View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell, a 2014 original graphic novel by Paul Dini and Joe Quinones. The book, which takes place outside of the current New-52 continuity, features the two be-fishnetted heroines investigating a series of murders which surround a retired gang of thieves who [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Journey into Mystery: Fear Itself, Vol. 1 & 2, by Kieron Gillen, Dougie Braithwaite, and other illustrators. Following the events in Marvel???s Siege event, Loki the trickster god is dead! Long live Loki the trickster god! Loki, having been reborn as a brand new person [???]

Welcome to our Halloween bonus series, Tales from the Gutter. For the month of October we will be focusing each week on a different genre of horror/spooky comic. This week, we discuss Slasher and Splatter comics. To kick off this conversation, we each read??Nailbiter??by Joshua Williamson with art by Mike Henderson and colors by Adam [???]

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??AdSVENtures, by Chris Peckford,??a children???s [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Question: The Five Books of Blood, written by Greg Rucka with art by??Jimmy Palmiotti, Diego Olmos, John Van Fleet, Jes??s Sa??z, Steve Lieber, Manuel Garcia, Eric Trautmann, and Matt Clark. Originally released under the title??52 Aftermath: Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood, this 5-issue [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Free Country: A Tale from the Children???s Crusade, written by??Jamie Delano, Alisa Kwitney, Toby Litt, and Neil Gaiman with art by??Peter Snejbjerg, Mike Barreiro, Chris Bachalo, and Peter Gross. Whew, what a mouthful! According to wikipedia legend???O Best Beloved???this series was originally published as??The Children???s [???]

Welcome to our Halloween bonus series, Tales from the Gutter. For the month of October we will be focusing each week on a different genre of horror/spooky comic. This week, we take a look at horror comics from outside the US. To start our discussion, we each read Beautiful Darkness by Kerasco??t and Fabien Vehlmann [???]

Welcome to episode 6??of Singles Club!??This is our new 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 [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Michael Moorcock Library Vol.1: Elric of Melnibone, by??Roy Thomas,??Michael T. Gilbert, and??P. Craig Russell. First published in the early 1980s, this series adapts the original Michael Moorcock story of the same name. Elric is king of Melnibone, a magic island, and he fights his [???]

Welcome to our new Halloween bonus series,??Tales from the Gutter.??For the month of October we will be focusing each week on a different genre of horror/spooky comic. This week we take a look at horror comics geared towards younger readers. To start our discussion, we each read Anya???s Ghost by Vera Brosgol, Coraline by Neil [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??High Crimes, by Christopher Sebela and Ibrahim Moustafa. The 12-issue series follows the life of disgraced former-Olympic snowboarder Zan Jensen, who works in Nepal for a man who retrieves the corpses of people who have died climbing mountains. Unfortunately the two find the corpse of [???]

Welcome to our new Halloween bonus series,??Tales from the Gutter.??For the month of October we will be focusing each week on a different genre of horror/spooky comic. This week we take a look at comics featuring monsters and the things that hunt them. To kick off this discussion, we read Afterlife with Archie by Roberto [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Madame Xanadu,??by Matt Wagner and Amy Reeder, with additional art by Jo??lle Jones,??Michael WM. Kaluta, and??Marley Zarcone. Published in 2008, this series explores the origin of the titular Madame Xanadu. It follows her life and adventures from her origins in pre-historic Britain up through the [???]

Back Matter is our show focused interviews, news and events in the comics industry,??television and movies, or discussions of comics which open onto a broader conversation. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any comments or questions you might have at??contact@viewfromthegutters.com. On this episode of Back Matter our hosts relate their experiences at Rose [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Trillium, by Jeff Lemire. Published in 2013, this 8-issue series is a time traveling inter-dimensional romance taking place simultaneously in 1921 and 3797 A.D. On one end it features Nika, a scientist in the distant future trying to prevent the extinction of the human race. [???]

Back Matter is our show focused interviews, news and events in the comics industry,??television and movies, or discussions of comics which open onto a broader conversation. Feel free to email us discussion ideas or any comments or questions you might have at??contact@viewfromthegutters.com. On this episode of Back Matter, Joe and Tobiah sit down with the [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, by Ryan North (of the long running??Dinosaur Comics webcomic) and??Erica Henderson. First appearing in the early 90s, Doreen Green???teen superhero extraordinaire???is the unbeatable Squirrel Girl with the proportionate strength and speed of a squirrel. Also she can talk to squirrels and [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1-3, by Ed Piskor. Produced in an old-school half-tone style, the series examines the history and evolution of hip hop from its roots in 1970s Brooklyn into the 1980s and ever greater public consciousness. In our recommendation section our hosts [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Stagger Lee, by Shepard Hendrix and Derek McCulloch. This limited series from Image examines the history and evolution of the classic ragtime, blues, jazz, and rock ???n rock song Stagger Lee, as well as the real-life events surrounding the shooting of Billy Lyons by Lee [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??DC: The New Frontier, the??Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning series by Darwyn Cooke. Published in 2004, The New Frontier is one of DC???s finest Elseworld comics. Set primarily in the 1950s, it visits a version of the DC universe on the boundary between the Golden [???]