Episode Details

On this week’s comic book review podcast:

Ultramega #1
Image Comics
By James Harren

Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade #1
Marvel
By Si Spurrier & Sergio Dávila

Orphan and the Five Beasts #1
Dark Horse Comics
By James Stokoe

Catwoman #29
DC Comics
Written by Ram V
Art by Fernando Blanco

Radiant Black #2
Image Comics
Written by Kyle Higgins
Art by Marcelo Costa

The Amazing Spider-Man: King in Black #1
Marvel
Written by Jed MacKay
Art by Michele Bandini, Alberto Albuquerque

Nightwing #78
DC Comics
Written by Tom Taylor
Art by Bruno Redondo

Orcs! #2
Kaboom!
By Christine Larsen

The Trials of Ultraman #1
Marvel
Written by Kyle Higgins & Mat Groom
Art by Francesco Manna, Eduardo Ferigato and Gurihiru

Justice League #59
DC Comics
Written by Brian Michael Bendis, Ram V
Art by David Marquez, Xermanico

Snow Angels #2
ComiXology
Written by Jeff Lemire
Art by Jock

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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 books that come out this week, but not Head Lopper.

Justin:              Yeah, what the fuck, man?

Alex:                 Never Head Lopper, never, ever. [crosstalk 00:00:22] They barely lop any heads anymore in that book. [crosstalk 00:00:28]

Justin:              It should be Head Notper because they’re not lopping anything up.

Alex:                 It’s a very good book. We’re just not talking about it in The Stack. Instead, we’re going to kick things off, talking about Ultramega #1, from Image Comics by James Harren. I think you actually said it best on the live show, Justin, so I don’t know if you want to just take it from here, but I think you totally nailed my thoughts on this book.

Justin:              Yeah. And so this book is a take on Kaiju, sort of a dark take. I’ve never been a Kaiju guy in comic book form.

Pete:                Really?

Justin:              Just in the comics, I feel like a lot of them are sort of similar to what we’ve seen before. And this book is such a dark take on it. You’re in this character’s head, it’s just such a fresh version of this type of book. I loved every bit of the story and so many surprising moments and especially where it lands by the end. This was definitely the… Caught me off guard and was the most surprising and exciting book of the week for me.

Pete:                Wow.

Alex:                 Pete, what about you?

Pete:                I loved it. The art’s unbelievable. This is a real epic book. Unbelievable battles, super gross. Yeah. The storyline is really creative and different. It’s dark in all the right places, creepy and gross looking in all the right places and huge and intense and others. And it’s just really, really well done.

Justin:              [crosstalk 00:01:56] Sorry,