At the point when Mongo said "He wrote Long Halloween" this came to mind


I was a bit surprised by the fact that Mongo was pretty much the deciding factor on this one (again). I know Beeslo doesn't follow DC, but I expected Link to have at least heard of how terrible Robinson's JLA run has been. I'm glad he's not attached to any of the relaunch titles. You all pretty much summed up how everyone feels about Loeb: he was great but when his son died he just lost that spark and hasn't completely recovered yet.

On a side note about Heroes: Tim Sale was also a big part of the show and contributed to all of the art in the first season, but he left during the strike.

Not surprised to hear that Beeslo is done with the week to week collecting. But didn't you stop like a year ago though? Or at least cut back in a huge way? I'm all for the idea of having someone focus on indy titles, but if each of you tackle a different branch of comics, how are discussions going to stay interesting when none of you are all reading the same book(s)? Say for instance come this fall there's most likely going to be a show about DC post relaunch and Marvel post Fear Itself/X-Men relaunch; is it going to be just one person talking for a third of the show while the other two interject with "ohh that's cool/lame". Not to sound corny, but I do genuinely enjoy the dichotomy the three of you have going and I just don't want it to suffer for the sake of keeping the show a (mostly) comic book podcast. What I'm trying to say is: if you have to change things up for the better, do it.


Oh and what ever happened to that Mongo vs Food challenge in Texas and the Beeslo Superman 64 punishment hmmmm?

I totally sympathize with Beeslo. I started out reading 90% Marvel and 10% Others (Mostly DC). After all the events I just got bored with it. These days I mostly read Image and Vertigo books since their writers have total control of what happens with their characters. If Spiderman constantly throws himself into life threatening situations but you as a reader know they'll never kill him (at least not without it being in bold letters on the cover of the issue), then where's the suspense?

I love allot of Marvel's and DC's characters too (especially Marvel's). And I still read some Marvel and DC for many of the reasons you gave.

While I do think a real feeling of suspense in an action driven comic is important, I think what Im really looking for is more creative control for the writers. I wish they could go back to writing every character within their own universe, and let crossovers be something special. For example that way JMS can write his Thor story without having to quickly wrap it up before it even starts to make time for Siege, go into a rampaging hissy fit and quit.

Marvel does a great job crossing over characters, making it all feel like a huge vast universe. The thing that in the end bothered me to much about the events were that they were "EVENTS". I would've rather seen team-ups against everyday villains. I find that those stories are the most enjoyable ones.
The big events don't work since they're not willing to commit to them. Since they're at the end of the day more or less back to the status quo (Goliath doesn't count). IMO House of M was the last event that really shook things up. But then again, that was 95% an X-Men event so not really a crossover per se.

I guess what Im getting at is, while Im reading the events Im enjoying the crossover stuff. But it's the ending the endings that kill it for me.

Yeah, JMS acted like a total dick, no a back of dicks, but in a weird way I sort of end up defending him more often than I should. I think I just like his stuff so much. I wish they would've let him do his own thing with Thor.

awesome title card. as always.