Great video! I subbed off the bat thirty seconds in, I knew you were going to cover this well, and you’re YT Channel name is awesome! ❤ keep it up! I remember this at my cousins house who had such an exceptional comic collection. I remember he gave me (I don’t know which era, but he would buy doubles or triples of everything) of ghost rider #18 (like I said idk what version, I think it’s from the late 80s or very early 90s and the cover was the face of ghost rider in black and white and the white parts were flames and bone/skull and had two different types of light absorption material so it was glow in the dark with two slightly different greens. I thought that was the neatest thing I’d have seen!

This is a great experiment! I enjoy hearing the back and forth from you and Chris on the regular episodes, but this is good stuff too. I appreciate the passion you both have for comics.

Agreed about Steve Lightle! RIP

Oh wow, this stuff looks great! I don't go in for cape stuff much anymore, but I think I may have to track these down!

I definitely have this one on my list of books to pick up

We had this book back in the day. I never understood this comic.

I absolutely love this series. I've got the entire series but would love an over-sized hardcover. The artwork by Garcia-Lopez & Barretto was gorgeous.

This needed to printed on Baxter paper.

Dynamite bought the rights to reprint this and never did anything at all.

HEY STEVENAWESOME REVIEW OF THIS WORLD'S FINEST(once again, I have yet to read this) comic drawn by now one of my favorite comic artists(mostly due to COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN's exposure, the "THRILLER" episode, THANK YOU) TREVOR VON EEDEN(is there really two E's in his name?) but...............................................this episode is dismally vacant of the matter of fact cinematic and historical knowledge of the one and only Christopher Derrik whose ponderous thoughts play so well off your hyperactive passion and sheer honesty of these 80's comic treasures whose golden splendor i get to peak at with every episode

A criminally under rated book! Paul smiths art is beautiful and Robinson writes the heck out of this. I wanted these guys to revisit the all star squadron era in an ongoing series so bad. The final page of this I thought kind of transitions to new frontier.

Something I just learned recently was that Matt Baker who drew phantom lady in the 40’s was the first known African American artists to find success in comics. He was pretty young possibly high school when he started.

If you merged gene colon from phantom zone mini series and Keith giffen from the legion 5 years later it would look like this. Very energetic and fluid.

This was a great review of Mr Eden's masterpiece. Until you mentioned it, I wasn't aware of the World's Finest or the Batman and the Outsiders issues. I'll track them down!

Green arrow

this art reminds me of Guido Crepax

Wow! Those panels look psychotic

Some of the most distinctive comic artists always seemed to be the ones doing fill in issues for some reason.

This is an experimental episode, the first of our "One-Shots" - shorter discussions on single issues or brief runs. Some of these will be one of us covering a book solo; others will be both of us offering a less loquacious than usual version of the CRYB treatment! - Chris

Great video! I've loved this since first seeing it in Epic illustrated when I was about 10, too young really but I just loved the artwork! How did you get a digital version? I'd love to have one.

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HEY STEVE AND CHRIS, DO YOY GUYS SELL A T-SHIRT OF THE COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN LOGO THAT YOU GUYS USE FOR THE SHOW? IF YOU DID I WOULD TOTALLY BUY IT AND GET MY FRIENDS TO BUY IT TOO🤩😎🤪🖤💜💕

I loved this story, and the art of Pepe Moreno. I loved his work in Rebel, also. Back I was deep into Heavy Metal and Epic magazine. I miss both of those mags. I learned so much from them both, and was exposed to art and artists that I'd never seen before. Those were the days.

If you like this Pepe also did a comic called REBEL while not quite as good as this it's still light years ahead of most other stuff.

If you REALLY want your mind blown by a serialized story from Epic Illustrated, look up Abraxas and the Earthman. (or the collected edition if you can find it)

It's not lost, I can see my copy of the collected edition on the shelf from here. :P

The enemy army is clearly just him using early 80's East German army photos and illustrating them

I only had the last issue as a teen but loved it, I went back years later and bought the TPB to finally get the whole story

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS A NEW EPISODE OF COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN I've been going thru CRYB withdraw to the point where I was going to build a time machine and just go back to the 80s and get these comics THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU CHRIS AND STEVEN for yet again saving the day

Generation Zero? Hell yes, great to hear someone talking about it. Also, kudos for the Hugo Pratt "Corto Maltese" reference.

Nice one Chris and Steve.. I don't remember this book growing up, the art kind of reminds me of Air Tight Garage / Heavy Metal. Love the saturated colors, and also how the color palette moves from panel to panel. That kind of ink / gouache color application especially the gradients and cross hatching reminds me of Möbius. Cool book.

I've been trying to find this for a few years. Any copy online is a little pricy, but I may have to bite the bullet. This and rebel both look astounding.

I remember reading this when it came out. I have fond memories of it, and now I need to dig these copies out of storage and re-visit them. Thanks for the discussion and reminder!

where can i buy this comic?

Playing the video now. The right pick me up to a long day. I really appreciate long conversation formats on interesting comic book topics.

The original Alien Legion logo design was by Walter Simonson.

22:11 if you speed it up to 1.5x it sounds like Uncanny Omar😭💀

I’m almost 40 and I haven’t seen this character since I was a kid getting free comics at the library. This makes me smile

Wait did you not do this last year?

OK, the white kid does not get Grendel at all. He is not “inspired by Beowulf”, for one thing. For another thing, Grendel is a phenomenon, not a spirit. The only characters who perceive Grendel as a spirit are mentally ill people. there was one story where you did hear the Grendel spirit’s voice, but I think that was just a fun experiment, as if we the reader were mentally ill. In all other stories, Grendel is just an inciting motivation. Also, Hunter Rose was the kingpin of crime. Argent worked with the police.

Id love it if you guys took a look at Mr X or Deadworld!

Is this a superhero series?

Why do you guys keep saying that Argent is a criminal. He's a cop and Grendel is the criminal it's always been that way. Didn't you guys do any research?

🎙 SHOW NOTES Steven and Chris obsess over issues one through seven of the quintessential ‘80s comic book, Comico’s GRENDEL (1986), featuring perhaps the dopest indie comics character of all time; they cover roughly the first half of the “Devil’s Legacy” story arc and reckon with the lasting resonance of Matt Wagner’s extraordinary exploration of evil. Mask Off, Lady Vengeance! RE: GRENDEL: “…a brave and possibly even reckless experiment that has succeeded admirably." - Alan Moore (WATCHMEN) 🧭 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Show Music Fade-in 00:32 - Intro to GRENDEL. Move over, Batman! The Dark Knight ain’t the only violent vigilante in town! Cue a valiant attempt to summarize the fascinatingly unique, complex concept of GRENDEL 03:12 - “DEVIL’S LEGACY” …Christine Spar dons the mask of the fiend. SHE is GRENDEL! 20:39 - The amazing Pander Brothers! ...and the inking of their highly stylized work - touching on ‘80s fashion art, Aeon Flux, and Patrick Nagel. The Pander Bros = style AND substance, plus “They draw some of the best hands in comics!” 29:10 - The eye-popping sales of the first issue of GRENDEL - 68,000 copies! 30:54 - How to pronounce “Comico” 37:22 - DC Comics’ amazing BLUE DEVIL by Paris Cullins, Dan Mishkin & Gary Cohn 38:42 - The cleverly titled TEMPUS FUGITIVE by Ken Steacy; NOW Comics, ASTRO BOY, SPEED RACER 40:17 - THE SACRED & THE PROFANE by Dean Motter & Ken Steacy 41:14 - The bizarre & mostly unnoticed WAR BEARS from Dark Horse Comics by Margaret Atwood (!) & Ken Steacy 42:38 - Our conjecture re: why Matt Wagner brought in other artists on GRENDEL and why modern comics artists are no longer able to do long-ass runs on a series 48:15 - The looser, more gestural art of Hayden Sherman and Ashley Wood - drawing awesome comics with styles built for speed 50:57 - The super dense verbiage of Matt Wagner’s writing in this run of GRENDEL 55:06 - “THE DEVIL’S LAIR,” the GRENDEL letter column - Diana Schutz responds to a critical letter about Matt’s “wordy” approach, defending his “intentionally complex” writing choices 1:01:15 - GRENDEL: WARCHILD, Grendel Prime, the exquisite art of Simon Bisley 1:04:33 - Great unfinished stories in comic books - THE AERIALIST, TYRANT, BIG NUMBERS 1:08:51 - Edvin Biukovic & Darko Macan, the brilliant Croatian artist/writer team that created GRENDEL TALES: DEVILS AND DEATHS 1:12:33 - The progressive, multicultural, racial dynamics in this run of GRENDEL 1:13:33 - “…There’s so much greatness in the idea of GRENDEL…” 1:37:57 - The similarities between the mask designs for GRENDEL and SPAWN Comics Rot Your Brain! is a deep dive into ‘80s comics (plus a few noteworthy exceptions). Screenwriters Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) and Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age. + We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: www.patreon.com/comicsrotyourbrain

Talking about the bloodstone, in the 90's captain america had a multipart story about the hunt for the bloodstone. It really is one of caps best written stories.

I would love to hear you two discuss Ginger Fox too. :D Mike Baron and Mitch O'Connell created the original Comico-published graphic novel, and relevant to this episode, Baron collaborated with the Pander Bros on a 4 issue Ginger Fox mini. I would love to hear your thoughts on their own sci-fi comic XXX too.