View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is Richard Stark???s??Parker, adapted and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke. The series follows the eponymous Parker, a professional criminal in the 1960s who we are introduced to as he is seeking revenge against several??former compatriots who double crossed him and left him for dead. In the [???]

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??Bone, by Jeff Smith. Published independently between 1991 and 2004, Bone follows??the three Bone cousins???cartoon character-like people exiled from the town??Boneville [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Five Ghosts, by??Frank J. Barbiere,??Chris Mooneyham, and??Garry Brown. The series follows the pulp adventures of Fabian Gray???renowned treasure hunter and adventure-seeker???who some years ago had five crystal shards from the legendary Dreamstone imbedded in his chest. These five shards allow him to call upon the [???]

Hey everybody. We have a bunch of announcements to make, so we made a special mini-episode to cover all the upcoming changes/events here at View from the Gutters. If you don???t want to listen to the episode, here???s a quick run-down: 1. Voting We???re making a pretty significant change to the way we make the [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Kill Shakespeare, by??Anthony Del Col, Conor McCreery, and Andy Belanger. The series follows Hamlet, of the Shakespeare play, who???having left Denmark and sailed for England as he should???is beset by pirates.??After escaping a bloody battle on a plank of wood Hamlet awakens not in England, [???]

This episode was pre-recorded as a back-up in case we were unable to record the show as normal, and is being released outside of our normal continuity of shows. We apologize for the gap. We???ll be back next week with our preselected title, Kill Shakespeare. In the meantime, this week on View from the Gutters [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??My Friend Dahmer, by Derf Backderf. Published in 2012, the book??is Derf???s accounting of his experiences in??junior high and high school as a friend of Jeffery Dahmer, the notorious serial murderer who was arrested in 1991, and later murdered in prison by another inmate. The [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Gladstone???s School for World Conquerors, by??Mark Andrew Smith and Armand Villavert Jr. Set in a top secret school for young and aspiring super-villains (themselves predominantly the offspring of super-villains), the series follows the hijinks and adventures of a group of students. All is???as is so [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Federal Bureau of Physics, written by Simon Oliver, with art by??Robbi Rodriguez and??Alberto Ponticelli, and colors by??Rico Renzi. Released by Vertigo beginning in 2013, the series follows a field team of agents from the eponymous government agency as they undertake missions battling against the breakdown [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Princeless, written by??Jeremy Whitley and drawn by??Mia Goodwin,??Emily Martin,??Rosy Higgins, and??Ted Brandt. The series follows the adventures of??Adrienne, a princess placed in a tower guarded by a dragon who decides that waiting in a tower to be rescued is dumb. She escapes from the tower, [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??ODY-C, by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward. This series is a psychedelic, sci-fi, gender-bent reboot??of the classical epic poem??The??Odyssey, by Homer. It follows the adventures of Odyssia and her crew, returning home to Ithicaa after the fall of Troiia, beset by all manner of woes [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Top 10, by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon. The series is a police procedural set in the other-dimensional city of Neopolis, a reality??where every person has some variety??of superpower. The series follows the lives and cases of the officers of the 10th precinct [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Jem and the Holograms, by Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell, and M. Victoria Robado. This series is a revival, as well as a reimagining, of the outrageous 80s cartoon series of the same title. It features the musical and romantic adventures of the eponymous band, composed [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Sixth Gun, by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt. The series takes place some years after the Civil War. It centers around 6 mystic guns, each of which grants a unique power to its wielder. It follows the adventures of two such wielders, as they [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??FF, by Matt Fraction, Mike and Laura Allred, and Joe Quinones. Launched??in 2012 as part of??Marvel NOW, this series was part of a duology along with its companion series??Fantastic Four, also written by Fraction and drawn by Mark Bagley. That series covers a year in [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Through the Woods, by Emily Carroll. This graphic novel collects five spooky supernatural stories spanning a variety of times and places. It is a delightfully eerie collection which has been beautifully illustrated, and you may already be familiar with one of the stories which is [???]

Welcome to??Singles Club, our short-format show where every so often one of our hosts will take a little time to talk about a small-press, indie, or webcomic. If you have an independent work you???d like to share with us, send us a link or digital copy at review@viewfromthegutters.com. This week Tobiah??reviews??Valor, an anthology of short [???]

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??Elephantmen, written by Richard Starkings with various artists. Set two centuries in the future,??Elephantmen is a mix of sci-fi and noir. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, by Jhonen Vasquez. Originally published in the mid-90s, JTHM is one of the seminal indie comics of the period. It features the adventures (i.e. murders) of Johnny, a deranged psychopathic murder who is honestly kind of a sweet guy when you [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Catwoman. For this episode we read Catwoman, Vol. 1: Trail of the Catwoman, and Vol. 2: No Easy Way Down, by Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke,??Cameron Stewart, and other artists. This series, beginning in 2002, finds Selina Kyle on the slow path to redemption. She teams [???]