I read the second issue before this one and although I liked it, I didn’t see what the big deal was. After reading this issue, I can see what the big deal is. This is a well written and well illustrated book. I feel like reading #2 again just to see if I like it more.

Tags: greg rucka, oni press, Stumptown

So, how do I kick off the new year? By talking about comic books, of course. Happy 2010, everyone.

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Music featured is by Social Distortion.

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Tags: amazing spider-man, greg rucka, Javier Pulido, mark waid, marvel 2099, mike carey, peter david, punisher, Stumptown, the unwritten, vertigo comics

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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

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No Bruce this episode.
What we’ve been up to.
The Facebook Conversation.
Queen and Country
Oni Press Sale
Top Shelf Sale
Comics Foundry RIP
Minx Line RIP
Starving dogs
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – According To Plan
Queen and Country redux
Marvel and DC’s lack of compelling titles
Low sales figures can still be a success
Pushing Daisies RIP and some TV talk
Scheduling difficulties

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Tags: comics foundry, comics now, dc comics, dirty sexy money, dogs, eli stone, facebook, Family, greg rucka, i love you but I've chosen darkness, marvel comics, minx, oni press, perhapanauts, proof, pushing daisies, queen and country, the mentalist, top shelf

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

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There’s a look into our host’s comic book buying past as he reminisces about the good old days of newsstands and entering the world known as the direct market. Remember Heroes World? Really? You do? To get your mind off of his rambling, also in this episode we have Pat Loika and Current Events, Mike Sims and the Mighty Marvel Movie Minute, Adam Besenyodi and Marvel Unbound, Backwards Dave and Bring ‘em Back, as well as Carlos calling in to give his thoughts on Sentry.

Titles mentioned include Daredevil, Giant Size Astonishing X-Men, Marvel 1985, Angel: Revelations, New Avengers, Thor, X-Men: Legacy, and X-Men: First Class.

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Marvel items on sale, 5.29.08

Comics

Angel Revelations #1 (of 5), $3.99
Daredevil #107, $2.99
Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (Regular John Cassaday Cover), $4.99
Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (Incentive Inked Wraparound Variant Cover), $4.99
Hulk #3 (2nd Printing Ed McGuinness Variant Cover), $2.99
Immortal Iron Fist #15, $2.99
King Size Hulk #1 (Art Adams/Frank Cho “Top” covers), $4.99
Marvel 1985 #1 (of 6)(Regular Jim Cheung “Heroes” and “Villians” covers), $3.99
Marvel 1985 #1 (of 6)(Variant Tommy Lee Edwards Cover), $3.99
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #36, $2.99
Marvel Adventures Iron Man #13, $2.99
Marvel Comics Presents #9, $3.99
Marvel Illustrated Moby Dick #4 (of 6), $2.99
Marvel Illustrated Picture Dorian Gray #6 (of 6), $2.99
Marvel Previews #58 (June 2008), AR
Ms Marvel #27 (Secret Invasion Tie-In), $2.99
New Avengers #41 (Secret Invasion Tie-In), $2.99
New Warriors #12, $2.99
Power Pack Day One #3 (of 4), $2.99
She-Hulk 2 #29, $2.99
Thor #9, $2.99
Ultimate Spider-Man #122, $2.99
Uncanny X-Men #498 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
Wolverine First Class #3, $2.99
X-Force #4 (Bloody Variant Cover)(X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
X-Force #4 (Regular Clayton Crain Cover)(X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
X-Force Legacy of Vengeance One Shot, $4.99
X-Men First Class Vol 2 #12, $2.99
X-Men Legacy #212 (X-Men Divided We Stand Tie-In), $2.99
Young Avengers Presents #5 (of 6), $2.99

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ESSENTIAL RAMPAGING HULK VOL. 1
COVER BY: KEN BARR
WRITERS: DOUG MOENCH, JIM STARLIN, JOHN WARNER, and BILL MANTLO
PENCILS: WALT SIMONSON, JIM STARLIN, KEITH POLLARD, HERB TRIMPE, SAL BUSCEMA, and RON WILSON
Not a hoax, not a dream, not an imaginary story…so what IS it? Judge for yourself as the gamma-powered gargantua’s long-lost black-and-white adventures are reprinted for the first time! Rarely seen moments of Hulk history featuring aliens, magic, horror and wonder – the full gamut for Marvel’s great green giant! Guest-starring the Avengers, the X-Men and more! Collecting RAMPAGING HULK #1-9, THE HULK! #10-15 and INCREDIBLE HULK #269.
Rated T+ …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2699-7

EXCALIBUR CLASSIC VOL. 5
COVER BY: STEVE LIGHTLE
WRITERS: SETH KRUCHKOW, MICHAEL HIGGINS, DANA MORESHEAD, SCOTT LOBDELL, and CHRIS CLAREMONT
PENCILS: CHRIS WOZNIAK and DAVE ROSS
Britain’s brightest face more than mutants in a collection of short and startling sagas! The nastiness of Nightmare! The Spawn of Krakoa! And behold: the Cheerleaders from Heck?! Guest-starring Doctor Strange and Power Pack! Collecting EXCALIBUR #29-34 and EXCALIBUR: WEIRD WAR III.
All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3122-9

HULK POSTER BOOK
Cover by DALE KEOWN
Thirty-six posters featuring the Green Goliath!
No Rating …$6.99

HULK: WWH – FRONT LINE
COVER BY: JOHN ROMITA JR.
WRITERS: PAUL JENKINS and PETER DAVID
PENCILS: RAMON BACHS, AL RIO, LEE WEEKS, and SEAN PHILLIPS
Your street-level view of the Hulk’s invasion! The Green Goliath has returned to Earth on a collision course with some of Marvel’s mightiest heroes. So what does that mean for the ordinary people caught in the crossfire? Ben Urich and Sally Floyd, fresh from their appearance in Civil War: Front Line, pound the pavement to uncover the story behind the story! Plus: Who wants our tireless reporters to take down J. Jonah Jameson, and how do they want them to do it? Grab your press pass, and join the Civil War: Front Line team of writer Paul Jenkins and artist Ramon Bachs as they take you to the middle of the action. Also featuring the Prologue to World War Hulk! As Hulk’s great stone ship approaches the planet, he prepares for the war on the horizon by reliving past conflicts with Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange and the Inhumans. Collecting WORLD WAR HULK PROLOGUE: WORLD BREAKER and WORLD WAR HULK: FRONT LINE #1-5.
Rated T+ …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2666-9

IMMORTAL IRON FIST VOL. 2: THE SEVEN CAPITAL CITIES OF HEAVEN PREMIERE HC
COVER BY: DAVID AJA
WRITERS: ED BRUBAKER & MATT FRACTION
PENCILS: DAVID AJA, HOWARD CHAYKIN, DAN BRERETON, and JELENA KEVIC DJURDJEVIC
Once a generation, the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven align on a plane far beyond the ken of mortal men. It is here that these cities send their Immortal Warriors to compete against one another in a combat tournament to end all tournaments, and it is here that Daniel Rand was spirited to in his darkest hour. Generations of mystical war traditions await their chance to prove they have the greatest kung fu – to the Immortal Iron Fist! Plus: The Book of Iron Fist, written on parchment made from the dragon scales of Shou-Lao the Undying, tells the life stories and kung-fu secrets of every man and woman ever to hold the mantle of the Immortal Iron Fist – except two. One, Danny Rand, the current Iron Fist and the possessor of this most remarkable book. The other was Orson Randall, the Golden Age Iron Fist, and he died as he lived: trying to outrun the Iron Fist legacy. And if Danny hopes to escape a similar fate, he’ll have to track down Orson’s long-lost story and learn the mysteries within before it’s too late. Collecting IMMORTAL IRON FIST #8-14 and ANNUAL #1.
Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2992-9
Trim size: standard

WOLVERINE: ORIGINS VOL. 4 – OUR WAR
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: DANIEL WAY
PENCILS: STEVE DILLON and KAARE ANDREWS
Wolverine’s past with Captain America revealed! From the island nation of Madripoor to occupied France to the Tunisian desert, one of the most requested stories in Marvel history can finally be told! This WWII epic gives readers not only the details of the first meeting between Captain America and Wolverine, but also an insight into the first time Wolverine realizes that he, like Captain America, has the power to change his own destiny. But will he? Also featuring Bucky and Nick Fury, and Wolverine’s long-awaited return to Madripoor in the present day! Don’t miss out on this exploration of essential Marvel history! Collecting WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #16-20 and ANNUAL #1.
Parental Advisory …$14.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2638-6

X-MEN: THE COMPLETE ONSLAUGHT EPIC BOOK 2
COVER BY: ADAM KUBERT
WRITERS: WARREN ELLIS, HOWARD MACKIE, LARRY HAMA, TODD DEZAGO, TOM DEFALCO, JOHN OSTRANDER, TERRY KAVANAGH, and JEPH LOEB
PENCILS: CARLOS PACHECO, VAL SEMEIKS, JEFF MATSUDA, STEFANO RAFFAELE, HERB TRIMPE, MIKE WEIRINGO, MARK BAGLEY, JOSHUA HOOD, JOHN ROMITA JR., TOM LYLE, STEVE SKROCE, and ANTHONY CASTRILLO
You all know about Onslaught Reborn, now see how it first got under way! Professor X hasn’t been himself lately – moody, inscrutable – but the psionic armor and army of Sentinels are the real tip-offs! It’ll take every super hero New York has to face the Onslaught – including not only the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force, but also forgotten stars of the nineties like Phil Urich, the Green Goblin; Nate Grey, the X-Man; and Ben Reilly, a.k.a. Spider-Man! Also guest-starring the Punisher, S.H.I.E.L.D. and others! Collecting EXCALIBUR #100, WOLVERINE #104, X-FACTOR #125-126, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #415, GREEN GOBLIN #12, SPIDER-MAN #72, PUNISHER #11, X-MAN #18 and X-FORCE #57.
Rated T+ …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2824-3

Tags: billy tan, bring 'em back, comic related, current events, direct market, greg rucka, Jeff Parker, marvel unbound, michael lark, mighty marvel movie minute, olivier coipel, scot eaton

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In this inaugural episode, Jasper Borgman takes a look at DC’s 52 Aftermath: Crime Bible: Five Lessons Of Blood and plays a couple of tunes from D-Generation and The Dirtbombs.

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Tags: d-generation, dirtbombs, greg rucka, jasper borgman

Synopsis (from dccomics.com): A Monk of the Dark Faith is moving through the DCU, seeding evil in his wake, as he prepares for a final, potentially devastating act. Trailing him is The Question, who seeks to save the life of the author of a best-selling expose about the Dark Faith. But is The Question simply playing a part in a much larger game? All will be revealed when The Lesson of Deceit is foretold.

Writing: I’m not sure what I expected from this title going in. I didn’t know if it was going to be more in the vein of the Question/Batwoman vs Manheim/Intergang storyline from 52 or if it was going to be more like the O’Neill/Cowan Question series from way back when. It actually seemed almost like a story from an old EC book, or 1970’s House of Mystery. Either way, there was an old school vibe to it. I am really liking Renee Montoya as the Question.

Art: Part of the old school vibe that I get from the book is from the artwork. I used to despise Tom Mandrake’s artwork and now I cannot remember why. It used to be that I would avoid anything he was associated with, then I began to accept his art as a necessary evil if I wanted to read certain titles, and now, I find myself seeking out things that he is the artist on. I cannot remember why I didn’t like it. I cannot remember why I started to like it. I’m sure why I like it now, but I do and I cannot picture anybody else I would rather see on this title.

Letters: Excellent first page. The rest of the book was also very good. Steve Wands isn’t a name that is familiar to me, but I like what I see in this issue. [Clarification: The first page was lettered by Eric Trautmann. The rest of the book was lettered by Steve Wands. I apologize for any confusion.]
Colors: David Baron uses a very muted palette and like the rest of the artwork, I find that it works for this story.

Cover: It’s weird, but the version I have is not the version that was on DC’s website. The one on the website made sense, but the one I have was very confusing. It took me a while to figure out that it was a glowing Question holding a book.

Editing: I feel bad that I don’t know enough about comic book editing to know when something is done well, but I can easily point out spelling errors and times when the editor has obviously made a mistake. However, I didn’t find any glaring errors that the editor should have caught.

Overall: I found this to be a pretty good read and I cannot wait for the next issue. If you didn’t pick it up this last week, you should try and find a copy, because although I’m pretty sure that it will be traded one day (After all it has 52 in the title), this is something that I wouldn’t recommend waiting to read.
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Tags: 52, crime bible, david baron, dc comics, greg rucka, miniseries, steve wands, the question, tom mandrake