11 O'clock Comics Podcast

Dave Wyndorf, the mastermind behind the mighty Monster Magnet, lends us his massive mind as we make our way through Tom Scioli’s Final Frontier, Secret Stash, Paul Pope’s Battling Boy, Pat Broderick, NYCC, Doctor Strange and Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Jack Kirby, Five Ghosts from Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham from Image, editors, Marvel: The Untold Story, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., David Bowie and Brian Eno, Pearl Jam, John Sumrow, Ace Doubles, Arthur Suydam, Chris Ryall, Wally Wood’s Witzend and Fantagraphics, Eros Gone Wild from Humanoids, Tom Sutton, Alex Toth, Pat Boyette, Moebius, Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, Frank Cho, Dave Stevens, the Hernandez Brothers, the Johnson Smith Company, Brandon Graham’s Prophet, Jonathan Hickman and infinity, the Ultimate Universe, New 52, Deathstroke, Hawkman, Jim Woodring’s Fran from Fantagraphics, Mike Norton,  New Frontier, Jay Gonzo’s La Mano del Destino from Castle and Key, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Iron Man 3, George Romero, Walking Dead, American Horror Story

It's our NYCC 2013 wrap-up including Battle of the Atom, Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines, jam pieces, Revival's Mike Norton and Tim Seeley, Mahmud Asrar, Matteo Scalera, Essential Sequential, Dave Johnson, Keith Giffen, Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder, Andrew MacLean, Khary Randolph, Dave Bullock, Andy Lanning, Tony Fleecs, Daniel Govar, Ramon Perez, Allesandro Vitti, Rafael Alburqurque, Cadence Comic Art, Michael Walsh, Jim Cheung, Klaus Janson, Alex Saviuk, Geoff Darrow, Frank Cho, Mark Morales, Oliver Coipel, Jerome Opena, Tom Raney, Todd Nauck, Marcio Takera, Gabriel Hardman and Corina Bechko, Aaron Kuder, Jeremy Haun, Declan Shalvey, Shawn Crystal, Julian Lytle and Micah Blacklight, Tommy Lee Edwards and Bernard Chang, Fred Van Lente, Dave Elliot and Monster Massacre, Dave Dorman, Rich Buckler, Peter David, DMC, Tom Fowler, David Quinn and Tim Vigil, Tom King, Ryan Stegman, Nick Dragotta, Matt Kindt, Rachel Deering, Rob Liefeld, Marc Laming, Rob Liefeld, Robert Atkins, and a whole mess more!

Masks and Mobsters by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson from Monkeybrain, Gabriel Hardman, more Supergraphics, Frank Miller, Green Lanterm 23.1 and 23.4 (Robert Venditti, Rags Morales, Cam Smith, Andrew Dalhouse, Matt Kindt, Dale Eaglesham, and more), sympathetic villainy (Relic, Sinestro, Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Joker, Namor, and more), Brain Ralph's Cave-In from Top Shelf, Ryan Browne and God Hates Astronauts, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus from Image, Jason Brubaker's Re-Mind, Paul Pope's Battling Boy from :01, the Locke and Key saga by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Jay Fotos from IDW, Jack Cole, NYCC, Man-Bat, Infinity #4 (no spoilers), Dave Wyndorf and Monster Magnet, Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye #4, Fantomex Max #1 by Andrew Hope, Shawn Crystal, and Lee Loughridge, and a whole mess more!

Skottie Young, Tom Scioli and Satan's Soldier #3, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow + Green Arrow + Jeff Lemire + Count Vertigo, Iron Man 3, Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein #1 by Steve Niles, Christopher Mitten, and Michelle Madsen from Dark Horse, Dean Trippe's Something Terrible, Green Lantern + Sinestro + the Corps (Robert Venditti, Matt Kindt, Geoff Johns, and more), Chronicle Books' Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim Leong, Mike Norton's Battlepug V2 from Dark Horse, Super! #1 from Zack Dolan, Justin Piatt, Laurie Foster, Daniel Henriques, Everado Orozco, and Tara Kappel out of Unlikely Heroes Studios, Brian Wood's Star Wars + Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko's Star Wars: Legacy + The Star Wars # 1 and Mike Mayhew all from Dark Horse, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #1 from sleepless Matt Kindt, Marco Rudy, and Vivacious Val Staples, Alex DiCampi's Smoke and Ashes, Soho Dives, Soho Divas by Ryan Hughes and Image Comics, East of West, Jim Steranko, and a whole mess more!

WWE #1 and Mick Foley, Image-O-Rama: Sex Criminals #1 by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky; Zero #1 by Ales Kot, Michael Walsh, and Jordie Bellaire; Happy by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson; and Keith Giffen's legendary Trencher, Big John Buscema: Comics and Drawings from IDW, Gene Colan, Ramona Fradon, Sal Buscema, Carmine Infantino, more on Eternal Warrior #1, Kings Watch #1 by Jeff Parker, Marc Laming, and Jordan Boyd from Dynamite!, Gabriel Hardman's Kiniski from Monkeybrain, Justice League 23.2 aka Lobo #1 by Marguerite Bennett, Ben Oliver, Cliff Richards, Daniel Brown, and Aaron Kuder, Leff Lemire's Trillium from Vertigo, Superior Spider-Man #18 by Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman, and Livesay, We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir by Jess Fink from Top Shelf, Superman/Batman #3.1 aka Doomsday #1 by Greg Pak, Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, and Andrew Dalhouse, and a whole mess more!

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake and Candy Capers from Kaboom!, Battle of the Atom: Uncanny X-Men #12 by Brian Michael Bendis, Chris Bachalo, Tim Townsend, and more, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Robocop and Peter Weller, World War Z, Robert Kirkman and the Walking Dead spin-off, GOD is Dead #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Costa, and Di Amorim from Avatar, Love and Rockets: The Covers by Los Bros Hernandez and Fantagraphics, Matt Kindt and Mind MGMT from Dark Horse, Jim Lee Vs. Jim Cheung, Rick Geary and The Elwell Enigma and A Is for Antichrist, Mighty Avengers #1 by Al Ewing, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, and Frank D'Armata, Hickman's Infinity, Kings Watch #1 teaser and Marc Laming, Bravest Warriors, A Matter of Life by Jeffrey Brown from Top Shelf, and a whole mess more!

Baltimore Comic Con (IDW, BOOM!, Spawn, Ron Richards, Robert Atkins, Josef Rubinstein and New Mutants #81, Jim Starlin, Terry Moore, Herb Trimpe, Bob Mcleod and Wolfsbane, Mark Buckingham, and more), Mighty Avengers #1, Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth, Godzilla #11-13 and Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth #1-3 (Duane Swierczinski, Simon Gane, Chris Mowry, Matt Frank, Jeff Zornow, Bob Eggleton, Arthur Adams, and more), Star Trek: Into Darkness, Skyfall, the Queen and Country movie and Ellen Page, Bad Karma (Jeremy Haun, B. Clay Moore, Seth Peck, and Alex Grecian), Kickstarter (Andres Salazar and Pariah, Missouri, Osamu Tezuka, Ryan Stegman, Ryan Browne, and others), DC's Villains Month, Back Issue #68 from TwoMorrows, Jeff Smith's RASL HC, Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT, Battle for the Atom, Infinity, Secret Avengers, Avengers Arena, and a whole mess more!

Superior Spider-Man #17 by Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman, Livesay, and Edgar Delgado, the Baltimore Comic Con, the Kitchen Sink/Marvel Comix Book #1 joint, Forever Evil #1 by Geoff Johns, David Finch, Richard Friend, and Justin Ponsor (Dial H, Threshold: The Hunted, Wonder Woman, Wednesday Comics, and more), comic criticism and the assessment of art, Captain America #10 by Rick Remender, John Romita JR, Scott Hanna, Klaus Janson, Tom Palmer, Dean White, and Rachelle Rosenberg, Thor: God of Thunder #12 by Jason Aaron and Nic Klein, Waid and Simonson's Indestructible Hulk, Jim Starlin's Dreadstar, Satellite Sam #2 by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin from Image, Ryan Browne and God Hates Astronauts, Wolverine and the X-Men #35 by Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw, and Walden Wong, Theo Ellsworth's The Understanding Monster from Secret Acres, and a whole mess more!

Worldbuilder Brandon Graham squanders close to two-and-a-half hours of his very valuable personal time with us, dropping mad science on graffiti, Moritat, manga, Moebius, Richard Starkings, his Walrus all bum album from Picturebox, James Stokoe, King City + TokyoPop + Image, Prophet (Farel Dalrymple, Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis, Rob Liefeld, and more), John Buscema, tattoos, Paul Pope, Mike Mignola, Jack Kirby, the artist/writer relationship, Robert Kirkman, Jeff Lemire, Frank Quietly, editors, corporate comics, Adventure Time, process, J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, Keith Giffen, Michael DeForge and LOSE, Multiple Warheads, Excalibur and Alan Davis, Hip Hop, Vertigo and Nicole Kidman, T. K. Weaver and The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, and a whole mess more! PLUS! Chris sits for a spell with Tony and Kara Moore! Y'all should be paying for this level of infotainment!

Zack Kruse drops by to get us up to date on the forthcoming AppleSeed Comics and Art Convention then settles in for long discussions on Ryan Browne, Popeye Picnic #1 and Ken Wheaton, Gray Morrow, STERANKO!, Peter Bagge, Ed Piskor, Hilary Barta, Jim Rugg, stupid Carole Lombard, Tom Scioli, American Vampire V5 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Dustin Nguyen and pals, Levitz and Batista's Legion: Secret Origin mini, Barry Kitson, Mike Wieringo and Todd Dzago's Tellos, Scotty Young, Fantastic Four, Mark Waid, KISS Kids #1 from IDW, Erik. T. Johnson's amazing The Outliers #1 from Alternative, Marie Severin, Elmore Leonard, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, Yost and Kyle's Fantastic Four cartoon, Thor: God of Thunder by Jason Aaron, Esad Ribic, Butch Guice and company, Abe Sapien by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Max Fiumara, and Dave Stewart, Ben Affleck and Batman, and a whole mess more!

After spending a LOT of time on Avengers #14-17, New Avengers #8, and Infinity #1, we segue into Joe Kelly's Deadpool Omnibus, Soldier X and Igor Kordey, SAGA, Tom Scioli's Satan's Soldier #2, Brian Wood's Conan from Dark Horse, Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers and Captain America, Regular Show, TMNT, LEGO, Sean Murphy, Creepy #12 (Richard Corben, Calamity of Challenge's Matthew Allison, Steve Ditko, Archie Goodwin, and more), Matt Wagner and Simon Bisley's Tower Chronicles, Archaia's Secret History (with even more of the great Igor Kordey), and a whole mess more!

We have coffee talk about comics… and coffee. Tons of Punk Rock Jesus. Ande Parks jumps in and chats about writing, inking, art collecting, Kansas City and much more. Many #EOCLIVETWEETS are answered. Music by: Chicago, Soul Coughing, PIXIES and The Yahoos.

Ballistic #1 by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darick Robertson from Black Mask Comics, Marvel Omniboo, Jupiter's Legacy, Valiant-O-Rama: Quantum and Woody, Shadowman, X-O, and more, Google Glass, Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney's Goddamn This War! from Fantagraphics, Before Watchmen: Comedian, Rorschach, and more, Alan Moore, Glory volume two by Joe Keatinge, Ross Campbell and company from Image, Horrifyingly Mad! (Jack Davis, Bill Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, Mort Drucker, and… Hermann Mejia?, John Buscema, our favorite panels, Adventure Time Encyclopaedia by Hunson Abadeer, Lord of Evil and Martin Olson from Abrams Books and Cartoon Network, Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks and Chris Samnee, Harlan Ellison's Seven Against Chaos with Paul Chadwick, Archie Goodwin's Tales of the Batman, One Punch Man and Shonen Jump Weekly, Appleseed Con Kickstarter, High Crimes, and a whole mess more!

Simpsons' World, Challenger's Comics, SDCC, IDW's upcoming Artist's Editions and the new Little Nemo in Slumberland, movies: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Superman/Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Wolverine, and (unfortunately) Pacific Rim, TEOTFW: The End of the F@#$ing World from Charles Forsman and Fantagraphics, Dash Shaw's Three Stories, The Wake and Punk Rock Jesus, Fury Max from Garth Ennis and Gordon Parlov, Fantomex Max ('mexmax!), Azzarello's Brother Lono #1 and Before Watchmen, Palmiotti and Gray, Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner's Witch Doctor from Image, Shonen Jump Weekly and Akira Toriyama's Jaco, the Galactic Patrolman, Brian Churilla and The Secret History of D. B. Cooper, Satellite Sam from Chaykin, Fraction, and Image, Cyborg 009 from Archaia, Jupiter's Legacy, Grant Morrison, Black Dynamite, Jon Bogdanove, plus Steve Ditko and a very, very messy ending...

The boys survive one more week without Fearless Leader by talking about The Wire, Orange is the New Black, Game of Thrones, Suits, Animaniacs, Beware the Batman… Then remember this is a Comic Book show and and discuss Batman Superman, Green Lantern, Batman 66, Danger Club, SDCC, Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos, buying commissions, Before Watchmen, WWE walkup songs, favourite comics, villains, Wolverine stories, Hawkeye, Bulletproof Chicken, Guns of Shadow Valley and more! Music by Monster Magnet, Reverend Horton Heat, The Thrills, Steve Earle, Magnapop, Kasabian & Merle Haggard. 

Chris, David and Jason talk about Lazarus, The Homeland Directive, TMNT and The Wake as well as answer #EOCLIVETWEETS and mix in The Dome and the curse of Summer Glau.

Doctor Who, Jason Pearson and Body bags, Dexter #1 by Jeff Lindsay and Dalibor Talajic, Indestructible Hulk, Greg Pak, Peter David and X-Factor, Winter Soldier and Jason Latour, the Image Expo, Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn and Marcos Martin, Under the Dome, Arrow, Adventure Time: Playing with Fire by Danielle Corsetto and Zack Sterling from KABOOM!, Batman animated, ROM, Grendel, Ashley Wood's Machine Sabbath from IDW, the Parker books by Darwyn Cooke and IDW, The Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way and Becky Cloonan, Rick Remender and John Romita JRs Captain America, and a whole mess more!

Age of Ultron, BOOM! + Archaia, Regular Show, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, Under the Dome, Arrow, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I - Activation by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko from Vertical, Dark Horse's Eerie and Creepy Archives, Brian Wood's X-Men #2, Vertigo's The Wake from Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, New York Comic Con, Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto from Viz, Man of Steel, TMNT, Transformers, Vin Diesel, Ben Tiede's Nom Nom Comics, The Art and Creativity of Steve Ditko by IDW and Craig Joe, ONI's Double Barrel, Mind MGMT from Matt Kindt and Dark Horse, and a whole mess more!

Dave Wachter checks in to tell us all about his Guns of Shadow Valley Kickstarter and joins us in discussion on Tom Scioli's Satan's Soldier, Kim Thompson, DC's hardcover SOLO collection (Tim Sale, Darwyn Cooke, Richard Corben, Howard Chaykin, Paul Pope, and more), the Albany Comics Con (Thundercats, Ron Marz, J. M. Dematteis, Rick Leonardi, Herb Trimpe, Fred Hembeck, and others), Sergio Aragones, John Byrne, Like a Virus from Robert Wilson IV and Ken Lowery, Daredevil: End of Days, Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes from Matt Kindt and :01, the Hellboy Archives V6, Hawkeye, Dark Horse's Grendel Omnibus, Six-Gun Gorilla #1 by Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely from BOOM!, World War Kaiju, Gabe Hardman's Kinski, and rounding out the episode, an interview with Jordan Speer, the illustrator behind the stunning cover and interior art from Future Shock #4! 

Doctor Who and Who-ology: The Doctor Who Official Miscellany from BBC Books, Inferno, Green Goblin, Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic's Thor: God of Thunder (Captain America, Avengers, Wolverine and the X-Men, Scalped, and more), Mark Waid, Jonathan Kickman, Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, Chris Samnee, Chuck Austen + Gabriel Hardman + War Machine, Superman Unchained #1 from Snyder, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams, Greg Capullo, Fatman on Batman and Kevin Smith, Mighty Avengers and Milestone, Dark Horse Digital's Sabertooth Swordsman #1 by Damon Gentry and Aaron Conley (with a little Dave Stewart and Calamity of Challenge's Matthew Allison for good measure), Bendis' All-New X-Men and Stuart Immonen, Warren Ellis (Planetary, The Authority, Global Frequency, Transmetropolitan, and more), Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus from Image Comics, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Daredevil: Dark Night by Lee Weeks, Birdcage Bottom Books + Future Shock + Digestate, The Bounce from Image, Superior Spider-Man #11, Dave Wachter and The