trailer for Morbius from Sony in 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.440 conjunction with Marvel Studios has been released. It stars Jared 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:08.800 Leto as the famed Spider Man villain Morbius, the Living Vampire. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.560 He is a physician who has a blood disorder. Then 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.000 he is like, how do I cure this thing? So 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.120 he goes down to an area where there are a 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.840 lot of vampire bats and guess what, he becomes a 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:23.000 fucking vampire. It stars Matt Smith, Jared Leto, Jared Harris, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.639 Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. It is directed by Daniel 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.279 Espinoza from a script by Matt Sazama and Burke Sharpless. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.280 This trailer has come out two years after the first 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.000 teaser trailer was released. In four years after the project 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:37.560 was announced. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:38.919 Obviously a lot. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.919 Has changed in that time, and it is laden with 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:49.200 references from Sony's various Spider Man offerings, including an appearance 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.240 by Michael Keaton's Vulture. There is a shot of the 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.800 Oscorp building. There is a mention of Rhino and Black 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.160 Cat from the cover of a Daily Bugle. There is 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.080 a mention of that thing that happened in San Francisco, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.480 which is clearly a reference to Venom. So lots of 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.200 Spider Man from all versions of Sony's Spider Verse happening here. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.680 Be interesting to see how this ties into the MCU. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.040 If at all I mean, I'll watch it. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.440 And then finally, nine employees of Image Comics have announced 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.760 that they are going to form a comic book workers 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:32.360 union called Comic Book Workers United. The decision announcement reads, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.360 in part quote, our workforce and the comic book and 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.480 publishing industry as a whole is over taxed and undervalued. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.720 This is detrimental not only to general staff, but also 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.440 to the creators. We were paid to serve in the 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.360 audience as they entered work to entertain. We love what 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.400 we do, but loving what you do doesn't mean you 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.400 can't or shouldn't ask for improvements to your working conditions. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.280 And it was signed by the Image staffers Ryan Brewer, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:01.480 Leanna Counter, Marla Isaac, Drew Fitzgerald, Melissa Gifford, Cloos, Trisha Ramos, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:07.880 John Schlaffman, and Erica Schnatz. Somewhat ironic since Image was 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.280 formed in nineteen ninety two by disaffected comic book creators 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.320 from DC and Marvel who wanted to benefit from the 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.480 success of their creations in a way that working at 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.840 the Big two simply wouldn't. So the fact that this 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.600 is happening with Image is interesting and I hope they succeed. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.159 I hope they succeed. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.680 This builds on a history there's been a lot of 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.760 like aborted attempts to kind of unionize the comics industry, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.240 going back to the Academy of Comic Book Artists from 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:46.000 the seventies, which was an organization that stan Lee created 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.000 that in his mind was would act as like a 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:55.479 promotional arm for the comics book industry, but for younger creators, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.600 more militant creators at the time, including Neil Adams and 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.520 Archie good One. They thought, okay, we should turn this 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.960 into basically a comic book union that will go out 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.640 there and fight for the interests of creators for better pay, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:18.359 more equitable profit sharing, better work hours, better working conditions, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.160 et cetera. And that one kind of broke down because 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.120 there are a lot of disagreements obviously, one about what 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:30.400 the ACBA would actually do, and then two how best 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.680 to share those benefits, Like would it just be writers 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.640 and pencilers, What about the inkers, what about the colorists, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.640 what about the letterers? And it's so I'm hoping that 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.920 this union succeeds one and doesn't break down along those 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.080 similar lines. If you're going to be inclusive, you got 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:54.040 to include everybody. That means writers, artists, pencilers, colorists, and everyone. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.560 I hope it succeeds some. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.839 Of the goals. The stated goals. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.760 That this union has put out there in their announcement 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.400 says they want to foster a more competitive industry through 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.080 salary workload transparency for all existing and proposed job titles, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:13.480 more transparent company culture stuff in there, for allowing employees 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.000 to continue to work remote, et cetera. It's a long 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.200 time coming, and I hope this. I hope this works up. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.400 Next we go into the airlock with Rosie. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:23.720 And zig. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.320 Welcome to the airlock today, where we are joined by 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.359 the Great Rosie Knight and the Great Cody Ziggler. Folks, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.640 how were your respective Halloweens? 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.800 You know they were good for me? On my end, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.000 I was a very I was a very adult about it. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.640 I got my booster shot for pis or being chot out. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.960 So I spent literally all of my night of Halloween 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.839 on my couch nursing a gnarly headache. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.840 So that was very serious though. I like that, you know, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:05.440 thank you. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:06.680 I did what I can. You know this this is 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.960 thirty four. You know, twenty seven year old me would 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.880 would rich at the idea, But like at thirty four, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.640 I'm like, yeah, we hang out my couch, play some 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.680 Guards of the Galaxy and watch some TV. That that's 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:15.520 what I got going on. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.520 No, I feel that at thirty three it was lay 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.120 on the sofa and watched like a ton of bad sequels. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.000 I watched like every I know what you did last 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.960 summer movie. Two of my favor with late stage hel 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.640 raise of sequels, which is Bloodline and Hell well both 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.240 of them absolutely foncused ten out of Time would recommend. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.760 But that's that's the life. When you're in your face, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.200 you got to. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.800 Be chilling that I get eying, knowlse to prove I've 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:36.200 done it all? 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:38.600 What did I do? 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.720 I went to an improv show at Largo, and then 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.440 I went to a friend's party that was already cashed out, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:53.000 so we just sat with their dog and talked and 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.680 hung out. It was actually quite chill and delightful. And 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:56.160 that's it. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.200 And then I went home. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.680 Folks, I can't wait to talk about comics today because 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.560 people ask all the time whenever we delve into comic books, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.720 where do I start? I want to get into comics, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.240 and I don't know where to start, and I don't 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:09.640 know what. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.040 To read, and YadA, YadA, YadA. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.680 Folks, this is for you. If you are one of 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.760 those people, this segment is for you. Zig Rosie and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.040 I are going to get into such topics as where 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.640 do I start, what's a good comic arc? And we're 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:30.360 going to do that across Marvel, across DC, across Boom, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.360 across Image, across top Cow. We're going to talk to 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.440 you about some of our favorite comics and great places 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.200 to pick up and start. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.240 If you're new to it. Are you ready? 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.200 I'm ready, I'm ready. This is the one. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.760 Yeah, give way for it. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.240 Our first prompt, what are good entry arcs for new 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.160 comics readers? 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.040 And let's start with Let's start with Marvel. Who wants 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.000 to go first? I guess we'll go. We'll just go 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.800 down Zig Would you like to start? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.280 Oh? Yeah, you know this. I've been yelling about this 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.319 particular run since it came out maybe a year a 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.680 year some change ago. Kelly Thompson and Elena or Elena 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.040 Cussa Grande's Black Widow is for me. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:11.560 Yes. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.000 It's one of those stories that I think defines the characters, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.360 sort of like how Matt fact fraction in David Aya's 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.760 Hawkeye became like, oh, this is what Hawkeye should be like. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.880 This is very much in the same vein as what 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.560 what they've done with Black Widow. Fantastic character moments with 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.080 with that, that that that Kelly wrote, and the art 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.480 is amazing, Like car Kelly has has sort of this 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.440 staple where she can do some really beautiful double spreads 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.560 that conveys so much action. Uh, and this usually sent 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.400 it around like a center point frame. There's something crazy 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.400 going on if you're looking for some amazing art as 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.160 well as some beautiful, touching storytelling. I highly recommend Black Widow. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.040 It's such a fun run. It's funny, it's heart wrenching 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.240 and also has the fun stuff with like you can 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.320 we give the combooks like oh, there's a there's a 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.000 there's a dude in a hovercr like. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.760 Every day and it's grounded but. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.800 Everything. Oh right, there you go now, I'm yeah, Harry 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.400 recommend Rosie. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.400 Yeah, I'm gonna like, I'm thinking of something in that 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.319 would be like a similar vein because I love the 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.240 idea of this being like a reading list for me, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.719 like something you really those double page spreads. The way 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.320 Kelly can write them and Elena can bring them to 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.280 life is the twenty thirteen Young Avengers run. They're Kieran Gilla, Yeah, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.679 Matt Wilson on colors. Those colors are vital to the books. Like, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.600 this book is so good. It's like I love the 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:41.600 original Young Avengers, Jim Chung's like the best, and but 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.160 this is like this was my thing, Like I love 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.199 this book. I got the first issue with a Brian 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.360 le O'Malley variant cover, and it's basically like Team of 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.480 young heroes and it's cosmic and it's weird, and it's 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.000 what we're basically about to see in the MCU two 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.800 looking at the team, know America, Chaves, Patriot, You've got 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.400 like Kate Bishop, Hawkeye. You know, there's and it's and 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.760 it's queer and it's funny and it's inclusive and there 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.640 is there are these double page spreads and these things 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.439 that Jamie does with Paneling, Like there's this one double 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.280 page spread where they're having a fight, and all around 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.679 the edges there are like little kind of like outtakes 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.600 where you're seeing different people fighting the number the fighter 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.439 and it is like I remember reading. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.400 That and being like, ship it broke my brain. The 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:28.120 first time I read that. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.079 I was like, this is what comics are, Like, this 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.280 is what you can do with them. And it's like 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.959 it's fun, it's sexy, it's like silly, but and it's 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.080 kid Loki. Wow, big kid Loki storyline. If that's your thing. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.200 So I think that is like a really and that's 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.160 from this era of Marvel that I just loved when 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.400 they were doing Marvel. Now you know that Miss Marvel, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.560 Kamala Kahan, Like there was a lot and that is 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.199 just like, that's peak I when I work in a 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.240 comic shop, I used to recommend that book to everyone. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.240 Gillan, uh mckelvy, Matt Wilson. That is an elite, top 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:03.079 level creative team, so clean, the writing is musical, it's romantic. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.240 I love that one. That's a great one. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.199 So there's a lot of x Men out there, there's 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.920 you know, forty fifty years now of x Men history. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.240 I am going to select for the new reader. X 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.760 Men Grand design Ed Pisker's three volume compendium of X 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.920 Men history, done as like almost like a zine. So 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.160 it's not gonna give you like the granular detailed stuff 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.200 like about you know, it's not gonna give you everything, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.160 but it's gonna basically catch you up in four or 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.000 five decades of X Men history in this really fun, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.880 almost like indie art style. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.240 That I super love. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.120 Whether you're a X Men fanatic or someone who's just 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.000 like wants to know all the stuff that happened before 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.120 diving in. I think it's a great pickup. Listen, bar 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.040 the first one from your library or if. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.960 You have comic compony, yeah, library, yeah, and if you 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.800 like it, go pick it up. From your from your 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.760 local comic shop. Next zig another one, give us another one, you. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.160 Know, since we're since I'm coming off that I'm dismounting 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.360 from from your pick. For X Man, I gotta recommend 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:19.839 zeb Wells and Steven Segovia's Hellian's I Love My Boys V. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.040 We work together on Cheehak. He's super funny guy in 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.160 this comic is very very funny, also very dark. He's 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.880 he the way that he's able to have a character 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.480 like mister Senator have actual bits and I have punchlines 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.800 in his comics is missed. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.600 The sinister is like the I want to do this 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.920 is so funny, like and you can. Hellien's is a 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.839 brilliant choice because it seems like maybe it's a little 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.000 bit more heavy because it's just been off sea. But 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.480 it's not like you can jump into this book and 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.280 just absolutely love it and if you really love it, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:54.440 you can go to House of X all the other 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.960 stuff like this is like the and it's what's fifteen issues. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.120 And yes, easy easy and easy out. It's one of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.319 those things that also, like the Sculturals, I guys like 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.880 we know what the Thunderbolt told in IR like we 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.520 know what Suicide Squad is, so like taking that team 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.439 and couching it in like the X Men world, and 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.079 also being like, oh, I'm gonna have some of the 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.920 funniest jokes you've ever read, also sandwiched in between some 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.440 really traumatic stuff going on, much of the same way 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.320 that I think that Black Widows sort of redefines a 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.440 black widow for this sort of modern age. I think 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.120 if Helions could be redefined, I think in the year's 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.440 twenty twenty one, like, this is definitely the book that 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.560 I would recommend if you're looking for something that's new 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.080 at currently being made. It's also funny and has hits 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.880 all the different tiers of like action, like the dramatic bits. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.040 It also a really really really funny book, and it. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.840 Comes out regularly as well. For a big two book. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.200 I rarely have big two stuff like on my pull 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.200 list for a long time. Yeah, this is in our house. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.200 That is that that's like Helen's is just so good. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.240 I'm so glad you included that one. It's just it's 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.480 so good. It's so funny, but it's. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.960 Also like really yeah, yeah, the mister Sinister aspect is 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:58.080 fantastic because you know, for mister Sinister, classic X Men 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.840 villain has a very tangled history within the X Men lore, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.800 but like you don't need to know any of that. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:10.400 It's like so campy and funny and weird. Yeah, it's 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.360 a great pick, great pick. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.080 And he has like an incredible cape, which is like 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.040 one of my all time favorite. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.280 I do love their bits that revolve around the spindles 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.160 on his cape. They dive into very fun stuff. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:22.400 H Rosie. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.440 Okay, I'm gonna go for a let's think. I'm like, oh, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.600 that was just so good. Okay, let's go old. Let's 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.160 go old because you went there. Okay, So I'm gonna 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.800 recommend We've talked Infinity Gornela, which is on my list 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.480 because I just think that's such a great comic. But 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.600 we've talked about that before people know it. That's your MC. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.080 So I'm gonna go for Silver Surfer Rebirth of Thaos, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.920 which is from nineteen ninety. It's Ron Limb, whose Absolute 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.760 Icon also was artist on Infinity Gone and Jim stalin 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.840 the career of Thanos and Infinnity Go. This is just 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:56.320 a really cool, weird ninety story about Silver Surfer and 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.760 Thanos and it's what led into Infinity Gorne lit. So 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.640 this is a great place to if you want to 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.480 know how Thanos ended up on the Quest for the Gems. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.520 This includes really great art called Danos Quest and it 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.040 is just so much fun. Run them is one of 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.840 my absolute favorite artists, just absolutely stunning, brilliant, weird, cosmic art. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.360 If you're looking for something where it's like you want 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.880 to be someone who can go into them SEU and 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.000 you have a little bit more context on what's going on, 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:21.800 and maybe you want to make up some fan theories 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.520 or you want to chat to your friends about what happened. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.720 I feel like this is a relevant book. I feel 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.320 like this is a good direction to go to, and 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.120 it's just really cool. And they actually have this book 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.080 wasn't collected very often, but there is a silver Stuff 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.480 of Rebirth of Thanos collection which is really easy to 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:36.320 just grab as a trade. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.480 I love it. That's a great one. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.840 Let's see where will I go? Okay, so let's jump 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.520 to DC. I think if you're listen, this is dead easy. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:51.320 You want to know about Batman? Right, Batman? You're one 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.120 Frank Miller, David Matsucelli, first of all, that creative team 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.920 in that year did Batman You'r One and Devil Born Again, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.480 which is just two of the top top top greatest 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.800 arcs ever. And Batman Year one. It tells you right 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.600 in the title. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:10.880 What it is. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:17.280 It is the first year that Bruce Wayne put on 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.880 the cape, put on the cowl, and started skulking around 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.560 at night trying to be Batman. And it's the ups 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.520 and downs, the ins and outs, the trial and error 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.399 of what you need to do and what you experience 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.560 when you're trying to become a masked vigilante in the 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.000 most crime burden city in DC comics America. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.440 And the art is just Yeah. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.880 Maza Kelly's as like Conreal. There's so many moments you'll 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.000 recognize even if you haven't read the comic. When you 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.960 see it, you'll be like, oh, that's what I ass from. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.680 Yes, it's just like iconic stuff. The pacing of the art, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:18:00.399 the framing, it's just absolutely beautiful. And it's everything you 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.480 need to know where Batman comes from and what he 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.480 has to face as he meets a bunch of people 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.560 from his Rogues gallery towards the end of the story. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.200 Really really great. Pick it up as a trade perfect 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.960 next zig Once again, what's next. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.000 You know, I don't have any DC because I'm a 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.640 company man through and through. But what I do have, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.280 you know, if you're look at him, that's little bit 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.440 different flavoring from I think traditional Cape superhero comics. You 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.920 gotta check out hell Boy. I highly I mean any Hellboy. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:33.919 Yeah, just so much great stuff. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.679 There's so much great there's I mean, the good thing 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.440 about Hellboy is that it's not very serialized, especially this 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.280 first couple of comics. You can just pick up their 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.359 basically folklore, So you know, I highly recommend Hellboy, The 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.199 Chained Coffin and others like that's the first one that 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:47.760 I read for Hellboy, even. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.120 Like Seed of Destruction, which is volume one, Like that's 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.800 you you can just jump on, like that's such a 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.480 good thing. And it does kind of link to DC 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.800 because a lot of Mike mcnoll's original work was at DC, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:18:59.639 like he did a little bit Batman, you know, so 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.720 I think I think that's a really cool course. That's 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.199 also I think one of the best if you like 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.920 superhero comic and you want to dive into something that's 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.679 more independent creator around, but still has that folkloric, mythological 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.560 epic scope. I think Hellboy is like a really good choice. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.439 Yes, that choice of words is I think is what 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.399 really draws me to it is that you know there 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.679 most of them are myths and fairy tales and folklore, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.320 and because just human beings have been telling those things 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.480 for a thousand of years, Like it instantly feels familiar 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.639 but also grandness of scale, but like you could have 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.359 a story that lasts you know, ten pages, that is 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.120 in and out, but it feels very complete because we've 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.360 heard versions of that as long as I for fort 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.560 since we've been going up forever. But also they are fantastic, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.600 Like the use of colors and shadows that he does 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.159 is just next world. And also it's very nice different 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.640 spin if you used to like I think the Eight 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.720 Head the Eight Heads of like Comic Web, like superheres, 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.720 everyone's like jacked and like they're like all six foot five. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.040 It's nice seeing a different take on that. And it's 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.440 also a nice seeing some things that are made outside 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.240 of like the Big too, if you're looking against some 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.280 more independent comics. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.520 Yeah, and I think as well, like something that could 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.679 really I think is a good another good inroad for 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.000 people who are mostly into Big two is like it's 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.199 almost like a it's a shared universe of folklore, so 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.680 you have all these different characters from all over the world, 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.919 and instead of it being like Batman teaming up with 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.359 you know, the Justice League or whatever, or founding Justice League, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.120 it's instead you've got like Barba Yaga and like all 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.560 these different but also you know hell Boy and all 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.840 these other like Lobster Johnson, like these characters that Mike 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.359 created as well. I just I think those books are 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.520 so wonderful and really cool to see a creator who 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:31.840 got to do a book for such a long time 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.600 kind of end it on his own terms and then 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.920 he does dip back into it. But that is something 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.200 if you want to get into something and just do it, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.680 it's you can do that. That can be your seat dive. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.919 Yeah, there's a there's a breaking bad aspect too of 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.639 hell Boy, where it's like Mignola keeps putting hell Boy 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.840 into situations where you're like, how's he gonna get out 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.399 of this way? And he gets out of it and 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.240