It's a Wood-less Comics Wednesday as we work our way through the Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen one-shot (Damn you, James Robinson!), Geoff Johns' Brainiac arc from Action Comics #866-870, DC Universe Decisions, Conan the Cimmerian, Robin: Year One and Two-Face: Year One, Guardians of the Galaxy, Legion of Three Worlds, Brand New Day and Amazing Spider-Girl, Ghost Rider #28 and Marvel legacy characters, Final Crisis: Revelations #3, Comics Buyer's Guide, more Joe Kubert love, and much more! Plus, another song from the Hotline! RIP Walter Johnson. Sob.

Man alive, we made it to twenty-five! Entry the first in our brand-spankin' new 11 O'Clock hand-crafted (with love) Yuengling Lager notebook: this episode we cover the Iron Man movie, America's Best Comics Primer, Marvel Zombies 3 #1, X-Men: Manifest Destiny, Batman #680, Final Crisis skip month, Marvel Noir, Fred Van Lente, Action Comics #870, Walking Dead #53, The Stand #2, Pasqual Ferry, SNL, Eric Canete and End League, Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1, more World War Z, The Contingent #1 from Mind Storm Comics, Hellboy, Transformers Animated #3, DC Universe Decisions #2, G. I. Joe, Love & Rockets #1, and much more! Giant-Size extras include a serenade from a moving vehicle and Carlos Cordova spreads the Gospel of Veitch!

The love of all things Krypton abounds as we talk about Supergirl #34 and the Superman universe, Lego Batman, the 11 O'Clock Traffic Report, Ronin, Geoff Johns, Madame Xanadu, House of Mystery, Alex Nino and Dead Ahead #1 from Image, Gail Simone, Captain Britain and MI13, Locke & Key from IDW, Spooks: Omega Team, Jon Bogdanove, Devil's Due, Bronze Age fantasy characters, Dan Slott on Mighty Avengers, X-Force, the Squadron Supreme saga, VinceB's stupidity, Godwheel, Wonder Woman and Aaron Lopresti, Gary Frank, and much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia and the fabulous Mario calls the Hotline!

No court of law or any administrative agency can touch us as we talk about 24-Hour Comics Day, Trinity, All-Star Superman #12, JSA: Kingdom Come, Morrison's JLA, Superman Red & Superman Blue, pulping comics, John Romita Jr., DC Universe: Decisions #1, Deadpool #1 and #2, Marvel's Embrace Change ads, Guardians of the Galaxy, Joe Kubert's Tor, Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, Captain America, Rick Remender, Twitter, 11 O'Clock watersports, the Minx imprint, and much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia and a pair of calls to the Hotline!

Technical difficulties and the mid-episode loss of a host are not enough to keep us from talking about John Byrne's Superman, the Marvel Must-Have format, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Frank Miller, the Buffy Omnibus, Stephen King and the Stand, Local, Marvel cartoons and Jetix, Cable, New Exiles, Vertigo's Air, George Perez, Marvel Handbooks and why DC hasn't updated their Who's Who, Brave and the Bold #17, Secret Six, Amanda Conner and Terra, Ronin, Firestar, Action Comics and All Star Superman, and much more! Plus, Joe Quesada and Tom Morris call the Hotline! Buy Witchblade!

The Woodman is two for two as we chew the fat on Trinity, X-Men Legacy, cable, Dark Reign and Dark Avengers, Savage Dragon, Battle Hymn, Hack/Slash and Tim Seeley, Brad Meltzer and DC Universe Last Will and Testament, Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo from Image Comics, JSA, Skaar Son of Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man: One More Day, Brand New Day, and New Ways to Die, The Last Musketeer by Jason, Tony Moore & Jerome Opena on Fear Agent, and so much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia!

Jason Wood returns to lead the charge in discussing Gotham Central, Fell, Blazing Combat, the horrors of ComicBase, Ben Templesmith, The Twelve, the Windy City Comicon, Essex County Volume 2, Wicket and Imp, The Darkness from Top Cow, Skottie Young's Wizard of Oz, Gil Kane, Cable, Francesco!, Ande Parks and El Diablo, Amazing Spider-Man and New Way to Die, Secret Six, speculating, Phil Hester, and much more! Plus, more Hotline shenanigans!

Sitting in for a vacationing Jason Wood, Derek (Comic Book Noise) Coward and Chris (Collected Comics Library) Marshall help us talk about Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D, Humberto Ramos, Lucha Libre, collecting Final Crisis, DC/Wildstorm: Dream War, Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider, Marvel's X-books, Punisher Max, Library Binding, the Monster Times, First Flight of the Phantom Eagle, Chuck Austin's War Machine, the Luna Brothers' Sword and Girls, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Comic Book Comics from Evil Twin Comics, Glamourpuss, Give Me Liberty, more Final Crisis, Tim Sale, and a whole mess more. Plus! Listener email and a trio of calls to the 11 O'C Hotline!

Our usual reliance on the Anti Structure Equation evaporates (not really) as we enter an extended examination of Robert Kirkman's recent revelations on his plan to save the comics industry. In addition to the main course, we serve up some succulent side dishes on Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, creative ownership and work-made-for-hire, the direct market and Diamond Distribution, kids and comics, digital distribution, the bookstore market, and much, much more!

Topics discussed: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Final Crisis: Revelations #1, rediscovering Spawn, Final Crisis #3, Secret Invasion #5, Alex Robinson's Too Cool to be Forgotten, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Criminal #4, Two-Face Year One #1, Ghost Talker's Daydream Volume 1 from Dark Horse Comics, X-Men Origins: Jean Grey #1 and Origins: Wolverine, re-evaluating Image Comics, Danger Girl, and much more!