ABC Podcast, Episode #73 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by the world's only horse-engineered audio recording of our cat eating. I know, right, happy holidays! Shocking turns in Mark Waid's The Unknown: the Devil Made Flesh and Brian K. Vaughan's Ex Machina score big, as does Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber's simulated waterboarding in Underground. Kyle Rainer wins the All-Time Super Contest for Cheesiest Ways to Rejoin the Living, and Power Girl gets hit on by the supreme leader of Earth-Diggler. Also, do not miss us and many other special guests on the War Rocket Ajax Christmas Special, available Monday Dec. 21 at noon EST! We sing, like for real.

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Before we get to the comics visuals, here's that terrifying Lidsville theme that Aaron insisted I post. Seriously, you will question your own humanity after watching this:




Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Spider-Man #615, cover by Javier Pulido:


Evie's pick, from Dark Avengers #12, cover by Mike Deodato and Rain Beredo:


Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Fables #91, by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham:


Aaron's pick, from Ex Machina #47 by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, but it gives too much away if you're reading it in trade so I'll just put up these adorable penguins and bunnies from Tiny Titans:

ABCP 65 Cont'd

Since Evie's not feeling so well and has a full day of crap ahead of her, I figured I'd help out and post the pretty pictures, since I know how to do that. If you make clickings, they get bigged.

Here's Evie's cover of the week, Ex Machina 46, written by Brian K Vaughan - cover by Tony Harris with spectacular colors by JD Mettler.



And here's my cover, the variant for Skrull Kill Krew #5 written by my friend Adam Felber, who needs to send me an e-mail next time he's back in New York. Cover by "Rocafort, Regler, and IF's Prianto." (who can also fight for your rights if you've been injured on the job or in an auto accident.)



Here's Evie's panel of the week, from Beasts of Burden #2 written by Evan Dorkin, art by Jill Thompson. And would it KILL you two to put in more cats?



Super bonus - here's more cats.



And my panel of the week, from The Stuff of Legend #2 (which you can get here if your shop didn't pick it up) written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith, art by Charles Paul Wilson III.



And, as promised, here's Italian Spiderman.



Sheep pictures will follow. (get it? that's what sheep do.)

ABC Podcast, Episode #57 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by some horse products, which are hilarious just for existing. Horses. Heh. We're back after a car-calamity-induced absence with mad praise for Ex Machina, mad love for Ponyo, and mad madatness for yet another sloppy Batgirl relaunch. Love is in the air for Deadpool and the Tiny Titans, and that was some damn good lasagna, damn.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #4, cover by Karl Kerschl, because I didn't realize this came out last week:


Aaron's pick, from Tiny Titans #19, by Balthazar & Franco:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's picks, from Power Girl #4, by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Grey and Amanda Connor:


And from Deadpool: Suicide Kings #5, by Mike Benson, Adam Glass and Carlo Barberi:


Evie's pick, from Tiny Titans #19, by Balthazar & Franco:

ABC Podcast, Episode #50 ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL and visual aids

This special one-year-anniversary 50th episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Awesomed By Comics' Greatest Hits. Order in the next 15 minutes and receive a full year of Awesomed By Comics episodes, normally free, for only $59.95. We make yet another plea for everyone to buy 18 issues each of Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler's Mysterius the Unknown, and not just because Aaron is immortalized as a muddy dirty hippie in this week's final issue. Garth Ennis takes it next level with Herogasm #2, and it's starting to sink in that Brian K. Vaughan's Ex Machina is actually going to end soon.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Herogasm #2, cover by Darick Robertson:


Aaron's pick, from Ex Machina #43, cover Tony Harris:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Mysterius the Unknown #6 by Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler (that muddy guy in the front is Aaron! Thanks Tom!):


Evie's pick, from Jack of Fables #35 by Bill Willingham, Matt Sturges and Russ Braun (ok my real PotW is the Mysterius panel, but I wanted to mix it up and this made me laugh):

Speaking of world-changing catastrophes...

So, about five years after everyone else in the world, I'm finally reading Y The Last Man. It's curious that it took me this long, seeing as Brian K. Vaughan's Runaways was, as pretty much anyone who's visited here for half a second knows a million times over, basically responsible for my comics habit to begin with. Maybe it's because I was afraid of disappointment, with all the expectation of it being, you know, supposedly the best comic of all ever. I'm pleased to report though that I'm enjoying it immensely, although I might be able to make a case that Ex Machina is at least as good. If you'd like to fight about that, let me know.

But really the main point I want to make is this: Yorick Brown is Peter Parker if he were written really, really well. I don't expect him ever to be, but now I can imagine what it might be like.