Comic Book Club (from The Incomparable Mothership)

Oct 11 2024 32 ep. 73 mins 421

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The Bolthole of My Own Self-Referentiality (The Incomparable Mothership 737)

Oct 11 2024 85 mins

It was the late ’80s and comic writer Grant Morrison was fast becoming Grant Morrison. Come back with us to look at his run on Animal Man, issues 1-26, in which a has-been/never-was superhero becomes an outspoken animal rights activist, witnesses the near-undoing of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and meets his own maker—who looks strangely like Grant Morrison. Before Deadpool a

The Years Have Pants (The Incomparable Mothership 526)

Aug 02 2020 75 mins

Want to pick up a comic book or graphic novel and don’t know where to start? Our panel has a bunch of very different ideas for you to choose from! We’ve made a list of nearly two dozen for you to try—all available in collections, all ready to pick up without knowing anything about history or backstory or continuity or anything. Host Jason Snell with Chip Sudderth, David J. Lo

He'll Always Be Goldballs To Me (The Incomparable Mothership 502)

Feb 22 2020 89 mins

Make more mutants! Comic Book Club re-forms to discuss “House of X”/”Powers of X”, a paired set of comics miniseries that are an exciting new take on the X-Men. If you’re an old-school mutant fan who has been out of the business for years (like Jason), these 12 issues are a great read. They’re all available in a single collection, and the issues are also now rolling out

I Wrote a Letter to Myself (The Incomparable Mothership 454)

Apr 06 2019 65 mins

“Paper Girls” is a comic that looks like it’s steeped in ’80s nostalgia, then makes you think it’s a modern story commenting on ’80s nostalgia, and then takes a 90-degree turn and becomes something even more interesting. This week we discuss the comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, which begins as a story about four girls delivering newspapers on a morning in 198

A Surprising Number of Spider-Meetings (The Incomparable Mothership 450)

Mar 09 2019 72 mins

Spin a web, any size, and join us as our Comic Book Club discusses the comics from 2014 that inspired “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and, more generally, the concept of alternate versions of Spider-Man. We read “Edge of Spider-Verse,” which introduces Spider-Gwen and Peni Parker, and the “Spider-Verse” issues of “Amazing Spider-Man.” Along the way we talk about

Quantum Computer for Violence (The Incomparable Mothership 392)

Feb 03 2018 68 mins

Step through a teleportation door and boot up your brain’s fight computer, because our Comic Book Club has returned to discuss DC’s “Midnighter.” He’s was once a Batman analogue but now he’s his own man, with no secret identity, a penchant for strategic violence, and an amazing dating profile. And thanks to three recent trade-paperback collections written by Steve Orlan

You Had Me at 'Splorch' (The Incomparable Mothership 336)

Jan 21 2017 77 mins

Comic book movies got you down? Too much of the same old thing? This episode has the cure for what ails you, as we pitch a bunch of great comics that we’d like to see get the big-screen treatment that would be guaranteed to enliven the genre. And maybe along the way, we’ll add to your comics reading list, too. Host Jason Snell with John McCoy, David J. Loehr, Monty Ashley, Mois

Pants-Wearing Dragons (The Incomparable Mothership 324)

Oct 31 2016 90 mins

We’ve spoken many times about the great deal the Marvel Unlimited all-you-can-read comic subscription service can be… but if you’ve got tens of thousands of comics available to you, where do you start? We convened our Comic Book Club to come up with 20 suggestions—ranging from single issues to long runs and major events—that will help you make the most of a month or a yea

Vampire Batman (The Incomparable Mothership 314)

Aug 20 2016 65 mins

There are a million stories in Kurt Busiek’s “Astro City”—and that’s why we love this comic-book anthology series. From alien invaders to creepy floating protectors to regular everyday people, the broad canvas of “Astro City” awards the reader with short stories and longer arcs. Plus: What are we reading? Host Jason Snell with Lisa Schmeiser, David J. Loehr, Shannon S

Kitty's in Space Now (The Incomparable Mothership 303)

Jun 04 2016 84 mins

We celebrate all of mutantkind with a broad discussion of Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men, especially the versions we grew up reading in comics. What makes their outsider status resonate? Where should new readers start? And we choose some of our favorite X-Men characters in a sequence of choices that is definitely not a draft. Host Jason Snell with Lisa Schmeiser, Merlin Mann, Helene Weck