11 O'Clock Comics Podcast

A simple start -- discussing Ike Turner, Batman: The Brave and the Bold Season One, Part One DVD and Bruce Timm's take on the character, THB: Comics from Mars #2 from Paul Pope and AdHouse Books, our preliminary, off-the-cuff picks for the forthcoming 2010 11 O'Closcars (Earth One, Afrodisiac from AdHouse, Batman: Odyssey, The Sixth Gun from Oni Press, Action Comics, Walking Dead, American Vampire...

Jason is back and bettah than evah as he helps us suss out the second volume of the Sam Kieth Sketchbook from IDW, Bill Sienkiewicz, Wizard World Chicago 2010, buying original art, Jim Rugg, The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor, et al from Novel Graphics and Hill and Wang, Spider-Man: Fever, the Walking Dead trailer from AMC, Scott Pilgrim, Haunt, Science Dog, Guarding the Globe...

Tom Katers sits in for a vacationing Wooooode, wringing his trademark blend of wry humor out of topics like Brightest Day, The Smurfs from Peyo and Papercutz, One Piece and Silver Age sensibilities, Paul Grist's The Weird World of Jack Staff, Queen and Country, Dexter, Tom Defalco and Archie: The Man from Riverdale, Simpsons Comics #168 from Bongo, Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft and Keys to t...

In this colon-infested commentary, we touch upon Predators, Ken Meyer Jr's awe-inspiring Ink Stains for Comic Attack, CLiNT, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl Rising, Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain #2, Morning Glories #1 from Image, Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1, Fear Agent: Out of Step part one from Dark Horse, Pilot Season: Stellar, The Sixth Gun from Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt from...

Unspeakable horrors come knock, knock, knock-in' at our dimensional door as we talk about Alan Moore, Anthony Johnston, and Jacen Burrows' The Courtyard (by way of the Courtyard Companion and Moore's Neonomicon #1) from Avatar, Walking Dead (No spoilers!), Vertigo's American Vampire, Forrest J. Ackerman and Famous Monsters of Filmland #251 from IDW, Batman: Under the Red Hood, Wonder Woman #601, T...

Neseman is out and Scoutmaster Brion "Sal" Salazar steps in to give us the lowdown on Fanboy Scouts and help us recount our favorite announcements from last weekend's San Diego Comic Con, including: Scottie Young and Eric Shanower's OZ, pro Wrestling, the return of Dark Horse Presents to print, Power Man and Iron Fist, IDW's Rocketeer anthology, Frank Frazetta and Painting with Fire, Abnett and La...

Rock-solid proof that what goes up must inevitably come down as we wander through Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's mighty Planetary, Hunter S. Thompson, Scott Pilgrim, IT!, the Terror from Beyond Space from IDW's Midnite Movies line, the Absolute and Omnibus format, X-Force: Sex and Violence #1, Brendan C. Leach's Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City, Michael Avon Oeming and Mice Templar, Robert...

Drivin' on holy gasoline! In this alcohol-fueled, three-hour catastrophe, we get all silly and stupid over Dr. Who and Farscape (with a little Lexx thrown in for good measure), Uncanny X-Force and Second Coming, Random Comic Book Countdown: Casanova #1, Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik!, Pood #1 and Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's USApe, Neal Adams' Batman: Odyssey #1, Aqualad, I, Zombie, J. H. Williams,...

We earn our explicit tag with talk on Crossed and transgressive art (Lars Von Trier's Antichrist, XXXombies, Walking Dead, Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, Pontypool, Body Bags and Jason Pearson, Art That Kills by George Petros, Mike Diana, and more), Mr. Monster's Hi-Octane Horror #1 (Michael T. Gilbert, Jerry Grandenetti, Basil Wolverton, and George Evans), Chris Burnham, Wonder Woman #600 again, D...

We're four once more as we discuss Torpedo Comics, the Black Lantern drink, X-Men/Teen Titans and JLA/Avengers, Wonder Woman #600 and JMS, No Way Back and Jonah Hex, Splitting Image #2 and Don Simpson, Kenneth Rocafort's Velocity and the Filipino Invasion, the Bronze Age, Steve Gerber, Howard the Duck, and Underground comics, more on comic tattoos, Michael T. Gilbert, Stephen Platt, Bryan Lee O'Ma...

Woooode's nowhere to be found and audio problems abound, but it's not enough to stop us from talking about Duncan the Wonder Dog Volume 1: Show One from Adam Hines and AdHouse, Asylum Press' Zombie Terrors and EEEK! Volume 1 collections, Dynamite's Vampirella Archives Volume One, The Weird World of Eerie Publications, Creepy #3, Spawn: Origins Volume 1, Bulletproof Coffin #1 by Hine and Kane, '90s...

Chris "New Leaf" Neseman returns just in time to join us in spoiler-free talk about David Lapham's Stray Bullets, Jason and Gerry Conway, Desert Island and Smoke Signal #4, the Invincible Ultimate Collection volume five, Paul Pelletier and Incredible Hulk #610, Milestone Forever, Frank Miller's Dark Knight and Ronin, Brubaker's Captain America: Reborn and The Marvels Project, Stuart Immonen and Ne...

Chris plays hooky yet again, so we double-time it with a rousing roster of comic talk, featuring the last word on Jim Rugg's Rambo 3.5, Dan Clowes' Wilson from Drawn & Quarterly, a Cartoonist Profile on Mike Zeck, Secret Wars, the Mortal Kombat short, Joe the Barbarian #4 and #5 and Sean Murphy, Spider-Man: Fever, the Act-I-Vate Primer, Pilot Season: Stealth from Top Cow, Milestone Forever, Captai...

We prove we're more than capable of cooking up a well-balanced comic book meal as we talk about Michael Deforge's LOSE from Koyama Press, a clarification on Adams and Maroto's Zero Patrol, Zack Kruse's Mystery Solved and Big Jim Miller, Avengers #1, Legion #1, Secret Avengers #1, Thunderbolts #144, Fraction's Iron Man, The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 and #2 and Morrison's Batman and Robin, Doop, Davi...

Chris is back to fill our ears with tales of the Summit City Comic Con, leaving us enough time left over to talk about Jeffrey Brown's Process Packets, FCBD 2010: The Stuff of Legend, Green Hornet, War of the Supermen #0, Doctor Solar/Magnus, Robot Fighter and G.I. Joe #155 1/2, G.I. Joe: Hearts and Minds #1 and Klaus Scherwinski's Origins #15 featuring Snow Job, Girl Comics #1 and Marvel themed m...

Chris Samnee steps in to talk to us about Thor: The Mighty Avenger (Two issues in July!), The Age of Heroes, Siege: Embedded, Capote in Kansas, Avengers Day, Iron Man 2, Area 10, original art and commissions, Jersey Gods from Image, X-Factor Forever, The 6th Gun, Paul Pope's 100%, Siege and Siege: Fallen Sun, the Gold Key adaptation of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, New Avengers: Finale, Bobgar "S...

Chris takes a breather, affording us ample opportunity for spoiler-free discussion on Siege #4, Alan Davis and the Marvels Project, Hulk #22 and Incredible Hulk #209, Ed McGuinness, The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 by Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse, Dash Shaw's Bodyworld from Pantheon, The Black Terror and the Champions RPG, more distaste for the cut 'n' paste, Frank Frazetta, the Stumptown Festival...

Our comics cup runneth way, way over as we delve into Free Comic Book Day 2010, Ben 10 and Generator Rex, Artifacts #0 from Top Cow, The 6th Gun #1 by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt from Oni Press, Marvel's Thor/Iron Man offering, Archie Summer Splash, Zorro: The Complete Classic Adventures by the legendary Alex Toth, a battalion of IDW G.I. Joe books (Cobra I and II, A Real American Hero #155 1/2, t...

Chris blinks in and out and back in again amidst talk on the Muppets and Fraggle Rock, Jim Rugg, Hi Fructose volume 15 with James Jean and Al Columbia, Grant Morrison and Mukesh Singh's 18 Days OGN from Dynamite, Shadowlands, the Avengers titles, Chris Samnee and Thor: Mighty Avenger, Casanova Max, a reaction to a listener voicemail (I know, right?!?), I, Zombie, Comic Book Artist #15, the Hernand...

It's our Giant-Size C2E2 (See Dos Eee Dos) wrap-up episode, featuring tales of Doug Mahnke, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Tom Fowler, Mike Perkins, Mike Norton, crazy Chicago cabbies, Phil Hester and Andy Parks, Ryan Stegman (and the Sif one-shot), Hilary Barta, Will Pfeifer, Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey, and Action Philosophers!, Jim Heffron, Brian Stringer and our tattoos, Larry Marder and Beanworld...

BLACKEST NIGHT, BLACKEST NIGHT, and a little more BLACKEST NIGHT, as Chris and Wood finally step up and talk about the miniseries I've been BEGGING them to cover, with a little bit of time left over for investigations into Ultimate X #2 by Jeph Loeb and Art Adams, the Punisher Max: Butterfly one-shot, Dave Wachter and the Guns of Shadow Valley, Zak Smith's Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated (Pictures S...

Carefully-laid plans go awry and reams of notes are thrown out the window as we change course to discuss Cable #25, S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver, Hickman vs. Johns, the Apple iPad, art and audience, plus, in the second half, we're joined by sizzlin' Steve Bryant, who drops by to lay down some science on Athena Voltaire and the Kickstart program, William Stout, Dave Stevens...

After Chris renders us both crosseyed and painless by taking about a number of Marvel titles in a positive light, we traipse all over the place, batting it back and forth on the CGS Supershow, Gabriel Hardman, Chris' convention philosophy, Dave Wachter and Andy Jewett, Skottie Young and OZ, Wolverine: Weapon X #11, Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, X-Factor Forever...

We return to the stuff that passes for normal 'round these parts, merrily mixing it up on G.I. Joe Origins #11 and #12, Marvel Preview #21 and the Marvel Magazine and Essential formats, Madame Xanadu Volume 2: Exodus Noir from Matt Wagner, Michael Kaluta, and Dave Stewart, Fables, Liberty Comics #1 and #2, Incredible Hercules #141, Agents of Atlas, Gorilla Man and the Avengers, Miracle/Marvelman a...

The 11 O'Clock Chat Room is ablaze with activity as forum members help us celebrate 100 episodes of insanity, flinging questions at us while we talk about Siege #3, Powers #3, curses vs. prayers, Deadwood, Northwest Passage from ONI, Tom Fowler (buy the Mysterious the Unfathomable TPB), Survivors, Dick Tracy, the Longbox beta, Incredible Hulk #208 and Hulk #21, Jeff Loeb, Marvel vs. DC continuity,...