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11 O’Clock Comics Episode 171

Jul 28th, 2011
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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 159

May 5th, 2011
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Hokey smokes, it’s a rare instance of an honest-to-gosh themed episode, this time taking a look at racism in comics with Night of the Living Dead Annual 2011 by Mike Wolfer from Avatar, BOOM’s fantastic first issue of Planet of the Apes from Darly Gregory, Carlos Magno, and company, ’68 by Mark Kidwell, Nat Jones, Tim Vigil, and Jay Fotos from Image Comics, and Ape Entertainment’s Black Dynamite by Brian Ash, Jun Lofamia, and Michael Jai White! Plus, we have plenty of time left over to explore Strange Tales II, Dark Horse Presents #1 (featuring Paul Chadwick, Frank Miller, Neal Adams, Richard Corben, Carla Speed McNeil, Michael T. Gilbert, Howard Chaykin, and more), Finder, 28 Days Later, Pete Bagge‘s HATE Annual #9 from Fantagraphics, a pair of Image Comics’ recent color-themed books in Green Wake #1 by Kurtis Wiebe and Riley Rossmo, and Blue Estate #1 from Viktor Kalvachev, Andrew Osborne, Robert Valley, Toby Cypress, and Nathan Fox, Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog, Free Comic Book Day 2011, Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard‘s Super Dinosaur #1, Tom Scioli, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 158

Apr 29th, 2011
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If Wooode were in attendance this episode, he would no doubt deem this offering “rough”, but that didn’t stop us from trying, offering up commentary on the upcoming Kamandi Omnibus, Previews, Larry Marder, Grant Morrison, Tom Kelly, Action Comics #900, DC Blue Ribbon Digests, Starr, the Slayer from Daniel Way and Richard Corben, Giant-Size Atom #1 (Jeff Lemire, Mahmud Asrar, and others) and All-New Atom, Captain America and Bucky, The Losers, upcoming superhero films, Vertigo’s American Vampire from Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque, the Dark Tower, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Fred Van Lente, Heroes for Hire, Skullkickers, Bulletproof Coffin, Howard Chaykin, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 131

Oct 22nd, 2010
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Faulty Skype connections and fritzy mics can’t stop us from talking about stolen copies of Kramers Ergot #7 and Pigeon Press, shelf space, MAD, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Giant Robot #67 and Matt Furie, Rich Koslowski and J. D. Arnold‘s BB Wolf and the Three LPs from Top Shelf, Strange Tales 2 #1 and Rafael Grampa, Wolverine, Jon Sable: Freelance – The Ashes of Eden by Mike Grell, old-style lettering, Turok: Son of Stone #1 by Jim Shooter and Eduardo Francisco from Dark Horse, Francis Manapul and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Knight and Squire #1,David Lapham and Kyle Baker‘s Deadpool MAX, Juan Doe, Sean Murphy, Darwyn Cooke‘s The Outfit, Grant Morrison, G.I. Joe: Cobra Special #2, Vertigo Crime: A Sickness in the Family by Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso, Howard the Duck and Spider-Man: Back in Quack, Steve Gerber, Die Hard: Year One from Howard Chaykin, Stephen Thompson, and BOOM!, Klaws of the Panther and Doomwar, and a whole mess more!

11 O’Clock Comics Episode 122

Aug 20th, 2010
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Tom Katers sits in for a vacationing Wooooode, wringing his trademark blend of wry humor out of topics like Brightest Day, The Smurfs from Peyo and Papercutz, One Piece and Silver Age sensibilities, Paul Grist‘s The Weird World of Jack Staff, Queen and Country, Dexter, Tom Defalco and Archie: The Man from Riverdale, Simpsons Comics #168 from Bongo, Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft and Keys to the Kingdom from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, Showcase: Enemy Ace and Essential Man-Thing volume one, Howard Chaykin, Angelus #1-4 from Top Cow, The Luna Bros’ and The Sword, Bakuman volume one from Shonen Jump/Viz Media, The Return of Bruce Wayne, JMS, Kanigher‘s Wonder Woman, and a whole mess more!

11 O'Clock Comics Episode 76

Oct 1st, 2009
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Titanic TOM FOWLER drops by to drop some science on his Mysterius the Unfathomable miniseries co-created with Jeff Parker, Wildstorm, Brian Azzarello, Howard Chaykin, Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, DC’s Focus imprint, Steve Gerber, Hammer horror, Cameron Stewart, Gabriel Hardman and Agents of Atlas, Caper, Mad magazine and Monroe, Drawn and Quarterly, Darwyn Cooke‘s Spirit, Andy Jewett‘s SICKO, clever obfuscation of genitalia in comic books, Canadian delicacies, the didgeridoo, and much more! Bonus! A veritable mountain of Hotline messages and the winner of Adam Besenyodi’s Deus Ex Comica essay contest!

11 O'Clock Comics Episode 66

Jul 23rd, 2009
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We temporarily alleviate your boredom while standing in line at the San Diego Comic Con with talk on Wizard World Chicago, Jeff Lemire‘s The Nobody from Vertigo, Tom Fowler, What The?!, Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 and Chris Samnee, Dave Wachter and the Guns of Shadow Valley, Lynda Barry and the Comics Journal #296 from Fantagraphics, images, recognition, and creation, more stragglers from Episode #52, Christopher Priest, Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog‘s Terror on the Planet of the Apes, Blade, Captain America, Bring Out Your Dead from Raw Dog Comics, Simon Furman and the Transformers: Primal Scream and Matrix Quest, the G.I. Joe movie, and much, much more!