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 Breathe #1 of 4, Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer #1, Loners #1, Madman Atomic Comics #1, Marvel Illustrated Jungle Book, Mr. Stuffins #1 of 3, Nova #1, Raise the Dead #1, Spider-Man Fantastic Four #1 of 4, Two Guns #1 and Xombie #1.

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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 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, Randy and Nick cover Birds of Prey #104, Fallen Angel #14, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2 of 5, Spider-Man Family #2 and Usagi Yojimbo #101.

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Writer: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Artist: Sean Chen
Company: Marvel Comics

It’s a mystery as to why it’s happened (and continues to happen) but anything that Marvel puts out that has something to do with a cosmic character, ends up being a book that for lack of a better word, rocks. It happened with all of the prequel books to Annihilation (minus the Ronan the Accuser mini which was bland), the core title itself and even the one shots produced like The Heralds of Galactus. Now with the sequel, Annihilation Conquest, looming ever so close on the horizon, you’d think that Marvel would have been done what it has always done and successfully run this whole cosmic space adventure, action extravaganza Continue Reading »

Some of you may have noticed on the sidebar, we have our “Top Five of the Moment” listed. These are the five books that are most clicking with each Pants writer. It may or may not represent the best books we’ve read all month, year, or just what we’re digging that week. We generally try to update it with books from that week, but there are no hard and fast rules. Inspired by an email from one of our readers, we’re going to post every Friday with the most recent Top Five from each member of the Panteon, and hope for your comments on our lists, or maybe even your own “Top Five of the Moment.”
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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 Avengers Initiative #1, Danger Girl Body Shots #1 of 4, Fallen Son Death Of Captain America: Wolverine, Miscellaneous Adventures Of Stykman #1, Omega Flight #1 of 5, Painkiller Jane #0, Runaways #25, and Savage Tales #1.

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Lo, all fear the return of Fat Pants! Fat Pants is a Comic Pants feature in which we mull over the last months trades and graphic novels and let you know which ones we feel are most worth your attention. It is far from a comprehensive list of all the good reads to published in the past month, so please feel free let us know which trades and graphic novels came out in the last month that you, the reader, feel are most worth our attention. So, without further adieu, here are the books we think really stood out this month.
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The skies darken, the rivers turn to blood, and you know what that means- it’s podcast time with D3 (David Martindale), Nick Budd, Randy Lander, Dave Farabee and Dan Grendell! Our topic this time out is DC’s ‘Trinity’- Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman. What can be done to improve their sales, if anything? Do the characters and plots need work? Is DC doing a good job managing its biggest brand names? Where could it do better? Why is it so hard to get these core characters right? The Panteon has some interesting answers for you in this twenty-first edition of the Comic Pants Podcast.
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