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House to Astonish - Episode 9 Podcast - Post NYCC09 Edition


News Items
00:45 Art Adams signs exclusively to Marvel, comments on Jeph Loeb
02:00 Marvel Announce Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk nearly done, 3 years late
03:45 Solicitations
- DC, Animal Man series
- Hitman trade re-prints! Not all of them though
- 1st trade of Trinity
- Unwritten, new series, Mark Carey
- Adam Beecham, new title, Killer Peloser (sp?)
- On-going PowerGirl
- Marvel, Models Inc - cancelled before coming out
- She Hulk finishes
- Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers mini series???
- Fin Fang Four one-shot
- Captain America reachs #50 - with no Steve Rogers!
- Tales of Asgard, Kirby, Lee re-print, mini series
- New Mutants on-going
- Terror Inc, new mini series!!! YES!
- Trade collection of Marvel Sagas
- Darkhorse, Hardback collection of Martha Washington
- Black and white collection of Too Much Coffee Man trade
- Image, Rob Liefield takes over Youngblood
- Power Up collection, by Earth Worm Jim creator
- G Man collection from Marvel, the Mini Marvel back ups
- 1-48 Walking Dead collection, 1,000 fucking pages???
25:30 Misery Watch!
- Viz Media lay offs
- DC too
- Wizard lays off a lot of staff writers
- Kodanchi post horrific loss for 2008
- Marvel financial results for 2008, not so bad

Reviews
28:35 Young Blood #8 - Obama issue, Liefield bashing galore
33:55 Blue Beetle #6 - final issue
41:00 The Great Unknown

Pitch to bring back a character from The Official Handbook of the
Marvel Universe
44:30 Cadaver

I'm really enjoying two blogs at the moment :

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/

and

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/

You learn a lot of stuff from there. Mainstream and Indy.

Publishersweekly is the one Paul O'Brian does the Monthly Marvel Sales analysis for. I forget to read it sometimes. I find the layout of that blog a bit inpenetrable, but it does look like it's choc full of good stuff.

I'll have to check them both out soon.

The Liefield bashing takes place in both the news items and the reviews in the above podcast. Funny and accurate at the same time. Obviously, to see if you agree, you need to listen to it. The cynical bitching prompted by Damon Lindoff's apparant finishing of Ult. Wolverine vs. Hulk is also quite good.