What If...? Donald Duck Became Thor, Houses of the Unholy, Get Fury, Hello Darkness, Night Club 2, Absolute Power, Bernie Mireault, Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Feelings, The Comics Journal #310, Grendel: Devil's Crucible: Defiance, Nice House by the Sea, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison creeps in to talk about Doomsday Clock, Batman: Year One Artist's Edition, Josh Bayer, Frank Miller, Dave Cooper's Dog Head, Robert Crumb, Barry Blair, Dave Sim, Jess Franco, Evil Dead, Venom War, Get Fury, Nemesis: The Warlock the Definitive Edition, Heavy Metal, plus a whole mess more!

Savage Dragon #271 and the genius of Erik Larsen, Absolute Power #1 by Mark Waid, Dan Mora, and Alejandro Sanchez, Ghost Machine-O-Rama: Geiger #3, Rook: Exodus #3, and Redcoat #3 by Geoff Johns and company, All the Things We Didn't Do Last Night by Maria Llovet, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Department of Truth Volume 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds from Image Comics!

Image O-Rama: Supreme by Rob Liefeld, Brian Murray, Shawn McManus, and company, Love Everlasting by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, and Matt Hollingsworth, Art Brut by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Mat Lopes, and Last Barbarians #2 by Brian Haberlin and Geirrod Van Dyke, Superman-O-Rama: Superman: Strength by Scott McCloud, Aluir Amancio, Terry Austin, and Patricia Mulvihill, and Superman: Lost #1 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, and Jeromy Cox, Star Trek-O-Rama, Spectreman Heroes #5 by Matt Frank and company from Antarctic Press, plus a whole mess more!

Local Man Tony Fleecs returns to blabber on about Rick & Morty Vs. Cthulhu by Jim Zub, Troy Little, and Leonardo Ito from Oni Press, Longbox Roulette: Action Comics Annual #1 by John Byrne, Art Adams, and Dick Giordano, Stormwatch #44 by Warren Ellis and Tom Rainey, and Leave it to Chance FCBD 2002 by James Robinson and Paul Smith, plus Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey from Drawn & Quarterly, The Tick: The Complete Edlund by Ben Edlund from New England Comics, Almighty #2 by Laroche and Simpson from Image, The Snowcat Prince by Dina Norlund from Oni Press, We Live from the Miranda Brothers and company out of Aftershock, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World, plus a whole mess more!

Ice Cream Man by M. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran from Image, Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim, Nicolas Keramidas, Brigitte Findakly and Christina Hwang from Fantagraphics, Kyle Starks-O-Rama: Where Monsters Lie #2 with Piotr Kowalski and Vladimir Popov from Dark Horse and I Hate This Place #6 with Artyom Topolin and Lee Loughridge out of Image, The Human Target #12 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood, DC Vs.Vampires, Cosmic Ghost Rider #1 by Stephanie Phillips, Juann Cabal, Espen Grundetjern, and company, Rick & Morty #2 from Oni, World's Finest #12, Guardian of Fukushima by Fabien Grolleau and Ewen Blain from TokyoPop, Phantom Road #1 by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel H. Walta, and Jordie Bellaire, plus a whole mess more!

Our Top Five Anthologies, more Bad Idea, Blue Book #1 by James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming from Dark Horse, Fantagraphic-O-Rama: SPA by Eric Svetoft and NOW: The New Comics Anthology #12 from Eric Reynolds and company, Captain America, The Last Barbarians #1 by Brian Haberlin, Hannah Wall, and Geirrod Van Dyke from Image/Shadowline, Mind MGMT: Bootleg from Dark Horse, Hypericon by Manuele Fior from Dargaud, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Jim Starlin's proto-Dreadstar Metamorphosis Odyssey and The Price!

Bad Idea-O-Rama: Orc Island by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli, and Matt Hollingsworth, They're All Terrible by Matt Kindt, Ramon Villalobos, and Tamra Bonvillan, Haunthology by Jeremy Haun, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1 by Tim Seeley, Kelley Jones, Sergio Aragonéz, Eddie Nunez, Brennan Wagner, and Rico Renzi from Dark Horse, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Terry Moore and Parker Girls, Harrower #1 by Justin Jordan and Brahm Revel from BOOM!, Don Rosa and Disney, Icon Vs. Hardware, Star Trek, Nightcrawlers #1, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Almighty #1 by Edward Laroche and Brad Simpson, Lastman Book One by Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vivés, and Balak, and The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway from Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 by Al Ewing, Paco Medina, and Jay David Ramos, Amazing Spider-Man #19, Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver from Abrams, Renaissance by Fred Duval and Emem from Europe Comics, Avengers: War Across Time, Issunboshi by Ryan Lang from Oni Comics, Walt Disney Giant #3 and Don Rosa from Gladstone, Kamen Rider Kuuga, plus a whole mess more!

John Amor roars into the EOC treehouse to talk up Urban Animal, Big Medium, Teen Titans and George Perez, One Week in the Library, Bakuman, Skottie Young, Dungeons and Dragons, Where Monsters Lie #1, Action Comics #1051, Sins of Sinister #1, Chainsaw Man, Drifting Home, plus a whole mess more!

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Single Issue Shuffle: Creepshow #5 (2022) by Steve Orlando, Clay McLeod Chapman, Marianna Ignazzi, Anwita Citriya, Fabiana Mascolo, Jordie Bellaire, and Chris Burnham from Image, Jonny Quest #6 (1986) by William Messner-Loebs and Adam Kubert from Comico, and The Pink Panther Super-Pink Special (2017) by S. A. Check, Jorge Pacheco, John Gallagher, and Warren Tufts, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The Adventures of Tintin: In the Land of the Soviets and The Calculus Affair by Hergé, plus The Witcher: Ballad of Two Wolves from Dark Horse, One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring from Fantagraphics, A Taste for Blood by DeBuhme from Europe Comics, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and Jason Aaron from BOOM!, Rick and Morty #1 from Oni, Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula from Life Drawn, plus a whole mess more!

Bryan Clark joins us to reveal the winners of the 11 O'Closcars for 2022!

Blowing Minds by Jake Kelly from Stone Church Press, Everything Sucks: All Cats Go to Hell by Michael Sweater from Silver Sprocket, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 from Abrams, Action Comics #1050, Black Cloak #1, Gotham City: Year One, Days of Sand by Aimée De Jongh from Self-Made Hero, plus a whole mess more!

Finally, Tana Ford descends into the EOC treehouse to talk about Laguardia, The Space Cat, Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty, Duck, Silk, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume One by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, and Benedict Dimagmaliw!

Mike Del Vecchio joins us on an all-manga episode, highlighting Chainsaw Man by Tatsuji Fujimoto from Viz, Go! Go! Loser Ranger! by Negi Haruba from Kodansha, One Piece and Eiichiro Oda, Junji Ito, The Gay Who Turned Kaiju by Kazuki Minamoto from Yen Press, The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono from Viz, Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki from :01 First Second, plus a whole mess more!

Bloodshot Unleashed by Deniz Camp, Jon David-Hunt, and Jordie Bellaire from Valiant, Briar by Christopher Cantwell, Germán García, and Matheus Lopes from BOOM!, Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar, Federico Vicentini, and Bryan Valenza, Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin from Panel Syndicate, Invincible Iron Man #1, Kamen Rider Kuuga Volume One from Titan Books, Image-O-Rama: Night Club #1 by Mark Millar and Juanan Ramírez, Kroma #1 by Lorenzo De Felici, and Gospel by Will Morris, Leonide the Vampire by Mike Mignola, Rachele Aragno, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann from Fantagraphics, Cat-Man and Kitten #1 by Jeff Parker, Joseph Cooper, and Arancia Studio from Dynamite, Manga-O-Rama: Junji Ito's Black Paradox from Viz and Boat Life by Tsuge Tadao from Floating World, Super Trash Clash from by Edgar Camacho Top Shelf, Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Hand-Drawn Thought Photography by Noah Pierce from Decoder Ring, Classified: The Black Box, Kepler's Intergalactic Guide to Spaceships by Jake Parker, plus a whole mess more!

Matthew Allison warps in to add to this month's Book of the Month: Pussey! by Dan Clowes from Fantagraphics!

Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime by Jason Aaron and a host of supremely talented Italian artists, Cormac McCarthy's The Road adapted by Manu Larcenet from Abrams, Warren Ellis' Scars, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Destro #1 by Dan Watters, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, TMNT: Black, White and Green and Gavin Smith, Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Ronin Book II (no spoilers) by Frank Miller, Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques, and John Workman from Frank Miller Presents, Kamen Rider Zero-One #1 from Titan Comics, Lord of the Jungle #1 by Dan Jurgens, Benito Gallego, and Francesco Segala from Dynamite!, Humanoids-O-Rama: Psychoverse by Mark Russell, Yanick Paquette, and Dave McCaig and First Degree: A Crime Anthology by David F. Walker, Michael Lark, and company, Strange, PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama from Kodansha, The Thing, plus a whole mess more!

Tony Fleecs returns to the fold to join in on Kim Jung Gi, Image-O-Rama: Kane Volume 3: Histories by Paul Grist, Deadly Class, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood, Old Dog by Declan Shalvey and Clayton Cowles, Above Snakes, plus Love & Rockets, New Mutants #31, Prophet, Terry Kavanagh, WildC.A.T.S, Comics Revue #437/438 and The Phantom by Lee Faulk and Sy Barry, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special, plus a whole mess more!

Kevin O'Neill, Carlos Pacheco, Grateful Dead Origins by Chris Miskiewicz, Noah Van Sciver, Aladdin Collar, and Tyler Boss from Z2 Comics/Rhino, Matt Wagner's Grendel Omnibus Volume 1, Manga-O-Rama: Night of the Living Cat by Hawkman and Mecha-Roots from Seven Seas and She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki from Yen Press, Wolverine 26-27 by Benjamin Percy, Juan José Ryp, and Frank D'Armata, Skottie Young-O-Rama, Star Trek #1 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing, Ramon Rosanas, and Lee Loughridge from IDW, Image-O-Rama: Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson, Andre Bressan, and Adriano Lucas and I Hate This Place by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, and Lee Loughridge, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda from Abrams, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Stray Bullets Volume One: Innocence of Nihilism by David Lapham from El Capitán/Image Comics!

Top 5-O-Rama: Our Top Five Four-Issue Limited Series, Top Five Trios, Top Five Image Series, plus a whole mess more!

Heavy Hitters-O-Rama: Law Dog by Chuck Dixon, Henry Flint Henry, Marc Hansen, and company, Midnight Men by Howard Chaykin, and Sachs and Violens by Peter David and George Peréz, plus A.X.E. Judgment Day, Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin, plus a whole mess more!

Single Shuffle: DNAgents #10 my Mark Evanier, Will and Jo Meuginot, and Al Gordon from Eclipse Comics, plus Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki from Viz, The Silent Invasion by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas from NBM, Slash them All by Antoine Maillard from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Thrud the Barbarian by Carl Critchlow from Titan Comics, the Death, Destruction, Vice, and Sleaze series by Jake Kelly, Dynamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride by Jasper Jubenvill from Strangers Fanzine, Simon Hanselmann, Crime & Punishment: Marshal Law Takes Manhattan by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, and company from Epic, Tekno Comix, Manga-O-Rama: Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto from Viz and Dandadan Volume 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu from Shonen Jump, Always Never by Jordi Lafebre from Dark Horse, Back Issue #137 from TwoMorrows, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

New York Comic Con '22, Ryan Browne, Peach Momoko, Single Shuffle: Batman Vs. Robin #2 by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, and company, Scary Monsters #128, Superman: Son of Kal-El and Action Comics, Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: John Constantine, Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Rick Veitch, Alfredo Alcala, and company!

We recount our Heroes Con 2024 experience featuring Mark Buckingham, Sanford Greene, Alan Davis, Tana Ford, Howard Chaykin, John K Snyder III, John Workman, Richard Case, Simon Bisley, Daniel Warren Johnson, Andrew Pepoy, Skottie Young, Brian Stelfreeze, plus a little time left over for Jim Rugg's Conspiracy Comics, Blood Magic Tales, Cockney Kung Fu, and a whole mess more!

Vanish #1 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and company from Image, DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock Vs. the Army of the Dead by Bruce Campbell and Eduardo Risso, Madballs Vs. Garbage Pail Kids from Dynamite!, Tim Drake: Robin #1, Santos Sisters #2, Thunderbolts, patron questions, plus a whole mess more!

Chained Soldier Volume 1 by Takahiro and Yohei Takemura from Yen Press, The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, Star Trek: Below Decks from IDW, Ginka and Glüna by Shinpei Watanabe from Shonen Jump, Crazy Food Truck by Rokurou Ogaki from Viz, Acting Class by Nick Drnaso from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross and Josh Johnson from Marvel/Abrams Comicarts, How to Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pierce from Fantagraphics, Come Over Come Over by Lynda Barry from Drawn & Quarterly, Batman Vs. Robin, Kali by Daniel Freedman and Robert Sammelin from Dark Horse, The Changeling Volume 1 by Tina N. Lugo from Silver Sprocket, The Least We Can Do by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli from Image, Robin and Batman, plus a whole mess more!

Image-O-Rama: Gunslinger Spawn and The Complete Cyberforce Volume One, Ghost Rider, Boris the Potato Child by Anne Simon from Fantagraphics, Stages of Rot and A Frog in the Fall (and Later On) by Linnea Sterte from Peow Studio, more Curse of the Chosen by Alexis Deacon from Nobrow and Flying Eye Books, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye.

Fantagraphics-O-Rama: The End by Anders Nilsen, Metax by Antoine Cossé, and Halcyon by Ron Regé Jr., Sandman on NetFlix, Spectreman Heroes #2: Lionmaru by Hiroshi Kanatani and Matt Frank from Antarctic Press, Titan-O-Rama: Bloodborne: Lady of the Lanterns #1 by Cullen Bunn, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson and Ms. Tree Volume Three: The Cold Dish by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, Curse of the Chosen Volume 1 by Alexis Deacon from Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press, Echolands by J. H. Williams III and W. Hayden Blackman, and Dave Stewart from Image, Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1, Ant-Man #1, plus a whole mess more!

Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part One by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido from Dark Horse, Patience & Esther: An Edwardian Romance by S. W. Searle from Iron Circus Comics, Dai Dark by Q Hayashida from Seven Seas, Batman: Killing Time, Junji Ito's The Liminal Zone from Viz Signature, more Miles Morales, Warlock 5 Omnibus from Outland Entertainment, Dinamite Diva: One Eyed Wild Ride from Strangers Fanzine, Black Panther, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty, plus a whole mess more!

Eisner-nominated Tony Fleecs hangs with us to talk about Enzo Garza's Gutt Ghost, The Book Tour by Andi Watson, X-Men Legends #1 by Roy Thomas and Dave Wachter, Jordan Crane's Keeping Two from Fantagraphics, Parker Girls #1 by Terry Moore, a whole lot of Miles Morales, Dynamite's James Bond: 007 #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Marco Finnegan, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Ghost Cage, and more!

Brother Brian Newberry joins us on our quest to discuss ORCS! by Christine Larsen from Kaboom, recalling the glory days of Justice League/Europe, Devil Ecstasy V1 by Shuzo Oshimi from Kodansha, Action Comics, A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Shadow War, Eerie Publications - The Complete Covers: The Whole Bloody Mess from FantaCo, The Bear, DUI: Drawn Under the Influence Volume 2, Once and Future from BOOM!, plus a whole mess more!

Book of the Month: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden from :01 First Second.

Prelude to Heroes 2024, Avengers Twilight, Once Upon a Time at the End of the Universe, the G. I. Joe Compendium, ATTABOY: Illustrated Instruction Booklet by Tony McMillen from Mad Cave Studios, Into the Unbeing Part One by Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman from Dark Horse, Cowlick Comix #7 from Dead Crow World Media, Pine & Merrimac, Windsor McCay, more Hobtown, Destro, plus a whole mess more!

Colorless Volume One by Kent from Seven Seas, Cankor by Matthew Allison, Dog Biscuits by Alex Graham from Fantagraphics, Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho from Top Shelf, Image-O-Rama: The Closet #1 by James Tynion IV and Gavin Fullerton and Skybound X #25 by Kirkman, Ottley, Williamson, Bressan, Lucas, De Felici and company, Nightwing, She-Hulk, Loeb and Sale's Batman: Dark Victory and Long Halloween, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Volume 1 from The Library of American Comics and Clover Press, Shadow War, Love Everlasting by Tom King and Elsa Charretier, plus a whole mess more!

Above Snakes by Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman from Image, The Men Who Created Gundam by Hideki Ohwada, Hajime Yatate, and Yoshiyuki Tomino from Denpa, more World's Finest, the X-Universe post-Hickman, Dark Knights of Steel #7, The Cimmerian Volume 1 from Ablaze, Frankenrocker and the Jailbait Punks #2 from Bad Kids Press, Deathstroke Inc., The Lonesome Hunters #1 by Tyler Crook from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Clementine Book One by Tillie Walden and Cliff Rathburn from Skybound Comet, Disciples by David Birke, Nicholas McCarthy, and Ben Marra from Fantagraphics, Captain Action: The Classic Collection by Jim Shooter, Gil Kane, and Wally Wood from Penguin Random House, Frog Boy: Punk Rock & Roller Derby by John Burgin, World War Three: Battle Over Hokkaido #2 by Motofumi Kobayashi from Antarctic, Dark Knights of Steel, Adrastée by Mathieu Bablet from Magnetic, plus a whole mess more!