IT TURNS OUT that in 1956 the U.S. per capita consumption of spirits (primarily whiskey) was 1.81 gallons. So, on average, everyone was drinking a gallon of whiskey each year. Can this be true? I would normally find that hard to believe. But…. I just read an old 1956 issue of Sports Illustrated. Now I think it just might be.

Welcome to the New Number Ones! Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace. The biggest news of this week is the second of the planned DC/Marvel crossovers. Along with that, there are some really interesting new series kicking off.

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events. This week we will have a special pre-recorded interview with comics legend Lawrence "Larry" Lieber. A member of the original Marvel Bullpen and a writer, artist, and editor, Larry joins us to talk about his latest project and his first prose novel as well has his storied career.

I TEACH AN MBA class that focuses on Entertainment and Media. Trying to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of entertainment & media is quite the challenge. If you’re curious and looking for better, or new, ways for the world to work, it’s an awful lot of fun too. Reading Variety on a regular basis is a piece of the puzzle, and as a comic fan I’m often rewarded with ‘breaking news’ from the comic world.

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events, and welcome writer David M. Booher to the SquadCast for the first time. He is an award nominated writer of comics like Canto, Specs, Rain, Firefly, and more. We are excited to hear more about his first Kickstarter project which is now live. Don't miss it. We hope you enjoy the conversation. If you don't catch it live, you can watch later.

A Ringo Award winning comic about three women working together to sort through their incredibly messy love lives. Up to 20 new pages!

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events, and welcome writer David M. Booher to the SquadCast for the first time. He is an award nominated writer of comics like Canto, Specs, Rain, Firefly, and more. We are excited to hear more about his first Kickstarter project which is now live. Don't miss it. We hope you enjoy the conversation. If you don't catch it live, you can watch later.

Welcome to the New Number Ones! Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace. This week has a fantastic mix of new series and special editions. Some properties are returning to print and others are debuting for the first time.

“It's the Dance of Shiva, it’s the Debutantes ball, and everyone will be there who's anyone at all.” From Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse, written by Warren Zevon and Duncan Aldrich. When it comes to springboards for all those mega-super-battle-crossover things, a.k.a. event comics, it’s hard to imagine a more overused and hackneyed plot device than the Tournament. Everybody fights everybody, more or less one-on-one, until there is only one survivor who then must go on to vanquish the threat that started it all at least half-year previously, and then figure out a way to bring everybody back.

A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I shared my dad’s secret stash of old high school souvenir program books. I did a little digging, and it turns out there were companies that would create a templates for small towns to create professional-looking program books for their high school football games. They’d supply the cover artwork and the layout, and in some cases, even chase local advertisers to contribute.

Welcome to the New Number Ones! Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace. November is here. Daylight Savings Time is over in America. Grab some of these comics, make some hot apple cider, and settle down for a nice read.

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events, and welcome comics creator Wells Thompson to the SquadCast for the first time. His comic Smut won the Ringo Award for Best Humor Comic this year, and we are excited to hear more about his latest project. Don't miss it. We hope you enjoy the conversation. If you don't catch it live, you can watch later.

Here at Pop Culture Squad,  we have been unabashed fans of the little comic publishing company headquartered in upstate New York called Ahoy Comics. Founded in 2018, Ahoy started strong with a banging first slate of books that included Wrong Earth, Captain Ginger, and the criminally underrated High Heaven. They have continued to deliver interesting and humorous comics adding the controversial and excellent…

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events, and welcome Kat Calamia & Phil Falco of Lifeline Comics to the SquadCast for the first time. Kat and Phil have built an impressive comic company through crowdfunding, and we are excited to hear more about their latest project. Don't miss it. We hope you enjoy the conversation. If you don't catch it live, you can watch later.

Welcome to the New Number Ones! Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace. It's a fifth week of October for new comics, and the "Special Section" has more to offer than the new series releases, but the list is full of interesting books and a bunch of Halloween themed stories.

“I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead.” — Donald J. Trump, president, United States of America, October 23, 2025. How many of us thought the primary cause of global warming would be the President of the United States setting the world on fire?

GLORY DAYS: HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PROGRAM SOUVENIR BOOKS My Dad wasn't really a collector. But still, we’re finding many remarkable treasures as we’ve been sorting through his stuff. And the most recent item that makes us scratch our heads is his collection of Football Program books, aka Souvenir Booklets. My dad was a football quarterback – both on his high school team, Auburn, and for his college, Cornell University.

Join Mike and Bob as they chat about current Pop Culture events, and welcome friend of the show Dean Haspiel back to the SquadCast. We will talk about comics and his latest deep cut Kickstarter comic ANTIMATTER. We are excited to hear more about this one-man anthology. Don't miss it. We hope you enjoy the conversation. If you don't catch it live, you can watch later.

Welcome to the New Number Ones! Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace. This list has a lot of high quality new stories, and as Marvel continues to roll out its "Age of Revelation" releases, Halloween themed books are finding there way to your LCS this week.

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WHEN I WAS a kid at camp, there came that inevitable night when every group (I think we were divided up by tents) had to put on a short skit. My group suffered a creativity deficit and was unable to think of anything witty or creative or clever. Every other team did. Instead, we had the bright idea that we would just play the (now classic) song, "Kung Fu Fighting", as performed by…