ABC Podcast, episode #95 plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by HTTC, a new segment on the show that you just really don't want to know the origin of. We say goodbye to legendary runs on Wonder Woman and Power Girl, welcome back the Avatar of Death, cheer Jonathan Hickman's wise protest in Fantastic Four, and discuss whether Rise of Arsenal #3 is in fact the worst comic ever written, or just the second worst. Also make sure to stay through the end of the show to hear us take our cats to Taco Bell. This is not a euphemism for anything.

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Also, see below for more listener-named Pokemon and some special fan art!

Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from X-Men Origins: Emma Frost #1, cover by Benjamin Zhang Bin:


Evie's pick, from Power Girl #12, cover by Amanda Conner:

Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Power Girl #12, by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Amanda Conner:


Aaron's pick, from Gotham City Sirens #12 by Tony Bedard and Peter Nguyen:


Also: Danny Wall's Mike Allred-Rob Liefeld mashup (explanation here):


And, more prizes for submitting discussion questions!

For Lydia:

David:

And LOTR Dan:

BOYS NITE OUT

An X-Factor Fanfic (re: Bird's comment below)

by Rob Liefeld

"Yo Dude," shouted Shatterstar to Rictor, who was washing his car.

"Hey, my man!" Rictor shouted back. He reached out his hand to catch the beer that Shatterstar had just tossed him.

"So I was thinkin, the rest of the gang is away, what do you say you and me hit the town and pick up some fine ladies tonight?" Shatterstar said, as he sheathed his glistening double-swords and crossed his arms, one of which was a foot and a half shorter than the other one on purpose.

"Ladies, you say?" Rictor's ears perked up. Rictor's fondness for women and many sexual exploits had earned him the nickname 'The Missionary' back in high school. "You thinkin what I'm thinkin?"

"BOYS NITE OUT!" they shouted together, then high-fived.

"You wanna take the Camaro or the T-Bird?" Rictor asked.

"Definitely the Camaro" Shatterstar answered, as Rictor smiled, reached into the fourth pouch from the left on his right pant leg, and whipped out his keys and his Van Halen mixtape...

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Blue jeans with a face

Today Laura Hudson wrote about a feud between Daily Cross Hatch and Rob Liefeld based on the fact that DCH's Brian Heater interviewed Liefeld at NYCC and made a statement in the post that perhaps Liefeld does not have the piles upon piles of fans that he once did. Liefeld said "NUH UH HOSER" (or something like that), because raararraaarrrar.

The Liefeld drawing of Captain America that Laura included with her post was, as all Liefeld drawings are, breathtaking (meaning that I imagined all of that weight on my chest and panicked and could no longer breathe). This prompted Aaron to direct me to Progressive Boink's 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings, and I am now crying and hyperventilating from laughing so very hard, so I just thought I would recommend it on the off chance you haven't visited. I've never met the man, and so I will admit to forming my opinion of him based only on the evidence accumulated on the internet, which, you know, could be an unfair charicature (unfair charicatures being something about which Liefeld is quite knowledgable, I'm pretty sure). But as Laura says in her post, it's sort of nice when people save you mental energy by meeting all of your expectations, and I think those expectations are excellently summed up by the Progressive Boink guys thusly:

The man is a pair of blue jeans with a face. He has on a backwards cap, and when he turns it around, it's still backwards.

UPDATE: Laura actually linked to Progressive Boink in her post as well, I was just too stupid to notice. Anyway.