View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Thor??(2014), by Jason Aaron with art by??Russell Dauterman. For this episode we read issues #1-7 and Thor Special #1. Released in the wake of Thor Odinson becoming unworthy of wielding Mjolnir during the events of Original Sin, this new series begins with a mysterious woman [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Change, by Ales Kot and Morgan Jeske. I???m not even going to??try??to summarize what this book is even about, so this week you???re just getting the blurb: Dear Los Angeles: meet apocalypse. You have one day left. Unless, of course, someone decides to save you. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Superman Unchained, by Scott Snyder, Jim Lee, and Dustin Nguyen. Published in 2013, the 9-issue mini-series was released to coincide with the??Man of Steel??film as well as Superman???s 75th anniversary.??It features the reveal of a mysterious alien government operative who possesses stronger versions of all [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Avengers: Rage of Ultron, by Rick Remender, Jerome Ope??a, and Dean White. Part of Marvel???s series of Original Graphic Novels,??Rage of Ultron is primarily a story about lineage, and of fathers and sons. It features another in a long series of battles between The Avengers [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Wayward, by Jim Zub, John Rauch, and Steve Cummings. The series features Rori Lane, a half-Irish half-Japanese teenager who moves to Japan for the first time to live with her mother. She quickly discovers that she possesses a secret magic, and encounters others with special [???]

Welcome to episode 4??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??Black Widow, Vol. 1 & 2, written by Nathan Edmondson with art by Phil Noto. The series follows Nastasha Romanov???the Black Widow???on her adventures away from the Avengers both as an agent of SHIELD and a private mercenary taking jobs which will help her balance [???]

Back Matter is our roundtable discussion show focused on discussion that doesn???t??make it into our main show, including 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. [???]

We???re attending Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this weekend, so you get the episode a little bit early. This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??God Hates Astronauts, by Ryan Browne. Initially launched as a webcomic in 2007, the series was collected reprinted by Image as God Hates Astronauts, Vol. 1. [???]

Welcome to episode 3??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??Mystery Society, by Steve Niles and Fiona Staples. Published in 2010 by IDW, it is a tongue-in-cheek story about a group of paranormal investigators led by Nick Mystery and his wife??Anastasia. The comic follows their adventures fighting the US government and searching for the stolen [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Nailbiter, Vol. 1 & 2, by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson. From Image???s website: ???Where do serial killers come from???? and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to sixteen of the most vile serial killers in the world? NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Royals: Masters of War, by Rob Williams and??Simon Coleby. Published by Vertigo,??The Royals is an alternate history of World War II in a universe where those of royal lineage possess superpowers. It stars Prince Henry of England, who unknowningly breaks a pact between 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??Preacher, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. First published in 1995,??Preacher is dark nuevo-western which follows the life of Jesse Custer, [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Umbral, Vol. 1 & 2, by Antony Johnston and??Christopher Mitten.??Umbral is a fantasy story starring a young thief named Rascal, who has befriended the young prince of her native kingdom. Things take a turn for the worse, however, when on the day of an eclipse [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, by Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr. Published in 1994,??The Man Without Fear explores and revises the origin of Daredevil???and by extension the origins of Elektra and The Kingpin. If you???re familiar with Frank Miller???s other works you have an [???]

Welcome to episode 2 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 [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Captain Marvel,??Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight and Vol. 2: Down, by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Dexter Soy, Emma Rios, and Filipe Andrade, with colors by Jordie Bellaire. In this series Carol Danvers???long time Ms. Marvel???takes up the mantle of Captain Marvel. She [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Ravine, Vol. 1 & 2, by Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic.??Ravine??is a fantasy series about two Wanderers???people who have bonded with a mystic weapon called Grimlas who are destined to alter the destiny of the world.??It is rendered in lavish detail by Sejic, who both [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1, written by Kieron Gillen with art by Jamie McKelvie and colors by??Matt Wilson. Every 90 years 12 gods incarnate in the bodies of teenagers. All of them are dead within 2 years. The series follows Laura, a teenage [???]