View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Seconds, by Bryan Lee O???Malley.??Seconds is a beautifully drawn all-ages books which will very familiar to anyone who is a fan of O???Malley???s previous work,??Scott Pilgrim versus The World.??It??is the story of a young chef named Katie, who is in a period of transition in [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Rocket Girl, Vol. 1, by Amy Reeder and Brandon??Montclare. Launched by a Kickstarter campaign,??Rocket Girl??is the story of DaYoung Johansson, an officer of the New York Teen Police in the far-out future year of 2013, a time of jet packs, flying cars, and robots which [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Hellboy: Seed of Destruction??and??Wake the Devil???collected as trade paperback Vol. 1 & 2, or Library Edition Vol. 1???by Mike Mignola.??First published in 1993,??Hellboy is the story of its eponymous hero, a demon summoned from hell by the mad monk Rasputin in the dying days of [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Universe X, by Jim Krueger and Alex Ross, with art by Dougie Braithwaite and Bill Reinhold. The sequel to Earth X (which we discussed previously), Universe X takes the next step forward in plumbing the depths of the Marvel Universe, past, present, and alternate. Created [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Black Science, Vol. 1, written by Rick Remender with art by Matteo Scalera and colors by Dean White. Launched in 2013,??Black Science is an ongoing series.??Using ???The Pillar???, a device of their own creation, Grant McKay and his team of scientists are able to jump [???]

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??X-Statix, by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred. For this episode we read??The X-Statix Omnibus. Originally called X-Force, this team of reality-show [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??JLA: A League of One, by Christopher Moeller. While it says Justice League on the cover, this is at its heart a Wonder Woman story. Released as a graphic novel in 2000,??A League of One is beautifully illustrated in a full painted style by Moeller, [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Daredevil, Vol. 1, written by Mark Waid with art??by Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin. Daredevil is one of Marvel???s classic characters with a long and sorted publication history. This new??Daredevil series (which began in 2011 and is still ongoing)??focuses on Matt Murdock as he tries [???]

It???s another Bonus Episode! Our previous .NOW was so popular we???ve decided to try??it again. Once again our topic work is??Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery, by Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch.??Rat Queens??is a fantasy comic in the tradition of Dungeons and Dragons. It follows the adventures of the eponymous Rat Queens, an adventuring [???]

?? This week on??View from the Gutters our topic work is??Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery, by Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch.??Rat Queens is a fantasy comic in the tradition of Dungeons and Dragons. It follows the adventures of the eponymous Rat Queens, an adventuring party composed of four women of various races and [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. It is an autobiographical comic, relating Satrapi???s experiences growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution of the 1970s. It follows her experiences first as a schoolgirl during the revolution, then later as a teenager when she??is sent away to Europe [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is Avengers Forever, by Kurt Busiek with art by??Carlos Pacheco and??Jesus Merino. Released in 1998-1999, Avengers Forever??was a 12-issue mini-series which saw a coalition of Avengers from across past, present, and future teaming up in a mammoth showdown between Kang the Conquerer???one of the Avengers??? greatest foes???and [???]

This week on View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E., created??by Warren Ellis??and??Stuart Immonen.??Nextwave is a 12-issue series that ran between 2006 and 2007. It follows the adventures of the Nextwave team as they combat the villainous plans of H.A.T.E.???Nextwave???s??former employer???and their shadowy backer, a terrorist organization known as S.I.L.E.N.T. operating under [???]

Bonus Episode! We just had so much interest in this comic from our hosts we decided to put out a bonus episode with commentary from Joe, Eric, and Kirby, who weren???t able to be on the regular Episode 67. Once again??our topic work is??All-Star Superman, written by Grant Morrison with art by Frank Quitely and [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??All-Star Superman, written by Grant Morrison with art by Frank Quitely and Jamie Grant. Published over three years,??All-Star Superman??is the second title in DC???s short-lived All-Star line, that sought to present iconic visions of their banner characters outside of the constraints of continuity.??It is Morrison???s distillation of [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??MIND MGMT, by Matt Kindt. For this episode we read issues #0-17 (Vol. 1-3). It???s the story of Meru Marlow, a journalist who???two years after the publication of her bestselling first book???decides to investigate a mysterious incident in which an entire plane full of people spontaneously lost [???]

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??Invincible, created by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, with art by Ryan Ottley. For this episode we read??issues #1-110. Invincible is [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks.??Superhero Girl was originally published weekly online from 2010-2012, and was reprinted in color by Dark Horse??in 2013. It features the lighthearted (mis)adventures of the eponymous Superhero Girl (for whom no other name is ever supplied) as she struggles [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Superior Spider-Man, written by Dan Slott with art by??Ryan Stegman,??Humberto Ramos, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and others. Beginning in January 2013 and ending this month,??Superior Spider-Man??is??not??the story of Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man. Doctor Octopus??swapped brains with Peter in??Amazing Spider-Man #700, leaving Peter to die is Doc Ock???s [???]

On this giant-sized episode of??View from the Gutters??our topic work is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, written and penciled by Frank Miller, with inks by??Klaus Janson and colors by??Lynn Varley. The Dark Knight Returns??is one of the seminal Batman works, and along with Year One (released the following year, also written by Miller) not only [???]