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 Authority Prime #1 of 6, Crawlspace XXXombies #1, Foolkiller #1, Gotham Underground #1 of 9, Neozoic #1, Proof #1, She-Hulk #22, Velocity: Pilot Season #1, Warhammer 40k: Blood and Thunder #1, and What If? Planet Hulk One Shot.
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This week, Dave Farabee, Nick Budd, David Martindale (D3), Dan Grendell and Randy Lander, along with special guest Jason Murphy, are talking about forgotten gems. Specifically, miniseries and short-lived series that were great but died before their time, or maybe never got the recognition they deserved. It’s eBay and back issue bin diving time after this podcast, as the Panteon digs into the nooks and crannies of their collection for books that even they might have forgotten about. This is one of our longer podcasts, but rather than break it into two parts, we’re running the whole thing and then taking next week off.
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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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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 99 #1, Abyss #1, Cory Doctorows Futuristic Tales Here And Now #1, Death Of The New Gods #1, Lazarus #1 of 3, Looking For Group #1, Marvel Zombies 2 #1, Ray Harryhausen Presents Sinbad Rogue Of Mars #1, Suburban Glamour and Sword #1.
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This week, Randy Lander, Dave Farabee, Nick Budd, David Martindale (D3) and Dan Grendell return to a topic from an earlier podcast, the “Comics You Aren’t Reading” - in other words, criminally under-appreciated books. Each of our Panteon reviewers chose two series or trade paperbacks (tough calls!) to call attention to, explaining a bit about each one and why more people should be checking them out. Sometimes it’s for the writing, sometimes it’s for the art, most often it’s both, but in every case there’s something special about these titles that most people are missing out on and it’s a shame.
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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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Writers: Joss Whedon & Brian Lynch
Artist: Franco Urru
Company: IDW

Given the success that Dark Horse has found with Buffy Season Eight, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that IDW, license-holders for Angel, would try the same thing with Whedon’s other series in the “Buffy-verse.” There are a few key differences, such as Angel being a limited series (presumably first in a series if it’s successful) rather than an ongoing or Joss Whedon being co-writer rather than sole writer of the first arc. The biggest key difference, however, is one that works in IDW’s favor, and that’s that many of Angel’s fans were unhappy with the ambiguous season finale, and being able Continue Reading »