Awesomed By Comics

Hey! You know what? This episode of the Awesomed By Comics Podcast is brought to you by Horse Quotes, which we invite you to send in at your earliest convenience. We talk a little bit about the last couple weeks of books, recap the best and not-so-best of what we saw at SDCC, AND do our usual show about this week's books! It's like getting one and a quarter shows for the price of having to wait an extra two weeks! Which is not a very good deal at all! Venom, Gotham City Sirens, and Ultimate Fallout were all standouts this week, as were the first Ultimate Fallout and the debut of the all-new, all-not-miserable-anymore Daredevil. Meanwhile, an Eevee family was adorable and Dan DiDio was a colossal jackass at SDCC, but it appears DC is at least going to make an effort to address some of the concerns raised during its panels. (although we learned that too late to talk about it on the show.) Plus other stuff which I forget what it was because we recorded this a thousand days and three billion time zones ago.

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Covers of the week:

Eevee Family



(L-R: Umbreon, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon)

Ultimate Fallout 3



Daredevil 1 (from last week)



Venom 5



Oh and also here's Morty, which was awesome.



And you should probably all be aware that this happened too.



Also who wants to see ZOO PICTURES?!?!?! You say that YOU DO? Well then here are some!!











And some highlights from Friday night's baseball game:

Just a note that while Heidi MacDonald of The Beat at Publishers Weekly is making her way back from San Diego, I'm pitching in with a little guest linkblogging. So if you catch any interesting comics-related news or notables, get your awesomedbycomics at gmail dot com on.

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by Bosomy Mecca Wised, Mew Comedic Ass Boy, and comic book anagrams. We bid a sad "Cheerio" to Captain Britain and MI 13, give a Heaving Tiger Love Tug to Immortal Weapons #1, and make a fool-proof plan for going to SDCC next year without whining or homicides. Also tune in for our enlightening (GET IT?) review of DC Animated's upcoming Green Lantern: First Flight movie.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, from Nova #27, cover by Daniel Acuna:


Aaron's pick, from Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #53, cover by Skottie Young:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Immortal Weapons #1, by Jason Aaron and Michael Lark (click to enlarge):

Evie's pick, from Guardians of the Galaxy #16 by Abnett & Lanning and Wesley Craig (click to enlarge):

Just because I once wrote a post about Wonder Woman topless, doesn't mean I think it's ok that so many people come to this site by searching for "topless Wonder Woman". I'm just saying.

Also, I'm aware that San Diego Comic Con is going on right now, and yes I wish I were there, and yes I said last year that we were totally going to make a plan to go this year, but, well, you know. This week I've actually been at work till forever working on that hippie thing, so everything happens for a reason. I've only very sketchily been following news coming out of San Diego, but I do know there's a Red She-Hulk on the way, because OF COURSE THERE IS. Also some big news about Marvel buying the rights to Marvelman, the apparent excitement over which is the point at which my comic nerd cred dissolves into dust because I have no idea. I'll have to get learned up when I finish this hippie thing. Ok, back to work!

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This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by "Two and a Half Men"--often described as a "potato on toothpicks," "Two and a Half Men" is a quiet breed, chirping rather than meowing at things it finds interesting. Aaron presents the "New Avengers #43 Brian Michael Bendis Billy Tan Crap of the Week Read-A-Long Storybook," and Evie tries to make up for not going to San Diego by recalling the first 18 years of her life spent there. It doesn't work.

Visual aids for Covers and Panels of the Week probably forthcoming.

I know we should be doing a lot of reacting and gasping and analyzing and snarking on news and accounts coming out of San Diego, but we actually had to leave town for a family funeral this weekend, so we're just now back and trying to stay awake for the remaining daylight hours. Hopefully back in the saddle soon, but podcast may be a little delayed. Not that anyone's reading this, what with all the reacting and gasping and analyzing and snarking on news coming out of San Diego elsewhere.

Clearly we were big fat liars about that whole "special bonus podcast episode #5a about Hellboy and Gotham Knight" that we were supposedly going to put out right after Episode #5. Don't ask why it's not out, just accept it like the weather. Now that Dark Knight comes out tomorrow (which we'll see on Saturday, as you and Facebook and the National Security Council now know), we may have to do a movie smorgasbord instead.

Also, I realize I have yet to complain here about the fact that we're not going to San Diego next week. We just didn't get our act together, can't take the time off right now, blah blah. Aaron and I went as press in 2006 (being a journalist household has a few privileges that slightly make up for being broke), but I am in a much better place to appropriately appreciate the convention now. I have a coworker with a four-day pass, and I nearly tripped him in the hallway when I passed him just now, on purpose.