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Mike and Keith start talking some JSA and then jump into Superman

JSA All-Stars #1
Justice Society of America #34
Green Arrow #27
Adventure Comics #6
Superman World of New Krypton #10, 11
Action Comics #884, 885
Supergirl #48
Superman #695

Tags: action, adventure comics, green arrow, jsa all-stars, justice society of america, supergirl, superman, superman: world of new krypton

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Mike and Eric open the show with a quick light spoiler rundown of Battle For the Cowl #1 before moving onto the full spoiler discussion. The comics we are looking at this time are:

Battle For the Cowl: Oracle #1 (00:05:04 to 00:15:07)
Teen Titans #69 (00:15:07 to 00:23:49)
Jonah Hex #42 (00:23:49 to 00:28:43)
World of New Krypton #2 (00:28:43 to 00:36:33)
Green Arrow/Black Canary #19 (00:36:33 to 00:44:11)
Green Lantern #39 (00:44:11 to 00:51:08)

Finally, our Top 5 is superheroes we appreciate due to great creative teams

Tags: battle for the cowl, black canary, green arrow, green lantern, jonah hex, oracle, teen titans, top five list, world of new krypton

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Your hosts Mike Myers and Eric Martin open the show with some news about the announced second features in some of the DC titles and we go over some more Blackest Night information. Then it’s our Top 5 list of Current Villains.

Reviews -
Strange Adventures #1 – 00:12:33 to 00:27:50 (brief Batman: The Brave and The Bold tangent included)
R.E.B.E.L.S. discussion from 00:27:50 to 00:29:19
The Question #6 – 00:29:19 to 00:32:31
Young Liars vol. 1 – 00:32:31 to 00:34:59
Transmetropolitan vol. 1 – 00:34:59 to 00:36:56
Superman #686 – 00:38:08 to 00:46:28
Green Arrow/Black Canary #18 – 00:46:28 to 00:48:38
Prototype #1 – 00:48:38 to 00:49:49

And finally, we close the show with some Smallville discussion.

Tags: batman: the brave and the bold, black canary, blackest night, green arrow, prototype, r.e.b.e.l.s., smallville, strange adventures, superman, the question, top five, transmetropolitan, young liars

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Host Derek Coward finishes his look at the best of 2008 by talking about the titles that he has heard good things about but has never checked out yet, best miniseries that didn’t finish in 2008, best #1 comics of 2008 and the best graphic novels.

Related links (*-Amazon link, so help a brother out):
* Rasl Volume 1: The Drift
The Boy Who Made Silence
* House of Mystery
* Young Liars
* Captain Britain and MI:13
‘76
* Tangent: Superman’s Reign
The Infinite Horizon
Stephen King’s The Stand: Captain Trips
* The Twelve
* Love and Rockets: New Stories #1
* Madame Xanadu #1
Comic Book Comics
* Locke & Key
Kick-Ass
* Man With No Name
* Queen and Country Definitive Edition
* Noble Causes Archives
* The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer
* Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician

Tags: '76, 11 O'Clock Comics, 52, a fistful of dollars, action philosophers, alan moore, alex ross, amazon marketplace, amy reeder hadley, andy diggle, angela paman, b clay moore, babylon five, batman, best of 2008, black canary, black samurai, black terror, blaxsploitation, bone, booster gold, brian azzarello, bruce jones, bruce le, bruce li, bruce wayne, bryan deemer, camelot, captain britain and mi13, captain trips, charles vess, chinese connection, chris marshall, chris weston, christopher neseman, civil war, classics illustrated, clint eastwood, collected comics library, comic book comics, comics code authority, continuity, cool, countdown to final crisis, dabel brothers, dan jurgens, dan spiegle, daredevil, dark horse, dc comics, dead world: frozen over, death defying devil, desperado publishing, detroit comics, dynamite entertainment, ec comics, evil twin comics, evil white cops, fifth week event, first comics, for a few dollars more, fred van lente, frederic wertham, gabriel rodriguez, game of death, Geek Brunch, geoff johns, golden age heroes, graphic novels, green arrow, green arrow year one, green lama, green lantern, greg rucka, guy pearce, heartbreak soup, hellblazer, hellblazer joy ride, hellblazer the laughing magician, hippies, house of mystery, house of secrets, hulk, idw, image comics, inferno, infinite horizon, invincible iron man, irresponsible speculation, j michael straczynski, jackie chan, jackie karma, james caviezel, jamie delano, jay faerber, jeff smith, jim krueger, jlapes, joe hill, john constantine, john stewart, jsa, kick-ass, kung fu movies, legion of super-heroes archives, leonard kirk, leonardo manco, lex luthor, little gold book, locas, locke and key, love and rockets, love and rockets: the new stories, madame xanadu, magneto, manhattan, mark evanier, markosia comics, marvel comics, matt fraction, matt wagner, matthew sturges, mike grell, new universe, next issue project, noble causes, noble causes archives, oliver queen, omega the unknown, oni press, oz, palomar, paul cornell, perhapanauts, peter david, phantom stranger, power girl, project superpowers, proof, psi-force, public domain, queen and country, queen and country definitive edition, racist hero, rasl, ryan dunleavy, salvation run, scott cederlund, secret invasion, sergio leone, seth peck, shared universe, shazam and the monster society of evil, spaghetti western, spider-man, stephen king, steve sadowski, sting, superman, swamp thing, tangent comics, tara chace, the atom, The Boy Who Made Silence, the count of monte cristo, the demon etrigan, the flash, the good the bad and the ugly, the joker, the losers, the man with no name, the odyssey, the programme, The Readerfeed, the stand, the sword, the twelve, the unexpected, the yellow kid, vandal savage, vertigo, Vince Bonovoglia, waiting for the trade, walking dead, wally west, watchmen, wednesday's haul, white event, wonder woman, wonderland, young liars, zero killer, zombie

My mystery comic book finally arrived today from the Amazon Marketplace. Since I have it in my possession and I don’t have to worry about people rushing out to buy it (and therefore driving up the price for me to get it), I can finally make the big reveal.

It is JLA: Secret Origins by Paul Dini and Alex Ross, the only one of their oversized books that I didn’t own.

I haven’t read it thoroughly yet, but I like what I have seen by just thumbing through it. It appears to be a collection of two page retellings of the origins stories of the Justice League of America (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Arrow (with Black Canary, but her origin wasn’t told.),  Captain Marvel (the real one, you know “Shazam!”), Hawkman (and Hawkgirl, whose origin has always been intrinsically tied to her husband’s), Atom, Plastic Man,  Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

Since I cut my teeth on DC Comics way back when, there  is nothing in here that I didn’t already know but it never looked like this.  There is also a retelling of the Justice League of America themselves, which is restricted to one paragraph. The real treat on the JLA spread is Adam Strange, Zatanna, Metamorpho, The Elongated Man, Phantom Stranger and Red Tornado each getting the Alex Ross treatment for a panel.

After the story, there is an interview with Dini and Ross that includes a lot of sketches and a painting of the Big Seven, which is beautiful and I wish I had a poster of it.

Now my Dini/Ross oversized collection is complete and I can start getting some of the other books that I saw on TreasuryComics.com. This could take a while and get expensive. Luckily for me, I’m not as obsessive about such things as I once was.

Tags: adam strange, alex ross, amazon marketplace, aquaman, atom, batman, black canary, captain marvel, elongated man, flash, green arrow, green lantern hal jordan, hawkgirl, Hawkman, interview, jla: secret origins, justice league of america, martian manhunter, metamorpho, paul dini, phantom stranger, plastic man, red tornado, shazam, superman, wonder woman, zatanna

After taking a look at treasurycomics.com, I discovered that I was missing one of the Dini/Ross oversized books. I’m not a completist the way a lot of other comic book fans are, but there was something deep inside my soul that said “You MUST get this book.”

I went to eBay first because, despite all of the flaws of that site, they usually have everything worth getting that is available. Usually. In this case, they didn’t. They had all of the other Dini/Ross books, but not this one. I immediately thought “Oh no, this is going to be one of those Avengers Annual #11 or Kevin Smith Green Arrow #1 deals.”  In other words, I was probably going to have to pay a lot more than I wanted to pay or I was going to have to walk away for a few months in order to get it at a decent price.

However, I didn’t give up. I decided to check out Atomic Avenue, also known “as eBay without all of the hassle.” I did a quick search and lo and behold, there it was. And to top it off, the book was only between $5.25 and $7.55 (before shipping), great pricing. I added it to my shopping cart and got a 500 Program error.  Of course, it came complete with a picture of a rampaging robot and the caption “Just a little glitch in the system.” Not a very comforting thought when I want to buy a comic. I noticed that I forgot to login, so I decided to login and see what would happen. Same thing.

OK, I went to my last resort. The dreaded and evil Amazon.com. Not that I have anything against Amazon, but more often than not a lot of people shy away from using Amazon (although a lot of Amazon bashers that I correspond with seem to have Amazon ads on their sites.) Amazon itself wasn’t selling the book, but a bunch of stores in the Amazon Marketplace (third party stores doing business through Amazon) had the book I was looking for. I was able to pick it up for $7.30 including shipping, which seems to be less than I would have paid through Atomic Avenue (if it had worked) and I’m almost positive that it is less than I would have paid on eBay.

Now I just have to wait for the book to arrive. Once I get it in my hands, I will tell you what the name of the book is. Until then, I don’t want to jinx it.

Tags: alex ross, amazon marketplace, atomic avenue, avengers, ebay, green arrow, kevin smith, paul dini

TOP – World War Hulk 4
BOP – Marvel Comics Presents 1
ROW – Green Arrow and Black Canary Wedding Special

I’m too sick to record, so I just thought that I would throw this up there.

I couldn’t wait to get my hands on WWH4 and I wasn’t disappointed like a lot of other people seemed to be. The story progressed at a nice pace and I don’t see how it could be considered a filler issue.

Marvel Comics Presents #1 on the other hand was a bit of a disappointment. I realize that with anthology titles you are going to come across a clunker in every batch, but with the exception of the cute little Spider-Man story and the cover, there was little that I enjoyed in the book. I don’t know why Stuart Immonen’s style has changed so drastically since his Legion of Super-Heroes run; there used to be a dark moodiness to his artwork and now it’s all “Shiny Happy People” and I don’t like it.

The ROW was easily the Green Arrow and Black Canary Wedding Special. It was a fun special with a surprising (at least to me) twist at the end that sets up the upcoming GA/BC ongoing title. I was vacillating between whether to choose WWH 4 or this one, but I went with the single issue story.

Tell me what you thought of these or any of the other titles that came out in September 19.
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Tags: black canary, green arrow, marvel comics, spider-man, stuart immonen, World War Hulk