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If you've listened to our show or met us at any recent cons, you've heard us talk about our idea for the upcoming Pittsburgh Comic Con. The idea goes like this: at the N3RDCast booth, we'll be passing out wooden dollars. WITH those wooden dollars will be small flyers that list all the participating booths people can use those dollars at. People will then trundle off to spend their dollars (one per customer, valid only at participating vendors, of course!) at one booth or another.

HOWEVER - they will visit ALL the booths on our list.

Why? Because if they do so, they can get someone at that booth to sign the flyer. When they return that flyer to our booth with all of the required signatures, they will be entered to win a large, high-quality print signed by all the participating artists. The print is a large jam piece - it will be started as a digital file by Leadslinger Studios, featuring some of their characters fighting empty spaces. The piece will then be sent around (through the magics of the interweb) to all participating artists in turn so they can add their character(s) to the jam piece in one massive, giant rumble! The final crowning touch will be added by Jamie "Dr. Sexy" Fickes, as Mumblepuss will reign supreme over the fight. Because really, in a fight of super-powers, ALWAYS bet on the surly teddy bear...

We will also provide all the participating artists with prints that they can do with as they see fit (I've heard they'll be acceptable currency for drinks at a bar later!). Space is limited (meaning we have no idea how many artists we can get to work on this piece in one month!), so if you're interested, let Kwip know!

See you in Pitt!

Titles we spoil this show: BPRD KILLING GROUND #3, DEADLANDER #1, BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #10, BLACK ADAM THE DARK AGE #3, BOOSTER GOLD #3, COUNTDOWN 29, GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #1, GREEN LANTERN #24, SIMON DARK #1, SUICIDE SQUAD RAISE THE FLAG #2 (OF Cool, SUPERMAN #668, WONDER WOMAN #13, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #24 OMD, MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK #4, NEW AVENGERS #35, NEW WARRIORS #5 CWI, PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #12 WWH, RUNAWAYS #28, X-FACTOR #24, X-MEN DIE BY THE SWORD #1, CLOCKWORK GIRL #1.

Topic for this show is the upcoming 4th Edition of D&D since HappyJack’s out of town again and we've got free reign to geek out. Guests in-studio are Arona & Eli, because they actually play D&D and while they might not have any particular insight into the upcoming changes, they at least get angry about things and start yelling with the rest of us for no reason, so it's a good fit.

Matthew Vaughn probably isn’t making any friends with how frank he’s speaking, but I got a kick out of this interview. Granted, I haven’t seen Stardust, so I don't know if the guy has any right to talk about being a good director, but I love the hell out of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. So there.

Dr. Sexy might have heard different news than me, but I’m keeping my torch lit for Serenity 2, screw what other news might be out there.

Dr. Sexy likes ruining things for me. After watching this horrific video, I can no longer enjoy my russian porn. Sheesh. Seriously, though - how the FUCK do you have a space program AND sex slavery going on in your country?

I can't confess to being a huge Thundercats fan, so I wasn't moved one way or another when I heard it's going to be a movie. I am curious to see what it looks like, but I won't be holding any candlelight vigils for it’s opening.

Alex, what the shit are you doing to us? Honestly, what they already did to Cap was bad enough. Did you REALLY have to rub salt in the wound?

I can' think of ANYTHING I can do for 24 hours, but my hat is off to the guys doing the 24 hour comic challenge.

If I was this guy, I'd alert the local police to keep an eye out for people matching Dr. Sexy's profile. That’s all I'm saying. Sexy might not be willing to pay a quarter-million for that comic, but I wouldn’t put a mugging past him.

More musicians need to start walking away from those asshole recording companies. I might not be rushing out to buy Radiohead or NiN's album, but I'll download it. AND I’ll pay a fair price!

You might think I've been doing this long enough now to remember to start recording the show when we start, but you'd be WRONG. I actually miss the first couple minutes of the show. A shame, really, because the show goes completely downhill after that… You can download it here and see if I'm right.

Yeah, we’re pretty much hosed for this week (and the next). We won’t be doing any N3RDCasts till things settle down in a couple weeks and I can get the studio set up. Yeah, I know, you’re all broken-hearted. But bear with us, I’ll try and post some pics of the new house and the wacky hijinks we’re getting up to as we settle and make the home our own.

So far all we’ve managed is to take the garbage and empty boxes left over from our move, fill the empty boxes with said garbage, and then label them with stuff like, “MASTER BEDROOM.�

Then we hide those boxes over at Dr. Sexy’s new house (in case you missed it, Dr. Sexy is also in the process of moving).

I can’t wait for him to start unpacking…

Scott Kurtz was fine posting the Frank Cho lesbian strip - right up until his dad called. Then suddenly it was a conflict! Oh, if only daddy hadn't preached to him!

Scott Kurtz's silliness as told by the Foo Fighters, courtesy of Dr. Sexy.