by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It may look like July outside (and feel like it, too), but in our hearts it’s October, which means it’s time for October 2021 solicitations!

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Time stamps for this week’s episode:

Intro: 0:00
October 2021 Solicits: 3:23
Image Comics: 4:51
Dark Horse Comics: 12:06
DC: 14:19
Marvel: 30:04
BOOM! Studios: 40:00
Lightning Round: 40:39
Top 5 Most Anticipated Issues: 50:52
Listener Question: 54:33
Outro: 1:01:02

Check back next week for more Casual Wednesdays!

Before: “‘Black Widow’ Spoiler Chat”, here.

Plus! Elseweek: ‘Batman: Holy Terror’here.

Casual Wednesdays written and edited by J. Jones, produced by M.J. Kremer and J. Jones.

Opening/closing theme: “Feels Good 2 B” by Audionautix — YouTube (Creative Commons Attribution)

Top 5 music: “Good Vibes” by JBlanked — Free Music Archive (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs)