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Post-New York Comic-Con Show! Reviews Reviews will return next week! We promise! Too much NYCC to cover! Blair Butler joins us live at NYCC to discuss her thoughs of all things geeky!

Writer Greg Pak joins us to discuss his recent comic works (Hulk, Phoenix: Endsong, Battlestar Galactica) and his established career as a film maker. No Reviews this week, plenty of discussion on the upcoming New York Comic Con!

Reviews Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil #1, Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1, Nightmare World: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell #1 Jimmy Palmiotti takes time from his busy festivities to discuss his work in comics, video games and the Painkiller Jane TV series!

Reviews The Adventures of Spawn: Director's Cut, Magnitude #2, Chronicles of Wormwood #1 Zach Eisen, VO artist on "The Ant Bully" and "Avatar:The Last Airbender", joins us to discuss his voice over work!

Reviews Civil War: The Return #1, Silent War #1, Iron Man animated feature Jim Starlin joins us to discuss his extensive career and new projects!

Reviews War of the Undead #1, The Helmet of Fate: Detective Chimp #1, Okko #1, Battlestar Galactica and Heroes! No guest today! You asked for it! Just Joe and Jimmy chatting away!

Reviews Pirates vs. Ninjas #1, Superman/Batman vs. Aliens/Predator #1, Thunderbolts #110, Amerikan Freak #1 No guest today! Just good unadulterated reviews, news and comic fun!

Best of 2006! Joe & Jimmy share their picks for 2006.  Blair Butler (G4TV's Attack of the Show) joins us to discuss our top picks of 2006! Reviews Scalped #1, Outer Orbit #1, '68 one-shot

Reviews Battlestar Galactica: Zarek #1, Hack/Slash: Slice Hard One-Shot, 30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease #1 Interview Michael Emerson, "Benjamin Linus" on ABC's LOST !!!

Reviews The Bakers Meet Jingle Belle One-shot, Dave Stewart's Walk In #1, and Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes. Interview Bryan Fuller, Co-Executive Producer/Writer of NBC's HEROES.

The Stan Lee Christmas Special!!! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces! Reviews The Spirit #1, DCU Infinite Holiday Special, Wolverine #49 Interview Stan "The Man" Lee!!! 'Nuff Said! Excelsior!

Reviews New Universal #1, Spider-Man: Reign #1, Justice Society of America #1 Interview Jonathan Hickman, creator of the hit Image comic book "The Nightly News".

Reviews Batman/The Spirit #1, Immortal Iron Fist #1 and Crossing Midnight #1 Interview Matt Fraction, the coolest name in comics, joins us to discuss his recent works, Casanova, Punisher: War Journal and Immortal Iron Fist!

Reviews Punisher: War Journal #1, The Experts #1, Turistas #1 and Drain #1 Interview John Lucas joins us in the studio to discuss his extensive pencilling and inking career.

Our 1st Dynamic Forces Sponsored Show!!! Reviews Civil War #5 Astro City: The Dark Age, Book Two #1 The Lone Ranger #3 (To be released 12/06) Interview The legendary John Romita joins us to discuss his epic career! Also joining us, Nick Barrucci, President of Dynamic Forces, gives us the low-down on all things Dynamic!

Reviews The Nightly News #1 by Jonathan Hickman Black Gas Vol. 2, #1 by Warren Ellis and Max Fiumara Maintenance #1 by Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez (To be released 12/6/06) Interview JM DeMatteis joins us to discuss his broad work in the comic industry.

Episode 62 - Original Airdate: November 8, 2006 Reviews Superman Confidential #1 - Darwyn Cooke & Tim Sale Midnighter #1 - Garth Ennis & Chris Sprouse Interview Are you ready kids?  It's Tom Kenny!  Voice artist for Spongebob Squarepants.   Tom discusses his work on countless programs on television and film. 

Zombie Halloween Special! Original Airdate: October 31, 2006 Reviews: Hellboy: Sword of Storms Justice League Heroes Marvel Ultimate Alliance Blair Butler of G4TV joins us again from our west coast studio for a special segment, Zombie Talk with Blair Butler. Zombie News! Zombie Ads!  All Zombies , All the time!

Visit our new website!  www.comicnewsinsider.com Reviews: John Woo's 7 Brothers #1 by Garth Ennis and Jeevan Kang Smoke & Mirror #1 by Chuck Satterlee and Daniel Bradford  The Authority #1 by Grant Morrison and Gene Ha  Anita Blake:Vampire Hunter #1 by Laurell K. Hamilton, Stacie M. Ritchie and Brett Booth

Episode 59 Original Airdate: October 18, 2006 Reviews: Sock Monkey: The "Inches" Incident by Tony Millionaire Gen 13 #1 by Gail Simone, Talent Caldwell & Matt Banning Interview with Brett Matthews, writer of Lone Ranger

Reviews of Criminal, Cross Bronx 2 and Doctor Strange.  We also share our reviews of the season premiers of Lost and Battlestar Galactica.  A nice helping of news including: Iron Man, Superman, Ghost Rider, the award winners of the Spike TV Scream Awards and the IGN's Top 25 Primetime Cartoons of all time.

Reviews of Ultimate Spiderman 100, JLA 2 and The Ultimates 12.  Joe and Jimmy discuss season premiers including Smallville, Lost, Dr. Who and Battlestar Galactica.  We also share a message from Michael Emerson (Henry Gale) before season 3 gets under way!

This week we review Wetworks 1, Astonishing X-Men 17, Union Jack 1 and lots more ranting about Civil War.  We also review the premier of Heroes on NBC and the new Legion of Superheroes animated series.  We finish up with plenty of good, healthy, weekly comic news for all to enjoy.

Our Brian K. Vaughan special!  Joe and Jimmy review Pride of Baghdad and we discuss the work of Brian K. Vaughan with Blair Butler.  Brian joins us for a special interview to discuss all his work and some plans for the future. 

Reviews of The Lone Ranger, Cross Bronx and American Splendor.  Ed Brubaker joins us to discuss a lot of his past work and his upcoming release, Criminal.