4thletter!

-I’m traveling, and I totally forgot to post this earlier today. -We did a catch-up review show that basically turned into us talking about how DC’s New 52 shook out. -Esther ain’t too fond of Mr Terrific and Batwoman. -But she’s digging Batgirl and Wonder Woman. -I like WW so much I barely have anything to say about it. -I’m also digging Green Lantern and Justice League. -Pazow! -There’ll be another next week! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 75: Green Hornet Fourcast! 44: Iron Man 2 Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 82: Fourcast! Uncut Fourcast! 92: On Newspaper Comics

-Cripes, we’ve done one hundred of these things -This time, we’re just talking about various things we like about comics for an hour or so -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 93: Capcast Fourcast! 98: On Comedy and Comics Fourcast! 44: Iron Man 2 Fourcast! 99: Fhourrorcast!

-Let’s talk about all things scary! -Books, comics, movies, dates… -Emily Carroll’s His Face All Red -Colson Whitehead’s Zone One: A Novel -Stephen King’s Desperation and The Regulators. -Daniel H Wilson’s Robopocalypse: A Novel. -The Bad Seed: -The Good Son: -Junji Ito, -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 100: Episode 100 Fourcast! 93: Capcast Fourcast! 44: Iron Man 2 Fourcast! 85: This Week In Comics

-We’re talking comics! -Not comic books. Joke comics. Ha ha ha. -This is the second half of the conversation. -Here’s Kristen Schaal’s Sexy Book of Sexy Sex. -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 100: Episode 100 Fourcast! 97: On Comics And Comedy Fourcast! 93: Capcast Fourcast! 44: Iron Man 2

-We’re talking comics! -Not comic books. Joke comics. Ha ha ha. -This ended up being a fairly long conversation, so I split it (roughly) in half. -We tell some jokes, we talk about some jokes, you know how it goes. -We talk about tv shows, mainly Louie, 30 Rock, the usual suspects -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 98: On Comedy and Comics Fourcast! 100: Episode 100 Fourcast! 85: This Week In Comics Fourcast! 93: Capcast

-I was out late doing karaoke before recording, sorry if I sound tired -Esther made me read Gail Simone and Neil Googe’s Welcome to Tranquility -I made Esther read Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto -Esther claims that I’m why we can’t have happy comics, because I like sad things -We didn’t like each other’s books very much, I think. Can you tell? -So we switch gears to talk about stuff we do like. -Esther liked a pretty good bit in Spider-Island with the Punisher -Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto’s Punisher is aight, it’s aight, but it shoulda been more john blaze than that -Esther really digs Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon’s Punisher -I’m not as keen on the changes to the origin story -(it’s a good comic for someone who’s not me) -The thing I said was from Daniel Way and Steve Dillon’s Punisher vs Bullseye was actually from Judd Winick and Doug Mahnke’s Under the Red Hood, and also the note said “LOL” and not “gotcha!” -Here’s something similar from the series though: -Buy John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew, thanks. Similar Posts: This Week in Panels: Week 17 Fourcast! 86: The Wonderful Punisher of Oz Fourcast! 63: Hellboy: Whom Gods Destroy This Week in Panels: Week 8 This Week in Panels: Week 33

-DC’s in the process of releasing 52 mostly-new comics! -We’re talking about the first full week. -Esther picked up Action Comics, Stormwatch, Green Arrow, and Batgirl -I picked up Static, Justice League, and Animal Man -I also bought Swamp Thing, but didn’t manage to discuss it. It was fine–I just don’t think I’m much of a Swamp Thing fan is all. -We have a conversation about whether or not people from the Midwest say “ain’t” in casual conversation. -I think they do, because I assume all farmers talk like Southerners, and back home, we say “ain’t” like ain’t nothing wrong with that -Esther says they don’t -It turns out I have feelings about how cool Superman breaking chains on homage covers are -Those feelings amount to “Ugh, why?” -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 76: This Week In Comics Fourcast! 68: What’s It All About Fourcast! 63: Hellboy: Whom Gods Destroy Fourcast! 55: Arsenal vs New Warriors Fourcast! 85: This Week In Comics

-Two books, two podcasters! -I’m talking about John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew, which you can read here -Esther is talking about Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake -The two books are thematically related, I figure, under the umbrella of “secret truths revealed through food.” -It’s an interesting connection, and Bender’s book sounds pretty neat. Chew, of course, is something I buy monthly. -Check both out. -6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music. -Here comes a new challenger! -See you, space cowboy! Subscribe to the Fourcast! via: -Podcast Alley feed! -RSS feed via Feedburner -iTunes StoreSimilar Posts: Fourcast! 93: Capcast Fourcast! 89: Don’t Call It A Reboot! Fourcast! 100: Episode 100 Fourcast! 98: On Comedy and Comics Fourcast! 90: Books!