The podcast returns, talking about comics, The Love Boat and pondering where Charo is nowadays. As well as musing on the potential that would exist in a Love Boat remake, I spend some time talking about Paul Pope’s Star Trek story in the latest issue of Wired and talk about my general disappointment in Superman [...]
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It’s a brand new podcast as I talk about Brand New Day, the revitilzation of Spider-Man and who gets the credit if Watchmen turns out to be a good movie?
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Scott’s back finally with a new episode and, as part of this month’s Comics Podcast Theme of Politics in Comics, Scott is talking about Kaiji Kawaguchi’s excellent manga series EAGLE: THE MAKING OF AN ASIAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT, a fictitious account of the 2000 Presidential race. But while it’s looking at a past race, it shares much [...]
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This episode was supposed to be a continuation of Duck Month with a thorough look at Marvel’s Essential Howard The Duck but, just as I was really getting into reading it, the book dissolved in my hands. So instead, I take a side track from Duck Month (don’t worry, it’ll continue with the next show) [...]
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They say every dog has his day but thanks to Don Rosa, we get to see that every duck has his life. More specifically, Scrooge McDuck gets a life as his story is told in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, an excellent biography of a fictional character. In this episode, Scott takes a [...]
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This episode, it’s a meeting of the minds as Wednesday’s Haul hosts the first Wednesday’s Haul/Boxwatcher crossover episode. Joining me this week is Ty Nelson, man about town and the host of Boxwatcher.net, a pop culture blog & podcast. In this first part, Ty and I talk about the commodity of creators in comics, movies [...]
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It’s a mish-mash episode as I review the first issue of Alex Ross, Jim Kreuger and Steve Sadowski’s Avengers/Invaders (all I’ll say here is that this book is in desperate need of an inker,) talk about about the robbery/shooting of David Pirkola and what kind of a great shop Apparition comics is in Kentwood, MI [...]
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With Greg Rucka’s last issue of Checkmate hitting the stands, it’s time to discuss when does a creator fail? With him leaving Checkmate and the announcement of the departure of the Brubaker/Fraction team from Iron Fist, I’ve decided to drop those titles. But if I drop them and don’t feel the loss of missing those [...]
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This episode, I review All Star Superman #10 and Kick Ass #2 as well as talk about how and why I’m looking forward to the upcoming big events from Marvel and DC
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We always hope our children will enjoy the things that we do even if we wish better for them. I never planned to raise up my son as a geek but that’s the way it happened. Instead of Big Bird or Barney, he prefers DC: The New Frontier, Jeff Smith’s Bone and Hayao Miyazaki movies. [...]
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Possible spoilers in the podcast It’s experimenting time around Wednesday’s Haul. For the next couple of weeks, look for 5 minute reviews— complete reviews of new comics in, you guessed it, five minutes. To kick off this grand experiment, I look at the fun Hulk #2. Now I know that this isn’t great literature or [...]
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While it’s still January, it doesn’t seem too late to talk about the Haul’s favorite books of 2007. Some of the books I talk about this week include Criminal #10, Apollo’s Song, Ghost Stories, The Homeless Channel, Madman and Hellboy. And that’s just a small sample.
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I think since early 2001 Joe Quesada has been looking for a way to break the internet in half. He somehow thought he had it with House of M but that maybe only broke off a corner of the internet and didn’t have the cataclysmic results that he wanted it to have. But congrats to [...]
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Batman #219 by Neal Adams Merry Christmas!!! In keeping with the season this podcast, I look at/re-enact the Christmas story from Batman #219, where Batman and the GCPD caroling brings good will and peace to men to Gotham City. Not a hoax, not an imaginary story– Batman sings “Jingle Bells!” and not the “Batman Smells” [...]
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A couple of weeks ago on his podcast, my buddy Ty asked if it was time to retire characters like Superman, Batman and to let a new generation of heroes become popular. Of course, I couldn’t let a question like that go unanswered. Should Superman be retired? No! Why not? Well, listen to this episode [...]
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It’s not quite yet Thanksgiving so we’ll talk about some comics for a little bit. On this show, I review The Art of Matt Wagner’s Grendel, a fantastic art book recently published by Dark Horse Comics. This book is as much a history book as it is an art book. This holiday season, the Comics [...]
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Notes on a podcast: Joe Sacco is a comic journalist. No, he doesn’t write about comics but he writes about life through his comics (as cliche as that sounds.) With Palestine, Sacco chronicles his trip there during the early 90′s, showing how war and fear terrorized everyone who lived there. His wonderful cartooning helps embellish [...]
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If you downloaded some episode where I”m talking about Countdown #51 this week, sorry about that. There seems to have been some kind of file mixup. But here is the real episode of Wednesday’s Haul for this week, where I talk about an upcoming format change and then cover the top 3 most anticipated books [...]
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Would you pay more at the multiplex for a small independent film instead of a major studio release? How about more for a 4 hour movie instead of a 1.5 hour one? So what’s up with the wide range of prices on comics and what will the continuing rising prices mean? And why does Geoff [...]
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Back from a week off, this week I talk a bit about Y The Last Man, The Immortal Iron Fist Annual #1 and The Umbrella Academy #1. Also featured this episode is an email from little Ty Nelson of Joliet, Illinois. The music featured this episode is from Stereogum’s Drive XV, the site’s tribute to [...]
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