View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Paradise X, written by Jim Krueger and Alex Ross, with art by Dougie Braithewaite. The conclusion to the Earth X trilogy,??Paradise X continues from the end of??Universe X. Death has died, but all is still not well in the afterlife where Captain America???now leader of a host [???]

Back Matter is our roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows, as well as other discussion that didn???t make it into our main show. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Thor, by J. Michael Straczynski with art by Oliver Coipel and??Marko Djurdjevic. This series of??Thor began in the aftermath of Civil War, and features the return of Thor and Asgard from non-existence after being destroyed in Ragnarok some years previous. In this series we see Thor, now [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Big Book of Barry Ween, by Judd Winick. This collection contains all four previously released trades of??The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius as well as the color-special crossover with??Whiteout. First released in 1999,??Barry Ween is one of the great indie comics of its time. It [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, by Greg Rucka and??J. G. Jones. Published in 2002, this original graphic novel predates Rucka???s critically acclaimed run on Wonder Woman by a year. In??The Hiketeia, a young woman pursued by the Batman runs to Wonder Woman for sanctuary, swearing a sacred [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Swamp Thing, by Brian K. Vaughan with art by??Roger Petersen and Giuseppe Camuncoli. Published in 2000, this volume of??Swamp Thing follows the daughter of Alec Holland, Tef?????a hybrid human and plant elemental, who travels the world in search of personal understanding and to find a way to [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Courtney Crumrin, Vol. 1 & 2, by??Ted Naifeh. First released by Oni Press in 2002,??it???s titular protagonist is??Courtney Crumrin, a teenage girl who moves with her parents???a pair of social climbing nitwits???into the home of her great uncle??Aloysius. Or perhaps her great-great uncle. No one seems to [???]

Back Matter is our roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows, as well as other discussion that didn???t make it into our main show. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Losers, Book 1, by Andy Diggle and Jock. This book collects issues 1-12 of the series, previously collected as volumes 1 & 2, Ante Up and??Double Down, respectively.??The titular Losers are a band of special forces operatives working (initially) as a CIA black ops team. Before [???]

The Long Run takes place outside of our normal continuity of episodes, and features table discussion of an entire work or long selection of a series. In this episode of The Long Run??we talk about the life and times of Stephanie Brown. For this special episode we read a selection of titles including??many issues of [???]

Back Matter is our roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows, as well as other discussion that didn???t make it into our main show. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Incredible Hercules, Vol. 1: Against the World, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, with art by Khoi Pham. Following the events of??World War Hulk, Hercules took over the Hulk???s comic, teaming up with Amadeus Cho???a young man known as the 7th Smartest Man in [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Transformers Classics, Vol. 1 & 2, which reprints issues #1-25 of the classic 80s Marvel series written by Bill Mantlo, Bob Budiansky, and various artists. First published in 1984, this series provided the basis for much of the Transformers canon, including the names and back history of [???]

This is week one of??our Rocking September Batman 75th Anniversary Extravaganza. During the month of September we???ll be talking a lot about the caped crusader, starting right now. This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Batman: Knightfall, the classic??first part of the Knight Saga which saw Bruce Wayne confined to a wheelchair, replaced him [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Fuse, Vol. 1: The Russian Shift, by Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood. In the far future, The Fuse is an autonomous space station in orbit above Earth, five miles long and home to half a million people. In volume 1 we follow??police detectives Dietrich and Klem [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Queen and Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground, by Greg Rucka with art by Steve Rolston.??Queen and Country is a modern espionage/thriller inspired by??British TV series such as The Sandbaggers. It primarily follows the missions of Tara Chace, as well as her co-workers in an MI-6 Special??Intelligence [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Wake by Scott Snyder with art by Sean Murphy and colors by Matt Hollingsworth. The Wake??is a strange tale that mixes elements of science fiction and horror. It begins with the story of Lee Archer, a marine biologist??who is??approached by the Department of Homeland Security [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters, circumstances conspired such that we simply??could not record our weekly episode as usual. I???m assuming that supervillains have teamed up to attack our fair show with weather machines and bioengineered plagues. On the down side this means that we???re all going to have to wait until next week for [???]

Back Matter is our roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows, as well as other discussion that didn???t make it into our main show. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Hawaiian Dick, by B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin. First released in 2002,??Hawaiian Dick??is a supernatural noir comic which takes place in 1950s Honolulu. and follows the adventures of Byrd???a former mainland police detective who has moved to Hawaii to escape his past. He is, [???]