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)!
Its award season Meltcast style! We bring scribe Mark Sable (TWO-FACE YEAR: ONE, UNTHINKABLE, GROUNDED, CYBORG) to the roundtable as we discuss the nominees and winners of the first annual “Golden Melty” awards. But first, we discuss a plethora of books, including the big reveal of BUFFY SEASON 8, THE SWORD by the Luna Bros., ULTIMATE AVENGERS , INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, NOLA, WOLVERINE: WEAPON X, and LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL.
Meltcast 44: Darwyn Cooke, Grant Morrison, FF4, Thanos, Mark Waid
We begin this episode by talking through some of the HEAT that has been blowing over the internet lately because of Darwyn Cooke’s comments about age-appropriate comics. We then meander over to all things FANTASTIC FOUR (as Sage Rosa brings the motherbox knowledge) and Caleb catches us up on 2 weeks of his reading by talking BATMAN & ROBIN #14, THANOS IMPERATIVE #4, THE SIXTH GUN #4, IRREDEEMABLE #17, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30, Mark Waid’s FANTASTIC FOUR and GREEN LANTERN #57. Aaron then talks up THE UNWRITTEN, SWEET TOOTH #13, SHADOWLAND: MOON KNIGHT, and Chris finishes things off with BATGIRL #14, NEW AVENGERS #4, and TORSO.
Our Picks of the Week
Aaron – THE UNWRITTEN by Mike Carey & Peter Gross
Caleb – IRREDEEMABLE #17 by Mark Waid & Peter Krause
Chris – BATMAN & ROBIN by Grant Morrison & Frazer Irving
All available at Meltdown Comics
Music: Silverchair – Anthem for the Year 2000 / Pine – Kistina
Intro: Notorious B.I.G. Who Shot Ya? (remix) + Project 86 The Butcher