Musical guest This Good Robot hits the stage for the first show of 2013!
The Stack: Invincible #99, Hellboy in Hell #2, Adventure Time w/ Fiona and Cake #1, Amazing Spider-Man #700
Week in Geek:
- What is Joseph Gordon Levitt up to? Pete tries to care!
- Justice League Dark is going to be movie! Get excited, Middle America.
- The highest selling books of 2012 are all Marvel Comics and we want to know why.
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Comedian Dave Kawalec bid on Kickstarter to be on our show, and now he’s on our show! Plus, he tells us how he’s gotten addicted to comics in under a year.
The Stack: Hellblazer #297, Captain America #1, Amazing Spider-Man #698
Week in Geek:
- Confrontation is coming on The Walking Dead! But first: torture!
- Joseph Gordon Levitt is in Justice League… Or is he? No, he’s not.
- Ian Mckellan and Patrick Stewart are in the new X-Men! We called it first… Class.
- Alan Moore vs. Grant Morrison: The Eternal Battle
Check out our website at comicbookclublive.com to find out how to watch the show live! And follow us on Twitter: @comicbooklive, @azalben, and @jtsizzle.
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The artist of IDW’s smash hit ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who’ stops by, and talks about why drawing the Borg is easier than drawing Cybermen. Hint: it’s a series of tubes.
The Stack: Scalped #60, Amazing Spider-Man #692, Justice League #12, Avenging Spider-Man #11
Week in Geek:
- Are the Wachowskis directing Justice League?
- What’s up with Rob Liefeld’s Twitter meltdown? You guys?
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New comic book reader Matt Starr (UCB Theater) joins the fellas to chat about Avengers, Locke & Key, and the worst ways of getting into comic books.
This Week’s Stack: Hawkeye #1, Amazing Spider-Man #690, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2, Prophet #27
Week In Geek:
- Peter Jackson is making three Hobbit movies. Not so small are they JUST KIDDING.
- Angie Harmon wants to play She-Hulk in a movie… Do we want that, too?
- Speaking of small, is an Ant-Man movie coming in 2014?
- And Marvel may be planning an Avengers themed TV series; will it star the schawarma?
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This week, we’re live from the home base NerdMelt Theater in Los Angeles, with guests Geoff Johns (Batman: Earth One, Justice League), and Eliza Skinner (KLOL)! We find out who Geoff thinks would be the ideal movie Robin, and Eliza explains every problem with The Amazing Spider-Man. Plus: Pixar pornos.
This Week’s Stack: Action Comics #11, Amazing Spider-Man #689, Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1
Week In Geek:
- San Diego Comic-Con starts this week… But why did it have to be snakes???
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Comic Book Club – Live!
Tuesday, June 19th – 7pm
Tickets: FREE!
Fontana’s
105 Eldridge St.
[Btwn. Grand and Broome St.]
WITH GUESTS:
DAN SLOTT (Amazing Spider-Man)
and comedian MIKE LAWRENCE!
AND HERE’S THE SCOOP:
- The show is now totally FREE! And it starts a half hour earlier at 7PM!
- We’re at a new location in the LES: Fontana’s, an awesome bar with Buck Hunter, Pool, and lots of frosty bevies.
- You COULD win 100 free comics from our personal collections! More info here.
PLUS, free comics, and a $25 gift certificate to Midtown Comics! Holy cow!
And our podcast is part of THE NERDIST NETWORK! Check it out here:
http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/comic-book-club/
Come on down to the live show and be a part of the Podcast!
Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live) and Steve Wacker (Editor, Marvel Comics) talk about working on “The Short Halloween” together, and what it takes to get a geek reference on SNL.
This Week’s Stack: Wonder Woman #8, The Punisher #10, The Sixth Gun #21
Week in Geek:
* ‘Axe Cop’ is getting animated on FOX, and Alex drops some unimpressive names.
* Kurtzman and Orci writing ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2′… Based on still not having seen ‘Amazing Spider-Man 1,’ we form an opinion on that.
* Marvel’s ‘Battle Scars #6′ adds Agent Coulson into the main Marvel U. Justin misses his favorite character, Cheese.
* DC schedules #0 issues for September, but how do they compare to Marvel’s decimal point issues?
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Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott drops by our last show at The PIT to talk about the next big Spidey story, Ends of The Earth! Things may or may not get a little anti-semitic.
This Week’s Stack: The Secret History of D.B. Cooper #1, Batman and Robin #7, Saga #1
Week in Geek:
* Its time for ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Finale, and everybody who has no lines… Dies! Except T-Dog.
* Michael Bay is rebooting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as aliens… And Pete didn’t know. Ever wanted to hear someone go through the stages of grief live in front of an audience? Here’s your chance.
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Grace Randolph joins the boys to talk about her new BOOM! book Supurbia, and brings along wrestling announcer Larry Legend. Fighting, then teaming up, ensues.
This Week’s Stack: The Manhattan Projects #1, Swamp Thing #7, Amazing Spider-Man #681
Week in Geek:
* ‘The Walking Dead’ goes crazy-pants, and we learn just what Alex and his wife do in bed.
* We try to suss out if the Nicolas Cage heist flick ‘Action No. 1′ will be a secret Ghost Rider movie.
* Marvel announces their new Infinite Comics, but how will Pete bag and board his iPads?
* Mandrake the Magician is finally coming to theaters! Who’s Mandrake the Magician again?
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Comedian Greg Stone tells us about his drunken draw-off with Jim Lee, and things get REAL.
This Week’s Stack: Invincible #88, Action Comics #6, The Twelve #9
Week in Geek:
* We discuss DC’s Before Watchmen, and Alex discovers there are maybe no famous quotes from Watchmen.
* The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer vs. The Avengers Superbowl Teaser: which one is better?
*The Walking Dead and Comic Book Men on AMC mean we’re staying in on Sunday nights!
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