ABC Podcast, Episode #79 plus visual aids

This Superbowl Sunday episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Raisins! For some reason? Or how about the New Orleans Saints. That's probably more topical. Wolverine Weapon X is sweet, and Sweet Tooth is bitter, and both are awesome; Wonder Woman still isn't selling the Star Sapphire thing, and Aaron pans Nova, because the weekend's killer snowstorm apparently made it to hell. A new season of "Lost" premieres, and nachos.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Blackest Night: The Question #37, cover Cully Hamner:


Evie's pick, from Invincible Iron Man #23, cover by Salvador Larocca and Rian Hughes:


Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Wolverine Weapon X #10, by Jason Aaron and C.P. Smith:


Aaron's pick, from The Boys #39, by Garth Ennis, John McCrea and Keith Burns:

ABC Podcast, Episode #78 plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by efforts to add more cricket references to our podcast, because that's good show business. Unknowns in the form of Soldiers and Devils Made Flesh win big, as do X-Factor and Guardians of the Galaxy. Weird scheduling issues get a take down, and Wonder Woman's new villains look suspciously like tiny versions of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Astro City: The Dark Age, Book Four #1, cover by Alex Ross:


Aaron's pick, from Wonder Woman #40, cover by Aaron Lopresti:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Guardians of the Galaxy #22, by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Brad Walker:


Evie's pick, from Wonder Woman #40, by Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti:


(Also, this won't mesmerize you the way Lidsville did, or thrill you the way Italian Spiderman did, but here's your YouTube joke explanation of the week.)

ABC Podcast Episode #77, plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by a significant size clarification (it matters!) and a poor excuse for one of our hosts' bad behavior. Evie and Aaron give respect to all the amazing ladies this week (Power Girl, Anna Mercury, Black Widow, Amanda Conner, perhaps some horses?) and could Ronan/Crystal be the best relationship in comics? J'accuse! Hercules keeps going strong, and Mark Waid keeps writing great sequels. Also, we don't talk about this in the show, but the Saints just won, so now Aaron won't have to choose which of two of the most annoying people on the planet to root for in the Super Bowl.

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Co-Cover of the Week

Evie and Aaron's pick, from Batman, Streets of Gotham #8, cover by Dustin Nguyen: (click to biggify!)



Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Realm of Kings Inhumans #3, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, art by Wellington Alves



Evie's pick, from Power Girl #8, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, art by Amanda Conner

ABC Podcast Episode #76, plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by another horse giving different bridge advice, so get out your notepad. Dr. Strange and various X-Men impress, as do their adorable Canadian boyfriends, and the reformed Rhino warms our hearts. Mike Carey's The Unwritten continues to kill it, and the ending of Christos Gage's Absolution sparks a lukewarm debate. We also get to the bottom of the misidentified Amazing Spider-Man cover artist controversy, which we admit was our mistake, but then they mess up the credits this week so WHO(M) DO YOU TRUST?

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from S.W.O.R.D. #3, cover by John Cassaday and Laura Martin:


Aaron's pick, from Amazing Spider-Man #617, cover by, uh, um, Max Fiumara?

Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Invincible Iron Man #22, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca:


Evie's pick, also from Invincible Iron Man #22:

I am a thing not to hate in 2010!

Jeremy Whitley of Stylistic Nonsense wrote a guest post at Kirk Warren's Weekly Crisis called "6 Things Not to Hate This Year," in which he points out a few things we should not be bitching about in comics. Go figure! Number four is "the rise of the fangirl," which name checks several vocal comics-loving females including myself (and I agree with a commenter that Laura Hudson of Comics Alliance should very much be on that list). But far beyond the vanity factor, it's a very thoughtful piece about progress and appreciation and character development and still having plenty of things to hate.

ABC Podcast Episode #75, plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by TECHMOLOGY, the kind that makes you sound like a hamster or a methfreak or a misogynist. In this first episode of twentyten, we cheer Peter David's lovable X-Men-mocking X-Factor: Nation X one-shot, fear Suicide Squad's Amanda Waller and Sweet Tooth's Mr. Jefferts, and jeer the idea that Wonder Woman would make a more logical Star Sapphire than Green Arrow. We also get a visit from a favorite friend of the show, and wax cautiously optimistic about Siege and the end (?) of the Osborn Era.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from The Boys #38, cover by Darick Robertson:


Evie's pick, from Marvel Boy: The Uranian #1, cover by Marko Djurdjevic:


Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from X-Factor: Nation X #1, by Peter David and Valentine DeLandro:


Aaron's pick, from The Mighty #12, by Peter Tomasi and Chris Samnee:

Hurry up and feed your face

So if you listened to the Year-End Awards Show and are curious as to why we sounded like runners or cokeheads or 12 year-old girls, it's because for some reason the silence deleter was extra sensitive and erased every pause either of us took for breath or contemplation. So it sounds like we're tumbling over each other and tryingtogetthroughtheshowasfastaspossiblesowefinishbeforesantacomes or something. The truth is that this is overall probably a good thing, as the show is already a good two hours, and would have been even longer without the deletions--but from the comments I've gotten from a few people, it was a bit exhausting to listen to. So, many apologies, and I hope it was still enjoyable. Happy New Year, and congrats to our winners!