The following was posted on Eric Martin’s Facebook page:

My name is Michael Martin, I am Eric’s brother. I hate to pass this information so informally but I didn’t know any other way to reach many of Eric’s friends. My brother Eric died yesterday (Nov 18th) in his sleep from a massive heart attack. I dont have any information regarding his arrangements but you can all rest assured his wishes are being carried out.

The Comic Book Noise Family extends their most heartfelt condolences to Eric’s family and will be observing a week of Mourning.

Tags: eric martin

The show might be done.

I have too much stuff going on and will be scaling back some current shows and putting some possible shows on ice. The Incredible Hulkcast might become a part of The Readerfeed, but it might also be scrapped. The Queen and Country podcast that I have been working on might also become part of the Readerfeed. I want to continue Wrestling Noise only because it is the best logo/album art I have ever made.

I tried to get someone else to replace me on the show, but they can’t work it into their schedule. So If you want to host the podcast, let me know. You already have a built in audience, web hosting and administration.

Who is your favorite member of the original Avengers?

Thor was the clear winner.

Tags: avengers, poll, thor

For the foreseeable future, I will be going through the website and doing maintenance on the individual posts, such as fixing categories, adding missing tags and correcting spelling error where I find them.

As a result, you MAY see old entries return to your RSS reader or podcatcher. I apologize for this. If anyone knows of a way that this can be avoided, please let me know.

Thanks,
Derek

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Courtesy of Marvel, we have some preview pages for titles shipping Thursday, December 10th.

AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #27

COVER BY: RON FRENZ
WRITER: TOM DEFALCO
PENCILS: RON FRENZ
INKS: SAL BUSCEMA
COLORED BY: IMPACTO – BRUNO HANG
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE
EDITOR: TOM BRENNAN

THE STORY:
As Kaine, Darkdevil and Normie Osborn attempt to rescue Peter Parker from the Goblin Cult, Araña sends Spider-Girl to destroy the Black Tarantula. But this May has her own agenda (as you can see). Also, Tom DeFalco and Colleen Coover (AGE OF THE SENTRY, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) bring you the adventures of Mayday’s little brother, Li’l Benjy, the Spectacular Spider-Baby!
Rated A …$2.99

BIG HERO 6 #4

COVER BY: DAVID NAKAYAMA
WRITER: CHRIS CLAREMONT
PENCILS: DAVID NAKAYAMA
INKS: TERRY PALLOT
COLORED BY: EMILY WARREN
LETTERED BY: ED DUKESHIRE
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA

THE STORY:
The Big Hero 6 team knew they were in for a challenge when they set out for New York, but they had no idea just how difficult a fight America had in store for them! Now, their adversaries have taken control of some of their own team mates and allies, with every intention of letting the team, their friends, and their family members tear each other apart! Japan’s premiere super heroes face a life or death decision now, and no matter who survives, BH6 loses! Join Hiro, Baymax, and all the Big Hero 6 in their very first 4th issue, ever!
Rated A …$3.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #46

COVER BY: SKOTT YOUNG
WRITER: TODD DEZAGO
PENCILS: ROBERTO CASTRO
INKS: GRAIG ADAMS & KRIS JUSTICE
COLORED BY: SOTOCOLOR’S A. STREET
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE
EDITORS: MARK PANICCIA AND NATHAN CROSBY

THE STORY:
“Silent Nights”
Having finally found the perfect present for Aunt May for Christmas, Peter needs to make some money to pay for it! He hopes to sell some photos of Spidey in action to the Daily Bugle, but nothing is happening–everyone is in the Holiday spirit…
…everyone except Peter.
All Ages …$2.99

MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE ODYSSEY #4

COVER BY: GREG TOCCHINI
WRITER: ROY THOMAS
PENCILS: GREG TOCCHINI
INKS: ROLAND PARIS
COLORED BY: ARTUR FUJITA
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: RALPH MACCHIO

THE STORY:
Weary and saddened by their encounter with the Cyclops in which many were lost, Odysseus and his men arrive at last to the fair island of Aeaea. Little do they know that it is home to the crafty and dangerous goddess Circe. When Odysseus’ men do not return from their foraging expedition, Odysseus himself must set out to rescue them from Circe’s deadly embrace and trust in the gods that he will not be her next victim!
Rated T+ …$3.99

MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA #1

COVER BY: JAY ANACLETO
WRITER: KURT BUSIEK
PENCILS: JAY ANACLETO
COLORED BY: BRIAN HABERLIN
LETTERED BY: RICHARD STARKINGS & COMICRAFT
EDITOR: TOM BREVOORT

THE STORY:
The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning publishing sensation that made Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross into stars begins here! News photographer Phil Sheldon’s back, with the man-on-the-street’s perspective on the big events of the Marvel
Universe, from the Avengers, the all-new X-Men and the Secret Wars to Dracula and the Werewolf By Night. But this time, Phil’s world is going to be rocked not just by superheroes and super-villains — but by something far more personal, as well.
Featuring the Marvel debut of artist Jay Anacleto, whose gorgeous, photorealistic pencil renderings give a new look at the Marvel Universe, and what it would be like to actually be there.
Rated A …$3.99

SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #5

COVER BY: TERRY MOORE
WRITER: TERRY MOORE
PENCILS: CRAIG ROUSSEAU
INKS: CRAIG ROUSSEAU
COLORED BY: GUILLEM MARI
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA

THE STORY:
WHAT!? It’s over already!? But we were just getting started! Mary Jane’s dealing with drama galore, Liz is slowly being taken over by EVIL cheerleader influences, and Pete Parker keeps ducking out every time he sees a villain on TV… Well, join us here in December, for the last blast of AWESOME, featuring Spidey’s best gal and her bestest buds!
All Ages …$2.99

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #1

COVER BY: SKOTT YOUNG
WRITER: ERIC SHANOWER
PENCILS: SKOTT YOUNG
INKS: SKOTT YOUNG
COLORED BY: JEAN-FRANCOIS BEAULIEU
LETTERED BY: JEFF ECKLEBERRY

THE STORY:
The premiere American fantasy adventure gets the Merry Marvel treatment! Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze) teams up with fan-favorite artist Skottie Young (New X-Men) to bring L. Frank Baum’s beloved classic to life! When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally flattens a Wicked Witch, liberates a living Scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great sorceress…but all she really wants to know is: how does she get home?
All Ages …$3.99

Tags: marvel comics, new releases

Courtesy of Marvel, we have some preview pages for titles shipping Thursday, December 10th.

ADAM: LEGEND OF THE BLUE MARVEL #2

COVER BY: MAT BROOME
WRITER: KEVIN GREVIOUX
PENCILS: MAT BROOME
INKS: SEAN P. PARSONS & ALVARO LOPEZ
COLORED BY: JOHN RAUCH
LETTERED BY: DAVE LANPHEAR
EDITOR: TOM BREVOORT

THE STORY:
In the wake of Anti-Man’s devastating attack on New York City, the Mighty Avengers are neutralized, and Iron Man’s on a quest for answers! Who was the Blue Marvel? Why did he disappear over 40 years ago? And…what alarming secrets will Iron Man discover about the U.S. government and his own agency of S.H.I.E.L.D.? There are no easy answers in the story of Marvel’s newest super hero…created by Kevin Grevioux (NEW WARRIORS) and Mat Broome (The End League)!
Rated T+ …$3.99

ASTONISHING X-MEN: GHOST BOXES #2

COVER BY: SIMONE BIANCHI, ANDREA SILVESTRI & SIMONE PERUZZI
WRITER: WARREN ELLIS
PENCILS: CLAYTON CRAIN & KAARE ANDREWS
LETTERER: JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: AXEL ALONSO

THE STORY:
You met Subject X in the pages of ASTONISHING X-MEN. But what was he really doing and who he was doing it for? Find our in the second issue of this special 2-issue tie-in series to Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi’s opening salvo on Astonishing X-Men! Ghost Boxes is about the real stakes of the Ghost Boxes storyline, and what will happen if the X-Men fail to solve that mystery.
Rated T+ …$3.99

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 #8

COVER BY: BRYAN HITCH & BRIAN REBER
WRITER: PAUL CORNELL
PENCILS: LEONARD KIRK
INKS: MICHAEL BAIR WITH JAY LEISTEN AND CRAIG YEUNG
COLORED BY: BRIAN REBER
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: NICK LOWE

THE STORY:
Pete Wisdom couldn’t save John the Skrull. He couldn’t save anyone he cared for. Being in his unit can be fatal. So now all else seems lost, now Plokta’s engine for making Mindless Ones is threatening the world… what will he sacrifice to save the Black Knight? Widescreen horror action with passion, as only Marvel makes it.
Rated T+ …$2.99

PUNISHER: WAR ZONE #1

COVER BY: STEVE DILLON
WRITER: GARTH ENNIS
PENCILS: STEVE DILLON
INKS: STEVE DILLON
COLORED BY: MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
LETTERED BY: VC – RUS WOOTON

THE STORY:
“THE RESURRECTION OF MA GNUCCI,” PART 1
The latest offering from the red-hot Marvel Knights line reunites the seminal creative team of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon for a special, weekly-shipping 6-part limited sequel to their legendary story arc, “Welcome Back, Frank.” It all starts when two mobsters take a trip to the zoo and piss off the wrong monkey. Limbs are lost (the kind you can’t easily replace), vultures are fed (with said appendages), and then things get, like, really crazy. Like back-from-the-dead crazy. That’s right — she’s back and she wants payback. Ma Gnucci. Eighty-five pounds of hairless, armless, legless evil.
Parental Advisory …$3.99

WHAT IF? FALLEN SON #1

COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS
WRITER: MARC SUMERAK
PENCILS: TREVOR GORING
INKS: TREVOR GORING
COLORED BY: ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
LETTERER: DAVE SHARPE
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA

THE STORY:
Every man, woman and child in the Marvel Universe remembers where they were the day that Captain America died. But what if the event that forever changed the heart of heroics had never actually happened? And what if the hero that helped define the post-Civil War era had fallen in Cap’s place? Join us for a tale of death, mourning and rebirth as we ask the question on everyone’s mind: “What if Iron Man had died instead of Captain America?” Featuring Part 2 of a special five part back-up story, ‘What if the Runaways Became the Young Avengers?’ In this issue… Iron Lad stands revealed!
Rated T+ …$2.99

WOLVERINE: FLIES TO A SPIDER #1

COVER BY: TIM BRADSTREET
WRITER: GREGG HURWITZ
PENCILS: JEROME OPENA
INKS: JEROME OPENA

THE STORY:
“SWALLOWED THE SPIDER”
It’s New Year’s Eve, and tonight, like every night, they’ve gathered at the road stop saloon called the “Rat Trap.” The Road Dawgs. The meanest, nastiest, most jacked-up biker gang you ever could meet. But tonight there’s a stranger sitting on the stool at the end of the bar. Someone who’s come here to pick a fight. Someone who’s hunting far bigger game than these roughnecks, and knows exactly how to get its attention. Before the stroke of midnight, he’ll get his wish. It’s Wolverine at his fiercest, courtesy of Gregg Hurwitz (PUNISHER) and future star Jerome Opena (Fear Agent).
Parental Advisory …$3.99

X-MEN/SPIDER-MAN #2

COVER BY: MARIO ALBERTI
WRITER: CHRISTOS GAGE
PENCILS: MARIO ALBERTI
INKS: MARIO ALBERTI
COLORED BY: MARIO ALBERTI
LETTERED BY: JARED FLETCHER
EDITOR: STEPHEN WACKER

THE STORY:
The stunningly illustrated mini-series continues! In “Last Hunts and Massacres”, the black-costumed Spidey, still reeling from the events of “Kraven’s Last Hunt”, joins an X-Men team rocked by the Mutant Massacre to face the deadly menace of the Marauders! Wolverine vs. Sabretooth? Check! Storm with a Mohawk? Check! All-out action as only Italian sensation Mario Alberti can deliver? Feast your eyes, true believer!
Rated A …$3.99

Tags: marvel comics, new releases

I have been reading The Definitive Queen and Country trades from Oni Press. I tore through the first two volumes and was in the middle of the third one when it got to the part of the story where the prose novels fit. So even though I was in the groove, I stopped and immediately ordered the two books from the Amazon Marketplace.

While I was waiting, I decided to re-read the first two volumes again. During the re-read, I decided to do a ReaderFeed podcast about Q&C.

This means that in addition to The FellCast (which I have not forgot), I will also be doing two with David A Price (Milestone Comics and Quantum & Woody, as soon as our schedules mesh), a Love & Rockets one (I’m still working out a format for it) and now a Queen and Country one (I’m taking notes and thinking up a name as we speak).

My comic buying is currently on hiatus and this affects all of my other podcasts (CBNoise, ICBN, #1, etc), but with the ReaderFeed shows, I am talking about older comics that I already own, so there won’t be much an impact. (Love the structure of that last sentence?)

So if you want to play along at home, here are some Amazon links to the books that I will be discussing.

Amazon links:

The Definitive Queen and Country Vol. 1

The Definitive Queen and Country Vol. 2

The Definitive Queen and Country Vol. 3

The Definitive Queen and Country Vol. 4 (pre-order)

A Gentleman’s Game by Greg Rucka

Private Wars by Greg Rucka

Tags: greg rucka, queen and country, The Readerfeed

According to TMZ.com, Warren Beatty was making a new Dick Tracy movie, but the rights expired. He is trying to get them back, but there is some sort of issue.

Here are the court documents that he has filed against Tribune Media Services.

Weird, but I haven’t heard ANYTHING about a new Dick Tracy movie. Usually I read about comic book/strip movies and I might forget about them, but once I am reminded I remember that I forgot about them. With this one, I don’t remember anything about it.

Did anyone know about it?

Tags: dick tracy, movies, sequel, warren beatty

A few months ago, I borrowed The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volumes 2 through 8 from my good friend Chris Marshall from The Collected Comics Library. My plan was to read them all and to somehow fit a LSH podcast into my schedule. However, before I could pull the trigger on my plan, two of my favorite podcasters teamed up with two of their friends to create the Legion of Substitute Podcasters podcast.

I still plan on finishing the Archives because I eventually have to get them back to Chris (or at the pace I’m going, his estate), but in the meantime I will fit the LSP into my podcast listening rotation and save myself a bunch of time.

Tags: chris marshall, collected comics library, legion of substitute podcasters, legion of super-heroes, matt kramer, paul french, the shade's journal

I was poking around in the iTunes store and I saw something in the iTunes U section called ‘Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy‘. The Description is: “Exhibition dates: May 7-September 1, 2008. The symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero are explored in this compelling exhibition. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it reveals how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.”

These are videos featuring such comic book luminaries as Paul Levitz, Danny Fingeroth, Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Michael Uslan, Adi Granov and others. The videos are between 21 minutes and one hour. The titles include ‘E Pluribus Unitard: Notes towards a Theory of Superhero Costuming’, ‘The Boys in the Hoods: The Costumed Vigilante as Urban Dandy’ and ‘The Gods of Greece, Rome, and Egypt Still Exist-Only Today They Wear Spandex and Capes!’ I will be checking them out as soon as I can.

Tags: adi granov, alex ross, danny fingeroth, itunes, john cassaday, michael uslan, paul levitz, superhero costuming, videos