Thu, 27 December 2012
11 O'Clock Comics Episode 245 |
Wed, 19 December 2012
Benedict Cumberbatch and Star Trek: Into Darkness, listener gifts, Will Pfeifer and Dial H for HERO, custom bound editions, DC/Marvel crossovers (Superman Vs. Spider-Man, X-Men/Teen Titans, JLA/Avengers and George Perez, and many more), Ross Andru > Walt Simonson?, Hideshi Hino's Lullabies from Hell and The Comics Journal Special Edition 2005: Seduction, Revival volume one by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image, the Walking Dead comic (maybe spoilers), Action Comics, Fantastic Four, New Titans, Clone Saga, Peter David's Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men Legacy, Avengers, Greg Rucka's Punisher, Spider-Man + Daredevil + Punisher = GOLD, the Grateful Dead, Arthur Magazine #33 and Rick Veitch, Avengers Vs. X-Men: Consequences, Butcher Baker and Mike Huddleston, Mad Men, Skyfall, The Wire, the Thin Man series, and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 14 December 2012
11 O'Clock Comics Episode 243 |
Wed, 5 December 2012
Marvel movies, Mike Zeck, Ryan Browne, Mam Tor and Liam Sharp, Andres Salazar and Pariah, Missouri, entry-level comics, favorite cover artists, Valiant, current artists bound for classic status, Kurt Busiek and George Perez's Avengers, Action Comics #1-8, Marvel Now, FF #1 by Fraction and Allred, style-changing artists, Uncanny Avengers, Walking Dead volume 17 (no spoilers), Scalped, Karen Berger, the Top 100 Most Powerful People in Comics according to Bleeding Cool magazine, back issue prices, a teaser for IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Jae Lee, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 29 November 2012
My Little Pony, Tower Chronicles by Matt Wagner and Simon Bisley, Hassan T, Bloodshot #1-5 and Valiant 2012, The Blob, music-based comics (Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree, Phonogram, I See a Darkness, Love and Rockets, IDW's KISS, and more), Amalgam, Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth (Matt Kindt and Mind Mgmt.), Walking Dead, Paul Grist's Mud Man from Image, EOC live tweets, Batman: The Animated Series and other DCU toons, Image Comics and The Road to Independence, Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' Act of Faith/Jimmy's End (setup for next week), Timothy O'Briant's BDR, Jack Davis + EC Comics + IDW Artist's Edition = GOLD, IDW vs. Image, Amazing Spider-Man #698 and Dan Slott, Captain America #1 and JR JR, Spain Rodriguez and Josh Medors, inkers, Haunted Horror #1 from Craig Yoe and IDW, Azzarello and Risso's Spaceman from Vertigo, Hawkeye, Jack Black's Brutal Legend and J. Scott Campbell, Avengers Academy, Batman Inc. and Chris Burnham, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 22 November 2012
Walking Dead, Doug TenNapel, Adventure Time from Kaboom!, Stephen Platt, SAGA, Justice League, Fantagrapics, "guilty" pleasures, Jacques Tardi, Floyd Gottfredson, Mars Attacks!, Punisher, the Big2 machine, American Vampire, CBLDF Liberty Annual 2012, Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Planet of the Apes, Kevin James, Lil' Gotham, The Campaign, The Shade miniseries, Thanksgiving tweets from our peeps, and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 16 November 2012
C2E2, Walking Dead, Will Pfeifer, Quentin Tarantino, original art faves, Spawn, Amazing Spider-Man, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Sandman, Hellboy, Starman, Invisibles, Brendan McCarthy, Parker, the effects of social media on the comics industry, The Homemand Directive and Mike Huddleston, Miracleman and the greatness of Rick Veitch, Salvador Larocca, time machines, Jim Cheung, Bill Mantlo, Neal Adams, Dave Cockrum, Herb Trimpe, Larry Stroman, Mike Allred's Madman and The Tick #101, Randy Gentile, Thor: God of Thunder #1 and Jason Aaron, Adventure Time, Michael Golden, and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 9 November 2012
Smut Peddler, Tony Moore and Deadpool, current artists transplanted to Bronze Age Warren books, Uncanny X-Force, Pendelton Ward's Bravest Warriors from Kaboom!, Iron Age from Marvel, Lee Weeks, Juan Doe, Walking Dead, Ande Parks' Lone Ranger from Dynamite!, Paul Pope, Will Pfeifer and comic book crushes, Wendy Whitebread, Zachary Holmes Case One: The Monster by Carlos Trillo and Juan Bobillo from Dark Horse/Venture, falling behind, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicca, Disney and Star Wars, Captain Marvel/Shazam!, Plastic Man, Hellblazer, Mike Huddleston, music and comics, Chuck Rozanski, Sam Raimi and Evil Dead, Godzilla: Half-Century War by James Stokoe, American Vampire, Angry Birds Star Wars, Fraction's Mighty Thor and Pascual Ferry, and much more! |
Sat, 3 November 2012
Dark Shadows, American Horror Story: Asylum, Walking Dead, Conan, J. K. Woodward, Tony Harris, Lee Bermejo, Alex Maleev, David Mack, Alex Ross, Ty Templeton, Joe Kubert, inking, Ron Garney, ROM, Micronauts, Alpha Flight, Namor, Ghosts one-shot from Vertigo (Al Ewing, Rufus Dayglo, Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham, Victor Santos, Cecil Castellucci, Amy Reeder, Joe Kubert, Neil Kleid, John McCrea, Mary Choi, Phil Jimenez, Paul Pope, David Lapham, Gilbert Hernandez, Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, and more), Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe from Harper, Batman: The Cult by Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson, and Bill Wray, Marvel's Strange Tales: Werewolf by Night by Jeff Parker and Leonardo Manco and Strange Tales: Man-Thing by J. M. DeMatteis and Liam Sharpe, Space Punisher by Frank Tieri and Mark Texeira, All-Star Batman and Robin, Death of Jean DeWolff, Spidey villains, Mars Attacks the IDW universe, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and much more! |
Thu, 25 October 2012
The Iron Man 3 trailer, creators that have surprised us, Tradd Moore, Darick Robertson, Fiona Staples, Mike Huddleston, C2E2, our dream Artist's Editions from the '90s, Barry Windsor-Smith, Chris Bachalo, Todd McFarlane, Joe Mad, Sleeper, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Revival, JLA/Avengers, Steve Gerber and Howard the Duck, Chris Ware's Building Stories, favorite Disney movies, Archer and Armstrong by Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry from Valiant, Neal Adams and Warren's Thrill Kill, Walking Dead, Locke and Key, The Blob, Jaws, Halloween, Twilight Zone, Creepshow, Daredevil: End of Days by Brian Bendis, Klaus Janson, and Bill Sienkiewicz, Cerebus and Dave Sim, Fathom, Soulfire, and Michael Turner, Jason Pearson's Body Bags, Jeff Nicholson, OG villains (Kingpin, Bullseye, Lex Luthor, DOOM, Joker, Ozymandias, Kid Miracleman, and more), the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, Homeland, the best and worst costume redesigns, Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #18 from Bongo, Two Morrows' Modern Masters, Steve Rude, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 18 October 2012
Joe Kubert, Mahmud Asrar, David's 2012 NYCC report (Tony Fleecs, Regular Show, Julian Lytle, Cullen Bunn, Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, Ryan Stegman, Mike Norton, Jamal Igle, Dennis Hopeless, Ryan Browne, Walking Dead, and more), Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang's Wonder Woman, Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E. and the direct market, Superior Spider-Man, Marvel Now! (FF, Fantastic Four, Bendis' X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Cable and X-Force, Deadpool, Morbius, Nova, Savage Wolverine, Thor: God of Thunder, Thunderbolts, Young Avengers, and more), variant covers, comic horror hosts, prose books, Walking Dead S3E1, J. H. Williams III and color, True Patriot, Indiegogo, and Kickstarter, our favorite cartoons, Charles Burns' The Hive, Ande Parks' Lone Ranger and Zorro, The Only Living Boy #1 by by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis, the Avengers and the Thing in the Serpent Crown/Affair, Chris talks to B. Clay Moore about lots of stuff, and even more! |
Thu, 11 October 2012
Jay Tomio instigates our first live-Tweeted episode! Before Watchmen Rorschach #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo (with Umberto Lenzi, Cannibal Ferox, Babylon Blue, and more), Justice League of America #183-185, 192, 193, 200, and more (Dick Dillin, Jim Starlin, George Perez, New Gods, Darkseid, Gerry Conway, Red Tornado, Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott, Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 and Madrox, Joe Kubert, Pat Broderick, Carmine Infantino, the Ultra-Humanite, and more), Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, starting Judge Dredd, Skottie Young, Ryan Stegman, Tim Seeley, Chris Burnham, Wally Wood, John Byrne, Steve Gerber and Howard the Duck and Man-Thing, Dr. Manhattan #1 by J. Michael Straczynski and Adam Hughes, Jeff Smith's RASL, Comedian #3 by Brian Azzarello and J. G. Jones, Silk Spectre #3 by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Rick Veitch, Josh Simmons and Happy #1-4 from Top Shelf, Chris Ware's Building Stories (briefly), James Kochalka and American Elf, Matt Feazell, Prison Pit, Dash Shaw, IDW's Popeye, Nite Owl #3 by J. Michael Straczynski, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, and Bill Sienkiewicz, Hulk #181, Green Lantern #40, Giant Size X-Men #1, Encyclopedia Deadpoolica, L'Association's massive Comix 2000, Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85, Glory by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell, Double Barrel #5, Stumptown, Doctor Who, Adrian Tomine's New York Drawings, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 4 October 2012
After Chris fills us in on the greatness that was MorrisonCon, we traipse through Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples' awesome SAGA, Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss 2, The Shade by James Robinson, Darwyn Cooke, Cully Hamner, and Javier Pulido, IDW's Popeye and Classic Popeye, Chris Ware's Building Stories, Brian Wood's The Massive from Dark Horse, Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Love and Rockets, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 27 September 2012
Vince & Chris have established visitation rights for the children. This week Jason and David go to Six Flags with their favorite parent and talk about a variety of comics goodness. Doom Patrol, Top Shelf, Legends, MorrisonCon, Rachel Rising, the cycle of reading habits and more. Next Week: FAMILY REUNION on a very special episode of 11 O'Clock Comics. |
Fri, 21 September 2012
Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo's Wild Children from Image, Walt Simonson's The Judas Coin, Public Education Volume 2 from Jonathan O'Briant, John Byrne's Legends, Incredible Hulk #13, Spider-Men, Dan Slott and Amazing Spider-Man rumors, Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, the Alan Davis Annuals: Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Wolverine, Abrams Comicarts and Topps' Mars Attacks 50th Anniversary Collection hardcover, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore, and Felipe Sobreiro from Image, Legends of the Dark Knight #16 by Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman, woman colorists, Dorothy and the Wizard in OZ by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, Parker and Hardman's Secret Avengers, Cable and X-Force, Avengers: Arena by Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker, Declan Shalvey, SpongeBob #12 and Ernest Borgnine, Tony Millionaire, Brandon Graham and PictureBox, Hayao Miyazaki's Nausica of the Valley of Wind, Ed the Happy Clown from Chester Brown and Drawn & Quarterly, Double Barrel #4 from Top Shelf, Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap by Ice-T, Young Justice, Revolution, Transformers Prime, the Covered blog, and much more! |
Thu, 13 September 2012
Vince is on vacation so we talk about stuff. |
Thu, 6 September 2012
More on Kickstarter, Marvel's Hulk: Season One by Fred Van Lente and the great Tom Fowler, Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Family Values, That Yellow Bastard (Jim Lee's Deathblow, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, and more), our personal comics Mount Rushmore, Grant Morrison, John Byrne, Mike Mignola, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, John Severin, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, John Severin, Prophet by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, and Giannis Milonogiannis from Image, the Todd McFarlane Collector's Club, Jason Aaron's Incredible Hulk, Godzilla: Half Century War by James Stokoe from IDW, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Sleeper, Dave Sim, and much more! |
Thu, 30 August 2012
Nick Spencer, Rob Liefeld, Scott Snyder, Kamandi Omnibus Volume 2, Carmine Infantino, Jason Pearson, RASL and Tesla, Bowie, Crystar the Crystal Warrior in The Origin of Crystar by David Anthony Kraft, Alan Kupperberg, and Marie Severin (Marvel Age #1, Comics Interview, toy prices, Eaglemoss, FOOM, WAM: Wild Agents of Marvel, Famous Monsters and Blue Oyster Cult, Wizard 1/2 and 0 issues, Masters of the Universe and Tim Seeley, J. J. Abrams' Star Trek, and more), BBC's Misfits (Alphas, Summer Glau, Falling Skies, Fringe, Doctor Who, and more), Dan Slott, Marie Severin: Mirthful Mistress of Comics by Dewey Cassell with Aaron Sultanfrom TwoMorrows (Back Issue, Alter Ego), Dan Nadel and the Born Again Artist's Edition, Ryan Browne's Blast Furnace Kickstarter, MorrisonCon, Dark Horse's Grendel Omnibus V1, Amazing Spider-Man #692, Godzilla: Legends from IDW (Dean Haspiel, Hedorah, Gary Panter, Simon Gane, and more), Batwoman: Hydrology, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 23 August 2012
The great Carl Potts and Alien Legion, Ryan Stegman and the I Draw Comics Kickstarter, Rick Remender's Fear Agent (EC Comics, Jerome Opena, Kieron Dwyer and Sea of Red, Salgood Sam and Mark Sable's Dracula: Son of the Dragon, and more), Infinite Horizon by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto from Image, Dark Horse's Eerie #1 (David Lapham, Bill Dubay, Rafa Garres, the incomparable Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, the Heavy Metal movie, Den, and more), Darwyn Cooke, Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder for Top Shelf (Matt Kindt, Sweet Tooth), Jonathan Hickman's string of Fantastic Four done-in-ones, Crystar: Crystal Warrior, Avenging Spider-Man by Zeb Wells, Joe Mad, and others, New Teen Titans, Planet of the Apes, Silver Surfer: Parable by Stan Lee and Moebius, Walt Simonson and Doctor Who, Richard Starking's Elephantmen #42, Jason Aaron and Scalped, Adventure Time #7 and LSP, Falling Skies, and a whole mess more! |
Wed, 15 August 2012
Madman 20th Anniversary HC by Mike Allred and company, Joe Kubert (Tarzan #207-210, Ragman, Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Jew Gangster, the Heroes World catalogs, Between a Rock and a Hard Place with Brian Azzarello, Neal Adams, Moebius, Chris Claremont, Phil Hester, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, and more), Wizard World Chicago, Neal Adams and Chris' JLA jam piece, Comic Buyer's Guide #1694 and Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder from Top Shelf (The Comics Journal, RBCC, TwoMorrows publications, and more), Valiant's X-O: Manowar, Before Watchmen: Ozymandias by Len Wein and Jae Lee, Becky Cloonan's The Mire, The Mighty Thor by Matt Fraction and company, Brian Wood (The Massive, Conan with Becky Cloonan, DMZ, and more), and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 10 August 2012
Pendleton Ward and Adventure Time, Bravest Heroes, and Ben 10, Menage a Three, the Walt Simonson Thor Artist's Edition from IDW, Joe Kubert, the long-lost 1987 Penta hotel Creation Convention cassette tape, Marvel's New Universe, Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards' 1985, Mike Allred and Mark Bagley on Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four family of books, Chris Tucker, Transformers: Regeneration One from Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, and Stephen Baskerville from IDW, Larry Marder's Beanworld 3.5 from Dark Horse, Marvel Now and licensed books, Matt Kindt and Super Spy from Top Shelf, Double Barrel #3, Julian Lytle's ANTS, Walking Dead #19, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 2 August 2012
Ian Edgington and Mike Collins' American Gothic, Howard Chaykin and Ken Bruzenak's Black Kiss 1 and 2 from Vortex and Image Comics, Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli's Daredevil: Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW (incorporating Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Todd McFarlane, Phil Hester and Andy Parks, and more), Ernest Borgnine and Disney's Black Hole by way of Jack Kirby, Dark Knight Rises and Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Captain America's wings, Neal Adams (HOLLA!), Gail Simone, Eric Powell's The Goon #40 from Dark Horse, Justice by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and Doug Braithwaite, Creepy Presents: Richard Corben, Harper's Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One by Bill Morrison, Steve Vance, and a cast of thousands, Captain America from Ed Brubaker and Pat Zircher, Alphas, Wolverine and the X-Men from Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw, and Chris Bachalo, Jamal Igle and the Molly Danger Kickstarter, Infinite Horizon, and a whole mess more! |
Wed, 25 July 2012
Grant Morrison, Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Hunter, The Outfit, and The Score, Locke & Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez from IDW, In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Windsor McKay/Little Nemo), Jim Cheung, Brain Wood's X-Men, Desert Island's Smoke Signal #13 (Tony Millionaire, Brian Chippendale, SKINNER, and more), The Return of King Doug by Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, and Wook-Jin Clark from ONI Press, Ryan Estrada and The Whole Story (Ryan North, Doug TenNapel, Meredith Gran, Jeffrey Brown, Katie Cook, Box Brown, Nam Dong Yoon, and a whole lot more), Kickstarter (Creature Box, Remind by Jason Brubaker, etc.), Black Dynamite on Adult Swim, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 19 July 2012
11 O'Clock Comics Episode 222 |
Thu, 12 July 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man and Dark Knight Rises movies, more Before Watchmen, Azzarello and Risso's Batman: Broken City (Batman #620-625), Batman Vs. Spider-Man rogues, James Van Hise's RBCC (Rocket's Blast Comic Collector) #151 and Harlan Ellison (Jim Warren, Neal Adams, Gerry Conway, Will Eisner, Denny O'Neill, Len Wein, and more), Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Score, Jack Davis, The Hustler, Doug Wildey's Rio from IDW (Alex Toth, Jonny Quest, and more), Archaia's Cyclops by Matz and Luc Jacamon, Eddie Campbell's The Lovely Horrible Stuff from Top Shelf and Knockabout, a cornucopia of Kickstarter (Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, Penny Arcade, Top Cow and Cyberforce, and more), The Beast of Chicago: The Murderous Career of H. H. Holmes (A Treasury of Victorian Murder) by Rick Geary and NBM/Comics Lit, Monsterverse's Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave #2 by Kerry Gammill and a host of horrors, Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, and Langdon Foss from Vertigo, Mahmud Asrar and Supergirl, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man from Archie, and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 6 July 2012
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1910/1969/2009 and Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill from Top Shelf, Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory from Image, Warren Ellis and Gary Erskine's Jack Cross out of DC, IDW's KISS #1 by Chris Ryall and Jamal Igle, Godzilla, Baltimore: The Curse Bells by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, Batman Incorporated #2 and Chris Burnham, a trio from MonkeyBrain: Bandette #1 from Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, Edison Rex from Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver, and Amelia Cole and the Unknown World by Adam P. Knave, D. J. Kirkbride, and Nik Brokenshire, James Kochalka's massive American Elf digital collections from Top Shelf, Frankenstein Alive, Alive! by Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson from IDW, Steve Gerber and Kevin Nowlan's Infernal Man-Thing #1, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Revival #1 from Image, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 28 June 2012
John Byrne's Trio #1 and the Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW, Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration, Taschen books, Archaia's The Killer volume two by Matz and Luc Jacamon, Danger Club by Landry Q. Walker and Eric Jones, Bowen statues, Comixology, Jeff Smith's RASL from Cartoon Books, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's The Manhattan Projects from Image, Jim Rugg, Phil Hester's Darkness and Darkness/Pitt, Paul Grist, Angel & Faith by Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs from Dark Horse, ten issues of Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, a tease at The Twelve, Mike Norton's Battle Pug, Winter Soldier, The Anthology Project, and much more! |
Thu, 21 June 2012
Before Watchmen, The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract by Marv Wolfman and George Perez (Dark Phoenix Saga, Titans Hunt, wedding issues, Young Justice, DC Nation block), Brian Ralph's Daybreak, The Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case from Dark Horse, CAKE, Gary by Tyrell Cannon, Jeffrey Brown, Spawn/Batman by Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane from Image, Mark Waid and Frank Quietly's Offspring one-shot from The Kingdom, Greg Capullo, TV-O-Rama (Falling Skies, Sherlock, and more), G. Willow Wilson's AIR and the dangers of serial storytelling, The Boys, Movie-O-Rama (Prometheus (no spoilers), Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, and more), Adventure Time #5 and Paul Pope from Kaboom!, Bart King's Postoffice, Creator Owned Heroes from Image, OHOTMU Redux, Brian Wood's The Massive, and more! |
Thu, 14 June 2012
After a plunge into the dark realm of Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches from Fantagraphics, we surface into the light of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Jeffrey Brown's Darth Vader and Son from Chronicle Books and CAKE (the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), Top Shelf's Double Barrel anthology from Cannons Kevin and Zander (available on Comixology), Joe Kelly's Action Comics #775, Cyril Pedrosa's Three Shadows from :01, Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth from Oni, Rick Remender's Strange Girl from Image, Harbinger and the new Valiant, Haunted Hulk from Hulk #50-52 by Jeff Parker and Carlo Pagulayan, Ian Brill and Dracula World Order, Spider-Men #1, Tales of the Dark Knight #1 and Jeff Lemire, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 7 June 2012
All the pieces are back in place as we ramble through Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image, Mike Schwartz's Oceanverse, Won Ton Soup volume one by James Stokoe from Oni Press, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Weapons of the Metabaron with Travis Charest and Zoran Janjetov from Humanoids (incorporating Frank Herbert and David Lynch's Dune, Moebius, H. R. Giger, Sienkiewicz, Flash (Aaaaaaaaaaah!) Gordon, and more), Ron Garney and Fantastic Four #606, Jeff Parker and Dale Eaglesham's Hulk #53 and Alpha Flight, Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim from Image, The Homeland Directive by Robert Vendetti and Mike Huddleston from Top Shelf, David's tale on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Detective Comics #526, trade dress and Dark Horse's Creepy and Eerie Archives, Juxtapoz #137, Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's Comic Book History of Comics from IDW, Terry Moore's Rachel Rising, Fury MAX by Ennis and Parlov, Dynamite!, and a little about Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1. You'll live. |
Fri, 1 June 2012
Mighty Skottie Young in the house! |
Thu, 24 May 2012
Grab your torches and pitchforks! Chris Neseman is back and with him he brings the X-Statix Omnibus (including DC's gay character, Princess Diana, Skottie Young and New Warriors, The Brotherhood, Doop, and more), Jason takes a long look at Avengers Academy and Thunderbolts, Godzilla #1 from Duane Swierczynski, Simon Gane, and IDW, Thundercats, Saga #3 from BKV and Fiona Staples, Steve Perry and Thomas Yeates' TimeSpirits from Marvel/Epic (incorporating Elektra: Assassin, Daredevil, Groo, Elfquest, Dreadstar, Starstruck, Steve Gerber's Void Indigo, Alien Legion, and more), Dark Knight Returns animated and Planet Hulk, Frank Miller's The Spirit and Sucker Punch, Ernie Chan, I [Heart] Fake #2 and Heather Benjamin, Fringe, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Revival from Image, John Carter: The Gods of Mars, Princeless from Action Lab and the Glyph Awards, Steve Bryant and Mark Waid on Avengers, Kickstarter, and more! |
Thu, 17 May 2012
Zack Kruse creeps into the mix this week as we wander through the Summit City Comic Con (Hilary Barta, Gabriel Hardman, Dave Wachter, Carole Lombard, and more), Low Concept 2: Comix Boogaloo, the Rising Stars Omnibus by JMS and company, The Chilling Archive of Horror Comics, Volume 2: Bob Powell's TERROR from Craig Yoe and IDW (Will Eisner, CrossGen, Steve Ditko, Joe Staton, and more), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Jason Bradley Thompson from Mock Man Press, Valiant's X-O Manowar #1 (BKV and Saga, Peter David, Scott Snyder and Swamp Thing...), Haunt by Joe Casey, Nathan Fox, John Lucas, and Image, Young Justice, Avengers, Creepy #8 from Dark Horse, TwoMorrow's Back Issue #56, Finding Gossamer, Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, and a whole mess more! |
Fri, 11 May 2012
iFanboy's Ron Richards jumps into the fray and brings Grant Morrison with him! Okay, maybe not the man in the flesh, but tales about the man and what fans can expect from the upcoming MorrisonCon! Plus, we've got some dissing the Legion, Wild Pig, FCBD 2012 (Sonic from Archie, Avengers, James Sime and Isotope, Image Comics, and more), Alan Davis, Lee Weeks, Rising Stars, Thundercats and Ed Benes, Uncanny X-Force and Greg Tocchini, art commissions gone horribly wrong, Avengers the movie, Daredevil and Chris Samnee, War of the Woods by Matthew Petz, Erik Larsen and Cory Hamscher's Supreme, Hell Yeah by Joe Keatinge and Andre Szymanowicz, and a long-ass look at the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely masterpiece, Flex Mentallo! |
Thu, 3 May 2012
All-different! All-weird! Around Comics' Brion "Sal" Salazar picks up the baton dropped by his wayward brother, helping us through The Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, Avengers, and other comic book-themed films (with a little Battleship on the side), Chew Volume Five: Major League Chew from John Layman and Rob Guillory, Hiroya Oku's Gantz from Dark Horse (incorporating Eli Roth and Hostel/Cabin Fever, Human Centipede, Rob Zombie and his cinematic oeuvre, Jim Lee and 100 Bullets, Bryan Hitch, Paolo Rivera, J. Scott Campbell, Scott McCloud and Abraham Lincoln, and more!), Sammy the Mouse from Zac Sally and La Mano 21, Mark Waid's The Unknown, Eric Powell's Goon (by way of Alan Moore and Pictopia, Mike Norton, Scotty Young, Rick Remender and Fear Agent, Hellboy, Jeff Lemire, and others), IDW's Popeye #1 from Roger Langridge and Bruce Ozella, The Green River Killer, a tease for Morrison and Quitely's Flex Mentallo, podcast burnout, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 26 April 2012
TV's Mario Muscar climbs into the Neseman chair this week, adding ample amounts of assessment on Pierre-Henry Gomont's Catalyse from Manolosanctis, Bill Keane and Family Circus, Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (including Chuck Rozanski and Mile High Comics, Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, and more), Action Lab's Back in the Day by Dave Dwonch and Daniel J. Logan, Joe Kubert's Jew Gangster, more on Will Pfeifer and German Torres' The Advance Team from Tor, Butcher Baker and Bulletproof Coffin, Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Cameron Stewart, Yanick Paquette, and Scott Clark/Dave Beatty, Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson's The Massive out of Dark Horse, Double Feature's Sci-Fi #3 by Tony Donley, Jeff Zornow, Michael Morici, Steve Seeley, and Tom Scioli, even more praise for Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples' Saga from Image, John Romita Jr and Avengers Vs. X-Men, Brandon Graham and Prophet, Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's Sixth Gun #21, Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth, Tony DeZuniga, and much more! |
Thu, 19 April 2012
C2E2 2012: Tony Moore and moonshine! Charlie Adlard! Skottie Young! Tom Scioli and American Barbarian! Ramon Perez! Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman! Joe Kubert and the Kubert School! Chris Burnham! Jamal Igle! Hilary Barta and Christian Alamay! RBCC! Jose Gonzalez and Vampirella! John Carter, Warlord of Mars! Shia Labeouf! Ryan Stegman! Will Pfeifer and The Advance Team! Tom Kelly! George Perez! John Byrne! Jeremy Haun! Robert Atkins! Bill Sienkiewicz! Phil Hester! Jim Cheung! Gordon Purcell! Alfredo Alcala and Voltar! House of Secrets! Dylan Dog! Mike Norton! Cosplayers! Steve Bryant! Tim Seeley! Marrowbones! Darren Neeley and The Prospector! Avengers Academy and Christos Gage! Jimmy Palmiotti! Joe Quesdada! Fabulous forumites! More! |
Wed, 11 April 2012
We give you a lot on which to chew before we head out to the wonders of C2E2, including Fantagraphics' The Sincerest Form of Parody (Mort Walker, Don Martin, Will Elder, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, EC Comics and Bill Gaines, Frank Robbins, MAD, humor in America, Underground comics, Cracked, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, Howard Nostrand, and more), Womanthology: Heroic from IDW (Fiona Staples, Renae DeLiz, Coleen Doran, Ming Doyle, Camilla D'Erico, and many, many more), Chris Mitten and Antony Johnston's Wasteland from ONI, Atomic Robo, John Carter: Gods of Mars and Ramon Perez (Skottie Young, Tale of Sand), Bob Layton's Hercules: Prince of Power minis, a Creator Spotlight on Kurt Busiek (Astro City, Marvels, Thunderbolts, Kingdom Come, Ninjak, Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, and more), Tom Scioli and American Barbarian, Chris Pitzer and Project: Superior from AdHouse, Witchblade and Diego Bernard, Bomb Queen volume seven by Jimmie Robinson, Ghost Rider, Chip Kidd, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 5 April 2012
We dig in deep this week with long looks at Brandon Graham's King City from Image and TokyoPop (including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, James Stokoe and Orc Stain, Thomas Herpich, and much more), Adventure Time, Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men (Chris Bachalo, Nick Bradshaw), Avengers Vs. X-Men #0 (Frank Cho, Bendis, John Romita Jr.), Cartoonapalooza with Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes, Green Lantern, Young Justice, Ultimate Spider-Man, and more, more on Dames in the Atomic Age, Art Adams' Monkeyman and O'Brien, Uncanny X-Force, Eerie Presents: Hunter - The Classic Warren Publishing Hero's Complete Adventures and Paul Ryan, Waid's Daredevil, Chris Samnee and Rocketeer, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 from Top Shelf, Action Lab's Princeless, Brian Wood's DMZ, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 29 March 2012
Short on runtime, long on ideas as we pow-wow on Douglas Adams and Doctor Who, Art of Fiction's Dames in the Atomic Age by Christopher Ryder, Marc Sandroni, Mike Vosburg, Paul Little, Tony Fleecs, and company, Smoke and Mirrors by Mike Costa, Ryan Browne, and Jon Armstrong from IDW, 50 Girls 50 from Image, Vertigo's Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child by Selwyn Hinds and Denys Cowan, Rocketeer Adventures volume two #1 (Peter David, Bill Sienkiewicz, Stan Sakai, and more), three years of Captain America, The Naked Heroes' Demon the Whiskey Down and the great Benjamin Marra, B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs volume three and Hellboy, Avengers X-Sanction and Jeph Loeb, Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose #73 by Jim Balent, Haunt and Nathan Fox, Tim Seeley's Witchblade, Prophet and Brandon Graham, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 22 March 2012
Chaos is the name of the game this week as we kick the insanity up a few notches while talking about the 999 Challenge, Stan Lee's Mighty 7 from Stan Lee Comics, Alex Saviuk, and the fine folks at Archie (including the Spider-Man newspaper strip, Sonic, Archie, Mega Man, and more), an extended look at Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four (John Byrne, DOOM, the Waid/Wieringo run, etc.), The John Romita Amazing Spider-Man Artist Edition from IDW (Steve Ditko + Amazing Annual #1 with the Sinister Six, Ross Andru, Gil Kane, Romita Jr, Romitaman, Kingpin, ARch-nemeses, Morbius, and more), Dean Haspiel and Make Mine Me, The Believer #88 from McSweeney's, John Carter and the Gods of Mars, Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, Adventure Time, David Lapham's Age of Apocalypse, and a couple buckets more! |
Fri, 16 March 2012
We jump in quick 'n' dirty on Gisele Lagace and Ménage á 3 (by way of Occupy Riverdale and Archie Comics), Brandon Graham and King City, Adventure Time, Saga #1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples from Image, Moebius (Blueberry, The Airtight Garage, Arzach, Heavy Metal, and more), recent developments in The Walking Dead TV show, The Dead: Kingdom of Flies by Alan Grant, Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry (and more) from Berserker Comics, Watchmen/DKR and print, The Champions/The Order, Avengers: Childrens' Crusade and Avengers Vs. X-Men, Artifice by Alex Woolfson and Winona Nelson, The Manhattan Projects by Hickman and Pitarra from Image, Nathan Fox and Haunt, Jacques Tardi, Simone's Batgirl, Vertigo's Fairest, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 8 March 2012
Hold on to your hats, folks, because this one's a weird one even by our standards... While Skype wreaks havoc with a vengeance, we top off the tank in the rickety ol' Wayback Machine head out for a long, rambling ride through Amazing Spider-Man #300, Miller and Mazzuchelli's Born Again, Comic Confessions (including Cerebus, Camelot 3000, Black Dragon, Chris Claremont's First Flight, X-Terminators and Fallen Angels, Jon Bogdanove, and much more), Valiant both old and new, Ultraverse, Catwoman, Ted Mckeever's MONDO from Image/Shadowline, Justice League: Doom and Dwayne Mcduffie, Morrison and Quitely's Flex Mentallo (incorporating Doom Patrol, Teen Titans, Alan Moore and Don Simpson's Pictopia, Cliff Steele, and more), Rubber Blanket, Bongo Comics and the Ralph Wiggum one-shot (Sergio Aragones, Mike Kazaleh, Carol Lay, Ted May, and more), "Hawkeye's a dick!", listener email, Ghost Rider, the latest episode of the Walking Dead on TV, Rogue Trooper and Strontium Dog, Uncanny X-Force, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 1 March 2012
Once again bracketed by listener comments from the 11 O'Clock Hotline, we plunge our collective proboscises deep into the upcoming Wild Pig event (Peter David, Rudy Nebres, Lee Weeks, and many more), the Wally Wood Artist Edition from IDW (incorporating Frank Frazetta, Mark Schultz, John Romita, Wil Eisner, Chris Ryall, and more), Terry Moore's Rachel Rising, JLA and the Obsidian Age by Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke, and Yvel Guichet, more on Winschluss' Pinocchio from Last Gasp, The Intrepids from Kurtis J. Wiebe, Scott Kowalchuk, and Image, Paul Gulacy and Master of Kung Fu #19, Punisher Max by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon, the forthcoming Frankenstein Alive, Alive! by Bernie Wrightson and Steve Niles and John Byrne's Trio from IDW, Planet of the Apes from BOOM!, Winter Soldier, Empowered by Adam Warren, and a whole mess more! |
Wed, 22 February 2012
We throw a whole mess of stuff at the fan in this old-school EOC episode, including Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca, Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft, and Attila Futaki's Severed #6 and 7 from Image, Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier by Andrew E. C. Gaska, Dan Dussault, and Archaia (incorporating Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, The Dapper Men, and more), Gates of Gotham by Snyder, Kyle Higgins, and Trevor McCarthy, Avengers Vs. X-Men, superstar writers (including Alan Moore, Jason Aaron, Gail Simone, Bendis, Roy Thomas, Ed Brubaker, Morrison, The New 52, and more), Fantastic Four, Alan Davis and Captain America, Brian Wood's DMZ, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 16 February 2012
Two hundred down and a lot more to come! This week, we cram a whole lot into our bicentennial episode, including Criminal: Last of the Innocent and Fatale by Brubaker and Phillips, Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon's Lovestruck from Image, American Barbarian by Tom Scioli from AdHouse, the Gary Friedrich Marvel fallout, The Mask from John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke from Dark Horse, John Severin, Skinner: Every Man Is My Enemy from Gingko Press, Critical Hit, and ZeroFriends, Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards' Turf from Image, Smoke Gignal #1 (Ben Marra, Michael DeForge, Bill Griffiths, Harvey Pekar, Tony Millionaire, Charles Burns, Sam Henderson, and more), Sleeper, Venom: Circle of Four, Peter Panzerfaust from Kurtis Wiebe and Tyler Jenkins, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 9 February 2012
The roster for this week includes Peanuts, the John Romita Artist's Edition from IDW, Strikeforce: Morituri by Peter B. Gillis, Brent Anderson, Whilce Portacio, and others, Astonishing Tales #12 and 13 (incorporating Ka-Zar and Man-Thing, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Neal Adams, Gil Kane, Barry Windsor-Smith, Savage Tales #1, Big John Buscema, Rich Buckler, and more), the World's Collide DC/Milestone event (Static, Blood Syndicate, Superman, Icon, Hardware, Dwayne McDuffie, and others), American Vampire volume three by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, and Sean Murphy, Rub the Blood by Secret Prison and Yeah Dude Comics (Jim Rugg, Benjamin Marra, Ian Harker, Pat Aulisio, Josh Bayer, Victor Cayro aka Bald Eagles, William Cardini, Mickey Z, Bloodwulf, Image, Extreme, Herb Trimpe, and a whole mess more), Prophet #21 from Brandon Graham, Scott Roy, and Extreme, Adventure Time, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Weird War, and original art, Crossed: Psychopath by David Lapham, Raulo Caceres, and avatar, The Boys from Dynamite!, Bongo's Spongebob Comics #7, 20th Century Boys, the Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week and the Avengers trailer, Justice League Beyond, podcast love, and a whole lot more! |
Thu, 2 February 2012
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! It's almost an all Alan Moore episode as we spend a nice stretch talking about The Courtyard and Neonomicon from Avatar and DC's recent release of cover art and creative teams for the forthcoming suite of Before Watchmen prequel miniseries! After the dust settles, we manage to scrape together enough time to cover Spider Island, Shaky Kane's Monster Truck from Image, Heavy Metal: Iron Man Vs. X-O Manowar from Marvel and Valiant, Jeff Lemire and Sweet Tooth, Avengers: Childrens' Crusade, Matt Kindt on Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E., and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 26 January 2012
Back to business as usual as we cover Spider Island, TMNT, Jim Henson's Tale of Sand by Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Ramon K. Perez from Archaia Entertainment, more on Winshluss' Pinocchio from Last Gasp, Ryan Stegman and Chris Yost's Scarlet Spider, Julian Lytle's ANTS, The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm from Flesk, Daredevil #8, Fantastic Four 1234 by Grant Morrison and Jae Lee, the art of Rafael Gallur (incorporating Mexico's Ghetto Librettos, Daniel K. Raeburn and the Historietas Perversas of The Imp #4, and much more), John Byrne's IDW Next Men run, Who Is Jake Ellis?, Scott Snyder and Papi Capullo's masterful Batman #5, The Town, recent developments in Liefeld and Kirkman's The Infinite, The Last Battle by Tito Faraci and Dan Brereton from Image, One Piece: Color Walk 2 by Iichiro Oda and Shonen Jump, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon from Avatar, Brubaker and Davis' Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog from Archie, and a whole mess more! |
Thu, 19 January 2012
Part the second of the 11 O'Closcars for 2011! (Show notes shelved to preserve the element of surprise.) |
Thu, 12 January 2012
Part one of the 11 O'Closcars for 2011! |
Thu, 5 January 2012
Far more laid back than usual, we countdown the days to the 11 O'Closcars with talk on Red State, Jason Aaron and Wolverine's Revenge, Star Trek and the Legion of Superheroes from IDW (incorporating Spaced, Sherlock, and Doctor Who), Jim Woodring's Weathercraft and Congress of the Animals from Fantagraphics, Steve Rude and NEXUS (including Rob Liefeld, Matt Wagner, John Byrne and Cold War, and much more), Frank Miller and Sin City, Walking Dead, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969, Scott Snyder and Severed, Skyrim and Skylanders, and a whole mess more! |