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Christmas at THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY #257 – CBTM164

December 25, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Journey into the Mysterious House of Terror's Vault of Astonishing Suspense

It’s the 70s! And it’s a serial killer! And it’s Santa Claus!?! It’s a Christmas miracle that I found this comic on Christmas Eve when I was waiting for my kids to fall asleep and it’s an audacious framing story that allows Cain and Abel to tell some middling horror …

The SUPERMAN/BATMAN vs ALIEN/PREDATOR Dark Horse/DC Crossover Series – review and reading order

December 24, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Crossover, What If/Elseworlds

REVIEW OF THE CROSSOVER SERIES Recently, I used curbside pickup at one of my local comic shops (as detailed in this episode of the podcast) and as I wracked my brain trying to remember what they had in the store that I’d been wanting to read, I remembered the DC/Dark …

JLA #111 “The Man Who Killed Santa Claus” (Christmas Comic) – CBTM163

December 20, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Podcast

It’s the Christmas season! Who’s up for a good murder mystery? Well, if you are up for a good murder mystery, you’re going to have to settle for this . . . Three stories. One hundred pages. And a LOT of groaning. It’s not ALL awful, but it’s close. Merry …

“Shadow of a Dark Lord” (Star Wars #21, March 1979) – MCC119 and CBTM162

November 3, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Marvel Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Star Wars

Using Star Wars as a guideline,  we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. Star Wars continues! Luke faces Vader . . . in a hallucination! Han Solo faces Chewy . . . in a zero-G arena! Leia faces stormtroopers . . . …

LEGEND OF THE SWAMP THING Special and EMPYRE: AVENGERS Mini-Series – SWAMP THINGS Ep. 18/CBTM161

October 13, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Podcast, Swamp Things

Two swamp-related comics have been released recently, so Ben heads off to the swamps to record about them. As usual, Ben judges these swamp based comics using the following paradigm:CONTENT – is the story good?COVER – is the cover poster-worthy?CREATURE – how does the creature look? LEGEND OF THE SWAMP …

DC Four-Packs at Wal-Mart (Ben) – CBTM160

October 4, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Grab Bag, Podcast

Wal-Mart and DC Comics are done with the 100-Page Giants, and have now moved to a blind bag style of comics. Each blind bag isn’t really BLIND because they are packaging the same four comics in each of the five different packages, and t’s not really new because they’ve been …

The New 52 Overview (Group) – CBTM159

June 4, 2020 | Filed under: Featured, Group Episodes, Podcast

Back in 2013, Daniel and Matt recorded a long conversation discussing every single series released as part of the first wave of The New 52!

ALLEGIANCE COMICS Review: Bass Reeves, Red Rooster, Norah’s Saga, and The Futurists (Ben) – CBTM158

May 31, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Podcast

An overview and review of the new Allegiance Comics publisher’s output, with their four “pilot episode” comics: Bass Reeves, an historical fiction biography western; Red Rooster, a superhero period piece; Norah’s Saga, a young adult geared adventure series set in modern day Canada, but featuring vikings; and The Futurists, an …

SUPERMAN by John Byrne: a Not-So-Blind Blind Bag (Ben) – CBTM157

May 27, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Grab Bag, Podcast

After receiving a gift of a sealed set of comics from the 80s, Ben of course opens the set and immediately destroys the collectible value! But what does he find inside? Well, he wasn’t surprised by the issues (the packaging revealed that much), but he WAS surprised when he read …

New 52 GREEN TEAM (Group) – CBTM156

May 22, 2020 | Filed under: Ben, Daniel, Group Episodes, Matt, Podcast

The full team of the three comic book time travelers is together again to talk about a comic book series that none of them had read and none of them new what to expect! The never before collected GREEN TEAM: TEEN TRILLIONAIRES (and the ONLY uncollected series from the first …

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