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 30 Days Of Night Beyond Barrow #1, Compass #1, Countdown To Mystery #1, Cyblade Pilot Season #1, Cyblade Pilot Season #1, Green Arrow Black Canary Wedding Special #1, JLA Hitman #1 of 2, Jungle Girl #1, Marvel Comics Presents #1, Penance Relentless #1, Streets Of Glory #1, Tales Of The Sinestro Corps Parallax #1, and Umbrella Academy Apocalypse Suite #1 of 4.
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It’s the flip side of last week’s podcast, as Dave M., Randy and Nick take a long look at how the DC Universe is faring these days. Did 52 wrap strong? What’s the skinny on Countdown and Sinestro Corps? And is the upcoming Final Crisis something to be anticipated, feared or merely yawned at?

As always, commentary is welcomed and encouraged. Let us know what you thought of the podcast, and if you have suggestions for future podcast topics, leave us a comment or write in to the show! Please drop us a line to give us some questions or comments for the next show. 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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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 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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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 Countdown Search For Ray Palmer Wildstorm #1, Drafted #1, JLA Wedding Special #1, Parade with Fireworks #1 of 2, Potters Field #1 of 3, Suicide Squad #1 of 8, Thirteen Steps #1 of 5, Transformers Best Of UK Dinobots #1, Wonder Girl #1 of 6, X-Men Emperor Vulcan #1 of 4, and Zombie Proof #1 of 4.
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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 takes a look at the Marvel Adventures line, as represented by the latest issues of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man and Spider-Man.

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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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How have Marvel Comics’ recent big crossover events shaped the overall landscape of the Marvel universe? Have the events been good reads? Have they improved or harmed the 616? In this week’s installment of the Comic Pants podcast, The Panteon discusses Marvel’s Civil War crossover event, it’s aftermath (mostly The Initiative), and finally, how Marvel is handling its properties in general. This is the first part of a two part podcast. Next week, we’ll be talking all about DC, and don’t forget to let us know what you think about it!
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