Episode Details

On this week’s Stack podcast:

Alien #1
Marvel
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Art by Salvador Larroca

Harley Quinn #1
DC Comics
Written by Stephanie Phillips
Art by Riley Rossmo

Firefly: Brand New ‘Verse #1
BOOM! Studios
Written by Josh Lee Gordon
Art by Fabiana Mascolo

Teen Titans Academy #1
DC Comics
Written by Tim Sheridan
Art by Rafa Sandoval

Once & Future #17
BOOM! Studios
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Dan Mora

Action Comics #1029
DC Comics
Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad
Art by Phil Hester, Michael Avon Oeming

HAHA #3
Image Comics
Written by W. Maxwell Prince
Art and Cover by Roger Langridge

Batman/Superman #16
DC Comics
Written by Gene Luen Yang
Art by Ivan Reis

Crimson Flower #3
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Matt Kindt
Art by Matt Lesniewski

Detective Comics #1034
DC Comics
Written by Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Williamson
Art by Dan Mora, Gleb Melnikov

The Scumbag #6
Image Comics
Written by Rick Remender
Art by Bengal

Barbalien: Red Planet #5
Dark Horse Comics
Script by Tate Brombal
Story by Jeff Lemire and Tate Brombal
Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Stray Dogs #2
Image Comics
Written by Tony Fleecs
Art by Trish Forstner

Post Americana #4
Image Comics
Story and Art by Steve Skroce

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex:                 What is up, y’all? Welcome to The Stack. I’m Alex.

Justin:              I’m Justin.

Pete:                I’m Pete.

Alex:                 On The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, kicking it off with a very scary book called Alien #1 from Marvel, written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Salvador Larroca. This is a big deal because this is the first of the Fox properties that is coming to Marvel. We have Predator coming down the pike. Alien is here now, and we had Phillip Kennedy Johnson on the live show talking about this book a couple of months back now when he first got on it. So he teased that, if you want to go and listen to it, but all of the teasing aside, what’d you think of this one?

Justin:              I thought this was great. Really captures the vibe of the Alien movies while being a compelling new story where you really feel alongside the characters. Mistakes are made. Classic Alien thing where somebody really fucks up with these things. You don’t get a lot of mistakes with the alien people.

Alex:                 The thing that I thought was really fascinating about this as a fan of the Alien franchise, and to get into spoilers for the book a little bit … It’s about a military guy. He ended up getting captured by aliens, escaped. We don’t know exactly how yet, but this is years later. He’s retiring, trying to reconnect with his son. Definitely a theme Phillip Kennedy Johnson is playing with with his books right now with fathers and sons and connecting through this and through Superman.