View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

?? This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Annihilation, Vol. 1-3, primarily by Keith Giffen (with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning), and art by??Andrea Di Vito and others.??Annihilation is the 2006 event book that kicked off the modern era of Marvel???s cosmic-level characters, featuring appearances from Nova, Starlord (of later Guardians of the Galaxy [???]

Back Matter is a new comic book roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows. Look forward to a rotating panel of hosts on this semi weekly podcast. Feel free to email us discussion [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is Saga, Vol. 1-3, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. An ongoing series,??Saga??is set in a galaxy consumed by a proxy war between the largest planet in the galaxy and its own moon. It is the story of Marko and Alana, two soldiers from opposite sides [???]

Back Matter is a new comic book roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows. ??Look forward to a rotating panel of hosts on this semi weekly podcast. Feel free to email us discussion [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is The Frank Book, by Jim Woodring. First published in the mid-90s, Frank??is akin to a Merry Melody on acid. It is told in wordless form, and features the (mis)adventures of Frank,??a generic anthropomorph who occupies a reality called the Unifactor. Frank is by far the weirdest [???]

Back Matter is a new comic book roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows. ??Look forward to a rotating panel of hosts on this semi weekly podcast. Feel free to email us discussion [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Private Eye, by??Marcos Martin, Brian K. Vaughan, and??Muntsa Vicente. Set in a privacy obsessed future 40-some years after an event known as ???the cloud burst???,??The Private Eye is a weird an colorful detective story. In this world the internet has been abandoned and forgotten, and privacy [???]

The Long Run takes place outside of our normal continuity of episodes, and features table discussion of an entire work or long selection of a series. In the fifth episode of this bonus series, we talk about??Elfquest, by Wendy and Richard Pini. For this episode we read the first three story arcs: The Original Quest, [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Daytripper, by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. It is the critically acclaimed story of the life and deaths of??Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Each issue follows Bras at a different moment in his life, and each one ends with his demise. It is a meditation on the nature [???]

Back Matter is a new comic book roundtable discussion show focused on all things news worthy in the world of comics. From the big buzz around the latest comics to comic book movies and TV shows. ??Look forward to a rotating panel of hosts on this semi weekly podcast. Feel free to email us discussion [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Sword, by the Luna Brothers. It is the story of a young paraplegic woman named Dara whose family is brutally murdered in front of her by a trio of siblings with the power to control the elements. Dara barely manages to survive their attack by discovering [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is RASL, by Jeff Smith. It is the story of a reality hopping art-thief and scientist, on the run from government agents who want to turn his research into weapons. Smith is a master cartoonist who effortlessly blends action, mystery, fantasy, and humor. Readers may be familiar [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Mouse Guard, the??Eisner Award-winning comic??lovingly hand-crafted by David Peterson. Set in the year 1152,??Mouse Guard??is the story of the eponymous guard, as they encounter and overcome various threats???both external and from within???to the mice of the land. It???s an excellent all ages tale, and a great introduction [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is Planetary, by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. Release between 1999 and 2009 and running for a staggering 27 issues,??Planetary??is one of Ellis??? master works. Nominally set in the Wildstorm comics universe, it is the story of Elijah Snow???one of the Century Babies: a group of apparently [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Infinity Gauntlet, by Jim Starlin, with art by George Perez and Ron Lim. Released in 1991,??The Infinity Gauntlet is one of Marvel???s earliest big crossover events. The mad titan Thanos, paramour of Death herself, has collected the fabled Infinity Gems. Each gem is an artifact of [???]

The Long Run takes place outside of our normal continuity of episodes, and features table discussion of an entire work or long selection of a series. In the fourth episode of this bonus series, we talk about Pluto, by Naoki Urasawa, adapted from the original story by??Osamu Tezuka. Beginning in 2003,??Pluto is a retelling/adaptation of [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??Hopeless Savages, by??Jen Van Meter and various artists. It???s the story of the Hopeless-Savage family, as told from the perspective of the youngest daughter, Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage. In the first story, after Zero???s parents (noted 70s punk rockers Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Savage) are kidnapped, she assembles [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is??The Manhattan Projects, by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra.??It??is an altera-universe action science comic in the tradition of??The Five Fists of Science.??Set during and in the aftermath of World War II, it??follows the actions of the U.S. War Department???s secret weapons program:??The Manhattan Projects. Led by Gen. [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is our 3-part 50th Episode Special! In part 3 we discuss??Infinite Crisis, written by Geoff Johns with art by Phil Jimenez, Jerry Ordway, George Perez, Iven Reis, and Andy Lanning. Released almost exactly 20 years after the first Crisis,??Infinite Crisis??is the event that bought the multiverse back [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters??our topic work is our 3-part 50th Episode Special! In part 2 we discuss the 2004 series,??Identity Crisis, by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales. Unlike the other two crises on our list, this one isn???t about a threat to the universe. This is a far more introspective story, and one [???]