VIOLENCE NEVER SOLVES ANYTHING (except for crossword puzzles where the answer is “violence”) What do you do when your comics, which are mainly sold by newsstands, become too much trouble for too little profit by those same vendors? Simple, you reprint old material, blow it up to enormous proportions and slap a price tag on it more than five times the cost of a single issue! Now, you know my style pretty well by now, my fellow front-facer, so there’s no question that I like to write about comics with profound pontifications, filled with meaningful metaphors or beaming with evocative eloquence.
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Kieron Gillen returns to the show to talk about the end of his runs on Uncanny X-Men and Journey Into Mystery. We then get into his newer work, including the brand new Iron Man and Young Avengers series! Plus, we talk about his upcoming Image book with Ryan Kelly, Three…and of course, we talk about his awesome podcast, Decompressed! We also go through some listener questions and so much more!
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As the final issues of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America, Matt Fraction’s Iron Man, Jonathan Hickman’s FF, and Kieron Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men and Journey Into Mystery hits the stands, Pat and Antonio talk about their favorite moments from this amazing era of Marvel Comics history. We delve into the aforementioned runs, as well as Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force, Brian Bendis’ Avengers and so much more. We discuss what makes these runs so special, and we even go through some listener comments. Plus, we take a quick look at what’s coming next in Marvel NOW, and get into which books excite us the most!
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