11 O'Clock Comics Podcast

Ian Edgington and Mike Collins' American Gothic, Howard Chaykin and Ken Bruzenak's Black Kiss 1 and 2 from Vortex and Image Comics, Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli's Daredevil: Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW (incorporating Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Todd McFarlane, Phil Hester and Andy Parks, and more),  Ernest Borgnine and Disney's Black Hole by way of Jack Kirby, Dark Kn...

Grant Morrison, Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Hunter, The Outfit, and The Score, Locke & Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez from IDW, In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Windsor McKay/Little Nemo), Jim Cheung, Brain Wood's X-Men, Desert Island's Smoke Signal #13 (Tony Millionaire, Brian Chippendale, SKINNER, and more), The Return of King Doug by Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, and Wook-J...

11 O'Clock Comics Episode 222

The Amazing Spider-Man and Dark Knight Rises movies, more Before Watchmen, Azzarello and Risso's Batman: Broken City (Batman #620-625), Batman Vs. Spider-Man rogues, James Van Hise's RBCC (Rocket's Blast Comic Collector) #151 and Harlan Ellison (Jim Warren, Neal Adams, Gerry Conway, Will Eisner, Denny O'Neill, Len Wein, and more), Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Score, Jack Davis, The Hustler, Doug Wil...

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1910/1969/2009 and Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill from Top Shelf, Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory from Image, Warren Ellis and Gary Erskine's Jack Cross out of DC, IDW's KISS #1 by Chris Ryall and Jamal Igle,  Godzilla, Baltimore: The Curse Bells by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, Batman Incorporated...

John Byrne's Trio #1 and the Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW, Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration, Taschen books, Archaia's The Killer volume two by Matz and Luc Jacamon, Danger Club by Landry Q. Walker and Eric Jones, Bowen statues, Comixology, Jeff Smith's RASL from Cartoon Books, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's The Manhattan Projects from Image, Jim Rugg, Phil Hester's Darkness and Dark...

Before Watchmen, The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract by Marv Wolfman and George Perez (Dark Phoenix Saga, Titans Hunt, wedding issues, Young Justice, DC Nation block), Brian Ralph's Daybreak, The Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case from Dark Horse, CAKE, Gary by Tyrell Cannon, Jeffrey Brown, Spawn/Batman by Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane from Image, Mar...

After a plunge into the dark realm of Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches from Fantagraphics, we surface into the light of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Jeffrey Brown's Darth Vader and Son from Chronicle Books and CAKE (the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), Top Shelf's Double Barrel anthology from Cannons Kevin and Zander (available on Comixology),...

All the pieces are back in place as we ramble through Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image, Mike Schwartz's Oceanverse, Won Ton Soup volume one by James Stokoe from Oni Press, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Weapons of the Metabaron with Travis Charest and Zoran Janjetov from Humanoids (incorporating Frank Herbert and David Lynch's Dune, Moebius, H. R. Giger, Sienkiewicz, Flash (Aaaaaaaaaaah!)...

Mighty Skottie Young in the house! 

Grab your torches and pitchforks! Chris Neseman is back and with him he brings the X-Statix Omnibus (including DC's gay character, Princess Diana, Skottie Young and New Warriors, The Brotherhood, Doop, and more), Jason takes a long look at Avengers Academy and Thunderbolts, Godzilla #1 from Duane Swierczynski, Simon Gane, and IDW, Thundercats, Saga #3 from BKV and Fiona Staples, Steve Perry and Th...

Zack Kruse creeps into the mix this week as we wander through the Summit City Comic Con (Hilary Barta, Gabriel Hardman, Dave Wachter, Carole Lombard, and more), Low Concept 2: Comix Boogaloo, the Rising Stars Omnibus by JMS and company, The Chilling Archive of Horror Comics, Volume 2: Bob Powell's TERROR from Craig Yoe and IDW (Will Eisner, CrossGen, Steve Ditko, Joe Staton, and more), The Dream-Q...

iFanboy's Ron Richards jumps into the fray and brings Grant Morrison with him! Okay, maybe not the man in the flesh, but tales about the man and what fans can expect from the upcoming MorrisonCon! Plus, we've got some dissing the Legion, Wild Pig, FCBD 2012 (Sonic from Archie, Avengers, James Sime and Isotope, Image Comics, and more), Alan Davis, Lee Weeks, Rising Stars, Thundercats and Ed Benes,...

All-different! All-weird! Around Comics' Brion "Sal" Salazar picks up the baton dropped by his wayward brother, helping us through The Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, Avengers, and other comic book-themed films (with a little Battleship on the side), Chew Volume Five: Major League Chew from John Layman and Rob Guillory, Hiroya Oku's Gantz from Dark Horse (incorporating Eli Roth and Hostel/Cabin...

TV's Mario Muscar climbs into the Neseman chair this week, adding ample amounts of assessment on Pierre-Henry Gomont's Catalyse from Manolosanctis, Bill Keane and Family Circus, Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (including Chuck Rozanski and Mile High Comics, Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, and more), Action Lab's Back in the Day by Dave Dwonch and Daniel J. Logan, Joe Kubert's Jew Gangs...

C2E2 2012: Tony Moore and moonshine! Charlie Adlard! Skottie Young! Tom Scioli and American Barbarian! Ramon Perez! Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman! Joe Kubert and the Kubert School! Chris Burnham! Jamal Igle! Hilary Barta and Christian Alamay! RBCC! Jose Gonzalez and Vampirella! John Carter, Warlord of Mars! Shia Labeouf! Ryan Stegman! Will Pfeifer and The Advance Team! Tom Kelly! George Perez...

We give you a lot on which to chew before we head out to the wonders of C2E2, including Fantagraphics' The Sincerest Form of Parody (Mort Walker, Don Martin, Will Elder, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, EC Comics and Bill Gaines, Frank Robbins, MAD, humor in America, Underground comics, Cracked, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, Howard Nostrand, and more), Womanthology: Heroic from IDW (Fiona Staples, Ren...

We dig in deep this week with long looks at Brandon Graham's King City from Image and TokyoPop (including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, James Stokoe and Orc Stain, Thomas Herpich, and much more), Adventure Time, Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men (Chris Bachalo, Nick Bradshaw), Avengers Vs. X-Men #0 (Frank Cho, Bendis, John Romita Jr.), Cartoonapalo...

Short on runtime, long on ideas as we pow-wow on Douglas Adams and Doctor Who, Art of Fiction's Dames in the Atomic Age by Christopher Ryder, Marc Sandroni, Mike Vosburg, Paul Little, Tony Fleecs, and company, Smoke and Mirrors by Mike Costa, Ryan Browne, and Jon Armstrong from IDW, 50 Girls 50 from Image, Vertigo's Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child by Selwyn Hinds and Denys Cowan, Rocketeer Adventur...

Chaos is the name of the game this week as we kick the insanity up a few notches while talking about the 999 Challenge, Stan Lee's Mighty 7 from Stan Lee Comics, Alex Saviuk, and the fine folks at Archie (including the Spider-Man newspaper strip, Sonic, Archie, Mega Man, and more), an extended look at Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four (John Byrne, DOOM, the Waid/Wieringo run, etc.), The Joh...

We jump in quick 'n' dirty on Gisele Lagace and Ménage á 3 (by way of Occupy Riverdale and Archie Comics), Brandon Graham and King City, Adventure Time, Saga #1 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples from Image, Moebius (Blueberry, The Airtight Garage, Arzach, Heavy Metal, and more), recent developments in The Walking Dead TV show, The Dead: Kingdom of Flies by Alan Grant, Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry (...

Hold on to your hats, folks, because this one's a weird one even by our standards... While Skype wreaks havoc with a vengeance, we top off the tank in the rickety ol' Wayback Machine head out for a long, rambling ride through Amazing Spider-Man #300, Miller and Mazzuchelli's Born Again, Comic Confessions (including Cerebus, Camelot 3000, Black Dragon, Chris Claremont's First Flight, X-Terminators...

Once again bracketed by listener comments from the 11 O'Clock Hotline, we plunge our collective proboscises deep into the upcoming Wild Pig event (Peter David, Rudy Nebres, Lee Weeks, and many more), the Wally Wood Artist Edition from IDW (incorporating Frank Frazetta, Mark Schultz, John Romita, Wil Eisner, Chris Ryall, and more), Terry Moore's Rachel Rising, JLA and the Obsidian Age by Joe Kelly,...

We throw a whole mess of stuff at the fan in this old-school EOC episode, including Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca, Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft, and Attila Futaki's Severed #6 and 7 from Image, Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier by Andrew E. C. Gaska, Dan Dussault, and Archaia (incorporating Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, The Dapper Men, and more), Gates of Gotham by Snyder...

Two hundred down and a lot more to come! This week, we cram a whole lot into our bicentennial episode, including Criminal: Last of the Innocent and Fatale by Brubaker and Phillips, Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon's Lovestruck from Image, American Barbarian by Tom Scioli from AdHouse, the Gary Friedrich Marvel fallout, The Mask from John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke from Dark Horse, John Severin, Skinne...