Spoiler alert! Mild Mannered Photographer here to tell you that MADAME XANADU VOL. 1: DISENCHANTED is going to be my pick of the week for the next podcast, you may think I would pick the beginning of Andy Diggle’s run of Thunderbolts, which is really good, but it’s hardcover and 25 buckaroonies. Sure I’ve bought hardcover trades for 25 bucks, but instead I picked up the first volume of Madame Xanadu for 3 simple reasons:
- TEN issues in one trade, that’s 240 pages total!!!
- The Trade only costs $12.99!!!
- The artist for Madame Xanadu, Amy Reeder Hadley drew a jaw droppingly beautiful free sketch for me at Mocca-Fest
If you know me at all you will know that I will quickly become a fan of any artist if I receive free art from them and I then want to buy anything they have done when it comes out in trades. (I’m looking at you Chris Giarusso) But Amy was actually cool enough to let me videotape her while she was sketching and I asked her some questions, so check it out below because it was super neat and I didn’t get a chance to post this video when I first took it after Mocca Fest, but now its timely. 🙂
And come on, you get ten issues for only 13 bucks, that’s a value you don’t often see in many trades. I haven’t started reading it yet, but when I start I will give some of my impressions.
This week the podcasters (along with a special guest!) travel into an alternate reality in order to review Mark Millar’s Superman : Red Son, where they will debate whether or not Superman could have saved Communism (as well as discuss terrorist batman and his warm hat!). The boys will also discuss their zany weeks, and Mike will be auditioning for the role of “The Ghost Whisperer”
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This week, we take a loving look at Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon’s Pride of Baghdad graphic novel from Vertigo. Don’t worry, nobody got territorial. Alex has more stories about his myriad adventures on podcasts and the Columbia University campus. We explore exactly why Final Crisis should just Get The Fuck Out!, and Sam starts living up to his role of Warren Ellis devotee. Plus, don’t miss the debut of our new Cheescake Award–not to mention this week’s Masterpiece Comic Book Theatre, featuring Deadpool (along with his split personalities) and Norman Osborn! It’s all here on the Mild Mannered Podcast.
And so we come to the end of our archive, with our lengthy review of Popgun Vol.1, “a graphic mix tape” edited by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. This was our first long-distance podcast, so in between the audio hiccups, we discussed Alex’s comic book bender in New York City, Sam gushed over the Batman: Mad Love hardcover edition, and Mike the Mild Mannered Thespian delivered a chilling performance of Norman Osborn’s barely-sane monologue in Warren Ellis’s Thunderbolts #120 for Masterpiece Comic Book Theatre.
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