Episode Details

On today’s Stack podcast: Iron Man #1, You Look Like Death: Tales From The Umbrella Academy #1, Batman #99, Thor #7, Stillwater #1, Detective Comics #1027, Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1, Big Girls #2, Justice League #53, Seven Secrets #2, The Immortal Hulk #37, Dryad #5, Catwoman #25, Once & Future #11, X-Men #12, Faithless II #4, The Amazing Spider-Man: The Sins of Norman Osborn #1, and Head Lopper #13.

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Full Transcript:

Alex:                 What is up y’all? 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 comics that have come out today.

Pete:                Sure do.

Alex:                 We review them, unless they’re DC comics, those rap scallions, they come out on Tuesdays. They go out for 24 hours. You already know about them.

Justin:              Yes, but you can read them today. You can read comics whenever you want. That’s the freedom of the comic book industry.

Alex:                 Right. And if you break into writer’s brain, you can read comics that haven’t even been made yet, man. You know what I’m talking about?

Justin:              Yes. I know what you mean by breaking into a writer’s brain too. You talk about with like a hammer?

Alex:                 Yeah, man. But six feet away, keep your safe distance. Let’s get into this because I don’t know where I was going.

Pete:                Wait, what? Yeah, what the fuck.

Alex:                 I don’t know where I was going with this, Pete. Iron Man, number one from Marvel written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Cafu. This is, as you can imagine, another new start for Iron Man, a back-to-basic start after the big robot war. And this book spends quite a bit of time with Tony Stark, the man, before it puts him in a classic Iron Man costume, throws him up against a new, old threat. What’d you think about this book? How’d you feel about this versus the last couple of years in Tony’s life?

Justin:              I don’t know if I’d call it an Iron Man costume, but other than that I think this is a fun book. I feel like Tony Stark is popping a little bit more here. He feels a little bit on his own, less tied up in a sort of the galaxy brain, worried about everything, stuff that he’s mostly been in for the last few years and more just like the guy who puts on the suit.

Pete:                It’s nice to see him not being a robot or a dead version of himself or whatever it is. It’s nice to see Tony being Tony, but there’s a lot of interesting things in this comic. I didn’t really get past the sad girl playing her violin outside of an Apple store and then asked to leave where she was crying and walking away, that was fucking heartbreaking, man. That was cold as ice. But I’m interested to see what happens. The problem is what I didn’t like was there was this moment where it was just like the movie where Tony Stark’s like, “Oh yeah.” And then someone comes out to him at a party and was like, “Hey Tony, I got this th