View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

Hello everyone, and welcome to 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. We???re still messing with the format a little bit, so???as always???feel free to get in touch with us with comments or??criticism. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Creature Tech, by Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim. Published in 2003, the eponymous Creature Tech is the US government???s secret research facility for the weird and unexplained, located in the small town of Turlock, CA. It???s new head researcher???and out protagonist???is??Dr. Michael Ong, the [???]

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. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Flashpoint, by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert. Released in 2011,??Flashpoint is the event that shepherded the post-Crisis DC universe into that sweet goodnight, and launched the New-52. It features Barry Allen???The Flash???who suddenly awakens to find himself in an altered reality where the world teeters [???]

On this special bonus episode of??View from the Gutters, we discuss the 2009 film adaptation of Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder. Our hosts for this episode are Andrew Chard, Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, Kayleigh Fleeman, and Cade Reynolds.

Happy 100th Episode! Thank you to everyone who has listened to the show in the last 2 years. We hope you will continue to listen and enjoy our podcast for the next 100 episodes. This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. One of the seminal [???]

Some quick announcements before episode 100 drops later today.??We wanted to thank all of our listeners and preview??some of what we???re going to be up to in the new year. You can find Top of the Stack at it???s new home right here.

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Lazarus, by Greg Rucka,??Santiago Arcas, and Michael Lark. Set in a dystopian future in which the Earth is ruled by corporate families who via for control while exploiting the ???waste???, the unwashed masses who are neither family nor those lucky enough to have curried a [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Shutter, by??Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca. It stars Kate Kristopher, a child explorer and adventurer??in a world more fantastic than our own filled with robots, talking animal people, flying saucers, ninja ghosts, and a whole lot more.??The series begins on Kate???s 27th birthday, ten [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is Strong Female Protagonist, by Brennen Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag.??SFP follows the life of retired teen-superhero and now college student Allison Green. As Mega Girl, Allison was one of the first and most powerful superheroes in the world. After years of battling villains, she [???]

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. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Sovereign, Vol. 1,??by??Chris Roberson and Paul Maybury. Set in a familiar yet different world from our own,??Sovereign??follows several groups of characters as the time of convergence approaches, when demons inhabit the bodies of the dead and the world is prophesied to undergo a great change. [???]

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. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Four Eyes, by Joe Kelly and??Max Fiumara. It is set in New York City during the Great Depression. Also, there are dragons. First released in 2008,??Four Eyes has been released irregularly with four issues released at present, and none in several years. Kelly??stated in a [???]

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. [???]

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. [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Ms. Marvel, written by G. Willow Wilson with art by Adrian Alphona and Jacob Wyatt. Launched in 2014,??Ms. Marvel follows the adventures of Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager from Jersey City, NJ, who gains superpowers after being exposed to the Terrigen Mists. Kamala???an avid fan [???]

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??Nausica?? of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki. First published??in 1982 and continuing intermittently through 1994,??Nausica?? is about the [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Three, written by Kieron Gillen with art by Ryan Kelly.??Three??is Gillen???s direct response to Frank Miller???s??300. It is the story of three Helot slaves in Sparta, roughly a century after the??Battle of Thermopylae???a period when Sparta was in decline. The three slaves are the lone [???]

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 [???]