On this week’s comic book review podcast:

Infinite Frontier #0

DC Comics

Written by Joshua Williamson, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Brian Michael Bendis, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Joelle Jones, Tim Sheridan, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Geoff Johns, Geoffrey Thorne

Art by David Marquez, Jorge Jimenez, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Joelle Jones, Stephen Byrne, Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, Jamal Igle, Alex Maleev, Todd Nauck, Dexter Soy, Howard Porter, John Romita Sr. and Klaus Janson

America Chavez: Made In The USA #1

Marvel

Written by Kalinda Vazquez

Art by Carlos Gómez

Batman #106

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson

Art by Jorge Jimenez, Gleb Melnikov

Demon Days: X-Men #1

Marvel

Story and Art by Peach Momoko

Suicide Squad #1

DC Comics

Written by Robbie Thompson

Art by Eduardo Pansica

Wiccan and Hulkling: King in Black #1

Marvel

Written by Tini Howard

Art by Luciano Vecchio

The Swamp Thing #1

DC Comics

Written by Ram V

Art by Mike Perkins

Nocterra #1

Image Comics

Written by Scott Snyder

Art by Tony S. Daniel

Crime Syndicate #1

DC Comics

Written by Andy Schmidt

Art by Kieran McKeown, Bryan Hitch

Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #1

Oni Press

By Chris Samnee and Laura Samnee

Sea of Sorrows #4

IDW

Written by Rich Douek

Art by Alex Cormack

The Comic Book History of Animation #4

IDW

Written by Fred Van Lente

Art by Ryan Dunlavey

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex:                 What’s up everybody. Welcome to The Stack. I’m Alex.

Justin:              I’m Justin.

Pete:                I’m Pete.

Alex:                 And on the stack, we talk about a bunch of books that come out this week, and we’re going to kick it off with a big one. Infinite Frontier, number zero-

Pete:                Oh, man.

Alex:                 … from DC Comics. Nice, simple lineup of names here. So let’s go through it. Written by Joshua Williamson, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Brian Michael Bendis, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Joelle Jones, Tim Sheridan, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Geoffrey Thorne. Art by David Marquez, Jorge Jimenez, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Joelle Jones, Stephen Bird and Rafa Sandovall, Jody… Oh, there we go. Jordi Tarragona, Jamal Igle, Alex Maleev, Todd Nauck, Dexter Soy, Howard Porter, John Romita Sr. and Klaus Janson.

Alex:                 Now this is your requisite, post-event check in with the entire DC Universe. What’s going on? What’s happening with everybody? What’s everybody’s new status quo now that the continuity has changed. So we kind of know how this one goes, but the framing here is that Wonder Woman has maybe ascended to be a higher being, she’s trying to decide about that.

Alex:                 And so she’s taken a look in on the new state and the multi-verse post Dark Nights: Death Metal. How’d you feel about this book? How’d you feel about the status quo? What jumped out at you?

Pete:                For me, I thought the Bat cycle was sick. Cool green Lanterns thing. And love the last page, but what is happening now with DC?

Alex:                 Wait, what do you mean Pete?

Pete:                Well, like we were really enjoying these DC kind of what if books, and now it’s just all over and-

Alex:                 Well so-

Pete:                … and it all-

Alex:                 … Phillip Kennedy Johnson, when he was on the show, talked about this a little bit. He said that the Future State things are, and they talk about this in this book a bit as well, but not as explicitly, that they’re a possible future or a possible futures. These are places the continuity may be going or may not, but they’re not ignoring them.

Alex:                 And you can see that a little bit in the Batman story that teases the magistrate storyline. That plays later in The Stack Podcast wh