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Time Codes: 00:00:35 - Introduction 00:02:39 - Setup of reviews 00:03:07 - Listener mail 00:06:13 - The Black Monday Murders #1 00:27:30 - Kingsway West #1 00:39:49 - Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth #1 00:54:04 - Superf*ckers Forever #1 01:06:47 - Wrap up 01:07:56 - Contact us 01:09:47 - "Superf*ckers Theme Song" This week the Two Guys decide to mix up their routine a bit and review nothing but recent #1 issues. They begin with Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker's The Black Monday Murders (Image Comics), a unique take on the crime genre. In this extra-long first issue, Hickman unpacks his premise via design, prose, and visuals, creating a dense narrative world filled with conspiratorial intrigue and anchored in history. Next, Andy and Derek discuss an even more genre-bending comic, Kingsway West (Dark Horse Comics). Written by Greg Pak and with art by Mirko Colak, the story combines fantasy with the mid-nineteenth-century American West, while at the same time hovering in the territory of altern