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’re writing on Friday due to the holiday delay (same deal next week) and we will cover Fantastic Four Isla De La Muerte One Shot, Hulk Vs Fin Fang Foom One Shot, Invincible Presents Atom Eve #1, Legion Of Super Heroes #37, Pax Romana #1 and Redball 6 #1.
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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 Ex Machina #33, Angel After the Fall #2, Captain America #33, Daredevil #103, Umbrella Academy #4 of 6, New Warriors #7, and G.I. Joe America’s Elite #30.

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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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Writer: Joshua Hale Fialkov
Artist: Kody Chamberlain
Company: Digital Webbing

Ever had a really bad fever? The kind that gives you hallucinations where the weirdest crap happens, but it all just seems to fit, and every so often things will just take a right turn (or maybe a left) for no discernable reason but it’s okay because why not, really? Reading Punks is like that, except there’s no imminent chance of dying and you don’t get to call in to work.
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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 Birds Of Prey #113, Doctor Who Classics #1, Incredible Hulk #112, Long Count #1, Marvel Illustrated Iliad #1, Robotika For A Few Rubles More #1 of 4, Some New Kind Of Slaughter #1 of 3, and World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound #1 of 5.
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Dave Farabee, Dan Grendell, Nick Budd, David Martindale (D3), and Randy Lander are back for the last Comic Pants podcast of 2007! This time out, we talk about new characters, specifically new superhero characters. It’s difficult to introduce new characters to superhero readers, whether at DC or Marvel or even outside of a well-known superhero universe, and we have some thoughts on why that might be, how it might be fixed and a whole bunch of other related topics.
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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: Alex Sheikman and David Moran
Artist: Alex Sheikman
Company: Archaia Studios Press

I very much enjoyed the first Robotika mini-series (available now in a beautiful hardcover from Archaia), so the release of a follow-up is great news. Even better news is the addition of some scripting help in the form of David Moran. Now, I’ve never seen any writing work from Moran before, but I can tell you already that the script on this mini works better overall than the first did. I’ve got a couple problems, which I’ll get to presently, but overall it’s very solid writing.
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