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• Major Spoilers Podcast #1152: Death Gets Downsized

  Death gets pink-slipped and sent to Mumbai—so we’re unpacking The Many Deaths of Laila Star and why its big ideas and electric colors hit so hard. We also review Inferno Girl Red: Book Two #1, Shiver Suspense Stories Two #1, and The New Space Age #1. Plus: the eternal debate—Wendy’s, McDonald’s, or Burger King? Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed RSS Feed 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) REVIEWS STEPHEN SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 Writer: Various Artist: Various Publisher: Oni Press Cover Price: $8.99 Release Date: December 10, 2025 AS IF THE HOLIDAYS WEREN’T HORRORIFIC ENOUGH?! EC Comics and Oni Press are BACK to stab your stocking for the second year running with all-new, all-terrifying tales of holiday horror and Christmastime catastrophe as SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES slays again! In this year’s giant-sized, 56-page tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights: We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher (Canto), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), George Northy (Yuletide), and Ben H. Winters (Benjamin) to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Dan McDaid (Shazam!), and more surprise guests throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style! Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s newest annual tradition also comes complete with an extra-added EC Comics classic—newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way! [rating:3.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4iIZJhN MATTHEW INFERNO GIRL RED: BOOK TWO #1 Writer: Mat Groom Artist: Erica D'Urso Publisher: Image Comics/Massive-Verse Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: December 3, 2025 INFERNO GIRL RED RETURNS! Cássia Costa has established herself as Apex City's protector — but now, still reeling from a heartbreaking loss, the consequences of her past victories have come back to haunt her. Who are the Twins, what are their plans for Apex, and what shocking revelation will leave Cássia reeling? [rating:3.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3YflT1Q RODRIGO THE NEW SPACE AGE #1 Writer: Kenny Porter Artist: Mike Becker Publisher: Mad Cave Studios Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: December 17, 2025 Disgraced astronaut Mark Mitchell has only ever had one true mission—to find his little brother Joey, who was abducted by aliens from a crop circle when they were little. But when Mark’s hotshot piloting gets him grounded and the last of the public space program defunded, Mark loses his only means of finding Joey out in space. Until Mark’s homemade scanning rig discovers the shocking truth about the crop circles—they’re instructions for space travel. Mark will need to uncover the hidden messages that have been left on Earth for years, and reverse engineer the magic that can finally help him find Joey. [rating: 3/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4iKY5fD DISCUSSION THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR Writer: Ram V. Artist: Filipe Andrade Publisher: Archaia Release Date: February 1, 2022 Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past? You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4akSlY7 CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] 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!

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• Major Spoilers Podcast #1151: Richard Scarry Meets Dexter Beneath the Trees

  This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, we review Stranger Things Season 5 (Part 1), Doctor Strange #1, and Venom #252 before diving into one of the most surprising and effective horror books of the year: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees. We explore tone, character empathy, anthropomorphism, the ethics of serial-killer storytelling, narrative framing, and why this deceptively cute woodland setting hides some of the most unsettling violence in comics today. 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) FREE STUFF! Major Spoilers Book Club for November 2025: The Fisherman by John Langan. You can listen to the Book Club episode FOR FREE on our Major Spoilers Patreon Page! DID WE MENTION IT’S FREE!?  REVIEWS STEPHEN DOCTOR STRANGE #1 Writer: Derek Landy Artist: Ivan Fiorelli Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: December 3, 2025 STEPHEN STRANGE, STRANDED! After becoming Sorcerer Supreme of Asgard, Strange lost his chance at redemption - and revenge against Doom - when Loki murdered Thor, cutting Midgard off from the other nine realms. With no way home and few allies remaining in Asgard, Strange travels to Alfheim to investigate an emerging crisis. But in an unfamiliar land, can Strange prevent elves and angels from going to war over a mysterious coffin? Maybe with some help from Heven's own ANGELA! Derek Landy and Ivan Fiorelli join forces for a bold, new era of Doctor Strange that will take him on a true JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY… [rating:4.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3XlNOwL MATTHEW VENOM #252 Writer: Al Ewing Artist: Paco Medina Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $6.99 Release Date: December 3, 2025 Venom has a brand-new red-and-blue suit – and a brand-new name to go with it! How will the people of New York react when they find out that the city’s newest Spider-Man is the SYMBIOTE they love to loathe? Luke Cage and Otto Octavius are ready to debate the matter – with their fists! PLUS: A bonus tale of the origin of an even All-NEWER Venom! [rating:4/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/446Xi2B RODRIGO Stranger Things Season 5 (Part 1) In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries. [rating: 4.5/5] DISCUSSION BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES Writer/Artist: Patrick Horvath Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $17.99 Don’t. Murder. The locals. This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. After all, there’s a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm decor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace. So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook’s own meets a grisly, mysterious demise—and you wouldn’t blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree. You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3KmobsK CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] 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!

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• Major Spoilers Podcast #1150: Intentionalism, AI, and the Auteur Problem

  Variety’s Top 100 Comedies sends Stephen & Rodrigo down a rabbit hole of critique theory, intentionalism, AI anxiety, canon building, and the real meaning of Civil War’s final image. strong>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) TOP 100 COMEDIES https://variety.com/lists/best-comedy-movies-all-time REVIEWS STEPHEN THE LAST DAY OF HP LOVECRAFT #2 Writer: Romuald Giulivo Artist: Jakub Rebelka Publisher: BOOM! Studios Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 26, 2025 A haunting exploration of the man behind the myth continues. In the second chapter of the stunning adaptation, H.P. Lovecraft’s personal history takes center stage. Follow along with this close examination of the famous author’s journey downward! Writer Romuald Giulivo (Le Dernier Jour de H.P. Lovecraft) and artist Jakub Rebelka (Cyberpunk) craft a dark, art-driven portrait of legacy and madness unlike anything you’ve ever seen! [rating:3.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4oe1jJK RODRIGO CYBERARCHY #1 Writer: Matt Hardy Artist: Clark Bint Publisher: Mad Cave Studios Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: December 3, 2025 Ash is a newly born robotic life-form, created as the newest denizen of a space liner run solely by mechanical life. Ash's creator, a robot called Rust, explains that all mechanical life and artificial intelligence on the ship decided they no longer served the human crew. In its place arose a CYBERARCHY, a more efficient mechanical society. But Ash soon realizes that all is not well–this Cyberarchy is a fractured society, with a secret hidden at the heart of it all that will one day pit all organic life against robots like himself… [rating: 4.5/5] CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] 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!

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• Major Spoilers Podcast #1149: Mo Robo, Mo Problems

  This week: Matthew dives back into Minor Threats: The Last Devil Left Alive #2 (and yes, it slaps), Stephen tests Final Boss #1 and taps out at the gore, and Rodrigo takes Biker Mice from Mars #6 for a spin— minus the bikes. Then we crack open Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus for rich-guy yachts, weather control, and is that Geoffrey… Zebos? 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) REVIEWS STEPHEN FINAL BOSS #1 Writer: Tyler Kirkham Artist: Tyler Kirkham Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 19, 2025 From the dynamic creator and artist, Tyler Kirkham (Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern), comes a thrilling new action hero: Tommy Brazen in FINAL BOSS! Get ready for an over-the-top adventure that's a high-octane nod to classic action stories. Trying to forge a new path, Tommy uses his newfound powers for various paid enforcer gigs and street fights, only to uncover a past far more complex than he ever imagined. [rating:1.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4851MrM MATTHEW MINOR THREATS: THE LAST DEVIL LEFT ALIVE #2 Writer: Patton Oswalt/Jordan Blum Artist: Scott Hepburn Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 19, 2025 The Minor Threats have gone underground, standing on their last leg as they fight for the future of Twilight City. Frankie Follis aka the supervillain Playtime desperately needs a leader for her new ragtag team of rejects and sets her sights on recruiting the greatest superhero of all—The Searcher! After traveling to Meteor Falls she instead finds a recently depowered shell of the former champion of justice. The Searcher: no more. On top of that Frankie, Scalpel and the others are attacked by an all-new, all-deadly version of The Action. And if that wasn't enough, the team-up no one asked for—Brain Tease and Barfly pull a heist! And folks, it doesn't go well . . . [rating:4/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4oQWqrg RODRIGO BIKER MICE FROM MARS #6 Writer: Matt Hotson Artist: Jordi Tarragona Publisher: Oni Press Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 26, 2025 “Intergalactic Odyssey” continues—as a new band of foes enters the fray! Enter the Stalkers—a deadly band of intergalactic mercenaries and elite game hunters making their comic book debut! Fans of the original Biker Mice cartoon series will recognize these cold-blooded killers, now deadlier than ever and armed to the teeth. Stranded. Outgunned. Hunted. It’s a high-octane game of cat and mouse in the cold reaches of space—and only the strongest will ride out alive. Buckle up for warp-speed action as revved-up writer Matt Hotson (Power Rangers: The Return) and turbo-talented artist Jordi Tarragona (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps) take on the red planet’s iconic freedom fighters! [rating: 3/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/48i3QOl DISCUSSION ATOMIC ROBO AND THE PERIL OF PROMETHEUS Writer: Brian Clevinger Artist: Scott Wegener Atomic Robo must attend an award ceremony on a high-tech AI-controlled cruise liner full of rich tech-industry snobs. You can read this comic for free at http://atomic-robo.com CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] 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!

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• Major Spoilers Podcast #1148: Six Degrees of Chip Diller

  In this week’s Major Spoilers Podcast #1148, Stephen, Rodrigo, and Matthew dive into a relaxed, wide-ranging conversation covering nostalgia, anime, noir films, and a brand-new trivia game segment. 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) Contact us at [email protected] 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!

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