*shows up* *Kills a guy* *Beats the shit out of Tim Drake* *lol let me read that part again* *BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF TIME DRAKE, LET’S GO!!!!* *Steals his fit* *Leaves* *only returns when Bruce is dead* *Becomes the second best Robin* Damian Wayne is a legend

There are few things I like as much as revisiting an all time favorite comic years later to find it, somehow, even better.

My newest substack article is up! I wrote about Jack Kirby and how I want fantasy novels to learn from him. open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

Our email is still open for your questions about Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus 1! [email protected]

My newest substack article is up! I wrote about Jack Kirby and how I want fantasy novels to learn from him. open.substack.com/pub/dallasme...

Gift yourself or someone close to you the gift of Our Best Jackett with an annual subscription! Just $75 for a year's worth of Comic Writing 101 classes and livestreams by signing up at: bestjackettpress.substack.com/subscribe

You heard it here first, folks: This Will Eisner guy might have what it takes to make it in comics.

New Episode! Check out Dallas's chat with @thekylestarks.bsky.social ahead of the release of Wrestle Heist #1 this wednesday! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Your favorite monthly comic podcast like you've never seen it before: for this month only, a one man show! Join just me to look over the #comics coming out in February. From the expected to the expected and maybe like one surprise, it's a great time! Available everywhere you get your #podcasts!

It's not always about the anti-life equation, Superman. It's about the Mets baby love the Mets alright baby let's go get a homerun baby let's go Mets love the Mets.

Just wrapped up Batman & Robin: Year one! It was fun! I was hoping for “all time great” from this team, but I can’t complain about fun!

New Episode!! Join us for our last weekly show of the year where we discuss EVERYTHING BUT THE COMICS in 2025! Available wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/4tjH...

NANCY - - - DO YA STILL THINK DIS JACKET IS TOO LOUD

Thinking about Christmas presents? Maybe you want to get a book of little paper figures from a classic work of literature for the reader in your life! crogan.bigcartel.com/category/pap...

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