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This week on Teenage Wasteland…

A new intro and a bit of business to push out of the way, but quickly after that I pose the question of, “How many younger people listen?”. Plus, some thoughts on spending, large reading piles and plenty of reviews. Oh, and don’t forget, Mr. Jeff Sandquist talking up the Punisher!

Books Discussed
The Corpse Carries a Gun and Tyrannosaurus Beth #1
Daredevil Vol. 1 #100 and #101
1963 #1-6
The Losers Vol. 1 and 2

Monster Island Media

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Tags: 1963, alan moore, andy diggle, daredevil, Gene Colan, image comics, Jock, Matthew Petz, punisher, rick veitch, steve bissette, Steve Gerber, the losers, vertigo

This is what I got this week from Detroit Comics:

Stumptown 1 (Oni Press): I have already read the second issue and liked it. I’m glad Brian was able to find the first issue for me.

Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island 1 of 4 (Avatar Press): I haven’t heard anything about this book, but Brian pulled it for me because he thought I might like it. We’ll see if I add the rest of the issues to my pull list.

DeadWorld: Frozen Over 4 of 4 (Desperado Publishing): I have had this on my pull list for so long that I forgot it was there until Brian showed me. I completely forgot what was going on in this book. It will be a long time before I get another DeadWorld/Mike Raicht/Federico Dallocchio/Desperado Publishing single issue. I might pick up a trade, but this long time between issues has really soured me on the franchise/creators/publisher.

Image United 0 of 6 (Image Comics): I have really been enjoying this series. I have said it in the past, it is like a puppy: big, goofy, stupid and fun.

Irredeemable 11 (BOOM! Studios): I still think this is one of the best books out there right now and I can’t wait to read this issue.

Fantastic Four 576 (Marvel Entertainment Comics): I am thoroughly enjoying the Hickman/Eaglesham/Mounts run on this title. It’s not that I didn’t like the previous creative teams, I just never read them.

Buck Rogers 9 (Dynamite Entertainment): I always smile when I see another issue has come out.

Madame Xanadu 20 (Vertigo): Joelle Jones is handling the art chores on this issue (and the last). There is nothing wrong with her artwork, but I started getting this title because of the Amy Reeder Hadley pencils and I get frustrated when she isn’t on the book.

Fall of The Hulks: Red Hulk 2 (Marvel Entertainment Comics): Yeah, I know, but Jeff Parker had me at “Hello”.

28 Days Later 7 (BOOM! Studios): I don’t know why more people aren’t getting and talking about this book. It is as enjoyable as the first movie and better than the second.

Choker 1 of 6 (Image Comics): I loves me some Templesmith. I don’t remember ever reading a Ben McCool story, but he would have to be absolutely horrible for me to not like this title and I don’t ever remember hearing that he is absolutely horrible.

Tags: 28 days later, avatar press, boom studios, buck rogers, captain swing and the electrical pirates of cindery island, choker, dead world: frozen over, desperado publishing, dynamite entertainment, fall of the hulks: red hulk, fantastic four, image comics, image united, irredeemable, madame xanadu, marvel, oni press, Stumptown, vertigo

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This week on Teenage Wasteland…

Ethan Van Sciver had a lot to say on his recent Word Balloon interview. Health issues and the lateness of Flash: Rebirth seemed to grab the most attention, but there was something else that he said that really stuck out to me. Also, a few quick reviews and another installment of The Sandbox!

Books Discussed
Filthy Rich
The Leading Man #1-5
Sicko
Orc Stain #1

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www.andyjewett.com

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Tags: Andy Jewett, Brian Azzerello, ethan van sciver, Filthy Rich, image comics, James Stokoe, Orc Stain, Sicko, vertigo, Victor Santos, Word Balloon

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New Vertigo book! Mysterio! Marcos Martin! The awesomeness that is Erik Larsen! Plenty of positive words spoken, but, be warned…..some downers in the bunch.

Books Discussed
Joe the Barbarian #1
Amazing Spider-man #618
Old Man Winter and Other Sordid Tales
Dark Entries
Storming Paradise #1-6
Savage Dragon #155

Music featured is by The Flaming Lips.

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Tags: amazing spider-man, Dark Entries, Erik Larsen, grant morrison, J.T. Yost, Joe the Barbarian, savage dragon, Storming Paradise, vertigo

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Rocky Mountain Comic Book Noise returns as hosts Mike and Barb Myers talk about comics, books, movies, TV shows and knitting. Yes, knitting. Featuring the podsafe music of The Cranks.

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Tags: 1st issue special, battlestar galactica, dazzler, dmz, elk's run, Exterminators, fables, freaks and geeks, friday the 13th, half broken things, heroes, knitting, lady cop, out, postcards, scalped, secret invasion, secret invasion war of kings, secret invasion: inhumans, slumdog millionaire, the stand, the strangers, vertigo, vinyl underground, y the last man

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Mike and Eric give a rundown with full spoilers on the following:

Face of Evil: Solomon Grundy – 00:01:35 to 00:08:48
Face of Evil: Prometheus – 00:08:48 to 00:19:29
Trinity 31 – 00:19:29 to 00:28:01
Trinity 32 – 00:28:01 to 00:34:33
Trinity 33 – 00:34:33 to 00:41:28

We close the show with brief thoughts about Vertigo’s The Haunted Tank, Camelot 3000 Deluxe hardcover, Vertigo’s House of Mystery vol. 1 trade and some action figure discussion.

Tags: action figures, camelot 3000, faces of evil, prometheus, solomon grundy, the haunted tank, trinity, vertigo

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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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Your host Derek Coward pays a Bizarro tribute to the Marvel Noise podcast in this episode. Pat Loika has your new releases, Carlos Cordova talks a bit about DC Comics and Peter Rios leaves a bit of feedback about a Marvel’s solicitations and exclusive previews policy.

Titles mentioned Marvel Super-Heroes, Astonishing Tales, Blood: A Tale, Fantastic Four and Secret Invasion.

The song of the show: Lingala – Heat (Buy It Here)

Image courtesy of ComicBookDB.com

Tags: astonishing tales, blood a tale, carlos cordova, David A Price, dc comics, epic, fantastic four, grant morrison, Marvel Noise, marvel super-heroes, pat loika, peter rios, secret invasion, solicitations, vertigo

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Bruce Rosenberger presents a belated review of The Ineffables, while Derek and Angie Angela talk about Privacy, Learning new things, Communicating with others,the new forums, dreaming about twitter, Scott Pilgrim (4 volumes), Detroit sports, Mel Brooks movies, Mystery character, Hockey talk, Podcast show length, Final Crisis, LA Sports, Sports Celebration, Minx/Vertigo, The works of Alan Moore, Top Chef/Kryptographik, Phil Noto Love, LCS Reality Show, Image Comics,
Comic Addiction, Gods of Geek and HudsonWrites.com.

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Here is the information about The Ineffables:

Hey there-

Thanks, and sorry for the delay getting back to you. After experiencing some problems with my web site I switched the forwarding over to my comicspace page and haven’t got around to rebuilding. Here’s a price list for various stuff:

issues 1-3: $5 for all three, shipping included.

Political Science tpb: $14 (this tpb does not duplicate any other material that is available)

Secret History of the Ineffables: $3

Payment can be made via paypal to craigbogart@theineffables.com

Thanks again,

-Craig

Tags: alan moore, comics addiction, detroit sports, final crisis, gods of geek, hockey, hudsonwrites.com, image comics, kryptographik, los angeles sports, mel brooks, minx, phil noto, privacy, reality television, scott pilgrim, the ineffables, top chef, twitter, vertigo

TOP – Criminal #10
BOP – Vinyl Underground #2
ROW – Immortal Iron Fist #10

Top Of Pile (the comic that I am looking most forward to reading): Criminal #10 is the conclusion of the second story called Lawless. This was another great chapter and it is easy to see why it won Eisner Awards for Best Writer and Best New Series. This Ed Brubaker guy can put together a pretty good story. The ending of Lawless was not what I was expecting, but that is a good thing. Too often crime stories either end with everybody dead or with an ending that the Comic Code Authority guys would be happy with. I’m happy to say that Lawless ended logically. Unfortunately, the next issue of Criminal won’t be out until February while Sean Philips finishes Marvel Zombies 2. However, I’m not complaining because when it comes back, there will be a longer page count. If you haven’t been reading Criminal, pick up the trade of the first story arc called Coward, which is out now. The Lawless trade should be out in time for Christmas.

Bottom Of Pile (the comic that I have high hopes for and I want to take my time and savor it): There’s something that I want to set straight about this title. The writer is Si Spencer who everyone touts as a writer of the BBC series Torchwood. The only problem is, his story was never actually made for Series One and it doesn’t look like it is on the schedule for Series Two. This is a minor point and doesn’t really affect the quality of Vinyl Underground, but in almost everything that I have read about this series, that fact is thrown out there. There are a few similarities between Torchwood and Vinyl Underground, but nothing that could be considered blatant trademark infringement. The first issue entertained me enough to want to really read the second one. The story that is being told seems like it would be better suited as a BBC show simply because of all the references to music. I like it so far and I will be sticking around for at least the first story arc. This book should be read with some Northern Soul or Stax R&B in the background.

Read Of the Week (The best thing that I read this week): I know that this is supposed to be a superhero comic book, but it reads like a Kung-Fu epic. I wasn’t really into getting this title because as much as I liked the old Power Man/Iron Fist series and the Iron Fist mini by Jurgens and Guice, I was done. I didn’t think that there was anything that could be done with the character that could make him interesting again. I was wrong. I am a big believer that the way to rejuvenate superheroes is to strip away all of complexity and focus on their core. It has worked for Batman (who is more detective than he has been in a long time), Hulk (forget the MPD and spy stuff, once he got back to smashing things he started to regain his popularity) and now it is working with Iron Fist. He’s a Kung Fu guy and he should be doing Kung Fu things. Now that he’s back to doing Kung Fu things, he’s good again. Of course it doesn’t hurt to have Matt Fraction and that Ed Brubaker guy writing those Kung Fu things. And David Aja should be the biggest star in comic book art. I never read much by the guy before, but now I’m a fan. The first six issues are collected in a trade called The Last Iron Fist Story, pick it up.

Tags: criminal, ed brubaker, icon, immortal iron fist, matt fraction, Reviews, sean phillips, si spencer, torchwood, vertigo, vinyl underground