It’s Batman time here at Comic Pants, and our focus this podcast is on graphic novels. Join Randy Lander, David Martindale (D3), Dan Grendell, and Nick Budd as we take a look at which Batman graphic novels and trades most deserve a look from you because, let’s face it, there’s a million of ‘em, and it just isn’t practical to read them all unless you’re someone silly like us. Which are the best? Which are in print? What might you have missed? What should you avoid? What do you think about it? Did we miss some? Are we way off? Let us know your ideas in the comments section. Special thanks to Mon-L and any other readers I may have missed for recommending this topic. This is a one-shot podcast, unlike our normal topics, and next week will be a different 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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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 Marvel Adventures Hulk #1, Terminator 2: Infinity #1, Tales Of Raphael Bad Moon Rising #1 of 3, Scarface: Devil In Disguise #1 of 4, Super Villain Team Up: MODOK’s 11 #1 of 4, Wolverine Origins Annual #1, The Programme #1 of 12, All Flash #1, The Order #1, Annihilation Conquest Quasar #1 of 4, Zero Killer #1 of 6, and Giant Sized Marvel Adventures The Avengers #1.
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Fat Pants is a monthly Comic Pants feature in which we mull over the last month’s trades and graphic novels in order to 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 in the comments which trades and graphic novels came out in the last month that you, the reader, feel are most worth our attention. So, without further ado, here are the books we think really stood out this month.
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Writers: Gene Simmons, Leah Moore, John Reppion, Tom Waltz, Chris Ryall, Sean Taylor, Dwight L. MacPherson, and Nick Simmons
Artists: Matt Busch, Jeffrey Zornow, Esteve Polls, Steph Stamb, Jon Alderink, and Grant Bond
Company: IDW Publishing

Anthology comics are a tough package to sell. There’s no hook to grab the reader on every story besides the overall theme (if there even is one), so the quality of the writing and art is more important than ever, and with the variety of stories involved, there’s a good chance that only about half are going to connect with each reader on average- and that’s if you have a good book.

This one has several things going for it. Gene Simmons is a name people know, even if it isn’t for comics. Horror anthologies have a long, successful Continue Reading »

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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It’s that time of the week when we get together and record ourselves talking, and this time the topic is Transformers. Taking a look at those robots in disguise, Randy Lander, David Martindale (D3), Dan Grendell, and Nick Budd discuss the current blockbuster movie, the line of comics from IDW, older lines of comics, the animated series, and pretty much anything else we want. 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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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. Queen & Country is our latest “Hot Pants” pick.

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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 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter First Death #1 of 2, Annihilation Conquest: Wraith #1 of 4, Consumed #1, Fantastic Five #1 of 4, Friday The 13th Pamela’s Tale #1 of 4, Green Arrow Year One #1, Guardian Alpha One Shot, Marvel Illustrated Man In The Iron Mask #1, Nexus #99, Nicolas Cage’s Voodoo Child #1, Ray Harryhausen Presents 20 Million Miles More #1, Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #1, Tick Comic Con Extravaganza #1, and World War Hulk Gamma Corps #1 of 4.
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