Mark-Waid

Should a superhero kill? What happens if he does? Those are questions that are constantly being asked by creators and fans of superhero comics. Every character approaches that question differently: Batman never kills, but Superman has under extreme circumstances even though he has a strict moral code against it. Part of Wolverine’s popularity centers on the fact that he is a warrior who will do what he deems necessary, which includes killing. Then you have characters like the Punisher, who are popular because they feed into our id by killing criminals without hesitation and with great prejudice, the way we know we never can. ...

It’s funny - Superman’s the most iconic Super Hero comic book character, but until recently I barely knew more about him than the average person on the street that doesn’t (or never did) read comics. I knew he was raised by the Kents and I knew from the old cartoons and the Christopher Reeves movie that Lex Luthor was his enemy. I knew a little more because I had read The Death and Resurrection of Superman at a friend’s house in the nineties. But that’s about it. I knew way more about Batman. Because so many writers have a hard time writing for Superman he tends to be talked about as a loser. I Fight Dragons has the song “No One Likes Superman Anymore”. But as I got back into the comics scene over the past two years, people started to say that the average Superman story might not be anything to write home about, but there were some stories that any fan of comics should read - many of them standalone stories. ...

http://youtu.be/PczIkmgDcZM Dan is back for a Comic POW! Battle! Join us as we decide which is the better issue - Chew #31 or Saga Chapter Nine! Below are all the images used in the video: Daredevil #22 Chew #31 Chew #31 - Funeral scene Chew - Space Cakes FF Vol 2 #3 Saga #9 - Confused Saga #9 - Lying Cat Saga #9 - Lying Cat eats Saga #9 - Mama Sun Saga #9 - Messing Up Lightning Spell Saga #9 - My Partner Just Got Back from Sick Leave Saga #9 - Not Confused Saga #9 - Stalk is back Saga #9 - The Will and Slave Girl Saga #9 - The Will and Gwendolyn Saga Giant Balls Monster Yancy Street Gang and Ms Thing Yancy Street Gang

Dan and I take some time to discuss our top picks from the 2012’s Comics of the Year. http://youtu.be/Uifp0tTlYxA Top Marvel Book: right at the beginning Top DC Books: 7:20 Top Creator-Owned Book 12:40 sec Top Marvel Arc 19:14 Top DC Arc 23:46 Top Creator-Owned Arc 27:49 Best Old Comic 31:35 Biggest Surprise 40:14

Sorry that the audio’s a little off, I was originally just going to use the audio to write a text piece. But I decided it’d be better to let you hear Stan “the Man’s” voice yourself.

[caption id=“attachment_303” align=“alignleft” width=“197” caption=“The Defenders #1”] [/caption] Eric’s Book: Eric: For this week’s Comic POW! I’ve decided to go with one of Marvel’s new titles, The Defenders Dan: I’ve been pretty excited about this book myself thanks to the work its writer, Matt Fraction, did on Casanova. Eric: I was excited by the idea and the Marvel hype that it would look at some of the key foundations of the Marvel Universe. That type of stuff is always fun to me. Now this book, or at least this arc, is a continuation of events set into place by Fear Itself. I largely ignored Fear Itself because I don’t have infinite money and it only seemed to tangentially affect the books I follow, but I DID read Marvel’s one-shot a few weeks ago that previewed 2012 stuff and it had a prologue to this story. Actually, I think it had two prologues. I remember reading a story that described what’s going on with Hulk as well as a story that described Dr. Strange’s friend who he mentions on the fifth page of content. The Hulk prologue explained that this black creature you see on the second page is the result of some Fear Itself mystical-ness that represents the rage that even Hulk has been able to contain. ...