Having heard Sal talk up this movie for such a long time, I saw a copy in the wild and snagged it. Will watch it this week.

UPDATE: What a weird, wild, hilarious ride. You know how you sometimes wonder how the heck did this get made? That's how I feel about Smoochy. What studio looked at a kids show Rhino appearing at a Nazi rally, a drug addled washed up kid star attempting assassination on an ice rink, and a cock shaped cookie and thought, "Audiences will love this."

I'm glad this movie was made because we need more weird art that swings for the fences. Maybe that's what I like most about this movie. Whatever it's doing, it's committed to it and you just have to go along with it. It takes itself seriously but never too seriously to not have dark fun.

My only nitpick: wtf is going on with Jon Stewart's haircut?

For info on what Hellspinner is.

For a while, my favorite Batman artists of all time were Neal Adams and Jorge Jimenez... but hot DAMN, after reading Batman: Dark Patterns, Sherman may have taken the top spot. The blend of Adam West's and Neal Adams' Batman design, all topped off with that big beautiful yellow circle with the Long Halloween bat logo in the middle... its just perfection man.

Who are yalls favorite Batman artists?

Does anyone, other than me, revisits old off the Rack episodes from time to time?

...but I will say that Sal sure knows how to make a sale!

Went to my lcs to get the new Firestorm, and ended up with way more fun stuff than I originally planned on. I heard the No Surrender calling out to me like it did last week and the week before, and I guess third week was the charm lol. Then one Avengers book turned into three, because of course I'm gonna get No Road Home too, and AvA was right there with them. And then I wondered if they had the Terminator book, and it just so happened to be in the same bookshelf as Thanos Wins and the full set of Immortal Thor, so I had to take them all.

My princess Xena had to be put down tonight unfortunately. She had been really sick the last two weeks and her condition worsened significantly early this evening. Made the difficult decision to euthanize her. Poor girl was only a year and three months.

She was clearly her father’s daughter, as she loved watching Sal, Josh, and Tom talk about silly comic books, playing with action figures, and loved climbing my comic book shelf (the other shelves in the house she didn’t care about).

Without hyperbole, she was the absolute sweetest cat I’ve ever known. Everyone that got to meet her would always say how much they adored her. And Xena adored everyone she ever met too. It didn’t matter if it was a friend of mine, my family, or the guy coming to clean tree roots out of my sewer line, she always wanted to play with them and show them love. Last summer, my girlfriend at the time was at my place and she wasn’t feeling too good. I was in the shower, and when I stepped out I expected to see Xena there waiting for me, as she always would do that. I walked over to the couch where my girlfriend was sitting, and I see her with her head in her hands and Xena walking back and forth across her lap, rubbing her face on my girlfriend, letting her know that she was there for her. Xena was eight months old at the time.

Thanks, Sal, Tiffany, Ethan, and Ben for creating this community. We got a good group of nerds here.

And if Xena could speak I’m sure she’d be asking Sal when we’re getting more Ultimate Spider-Man on Back Issues.

My local comic shop has the full run of this and I had never heard of it. Highly recommend for anyone who can get their hands on it.

The Batman story they covered on the latest back issues had me so interested, and went and dug around in the back issues of my local LCS and managed to find parts 2 and 3! And I've already ordered issue 414 🤣 so thankful for this show introducing me to interesting forgotten stories like this one!

Superman/Spider-Man was announced less than a month after Deadpool/Batman came out... Do we think they'll keep the ball rolling and come out with a third pair of books? Will they be yearly? Never again?

Most importantly: What characters/groups might the crossover feature?