11 O'clock Comics Podcast

The Woodman returns just in time to talk about Mike Mayhew and Savage, Dead Ahead #1 and the incomparable Alex Nino, Cyblade #1 from Top Cow, Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and the Punisher, Judd Winick and Bruce Jones, Chuck Austin, Amazing Spider-Man #574, Final Crisis #4 (sorta), Final Crisis: Submit, Ed McGuinness, Gene Colon and the Tomb of Dracula omnibus, Dwayne McDuffie and JLA, Gigantic, Jeffrey Brown's Sulk Volume 2: Deadly Awesome, and much more! Plus, Darrel gets nasty on the Hotline and more Madness than you deserve!

It's a Wood-less Comics Wednesday as we work our way through the Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen one-shot (Damn you, James Robinson!), Geoff Johns' Brainiac arc from Action Comics #866-870, DC Universe Decisions, Conan the Cimmerian, Robin: Year One and Two-Face: Year One, Guardians of the Galaxy, Legion of Three Worlds, Brand New Day and Amazing Spider-Girl, Ghost Rider #28 and Marvel legacy characters, Final Crisis: Revelations #3, Comics Buyer's Guide, more Joe Kubert love, and much more! Plus, another song from the Hotline! RIP Walter Johnson. Sob.

Man alive, we made it to twenty-five! Entry the first in our brand-spankin' new 11 O'Clock hand-crafted (with love) Yuengling Lager notebook: this episode we cover the Iron Man movie, America's Best Comics Primer, Marvel Zombies 3 #1, X-Men: Manifest Destiny, Batman #680, Final Crisis skip month, Marvel Noir, Fred Van Lente, Action Comics #870, Walking Dead #53, The Stand #2, Pasqual Ferry, SNL, Eric Canete and End League, Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1, more World War Z, The Contingent #1 from Mind Storm Comics, Hellboy, Transformers Animated #3, DC Universe Decisions #2, G. I. Joe, Love & Rockets #1, and much more! Giant-Size extras include a serenade from a moving vehicle and Carlos Cordova spreads the Gospel of Veitch!

The love of all things Krypton abounds as we talk about Supergirl #34 and the Superman universe, Lego Batman, the 11 O'Clock Traffic Report, Ronin, Geoff Johns, Madame Xanadu, House of Mystery, Alex Nino and Dead Ahead #1 from Image, Gail Simone, Captain Britain and MI13, Locke & Key from IDW, Spooks: Omega Team, Jon Bogdanove, Devil's Due, Bronze Age fantasy characters, Dan Slott on Mighty Avengers, X-Force, the Squadron Supreme saga, VinceB's stupidity, Godwheel, Wonder Woman and Aaron Lopresti, Gary Frank, and much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia and the fabulous Mario calls the Hotline!

No court of law or any administrative agency can touch us as we talk about 24-Hour Comics Day, Trinity, All-Star Superman #12, JSA: Kingdom Come, Morrison's JLA, Superman Red & Superman Blue, pulping comics, John Romita Jr., DC Universe: Decisions #1, Deadpool #1 and #2, Marvel's Embrace Change ads, Guardians of the Galaxy, Joe Kubert's Tor, Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, Captain America, Rick Remender, Twitter, 11 O'Clock watersports, the Minx imprint, and much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia and a pair of calls to the Hotline!

Technical difficulties and the mid-episode loss of a host are not enough to keep us from talking about John Byrne's Superman, the Marvel Must-Have format, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Frank Miller, the Buffy Omnibus, Stephen King and the Stand, Local, Marvel cartoons and Jetix, Cable, New Exiles, Vertigo's Air, George Perez, Marvel Handbooks and why DC hasn't updated their Who's Who, Brave and the Bold #17, Secret Six, Amanda Conner and Terra, Ronin, Firestar, Action Comics and All Star Superman, and much more! Plus, Joe Quesada and Tom Morris call the Hotline! Buy Witchblade!

The Woodman is two for two as we chew the fat on Trinity, X-Men Legacy, cable, Dark Reign and Dark Avengers, Savage Dragon, Battle Hymn, Hack/Slash and Tim Seeley, Brad Meltzer and DC Universe Last Will and Testament, Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo from Image Comics, JSA, Skaar Son of Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man: One More Day, Brand New Day, and New Ways to Die, The Last Musketeer by Jason, Tony Moore & Jerome Opena on Fear Agent, and so much more! Bonus! Incoming transmission from the Raph Radia!

Jason Wood returns to lead the charge in discussing Gotham Central, Fell, Blazing Combat, the horrors of ComicBase, Ben Templesmith, The Twelve, the Windy City Comicon, Essex County Volume 2, Wicket and Imp, The Darkness from Top Cow, Skottie Young's Wizard of Oz, Gil Kane, Cable, Francesco!, Ande Parks and El Diablo, Amazing Spider-Man and New Way to Die, Secret Six, speculating, Phil Hester, and much more! Plus, more Hotline shenanigans!

Sitting in for a vacationing Jason Wood, Derek (Comic Book Noise) Coward and Chris (Collected Comics Library) Marshall help us talk about Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D, Humberto Ramos, Lucha Libre, collecting Final Crisis, DC/Wildstorm: Dream War, Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider, Marvel's X-books, Punisher Max, Library Binding, the Monster Times, First Flight of the Phantom Eagle, Chuck Austin's War Machine, the Luna Brothers' Sword and Girls, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Comic Book Comics from Evil Twin Comics, Glamourpuss, Give Me Liberty, more Final Crisis, Tim Sale, and a whole mess more. Plus! Listener email and a trio of calls to the 11 O'C Hotline!

Our usual reliance on the Anti Structure Equation evaporates (not really) as we enter an extended examination of Robert Kirkman's recent revelations on his plan to save the comics industry. In addition to the main course, we serve up some succulent side dishes on Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, creative ownership and work-made-for-hire, the direct market and Diamond Distribution, kids and comics, digital distribution, the bookstore market, and much, much more!

Topics discussed: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Final Crisis: Revelations #1, rediscovering Spawn, Final Crisis #3, Secret Invasion #5, Alex Robinson's Too Cool to be Forgotten, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Criminal #4, Two-Face Year One #1, Ghost Talker's Daydream Volume 1 from Dark Horse Comics, X-Men Origins: Jean Grey #1 and Origins: Wolverine, re-evaluating Image Comics, Danger Girl, and much more!

Jason Wood returns as we field questions from our forum members in our first live and interactive-like episode! Dropped names include: Jack Kirby, inkers, Watchmen, Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1, Justice League New Frontier, Uncle Scrooge #377, Darwin Cooke, Frank Robbins, Jim Aparo, Jesus, Jim Starlin, Kamandi, Amazing Spider-Man, the Rook, Dwayne McDuffie, Mark Texeria, Justice League of America, Jeffrey Brown, the Dark Horse Star Wars titles, and much, much more in this special Giant-Size episode!

Jefferson Workman and Thomas Stephen Katers (pitching in for an AWOL Jason Wood) join us as mindlessly meander through X-Files: I Want to Believe, Joker's Asylum Scarecrow and Two-Face, Kirby: King of Comics and Krazy Kirby Koncepts, Dark Horse's Savage Sword of Conan Volume 2, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #3, Barry Windsor-Smith, Whatever happened to ASP?, the 11 O'Clock Novel Challenge, Gil Kane's My Name is Savage, Injury #1 and #2 from Buenaventura Press, exclusive contracts, listener email (Aquaman Vs. Nightwing and Robin), Tom Derenick and Bill Sienkiewicz on Reign in Hell, and much more! Plus, more calls to the Hotline (and one of them is from a FOREIGNER!)! Google Mighty Muggs!

Topics covered in our 14th outing (Actually our 13th, but who's counting?): Batman: The Dark Knight, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Umbrella Academy 2, CBLDF Presents: Liberty Comics #1, Madman Atomic Comics, the long-awaited American Flagg Omnibus, Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver on Flash: Rebirth, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, X-Files #0, Superman Prime, Final Crisis: Resist, more Larry Stroman and X-Factor, Booster Gold and Rick Remender, pocket universe books, the 11 O'C Agents of Atlas wager, Garth Ennis and the Punisher War Zone weekly, something about War Machine, DC Super Friends, and much more! Plus, a quartet of calls to the Hotline! Google Eyezon!

And the downward spiral begins... This episode, we poot forth a lot of hoohah about Mike Mignola and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The Comics Journal #290 and Bob Powell, Harvey Comics, Butch Guice and Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, Wildstorm's Storming Paradise, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, the Starman Omnibus, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, DC War comics and the great Sam Glanzman, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, Top Cow: Pilot Season, John from Cincinatti, Cube Lube, outrageous DVD pricing, Steve Niles' Dead She Said and City of Others, Larry Stroman and X-Factor #33, the Legion of Superheroes in the 31st Century and Shawn McManus, more Doug Mahnke, and a whole mess more! Plus, more heat from the Hotline! Google PopSoda!