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- Acmecast #245 - Lando Land!
Join us on our voyage to Lando Calrissian's very own pleasure moon as Jermaine and Stephen knock out the second half of the September Previews catalogue just a week before its due date, dig deeper into what the Secret Wars delays mean for us as a business, and address the dangers of Star Wars addiction in the run-up to the Force Awakens!
Show Notes:
- Follow Thomas Boatwright on Instagram!
- "8 Comics Have Been Cancelled by DC" at IGN.com.
- Marvel Solicitations for November 2015:
- All-New, All-Different Avengers #1
- Nova #1
- Drax #1
- Venom Space Knight #1
- Illuminati #1
- Hercules #1
- Vision #1
- Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #1
- Black Knight #1
- Image Solicitations for November 2015:
- The Goddamned #1
- Monstress #1
- Huck #1
- Ringside #1
1 hr 11 min - Acmecast #244 - Pregnant Pauses!
Coming to you a week late due to travel and pressing shipment processing needs, Stephen, Riley and Austin analyze the packaging and pricing of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, give their thoughts on Secret Wars #9 of 8, and get through the Dark Horse, DC and IDW sections of the September Previews catalogue for items shipping in November before being so rudely interrupted by work!
Show Notes:
- Solicitations for Dark Knight III Master Race #1 (of 8) and Collectors Edition HC, so you know what we know.
- "DC Comics Down Over $2 Million On Projected Figures For 2015" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Secret Wars #9 By Jonathan Hickman And Esad Ribic - An Extra Issue For December" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Dark Horse Comics Products Shipping In November 2015" at PreviewsWorld.com - Call of Duty Black Ops III #1 and Joe Golem Occult Detective #1.
- "DC Comics Products Shipping In November 2015" at PreviewsWorld.com - Superman American Alien #1 and Batman Europa #1.
- "11 Years After It Was Announced, Batman: Europa Is Coming This November" at io9.com.
- "DCU Gets Looney Tunes Variants" at PreviewsWorld.com.
- "DC Tells Editors, Stop Batgirling, Go Back To Meat And Potatoes" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "IDW Publishing Products Shipping In November 2015" at PreviewsWorld.com - Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem was the Dave Wachter (who is drawing Godzilla in Hell #5) book from Dark Horse we couldn't think of at the time.
39 min - Acmecast #243 - Doom's Speed!
The final installment of the Secret Wars first half debriefing concludes with a focus on the Battleworld and War Zone tie-ins to the collossal Marvel event!
Show Notes:
- Secret Wars Battleworld map!
59 min - Acmecast #242 - Don't Be a Flat Squirrel!
Jermaine, Stephen and Valerie talk with former retailer/ current attorney and director/ producer/ writer of the My Comic Shop DocumentARy and My Comic Shop History podcast Anthony Desiato for a look behind the scenes and "Where Are They Now?" session a month removed from the conclusion of the show's first season and the closing of Alternate Realities. Then it's part two of your Secret Wars Debriefing with Jermaine, John and Michael and they take you up through the events of Secret Wars #2 before diving into Battleworld themselves!
Show Notes:
- Flat Squirrel Productions.com, the online home of Anthony's media production company.
- Rent My Comic Shop DocumentARy available for rent at Vimeo.com.
- Listen to season one of the My Comic Shop History podcast on iTunes.
- Follow Anthony on Twitter!
- Like My Comic Shop on Facebook!
- Keep up with the continuing adventures of Alternate Realities on Facebook!
- Bid on "SuperOto's" auction on eBay!
- "Take Me Back," the outro music this week, as with all of the music for My Comic Shop History, is by Ralph Puma!
1 hr 19 min - Acmecast #241 - Dull & Downbeat!
Don't let the title confuse you, we're in perfectly fine spirits, but those adjectives are the first salvo in a bevy of 118 critical reviews of Fox's brand-new Fantastic Four film that have lead to a 10% score of Rotten Tomatoes! Jermaine has already scene it, and in an uncharacteristic display of audience candor, he answers all of Stephen's and Jay's spoiler-filled questions before giving the comic-reading, movie-going public a chance to spend their dollars. Then it's the first installment in a new series by Lord Retail, Michael and John, covering the issues of Time Runs Out on the Last Days of the Marvel Universe leading up to Secret Wars!
Show Notes:
- "The Fantastic Four: The Movie (1994)" at YouTube.com.
- Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's Fantastic Four
- Fantastic Four #348 "Where Monsters Dwell! (Or Is It Where Creatures Roam?)," in which Walt Simonson writes and Art Adams draws the "New FF" with Spider-man, Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Hulk!
- Fantastic Four #352 "No Time Like the Present! (Or It Ain't Funny How Time Slips Away)," where Doom and Reed fight between panels and seconds!
1 hr 20 min - Acmecast #240 - Fasting!
Stephen, Riley and Pete go rogue as they participate the first episode in nearly four years to be recorded on an active sales floor, a la Tell 'Em Steve-Dave, and they do a bang-up job of rambling through an entire Previews catalogue in less than an hour!
Show Notes:
- Dark Horse Solicitations
- Hellboy & the BPRD 1953 Phantom Hand & Kelpie #1
- Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfade #1
- DC Solicitations
- Batman Eternal #1-5
- Superman Lois & Clark #1
- Telos #1
- Titans Hunt #1
- Justice League Gods & Men Green Lantern #1
- Flash by Geoff Johns TP Book 1
- Twilight Children #1
- IDW Solicitations
- Back to the Future #1
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas HC
- Image Solicitations
- I Hate Fairyland #1
- Paper Girls #1
- Codename Baboushka: Conclave of Death #1
- Saints #1
- Black Magick #1
- Marvel Solicitations
- Blade the Hunter #1
- What If? Infinity #1-5
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Cognetic #1
- Grumpy Cat #1
- Battling Boy Fall of the House of West GN 2
- Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel #57 - Robert Kirkman at Stuff Said Show.com.
- WTF with Marc Maron #619 - Robert Kirkman / Bob Fingerman at WTF Pod.com.
1 hr 8 min - Acmecast #239 - That's Just Prime!
Jermaine and Stephen get back in the driver's seat to catch up on the news our of San Diego Comic Con 2015, a month's worth of new releases, and the Ant-Man movie!
Show Notes:
- "SDCC '15: About 60,000 people show up without badges" at Comics Beat.com.
- "The Suicide Squad trailer was great, why does Warner Bros. sound so angry about it?" at Polygon.com.
- "'Faraday Cage' definition" at Wikipedia.com.
- "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer" at YouTube.com.
- "Suicide Squad Comic-Con Trailer" at YouTube.com.
- "UCB - Titular Line In Star Wars" at YouTube.com.
- "Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Comic-Con 2015 Reel" at YouTube.com.
- "SDCC: Marvel Announces 'Chewbacca' Limited Series by Duggan & Noto" at Comic Book Resources.com.
- "Deadpool Leaked Trailer Comic Con/ Camcorder" at YouTube.com.
- "I KNOW EVERYTHING!!" at YouTube.com.
- "CBR TV: Mark Waid on 'Strange Fruit' Controversy, 'Archie' Relaunch, 'Avengers'" at Comic Book Resources.com.
- "Watch Saturday Night Live: Superhero Party" at Hulu.com.
- The Retroist - Retro Blog and Podcast
- My Comic Shop History Podcast on iTunes.
1 hr 9 min - Acmecast #238 - L-7 Weenies!
On the eve of Indpendence Day, the one night game a year, Stephen and Riley do their best to keep up with all of the news coming out of San Francisco & the Image Expo and Bleeding Cool & Marvel Comics and Jermaine and Jay sit down with Manifest Destiny co-creator and artist Matthew Roberts!
Show Notes:
- Bleeding Cool's #ImageExpo posts
- "Marvel Just Revealed Its Entire 'All-New, All-Different' Comic Universe" at iO9.com.
- Read Private Eye now, well ahead of the November print release, at Panel Syndicate.com.
- Follow Matthew Roberts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Deviant Art and Tumblr!
- Matt's addition to the Acmebat Belfry at Acme Comics Presents!
57 min - Acmecast #237 - Peter Porker!
In a return to form, Jermaine, Stephen, Austin and Valerie recap their adventures before, during and after HeroesCon 2015 in Charlotte, NC, bring you up to speed on the latest announcements for the All-New, All-Different Marvel Comics post-Secret Wars, give a broad overview of DC's Divergence soft relaunch, and implore you to pick up next week's We Stand on Guard when they tell you!
Show Notes:
- "HeroesCon: DeConnick to End Run on Captain Marvel; Milkfed Criminal Masterminds Talk New and Upcoming Issues" at Comics Beat.com.
- "Jason Aaron & Chris Bachalo Make Magic with Doctor Strange" at Marvel.com.
- "Kris Anka and 'Agent Carter' Team Take Over 'Captain Marvel'" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Miles Morales to Star in Bendis & Pichelli's 'Spider-man' Post-'Secret Wars'" at Comic Book Resources.com.
- "Tom Holland Cast as the New Spider-man" at IGN.com.
1 hr 8 min - Acmecast #236 - Stuff Said!
Stephen does his best homage to our sister-show, Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel, and who better to put in the hotseat than the cartoonist/ publisher/ host himself?!
Show Notes:
- "'All-New, All-Different Marvel' Teaser Features Wolverine, Daredevil, Thing" at Comic Book Resources.com.
- Scott Pilgrim reference for the library where the Toronto Comics & Arts Festival takes place.
- Hatter Entertainment.com, the online home of Gregg Schigiel.
- Follow Gregg on Twitter.
- Cruisin' Together #13 - Days of Thunder!
- Stuff Said #48 - Comics Aren't Real (from Emerald City Comicon) - the panel we referenced when discussing Amulet.
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