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Welcome to episode 71, complete with new theme music courtesy of the talented Graeme McMillan.

We've got two hours and forty-five minutes of comic book cross talk for you, with topics like OMAC and the other cancelled new52 titles, the current state of George Perez's career, Marvel's marketing, Mark Millar's Trouble and Spider-Man, comments by Charles Vess and Ariel Olivetti about Marvel, Mark Waid's Amazing Spider-Man/Daredevil crossover, Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men as well as Wolverine #300.

Plus, a lot of babbling from Jeff about PunisherMAX #21, a debate how many issues a creator might have in them, Secret Avengers, Astonishing X-Men, and Warren Ellis and in-canon behavior, James Robinson and Shade, the preview issue of Shonen Jump Alpha, and Marvel Two-in-One vol. 4. And, of course, a little bit of cowbell in our new music. Who would want for anything more?

We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

This is episode 70, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to experiment with the done-in-one format, giving you a two and a half hour megacast.

In it, we talk getting hacked, dreams about comics, Brubaker and Philips' Fatale, the Elseworlds 80 page giant, Chuck Dixon's G.I. Joe comic for IDW and Seal Team Six, Defenders #2, Action Comics #5, OMAC #5, Uncanny X-Men #4, New Teen Titans, Downton Abbey, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Avengers Annual, Freak Angels, Mud Man, Witch Doctor: The Resuscitation, and believe us, much, much more.

If you have an opinion about the podcast length or the number or installments, or just want to mouth off, we invite you to drop us a line at [email protected].

We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Welcome to 2012, and welcome to episode 69. Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are experimenting with podcast length, and so have given you a done-in-one hour and fifty minute chatstravaganza.

In it we talk Christmas presents, ethical dilemmas, Daredevil #7, The first part of Batman: Leviathan Strikes, the fourth issues of Justice League, Wonder Woman, and Batman, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly, The Annotated Sandman, and the insanity that is Crying Freeman.

If you have an opinion about the podcast length or the number or installments, or just want to mouth off, we invite you to drop us a line at [email protected].

We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

This is the finale to Episode 68 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester covering the other big stories and/or non-stories from 2011.

For the next seventy-five minutes, join us as we discuss the Kirby trial outcome, layoffs at Marvel, superhero movies, women in comics, kickstarter, comics marketing, Watchmen 2, and the proverbial much, much more.

We hope you enjoy our last podcast for 2011 and will be here for more discussion, disagreement and comic related chaos in 2012.

Happy new year!

Episode 68 is part one of an especially rambling year in review from Graeme McMillan and me.

Part one, which is an hour and twenty minutes long manages to cover our Christmas with The Swamp Thing special, shopping and other holiday thoughts; DC's New 52; Marvel's trade paperback program; day and date digital; things that come out of Brian Bendis's mouth, the paintings of Sharon Moody (who I erroneously call Shannon Moody for the whole damn podcast!); the voices of the Marvel Architects and a long analysis of the year's crossover events through the only lens that matters--that of Mark Millar.

Although the episode installs abruptly--we cannot tell you why the outro music failed to end up in our final mix--we hope you enjoy and come back for part two. As always, thanks for listening!

Episode 67 might start off seeming a bit diffuse--with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking The Nerdist Playlist; storytelling tricks in pinball and in Lost--but it ends up focused with laser-like precision as we turn our attention to the post-Fear Itself interview by Matt Fraction and Tom Brevoort concerning the epilogues.

In a Wait, What? first for us, we're splitting the episode in two but posting both parts at the same time, so feel free to jump ahead to part 2, if you'd rather hear us discuss our picks for a comic book holiday gift list.

Or listen to both! We would be happy, either way.

But, as always, we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

Episode 67 moves from putting some coal in your stocking to giving you suggestions for gifts you might want to give that special someone--even or maybe especially if that special someone is yourself.

After reeling in shock over how many episodes we produced this year, Graeme McMillan and I slowly recover so we can bring you a long list of holiday gift suggestions. Some of what we mention will be familiar to long-time listeners but there are also some surprises in our picks in order to give you a list of more than 30 holiday gift suggestions.

We hope you enjoy and wish you the very best this holiday season. Thanks for listening!

This is Episode 66, a done-in-one episode where Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester come as close to giving you an hour and forty minutes of frothy comic talk as is humanly possible.

Topics covered include a very lengthy discussion about the just-released Defenders #1 and the power of secret shout-outs, Dark Horse Digital's recent pricing hullaballoo, Avengers vs. X-Men, Bendis leaving Avengers, Spaceman #2, OMAC #4, Daredevil #6, the Lethal Weapon comic that never was, Flash #3, Secret Avengers and Wolverine #19 and, yes, of course, The Muppet Movie.

It's all here in one mondo installment for you and, as always, we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

The second of Episode 65's two installments features not only mallomars, but a teeny-ting bit more discussion of Steve Gerber's Defenders.

Plus, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester also discuss Matt Fraction's recent appearance on Word Balloon, the pros and cons of interviewing pros, being trolled on Twitter, Watchmen 2, the price of satisfaction.

Also, we reveal some of our terrifying purchasing decisions in this ninety-plus minute conclusion.

Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

After a brief Thanksgiving break, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back for the first of two installments for Episode 65, and a look at the classic Defenders run by Steve Gerber.

But of course, us being us, we also end up discussing Carrier IQ, a big bunch of Kieron Gillen books, Batman #252, and Topatoco's first collection of the amazing Oglaf by Doug Bayne and Trudy Cooper.

If you've ever wondered why we haven't done very many in-depth looks at classic comic runs, this will probably help you figure out.

Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!