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)!
2010′s biggest movie to date has arrived! We start things off with Aaron’s take on the Kick-Ass movie, touch on FEVRE DREAM #1, WOLVERINE: INSANE IN THE BRAIN, BATMAN & ROBIN vol. 1, Grant Morrison’s JLA run, then Chris drops a bomb on us!!!! We then delve into SPIDER-MAN: O.M.I.T and look at the repercussions of ONE MORE DAY (not on Spider-Man, but on Marvel’s magic landscape) before returning guest Sam Humphries gives his full C2E2 con report.
Meltcast 41: Bruce Wayne, Steve Rogers, Alan Moore, 90′s Bat books, D&D, Avengers and a little Gaga
We’re brimming with comics goodness today as we break down the new direction of the Bat books (especially BATMAN INC.), compare and contrast the return of Bruce Wayne versus the resurrection of Steve Rogers. We also talk 90′s Bat books, AZRAEL, X-MEN: THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA, Wheden and Cassiday’s ASTONISHING X-MEN, the crew’s personal histories with the X-Men, Chris Claremont, SUPER PRO K.O. by Jarrett Williams, ULTIMATE AVENGERS 3 #1, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS #1, EMERALD WARRIORS #1, UNWRITTEN vol. 2, and THANOS IMPERATIVE #3.
Then we tackle a whole mess of Alan Moore books: ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE, THE COURTYARD & THE COURTYARD COMPANION, LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE and A SMALL KILLING, followed by a discussion of AVENGERS: CHILDREN’S CRUSADE #1, the underratedness of artist Jacen Burrows, absolute format vs. omnibus format, and Marvel Essentials.
Whew!
Music: Lady Gaga – Poker Face / The Almost – Say This Sooner
Intro: Notorious B.I.G. Who Shot Ya? (remix) + Project 86 The Butcher