11 O'Clock Comics Podcast
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, Marvel’s The Avengers, Creepy #8 from Dark Horse, TwoMorrow’s Back Issue #56, Finding Gossamer, Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, and a whole mess more!
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!
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 Zak Sally and La Mano 21, Mark Waid’s The Unknown, Eric Powell’s Goon (by way of Alan Moore and Pictopia, Mike Norton, Skottie 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!
TV’s Mario Muscar climbs into the Neseman chair this week, adding ample amounts of assessment on Pierre-Henry Gomont’s Catalyse from Manolosanctis, Bil 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!
Pierre-Henry Gomont’s Catalyse
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 Alamy! 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!
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11 O’Clock Comics Episode 207
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 Neary, 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!
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!
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!
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: Children’s 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!
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 and head out for a long, rambling ride through Amazing Spider-Man #300, Miller and Mazzuchelli’s Daredevil: 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!