11 O’Clock Comics

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Lawd have mercy! David A. Price is far more chatty than usual this time around, drivin’ the 11 O’Clock bus hard and fast through subjects like Jim Rugg, the Challengers/Chicago Comics Strange Tales event (featuring Michael Kupperman, Becky Cloonan, Jeffrey Brown, and Paul Hornschemeier), Web of Spider-Man #6 and the awesomeness that is Xurxo G. “Laseraw” Penalta, Lucas Testro and the Street Angel short film, Jack of Fables and the Great Fables Crossover, Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, Stumptown, The Brave and the Bold: Milestone, buying titles out of habit, Black Dynamite, more Crisis on Two Earths, Emerald City and tips for first-time conventioneers, Dark Horse’s Scatterbrain anthology, Adam Warren’s Empowered, and much more good stuff!

Tags: Adam Warren, Becky Cloonan, Brave and the Bold: Milestone, Empowered, Great Fables Crossover, Jim Rugg, Lucas Testro, Scatterbrain, Strange Tales, Web of Spider-Man, Xurxo G. Penalta

This episode: Chris reads Pluto! Plus, we find time to talk about Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Sweet Tooth, Afrodisiac and Street Angel, Matt Fraction and Invincible Iron Man #24, The 198, Marvel Masterworks: X-Men Volume Six, the Sam Kieth Sketchbook Vol. 1 from IDW, Highbrow Vs. Lowbrow art, Winter World, dystopian films, more Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song, Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score by Darwyn Cooke, First Wave, Blackest Night #7 and Alex Sinclair, Loeb and Cho’s Ultimates and the Ultimate universe, Dynamite’s Green Hornet and the Kato miniseries, Deadpool, and a whole mess more!

Tags: Catwoman: Selina's Big Score, Darwyn Cooke, Deadpool, First Wave, Green Hornet, Invincible Iron Man, Kevin Smith, Pluto, Sam Kieth's Sketchbook, Sweet Tooth, Ultimates, Winter World

I AM THE DRAGON PUNCHER! We are more scattershot than usual in our discussion on Eaglesham and Hickman’s Fantastic Four #576, Nimrod, X-Factor, Hank Pym (the Scientist Supreme, just ask him) Cable, Iron Fist, Larry Marder’s Beanworld, James Kochalka’s Monkey Vs. Robot from Top Shelf, ultra-detailed versus economical graphic styles and their impact on the perception of the viewer, Scud the Disposable Assassin and Julian Lytle’s Antz, Regina piles, School: A Ghost Story by Brian Defferding, The Storm in the Barn, James Stokoe’s Orc Stain #1 for Image, Mark Waid’s Irredeemable and Incorruptible, Siege sales and event books, and much more!

Tags: Batman/Doc Savage, Beanworld, Cable, Fantastic Four, Hank Pym, James Kochalka, Mark Waid, Orc Stain, Scud the Disposable Assassin, Shool: A Ghost Story, The Storm in the Barn

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By Odin’s one good eye, we are all over the place this episode, twisting and turning through tangents on Cadence Comic Art, Pluto from Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki, and Macoto Tezka (inspired by the Astro Boy work of the great god Osamu Tezuka) from Viz, 100 Bullets, when classics fail to click (by way of Box Office Poison, Local, Blankets, Starman, Walking Dead, Y the Last Man, Strangers in Paradise, and others), McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #33, Human Target, Doctor Who, Night Business and Gangsta Rap Posse from American Traditional Comics, Kick-Ass, John Romita Jr, LOST, curling (?), and much, much more!

Tags: 100 Bullets, Box Office Poison, Cadence Comic Art, Human Target, Kick-Ass, McSweeny's Quarterly Concern, Pluto, Starman, Strangers in Paradise

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iFanboy’s Ron Richards joins the fray, coaxing us through conversation on X-Men and X-Factor Forever, Chris Claremont, Alan Moore and his Neonomicon Hornbook with Jacen Burrows, Nazi Knife Volume Six and PictureBox, Brubaker’s Secret Avengers, Jonathan Hickman, Witzend #3 and Wally Wood, Steve Ditko’s Mr. A, IDW’s Torpedo by Jordi Bernet, Twitter, The Definitive Queen and Country Volume 1, Dash Shaw’s The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD from Fantagraphics, Loeb and Adams’ Ultimate X and the Ultimate universe, Pixie Strikes Back, Top Cow’s Pilot Season series and Robert Kirkman, Kenneth Rocafort, and much more!

Tags: Alan Moore, Art Adams, Chris Claremont, Jonathan Hickman, Pilot Season, Steve Ditko, Torpedo, Ultimate X, Wally Wood, Witzend

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Come with us to the mean streets of Wilkesborough as we sing some sweet, baadasssss songs about Steve Ditko, Watchmen 2 and the possibilities of new stories set in Moore and Gibbons‘ universe, Parade with Fireworks from Shadowline, Jim Valentino, Siege #2 and the Sentry, Avengers (the forthcoming Avengers #1 by Bendis and John Romita JR, Dan Slott, and more), the Planet Hulk DVD and Fox’s Human Target, Back Issue magazine, Ed Hannigan: Covered, Gene Colan, and Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca’s phenomenal AFRODISIAC from Adhouse Books!

Tags: Afrodisiac, Avengers, Brian Michael Bendis, Human Target, Jim Rugg, Jim Valentino, Parade with Fireworks, Planet Hulk, Seige, Steve Ditko, Watchmen

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As the dust settles on the 11 O’Closcars, we return to our usual streamlined, no-frills comics reportage (That’s a joke, son.), throwing down hot ‘n’ heavy on Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth #7, listener email, The Escapist(s), Neil Gaiman, Joe the Barbarian #1 by Grant Morrison and the disgustingly talented Sean Murphy, Siege #1 and Siege: Embedded #1, Captain America #602, Avengers Vs. Agents of Atlas #1, the mysteries of the Spider-Man 2010 promo image, Walking Dead (no spoilers), Fables, Ex Machina, LOST, Jerks in Space by John_K, Mera from Jon O., JMS‘ The Brave and the Bold, Superman: Secret Origin, and much, much more!

Tags: Agents of Atlas, Captain America, Deadpool, Grant Morrison, Joe the Barbarian, Sean Murphy, Spider-Man, Superman, The Brave and the Bold, Walking Dead

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Jason leads the charge in this giant-size, 3.5 hour monster episode tallying the winners of the 11 O’Closcars, the comic industry’s best of 2009 according to the members of the 11 O’Clock Comics forum and the four fools behind the microphones.

Tags: 11 O'Closcars

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Second verse, same as the first: we ramble, rumble, tickle, and tumble over topics such as Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, Jason and Chris’ Collectible Capers (by way of Eaglemoss and HeroClix), more holiday gifts, Emperor Doom and other Marvel Graphic Novels, Comics Journal #300, Batman Confidential #40 by Sam Kieth, reading versus looking, Jacques Tardi’s West Coast Blues from Fantagraphics, Ellis and Jimenez’s Astonishing X-Men, a stinkeroo called Siege #1, S.W.O.R.D., and a whole mess more!

Tags: Astonishing X-Men, Comics Journal, Eaglemoss, Emperor Doom, HeroClix, Jacques Tardi, Sam Kieth, West Coast Blues

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Happy holidays! Color artist supreme, Val Staples, drops down the 11 O’Clock chimney to talk to us about X-Men: First Class and Jeff Parker, Criminal and Incognito, X-Men: Deadly Genesis, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Bruce Timm, Mark Texeira, The Four Horsemen, Tim Seeley, Mike Norton, CrossGen, Greg Land, Mike Wieringo, Robert Kirkman, Transformers, and COLOR, of course! BONUS! Xmas presents REVEALED!

Tags: Criminal, Ed Brubaker, He-Man, Incognito, Jeff Parker, Transformers, Val Staples, X-Men