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Wayne’s Comics Podcast #697: Interview with Tyler Chin-Tanner Jun 15, 2025

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Wayne catches us up on A Wave Blue World and their related projects by talking with the return of co-founder and co-publisher Tyler Chin-Tanner this week in Episode #697!

There’s a lot happening with AWBW, which is described this way: “Founded in 2005 by Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner, A Wave Blue World is an award-winning independent publisher of high-quality graphic novels, anthologies, and art books, focusing on socially conscious storytelling and providing a platform for a multitude of creative voices.” Tyler updates us on several new happenings with their high-power company, including their series Mezo (coming to Kickstarter soon), their new model for publishing comics, and their opening a new store in the New York City area! Be sure to check out their website for more information after you finish listening to our fun conversation!

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Critical Hit #789: Monster Wrangler - Session Zero Jun 13, 2025

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In this installment of Critical Hit, a Major Spoilers TTRPG podcast, the group sits around and discusses Monster Wranger and the characters they are thinking about creating.

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Top Five Snacks (2025 Edition) Jun 13, 2025

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There's a rumbling in our tummies, and we need to fill that growling with snacks! SNACKS! But which snacks will make our list this time?

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Major Spoilers Podcast #1130: Good Ol' Major Spoilers Jun 10, 2025

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Good grief! We're talking Peanuts this week on the show. We also review Ancestral Recall #1 from AHOY Comics, Avengers Academy #1 from Marvel Comics, and Benjamin #1 from Oni Press.

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REVIEWS

STEPHEN
ANCESTRAL RECALL #1
Writer: Jordan Clark
Artist: Atagun Ilhan
Publisher: AHOY Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: August 6, 2025
Black History: For painter Melvin Waring, it's an actual super power! When Melvin's wife mysteriously disappears, he must call on the most important Black figures of all time to help him in his search. A gripping new saga from two Milestone Initiative members: writer Jordan Clark (Aquaman, Star Wars Adventures) and artist Atagun Ilhan (Poison Ivy, Milestone Universe: The Shadow Cabinet).
[rating:4.5/5]

MATTHEW
AVENGERS ACADEMY #1
Writer: Anthony Oliveira
Artist: Carola Borellia/Bailie Rosenlund
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $5.99
Release Date: June 11, 2025
SCHOOL'S IN SESSION! Welcome to Avengers Academy! Seeking to guide the next generation of super heroes, CAPTAIN MARVEL assembles a misfit team of super-powered teens: CAPTAIN AMERICA OF THE RAILWAYS, BLOODLINE, ESCAPADE, MOON GIRL, RED GOBLIN, and new hero on the block, KID JUGGERNAUT! But classes are the least of their concerns as they fend off super-villain attacks, make new friends - and new foes - and learn what it really means to be Earth's mightiest heroes. For the FIRST TIME IN PRINT, read issues #1-6 of Marvel's hit infinity series AVENGERS ACADEMY by rising star ANTHONY OLIVEIRA and visionary artists CAROLA BORELLI and BAILIE ROSENLUND! Featuring the first appearance of an all-new SINISTER SIX, this is one book you don't want to miss!
[rating:3.5/5]

RODRIGO
BENJAMIN #1
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Leomacs
Publisher: Oni Press Inc.
Cover Price: $5.99
Release Date: June 18, 2025
IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT BEGIN.... Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award-winner Ben H. Winters (EC's Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss, Refrigerator Full of Heads) unravel a three-part, prestige format series exploring the hallucinatory second life of a brilliant author who imagined our desperate future but never imagined he'd become part of it . .
More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Across 44 novels and hundreds of short stories-including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn't Erase-Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers' perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess finally ended a mind-bending career that always just escaped mainstream success. He died in 1982.
Until 2025 . . . when Benjamin J. Carp awakens, alive, in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles. He remembers dying. He knows he shouldn't exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios intensely through his fiction-and, now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he will be called to investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.
In the tradition of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard . . .
[rating: 3/5]

DISCUSSION

PEANUTS 1950
Writer/Artist: Charles Schulz
This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination toPeanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected before―in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we're all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members―Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus―initially show up as infants and only "grow" into their final "mature" selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Thus The Complete Peanuts offers a unique chance to see a master of the art form refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day, week by week, month by month.

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Munchkin Land #724: Codenames gets updated versions Jun 10, 2025

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Codenames is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and CGE will be releasing an updated version of the game. All this and more gaming news in this week's Munckin Land episode.

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NEWS

Happy Camper will release a new Co-Op game by Matt Leacock, Matt Riddle and Ben Pinchback called The Fours Doors, Aug 25 ($20- Preorder)

CrowD Games will release a new trick taking game called Stella Quest, Aug 25 (`$20)

Upon the 10th anniversary of Codenames, CGE will be releasing updated versions of Codenames, Codenames Duet and Codenames Pictures.

After a successful KS last year North Star Studio will launch Nature, the new (shorter) game based on their previous game Evolution, at Gen Con ‘25 ($65?)

Thunderworks Games will release a drafting card game by Phillip Dubary Citizens of the Spark, Aug 25 (~$50)

Emberleaf from City of Games will release in the US this fall now that it is in the middle of fulfillment. (~$60)

Star Wars Villainous: Cold Tactics adds Grand admiral Thrawn and Count Dooku and Disney Villainous: Treacherous Tides which adds Tamatoa (Moana) and Davy Jones. (Both early Aug $20)

ATOM SPOTLIGHT

Laura from Obsessed with board games

Scott from Boardgaming Bud

DIGITAL

Frosthaven Digital Demo this week!

Steam Next Fest and the Public Demo run from 6/9 at 10am PT (7pm CEST) to 6/16 at 10 am PT (7pm CEST) and Frosthaven will be playable for that whole time

CROWDFUNDING

KICKSTARTER

Gametoppers 5.0
The Tabletop Inn: A Board Game Bed & Breakfast
Hagia Sophia (Print and play roll and write)

GAMEFOUND

Flash Family MEGA EPISODE (Barry Alan, Iris West, Wally West, Bart Allen) Jun 09, 2025

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Today, in celebration of the comic book series Absolute Flash, which is jumping off shelves worldwide, we've entered the Speed Force to summon the assistance of The Flash Family from some of our favorite Flash-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:

GHL 228: The Flash (Barry Allen) with Stephen Schleicher – Explore the science fiction origins of investigator Barry Allen, who redefined the role of The Flash.
GHL 462: Iris West (The Flash) – Study up on the smartest woman in Central City and discover what led to her romance with Barry Allen
GHL 146: Kid Flash (Wally West) – Discover the boy who grew up loving The Flash then perfected what it meant to be The Flash
GHL 365: Impulse (Bart Allen) – Follow the journey of the slack speedster who became The Flash and died to save the world

Suit up in red and gold and time travel your way through this epic celebration of the Flash Family! (Additional research and writing by Meredith Harris)
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Wayne’s Comics Podcast #696: Interview with Creators from Concrete Arcanum Jun 08, 2025

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In Episode #696, Wayne talks with several of the excellent comics creators from the 216-page modern fantasy anthology Concrete Arcanum: Living With Monsters, coordinated by Nathan Lueth, who returns to the podcast! They have a Kickstarter going on at this link, and it will conclude on Sunday, July 20 at 1:53 p.m. EDT.

Several of the great creators from the book participated in this interview, including Nathan himself, S. P. Burke, Mark Romero, Micki.ee, and Michael Howe. We discuss how this series (and new volume) came to be, delve into some of the fascinating stories there, and talk some with the creators about their creations. Be sure to back this terrific anthology as soon as you finish listening to our fun conversation!

**Legion Clubhouse #189: Five Years Later...** Jun 06, 2025
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It's been a long road, but we've made it to a brand new volume, a brand new creative team, and a world that is not the one we left behind.

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**LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES V3 #63**
**"Where Has All The Magic Gone?"**
**August 1989 - On Sale June 22, 1988**
**w: Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen**
**a: Keith Giffen/Mike DeCarlo**

It's the end of everything... including the Legion of Super-Heroes!

**LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES V4 #1**
**"Five Years Later..."**
**November 1989 - On Sale September 14, 1988**
**w: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon/Tom and Mary Bierbaum**
**a: Keith Giffen/Al Gordon**

In a galaxy at war, the former Legionnaires are the target of unseen foes!

Major Spoilers Podcast #1129: Battle of the Podcasts! Jun 03, 2025

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Always five, fighting as one! This week, we look at the Gatchaman series from Mad Cave Studios, and we discuss which Spider-Man foe would be a great foil for Batman. Plus, we review Be Not Afraid #1 from BOOM! Studios, Ghost Rider vs. Galactus #1 from Marvel Comics, and Blue Palo Verde #1 from Mad Cave Studios.

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REVIEWS

STEPHEN
BE NOT AFRAID #1
Writer: Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Artist: Lisandro Estherren
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 04, 2025
Cora Reims lived the isolated life of a simple farm girl until one fateful summer day, prophetic visions brought her a visitor made of pure light... an angel. In the aftermath, Cora gave birth to a child, a Nephilim: the offspring of an angel and a human woman, seemingly imbued with evil itself. 17 years later, that child's cherubic appearance can no longer hide his monstrous nature. Frogs boil in their skins as he passes. Crops rot. The townspeople live in fear, knowing that atrocities follow closely behind him. Now, on the eve of his 18th birthday, Cora receives a new vision... Heaven itself has called upon her to destroy the abomination born of her own flesh and blood.
[rating:2.5/5]

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MATTHEW
GHOST RIDER VS. GALACTUS #1
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Juan Ferreyra
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 4, 2025
THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS BATTLES THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE!

GALACTUS roams the cosmos in search of sustenance he extracts from thriving planets, leaving them as dying husks. GHOST RIDER, Johnny Blaze, punishes souls who are deemed worthy of vengeance. What happens when these two powers collide? Find out when superstar artist JUAN FERREYRA joins J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI for the penultimate pairing across the mighty Marvel landscape
[rating:4/5]

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RODRIGO
BLUE PALO VERDE #1
Writer: Ray Fawkes
Artist: Rimanti
Colorist: Rifan Kartakusumah
Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Release Date: June 11, 2025

On her first day out of jail, Kristine Woods discovers that her father has disappeared into a mysterious isolated town hidden in the New Mexico desert. Now it’s up to her to find him and rescue him from a bizarre and unnatural threat. An atmospheric folk-horror story of dread and redemption set in the American Southwest, starting in June 2025!
[rating: 4/5]

DISCUSSION

GATCHAMAN VOLUME 1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Chris Batista
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Cover Price: $17.99
A mechanical terror has descended upon numerous cities and the world’s greatest scientists are disappearing. Our only hope: Science Ninja Team Gatchaman! As they battle these machinations from the international terrorist organization known as Galactor, their strength, willpower, and even vehicles are pushed to the absolute limit. If they fail…who’s waiting in the wings to take their place? The first exciting volume in an ongoing series that expands upon the original anime series!

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Action Spies MEGA EPISODE (Mission Impossible, James Bond 007, Is James Bond Still Relevant) Jun 02, 2025

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This week, in celebration of the latest Mission Impossible and the recent news about the new James Bond franchise, we’ve commissioned a deadly collection of Super Spy-themed episodes from the archives for this MEGA EPISODE:

GHL 220: Mission Impossible with Samm Levine & Rachel Cushing – Breaking down the Mission Impossible franchise movie by movie
GHL 88: James Bond 007 – Uncover the literary history of England's greatest secret agent complete with Licence to Kill
GHL 386: Is James Bond Still Relevant with Danielle Price – Explore the tough question of tropes & stories from a very different time while asking how archetypes like James Bond can still resonates with modern audiences