It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time for another War Rocket Ajax/Comics Alliance roundtable! This month, we welcome Comics Alliance’s own David Brothers and Andy Khouri to the show to talk about the madness that was San Diego Comic-Con International! Among the topics we cover are the huge reaction to DC’s response to a fan dressed as Batgirl, how tough it is to get into panels, everyone’s best and worst moments, post-Comic-Con doldrums, the lack of a big movie presence this year, and a ton more!
The Rundown
- Check out Andy and David on Twitter! Also, be sure to read David’s site, 4thletter!
- Here’s Laura Hudson’s initial response to DC’s answer to the female creators question, and DC’s Sunday “we hear you” message.
- Give Andy’s 2009 article about the trouble with panel attendance at SDCC a read. The problem’s still there.
- Michael Kupperman’s new Mark Twain book is going to be awesome.
- Watch Chris Sims experience In-N-Out Burger for the first time.
- The Grant Morrison documentary, Talking With Gods, is on Hulu. Judge for yourself.
- Chris’ checks and recs: Meeting WRA fans at Comic-con, In-N-Out Burger
- Matt’s checks and recs: The Morrison doc, Captain America
- Music used: Nas, “Memory Lane”
Comics Talked About:
- Detective Comics #880
- Best of Archie collection
- Captain America and Bucky #620
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 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.
Please leave us a review on iTunes if you have the time! Also, remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!
Yeah! The round table episodes are always enjoyable. I’m looking forward to more in the future. I was thinking Sims looks like a skeezy Simpsons character in that My Little Pony picture.
That picture would totally be a perfect summary of Sims if Pinkie Pie had a Batman logo on her flank.
Chris, that was totally the In-N-Out at Mission Valley, which I know quite well.
In-N-Out is keen, but whenever I’m in San Diego, I have to buy a California burrito (carne asada and French fries) w/ guacamole to remind me of college.
In regards to the Pinkie Pie photo: think pure thoughts ,old chum.
Zeek’s comment reminded me of something. Has Chris ever commissioned a Batman My Little Pony? Great show as usual, and super nice meeting Chris at SDCC. Hopefully I’ll meet Matt & Eugene at another convention as well. And, for some reason, class dismissed makes slightly more sense when not spoken by giant transforming robots that HAVE guns but don’t need them.
When I heard the name “Greg Rucka”, I pumped my fists in the air Rockystyle.
Just because The Big Bang Theory panders to its core audience somewhat does not mean there is not well written comedy in it. Sims later said commented by saying how much people who read Awesome Hospital enjoyed the Star Trek IV reference but did not comment on the joke at the end of the page. I was somewhat annoyed because the connotation was that people can’t enjoy a reference and a punchline. BBT is not like Family Guy they do not uses references in lieu of jokes. I really enjoy the podcast and just because I disagree with your stance on BBT does not mean I enjoy the show any less. I just have to defend one of the last remaining good multi-camera sitcoms
Hatefully Yours
Yeah, I remember going to Comic Con 2010 (my first con) and I remember spending like 40 minutes trying to just find Artist Alley and when I got there I was AMAZED at how small the space was. It takes you like half an hour to just decipher their layout.