Alex and Joe are back! And they talk about Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
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You can also find Alex on Bluesky @karcossa.bsky.social.
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Music by Alex Grohl via Pixabay.
Note: This episode was recorded before the events of Thursday’s court hearing which delayed the approval of the settlement between Paramount at AGs.
What does a war in Iran, the Saudi Government, Ari Emanuel, Jared Kushner, AI data centers, UFC and WWE, all have to do with the takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance? How will this $111 billion craziness be paid for? Will the deal be sunk due to the ailing finances of Saudi Arabia and Oracle? Is there anything WME doesn’t have its hands in?
Find out in this new episode of Comic Shoot! as we connect the dots and lift the current on the weaving connections. It’s not a conspiracy if it’s fact!
You can listen to our first discussion about the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition here.
You can read more about Paramount’s attempt to purchase Warner Bros. here.
Joining us is Nate Wilcox who founded the legendary MMA web site Bloody Elbow in 2007 and sold it in 2024. He was the first UFC reporter to focus on Ari Emanuel and the ownership team rather than Dana White and the public facade. He blogs as Nat Wilson Turner for Nakedcapitalism.com and IanWelsh.net on politics, propaganda, and media and tech business news. You can also find his current coverage of the MMA space at The MMA Draw.
Nate has been regularly following the money and its connection to politics that will determine our future!
Matthew Klein and Alex K Cossa join for the latest audio offering from Graphic Policy, the Graphic Book Club!
Join us for the seventh episode where we have a spontaneous recommendation thread.
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.
Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe’s best works in this elegantly designed hardcover edition.
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features the spine-chilling short stories and melodious poems of the famous Gothic American writer, spanning from 1827 to his death in 1849.
This collectible edition features:
Every literature buff and fan of Gothic horror should have this indispensable volume in their home library.
Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, these deluxe classics editions include beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations, and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe’s best works in this elegantly designed hardcover edition.
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features the spine-chilling short stories and melodious poems of the famous Gothic American writer, spanning from 1827 to his death in 1849.
This collectible edition features:
Every literature buff and fan of Gothic horror should have this indispensable volume in their home library.
Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, these deluxe classics editions include beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations, and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.
The book is available in multiple different formats from your favourite local retailer.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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.
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
“ 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/
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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.
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.
