When Vince is away the episode gets a little ...strange as we bring you Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown by Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart; Juni Ba's The Fables of Erlking Wood; Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia by Gabriel Hardman and Romulo Fajardo Jr.; Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring; and Goes Like This by Jordan Crane from Fantagraphics. DAP struggles to explain Asano's Mujina Into the Deep much to Jason's delight. Plus, an Image-O-Rama: Ghost Machine's Redcoat by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, and Brad Anderson; Escape by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña; Good as Dead by David Lapham, Maria Lapham, and Dee Cunniffe; Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, and Jordie Bellaire; and a bunch more!

It's the 2026 11 O'Closcars, celebrating the favorites of 2025!

Vince brings the eclectic with Brian Baynes' Bubbles, Richard Corben's Rat God, and Joe Brainard's The Complete C Comics; Jason talks about graphic novels like Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper, Lucas Wars by Laurent Hopman and Renaud Roche, and A Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte; and DAP is ...present. Plus, Lemire and Walta's Phantom Road, In A Glass Grotesquely, more Search and Destroy, and lots more!

Vince and DAP close out the year talking about Benjamin Marra's Disciples (with David Birke and Nicholas McCarthy); Absolute Wonder Woman #15 by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, and Jordie Bellaire; Ghost Machine's Geiger(catching up on the latest four issues) by Geoff Johns, Eamon Winkle, Eduardo Pansica, Gary Frank, Norm Rapmund, Robert Nugent, and Brad Anderson; Not a Place to Visit by T Edward Bak from Floating World Comics; Cash-O-Ramawith Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special and kuš! featuring Art Spiegelman, Jessica Snow, Augusto Mora, Christopher Sperandio, Joost Halbertsma, Ofra Amihay, Martalisa Tsai, Julie Fette, and many more. Plus: where, oh where, is Jason?!?

We're loading up Santa's sack with all the goodies like Aliens vs. Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribić, and Ive Svorcina from Marvel and 20th Century Studios; Kyle Starks' Wrestle Heist; Uncivilized Comics and The Jungle and The Sickness a Manga-O-Rama featuring My Gorilla Family by Ichiro Iijima; Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko; Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda; and Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu; Mimi Pond's Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me and lots more!

The gang's all here and we're excited for Vince's first OUFL! Listen as we surprise few and break hearts with the topics of DC characters, intercompany crossovers, and Avengers members! Plus, Métal Hurlant, Amazing Spider-Man, This Place Kills Me, and more!

We're sorta kinda all over the place speaking on Absolute Batman; Blood & Thunder by Benito Cereno, E.J. Su, and Msassyk; Milo Manara's The Magnificent Adventure; The Infernal Hulk by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein & Kev Walker, and Matthew Wilson; Joann Sfar and Tony Sandoval's The Dragons of Paris from Magnetic; The End 2099 by Steve Orlando, Ibraim Roberson, and Andrew Dalhous; a DC K.O.-Rama; and much more!

Jason's back and we're comin' in hot with Blacula: Return of the King by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander; Hobtown Mystery Stories, Volume 3: The Secret of the Saucer by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes; Atsushi Kaneko's Search and Destroy; Escape and Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña; Gehenna: Naked Aggression by Patrick Kindlon, Maurizio Rosenzweig, and Matteo Vattani; The Voice Said Kill; Avengers; and so much more!