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.

Woody, Dr. Sexy and Kwip sit down (at a cookout) to discuss a specialized support class (such as a priest in WoW) versus a more versatile support class (such as a Druid in WoW). The choice of subject has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that Kwip started up in WoW again and is trying to decide which class to play...

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.