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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Three of the Comic Pants crew (Dan Grendell, David Martindale and Nick Budd) will be attending the Wizard World Texas in Dallas this Saturday. The other two members of the Panteon (Randy Lander and Dave Farabee, natch) will be there on Sunday. We’ll just be cruising around, talking to people, checking out the sights… nothing earth-shattering. We’d love to meet any of our fans in attendance, maybe even go out and grab lunch, so if you’re going to be at the show, drop us an email or just make sure and say hi if you’re there!

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 Badger Bull One Shot, Batman And The Outsiders #1, Captain Marvel #1 of 5, Circle #1, Groo Hell On Earth #1, House Of M Avengers #1 of 3, Iron Man Power Pack #1, Salvation Run #1, Teen Titans East Special #1, Wonder Woman #14, and World Of Warcraft #1
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This week, Dave Farabee, Nick Budd, David Martindale (D3), and Randy Lander talk about DC’s Vertigo imprint, home of such titles as Preacher, Sandman, Y The Last Man, Fables, Losers and of course the soon to be late, lamented American Virgin. There’s been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about Vertigo lately, and we talk about whether or not the clouds of doom and gloom some are casting are warranted or not. We also talk about the imprint itself, its history, its successes and failures and where we think it might be going (or maybe should be going) next. And as a reminder, you can check out first issues of many Vertigo series free online by checking out the Vertigo Number Ones website.
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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 covers Avengers Initiative #7, Marvel Adventures Hulk #5, Nova #8, Punisher War Journal #13, Thor #4, and X-Factor #25.

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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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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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Boxers or Briefs is a feature where we get to interview people and ask them really important questions about pants. We also get to ask less important questions about their current projects and their experience in the industry. The Panteon recently had a chance to interview Thom Zahler. Thom Zahler is the writer and artist of Love and Capes, a superhero romance self-published through his own Maerkle Press and also available on the web at Love and Capes.com, and he’s been working in the industry in various capacities for many a year before that. Thom’s also a regular fixture on this site’s comments, and so we took him aside to ask a few questions about Love and Capes, superhero romance, the comic book format wars, politics and more. Submit a request here if you think we should interview you, or make suggestions in the comments if you’ve got someone you think we should interview.
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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.”
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!
Continue Reading »