11 O'Clock Comics Podcast

It finally happened: the talented and witty Kyle Starks pulls up a chair and joins us for a chat discussing titles such as Rick and Morty, I Hate This Place, Wrestle Heist, Peacemaker Tries Hard!, Barfly, End of Life, Sexcastle, Where Monsters Lie and others from his catalog, creating with incredible artists, working with publishers, pro wrestling, family life, and so much more! Plus, we find some time to talk about Blood & Thunder, Star Trek: Red Shirts, and Exquisite Corpses!

It's a pick your O-Rama kinda episode where we speak on fanzines like Blitz from RAID Press and Comics! The Magazine; Image titles including Odin by Marguerite Bennett Of The Earth by Chris Condon If Destruction Be Our Lot... by Matthew and Geiger by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Brad Anderson; Vince takes us through some Ultimate highs and lows; and Jason brings the graphic novel goodness with Tim Bird's Adrift on a Painted Sea; Olivia Sullivan's Oracles; and The Undertaker by Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer; plus Absolute Green Arrow and lots more!

We're throwing things at you from a whole bunch of publishers this week with the Energon Universe Special 2026; Michael DeForge's All the Cameras in My Room; Batman and Barbara Gordon: Breakout; Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen; Daughters of Snow and Cinders by Núria Tamarit; The Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Classic Newspaper Comics; They're All Terrible; Jeff Lemire and JSA and The Fury of Firestorm; Katia Vecchio's Memories of Giselle; and so much more!

Vince and DAP toss Jason into the TARDIS and set the dial to the early 80s and Epic Comics, speaking on the highs and lows and the various phases of the Marvel imprint. Plus, Sacrificers, Daredevil, Eat Your Young, and more! Shoutout to https://totally-epic.kwakk.info for refreshing my memory.

It's a back to basics kinda night where we chat about some new comics and tag team on Batman/Wonder Woman: Truth #1 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Cheung, and Jay David Ramos; Exquisite Corpses #12 by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, and Jordie Bellaire; the followup to last month's crossover, this time from Marvel with Spider-Man/Superman; and Swamp Thing #88 (or Swamp Thing: 1989 #1 if you prefer). Plus, Everybody Loves Cherry; Andrew Maclean's Head Lopper; Garbage Pail Kids: Trashin' Through Time; Corpse Knight; Nightwing; and lots more!

Recording this before NCBD makes it the perfect time for another round of OUFL! When it comes to Jack Kirby's contributions, MAD Magazine's Usual Gang of Idiots, and comic book events find out what we find overrated and underrated and what's our favorite and least favorite. Plus, some Silver Age Suicide Squad, Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin, Rikke Villadsen's The Sea, Crazy for You by Paul Theroux and Steve Lafler, and more!

Jason's road trip brings him home and we bring you more Narco by Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard, and Dave Stewart; Patrick Kindlon and EPHK's Tigress Island; Uri Tupka and the Gods by Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart; a Fanta-O-Rama featuring Tommi Musturi's Simply Samuel and Black River by Josh Simmons; Savage Sword of Conan; DAP gushes over Grim by Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, and Rico Renzi; and lots more! [Thanks to the weather, there is some clipping.]

Our pal and TV's Mario joins Vince and DAP for an unintentional First Issue Frenzy featuring The Fury of Firestorm by Jeff Lemire, Rafael De Latorre, and Marcelo Maiolo; Bizarro: Year None by Eric Carrasco Imperial Guardians by Dan Abnett, Marcelo Ferreira, Jay Leisten, and Rachelle Rosenberg; Dave Chisholm's Is Ted OK?; and The Muppets Noir by Roger Langridge and Dearbhla Kelly! Plus, Josh Bayer's Utzy and Dusty: Crystal Pool from Domino Books; Collecting The Simpsons: The Merchandise Norikazu Kawashima's The Girl Who Raised the Dead; and more!

Who was responsible for the last great Spider-Man run?  Batman?  Green Arrow? Hulk? We give you our take on those and a bunch more. Plus, Vince and DAP speak on DC / Marvel: Superman / Spider-Man (better late than never) and Daredevil by Stephanie Phillips, Lee Garbett, and Frank Martin. We also toss in The Sentry; Ariela Kristantina's The Girl Who Draws on Whales; Is Ted OK? by Dave Chisholm; and more!

Jason and DAP are joined by the powerhouse duo bringing you the upcoming Absolute Green Arrow: Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque! Concept, process, networking, growth, Edison Hark, the Corpse Crew; we tried to cover it all. Plus, we squeeze in some Jessica Jones: Alias, BPRD, Void Rivals, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast, and lots more!

It's a DC-O-Rama with Deathstroke: the Terminator (Vince is back!), Lobo, and Batwoman. We also throw some suggestions from the March solicits your way. Plus, The Beauty, Blood & Thunder, Savage Dragon, Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda, and tons more!

Tony Fleecs returns and makes DAP's month by bringing Deathstroke the Terminator with him, talking about his sweet new gig and collaborator Carmine di Giandomenico before kicking off a Feline-O-Rama with Feral (by Tony, Trish, Tone, and Brad) and The Space Cat (by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford)! Plus, VeeFriends, Tigress Island, Jesse Lonergan's Faster, an Absolute-O-Rama featuring Absolute Superman and Absolute Batman, Sirens: Love Hurts, Black Hammer: Spiral City, and loads more!

We start off with a massive thank you to Mike Richardson and each listing our top five Dark Horse titles -  and there are a lot to choose from - before sharing our thoughts on Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, Dick Tracy Collection - 1941 by Chester Gould, DC K.O. Knightfight, Escape by Remender and Acuña, and so much more!

Huzzah! We're just kicking back and talking about Wolverine and Alpha Flight, Hyde Street, Wade Wilson: Deadpool, and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery! Plus, DAP hops in the wayback machine not once, but twice and waxes poetically about Milestone (by way of New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident) and Star Trek (a la Starfleet Academy and Deep Space Nine). And we'll toss in some Buff Soul, Absolute Wonder Woman and Department of Truth for no additional charge!

First Issue-O-Rama: Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 by Fred Kennedy and James Edward Clark; Death Fight Forever #1 by Andrew MacLean and Alexis Ziritt; End of Life #1 by Kyle Starks, Steve Pugh, and Chris O'Halloran; and American Caper #1 by Dan Houser, Lazlow, David Lapham, Chris Anderson, and Lee Loughridge! Also included at no extra cost: Comics Blogger #15; The Woodchipper by Joe Ollmann; Dur-An-Ki by Kentaro Miura and Studio Gaga; I Am Their Silence by Jordi Lafebre; and so much more!

Happy Valentine's Day! From our Bleeding Hearts (by Deniz Camp, Stipan Morian, and Matt Hollingsworth) to yours it's episode 1021! Plus, D'orc by Brett Bean and Jean-François Beaulieu; Marc Spector: Moon Knight by Jed MacKay, Dev Pramanik, and Rachelle Rosenberg; Wade Wilson: Deadpool by Benjamin Percy, Geoff Shaw, and Alex Sinclair; the first Rick And Morty Compact Comics Collection; catching up on Absolute Superman; and a bunch more!

The gang's back together and Vince reminds us of his love for Death Metal by way of Snyder and Tynion IV's Justice League and Jason takes us to Italy to talk about Tex. Plus, Space Scouts by Matt Kindt and David Rubín from Flux House and Dark Horse Comics, Cryptology and Alter Ego from TwoMorrows, The Great Ten, Superman: Chains of Love Special, Void Rivals, and lots more!

DAP and Jason spoil you with O-Ramas! But first, we have to give some love to the late and always great Sal Buscema. Then it's an Image-O-Rama shining a light on Wrestle Heist by Kyle Starks and Vlad Popov; Skinbreaker by Robert Kirkman, David Finch, and Annalisa Leoni; and Narco by Doug Wagner, Daniel Hillyard, and Dave Stewart. Next, a DC-O-Rama featuring Batman by Matt Fraction, Jorge Jiménez, and Tomeu Morey; JSA by Jeff Lemire, Diego Olortegui, Rafael de Latorre, Gavin Guidry, and Luis Guerrero; and Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin. Toss in some Ultimates and more gushing over Mujina Into the Deep and you've got yourself an episode!

When Vince is away the episode gets a little ...strange as we bring you Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown by Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart; Juni Ba's The Fables of Erlking Wood; Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia by Gabriel Hardman and Romulo Fajardo Jr.; Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring; and Goes Like This by Jordan Crane from Fantagraphics. DAP struggles to explain Asano's Mujina Into the Deep much to Jason's delight. Plus, an Image-O-Rama: Ghost Machine's Redcoat by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, and Brad Anderson; Escape by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña; Good as Dead by David Lapham, Maria Lapham, and Dee Cunniffe; Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, and Jordie Bellaire; and a bunch more!

It's the 2026 11 O'Closcars, celebrating the favorites of 2025!

Vince brings the eclectic with Brian Baynes' Bubbles, Richard Corben's Rat God, and Joe Brainard's The Complete C Comics; Jason talks about graphic novels like Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper, Lucas Wars by Laurent Hopman and Renaud Roche, and A Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte; and DAP is ...present. Plus, Lemire and Walta's Phantom Road, In A Glass Grotesquely, more Search and Destroy, and lots more!

Vince and DAP close out the year talking about Benjamin Marra's Disciples (with David Birke and Nicholas McCarthy); Absolute Wonder Woman #15 by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, and Jordie Bellaire; Ghost Machine's Geiger(catching up on the latest four issues) by Geoff Johns, Eamon Winkle, Eduardo Pansica, Gary Frank, Norm Rapmund, Robert Nugent, and Brad Anderson; Not a Place to Visit by T Edward Bak from Floating World Comics; Cash-O-Ramawith Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special and kuš! featuring Art Spiegelman, Jessica Snow, Augusto Mora, Christopher Sperandio, Joost Halbertsma, Ofra Amihay, Martalisa Tsai, Julie Fette, and many more. Plus: where, oh where, is Jason?!?

We're loading up Santa's sack with all the goodies like Aliens vs. Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribić, and Ive Svorcina from Marvel and 20th Century Studios; Kyle Starks' Wrestle Heist; Uncivilized Comics and The Jungle and The Sickness a Manga-O-Rama featuring My Gorilla Family by Ichiro Iijima; Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko; Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda; and Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu; Mimi Pond's Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me and lots more!

The gang's all here and we're excited for Vince's first OUFL! Listen as we surprise few and break hearts with the topics of DC characters, intercompany crossovers, and Avengers members! Plus, Métal Hurlant, Amazing Spider-Man, This Place Kills Me, and more!

We're sorta kinda all over the place speaking on Absolute Batman; Blood Milo Manara's The Magnificent Adventure; The Infernal Hulk by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein Joann Sfar and Tony Sandoval's The Dragons of Paris from Magnetic; The End 2099 by Steve Orlando, Ibraim Roberson, and Andrew Dalhous; a DC K.O.-Rama; and much more!

Jason's back and we're comin' in hot with Blacula: Return of the King by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander; Hobtown Mystery Stories, Volume 3: The Secret of the Saucer by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes; Atsushi Kaneko's Search and Destroy; Escape and Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña; Gehenna: Naked Aggression by Patrick Kindlon, Maurizio Rosenzweig, and Matteo Vattani; The Voice Said Kill; Avengers; and so much more!

It's Thanksgiving and we're thankful for you all! To prove it, Vince and DAP speak on collections, DC/Marvel Batman/Deadpool, Gabriel Hardman's (with Romulo Fajardo Jr. ) Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia, the Legion, Superman, and DC events! Plus, Video Tonfa by Tim Goodyear; All Star Archives volume 2; The Infernal Hulk #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, and Matthew Wilson; Yoshiaki's Rai Rai Rai; and lots more!

We have twice the Joe with Larry Hama's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and the Energon Universe-based G.I. Joe by Joshua Williamson, Marco Fodera, Lee Loughridge, Tom Reilly, and Jordie Bellaire; DSTLRY's The Blood Brother's Mother by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso; Kieron Gillen's and Casper Wijngaard's The Power Fantasy; the conclusion of One World Under Doom; Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade from Drawn Exquisite Corpses; Black Cat; and so much more!

It's a Fanta-O-Rama with The Past is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish and Max Huffman's Dogtangle! It's a DC-O-Rama featuring Tom King's Wonder Woman, Kelly Thompson's Birds of Prey, and Batman by Matt Fraction, Jorge Jiménez, and Tomeu Morey! It's DAP and Jason talking about The City Beneath Her Feet by James Tynion IV, Elsa Charretier, and Jordie Bellaire from DSTLRY! Plus, Matt Kindt and David Rubín's Space Scouts, Spider-Society by Alex Segura, Scott Godlewski, Andrés Genolet, Ruairí Coleman, Matt Milla, and Raúl Angulo, Liquidator by Peter Milligan, Piotr Kowalski, and Brad Simpson from Mad Cave, and much more!

DC-O-Rama: DC K.O.: Knightfight, All Star Comics Archive, more Superman: Red and Blue 2025 Special, and Batman and Robin: Year One! Plus, Radioactive Spider-Man by Joe Kelly, Kev Walker, and Chris Sotomayor; Marvelman; Jesse Lonergan's Drome; Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, and Jordie Bellaire from Image; The Punisher, Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi, Ben Passmore's Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance; and much more!

From the past to the future as Vince brings us back to 52 before we end the DC-O-Rama (and the episode) with Absolute Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross! Along the way we talk about Superman (the James Gunn movie and the Red and Blue 2025 Special) and Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren, and Absolute Batman Annual 2025! Plus, Out of Alcatraz by Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook, some Age of Revelation, Jim Rugg's For Adults Only, Tom Gauld and Physics for Cats, Kid Maroon by Christopher Cantwell and Victor Santos, Red Before Black by Stephanie Phillips, Goran Sudžuka, and Ive Svorcina from Boom! and more!

It's our Baltimore Comic-Con recap! Join us as we ruminate and reflect on the wonderful weekend that is one of our favorite conventions. The creators! The art! The food! Plus, Mad Cave-O-Rama! Marvel-O-Rama! Dracula Book 2: The Brides by Matt Wagner, Kelley Jones, and José Villarrubia; Marjorie Liu's and Sana Takeda's The Night Eaters Book 3: Their Kingdom Come; Escape by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña from Image Comics; Kevin Maguire's Tanga vs the Kaiju of Cammera, and much more!

It's an Image-O-Rama! With a smattering of NYCC commentary. Plus, the mystery behind Vince's absence revealed!

OUFL, Part 2! Find out what we consider our personal highs and lows for Jim Lee, the Justice League of America, and John Byrne. Plus, Heavy Metal, Transformers, NYCC, and more!

Good friend and Comics Discourse 114 co-host Brian Newberry joins Jason and DAP, bringing us The Shift from 2000AD and the good times continue from there! We speak on Batman by Matt Fraction, Jorge Jiménez, and Tomeu Morey; Absolute Evil by Al Ewing, Giuseppe Camuncoli Kayla E.'s Precious Rubbish, Joseph Sieracki and Won't You Be My Savior, Baltimore Comic-Con, and a whole mess more!

Come with us as we speak on My Gorilla Family by Iijima Ichiro from Living the Line's Smudge imprint, Joe Kelly's Amazing Spider-Man, Breathtaker by Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel from Titan Comics, FANTA-O-RAMA: Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago and Julia Gfrörer's World Within the World! DC-O-RAMA: Absolute Wonder Woman and Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor! Plus, so much more!

It's Episode 1000! It's EXTRA-SIZED (like all good milestone specials should be)! It's packed with guest stars! It's a love letter to the medium we enjoy day after day. Along with the many listeners who help us celebrate we're joined by Skottie Young, Tom King, Sanford Greene, and Tony Fleecs! From Vince, Jason, and David; thank you so very much for coming along for the ride these past 1,000 weeks. We love you and we'll see you back here for Episode 1001 in seven days.

Here's the last one. ...before the big 1000! Come hang with Jason and DAP as they talk about Tom Scioli and his Space Opera Xanadax Across the Unknown Dimensions of the Galaxy, Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez and Batman, Red Hood by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Jeff Spokes, Matthew Allison's Sweet Sepulcher, The Blood Brother's Mother, more Batman (and Robin: Year One), Bendis and Oeming's Powers, plus a whole lot more!

What happens when Jason's and David's schedule doesn't mesh and they're not in the same time zone for most of the week and Vince is still under the weather? You use the power of technology! And email. Not quite like Air Wave, but pretend we're gliding across the wires to bring this all together while we bring you thoughts on Escape #1, Justice League Red #1, Batman #1, Chasing Amy, The Drome, and more!

The Dynamic Duo of Jason and David endeavor to entertain you with a fun little game of OUFL (Overrated, Underrated, Favorite, and Least favorite) and answering Slacker questions. Plus, The Knives, Black Kiss, and more!

In this special episode the wonderful Tana Ford stops by to remind us Space Cat is available and - get this - GUSH about Superman! It's like an early birthday present for DAP. Plus, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh, Sophie Campbell, Superman-Bat, Dragon Con and more!

Uncle Scrooge: Earth's Mightiest Duck #1 with Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar, Out of Alcatraz, Midst: Tales from the Cosmos, Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum by W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O'Halloran, Sapphic Pulp, JEC Books: 30 Nudes, The Electric Ant, Evil, and Pissant Apocalypse, Skin Police, Rocketfellers, Planetes V1, plus a whole mess more!

Fantagraphics O-Rama: The Thud by Mikael Ross and Ditch Life by Amy Lockhart, The Avengers in The Veracity Trap by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho by Abrams, Wolverine by Chris Claremont, Rick & Morty Vs. The Universe: Summer of Love #1 from Oni, One World Under Doom #6, Night Club 2 and Mark Millar, The Green Hand and Other Stories out of New York Review Comics, Archie Vs. Minor Threats #1 from Dark Horse, Operation Sunshine and David Rubin, plus a whole mess more!

Movie O-Rama: The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman, Shakara: The Complete Collection by Robbie Morrison and Henry Flint from 2000 AD, DC O-Rama: Titans 2025 Annual by Phil Jimenez and Arif Prianto, Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1, and Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo by Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, The Pedestrian Volume 1 by Joey Esposito and Sean Von Gorman from Magma Comix, Amazing Spider-Man, Adventure Time, Assorted Crisis Events, I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer, Captain America: Castaway in Dimension Z, Gehenna: Naked Aggression, The Woman with Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was by eJonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Chris Anderson and Matt King creep in to represent Power Pulp in a big way, plus we have some time left over to talk up Richard Corben's Dimwood from Dark Horse, Fantagraphics O-Rama: Brain Damage by Shintaro Kago and Uptight #5 by Jordan Crane, Terry and the Pirates, more Phantom Road, Young Men in Love: New Romance from A Wave Blue World, Bandette Volume 5: The Wedding Of B.D. Belgique by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Jeff Lemire O-Rama: 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir and Minor Arcana from Dark Horse, New School by Dash Shaw from Fantagraphics, We Are Yesterday, Absolute Flash, Hayden Sherman, Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog by Marc Torices from Drawn & Quarterly, Image O-Rama: HAHA: Sad Clown Stories by W. Maxwell Prince and a host of great artists, Exquisite Corpses #2, and You'll Do Bad Things, š! The Baltic Comics Magazine, plus a whole mess more!

Fantagraphics O-Rama: The Devil's Grin by Alex Graham and The Idris File by Dix, Dr. Werthless by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell from Dark Horse, Fantastic Four #1, Absolute Martian Manhunter, X-Files, Tank Chair, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, Harvey Horror: Black Cat Mystery Volume 4 from PS Artbooks, Action Comics, New History of the DC Universe, plus a whole mess more!

Jim Shooter, Face Meat by Bonten Taro from Smudge/Living the Line, Vaughn Bode's Complete Deadbone Erotica from Shadowline/Image, Midnight Radio by Iolanda Zanfardino from Oni, The Unseen Volume One from PS Artbooks, Brandon Graham CBLDF Benefit Sketch Book, Transformers and G.I. Joe, The Wrestler by John Kenn Mortensen from Fantagraphics, plus a whole mess more!

Heroes Con 2025, Clementine Book Three by Tillie Walden, Tribute Press-O-Rama: Electric Chair #3, Tony Osmond Is a Movie Star #2, and A Boner Darkly: Lessons in Life and Comics, Ultra Heaven Volume One by Keiichi Koike from Last Gasp, Absolute O-Rama: Absolute Batman #9 and Absolute Flash #4, DC Vs. Vampires, The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, Kill Them All and Kyle Starks, Lure by Lane Milburn from Fantagraphics, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #2, Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1, Spakow! by Jamie Jones, plus a whole mess more!

The dynamic duo do their best by bringing you Arsène Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen, Superman #26 by Joshua Williamson, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Sean Izaakse, and Alejandro Sánchez, Amazing Spider-Man #5 by Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, Spectacular Spider-Men, DC vs Vampires, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV & Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt, Simone Di Meo, Daniele Di Nicuolo, and Rex Lokus, Death of the Silver Surfer #1 by Greg Pak, Sumit Kumar, and Frank D'Armata, w0rldtr33 by James Tynion IV, Fernando Blanco, and Jordie Bellaire, plus, much more!