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- Acmecast #117 - And the Winners Are...
Jermaine, Stephen and Griffin pull out all the stops to bring you the results of the 2nd Annual Acme Awards (the ACMEs) and discuss the most controversial and highest-selling issue of 2012, Amazing Spider-man #700!
Show Notes:
- Best Continuing Series - Winner: Batman - Runner Up: Locke & Key
- Best New Image Ongoing Series - Winner: Saga - Runner Up: Manhattan Projects
- Best New Ongoing Series - Winner: Hawkeye - Runner Up: Mind MGMT
- Best Writer - Winner: Scott Snyder - Runner Up: Brian Michael Bendis
- Best Artist - Winner: Greg Capullo - Runner Up: Fiona Staples
- Best Single Issue - Winner: Saga #1 - Runner Up: Batman #12
- Best Original Graphic Novel - Winner: Batman Earth One - Runner Up: Underwater Welder
- Best All-Ages Series - Winner: Adventure Time - Runner Up: Finding Gossamyr
- Best Mini Series - Winner: Avengers vs. X-Men - Runner Up: Punk Rock Jesus
- Most Anticipated Series of 2013 - Winner: Superman Man of Steel - Runner Up: Age of Ultron
- "Peter David Suffers a Stroke On Holiday" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Comics at the Table! - Amazing Spider-man #700, Avenging Spider-man #15.1, Justice League #15, Aquaman #15, and Mara #1!
1 hr 40 min - Acmecast #116 - Retail Drunk!
Jermaine, Stephen, Griffin and Riley use the last new release day on the Mayan calendar to sell a lot of books, eat a lot of sushi, and then review the nominees for the 2nd Annual Acme Awards, follow up on some of the comic news stories they've mulled over on the last few episodes, dive into one of the biggest stacks of Comics at the Table you've ever seen, and congratulate Lord Retail on getting Mark Waid on board for Comic Book City Con!
Show Notes:
- "Shelly Bond Promoted To Executive Editor of Vertigo" at Comics Alliance.com.
- "Image Comics Responds To Retailers...And Announces A Second Print Of Saga #7. And Maybe #8." at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Pulp Sunday, the internet home of Francesco Francavilla's Black Beetle!
- No one should drink that much chocolate milk!
- Comics at the Table! - Black Beetle #0, Dark Horse Presents #19, Wonder Woman #15, FF #2, Hawkeye #6, JSA Liberty Files Whistling Skull #1, Saga #8, and Daredevil #21!
1 hr 24 min - Acmecast #115 - Guess Who's Back!
Hawkguy writer Matt Fraction makes his third appearance on the show to talk to Jermaine and Stephen about writing a superhero comic about an Avenger that also just happens to be a guy trying to make the world a better place, launching the Fantastic Four and the FF in such a way that it pleases readers new and old alike, and the status of his creator-owned series for Image, Satellite Sam, with artist Howard Chaykin!
Show Notes:
- Stephen apologizes for all of the lisping and sniffling in the intro and outro. He's apparently sicker than he thought.
50 min - Acmecast #114 - My Whole Life is Thunder!
Jermaine, Stephen, Griffin and Jody swap out Comics at the Table in favor of headline news for this Friday's show, taking time to talk over the release of Gail Simone from Batgirl, Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette's decision to leave Swamp Thing and Image's choice to no longer do reprints for established, best-selling series!
Show Notes:
- Another reminder about our holiday hours!
- "Gail Simone Off Batgirl. Honest." at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "Scott Snyder To Leave Swamp Thing" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "As Issue Even Sells Out, Image Decides To Stop Reprinting Comics Like Saga" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Other "Retailers Respond To Image's Decision To Drop Second Prints" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- Full of chicken, and also waffles!
56 min - Acmecast #113 - Mature Listeners!
Even though they refrain from using explict language or describing anything in too graphic of detail, Jermaine, Stephen, Riley and Jody take the occassion of Karen Berger's resignation from DC Vertigo after 19 years as executive editor to evaluate News-a-Rama's list of 10 Vertigo titles that changed comics and throw out a few recommendations of their own!
Show Notes:
- "Karen Berger Steps Down From DC Comics" at Bleeding Cool.com.
- "10 Vertigo Series that Changed Comics" at News-a-Rama.com.
- Series Discussed - Enigma, Seven Miles A Second, DMZ, Hellblazer, Preacher, Invisibles, 100 Bullets, Y the Last Man, Fables, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Testament, and Loveless!
1 hr 24 min - Acmecast #112 - Justice...Like Lightning!
Jermaine, Stephen, and Michael put down their eggnog milkshakes long enough to get you up to speed on the latest developments in Death of the Family, clue you in to the best Batman story you probably haven't read this week, bring some tough love to an Image #1 and some transitive love to another, dramatically read you a passage from Heckboy in Heck, and tell you all about the rough and tumble dream team of the Marvel Universe! It's Comics at the Table!
Show Notes:
- Comics at the Table! - Detective Comics #15, Human Bomb #1, Legends of the Dark Knight #3, Legend of Luther Strode #1, i Love Trouble #1, Blackacre #1, Great Pacific #2, Hellboy in Hell #1, Amazing Spider-man #699, Thunderbolts #1, Iron Man #3, Deadpool #3, and Avengers #1!
59 min - Acmecast #111 - Bring On the Bronies!
Stephen, Jody, Riley and guest panelist Brian Ewing dish over the leftovers from Friday's Comics at the Table, including Alex Ross' Masks and the phenomenon that is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, get you psyched for Wednesday's Avengers #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena with an advance review, and give you a half-dozen high ticket ideas for your Acme Holiday Wish Lists!
Show Notes:
- Jody wanted to correct that the company that originally published the Black Terror and the Green Lama was Nedor!
- Alex Ross' Spider-man movie concept art, for comparison with Sara Pichelli's Ultimate Spider-man designs and Ross' Spider sketches.
- A screenshot of Jonathan Hickman's computer desktop with Avengers #1 art open, including the final team graphic that the guys couldn't stop gushing about.
- Tradd Moore's Legends of the Dark Knight story, "Carved", from digital-first issue #22!
- Comics at the Table LEFTOVERS! - Masks #1 and My Little Pony: Friendship is Forever #1!
49 min - Acmecast #110 - The Artist Formerly Known as Chris Burnham!
Jermaine, Michael and Jody do their best to dodge the names of various artists as they cover Image sellouts, DC prefaces and Marvel NOW!
Show Notes:
- Why does Jermaine sound funny during the introduction?
- Comic Book Legends Revealed - the best comic lifestyle blog on the Internet, brought to you by Comics Should Be Good and Comic Book Resources.com!
- In addition to what Jermaine said about the scene from All New X-Men #1 coming from a story originally in X-Men #9, if you use your Marvel AR app during that sequence, you can read the original pages from the Silver Age classic for FREE!
- Be a part of the biggest New Release Day in Acme history during next Wednesday's Avengers #1 Release Party!
- Comics at the Table! - Nowhere Men #1, Bedlam #2, Batman Incorporated #5, Aquaman #14, Thor God of Thunder #2, FF #1, All New X-Men #2, Uncanny Avengers #2 and Secret Avengers #34!
52 min - Acmecast #109 - Alvin's Hot Juicebox!
Now that they've emerged from our turkey-induced haze, Jermaine, Stephen, Griffin and Riley work on Sunday to discuss the true value of a comic, the newest additions to the Comic Book City Con roster and the comics at the table that was too covered in food the other day to get to then!
Show Notes:
- "Insuring my comic collection" discussed on the Comic Book Resources forums.
- Chris Schweizer's rope bridge research for the next Crogan's Adventures book.
- Follow the latest Comic Book City Con guests on Twitter: Tony Bedard, Chrissie Zullo and Chris Schweizer!
- Comics at the Table! - Amazing Spider-man #698, Journey into Mystery #646, Captain America #1, Indestructible Hulk #1, Comeback #1 and Catwoman #14!
1 hr 7 min - Acmecast #108 - Where's My Previews?!
Jermaine, Stephen, Griffin and Riley pull the curtain WAY back to bring you an insider's look at how they approach their monthly orders from Previews magainze!
Show Notes:
- PreviewsWorld.com, the official Previews website hosted by Diamond Comic Distributors!
- Follow along at home with the online catalog of DCBS.com!
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