View From The Gutters Comic Book Club

This week on??View from the Gutters, our topic work is??G??dland, by??Joe Casey and Tom Scioli. First released in 2005, G??dland is a wild, weird comic that takes on the style of Jack Kirby from his seminal creations The Eternals and??The Fourth World, treats it??as a genre, and leaps off from there into even stranger directions. [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters, our topic work is??Batman: The Killing Joke, by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. Released as a one-shot in 1988, The Killing Joke is a classic Batman story which defined the character of The Joker in the post-Crisis DC Universe, and had resounding effects on the Batman family of characters. [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters, our topic work is Blacksad, by??Juan D??az Canales??and Juanjo Guarnido. Blacksad is originally a European comic, starring the eponymous P.I., John Blacksad in a series of three cases. Set in 1950s America and populated with anthropomorphic animals, Blacksad is an excellent example of the Noir genre, rendered in lavish [???]

This week on??View from the Gutters, our topic work is Neil Gaiman???s 1602. This series has an interesting origin, in that Gaiman agreed to work for Marvel in part to fund his legal dispute with Todd McFarlane over rights to the character MiracleMan???which is itself a story. Penned with inimitable style by??Andy Kubert and??digitally painted [???]

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser was originally published in the early 90s as part of Marvel???s Epic imprint. Drawn by Mike Mignola (of??Hellboy fame) and adapted by Howard Chaykin from the classic sword and sorcery stories by Fritz Leiber, these stories heavily influenced an entire generation of fantasy, from novels of Terry Pratchett??to Dungeons and [???]

This week on View from the Gutters, our topic work is Jim Henson???s Tale of Sand. Adapted from a screenplay written by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl in the late 1960s???and only discovered after Henson???s death???The Tale of Sand is strange, unpredictable, and imaginative. Brought to life by the masterful artwork of Ramon Perez, The [???]

This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is Bite Club, by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and David Hahn. Published by Vertigo in 2005, Bite Club is a mashup of gangster drama and trashy vampire bullshit. It follows the infamous del Toro crime family???the most notorious clan of vampires on the East Coast???following [???]

Hosts: Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds Suggested Titles: Identity Crisis, Bite Club, Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Selected Title: Bite Club

Hosts: Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds 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.

Hosts: Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds Suggested Titles: Powers, Batgirl: The Lesson, Turf, Luthor (Man of Steel) Selected Title: Luthor (Man of Steel)

Hosts: Andrew Chard, Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds, Matt McGinnis Suggested Titles: Astro City, Phonogram,??Indestructible??Hulk: Agent of SHIELD, Freak Angels, GI Joe: Cobra Selected Title: GI Joe: Cobra

Hosts: Andrew Chard, Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds Suggested Titles: Superman: Birthright, Black Hole, Twisted Toyfare Theater, Prince of Cats, Witch Doctor Selected Title: Witch Doctor

Hosts: Cade Reynolds, Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Matt McGinnis Suggested Titles: Kingdom Come, Box Office Poison, Crogan???s Vengeance, Locke & Key, Hawkeye Selected Title: Hawkeye

This is our special ???Ladies Night??? episode, staring none of the regular hosts! We???ll be back next episode, having read the book our guest hosts picked for us. Enjoy this view into the perspectives of four female comic fans.??????Hosts: Amarantha Kost, ???Kirby??? Green, Kayleigh Fleeman, Annjeanette Thompson Suggested Titles: I Kill Giants, Empowered, Locke & [???]

Hosts: Cade Reynolds, Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Matt McGinnis Suggested Titles: Whiteout, All Star Superman, Saga, Y: The Last Man, Bomb Queen Selected Title: Whiteout

Hosts: Andred Chard, Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, Cade Reynolds Suggested Titles: Ghost Omnibus Vol. 1, Stagger Lee, Earth X, X-Men: Deadly Genesis Selected Title: Earth X

Hosts: Cade Reynolds, Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin Suggested Titles: Hellboy Masks and Monsters, Parker the Hunter, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, ElfQuest Selected Title: Hellboy Masks and Monsters

Hosts: Brant Eddy, Cade Reynolds, Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Matt McGinnis Suggested Titles: Avengers Forever, The Ultimates vol 1, King City, Sullivan???s Sluggers, Atomic Robo vol 1, Animal Man new 52 vol 1 Selected Title: King City

Hosts: Joe Preti, Tobiah Panshin, ???Kirby??? Green, Kayleigh Fleeman This is a bonus episode outside of our normal continuity. An imaginary episode if you will, in which we talk about our experiences at the 2013 Emerald City Comic Con. It is unedited, and does not follow the rules (if any) of our normal episodes. If [???]

Hosts: Tobiah Panshin, Joe Preti, Andrew Chard, Cade Reynolds,??Matt McGinnis Suggested Titles: Elephantmen,??The Ring of the Nibelung, Marvels, Smax, Batman: The Court of Owls Selected Title:??Marvels