Aron, Wayne, and Jonathan prepare for Fear The Con 3 while Paul stays at the office to mind the store.

• Deadpaul Corps
• Three Tales of Full-Bellied Puking
• The real reason why Paul didn’t attend Fear the Con 3
• Marvel’s plans for New Avengers
• Punisher gets re-titled
• We are the X-Men
• X-Men: Second Coming… Prepare!

We also include in this episode Paul’s interview with Lucifer writer Mike Carey.  Carey’s comics work includes X-Men: Legacy for Marvel and The Unwritten for DC’s Vertigo imprint.  Also of note are his Felix Castor novels, which sound pretty damned cool.

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From left to right: Aron, Tim, Jonathan, and Wayne. Not featured is Paul who was too full of fail to be present.

Four out of five hosts agree, Fear the Con 3 in St. Louis rocked!

For the first time, the four of us met face-to-face.  Tim, Wayne, and Jonathan are just as great guys as you’d think they are.  Truly, excellent fellows to call friends.

Paul was sorely missed, but I think we’ll get him to the next one.

Something that surprised me at the con was how much Funnybook love was shared.  Many people pulled me aside telling me how much they enjoyed the show.  I talked comics with lots and lots of new friends.  I cannot begin to tell you how amazing it was!

This week, Aron provides marital advice while Jonathan, Wayne and Paul take notes.

• Siege Update
  • Invincible Iron Man #24
  • The Mighty Avengers #34
• Justice League: Cry for Justice #7
• Fall of the Hulks Update
  • Savage She Hulks #1
• Green Hornet #1
• Ultimate Avengers #5
• New Ultimates #1
• What if were writing the Ultimate Universe?

At GenCon 2009, Aron was on a panel about the work which goes on behind the podcast.  With folks from TrapCast and The Brilliant Gameologists, social networking and community building are discussed.  Check it out!

Also, Kicked in the Dicebags’ fiftieth episodes was released this weekend!  It’s awesome because Chris and Jonathan aren’t on it and Aron is!  Enjoy a cultured, sophisticated Kicked in the Dicebags.

Stay tuned to the site in the coming week for lots of Fear The Con coverage.

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The Red Lantern ring travels around the table this week as we get our rage on about Marvel’s complete disregard about anything approaching continuity…  Tim joins the the show from his mobile studio to update Aron, Paul, and Wayne on Teen Titans managing to rock some rage his own self…

• SausageFest
• Blackest Night Update
  • Blackest Night #7
  • Blackest Night: JSA #3
• Siege Update
  • New Avengers #62
  • Avengers: The Initiative #33
  • Thor #607
  • Dark Wolverine #83
  • Thunderbolts #141
• Fall of the Hulks
  • Red Hulk #2
• Flash Rebirth #6
• Teen Titans #80
• Fantastic Four #576
• Ultimate Enemy #2
• Clone Saga #6
• Amazing Spider-Man #622
• Ms. Marvel #50
• X-Men Forever #18
• Who must die in Siege?

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FULL DISCLOSURE: This is our second recording with Agents of Atlas Writer Jeff Parker.  Our first interview with Jeff was awesome covering the full span of his admirable body of work.  Where can you download that episode you ask?  No where, that’s where!

Due to a colossal failure of technology and technician, we lost that episode (aka FailCast).  Fortunately, Jeff Parker returned for a second review.  And this time, we pushed RECORD.

THE SHOW: We talk about all kinds of cool stuff such as Fall of the Hulks, Agents of Atlas, The Uranian, reprints in Marvel Comics, sad comic conventions,the value of new ideas, Portland, mustaches, DC vs Marvel, Doctor Rape, his Image comic Underground and Parker’s upcoming stint as college professor.  And much, much more.

This interview was one of the most enjoyable we’ve done.  Parker’s a hoot.  Thanks for your patience, Professor Parker.

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Aron returns from his journeys across the snow-ravaged lands of New England to rejoin Paul, Wayne, and Jonathan for another rousing discussion of the week in comics…

• Paul hates on fatties while we talk about Kevin Smith, encroaching, and Smodcast #106 and #107
• Geoff Johns and Jim Lee get promotions over at DC Comics and Jonathan feels similar changes should occur at Marvel
• BLACKEST NIGHT UPDATE
  • Blackest Night Flsh #3
  • Green Lantern Corps #45
  • Green Lantern #51
  • Adventure Comics #7
• SIEGE UPDATE
  • Dark Avengers #14
• Haunt #5
• Doomwar #1
• FALL OF THE HULKS UPDATE
  • Hulk #20
  • Incredible Hulk #607
• Deadpool #19
• Hit Monkey #1
• Atomic Robo V4 #1 – Revenge of the Vampire Dimension
• Paul’s Surprise Topic
• We talked a bit about old radio serials.  Here are a few favorites:
  • The Old Time Radio Superman Show (on iTunes, on the Web)
  • The Shadow Podcast (on iTunes, on the Web)
  • Green Hornet (on iTunes, on the Web)
• Vengeance of the Moon Knight writer and V consulting producer Greg Hurwitz (starts at 01:27).

And if you haven’t gotten enough of Paul and Jonathan, please be sure to check out this week’s episode of Kicked in the Dicebags (episode released week of 02/21/2010 – NOTE: Extremely explicit content on KITDB).

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In this week’s extraordinarily disorganized episode of Funnybooks, Paul, Wayne, and Jonathan talk about all manner of mildly interesting, and semi-comic book related, topics.

• Paul’s alcoholism
• Why Heroes sucks, but apparently Lost is good
• Jonathan keeps trying to convince people that Eddie Brock should be Spider-Man, Sentry is a cool character, and that X-Men: Second Coming is going to be good
• Wayne, for some reason, still likes X-Man
• X-Factor: Forever
• We try to figure out who the hell the Secret Avengers are going to be, and mock the new Avengers line-up
• We chat a lot about all of the recent Marvel announcements
• And, most importantly, we try to figure out where the hell Aron is.

All this, plus midget strippers, Lois Lane in a Wonder Woman costume, and why X-Men: Second Coming should happen at least a half hour after the first one.

Please note that, due to our editor being plastered, the recording actually goes on past the ending of the episode, and you hear us ramble on about next week’s comics, and once more talk about Spider-Man: The Gauntlet – a rare look into the mind of some madmen.

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Eisner Award winning writer Matt Fraction joins the conversation this week.  We chat about his stellar work on Iron Man, his upcoming run on Thor, Free Comic Book Day, and the return of Kitty Pryde.

Please note that this post will be at the top through Thursday – play it in a pop up window while you cruise below for the latest news!

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Aron, Paulie, Wayne and Jonathan chat about truck wrecks, comic book movies and tv shows, and all the while Wayne maintains a positive outlook.

• Planet Hulk on DVD
• Smallville “Absolute Justice”
• Blackest Night Update
• Siege Update
  • Siege #2
  • Siege: Embedded #2
  • Invincible Iron Man #23
• Red Robin #9
• Justice Society of America Annual #2
• Cable
• Ultimate X #1
• Milestone Forever #1
• The Defense of Spider-Man
• What if We Were Writing Spider-Man?

Stay tuned after the credits for the announcement of  our UNWRITTEN contest winners.

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Tim and Wayne join Aron and Paulie for our weekly round table.

• It’s a miracle, BAM!
• iPad’s possible effects on both the comic print and digital business
• Blackest Night Update
  • Green Lantern #50
  • The Atom & Hawkman #46
  • Blackest Night JSA #2
• Siege Update
  • Captain America Reborn #6
  • Thor #606
  • Avengers: The Initiative #32
  • New Avengers #61
• Batman Update
  • Batman and Robin #7
  • Detective Comics #861
  • World’s Finest #4
• Justice League: Cry for Justice #6
• Justice League of America #41
• Fantastic Four #575
• Teen Titans #79
• Ultimate Enemy #1
• Secret Warriors #2 #12
• Neverland #0

Stay tuned after the end credits for our Indy Comic Book Week Sampler winners announcement!

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