Welcome back to a new year of Nine Panel Pulls. John and Steve are back again to prepare you for tomorrow, January 9th, 2013 for New Comic Book Day. We only have one thing to say to you... may the force be with you and Brian Woods Star Wars #1.

Yeah, we had to. Deal with it.

Welcome to a new year of the Nine Panel Weekly Podcast! We are excited to be back after a few light weeks and our Nine Panel Awards to bring you all the latest from the world of comics. This week we shine the spotlight on a new Marvel NOW title, an eery miniseries from Dark Horse & Paul Tobin and . We also bring back one of favorite features, The Top 5 as we discuss our most wanted books of the new year. Come for the comics, stay for the awkward moments and maybe you will laugh a little. Follow along with the show notes below.

SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

Roundtable Comic Reviews:

Great Pacific #3 (2:46)

Teen Titans #15 (5:26)

Justice League Dark #15 (7:36)

Talon #3 (10:13)

Daredevil End of Days #4 (13:15)

Punk Rock Jesus #6 (15:48)

Batman Beyond Unlimited #11 (18:46)

Venom #29 (22:00)

Iron Man #5 (24:45)

All New X-Men #5 (27:05)

Godzilla Half Century War #4 (30:33)

Batman Incorporated #6 (33:00)

Recommendation of the Week:

Colder #3 (36:00)

The Manhattan Projects #9 (38:55)

New Avengers #1 (41:00)

News:

Update on Peter David's Stroke (47:19)

Hayley Atwell Not Returning for The Winter Soldier (49:16)

Guardians of the Galaxy searching for its Star-Lord (51:00)

Reaction to The Walking Dead Season 3.5 Trailer (54:45)

Top 5 Most Anticipated Books of 2013

It is time for the event we have all been waiting for, the 2012 Nine Panel Awards! The awards ceremony is here to celebrate the incredible year that was comics, ha ding out awards not only from us but also from you, the fans. Ranging from categories like Best New Talent to Best Ongoing Series we shed light on what we thought the best of the best of the year was. We are joined by our contributor David Bitterbaum in his first on air conversation with us!

Also, don't miss our conversation about the end of The Amazing Spider-Man and the start to Throne of Atlantis!

Show Notes:

Introduction

Best Issue or One-Shot: Wolverine & The X-Men #17

Best Humor Series: The Manhattan Projects

The Amazing Spider-Man #700 Discussion (7:00)

Throne of Atlantis Discussion (12:02)

Best Indie Series: Peter Panzerfaust

Best New Talent: Fiona Staples

Best Super-Hero Series: Daredevil

Best Mini-Series: The Creep

Best Science Fiction Series: Saga

Best New Series: Hawkeye

Best Horror Series: Locke & Key Clockworks

Best Artist: Fiona Staples

Best Writer: Scott Snyder

Publisher of the Year: Image

Best Ongoing Series: Daredevil

We have hit our silver anniversary just in time for the holidays! Congratulations to us, but more importantly we want to thank each of you for listening and making this show possible. With that in mind be prepared for this heavy episode to hit you like a wet noodle today as we dive into the huge stack of books for this week. We also discuss the light week in news and have ourselves some fun in the flash round. We finish off the show by bringing you our 2012 Nominees for our first ever Nine Panel Awards Show that will be coming at you next week! Get ready to vote!

Roundtable Comic Reviews:

Green Lantern: New Guardians #15 (3:00)

Avengers Arena #2 (5:05)

All-New X-Men #4 (7:15)

Locke & Key Omega #2 (9:40)

Wolverine & The X-Men (11:45)

Green Lantern #15 (14:10)

Scarlet Spider #12.1 (16:50)

Judge Dredd #2 (19:30)

Hawkeye #6 (21:40)

Secret Avengers #35 (24:45)

Daredevil #21 (27:44)

Avengers #2 (30:20)

Recommendations of the Week:

Saga #8 (33:53)

Captain America #2 (39:00)

X-Men Legacy #2 (41:25)

The Newest Rant with David Bitterbaum: Holiday Tie-Ins (45:00)

Discussion (47:15)

News:

Levi, Sturgess Star-Lord Frontrunners (48:52)

Michael Caine's Alfred Backstory (49:50)

Gail Simone Unfired? (50:34)

Marvel Theme Parks? (51:15)

Walking Dead loses Mazzara as it gets renewed (53:10)

Marvel Star War comics in 2013? (54:03)

Final S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent cast (54:45)

Baltar on Arrow (55:50)

Flash Round (57:18)

2012 Nine Panel Awards Nominees (1:02:38)

You just can't get enough of us, can you?! Week after week you come back to listen to our drivel so we want to thank you for sticking around and listening to us. On this week's show we discuss the largely mediocre week that was comics, discuss diversity on all levels in with help from David and close the show with all the news we could find.

Show Notes:

Roundtable Reviews:

2022 Avengers Arena #1 (3:00)

2022 The Walking Dead #105 (6:00)

2022 Suicide Squad #15 (8:00)

2022 Amazing Spider-Man #699.1 (10:02)

2022 Fantastic Four #2 (13:46)

2022 The Creep #4 (16:20)

2022 Clone #2 (19.10)

2022 Change #1 (21:30)

2022 Iron Man #4 (23:40)

2022 Green Lantern Corps. #15 (27:00)

2022 Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3 (29:30)

2022 Batgirl #15 (32:12)

Recommendations of the Week:

2022 Batman #15 (35:20)

2022 Batman & Robin #15 (40:15)

The Newest Rant with David Bitterbaum: Diversity (44:14)

2022 Discussion (47:51)

News

Flash Round

It's only two weeks until Christmas and we haven't done any of our shopping but we are still here for you with Nine Panel Pulls! This week we shine the spotlight on . We also the new Man of Steel trailer and get you prepared for New Comic Book Day for December 12th, 2012!

On this week's episode of the Nine Panel Weekly Podcast we have get you caught up with all that happened in the week of comics and damn, do we have a lot to talk about today! We start as always with this week's roundtable comic reviews section where we highlight a digital-turned print book's third issue, the start of the Avengers epic that we were all hoping for and . Discussion moves forward from there as the spotlight Newest Rant from David Bitterbaum talks about the possible death of Vertigo. We close off the show with the always important news. And now introducing our show notes:

Roundtable Comic Reviews:

Thunderbolts #1 (3:00)

All New X-Men #3 (4:45)

Hellboy in Hell (6:00)

Detective Comics #15 (9:15)

Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5 (11:15)

Before Watchmen: Comedian #4 (13:50)

The Phantom Stranger #3 (16:10)

Deadpool #3 (18:10)

Punisher: War Zone #2 (20:38)

Colder #2 (23:42)

Hawkeye #5 (26:05)

Iron Man #3 (28:42)

Storm Dogs #2 (33:15)

Great Pacific #2 (35:23)

Star Wars: Purge: The Tyrant's Fist #1 (37:18)

Shadowman #2 (39:20)

Amazing Spider-Man #699 (41:05)

Perhapnauts: Danger Down Under (43:30)

Action Comics #15 (45:42)

Daredevil: End of Days #3 (48:11)

Earth 2 #7 (51:08)

Recommendations of the Week:

Legends of the Dark Knight #3 (55:03)

Avengers #1 (58:40)

Newest Rant: Vertigo No More (1:04:03)

Discussion (1:08:45)

News:

Snyder to leave Swamp Thing

New writer for Birds of Prey

Gail Simone fired from Batgirl

Valiant's Harbinger Wars event

New villain in Iron Man 3?

Uncle Ben back in Amazing Spider-Man 2

Fantastic Four relaunch gets a release date

In a big week of comics we are here to keep you up to date with what you should be expecting at your local comic book shop. This week we see the return of Luther Strode, the start of Hickman's run on Avengers and yet another Death of the Family tie in from Detective Comics. Don't miss this show that will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time! Okay, I think that may have been hyperbole, but sue us.

On this week's Nine Panel Weekly Podcast we delve into the onslaught of books that arrived this week at your local comic book shop. Discussions range from suicide to comics including Bedlam #2, Multiple Warheads #2, Secret Avengers #34, Masks #1 and Fatale #10. We also have our tenth Newest Rant from David Bitterbaum about creator fights. We close out the show with the news and our favorite feature, the flash round!

Still getting over our turkey hangovers we are here to get you ready for this week's New Comic Book Day! This week we continue our new format of covering the top 18 books that piqued our interest for this week. That being said, this week we cover new titles from Image and Dynamite, the return of Uncanny Avengers and the comeback of the Batman from issue #666. We finish with our most wanted books of the week; Chew #30 & X-Men Legacy #3.