The triumphant return of Top of the Stack. Our heroes discuss The Exterminators, Dynamo 5, Wonder Woman Annual #1, Goldfish, Eduardo Risso's Tales of Terror, and Black Summer #3. In the extended talk we also discuss little people, creators working outside their wheelhouse, Stan Lee's Religious cult, Freaks and Geeks, I love you Beth Cooper, High School crimes, Christian Bale, American Psycho, Say Anything, where Skottie would take John Cusack on a date, Vince Vaughn, Chevy Chase, stand up comics, Kid Nation, Survivorman, Reality T.V., What Not To Wear, The Swan and more. Listen Now!
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Join Chris, Tom, Skottie, Sal and Mike as they discuss The Emerald City ComiCon, the birth of Henry Leo DeFraction, Platinum Studios going public, Desolation Jones updates, Younr Avengers Presents, Diamond's POS announcement, Duran Duran comics, X-Men Dissasembled and more. In the second half of this episode the gang talks Maintenance #5, Daredevil vol. 12, Thor # 3, American Virgin #2 and Daredevil #100 in Top of the Stack They finish up the show with Futurestaxx and a few announcements. Listen Now!
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Our heroes start off the New Year with a visit from writer, inker and longtime freind of the program Ande Parks. Ande joins Chris, Sal and Skottie as we take a look at the year that was, and what we're looking forward to in 2008. We go over some of our favorite books from 2007 including Daredevil, Iron-Fist, The Spirit, Criminal, Green Lantern, and others, and talk with both Ande and Skottie about their favorite projects and what they are working on next. Later, we talk about what we'd like to see happen in 2008 and give our thoughts on…

This week, Chris, Sal Tom and Skottie discuss the Elephantmen hardcover resolicitaiton, casting for Batman Returns, the Transformers movie, the trouble with chimps, where to get a good microwave burrito in Chicago, Batman and the Outsiders and just which Apostle was Judas. during Top of the Stack the panel goes over Scalped #7, Punisher Max #49, Preacher Volume #1, and Faker #1. We also read some listener emails and pick the winners of our Be a Hero Contest. Don’t miss our Thursday Episode when we talk about music and comics. Listen Now!
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This week the Around Comics studio moves to Skottie Young's house for a casual conversation about Trades vs. Single issues. It's one of the hot button topics in comics today, and there's no question that trades have changed the way that a lot of comics are written and purchased. John Siuntres joins Sal, Tom, Chris and Skottie for an episode filled with listener e-mails, forum posts and interesting takes on how we like to read certain comics. Listen Now!
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Happy New Year! Chris, Tom and Mike Norton ring in the new year at Challengers Comics on a very chilly and hungover day. It's a new year and a new decade, so the panel takes the opportunity to look back at how comics and the comics industry has changed during The Aughts. Chris spent New Years Eve with piles of trades. Tom wants less old book, so he gives away huge bag of Legion comics. Mike liked being in charge of Challengers and stumping customers with Blue Beetle trivia.

Happy New Year!

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