DC Next Level Drops 3 Big #1s This Week + 2 Must-Reads

Kind of an interesting week here. Drew is unavailable. He's at Mega Con with our good friend Aaron Sparrow. But there are still comic books worth recommending this week. And this is a very big week for the future DC comics. They do have a new initiative called Next Level. And this week we got three big number one issues. Deathstroke, Lobo, as well as Batoman. So we're going to do things just a little bit different. I recorded full reviews of all three of those comic books with our good friend Dylan on the Hot Podcast. I'm going to play that up for you right after this and then I'm going to have a couple more indie comic books to recommend after that. Now, before we get to all those amazing DC comics, I do want to remind you that the place to be is the 616 Comics, the number one producer retailer in the entire industry, home of the sickest exclusive covers you will find anywhere. There's a discount code in the video description. Go visit the website, go find you a beautiful cover, and you will thank me later. Now, let's bring on Dylan to start talking about these DC next level books. They got the three number ones that came out. They had a couple of refreshes on Titans and Nightwing. We'll start out with Deathstroke, the Terminator number one, Tony Fleek's writing. Is it Carmine Dia Jinico on AR? — Yes, it is. — And obviously you are a bigger Deathstroke fan than I. I came away enjoying this book, although I think it didn't need to be structured the way it was. — What do you mean? I don't think that he I didn't need the letter to his daughter explaining why he doesn't want to change and why he can't change. I just accept Deathstroke for who he is. And I wish Rose would do the same thing. — I like the letter. I thought the letter was good and I thought it was a good way to sort of explain Deathstroke's headsp space because I think you have a lot of people that don't understand him because his characterization has been so bastardized over the past 15 years. So, I liked the letter. The only thing that I didn't care for was the ending of the letter and we'll see what the ending means for in the future issues because him talking about how he's worse and it's like is that just Deathstroke being super down on himself or is it doing the thing that every single writer has done post Marvel of Wolfman which is Deathstroke's instead cuz before he's always kind of ridden the line and operated in the gray and it's like he's you know he's got this deep darkness inside him but he tries to operate and be better. — Yeah. He tries to be better but he doesn't isn't always better. And uh every writer post Marvel Wolfman is like, "What if he just embraced the darkness? He's bad. " Like that's literally what Josh Williamson just had him do in his run where he's like, "He's king of the super villains now. " It's like, if we're doing that road again, then I hate it. That's stupid. But if it's just him being kind of down on himself and that's just where he feels like he's at right now, then I'm fine with it. But I like the letter overall. I thought it was good. — Deathstroke is bad. He's a — Professional killer. He's not He's an — He's not an anti-hero. He tried to kill a bunch of teenagers — because his son died going against them. He went — and he baded to like a — He got offered that contract by the hive and said no. And so they got his son to do it to get him to come and do it. He took his son's contract cuz his son died fighting them. So then he went and went against them. He never would have fought them. He then he literally talked to Beast Boy about that in a later issue. He talked about he's like, "I have nothing against you guys. I don't care. " He's like, I got — so he'd still try to kill a gaggler. — No, he didn't try to kill them. He captured them, handed over to Hive. He completed his contract. — So, you don't see Deathstroke as a villain? — No, he's not a villain. Marvel Wolfman made it very clear that he's not a villain. — He beat the snot out of Batman. — Yeah. How many people haven't beat the snot out of Batman? — No good people. — Superman's beat the snot out of Batman. Are you saying Superman's not good? Are — He had his reasons. Batman was getting out of line. — Batman deserves to get the snot beat out of him. That was great. During City of Assassins, that was such a good story line. — I still love the moment when um Batman knocks Guy Gardner out. It was great. — That was great. Classic. — So, we start out and he's got a new contract. He's not sure who this contract is with. And Deathstroke the Terminator is talking to Winter Green who's a bit conflicted and he's not really all in on this mission. He's also talking to Rose who says, "I don't know if I have time for my dad. " So, he's interspersing the information that he does have about this, you know, contract that he's supposed to be taking out where he's got this fixed target within the safe house, but Wintergreen is not on point and keeps drifting back into Slate's personal life. I'm sorry. Yeah. And uh but he's not having any of it. He doesn't want to talk about it. He just wants to get the kill out. — Yeah. He tells him he needs to talk to Rose. He's like, "I just talked to her. You should talk to her. " He's like, "Just tell me about this mission. " Now, this part was something also with the mission cuz they talk about how it's a blind drop. So, they don't know who the client is and they don't know a lot of details about the contract. And I was a little annoyed with that because that's something where

in again Marvel Wolfman's run, he was very uh fickle with the contracts he'd take. Even again, his first appearance, he said no to the hive. he wouldn't cuz he didn't like how they were handling it. He's like, "No, I won't take this. " Then in like we just talked about in City of Assassins, he says no to that contract as well because he has his reasons. And in again every writer past Wolf is like all he cares about his money and accepts every single contract as long as they're money. And so they completely get rid of again an interesting aspect of the character. But the reason I was fine with it here, him accepting this terrible contract he talks about, he's like, "People kind of forgot like how good I am and what I do, so I have to take these stupid cheapo contracts. " I'm like, "Oh, that kind of works. " Especially because Dester's been a jobber for like the past 15 years. He just comes and gets his ass beaten every issue. That's what constantly happens whenever he shows up in DC comic nowadays. So, I like that. like, "All right, he's doing this and he's kind of like having to accept these cheapbo contracts to remind people like who he is, that he is the best in the world. " So, I was fine with that. — Word out. — Yeah. — I kind of like what he did cuz uh he's told by Wintergreen, "Do not make a big scene. This is supposed to be on the down low, a quiet mission. " He's like, "Well, I'm not going to get that notoriety being quiet. " So, he like takes a I think it's like an ambulance or something. just packs it full of C4 and then like surfs it out of a building into the compound as it's exploding and he just starts headshotting everybody. — Yeah. It's like we get some cool splash pages from Carmine and he just comes out just we get the smoke and the fire and everything. You just see his silhouette. It was cool. I also I'm fine with this suit as well because we've gotten some terrible Deathstroke suits after they decided his original suit is too dated and uh generally it's just black and then you get some orange on the face. This one at least there's some blue and I kind of like it. It's not uh it's not a terrible suit. We can see him kicking ass. It's pretty cool. I agree that the original Nightwing suit is terribly dated, but I don't feel that way about Oh, you're talking about No, dude. Did I love Disco Wing? I I — I like it, too, but it is very dated. — But then did you see Dustin Wind draw it in the Jason Todd Batman and Robin book? — Robin and Batman. — Yeah, Mhm. — That looked like that could work in any comic. That looked incredible. But I'm just saying I think the original Deathstroke look is phenomenal. — It's incredible. It still works. I love the boots. — Yes, the bell bottom boots. It looks And that was That's what was funny during uh Christopher Priest run. He gave him that icon suit that looked terrible. It was awful. And then they had him like lose the icon suit at one point. So he goes back to his throwback suit and it looks great. I think it was Joe Bennett drawing it. So it looks really good. I was like, man, if he was just using this the whole time, this would be so much better than that dumbass icon suit. Yeah, black and orange is a good color scheme or even dark blue and orange wherever you want. — Blue and orange. Yeah, I hate the black and orange pisses me off. Blue needs blue in there. — Yeah. So, he ends up storming the compound. He's able to kind of make it in as Winter Green is, you know, continuing this conversation about his family life and him needing to make amends and make things right with Rose. At one point, he does get messed up. He's obviously walking into a trap. Something blows up and then I guess there's a what do they call double trouble? — Body doubles. They show up and they're going to beat him up. — Yeah. Some girls with healing factors that are like hired killers. And of course also the whole time he's distracted by Winter Green talking about his family. And so he gets stabbed through the gut. Then he quickly recovers from that and stabs them back. — Yeah. He blows a big uh hole in one of them's chest, too. — Yeah. That was sick. — And then we kind of get to a part that — the place where the target is and it turns out Winter Green is there. He's been kidnapped and somebody's been playing him and it turns out Deathstroke probably is the target or whatever. And then it's got all these computer screens and Deathstroke is I don't know he's having like this big anxiety attack realizing that Wintergreen had access to all his financial data and it turns out whoever got Winter Green in there and whoever's behind all this has stolen all of his wealth as well and he he's very upset. I'm with you in the fact that like I don't ever think of um Deathstroke as a person you can coersse by stealing something from them like when it comes to money. He was always in it for the challenge. — Yeah. And this is uh Yeah. They wintergreen appears to be dead and they drained all his accounts. But then at the same time, it's like, how does this person have all this information about uh Slade and his daughter that was talking that was impersonating Wintergreen this whole time? And they conveniently blow up the body right after that. So Destro can't, you know, verify if that's really Winter Green or some type of fake. I hope it's appears

that Winter Green's actually dead. I hope he's not cuz he's such a quintessential part of Deathstroke and he really makes it. And that's what something cool during Marvel Wolfman's warun was we never got uh Slade's inner monologue ever. It was all from the journal of Wintergreen and then you'd have like a bodyless narrator that narrated the book. You never got in the mind of Slade and I thought that was an interesting creative choice. And uh so without that perspective from Winter Green, it's like man that'll I would miss that from this book. I'd like to have that. But we'll see where it goes. If he's actually dead in the first issue, that would suck. — Do you consider Winter Green the evil Alfred? — Except he's not evil. He's he is his moral compass. He's the one cuz everyone in Slaves family has abandoned him which he deserves because he's done a lot of bad things. But Wintergreen is the one that stuck by his side because uh Deathstroke saved his life and when he was left behind in like Vietnam, he saved him and then they went and saved each other's life for like 20 years. And so he's the one guy that's kind of felt like he owed it to him and they were best friends and he stayed with him. He's the one that's tried to help Slay like stay the course and be a good guy, be a decent person. And now without him, that's where it's like, what's going to happen to Slate? Is he gonna get even worse? Which I hope he doesn't because we've already had that explored and it's really lame. — I assume that Rose brings him back from the brink and shows him what it's like to love again. — That's what it seems like. But that's also something that I get annoyed with modern Deathstroke writers is his family is an uh an essential part of who he is, but we don't need them in every single story arc. You can to tell a Deathstroke story without his family in every single arc and every writer constantly brings them in. It's like I would like just a Deathstroke adventure of him doing something without his family involved in every aspect. — Yeah, I'm not a big fan of um of Rose. I like Jericho a lot just because he looks so cool, but other than that, I don't need him all that much. I liked Jericho pre Christopher Priest when we he had him get molested by Deathstroke's business partner and then fall in love with that guy and get in a relationship with him when he was an adult. Wasn't a big fan of that. — Well, you got to talk about old shit, man. That nobody wants to hear about that. — That was like two runs ago. That was the last time I Have we seen Jericho since then? — No. — Yeah, that was the last time we saw Jericho and that was people liked. We probably would have seen him on like a Pride cover or something, but that's probably the extent of it, right? — Probably. Yeah. Or maybe they want to kind of cuz he wasn't, you know, typical like gay pride. He got molested into it. So maybe that's part of why they don't want to bring him. — I liked him. He was like a He looked like a buccaneer. — Jericho was great. And that's what was cool about was he was the one uh that's why again Adeline hated Slate even more was when Slate had to kill him because you know he had gotten like possessed and turned bad and Slate had to kill him and that's when Aline was so mad cuz Jericho was the one guy that despite all of Slate's bullshit and every horrible thing that happened with their family he was a good like a decent human being and but in Christopher Priest run he made him just as bad as everyone else and I was like that's stupid. — So you weren't a fan of the Christopher Priest run? — No it was terrible. I saw so many people that had never read a Deathstroke con before talked about how great it was. Then I read it and I was like this is terrible. — I didn't like it much, but I came back for like there's some type of like a Deathstroke Batman war type of thing versus Batman. — Yeah. — And that wasn't good either. — It was bad. And he tried to have a rivalry between Slade and Damian. one of the dumbest things ever cuz the whole contention in the D versus Batman arc was Slade might be Slade fucked Ali at one point so he could be his father. It's like no who cares. — They ran the Dominic Eddie Mysterio angle like or I'm sorry the Rey Mysterio Eddie — latter match Damian's father. — Exactly. So I remember that in wrestling. So what are your thoughts on Deathstroke the Terminator moving forward? I thought it was pretty good. I like the art by Carmine. I thought it looked really good for the series. Uh the suit is new, but I thought that was pretty cool. There's lots of action, which I do appreciate. I don't really like the inner monologuing and stuff like that. I don't need to know why Slay does what he does, but otherwise, I thought it was pretty good. — Uh I thought the issue was pretty good, too. I liked it. Uh we'll see retroactively how it is with what happens in the future, but I enjoyed it. The art was great. I did like the letter to Rose and him explaining to and I thought it was good to try to kind of give people a p a lot of people that don't really understand best as a character like where his mindset where his headspace is at currently and talking about how after Adeline he struggled to really have any type of interpersonal relationship with anyone after that and how with what he currently does he doesn't really feel any joy any ups or downs everything's in the middle which uh really adds up because after he got uh after he left the military we got forced to leave the military because of everything that happened with his super soldier experiment. Every that's exactly what

happened. He went he secretly became Deathstroke on the side and he started big game hunting as well to try to feel something. So, I like seeing that stuff, but I enjoyed it. I would say it's a good issue. I'd give it a hot. I'd say it's definitely worth reading and it's a good start to the series. — I also give it a hot, but they have treated the character pretty poorly. Like the Josh Williamson stuff where like I think he got resurrected in a Lazarus pit or something. Yeah, cuz he made him the big villain of uh Dark Crisis, right? Or which one of those events? I can't remember because they all kind of blend together and he like was Mohawk, Deathstroke, King of Super Villains, and he just got his ass beat by Nightwing and like died, I think. — Yeah. And then Ed Bristen came in and did like a little year one arc, which was just mid. It was whatever. We got some Dexter Soy Deathstroke though, so that was cool. But yeah, he's been treated horribly. Yeah, definitely recommend that one. Enjoyed that. In fact, I think that was probably the best book from DC this week. — Yeah, I'd probably say so. Yeah, I agree. — So, the other big or one of the other big uh new number ones was Lobo number one, Scotty Young writing with Jorge Corona on art. Lobo is an interesting character when done well, overwhelmingly entertaining, absolutely hilarious, and just lots of fun uh for the character. But when you do him poorly, he's so over the top, it gets annoying. And I don't think this one gets to the bad territory, but it never reaches the good territory either, other than the Jorge Corona art, which I thought was spectacular in every single page. — It looks great. I love the colors on this one. And yeah, you're right about it. Didn't reach I wanted the cancellation special. That's what I wanted. I honestly like that was so good. But this, man, it felt like a lot of talking and not I wasn't engaged with all the talking. It wasn't too interesting. I like the little bit where he recaped his history to the guy where the guy's like I didn't mean start from the beginning and he like covers the New 52 and everything. I like that little bit. But for the most part, this book was just kind of mid. And I thought it was an interesting setup uh for the rest of the series where we get the ending where you have like the big conglomerate of all the media corporations like the CEO being like, "We're trying to get in the bounty hunting business. We're just going to do a reality show with you where we track you hunting bounties. " Like, all right, that's kind of an interesting premise, but we got there at the very end of the issue. So the issue is kind of a lot of the and then we get, "All right, well, maybe next issue we'll be good. " Horia Corona's like little like young Lobo as like a kid like pissing in people's graves and stuff was brilliant. Like it just looks so good. — But I wish I wish the story in, you know, there's lots of jokes in here actually lived up to it. And I normally like Scotty Young as a writer quite a bit, you know, even more um than him as a as an artist. I think he is a really good writer, but I just think the book was too self-aware. — Yeah. Yeah, there they I mean it was very self work cuz he's talking about like all the pop culture references and there's like but there's a lot of Deadpool and Wolverine references in here which was — even at one point he's like somebody give me a pop culture reference that I can drop right now. I was like oh come on. — Yeah. — Lame. — Yeah little much. — But he makes it to this bar. He ends up ripping a guy's arm off because the sign said no parking. He spells Lobo in blood, which is one of the more effective jokes, uh, you know, especially visually. But he goes in there and he ends up fighting the guy that he's supposed to be killing, you know, for his bounty. He gets a call saying, "Hey, the bounty's canled. I've sold my uh, bail bond, you know, business to the so and so. " So that uh, that bounty's been rescended, and Lobo wants to be made whole. He's pissed off. He's missed out on some money, and he's going to have to go get it back. So he ends up going to the headquarters of this big company. Obviously, you know, lots of meta commentary about uh Disney buying Lucas, you know, these big mega corporations buying up everything and trying to be everything and they want to be in the bouting hunting business because they want to do reality TV and you know, he kills a bunch of robots. — Yep. — That's about it. — Yeah, that's basically it. again like the setup for the future sounds interesting, but that's kind of all this issue was just setup. It wasn't I wouldn't say this is one that you need to go out and get. It was a mid issue for me. — I also give it a mid, but yeah. So, you appreciate Lobo as Dog the Bounty Hunter. — I think it could be fun. I think could be good. Just, you know, if you give him interesting, fun adventures. It's just this one, which is not that. — What if he finds a love interest and she's got the biggest jugs in the history of comic books? That could be nice. I'd be down for that. It's — like Dog the Powdy under his wife. — The next thing you know, he's got a he's

got a son that that's going out with him and he's teaching him the ropes. — They just did a complete dog the bounty hunter parody. That'd be pretty funny. — Might as well, if you're going to be that self-aware and do that much meta commentary, might as well grab some dog and I want to see some Leland and all the rest of the family. Like there was a daughter in there at the end. — I didn't know you were listening to Dog the Bounty Hunter. — Absolutely. Dog was great. — I vaguely know Dog the Bounty Hunter from just like seeing commercials and uh memes, but that's it. — No, Dog the Bounty Hunter was fantastic. just going around Hawaii, you know, as the most conspicuous person in the history of the world's trying to like find these people that are on the run where they're like chasing everybody down with enormous fucking cannon guns of uh mace. — Nice. — You should definitely watch D the Bounty Hunter. It's great. Especially after the first season or two when they stop taking it seriously and they start scripting everything and it gets weird. But he's always trying to find ice heads and stuff. I want to see Lobo finding some fucking ice heads and trying to make him a better person as he takes him to jail. — I could see that. — Yeah. So, I don't know. I had higher expectations for Lobo. Number one, — I thought it was going to be really good. The art lives up to it. The story does not. — Do you remember Jorge Corona's original art style like in East of West? — I have not read East in Middle West. I don't think also written by Scotty Young. Once he went on to Transformers with Danny Warren Johnson and started aping DWJ style and transition like his art just does not even resemble what it used to. — Is they're saying that in a good way? — I thought he was a great artist before, — but I think it's better now. It's way more badass. — Oh, okay. Yeah, this looks great. I don't know if I've probably read something else he's done, but I'm not sure. I can't think of anything. — Yeah, I would recommend Middle West. That was a pretty good series. And the last big number one that we got was Greg Rucka returning to Batoman with Batoman number one. I believe it's Danny on Art. And I didn't have any expectations for this one. You know, I was excited for Deathstroke, excited for Lobo. Greg Rucker really just hasn't made an impact or a positive mark in comic books in so long. I didn't really think this would be good and it did not let me down. I did not think Batwoman number one was successful almost on any level. — I agree with everything you said and that's why I didn't read it. I thought Greg Rucka since he like came back in like uh 2016 with Rebirth, he hasn't been very good. So, I was like, I'm not I don't care. And I don't care about Batoman either. Like I think she's got a cool design, but other than that, I don't care for Batoman. So, I didn't read it. I'm also not the world's biggest Kate Kaine uh Batoman fan. Decided to check it out, you know, because Greg Rucka has the Batoman run. And that's basically what this issue is about. It's um Kate going to therapy and talking to her therapist about her issues with her sister Alice, who was twin sister that she believed was dead, but then came back, I think her name was Beth, and then came back as Alice, the leader of like the Wonderland gang or something like that was trying to revive Dark Side or something. But that is 100% what the entire book is about is her working out her feelings. That sounds terrible. — Supposedly, we're all supposed to get go to therapy now, Dylan, and get in touch with our feminine sides. — The thing with therapy is I thought you I thought it was just like any other sort of like medical type thing where you're supposed to go get it figured out and then stop. Like, it's like a means to an end, not like a perpetual forever thing. I think that's kind of bad. — Yeah, — maybe that's just me. So, most of what this comic book is about is what Greg Rucker has done in the past and completely just forgets about everything Batoman, as far as I can tell, has done over like the last 20 years or something like that. The Danny art uh probably equally as unimpressive. I think Danny is actually kind of a good artist when you're talking about mood and tone and setting up kind of uh some kind of creepy like indie horror type of vibes and it works really well on that level. Anytime that you have action and there's not a lot of action in this book, but there are some fights that go on where she's recounting what happened with her sister. Like Danny's art just doesn't fit that style and it's so out of place that uh the art also lets the book down in my estimation. Have you decided you're going to read it yet? — Nope. Not going to read. I'm good. — It sucks for Greg Rucker because there was a time he's not like — Wonder Woman's really good. Yeah.

— He's not like a Greg Pac where he's the one hit wonder. He had his Wonder Woman run, but he also had his Batman like no man's land shit. — Yeah. like he had some really highlevel super influential stuff there for DC, you know, and then he I guess he ended up leaving because he had some mental health issues or something like that. And then when he came back to do Wonder Woman again, he wasn't the same Greg Rocket. — Yeah, he hasn't been the same. It's sad. — And then he did a Lois Lane one, right? — Yeah. I didn't read that. where he she had the laptop that says — I fight fascist or whatever with this. — This laptop fights fascists or something like Yeah. — And I don't know. I wish we could get the old Greg Rucker back, but it's not going to happen. — Yeah. It's over. — So, I will definitely give that one a resounding nod. I was It's hard to say I was disappointed because I wasn't expecting much, but I was not impressed with that book whatsoever. So, of the three number ones, recommend Deathstroke the Terminator, the Lobo book is a mid, but the art is absolutely spectacular, and I would definitely skip the Batoman book. The big thing in new comic books this week was undoubtedly the three new number ones for DC Next Level. So, you got a little bit of an idea of what's going on there, but there were definitely some indie comic books to recommend this week. First up, I'm going to shout out G. I. Joe number 20 Josh Williamson writing Andrea Milana on art. This was a particular issue that I think a lot of people are looking forward to. Teased that we were going to get the first meetup between Duke, leader of G. I. Joe and Optimus Prime, leader of Transformers. That mostly happens, but you do get a reminder that in the previous issue of Transformers, Optimus is no longer Prime. He's actually given up the mantle of leadership to Alita, but he does have a meeting with Duke. It's perfectly fun stuff. The more entertaining part of it, the more enjoyable part was probably Hound and Clutch knowing Optimus and Duke and what they were going to be talking about and the way that they were going to be interacting with each other. I thought that was a pretty funny thing that Josh had thrown into the story. So, you get the big meeting felt a little bit disappointing because Optimus is no longer a leader. I didn't particularly like that change. It's a reason that we didn't recommend Transformers last week. We also get more amplifying information regarding Matt Tracker and Mask, the continuation of his confrontation with Scrap Iron of Cobra and kind of seeing the way that Josh Williamson and the Inner John universe plan on incorporating Mask into this universe. So, that was pretty interesting stuff. At the very end, we do get another tease of some characters that we had introduced a couple of years ago within the Ander John universe, but haven't really talked about or met since. Apparently, that's going to be coming in the not too distant future. So, I personally will give G. I. Joe number 20 a recommend, but it is a very soft recommend. Probably the weakest issue of G. I. Joe under Josh Williamson, which I still think is a standout series, but I guess you can't win them all. And even the stuff that isn't maybe up the snuff for G. I. is still better than most things that you're going to find in the comic book industry today. So, I'll give that one a recommend. The other indie book that I'll recommend this week is Battlebeast number seven. Robert Kirkman writing Ryan Art. Battlebeast is coming off a fairly long hiatus. It felt like it'd been probably three or four months since we got an issue of this. And this particular issue is mostly a welcome back issue. Kind of reminding you of the things that have happened with Salak and the computer that wants to kill Battlebeast or at least help him kill himself in battle. What's going on there? Sock finally has most of his body back. He is particularly impressed by one part of his anatomy. Ryan Oie throws a pretty good visual joke in there about that. We do finally see the face and new name for the computer that now inhabits the electronic body that Silak was using prior to this because of course he was mostly digested by the juggernaut back in the beginning of the story. that he is whole again and battle beast is healing up and he's thinking maybe going and fighting this monster isn't really worth my time again cuz I basically had her butt whooped and she cheated a little bit but then he is talked back into action to maybe go and protect the people of this planet. We also get the introduction by the end of what it's really going to take for Battle Beast to win this war and come out on top once again because the stakes just got raised with the amount of threat that's there for Battlebeast or at least waiting for him and his odds of actually making it out of here alive just went through the floor because business is picking up. Not a ton of action in this particular issue. I don't know that we needed a welcome back issue seven issues into a run. I understand they had a hiatus, but you really only told the one story arc. But I still continue to really enjoy Battlebeast. Love what Kirkman and Otley are doing within the Invincible

universe. And I'm about to start reviewing the Invincible series here in a few months on the Patreon for the Comics Guilds once we get past Snake Eyes Declassified. Really excited for both of those series. So that will do it. Recommending Deathstroke Determinator, recommending Battlebeast, recommending G. I. Joe. unable to recommend Geiger this week because I haven't gotten to read it yet. My expectation is that I would recommend it because I believe I've recommended every other issue except for one in the run. So, my assumption is that Guyer is actually really, really good, but I haven't been able to confirm that one yet. If you enjoyed the beginning part of this video with Dylan and I talking about new comic books, specifically those three number ones, well, we did that, but a lot bigger. We went like 2 hours and 20 minutes talking about all the new releases from DC, Marvel, and indie comic books. If you're interested, head over to Think Critical Patreon channel memberships, the Hotter or Not Podcast.