Coast City Comics Podcasts: Recent Episodes
Tristan Gallagher
Hab #1, Smile for the camera #2, X-Men United #2, Absolute Batman, Forsooth! A Silver Surfer Reprint!!!
Hey! We're doing another one of these. We kind of figure out the deal with Vandal Savage, and talk about the books of the week.
Spider-Girl! It's better than I expected! Death of Silver Surfer! It's doing a metaphor that's more important than I expected! Absolute Batman! Bane is actually bigger than I expected!
Godzilla finally punishes Chicago for improv culture, Turtles with PTSD keep being sad, Spider-Man can't stop dying, and Batman's longest halloween yet.
DC VS Vampire one shot RULED. Where Monsters Lie wraps the second mini-series with a bang. All New Venom continues to be surprisingly fun. So many second third and fourth printings of the Absolute Books. Give Bug Wars a chance. It's pretty great.
Skin Police! They live inside of my skin! Kid Venom! He's like Venom, but smaller. And Absolute Superman. I guess he's like a vodka or something.
X-Men get more Exceptional, Spiders get more boyish, and Jeff Lemire finally makes a maudlin comic. (Its actually really good...I mildly tease the sad emo guy)
X-Stuff! Avengers fighting Aliens stuff! Sesame Street fighting Aliens Stuff! Probably. I didn't read it.
Who is the turtle in the iron mask? Why is She-Hulk so good? What's up with Cyclops' new visor design? (It's rad...that's what)
New TMNT! NEW EC COMICS! NEW BOOM HORROR ANTHOLOGY! NEW UNIVERSAL MONSTERS CREATURE COMIC! GODZILLA KEEPS NOT BEING ON A SKATEBOARD IN SKATE OR DIE!!!
Godziller. Phylis Diller. Driller Killer. One of these things is in this week's podcast.
Santos Sisters have a late Halloween! You learn what if Tomb of Dracula, something something.
Godzilla Vs Kong Vs JLA Vs Kramer Vs Kramer Vs Alien Vs Predator Vs The People Vs Larry Flint Vs Oj Simpson Vs Terminator.
CAPWOLF! Dark Droids! Wolverine and a non-Werewolf Captain America? Superboy mini-series ends!
Nightcrawler is HELLCRAWLER!!! (They call him something else, but man that's a better name)
Knight Terrors continues, Fishflies, Turtles meet Stranger Things for reasons unknown...
Spider Punk and other comics that don't have a punk rock Spider-man came out this week.
Miles! Moon Knight reissue! New Mutants! Last House on the Lake! Once and Future! Phalanx! Shadow War Omega!
Squeak the Mouse returns! Nightmare Country brings back Sandman's favorite murderous guy with mouths for eyes plus many more!
Spider-Punk, Spider-Punk, does whatever a Spider-Punk can. Begs for change for PBR, might throw up in your car...look out. Here comes the Spider-Punk.
Punisher...other stuff...it took me seven attempts to upload this so...enjoy. Sorry it's late.
The most secret of all the X-Men! The most lovey of all the DC comics! And the continuing story of the Wolverine...who walks like a man?!?
Why this spider-man so savage? Why is Sabretooth so mad? Is X-Cellent X-Men X-Cellent or just X-Tranious? We'll tell you all those things and more!
Saga returns! Stray Dogs are sad! X-Lives of Wolverine is a bigger deal than I thought it was going to be!
Wolverine has X lives. Is it ten? Is it none? Is this an algebra problem? I dropped out of high school so I'm not going to figure it out. Plus, other things!
Sorry. Chad was almost mixed out of this episode. I boosted him and dropped me, and hopefully it still sounds ok!
United States of Captain America brings a new Cap from the Kickapoo tribe, and his costume is badass. King Spawn #1 drops, and it is the first new Spawn ongoing in twenty years, plus it's actually pretty good. The big silly looking Cable is back and the book is great. Ewing is on it so it's not all that surprising.
Magneto on trial! Spider-man pursued by all his villains grouped into teams of six! Gilbert Hernandez is clearly going through something, and much more!
Yeah. Well, you learn a lot about other very important stuff. We get mad that people fucked up the pandemic recovery.
There's a great continuation of the Hadley's Hope saga with Aliens this week. The ending of Ha Ha and the Stillwater story in Skybound X are both tearjerkers.
Does anyone care about Avatar? Why do people make variant covers for comics? The Paddington cartoon, Super Ted, and what happens when you eat a Smurf?
New stuff from Joe Schmalke! The Spider's Shadow series turns out to not be the boring punisher type thing we were worried it would be, and DC has 10 new bat books. (They're all pretty great though...) Also, we're both looking forward to
They just keep killing turtles in Last Ronin #3, Teen Titans Academy gets really good, and this week's issue of Heroes Reborn is entirely drawn by James Stokoe????
Attack of the outlaw indies! Red Room #1, Crime Destroyer, and Apocalypse 5000! Plus, Spider-man turns itself around and Joëlle Jones Wonder Girl is so good I literally don't know how to talk about it.
So many sad Spider-mans this week. Plus, Silver Coin, and Heroes Reborn kills more Marvel mainstays.
We talk about the difficulties of Portland business ownership, how awful it is to sell MTG at a comic shop, and why we judge you if you know LITERALLY NOTHING about your child when shopping at our store.
If you aren't reading Ultramega I don't know what to tell you. You are missing the greatest comic ever.
Joker #2 introduces a new Lady Bane? Children of the Atom #2 renames Daycrawler to Nightynight Crawler? I'm in. Plus some other great books.
Geiger is the radioactive Mad Max superhero that we've all been waiting for. Nocterra continues to be amazing. Iron Shadow is the nudie murder Conan that maybe somebody was waiting for?
DC continues to repair itself, and there's a really good Black Knight comic? Weird. Something really has flipped the world on it's ass.
Batman Urban legends. Like...I heard that Batman drank Coke and ate Pop Rocks and he exploded. Also, the calls were coming from inside Wayne Manor and on the handle of the Batmobile...was a hook. Plus, Children of the Atom BRINGS BACK MAGGOT!!! Finally some justice for the best X-man.
DC is killing it. This new relaunch is everything I'd hoped for and more. Plus, new America Chavez, new Scott Snyder book from Image, and other stuff what is güd.
On this episode, we talk about nonsense, until it turns into a therapy session to fix Chad's crippling self-doubt. Spoiler alert, we don't fix it.
Stray Dogs brings serial killers to the Don Bluth dog world, Nuclear Family brings the threat of armageddon to the fifties household, and Crossover brings the mascot for a gross snack food to life.
A sad space monster in Hollow Heart, a sad work place with a terrible secret in Black Friday, and a sad Hulk in Flatline. Let's get sad!
Future State! King in Black! A Milk and Cheese variant for a Black Hammer book written by Patton Oswalt! Plus a Valentines book from DC.
More Future State, A Girl Walks Home at Night the graphic novel, Deep Beyond, Specter Inspectors.
We talk about stuff we saw traveling around to buy collections, why Pandas suck, and exactly how much pigeon poop is too much pigeon poop.
New Aquaman, 2020 an insane mother daughter fight..., plus Jeff the Land Shark gets Venomized.
Future State continues to impress...and the writer of Ice Cream Man is now down to clown.
The world was going to hell and people were storming the seat of government, but we talk comics in spite of it.
There were a number of comic books. We talk about them. That's it. I really wish I had more to say. I should have some hot takes here to draw in some listeners. Ok. Uh. There was a Dark Nights Metal book out this week that had the best Superman family story that I've read in a really long time. Yeah. Also, the most incomprehensible thing I've read came out this week. Also...I think we talk about two weeks of comics because I got nothing telling me what to put out this week.
There's 2 Immortal Hulk books, both are pulling a holiday cheer switcheroo. There's a new book called Post Americana that we both loved and lots of other great stuff.
New White Knight : Harley Quinn, featuring a new villain, "Starlet". X of Swords finishes STRONG, and first issues of, Kaiju Heist, and I Walk With Monsters.
Hey! This is us talking about the first appearance of Miles in Ultimate Fallout. We go off the rails, and get into depressing Covid crap at the end, then bring it back around. You can skip that stuff, because we've all heard too much of it. Also, Chad is recording in a freezing garage and loses all feeling in his toes.
New Immortal Hulk, Lobo takes center stage in Dark Nights Death Metal #5, Ice Cream man does Watchmen, Batman 103 Clownhunter fights Ghostmaker, and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night!
Sorry for the shitty zoom quality. We went for something this week, and failed. Oopsie. This is just the straight zoom audio, and pretty bad.
Spoiler, we know nothing about this series, and this is literally one of the most confusing things either of us has ever seen. I'm sure there are people who can tell us all about this. This is our honest reaction, not knowing a damned thing going in.
It's us, talking about that thing that I said in the title. Also, I complain about people being dinks.
Batman : White Knight Presents : Harley Quinn #1, new team on FF, Phantom Starkiller from Black Caravan, and all the rest!
Chad & Tristan talk Onslaught, Heroes Reborn, and the rat that used to live in our basement.
Whoo! We're upgraded, and I already made my first big mistake! I totally buried Bob's mic in the mix. Sorry all. I'll get better. I forget that I don't have pro-tools to fix stuff...Hopefully it's still listenable.
Lots of great Bat books. Strange Academy is still a freaking delight. Octobriana is a KS comic, but it's in normal comic shops today.
This week on the C4 Chad and Tristan talk briefly about the first Arno Stark Iron Man. Also, back to stories about times we were nearly murdered at the store.
Not a random obscure book this week. We talk about one of the most influential books ever! We barely even get off topic!
Holy 1000 issues of Detective Comics featuring Batman...Batman. Plus, Fearless Dawn meets Hellboy! Norman Osbourne is sinning up a storm. The origin of Cyclops! Again! This time it's somehow awesome? For real! Plus, Batman #99 has a "character" appearance that is going to make a really awesome toy.
We talk murderous Hulk killing with abandon, and what it's like running a comic shop in the middle of a pandemic. Lots of kvetching. If that's your thing, we drop the whole, "talking about a comic" thing half way through.
Empyre Falls out, Wonder Woman teams up with Max Lord, and Superman introduces a character that will be on everyone's lunchbox. Or probably not.