Jason Wood returns to lead the charge in discussing Gotham Central, Fell, Blazing Combat, the horrors of ComicBase, Ben Templesmith, The Twelve, the Windy City Comicon, Essex County Volume 2, Wicket and Imp, The Darkness from Top Cow, Skottie Young's Wizard of Oz, Gil Kane, Cable, Francesco!, Ande Parks and El Diablo, Amazing Spider-Man and New Way to Die, Secret Six, speculating, Phil Hester, and much more! Plus, more Hotline shenanigans!

Sitting in for a vacationing Jason Wood, Derek (Comic Book Noise) Coward and Chris (Collected Comics Library) Marshall help us talk about Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D, Humberto Ramos, Lucha Libre, collecting Final Crisis, DC/Wildstorm: Dream War, Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider, Marvel's X-books, Punisher Max, Library Binding, the Monster Times, First Flight of the Phantom Eagle, Chuck Austin's War Machine, the Luna Brothers' Sword and Girls, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Comic Book Comics from Evil Twin Comics, Glamourpuss, Give Me Liberty, more Final Crisis, Tim Sale, and a whole mess more. Plus! Listener email and a trio of calls to the 11 O'C Hotline!

Our usual reliance on the Anti Structure Equation evaporates (not really) as we enter an extended examination of Robert Kirkman's recent revelations on his plan to save the comics industry. In addition to the main course, we serve up some succulent side dishes on Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, creative ownership and work-made-for-hire, the direct market and Diamond Distribution, kids and comics, digital distribution, the bookstore market, and much, much more!

Topics discussed: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Final Crisis: Revelations #1, rediscovering Spawn, Final Crisis #3, Secret Invasion #5, Alex Robinson's Too Cool to be Forgotten, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Criminal #4, Two-Face Year One #1, Ghost Talker's Daydream Volume 1 from Dark Horse Comics, X-Men Origins: Jean Grey #1 and Origins: Wolverine, re-evaluating Image Comics, Danger Girl, and much more!

Jason Wood returns as we field questions from our forum members in our first live and interactive-like episode! Dropped names include: Jack Kirby, inkers, Watchmen, Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1, Justice League New Frontier, Uncle Scrooge #377, Darwin Cooke, Frank Robbins, Jim Aparo, Jesus, Jim Starlin, Kamandi, Amazing Spider-Man, the Rook, Dwayne McDuffie, Mark Texeria, Justice League of America, Jeffrey Brown, the Dark Horse Star Wars titles, and much, much more in this special Giant-Size episode!

Jefferson Workman and Thomas Stephen Katers (pitching in for an AWOL Jason Wood) join us as mindlessly meander through X-Files: I Want to Believe, Joker's Asylum Scarecrow and Two-Face, Kirby: King of Comics and Krazy Kirby Koncepts, Dark Horse's Savage Sword of Conan Volume 2, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #3, Barry Windsor-Smith, Whatever happened to ASP?, the 11 O'Clock Novel Challenge, Gil Kane's My Name is Savage, Injury #1 and #2 from Buenaventura Press, exclusive contracts, listener email (Aquaman Vs. Nightwing and Robin), Tom Derenick and Bill Sienkiewicz on Reign in Hell, and much more! Plus, more calls to the Hotline (and one of them is from a FOREIGNER!)! Google Mighty Muggs!

Topics covered in our 14th outing (Actually our 13th, but who's counting?): Batman: The Dark Knight, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Umbrella Academy 2, CBLDF Presents: Liberty Comics #1, Madman Atomic Comics, the long-awaited American Flagg Omnibus, Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver on Flash: Rebirth, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, X-Files #0, Superman Prime, Final Crisis: Resist, more Larry Stroman and X-Factor, Booster Gold and Rick Remender, pocket universe books, the 11 O'C Agents of Atlas wager, Garth Ennis and the Punisher War Zone weekly, something about War Machine, DC Super Friends, and much more! Plus, a quartet of calls to the Hotline! Google Eyezon!

And the downward spiral begins... This episode, we poot forth a lot of hoohah about Mike Mignola and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The Comics Journal #290 and Bob Powell, Harvey Comics, Butch Guice and Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, Wildstorm's Storming Paradise, Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge, the Starman Omnibus, Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, DC War comics and the great Sam Glanzman, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, Top Cow: Pilot Season, John from Cincinatti, Cube Lube, outrageous DVD pricing, Steve Niles' Dead She Said and City of Others, Larry Stroman and X-Factor #33, the Legion of Superheroes in the 31st Century and Shawn McManus, more Doug Mahnke, and a whole mess more! Plus, more heat from the Hotline! Google PopSoda!

Synchronicity abounds in our 11-11-11 episode as we tread the murky waters of event pricing, comic buyers' reluctance to try independent titles, underground visionary Rory Hayes and Where Demented Wented, Alex Ross and Frank Santoro, Tommy Lee Edwards, Charlatan Ball from Image, the Filipino Invasion, Final Crisis: Requiem, Camelot 3000, the 11 O'Clock Comics Challenge, listener email, and much more! Google Max Toy Company!

In the wake of Wizard World Chicago 2008, an experience filled with hilarity and heartbreak, we touch on the passing of Michael Turner, finally get rolling on Final Crisis #2 (all too briefly for my taste, but one can't have everything...), Erik Larsen and Image Comics, the repurcussions of unconstructive criticism, 1985, Mike Norton's Trinity work with Jerry Ordway, Simone Bianchi as the modern-day Alex Nino, Mark Millar and Old Man Logan, Walking Dead Volume 8, World War Z, scumbags who capitalize on the brilliance of George Romero, Astonishing X-Men #25, Warren Ellis, Avatar Comics, and much, much more! As usual, the Hotline is red-hot with ridiculous remarks! Google Cronic Dorome!