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.

The very BEST Alan Moore ending in his entire body of work. – Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker The Killing Joke is a story about Batman and the Joker; it isn't about anything that you're ever going to encounter in real life, because Batman and the Joker are not like any human beings that have ever lived. So there's no important human information being imparted … Yeah, it was something that I thought was clumsy, misjudged and had no real human importance. It was just about a couple of licensed DC characters that didn't really relate to the real world in any way. – Alan Moore, the original writer, The Killing Joke Wanna say that again, pussy? – Brian Azzarello, screenwriter, Batman: The Killing Joke Out of nowhere–well, the questionably sincere loins of 2016 DC Animation–comes Batman: The Killing Joke, the animated adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's seminal 1988 comic book one-shot, starring Tara Strong as Batgirl, Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill in his much-anticipated return as The Joker. Matthew Hurwitz and I thought it might be nice to sit down and hash over the film, much like we did for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Little did we know Killing Joke wouldn't just turn out to be terrible, it would find astoundingly terrible ways to be terrible. So join us now, as we gaze long into Batman: The Killing Joke and peel back each layer of superhero comics, animation and movie history that lead from the original book to a movie that did virtually everything wrong. Yeah, you knew we were the only ones up to the task. While everyone else is ranting about the instantly-infamous Batman / Batgirl hookup sex scene, only The Comics Fondle Podcast gives equal time to discussing the idiocy of this version having The Joker use circus freaks as a gang of deadly goons. (We do actually get to discuss some good things, like "Batman: The Animated Series" and some comics. It's not all doom and gloom. There's whimsy)

We're back on a monthly schedule! At least for this episode. Here's what we talk about. Wacky Raceland Jupiters Legacy Weird Detective DK III Hearthrob Strange Attractors The Spire Sixth Gun Kaijumax Starve Lazarus Dept H The Fix Satellite Falling Circuit Breaker Fairyland Cinema Purgatorio DC Rebirth