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 Archibald Saves Christmas #1, Dan Dare #1, Dock Walloper #1, Gargoyles Bad Guys #1, Marvel Atlas #1, Mercenaries #1, and Zombie Simon Garth #1
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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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I love DMZ and Local, and in many ways, they’re an evolution of what Brian Wood has done previously. Young, principled journalist in an urban environment ruled by corporate and governmental corruption? The foundation was laid down in Channel Zero, Wood’s first comics work. Slice of life styles with a touch of angst, some of the best characterization in the business and an artistic collaborator to die for? Not for nothing is Local an “unofficial sequel” to Demo. But a viking warrior seeking his place in a violent culture and a dangerous world? That’s relatively new territory. And how does Wood fare outside of his usual comfort zone? Pretty well, Continue Reading »

Writers: Jesse Bausch, R.S. Paulette, and Joel Priddy
Artists: James Callahan, Justin Alicea, Patrick Godfrey, Shane McDermott, and Ian Sampson
Company: Oddgod Press

Taking a fresh look at an old idea is one of the surest ways to get my attention. Doing it with style and talent is almost guaranteed to do it. Jesse Bausch and James Callahan have more than gotten my attention- they’ve left me demanding more. Strange Detective Tales takes noir detective stories and old monster movies and mixes them in a way that makes me wish that these had been the movies I saw late night growing up. 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.”
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 Angel After The Fall #1, Grendel Behold The Devil #1, Hawaiian Dick #1, Midknight #1, and Scream #1
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Creator: Mike Dubisch
Company: Strange Fear

I’ve been a huge fan of Lovecraftian-style horror since, well, I first read H.P. Lovecraft’s work, so when I run into comics that really portray that feeling of confusion and the unknown I get excited. Those kinds of books are few and far between, with most creators seemingly under the impression that all it takes to make something Lovecraftian is a tentacle-faced monster or use of the Necronomicon. Mike Dubisch gets it, though, and to prove it he takes the Lovecraftian idea that man is cosmically insignificant and a pawn for unknowable powers and mixes it with the claustrophobic setting of a ship in space, a la Alien. 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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