Most people who know me know that I am a sucker for oversized comic books. Not stuff like Absolutes because those just seem like books that happen to have comic book drawings in them. I’m talking about the big oversized Treasury books like the Legion of Super-Heroes book that featured the Wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, or the Howard The Duck book that featured Howard and the Defenders taking on Black Hole, Tillie The Hun and those other guys or those books that reprinted classic comics like All Star Comics #3 and Whiz Comics #2.

All good stuff that brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. I remember seeing the ads for these things in DC and Marvel books from the 70s and wanting every last one of them. Unfortunately as I grew older, getting them just never became a priority.

There is apparently a site that revolves around these books and it is called TreasuryComics.com. I have already spent a lot of time today just clicking through and reading the reviews of a bunch of books that I wish I had.

I like the fact that they have also mentioned the ones that DC did in the late 90s and early 00s. I had no idea that I was missing one of the Dini/Ross books until I checked this site out. This is a great reference site with lots of pretty pictures.

Check it out if you get a chance.

Tags: absolute, alex ross, all-star comics, defenders, howard the duck, legion of super-heroes, lightning lad, paul dini, saturn girl, treasury comics, whiz comics

BPM Media is a weekly vidcast brought to you by Mikel O.D. of Most People Are DJs and Comic writer/illustrator Paul Sizer. It is an 8-part vidcast documentary about Paul Sizer and his upcoming graphic novel BPM. BPM is the story of Roxy, a DJ spinning her way through life and her chance to make it in the music business. The graphic novel will be available in comic shops in November. It is published by Cafe Digital Press, 95 pages long and will retail for $15.99. Paul Sizer is also the write illustrator of Little White Mouse and MoPed Army. You can watch and download BPM media at www.paulsizer.com/BPM and www.mostpeoplearedjs.com. They were nice enough to let us offer the first episode to our subscribers.

Tags: bpm media, cafe digital press, documentary, little white mouse, mikel od, moped army, most people are djs, paul sizer

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I know the Marvel Noise theme has its admirers and its detractors. Here is the entire song that it was taken from.
Lemon Flavored Iceberg by The Snarky Remarks

Tags: Marvel Noise, snarky remarks

I just found out about the DC/Helix series called Vermillion. I don’t remember this when it came out, but I was on John Totleben’s website and saw some of the original artwork that he has for sale. It looks remarkable and I can’t wait to hunt down the back issues and read them.

Has anyone read it?

Tags: dc comics, helix, john totleben, original artwork, vermillion

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Chris Marshall (from the Collected Comics Library) and I appeared on the nineteenth episode of 11 O’Clock Comics with Vince B, Christopher Neseman (also from Around Comics), David A Price (also from Marvel Noise and Mage:The Hero Discussed). It was cool hanging out with the A List comic book podcasters, even though I probably came off as an asshole a couple of times.

Anyway, here are the shownotes and links:
Sitting in for a vacationing Jason Wood, Derek (Comic Book Noise) Coward and Chris (Collected Comics Library) Marshall help us talk about Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D, Humberto Ramos, Lucha Libre, collecting Final Crisis, DC/Wildstorm: Dream War, Jason Aaron’s Ghost Rider, Marvel’s X-books, Punisher Max, Library Binding, the Monster Times, First Flight of the Phantom Eagle, Chuck Austin’s War Machine, the Luna Brothers’ Sword and Girls, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Comic Book Comics from Evil Twin Comics, Glamourpuss, Give Me Liberty, more Final Crisis, Tim Sale, and a whole mess more. Plus! Listener email and a trio of calls to the 11 O’C Hotline!

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Related Links:
Comic Book Noise
Collected Comics Library
Library Binding
Eaglemoss DC and Marvel figurines
Evil Twin Comics

Tags: 11 O'Clock Comics, around comics, chris marshall, christopher neseman, chuck austen, collected comics library, David A Price, dreamwar, final crisis superman beyond 3d, ghost rider, humberto ramos, jason aaron, library binding, lucha libre, luna brothers, Marvel Noise, phantom eagle, punisher max, Vince Bonovoglia, war machine

If you have been listening to Evil Genius Chronicles for the past few months, then you know that Dave Slusher has been talking about his Super Secret Project X.  Well, he has finally revealed it to the rest of the world.  He is bringing back his show ‘Reality Break’ and the first episode is an interview that he did in 1998 with the legendary Will Eisner.

Check it out.

Tags: dave slusher, interview, reality break, will eisner

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Barry aka Nebraska Nuge of Geek Syndicate and Heath aka Montana Holland of Geek Brunch joins forces for this Indiana Jones two hour special. Together they dissect all three movies, chatting about their likes and dislikes. They also look at the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as Indy in video games, books and comics. Finally they look forward to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull.

So sit down, get your fedora and pack your whip cause we’re going on the Adventure of a lifetime.

Enjoy…
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Tim Terrell has a new blog and it seems like he is planning a new podcast soon. As soon as I hear something definite, I’ll post it here.