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?