Episode Details

On today’s packed comic book review podcast: X Of Swords: Creation #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal – Speed Metal #1, An Unkindness of Ravens #1, Spider-Man #4, The Last God #9, Voyage to the Stars #2, Wynd #4, Wicked Things #5, Low #25, Canto II: The Hollow Men #2, The Immortal She-Hulk #1, Undiscovered Country #8, MegaMan: Fully Charged #2, Juggernaut #1, Black Magick #14, Power Rangers: Drakkon – New Dawn #2, Maestro #2, The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #3, Judge Dredd: False Witness #3, and Bliss #3.

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Full Transcript:

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

Pete:                I’m Pete.

Alex:                 On The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out today. Oh boy, we have a packed stack for you today. This is a-

Pete:                Yeah.

Alex:                 Too many. Too many books, Pete.

Pete:                Yeah. What’s the deal here, buddy?

Alex:                 Why did you do this, Pete?

Pete:                Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Alex:                 Why did you do this?

Pete:                Yeah. Yeah.

Alex:                 This is your fault. No, I really didn’t mean to do this. I feel like I looked through what was coming out. Every email was like, “Oh, here’s three or four from IDW. Here’s five from Image. Oh, no.” I didn’t realize what a snowball it’d become until the end when we were finally getting ready for it. I’m sorry, Pete. We read a lot of books, but we got to get into it.

Pete:                We do.

Alex:                 This is important. People come to us as a resource.

Pete:                I don’t know about that, but-

Alex:                 Let’s kick it off.

Pete:                … we’ll do what we can.

Alex:                 This is a biggie. From Marvel Comics, X of Swords: Creation #1 from Marvel. Written by-

Pete:                X of Swords for $7.

Alex:                 For $7. By Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard. That’s $350 each if you don’t give any money to the arts by Pepe Larraz, which would be rude. I wish you would give it to somebody.

Pete:                That’s very rude, but it’s a part of either-

Alex:                 This is a monster, one of 22 right on the cover. One of 22, 68 pages long, huge story.

Pete:                First, I just want to say, if we weren’t doing this show and this was life before COVID, I would walk into a comic book shop, say, “Fuck you” and walk out, because $7 part one of 22, what the fuck are you doing?

Alex:                 Think about it. When you buy a book, right?

Pete:                Yeah.

Alex:                 You know it’s a certain amount of chapters. You’re paying about $7 per chapter, usually, for a book, if you think about it.

Pete:                No. No, it’s like four bucks bro.

Alex:                 No, man. No, absolutely not. Yeah, it’s-

Pete:                22 pages.

Alex:                 It’s $154 per book for a 22-chapter book. That’s how much I pay.

Pete