It’s time for another roundtable comics discussion, this week with Chad Bowers of Monster Plus and Josh Krach of Troop Infinity! We continue to talk about the DC reboot with our picks for what new titles we’d like to see in the line (and, you know, write). Plus, we get into what Marvel’s recent turn of the axe on some not-even-published-yet books means for comics makers like us and get into the question of whether fans seeing sales numbers is bad for out-of-the-mainstream titles. Plus, we answer some quizzical listener mail!
The Rundown
- Be sure to follow Chad and Josh on Twitter!
- Josh was indeed the co-writer of JLA: Gods and Monsters.
- Here’s a rundown of some of those recent Marvel cancellations.
- If you haven’t read Ivan Brandon’s piece about the effect of fans seeing sales charts, give it a look.
- Check out this Esquire piece about the perfect bid on The Price is Right. It’s crazy.
- Game shows we like: Win Ben Stein’s Money, The Price is Right, Press Your Luck
- Chris’ checks and recs: Fallout: New Vegas, Handmade Stuffs
- Matt’s checks and recs: Skyrim, The Muppets
- Music used: Del the Funky Homosapien, “Get it Right Now”
Comics Talked About:
- Daredevil #6
- Fantastic Four #600
- Wolverine and the X-Men #2
Shameless Self Promotion:
- The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
- Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
- Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
- Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
- Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
- Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.
Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!
Man, I’d read the hell out of “Batman & the Wolverines”.
Win Ben Stein’s money was the bomb. For a period, I watched no other shows besides that and Jeopardy. And while the questions were a little more America-centric (not in terms of current culture, but in terms of history, politics, science, everything) they were DAMN hard, often I thought even more difficult on average than Jeopardy (because there were far less questions per game, of course, but still). And yeah, Ben Stein himself was pretty damn sharp.
Genuinely surprised Chris didn’t order a custom plushy of himself.
Hell, if he could get Wild Dog Inc into print, I would buy a plushy of Chris Sims.