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January 3, 2009 7:53 pm I thought this was a most satisfying conclusion to the Gog arc. However I find myself wondering if I am done with this title for the time being. It feels like things have arced enough with the selection of new heroes, their training, and now their first world saving event. I wonder if this is the best point to go out on top. 

October 1, 2008 10:58 pm More odes, please.

October 1, 2008 8:44 pm

Just to sound off... the majority of my reading of Invincible, The Walking Dead, and Powers is of trades (some borrowed from the library and some bought by me), which is not represented on Kirkman's graphs. Now, for about a year I have been buying singles of Powers and The Walking Dead. I gave up on Invincible, because it just doesn't do anything for me (sorry guys). I have bought every issue of all the Avengers books written by Bendis. I have never read Marvel Zombies or Kirkman's Ultimate X-Men. I haven't bought many Ultimate Spider-man issues (maybe enough for two arcs). I did read Kirkman's Cap run. And I bought the arc of Marvel Team Up where Darkhawk appeared (which while very well written by Kirkman I bought it because the story had my favorite Marvel character in it).

Apparently, I am not as much a Kirkman fan as I thought. Hmmm. I do very much enjoy every issue of The Walking Dead. 

Personally, I do credit New Avengers for introducing me to Bendis and thus bringing me to Powers. I am not sure how I came to the The Walking Dead. I want to say it was an episode of Around Comics when Mike Norton picked it for Top of the Stack, but I am not certain.

 Anyway. Since I wasn't well represented on Kirkman's graph I wanted to put that out there.

September 26, 2008 10:50 am Was that U.S. War Machine on your shelf? U.S. War Machine by Chuck Austen? I thought I was the only one who bought that trade. For good or for bad why haven't you talked about that book during the podcast? Is it because the mention of "Chuck Austen" sends Ron into an X-Men rant? Hmmm? 

August 27, 2008 11:31 am

The Terror from Beyond is more of a Defenders episode than a Justice League one. With Grundy, Dr. Fate, and Aquaman = Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Namor. Give it a second watching and its really kind of neat that way. Also it has been said Superman = Silver Surfer, Hawkgirl = Hellcat, and Wonder Woman = Valkyrie.

 The non-Unlimited Justice League episodes are great, but they do lack something the other Timm shows had. What they do end up being is an exercise in telling stories with so man characters involved. When Unlimited comes around you start to see the lessons learned from doing these two seasons and the quality sky rockets. 

July 30, 2008 11:10 pm Has anyone read the Fall of Cthulhu series? I got the second trade today, without having read the first, and I really dug it. I am partial Lovecraft style horror to begin with, so it isn't a far stretch that I would like this comic. Each issue is a done in one story that also feeds into a larger epic. If you're a horror fan, you've probably heard of this series already and maybe even read an issue or two of it. However if you haven't read Fall of Cthulhu, and horror is something you jones for, definitely check this out.

July 2, 2008 11:25 pm

I picked this up on a whim. I have been wanting to grab something new off the shelf for a while now. Something that had nothing to do with registered/unregistered superheroing or any sort of crisis. Something different. Something on issue one. Something I had heard nothing about.

The soldier on the cover of this comic was a regular G.I. Joe (not of the type the "Yo's"). Nothing extraordinary. And the idea of a regular war comic seemed like the kind of book I have been jonesing for. And I know I have heard someone say Chuck Dixon is a competent, if not pretty darn good, telling of war stories. So I picked this thing up.

 Low in behold, it is not the straight World War 2/Band of Brothers drama I was expecting. Nope. There is a twist to this one, It is a What If. See, Oppenheimer went and blew himself (and all of the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project) up while testing the world's first atomic bomb. So the US has to invade Japan.

 This issue sets all of that up, and fairly well I would say. We get introduced to soldiers on both sides for whom the war has already worn them down. A civilian priest who is trying to spare Japanese children from having to go off to no doubt suicide themselves in battle. Some shift Germans hiding out in a U-boat who are up to no good (could they be trying to get atomic secrets to the Japanese... maybe). And, towards the end of the issue, is that John Wayne signing up for the war.

Dixon weaves a compelling beginning, spinning a well thought out twist to something I was expecting to be straight forward. Guice captures a lot of detail in the war machines he draws and drama in the people he portrays. I give this my highest recommendation for anyone who enjoys war stories in a slightly unreal world but with the appropriate, uncelebratory, tone.

April 7, 2008 6:21 pm I blame myself. I was liking the book too much.

April 6, 2008 10:40 pm

Yeah, what was that about? I got a little nervous when I heard it. Like I had done something wrong.

Great show, every time I finish an audio show or a video one I have a grin on my face and I think to myself,  "Those guys are wicked fun." Every single time, I swear. 

April 2, 2008 5:03 pm Could the 70's era heroes be those from the Beyonder's space-based-MMORPG? How that is involved with the Skrulls I don't know, other than Bendis having written both stories.