We’re back from our vacation, and chock full of topics and energy! For our first time back, Randy Lander, David Martindale (D3), Dan Grendell, and Nick Budd take a look at which characters at Marvel could use a new direction, need or deserve more attention, have been forgotten and shouldn’t have been, or may never have been gotten right. Dave Farabee has taken this chance to retire from podcasting, so wave him a fond farewell from these discussions. Got any thoughts you want to share about what we discuss? Did we miss someone? Are we way off? Let us know your ideas in the comments section. Special thanks to Arvind and any other readers I may have missed for recommending this topic.
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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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Writer/Artist: David Petersen
Company: Archaia Studios Press

It’s always a pleasure to see something really good succeed. Mouse Guard, a story featuring anthropomorphic mice in a fantasy setting, built buzz from the beginning, but now it’s earned not only hardcover collection from its original publisher, Archaia Studios, but a softcover to 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 Garth Ennis’ Streets of Glory Preview, Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps #1, Grimm Fairy Tales: Return to Wonderland #1, Robert Kurtzman’s Beneath the Valley of the Rage #1, Sheena #1, Subculture #1, World War Hulk: Frontline #1, World War Hulk: X-Men #1, and X-men First Class Vol. 2 #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, Nick and Randy cover Countdown #45, Elephantmen: The Pilot, G.I. Joe: Storm Shadow #2, Hack/Slash The Series #2, Incredible Hulk #107 and True Story Swear to God Image Edition #6.

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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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What is Rumble Pants? Well, the Panteon has decided to play at god once more. We take a few select comic characters and pit them against one another for our amusement, but we figured why keep the fun all to ourselves? So we decided on a format that would require your participation and will hopefully provide amusement for you at the same time. The format is a single elimination tournament with weekly rounds decided by you, the reader. Just keep reading to help decide the ultimate fate of some of your favorite comic characters!
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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 Annihilation Conquest Prologue, Banzai Girls #1, First Born: First Look, Hedge Knight 2 Sworn Sword #1, Highwaymen #1, Madame Mirage #1, Spike: Shadow Puppets #1 of 4, Repo #1, Soulfire: New World Order #0, Tales From The Crypt #1, Tick 20th Ann Sp Ed #1, Transformers: Megatron Origin One Shot, Warhammer Forge Of War #1 of 6, Weapon #1 of 4, and X-men Endangered Species One Shot.
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Writers: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Artist: Mike Perkins
Publisher: Marvel Comics

Marvel’s initial Annihilation series and lead-in mini-series made for an exceptional action romp and turned out to be a sleeper hit for Marvel despite a notable lack of marketing. This time around Marvel’s marketing team seems to be on the ball, but the big question is, are the comics still good? If the prologue one-shot is any indicator, Annihilation: Conquest should end up being just as good as the original. The prologue issue achieves both an introduction to the conflict and introductions to the major players. It does so with both depth and excitement.
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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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