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Picks for Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Mike - All New Ultimates #1 & TMNT Annual 2014 Greg - Shutter #1 & Flash Gordon #1  

The lads spin the roulette wheel of comics topics this week and hit a few lucky numbers! First up is Heavy Metal , that magazine you've heard people say was really good a long time ago. Is it having a resurgence? Then comes Archie Comics, and how they are showing everyone else in comics how to give new spins on old characters (and yes, there's some DC talk spilling out of that). But like the bounc...

This week, Greg gets a chance to talk with Image creator Leila del Duca, whose series Shutter (with writer Joe Keatinge) is not only her first book with that company, but also her first work published by one of the Big Three. Set in a modern world where mythology and all manner of fantastical elements are as common as subway trains and Starbucks, Shutter is about Kate Kristopher, a young woman who...

Picks for Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Mike - Judge Dredd Classics Vol. 1: Apocalypse War  HC Greg - Moon Knight #2 & Edgar Allan Poe's Premature Burial HC 

After months of threatening and a few near-misses, we finally take a look at the manga/anime juggernaut that is Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira . But not just one version -- all three iterations: The B&W manga, the color Epic run from the late 1980's, and the anime.  4200+ pages of comics (over both versions) plus over 2 hours of anime have lead up to this discussion. We guarantee that you'll come away fr...

Picks for Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Mike - Skullkickers #25 & Batman Silver Age Dailies Vol. 1: 1966-1967  HC Greg - The Light Brigade TPB & Roger Stern Spider-Man Omnibus HC 

Previews gives you a look at what you may or may not be buying at your LCS in the next few months, as well as a chance to do some financial prioritizing to make that possible. This episode might be the one where Greg's wallet raises the white flag and whimpers "no mas". A whole metric TON of good stuff is coming your way in May, and we pick out which ones we're most excited for. From high-end Huma...

Picks for Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Mike - Hellboy: The First 20 Years  HC & Sovereign #1 Greg - Daredevil #1 & Noah  HC 

This week, Greg and Mike team up to take on the hardcover collection DC's cartoonist spotlight anthology  Solo .  Two-on-one doesn't sound like a fair fight, but when that one draws on the talents of Darwyn Cooke, Teddy Kristiansen, Scott Hampton, Sergio Aragones, Tim Sale, Howard Chaykin, Paul Pope, Brendan McCarthy, Jordi Bernet, Mike Allred, Damion Scott, and Richard Corben? Not to worry. The l...

Picks for Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Mike - Stray Bullets: Uber Alles Edition  TPB & Ranma 1/2 2-in-1 Vol. 1 TPB Greg - Stray Bullets: Killers #1 & Magnus: Robot Fighter #1 

The lads keep things bite-sized this episode just to mix things up. But that doesn't mean they don't give you something to think about the rest of the week. Like how lucky Mike is to be living in Philly, what the correlations between record shops and comic shops are and how one can learn from the other, and just how important having that oversized hardcover in pristine, lay-flat condition really i...

James Sime runs The Isotope Lounge , voted Best Comic Shop in San Francisco by the SF Bay Guardian for the last 11 years. He has a suit for every occasion (including under-the-hood auto maintenance) and, when combined with his distinctive electroshock pompadour, cuts the figure of a man engaged in the serious business of being the coolest dude in the room. Little Green Bag by the George Baker Sele...

Picks for Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Mike - Moon Knight #1 & Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Vol. 4  TPB Greg - Veil #1 & Starlight #1 

Published by Vertigo Comics in late 2002, 100% marked the end of one phase of Paul Pope's career and the beginning of the next. What brought about that transition, and how well does Pope's future-tinged sci-fi hold up after almost 12 years? Just how bad-ass is John Workman, and why does his collaboration with Pope here show why he is a letterer of the first order? What part of the creation stage d...

In his almost nine years behind the mic, John Siuntres has built Word Balloon  into THE go-to podcast for long-form creator interviews. While almost all comic podcasters (us included) are coming into this medium from other fields, John brings nearly 30 years of broadcast journalism experience to his show. Everyone here at the subterranean lair have been big fans of John's for a while now, and are...

Picks for Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Mike - Sheltered #7 & Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #4 Greg - Fantastic Four #1 & Three #5  

When you've collected tons of awards and loads of critical acclaim for an all-ages adventure series like Bone, where do you go for a followup? If you're Jeff Smith, you pop over to the next parallel world and come back with a hard-boiled sci-noir story like RASL .  His 2008 series tells the story of Robert Johnson, ex-scientist and current dimension-hopping art thief, and is the latest book discus...

Picks for Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Mike - Comix Brew Kickstarter  & 47 Ronin HC Greg - Martian Manhunter v1 & Rogue Trooper #1  

Mike welcomes a new guest into the subterranean recording studio today: Michael Avon Oeming! Michael is the co-creator and artist on titles like Mice Templar , Powers, and Takio , as well as the writer and artist of The Victories . It was also just announced that he and long-time collaborator Brian Michael Bendis will be launching a new title called The United States of Murder Inc. This episode ha...

With the release of his Oni graphic novel this week, writer Chad Bowers stops by the subterranean recording lair to give us the pitch, answer some questions, and help Mike & Greg make heads and/or tails of comics hitting your comic shop this April. That's right -- it's another look into comics' future a la Previews. But Chad not only ups the chances of you, the listener, hearing about something ne...

From across the Black Atlantic comes an interview with writer Rob Williams! Rob's knee-deep in all sorts of new comics work, so a lot of ground is covered in this chat with Mike. How much ground, you ask? Williams is currently writing the weekly "Judge Dredd" strip for 2000 AD , getting ready to launch new creator-owned minis at Titan and Vertigo, and helping reintroduce Marvel UK characters to th...

Picks for Wednesday,February 11, 2014 Mike - Down Set Fight  OGN & Insect Bath #1 Greg - The  Bunker #1 & She-Hulk #1  

The boys go without a net or a plan on this one, and the topics range pretty far and wide as a result. From Mike Allred's criminally underrated Red Rocket 7 , to James Harren's return to B.P.R.D. , and whether or not certain creators should just be retired from certain awards categories (Todd Klein and Dave Stewart -- we're looking at you!). All that, plus what exactly a graphic novel is and isn't...

As their acclaimed digital creator-owned series The Bunker makes its transition to print from Oni Press on February 12th, Greg sits down with writer Josh Fialkov and artist Joe Infurnari for an in-depth discussion about the book and the process of taking it from idea to reality. Josh and Joe show that they are a true collaborative team in every respect, as they tag-team for the funny and the heart...

Picks for Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Mike - Dragon Ball Full Color Vol. 1: Saiyan Arc  TPB Greg - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Color Classics #4