Major Spoilers Podcast #860: It's Criminal!

It's Moebius the Living Vampire! Or is it Morbius? We also talk Hellboy Winter Special 2019, Daphne Byrne #1, and Tartarus #1. Plus Criminal Volume 2: Lawless. 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! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS https://youtu.be/jLMBLuGJTsA REVIEWS STEPHEN HELLBOY WINTER SPECIAL 2019 Writers: Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Scott Allie Artists: Mark Laszlo, Leila Del Duca, Andrea Mutti Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: Janaury 15, 2020 Celebrate the season in true Hellboy fashion! Meet a ghostly miser in an alternate reality, fear the Boogam of rural New York, and embrace the wrath of St. Hagan in this trio of occult winter tales! The familiar faces of Hellboy, Sarah Jewell, and the legendary Knights of St. Hagan will help you ring in the new year with all the shivers you can take-and not all of them from the cold! [rating:5/5] MATTHEW DAPHNE BYRNE #1 Writer: Laura Marks Artist: Kelley Jones Publisher: DC/Hill House Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 8, 2020 In the gaslit splendor of late 19th-century New York, rage builds inside 14-year-old Daphne. The sudden death of her father has left her alone with her irresponsible, grief-stricken mother who becomes easy prey for a group of occultists promising to contact her dead husband. While fighting to disentangle her mother from these charlatans, Daphne begins to sense a strange, insidious presence in her own body...an entity with unspeakable appetites. What does “Brother” want? And could she even stop him if she tried? [rating:3.5/5] RODRIGO TARTARUS #1 Writer: Johnie Christmas Artist: Jack T. Cole Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $5.99 Release Date: February 12 A new adventure series with all the sci-fi drama of Breaking Bad set in Mos Eisley! Promising young cadet Tilde is framed for crimes against the empire after discovering her mother was the ruthless warlord of the deadly colony Tartarus, a vital player in the galactic war. Now, Tilde’s only way home may be to reclaim her mother’s dark crown.#1 New York Times bestseller JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS (Alien 3) and artistic phenom JACK T. COLE (The Unsound) kick off this ongoing series with 44 big pages of story! [rating: 4.5/5] DISCUSSION CRIMINAL VOLUME 2: LAWLESS Writer: Ed Brubaker Artist: Sean Phillips Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $14.99 THE BEST-SELLING CRIME SERIES CONTINUES IN THIS STRIKINGLY-DESIGNED NEW EDITION FROM IMAGE! LAWLESS: A story of brotherly love and hate, as Tracy Lawless finally returns home to find out who murdered his kid brother, and how much their family history has doomed them both. This is where BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS take the world they created in CRIMINAL, VOL. 1 and begin stretching the boundaries of what crime comics can be 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.