11 O'clock Comics Podcast

The Wooode-man takes over the joint! Join us as we wander through topics various and sundry, including the Watchmen movie, comics' good guy Tim Seeley and the quest for cheaper comics, the Definitive Queen & Country volume one, more Fanzine Flashbacks, Aaron and Moore's Ghost Rider, bad news from Rick Remender, Black Panther, David Lapham's Young Liars and Stray Bullets, All Hail Megatron, Jack of Fables, and more! Bonus! Loads of laughs from the Hotline!

Podcast Verité: Not one second of audio careens to the cutting room floor as we talk about comics fanzines in our new FANZINE FLASHBACK segment, the joy and sadness of the Internets, the Watchmen movie, listener email, "graphic novels" and "comic books", Chris' confession (Justice League International and the Death of the Stacys), Larry Marder's Beanworld: Wahoolazuma! collection from Dark Horse, Thor #600, G.I. Joe Origins #1, Locke and Key: Head Games, Marvel cartoons (by way of X3: The Last Stand), more top 70 Marvel comics of all time, Wired's look at comic book shop employees (RAPH RADIA!), and lots more! Hoka Hoka Hey! Hotline!

Cryptoid: This episode contains commentary on Andy Diggle and Jock's Losers from Vertigo, more Savage Dragon, The Darkness, recap pages, Tony Moore's Ghost Rider, Justice League of America #30, X-Factor, Scott Pilgrim, another look at the numbers (AKA Sal was right!), weekly comics, the top seventy Marvel comics of all time (*cough*), Alex Grecian and Riley Rossmo's PROOF from Image, Scarlet Traces, and more! Bonus! A veritable Hotline hootenanny!

The Marvel love-in continues as we plow through Pak and Van Lente's Incredible Hercules, JMS' Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, and Annihilation: Conquest by Abnett and Lanning, Amazing Spider-Man, and much more! Plus, we dish the dirt on our Matt Sturges House of Mystery contest and an insanely generous offer by Jeff Lemire! If that wasn't enough, we also find time to tackle Bone, JSA: Black Reign, Hulk Vs. Wolverine and Thor, DMZ, Dark Horse's Savage Sword of Conan volume one, Barbi Benton, the Wolverine trailer, Gabriel Hardman, and others! Bonus! Hotline hijinks!

New York City Comicon 2009: The Aftermath, rounded out with roundtable reverie on Bad Dog #1 from Image, Remender and Opena's Punisher, Agents of Atlas, Chris' against-type Marvel love-fest (Iron Fist, Iron Man by Ellis and Fraction), R.E.B.E.L.S. by Tony Bedard and Andy Clarke, the Swamp Thing hardcover, Greg Rucka, Faces of Evil: Cobra, and much more! Who's that calling the Hotline? Listen and find out!

MASS DISPLACEMENT! Waiting for NYCC to begin, we kill some time talking about G.I. Joe #1 from IDW and the Joe Super Bowl trailer (along with some Transformers 2 thrown in for good measure), Dead Irons, Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Nobody, advance solicitations, the color of Shilo Norman's skin, Shrugged: A Little Perspective from Aspen Comics, Savage Dragon, Ghost Rider, and much more! Bonus! Hotline HEAT!

PLANTANAS! Jason "Babymaker" Wooode returns to help us impregnate your ears with talk of Final Crisis #7, Sabertooth and Mystique, Space Ghost, Steve Rude and Nexus, Death Note, Uncanny X-Men Annual #2, Amazing Spider-Man Extra! #2, Thunderbolts #128, McDuffie and Fantastic Four, JLA #29, Jonah Hex, Peter Gabriel, Power Girl, and a whole mess more! Bonus! The Hotline is SIZZLIN'!

Brion "Sal" Salazar returns to the dugout, dragging us through discussion on Jackson Pollock, Camelot 3000, Nova: Origin of Richard Ryder, Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson's Manhunter, ROM: SPACEKNIGHT, Chris Samnee, anthologies, JLA #27, Thunderbolts #128 and the secret of the sell-out, Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler's Mysterius the Unfathomable #1 from Wildstorm, Ellis' Ruins, Faces of Evil: Prometheus, Faces of Evil: Grundy, Seven Soldiers, the best-written monthly comics, JCVD, Eduardo Risso and 100 Bullets, and much more! Yee! De Hotline es ringink!

Around Comics' Brion Salazar joins the party as we ponder the impact of Obama and Amazing Spider-Man, throw down on Brian Wood's Northlanders from Vertigo, the Green Lantern Corps and magick, Gorillas from Image, and great gnashing of teeth on Frank Miller and All-Star Batman and Robin, Grant Morrison and Final Crisis #6!

Raw like sushi! It's the 11 O'Clock Listener's Choice Awards for 2008!

We ring in the new year with a torrent of talk on Tony Moore on Ghost Rider, more Cheap Ass Trades, Morrison and Quitely's All Star Superman, Superman: Our Worlds at War (Not) Complete Collection, John Byrne and Comics Journal #74, Willingham and Sturges on JSA, more babble on the cost of comics, Top Cow, Gary Frank and JMS, Midnight Nation, Rising Stars, storing comics, X-Infernus, Northlanders, and a whole mess more! Bonus! More Hotline hilarity!

In the second half of our all-night talk-a-thon with Athena Voltaire's Steve Bryant, we punch a few dead Palominos in the name of the current state of the comic book industry, sussing out Marvel's collected edition strategy, trades and new readers, Alan Moore's Top Ten, Image's Ted McKeever Library, Michael Avon Oeming, Neo Expressionism and other pretentious ways to classify pretty pictures, Cheap Ass Trades, and much more! Plus, the most Hotline messages we've received to date!

Athena Voltaire's Snazzy Steve Bryant joins us for a marathon four-hour giant-size comic book throwdown! In the first of two parts, we tackle Final Crisis #5, selling David on Fables, channeling Kirby, Mike Allred, the language of comics, God-Size Thor, the Athena Voltaire/Black Coat crossover, the impact of $4 comics on independent publishers, X-Men: Messiah Complex, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, Steve Epting and Captain America, Frank D'armata, Fear Agent, Camelot 3000, an angry Chris Neseman, and much more! Plus, the usual Hotline hijinks!

The Woodman returns to drag us through a discourse on Amazing Spider-Man, Phonogram: The Singles Club, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness' (Red) Hulk hardcover, Mike Norton and Green Arrow/Black Canary, X-Force #9, Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch, Original Sin, X-23, Savage Dragon #139-141, Secret Invasion #8, Image Comics and the Man of Action team, the Wanted movie, Top Cow and The Darkness, Dark Horse's Dylan Dog, back issue buying online, old comic book ads, Star Wars: Early Victories omnibus,  with everything descending into an old fart "Remember when..." lament. Good times. Bonus! Happy Hotline messages! Well, one of 'em, anyway...

Around Comics' Sizzlin' Brion "Sal" Salazar drops by to help us journey to the 5th Dimension to tune the Bat-Radia for a special episode devoted to Batman R.I.P. Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph-Radia and a few fabulous forumites finger the Hotline!

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for the opportunity to talk about Dan Didio, James Robinson, Greg Rucka, and Action Comics (along with some Flamebird and Nightwing thrown in for good measure), Skottie Young and Young X-Men, monthly comics and reading for the trade, The Boys from Dynamite, Gemini Blood, the craft of comic book lettering, JSA, Mia Kirschner's I Live Here from Pantheon, the !mpact and Charlton characters at DC, Ambush Bug: Year None, more Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and much more!

This time around, we meander across the comic map with meaty musings on Dan Didio and James Robinson, Terra #2, WizKids, the Fourth World, Supergirl #35, Superman #677-681 and Action #871, Blackest Night, Batman R.I.P., JLA/Avngers, Deadpool, an Action without a Superman, the Brave and the Bold cartoon, Spectacular Spider-Man, Sgt. Rock: The Last Battalion, Kingdon Come Special: Superman, the World War Z film, Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel, Uncle Scrooge #382, Captain Britain and MI 13 #7,  Iron Fist, Godland, Gigantic, an much more! Plus, the Hotline is exploding with an unprecedented SIX messages from the fantastic 11 O'Clock forumites! Yee!

We're stranded on Bizarro Shit Planet with nothing more to do than talk about Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Bruce Jones, Blue Beetle (Say it ain't so, Dan!), Brit, Antarctic Press' Gold Digger, S. Clay Wilson, Scott Saavedra, McDuffie and Benes' Justice League of America, Greg Rucka, Azzarello and Bermejo's landmark Joker graphic novel, Deadpool, Ex Machina, Transformers: Stormbringer, more Avatar Press love, Freak Angels, JSA Superman Special, Zero Killer, HeroClix, and much more! Bonus! Darrel dings da Hotline!

Things get a bit serious as we ponder the price of monthly periodicals, hardcovers, digital comics, Terra #1, Agents of Atlas, G.I. Joe #0 from IDW, advertising in comics, Smallville, paper quality, Terry Moore's Runaways and Echo, Freak Angels, Alan Davis' Thor: Proof of History, Warren Ellis and Avatar, the effect of the election on comics, Final Crisis: Resist, Submit, and Rage of the Red Lanterns, Watching the Watchmen, the Adventure Comics Special featuring the Guardian, X-Men/Spider-Man #1, Jeff Lemire, Ghost Talker's Daydream volume two and coffee enemas (Okay, maybe not so serious, after all...), and a whole mess more! Plus, another hit on the Hotline!

The Contingent's Zack Kruse and Thomas Stephen Katers pitch in to help us talk about the Man-Thing, Cassie Hack, Hellboy, Savage, Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko, Joe Orlando, Steve Niles, Eerie, Creepy, Sergio Aragones, Frank Frazetta, Ben Templesmith, Tony Moore, Mike Mignola, Vampirella, Myron Fass' Eerie Publications, Skywald, EC Comics, House of Mystery, Jose Gonzalez, Seven Soldiers Frankenstein, Werewolf by Night, 30 Days of Night, the Heap, XXXZombies, Eric Powell and the Goon, Tom Sutton, Robert Kirkman and Walking Dead, Savage, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, and much, much more in this, our first Halloween horror comics special! Plus, the usual assortment of Hotline hijinks!