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 Avengers Fairy Tales #1, Gamekeeper Series 2 #1, Last Defenders #1, Lone Ranger And Tonto #1, Pogrom #1, Screamland #1, and Serenity Better Days #1.
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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 March Previews for comics due to ship out in May 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 June or later, but the pre-orders are still due by the end of March. 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 Cable #1, Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1 of 5, DC Special Raven #1, Dead Space #1, Justice League The New Frontier Special One Shot, Logan #1, New Dynamix #1, Sisterhood #1, Terry Moore’s Echo #1, and Young Liars #1.
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“Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a Spider can! Sells his soul, to Mephisto!” Wait… that’s not right. But we’re not talking about that in this podcast, we’re talking about the results, Brand New Day, and all things Spider-Man in our 50th podcast! Join David Martindale (D3), Nick Budd, Dave Farabee, Dan Grendell and Randy Lander as we gather around the mic to talk about Jackpot, Freak, Aunt “Bring More Bling!” May, and all the good stuff from Brand New Day too.

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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 X-Men Legacy #208, Teen Titans #56, All Star Batman and Robin #9, Cable #1, and Logan #1.

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