Comics Discourse 114

We continue our celebration of spooky season with one of DC Comics' most powerful and vengeful spirits, The Spectre!We dive into issues #1–7 of the legendary The Spectre series by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platform.

In Marvel Fanfare 12, the web tightens around the Black Widow!Natasha has six assassins trying to kill her, including Iron Maiden, and she’s going to have to fight her way through all of them! With a little help from S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jimmy Woo, the Widow turns the tables on her attackers, but another assassin is waiting in the wings.The Black Widow story is brought to us by Ralph Macchio and George Pérez, with Pérez on pencils and Al Milgrom on inks.Then it’s Assistant Editors’ Month! Ann Nocenti and Roger Stern take over Marvel Fanfare and somehow Captain America gets dragged into the insanity. “Marvel Annfare” is written by Stern from an idea by Nocenti, with art by Al Milgrom.And finally, this issue features a portfolio from Rick Leonardi!You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platform.

Halloween season is here, and we’re diving into some new horror comics from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Ignition Press! Find out which books we loved, which ones we liked, and which ones didn’t quite win us over.We kick things off with Marvel’s new Midnight line, featuring Midnight Fantastic Four by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker, Midnight Spider-Man by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc, and Midnight X-Men by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte.From DC Comics’ Next Level initiative, we discuss The Demon, written and illustrated by James Harren, and Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death, written and illustrated by Michael Walsh.Finally, we turn to Ignition Press for Dinner Date by Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph, and 12-Foot Skeleton by Aaron Campbell, Tim Seeley, and Ben Templesmith.You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platform.

In Marvel Fanfare 11, the Black Widow is back in the U.S.S.R.!Natasha goes undercover in Russia searching for Ivan, but this is the Black Widow, so things don’t exactly go according to plan. Before long she’s on the run from the KGB, heading to Hong Kong, and facing a colorful collection of assassins hired to take her out.The story is brought to us by Ralph Macchio and George Pérez, with Pérez on pencils and Joe Sinnott and Jack Abel on inks.In the backup, we reach the end of our journey through The Jungle Book. Jo Duffy adapts Rudyard Kipling, with Gil Kane on pencils and P. Craig Russell on inks.And finally, we get a collection of pin-ups featuring Cloak and Dagger, Hulk, Man-Thing, and Doctor Strange from Terry Austin, Jim Shooter, Bob Wiacek, and P. Craig Russell.You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platform.

Sometimes a comic book character gets an extreme makeover and it works. Other times, it fails completely. And then there were the ’90s!Brian and Hassan look back at some of their favorite extreme makeovers from Marvel and DC Comics, along with some of the changes they would rather forget.You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platform.