Revival is so so good. Never got the amount of praise it deserved. Hopefully the tv adaptation will get more eyes on it.

Great video guys! Yea something killing the children has been a favourite of mine this year and very interested to start reading Revival. Also do you have any sci-fi horror recommendations I should check out ?

Some of these sound so interesting! Definitely gonna pick up a few of these. Also, when is the next DC special video?

I'm not at all interested in horror, but there are a couple there that you've intrigued me on too. Nice work Remy!

That marvel zombies vol. Does it include the army of darkness cross-over?

At 18:11 when the lady, I presume from beyond the grave, looked at Remy was spot on creepy.

I am not a horror guy but Jeff Lemire's Bone Tenement stuff is good.

The firs half of wake was great, the arc after the wake happens was a huge drop off.

I've got to add Beasts of Burden. It does dad ghost stories particularly well, although if you can't handle animals dying, this probably isn't a comic you'll enjoy.

Uzumaki is fantastic. One of the all-time best cosmic horrors.

I recently read all of Something Is Killing the Children in an afternoon. It's scary how fast you can get through five years of comics. And I agree with Remy, you need to read House of Slaughter.

‘From Hell’ is probably one of the more horrific things I’ve read. Eddie Campbell’s scratchy art was perfect for the story, almost like it was etched onto the page.

They should make a vampires like mosquitoes with the more they drink blood the horribly bloated they get with large sacs of the skin becoming almost Transparent as the skin of the sacks are Stretched thin from being full of floating moving blood

Cant wait to finish the deviant! Too bad i gotta wait till christmas

This video does raise the Question of what is the line between a horror comic vs a horror-lite or supernatural comic ? i hate horror, but i enjoy Tynion's writing, so i've always categorised his horror-writing as horror-lite - hence why i'm collecting the single issues of The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos + deluxe editions of Killing Children / The Woods/House of Slaughter. Similarly Specs by David M Booher, DeadEndia by Hamish Steele, etc i can handle so i deem horror-lite/supernatural.

Similarly, do Not like Friends. Courtney Cox was great in Cougar Town though.

James' costume didn't cover the knees! Thanks for the mention as every Archie is a horror, and the fact that they didn't finish is added horror. It could come back at any moment. You guys are legends even if you like titanic. andf Archie I'm sold on Wake. The Blair witch movie rocks by the way.

The Party Animals are NOT Batman's rogue's gallery. The Party Animals are just the street thugs in animal masks that are running wild, while Catwoman, Killer Croc, Penguin, etc are Bruce's childhood friends and they all grew up in Crime Alley.

Absolute Wonder Woman is great! Having Diana raised by one of her traditional enemies Circe is such a unique twist and such an endearing relationship.

I’ve managed to pickup and read all of Brzrkr except for the original run, so just put my order in. Really enjoyed the Poetry of Madness one shot that see’s B as the defender of Atlantis.

Knees and comics are back. I missed you guys on Wednesday. I wouldn't read either of these books. I have heard Ultimate Spidey is good but after James' thoughts i'd give it a pass. I'm still buying heaps of $$$ variant covers so fear not.

I would argue that Peter doesn't really become Spider-Man just yet, sure, we see him take out street level crime a few issues in but keep in mind this book takes place over the course of half a year and he starts out completely dogshit at being a superhero, like, getting his ass handed to him on a silver platter by the shocker wannabe as well as Fisk who goes into great detail how absolutely stupid he and Harry have been in their surveillance attempts at the time of their confrontation. It's made abundantly clear, this is not a Peter Parker on his A-Game. He's an older man, he's got the responsibility part down, what makes this interesting for me is him learning how to be a superhero.

You made me not want to read Ultimate Spider-Man

Just a Epic Collection Moon Knight heads up cause i covered the early 1980 solo Moon Knight issues in a Comic Book Club a couple years ago (and it'll take you a bit to get there considering they've included all his early guest appearances in other titles at the start) - this is a product of the 70s and that means there are offensive cultural representations in it that would just not fly by today's standards. The way the few female characters are written are pretty woeful by modern standards too. It's an interesting historical study though, and you get to see early Bill Sienkiewicz art back when he was doing Marvel method art, before he started deviating into his true art style later in things like the New Mutants Demon Bear Saga.

i have the opposite problem to James with Ultimate Spider-Man - i want it to speed up, give me more content, fill out its world and characters faster. As somebody who historically consumes things as larger trades, collecting the single issues of this, drip-feeding me info has been slowly killing me. i especially want to know more about his teen son Richard and this version MJ who at this stage are paperthin as characters and rely on your existing knowledge of MJ & Jonah among others to fill in the blanks of this world. for me a good alt universe comic doesn't have to feel completely different from the parent universe, it just needs to explore the twist, and they're doing that. This is a Peter who has his life much more together, is sure of himself and has an emotional support network so is making better life decisions than the main universe Peter ever has. And i'm glad they ripped the bandaid off of the family knowing, because it would have made MJ look really dumb to go months and not notice her spouse exhibiting affair like behaviour lying and disappearing all the time.

Final Cut… I mean there is horror, or at least a significant amount of existential dread.

Final Cut really is amazing. Charles Burns is over four decades in the game and is still producing some of the best work of his career. Inspirational stuff

👍 T-Shirt game on point 🔥 Cheers fellas looking forward to grabbing the Beserker DLX HC 🤘

I think it's too early to compare the universes. The new ultimate universe has around three dozen issues out while the absolute universe only has one? I preferred Ultimate Spider-Man #1 to Absolute Batman #1 but Ultimate Spider-Man hasn't kept up the quality. At this point, I'm very interested in the overall story of the new ultimate universe. I am still interested in Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Green Lantern tho.

I enjoyed the storyline of Absolute Batman, but it didn't need to be a Batman title if you change the back story that much just make it a new character, change all the names, call him something like "the Brute", and start a whole new line of comics, I feel like they are scared to actual create something that isn't Batman, Superman or Wonder-woman and they would just prefer to keep slapping adjectives in front of the name to show it something cool and new(like Marvel does). and one day we are going to be getting titles like - The Amazing Surprisingly Truly Awesomeness Adventures of the Most Outrageous Bombastic Unstoppable Supreme Batman. The way Absolute is at the moment I'm just going to be reading every issue and waiting for his friends to turn bad. Where if it was a brand new comic with new character names, if they turn bad - I'd be like Wow, I didn't see that coming.

The 2000's Ultimate X-Men run was great! Really enjoyed reading it back in the day 👍

Well, I HAVE to stop watching this because I'm behind the Power Ball and my reading. But I'll come back to you guys.

I can usually wait for my direct order but I had to read Absolute Batman online. I loved it, keen to read it again when the direct order comes in

I haven't read any Marvel Ultimate stuff in years. I did enjoy Absolute Power and the All-In one shot quite a bit.

Ultimate Spider-Man i've really enjoyed but a lot of the intrigue and mystery i feel comes from a base understanding and love of the OG Amazing Spider-man series. You have to have a base understanding of the source material in order to appreciate the twist. i like the Ult BP i've read so far too, though yes it is similar to mainstream BP comics. early Ult X-Men by Momoko i don't mind, but don't love, and i'm unsure how i feel about them replacing Storm with Maystorm - it feels like blatant race-swapping in a way i'm not sure i'm comfortable with. Post-Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum & the subsequent Claremont era made a massive point of having a racially diverse x-men line-up. reducing that line-up to a single race, even a non-white one feels like a step-back. Storm with her Kenyan heritage was probably one of the most consistent examples of that diversity too.

Absolute Batman was very good. I think the main villain is none other than Archie in a helmet. Mic DROP! Didn't like Ultimate X-men. Great work on the videos Colin.

I adore Bilquis Evely's art so I'm very excited for the Helen of Wyndhorn hc! Also you guys have gotta read Boy Wonder, such a beautiful and unique take on Damian and how he sees the world.. I can't wait to see more from Juni Ba. I was similarly impressed with my copy of the Batman Day tec27 facsimile - the paper choice is so nice! -Forever indebted to James for his demanding emails to DC I guess?- For the next character spotlight it'd be cool if you guys looked at deadpool/wolverine comics - I don't read much Marvel so I don't even know where to begin with them but the movie was fun. Even a focus on their solo appearances would be awesome tbh.

Dark victory and man who laughs are first two years of Batman.

Taschen are huge books. Theyre beautiful.

Every month i start with 40 odd items in my csrt and whittle it down to less than $1000 worth. So much good stuff but got to be responsible.

I second a Marvel vs Capcom Comic! I can't wait for the physical CD of the game to come out in November!

whats up with the removal of ultimates vol 1 haha, also, if youse think the price for absolute power is crazy, peep the vol 4 hc of batman by zdarsky, a normal volume/book, normal number of issues, $54 pre order price

I also picked up The One Hand and The Six Fingers. Two miniseries that tell their stories in parallel. They are collected spliced together (#1 of both, then #2 of both, etc.)

You're both in for a treat with Helen of Wyndhorn. It is fantastic.

James, who’s your favourite Oz character? Mine’s Tippetarius.

Regarding House of Slaughter hardcovers, that series is two stories told in alternating arcs. Hardcover 1 will collect #1-5, #11-15, and #21-25. Hardcover 2 will connect #6-10, #16-20, and #26-30. Tynion likes the stories in the hardcovers to be related to each other, which is why the Something Is Killing the Children hardcovers skipped issues #16-20. They will be collected at a later date (most likely with #36-40, #0, and some other stuff that doesn't exist yet).

My wallet wishes I would forget to put my order in every month 😅

Up until moving here in 2022, for 15+ years I lived in Alan Moore's home town (Northampton, UK). The comic book shop which used to be my local was also frequented by Alan Moore in the past. Never met him though sadly.

I thought The Wizard Of Oz special was the first Marvel/DC almagamation

Isn’t there a current Penguin monthly?