Superman vs Batman! Harley Quinn! The Joker! Tommy Elliot dead? Our reading and discussion of Batman: Hush continues with issues 612 through 615. Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair and company keep the blockbuster story moving, adding new twists to the overall mystery while bringing in even more Rogues and Allies. We also give a bit of historical context from old Wizard magazines of the time. Can you solve it before we do? (1:02:10)

It’s a new Previews for a New Year! Covering comic coming attractions for March 2025, we give our recommendations for books from DC, Marvel, Image, Boom, Dynamite, Clover Press and others. And there’s plenty of Comic Talk along the way as well as we cover Diamond Distributors filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, speculate on the future of small and indie publishers, give quick reactions to Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong and Marvel’s Star Wars line of books, chat about the CGS Studio getting an overhaul, CGS Year 10 trivia and even more in our revamped Previews format! (1:08:56)

Happy New Year! It’s 2025 and we’re celebrating with topics and plans centered on the upcoming year! We kick things off with Comic Book Resolutions, conventions we hope to attend, and new podcast ideas and teases! We then take a look back to 2024 with CGS Best Of! And throughout our chat, we throw in comic talk such as the best Legion of Super-Heroes starting points, Danger Street, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Mark Gruenwald’s Quasar, and more! (1:21:37)

The Speakers of Geek go All In and read the first issues and jumping on points for most of DC’s new initiative. From Batman 153, Superman 19 and Wonder Woman 14 to the first issues of JSA, Black Lightning and Question: All Along the Watchtower and more, we discuss our favorite issues, which ones work well for new readers, and which titles we’ll continue to read. (1:00:01)

Previews! Comic coming attractions for the month of February 2025! And joining us for our conversation is Lin Workman of the Drawing Funny Podcast! Helping to sponsor the 20th Anniversary event, we catch up with Lin and all of his convention travels before jumping into our recommendations. This month’s offerings: Free Comic Book Day listings, the Herculoids, the Loose End by Dave Dwonch, Mansect, Marvel’s One World Under Doom event, the TMNT Sourcebook and so much more from Valiant, Mad Cave, Papercutz, DC and others! (1:14:19)

In anticipation of next year's sequel, the Speakers of Geek tackle one of Batman’s greatest stories: "Hush" by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair and company. In this first of three parts, starting with Batman issues 608 thru 611, we offer up our personal history with the adventure, give our general thoughts, and discuss the overall mystery and use of Batman’s supporting cast and rogues gallery. Along the way we praise the amazing art, read listener comments and discover that this twenty plus year story can still deliver! (1:24:57)

It’s a post-Thanksgiving conversation which means a focus on Black Friday comic sales including Pants finally going digital! We kick off into a large discussion on both the DC and Marvel comic apps, their strengths and weakness, and their libraries of current and older issues. Other topics include: back issue sales at Golden Eagle and Alchemist’s Cove, managing your pullbox, the Rocketfellers from Ghost Machine, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, more Arcane series talk, Richard McGuire’s Here, CGS Year Nine Trivia, marking the end of DC TV with the finale of Superman & Lois, the DC Heroes Role-Playing Game 40th Anniversary kickstarter, and more! (1:15:46)

The Speakers of Geek revisit the concept of Team-Up books by discussing the Brave and the Bold 50 (the Green Arrow and Manhunter from Mars), and the first issues of Marvel Team-Up (Spider-Man and the Human Torch), Marvel Two-In-One (the Thing and the Man-Thing), and DC Comics Presents (Superman and the Flash). We also talk about our history with the titles, the over-the-top dialogue and scenes, our favorite team-ups, significant issues, and more. (52:41)