They both could be each other’s evil exes. These two disasters deserve each other tbh.

I wrote about Preacher! Hope you like it :) substack.com/@dallasmeeks...

I wrote about Preacher! Hope you like it :) substack.com/@dallasmeeks...

ALRIGHT FOLKS If you listened to our newest episode, you know that this month we will be running a bracket for our Patrons to choose what book we cover December 3rd! So, help us fill up our bracket! What comic do you want us to read? What comics do you want our Patrons to vote on? Comment below

This was a blast! I love preacher, I love chatting with Gianni!

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 DALLAS TAYLOR (@dallasmeeks.bsky.social) from The Comics Collective (@cmxcollective.bsky.social) joins me to discuss my FAVORITE comic of all time...PREACHER by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon 🔗 👇

My semi-regular post begging @darkhorse.com to put out Library Editions of CONCRETE.

Preacher.

New Episode! This week we are talking about the Death of Wolverine! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZCQ...

This really might be the best comic ever, and it very well might be my favorite.

Last call! We are recording our episode on The Death of Wolverine tonight, so send us your questions to [email protected]

I’m teaching her from the sacred texts

Friday. @badrm.bsky.social @oblivionbarpodcast.com @davidharper.bsky.social &Us All Along One Long Table #NYCC

New Pynchon Novel and New York Comic Con in the same week. Huge news for this specific nerd.

I really need to buckle down and read Jim Starlin’s Cosmic saga

A violent ballet amongst an art deco landscape. Batman/Grendel Forever! 11x17 Ink and Watercolor Commission

New Episode! Our final episode covering Ultimate Spider-man! Check out our thoughts on the death of Peter Parker wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/6upp...

Yeah that comic was great, but I’m just not sure that it was created by someone who listens to Pitbull, and that’s kind of a dealbreaker for me!

My essay about Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton is up! Check it out on Substack, and if you like it, read my other articles! open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

Unfortunately for the comic book community, I am once again voraciously reading comics. This week it has been: -Ducks by Kate Beaton (substack essay incoming) - Spectators by BKV and Henrichon - Mickey Mouse and the Amazing Lost Ocean by Filippi and Camboni - Jimmy Corrigan by Ware

I read Vaughan and Henrichon's newest this morning. It was an interesting take on how we've all become passive viewers of increasingly graphic depictions of violence and sex in the age of the smart-phone. I do feel like Vaughan's reliance on "jump scare" moments of graphic content is wearing thin.

I'm floored once again by Si Spurrier and Matias Bergara's fantasy comic Coda. This feels like one of the truly unique takes on the genre from the last decade. I'm excited to talk about it tonight!

Not sure how many fans of our comic book podcast will also be fans of a literary/historical deep dive into the David narrative from the book of Samuel in the Bible, but for the 7 of you that might be into that, Dallas worked very hard on the article below! Check it out!

I spent a month rereading and then writing about the book of Samuel and the life of David! I hope you check it out and like it! open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

I'm reading Notes From Underground and loving it. More detestable, miserable narrators please!

This joke is some of my finest work

Booking novelist interviews is proving to be more tricky. Not so much that they're more elusive or less available, just that most of my favorites are so very, very dead.

Area Woman Not Good Enough Artist To Justify Eccentricities https://theonion.com/area-woman-not-good-enough-artist-to-justify-eccentrici-1819577481/

I'm really proud of this piece. I hope you check it out!

Check out my newest article on substack "Addicted to Excellence" It's my refelction on the theme of addiction in Infinite Jest and how it applies to my own journey through addiction. substack.com/@dallasmeeks...

I'm less and less interested in art from people who have no life to draw from. Comics rehashing the absolutely, tototally tubular x-men plot from when you were 10 doesn't cut it. Those comics have vitality because Claremont wasn't a stay-at-home loser. Go get some mud on your shoes before writing.

If nothing else, my podast provides HUNDREDS of hours of exactly how I speak, so no one will ever have to wonder about whether or not I used an LLM to write my novels. For better, or worse, those suckers sound exactly like me.

For those of you that like to read what I write, I've got a new one out about Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Project Hail Mary, and what they teach us about the new thesis for Utopian Science Fiction! open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

New Episode! Come listen to us bemoan reading Ultimatum, and then stay to listen to us chat about just how much we adored the Ultimate Spider-man tie in issues! Available wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/1EgJ...

Last few Superhero movies so pleasant I'm once again proselytizing my non-comics friends with the good stuff (actual comic books).

Kinda crazy it happened twice with spider-man

Characters I know I’ll like if I read the right run: (I’ve already read the Bacchalo Strange and loved that… I just don’t know where to go next) (I’ve read the Waid Flash and found it largely forgettable)

✨NEW EPISODE!✨ We’re going global! Dallas, Lexi, and Anne chat all about the Justice League International for this week’s (definitely planned) episode! Give it a listen and then let us know, what do YOU think of the JLI? 😁 open.spotify.com/episode/25nr...

I love the movie guardians, but I gotta say… I’m really liking what I see so far of these Abnett and Lanning Guardians of the Galaxy

NEW EPISODE!! In anticipation of Fantastic Four this weekend, we sit down to chat about Alex Ross's Fantastic Four: Full Circle! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/52MD...

It can't be nostalgia that makes the comics like Annihilation Conquest seem so much more alive than their counterparts being put out right now. I've basically landed on the comics of the post bankrupt Marvel just being interested in establishing something NEW instead of referential. Any other ideas?

I love that these kind of heel turns can still get me invested all these years later

I’m reading Annihilation Conquest for the first time. I just met this cool new gal, I’m sure she will have a long and productive career as a superhero

I wrote about dinosaurs! open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

Read Saga Volumes 10-12 and I can understand maybe volume 10 feeling a little slow and “get everyone back up to speed”-y, but I think the rest of it reads just as intensely as the first half of the Series ran. It still slaps

New Episode!! This week we return to one of our favorite series and cover Saga numbers 55-72! Available wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/1RDu...

I miss comics twitter. I hated comics twitter. But I miss being able to talk with strangers about comic books on a regular basis. This strange website has not filled that void for me.

Ultimately, I think the astronomical popularity of Saga despite delays, no previous "IP", or comic-marketing-nonsense like 1:10 variants, boils down to its distinct voice and strong thesis. So many comics get by on *either* the art or writing actually having a voice, and with no thesis at all.

Should I start commenting on comic books again on social media, I will unfortunately bring this vibe to the platform

My brain this week is 33% Infinite Jest, 33% Oasis reunion tour, 33% paleontology youtube videos, and 1% anger at the amount of screentime dinosaurs actually got in that new godforsaken Jurassic World movie.