We start out the show with a recap of our N3rd adventures at the Willard Rehab Facility.

We recap Kwip and his caring and compassionate nature as leader of a caravan of cars and our adventures on and about the grounds of Kwip's uncles house. The scariest thing we found was how SCARY AWESOME Kwip's relatives were at being hosts. I was eating their brownies until yesterday. Delicious. Here's the pics I took of the trip. My wife looks hot. So does Kwip. Also, Bini crawls in a morgue box thing. It's a hoot.

Also, despite Kwip's public service in helping you out by telling you about Zombies. In a crisis, do NOT rely on Kwip. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN! GRANDPA WILLIAMS WILL FUCKING STAB YOU and feed you to the ZOMBIES and tokyo-drift on your face.

We aren't sure why Penny Arcade, who runs the awesome PAX, decided to run with Reed, the people who so poorly handled our interactions with NYCC. But they did, so hopefully they will learn from their horrible treatment of the N3rds. They will RUE THE DAY!!! DO YOU RUE IT????

We talk about San Diego fall-out and chit-chat for a while about various and sundry topics regarding San Diego.

We talk about the comics this week. You don't need to know about them, just listen. It's the stuff we usually get.

I also talk about how stupid I feel that I don't understand Final Crisis or Grant Morrison at all. I feel like I should have a primer before reading each issue.

I sing the Heralds of Invincible Iron Man...I really enjoy it. No one else gets it...probably because we all hate the art.

So you know how sometimes we have little problems with the show? THEY WERE NOTHING! This week we had more problems than I could recount in this limited space. But it seems that most of those problems were related to Stickam. Not the fault of Stickam, of course - it’s pretty obvious that it was my fault. I mean, that’s a given with our show, right? Titles we spoil this week: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15, JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #40, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #11, HERO BY NIGHT VOL 1 HC, INFINITE HORIZON #1 (OF 6), INVINCIBLE #47, AVENGERS INITIATIVE ANNUAL #1 SII, HOWARD THE DUCK #3 (OF 4), MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #34, THE ORDER #5, TWELVE #0, ULTIMATES 3 #1 (OF 5) WHITE VAR , INFINITE HORIZON #1, RESURRECTION #1, YOU’LL HAVE THAT Vol 1, LIFE MAXX, VENICE IS SINKING, BOOMTOWN SCABS, GENERAL JACK COSMOS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #9, SHORTPACKED. When we’re not busy failing to broadcast on stickam, we recap all the books that Rusty picked up at the Mid-Ohio Comic Con. We also discuss comic pirates, gay Thor tributes, JMS thinks One More Day sucks, Rucka leaves, Slott stays, jerking off into tornados, shunning monster moms, hope for Shadowrun again, and the Swamp Thing lives - in Indonesia.

We’ve always liked BOOM! and thought they were pretty classy guys, and throwing a party for your fans definitely proves it.

Nobody but me cared, but hope for Shadowrun has been rekindled now that the IP has found a new home in an old face.

I think we need to go back to shunning. The Amish practice it and it works for them, so how can that be bad, right? And if you can’t give this mother the ass-kicking she obviously deserves, shunning’s not a bad alternative.

You could tell me a lot of things about the SciFi channel and I’d believe them without question. I love the *concept* of a Sci-Fi channel, but the execution is - well, it’s bad. They make ridiculous choices, produce Gord-awful movies, and seem completely retarded at times. But do I believe they’d lie about viewer stats? I’m afraid so. It’s the only way I can explain this.

The X-Files movie sucked. Sorry, but it did. I hate the alien conspiracy storyline because it went all over the place but didn’t advance the story in the slightest. It was much more fascinating when you didn’t know what was going on. When they set out to actually answer questions, it turned to complete shit. So it’s not exactly like I have high hopes for any future movies. But I do like Xzibit. And it’s not like he could make the movie any WORSE. So long as they get Gillian to make out with another hot chick (thus the tie-in with Amanda Peet), I’m fine.

If I could have gotten the mics working correctly, I would have shown everyone the new GTA IV trailer. I like the GTA series; they’re very fun and a superb useage of open-ended gameplay. I just wouldn’t let my kids play them.

I used to enjoy the movie Twister. Never again.

We love Dan. Someday, when he joins in wedded bliss with Gail Simone and they adopt us as their illegitimate love children and read us bedtime stories every night before tucking us in to bed, all will be right with the world. But that can’t happen until Slott takes over Marvel, of course. Which really needs to happen soon. The guy is just too full of good ideas, and every time he talks it’s gold.

Rucka to DC: How ’bout go fuck yerself?

If you aren’t reading Initiative this is a good place to jump on and start enjoying the awesomeness that is Initiative.

Chris Eliopoulos is one of the deities in the N3RD Panth3on. They need to stop screwing around and get Franklin Richards out every month. At LEAST.

Poor JMS. I don’t know what sort of pressure was applied to him to force him to keep his name on the Gord-awful One More Day project, but I’m going to assume it involves his loved ones and hungry dogs. JMS thinks One More Day is fucking stupid, too!

The childhood trauma continues. Laugh now, because that little girl’s going to rule the world someday, mark my words.

You know, when the guys at GlintOfHope tell you they’ve found the gayest Thor tribute ever, they’re not kidding.

Now we know where inspiration for the Swamp Thing came from. And I think I’ll never sleep soundly again.

The comic book pirating debate continues. I don’t think there’s any way the pirates will ever win and I think they’re fighting a losing battle, but I’ll watch from the sidelines.

As always, there’s a lot of problems with the show this week. This time they mostly stem from the chatroom so the podcast isn’t horribly affected. The show does get boosted about 22 minutes in as I attempt to correct problems in the chatroom, so brace yourself (and your ears). I gave Dr. Sexy control over his levels this show, so don’t complain to me if you can’t hear him! I will say that we’ve found some new things to do with the chatroom webcams and although it’s not perfect, it does make for some interesting viewing. So if you get a chance, get into the chat room with us Saturday afternoons from 12-3.

A HORRIBLE recording as we try and put together a segment while driving back from the Baltimore Comic Con featuring show highlights. Because nobody asked for it: a special clip featuring Dr. Sexy and Kwip, completely drunk and being even bigger idiots than normal. Seriously. It’s BAD.

I’m not talking about the sound quality, although that alone is enough to make your eardrums drive themselves straight through your brain. No, I’m talking about the kind of drunken slurring and slurping that only the TRULY sloppy drunks can achieve.

Listening to this, I’m amazed that more people don’t want to hang out with us when we’re drunk. I mean - hello? Are we not the epitome of culture and sophistication?

Man. I think I actually licked the mic at one point while recording that. Isn’t THAT a pleasant image…

Again, for those of you still clueless on how links work (or suffering from poor color vision), you can listen to the show by clicking our Pu Pu Player below:

Remember, this Saturday’s our big debut on the Cringe Humor Radio Network. I think we’ve mentioned a few times we’re excited. We’re trying to lure Gail Simone into calling in, and we have it on good intel that she’s agreed to do so, if only to read her restraining order to me aloud over the phone.

Pshaw, like I’ll listen to THIS one…

If you’re one of the unfortunate souls that met us in Baltimore, why not drop us a line and let us know how we offended you. Methinks our email account will be pretty full after the binge drinking myself and a certain sexy member of the show did down there…

Email: N3RDCast@gmail.com
Skype: N3RDCast
Phone: 646-797-2763

Look, I’m not going to be subtle anymore: instead of listening to this episode, just stick an icepick in your ear. It’ll be about the same sound quality, and likely JUST as informative…

Titles we spoil this week: BOOSTER GOLD #1, FLASH #231, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12, PROGRAMME #2, CAPTAIN AMERICA #29, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #23, NEW X-MEN #41, SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #4, SUB-MARINER #3, SUPER VILLAIN TEAM UP MODOKS 11 #2, TERROR INC #1. We also discuss our day at the Lehigh Valley Comic Con, shrimping, we dissed Rusty, being next to CJ Henderson, meeting Chris Ring (and promptly getting his name wrong, good ol' Dutchy Digest, is Erica Henderson hot, RIP Mike Wieringo (and, uh, Mike Mignola’s cat), Manga blows, we love LunaticRadio.com, ChaosRadioShow.com, KomicsKast, Panelologists, and Comic Book Noise, send in your nominations for the Noisies!

It was nice being next to CJ Henderson, he’s a wondefully nice guy, but he’s TOO nice, because he talked me into buying half his damn library! It’s cool - he gave me several copies of "Cthulhu Sex" to share with Kwipette, so she didn’t beat me for spending all that money. Just, you know, for coming back with a bunch of Cthulhu Sex…

And, uh, don’t mention I was inquiring about his daughter, would you? With as many books as he’s written on the Cthulhu mythos, he’d probably have Hastur showing up at my door.

Chris Ring did a great pic of MODOK on his site, but I wish he had a copy of the print I bought to show you, it’s really great.

Dutchy Digest is the perfect companion to our profanity-laced selves. Granted, Bruce couldn’t do much when I was making lewd gestures towards the young girl in the mini-mini-MINI-schoolgirl skirt, but there you go.

RIP, Mike Weiringo. Everyone says you were a Hell of a guy, and I’m sorry I didn’t get to meet you. Mad props to Scott Kurtz for posting such a touching story about him.

Manga blows, Lunatic Radio and Chaos Radio are some great internet radio shows we’ve been digging, but you should also be listening to the Panelologists, the Comic Book Queers, KomicsKast, and Comic Book Noise. Oh! And Derek is taking nominations for the Noisies.

This week’s breakdown:

14:23 - Just the Tip
20:08 - Dr. Sexy’s Love Lounge
30:14 - HappyJack’s Hall Of Hate
36:18 - Kwip’s Clueless Corner
41:33 - Closing Thought(lessness)s

We were a bit short this week. Likely that's because we dissed Rusty and we were pretty damn tired after the show.

Some of the titles we spoil this week (because I forgot to write them down and am too lazy to look them all up): BATMAN #667, BLACK ADAM THE DARK AGE #1, COUNTDOWN 38, FABLES #64, GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE #3, GREEN LANTERN #22, JACK OF FABLES #13, DAREDEVIL #99, NEW AVENGERS #33, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #10, X-FACTOR #22, BOYS #9, BLACK SUMMER #1. We also discuss HappyJack’s honeymoon exploits, if the Comfort Inn Airport really an airport, Gail Simone is a goddess that gifts anything she touches (hopefully she’ll touch me), Color Of Magic on TV, Vinnie Jones is the man, Neil Young references cause fights, who said I hate Nightwing - I confess, I’m an idiot, Palmiotti’s a funny guy even if we do hate all his creations, what does a 99 entail, brief interruption with some terrible misogynist jokes, and check out our new format. It’s n3rdalicious!

Gail Simone is a blessing on anything she touches, but she really out-did herself on the Teen Raider cartoon. Check it out on Gametap’s website.

The preview of Jekyll looks pretty cool, I must admit. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get around to watching it since I never have any luck with my Pay Per View, but maybe I can pick it up on Pay Per View someday.

Despite the guys and I coming to blows over it, you can make up your own mind about Neil Young in a graphic novel.

I haven’t seen Hogfather yet, but supposedly it was very well done, so that offers some hope for Color of Magic.

Vinnie Jones is THE MAN. I’m not saying that a Juggernaut movie is a great idea or anything, but it’s cool that Vinne at least has a sense of humor about the whole thing. He’s still the best thing about that abomination X3.

So I had to catch a rash of shit for hating Nightwing. I still think he sucks. But still! Milo Ventimiglia is a dipshit for wanting to screw up the Batman franchise when it’s just barely got it’s feet back under it after the debacle it’s become.

So no, we don’t like anything he’s ever done (and Jason hates him because… Well, just because), but Palmiotti is funny as hell at the Who Wants to be a Hero panel.

The Lehigh Valley Comic Con isn’t on the scale of New York or Philadelphia, but Bruce tells us it’s a pretty good time. Doubtful we’ll get a table, but we might drag ourselves away for a weekend to check it out.

Dr. Sexy totally set me up for some crazy story to happen, but it turns out it was just a great night with an awesome writer. Joss is cool, what can we say?

Apparently, we can say a LOT of things. This show is the HOLY MACKEROLEE RELAUNCH of our show. I’m not sure why we felt the need, but I’m insane like that, so we’ve re-tooled the show with some new segments. If you’re in a rush or happen to hate one (or more) of us and want to jump through our segments, we break down like this:

13:06 - Just the Tip
17:54 - King of the Cons (with Mad Rusty)
27:17 - Dr. Sexy’s Love Lounge (a discussion of things that came out this week we loved)
43:55 - HappyJack’s Hall of Hate (a discussion of things that came out this week we hated)
57:15 - Kwip’s Clueless Corner (books for people that don’t have a clue about any comic universe/history/lore and just want a good read)

I keep catching crap from people because first, I don’t put our email address on the site. Then if they DO find it (by doing such terrible acts as listening to our show), they get mad when I don’t read their email “on air.� And I won’t even go into how rarely we use the Skype line (but in my defense, I have a LOT of trouble getting that damn thing working on the second computer). BUT - allow me to post here, in nice big letters, our contact info:

Email: N3RDCast@gmail.com
Skype: N3RDCast
Phone: 646-797-2763

I don’t know why I’m bothering, you’re not going to use it anyway! Oh, you SAY you will, but you never call… And who am I… After all I’ve done for you…

Titles we spoil this week: COUNTDOWN 39, DETECTIVE COMICS #835, FAKER #2, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #8, METAL MEN #1, MIDNIGHTER #10, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #9, DAREDEVIL BATTLIN JACK MURDOCK #3, DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN #7, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #11, NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI #4, NEW WARRIORS #3, SHE-HULK 2 #20, THOR #2, UNCANNY X-MEN #489, WORLD WAR HULK #3, CLOCKWORK GIRL #0, GARTH ENNIS CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD #6, KILLING PICKMAN #1. We also discuss how pedophiles (pedos) do NOT buy you good food, thank God Rob Leifield’s back because we need more pouches and shoulder pads, Dan Slott and Gail Simone are National Treasures (and also need to marry AND adopt me), a secret message for our one listener, have I mentioned I love the Panelologists, Jason Becker OBVIOUSLY owes EVERYTHING to us, a challenge to Palmiotti fans, and never trust an Aztec.

Does anyone else find the humor in the fact that we just finish talking about how pedophiles always bring McDonald's food to their prey and Dr. Sexy then thanks me for getting him some Bacon Egg & Cheese biscuits?

Kevin Smith really dropped the bomb on this asshole, and it's a beautiful moment. Love that guy. Not the asshole - I mean Kevin Smith. Seriously, though - you can’t mess with a guy that’s got the mic, you know? Well, unless you’re Joe Rogan.

Is the name “Pickman� from Killing Pickman from Pickman’s Model by HP Lovecraft?

These pics of the girls from the Comic Con are amazing. You have to have a lot of confidence in your body to dress up like Emma Frost, that’s all I’m saying. Fighting mutant killers with just those panties? Hawtness.

Palmiotti’s working on Defenders Of Freedom, a comic from the ACLU. No, seriously.

The Serenity Collector’s Edition is a must-have for me. It’s a shame, really: You could have the exact same thing as the original release, but put a new cover on it and tell me it’s a “Collector’s Edition?� Gotta have it.

Bill Willingham’s new project about the old super villains just sounds awesome. Can’t wait for that thing to come out.

Jason Becker: Hair Band Guitarist. That was a little weird when I was trying to tell people about him and they googled his name.

John Singleton has a tough choice ahead of him: Black Panther or Luke Cage. The way Black Panther’s being written nowadays, it’s no choice, it’s stupid as Hell. BUT - if you take the Priest run on Black Panther… Damn, that’s some good stuff, there.

Hero Envy’s Philly Recap is great stuff and I feel stupid for having taken so long to put a link up to it, but you can see us in all our glories in the coverage.

By now you’ve already read it everywhere else, but yeah, Marvel Super Hero comics are going on sale. I got the DC ones, so I’ll probably knuckle under and get the Marvel ones as well, since I’m dumb like that. Not impressed with their line-up (other than The Thing), though.

If you’re going to Chicago Wizard World, you really need to check out the Comic Book Queers’ Guide to Chicago. I sooooo wish we could make it. Next year!

Titles we spoil this week: CONAN #42, ACTION COMICS #852, ALL FLASH #1, COUNTDOWN 41, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #11, PROGRAMME #1, SHAZAM THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL #4, SPIRIT #8, SUPERMAN BATMAN #38, ANNIHILATION CONQUEST QUASAR #1, AVENGERS CLASSIC #2, AVENGERS INITIATIVE #4, CAPTAIN AMERICA #28, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #22, GHOST RIDER #13, NEW X-MEN #40, SUPER VILLAIN TEAM UP MODOKS 11 #1, THE ORDER #1, THUNDERBOLTS DESPERATE MEASURES, WORLD WAR HULK #2, LONE RANGER #7, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #5, HELLBOY DARKNESS CALLS #4, USAGI YOJIMBO #104, ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER #6, BATMAN #666, GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE #2, GREEN LANTERN CORPS #14, RIDE DIE VALKYRIE #2, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #542, ANNIHILATION CONQUEST STAR LORD #1, HEROES FOR HIRE #12, IMMORTAL IRON FIST #7, MIGHTY AVENGERS #4, SILVER SURFER REQUIEM #3, X-MEN #201, LOVE AND CAPES #5, RAISE THE DEAD #4, ALTER EGO #70. We also discuss how without Ted our sound just goes completely to hell, Dr Sexy has very strange Joker dreams seemingly brought on by the events at whysoserious.com, the “multipoo� of villains in Iron Man, the world’s most valuable comic book, TinTin’s a nazi, Watchmen’s site is up, PLB Comics got a nice article in the paper, vote for the Queers, MODOK’s personal hygiene called into question from a listener email (just one), the Noisies, the Last Will & Testament of Steve Rogers, Ballpark Hot Dog ads are the STUPIDEST ADS IN THE WORLD, Ikea has terrible instruction diagrams (because they’re Swedes), Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, and oh how we love TaTu!

The whole Joker recruitment drive thing is over, but you can read about the whole thing involving Whysoserious.com over at Comic Book Resources. I love that sort of stuff, so check it out.

I’m still scared of what could happen with The Watchmen on the big screen, although I do love Zack Snyder for what he did with 300. But… still, I’m afraid. You can check out what we have to focus on so far at the official site.

I’m not sure how much the world’s most valuable comic is going to go for at auction, but somehow I doubt my $25 would get me in on the bidding.

Tintin’s such a racist. Little nazi. And his dog, too.

PLB Comics are good guys, so it’s cool to see them discussed in a nice newspaper article. It makes for some good reading, and it’s worth reading because I love stories about folks getting into the comic industry and their hopes and dreams for what they can do.

Be sure to vote for Comic Book Queers at podcastawards.com. Vote every day!

Titles we spoil this week: BPRD GARDEN OF SOULS #5, BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #7, BATMAN STRIKES #35, COUNTDOWN 42, FABLES #63, GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE #1, GREEN LANTERN #21, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #7, MAD MAGAZINE #480, CONSUMED #1, DEADPOOL GLI SUMMER FUN SPECTACULAR, NEW AVENGERS #32, NOVA #4, SUB-MARINER #2, X-FACTOR #21, TICK COMIC CON EXTRAVAGANZA #1, and finally, TALES FROM THE PIMP (picked up at Wizard World Philly 07). Baltimore Comic Con hates the N3RDCast, Jason Becker’s got a kick-ass new book coming out, the Queen LOVES the wang, Pennsyltucky, DC Comics might just steal your characters - and they’re not the only ones that do this, copyright vs. trademark, Dr. Sexy getting fingercuffed, New Orleans, and HappyJack inviting more trouble from Hero Envy.

Jason Becker’s book Killing Pickman comes out soon, so make sure you check your store for it, because it’s really that awesome.

I’m an idiot - although I DID remember to mention nominations for Comic Book Queers and Hero Envy at Podcast Awards, the nominations ended yesterday. Dangit. BUT - you can go there to vote once they’ve tallied all the invitations, so bookmark it now!

It’s kind of disturbing that someone’s really being brought up on charges for a naked painting of Picasso. If it were him sodomizing a child or something, sure. But that’s not quite the vibe I’m getting here. Good ol’ rednecks. Just goes to demonstrate why the CBLDF is so important.

Zudacomics sounded interesting at first, but after we talked it over (and raised the ownership question), it became a bit scary. I’m still hoping to hear more details about it, because it could be a good thing - but, as we discussed, it could also be very, very bad.

Not sure we’re going to get to record next week, with HappyJack’s approaching wedding day. We’re going to try very hard, but it’s possible this might be the last you hear of us for the next two weeks. You may begin celebrating now.

Titles we spoil this week (and there’s a LOT of them): WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO FEEDBACK, ACTION COMICS #851, ALL NEW ATOM #13, ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8, BLACK CANARY #1, COUNTDOWN 43, DETECTIVE COMICS #834, FAKER #1, JONAH HEX #21, JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #35, MIDNIGHTER #9, OUTSIDERS #49, SCALPED #7, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #8, Y THE LAST MAN #57, ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #2, DAREDEVIL BATTLIN JACK MURDOCK #2, DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN #6, FALLEN SON DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA IRON MAN, INVADERS CLASSIC VOL 1 TP, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #10, LONERS #4, MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #29, MARVEL ZOMBIES ARMY OF DARKNESS #5, NEW WARRIORS #2, PUNISHER #49, PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #5, RUNAWAYS #27, THOR #1, UNCANNY X-MEN #488, DAMNED VOL 1 THREE DAYS DEAD TP, GARTH ENNIS CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD #5, SIMPSONS SUPER SPECTACULAR #5, STAR TREK KLINGONS BLOOD WILL TELL #3. We also blather about HappyJack’s broken back, Japanese people never say “No,� HappyJack’s getting married even though his wife now hates us, Rusty just doesn’t understand that we spoil EVERYTHING, we’re all going to Hell (yes, AGAIN), more abusing Rusty, Amazonian seduction (and we get a little too excited there), Dr. Sexy talks to our listeners, I want to make sweet, sweet love to Gail Simone, I just CANNNOT keep my mouth near the mic, I’m all over the goddamned place, but someone else is a complete mouth-breather and I can’t believe how annoyingly clear that comes through.

HappyJack’s bachelor party was quite a hoot, I must say. Besides being the amazing organizer that I am, I ALSO managed to absolutely charcoal the burgers past any semblence of organic matter. The “mission,� as it were, was at least successful in that we got HappyJack pleasantly drunk enough to forget, albeit momentarily, his impending doom. Although it wasn’t a crazy time (not even as minorly crazy as Dr. Sexy’s bachelor party was), it was a nice, calm night of sitting around, drinking and enjoying each other’s company.

The whole thing was made better by the fact that HappyJack had thrown out his back and had the most miserable faces going on the entire time. We were going to try and drag the Hero Envy guys down for the fun, but considering HappyJack was ALREADY crippled, I don’t think he could’ve taken another run-in with JD…

Even Bruce R. (the podcast whore) and Steve came down to join in the festivities. Let’s face it: we’re such a miserable group of bastards that we have to import friends from surrounding areas. But hey, since they came down for the party, we made them join in the N3RDCast this week, and a good time was had by all!

Titles we spoil this week: COUNTDOWN 44, GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS SPECIAL #1, JACK OF FABLES #12, INVINCIBLE #43, WALKING DEAD #38, DAREDEVIL #98, IMMORTAL IRON FIST #6, MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #8, SHE-HULK 2 #19, SILENT WAR #6, SILVER SURFER REQUIEM #2, SPIDER-MAN FAIRY TALES #2, THUNDERBOLTS #115 CWI, X-FACTOR #20, X-MEN #200, BOYS #8, GARTH ENNIS STREETS OF GLORY PREVIEW. We were REALLY strung out on caffeine today, because we recorded twenty different segments at once. We talked about MODOK’s contest, a great Lightning Saga breakdown, Brandon Molales taking on the Big Cheese, cocksuckery and the Comic Book Queers, the Quiet! Panelologists at Work podcast, do you have comic book pride, or is it uncomfortable in public?

The MODOK contest is very cool, provided you can figure out their clever puzzle. And let me tell you right now: I figured it out, so if you can’t, you’re an idiot.

If your understanding of the Lightning Saga was as horrific as mine, you’ll definitely want to check out the awesomely detailed breakdown that CBR put up.

I think Brandon would make an excellent Captain Marvel - just so long as they keep The Rock as Black Adam, I think we can all be happy. Provided there’s a good script and director on board, of course.

I’d like to think that I’m proud of my geekness, but honestly, I still have trouble in a strange environment just pulling out a comic book. Especially if it’s somewhere I’m trying to project a “professional� image, like… Well, I don’t know where that would occur, but pretend it’s somewhere important. But you should listen to the Comic Book Queers when they talk about it, because it’s a fascinating listen and a really good topic for discussion. Along those lines, I want to hear other podcasters talk about how they feel on the subject. Someone get a hold of CGS and get them discussing this! Bruce, I’m looking at you…

The Q!PaW comic podcast is completely awesome. I can’t believe I haven’t heard them before. Why didn’t you tell me about them? Jerks.

We do get a bit heavy on the cocksuckery this week, be warned. It’s to be expected, really. CBQ brought it up and got us all worked up, so what can we do?

It took us a couple weeks to get around to actually reading all our Philly books, but we’ve finally got through them and got restraints strong enough to contain HappyJack so we could review his book. We talk about not just the books we got from the show but also some of the folks we met, although there’s probably still some ones we forgot. It was nice to have a chance to reflect upon all the fun stuff and cool folks we met at Philly - especially since we didn’t lose too many brain cells while we were there and could remember enough to make for a lengthy discussion.

Jason Becker was the first person to call us knee-fuckers at the Philadelphia con. In return, we should’ve said bad things about his book just to teach him not to listen to us, but his book really kicked ass. It’s still available online, so if you get a chance, pick it up.

The artwork of Bobby Chiu is that goddamned amazing. Seriously, this guy’s works are masterpieces, and unlike some artists that we love (but still hate because they don’t release prints, yes we’re looking at you, Alex Ross), he sells great quality prints at really affordable prices, so definitely check out his work and pick some up if you’ve got a spot on your wall. He’s also got what look like really cool lessons online that you can sign up for online, if you’re of the artistic bend.

If you like the name JengaJam as much as we do, you can check him out here.

DaFixer is that damn pimp. I mean, just look at the guy’s logo and you’ll see how cool he is. Style (something none of us know the first damn thing about).

We aren’t the only ones to ever talk about Diamond’s gouging, but it still strikes me as insane. It just blows my mind.

I actually managed to track down Christopher Uminga’s site, and you should check it out, the stuff’s amazing. In his gallery, you can see the Joker picture we loved.

Do we really need to plug Hero Envy any more? I mean, honestly, we love those guys and you should’ve already checked them out. Likewise, Stykman which we’ve loved since last year, and DJ Coffman’s Hero By Night, which we can’t possibly kiss up to any more, but we’re always willing to try… If you’re at any of the cons those guys are going to be at, you really need to stop in and meet them.

I couldn’t find a Scott Hanna website, but this lists some of his work. He’s a really nice guy, despite being stuck near us. There are all sorts of books he worked on, though, so check them out.

James S. Abrams and Brett C. Marting did the Archaic comic books. I’d link to them, but one of them (or possibly BOTH of them) has a really hot wife, so screw them, life’s given them enough breaks. I know, I know, I’m just kidding. Go check out their stuff, it’s great. Their books are really great though, so any chance you have to see them at any future con, stop in and grab not just their books, but also some of their artwork. They’re great guys who have ever right to push their book down everyone’s throat that walks by their booth, but they don’t - so help them out and walk over to them! Although now that I look at their pics from other shows, it looks like they were plenty swamped. And they had booth babes. Why didn’t they have booth babes for us? Jerks. Granted, the way I go on about their wife(ives), it’s probably a good idear to keep the purdy gurls away from the wildly inappropriate fat man. But yeah, their books are awesome.

Heart Attack wasn’t a horrible book, it just wasn’t for me. I’m not one for the bloody gore boobie books, but if you are, you can drop him an email about getting a copy, as I don’t know any other way of contacting him.

PLB Comics‘ preview book had some good and some bad. I can’t remember which ones were good and which ones were bad, so you’ll have to listen to us talk about it to decide which ones we liked, because I’m sure as hell not going to go back through and listen to it again.

Brielle and the Horror was our favorite book from the con, no doubt. It’s just such a cool-looking book and great story, we absolutely loved it.

I’d link to HappyJack’s website for his Leadslinger Studios’ information, but he didn’t do anything with it, the lazy whore. Instead, I’ll just link to HappyJack getting his ribs bruised. Too funny.

Titles we spoil this week: AMORY WARS, TANK GIRL, REPO, MARVEL MYTHOS SPIDERMAN, X-MEN ENDAGERED SPECIES, GREEN ARROW, NEW X-MEN, WORLD WAR HULK, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL, NOVA, CAPTAIN AMERICA, FALLEN SON: SPIDER-MAN, FLASH, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, NEW AVENGERS, COUNTDOWN, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SPIRIT, MOON KNIGHT, FRANKLIN RICHARDS: BOY GENIUS, JUSTICE, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. This was supposed to be our con wrap-up show, but none of us are finished with our con books! We have too much catching to do, so instead we talk about our books, ThuMberBolts, Rusty gets confused by comics almost as bad as me, as much as we love the guy no way Cap is knocking out the Hulk, I have NO FRIGGIN’ IDEA what the HELL is going on in the DC Universe, lapdances from Hero Envy, what cons might we be attending in the future, and Dr. Sexy’s genetic make-up.

The Spirit, directed by Frank Miller, is just going to be a train wreck. We love Frank Miller, but we have absolutely no confidence that Frank’s still got the skills to handle this.

I know I’m the only person here that’s excited about season two of Who Wants to Be A Super Hero, but even I’m shuddering at how stupid some of these “heroes� appear to be. Having said that, I’ve got high hopes for my man Mindset. Kick their ass, Steve-Dave!

Stan Lee is the bomb, but he just needs to sit on a beach somewhere and relax. The man’s being worked ridiculously right now, and these latest “projects� are going to smear an incredible legacy that he created. Kinda like Bill Clinton, only with (slightly less) cigar time.

How are rooms in Baltimore more expensive than New York City AND Philadelphia? Also, what the hell is up with Con people ignoring email? Jerks. Or maybe they’re slighting us on purpose - in which case, I absolutely cannot fault them at all. If you’re attending Wizard World Chicago, you really need to check out the guide that Comic Book Queers put together.

If you were turned on to the show from the Philly Con, first, sorry; second this is the first REAL episode we’ve done since we’ve been back. Except we’re missing our engineer, so don’t listen expecting decent quality or anything ridiculous like that.

A VERY brief update. We start out by making TERRIBLE jokes - sorry, but we were just too tired to make any sort of sense or be clever, we remembered to plug Leo and his awesome comic - young guy, but his comic is really great (check it out), we befriend and over our sage advice to young artists (and their hot mom), did we mention we love the Hero Envy guys (especially their wives - mmmmmm, other people's wives....), Steve McNiven's line showed up today and rumbled with Arthur Suydam's line and blocked our entire aisle, and we actually met a fan and someone from the Comic Book Queers forums (did you get any sleep last night, howtaobrowncow?). All in all, it was a VERY long day, so we apologize for not going into better detail. We do have a lot more pictures to share with you, and once we all get back from the show, we'll get them up for your viewing pleasure.

The Monster Maker makes Dr. Sexy go INSANE (or at least interrupting him while he tries to discuss it does) - although it's actually the "Mighty Men and Monster Maker," the fear of being asked by Archaic to talk about their book (which proved to be a needless fear, as their book is awesome), being tackled by Hero Envy (and I apologize for my stupid laugh the entire time that tale's being retold, but honestly, it was THAT funny) and having ribs broken, how did Brielle and the Horror do their artwork (because it's fantastic), Jonnie Allan from Stykman is possibly one of the coolest creators to be next to EVER, we absolutely love DJ Coffman, Mike Cotton from Wizard will apparently come when random idiots scream his name, the homeless people from NYC have moved into Philly, and HappyJack TOTALLY got suckered in by the babes from PLB Comics.

I was going to wait until Monday to post this (which is why you might notice the file name is a bit off of the actual date), but I'm already exhausted from the Con, and it's entirely possible come Monday I'll be dead, so why wait, right? And really, I don't see the point in making you folks wait, considering the terrible quality of the recording. But hey, for being recorded on a handheld after a night of Irish-pubbing, it's not as bad as it COULD be...

Titles we spoil this week: HELLBOY DARKNESS CALLS #2, COUNTDOWN 48, DEADMAN #10, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6, TEEN TITANS #47, RIDE DIE VALKYRIE #1, DAREDEVIL #97, MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #7, NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI #3, PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #4, SILENT WAR #5, SILVER SURFER REQUIEM #1, SPIDER-MAN FAIRY TALES #1, BLACK COAT OR GIVE ME DEATH #1, BOYS #7. We also discuss that guy that writes Manhunter (yeah, I�m good with names), Roller Derby, the Olsen Thrust, the upcoming Philly Con, why HappyJack can�t start a fight with Palmiotti at the Philly Con, HappyJack sitting on his balls, tapping tailpipes, and Dr. Sexy gets offended at my male rape offendedness.

I�m such an idiot: Manhunter�s written by Marc Andreyko. If you want to listen to the great interview with him, it�s over at Comic Book Queers (episode 33).

Lancaster�s Roller Derby Girls are right here, if you�re interested. Good entertainment at a decent price, so if you�re in the area, come check it out.

If you�re wondering about the Olsen Thrust, you really need to read this.

For those of you in the area (the King of Prussia area, that is), stop in and see Dr. Sexy and his gang in the Daredevils of Comedy improv comedy show at Kildare�s in King of Prussia. We�ll try and drag HappyJack out with us, and I think we can drag Rusty (and possibly even Ted) along for the hyucks. So if nothing else, it�ll be a good warm-up for Philly (providing we don�t get arrested, that is).

Titles we spoil this week: COUNTDOWN 49, SHADOWPACT #13, SPIRIT #6, UNIQUE #3, CAPTAIN AMERICA, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1, HEROES FOR HIRE #10, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #8, SHE-HULK 2 #18, X-MEN #199, WARHAMMER 40K DAMNATION CRUSADE #4, HELLBLAZER #232, SHAUN OF THE DEAD. We also take some time to discuss how Mary Jane can do Peter’s laundry - it’s not going to kill her, Joe Q may or may not be an asshole - but we all hate him for various reasons, Silver Surfer as currency, is Newsarama partial, Massive Marvel Online, Dr. Sexy and his knee theories get vindicated by Family Guy, the guys from Comic Geek Speak need to put on the AmishCon Comic Book Convention, and what those lightning rods were actually for - oh, and Water Wizard’s on the Thunderbolts, bitches! I smell a limited edition. HappyJack’s on vacation this week, so we get Bruce from KomicsKast, our extremely knowledgeable friend Steve, and we even feature a technical achievement of having an engineer - introducing Ted, our new Producer! Therefore, if anything’s wrong with the levels this week, blame him.

It’s pretty impressive, I must admit - Ted’s never seen our setup before, never worked with the specific equipment we use, yet he was able to jump in and do a better job than me, the guy who, you know, bought all that equipment and set it up. And this was his first show, with a ton of us sitting in there constantly looking away from our mics. Poor bastard. He’s already planning an elaborate setup involving electrodes and our testicles to keep us facing our mics.

Bruce is always a welcome addition to the show whenever we can snag him away from his shows. And his comic. And his blog (nah, screw his blog, he can write that while he’s sitting chatting with us!). And Steve - does that guy drop the plot bombs on us or what? Every time he’s here, he blows us away with some heady revelations.

Eli is a newcomer that Dr. Sexy drug along - when we learned that HappyJack had the nerve to take a vacation (and not bring us along, the selfish prick), we scrambled and basicaly invited every single person we could find. Eli had the misfortune to answer the door when Dr. Sexy came calling. That’ll teach him to be sociable. He interned at Marvel for some time, so he got a kick out of the “Newsarama Neutrality� discussion.

And it turns out that not only did Marvel come up with the wacky idea of making Silver Surfer coins, they seem to have broken the law in doing so. Hilarity ensues!

You can see the video for the proposed Lancaster Convention Center (which will be the location for Comic Geek Speak’s AmishCon, if we can somehow manipulate them into throwing a big comic book convention in the heart of Amish Country!) on their website.

Oh, and that awesome JSA wrap-up episode is right here, if you’re like me and confused about what’s going on in JSA.

Titles we spoil this week: CONAN, ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER, BATMAN, COUNTDOWN, FABLES, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, HERO BY NIGHT, SIDEKICK, MIGHTY AVENGERS, MOON KNIGHT, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATE X-MEN, ULTIMATES 2, UNCANNY X-MEN, X-FACTOR, NOVA. We also discuss paper clips, pants-ing your friends, more thoughts on knee sex, rib shards during sex, anyone dissing DeMattais & Giffen’s run on JLA deserve to be throat-punched, I can’t keep up with JLA/JSA nowadays, and Frank Cho always does this to us.

Talk about digging in the dirt - if you really want to understand what we’re talking about with the Frank Cho thing, you can read more here. Make sure you download Dr. Sexy’s take on the whole thing, too. It has much better clips in it, but I like the parallel I achieve with Scotty’s hypocrisy in the ones I used.

Frank Miller, though - man, that guy hates the womenfolk.

Holy SHIT do I get comics confused - Richtor in JSA? Sigh.

Titles we spoil this week: 51 COUNTDOWN, GREEN ARROW, JACK OF FABLES, INVINCIBLE, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, IMMORTAL IRON FIST, MARVEL ZOMBIES DEAD DAYS, NEW AVENGERS, NEW X-MEN, NOVA, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL, SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR, THUNDERBOLTS, GAMEKEEPER, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, DETECTIVE COMICS, LONERS, WOLF MAN. We also discuss Dr. Sexy's honeymoon, The Rock playing Black Adam, retard bullies, MODOK's 11, the passing of Tom Artis, Darby O'Gill, The Black Donnellys, Spider Man 3 (spoiler alert!), midget health insurance (or the lack thereof), and Kwip's new favorite comic podcast, the Comic Book Queers.

Yes, really, that is their name, and they are absolutely as funny and as brilliant as you'd expect (because what's the point of being queer if you're not going to be funny and brilliant about it?). They really are Homo-Superior. There's a bunch of episodes to catch up on, so you'd best get cracking. I don't know that I'm going to call them to discuss knee-fucking - I highly doubt they'd want to hear from us in the first place, and I ESPECIALLY doubt they want to hear our questions about knee intercourse. I do want to ask them about the secret signals, though. That's interesting. But seriously, you absoutely should check them out, they're the best podcast out there.

At least now I know what to hand out in Philly - we can burn a bunch of their shows to CD.

Throwing them at people will probably be optional.

You can read about M.O.D.O.K.’s 11 here.

The incredibly touching essay I refer to on Tom Artis (that quickly depresses everyone) is here (scroll down a bit to the entry titled, "Your message will be saved for..."). It's a sad, touching story from his close friend. If you can help Tom's family, you can send donations to:

The Tom TC Artis and Family Memorial Fund
Marine Bank
Attn: Gale Krueger
1401 North Dirksen Parkway
Springfield, IL 62702

Our show is REALLLLY long this week. And with that extra length comes a LOT more offensiveness. Seriously. We had to add an extra hour on it, JUST to be THAT offensive.

And yes, Darby O'Gill and the Little People really IS that fantastic.

I bet the Comic Book Queers would agree.

Titles we spoil this week: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, HELLBOY DARKNESS CALLS, 52, DETECTIVE COMICS, EXTERMINATORS, HAWKGIRL, JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, MIDNIGHTER, SCALPED, SHAZAM THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL, TEEN TITANS, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY, ASTONISHING X-MEN, AVENGERS INITIATIVE, DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, INCREDIBLE HULK, LONERS, MARVEL ZOMBIES ARMY OF DARKNESS, PUNISHER, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, WONDER MAN, WARHAMMER 40K. This week we look to our friends Bruce, Rusty and Steve to fill in for Dr. Sexy, who's out on his honeymoon. Yes, it takes three normal mortals to fill in for Dr. Sexy. We get really sidetracked here, talking about our local comic shops, Dr. Sexy facing Dan Slott, some of the history of Marvel warehousing, early cons, Dr. Sexy as Howdy Doody sitting on comic creator's laps, Diamond delivers their books via catapult, Bruce being a racist (according to THOOM of Comic Book Noise), sodomy, and the Philly Con.

Steve really blew our minds with his observations on Midnighter - we better be careful, having knowledgeable people on the show like this. People might start expecting us to know what the hell we're talking about or something. Steve and Bruce were out promoting Dutchy Digest when we met them, so take a moment to check it out - it's probably the only kid-friendly thing we've ever linked to...

We were a bit loopy this week - we're all very excited for Dr. Sexy's return, obviously. After we finished this cast, we all sat down and colored him a picture.

And I just realized I screwed up the intro music again, too. Not sure how I did that. Sigh. I’m bringing in a sound engineer, I swear.

It's really not even fair to call this a comic book podcast. Which is fair, since we call it a N3RDCast, but whatever. Our focus this week is on the wedding of Dr. Sexy! We don't even really discuss comics, other than some brief, uninformed babbling about DAREDEVIL, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, USAGI YOJIMBO, HERO BY NIGHT (yes, again), 52, ASTRO CITY, and AVENGERS: FALLEN SON. We're broadcasting to you live from the wedding of Dr. Sexy, so of course the quality is pretty bad - but the content, for those of you with a romantic bent, is very, very rich.

This is a painful episode, because we recorded a great deal of it driving, or over the crazy 80s-inspired soundtrack of the wedding reception. Oh, and because we all wept like babes during the wedding. Well, not all of us. Just Dr. Sexy. Most of the recording is Dr. Sexy and I (and Kwipette), because HappyJack was sleeping in like a lazy whore instead of carpooling with us. Something about having worked 96 hours that week or something. Wuss. But you get to listen to us driving and trying to keep Dr. Sexy from getting overly nervous on HIS WEDDING DAY! Unfortunately, we also drove with the windows down, and that resulted in all sorts of wonderful background noise. We would've gone into more details with the books we got this week, but we couldn't remember any of them. How's THAT for professional?

Titles we spoil this week: CONAN, 52, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, WORLD WAR III, HERO BY NIGHT, INVINCIBLE, MIGHTY AVENGERS, MOON KNIGHT, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, X-FACTOR. Mac talks about his experiences with ComixPress, Rusty updates us with talk of the upcoming Philly Con, and then I turn off his mic. Well, really I turn mine off, but as soon as I notice, I turn his off in revenge.

We broadcast from the new N3 Studios this time, and you'll notice it obviously offered no benefit to my engineering skills. Yeah, big surprise, I'm an idiot.

If you're interested in checking out Mac's book, you can go to the-agents.us or on ComixPress' site directly. And speaking of sites, the very excellent creator of Hero By Night has his site right here.

Yes, we finished the Walk. It was pretty awesome, I feel free to tell you. I mean, the NeenerPalooza 07 melted faces with it's non-stop rocking (don't take my word for it, we have pics to prove it). But the MS Walk? It was chock full of wacky hijinks (and by wacky hijinks, I mean lots of dropped banana peels, curse that Mario).

Most of the costume awesomeness can be attributed to Mac and Dr. Sexy (although Gryph made a turtle shell that was pretty damn amazing out of paper mache).

But of course, out of all the costumes, King Boo was the obvious favorite.


At least, for the ladies.

Only a few titles ruined this week because of Bachelor Party constraints: TRUE STORY SWEAR TO GOD, AFTER THE CAPE, MR. STUFFINS, SPIDER-MAN AND FANTASTIC FOUR, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BPRD, THE LONERS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, FABLES, THUNDERBOLTS, NEW AVENGERS, 52, SHE-HULK, DARK TOWER, MARVEL ZOMBIES VS. ARMY OF DARKNESS. This should really be a two-parter. We start out with the usual comic book blathering, but then we have to break it down with our recap of the now-infamous Dr. Sexy Bachelor Party (also known as the STRIPPERGEDDON). I was going to record it "on the fly," as it were, but everyone was faaaar too drunk and noisy. That, and I was busy rocking out some Puzzle Quest.

If you're the sort that's not interested in drunken stripper (sorry, Go-Go Girl) debauchery, you'll probably want to stop listening at the 27:22 mark. On the other hand, if you're only here for the drunken debauchery, that's where you'll want to start.

Marrakesh really is that great of a restaurant, though. If you ever find yourself in Philly and want an awesome dining experience, you need to give this place a call.

Meeting Walt was a big kick. I felt like such a huge, dork, though. I can't imagine how many other dorks come into that place on an uber-nerd pilgrimage, but I bet most of them aren't there for a prequel to STRIPPERGEDDON! Here's hoping that he never listens to this and only thinks of us as minor annoyances and not really the great force for Chaos we actually are.

Titles we spoil this week: CONAN #38, 52 WEEK #46, BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #4, DETECTIVE COMICS #830, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #4, AFTER THE CAPE #1, HERO BY NIGHT #1, WALKING DEAD #36, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #539, MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #6, PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #2, WISDOM #4, WONDER MAN #4, X-FACTOR #17, LONE RANGER. We also manage a tiny little love-fest for Joe Q, blather a bit about the Comic Book Challenge, and finally, we call out Hero Envy.

I can't help it: those guys are too damn funny, and I think it's only fair that they collect the rest of their episodes together in a DVD so that I can... Well, watch it on a DVD player. Obviously. But I think I hurt myself laughing at the blooper roll from El Diablo. Never mind the actual episode, which makes me cry with laughter every gord-damned time I think of it, the blooper reels are the shit!

I think Philly's going to be insane. Just throwing that out there right now, so when you read the police blotter afterwards, you know that we were fully aware of what we were getting into when we planned the whole thing.

Show links:
Gotta love Joe!
Of COURSE Marvel was ready for this media blitz!

Comic book challenge

Titles we spoil this week: 52 WEEK #45, FABLES #58, GREEN ARROW #72, CIVIL WAR THE CONFESSION (PP #749), FRANKLIN RICHARDS MARCH MADNESS, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #6, MOON KNIGHT #8, NEW AVENGERS #28, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #5, SPIDER-MAN REIGN #4, THUNDERBOLTS #112, WOLVERINE ORIGINS #12, DAMNED #5, GARTH ENNIS CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD #2, LONE RANGER #5, WORMWOOD GENTLEMAN CORPSE #6. Oh, and Captain Gaypants. If you've not heard of him, you really should give this a listen. It's information that might save your life.

Dr. Sexy took over the sound mixing this week. I tried my best to get our levels approaching normal in the editing afterwards, but of course I can't get anything right. Be thankful I did SOME sound-reduction on my levels, cuz apparently I'm a noisy mofo.

You know how sometimes I warn you that we're a vulgar bunch? No, seriously - this time, you really need to make sure that no one's in the car with you while you're listening to this one. In fact, you probably shouldn't listen to it yourself. Although I was surprised to see (or hear, more accurately) that we came in under an hour this week. We even managed to squeeze in some bitching about Civil War (Tom B sucks!). I'm sure the fact that we're brief totally makes up for our vulgarity. We had to condense it, so it's concentrated vulgarity.

I don't really know what to link for regarding Fox's attempt at being funny, so I guess you'll have to settle for the ol' fallback, Wikipedia.  If Fox weren't so lame, they'd post segments on the web and make them nice and easy to fine, but it seems the only thing they come close to having in common with Daily Show is stupid ideas about online clips somehow depriving them of popularity.

Titles we spoil this week: 52, DETECTIVE COMICS, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, MANHUNTER, MIDNIGHTER, SHAZAM THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL, SUPERMAN BATMAN, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY, DYNAMO 5, BULLET POINTS, CAPTAIN AMERICA, CRIMINAL, DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN, FANTASTIC FOUR, HULK AND POWER PACK, MARVEL ZOMBIES ARMY OF DARKNESS, MIGHTY AVENGERS, NEWUNIVERSAL, UNCANNY X-MEN. We had a LOT of catching up (ie, bitching) to do with the whole Cap thing, and jump back a bit to talk about Civil War, so pull up a chair and get comfy, we're going to be a while. We also have a lot of trouble speaking this week, and take great delight in our calm, helpful concern with each other to point this out in the most tactful, polite manner possible.

We're pretty disgusted with Marvel. They just keep making horrible moves and then they're woefully unprepared to deal with the consequences of those moves. Case in point: a certain hero's death. You might have heard about it? No, it's cool, no one's to blame. Obviously Tony can't be held responsible, he's been a good guy the whole time. I think it's just too sad that Black Panther allowed this to happen. But He works in mysterious ways, that guy...

At least you can hear me this week. Not that I have anything important to say, of course.

NYCC, 2007! We saw the heroes, got drunk, harassed the stars, got drunk, got our (well, MY) dreams crushed by creators, got a LITTLE drunk, met a lot of really cool people, and then got drunk. But now here it is, the final word on the New York Comic Con 2007. Granted, it’s the final word because we’re a week late, but still…

It’s pretty amazing how I fail to notice the entire time my mic doesn’t work. I’m actually kind of pissed about that, but luckily I never have anything interesting to say, so it’s all for the better.

We have to start out with Mouth of Wilson. I’m not one to see live bands very often, because I’m old and boring and don’t like loudness or crowds, but these guys were incredible live. So incredible, I bought not one, but TWO of their CDs! Well, it helped that they didn’t have change for a $20, but there you go… But seriously, check them out, give them a listen. And when they’re rich and famous, they can owe it all to us…

As far as comic books (which, supposedly, was our purpose there), Silent Devil was the clear winner. They came out incredibly strong at this con with fantastic stuff like Super Frat, In My Life and The Last Sin of Mark Grimm. Next year, I have to start getting and reading these books Friday night so I can properly suck up to them over the weekend. Every one of those guys was fantastic, and I’m so sorry I didn’t get to spend more time with them. I’m sorry they had to meet me when I was completely drunk. Normally, I’m so much more charming…

A completely random pick on my part found me with I Am Spartacus, from Cellar Door Publishing. I really loved this book, both the writing and the artwork. I like that weird water-painting style (that I have no idea what it is), although I know a lot of folks don’t. But they’re obviously idiots. That’s a great book, so check it out.

You guys need to check out these con pics. Sure as hell a ton better than our sorry pics. For starters, Power Girl. Also… Power Girl. I can’t believe we didn’t get a single picture with Bruce, though. We spent the most time with him out of everyone there, and although we took some pics at his booth, he’s not in a single one! Sheesh, some friends we are… Speaking of him, you should give a listen to his coverage if you’re interested in a sober person’s experiences. Well, sober and sane. And less obnoxious. But he had a good spot with the other podcasters, so he got to see some good stuff. He also posted that awesome pic he got from Romana Fradon.

But seriously, check out those books, and definitely give a listen to MOW. They’re all awesome, and you’ll be a better person for it!

Oh, and if anyone was unfortunate enough to actually encounter us at the Con, we’d love to hear from you. The guys insist my idea of tackling people and shoving our cards in their pockets was a bad idea for generating more listeners, but what do they know…

Titles we spoil this week: 52, GREEN ARROW, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MANHUNTER, SUPERMAN BATMAN VS ALIENS PREDATORS, ASTONISHING X-MEN, FRANKLIN RICHARDS LAB BRAT DIGEST, IMMORTAL IRON FIST DIRECTORS CUT, NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE, RUNAWAYS, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, THUNDERBOLTS, THUNDERBOLTS PRESENTS ZEMO BORN BETTER, ULTIMATE X-MEN, WOLVERINE ORIGINS. I promise some day I will get HappyJack to understand that it's naughty to cough into the mic. This is our last 'cast before NY Comic Con, so if we don't survive, we love you all!

The news stories we discuss are here:
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2007/02/12/jeep-marvel-partner-for-online-comic-book-campaign/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i2d7be7b09f32186c7a7d40ea0a05c599

If you're going to be at the NY Comic Con, be sure to stop by Bruce's table and see if he's kicked us out yet!

Titles we spoil this week: 52, DETECTIVE COMICS, MIDNIGHTER, SCALPED, SHAZAM THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY, BULLET POINTS, DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN, FANTASTIC FOUR THE END, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, NEW AVENGERS, NEWUNIVERSAL, PUNISHER, SPIDER-MAN AND POWER PACK, SPIDER-MAN REIGN, UNCANNY X-MEN, TAG CURSED. What shall we do to Bruce’s table at the NY Comic Con? I’m voting for pants-less manning of said table. With pant-less men. Also, hawks are pretty vicious. And ever hear of this comic, Kingdom Come? Dr Sexy finally did. Oh, and Happy Birthday to me.

The Aqua Teen Promotion Press Conference thing is here in all it’s irreverent glory. I absolutely love how the reporters get pissed that these guys aren’t taking it seriously.

I have to say, this is probably the calmest we’ve been in a while. Probably because we didn’t have any comics of the high-caliber quality like Black Panther to get good and pissed about, but you can judge for yourself.

A short list of titles we spoil this week: 52, BATMAN, BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL, GREEN ARROW, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, OUTSIDERS, WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY, BLADE, PUNISHER, WONDER MAN. But what we lack in titles, we make up for in loud Civil War ranting, more action figure side-tracking, a tiny bit of movie ranting, and some more toy talk. Focus? What's that?

I apologize for the delay this week. But I'm hoping it's worth it, as I cleaned up the audio file a HUGE amount and got it to a decent quality. So, you know, you can now listen to the most idiotic comics podcast out there, and it'll sound nice and clear. Sort of.

If we can just get HappyJack's running nose and Dr Sexy's pneumonia under control, we'll be in good shape. Me, I sound as perfect as ever, of course.

We only have a small stack of titles we spoil this week: 52, MANHUNTER, MIDNIGHTER, SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL, 68, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, BULLET POINTS, CIVIL WAR, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE, IRON MAN HYPERVELOCITY, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, NEWUNIVERSAL, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL, SPIDER-MAN AND POWER PACK, UNCANNY X-MEN. We get REALLY side-tracked on comic movies, the Marvel Comic Book Creator software, Sirius Radio, Tina Fey versus Paris Hilton, delays by artists and writers AGAIN, and we spoil XMen 3, in case you didn't see it yet. Or read the spoilers that whatsisface blabbed on N3 a while ago. Oh, and we talk about the secret hole to the girls' locker room in high school that HappyJack never told me about. We also spend some time bashing Marvel for their whorish marketing tactics and COLOGNE? Are you kidding me? I suppose it'll come as no surprise when you learn how much we hate emo, too.

Titles we spoil this week: USAGI YOJIMBO, 52, BATMAN, BOYS, DETECTIVE COMICS, GUY GARDNER COLLATERAL DAMAGE, JACK OF FABLES, JUSTICE, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, SUPERMAN BATMAN, ASTONISHING X-MEN, BLACK PANTHER, DAREDEVIL, IMMORTAL IRON FIST, MARVEL 1602 FANTASTICK FOUR, NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE, WINTER SOLDIER WINTER KILLS ONE SHOT, WOLVERINE ORIGINS. To kick off the new year, we spend the entire episode sniffling. Must be that new year's bug. We also read from your letters AND comments! More artist/style discussions, some news and complete side-tracking on ComicSpace.com.

We spoil a LOT of titles this week: CONAN, 52, FABLES, MAN CALLED KEV, TEEN TITANS, AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE, CIVIL WAR WAR CRIMES ONE SHOT, CRIMINAL, FANTASTIC FOUR, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, IRON MAN, IRON MAN CAPTAIN AMERICA CASUALTIES OF WAR ONE SHOT, NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, SHE-HULK, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, UNION JACK, ZOMBIE, BLACK COAT CALL TO ARMS TP, WARHAMMER 40K, WASTELAND. I think it's the Holiday Spirit moving us, because most of what we say is nice. Oh, wait - no, we're still obnoxious jerks!

We do fawn over several books this week, though. To our defense (or at least to the defense of the obnoxious part of our souls), there were MANY good books to be poured over. It's a good thing we don't have a lot of other expenses - say, presents for loved ones - that would require our money, because it's all tied up in these juvenile amusements.

Joe Q's office that we refer to can be viewed here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9187

Here's some info on the new Serenity figures:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9239

I was probably going to link to some other stuff, but of course I forgot. I'm smert like that.

Oh - how about I link to this N3RDCast, as long as I'm linking to things?

From all of us, to all of you (at least those of you that care), Merry Christmas!

Titles we spoil this week: ESCAPISTS, 52, BATMAN, BATMAN STRIKES, DCU INFINITE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, GREEN ARROW, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, SPIRIT, TRIALS OF SHAZAM, FEAR AGENT, AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL, BULLET POINTS, FANTASTIC FOUR THE END, MAGICIAN APPRENTICE, WONDER MAN, X-FACTOR, DAMNED, HERO KILLERS ONE SHOT. We give our respects to Martin Nodell, creator of Green Lantern, and talk for a bit (too long!) on comic book work conditions. Being the experts we are, and all. Also, some plugs to some other comic podcasts you might not be listening to, but should be!

Links for the other podcasts:
Comicology
Birds of Geek
I Read Comics
KomicKast

And as for us, we're right here. Enjoy!

Titles we spoil this week: 52, BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL, DETECTIVE COMICS, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MIDNIGHTER, TRANQUILITY, INVINCIBLE, WALKING DEAD, BEYOND, DOCTOR STRANGE OATH, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL, NEWUNIVERSAL, SPIDER-MAN AND POWER PACK, SPIDER-MAN REIGN, STAN LEE MEETS SILVER SURFER, UNCANNY X-MEN, HERO SQUARED, JEREMIAH HARM.

It really amazes me that we go on for so long with such a short list. We're just chatty bitches like that, obviously. We do touch on some other news: the Marvel Then vs. Now that featured Stan Lee and Joe Q, moderated by Kevin Smith. Also a bit of celebrity gossip about Nicholas Cage - did you know he was a huge comic fan? I didn't know that. Come and get informed alongside me as Dr Sexy and HappyJack show us the error of our ways!

Of course it wouldn't be a N3RDCast if it didn't feature some completely insane uncomfortably diatribes about racism, sexism and a few other -isms thrown in for good measure. But that's not our fault, it's all because of Black Panther. See (or at least listen) for yourself.

Titles we ruin this week: CONAN & THE SONGS OF THE DEAD, 52, BATMAN, BATMAN THE SPIRIT, FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE, GREEN LANTERN, SUPERMAN BATMAN, TEEN TITANS, CAPTAIN AMERICA, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, IMMORTAL IRON FIST, NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE, POWERS, PUNISHER, PUNISHER XMAS SPECIAL, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN FAMILY FEATURING SPIDER CLAN, STAN LEE MEETS DR DOOM, ZOMBIE, HERO STREET, WHISPER, ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS. We also spend WAY too much time speculating on the NYC Comic-con, and give our oh-so-informed opinion of Wizard Magazine's picks of the year. Well, at least their editor and man of the year.

I'm wondering if the side effect of the approaching NYC Comic Con is going to be making us chattier bitches as it gets nearer. I mean, obviously we're excited about it, but we tend to get a little blathery.

I'm pretty sure that's a word, yes.

I'd apologize for these being so long, but we have too damn much fun recording them, so I don't feel particularly apologetic over it. Plus, it's not like anyone else listens to them, anyway. HappyJack and Dr. Sexy both confessed to never listening to the show anyway, so there goes 2/3rds of our listeners.

So if you're ready to spend some time listening to our... voices... You can give it a listen here. Enjoy!

A double-long episode this week, featuring Bruce Rosenberger. Titles we spoil: ESCAPISTS, 52, ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK TWO, SHADOWPACT, DEADWORLD, INVINCIBLE, JACK STAFF, ASTONISHING X-MEN, CIVIL WAR, IRON MAN, MOON KNIGHT, NEW AVENGERS, SQUADRON SUPREME, UNION JACK, WHAT IF SPIDER-MAN THE OTHER, X-MEN FIRST CLASS, CONAN, BOYS, JACK OF FABLES, MAN CALLED KEV, RED MENACE, WONDER WOMAN, LOOKING GLASS WARS HATTER M, WALKING DEAD, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE , DAREDEVIL, FANTASTIC FOUR THE END, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL, WOLVERINE, X-FACTOR, DAMAGED, ENIGMA CIPHER, PLANETARY BRIGADE ORIGINS.

I don't know why Bruce chose to brave our idiocy up-close and personal, but I can only hope he came through unscathed. We'll know if he starts dropping the F bomb every other word and insulting Joe Q in his podcast, no doubt.

I'm still surprised at how long we can blab we when (don't) put our minds to it. We probably could've gone on even longer, had we gotten wound up on a particular issue (shitty editing!). But if you've got a couple hours to spare for our wacky hijinks, give it a listen!

Special guest-star this week: Lon, our amiable comic store guy! Titles we spoil this week: 52, BATMAN, FABLES, GREEN ARROW, TEEN TITANS, AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL, AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES II, BULLET POINTS, CIVIL WAR YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS, DOCTOR STRANGE OATH, ETERNALS, FRANKLIN RICHARDS HAPPY FRANKSGIVING, MAGICIAN APPRENTICE, PUNISHER, ULTIMATE X-MEN, WISDOM, WOLVERINE ORIGINS, DAMNED. We also ridicule some ridiculous comic hero shows from the 70s - did you know Spidey was a bad guy in turkey?

Oh, and Marvel vs. Guiding Light? YOU WHORES! Why don't you just start including a free turd with every comic purchased? No, no, it's fine - we understand. The almighty dollar. I mean, hey, what do your loyal readers matter if you can make a few extra bucks, right?

Woody, Dr Sexy and I sit down to share our brilliance on the concept of merchandise for MOGs. Inspired by WoW's CCG, we consider the repercussions of putting your brand on something other than your game.

That, and we reminisce about some rather ridiculous stories involving our own terrible MOG addictions. Or at least Woody's. It's funny to laugh at other's frustrations!

It's been an awfully long time since we graced you with our wisdom. If you've missed us, the feeling's mutual, believe you me! But you can get your fix of us right here!

After a long break, we're back! I know, you missed us. We got the card and the flowers, thanks. Titles we spoil this week: 52, BLUE BEETLE, DETECTIVE COMICS, EX MACHINA, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, MIDNIGHTER, SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL, BEYOND, CRIMINAL, FANTASTIC FOUR THE END, INCREDIBLE HULK, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, UNCANNY X-MEN, WHAT IF AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED. Also, we go a bit insane about Ted Kord here, so be warned.

Titles we spoil this week: 52, NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE, CROSS BRONX, BEYOND, DOCTOR STRANGE OATH, FANTASTIC FOUR, GIANT SIZE WOLVERINE, INCREDIBLE HULK, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, MARVEL TEAM-UP. The bad news is that I got the soundboard working, so expect to be annoyed.

I think playing the soundboard for my friends was the entire reason I started these N3RDCasts, to be honest. It just makes me laugh. No doubt it'll make you shudder, but that'll learn ya.

It's funny when HappyJack gets angry and I interrupt him with Mr. Rogers quotes, though. That alone is worth listening.

Titles we spoil this week: 52, BATMAN, BLUE BEETLE, JACK OF FABLES, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, TRIALS OF SHAZAM, INVINCIBLE, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, CABLE DEADPOOL, CAPTAIN AMERICA, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE, CIVIL WAR YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS, DAREDEVIL, ETERNALS, HEROES FOR HIRE, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATES 2. Civil War continues to be woefully unbalanced, but we're sure NEXT issue will show us what we're missing, right Joe Q?

Don't ask me why Sexy is so paranoid. I think we have to cut him off of caffeine before we start recording.

Coming to you from the McDonald's parking lot - that's how you ensure AUTHENTIC fan-boy sound, I tell ya. Titles we spoil this week: 52, ASTONISHING X-MEN, MOON KNIGHT, X-FACTOR, NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, CIVIL WAR, CIVIL WAR X-MEN, WOLVERINE. Mostly we focus on the Civil War stuff. A lot to talk about there. There's also some...disturbing dream talk.

Normally I'd insert a warning to the 'delicate'-types about this N3RDCast, but honestly, do I still need to?

As always, comment below on our brilliant Civil War insights, or email us. If you still want to get in on our obscene phone call contest, there's still time! Call us at (646) 797-2763 or Skype to "N3RDCast."

I really love it when we have time to get together and just take our time going over books. Not because we get into any great discussions or anything; mostly just because it's a good excuse to vent all my stupidity I normally keep oh-so-well contained the rest of the week. For example, instead of spending all our time discussing comic books as we should, we instead spend our time talking about the tv shows we watch.

Plus, we reveal our exciting N3 Obscene Call Contest! You, ah, probably don't want the kids to listen to this one...

Titles we spoil this week: 52 WEEK, BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, EX MACHINA, FABLES, GREEN ARROW, MAN CALLED KEV, CAPTAIN AMERICA, CIVIL WAR FILES, INCREDIBLE HULK, MS MARVEL, ULTIMATE X-MEN, WOLVERINE ORIGINS, WASTELAND. Also, reviewing indie books from the Baltimore Comic-Con: Some Big Lumberjack, The Last Sin of Mark Grimm, and Chronicles of a Bounty Hunter. Oh, and we also spoil the upcoming Civil War, so you shouldn't listen to this until you're caught up on Civil War.

Titles we spoil this week: 52 WEEK, DETECTIVE COMICS, SIDEKICK, BEYOND, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, MARVEL 1602 FANTASTICK FOUR, MARVEL TEAM-UP, PUNISHER, SPIDER-MAN SPECIAL BLACK & BLUE & READ ALL OVER, UNCANNY X-MEN. Also, Kwip's tales of the Baltimore Comic-Con, featuring such luminaries as Dan Slott, Jimmy Palmiotti, Tim Truman, John Ostrander and the ever-popular Scott Kurtz.

Titles we spoil this week include: 52, ALL STAR SUPERMAN, BOYS, JUSTICE, SUPERMAN BATMAN, TEEN TITANS, CABLE DEADPOOL, CIVIL WAR YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS , SHE-HULK, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, ULTIMATE X-MEN ANNUAL, X-FACTOR, X-MEN. Also, a moment of tenderness for Steve Irwin. Why oh why couldn't it have been the Wild Boyz?

A very short list of spoilers for a very short N3RDCast. This episode, we spoil: BLUE BEETLE, JACK OF FABLES, HEROES FOR HIRE, NEW AVENGERS, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, and WOLVERINE. The good news is that this recording is SOOOOO bad, you won't hear anything we say anyway, so it doesn't matter! The good news is you only have to suffer for ten minutes or so.

As I might have mentioned before, our schedules are a bit crazy this week. In an attempt to make up for not having a lot of free time, we attempt to meet and record at the pizza shop next to our local comic shop. As a result, you can hear pretty much every other conversation other than ours much more clearly. To wind things up, we got beat up and called nerds by some bullies, who then took our lunch money!

Nothing but love episode, spoiling the titles: 52, BATMAN, DMZ, FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE, JACK OF FABLES, WONDER WOMAN, FEAR AGENT, ASTONISHING X-MEN, DAREDEVIL, ETERNALS, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATES ANNUAL. Short but oh so loving!

We're still struggling to find time to record these. It seems like it should be so easy - grab a few beers, turn on the recorder, be brilliant. But with our various work (or lack thereof) schedules, and now Kwipette being in Physical Therapy, I've been raining on our parades lately and screwing things up.

But speaking of... Nothing, really, just speaking: How would you like to help us choose a new theme song? My little brother is quite the accomplished composer. In fact, he was just hired by the Cirque du Soleil as a composer. No, really. He got all the talent in our family. Little bastich.

ANYWAY. He's got some cool songs out there, and I'm going to steal a new one for our theme song. Go <A HREF="http://www.indie911.com/index.php?cID=12538">here</A>, give them a listen, see what you think. Let us know what you think as far as picking a new theme song. He composed our current intro & extro songs, but I'm always willing to steal even more from my siblings.

Comment here on which you prefer, or <A HREF="mailto:n3rdcast@gmail.com">email us</A>, or you can call us at (646) 797-2763 or Skype to "N3RDCast". Or hey, if you like the current ones, let us know that, too.

We'll ignore you, of course, but still, it'll be fun to mock your opinions...

Only a few titles we spoil this show: WASTELAND, CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD, THE BOYS, NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL. But what we lack up in length we make up for in... offensiveness?

This episode we're only spoiling a few titles: IRON MAN, DEADWORLD, 52 WEEK, GREEN LANTERN CORPS, CIVIL WAR X-MEN, GHOST RIDER, IRON MAN, THUNDERBOLTS. But we're full of news about Joe Q's inability to stand up for gay rights, Congress is stupid, how much we hate EVERYONE for the Civil War delay, and some love for Kevin O'Neill. Chock full of gay references, so watch out, Joe Q!

Titles we spoil this week: CONAN & THE SONGS OF THE DEAD, 52, FABLES, GREEN ARROW, MAN CALLED KEV, BEYOND, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE, FANTASTIC FOUR FIRST FAMILY, INCREDIBLE HULK, MS MARVEL, NEW X-MEN, SHE-HULK, SQUADRON SUPREME, ULTIMATE X-MEN, WOLVERINE ORIGINS. This is our first time trying the new, shortened N3RDCast format, and you'll be able to tell by how flustered we become! Yaaay, we're like professionals! Well, except for the cursing and getting just about everything wrong.

Truly a technically superior N3RDCast this week! Titles we spoil: BPRD UNIVERSAL MACHINE, USAGI YOJIMBO, 52 WEEK, CREEPER, DETECTIVE COMICS, EX MACHINA, OUTSIDERS, INVINCIBLE, FANTASTIC FOUR, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, MARVEL TEAM-UP, MOON KNIGHT, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, UNCANNY X-MEN, X-MEN FAIRY TALES, WORMWOOD. Oh, and a very vulgar discussion about Superman Returns.

Titles we spoil this week: 52 WEEK, BATMAN, BLUE BEETLE, JACK OF FABLES , NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE, SIDEKICK, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, BLACK PANTHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE, CIVIL WAR YOUNG AVENGERS & RUNAWAYS, DAREDEVIL, NEW AVENGERS, WOLVERINE, X-MEN. This is probably the quickest N3RDCast we've ever done (and will likely ever do again!). Before we started recording, we were certain we'd have to rush. After we finished in a half hour, we sat around looking at each other and realized we rushed too much. So we had a few beers before getting back to work...

Titles we spoil this week: 52, FLASH, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, SHADOWPACT, SUPERMAN BATMAN, CABLE DEADPOOL , CIVIL WAR, CIVIL WAR X-MEN, DAILY BUGLE CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER SPECIAL, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, SHE-HULK, ULTIMATE X-MEN, UNCANNY X-MEN, X-FACTOR. We also have brand spanking-new mics, which explains why everyone is too damn loud. Sigh.

We have a LOT of titles to spoil this week since our 3 weeks of slacking, but we only hit: 52, SPIDER-MAN, BATMAN, SQUADRON SUPREME 5, GREEN LANTERN CORPS 2, HERO SQUARED 2, MOON KNIGHT 3, SIDEKICK 1, WALKING DEAD 29, BEYOND 1, THE THING 8, FRANKLIN RICHARDS SON OF A GENIUS 1, DAREDEVIL 86, FRONT LINE CW 3, THUNDERBOLTS 104, WOLVERINE 43, the movie Superman Returns, more about Civil War, and even a tiny bit about Pirates of R’lyeh - er, I mean, Carribean.

A whopper of a week for comic book readers - I hate to think of all the forests killed making this massive stack of comics!

Titles we spoil this week: 52, ALL STAR SUPERMAN, EX MACHINA, FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE, JUSTICE, SHADOWPACT, SUPERMAN BATMAN, SUPERMAN RETURNS: LEX LUTHOR, SWAMP THING, ASTONISHING X-MEN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, ETERNALS, GIANT SIZE HULK, IRON MAN, NEW AVENGERS, ULTIMATES, UNCANNY X-MEN, X-MEN FAIRY TALES. Also, listen to hear how Kwip STILL can't get the sound levels right, so HappyJack is SCREAMING while Kwip and Dr. Sexy are barely legible! We are all about the professionalism!

Titles we spoil this week: 52, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN, NIGHTWING, GREEN LANTERN CORPS, WOLVERINE ORIGINS, ULTIMATE X-MEN, DMZ, FABLES, EX MACHINA, CIVIL WAR, THUNDERBOLTS, SQUADRON SUPREME. We also discuss the VERY excellent Hero Envy webshow, the upcoming Superman Returns movie, the Spider-Man movies, and that Fox show - with that guy, who did those things, with that stuff...

This week's list includes 52, Wonder Woman, Loaded Bible: Jesus vs Vampires, Action Philosophers, Detective Comics, BPRD, Walking Dead, Marvel Team-Up, Fantastic Four First Family, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and of course, our brilliant wit.

Oh - and did we mention Civil War? We should have, because SPEEDBALL LIVES!!! Of course, now Joe Quesada can walk around feeling smug at how he tricked everyone, the wascally wabbit that he is. Ooooo, if only we'd guessed that!

Our Wizard World Philadelphia recap, complete with poor references! Plus this week's pulls: The Thing, Spidey, 52, Halo, Battlestar Galactica, Iron Man, many more; and all recorded while we eat!

Batman, Blue Beetle, New Avengers, Powers, She-Hulk, X-Factor, Wolverine, Wyrms and Tag & Bink (again!). And so many more, I can't even remember - not to mention our usual charming banter, complete with offensive commentary!

I was going to try and write down all the comics we talk about this week, but first I have to warn you: YOU WILL BE OFFENDED IN THIS N3RDCAST! Also, f Joe Quesada for cancelling The Thing. So there.

I guess we also discuss 52, Wolverine: Origins, Jeremiah Harm, and... erm... I'm pretty sure there's a couple others, but I think I blew an artery screaming about Joe Quesada, so I've forgotten.

Without HappyJack, Dr Sexy and Kwip do their best to fight through Fantastic Four First Family, Jeremiah Harm, She Hulk and some less than good comics (52, anyone?). Plus, a special section on caring for your comics!

Featuring a VERY special soundtrack this week courtesy of Scott Kurtz, the Foo Fighters, Madonna and Poppa Kurtz, we take a look at this week's comics, including the first Civil War and the last Identity Crisis, among others.

And if you're wondering about the Scott Kurtz thing, first read this. Then go listen to this.

Make sense now?

So many things are in this podcast your face might possibly melt upon listening: HappyJack reveals the new standards for suck with the latest Bludhaven, a heart-breaking announcement from Dr. Sexy, our first phone call, and team N3 throws down the gauntlet and launches our first war. On top of that, the new Blue Beatle, Planet Hulk, Astonishing X-Men, and - if you can believe it - HappyJack bitches about Spidey's new costume!

Making up for last week's drought in comics, this week finds us with a HUGE amount of new releases to talk about: Justice, Next Wave, Daredevil, etc etc - and even (gasp) Nightwing!

Once again, fiddling with our equipment finds this week with the extra-sensitive mic. So sensitive, in fact, you can tell the minute I become aroused (as we talk about the start of the Civil War series) by the sound of my nipples scratching against my tshirt.

There's some colorful imagery for your Monday morning!

There were a lot of good releases last week, and we've all got several to heap our praises upon. We're finally beginning to find our rhythm with these, and although we'll never even come CLOSE to behaving professionally, I feel confident to state that I'm not completely humiliated by this.

That'll come tomorrow, when I post the interview with Rick Dakan that's the aural equivalent of a train wreck. Yaay technology!

For now, here it is, complete in all it's comic-y goodness. Enjoy!