Episode Details

On this week’s comic book review podcast:

Infinite Frontier #0
DC Comics
Written by Joshua Williamson, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Brian Michael Bendis, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Joelle Jones, Tim Sheridan, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Geoff Johns, Geoffrey Thorne
Art by David Marquez, Jorge Jimenez, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Joelle Jones, Stephen Byrne, Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, Jamal Igle, Alex Maleev, Todd Nauck, Dexter Soy, Howard Porter, John Romita Sr. and Klaus Janson

America Chavez: Made In The USA #1
Marvel
Written by Kalinda Vazquez
Art by Carlos Gómez

Batman #106
DC Comics
Written by James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson
Art by Jorge Jimenez, Gleb Melnikov

Demon Days: X-Men #1
Marvel
Story and Art by Peach Momoko

Suicide Squad #1
DC Comics
Written by Robbie Thompson
Art by Eduardo Pansica

Wiccan and Hulkling: King in Black #1
Marvel
Written by Tini Howard
Art by Luciano Vecchio

The Swamp Thing #1
DC Comics
Written by Ram V
Art by Mike Perkins

Nocterra #1
Image Comics
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Tony S. Daniel

Crime Syndicate #1
DC Comics
Written by Andy Schmidt
Art by Kieran McKeown, Bryan Hitch

Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #1
Oni Press
By Chris Samnee and Laura Samnee

Sea of Sorrows #4
IDW
Written by Rich Douek
Art by Alex Cormack

The Comic Book History of Animation #4
IDW
Written by Fred Van Lente
Art by Ryan Dunlavey

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex:                 What’s 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 books that come out this week, and we’re going to kick it off with a big one. Infinite Frontier, number zero-

Pete:                Oh, man.

Alex:                 … from DC Comics. Nice, simple lineup of names here. So let’s go through it. Written by Joshua Williamson, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Brian Michael Bendis, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Joelle Jones, Tim Sheridan, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Geoffrey Thorne. Art by David Marquez, Jorge Jimenez, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Joelle Jones, Stephen Bird and Rafa Sandovall, Jody… Oh, there we go. Jordi Tarragona, Jamal Igle, Alex Maleev, Todd Nauck, Dexter Soy, Howard Porter, John Romita Sr. and Klaus Janson.

Alex:                 Now this is your requisite, post-event check in with the entire DC Universe. What’s going on? What’s happening with everybody? What’s everybody’s new status quo now that the continuity has changed. So we kind of know how this one goes, but the framing here is that Wonder Woman has maybe ascended to be a higher being, she’s trying to decide about that.

Alex:                 And so she’s taken a look in on the new state and the multi-verse post Dark Nights: Death Metal. How’d you feel about this book? How’d you feel about the status quo? What jumped out at yo