Chris is back to fill our ears with tales of the Summit City Comic Con, leaving us enough time left over to talk about Jeffrey Brown's Process Packets, FCBD 2010: The Stuff of Legend, Green Hornet, War of the Supermen #0, Doctor Solar/Magnus, Robot Fighter and G.I. Joe #155 1/2, G.I. Joe: Hearts and Minds #1 and Klaus Scherwinski's Origins #15 featuring Snow Job, Girl Comics #1 and Marvel themed months, Urasawa's Pluto, 28 Days Later and 7 Psychopaths from BOOM!, Jim Rugg's One Model Nation and Rambo 3.5, Zero Squad from Continuity Comics, IDW's Mystery Society, LOST (*sniff*), Atlas #1, and a whole mess more (including two stranger-than-usual Hotline calls)!

Chris Samnee steps in to talk to us about Thor: The Mighty Avenger (Two issues in July!), The Age of Heroes, Siege: Embedded, Capote in Kansas, Avengers Day, Iron Man 2, Area 10, original art and commissions, Jersey Gods from Image, X-Factor Forever, The 6th Gun, Paul Pope's 100%, Siege and Siege: Fallen Sun, the Gold Key adaptation of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, New Avengers: Finale, Bobgar "Slurmo" Ornelas' solo title B-One: Comics for Broken Hearts and Apocalypse...Meh with Jonathan "Homicidal Drummer" Westhoff, Patrick Scullin's Super Siblings, and a whole lot more!

Chris takes a breather, affording us ample opportunity for spoiler-free discussion on Siege #4, Alan Davis and the Marvels Project, Hulk #22 and Incredible Hulk #209, Ed McGuinness, The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 by Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse, Dash Shaw's Bodyworld from Pantheon, The Black Terror and the Champions RPG, more distaste for the cut 'n' paste, Frank Frazetta, the Stumptown Festival: Bear Fight from Banner Year Press and Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett from Abrams Image, Batman & Robin, the Superman titles, Daredevil's crap-ass ninja skills, the Punisher and Shadowland, One Piece, video games, Julian Lytle's ANTS, and a whole lot more! Plus, at the top of the second hour, we're joined by a very special guest to help us wade through this mess! Vootie!

Our comics cup runneth way, way over as we delve into Free Comic Book Day 2010, Ben 10 and Generator Rex, Artifacts #0 from Top Cow, The 6th Gun #1 by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt from Oni Press, Marvel's Thor/Iron Man offering, Archie Summer Splash, Zorro: The Complete Classic Adventures by the legendary Alex Toth, a battalion of IDW G.I. Joe books (Cobra I and II, A Real American Hero #155 1/2, the flagship Joe #9-17, and the amazing Robert Atkins), Sonic the Hedgehog, Amazing Spider-Man #630 and bombastic Chris Bachalo, Rob Liefeld, Mike and Laura Allred and I, Zombie from Vertigo, Terry Moore's Echo, the Blackest Night Director's Cut, West Coast Blues and Jacques Tardi from Fantagraphics, Chris Burnham, Tony Harris and Twitter, and gobs of gushing praise (at least from one of us) for Kirkman, Ottley, McFarlane, and Capullo's Haunt! Plus, the requisite listener voicemails and a few emails, too!

Chris blinks in and out and back in again amidst talk on the Muppets and Fraggle Rock, Jim Rugg, Hi Fructose volume 15 with James Jean and Al Columbia, Grant Morrison and Mukesh Singh's 18 Days OGN from Dynamite, Shadowlands, the Avengers titles, Chris Samnee and Thor: Mighty Avenger, Casanova Max, a reaction to a listener voicemail (I know, right?!?), I, Zombie, Comic Book Artist #15, the Hernandez Brothers, Alex Toth and Spielberg's 1941, convention oversaturation, Alex Ross, Phil Hester and Jonathan Lau's Black Terror #5-9, X-Men: Hope, Fantomex, Brightest Day #1, RASL, Echo, and a whole mess more!

It's our Giant-Size C2E2 (See Dos Eee Dos) wrap-up episode, featuring tales of Doug Mahnke, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Tom Fowler, Mike Perkins, Mike Norton, crazy Chicago cabbies, Phil Hester and Andy Parks, Ryan Stegman (and the Sif one-shot), Hilary Barta, Will Pfeifer, Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey, and Action Philosophers!, Jim Heffron, Brian Stringer and our tattoos, Larry Marder and Beanworld, Jeremy Haun, Andy Jewett and Jon Kulczar, Lance Kizer and Steve Bryant, con-centric listener email from John Wimmer, Harold's Chicken Shack, Mark Texeira, Vince's DC pick of the week, and a much, much more!

BLACKEST NIGHT, BLACKEST NIGHT, and a little more BLACKEST NIGHT, as Chris and Wood finally step up and talk about the miniseries I've been BEGGING them to cover, with a little bit of time left over for investigations into Ultimate X #2 by Jeph Loeb and Art Adams, the Punisher Max: Butterfly one-shot, Dave Wachter and the Guns of Shadow Valley, Zak Smith's Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated (Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow), Hard-Boiled by Miller and Darrow, Hulked-Out Heroes, and a whole lot more!

Carefully-laid plans go awry and reams of notes are thrown out the window as we change course to discuss Cable #25, S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver, Hickman vs. Johns, the Apple iPad, art and audience, plus, in the second half, we're joined by sizzlin' Steve Bryant, who drops by to lay down some science on Athena Voltaire and the Kickstart program, William Stout, Dave Stevens, and the aborted Godzilla 3D film, Mark Schultz, C2E2, Guy Davis, and, as usual, a whole mess more!

After Chris renders us both crosseyed and painless by taking about a number of Marvel titles in a positive light, we traipse all over the place, batting it back and forth on the CGS Supershow, Gabriel Hardman, Chris' convention philosophy, Dave Wachter and Andy Jewett, Skottie Young and OZ, Wolverine: Weapon X #11, Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, X-Factor Forever #1, Hercules: Fall of an Avenger, Captain America: Reborn, Eiichiro Oda's One Piece: East Blue, Teenagers from Mars, Wu-Massacre and Chris Bachalo, MoCCA 2010, Fantastic Four #577, ROM, How to Train a Dragon, and a whole lot more!

We return to the stuff that passes for normal 'round these parts, merrily mixing it up on G.I. Joe Origins #11 and #12, Marvel Preview #21 and the Marvel Magazine and Essential formats, Madame Xanadu Volume 2: Exodus Noir from Matt Wagner, Michael Kaluta, and Dave Stewart, Fables, Liberty Comics #1 and #2, Incredible Hercules #141, Agents of Atlas, Gorilla Man and the Avengers, Miracle/Marvelman and the Sentry, Mysterious the Unfathomable TPB, Larry Marder's Beanworld Volume 2: A Gift Comes!, Mesmo Delivery Service and Hard Boiled, comic-themed tattoos, the Marvels Project #7 and Steve Epting, and a whole mess more!