Welcome to the second part of our podcast showing the love to that web-slinging menace, Spider-Man. Panteon members Randy Lander, D3 (Dave Martindale), Dan Grendell, Dave Farabee, and Nick Budd, continue chatting about all thing Spidey, from television shows to comics to movies. This is the second in a new podcasting experiment for us, as we split our long podcasts in two and give you half each week instead of the entire thing biweekly. This week’s podcast takes a look at the villains in Peter Parker’s life, recent events in the comics, and plenty more. Love Spider-Man? Hate him? Don’t care, but love to hear the dulcet tones of Dan Grendell’s voice? Don’t miss this podcast!
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What is a “Hot Pants” pick? Quite simply, it’s a book that all five reviewers on this site believe is worthy of your time. It may or may not be one of our favorite books, but it’s that rare breed of comic that struck all five of us, with our different tastes, as a good read. True Story, Swear To God is our latest “Hot Pants” pick.

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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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World War Hulk Prologue
Writer: Peter David, Chris Giarrusso & Greg Pak
Artists: Al Rio, Lee Weeks, Sean Phillips, Scott Hanna, Tom Palmer, Chris Giarrusso & Takeshi Miyazawa

Incredible Hulk #106
Writer: Greg Pak
Artists: Gary Frank & Jon Sibal
Company: Marvel

World War Hulk kicks off in two-tiered fashion, with the Prologue tackling Hulk’s preparations in space and reflections on how he’s gotten to this point and Incredible Hulk looking in on the rumblings on Earth. It’s a pretty effective launch, actually, good at setting up anticipation for an event that won’t fully launch until the books start hitting in about a month. The writers do an admirable job setting up the backstory without overwhelming potential new readers who haven’t read Planet Hulk or Civil War, and the artwork throughout is pretty impressive. There’s just one small problem with it… but I’ll get to that later, and I suspect it won’t be a problem for most. Suffice to say, if you liked Civil War, it seems more than likely you’re going to like World War Hulk.
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Writer: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Jason Howard
Company: Image Comics

After singlehandedly re-imagining the zombie genre with books like The Walking Dead and Marvel Zombies, it only seems natural that Robert Kirkman’s next topic of choice would tackle yet another of the major horror sub-genres: Werewolves. Now, for me, the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning werewolves are movies like American Werewolf in London, Silver Bullet, and…Dog Soldiers? Okay, maybe not the latter one but most certainly the others, splashed with a bit of Cycle of the Werewolf (the book Silver Bullet is based on) and a few scenes from the 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 we will cover Alien Pig Farm #1 of 4, Bizarre New World #1 of 3, Chucky #1 of 5, Dark Xena #1, Hellboy Darkness Calls #1 of 6, World War Hulk Prologue World Breaker One Shot, Marvel Illustrated Last Of The Mohicans #1, Supernatural Origins #1, and Ward of the State #1.

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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 May Previews for comics due to ship out in July 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 August Continue Reading »