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Graphic Book Club: DC: The New Frontier

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Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the sixth episode where we talk about DC: The New Frontier.

We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: See below for more information on the next read.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Purchase: Amazon

The best-selling, award-winning team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS finally collect their hit book FATALE under one cover in this gorgeous compendium edition.

Josephine is cursed, and in a series that darkly blends American crime noir with unnamed Lovecraftian horrors, we follow her from 1950s San Francisco, where crooked cops hide deeper evils, to mid-’70s L.A., where burnt-out actors and ex-cult groupies are caught in a web around a satanic snuff film, then back through the ages of time… and in the middle of it all is Josephine, with a power to die or kill for.

The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon

Graphic Book Club: Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage

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Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the fifth episode where we talk about Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage

We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: DC: The New Frontier. See below for more information on the next read.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Purchase: Amazon

Welcome to the DC Universe in 1950s America — a land of promise

and paranoia, of glittering cities and segregated slums, of dizzying scientific progress and simmering Cold War conflict. A land without the Justice League—Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Or so it seems.
 
The masked mystery men who fought for freedom in the Second World War have been outlawed. The soldiers and spies who conducted top-secret missions into the unknown now work in the shadows. And those icons who do still fight on — Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman — operate under hidden agendas and dueling ideologies.
 
Yet this America needs its heroes more than ever. With darkness gathering on the horizon once more, only a bold new generation of adventurers — young, daring, and dedicated to the better angels of our nature — is equal to the challenge of the New Frontier.

The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon

X-Men ‘97: Season 2 episodes 1-5 with Ethan Gould

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“Speaking of sexual Tyrannosaurus, the tension between Wolverine and Sabretooth could be cut with a knife,” – artist and game designer Ethan Gould returns to talk about X-Men ‘97 Season 2 episodes 1-5, now on Disney+.

Don’t be a time-tossed mutant, when it comes to X-Men and art history, whether it’s Art Deco Egypotomania or 1980s action horror movies we’ve got you covered. 

Ethan Gould is a New York artist and writer. His work has appeared in print, in galleries, on television, and off-off Broadway. His most recent project is The Sometimes Kingdom RPG, a tabletop game exploring what labor means as an adventurer in a modernizing high fantasy world, out now from Stillfeet Studio. You can find him online and soon on Patreon under the handle @Spectralhouse.

Catch up with our 2024 episode on the X-Men ’97 Season 1 finale: Magneto and Xavier’s Meet Cute in the Mind Palace

Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord with Prof. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond

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“To what extent can you throw a person away?” – Dr. Holly Schaeffer-Raymond on Darth Maul. 

Maul – Shadow Lord, the latest Star Wars animated series on Disney+ is stunning. It hits topics like raising kids amidst fascism, cycles of abuse, and it’s even got Weird Little Guys. Resident Star Wars expert Holly Schaeffer-Raymond returns to the podcast. She’s a writer and professor at Temple University. She’s the author of Mall is Lost (2018) and Maul is Lost (2023) and featured in the Lambda nominated We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetic.

Visit   hollyraymond.carrd.co for more. 

Hear our Bad Batch Season 3 episode https://bit.ly/BadB3

Spoilers for the Darth Maul TV series begins around minute 13. 

Graphic Book Club: Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow

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Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the fourth episode where we talk about Super Girl: Woman of Tomorrow

We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage. See below for more information on the next read.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon

It’s time to go back to the 90’s! Carnage, the spawn of Venom, has assembled an army of Spider-Man’s criminally insane adversaries to spread his message of hostility, chaos and wholesale slaughter: Carrion, Demogoblin, Shriek and the Spider-Man Doppelganger! Outmanned and overpowered, the wall-crawler must recruit his own band of super-beings to combat the rising tide of evil: Black Cat, Cloak & Dagger, Firestar, Captain America, Iron Fist, Deathlok and – Venom?! Spider-Man’s worst enemy becomes his uneasy ally in the battle to halt the pure evil of Carnage’s mad rampage! Plus, an explosive day for Peter Parker leads him into a savage showdown with the Punisher – and Sabretooth!

The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.

Purchase: Amazon

Daredevil Born Again Season 2 with cartoonist and organizer John Leavitt

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“ It’s not so much that Mayor Fisk is like [Former NYC Mayor] Eric Adams, it’s that Eric Adams is a comic book character,” — John Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist who works with the DSA Upper-Manhattan Bronx chapter and a published Marvel author with Strange Tales Volume One. 

I’ve been involved in New York politics for over 20 years and I’m a lifelong Daredevil reader so I was thrilled to geek out about this Disney + season him. 

Listen to Graphic Policy’s episode on Daredevil Born Again Season 1.
Checkout John Leavitt’s work at leavittalone.com/
Follow John on Bluesky: leavittalone.bsky.social
Follow me: levin.bsky.social 
Join DSA (which is a more effective means of winning social change than fighting ninjas)

Graphic Book Club: Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

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Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the third episode where we talk about Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel!

We spend a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a few related side topics before finally picking the next read: Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow. See below for more information on the next read.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is an eight-issue miniseries by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely which started in June 2021. It focuses on Kara Zor-El’s quest in space, aided by Krypto, and is told from the perspective of the new character Ruthye Marye Knoll, an alien girl that Kara meets who is looking for justice for her father’s death at the hands of Krem of the Yellow Hills. The last issue in the series was released in February 2022.

The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.

Purchase: Bookshop – Amazon

Graphic Book Club: Superman/Batman DC Compact Edition

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Superman/Batman DC Compact Comics

Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the second episode where we talk about the DC Compact Comics edition of Superman/Batman!

We spend quite a bit of time talking about the book, getting into a groove for how the show will flow and finally picking the next read: Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel  by Beth Revis. See below for more information on the next read.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Music by Alex K Cossa via Suno.

The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolate. But on the forest moon of Endor, among the chaos of a changing galaxy, time stands still for a princess and her scoundrel.

After being frozen in carbonite, then risking everything for the Rebellion, Han is eager to stop living his life for other people. He and Leia have earned their future together, a thousand times over. And when he proposes to Leia, it’s the first time in a long time he’s had a good feeling about this. For Leia, a lifetime of fighting doesn’t seem truly over. There is work still to do, penance to pay for the dark secret that she now knows runs through her veins. Her brother, Luke, is offering her that chance—one that comes with family and the promise of the Force. But when Han asks her to marry him, Leia finds her answer immediately on her lips . . . Yes.

Yet happily ever after doesn’t come easily. As soon as Han and Leia depart their idyllic ceremony for their honeymoon, they find themselves on the grandest and most glamorous stage of all: the Halcyon, a luxury vessel on a very public journey to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy. Their marriage, and the peace and prosperity it represents, are a lightning rod for all—including Imperial remnants still clinging to power.

Facing their most desperate hour, the soldiers of the Empire have dispersed across the galaxy, retrenching on isolated planets vulnerable to their influence. As the Halcyon travels from world to world, one thing becomes abundantly clear: The war is not over. But as danger draws closer, Han and Leia find that they fight their best battles not alone, but as husband and wife.

Graphic Book Club: Welcome To The Madness

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Superman/Batman DC Compact Comics

Matthew Klein joins Alex K Cossa to kick off the newest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!

Join us for the premiere episode where we decide on the spot to create a new show dedicated to read-a-longs, pick the show name, and the very first book; the DC Compact Comics Adventure Superman/Batman! If you don’t want to pick this specific version of the story up then there are other collected editions available, as well as the single issues available at your local comic shop or online via DC Comics Infinite (you’ll be looking for the first twelve issues of Jeph Loeb’s run).

This episode’s bonus recommendations come in the form of the Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa and Prjoect Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Join the conversation!

Matthew and Alex on Bluesky @matthewklein316.bsky.social and @karcossa.bsky.social.
Matthew’s on Instagram @macktheknife1116.

Matthew’s book Crashing is available now through IDW Publishing. His webcomic The Rhyme Scheme is available for free here. You can also find his podcast, Comics For You via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Music by Alex K Cossa via Suno.

Marvel’s Wonder Man with Filmmaker Brandon Wilson

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Marvel Disney’s recent TV series is about a struggling actor and I have the perfect guest to discuss it with me: filmmaker, life-long Los Angelino, and Marvel comics fan Brandon Wilson. Wonder Man is delightful and we’ve got a lot say about the show’s portrayals of LA, Simon Williams’s existence as a Black Haitian-American actor, the prison industrial complex, queer readings and more. You don’t need to know about Wonder Man to enjoy the show but Brandon gives us the download on Simon William’s comics history. 

Plus: the parallels with Midnight Cowboy run deeper than you think!

Spoilers marked at 20 min in.

I’m Levin on Bluesky — https://bsky.app/profile/levin.bsky.social

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