While Culturology is on vacation, Pete podcasts... which brings us to PART 2 OF THE 3 PART PETE MARATHON!!! Pete perused some comics last week and so we discuss the Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past, Stagger Lee, Mp3.com and Weedlands College Radio, MC Hammer on the TODAY Show, I Die at Midnight, a Mobius strip made out of Orbit gum, Northwest Passage, G-Man: Learning to Fly by Chris Giarrusso, all ages, Zombie Palin, Pittsburgh's Small Press Festival, Paris Hilton's My New BFF, Iron Man backissues, two calls from the AudioShocker Comment Line, Kung Fu Panda, Seth Rogen is overexposed, Katherine Heigl is the new Meg Ryan, The Spirit, and more legit shit.
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Coraline in 3D is awesome, Neal was not taken with Liam Neeson in Taken, Michael Phelps should be allowed to smoke as much weed as he wants, Hulk Vs. Wolverine is just okay, Eulogy is quirky but funny, Rob Schneider in The Hot Chick gets funnier with time, Neal enjoyed The Cleaner, Keanu Reeves in Cowboy Beebop, Battlestar Galactica finally gets some action, My Chemical Romance suckles from the teat of Watchmen, Black Panther #1 is an excellent issue, X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #1 is pretty good too, and Kyle Baker can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants in comics.
It's the first ever AudioShocker Comic Pick two-way tie. Last week had a fairly horrid turnout but this week had copious amounts of awesome issues. It was so tough to choose the best that I had to make a compromise.
Mighty Avengers #6 ended the delayed first arc of this series with stellar results. Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho produced a wonderful team effort that reads like a dream and looks like a comics masterpiece. Standout moments include Cho's visualization of Ultron's antivirus efforts, the Wasp's heroic moment, and the Sentry's emotional revelation.
Kyle Baker's second issue of Special Forces came out one month after the first and delivered an equally rousing story in only 22 pages. Frankly, I didn't expect to see this series follow up so quickly with a part-two. I'm glad it did because Baker's interpretation of a modern day war story is thoughtful and intriguing while never slacking in action.
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I heard not a word about Special Forces #1 until I saw it at my comic shop yesterday. It was a surprise to see a new number one issue by Kyle Baker. It was also a warning sign. I remember what he did to me with Nat Turner - he put out two great issues in a row, and then the book dropped off and returned in a different shape as two combined issues.
Special Forces feels different though. More than ever, Kyle Baker is taking notice of his lettering. He does a particularly excellent job with the sound effects, dialog, and captions in this issue. In fact, when I go to letter my own comic in the next few months, I'm going to use Special Forces #1 as a blueprint.
This story has a lot of heart. I don't like war stories at all, normally. But this spoke to me. It mattered how each individual soldier got there and why they went. By the time I read the last two pages, I had tears welling in my eyes. I don't know why... it wasn't a sad moment. It wasn't especially victorious either. It was just the tragically beautiful humanity of the characters that moved me.
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