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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Truth: Red, White, and Black

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Matthew and Stephen take a look at Truth: Red, White and Black.

October 19, 2010

Truth: Red, White, and Black

Set in the Marvel Universe, the series takes the Tuskegee Experiments as inspiration for a tale that re-examines the history of the super-serum that created Captain America. Beginning in 1942, the series follows a regiment of black soldiers who are forced to act as test subjects in a program attempting to re-create the lost formula earlier used to turn Steve Rogers to Captain America. The experiments lead to mutation and death, until only one remains – Isaiah Bradley.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Koni Waves: The Pefect Wave

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew of Matthew, Rodrigo, and Stephen take a crack at something completely different – Koni Waves.

October 12, 2010

Koni Waves: The Perfect Wave

Created by Mark Poulton and artists, Stephen Sistilli and Dexter Weeks, Koni Waves tells the story of Koni Kanawai, a private detective in Honolulu, Hawaii, who with the help of her surf buddy, Pete, former co-worker, Krystal, and owner of her favorite watering hole, Huko, encounters a series of supernatural events that leads her to discover a dark side of her island not seen in the usual tourist spots.

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: The Rocketeer

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On the next Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew sits down and happily cracks open Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer.

October 05, 2010

Rocketeer

In 1938 Los Angeles, Cliff Secord, a local racing pilot and barnstormer, discovers a mysterious package hidden in his airplane. Prior to his discovery, the police have chased down and killed two gangsters nearby after a prolonged gun battle. In that package, Cliff soon finds what the police really have been pursuing: a stolen rocket backpack.

Pay close attention to the show as Stephen, Rodrigo, and Matthew, may just talk about the Rocketeer movie as well!

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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REMINDER: Major Spoilers Costume Contest Deadline is October 21, 2010

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This is just a friendly reminder that if you want to win some awesome prizes, you need to get your butt into a costume, take some pictures, and submit your entry before October 21, 2010.

The Pixie costume above was done by Tia, and if you think you got what it takes to do a better job than she has, you better take action now!

Full details on the Fourth Annual Major Spoilers Costume Contest can be found here.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Wraithborn

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew takes a look at Wraithborn from Wildstorm Comics.

September 28, 2010

Wraithborn

The Wraithborn power is normally given to a specially chosen warrior, someone who has trained for decades to wield the power and fight the Immortals. But, due to “unforeseen circumstances”, the power is passed on to an ordinary high school girl who doesn’t know anything about what’s going on, but she’s got to figure things out fast because a lot of “people” (including the Immortals) are coming after her.

The book is a supernatural, dark fantasy story inspired by folklore and mythologies from around the world. The idea being that all these legends were based on some truth, that gods and demons and angels and so forth really do exist, and once walked this earth. But one day, they all seemed to vanish, and eventually we just wrote them off as fiction. But they’re still around, and they’re trying really hard to get back and reclaim their former “lordship and dominion” over all humankind.

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Blacksad

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew sits down to talk up and talk about the latest U.S. release of Blacksad.

Blacksad

The story is set in a film noir environment, in the USA of the late 1950s. All the characters are anthropomorphic animals (female characters are often much more anthropomorphized, though it varies depending on the animal.), their specific species reflecting their personality and their part in the story. For example, nearly all the policemen are canid, usually German Shepherds, Bloodhounds, Foxes or Scottish Terriers.

The strip is made with a rather dirty-realist outlook, a dark cinematic style and fairly clean, realistic lines. Coupled with the truly lavish and time-consuming drawing, done in watercolor, the strip appears very realistic indeed despite using animals. The quality of the drawing has improved noticeably throughout the series, with sharper, higher-quality colour and fewer grainy lines in later issues.

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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Digital Comics: Welcome to the Social

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It may surprise many of you that I believe Microsoft may have been ahead of the game when it introduced the Zune and the Welcome to the Social campaign a few years ago. Granted, back then no one knew what the hell the software giant was talking about, but today, with digital comics about to bust wide open in a big way, applications like Comics by ComiXology, and companies like BOOM! Studios, DC Entertainment, and Marvel might want to revisit the Zune.

More After the Jump >>

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REMINDER: Major Spoilers Costume Contest 2010

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Just a quick reminder about the 2010 Major Spoilers Costume Contest.

The best costume will not only be hailed as the Grand Prize Winner in Major Spoilers’ 2010 Costume Contest, you’ll also win a new iPod Nano ($149 value) and the now completely sold out Starro the Conqueror figure ($50 value).

We’ve already had a few entries trickle in, including this one from Danny.

Can you top his entry?  Do you have what it takes to be named the 2010 Major Spoilers Costume Contest Champion!?

Make sure you check out all the details!

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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This weekend on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Matthew Peterson and Stephen Schleicher sit down to talk about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in all its various incarnations and forms.

The various versions follow the same basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory, as Adams rewrote the story substantially for each new adaptation. Throughout all versions, the series mostly follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, although the story also follows the adventure of other major characters: Ford Prefect, an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse who is a researcher for the eponymous guidebook; Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford’s semi-cousin and the Galactic President; the depressed robot Marvin, the Paranoid Android, and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and the only other human survivor of the Earth’s destruction.

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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4th Annual Major Spoilers Costume Contest

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Halloween is one of our favorite holidays at Major Spoilers, and we’re hoping you’ll celebrate with us, with our fourth annual Major Spoilers Costume contest! We want you, yes you, to send us pictures of your bad self dressed up as your favorite hero, villain, side-kick – really any comic book/pop culture character. The best costume will not only be hailed as the Grand Prize Winner in Major Spoilers’ 2010 Costume Contest, you’ll also win a new iPod Nano ($149 value) and the now completely sold out Starro the Conqueror figure ($50 value).

Here’s what you have to do:
Send three to four pictures of yourself in your costume (and one sans costume – you must have an out of costume picture of yourself) to us by October 21, 2010. Make sure you include your name, address, and the character you are supposed to be (please, no made up characters). The Major Spoilers crew, will narrow the list to five contestants, and readers will then vote on their favorite. The winner will be announced October 31st.

Send your pictures to contest@majorspoilers.com

Last year, we had a huge turnout from readers around the world. Let’s make this year even better than the last! Get your entries in early!

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Marvel 1602

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, we’re taking a trip back to the year 1602 to take a look at the Marvel that might have been.

Marvel 1602

The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with the destruction of their world by a mysterious force, the heroes must fight to save their universe. Many of the early Marvel superheroes — Captain America, Nick Fury, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man — as well as villains such as Doctor Doom and Magneto appear in various roles.

As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

Here’s your chance to be heard on the show! Give us your thoughts on this book, or if you want to share your thoughts on the state of the comic book industry, or anything else that might be on your mind drop us a line. Only the most awesome comments (positive and negative) make it on the show, so get your stuff to us right away!

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How often do you re-read your comics?

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Here at Major Spoilers we like reading comics, and we know you do, too.  But how often do you re-read the issues you pick up at the store?  For me, I usually end up reading most of my issues twice – once for fun, once for critique.  I know some people who don’t read their issues at all, and others who read a book until it falls apart in their hands.

I’m working on something at the moment and could use some feedback from The Legion of Major Spoilerites.

On average, how many times do you read a single issue of a comic book

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