On this Meltcast special, Chris & Caleb sit down with indie legend Bob Fingerman for a discussion of his work, including his newest release, From The Ashes(IDW Publishing).

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The fire’s lit today as the gang shreds into books like NEW AVENGERS #62, FANTASTIC FOUR #576, THOR #607, BATMAN & ROBIN #9, and later discusses the news of the (last) week in which Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and others are shuffled around in the DC hierarchy. Oh, and in an unusual turn of events, Chris sings a lot in this episode. For real.

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We’re back in the bowels, and this time we’ve brought a guest! We welcome Rob Levin, one of the writers of Top Cow’s BROKEN TRINITY: PANDORA’S BOX to the fold, and dish about all things Top Cow and the projects Rob’s working on. BUT FIRST CHRIS FINALLY BREAKS DOWN AND READS THE KICK-ASS HARDCOVER! THAT SENTENCE DESERVED ALL CAPS! Besides Chris’ gushing, we hit JOE THE BARBARIAN, debate UNCANNY X-MEN and argue about the merits of the book going thrice monthly, discuss DARK AVENGERS, DAREDEVIL, SPIDER-WOMAN, and Aaron loves on some Michael Lark/Stefano Gaudiano SPIDEY art.

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We’re drowning in digital ink as the crew discusses the news of the day surrounding the announcement of the iPad from Apple, and break down what it could possibly mean for the future of digital comics. We also hit some books we’ve been digging, including AFRODISIAC, AMELIA EARHART: THE BROAD OCEAN, KICK-ASS #8, IRREDEEMABLE #10, X-MEN LEGACY #232, BATMAN & ROBIN #7, THE WALKING DEAD #69, and Kieron Gillen’s last issue of THOR before SIEGE invades. Polished off with a quick chat on licensed books, and one has all the ingredients for a tasty treat. Mmm mmm good.

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The heat is on as the crew dives into part two of the event talk, which this week goes from the Bruce Banner of calm discussion to rampaging Hulk-level destruction of debate! After kicking things off by allowing Aaron to blather about the beautiful ROCKETEER: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES by Dave Stephens from IDW,  we chat up SIEGE #1, argue about what we would have done differently for the issue, and discuss Marvel and DC’s future plans. In our second segment, we switch gears and talk about the recent news about Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film series being shelved, and discuss what we want from the reboot. Next week we talk about Spider-Man… wait for it… comics.

***BONUS*** At some point in this episode, Chris says something NOT negative about Mark Millar. I swear.

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