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One of my pick’s, mostly because of Constantine but also because of the homage to EC style horror comics that the series tries to emulate and eventually move beyond into its own transcendental territory.

We talk about what makes a good horror comic, what brand of Constantine is in this book, Magic in the DCU, the relationship between Abby and Swamp Thing, and Art in the 80’s. Then it’s favorite character/arc/moment and onto weeklies.

THE FLASH COMPANION: Randal’s pick of an actual book type book that has more words than pictures. Typically I’m pretty sure that isn’t a comic, but it’s The Flash, so…fuck it. It’s a companion piece filled with lots of interviews with creators and artists, behind the scenes shit, and they even get trivia specific with the middle names of all of the Flashes, lots of fun at parties. I’ll probably pick it up and eventually Charles will realize the folly of not being as obsessed as we both are with the flash and jump on board that trolly.

Oh that’s right. Folly and Trolly. Wasn’t the wait worth it?

SECRET INVASION #6 of 8: My pick. For no real reason other than I got a two page splash where Tony (TONY!) says “Avengers Assemble” and Fury gets to pwn a Skrull by saying “My god’s got a hammer”.
Naturally, Randal hates the issue because it doesn’t have enough fighting (except for the last two pages which are nothing but fighting) and the pacing is off.
But dude. Fury. Gun. God. Hammer. Charles still isn’t crazy about Secret Invasion either, but we figure since I never cared for the Avengers in the first place, it’s easier for me to enjoy the ride and not nitpick.

SIMON DARK #12: Hitting the big red button on the way back machine and taking us back to last year, Charles is reviewing Simon Dark again. This time it’s to tell us finally why he’s still reading this book (which strangely seems to have picked up a cult following). He likes the main character and identifies with his struggle, and even though there’s a lot in the book he isn’t crazy about, he can overlook it’s flaws for characterization he enjoys.
Charles is clearly a masochist.

FABLES #75: The end of The War! Finally after 75 issues the Fables finish putting the unholy smackdown on The Emperor, The Adversary, and all of the gates. We all universally love the sacrifice of Prince Charming, the perpetual badassery of Boy Blue, the relative speed that they won the war with, and then debate the actual name of sleeping beauty for something like fifteen minutes.
We’re enthralling like that.
Then we all collectively wonder what Willingham’s got up his sleeve next, but are pretty sure that it’s going to be awesome either way.

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Hey did you know it’s Labor Day Weekend?
And Also Charles’ birthday?
And this time out we’re talking about Randal’s Pick: The Grant Morrison Doom Patrol.

A book that is so chock full of strange surrealist crap that we almost never mention anything that actually happens in the book, and spend a large amount of time talking about its themes and style.

Charles loved it for its highbrow sensibilities and absurdist characters, Randal loved it for the experimental nature of it, and I generally didn’t like it but was receptive to the fact that it was good.

We then spend a lot of time discussing why I didn’t like it, what type of comic it is, why it may have worked for the other guys and not me, and whether or not a surrealist comic would have a place in today’s publishing world. We also discuss Morrison’s style, draw some parallels (or antiparallels? perpendiculars?) to Ellis’ work, and do our favorite characters, arcs, and moments.

For our weeklies we discuss:

WOLVERINE #68 OLD MAN LOGAN part 3: My pick. Post apocalyptic (1) Wolverine (2) with blind Hawkeye (3) driving the Spider Buggy (4) across the united states in a story with themes taken right out of Unforgiven (5) with art from Steve McNiven (6) makes for a book that simply has too many cool things being executed well to pass up. Randal agrees.

DCUniverse Last Will And Testament ONE SHOT: Randal’s pick, because he fucking hated it in that it was almost entirely ridiculous and forced just to make Geoforce (of all people) “kill” Deathstroke to avenge his dead sister. Who isn’t dead. And no one actually kills anyone. And it ends with Hal Jordan for no particular reason.

Avengers Initiative #16 Secret Invasion: Charle’s pick, yet another Secret Invasion tie-in that is surprising well done and pretty cool. We talk for a bit about why Secret Invasion seems to be working so well, and why the skrulls are such a good villain.

Rogues Revenge 2 of 3: Our group pick. Which we all liked, I swear. Don’t believe the audio, I know it sounds like we’re bitching about pointless continuity stuff but that’s only because the fucking recording dropped the second half of our review where we all gush about it.
Fucking recording.
We go back and try to redo some of it, but you know…it just isn’t the same.
I blame Devon, retroactively.
FINE I’LL SAY IT.

The podcast was “Doomed”.
laugh it up. 

And that’s it. I’m off to eat some seafood and send Charles a happy birthday message over on our FORUMS: http://www.antifanboypodcast.com/forum

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