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On the next Major Spoilers Podcast: Creature Tech

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, your hosts take a look at Creature Tech by Doug TenNapel.

The book tells of the adventures of Dr. Michael Ong, a paranormal scientist and former seminarian, who is given a head researcher’s position at an Area 51-esque laboratory in Turlock, California called Research Technical Institute. In exchange for granting the government the lease to build the facility, the City of Turlock demanded that it be staffed primarily by locals. Ong’s task is to open, catalog, and classify each of the hundreds of crates in the facility’s warehouse. Many of the artifacts found inside are proven to be highly dangerous and thoroughly insane…Russian teleporter technology, aliens, mutants, even a were-pig.

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REVIEW: The James Bond Omnibus 002

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There are few disadvantages to living in the United States, one of them is the lack of access to European comics. During the 1950s and continuing until the 1980s, British newspapers ran syndicated adaptations of Ian Flemings James Bond tales. Those strips have been collected in single volumes, and now Titan Books is collecting those into giant volumes.

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ON THE NEXT MAJOR SPOILERS PODCAST: Animal Man Volume 1

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Matthew, Rodrigo, and Stephen sit down to discuss Grant Morrison’s Animal Man.

From Grant Morrison, creator of The Invisibles and writer of New X-Men and JLA, comes a classic tale of a man whose struggle to save human lives becomes something more…Buddy Baker is Animal Man, able to take on the characteristics of any creature he touches. After some time away from high-profile heroics, he decides to get back into costume – much to the chagrin of his wife and son – and is soon involved in a series of dangerous and exciting adventures. But Buddy has some decisions to make, and some shocks to come; because for the first time, he’s listening to the animals. And he doesn’t like what he’s hearing… –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Major Spoilers Podcast #285: He’s a Giant Chicken!

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My Cock is Bigger than Your Cock (it's a chicken joke, you pervs)

This week on the show: Chickens that talk, elephants that get it on, and time traveling tales 15 years after the fact.

 

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Maus II: And here my troubles began

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew pick up the second volume of Maus by Art Spiegelman.

From Library Journal

Spiegelman’s Maus, A Survivor’s Tale (Pantheon, 1987) was a breakthrough, a comic book that gained widespread mainstream attention. The primary story of that book and of this sequel is the experience of Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, a Polish Jew who survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany during World War II. This story is framed by Spiegelman’s getting the story from Vladek, which is in turn framed by Spiegelman’s working on the book after his father’s death and suffering the attendant anxiety and guilt, the ambivalence over the success of the first volume, and the difficulties of his “funny-animal” metaphor. (In both books, he draws the char acters as anthropomorphic animals– Jews are mice, Poles pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs, and French frogs.) The interconnections and complex characterizations are engrossing, as are the vivid personal accounts of living in the camps. Maus and Maus . . . II are two of the most important works of comic art ever published.

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Darkwing Duck: Crisis on Infinite Darkwings trade arrives in April

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If you’ve been listening to the Major Spoilers Podcast, then you know Rodrigo has really liked the Crisis on Infinite Darkwings story arc playing out in Boom! Studios’ Darkwing Duck line.  For those that missed out on the individual issues when they originally released, BOOM! Studios has you covered with the Darkwing Duck: Crisis on Infinite Darkwings trade paperback that arrives in April 2011.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: I Kill Giants

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew of three take a look at I Kill Giants from Image Comics.

It’s a story about a girl who’s a bit of an outsider – she’s smart-assed and funny, but totally in our geekland: she’s obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons, she doesn’t have a lot of friends, she’s a bit of a social misfit. She’s taken her fantasy life a little far, and really only talks about giants to people. She’s convinced that giants are real and giants are coming, and it’s her responsibility to stop them when they show up. This weird little fantasy life that she’s going has started seeping into her real life, and as we see things from her point of view, we see that she sees pixies and she sees signs in the clouds and other things that might be telling her that bad things might be coming.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast (277): Okko: The Cycle of Water

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew takes a look at Okko: The Cycle of Water from Archaia.

The Cycle of Water was originally published as a two-issue mini-series by Delcourt in 2005, and has been reprinted by Archaia Studios Press as a four-issue mini-series (2006–2007).

The year is 1108 in the official calendar of the Pajan Empire. Far from the fields of battle, Okko the ronin heads a small group of demon hunters, wandering the realms of Empire. He is accompanied by Noburo, a mysterious giant who hides his face behind a red oni mask, and the whimsical monk Noshin, the saké lover with the power to summon and commune with the spirits of nature.

The young fisherman Tikku enlists the group’s help in finding his sister, the geisha Little Carp, who was kidnapped by pirates. But the quest will have a price, and will lead our four heroes much farther afield than they’d ever imagined…

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Image Comics announces Skullkickers hardcover

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Press Release

Image Comics and Emerald City Comic Con announced that an exclusive hardcover edition of the SKULLKICKERS, VOL. 1 TP will be available at the upcoming Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. Writer Jim Zubkavich and artist Edwin Huang have been handily bashing the heads of readers with their own brand of dark comedic violence and high fantasy adventure in each issue of SKULLKICKERS, leading up to this collection of the series’ incredible first arc.

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Top Cow announces Artifacts Volume 1 trade

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Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that fans can catch up on 2010’s event series ARTIFACTS with the ARTIFACTS VOLUME 1 TRADE PAPERBACK, which collects the early issues as well as recently sold-out ARTIFACTS #4, out at the end of this month.

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HBO and IDW team for second True Blood comic series

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IDW Publishing and HBO are pleased to announce the next step for the mega-hit comic series TRUE BLOOD. After record breaking sales, the TRUE BLOOD comic book series continues in February 2011 with a brand new story. Actor Michael McMillian, who plays Fellowship of the Sun leader Reverend Steve Newlin, will co-author the all-new six-issue arc with fan-favorite writer Marc Andreyko. Also in February, IDW will launch the hardcover collection of its first TRUE BLOOD story arc, ALL TOGETHER NOW. This compilation of all six issues from the first series of the comics will also feature bonus content, including original sketches and a cover gallery.

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Flex Mentallo collection arrives in Fall 2011

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Vertigo has announced that Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo four-issue mini-series will get a collected trade in the Fall of 2011.

Flex Mentallo is a comic book character who first appeared in 1991 in issue #42 of Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol as a member of the audience for Danny the Street’s Perpetual Cabaret. Later in the storyline, Flex reveals that he is actually “The Man of Muscle Mystery”, and tidies his appearance. Flex is revealed to be not an entirely original creation, but rather a parody of the post-workout protagonist of Charles Atlas’ long-running “The Insult that made a Man out of Mac” advertisements seen in American comics from the past.

This will be the first time the issues have been collected, and unless you are a huge Doom Patrol fan, this may be the first time many have heard of the character.

via Vertigo