It is time for a yearly check-in with Atomic Robo and the Agents C.H.A.N.G.E. We also check out FML #1 from Dark Horse Comics and Blood Squad Seven: Strikefile from Image Comics. 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 FML #1 Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick Artist: David Lopez Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: November 6, 2024 Riley is a teen that sketches out his heavy metal future with a ballpoint pen between monster movies and band practice. But musical stardom needs to compete with high school, the temper of a former Riot Grrrl mother, the morbid obsessions of a goth sister, and the eccentricities of bandmates that threaten to drive him and everyone around him insane. The balance gets harder after a ritual during a party in Portland’s Forest Park causes him to wake up one day to discover that the creatures, witchcraft, and metal world he’s obsessed with may be a bit closer to home than he preferred. [rating:4.5/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/4fxPqu7 MATTHEW BLOOD SQUAD SEVEN: STRIKEFILE #1 Writer: Joe Casey Artist: Paul Fry Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Release Date: October 30, 2024 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAN OF WAR? After several decades, the legendary cyborg super-soldier resurfaces-and Blood Squad Seven is deployed to bring him in from the cold in this extra-sized STRIKEFILE issue. But is he an ally...or an enemy? All this, and special guest-star: ERIK LARSEN’s classic hero, SUPERPATRIOT! [rating:3/5] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link - https://amzn.to/3AvgImc DISCUSSION ATOMIC ROBO: AGENTS OF CHANGE Writer: Brian Clevinger Artist: Scott Wegener Publisher: Tesladyne LLC ATOMIC ROBO AND THE AGENTS OF C.H.A.N.G.E. is the latest chapter in Robo’s exciting life. Now he’s...sort of a university administrator? But for a sci-fi action school to train the next next generation of ACTION SCIENTISTS including his sorta-secret robot son with the rebooted intelligence core from the Advanced Learning Algorithm Network that nearly killed all life on Earth, and framed Atomic Robo for it, and got Tesladyne shut down by the secret fascist science police, which indirectly threatened all life on Earth (again), and got a bunch of his comrades probably killed and definitely hunted as terrorists for a few years. Uh, but that was the old ALAN. The new Alan is a much nicer fellow, but he’s still being kept secret on the Tesladyne campus because folks might link him to all that other stuff and, golly, that wouldn’t be pleasant. You can read Atomic Robo: Agents of Change, right now! https://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/archive CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. 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!