Southern Fried Geekery

*Spoilers Celebrate the apparent bookend to Hickman's tenure on the X-Men with Matt & Caleb as they chat about the content and the emotions tethered to the most recent happenings in Inferno #4 (22:00). Plus, Fourth Man #1; Human Target #3; Red Sonja #5; Batman #119; Batman One Dark Night #1; Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #3; Not All Robots #5, & Sparring with Gil (interview collection.) NCBD Picks: Maniac of New York-Bronx Burning #2; King Conan #2

*Spoilers for Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1; The Maxx #1 (the original series, you've had time); Destroy All Monsters OGN; Trial of Magneto #5; Porcelain #5; Redneck #31; Devil's Reign #2; Robin & Batman #2; Conan the Destroyer #1 (1985). NCBD Pickups: The Fourth Man #1; Apache Delivery Service #1

*Spoilers There couldn't be a more Marvelous way to end 2021 than to chat about King Conan #1 and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Caleb and Matt chat about the great first issue of King Conan by Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar, with Matt Wilson on the colors and Travis Lanham doing the lettering duties. Then we whip out our ticket stubs and chat about the record breaking film Spider-Man: No Way Home Happy Holidays yall!

*Spoilers Wastelanders: Wolverine; Loveless TPB; The Amazing Spider-Man #39  NCBD Picks: King Conan #1; Wonder Woman Evolution #2

*Spoilers  Mother F Goose #1 (one-shot); Devil's Reign #1; Mechaton #1 and more! NCBD Picks: Hulk #2; We Ride Titan's #1

*Comic Spoilers King of Spies #1 (21:00); 007 James Bond Vargr #1 (37:30); Darkhold Alpha (50:00) NCBD picks: Mother F. Goose #1; Nita Hawes Nightmare Blog #2

*Spoilers Donny Cates, Ryan Ottley, and Company bring us Hulk #1, and we toss it up on the roundtable. Then, we literally pull questions from a hat as we randomly pick conversation starters blindly, and follow them down a number of conversational paths. NCBD Picks: Hotel vol. 2 #1; Daredevil #26; Trial of Magneto #4

*Spoilers The Thing #1 by Mosely, Reilly, & Bellaire; World of Tanks #1 by Ennis & Ezquerra; Radio Apocalypse #1 by Ram V, Anand RK, Anisha, Didikar.  NCBD Pics: Hulk #1; Grrl Scouts Stone Ghosts #1; Kull the Conqueror Omnibus. 

*Spoilers for: Disney drops new Marvel series first looks, Diamond gets hit with malware, Shortstack-o-comics; Robin & Batman #1 (35:00); Refrigerator Full of Heads #1(1:06:00); Frank Miller's RoboCop #1 (1:14:00); The Me You Loved in the Dark #4 (1:24:00) NCBD picks: Wonder Woman Evolution #1; Dracula of Transylvania OGN; Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #8

*SPOILERS This week we look a a bevy of DC books. The Human Target gets put in the roundtable hotseat (23:00), followed by Soul Plumber from the DC Horror line, and chased by the Deluxe Edition of Plastic Man from the great Kyle Baker. Mix in a couple of Comic Shortstacks and a spoiler free review of The Eternals, and you've got quite the conversation. NCBD Picks: Batman The Imposter #2 & Action Comics #1036. 

Happy Halloween This week we talk about House of Slaughter #1, gleefully give our thoughts on DUNE now that Craig is home, run down what we like and don't like seeing in our trick or treat bag, and lastly, we each break a list of FIVE characters that serve up terrors.  NCDB Pics: Lure (Fantagraphics): Knighted #1 (AWA); Dark Knights of Steel #1

Thanks for hanging out with us for 200 episodes. Hopefully we'll continue to entertain you for 200 more and beyond. This Week: Spoiler Free endorsement of Dune, The Ant #1 (22:30), Slaine: Dragon Tamer (43:30), Superman and the Authority #4 (1:03:30), Legends of the Dark Knight, Trial of Magneto #3, Verotica: Revenge, Mazebook #2, Strange Adventures #12, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #9 Next Week: Cross to Bear #1;  Darkhold: Blade #1

Spoilers This week is all about celebrating the incredibly dynamic series that is the Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy Jose, Belardino Brabo, Paul Mounts, Corey Petit, and--of course--Alex Ross on covers.  We chat about the finale and revisit some of our favorite issues throughout this incredible 50 issue run.  NCBD Pics: Nightwing #85, Ant #1, Trial of Magneto #3, and more. 

*Spoilers  The Amazing Spider-Man #75; Harley Quinn: Eat Bang Kill #1; Jennifer Blood #1; The Autumnal TPB. NCBD Picks: Harley Quinn: Eat Bang Kill #2; Slain: Dragon Tamer; James Bond: Himerose #1; The Immortal Hulk #50

*Spoilers We kick off the show with a handful of notable titles that were read over the last week, move into a roundtable about the new series DEATHSTROKE, INC., and then cap things off by answering the question, "I watched the Dune trailer and it reminded me of _____." NCBD Suggestions: Chicken Devil #1, I Righteous Thirst for Vengence #1, The Cimmerian: Beyond the Black River #1

*Spoilers The Death of Dr. Strange #1; Twig Preview-Review; Youngblood #2, Criminal-Coward TPB; Moon Knight #3; X-Men #3; Batman the World (Special Edition); Maw #1; Porcelain #2, The Me You Love in the Dark #2, Chu #8 NCBD: Deathstroke, Inc. #1, Jewish Brigade OGN, Human Remains #1

*Spoilers Primordial #1 (23:00); Prophet vol.1 #4-5 (44:30); Champions Vol.4 #9 (1:06:00); Red Room #3; Trial of Magneto #2; Second Coming Vol.2 # 4; Watersnakes OGN; Judas Priest (Rock & Roll Biographies); Basilisk #3 NCBD Picks: Barbaric #3 (4th Printing); Other Boys OGN

*SPOILERS  Deadbox #1(23:15) ; Mazebook #1(52:30), Satanica (Verotic Press) #1 (1:02:00); Death Plays a Mean Harmonica OGN (1:17:45) Next Week Pulls: Primordial #1; Trial of Magneto #2; Star Wars Darth Vader #16

*Spoilers We put Red Sonja #1 on the round table, and talk about this new chapter of the She-Devil written by Mirka Andolfo & Luca Blengino, Illustrated by Giuseppe Cafaro, colored by Chiara Di Farancia, with letters by Hassan Otmane-Elhaou. Then we chat up the new Spider-Man No Way Home trailer, and segway into a conversation about our own experiences with Marvels flagship hero.  NCBD Picks: Basket Full of Heads TPB, Conan the Barbarian #25; The Defenders #2

*Spoilers Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer; Echolands: Hope's Crucible #1 (26:30); Lester of the Lesser Gods One-Shot (58:00); 1000 Storms (1:06:00) NCBD Pics: Red Sonja #1, Motorhead: Rise of the Loudest Band in the World OGN; Aquaman 80th Anniversary 100 Page Spectacular