Weekly comics, fast takes, full spoilers.
The Stack runs through the week's comic books at comic-shop speed. New DC, Marvel, Skybound, and crossover titles get credits, plot setup, spoiler-heavy reactions, art notes, jokes, disagreements, and quick verdicts.
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The Stack is a weekly comic-book review show built for readers who want the new-release pile handled quickly, loudly, and with actual opinions. The format is simple. A book gets named, the publisher and creative team are credited, the premise is sketched, and then the panel starts reacting. That structure gives the show a useful rhythm, especially when a week includes Absolute Batman, Venom, Lobo, The Ultimates, Superman-Spider-Man, DC K.O., Firestorm, or a Godzilla literary mashup. It is spoiler-heavy by design. The panel regularly talks through endings, status quo changes, event reveals, character identities, and the mechanics of ongoing storylines. Continuity is treated as normal conversation, not homework. A listener can hear about Martha Wayne, the Court of Owls, Eddie Brock as Carnage, Mary Jane as Venom, Lex Luthor's tournament expectations, or Superman facing Darkseid without the show slowing down to make everything pristine. The appeal is the speed. Short jokes break up long chains of comics detail. A serious note about an emotional Batman issue can sit next to a riff about Bizarro voices or an old theater commercial. The criticism is direct but rarely stiff. The panel notices when a story feels jumbled, when a first issue takes too long to reach the strange part, or when an event ending mostly exists to start the next event. It also gets visibly excited by craft. Deathstroke layouts are praised for cinematic action, Bizarro World pages for visual weirdness, and psychedelic sequences for color, layout, and atmosphere. The show is especially good at making art criticism sound like conversation rather than a lecture. It has room for horror-leaning Firestorm, monster chaos in Godzilla, Hollywood trouble in Wonder Man, and big superhero continuity in the same run. The result is not polished essay criticism. It is closer to a smart, overcaffeinated comic shop conversation after everyone has already read the books. For people following weekly comics, that is the point. The Stack offers enough recap to orient the discussion, enough context to place each issue in the larger line, and enough disagreement to keep praise from feeling automatic. It suits readers who like spoilers, new releases, creator credits, big-two continuity, art talk, and jokes that sometimes sprint ahead of the review before snapping back to the next book.
Made for: The Stack is for regular comic readers who follow new weekly releases and want quick, opinionated reactions after reading. It especially suits fans of DC, Marvel, event books, creator credits, continuity talk, and art-forward criticism.
What sets it apart: The show combines pull-list breadth with a loose panel rhythm: credits, plot setup, immediate verdict, tangent, and next title. It can handle dense continuity while still sounding like people arguing over fresh comics, not filing formal reviews.
The Stack is a weekly comic book review podcast, hosted by Comic Book Club - Live! New episodes post every Wednesday at 9am ET.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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