MajorSpoilers+

Latest Episodes:

Top Five Things We Did This Summer (2024 Edition) Aug 01, 2024

Show notes

Most of the summer has come and gone, and we have done quite a few things - some traumatic, some boring, and some that are out of this world, as we share our Top Five Things We Did This Summer.

Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at Patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Top Five Podcast continues far into the future!

Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF)

A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Major Spoilers Podcast #1086: That Texas Blood Again Again Jul 30, 2024

Show notes

We venture back to Texas to check out how Ambrose, Texas deals with the RQK in That Texas Blood Vol. 3. We review The Department of Truth #24 from Image Comics, Godzilla vs. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers II #4 from BOOM! Studios and IDW Publishing, and take a look at Peepee Poopoo from Silver Sprocket Press.

Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future!

Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF)

REVIEWS

STEPHEN
The Department of Truth #24
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Martin Simmonds
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 31, 2024
Before Lee Harvey Oswald took his fateful place in the window of the Texas Book Depository, he spent time behind the Iron Curtain. This is fact. But he wasn't just a sympathizer-he was on a secret mission to infiltrate the Soviet Ministry of Lies. This is Truth.
[rating:4/5]

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/46o6JdO

MATTHEW
GODZILLA VS. MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS II #4
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Baldimar Rivas
Publisher: BOOM! Studios/IDW Publishing
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 24, 2024
With the help of some of the greatest giant monsters in history, the Kaiju Power Rangers are born! New powers! New weapons! New Zords!

The next evolution of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - and the next mutation of Godzilla's friends and foes - is upon us! And if you miss this book, you're missing history in the making!
[rating:4/5]

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3YjwMB4

RODRIGO
PEEPEE POOPOO #1
Writer: Caroline Cash
Artist: Caroline Cash
Publisher: Silver Sprocket
Cover Price: $9.99
Release Date: August 14, 2024
Four issues into the series and we finally get PeePee PooPoo #1! Was it time travel, or just a marketing move? The world may never know! In this issue: Caroline discovers a fresh start is surprisingly hard to make in "Ah, Philly." Romance blossoms in "First Date," a classic Alison Bechdel comic gets an update in "Femme and Butch," and a night out turns complicated in "Stoned Again." Caroline Cash's gay, modern take on the '60s underground comic continues to make readers say "hell yeah." As always, this issue is printed with a cardstock foil cover and a PeePee PooPoo sticker sheet
[rating: 4.5/5]

DISCUSSION

THAT TEXAS BLOOD VOLUME 3
Writer: Chris Condon
Artist: Jacob Phillips
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $16.28
As a winter storm looms over Ambrose County in January of 1992, a local woman's body is discovered and believed to be the latest victim of a horrifying West Texas serial murderer known as The Red Queen Killer.

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4d2K4pY

CLOSE
Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com

Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939.

A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

Munchkin Land #705: Pre-Gen Con 2024 Jul 30, 2024

Show notes

Gen Con starts in just a few days, and Dan Patriss shares his Top 5 To Try and Top 5 To Buy at the convention.

Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Munchkin Land continues far into the future!

Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF)

Top 5 To Try (not available to purchase at Gen Con just demo

Honorable Mention

Ascendancy

5 Aeterna

4 The Paradox Initiative

3 Vrahode:Age of Prophecy

2 Mistborn Deckbuilding Game

1 Star Trek:Captains Chair

1st set of Honorable mentions b/c of expensive or been out a while

French Quarter $30

Slay the Spire (I already own but go buy this!) $170

Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught – Tendrils of the Lichen Lich Starter Set (English edition) $100

Crossbows and Catapults:Fortress War $90

Some Expansions to also check out

Aquatica Coral Reefs

Geen Team Wins- Holiday Party $10

Clank Catacombs Lairs and lost chambers --They said limited copies (RUN! To their booth)

Astro-Knights Eternity $50 (Next Aeons end)

Straight out hon mentions

Pirates of Maracaibo $50

Tir na nog $35

Printing Press $35 -- Sequel to Gutenberg

(More hon mentions b/c I mentioned them on The Morning Stream)

Rock Hard: 1977 $50 (so their site says) (you will likely have to run for this one)

Landmarks $25 WIll end up being one of the best Party games of the year

Top 5 to BUY at Gen Con

5 Invincible the Hero Building Game $55

4 Reavers of Midgard the Card game $40

3 Metrorunner $60

2 River Valley Glassworks $39

1 The Mandalorian:Adventures $50

Digital

Clank! Digital on steam $22.99

CrowdFunding

KICKSTARTER

Game Toppers 4.5 Galactic Game Tables, Terrain Packs & Mats

New Terrain packs, some rail art for the rails you can change out and some amazing new play matts, and of course some great deals on Toppers

Luthier

Game Found

Ascension Legends

Wayne’s Comics Podcast #651: Interview with Sara Kenney and Mareid Ruane Jul 28, 2024

Show notes

She Could Fly, the groundbreaking graphic novel, is a one-of-a-kind reading experience. And now that experimental graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics and Berger Books is a documentary escape game designed to challenge how we think about the deeply misunderstood mental illness, OCD. In Episode #651, Wayne talks with leader/co-designer Sara Kenney and co-producer Mairéad Ruane.

They worked with a team of ‘Lived Experience’ experts to inform the content and create a global engagement campaign to shift how we think about OCD and mental health. Scientists, psychologists and medical humanities experts were part of the iterative design process, checking and commenting on scripts and game drafts for over two years. It’s described this way: “Combining comic art, documentary films and interactive gameplay, the She Could Fly Documentary Escape Game is a point and click, psychological game from Wowbagger Productions that takes players on a looping adventure to explore OCD.” We discuss how this project came to be, who the characters are, and how you can access the book as well as the now-available game. Don’t miss this entertaining interview!

Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

[su_signoff]

**Legion Clubhouse #169: Gotta Get Back in Time** Jul 24, 2024
Show notes

Cosmic Boy and Night Girl need to get back to the future if they hope to figure out what is going on in the past. If only there was a giant wall(?), curtain(?), or force(?) blocking their way.

**Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron.** It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future!

**Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF)**

**COSMIC BOY #3**
**"Past, Present… and Future!"**
**February 1987 - On Sale November 4, 1986**
**w: Paul Levitz**
**a: Keith Giffen/Ernie Colón**

What's old and purple and ready to erase the Legion of Super-Heroes from existence?

**LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 3 #35**
**"Forgotten Friends"**
**June 1987 - On Sale February 17, 1987**
**w: Paul Levitz**
**a: Greg LaRocque/Mike DeCarlo/Arne Starr**

Four heroes versus the universe… and Universo! Can an ex-Legionnaire turn the tide?

Major Spoilers Podcast #1085: The Birds of Prey Podcast Jul 23, 2024

Show notes

In celebration of Gail Simone's birthday, we take a look at Birds of Prey: Fighters by Trade this week! We review Chilling Adventures Presents: Truth or Dare from Archie Comics, Zatanna: Bring Down the House #2 from DC Comics, and Bottoms Up! from Silver Sprocket Press. We also let you know what we've been watching.

Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF)

REVIEWS

STEPHEN
ZATANNA: BRING DOWN THE HOUSE #2
Writer: Mariko Tamaki
Artist: Javier Rodriguez
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $5.99
Release Date: July 24, 2024
Magician on trial! Despite Zatanna’s willful determination to avoid Real Magic at all costs, a terrifying showdown with the interdimensional demon that interrupted her stage show reveals that she might not have run as far from the world of sorcery as she once hoped. Now a mysterious group of magic casters emerges from the shadows to accuse her of wielding great and terrible power against one of their own—her late father and greatest shame, Giovanni Zatara!
[rating:3.5/5]

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3SilUQ6

MATTHEW
CHILLING ADVENTURE PRESENTS: TRUTH OR DARE
Writer: Ron Robbins
Artist: Laura Braga
Publisher: Archie Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 17, 2024
When new student Trula Twyst comes to Riverdale, her mysterious and quiet nature doesn't mix well with the squeaky-clean façade of Riverdale High. Tormented by her past and with a keen interest in Behavioral Psychology, she sets her sights on dismantling the traditional high school hierarchy from within. How? By a simple game of Truth or Dare... This horror one shot is smart, sexy, and for fans of movies like Escape Room, Saw, and Girl, Interrupted.
[rating:3.5/5]

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/46kodI5

RODRIGO
BOTTOMS UP!
Writer: Barbara Benas
Artist: Barbara Benas
Publisher: Silver Sprocket Press
Cover Price: $9.99
Release Date: July 31, 2024
A story that's 1 part recipe blog, 1 part comic book, with a dash of sardonic humor, a dollop of existential dread, and a pinch of gig economy camaraderie! Suzette is an over-kneaded and over-proofed pastry chef, running a cooking blog and doing her best to share whatever culinary wisdom she's managed to scrape from the city's top kitchens. Her latest post introduces "interview tiramisu," a dessert so good it'll land her a juicy new job opportunity. Yet as she runs all over town acquiring the very best ingredients, why does she get the creeping feeling that everything's about to go really, really wrong? Published with a cardstock cover and foil accents.
[rating: 4.5/5]

DISCUSSION

BIRDS OF PREY: FIGHTERS BY TRADE
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Joe Bennett
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $24.99
The Birds of Prey face off against mysterious viruses…and maybe even find themselves the prey. When Huntress goes AWOL and a techno-virus invades Oracle’s body, Black Canary will have to team up with Wildcat as they fight for their lives in Singapore… These Birds will have to work with members of the Bat-Family while battling legendary assassins and fighting off attacks from inside themselves! Collects Birds of Prey #81-91.

You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4bOtRTT

CLOSE
Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com

Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939.

A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!

Wayne’s Comics Podcast #650: Interview with Jordan Morris Jul 21, 2024

Show notes

Eisner-nominated creator Jordan Morris talks about his latest release, Youth Group, this week in Episode #650!

Jordan is known for his previous book, Bubble and Youth Group, which is now available from First Second Comics at your local bookstore and comics shop! This new book is described this way: “When Kay reluctantly agreed to join the youth group at Stone Mission Church in Orange County, California, she expected the Jesus talk and the dorky singalongs and the colorful posters about dodging temptation. What she didn’t expect was to stumble on her youth group leaders, Meg and Cortland, in the middle of a real-deal exorcism. Turns out they’re both soldiers in a secret organization of demon hunters in a war that’s heating up, and even if Kay wanted to stay on the sidelines, she doesn’t have a choice. YOUTH GROUP mixes humor, horror, and heart to tell a story about putting aside your differences to give evil the beatdown it deserves.” We discuss how this story came to be, who the characters are, and the fact that you can catch up with Jordan at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con (he shares those details during our conversation). Don’t miss this fun interview!