Category: Podcasts

A nice blend of comic publishers this week on the podcast, and two, count ’em, two 5-star ratings.  Woot!

Hover over the pictures below to see the ratings out of 5 stars (with an occasional comment).  And scroll to the end for both the podcast playback button and a Very Special DDtC Announcement.

So after this week DDtC is going on holiday hiatus for three weeks, returning the week of 7 January 2012.  Between being away from my Local Comic Store, not to mention my Special Recording Booth at DDtC Studios, it’s just not practical to try and to it.  So enjoy the break, enjoy the holidays, and ponder how I’ll fit a month’s comics into a single DDtC issue when I return!

Short week this week in the pull stack — which is a good thing, since I was sick, got there late, etc. and so forth.  But we had a number of TPBs arrive in the mail this week, too, so those get to be covered, too.

As always, here are the covers — hover to see the stars (out of 5) each book got.

Next week — a special Dave Does the Comics announcement!

I’m thankful for a lot of things this year, not least of which is the great support my family’s had for this podcast.  Thanks, guys — I know it’s a PitA sometimes.

Lots of comics this week, which I barely made it through with both the holiday, visiting family, and my desperate NaNoWriMo efforts.  Interestingly, a lot of noteworthy covers this week, too, for good and ill.

Leading up to Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for all the excellent comics I found in my pull box this week.  Yeah, there were a few clunkers, but it was overall a good time reading through these.

Listen to the podcast with the play button at the bottom of the post.

Enjoy!

Despite the ongoing saga of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I’ve carved out some of my precious weekend to present you with … yet another DDTC Podcast!

Winter is (effectively) here, which means sometimes delays in getting to my Local Comic Book Store. Still, I managed to pick up my pull list and read it in plenty of time (hours, at least) for the podcast … WHEREIN we highlight some pretty good stuff that came out this week, some excellent titles to hop onto right now, a cover with women who aren’t about to fall out of their costumes. Also, I wax lyrical the 200th issue of Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo. Go, Stan, go!

The podcast link’s down at the bottom of the post. Enjoy!

See you next week!

Another week, another bucket o’ comic books to review.  Lots of good news for Marvel, ratings-wise; not so good for the end of the second month of DC’s New 52. But we get a video to review as well, so that should be fun.

Comic book covers galore … (hover over them for the ratings):

I neglected to mention that Jessica Jones, in Alias above, is the character that Bendis has brought in (along with Luke Cage) into his long run on the various Avengers titles. Not quite as good as in the original, but, then, she’s not the focus of the books.

Big, big week in terms of number of comics, and short, short week in terms of my time being able to read them.  But I managed to plow through, in service of you, my several listeners.  Some great stuff, and not so great stuff, including a passel of Issue 2s from DC, the end of both “Fear Itself” and “Uncanny X-Men” from Marvel.

By the way, I misspoke in the podcast — Avengers Prime was a follow-up series to the “Seige” arc in the Marvel Universe, which followed up the “Dark Reign” arc that I cited. These cross-over events get a bit tiring to keep straight.

Another week, another comic book review podcast.  This outing we get some good and some bad, as usual, plus some Questionable Content.

In post-podcast reading, I discover that JLA: Age of Wonder was originally published as a two-part comic in 2003. Which explains why it’s showing up in a DC age that’s anything but.

Lucky Thirteen! We touch on some continuing books and some new titles out this week.

As always, I welcome recommendations for new titles to try out or review.

UPDATE: I realized, after I had the podcast put to bed, that I hadn’t explained really why I thought Action Comics #2 is the best cover for the week. It’s certainly not a Big Action (so to speak) cover, but it has a restrained fury, a menace, that works on a number of levels — the menace of guns on Clark, and the observers in the window, and the restraints and headgear, but also the menace of this alien powerhouse, barely restrained but threatening possible bloody violence on his captors. It captures some of what Morrison’s trying to bring to the Superman mythos quite nicely.

This was a long one, probably mostly because there were so many good or key comics out I wanted to discuss.  We get the wrap-up of the New 52 premieres, a lot of problems with inkers and colorists, a great kid’s book (Possessions), and a remarkable new/old Graphic Novel, out just this week.

Here are the covers:

Top-rated titles this week:

• Mighty Thor #6
• New Avengers #16.1
• Batwoman #1
• Possessions Vol 1
• Rachel Rising #2
• New Teen Titans “Games”

(No New 52, ahem.)

Another block of weekly comic reviews, for your listening pleasure.  This week, we take on more of Marvel’s “Fear Itself,” “Schism,” but, more importantly, a big week in the DC “New 52” extravaganza.

Covers are shown below (and you can hover over them and see my ratings out-of-five-stars).

For those who are wondering what all the kerfuffle is about on Catwoman and Red Hood and the Outsiders, you can look here for a great article all about it by Laura Hudson. It includes a variety of illustrations from the actual comics in question, which may or may not be safe for work.

Issue 10! Be sure and buy all the alternative covers!

This episode we talk about more DCnU New 52 Issue 1s, what DC has done to two of the most enjoyable female characters in the DCU and (unfortunately) why, and a graphic novel of a comic I am far too late in the game in following: Morning Glories.

Also … WTF happened to the Batwoman #1 on my pull list?!  Unhappy …

This week, we talk about the next wave of DCnU titles debuting, get a chunk of Dynamite action, and talk about Matt Wagner’s old “Trinity” series.  There were a lot of comics I liked a lot this week, but nothing new that was amazing. (Though I still managed to fill 21 minutes of podcast, eek!)

If there’s a comic you think I should be reading, or that you want to hear a review about, let me know.

If you have suggestions for changes in format — longer bits on fewer comics, for example — let me know that, too!

Excelsior!

It’s the Labor Day Comic Books podcast that everyone’s been waiting for, huzzah! This week we look at the changing of the guard at DC, the final issue of Flashpoint that Changes Everything Forever (sh’yeah), and the first issue of Justice League. Also some Marvel X.1 issue, the end of Greg Pak’s run on Incredible Hulk(s), the beginning of Warren Ellis on Secret Avengers, and some shiny Serenity goodness.

See you next week!