Two months since our last podcast–we really thought it'd been a month–Vernon and I commit to monthly episodes! Fingers crossed we managed it. We open the show talking about the Big Two and how lousy they seem to be at making comics people want to read (specifically the House of Bad Ideas). Then we talk about these comics: Supergirl Being Super, Godshaper, Kill The Minotaur, Redneck, Black Hammer, Kaijumax, Sabrina, Sacred Creatures, Jimmy's Bastards, Cinema Purgatorio, I Hate Fairyland, War Stories, Aliens Dead Orbit , Mage, Love and Rockets, Empowered, Divided States of Hysteria, Mech Cadet Yu.

It's been forever since our last episode but we still manage to be (relatively) speedy. We talk about these comics: Kamandi Challenge, Black Hammer, Godshaper, Aliens Dead Orbit, Heroines, Redneck, New Superman, Letter 44, Hadrian's Wall, War Stories, Last Contract, Providence, Mockingbird. Then we talk the CW superhero TV wrap-up (though no "Arrow" because come on) and Vernon tries to get me to spoil Wonder Woman.

The Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' horror masterpiece Providence has just finished, so what better time to talk about what the end of Providence means; not just for faithful readers, but for comic books as a medium. Occasional guest co-host (and Comics Fondle blog contributor) Matthew Hurwitz of Danger Burger and Joe Linton of Facts in the Case of Alan Moore's Providence join me for this ninety-minute special. Cthulhu fhtagn!

Another long stretch between episodes so we talk a lot for almost two hours. We talk about these comics: Extremity, Redline, Royal City, Grass Kings, Crime Destroyer, Loose Ends, Flintstones, God Country, Nights Dominion, Rat Queens, Dead Inside, Empowered Soldier of Love, Cinema Purgatorio, Motor Crush, Lady Killer, Copperhead, Ether, War Stories, Slam, Supergirl Being Super, New Super Man, Lake of Fire, and Demonic. We also talk about a couple more, but we didn't have them on the outline so I don't remember. Then we talk about superhero movies and TV and get somewhat dejected.

2016: The Year in Comics. (That we read) The worst, the best, the almost there, the just there. BPRD, Eltingville Club, Phonogram, Tokyo Ghost, Legacy of Luther Strode, Nowhere Men, PROPHET earth War, Kennel Block Blues/Hot Damn, Circuit Breaker, Empress, The Fix, Strange Fruit, Dark Knight III, Dreaming Eagles /War Stories/ Johnny Red, Prez Corndog in Chief, Starve, Mockingbird, Mickeys Craziest Adventure, Copra, DC's Young Animals line, Cinema Purgatorio, The Archie Line, Monstress, Ringside, Letter 44, Injection, Blubber, Jupiters Legacy vol 2, Manifest Destiny, Godammned, Hip Hop Family Tree, Weird Detective, Kill or Be Killed, Lady Killer 2, Black Monday Murders, Demonic, Lake of Fire, Jim Thompson- Killer Inside Me, Love and Rockets, Nights Dominion, Hadrians Wall, I Hate Fairyland, Moonshine, New Super Man, Violent Love, Comic Book History of Comics, Ether, Arclight, Electric Sublime, Slam!, Motor Crush, Lazarus, Usagi Yojimbo, Last Contract, The Spire, Harrow County, Baker Street Peculiars, Kaijumax, Flintstones, Black Hammer, Resident Alien-Man With No Name, Providence.

It's an extra-sized episode because it's been so long since the last episode. Here's what we talk about. Black Hammer, Ether, Comic Book History of Comics, Kaijumax, Lake of Fire, Hadrians Wall, Electric Sublime, Resident Alien, Lady Killer, Jessica Jones, AD After Death, Cinema Purgatorio, Nights Dominion, Killer Inside Me, Moonshine, Prophet Earth War, Goddamned, Weird Detective, Surgeon X, The Flintstones, Providence, Motor Crush, Motra, Violent Love Plus Mockingbird: I Can Explain, Mickey's Craziest Adventures, plus general news and happenings, plus TV talk, including "Arrow" for once because finally they made it essential to watch "Arrow"

Are we on time? We're not as late as usual though we aren't exactly on time. But a lot is going on with comics and it's a very full episode. Here's what we talk about. DC Rebirth, Young Animal, Flintstones, Dark Knight, Mockingbird, Jessica Jones, Afterlife with Archie, Stranger Attractors, Kill or be Killed, Demonic, Nights Dominion, Kong of Skull Island, Betty Boop, Resident Alien, Jupiter's Legacy, Reborn, 7 to Eternity, Red One, Hadrian's Wall, Moonshine, Killer Inside Me, Electric Sublime, Manifest Destiny, I Hate Fairyland, Lazarus, Weird Detective, Black Hammer, Kaijumax, Love and Rockets Plus trades, plus general news and happenings, plus TV talk, minus "Arrow" because no one watches "Arrow"

We missed a month, but we sure do talk about a lot here. Here's what we talk about. Kill or Be Killed Demonic Snotgirl Lazarus Black Hammer Lady Killer Afterlife with Archie Sabrina Betty and Veronica Tokyo Ghost Jupiters Legacy Lake of Fire Manifest Destiny Cinema Purgatorio I Hate Fairyland Ringside Kong of Skull Island Prophet Earth War Kaijumax Satans Sodomy Baby Blubber Velvet Midnight of the Soul Flintstones Future Quest Scooby Wacky Raceland Providence Johnny Red Train Called Love Baker Street Peculiars Starve Snow White Spidey Zine

Matt talked me into seeing Suicide Squad, which I actually forgot to give him crap about on this podcast special. We talk about the movie, we talk about the comics, we talk about comic book movies. It's Marvel Comics movies vs. DC Comics movies from a couple DC Comics fans (definitely more so than not, anyway) who don't even like the Marvel Comics movies too much. Suicide Squad is just so objectively bad, it forces uneasy alliances and unlikely sympathies. In hindsight, however, the Suicide Squad trailer did have Jared Leto's Tony Montana meets Patrick Bateman rendition of The Joker promising to hurt someone really, really bad. And the movie delivers. It hurts your brain, really, really bad. Because it's really, really bad. So join Matt and I as we relive the lows and lowers and lowests of David Ayer's 2016 Suicide Squad.