Dueling Review

The end of the world is nigh, and it's all Reggie's fault! This week, Matthew and Stephen pick up and review Afterlife with Archie #1 from Archie Comics. If you don't like spoilers, don't listen to this episode until after you've read the book.... and you really need to rush out and buy this book! AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #1 Writer: Roberto Aguirre Sacasa Artist: Francesco Francavilla, Jack Morelli (CA) Francesco Francavilla Publisher: Archie Comics Cover Price: $2.99 New Ongoing Series! "Escape From Riverdale." This is how the end of the world begins! Harvey Award-winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Archie Meets Glee) and Eisner-winning artist Francesco Francavilla (Batman) take Archie and the gang where they've never been before - to the grave and back! A horrific accident sets off a series of grim events and Sabrina the Teenage Witch must try to repair the unspeakable evil her spell has unleashed. Gasp in horror as Riverdale faces an impending zombie Arch-pocalypse in this brand-new, spine-tinglin

Captain America Living Legend #1 arrived in stores this week, and Matthew and Stephen send it too the moon. CAPTAIN AMERICA LIVING LEGEND #1 Writer: Andy Diggle Artist: Adi Granov Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 • When a top-secret orbital research station is dragged from the sky by an unknown alien force, army-of-one Steve Rogers finds himself caught between two global superpowers on the brink of war! • But how does it involve Volkov - a decorated Russian officer he last crossed paths with during the closing days of World War II, who disappeared on an ill-fated lunar mission over forty years ago? • Andy Diggle and Adi Granov send living legend Captain America on a one-man mission into the heart of darkness-in search of another! >Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Sexy-time fun takes center stage as Suzanne discovers the joys of sex and how to stop time in Sex Criminals #1. SEX CRIMINALS #1 Writer: Matt Fraction Artist: Chip Zdarsky Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.50 Suzie's a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night she meets John... who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping, couple would do: they rob banks. In the vein of THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN and BRIDESMAIDS, Image Comics invites you to come along with MATT FRACTION (Hawkeye, SATELLITE SAM) and CHIP ZDARSKY (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops) for the series that puts the "comic" back in “comics” and the "sexy" back in “sex crimes.” Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

The penultimate issue of Locke & Key has arrived from IDW Publishing, and Matthew and Stephen can't wait to take a look inside. LOCKE & KEY ALPHA #1 Writer: Joe Hill Artist: Gabriel Rodriguez Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $7.99 SOLICITATION: “Omega and Alpha,” part 1: In the second-to-the-last issue of Locke & Key, the damned and the saved alike will make their final stand in the Drowning Cave, in a clash of blood and fire. The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it’s time to say goodbye. http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/dueling_review_the_star_wars_1.mp3 Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

It's time to go back, back, back, waaaaay back to the early days of a galaxy far, far, away, and see what might have been as Stephen and Matthew take a look at Dark Horse Comics' The Star Wars #1. STAR WARS #1 (LUCAS DRAFT) Writer: J. W. Rinzler Artist: Mike Mayhaw Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 SOLICITATION: Before Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the authorized adaptation of George Lucas's rough-draft screenplay of what would eventually become a motion picture that would change the world. Annikin Starkiller is the hero . . . Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general . . . Han Solo is a big green alien . . . and the Sith . . . Well, the Sith are still the bad guys. High adventure and derring-do from longer ago, in a galaxy even further away! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

This week, we return to the trilling days of yesteryear as Nikola Tesla takes on the Mad Money Mongers of New York City, in Atomic Robo Presents Real Science Adventures #10. ATOMIC ROBO PRESENTS REAL SCIENCE ADVENTURES #10 Writer: Brian Clevinger Artist: Erich Owen Publisher: Red 5 Comics Cover Price: $2.75 In the wake of the financial panic of 1893, a cabal of industrialists plot to overthrow the government. Their "Black Coat" army works from the shadows to plunge the nation into chaos and usher in a new regime. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

What's this!? An iceberg in Gotham? Matthew and Stephen reviewing a comic book? It's time once again for the thrilling adventures of Dueling Reviews! This week, Batman 66 #2. BATMAN 66 #2 Writer: Jeff Parker Artist: Ty Templeton It's the middle of summer, so why is an iceberg blocking Gotham harbor? Aided by his new accomplice, Mr. Freeze, the Penguin floats in on a giant iceberg that he declares to be a soverign nation. Now, in order for ships to pass and commerce to continue, everyone is going to have to pay a toll to "Emperor Penguin." Will the beaked criminal really be able to use diplomatic immunity to pull off this pernicious piracy? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get

This week, Matthew and Stephen do a day of release Dueling Review on Marvel's latest event comic - Infinity #1 Infinity (2013) #1 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Jim Cheung The oversized kickoff to the year’s most anticipate Blockbuster summer event, chaning the way you view the Marvel Universe! • The outbreak of war on two fronts: Earth and Space, with our heroes torn between them. • The world-shattering return of Thanos! • Includes material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: INFINITY Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Join us in a tale from the thrilling days of yesteryear as Matthew and Stephen travel back to the '50s to exam sex, death, and live television as they take a gander at Satellite Sam #2 from Image Comics. SATELLITE SAM #2 Writer: Matt Fraction Artist: Howard Chaykin Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.50 SEX ? DEATH ? LIVE TV!NEW YORK CITY, 1951: Mike buries his father and Ginsburg buries the lede making his sales pitch. Will TV be an East Coast or West Coast medium? And in a pile of filthy photographs Mike finds one image that is really and truly shocking. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums

Time once again for Dueling Review, a show where two guys sit down with one comic and discuss the book in-depth. BATMAN ANNUAL #2 Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Wes Craig Publisher: DC Comics A special ZERO YEAR tie-in! Bruce Wayne’s first year as the Dark Knight has just barely begun…and already dangerous elements are coalescing, leading Bruce toward his final destiny. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

We've been waiting since March to review the latest collaboration between IDW Publishing and DC Comics. ROCKETEER SPIRIT PULP FRICTION #1 Writer: Mark Waid Artist: Paul Smith The Spirit, created by Will Eisner, and The Rocketeer, created by Dave Stevens, are two of the most beloved characters in the history of comics. Now, these two great pulp-inspired heroes meet for the very first time! A Central City Councilman disappears and is found dead in Los Angeles. Commissioner Dolan, along with Denny Colt (AKA The Spirit) and his daughter Ellen in tow, treks out to the City of Angels to investigate. Meanwhile, Cliff Secord (The Rocketeer) consoles his sweetheart Betty... who is traumatized after accidentally discovering the politicians body!

This week, Matthew and Stephen travel back to the future of the past and dredge up some retro dinos to attack the Earth, thanks to future technology... DINOSAURS ATTACK #1 Writer: Gary Gerani Artists: Herb Trimpe, Earl Norem, George Freeman Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $3.99 They're BACK! 25 years after Topps' original DINOSAURS ATTACKS! trading cards took a bite out of candy counter sales, the original Eclipse graphic novel written by DA creator Gary Gerani returns, this time released in its entirety! With pencils by Herb (G.I. JOE) Trimpe and paintings by veteran illustrator Earl Norem, the entire story will be released as five comic books, with all the blood-curdling trimmings. So put world-conquering Martians aside for a bit and relish the time-tilted melodrama and wild humor of DINOSAURS ATTACK! -- the ultimate nightmare is now a reality from IDW! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review cont

This week, Stephen and Matthew once again pay a visit to the Doctor and see what companion is about to fall in IDW Publishing's Doctor Who Prisoners of Time #6. Doctor Who Prisoners of Time #6 Writer: David Tipton, Scott Tipton Artist: John Ridgway Cover Artist: Francesco Francavilla, Dave Sim Our yearlong celebration of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary continues! Mmm, I wonder... aha! It is the Sixth Doctor who takes the spotlight in this issue of a 12-part epic adventure featuring all 11 incarnations of the Doctor! As Peri and Frobisher attempt to free the Doctor from an asylum, not one, but two villains are revealed! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review continues far into the future! DID YOU READ THIS ISSUE? RATE IT! Reader Rating [ratings] A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings

A hero from the past has arrived in the future, and it is up to Stephen and Matthew to examine and evaluate Captain Midnight #0! Captain Midnight #0 Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Victor Ibáñez, Pere Pérez Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $2.99 Piloting a World War II dive-bomber, Captain Midnight—fighter pilot extraordinaire and expert inventor—hurtles out of a freak storm in the Bermuda Triangle and into the twenty-first century, where he’s in for more than one surprise as he enters the modern era! Collects the three stories from Dark Horse Presents #18–#20.

It's a sci-fi western with a giant primate in it! SIX-GUN GORILLA #1 Writer: Simon Spurrier Artist: Jeff Stokely Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $3.99 Welcome to "the Blister" -- a bizarre other-world colonized by humans sometime in the 22nd century, which quickly became a hotly-contested source of fertile land and natural resources long ago exhausted on Earth. In this new frontier, a rogue gunslinger and his companion wander across a wilderness in the grips of a civil war, encountering lawlessness, natives, and perversions of civilization in a world at the crossroads between the past and the future. The fact that said gunslinger is a bio-surgically modified silverback gorilla toting a pair of enormous revolvers is neither here nor there. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this

This week, Matthew and Stephen offend our friends to the North while reviewing Daredevil Dark Nights #1. DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #1 Writer: Lee Weeks Artist: Lee WeeksPublisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $2.99 A blizzard brings New York to a stand still -- and a young patient lies on death's door unless Daredevil can get to him in time! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Two guys sit down to read Danger Girl: Trinity #2 and have flashbacks to 1998. Danger Girl: Trinity #2 Writer: Andy Hartnell Artists: Stephen Molnar, Harvey Tolibao, John Royle, [more...] Colorist: Romulo Fajardo Letterer: Neil Uyetake Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $3.99 More thrills and chills from Abbey Chase, Sydney Savage and Sonya Savage, as the each face their own individual challenges. It's Dangerously delicious as our trio of secret agents continue on a mission of epic proportions! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week, Matthew and Stephen sit down to have a polite discussion on FF #7 by Matt Fraction and Mike Allred. FF #7 Writer: Matt Fraction Artist: Mike Allred Publisher: Marvel Cover Price: $2.99 Field trip…into the heart of the Negative Zone!Scott Lang has already lost a daughter… watch what happens when he puts it all on the line to save… Bentley-23?The shocking reveal of the villain pulling the strings and pitting family against family -- and a rescue mission unlike anything you’ve ever seen -- FF vs FF! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by making a $5.00 per month recurring donation. It will help ensure Dueling Review continues far into the future! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week technical difficulties keep Matthew and Stephen from exchanging blows as they discuss The Movement #1 from DC Comics. THE MOVEMENT #1 Writer: Gail Simone Artist: Freddie E. Williams II Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $2.99 We are faceless. We are limitless. We see all. And we do not forgive. Who defends the powerless against the GREEDY and the CORRUPT? Who protects the homeless and poverty-stricken from those who would PREY upon them in the DARK OF NIGHT? When those who are sworn to protect us abuse their power, when toxic government calls down super-human lackeys to force order upon the populace...finally, there is a force, a citizen’s army, to push order BACK. Let those who abuse the system know this as well: We have our OWN super humans now. They are not afraid of your badges or Leagues. And they will not be SILENCED. We are your neighbors. We are your co-workers. And we are your children. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this

This week, tensions run high as Stephen and Matthew take a look at Steed and Mrs. Peel #7 from BOOM! Studios. STEED AND MRS. PEEL #7 Writer: Caleb Monroe Artist: Yasmin Liang Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $3.99 Steed and Mrs. Peel enter The Suicide Town! John Steed and Emma Peel travel up the coast to a small seaside community to investigate what should be a minor issue, but things become increasingly bizarre -- and deadly -- by the moment... Another all-new tale of the smashing spy duo!