Hello welcome to the first Comic Impact virtual date…with Sheldon. That’s right Simon can no longer come between us, it’s just you, me, and all our common comic book love. Since there is no one to stop me I picked Vertigo Comics Trillium #3 by Jeff Lemire as my Pick of the Week for October 2nd 2013! And look just because Simon isn’t around to chit chat with us doesn’t me I can’t give you a smattering of the different books I read this week so if you don’t like my pick it’s cool baby maybe you will like All New X-Men,Elephantmen, Forever Evil,Quantum & Woody,The Star Wars,Captain America:Living Legend & Earth 2! See lots of great books to hear me go on and on and on and on and on about. Don’t act like you don’t love it. All right my babies I will talk to you in 7 days! Shelly Out!
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1 We love you 2 Welcome to The Pick of The Week for August 7th 2013!! This week Sheldon had the Pick and went with the first issue of what will be a eight issue Sci-Fi Classic from Jeff Lemire! That’s right he went with Trillium from Vertigo/DC Comics! Sci -Fi not your biz? It’s cool we got ya covered because Simon and Sheldon also talk about All New X -Men,Ironman, Quantum and Woody, Avengers A.i and that other Sci- Fi Classic of a book from Boom Comics Planet of The Apes! So have a seat and grab your favorite beverage as both Sheldon and Simon comb through the books that made August 7th what it was!
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Hey Comic Impact! Sorry for the delay but I’ve been making my transition from North Carolina back to New York. I hope to be back soon doing The Impact and Pick of the Week podcasts with Simon and Sheldon pretty soon. They’ve been doing a great job so go listen to them. On to the best of last week! Also, this will be the last Top 5 Comics of the Week, listen to The Impact this week for the new things we will be doing on Comic Impact!
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Hey Comic Impact it is time for the Pick of the Week podcast for the comics for the week of January 9th 2013. Simon went with one of his favorite this time, Sweet Tooth #40 by Jeff Lemire. Simon’s co- hosts this week was Pat and Antonio. Pat is loving Transformers: Robots in Disguise from IDW and tells us why you need to be reading End Times of Bram and Ben from Image comics. Antonio talks to us about how you need to give love a chance as he talks to us about Swamp Thing #16 and Superior Spider-Man #1.
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This is it Bat Fans! Sheldon gets to check in with writer extraordinaire Scott Snyder! If the name sounds familiar, and it should, it is because you know him from writing such books as Batman, Swamp Thing and American Vampire. So he has done a few things you might say. We get to check in with him about his current Court of Owls and newly announced Death of the Family featuring the return of The Joker! We also talk a bit about his current grow out fest with Swamp Thing and he shed’s little light on American Vampires next big story arch! Get it? Cause they are Vampires! Any way it is ALWAYS a treat to talk to the man behind some of the best Bat stories of the last 20 years! So sit back and enjoy more of our exciting coverage from Comic Con!
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Woo hoo! Susan has the pick this week and she only has Sheldon to talk to about it. While it’s semi-sad (and a bit like an awkward date), those two powered through some of the best books of the week. The actual pick was The New Deadwardians #1, another new Vertigo title. Susan is really loving those! Sheldon also showed some Marvel love with Daredevil and Mighty Thor, but this was mostly the way Susan likes it – all DC, all the time. The two covered Flash, Justice League Dark, I Vampire, and Teen Titans. Enjoy the short show, because we don’t do those very often. And, remember that no matter what, hamster wheels are not the same as love. Take care, ComicImpact!
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Personally, I think that this might be an epic “Pick of the Week” podcast from ComicImpact. Maybe I think that, because I had the pick. Maybe it’s because we actually stick to the topic at hand (comics!). Maybe it’s because the Internet a reliable source for defining words. Who knows? I know that Fairest #1 is the pick and that epic tale has enough epicness to leak onto our little podcast. The lightning round is a nice addition. At least when it involves JLI, Hulk, and Huntress. Plus, Simon cries! Beyond that, we talk The Rot and Brubaker. You know. The usual stuff that we gush about. Throw in a bit of Hickman and Ultimate Spidey, and you have Episode 254!
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Happy Saturday Comic Impact fans and fans of comics books alike. Welcome to a special edition of the POW (Pick of The Week) I’m sure you asking yourself. “What’s so special about this episode?” Well it’s online and ready for you to enjoy on a Saturday so that you have something to listen to on your way home from New York Comic Con 2011. Oh wait you did not go to NYCC? Then you enjoy the amazing podcast where the boys talk about there favorite books for the week October 12th 2011 such as Ultimate Spider-man #3,Green Lantern #2,Uncanny X-force #16,Batman and Robin #2,Punisher #4, Shade #1,Batwoman #2,Superboy #2 and more. Simon had hard time picking his pick because of the ridiculous amount of amazing comics that come out last week yet after much debate, he went with AmericanVampire Survival of the Fittest # 5 by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy.
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AH! What a lovely day for blood and terror. I feel like “June Gloom” is a missed opportunity for a lot of horror to be watched and read. It has an added benefit of the sun breaking through, much the way it does at the end of a vampire or monster movie, providing the main characters with hope. Personally, I find it adds to the kitsch factor, which is not always a bad thing. Sometimes clichés are clichés for a reason. Welcome to Horror on the 13th – the “June Gloom” edition! Once again, I’m forced to choose between a number of excellent horror titles, but – since June also happens to be my birthday month – I decided to go with some personal favorites. I will touch on more of the recent June books in my horror segment on “Did You Catch All That?” On to the horror that makes me tingle with happy!
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How was your rapture? Good to know that you’re still here and on the same page as us. You know what the best thing to do after a rapture is? Listening to the Comic Impact Podcast as we talk about the books for May, 18th 2011, and guess what the best book around was? That’s right Simon went with Hellblazer #279 by Peter Milligan and artwork by Giuseppe Camuncoli. Join us as Ken talks about how much he hates the Scarlet Witch and Ian talks about how he would love to see Jean Grey back in the X-Men Universe as we discuss X-Men Giant Size #1. Also, find a bit more about what’s going on with Archangel in Uncanny X-Force and Simon confesses his fear of ginger kids as we talk about Batman and Robin #23. Also this week, we talk about Batman Gates of Gotham #1, Invincible Iron Man #504, Avengers #13,Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #158, Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates#4 (OF 6), X-Men Prelude To Schism #2 (OF 4) and more.
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Horror – the genre has been around since the movie industry started, because who doesn’t love a good scare, right? Guess what. There are also horror comics, and they have been around a long time, too. The problem with horror comics is the exact same problem that horror movies have. There are so many of them made all the time, and there is no way to tell whether or not they are going to be awesome or terrible. That is where I come in.
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A year ago this week, I was having a tough time of compiling a scaled down “Best of the Year” list due to the unexpected flurry of note-worthy material released during 2009. Now I find the task even harder considering the avalanche of great releases that saw print in 2010. A chief reason for this is the recent explosion of exceptional archival comic strip collections, lavish artist career overviews, and beautifully produced art books by publishers like Fantagraphics, IDW, and Flesk Publications. Add to this numerous comic book mini-series, one-shots, and monthly titles more than worthy of note and you have a year that would command any sequential art enthusiast’s attention. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at some of the great material that hit the shelves in 2010!
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Last week we launched a new weekly video feature here at ComicImpact called “New This Week.” Every week we will post a short video about the books that are coming out on Wednesday that we are excited for or just curious about. You might end up hearing about them on the POW (Pick of the Week) or read about them in a reviews on the site. On new this week join Sheldon as he talks to you about what’s coming out on September 1st 2010 and remember to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes.
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There is something enticing about tales of addiction, shame, and degradation that easily draws the reader into the skeleton-filled closets of the author. What exactly that attraction stems from is something I’ve been considering a lot since reading the sensational graphic novel The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel, now available in trade paperback from Vertigo.
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