Anthropomorphic! Sit right back and you'll hear a tale of bound comics, Amazing Spider-Man (With a hyphen!), the free Wolverine Saga comic containing vital information on Jeph Loeb and Simone Bianchi's Evolution storyline -- which is canon, by the way, JLA #31, unfinished comics series, Warren Ellis' Ruins, Art Spiegelman's Be a Nose! collection from McSweeney's, Black Lightning: Year One, licensed characters, Salvador Larocca and Iron Man, and muy mas! Bonus! More Hotline love!

A very special guest drops by to contribute to conversation on The Nobody and Sweet Tooth from writer/artist Jeff Lemire and Vertigo, Chris Ryall and Ben Templesmith's Groom Lake #1, more on IDW's handling of the G. I. Joe franchise, the legendary Anything Goes! anthology from Fantagraphics, Paul Chadwick's Concrete: Depths from Dark Horse, The Night Fisher by R. Kikuo Johnson, the winner of our Matthew Sturges/House of Mystery contest, a peek at episode fifty, and a whole lot more! Bonus! The Hotline callers be bringin' the heeeeeeat!

The Wooode-man takes over the joint! Join us as we wander through topics various and sundry, including the Watchmen movie, comics' good guy Tim Seeley and the quest for cheaper comics, the Definitive Queen & Country volume one, more Fanzine Flashbacks, Aaron and Moore's Ghost Rider, bad news from Rick Remender, Black Panther, David Lapham's Young Liars and Stray Bullets, All Hail Megatron, Jack of Fables, and more! Bonus! Loads of laughs from the Hotline!

Podcast Verité: Not one second of audio careens to the cutting room floor as we talk about comics fanzines in our new FANZINE FLASHBACK segment, the joy and sadness of the Internets, the Watchmen movie, listener email, "graphic novels" and "comic books", Chris' confession (Justice League International and the Death of the Stacys), Larry Marder's Beanworld: Wahoolazuma! collection from Dark Horse, Thor #600, G.I. Joe Origins #1, Locke and Key: Head Games, Marvel cartoons (by way of X3: The Last Stand), more top 70 Marvel comics of all time, Wired's look at comic book shop employees (RAPH RADIA!), and lots more! Hoka Hoka Hey! Hotline!