First Issue Club Comic Books

Fountain City Frequency

We're a reading club, hyping and reviewing all the weekly talked about number one ☝️ comics.

  • 56 minutes 33 seconds
    Captain America: Brave New World (MCU) chatter / Doom (2024) #1

    This week the club is sans Vargas, but the show must go on! Greg and Mike chop it up about the Captain America McDonalds toys, and decide wether we're hyped or not for it. Next we mention Nick Cage's Spider-Man Noir coming to TV... Then... FINALLY! It's time for those sweet sweet reads the title of the show promised. We discuss the new Spawn universe mini-series Monolith, The Doom one-shot by Sanford Greene & Jonathan Hickman, a cool new dark fantasy on Darkhorse called Heart Piercer, and then Greg catches us up on a few more comics we missed last week while covering C2E2, which includes a book he was particularly hyped on, called Mugshots out on Mad Cave. 

    Join us on the Patreon for more C2E2 talk, and some convos around purchasing original art. 

    17 May 2024, 3:59 am
  • 1 hour 23 minutes
    C2E2 Coverage & Exclusive Treasures

    Today the club discusses our experiences at Chicagos premiere comicon C2E2! The club got the full con experience including: Attending panels, being part of a panel, shopping, meeting creators, commissions, exclusive, and it wouldn't be complete without one of us getting sick once its all done. 

    Check the show out on Youtube this week if you wanna see our Show n' Tell, but we'll do our best to describe our treasures so its fun for followers who refuse to look at us (We don't blame ya!)

    10 May 2024, 5:13 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    The Whisper Queen / Bloodhunt / 007th Club Preview

    CON CRUD!!!

    It's taken one of our own this time. Seems we brought something home with us from Chicago and we're not talking memories. Mike D is at home fighting for the will to live so Greg and Vargas carry on as strong little soldiers in his absence. 

    So for this episode they've decided to flip the script and try something new. While you'll still get great comic book news updates and first issue reviews, the Noize Bois have chosen to add a preview of a Patreon exclusive show at the end. 007th Club is the Patreon show dedicated to the Dynamite series of James Bond comic books. Greg and Vargas explore the series and other James Bond related content to get Greg cultured and into the 21st century.

    The books we cover are: The Whisper Queen, Get Fury, Bloodhunt, The Dragon Trade and Dick Tracy. All fantastic books that can be found at your LCS and digitally.

    If you're interested in MORE First Issue Club make sure to check out Patreon.com/FirstIssueClub as well as all our social media accounts. Remember to be kind and welcoming to new readers and have a fantastic FCBD!!!

    3 May 2024, 3:03 am
  • 1 hour 36 seconds
    Free Comic Book Day Recos / Blow Away

    We're talkin panels and ripping through our famous First Issue Club announcements. Stuff to know:

    • We'll be at Tower Con at Tower Tavern in KC, Saturday April 20
    • We're joining a panel at C2E2 in Chicago, at 11:30 Friday April 26

    Topics from our show:

    Is Namor cool? Avengers vs Predator. Sequel to James Tynions 'Nice House on the Lake' on the way. Harry Osbourns mystery wife being introduced in Ultimate Spider-man 4. Venom War. Our recommendations for free comics to look out for on Free Comic Book Day 2024. Roxxon Present Thor #1. Dudley Dawson and the Forever Machine #1. Blow Away #1. Regretting choosing B covers. 

    19 April 2024, 4:28 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Whatnot Con / Rat City / Uncanny Valley

    This week Mike and Vargas chop it up about several topics, with a much longer news segment than normal. We're talking power moves at work, Whatnot Con, X-Men blind bags, video games movies replacing comic movies, preferences for ongoings vs maxis, RIP Trina Robbins, and What if Donald Duck became Wolverine. 

    Then in the comics convo we're talking a lot of indie comics we liked! Rat City by Erica Schultz, Monsters are my Business by Cullen Bunn, Uncanny Valley by Tony Fleecs, Street Fighter Masters, and When the Blood has Dried on Mad Cave. 

    12 April 2024, 4:07 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Ghost Machine / Chipmike

    This week, Greg and Andy record without me (mike d), but I might make a weeney surprise appearance. What did they talk about? You're guess is as good as mine, I JUST SAID I WASN'T THERE!!! I did hear a little about Red Coat, thus your generic Ghost Machine imprint in the title. It was a big week for them. Next week looks to be light on firsties so we might have a special subject then... We'll find out, and the next meeting of the club of ones!

    5 April 2024, 4:12 am
  • 51 minutes 23 seconds
    Feral / Morning Star / Bad Girls / The Goon

    This week, we're talking comic book news and covering FOUR comics. Our topics include: The Thunderbolts Asterix, How lucky Marvel is to have casted Florence Pugh when they did, Bleeding Cools "Big Vague Article" claiming massive industry news is coming soon, a Joker graphic novel coming out featuring stories from around the globe, DC Elseworld reprints inbound, & X-Men books popping up in value due to X-Men 97 (cartoon) hype.  For our comics, Feral is a cat based comic from the team who brought you the indie hit Stray Dogs, Morning Star is shaping up to be an eerie family thriller out on Mad Cave, Bad Girls 1 is kind of misleading as a first issue (You should view it as a Local Man Annual), and Eric Powell's Goon returns for a new four part mini-series called "Them That Don't Stay Dead".

    29 March 2024, 3:34 am
  • 58 minutes 13 seconds
    Dawnrunner / Man's Best / Star Wars Visions

    This week, we decided to do the same thing we do every week: Talk about first issues and comic book news! From the headlines, we'll get into X-Men 97 reception, Eight Billion Genies getting high profile MOVIE producers, the newly announced Marvel 1943 video game, and job listings for AI artists at comic book publishers.  For our reading club portion, Greg discusses Ram V's Dawnrunner, and DC Comics Ape-ril special. Then Vargas walks us through Takashi Okazaki's Star Wars Vision issue featuring The Ronin and The Droid, Man's Best out on Boom!, and Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance.  If ya want more, we've got a 007 episode up on the patreon this week, and in our upcoming regular release we play some trivia. 

    22 March 2024, 3:50 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    X-Men News / Napalm Lullaby / Helen of Wyndhorn

    This week we're talking about 5 first issues, and they're all great! Listen to find out more about Napalm Lullaby, Helen of Wyndhorn, I Heart Skull Crusher, Little Black Book, & Black Widow and Hawkeye. 

    In this episode, we're also discussing the X-Men "From the Ashes" panel at SXSW, where several new books were announced, we'll get into a recent AI art controversy, and talk about our experience at Planet Comicon in Kansas City. 

    15 March 2024, 7:12 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Ultimate X-Men / The Last Mermaid / What if... Aliens

    On todays episode, we're talking DWJ's Extremity Kick Starter, a marvel movie and show headline recap, and a wider release coming for the DC character parody film The Peoples Joker. After working our way past the headlines, we get into the reading club! How does Peach Momokos take on mutants differ from mainline comics the massive new title, Ultimate X-Men? What's up with this odd sized Image Comic you picked up called The Last Mermaid? What would've happened if Carter Burke had survived in 1986's Aliens? (We find out in What if... Aliens?, which was penned along with Paul Rieser). Does Chris Condon have another hit on his hands with his comic adaptation of Bary Gifford's Night People? And the last question we'll ask ourselves today is will Keezy Young's Sun Flowers teach you something new about what its like to live with Bipolar disorder? Alllll these answers and more... in this weeks First Issue Club!

    8 March 2024, 5:44 am
  • 53 minutes 31 seconds
    Working Class Wizards / Spider-Punk / Magma Comix Preview

    In addition to the title topics we'll talk a bit about "What if... Venom", Roy Thomas's return to Conan, Josh Gad is another celeb coming to comics, Alan Moore's last comic, Marvels new freebies titled "Must Haves", and I share some recent slabs I got my hands on. 

    1 March 2024, 6:18 am
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