ABC Podcast, Episode #56 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by the Lighter Side of the Coffee News, hey-o! Evie is back this week but doesn't do much to rein in one of Aaron's more fiery Hal Jordan-related rants to date, and there's a lot of love for the shrieking undead and projectile vomiting. Spunky redheads cash in this week, because what the hell else is new in comics, and the secret identity need-to-know standards in Amazing Spider-Man are getting out of hand.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Mighty #7, cover by Dave Johnson:


Evie's pick, from War of Kings #6, variant cover by Mike Choi and Sonya Oback:


Panel(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Chew #3 by John Layman and Rob Guillory:


Aaron's pick, from Agents of Atlas #9, by Jeff Parker and Dan Panosian (click to enlarge):

OH MY GOD

I'M LIKE 27 COMIC BOOKS BEHIND. Did you know the X-Men moved to San Francisco?

Anyway. Sorry for the relative silence. Been deep in it here. But I have been prioritizing some comics, and can say that I will now only answer to Busty Meatloaf.

ABC Podcast, Episode #55 plus visual aids

THIS WEEK'S EPISODE WILL BE POSTED MONDAY NIGHT BECAUSE AARON NEVER LEARNED HOW TO UPLOAD THINGS.

UPDATE: IT'S THERE NOW.

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Muddy Road, the "My Way" of Zen Koans. Evie was away this weekend covering another music festival, but we've taken too much time off lately, so Aaron's flying solo for a (mostly) swear-free half-sized episode. Unknown Soldier wins huge, and Aaron demands that everyone go find a copy of "The Stuff of Legend" which is Fables-level good.

Aaron spends very little time talking about the New Warriors or Pokemon, despite the fact that nobody was there to stop him from doing so.

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Cover of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Unknown Soldier #10, cover by Dave Johnson:




Panel of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Ignition City #4, by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani:

Your violins keep moving to the nitty gritty

Just a note that while Heidi MacDonald of The Beat at Publishers Weekly is making her way back from San Diego, I'm pitching in with a little guest linkblogging. So if you catch any interesting comics-related news or notables, get your awesomedbycomics at gmail dot com on.

ABC Podcast, Episode #54 plus visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Bosomy Mecca Wised, Mew Comedic Ass Boy, and comic book anagrams. We bid a sad "Cheerio" to Captain Britain and MI 13, give a Heaving Tiger Love Tug to Immortal Weapons #1, and make a fool-proof plan for going to SDCC next year without whining or homicides. Also tune in for our enlightening (GET IT?) review of DC Animated's upcoming Green Lantern: First Flight movie.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Nova #27, cover by Daniel Acuna:


Aaron's pick, from Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #53, cover by Skottie Young:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Immortal Weapons #1, by Jason Aaron and Michael Lark (click to enlarge):

Evie's pick, from Guardians of the Galaxy #16 by Abnett & Lanning and Wesley Craig (click to enlarge):

FYI

Just because I once wrote a post about Wonder Woman topless, doesn't mean I think it's ok that so many people come to this site by searching for "topless Wonder Woman". I'm just saying.

Also, I'm aware that San Diego Comic Con is going on right now, and yes I wish I were there, and yes I said last year that we were totally going to make a plan to go this year, but, well, you know. This week I've actually been at work till forever working on that hippie thing, so everything happens for a reason. I've only very sketchily been following news coming out of San Diego, but I do know there's a Red She-Hulk on the way, because OF COURSE THERE IS. Also some big news about Marvel buying the rights to Marvelman, the apparent excitement over which is the point at which my comic nerd cred dissolves into dust because I have no idea. I'll have to get learned up when I finish this hippie thing. Ok, back to work!

Hippie mudslides ate the podcast

So I think you'll agree that on the very few (four, maybe?) occasions in over a year that we've skipped an episode of the podcast, we've had excellent reasons--near death experiences on the highway, etc. Well, this time I went to a three-day hippie disco rave in upstate New York, for work, and it rained for seven straight hours on Friday and turned the clay camping fields into the La Brea Tarpits, and my car (along with a few hundred others) got ultra stuck and had to be hauled out by a hundred-foot cable while a bunch of white kids with dreads looked at me sideways. So, I got home several million hours later than expected, and have read about two comics, and we didn't do the show. :(

In related news, in case you haven't noticed, my car karma is preposterous.