What is a Short Pants Review? While we’d love to give full reviews to everything, there just isn’t enough time in the day. So we’ve come up with Short Pants as a way of providing capsule reviews from our varied review writers, giving quick hits and short capsule thoughts about various comics we’ve read recently.

This time out, Nick and D3 cover Nextwave: Agents of Hate #11, The Boys #6, Connor Hawke Dragon’s Blood #2 of 6, Ultimate Power #3 of 9, Union Jack #4 of 4, The New Avengers #26 and Annihilation #5 of 6.
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The original Pantsers (or Panteon, depending on your preferred nomenclature) would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest writer, Dan Grendell! We’ve all known Dan for some time, and he has written for Ain’t It Cool News comics alongside Dave Farabee, so it was a no-brainer to invite him to join the team. Dan will be contributing to our Wednesday Number Ones, Short Pants and various other features, and will be in on the podcasts starting with next week’s offering as well.

This is the only planned addition to the Continue Reading »

Down the Line is our monthly look at Previews, and what titles are coming out a few months, well, “down the line.”

This installment covers the December Previews for comics due to ship out in March 2007. Remember, especially with the indy books, that pre-ordering is your friend, and the best way to make sure you get the books you want. I should mention, thanks to the increasing prevalence of advance solicitation, that several of the books here won’t actually ship until April or later, but the preorders are still due by the end of December.

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Writers: Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton
Artist: Lui Antonio
Company: Boom! Studios

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

The world of Warhammer 40,000 (or 40K, as fans know it) is a bleak one. Humanity has spread across the galaxy, and lives under the dominion of the Emperor, who is both god and man. A number of other races claim this galaxy as their home too, and conflict is constant. The deadliest warriors mankind has to offer, the bio-engineered Space Marines, are at the forefront of every fight, organized into Chapters more reminiscent of warrior cults than armies.

Damnation Crusade focuses on one such Chapter, the Black Templars. Unlike most Continue Reading »

Wednesday Number Ones is a weekly feature here at Comic Pants. We take the books that are premiering a first issue from that week and give a quick opinion on them. From time to time we may also include more than issue number ones in this feature. If a noteworthy one-shot or the first issue of a new story arc is released, we may talk about it in this feature. This week’s feature is on Thursday due to holiday shipping, and next week’s feature will be as well.

This week we will cover 30 Days Of Night Spreading The Disease #1, Battlestar Galactica Zarek #1, Cyberforce X-Men #1, Hack Slash Slice Hard, Okko Cycle Of Water #1 and Winter Soldier: Winter Kills One Shot.

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Wednesday Number Ones is a weekly feature here at Comic Pants. We take the books that are premiering a first issue from that week and give a quick opinion on them. From time to time we may also include more than issue number ones in this feature. If a noteworthy one-shot or the first issue of a new story arc is released, we may talk about it in this feature.

This week we will cover Bakers Meet Jingle Belle, Civil War: War Crimes #1, Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes #1, Darkness Level 0 #1, Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties Of War #1, Maintenance #1, New Avengers Illuminati #1 of 5, Starship Troopers Damaged Justice #1 of 4, Walk In #1 of 5 and Warhammer 40k #1 of 6.

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What is a Short Pants Review? While we’d love to give full reviews to everything, there just isn’t enough time in the day. So we’ve come up with Short Pants (the name was given to us by Eye on Comics‘ Don MacPherson) as a way of providing capsule reviews from our varied review writers, giving quick hits and short capsule thoughts about various comics we’ve read recently.

This time out, Nick, David (D3) and Randy cover The Damned #3 of 5, X-Factor #14 The Escapists #6 of 6, 52 Week 32 of 52, Ex Machina #25, Justice League of America #4, New X-Men #33, Exiles Annual #1, DMZ #14, Stormwatch PHD #2 and Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #19.

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In episode thirteen, Dave Farabee, Nick Budd, Randy Lander, and David Martindale take a look at the work of writer/artist Darwyn Cooke, from his early work on Batman: Ego to his latest work on New Frontier and The Spirit. Along the way, we talk about the variety of work Cooke has done and what it is about his work that holds our attention.

Cooke began his career in animation, and is famous for designing the Batman Beyond credit sequence. You can see that sequence at the embedded video below:

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Wednesday Number Ones is a weekly feature here at Comic Pants. We take the books that are premiering a first issue from that week and give a quick opinion on them. From time to time we may also include more than issue number ones in this feature. If a noteworthy one-shot or the first issue of a new story arc is released, we may talk about it in this feature.

This week we will cover Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born Sketchbook, DCU Infinite Christmas Special, Outer Orbit #1 of 4, Sandman Mystery Theatre: Sleep of Reason #1 of 5, The Spirit #1, Wolverine #49, Wonder Man #1 of 5 and X-23: Target X #1 of 5.

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What is a Short Pants Review? While we’d love to give full reviews to everything, there just isn’t enough time in the day. So we’ve come up with Short Pants (the name was given to us by Eye on Comics‘ Don MacPherson) as a way of providing capsule reviews from our varied review writers, giving quick hits and short capsule thoughts about various comics we’ve read recently. This time out, Nick and Randy cover Doctor Strange: The Oath #3, Invincible #37, Irredeemable Ant-Man #3, Nextwave #10, Superman Confidential #2, Teen Titans #41 and True Story Swear to God Vol. 2 #2. Continue Reading »