11 O'clock Comics Podcast

Mike Norton is in the house! Literally. Because this episode was recorded in Mike's house. We talk about Man of Steel, Superman, Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Legion of Super-Heroes, John Byrne, Alpha Flight, She-Hulk, Fantastic Four, West Coast Avengers, Dick Giordano, All-New Atom, All-New Invaders, John Romita, Dennis Hopeless and The Answer, Kev Walker and Avengers Arena, Battlepug, and lots more!

Mike Norton and Tim Seeley's Revival from Image, Amazing X-Men, Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman and Skottie Young, Delusional by Farel Dalrymple from AdHouse Books, the Image Expo Preview Book (Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov, Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood's The Fuse, Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, Joe Keatinge and Leila Del Duca's Shutter, Low from Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini, David Lapham's Stray Bullets, and Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta's Outcast), Indestructible Hulk: S.M.A.S.H. Time by Mark Waid, Matteo Scalera, Kim Jacinto, Mahmud Asrar, and Val Staples, Undertow #1 from Image, Bergen Street Comics, Stephen King, DMZ, Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalksi's SEX, Sex Criminals, original art, Andy Lanning, John Buscema, Gil Kane, New Teen Titans, Matt Wagner, and a whole mess more!

Zombie-themed comics and movies (Empire of the Dead #1 from George Romero and Alex Maleev, Night of the Living Deadpool by Cullen Bunn and Ramon Rosanas, Night, Dawn, and Day of the Dead, Evil Dead, Walking Dead, and a whole lot more dead), Tom Scioli, Satellite Sam by Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin from Image, Eric Stephenson, Nate Bellegarde, and Jordie Bellaire's Nowhere Men, Black Widow and Phil Noto, The All-New Invaders #1 by James Robinson and Steve Pugh, Avengers World, Rick Remender, Wesley Craig, and Lee Loughridge's Deadly Class from Image, John Byrne's Namor, Dynamite's upcoming Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers, David Lapham's Ferals and Dan the Unharmable from Avatar, Michel Fiffe's COPRA, Undertow + Dead Body Road from Image, Fairest, Ms. Marvel #2 and Joe Sinnott, Terry Moore, and a whole mess more!

The listeners have spoken! It's the 11 O'Closcars for 2013!

David and Vince squeak out a shorty to keep the streak alive!

Underrated artists, Sean Phillips, RoboCop: Last Stand by Frank Miller, Steven Grant, Korkut Öztekin, and Michael Garland (with covers by Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire) from BOOM!, Marvel and Star Wars, Baltimore: The Plague Ships by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben Stenbeck from Dark Horse, Guy Davis, Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and company, Daredevil by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, Bendis, Superior Foes of Spider-Man by Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber, and Rachelle Rosenberg, Nova, Stray Bullets, omnipresent colorists, Suicide Risk by Mike Carey and Elena Casagrande from BOOM!, Zander Cannon’s Heck, and a whole mess more!

Trubble Club, Untold Tales of Spider-Man by Kurt Busiek and Pat Oliffe, Kiss Me, Satan by Victor Gischler and Juan Ferreyra from Dark Horse, more on the Best of Punk Magazine (Robert Crumb’s Weirdo, Amazing Heroes, Comics Scene, Comics Interview, Comics Reader, and more), Wally Wood, Peanuts, Avengers #24.NOW by Jonathan Hickman and company, Shadow Man from Valiant, Motorcycle Samurai by Chris Sheridan from Top Shelf, more on The Bunker from Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari, David Lapham’s Juice Squeezers #1 with Lee Loughridge from Dark Horse, Invincible, Sandman: Overture, Infinity, lots and lots and lots of Game of Thrones, Extinction Parade #4 from Max Brooks and Raulo Cacres from the fine folks at Avatar, Jamal Igle’s Molly Danger, New Teen Titans from Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino’s Green Arrow, and a whole mess more!

Quentin Tarantino, Darwyn Cooke and Parker: Slayground, Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four, New Gods, Weng’s Chop, Ménage à 3, Justified, Smallville, Mage, more Stray Bullets and David Lapham, The Ultimates: Declassified by Joshua Hale Fialkov, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Lorenzo Ruggerio, Jim Charalampidis, and Will Quintana, Comixology: Submit (The Bunker by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari, Demeter by Becky Cloonan, and War of the Woods by Matt Petz), Superior Spider-Man #24 by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, Wolverine and the X-Men, Frankenstein’s Army, Skottie Young, Storm, Ryan Estrada and Broken Telephone, Eerie #4 (Kelley Jones, Norm Breyfogle, Billy Graham, Howard Chaykin, and more) from Dark Horse, Pretty Little Liars, and a whole mess more!

Ant Man, Daniel Karhunen and Snow Manilas, Julian Lytle’s Ants, Will Pfeifer and Red Hood and the Outlaws, the awesome Dick Picasso Presents Avant Garde anthology and 1 2 Space from Timothy O’Briant, Harry Moyer, John Dudley, Dave Frank, Jon O’Briant, John Karnes, and Robert Hafferman, David Lapham and Stray Bullets at Image (Cerebus, Queen and Country, Age of Apocalypse, Deadpool MAX, Young Liars, Valiant, Dark Dominion and Defiant, Warriors of Plasm, and much more), John Holmstrom and Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus (The Ramones, Blondie, Sex Pistols, High Times, Screw, The Mutant Monster Beach Party, The Legend of Nick Detroit, The Clash, and…Journey? More, too!) and outstanding Best of Punk Magazine hardcover from !t and Harper Collins, The Artist Within from Dark Horse (Wrightson, Art Adams, Neal Adams, Moebius, and lots more), PLUS Ron Richards crashes the party to throw down on the Image Expo (January 9, 2014 in San Francisco), Black Science #2, Matt Fraction, Howard Chaykin, lingerie, and BJs in Satell

Tony Fleecs in the hizzy to help us get busy on J.Gonzo, Andy Suriano and Samurai Jack, more The Fifth Beatle, Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix by Martin Green and Bill Sienkiewicz (Blacksad, Cash: I See a Darkness, and more), Chris Moreno, Mike Norton and Revival, Terry Moore’s Rachel Rising, New Avengers, Black Science and Dead Body Road with Matteo Sclera, D4VE by Ryan Ferrier and Valentin Ramon from Monkeybrain, Brandon Graham’s Prophet, Jamal Igle’s Molly Danger, John Buscema, Leff Lemire’s Trillium from Vertigo, Crossed: Badlands #37-41 by Simon Spurrier, Rafael Ortiz, David Hine, German Erramouspe and company from Avatar, My Little Pony from IDW, Hip Hop, Kanye, the Twitter, Nova, Afterlife with Archie and Francesco Francavilla, Manifest Destiny #1 from Image, Deadpool Annual #1 by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Evan Shaner, and Tradd Moore, Ed McGuinness, Wolverine and Spider-Man from Zeb Wells and Joe Mad!, the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, Batman: Black and White, Captain America: The Fi

Pacific Rim, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, Roger Stern, Heroes for Hope and Heroes Against Hunger, Savage Wolverine, Ryan Stegman, Marvel Knights: X-Men, Walking Dead, Infinity #6 and event comics (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Death of Superman, Annihilation, Civil War, and more), The Answer, The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker, PictureBox, Fantagraphics, AdHouse, The Best of Comix Book! from Kitchen Sink, D4VE from Monkeybrain, Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide from Archie, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Samurai Jack #2 from Jim Zub and Andy Ristiano at IDW, Geoff Darrow and Shaolin Cowboy, Tom Scioli, and a whole mess more!

We kick off your Thanksgiving festivities with talk of Afrodisiac Vs Moby Dick and Jim Rugg, Superior Spider-Man Annual #1 by Christos Gage, Javier Rodriguez, Alvaro Lopez, J. G. Jones, and Laura Martin, Hickman’s Infinity, thankfulk comic book tweets, Sergio Aragones, Man of Steel, Paul Pelletier and Aquaman, Will Pfeifer, Rick Remender (Black Science, Uncanny Avengers) and Matteo Sclera, Dean White, Zero #3, Jason Aaron (Wolverine and the X-Men, Amazing X-Men), Steve Bryant, Image, Nite Owl and Dr. Manhattan (JMS, Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes, and more), Sabertooth Swordsman, Matthew Allison, Mike Norton and Tim Seeley’s Revival, Bendis and Immonen’s All-New X-Men, Art Spiegelman, Protectors Inc. and Gordon Purcell, Francesco Francavilla and Black Beetle, Dr. Who 50th Anniversary Special, The Mysterious Underground Men by Osamu Tezuka, Ryan Holmberg, and PictureBox, Spawn, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sandman: Overture, The Honeymooners and The Jeffersons, best and worst spin-offs, Xerox Ferox: The Wild World of the

Chris Campbell drops by to fill in for Vince and proceeds to gift the show with tons of comics fun. 

Super-Ego, Afterlife with Archie #1 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla, Image-O-Rama: Umbral #1 by Chris Johnston and Christopher Mitten, Zero #2 from Ales Kot and Tradd Moore, Drumhellar #1 from Riley Rossmo and Alex Link, Alex and Ada #1 by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn, Manifest Destiny #1 by Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts, Rocket Girl #2 by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, Brandon Graham’s Multiple Warheads: Down Fall; Jonathan Hickman’s God Is Dead out of Avatar, Amazing X-Men #1 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, and Dexter Vines, Action Comics #25 by Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder, Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army, Zero Year, The Fox #1 by Dean Haspiel, Mark Waid, and John Workman from Archie, Marvel.com’s Top 50 lists for The Avengers and X-Men, Pariah: Missouri and Andres Salazar, The Tower Chronicles, Night of 1000 Wolves and Dave Wachter, Thor: The Dark World, and a whole mess more!

Vince is gone. Be happy this came out before Thanksgiving.

Paul Pope’s Battling Boy from :01, Brandon Graham, Pretty Deadly #1 from Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, female comic creators, Quantum & Woody by James Asmus, Tom Fowler, and Jordie Bellaire from Valiant, IDW’s Samurai Jack #1 by Jim Zub and Andy Suriano, DC’s big move, Sandman: Overture #1 from Neil Gaiman and J. H. Williams III, Boom’s Planet of the Apes, more 5 Ghosts, Rocket Girl #1 by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder from Image, Renaud Dillies’ Bubbles & Gondola from NBM/Comics Lit, Mike Kennedy’s Super-Ego Kickstarter, the Arms of the Octopus (All-New X-Men Special #1 and the Indestructible Hulk Special #1), Matt Kindt and Mind MGMT, and a whole mess more!

Dave Wyndorf, the mastermind behind the mighty Monster Magnet, lends us his massive mind as we make our way through Tom Scioli’s Final Frontier, Secret Stash, Paul Pope’s Battling Boy, Pat Broderick, NYCC, Doctor Strange and Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Jack Kirby, Five Ghosts from Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham from Image, editors, Marvel: The Untold Story, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., David Bowie and Brian Eno, Pearl Jam, John Sumrow, Ace Doubles, Arthur Suydam, Chris Ryall, Wally Wood’s Witzend and Fantagraphics, Eros Gone Wild from Humanoids, Tom Sutton, Alex Toth, Pat Boyette, Moebius, Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, Frank Cho, Dave Stevens, the Hernandez Brothers, the Johnson Smith Company, Brandon Graham’s Prophet, Jonathan Hickman and infinity, the Ultimate Universe, New 52, Deathstroke, Hawkman, Jim Woodring’s Fran from Fantagraphics, Mike Norton,  New Frontier, Jay Gonzo’s La Mano del Destino from Castle and Key, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Iron Man 3, George Romero, Walking Dead, American Horror Story

It's our NYCC 2013 wrap-up including Battle of the Atom, Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines, jam pieces, Revival's Mike Norton and Tim Seeley, Mahmud Asrar, Matteo Scalera, Essential Sequential, Dave Johnson, Keith Giffen, Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder, Andrew MacLean, Khary Randolph, Dave Bullock, Andy Lanning, Tony Fleecs, Daniel Govar, Ramon Perez, Allesandro Vitti, Rafael Alburqurque, Cadence Comic Art, Michael Walsh, Jim Cheung, Klaus Janson, Alex Saviuk, Geoff Darrow, Frank Cho, Mark Morales, Oliver Coipel, Jerome Opena, Tom Raney, Todd Nauck, Marcio Takera, Gabriel Hardman and Corina Bechko, Aaron Kuder, Jeremy Haun, Declan Shalvey, Shawn Crystal, Julian Lytle and Micah Blacklight, Tommy Lee Edwards and Bernard Chang, Fred Van Lente, Dave Elliot and Monster Massacre, Dave Dorman, Rich Buckler, Peter David, DMC, Tom Fowler, David Quinn and Tim Vigil, Tom King, Ryan Stegman, Nick Dragotta, Matt Kindt, Rachel Deering, Rob Liefeld, Marc Laming, Rob Liefeld, Robert Atkins, and a whole mess more!

Masks and Mobsters by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson from Monkeybrain, Gabriel Hardman, more Supergraphics, Frank Miller, Green Lanterm 23.1 and 23.4 (Robert Venditti, Rags Morales, Cam Smith, Andrew Dalhouse, Matt Kindt, Dale Eaglesham, and more), sympathetic villainy (Relic, Sinestro, Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Joker, Namor, and more), Brain Ralph's Cave-In from Top Shelf, Ryan Browne and God Hates Astronauts, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus from Image, Jason Brubaker's Re-Mind, Paul Pope's Battling Boy from :01, the Locke and Key saga by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Jay Fotos from IDW, Jack Cole, NYCC, Man-Bat, Infinity #4 (no spoilers), Dave Wyndorf and Monster Magnet, Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye #4, Fantomex Max #1 by Andrew Hope, Shawn Crystal, and Lee Loughridge, and a whole mess more!