Season 2

Feb. 24, 2025

Diamond Dawgs

Despite the Diamond bankruptcy doing us dirty, we bring you all the new X-books (we can) from this week including thoughts on the new Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man cartoon on Disney plus and one admission pass to Doom Academy.

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Feb. 17, 2025

Canadian Bottlecap X-plosion!

Talking comics and comfort in today's cultural climate while banging out the best reviews of all your new X-men books with more Marvel, DC, and Image too!

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Feb. 9, 2025

Timeless Luki Cage: Kratos for Hire

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker bring you the X-books released every week with a dash of their midwest philosophy and cultural clumsiness.

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Feb. 6, 2025

Moving Daze

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker say goodbye to recording on Sundays so that we can get you new episodes every weekend!  We continue to cover all the new X-books every week with little surprises from DC and Image sprinkled in.

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Jan. 30, 2025

American Immigrant

Covering this week's X-books as well as a bit of DC sprinkled in, we feature our new favorite song about America's new year's resolution: deportation

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Jan. 23, 2025

X equals Parental Advisory

Don't worry!  You can still listen to this with the kids in the car.  Just make sure that you are careful towards the end of the episode when we talk about he who must not be named.  Otherwise, the X-books got a little randy this...

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Jan. 15, 2025

Mandatory X-Force

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker give you all the updates on this week's X-books plus a little sprinkle of DC.  It's been a rough start for the comic book industry in 2025.  We are here to provide just a little bit of sunshine.

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Jan. 8, 2025

Bigger Fun

Marvel's X-books this week were specifically designed to destroy Domesticated Dave so the Laynemaker picks up the slack while Dave retreats to the DC releases that make him feel safe and warm.  Special thanks to Big Fun in Columbus, Ohio for your...

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Jan. 1, 2025

New Year's Slay

Domesticated Dave brings you all the best in the X-books every week along with rediscovering his unrequited love for DC comics.  Don't worry!  The Laynemaker will return after he recovers from the holidaze.

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Dec. 26, 2024

Merry Christmas, Poppets!

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker wish to say thank you to Santa, Hanukkah Harrie, and James Gunn for bringing Christmas in July 2025 with his trailer for Superman

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Dec. 20, 2024

The Ember and Wolverine conspiracy

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker dive in to this week's X-books as well as the new novel Red Sonja: Consumed by Dave's favorite writer Gail Simone.  This was recorded before the new Superman trailer came out

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Dec. 13, 2024

Commandos and confessions

All the lowdown from the comic books we love!  Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker review this week's Rivals release, shows, and all the best from the X-men, DC, Image, and Vault comics.

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Dec. 6, 2024

Ember is ABSOLUTEly a murderhorse

Domesticated Dave and the Laynemaker discuss the latest X books and the ABSOLUTE universe launch from DC Comics.  Spoilers: Ember is the Endling that will destroy all mutants.

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Dec. 1, 2024

Enter the Laynemaker

Another five bottle cap classic from the Laynemaker and Domesticated Dave covering the latest X-men books. Layne continues his comic book history assignment with a book report on the classic comic The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes

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Nov. 22, 2024

Dedicated to Andrea and Sarah

Domesticated Dave and Layne talk about the people and comics that they love.  We missed a week of recording so you get a DOUBLE SIZED episode!  We keep you up on all things X-men and discuss the Avengers Arena ten years later.  We also...

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Nov. 9, 2024

Soda Pop Quiz

Domesticated Dave and Layne review and discuss the Penguin, Agatha All Along, Bleach, Dragon Age, and I Kill Giants

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Oct. 29, 2024

Arcade Adventure

Domesticated Dave and Layne talk about La Mano del Destino, the sophomore issues of the X-men line including Dave's reluctant dive into the the modern slate of Wolverine comics, and Unnatural Order issue one from Vault Comics.

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Oct. 26, 2024

From The Ashes - X-men comics relaunch

Dave and Layne cover the X-men in their newest reshuffle for Marvel Comics.  Share the episode and subscribe to support the show.

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Oct. 21, 2024

Dancing into the Void

Dave and Layne are back together to talk about life and love with the philosophical arts of comic books.

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