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 Ant: Unleashed #1, Bat Lash #1 of 6, Battlestar Galactica Origins #1, Darkness #1, Elephantmen War Toys #1, Engineer #1, Highlander Way O/t Sword, Hybrid Bastards #1 of 3, Misericordia #1, Ultimate Iron Man 2 #1, and Wormwood One Shot.
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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: Tom Pinchuk
Artist: Kate Glasheen
Company: Archaia Studios Press

This book had a hook that I just couldn’t ignore. Anyone who pays attention to Greek mythology knows that Zeus is a randy old goat who screws basically any woman he gets his hands on (and probably men, too, knowing the Greeks, but there’s not so much attention paid to that). Hera has always hated his cheating ways. In Hybrid Bastards, she enlisted the help of her cousin Hypnos eighteen years before to punish Zeus by making him 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 Countdown Arena #1 of 4, Infinite Horizon #1 of 6, Northlanders #1, The Overman #1 of 5, Resurrection #1, Ultimates 3 #1, World War Hulk Aftersmash and Zombies Vs Robots Vs Amazons #1 of 3.
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Down the Line is our monthly look at Previews, and what titles are coming out a few months, well, “down the line.”

This installment covers the December Previews for comics due to ship out in February 2008. Remember, especially with the indy books, that pre-ordering is your friend, and the best way to make sure you get the books you want. I should mention, thanks to the increasing prevalence of advance solicitation, that some of the books here won’t actually ship until March or later, but the pre-orders are still due by the end of December. Continue Reading »

After a short break, Dave Farabee, Dan Grendell, Nick Budd, David Martindale (D3), and Randy Lander are back, and this time out we’re taking on something that might be a little controversial: Diversity in comics. We talk about the racial, religious, gender-based and sexual identity diversity in comics and ask: Is diversity necessary? How is it being done well? How is it being done badly? If it’s broken, how do we fix it? The focus is on superheroes, but we travel a bit afield and talk about creators and editorial as well as the diversity of the indy market.
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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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Welcome to Manga Zubon, where I take a look at the manga that have come out each month and pick what I think are the best of the lot. These are the manga that I feel deserve recognition and readership more than the rest, so I’m singling them out. My focus in this column is mostly on first volumes to get you in on the ground floor of new series, but I will include standouts in ongoing series as well. Keep in mind that though I do my best, I can’t read everything that comes out each month, so if you have something Continue Reading »