11 O'clock Comics Podcast

Vince is on vacation so we talk about stuff.Wonder Woman, Jerry "The King"?, 9-11, Misfits, more Sleeper, weight loss and more.

More on Kickstarter, Marvel's Hulk: Season One by Fred Van Lente and the great Tom Fowler, Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Family Values, That Yellow Bastard (Jim Lee's Deathblow, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, and more), our personal comics Mount Rushmore, Grant Morrison, John Byrne, Mike Mignola, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, John Severin, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, John Severin, Prophet by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, and Giannis Milonogiannis from Image, the Todd McFarlane Collector's Club, Jason Aaron's Incredible Hulk, Godzilla: Half Century War by James Stokoe from IDW, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Sleeper, Dave Sim, and much more!

Nick Spencer, Rob Liefeld, Scott Snyder, Kamandi Omnibus Volume 2, Carmine Infantino, Jason Pearson, RASL and Tesla, Bowie, Crystar the Crystal Warrior in The Origin of Crystar by David Anthony Kraft, Alan Kupperberg, and Marie Severin (Marvel Age #1, Comics Interview, toy prices, Eaglemoss, FOOM, WAM: Wild Agents of Marvel, Famous Monsters and Blue Oyster Cult, Wizard 1/2 and 0 issues, Masters of the Universe and Tim Seeley, J. J. Abrams' Star Trek, and more), BBC's Misfits (Alphas, Summer Glau, Falling Skies, Fringe, Doctor Who, and more), Dan Slott, Marie Severin: Mirthful Mistress of Comics by Dewey Cassell with Aaron Sultanfrom TwoMorrows (Back Issue, Alter Ego), Dan Nadel and the Born Again Artist's Edition, Ryan Browne's Blast Furnace Kickstarter, MorrisonCon, Dark Horse's Grendel Omnibus V1, Amazing Spider-Man #692, Godzilla: Legends from IDW (Dean Haspiel, Hedorah, Gary Panter, Simon Gane, and more), Batwoman: Hydrology, and a whole mess more!

The great Carl Potts and Alien Legion, Ryan Stegman and the I Draw Comics Kickstarter, Rick Remender's Fear Agent (EC Comics, Jerome Opena, Kieron Dwyer and Sea of Red, Salgood Sam and Mark Sable's Dracula: Son of the Dragon, and more), Infinite Horizon by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto from Image, Dark Horse's Eerie #1 (David Lapham, Bill Dubay, Rafa Garres, the incomparable Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, the Heavy Metal movie, Den, and more), Darwyn Cooke, Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder for Top Shelf (Matt Kindt, Sweet Tooth), Jonathan Hickman's string of Fantastic Four done-in-ones, Crystar: Crystal Warrior, Avenging Spider-Man by Zeb Wells, Joe Mad, and others, New Teen Titans, Planet of the Apes, Silver Surfer: Parable by Stan Lee and Moebius, Walt Simonson and Doctor Who, Richard Starking's Elephantmen #42, Jason Aaron and Scalped, Adventure Time #7 and LSP, Falling Skies, and a whole mess more!

Madman 20th Anniversary HC by Mike Allred and company, Joe Kubert (Tarzan #207-210, Ragman, Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Jew Gangster, the Heroes World catalogs, Between a Rock and a Hard Place with Brian Azzarello, Neal Adams, Moebius, Chris Claremont, Phil Hester, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, and more), Wizard World Chicago,  Neal Adams and Chris' JLA jam piece, Comic Buyer's Guide #1694 and Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder from Top Shelf (The Comics Journal, RBCC, TwoMorrows publications, and more), Valiant's X-O: Manowar, Before Watchmen: Ozymandias by Len Wein and Jae Lee, Becky Cloonan's The Mire, The Mighty Thor by Matt Fraction and company, Brian Wood (The Massive, Conan with Becky Cloonan, DMZ, and more), and a whole mess more!

Pendleton Ward and Adventure Time, Bravest Heroes, and Ben 10, Menage a Three, the Walt Simonson Thor Artist's Edition from IDW, Joe Kubert, the long-lost 1987 Penta hotel Creation Convention cassette tape, Marvel's New Universe, Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards' 1985, Mike Allred and Mark Bagley on Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four family of books, Chris Tucker, Transformers: Regeneration One from Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, and Stephen Baskerville from IDW, Larry Marder's Beanworld 3.5 from Dark Horse, Marvel Now and licensed books, Matt Kindt and Super Spy from Top Shelf, Double Barrel #3, Julian Lytle's ANTS, Walking Dead #19, and a whole mess more!

Ian Edgington and Mike Collins' American Gothic, Howard Chaykin and Ken Bruzenak's Black Kiss 1 and 2 from Vortex and Image Comics, Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli's Daredevil: Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW (incorporating Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Todd McFarlane, Phil Hester and Andy Parks, and more),  Ernest Borgnine and Disney's Black Hole by way of Jack Kirby, Dark Knight Rises and Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Captain America's wings, Neal Adams (HOLLA!), Gail Simone, Eric Powell's The Goon #40 from Dark Horse, Justice by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and Doug Braithwaite, Creepy Presents: Richard Corben, Harper's Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One by Bill Morrison, Steve Vance, and a cast of thousands, Captain America from Ed Brubaker and Pat Zircher, Alphas, Wolverine and the X-Men from Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw, and Chris Bachalo, Jamal Igle and the Molly Danger Kickstarter, Infinite Horizon, and a whole mess more!

Grant Morrison, Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Hunter, The Outfit, and The Score, Locke & Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez from IDW, In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Windsor McKay/Little Nemo), Jim Cheung, Brain Wood's X-Men, Desert Island's Smoke Signal #13 (Tony Millionaire, Brian Chippendale, SKINNER, and more), The Return of King Doug by Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, and Wook-Jin Clark from ONI Press, Ryan Estrada and The Whole Story (Ryan North, Doug TenNapel, Meredith Gran, Jeffrey Brown, Katie Cook, Box Brown, Nam Dong Yoon, and a whole lot more), Kickstarter (Creature Box, Remind by Jason Brubaker, etc.), Black Dynamite on Adult Swim, and a whole mess more!

11 O'Clock Comics Episode 222

The Amazing Spider-Man and Dark Knight Rises movies, more Before Watchmen, Azzarello and Risso's Batman: Broken City (Batman #620-625), Batman Vs. Spider-Man rogues, James Van Hise's RBCC (Rocket's Blast Comic Collector) #151 and Harlan Ellison (Jim Warren, Neal Adams, Gerry Conway, Will Eisner, Denny O'Neill, Len Wein, and more), Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Score, Jack Davis, The Hustler, Doug Wildey's Rio from IDW (Alex Toth, Jonny Quest, and more),  Archaia's Cyclops by Matz and Luc Jacamon, Eddie Campbell's The Lovely Horrible Stuff from Top Shelf and Knockabout, a cornucopia of Kickstarter (Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, Penny Arcade, Top Cow and Cyberforce, and more), The Beast of Chicago: The Murderous Career of H. H. Holmes (A Treasury of Victorian Murder) by Rick Geary and NBM/Comics Lit, Monsterverse's Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave #2 by Kerry Gammill and a host of horrors, Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, and Langdon Foss from Vertigo, Mahmud Asrar and Supergirl, Sonic the Hedgehog and M

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1910/1969/2009 and Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill from Top Shelf, Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory from Image, Warren Ellis and Gary Erskine's Jack Cross out of DC, IDW's KISS #1 by Chris Ryall and Jamal Igle,  Godzilla, Baltimore: The Curse Bells by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, Batman Incorporated #2 and Chris Burnham, a trio from MonkeyBrain: Bandette #1 from Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, Edison Rex from Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver, and Amelia Cole and the Unknown World by Adam P. Knave, D. J. Kirkbride, and Nik Brokenshire, James Kochalka's massive American Elf digital collections from Top Shelf, Frankenstein Alive, Alive! by Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson from IDW, Steve Gerber and Kevin Nowlan's Infernal Man-Thing #1, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Revival #1 from Image, and a whole mess more!

John Byrne's Trio #1 and the Born Again Artist's Edition from IDW, Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration, Taschen books, Archaia's The Killer volume two by Matz and Luc Jacamon, Danger Club by Landry Q. Walker and Eric Jones, Bowen statues, Comixology, Jeff Smith's RASL from Cartoon Books, Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra's The Manhattan Projects from Image, Jim Rugg, Phil Hester's Darkness and Darkness/Pitt, Paul Grist, Angel & Faith by Christos Gage and Rebekah Isaacs from Dark Horse, ten issues of Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, a tease at The Twelve, Mike Norton's Battle Pug, Winter Soldier, The Anthology Project, and much more!

Before Watchmen, The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract by Marv Wolfman and George Perez (Dark Phoenix Saga, Titans Hunt, wedding issues, Young Justice, DC Nation block), Brian Ralph's Daybreak, The Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case from Dark Horse, CAKE, Gary by Tyrell Cannon, Jeffrey Brown, Spawn/Batman by Frank Miller and Todd McFarlane from Image, Mark Waid and Frank Quietly's Offspring one-shot from The Kingdom, Greg Capullo, TV-O-Rama (Falling Skies, Sherlock, and more), G. Willow Wilson's AIR and the dangers of serial storytelling, The Boys, Movie-O-Rama (Prometheus (no spoilers), Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, and more), Adventure Time #5 and Paul Pope from Kaboom!, Bart King's Postoffice, Creator Owned Heroes from Image, OHOTMU Redux, Brian Wood's The Massive, and more!

After a plunge into the dark realm of Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches from Fantagraphics, we surface into the light of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, Jeffrey Brown's Darth Vader and Son from Chronicle Books and CAKE (the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), Top Shelf's Double Barrel anthology from Cannons Kevin and Zander (available on Comixology), Joe Kelly's Action Comics #775, Cyril Pedrosa's Three Shadows from :01, Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth from Oni, Rick Remender's Strange Girl from Image, Harbinger and the new Valiant, Haunted Hulk from Hulk #50-52 by Jeff Parker and Carlo Pagulayan, Ian Brill and Dracula World Order, Spider-Men #1, Tales of the Dark Knight #1 and Jeff Lemire, and a whole mess more!

All the pieces are back in place as we ramble through Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton from Image, Mike Schwartz's Oceanverse, Won Ton Soup volume one by James Stokoe from Oni Press, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Weapons of the Metabaron with Travis Charest and Zoran Janjetov from Humanoids (incorporating Frank Herbert and David Lynch's Dune, Moebius, H. R. Giger, Sienkiewicz, Flash (Aaaaaaaaaaah!) Gordon, and more), Ron Garney and Fantastic Four #606, Jeff Parker and Dale Eaglesham's Hulk #53 and Alpha Flight, Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim from Image, The Homeland Directive by Robert Vendetti and Mike Huddleston from Top Shelf, David's tale on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Detective Comics #526, trade dress and Dark Horse's Creepy and Eerie Archives, Juxtapoz #137, Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's Comic Book History of Comics from IDW, Terry Moore's Rachel Rising, Fury MAX by Ennis and Parlov, Dynamite!, and a little about Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1. You'll live.

Mighty Skottie Young in the house! 

Grab your torches and pitchforks! Chris Neseman is back and with him he brings the X-Statix Omnibus (including DC's gay character, Princess Diana, Skottie Young and New Warriors, The Brotherhood, Doop, and more), Jason takes a long look at Avengers Academy and Thunderbolts, Godzilla #1 from Duane Swierczynski, Simon Gane, and IDW, Thundercats, Saga #3 from BKV and Fiona Staples, Steve Perry and Thomas Yeates' TimeSpirits from Marvel/Epic (incorporating Elektra: Assassin, Daredevil, Groo, Elfquest, Dreadstar, Starstruck, Steve Gerber's Void Indigo, Alien Legion, and more), Dark Knight Returns animated and Planet Hulk, Frank Miller's The Spirit and Sucker Punch, Ernie Chan, I [Heart] Fake #2 and Heather Benjamin, Fringe, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton's Revival from Image, John Carter: The Gods of Mars, Princeless from Action Lab and the Glyph Awards, Steve Bryant and Mark Waid on Avengers, Kickstarter, and more!

Zack Kruse creeps into the mix this week as we wander through the Summit City Comic Con (Hilary Barta, Gabriel Hardman, Dave Wachter, Carole Lombard, and more), Low Concept 2: Comix Boogaloo, the Rising Stars Omnibus by JMS and company, The Chilling Archive of Horror Comics, Volume 2: Bob Powell's TERROR from Craig Yoe and IDW (Will Eisner, CrossGen, Steve Ditko, Joe Staton, and more), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Jason Bradley Thompson from Mock Man Press, Valiant's X-O Manowar #1 (BKV and Saga, Peter David, Scott Snyder and Swamp Thing...), Haunt by Joe Casey, Nathan Fox, John Lucas, and Image, Young Justice, Avengers, Creepy #8 from Dark Horse, TwoMorrow's Back Issue #56, Finding Gossamer, Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, and a whole mess more!

iFanboy's Ron Richards jumps into the fray and brings Grant Morrison with him! Okay, maybe not the man in the flesh, but tales about the man and what fans can expect from the upcoming MorrisonCon! Plus, we've got some dissing the Legion, Wild Pig, FCBD 2012 (Sonic from Archie, Avengers, James Sime and Isotope, Image Comics, and more), Alan Davis, Lee Weeks, Rising Stars, Thundercats and Ed Benes, Uncanny X-Force and Greg Tocchini, art commissions gone horribly wrong, Avengers the movie, Daredevil and Chris Samnee, War of the Woods by Matthew Petz, Erik Larsen and Cory Hamscher's Supreme, Hell Yeah by Joe Keatinge and Andre Szymanowicz, and a long-ass look at the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely masterpiece, Flex Mentallo!

All-different! All-weird! Around Comics' Brion "Sal" Salazar picks up the baton dropped by his wayward brother, helping us through The Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, Avengers, and other comic book-themed films (with a little Battleship on the side), Chew Volume Five: Major League Chew from John Layman and Rob Guillory, Hiroya Oku's Gantz from Dark Horse (incorporating Eli Roth and Hostel/Cabin Fever, Human Centipede, Rob Zombie and his cinematic oeuvre, Jim Lee and 100 Bullets, Bryan Hitch, Paolo Rivera, J. Scott Campbell, Scott McCloud and Abraham Lincoln, and more!), Sammy the Mouse from Zac Sally and La Mano 21, Mark Waid's The Unknown, Eric Powell's Goon (by way of Alan Moore and Pictopia, Mike Norton, Scotty Young, Rick Remender and Fear Agent, Hellboy, Jeff Lemire, and others), IDW's Popeye #1 from Roger Langridge and Bruce Ozella, The Green River Killer, a tease for Morrison and Quitely's Flex Mentallo, podcast burnout, and a whole mess more!