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Zach is joined by Chris Hacker and Aaron Knowles of The Oblivion Bar Podcast! Together they discuss one of the most important runs in comic book history for so many reasons, the American debut of Alan Moore: Saga of Swamp Thing #20-64 (plus Annual #2)!

Join in as they talk about why Saga of Swamp Thing put Alan Moore on the map, and why it changed the entire landscape of what comic books could be forever!
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New Year's Comic Spree begins as Zach attempts to catch up with the new issues that have stacked up all year long!

This week on the pile:

#1

Peacemaker Tries Hard (DC Black Label)

Issues 1-6

Written by Kyle Starks

Art by Steve Pugh

Colors by Jordie Bellaire

Letters by Becca Carey

#2

Danger Street (DC Black Label)

Issues 1-12

Written by Tom King

Art by Jorge Fornes

Colors by Dave Stewart

Letters by Clayton Cowles

#3

Ultimate Invasion and Ultimate Universe (Marvel Comics)

Issues 1-4 

Written by Jonathan Hickman

Art by Bryan Hitch

Inks by Andrew Currie

Colors by Alex Sinclair

Letters by Vic Caramagna

Issue 1

Written by Jonathan Hickman

Art by Stefano Caselli

Inks by Stefano Caselli

Colors by David Curiel

Letters by Vic Caramagna

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Zach finally has a free week to try and catch up on some of the comics in his vast queue!

Join him as he tells you what he thought of each comic, and whether you should check it out too!

Books on the show:

Indigo Children (Image Comics)
Created by Curt Pires and Rockwell White
Art by Alex Diottot
Colors by Dee Cunniffe
Letters by  Hassan Ottmane-Elhaou

The Forged (Image Comics)
Created by Greg Rucka and Eric Trautmann
Art by Mike Henderson
Colors by Nolan Woodard
Letters by Ariana Maher

Peacemaker Tries Hard!(DC Black Label)
Written by Kyle Starks
Art by Steve Pugh
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by Becca Carey

Monomyth (Mad Cave Studio)
Written by David Hazan
Art from Cecillia Lo Valvo
Colors by Marissa Louise
Letters from Lucas Gattoni

Something Epic (Image Comics)
Written and Illustrated by Szymon Kudranski
Letters by DC Hopkins
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Zach spent a month abroad, traveling throughout the beautiful country of Vietnam, and he read a ridiculous amount of comic books on planes, on buses and in taxis, and also while his family slept the mornings away.

What stories did he finish? Which comics is he continuing to read? And which new books caught his interest?

Also: what is the state of comic books IN Vietnam?

Find out in this Solo Run episode!
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The BLK WKS Killer Bee features a blend of Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos covered by a unique Ecuadorian Maduro wrapper leaf with a contrasting light-colored swirl at the head and foot of the cigar.

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How does one set out to character Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer, First of the Fallen, The Adversary, Him called the Devil? It's up to you, apparently.

Mini-sode #3 is a comparative discussion about the character of Lucifer in the DC universe, between Monte and Melissa (who have seen the Lucifer show) and Veronica (who read Lucifer's appearances in Sandman and has delved into the Lucifer comic). Sometimes it's fun to just enlighten (heh heh heh) one another, you know?

Next week, we will be reading Black Widow (2014) #1-6: The Finely Woven Thread. We invite you to read along with us.

Veronica's theme this season is Redemption (for characters we didn't like before). Monte's theme is Fem Fatales.

We finally appeared on The Colored Pages Book Club, to discuss the adorable Bingo Love! Also check out Monte, Veronica, and Melissa's separate guest appearances on Waiting on the Trade! Monte, Veronica, and Melissa also each appeared on Watching Netflix Without You! And Veronica and Melissa appeared together on Super Sideshow to discuss the finale of the Hawkeye TV show, and Melissa appeared alone to discuss WandaVision (twice!).

Email us at sjwcomicspodcast@gmail.com, or check out our social media at:

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Check out the inaugural crossover of the Hall of Pods, our podcast network! We discuss Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness with The Fandom Optimists, Cape Corner, and True Believers: a Comics PoDCast! Find all of our links here.

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Hello, and welcome to our new Feature content, in the form of mini-sodes!

These bite-size episodes will give us a chance to explore many topics of interest to us that the book club episodes preclude, and to sample content without making it a whole thing. We hope you enjoy them!

Mini-sode #1 is about Neil Gaiman's Sandman, the comic and the character. Who is the Sandman? What are the comics about? How do you get into them? It's all revealed in this mini exposé!

Next week, we will be reading Sin City (1994): The Babe Wore Red (this link is to a collection, of which we are reading one issue). We invite you to read along with us.

Veronica's theme this season is Redemption (for characters we didn't like before). Monte's theme is Fem Fatales.

We finally appeared on The Colored Pages Book Club, to discuss the adorable Bingo Love! Also check out Monte, Veronica, and Melissa's separate guest appearances on Waiting on the Trade! Monte, Veronica, and Melissa also each appeared on Watching Netflix Without You! And Veronica and Melissa appeared together on Super Sideshow to discuss the finale of the Hawkeye TV show.

Email us at sjwcomicspodcast@gmail.com, or check out our social media at:

https://twitter.com/sjwcomicscast
https://www.instagram.com/sjwcomicscast/

Check out the inaugural crossover of the Hall of Pods, our podcast network! We discuss Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness with The Fandom Optimists, Cape Corner, and True Believers: a Comics PoDCast! Find all of our links here.

To get in touch with us, you can email sjwcomicspodcast@gmail.com, or check out our social media at:

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https://www.instagram.com/sjwcomicscast/

Host Rich Ehisen talks with mystery author Jim L'Etoile about his new book Black Label, which introduces Jillian Cooper, a pharmaceutical executive who finds herself suspected of the murder of her company’s CEO.  

An original take on the origin of DCs clown princess, Harley Quinn, as told and drawn by Croatian artist/author, Stjepan Šejić. Jesse Cashman joins Zach to talk the story of Dr. Harleen Quinzel's decent into madness and into the arms of Gotham's worst criminal mastermind, The Joker.
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Timestamps:

00:00:00- Introduction

00:02:38- Derek Chauvin verdict

00:13:47- Ma'Khia Bryant shooting

00:35:18- Biden militarizing police/police reforms

01:02:20- Lt. Nazario police encounter

01:19:00- 1 Samuel: 8 and how it applies today

01:30:31- Woke Christians

01:50:32- Nerd Topic of the Week

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE NEWS:

1. FCBD 2020 titles get teased
2. Wonder Woman #750 launching with over 20 covers
3. Spider-Woman gets a new costume
4. Marvel Comics March 2020 solicitations
5. TRANSFORMERS vs. TERMINATOR in 2020 Event
6. Jonathan Hickman & Mike Huddleston's DECORUM #1 out in March
7. Batman and Doomsday Clock End

TOP BOOKS OF LAST WEEK:

Dave

1. Joker: Killer Smile #2 (W: Jeff Lemire, A: Andrea Sorrentino)
2. The Low, Low Woods #1 (W: Carmen Maria Machado A: Dani, Tamra Bonvillain)

Forrest

1. Wonder Woman: Dead Earth #1 (Daniel Warren Johnson)
2. Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy #1 (W: Jeff Lemire, A: Tonci Zonjic)
3. ComicBookRoundUp
   1. Critic: King Thor #4 (9.8)
   2. Fan: Basketful of Heads #3 (9.5)
       

SEGMENT: 2020 Predictions - one good thing and one bad thing that will happen in comics or the comics industry next year and why

1. Dave: X-Men will get an event and it’ll bleed into Marvel Studios hype / At least one major writer from DC will jump to Marvel
2. Forrest: Neil Gaiman will make a full-scale return to comics / More celebrity editorial lines

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. Dave: Spider-Ham (W: Zeb Wells, A: Will Robson)
2. Forrest: Incoming! #1

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.:

1. Dave: Doctor Strange #1 (Phil Noto)
2. Forrest: Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham (Wendell Dalit)
    

INTERVIEW: The Low, Low Woods writer Carmen Maria Machado and artist Dani join us for an interview to talk horror, the new series, and Hill House Comics.  

• Can you tell us a little bit about how the creative team came together on the title?
• Did you learn anything when creating this series and its first issue?
• Why is the comic book medium right for this story?
• Dani, you're so good at making the somewhat ordinary interesting and scary (I'm thinking of the trash outside the house early in the book as the girls ride their bikes, or the girls trying to remember what happened and their heads are made up of hands, parrots, and other things), how do you approach something static and give it life?
• When it comes to character creation where do you start, Vee and Eldora feel so real!
• So Rob Reiner directed Sea Dogs (we see his name on the marquee outside the theater), which also happens to be the backup story in this first wave of Hill House Comics. Why Reiner?
• Carmen, I had to write this down, "babies were born with placentas black as soot...their mothers were birthing coal itself" god that is horrifying! When working in a visual medium do you need to strike a balance between prose style horror like this and visual horror?
• The use of color by Tamra Bonvillain is fabulous, what goes into creating a color palette for a series?
• I'm always curious, was there a working list of titles for Low, Low Woods?
• Who is on your mount rushmore of creators you'd like to work with?
• Joe Hill was on the podcast 7 or so weeks ago and I asked him to describe Low, Low Woods, and he said it's the perfect mix of david's, 50% david cronenberg and 50% david lynch. Would you agree, or maybe you'd have other directors in mind?
• Do you have any personal heroes in the creative arts?
• Favorite moment or issue in the series so far?

Off Topic Top Shelf: Carmen and Dani give us their picks!

Host Tom Appel and co-hosts Jill Ciminillo and Damon Bell start the show with a discussion Buick's recently announced decision to discontinue the Regal Sportback and Regal TourX wagon. Jill fills us in our her preview-drive experience with Hyundai's completely redesigned 2020 Sonata midsize sedan. Gretchen Sauer, Brand Manager for the new Lincoln Corsair compact luxury crossover, calls in for an interview on the Corsair, Lincoln's handy Phone As A Key technology, and the state of the Lincoln brand in general. We take a quick trip back in time 50 years, and run down the list of the Consumer Guide Best Buy award winners for 1970. We close out the show by recounting memories of family vehicles from our childhoods. 

We are 3 brown folk.  One is angry.  One is nice.  And one just happened to be in the room when this started.  So she's here forever now.

We'll get better at this.  Promise.

Part 2/3: Building authentic connections with influencers without being a cheesy networker

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Los Silva is a successful serial entrepreneur, the co-founder of BuildGrowScale.com and the Black Label Mastermind. He’s a brilliant businessman, consumate deal-maker, business development specialist and one of my closest personal friends and confidants. He’s also the person who first inspired me to create a podcast and get this out in the world.

Los and I speak daily and help each other develop into better entrepreneurs and better people. We serve as each others psychologist and sounding board and share each other’s victories. We are cut from the same cloth and often feel like we’re living inside the same head.

That’s why I invited Los on the show today to have an open discussion about the topics we talk most about so that you can benefit from what happens behind the scenes.

In Part 2

Picking up where part 1 left off, we dive into how both of us approach networking and building authentic connections with other entrepreneurs and thought leaders which have allowed each of us to grow massive and influential networks and masterminds that have waiting lists to get into.

You'll hear several key takeaways including how to start your very own dinner-network with influencers in your town.

And you'll hear about my new strategy to help you get business for free when you visit http://baconwrappedbusiness.com/whoareyou

Part 1/3: Inside the (sometimes dark) entrepreneurial mind

Los Silva is a successful serial entrepreneur, the co-founder of BuildGrowScale.com and the Black Label Mastermind. He's a brilliant businessman, deal-maker, business development specialist and one of my closest personal friends and confidants. He's also the person who first inspired me to create a podcast and get this out in the world.

Los and I speak daily and help each other develop into better entrepreneurs and better people. We serve as each others psychologist and sounding board and share each other's victories. We are cut from the same cloth and often feel like we're living inside the same head.

That's why I invited Los on the show today to have an open discussion about the topics we talk most about so that you can benefit from what happens behind the scenes.

In Part 1

Starting off on a low note, we discuss what REALLY goes through the minds of entrepreneurs like us and many people we're close with.

Do you feel like your struggling, frustrated, in fear of failure of being found out as a fraud?  You're not alone.  

We'll tell you what we feel, what we do about it and show you that no matter how successful you are, you're not alone.

BONUS: Visit http://baconwrappedbusiness.com/whoareyou to see how I may be able to help you get business... for free.