Jason Wood returns as we field questions from our forum members in our first live and interactive-like episode! Dropped names include: Jack Kirby, inkers, Watchmen, Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1, Justice League New Frontier, Uncle Scrooge #377, Darwin Cooke, Frank Robbins, Jim Aparo, Jesus, Jim Starlin, Kamandi, Amazing Spider-Man, the Rook, Dwayne McDuffie, Mark Texeria, Justice League of America, Jeffrey Brown, the Dark Horse Star Wars titles, and much, much more in this special Giant-Size episode!

Jefferson Workman and Thomas Stephen Katers (pitching in for an AWOL Jason Wood) join us as mindlessly meander through X-Files: I Want to Believe, Joker's Asylum Scarecrow and Two-Face, Kirby: King of Comics and Krazy Kirby Koncepts, Dark Horse's Savage Sword of Conan Volume 2, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #3, Barry Windsor-Smith, Whatever happened to ASP?, the 11 O'Clock Novel Challenge, Gil Kane's My Name is Savage, Injury #1 and #2 from Buenaventura Press, exclusive contracts, listener email (Aquaman Vs. Nightwing and Robin), Tom Derenick and Bill Sienkiewicz on Reign in Hell, and much more! Plus, more calls to the Hotline (and one of them is from a FOREIGNER!)! Google Mighty Muggs!

Topics covered in our 14th outing (Actually our 13th, but who's counting?): Batman: The Dark Knight, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Umbrella Academy 2, CBLDF Presents: Liberty Comics #1, Madman Atomic Comics, the long-awaited American Flagg Omnibus, Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver on Flash: Rebirth, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, X-Files #0, Superman Prime, Final Crisis: Resist, more Larry Stroman and X-Factor, Booster Gold and Rick Remender, pocket universe books, the 11 O'C Agents of Atlas wager, Garth Ennis and the Punisher War Zone weekly, something about War Machine, DC Super Friends, and much more! Plus, a quartet of calls to the Hotline! Google Eyezon!

And the downward spiral begins... This episode, we poot forth a lot of hoohah about Mike Mignola and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The Comics Journal #290 and Bob Powell, Harvey Comics, Butch Guice and Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, Wildstorm's Storming Paradise, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, the Starman Omnibus, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, DC War comics and the great Sam Glanzman, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, Top Cow: Pilot Season, John from Cincinatti, Cube Lube, outrageous DVD pricing, Steve Niles' Dead She Said and City of Others, Larry Stroman and X-Factor #33, the Legion of Superheroes in the 31st Century and Shawn McManus, more Doug Mahnke, and a whole mess more! Plus, more heat from the Hotline! Google PopSoda!

Synchronicity abounds in our 11-11-11 episode as we tread the murky waters of event pricing, comic buyers' reluctance to try independent titles, underground visionary Rory Hayes and Where Demented Wented, Alex Ross and Frank Santoro, Tommy Lee Edwards, Charlatan Ball from Image, the Filipino Invasion, Final Crisis: Requiem, Camelot 3000, the 11 O'Clock Comics Challenge, listener email, and much more! Google Max Toy Company!

In the wake of Wizard World Chicago 2008, an experience filled with hilarity and heartbreak, we touch on the passing of Michael Turner, finally get rolling on Final Crisis #2 (all too briefly for my taste, but one can't have everything...), Erik Larsen and Image Comics, the repurcussions of unconstructive criticism, 1985, Mike Norton's Trinity work with Jerry Ordway, Simone Bianchi as the modern-day Alex Nino, Mark Millar and Old Man Logan, Walking Dead Volume 8, World War Z, scumbags who capitalize on the brilliance of George Romero, Astonishing X-Men #25, Warren Ellis, Avatar Comics, and much, much more! As usual, the Hotline is red-hot with ridiculous remarks! Google Cronic Dorome!

Once more into the breach! Cover your heads as we lead the attack on Stray Bullets and Young Liars, Marvel's Dark Tower and The Stand, Proof, Kevin Maguire and Batman Confidential, collected editions vs. monthlies, Marcos Martin, comics in lieu of candy for Halloween (Gemstone, Archie, Bone, Shonen Jump, and more), Northlanders from Vertigo, APE Entertainment and Radical Comics, Red Mass for Mars, Whilce Portacio and Lenil Yu, Skaar Son of Hulk, Star Wars: Vector from Dark Horse, Eternals and Guardians of the Galaxy, the Incredible Hulk movie, depressing sales figures, Joe Kubert, Marvel Vs. DC (again and again and again...) and very little discussion on Final Crisis #2 (though no lack of trying). Bonus! KY Comic Guy turns in his best Neseman roast to date! Google Blobpus.

It's our not-so-special Harvey Awards nominees episode, sprinkled with segueways on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All Star Superman, Scott McDaniel, the Trinity villains, Pia Guerra on Dr. Who, the depressing fall from grace of Vertigo's Exterminators, Batman R.I.P., McDuffie's Justice League, the Denys Cowan Appreciation Society, the permanence of Dan Didio, sales figures, new reader accessibility, much Fables and Mark Buckingham love, the Duckmen (Carl Barks, Don Rosa, and William Van Horn), and much more! Bonus! KY Comic Guy returns to the Hotline! Google Smogun.

Steel sharpens steel! This time around, we talk up Josh Cotter's Skyscrapers of the Midwest from Adhouse Books, the impact of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Chuck Dixon saga, Young X-Men #1 and #2, Dave Sim's Judenhass, Caliber and Hercules from Radical, Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Secret Wars II omnibus, the Wildstorm relaunch, Virgin Comics' Project: Kalki #1 and Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter, the greatness of Doug Mahnke, Grant Morrison Vs. Alan Moore, Batman R.I.P., Fables #73, the power of editors, Southern Knights, and much more! Plus, the Hotline is on fire with messages from Equinox, Andy Jewett, and KY Comic Guy! Vootie!

Scattershot ramblings on Transhuman, Dark Horse's Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus, 1985 #1, Action Comics #865, the first volume of the Noble Causes Archives from Image, Iron Fist, Umbrella Academy, Final Crisis #1, Trinity #1, Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft and Richard Corben, Ultimate Origins #1, the anthology format, Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1, and much more! Plus, Carlos Cordova and a time traveler call the Hotline!