Episode Details

On this week’s Stack podcast, we’re reviewing:

Home Sick Pilots #1
Image Comics
Written by Dan Watters
Art by Casar Wijngaard

Venom #31
Marvel
Written by Donny Cates
Art by Iban Coello

The Comic Book History of Animation #1
IDW
Written by Fred Van Lente
Art & Letters by Ryan Dunlavey

Sweet Tooth: The Return #2
DC Comics
By Jeff Lemire

Scarenthood #2
IDW
Story & Art by Nicke Roche
Colors by Chris O’Halloran

Vampirella: The Dark Powers #1
Dynamite
Written by Dan Sbnett
Art by Paul Davidson

Seven Secrets #5
BOOM! Studios
Written by Tom Taylor
Illustrated by Daniele Di Nicuolo

Crossover #2
Image Comics
Written by Donny Cates
Art by Geoff Shaw

Spider-Man #5
Marvel
Written by J.J. Abrams & Henry Abrams
Art by Sara Pichelli

American Vampire 1976 #3
DC Comics
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Rafael Albuquerque

Getting It Together #3
Written by Sina Grace & Omar Spahi
Art by Jenny D. Fine & Sina Grace

Origins #2
BOOM! Studios
Creat by Arash Amel, Lee Krieger and Joseph Oxford
Script by Clay McLeod Chapman
Art by Jakub Rebelka

King In Black: Namor #1
Marvel
Written by Kurt Busiek
Art by Benjamin Dewey

The Vain #3
Oni Press
Written by Eliot Rahal
Illustrated by Emily Pearson

Red Sonja: The Price of Blood #1
Dynamite
Written by Luke Lieberman
Art by Walter Geovani

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Full Episode Transcript:

Alex:                 What is 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 new comic books that have come out this very week. We review them, we give our unfiltered [crosstalk 00:00:23].

Pete:                Just try to filter us. Good luck.

Alex:                 It’s never going to happen. And we’re going to come out raw and hard on this first one.

Pete:                What? Well, don’t say things like that.

Alex:                 Yeah, but no, I’ll say whatever I want. Home Sick Pilots number one from Image Comics, written by Dan Watters, art by Caesar Wijngaard. I don’t know, I probably should check that before we got on the air or anything like that.

Justin:              I think Caspar, is Caspar Wijngaard.

Alex:                 Yeah. This is a new title obviously from Image Comics from two creators that frankly I don’t think I’ve ever heard of, but this is … I wanted to put this up front because there’s been a lot of hype on this. And there is a very big, in my opinion, bold debut that is well worth that hype. This focuses on an indie band, one member who ends up in a haunted house, disappears, weird things go on, crazy things go on. And it almost feels like to me a spiritual descendant of like, I don’t know, so many different things at the same time that it feels original. But the first things that came to mind are like Locke and Key a little bit, Paper