4-Panel | Comics & Manga

4-Panel rides back into town for another round-up of graphic literature goodness, and this week Andrew (the Comics Sage), Mick (Old Man Comics), are having a chat about comics that deserve more love and attention. Meanwhile, Producer Rob (Got Lost At The Checkout), has manga. Lots and lots of manga … 

There's a lot of titles to go through so make sure you have your notepad ready.

After that the gang get back to business with the things that they've been reading, which are Bedtime Games, Ether: Copper Golems, the third volume of Stephen McCranie's Space Boy, Daughters of the Dragon, and Defenders: Best Defence.  

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So we finally get our first proper look at the new, stand-alone movie about the Clown Prince of Crime starring Joaquin Phoenix, but can it match up to Jokers past? Does The Joker need a sympathetic origin story, and which actors played the role the best, the most accurate, and the worst? 

Join Andrew, Mick and Rob for a field trip to the rather shiny and clean streets of Gotham to find out. 

After that it’s time for our usual look at the comics and graphic novels that we’ve been reading, which this week are Xerxes by Frank Miller, volume 0 of Polar: The Black Kaiser by Victor Santos, Mr & Mrs X: Love And Marriage, Starcraft: Scavengers, and The Immortal Hulk: The Green Door.

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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March has come to an end, so it's time for us to attempt another journey up the mountains of comics and manga, but to our horror we're a man down!

So how did Andrew and Rob fare on their expedition? Well, this week they'e got Old Man Hawkeye: The Whole World Blind, B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know - Pandemonium, Halo: Collateral Damage, the first volume of The Halo Omnibus, the fourth volume of Star Wars: Darth Vader (Dark Lord Of The Sith) - Fortress Vader, The Fantastic Four: Fourever, Cosmic Ghost Rider: Baby Thanos Must Die and West Coast Avengers: Best Coast.

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With the news that James Gunn has be rehired to direct the third chapter of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Andrew and Rob decided to take a look back at the long and somewhat complicated history of the space-faring team. From the current roster, through the strange team of the 1990’s to the originals, and yes, we DO talk about Starhawk …

After that we return to our usual programming with the things we’ve been reading, which this week include X-Men: Extermination, Infinity Warps and the second volume of Hiro Mashima’s sci-fi Fairy Tail-esque adventure manga Eden’s Zero.

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The newest addition to the MCU is out, so naturally we went to see it and we’re here to talk about its good points, its bad points, and what we thought about some of the changes made to the original comics.

Now that might be enough for any other comic-book podcast, but 4-Panel takes pride in the fact that we have a lot of issues - which basically means prepare yourselves for a whole mess of Captain Marvel. 

Kicking things off in our reading section is the full run of True Believers (2019): Captain Marvel (featuring reprints of Ms. Marvel #1, Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man & Ms. Marvel #1, Marvel Super Heroes featuring Captain Marvel #1, Captain Marvel #41, The Avengers #89, The Uncanny X-Men #164, Captain Marvel (2012) #1, The Avengers #183, Ms. Marvel (1977) #20, The Avengers Annual (1964) #10). After that it’s the complete collected Infinity War, Captain Marvel Prelude, Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Captain Marvel, Marvel Universe: Time and Again, and Infinity War: Sleepwalker. 

In fact, there’s so much Captain Marvel in this episode, we’re tempted to open a market stall.

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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After so many reboots, remakes, rehashes, retries and revamps, how can anyone make sense of superhero comic-book continuity, especially where alternate timelines are concerned. Aside from the parallel worlds and changes to history that become part of that particular “universe”, there are also the special issues that are not necessarily related to the main storyline (e.g. Marvel’s What If … and DC’s Elseworlds) - and then it all goes boom when they reset the universe … but is still somehow kind of canonical?

Get ready for a new crazy wall of comic-book continuities! 

Okay, now that the initial insanity is over it’s business as usual with what we’ve been reading, which this week include a whole mess of spider-folks fighting energy vampires in Spider-Geddon, a visit to Jeff Lemire’s stranded superhero team in two volumes of Black Hammer (The Event and Age of Doom), supernatural high-school hijinks in Evan Dorkin’s Blackwood, Havok wreaking … havoc in X-Men: Until Our Hearts Stop, and the rather delightful first volume of Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World.

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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It's the end of the month, which means it's time for our new regular feature where we stare at the mountain of comics, graphic novels, manga and trade paperbacks, and try to cover as many as possible in one episode!

Can we do it? Maybe.

Will we get injured? Probably.

Will the mountain still be there afterwards, silently judging us? Most definitely.

As for the very minor dent we made in the cartoonishly large pile of comics, that was made up of Sword Daughter: She Brightly Burns by Brian Wood and Mack Chater, Multiple Man: It All Makes Sense In The End, The Immortal Hulk: Or Is He Both?, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Marvel 2-In-1: The Thing & The Human Torch - Next Of Kin, Thor: God Of Thunder Reborn, and X-23: Family Album.

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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The Hollywood live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s seminal science fiction series Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm), is out in cinemas, but have James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez finally cracked the formula for adapting manga and anime? Andrew, Mick and Rob went to the cinema to find out, but one of them convinced the other two to try the cinema “experience” known as 4DX for the first time.

What could possibly go wrong? 

After that it’s back to business as usual with our regular look at comics and manga that we’ve been reading, which this week are Moon Knight: Phases, Moon Girl And The Marvel Universe, the second collected volume of Die Wergelder by Hiroaki Samura, and Deadpool: Mercin’ Hard For The Money.

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Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't!

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Although Netflix has had its ups and downs with the TV adaptations of Marvel franchises, in general the shows have been well-received. But with Disney announcing a new streaming service and the cancellation of every Marvel show on Netflix, how would the highly anticipated second season of The Punisher fare? 

Join Andrew, Mick and Rob for another lively discussion about The Punisher (only this time without all of the weirdness). After that it’s time for the usual comic-book and manga round-up which this week include Venom: First Host, the second volume of Space Boy by Stephen McRanie, The Mighty Crusaders, Edge of Spider-Geddon and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra - The Catastrophe Con.

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