Comics Discourse 114

It’s a Daredevil and Marvel Comics episode as we dive into the classic and brutal Without Fear story by Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark, and Stefano Guadiano (Daredevil Vol, 2 100 -105), featuring Mister Fear, the Hood, Dakota North, The Enforcers, and Milla Donovan, Matt Murdock’s often- forgotten wife. Plus we discuss Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 on Disney + and Jessica Jones Blind Spot by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De luis. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

It’s time for another Top of the Stack. we we dive into highlights of our comic book recent reads and industry news from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Abrams Books, and others. This episode, we break down the absolute chaos of Absolute Batman 19 from Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, discuss the comics journalism and Top Ten lists with the new fun Comics! The Magazine, the upcoming new book from Skybound, Terminal, and explore a packed slate of reads including The Undertaker, Alien: King Killers, TMNT, Punisher, Royals, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast, MAD About DC, and DC Next Level books; Firestorm, Lobo, and Batwoman. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Throughout comic book history, publishers have relaunched characters or concepts into new books, but not every character gets the comeback that they deserve. This episode, we play publisher of every comic book company (Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics and even companies that do not exist anymore) and draft the characters or series we’d bring back to the spotlight. Who would make the cut? From forgotten favorites to overdue revivals, we build our dream line-up. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Another stacked Top of the Stack episode packed with comic book talk from Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, Mad Cave, IDW, Marvel, and DC Comics. We dive into Kaito 84 (an Usagi Yojimbo spin-off), revisit Vertigo’s Shade: The Changing Man, and break down books like Green Lantern Corps, Batwoman, Predator: Bloodshed, Punisher, Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral, Honor and Curse, Is Ted Ok?, Beneath the Trees Where No One Sees, Devil on My Shoulder, Witchblade, Batman, and Detective Comics. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

We get wacky as Special guest Shane Kelly from Comic Geek Speak join us to for our final monthly spotlight on Justice League International with Justice League Europe vs Extremists. We discuss JLE 15 - 19 by Keith Giffen, Gerald Jones, and Bart Sears where Captain Atom leads JL against alternate versions of Marvel Comic’s great villains and visit Disney World on a dead Earth. What?! It is DC Comics vs Marvel Comics! You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Back by popular demand, we revisit the early years of Image Comics with ShadowHawk, Brigade, Supreme, Pitt, and Gen 13 by Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Dale Keown, Jim Lee, J Scott Campbell and others. Do these books hold up to the test of time? Did they ever? Find out. Plus some new comic book talk including Absolute Wonder Woman Annual, Versus Manga, The End of Life, the new Vertigo book by Kyle Starks & Steve Pugh, and Batman/Superman World’s Finest. Extreme Studios, Wildstorm, DC Comics You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Hate. Death. Despero. It is not the typical Justice League International spotlight episode with the deadly return of Despero. Special guest Shane Kelly from Comic Geek Speak returns to the show to discuss with us Justice League International Special #1 and Justice League America 37 - 40 featuring Steel, Gypsy, Booster Gold quitting the team, Power Girl’s cat, and the Death of Mister Miracle! Wait? What? Plus Justice League Detroit talk! These exciting issues are by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Adam Hughes, Len Wein, & Joe Phillips. DC Comics You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

With the excitement around DC Comics KO, we turn the clock back to Marvel’s own heavyweight showdown: Avengers vs. X-Men. In this episode, we revisit the 2012 blockbuster event by an all-star lineup: Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Cho, John Romita Jr., Olivier Coipel, Adam Kubert, and Jim Cheung. What did we think when it first dropped? How does it read now, years later? Plus the new Darkness series from Top Cow and Void Rivals, GI Joe, and Transformers from Skybound and Image Comics. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

We dive into the first-ever Justice League America / Justice League Europe crossover, a landmark story that also kicks off Adam Hughes’ legendary run on JLA. These issues feature the debut of Fire and Ice’s iconic looks (although Fire’s is basically regular clothes, two sizes too small), the Huntress and a new female Doctor Fate joining the team, appearances by the Spectre and Superman, the return of the Gray Man, and the introduction of Justice League’s deadliest villain… Irwin Teasdale (actually, no). Along the way, we tackle the eternal question: is Batman a jerk, or not? These exciting issues (JLA #31–32 and JLE #7–9) by the incredible creative teams of Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Adam Hughes, Bart Sears, William Messner-Loebs, and Art Nichols. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

It is a Brian and Bryan on Brian episode as Brian Braddock takes center stage and we dive into classic Captain Britain stories by Alan Moore and Alan Davis, groundbreaking work that not only revitalized the character but established key Marvel Comics concepts, including Earth 616. Also, while Hassan is out the week, we talk about some great comics without him, including Drome, Assorted Crisis Events, Kingdom manga by Yasuhisa Hara, West Coast Avengers and X-Men Age of Revelation. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

We’re joined by special guest Tim Meakins as we blast into DC Comics cosmic side with L.E.G.I.O.N, the ‘90s series by Alan Grant, Keith Giffen, and Barry Kitson. Set in the present-day DC Universe but tied directly to the 30th-century Legion of Super-Heroes, this book introduced heavy hitters like Vril Dox and put the Main Man himself, Lobo, front and center. Plus 2000AD talk including the Out, Red Dragon and Zenith. You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Don’t let us get an angry and listen as we dive into a pivotal story of the Incredible Hulk by the legendary Peter David and Dale Keown, covering issues 372 - 377. This run has it all: the Gray Hulk, the Green Hulk, Rick Jones, Betty Ross, the Super-Skrull, the Pantheon, and Doc Samson. We also dig into the brand-new Infernal Hulk series by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein, plus more wild throwdowns with DC KO Round One: Superman vs. Captain Atom by Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse. Marvel Comics & DC Comics _______ You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

It is a comic book podcast crossover: Comic Geek Speak & Comics Discourse 114!! The Comic Geek Speak hosts, Peter, Shane, Bryan, and Brian invited us to join their show for a special crossover episode! For our Geek Discourse, we each are tasked with developing a comics syllabus as a way to get people interested in the world of comics. But it doesn’t just stop at the Intro level as we up the difficulty by offering our Intermediate and Advanced selections as well. Which course will you sign up for? Give a listen! ________ You can follow us on Instagram: @comicsdiscourse114, Threads: @comicsdiscourse114, TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicsdiscourse114?_r=1&_t=ZT-91jpy3DIireFacebook: Facebook Comics Discourse 114 and X: https://x.com/comicsdiscourse?s=21 Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.