For those of you that read Randy’s Inside Joke Theatre blog, you may already know that Randy has been suffering from a serious addiction of late. Being the good friend that he is, he’s spread his Xbox 360 addiction to D3. If any of our readers would like to play online with us, we’ve posted our Xbox Live Gamertags on the sidebar and in the body of this announcement. Feel free to shoot us a friend request. We’d dig hearing from you and playing a few games with you. Also, if any our readers would like to post their Gamertags publicly in the comments on this post, they should feel free to do so.
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Writers: R.A. Salvatore, Larry Hama, Geno Salvatore & Ryan Schifrin
Artist: Adam Archer
Company: Devil’s Due Publishing

Grab your guns, check your stash of silver bullets and pray that you somehow are able to buckle down and withstand the forces of the night, because if you don’t, then say sayonara to the entire human race, my friend. That in a nutshell is the basis for the story that R.A. Salvatore and Larry Hama, both masters of their own extremely popular genres, have come together to tell. The outcome of said mind-melding is an unabashed adventure romp, one that’s chock full of action and well…You guessed it, more action. A story that blends together the monsters of classic horror, your vampires and werewolves and such, with the somewhat specialized military characters Continue Reading »

Writer: Mark Millar
Artist: Bryan Hitch
Company: Marvel Comics

Fantastic Four. Two words that when put together form the name of one of comicdom’s most prized creations, one that has a long lineage of excellence that ranges from the momentous founding tales of the Lee and Kirby days to the superb stories put forth by John Byrne to the updated and ultimately fun romps of Mark Waid and the more recent adventures of Dwayne McDuffie. There are many more high notes that could be mentioned, a few low ones as well, but seriously, Fantastic Four is a staple of the world of comics, one that’s been around for almost fifty years. It’s also, by the way, one of the hardest books out there to write. Getting a handle of the feel of the book, the general 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.”
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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, Randy covers Annihilation: Conquest #4, The Bakers: Babies & Kittens HC, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #11, The Darkness #2, Nightwing #141, Teen Titans Year One #2 and Warhammer: Forge of War #5.

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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 Abe Sapien The Drowning #1 of 5, Clandestine #1, Halloween Nightdance #1, Lords Of Avalon Sword Of Darkness #1 of 6, Marvel Illustrated Moby Dick #1, Speed Racer Chronicles O/t Racer #1 and Uncanny X-Men #495.
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Writer: Ed Brubaker
Artist: Mike Choi

Well the epic Messiah Complex crossover has concluded, and we’re moving into the Divided We Stand aftermath for the X-Universe, and I couldn’t be happier with Brubaker’s Uncanny X-Men and the way said aftermath is being handled in those pages. As exciting and as action-packed as Messiah Complex was, it did end on a somewhat depressing note. The X-Men were so demoralized and devastated by the end that even the moral compass of the team, Scott Summers, was ready to give up hope and walk away from Xavier’s dream in a manner very uncharacteristic to the leader of the X-Men.

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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 Blue Beetle #23, The Spirit #13 and Proof #4.

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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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Welcome to Down the Line, our monthly look at Previews! Co-written by Randy Lander and Dan Grendell, each Down the Line looks at what’s coming out in comics (and manga) a few months down the road.

This installment covers the February Previews for comics due to ship out in April 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. Thanks to the increasing prevalence of advance solicitation, that some of the books here won’t actually ship until May or later, but the pre-orders are still due by the end of February. Continue Reading »