Garth Ennis

Pete and Ramon are at the roundtable to talk about the (now official) departure of Ben Affleck from DC movies, and the return of...Zack Snyder?? What in the Hell are DC execs thinking? And what exactly is the connection between the new season of The Flash and Batman Beyond? Plus, along with this week's comics, the boys talk their favorite current series! What comics in the Haul are so good that they read them immediately? Hit the play button and find out!

It's another wacky, zany, drunk, UNCUT episode of Pete's Basement! Jay the Unstoppable stops by the Basement just in time to join the boys in celebrating National Pizza Party Day! (Seriously, Google it) Jay's got a Kickstarter going for the graphic novel of his title Dragonstorm and he's gonna' tell us all about the storyline and what sorts of awesome prizes await us once we kick in. From there, Garth Ennis takes us on what could shape up to be a literal trip through Hell itself, and the boys takes us on so many tangents it was hard to keep track of.

It's a double-sized Basement episode covering three weeks worth of comics! PLUS the boys have an interview with Michael R Martin, the creator of Blood & Dust: The Life and Undeath of Judd Glenny, who's here via Skype to talk about the Kickstarter for his sequel book, Glenny Family Values! Blood & Dust stars an old vampire by the name of Judd Glenny, who just wants to live in the quiet solitude of the swamp with his family. But it's never that easy, is it? The first series saw the titular character going up against an ancient swamp monster in order to save his family.

Ninja Rocket Scientist Chris Craddock makes his triumphant return to the roundtable, fresh off of earning his black belt and the birth of his son! So the boys have some celebrating to do, as only The Basement Crew can do! The whiskey flows like wine as the boys give a spoiler-review of Stranger Things, and a bunch of other horror themed books this week. Dark Horse Comics is usually a big hit at the roundtable, and this week they give us two horror books, The Witcher: Curse of Crows, and The Witchfinder: City of the Dead.

Illustrator and animator, Noella Borie, joins the Basement Crew to show off her new stop-motion animated feature Faceless Neil: Out of the Darkness! BOOM Studios holds the honor of Book of the Week! And the boys round out the roundtable discussion with offerings from Dynamite, Marvel, and DC, like Future's End, Chaos, Cyclops, Ultimate Spider-Man, and a crazy horror murder-mystery from Image appropriately titled Nailbiter.

Upcoming Zenoscope artist Adrian Velez joins Pete and Ramon this week to showcase his new artbook and talk some comics! Captain America: The Winter Soldier takes center stage and the boys can't give it enough stars! Join them for a full spoiler-free review of the movie and two weeks worth of #1's, including Batman Eternal, Flash Gordon, some crazy offerings from Image, and all new outer-space horror from Avatar's Caliban by master scribe Garth Ennis.

Ramon takes a break to play in the snow while Pete discusses Rotworld and a few other books while Penny shows everyone her cool Heroclix collection!

Segments again and Pete looks happy about something. Watch and see.

(And on a serious note, our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones on 9/11/2001)

The Basement Crew visits NY Comic Con, and came back with the HUGEST EPISODE EVER! Wall to wall costumed fans, artists, writers, publicists! Interviews with Kyle Baker, Tom Defalco, J. M. Dematteis and more! If you only watch one episode of Pete's Basement, WATCH THIS EPISODE! -- and then watch Part 2 next week.