Monthly Archives: August 2008

Podcast

Comic Timing – Episode 70

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For Episode 70, we are joined by Frank and Brad of Half Hour Wasted to discuss Comic Book Collecting! Do you bag and board? What about the CGC? How long do you let comics accumulate? Do you leave comics at a random Starbucks? Well, listen to find out what we do!

You can e-mail the show at comictiming@gmail.com, and please vote for us at Podcast Alley and Digg us at Digg.Com. And of course, if you can, please donate to the HERO Initiative effort if you can. Every little bit helps!

We shall see you next time for either our CGSSSsssss coverage or our mid-year wrap. And Review Corner is coming too, so see you soon!

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Podcast

Comic Timing – Episode 69

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Thanks yet again to About Heroes for the awesome image!

Batman: Gotham Knight and The Dark Knight are discussed here! Juan De Jesus and Raph Soohoo from Geeks Unite! return to discuss the films with Brent and Ian and we actually manage to be somewhat serious about half the time. Why so serious? We also have an audio comment sent in by Chris Chavez, otherwise known as Equinox, who could not join us as he was out of town. Good times to be had in another 3 hour epic!

Comic Timing is sponsored by Heroes Corner. All first time Heroes Corner users can enter the promo code CTROCKS to receive an additional 5% off their first order with the site, and make sure to check out their Double Down Trades Special. Buy one trade at regular discount, you receive the second trade for 50% off! And if you use this as part of the Summer Special, buy two trades of a character and get the single issue for that character free, you get a free comic too! And finally, the Comic Timing books of the month are as follows:

Captain Britain and the MI-13 #6 – New story arc begins here! – 40% off (HC price: $1.79 / retail: $2.99)

Supergirl #34– Jamal Igle debuts as new series artist! – 40% off (HC price: $1.79 / retail: $2.99)

Hellboy: In The Chapel of Moloch #1 – Mike Mignola return to write and draw Hellboy in this very special one shot! – 75% off! (HC price: $0.75 / retail: $2.99)

Make sure to get these issues so you can listen to the newly named Comic Timing: Review Corner episode when it comes out in October!

You can e-mail the show at comictiming@gmail.com, and please vote for us at Podcast Alley and Digg us at Digg.Com. And of course, if you can, please donate to the HERO Initiative effort if you can. Every little bit helps!

We shall see you next week for our delayed Half Hour Wasted Crossover episode. Thanks for listening, thanks for downloading, and enjoy!

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Editorial

Rant Timing #10: Secret Invasion vs. Final Crisis – Up Til Now

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Secret Invasion vs. Final Crisis – Up Til Now

VS.

After all the people who said Secret Invasion wasn’t “going anywhere,” I’m chuckling a bit now. Issue 3 was better than Issue 1 and has more answers than Issue 2, but it’s still not a story. It’s a jumble of ideas down on the page barely strewn together sequentially. How man characters are in this book already, and why should we care about Montoya or Turpin or Supergirl at all? Supergirl shows up for three seconds talking to her cat and that makes her the cover girl for the book? Mary Marvel looks nothing like her past self, and even a goth makeover can’t make somebody look THAT different.

Seriously, give me Skrulls over Final Crisis. At least the Skrulls I can understand. Maybe by Issue 7 I’ll look back on Final Crisis and say, “OH! So THAT’s what it was? Well, interesting.” I don’t see that happening. When comparing Batman: RIP to Final Crisis, I think Morrison is overextending himself by including so many characters in Final Crisis. I shouldn’t have had to read Requiem to care about Martian Manhunter’s death scene, which was given three sentences in the main book. I shouldn’t have to read about a character returning who should have stayed dead, because everyone and their cousin and their cousin’s CHILDREN all accept Wally West as the speedster of the DCU. How is going back to a previous generation for the second time in five years solving anything? How is this growth? It’s not. It’s rehashing. That is what makes Marvel’s present different from DC’s present. Marvel is looking at the past and breeding a future with a status quo that will stick. DC is looking at the past and…well, waving at it, asking it to come over for tea and reminisce for a while about the old days. Then they get to talking just enough that the past is back, and present is no longer relevant.

Yes I’m a sore Kyle Rayner fan and yes I’m a sore Wally West fan. But thing is, so are most of the people my age. So are a bunch of younger and older fans. Give us SUBSTANCE, DC, not subtext and hidden messages mixed in with rehashing and reshaping. Please. For me.

Podcast

Comic Timing – Episode 68

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Nanananananana Batman! Batman! Batman! Nanananananana…Batman!


Thanks to About Hereos for the image. Had to include it!

This episode, we do our Batman Movie Retrospective. We equals Juan De Jesus and Raph Soohoo of Geek Unite!, Chris Chavez alias Equinox, Leroy John Rivera alias Ziggo of Comic Tube, and Brent Kossina and myself. We go from the 1989 Batman movie all the way to Batman Returns, Batman Forever (And Ever And Ever….), Batman and Robin, and Batman Begins. We discuss what we would have done different, ratings for each movie, what we adored, The Ice Age, Alicia Silverstone and her voluptuous behind, and plenty more. On Episode 69 we shall delve into Gotham Knight and Dark Knight, so stay tuned for that! And for those of you brave enough to partake in it, a contest is announced this episode. You have been warned.

Comic Timing is sponsored by Heroes Corner. All first time Heroes Corner users can enter the promo code CTROCKS to receive an additional 5% off their first order with the site, and make sure to check out their Double Down Trades Special. Buy one trade at regular discount, you receive the second trade for 50% off! And if you use this as part of the Summer Special, buy two trades of a character and get the single issue for that character free, you get a free comic too! And finally, the Comic Timing books of the month are as follows:

Captain Britain and the MI-13 #6 – New story arc begins here! – 40% off (HC price: $1.79 / retail: $2.99)

Supergirl #34– Jamal Igle debuts as new series artist! – 40% off (HC price: $1.79 / retail: $2.99)

Hellboy: In The Chapel of Moloch #1 – Mike Mignola return to write and draw Hellboy in this very special one shot! – 75% off! (HC price: $0.75 / retail: $2.99)

Make sure to get these issues so you can listen to the newly named Comic Timing: Review Corner episode when it comes out in October!

You can e-mail the show at comictiming@gmail.com, and please vote for us at Podcast Alley and Digg us at Digg.Com. And of course, if you can, please donate to the HERO Initiative effort if you can. Every little bit helps!

We shall see you next week for our take on Gotham Knight and Dark Knight, and the week after for the airing of our delayed Half Hour Wasted Crossover episode. Thanks for listening, thanks for downloading, and enjoy!

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