On the Stack podcast for the week of October 30, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Amazing Spider-Man #60, Poison Ivy / Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1, and so many more!

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Amazing Spider-Man #60

Marvel

Written by Zeb Wells, Joe Kelly

Art by John Romita Jr., Ed McGuinness, Paolo Rivera, Todd Nauck, Patrick Gleason, Mark Buckingham

Poison Ivy / Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1

DC Comics

Written by G. Willow Wilson

Art by Mike Perkins

Devour #1

Image Comics/Ghost Machine

Written by Maytal Zchut

Art by Leila Leiz

Wolverine: Revenge #3

Marvel

Written by Jonathan Hickman

Art by Greg Capullo

Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #2

DC Comics

Written by Jeph Loeb

Art by Klaus Janson

Redcoat #7

Image Comics

Written by Geoff Johns

Art by Bryan Hitch

Namor #4

Marvel

Written by Jason Aaron

Art by Paul Davidson and Alex Lins

Action Comics #1073

DC Comics

Written by Mark Waid, Mariko Tamaki

Art by Clayton Henry and Michael Shelfer, Skylar Patridge

Feral #7

Image Comics

Written by Tony Fleecs

Art by Trish Forstner and Tone Rodriguez

NYX #4

Marvel

Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing

Art by Enid Balám

The Nice House By The Sea #4

DC Comics

Written by James Tynion IV

Art by Álvaro Martínez Bueno

Violent Flowers #2

Image Comics

By Maria Llovet

Ultimate X-Men #8

Marvel

By Peach Momoko

The Penguin Special #1

DC Comics

Written by Jeremy Adams, Bill Finger, Alan Grant, Jason Aaron

Art by Howard Porter, Bob Kane, Sam Kieth, Jason Pearson

Kill All Immortals #4

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Zack Kaplan

Art by Fico Ossio

Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Jim Festante And James Asmus

Art by Abylay Kusainov

Uncanny Valley #6

BOOM! Studios

Written by Tony Fleecs

Art by Dave Wachter

The Carlyle School for Kings #1

Dark Horse Comics

Written by Nelson Greaves

Art by Davide Castelluccio

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Caroline Cash ("PeePee PooPoo"), and Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones ("Dracula: Book II - The Brides").

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Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wjingard sit down with the podcast at New York Comic Con 2024 for a big, spoiler-filled chat about The Power Fantasy #3 from Image Comics. How did they develop the world of the book? What's next after that big change at the end of the issue? Plus, Gillen chats about We Called Them Giants and the return of DIE, and Wjingard talks about whether there will be more Home Sick Pilots.

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On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Brent Bristol ("Ordeal") + Patrick McDonnell ("Mutts")!

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Scott Snyder is a busy guy. From writing the multiple-sold-out Absolute Batman to launching new titles through Comixlogy, to books through DSTLRY, to writing an animated adaptation of his book Wytches, to his work with Tom Hardy and Frank Tieri on Arcbound, the guy is everywhere. When Comic Book Club caught up with Snyder, he was on the roof of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, having just wrapped up an extended breakfast hang with students for one of his other ventures, Our Best Jackett, where he teaches the intricate art of comic book writing.

While we were there to talk primarily about Arcbound, which is coming from Dark Horse Comics on November 13, and to Kickstarter for a Deluxe Edition at a later date, we had to ask Snyder -- whose comic career really blew up with the release of Vertigo's American Vampire -- what he thought of the return of DC's beloved label at New York Comic Con.

"I literally teared up," Snyder said. "It means everything. They're being really creator-friendly with their deals and everything. This whole All In initiative, everything about it is trying to be why it's so fun to love DC Comics all around and to invite everybody in on every level. This wasn't part of it that I organized. It was a long time coming from amazing people there, but to see it roll out at the same moment we're trying to do this very big comprehensive, 'Welcome to comics. Everybody's included. There's every kind of book. Everything starts here.' [It] feels great."

For much more from Snyder including the success of Absolute Batman, his deal with Comixology, and how Tom Hardy called him on his family vacation in Hawaii, listen in.

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IDW's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is an enormous hit. Not only did the recently released trade of the "cozy horror" series hit number two on ICv2's sales charts, just below Marvel's monster hit Ultimate Spider-Man, but every issue of the initial series sold better than the last. And as just announced by IDW at New York Comic Con, not only is Beneath the Trees getting a sequel series titled Rite of Spring, but the publisher is essentially building a whole horror line around it called IDW Dark.

In Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, we meet Samantha, a normal bear living a normal life in a normal town. Except when she goes out of town, she uses the opportunity to unwind and brutally murder unsuspecting fellow animals. That is until another murderer appears in her hometown, unraveling her whole life.

While Horvath couldn't spill all the details about Rite of Spring, he is able to tease that we'll jump forward in time... If the first series was ostensibly set in the '80s, this is set in the '90s. And yes, the "Rite of Spring" title is purposeful on many levels. Not only will the setting be different, but the format will also be different. Instead of six issues, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring will run three double-sized issues. So the same page count, but a different release schedule.

In advance of the announcement, Comic Book Club sat down with Horvath in Artist Alley to discuss the success of Beneath the Trees, what to expect from the sequel, and much more.

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