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- Acmecast #167 - Worth the Wait!
Jermaine, Stephen and Jody return to the studio after a few weeks off to explore why J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman walked off of Batwoman after more than two years, welcome Mark Waid as the newest member of the comics retail community, question why an All-New Marvel NOW! is necessary, give a halftime report on DC's Villains Month and talk to writer of this week's Mighty Avengers #1, Al Ewing, from his home in the U.K.!
Show Notes:
- "J.H. Williams III & W.Haden Blacman Leave 'Batwoman' Over Editorial Edicts" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "J.H. Willaims III Walks Off Batwoman Over DC Not Allowing Her Marriage To Maggie Sawyer [UPDATE]" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Scott Allie Tweets His Thoughts On Editorial Interference In The Wake of J.H. Williams III Leaving Batwoman" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Mark Waid, Comics Retailer" at Thrillbent.com.
- "Recharge with All-New Marvel NOW!" at Marvel.com.
- "DC Wants You To Draw Harley Quinn Naked!" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Follow Al Ewing on Twitter!
- Follow Al Ewing on Tumblr!
1 hr 33 min - Acmecast #166 - the Weapon X-Files!
Stephen middles with a solo Comics at the Table while Jermaine and guest analyst Ryan Rubio headline and get you up to speed on the Wolverine, reviewing his latest feature film and delving into his back catalogue!
1 hr 7 min - Acmecast #165 - High Class Problems!
Jermaine, Stephen and Jody go up against Grant Morrison over interpretations of the Caped Crusader, blow the doors off Trinity War before the conclusion next week in Justice League #23, chat with Skyward creator Jeremy Dale on the runaway success of his new title, and give you their opinions on the first round of Infinity tie-ins!
Show Notes:
- "Fatman on Batman #44 - More with Morrison" at Smodcast.com.
- "Uh, did Geoff Johns just spoil the end of DC's Trinity War?" at io9.com.
- "Geoff Johns Reveals Trinity War/ Forever 'Shocking' Plot Twist" at Newsarama.com.
- Watching the Trinity War promo video.
- Comics at the Table! - Avengers #18, Avengers Assemble #18, Thunderbolts #14 and Daredevil #30!
1 hr 13 min - Acmecast #164 - Bottom Out!
Jermaine, Stephen & Jody give themselves a much-needed pat on the back for a Wednesday-well-done, sift their way through a surprisingly busy week of comic news and pick apart Marvel's Infinity #1 from the nuts & bolts to the staples and coverstock!
Show Notes:
- The Bald Man with Herobear & the Kid Inheritance #1!
- "Fraction Leaves 'FF' and 'Fantastic Four'; Karl Kesel Returns" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "'Collider' Changes Titles To 'FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "All Ultimate Titles Cancelled In November And Replaced With Cataclsym...And Miles Morales Is Headed to the Marvel Universe (UPDATE)" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Comics at the Table! - Infinity #1!
58 min - Acmecast #163 - Wicked Awesome!
Stephen and Jody interrogate Jermaine about his arial adventure to Boston Comic Con! Then the guys do their best to put the 3-D cover allocations for DC Villains Month and the career of J. Michael Straczynski into perspective before serving up a heaping helping of Comics at the Table, now with 200% of your weekly dosage of second issues!
Show Notes:
- "DC's Villains Month 3D covers to be allocated; retailers to be aggravated" at Comics Beat.com.
- CORRECTION! Kieron Gillen's Thor fill-in story was called "Latverian Prometheus" not "Iron Prometheus" and ran through Thor #604-606, just three issues rather than the stated four.
- Jermaine's e-mail address, [email protected], for everyone that would like to enter the contest!
- We forgot to talk about Hunger #2!
- Comics at the Table! - Superior Foes of Spider-man #2, Burn the Orphanage Born to Lose #1, Sidekick #1, Ten Grand #4, Satellite Sam #2, Sheltered #2 and Trillium #1!
1 hr 40 min - Acmecast #162 - Previews Night!
For those of you that couldn't make it out to Geeksboro, we bring you the bulk of our first ever Acme Previews Night discussion! The event was a HUGE success, with some customers adding as many at 10 new titles to their subscription lists and some new books increasing their pre-order numbers by as much as 30%! If you're local, try to come by the first Thursday of next month and if you're listening from afar, either try a Previews Night at your own store or encourage your shop to do a get-together!
Show Notes:
- PreviewsWorld, the online home of Previews magazine!
- Exclusive second look at our Comic Book City Con cover for Locke & Key Alpha!
- UPDATE! Pretty Deadly from Image Comics, which Jermaine specifically said had 17 pre-orders at the time of the recording, now has 22 pre-orders less than 24 hours later!
1 hr - Acmecast #161 - Triumph & Torment!
Jermaine and Jody catch up with Stephen on all of the goings-on at 2013's San Diego Comic Con International before diving into the last full week of new comics in July!
Show Notes:
- Acmecast #86 - Live from SDCC 2012!!!
- Acmecast #37 - SDCC Debriefing
- Stephen in his soiled Lying Cat t-shirt!
- Charticon Transformers Convention - taking place August 9th - 11th at Crowne Plaza in Charlotte, NC!
- "'Building Stories,' 'Saga' Dominate 2013 Eisner Awards" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Nemo Returns to Slumberland With Brand-New Dreams With Shanower and Rodriguez" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Jason Aaron on 'Amazing X-Men' and the Return of Nightcrawler" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Brian Wood and Terry Dodson on the Return of Lady Deathstrike in 'X-Men'" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "IDW to Remaster 2000 AD's 'Rogue Trooper', Adapt Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Walt Simonson Brings All-New 'Ragnarok' Series Plus 'Star Jammers' Artist's Edition to IDW" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Wolverine's Year Two: Kieron Gillen Discusses the 'Origin' Sequel" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "IDW Announces 'Hellboy' Artist's Edition" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "DC Comics Offers Superman to John Romita Jr. - and He Might Well Take It" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Joss Whedon Says 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Not Connected to the Miniseries, Hank Pym Won't Be in the Film" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Zack Snyder to Direct, Co-Write Superman/ Batman Film Starring Henry Cavill" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Star-Lord's Suit, Drax's Daggers and Nove Corps Troopers: Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Movie Props" at Comics Alliance.com.
- Comics at the Table! - Rocketeer/ Spirit Pulp Friction #1, Hunger #1, Superior Spider-man Team-Up #1, Gamma one-shot, Hawkeye Annual #1, Batman Dark Knight #22 and Justice League Dark #22!
1 hr 21 min - Acmecast #160 - Comics Were Life, And We Were Good At Them!
Stephen is joined by a true American legend, Stuff of Legend & Intrepid EscapeGoat creator Brian "Smitty" Smith, to compare and contrast the true American artform with the true American Pastime, in timely fashion with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Then Jermaine and Jody join the show to bring you vast improvements in DC, new releases by Image, turning points at Marvel and scrappiness from Valiant!
Show Notes:
- EDITOR'S NOTE - Smitty is neither in an Amazonian jungle nor pushing a cart with a squeeky wheel. His mic is also not piquing. His has two birds for pets.
- Exclusive first look at Smitty's newest graphic novel, Uncle Ant!
- The Box Score from 1976's DC Super-Stars #10, featuring a game between the Justice League and the Super Society of Super Villains!
- "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" performed by New York Yankees All Star center fielder Bernie Williams, from his 2009 album Moving Forward!
- My mic sounds nice, check one!
- Comics at the Table! - Sheltered #1, Ghosted #1, Justice League #22, Superman Unchained #2, Superior Spider-man #13, Daredevil #28, Indestructible Hulk #10 and Quantum & Woody #1!
1 hr 30 min - Acmecast #159 - Live Free or Listen Hard!
Better late than never again! Jermaine, Stephen and Riley are back with a vengeance to answer the Indoor Kids' call, go over all of the new books announced at the ImageExpo, provide advance reviews of Batman '66 and Collider, and lead us all in a lively session of Comics at the Table!
Show Notes:
- Elm St. Center photos on Jermaine's Instagram! Get an idea of what the framework of Comic Book City Con will look like!
- The Indoor Kids podcast on Nerdist.com, specializing in video games!
- The movie Joe said Stephen should lose his nerd card for having not seen was Unbreakable!
- "Image 2013: New Comics From Brubaker, Epting, Remender, Straczynski, Sienkiewicz, Aaron And More" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Image Comics Now Selling DRM-Free Digital Comics From Its Website" at Comics Alliance.com.
- Batman '66 and Guardians of the Galaxy Tomorrow's Avengers' "Infinite" Comics on Comixology!
- "Like" Acme Comics Presents on Facebook to keep up with all of the latest reading events!
- Comics at the Table! - Satellite Sam #1, Superior Foes of Spider-man #1, Catalyst Comics #1, Avengers A.I. #1, What If? AvX #1, Batman Incorporated #12 and Legends of the Dark Knight #10!
1 hr 11 min - Acmecast #158 - The "S" Stands For...
Stephen & Jody are joined by special correspondants Joe & Cody to take a hammer to the Man of Steel, breaking the years-long stigma that here at Acmecast, everything is great all the time!
Show Notes:
- "Man of Steel, since you asked." by Mark Waid at Thrillbent.com.
- Acme's Top 5 Superman Stories - 1. All Star Superman 2. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow 3. Superman For All Seasons 4. Superman Birthright 5. Superman & the Legion of Super Heroes
- Comics at the Table! - Heck OGN, Crater XV OGN, A Matter of Life OGN, Burning Building Comix OGN, Wild Blue Yonder #1, Brother Lono #1, Dark Horse Presents #23, A+X #9, SpongeBob Comics Super Swimtacular Annual #1, Avengers #14, New Avengers #7 and Age of Ultron #10!
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