Book Club Special - Flashpoint: Still better than Jersey Girl
The comic corner has some guests for its first book club episode, covering the DC comics limited series Flashpoint by Geoff Johns, and no one can stop talking about how dreamy Beefy Aquaman is!!
This week the guys hangout and talk about Black Hole by Charles Burns. A bunch of kids get a mutation from an STD? how could that not be rad? but we really need to talk about how Team Up! just cant get behind a slow burn. Clearly the guys have different tastes.
Since its the guys favorite time of year they hang out and talk about spooky action comics with Frankenstein and the agents of S.H.A.D.E. and how epic of a character he is. Nick Furry wishes he was this cool.
This time around the guys sit down to talk about life, death and dream logic in the book Daytripper by Gabriel Moon and Fabio Ba. The guys contemplate life and talk about how amazing this book is while reading about a guy who dies at the end of every chapter.
This week the guys sit down and talk about what could possibly be their favorite book so far: Exit Stage Left, The Snagglepuss Chronicles. They also talk about someone whose very name is synonymous with virtue and good taste........... GG Allin!!
This week the guys sit down to talk about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Dad is Especially excited to go full English nerd on this one, and Team Up is still bitter that the movie was so bad.
This week is a big one, the guys read Kingdom Come this week and they just cant stop talking about how over the top everything is, Superman's ponytail, and how awesome Deadman is. Sit back and enjoy a real deep dive into DC lore.
This week the guys sit down and go full Ancient Aliens over the original battle of good and evil thats printed into our DNA. Also frog people.
This week the guys talk about Jeff Lemire's Canadian ghost story Underwater Welder. Its spooky, its incredibly well done, and it might be dads favorite comic book he's read in years!
This week the guys hang out and talk about Mark Millar's Secret Service comic which was the inspiration for the Kingsman movies. Let's just say the book’s not making anyones top 10 favorite lists this year.
So the guys know they said they were going to read Clive Barker's 2011 Hellraiser Comic but by the third issue they realized it wasn’t very good, So instead they did one of the coolest Neil Gaiman comics out there! And a plus that’s its still Marvel! so sit down and hang out as they talk about this re-imagining of the Marvel Universe in the 17th century! Also, why the fuck are there so many dinosaurs?