On this week’s Stack podcast:

The Joker #1

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns

Art by Guillem March, Mirka Andolfo

Children of the Atom #1

Marvel

Written by Vita Ayala

Art by Bernard Chang

Karmen #1

Image Comics

By Guillem March

Wonder Woman #770

DC Comics

Written by Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire

Art by Travis Moore, Paulina Ganucheau

Non-Stop Spider-Man #1

Marvel

Written by Joe Kelly

Art by Chris Bachalo

Proctor Valley Road #1

BOOM! Studios

Written by Grant Morrison & Alex Child

Art by Naomi Franquiz

American Vampire 1976 #6

DC Comics

Written by Scott Snyder

Art by Rafael Albuquerque

Deadpool Nerdy Thirty #1

Marvel

Written by Joe Kelly, Skottie Young, Kelly Thompson, Fabian Nicieza, Gail Simone, Daniel Way, Gerry Duggan & Brian Poeshn, Rob Liefeld & Chad Bowers

Art by Cerardo Sandoval, Aaron Conley, Kevin Libranda with Bob Quinn, Patch Zircher, Michael Shelfer, Paco Medina, Scott Koblish, Rob Liefeld

Home Sick Pilots #4

Image Comics

Written by Dan Watters

Art by Caspar Wijngaard

Rorschach #6

DC Comics

Written by Tom King

Art by Jorge Fornés

Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #1

Marvel

Written by Mariko Tamaki

Art by Gurihiru

Black Hammer Visions #2

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Geoff Johns

Art by Scott Kolins

Superman #29

DC Comics

Written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Sean Lewis

Art by Phil Hester, Sami Basri

Eternals #3

Marvel

Written by Kieron Gillen

Art by Esad Ribić

Birthright #47

Image Comics

Written by Joshua Williamson

Art by Andrei Bressan

Luna #2

BOOM! Studios

By Maria Llovet

Sweet Tooth: The Return #5

DC Comics

By Jeff Lemire

The Immortal Hulk #44

Marvel

Written by Al Ewing

Art by Joe Bennett

Specter Inspectors #2

Boom! Box

By Bowen McCurdy and Kaitlyn Musto

The Amazing Spider-Man #61

Marvel

Written by Nick Spencer

Art by Patrick Gleason

The Last Witch #3

BOOM! Box

Written by Conor McCreery

Illustrated by V.V. Glass

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Full Episode Transcript:

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

Justin:              I’m Justin.

Pete:                I’m Pete.

Alex:                 On The Stack, we talk about a bunch of books that have come out this week, and let’s kick it off with the clown prince of crime himself, The Joker #1 from DC Comics, written by James Tynion IV and Sam Johns, art by Guillem March and Mirka Andolfo. This is the first time ever the Joker has an ongoing series. So of course, it’s mostly about Commissioner Gordon. I mean, this is reliably good. It’s James Tynion, Guillem March. His art is gorgeous, as usually, even with the swerve here that it mostly is not about the Joker. It’s still a really good story. I liked it quite a bit. What’d you guys think?

Pete:                Yeah. I was really impressed. I thought it was very interesting because it’s like “Okay. Joker #1. What are we going to get here?” and I was really impressed with the choices that they made with this comic. Also, we’re still getting this kind of Punchline kind of backup story in this, which is great, and it’s going to be really interesting to see how this Punchline thing unfolds, but yeah. As far as Joker #1, I thought they did an amazing job of getting you excited for this big kind of arc that they’re telling. I think, as far as this first issue is concerned, it does its job really well. I am very excited for more.

Justin:              Yeah. I really like this version of Commissioner Gordon, or ex-Commissioner Gordon. We get to see a nice flashback of when he was in the Chicago PD before he got busted down to Gotham, and it reminded me a lot of Scott Snyder’s Detective Comics run, sort of where he was plucked from that.

Pete:                Oh, yeah. With Jock. Jock was doing the art. Yeah.

Justin:              Yeah. He was plucked, and Francavi