Variant 115: 2025 Wrap Up
Another year and a few dozen comic reads under Josh and Travis’s belt. Join the boys as they look back at their favorite reads, artists, heroes, and villains from their 2025 comic stack!
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Another year and a few dozen comic reads under Josh and Travis’s belt. Join the boys as they look back at their favorite reads, artists, heroes, and villains from their 2025 comic stack!
Josh’s Picks Fun crayon prints X-Files analogue 3d The Complete Calvin and Hobbes New Edge Sword and Sorcery Goonies Lego Set Travis Picks Stranger Things Sneakers Sight and Sound Magazine Book Stand Pulp Magazine History Jaws Bath Bomb
The boys and Andrea peel back the plastic on the very scintillating comic Gun Honey volume 1. What will the gang thing of the late night “red shoe” read?
Jordan Thomas’s crime noir falls in the middle of noir November. Chris Matthew’s art soaks the story with noir flavor, but will Travis and Josh dig that flavor. Tune in and find out.
After years of fawning over Brubaker and Phillips noir books, the boys read the current bookends to their long running “Criminal” noir crime series.
Spooky season is reaching its climax with this EC Comics horror anthology. What will the comic exposure think about these snack-size horror stories? Will it satisfy their spook-tooth or leave them hungry for more?
Andrea, the Queen of Halloween, dips her spooky scepter into the art and storytelling of Mike Mignola. What will she, Josh, and Travis think of Mignola’s dark fable anthology?
Andrea, the Halloween Queen, graces the pod with her royal presence to kick off the “spooky book” season with the Tyler Boss and Adriano Turtulici book “You’ll Do Bad Things”. This writer-based horror book may have some very chilling panels!
“Godzilla takes on his greatest foes yet—Jay Gatsby, Sherlock Holmes, and the Time Machinist—in this graphic novel mash-up by Tom Scioli from IDW Publishing!” Pretty weird huh? Yeah, we think so too, but in the best way.
It’s a “genre September” and there is reason to believe that the boys may find some joy in Matt Kindt and Dan McDaid’s cosmic odyssey comic.