Funnybook Babylon

Jon, Pedro, Chris, and Joe got together on Wednesday to discuss the current status of Marvel’s (not-so) Secret Invasion.
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend!

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 069 - Explicit Invasion [39:36m]

 

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With Pedro and Jamaal doing adult things, we brought in a ringer. Jon Bernhardt came up from Baltimore to chat about the first issue of Air, G. Willow Wilson & M.K. Perker’s new Vertigo ongoing.
Then, a surprise visitor arrived just in time for our discussion of Captain America #41 by Ed Brubaker & Steve Epting. […]

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 068 - Out of Nowhere... [62:10m]

 

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This is a bit when the mics were on during the pre-show rundown. Enjoy. The full show should be up later today. Contact your LCS that you want FBBP! Limited Run!

 

FBBP - #67 - PREVIEW [3:17m]

 

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I wanted to add my 2¢ to the current debate about “Comics Criticism” that David Brothers over at 4th Letter has already covered.
I believe that the creators repudiating critics haven’t experienced much actual criticism; they seem to be responding to reader mail and message board threads. To paint critics as message board posters is […]

Chris and I had a long chat this weekend detailing the impact of former Marvel Head Honcho: Bill Jemas.
It’s really quite likely that quite a few of you out there would not be reading comics today were it not for Jemas, so check this out. Chris brings us a wealth of info about the late […]

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 062 - The 9¢ Revival [78:45m]

 

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After the blockbuster Iron Man talk of episode 57, we return to the niche market of comics.
First up, we talk the Egyptian Comics Confiscationissue and the general lack of interest on the part of the blogalaxy.
Now, DC Decisions, there’s a story bloggers can sink their teeth into! Who will Superman vote for? Which senators […]

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 058 - Political Crossover

 

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My great discovery at the NYCC was that Archaia Studio Press is printing comics that aren’t just about adorable mice wandering in well drawn woods with swords. They have an incredible range of comics. Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard of a single one of them before the con. I picked up a few of their books, […]

Via this blog, Check it.
Nothing snaps you out of your own myopic view of things faster than a little story like this:
Magdy El-Shafie, author and cartoonist of The Metro, widely regarded as the first Egyptian graphic novel, last week received a summons to appear before the state prosecution service following the confiscation of his […]

 
Yeah, we are never doing a podcast like the last ones.

Batman can be nicer than you think and Pedro talks about the last issue of Checkmate. Archaia Studios Press attempts to steal our hearts from First Second. Jamaal discusses the merits of what has to be the best written collection of essays on the Legion […]

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 056 - No More Posse Cuts [81:55m]

 

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Found this in my Google reader today and it sparked a few things in my head about the whole blogiverse.
Darren DiLieto has been ripped off by some Hong Kong based publisher who has printed a bunch of copies of work that’s been on his website, and selling hard bound hardcovers for around $100 in various […]

The first thing I can tell you about the con, was it’s been a long day, I’ll have more coherent stuff about this on a future podcast or article when I’m not dozing off as I type this.
First thing I hit was a screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist“. I didn’t mind […]

This week we talk Criminal #2, The new Howard Zinn comic book, and Pedro comes clean about JSA. Chris got his hands on some preview copies of some Minx Books, and relates his experiences.
We also have a deeper conversation of the about the ign Geoff Johns interview, and I ask “Why should we care?” This […]

 

Funnybook Babylon - Episode 053 - Superman's Foreign Policy Regarding Tensions between Tehran and Kandor [108:18m]

 

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Here at Funnybook Babylon, we spend quite a bit of time railing against the idea of the android’s dungeon. Today I’m not feeling so good about it.
Gary Gygax died today, the man who created Dungeons and Dragons. I only mention it because once, long ago, my first conscious step into an American comic shop had […]

As someone who really digs a considerable amount of Warren Ellis’ published work (see Fell & Transmetropolitan) I was somewhat surprised to see that he was releasing a web comic called FreakAngels. I haven’t heard of any comic author going from the glitz and glamour of the publishing world to the wild west of online […]

The Marvel shareholder’s conference call was released today, and I decided to take a listen… As a lay person, this is what I gleaned from it:
1) The publishing division is less important (financially at least) than their toy/merchandising division.
2) Interactive is really taking a back burner because…
3) They are betting the farm on Marvel Film […]