Major Spoilers Podcast #814: Corto Maltese

Set a course for adventure, on this week's Major Spoilers Podcast, as we look for MU with Corto Maltese. Plus, we review Action Comics #1007, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #35, Blosssoms 666 #1, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 #4! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWS DC Comics lays off staff https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-lays-3-percent-workforce-1178694 REVIEWS STEPHEN ACTION COMICS #1007 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Steve Epting Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 30, 2019 The Kobra Cult conspiracy ensnares Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen, drawing the attention of the Man of Steel. But be careful, Superman-there's more lurking in the shadows of Metropolis than just a snake cult. [rating:4.5/5] MATTHEW MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS #35 Writer: Marguerite Bennett Artist: Simone di Meo Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 30, 2019 The mysterious new DARK RANGER is the man known as Heckyl - and his origin is revealed for the first time in this stand alone issue. [rating:4/5] RODRIGO MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 #4 Writer: Joel Hodgson, Harold Buchholz, Matt McGinnis, Mary Robinson, Seth Robinson, Sharyl Volpe Artist: Todd Nauck, Mike Manley, Jack Pollock Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: February 6, 2019 From the 1940s to the 1960s, Jonah, Crow, and Tom Servo are trapped across three decades of public domain comics! Meanwhile, in the not-to-distant future, mad scientist Kinga Forrester plans to monetize their plight! Comics may never be the same after this, but at least there will be Totino's Pizza Rolls [rating: 3/5] RODRIGO BLOSSOMS 666 #1 Writer: Cullen Bunn Artist: Laura Braga Publisher: Archie Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: Jan 23, 2019 BRAND NEW SERIES! Cheryl and Jason Blossom are a pair of seemingly normal kids in Riverdale. They’re wealthy, popular and likeable—but they also harbor a deep, dark secret—one of the Blossom Twins is the Anti-Christ. Both want the title, and no one in Riverdale is safe. [rating: 4/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK http://majorspoilers.com/2019/01/27/major-spoilers-poll-of-the-week-top-selling-steam-games-edition/ DISCUSSION Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn Writer/Artist: Hugo Pratt Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $19.99 This book, the first of twelve volumes, launches the definitive English-language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format and with new translations made from Pratt's original Italian scripts. Frank Miller calls Pratt "one of the true masters of comic art." Long before the term "graphic novel" entered the popular lexicon - ten years before Will Eisner's A Contract with God - Hugo Pratt pioneered the long-form "drawn literature" story. Corto Maltese set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe. By the mid-1970s, Corto was the continent's most popular series and Hugo Pratt the world's leading graphic novelist. Hugo Pratt's peripatetic sailor was featured in a series of twenty-nine stories. The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first thirty years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt's native Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific. EuroComics is working closely with Patrizia Zanotti, Pratt's long-time collaborator, to present the complete Corto Maltese in a series of twelve quality trade paperbacks in Pratt's original oversized B&W format. Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn collects the first six inter-connected short stories Pratt created in France in the early 1970s: "The Secret of Tristan Bantam," "Rendez-vous in Bahia," "Sureshot Samba," "The Brazilian Eagle," "So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune," and "The Seagull's Fault." CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.