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11 O’Clock Comics Episode 175

We’re all over the place, talking up The Comics Buyer’s Guide #1682 ($8000 for Eerie #32?!?, fanzines old and new, The Infinite, Zenescope, and more), the closing of Atomic Comics, Rob Liefeld’s tweets, sales numbers for the first month of DC’s New 52 (with StormwatchRon Marz, Wildstorm, Batman, and more), X-Men: Prelude to Schism and Schism proper (by AaronAcunaPachecoJenkinsRemender and Uncanny X-Force, inventive ways to beat a dead mutant horse, and more), Kagan McLeod’s Infinite Kung Fu from Top Shelf, Dark Horse Presents #3, Chris Samnee and Captain America and BuckyJoe Hill’s The Cape, Marvel’s Legion of Monsters, plus, Brent Schoonover sits in with us at the tail end to talk about Mr. Murder Is Dead from Archaia! Where else are you going to have this much fun?

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 174

What’s this? Can it be? A well-planned and -executed, level-headed, hyperbole-free episode of everyone’s favorite comic book podcast (all three of you)? You be the judge as we talk about John Romita JR and Al WilliamsonThe Heap #1 from Moonstone (incorporating Diamond’s ridiculous minimum order policy, digital distribution, and more), + and Vince Stone’s Captain Confederacy (spinning off into racism in comics, the Captain America movie, revisionist history, Fear AgentPower Man, and more), Wizard World Chicago, Tom Scioli and Jonathan Maberry’s Captain America: Hail Hydra #2, Incredible Hulks: Heart of the Monster (+, Paul PelletierDanny MikiMorry Hollowell, Fin Fang Foom, Bi-Beast, Wendigo, and more), Supergods,+‘s Infinite Kung-Fu from Top Shelf, League: 1969, Mike Carey’s X-Men: LegacyAstonishing X-Men, the NuDCU, Rob Liefeld, the Image Comics founders, Doc Stearn: Mr. Monster, +‘s sizzling Chester 5000 from Top Shelf, Victor Quinaz and Brent Schoonover’s Mr. Murder is Dead from Archaia, Marvel’s Mystery Men,The Stuff of Legend volume three, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 173

On and on ’til the break of dawn… This time around, we talk about Frank Frazetta, Wizard World Chicago, Eduardo Risso and Challengers Comics, Greg CapulloRobert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld on The Infinite #1 from Image, Rachel Rising #1 from Terry Moore and Abstract Studio, Star Wars: Jedi – The Dark Side and +, licensed comics, FORMING by Jesse Moynihan from Nobrow Press and AdHouse Books, +, more on the Captain America film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Daredevil #1 and +, Jim Balent and Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose from Broadsword, Detective ComicsSevered by Scott Snyder, ONI Press and Spontaneous, Dark Horse’s Orchid, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 172

Chasing the white rabbit leads us to encounters with Jack Davis, Wally Wood, the NuDCU 52, Cracked Magazine, Thunderbolts (Gage, Blanco, Diggle, Parker, Walker, Shalvey, and more), Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill‘s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1969, Jesse Moynihan‘s FORMING from Nobrow Press and AdHouse Books, Chester 5000, Roger Langridge‘s Snarked! from Kaboom!, Chris Samnee and Captain America and Bucky, X-Men: Schism, Hack/Slash and Fletcher Hanks, Tim Seeley and Witchblade, Shaky Kane, Avengelyne from Rob Liefeld, Mark Poulton, and Owen Gieni from Image, Fanzine Flashback: Four Color Magazine, Gingerbread Girl from Top Shelf, Robert Kirkman and Cliff Rathburn‘s Reaper, John Constantine, Jeff Lemire‘s Jonah Hex, Moriarity: The Dark Chamber from Image, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 171

Neseman’s even more fired up than usual as we talk about Sandman Mystery Theatre, Jeff Lemire and Sweet Tooth, Cable: Reborn, Evil Deadpool, IDW’s Artist Editions, upcoming EC Comics reprints from Fantagraphics, SDCC 2011, the Captain America movie, Howard Chaykin‘s Black Kiss and the forthcoming Image Comics sequel/prequel, ZAP Comix, Creepy #6 from Dark Horse (Joe R. Lansdale, Nathan Fox, Jason Shawn Alexander, Budd Lewis, Archie Goodwin, Neal Adams, and more!), the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1969, Fables, B.P.R.D., the Eisner Awards (COMICS AND VEGETABLES), Screamland #1 from Image, Halcyon, IDW’s Locke and Key: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, Frank Darabont and Walking Dead, George Herriman and the greatness of Krazy Kat, B-One Comics, Cinderella: Fables are Forever, Crossed: Psychopath, Lady Death, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 170

The chickens come home to roost as we ramble through Low Concept: The 11 O’Clock Comics Forum Anthology, Sonic the Hedgehog, Jeffrey Brown, Stuart Immonen, Rafael Grampa and DC’s upcoming Unexpected anthology, Chester 5000 by Jess Fink and Top Shelf, Massimo Mattioli‘s Squeak the Mouse and Superwest Comics #1 from Catlan Communications, Johnny Ryan, Prison Pit, and overpriced vinyl collectibles, Daredevil #1 by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, and Marcos Martin, X-Men: Schism #1, Hickman and Pacheco‘s Ultimate Thor, Red Wing #1 by Hickman and Image Comics, Aspen’s Hit List Agenda, trimming the comics fat, the huge honkin’ NuDCU hardcover, Flashpoint: Batman: Knight of Vengeance #2, Phil Hester and Brook Turner‘s Golly from Image, Lady Mechanika from Joe Benitez and Aspen, Marineman, the shuttering of the Borders chain, DC Retroactive, more on Fear Itself and Flashpoint, Legion, The Griff by Christopher Moore, Ian Corson, and Jennyson Rosero from William Morrow/Harper Collins, Alphas, Infinite Kung-Fu from Kagen McLeod and Top Shelf, and much, much more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 169

While Mom and Dad are away on vacation the kids plug in the mics and talk some serious, and not so serious comics. Join Chris and David as they open up the Pandora’s Box of forum questions and listener voice mail. Listen in for thoughts and opinions on convention memories, Michael Turner, Blade Runner, Revenge of the Jedi, 28 Days Later, Buffy Season 8, Michael Golden, more Legion & Legion Lost, Warehouse 13, Inception, Falling Skies, Kevin Mellon, Dennis Hopeless, the cool-o-meter of Christopher Priest‘s Black Panther, Ramon Perez, Emma Rios, Fear Itself & Flashpoint (SPOILERS at 52:50), digital comics and a whole mess more.

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 168

Simultaneously premature and under the gun as pending vacation fun forces us into the studio a day early to schlepp through soliloquies on Pokemon, Low Concept: The 11 O’Clock Comics Forum Anthology, Abnett and Lanning‘s Legion Lost (incorporating Coipel, Alixe, Byrne, Claremont, Cockrum, Waid, Kitson, Giffen, Threeboot, and more), Terry Moore‘s Echo, Malignant Man from BOOM!, Sonic the Hedgehog from Archie, Scalped #50 (Igor Kordey, Tim Truman, Jill Thompson, Steve Dillon, Bernet, and more), Vampirella from Dynamite, Image and Skybound’s Witch Doctor, Aspen’s Executive Assistant Iris, Ron Marz and Phil Hester at Top Cow (plus Artifacts, Silvestri, Portacio, Babewatch, and a lot of Rob Liefeld thrown in for good measure), Young Avengers: Children’s Crusade and Jim Cheung, Steve Englehart and Gerry Conway (via Back Issue #45 from TwoMorrows), Dick Dillin and Justice League, Neal Adams, Geoff Darrow, James Stokoe, Dark Horse Presents #2, Holmes, Inc., Captain Marvel and the Monster Society of Evil, and much more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 167

Wonderous wordsmith, Will Pfeifer, helps us ride out massive waves of audio difficulties by wrangling topics such as the pending protest of the NuDCU, Amazon’s Attack, Gotham City and Manhattan (by way of Jonah Hex), Rob Liefeld, the Green Lantern movie, Remender and Moore‘s Venom #4, The Aviary by Jamie Tanner and AdHouse Books, Taschen’s 75 Years of DC Comics, Transformers 3, the Late List, Chris Ware, Infinite Horizon, Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams, the Comic Reader and Comics Journal, Citizen Rex by Gilbert and Mario Hernandez, Harlan Ellison, remembering Gene Colan, The Tattered Man by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Norberto Fernandez from Image, The Wormworld Saga, Spongebob Comics #3 and Ramona Fradon, Terry Moore‘s Echo, Marvel’s Mystery Men, Bakuman, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 166

Much doom and gloom and all-around depressing stuff the first hour as we wade hip-deep into The Walking Dead volume 14 from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (NOTE: If you want to skip ahead, you’ll be fine if you jump to the 39 minute mark!), after which we elevate with elaboration on Falling Skies, Will Pfeifer and Jill Thompson‘s excellent Finals under the Vertigo Resurrected banner, Baltimore: The Plague Ships by Mignola and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, the I…Vampire! serial by J. M. DeMatteis and Tom Sutton from the pages of House of Mystery, Wolverine and Jubilee, Rogue’s X-marks, Deathmate, Joe Casey‘s Butcher Baker #3 and Marijuanaman from Image and Infantry under the DDP Aftermath imprint, 28 Days Later, Jeff Lemire‘s Sweet Tooth volume three, Avengers Academy Giant-Size, Aspen’s Executive Assistant Iris Volume 1 from David Whol and Eduardo Francisco, Hickman‘s Red Wing, Scarlet, Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors by Mark Andrew Smith and Image, and a whole mess more!