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Hello, and welcome to First Issues now, the weekly show
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posted daily ish about only the newest first issues released
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by insert comic company year. This week I'll be looking
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at the comics release for the week of October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty five. I got nothing for the cold open
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for the next comic. I don't think I've covered a
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Distillery book at all in the last sixteen weeks of
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first issues, but I generally love the books they do.
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Greenlight and this is from Stephanie Phillips, who I've talked
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about a lot in her mainstream work. I swear she's
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had a comical week over the last four weeks. So
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I do foresee some great dialogue back and forth at
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the very least. Let's find out in Endeavor number one,
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written by Stephanie Phillips, art by Mark Laming, colors by
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Lee Luffridge, with letters by Tom Napolitano. From seventeen sixty
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nine to seventeen seventy one, the HMS Endeavor, commanded by
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the famous Lieutenant James Cook, sailed on a voyage of
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discovery around Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. It did not
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end well. Now, a modern day tourism company is offering
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a luxury trip aboard a near accurate recreation of the
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ship for a hefty fee. Elite pastures can experience history
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with all of the modern comforts, the vacation of a lifetime,
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until the unthinkable happens, and seven children are stuck aboard
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the ship alone and adrift at sea rough seas and
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rations are the very least of their worries as they
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quickly realize the real enemy is each other. Now granted,
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I did also leave out the company parts of the solicit,
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like this is another prestige format book, but it looks
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so damn good. And I also left out that this
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is for fans of Lord of the Flies and Yellow Jackets. Well,
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I still haven't seen Yellow Jackets. I think you can
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already get that this is a Lord of the Fli's book,
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But that's illicit alone. But I also hate confining it
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to that, especially since they go
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with a family, especially
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since this reference is the fun family book Watership Down.
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You know it's family friendly because there's bunnies on the cover.
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Did you have a just wonder if Watership Down Bunny's
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ever read of Mice and Men like it was a
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horror novel Ditha. It's right there, bro. Anyways, this issue
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is amazing, honestly, not because it throws some kids on
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a boat and has them go all dos bus. Yes,
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I went with a Simpsons reference, but because at the
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end of this issue the kids are alone, it actually
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draws it out, and so it's not as simple. Let's
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get to the cool part, because that's what most of
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the tribe style stuff does. The air quote cool part
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of the story is when we get to the societal reflections,
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and most things that do adapt it or are influenced
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by want a race to that. But this is brilliant
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because it focuses on our main characters via her brother
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Royce and their relationship before the cruise, because well, honestly,
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that's what actually makes you care. It'd be one thing
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to see when Royce punches out a dude who'd made
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fun of his sister on the boat, but then seeing
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how it happened in the past when he didn't protect
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her really works, and adding the emotions of their mother's
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death and then it all just works out so well.
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Plus Carson is a tool who deserves to be punched,
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but goddamn is he a well written asshole of a team.
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Oh and the art style is also awesome in that
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comic book realism way, not to be confused with a
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comic with realistic art that makes sense in my head.
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It's really hard to convey a lot of this audio.
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Only top tier all across the board regardless. So my
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verdict for this book is by it. By it means
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it is absolutely worth going out and owning it, both
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physical and digital and add it to your pull list.
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Issue one is a great setup for the real shadows
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and tall trees. Yes, I'm ending this with a YouTube reference.
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Sue me, please, don't. I have no money just comics
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at this point. How do I end this? Something something
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the Coral Island? But maybe I'm wrong. Let me know
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at the Comic Archivist or Twitter First Issues Now or
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told is important to continue doing these and while you're
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at it, check out all the other podcasts from carry
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On Productions like Killing fifteen minutes, Mithing fifteen minutes, and
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Blanking fifteen minutes. They're all pretty sweet in their own
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way more than anything, though, stay golden Inklings.