In our Funnybooks podcast, we focus on current events, and usually large events.  Most times, the conversations are constrained so that we can fit everything into an hour or so, but here at Funnybooks After Hours the discussion continues to topics not covered, greater questions of events in comic past or whatever else strikes our fancy.

Walking up the alley, you are unsure if this is the right place.  A non-descript door halfway down the alley catches your eye and after a brief scan of the area, you see the marker that indicates that this is in fact the place.  Etched into a brick above the building is a bat symbol with an ‘X’ through the middle and a lightning bolt below it.

Knocking on the door, you hear a grating sound as a man with a luchador mask and vampire fangs opens the door, “What’s the password?” he asks.  “Beak is lame” you reply, nodding as he steps aside.  Visibility is limited, but as you look around you realize that you found the place.  Stepping up to the microphone, the five recliners are set up on a small stage in the back, as the crew eagerly awaits the question that drove you all the way here, to this secret place.

This week’s question:

Describe your perfect comic book store.  What would it entail?  What products would you have?  How would it differ from what you normally see?

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We’re all about excrement this week on Funnybooks!  From ass webs to armor pooping, Aron, Paul, Wayne, Jonathon, and Tim chat about the week’s comics through a crappy Skype connection.

• Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1
• Heroic Age: Prince of Power #3
• Avengers #3
• New Avengers #2
• Legion of Super-Heroes #3
• Amazing Spider-Man #638 (OMIT)
• New Mutants #15
• X-Men Phoenix Force Handbook
• Thunderbolts #126
• Welcome to Tranquility #1
• Dark Wolverine #88
• INDY SPOTLIGHT:
  • Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour
  • Neonomicon #1
  • Time Lincoln #1
• Getting into Comics E-Mail from Liam ODC

NOTE: Skype was giving us fits as we recorded.  Clarity was in and out.  Also, we endured a certain amount of lag.  Apologies that the sound quality is not up to our usual standards.

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Your Funnybooks chaps Paulie, Wayne, and Tim have a delightful chat with current Avengers Academy writer, Christos Gage. There’s so much goodness in this interview, that we have to describe it with exclamation points. Marvel at how Christos calls Tim “Chip” repeatedly! Find out the startling secret of how Christos got into writing comics! Discover the Top Cow project that he’s writing that won’t be announced to everyone else until this weekend at Comic Con! Gasp as we discuss the ending of Avengers: The Initiative and the beginning of Avengers Academy! Tense up with anticipation as we discuss the film adaptation of Paradox, Christos’ first creator-owned title! And rush out to your comic shop to buy his new mini-series, Spider-Man/Fantastic Four!

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UPDATED WITH THE MAD RAVINGS OF ARON HEAD!  READ AFTER THE JUMP!

In our Funnybooks podcast, we focus on current events, and usually large events.  Most times, the conversations are constrained so that we can fit everything into an hour or so, but here at Funnybooks After Hours the discussion continues to topics not covered, greater questions of events in comic past or whatever else strikes our fancy.

Walking up the alley, you are unsure if this is the right place.  A non-descript door halfway down the alley catches your eye and after a brief scan of the area, you see the marker that indicates that this is in fact the place.  Etched into a brick above the building is a bat symbol with an ‘X’ through the middle and a lightning bolt below it.

Knocking on the door, you hear a grating sound as a man with a luchador mask and vampire fangs opens the door, “What’s the password?” he asks.  “Beak is lame” you reply, nodding as he steps aside.  Visibility is limited, but as you look around you realize that you found the place.  Stepping up to the microphone, the five recliners are set up on a small stage in the back, as the crew eagerly awaits the question that drove you all the way here, to this secret place.

This week’s question:

We’re restarting Marvel Team Up.  What two characters do you want to put into the first issue?  What would it be about?

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The countdown to Paul’s intervention continues as he shocks and horrifies us with reviews and observations.  Join Aron, Tim, Wayne and Jonathan for yet another horrific episode featuring Paulie’s desperate spiral into madness.

• Choose Your Corey!
• Nicholas Cage and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and a movie discussion that ends badly.
• BRIGHTEST DAY UPDATE
  • Booster Gold #34
  • Justice League: Generation Lost #5
• Daredevil #508 (Shadowland)
• Batman #701
• The Thanos Imperative #2
• SECOND COMING UPDATE
  • X-Men: Second Coming #2
  • Second Coming Revelations Hellbound #3
• Uncanny X-Men: Heroic Age #1
• Avengers Academy #2
• Amazing Spider-Man #637 (Grim Hunt Finale)
• Gorilla Man #1
• INDY SPOTLIGHT
  • The Man with the Getaway Face
  • Superman #701

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Paul and I can’t tell time.

Specifically, we can’t convert the time difference between the U.S. and the U.K.  Fortunately, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning have mastered such pedantic concepts as time, thus affording us the opportunity chat with them one Saturday morning.

We chat about Dan’s novel work in the Warhammer 40K universe such as Gaunt’s Ghosts, his passion for Cthulhu, and a whole lot about his affection for role playing games such as Traveller.  Of course it’s a comics podcast and it’s DnA, so we talk about their origins in writing Marvel’s cosmic books and go deep, deep, deep into their current event and it’s impact on Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova…. we discuss Rocket Raccoon and even Groot and of course the big event itself… The Thanos Imperative.

Fhtagn!

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When you’re listening to Paul’s InterventionCast at some future date, you’ll know that his long, desperate spiral into depravity started here.    Bookmark this page, then join Aron, Jonathan, Wayne, and Tim as they listen in stupefied horror while Paul confesses his sins absent even one ounce of shame.

• Paul’s (other)moral dilemma
• How much does color really matter?
• Shadowland #1
• HEROIC AGE UPDATE!!!!!
  • Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #1
  • Vengeance of the Moon Knight #10
• BATMAN UPDATE!!!!
  • Batman And Robin #13
  • Red Robin #14
• X-MEN UPDATE!!!!
  • X-Force #28
  • X-Men #1
• Fantastic Four Annual #32
• NEW SERIES SPOTLIGHT!!!!
  • Hit-Monkey #1
  • Marvelman Family’s Finest #1
  • Brigade #1
  • Scarlet #1
  • Batman: Odyssey #1
  • Steve Rogers: Super Soldier #1
  • Thor: The Mighty Avenger #1
• Jonathan catches us up on what he read while he was away

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In our Funnybooks podcast, we focus on current events, and usually large events.  Most times, the conversations are constrained so that we can fit everything into an hour or so, but here at Funnybooks After Hours the discussion continues to topics not covered, greater questions of events in comic past or whatever else strikes our fancy.

Walking up the alley, you are unsure if this is the right place.  A non-descript door halfway down the alley catches your eye and after a brief scan of the area, you see the marker that indicates that this is in fact the place.  Etched into a brick above the building is a bat symbol with an ‘X’ through the middle and a lightning bolt below it.

Knocking on the door, you hear a grating sound as a man with a luchador mask and vampire fangs opens the door, “What’s the password?” he asks.  “Beak is lame” you reply, nodding as he steps aside.  Visibility is limited, but as you look around you realize that you found the place.  Stepping up to the microphone, the five recliners are set up on a small stage in the back, as the crew eagerly awaits the question that drove you all the way here, to this secret place.

This week’s question:

What was your favorite movie based on a comic book?

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This new comic book day, we’ve got something a little different for you – an interview you have to read instead of listen to!

Novelist/comic writer/awesome dude Gregg Hurwitz has been on the show before, and we talked about all manner of cool goodness, including Vengeance of the Moon Knight, his new novel Trust No One (at the time), and the TV show V.

Nowadays, Gregg is pretty busy on tour with his new book, They’re Watching (see if he’s coming to your town here), and gearing up for production on the second season of V but, awesome guy that he is,  in the first of many interviews in the coming months on Shadowland, he spent some time chatting with us about Shadowland: Moon Knight, his new novel They’re Watching, and hints at just what may be coming up for Moon Knight.  After all, Vengeance of the Moon Knight #10 (released TODAY!) is the last issue solicited…

Read after the jump for all the awesome info!

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We’ve been at this podcast business for a year now.  We’ve had 52 weekly episodes (this is episode 53), plus 24 New Comic Book Day Interviews. In a podcast chock full of awesome transitions, we talk about summer movies, reflect on how a year’s worth of comics podcasting has changed us, and talk about the week’s comics.  Join Aron, Paul, Wayne and Tim for their first anniversary show.

• Twilight Saga: Eclipse and this summer’s movies
• Brightest Day Update
  • Blackest Night Aftermath: Action Comics 890
  • The Flash #3
  • Green Lantern #55
  • Wayne’s video from Metropolis
• Heroic Age Update
  • Secret Avengers #2
  • Death of Dracula
• Wonder Woman #600 (and here’s the article to which Tim refers)
• Doomwar #5
• Thor #611
• Batman Beyond #1
• Invincible Iron Man Annual
• JSA #40
• Indy Spotlight:
  • After Dark #0
  • Mindfield #1
  • Dragon Age #2
  • Invincible 73
  • Atomic Robo and the Revenge of the Vampire Dimension
• Casper and the Spectrals #2 – P
• X-Men Curse of the Mutants Saga
• One Year of Podcasting….and what’s coming up

Follow us on Twitter:

• Aron
• Paul
• Jonathan
• Wayne
• Tolly
• Since Tim doesn’t Twitter, feel free to just follow him about town.

(Edit: We reference a Black Panther run in this episode, and incorrectly attribute it to Charlie Huston, and not Reggie Hudlin, the real writer.  We apologize for the error.  Thanks Michael!)

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