Randy Lander, Dan Grendell, Nick Budd and Dave Farabee are ready to rumble! It’s the long-awaited, much-requested Rumble Pants Live! Four rounds of superhero battling superhero play out in this podcast, with somewhat surprising results. Plus analysis of how the fights might go down and resulting talk about the characters involved. After you’ve listened to the podcast, check out the fight cards linked below to see it all in Rumble Pants format. Plus: A new installments of Panteon Comics Audio Theatre featuring Batman Confidential #17 and the Panteon’s thoughts on a couple recent movies.
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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 Angel Revelations #1, Batman Gotham After Midnight #1, Final Crisis #1, Firebreather Series #1, Marvel 1985 #1 and Zombie Tales #1.
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Secret Invasion Update is a weekly feature that among other things takes a gander at all things Skrully. More directly, we will be talking about the many issues of comics that tie into Marvel’s big summer blockbuster Secret Invasion. Is the series good? Which issues rock the house? Which ones bite the big one? Do you have to read everything that comes out to get the whole picture of the Invasion, or can you just read the main series and be fine? Those are the types of questions that we’ll be tackling with the gusto that you’ve come to expect from the Panteon.

This week we will be covering Mighty Avengers #14, and Incredible Hercules #117.
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By popular demand, Rumble Pants is back! 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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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 Brothers In Arms #1, Casey Blue: Beyond Tomorrow #1, DC Special: Cyborg #1, Dead, She Said #1, Igor Movie Prequel #1, Pilot Season: Twilight Guardian #1 and Star Trek: Assignment Earth #1.
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Dave Farabee, Randy Lander, Dan Grendell and Nick Budd are talking about format. Hardcover, softcover, oversized, digest, collected editions, single issues, digital comics, waiting for the trade, this podcast covers it all. Hear Dave mock Dan and Randy for their format whore tendencies, learn of the shared love for the Absolute format, learn what comic the Panteon deems worthy of an upgrade from the digest format and a whole lot more. Plus: New installments of Panteon Comics Audio Theatre, featuring Hulk #3 and DC Universe #0.
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By popular demand, Rumble Pants is back! 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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Secret Invasion Update is a weekly feature that among other things takes a gander at all things Skrully. More directly, we will be talking about the many issues of comics that tie into Marvel’s big summer blockbuster Secret Invasion. Is the series good? Which issues rock the house? Which ones bite the big one? Do you have to read everything that comes out to get the whole picture of the Invasion, or can you just read the main series and be fine? Those are the types of questions that we’ll be tackling with the gusto that you’ve come to expect from the Panteon.

This week we will be covering Captain Britain and MI13 #1, and Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #1 of 3.
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