Week two of the summer book club! In anticipation of Garth Ennis's appearance at Strange Adventures on July 7, we read the 2000 Ennis and Steve Dillon series, The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank.
Compared to what's happening in the world these days, it's a light, summer read.
Next week we will be taking a break from the book club to talk about Ant-Man and The Wasp! See you then!
The 2018 Living Between Wednesdays Summer Book Club has begun!
We're kicking things off with a really fun Marvel mini-series from 2006 by Jeff Parker and Leonard Kirk: Agents of Atlas. The fact that this series was shaped out of a long-forgotten "What If...?" issue is pretty impressive.
Next week we will be reading The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon in preparation for Garth Ennis's visit to Strange Adventures in Halifax on July 7!
The final week of our Summer Book Club (and the final week of summer! Sob!) and we are talking about the classic Spider-Man story, Kraven's Last Hunt.
A Winter Soldier (and Hawkeye) comic was announced this week! An actual Winter Solider (and Hawkeye) comic!
Ugly pointless movie mask? "Red Ledger"? Hawkeye? It definitely looks like they are appealing to the movie fans, right? Anyway, I'm excited. And I love the little corner box. I know we were making fun of Marvel's announcement about the return of corner boxes months ago, but looking at this cover now, I am pretty delighted.
Let's look at how relentlessly sexy Kraven's Last Hunt is.
Naked pouncing sexy:
Peek-a-boo abs wallet sexy:
Soul-searching mattress-gripping underwear sexy:
Horny after digging your way out of your own grave sexy:
Casually undressing in front of your enemy sexy:
Casually "dressing" in front of your enemy sexy:
Elephant humping sexy:
Intimate chin-tipping sexy:
Hand resting gently on hip while leading to the bedroom sexy:
Unnecessarily hot police evidence photos sexy:
And, just for fun, here's Spidey straight dumping Kraven off of an elephant:
That has to be one of the best panels of all time.
See you next week for some of our favourite single issues! Thanks for listening!
The 2017 Living Between Wednesdays Summer Book Club is nearly done! We'll be ending it next week with Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt. But first: it's Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung!
I seriously can't believe how old these comics are. 2005?! Seriously?! Steve Rogers still thought Bucky was dead! He didn't know how much worse the truth is!
Obviously between this recording and the day it was posted, Disney announced that J.J. Abrams will indeed be directing Episode IX of Star Wars. But maybe a weekly podcast isn't your most reliable source for up-to-date entertainment news.
If you want to read the "article" about how "Leonardo DiCaprio" "told" Stan Lee that he "wants" to play him in a movie, it's here.
And if you want to see some adorable Pennywise illustrations by J.Bone, here you go!
And if you want to see a picture of Sebastian Stan in VERY tight pants at TIFF last week, here you go:
He's gonna need help taking those off, I think...
See you next week for Kraven's Last Hunt!
Dave and I celebrated my 37th birthday by going to see The Inhumans in IMAX. It was...something. We talk a lot about that in this episode, but we also talk about The Valiant, by the all-star creative team of Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt and Paolo Rivera.
We also talk quite a bit about the final issue of Marvel's Secret Empire, which, in the grand tradition of superhero comic book events, was confusing and kind of a letdown. But we still really enjoyed the event overall.
Here's that panel of Bucky, um, communicating(?) with Steve:
I mean, that is laugh-out-loud funny.
And then!
*sniff!* You did it, guys. You did it!
Here's what I was talking about when I said Scarlet Witch's boobs looked weird on the cover of Uncanny Avengers this week:
Weird, right? I stared at that forever. Longer than I usually stare at tits, anyway. She just looks uncomfortable. Get a bra that fits, Wanda!
Anyway. Next week we're talking about Young Avengers by Alan Heinberg and Jim Cheung. I'm looking forward to some teen angst!
I'm off to check out Ninjak, Eternal Warrior, and Bloodshot comics!
This week for the summer book club we read the first volume of Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona. Debuting in 2014, Kamala Khan has quickly become a fan favourite character and this book definitely shows you why.
I haven't read the final issue of Secret Empire yet, as of writing this, but I am very much looking forward to some sweet, sweet angst. But I really will feel bad for Zemo. He's gonna be so sad about not being Steve's friend! These panels from issue #9 killed me:
Aw. Sweetie.
Thanks for listening! See you next week when we will be talking about The Valiant by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Paolo Rivera!
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