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).
Mar 112010
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.
Feb 182010
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.
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.
Meltcast 027: FCBD, Wilson, King of Flies, 20th Century Boys
Half the crew is under the weather but we’re hanging tough — fresh off his Free Comic Book Day Fraggle Rock Mega-Signing, Sam “The Hammer” Humphries fills in for Caleb and the bombs start dropping. ALMIGHTY’s Ed Laroche joins our roundtable discussion of Dan Clowes’ WILSON (and Chris’ comparison of it to INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #25), and shares his thoughts on Mezzo & Pirus’ KING OF FLIES and Naoki Urasawa’s 20th CENTURY BOYS. We also touch on BATMAN AND ROBIN, SIEGE Battlefield Tie-Ins, UNKNOWN SOLDIER #19, and Aaron raves about the new volume of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN.
Oh, and Chris praises Mark Millar (must be a full moon)!