ABC Podcast Episode #126, plus some other stuff

This episode of the Awesomed By Comics Podcast is brought to you by a very irritated Aaron, who became even more irritated after he edited the show and realized he wasn't actually as irritated as he thought he was, and that he interrupted the show during the editing process for no real reason. Also the dryer caught on fire yesterday and a cat clawed me in the leg and whatever X-FACTOR WAS GREAT AND SO WAS POWER MAN AND IRON FIST AND BATGIRL AND OMG THEY KILLED A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE THIS WEEK AND THE WHOLE HOUSE SMELLS LIKE BURNED OUT DRYER AND SOMEBODY SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE MEEEEEEE. Also, BOYS RULE GIRLS DROOL!

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Covers of the Week:

Aaron's co-pick - Batgirl 18 by Dustin Nguyen



Aaron's co-pick - Cinderella: Fables are Forever by Chrissie Zullo (AKA Dustin Nguyen)



Evie's pick - Justice League: Generation Lost 19 also by Dustin Nguyen

Bonus Lidsville :





Bonus Higgins Boys and Gruber:

ABC Podcast, Episode #82 plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by just the best most beautiful laptop ever, yes you are we love you so muchy much, you have no reason to ever get mad at us and not work when we're trying to record the show again, no you don't, you're just so perfect and hot, by the way have you lost weight? We LOL at X-Factor, have a sadz at the end of Ms. Marvel, and hype the skillz of Gail Simone, Matt Sturges and Joshua Dysart for Wonder Woman, The Web and Unknown Soldier, respectively. We also talk about Dwayne McDuffie's killer new Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths animated Timmverse movie, and wonder what possessed James Robinson to get so freaky in Superman. Also, Warren Ellis writes a parody of a Warren Ellis comic, and Aaron thinks it's totally awesome.

(An apology, while we're all here: in the show I note that Aaron Lopresti was the penciller for Wonder Woman, but it was in fact Chris Batista and Fernando Dagnino--it's miscredited on the cover, someone at DC did a cut-and-paste.)

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Fantastic Four #576, cover by Alan Davis:


Aaron's pick, from Thor #607, variant cover by Mico Suayan (plus whoever drew the squirrel, I'm not sure? Any help here?):


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from X-Factor #202 by Peter David and Bing Cansino:


Evie's pick, from X-Factor #202 by Peter David and Bing Cansino:

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:

ABC Podcast, Episode #58 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by How Grass and Trees Become Enlightened, because those crazy monks are at it again. In a week full of some top-notch comicbookery, mindblowing art hails from Batwoman and Horse Thor, Wonder Woman gets dumped, Herogasm gets serious, and Guardians of the Galaxy makes all of Aaron's teenage dreams come true. Also, we give Peter David a suggestion for how to pluralize "Jamie Maddrox," because it could obviously come in handy.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Unknown Soldier #11, cover by Dave Johnson:


Evie's pick, from Wolverine First Class #18, cover by Skottie Young:


Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Detective Comics #856, by Greg Rucka and JH Williams III (click to enlarge):



Aaron's picks, from Female Force: Caroline Kennedy by Neal Bailey and Ryan Howe:


And Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #3, by Kieron Gillen and Kano:

ABC Podcast Episode #46 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Talking Backwards, s'taht thgir, sdrawkcaB gniklaT, tsuj ekil annataZ seod. Vertigo introduces a Mugglerific new series, Dracula does a doozy on MI13, and X-Factor by Peter David has some long-awaited kissing (also, we hear that Peter David likes to know when podcasts discuss books by Peter David, so we thought we'd make sure to give Peter David a googleable heads-up). Finally, Gail Simone's Secret Six once again OWNS EVERYTHING, because shut up.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from X-Factor #43 (by Peter David), cover by David Yardin with Nathan Fairbairn:


Aaron's pick, from The Unwritten #1, cover by Peter Gross:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Ultimate Spider-Man #132, by Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen:


Evie's pick, from Booster Gold #20 by Keith Giffen and Pat Olliffe:

ABC Podcast, Episode #35 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Learning to Be Silent, a zen koan that we will never learn in a million years. We say goodbye to birds of the Prey and Robin varieties, get our Coraline on, and can't help giving a laugh-out-loud award to Jeff Parker's sort of mean joke in Mysterius the Unfathomable. Big wins to Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Factor, which we do not spoil, you're welcome Peter David.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Guardians of the Galaxy #10, cover by Clint Langley:


Evie's pick, from Spider-Man Noir #3, variant cover by Dennis Calero:

Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Mysterius the Unfathomable #2 by Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler:


Aaron's pick, from Guardians of the Galaxy #10 by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Brad Walker (this wins primarily due to monster with mouth on top of his head):

Nice throw

So since my mind has been in too many places to come up with one nice thoughtful post, I'm going to treat this like a Tumblr for a few days and just throw crap on the wall until everything coagulates.

First up: How do you suppose Peter David gets away with giving updates on his family in the recaps of each X-Factor book? I mean don't get me wrong, it's adorable--I'm genuinely enchanted by the fact that his daughter is a high school bowling champion who is looking at colleges based on their teams, because that's a high-quality brag right there. I'm just saying that knowing how much comics creators Twitter about their families, I'm guessing the rest of them are kicking themselves for not thinking of that gimmick first. But you can't have everyone doing it, because gimme a break. Opening Mighty Avengers to anecdotes about Baby Michael Bendis we do not need.