Angie is absent, but has our best wishes. Derek talks about his history with indie comic books, while Bruce returns with Small Press Comic Book Noise.

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Host Derek Coward talks about a dangerous game that he thinks Marvel Comics is playing. Also he talks very briefly about the nonexistent sale of DC Comics, who should probably buy them and why.

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Derek Coward goes solo to review Tiny Life: l)a from Sliver Ltd.

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Host Derek Coward goes over audio feedback from David A Price and Peter Rios. Featuring the music of The Snarky Remarks.

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Host Derek Coward dusts off the Number One Comic Book Show with a look at DC Comics' Justice League Europe 1 from 1989.

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Have JG Jones and Paul Dini had their reputations hurt by Final Crisis and Countdown?

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No Bruce this week, but Angie and I talk about this month's Previews.

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I explain what happened with the Comic Book Noise forum, play a song that has nothing to do with what I was talking about, explain a comment I made on a previous episode and talk a little about Love and Rockets: The New Stories.

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No Derek or Angie again this week, but at least Derek explains why and makes a half hearted promise turning the show over to Bruce Rosenberger.

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I talk in-depth about my personal history with the Uncanny X-Men title, my thoughts on the past creators and storylines, my personal history with the work of Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Greg Land and Terry Dodson, and I give my review of Uncanny X-Men 501.

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I give the results for some of the polls running on the comicbooknoise.com website and talk a little about what I think they mean.

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No segment introductions from Derek this week, but Bruce is back talking about M.I.M.E.S and CGS: The End. Then Angie and Derek talk about a lot of things, but Derek lost the notes he took and all he can remember is that they talked about Tom Beland and True Story Swear To God, there was a lot of music played and at the end, Spit on a Stranger.

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I am joined by Damian Smith and Brian Matus from the Kryptographik podcast for the last episode in our look at Avatar Press's Black Summer by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp.

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I review The Stand Captain Trips 1 of 5.

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No Bruce this episode, but there is a special promo from Bill Jourdain. Angie and I do lot of talking and the show ends with Yell Fire.

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I started out talking about why I had to quit buying comic books and I end up giving a State of The Podcast Address.

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I respond to audio feedback from David A Price concerning Episode 123 - Trades.

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I spend some time with my stupid dog and talk about FriendFeed, gang warfare, Steve Isaacs and the best way to read certain comics books.

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Bruce Rosenberger returns with a look at the work of Jeremy Massie, Angie and Derek talk about apologies, Angie's Stuff It Sale haul, "Really? Why? Really? Where?", Nexus history, Burn Notice recommendation, Bubba Ho-Tep, Rick Remender, BTVS and Joss Whedon, Are the waits for late comics ever really worth it?, Angela ruins diets, Angela hates blondes, The return of Milestone, Musical Interlude, Batman: Joker's Asylum recommendation, The Boy Who Made Silence trade?, Young Liars recommendation, Gerry Alanguilan history, No Madman Atomic Comics for Angela, The Perhapanauts Vol 1 recommendation, What Derek is loving, Greatest American Hero, Freak Angels, Love and Capes recommendation, Spy School, The Odd Squad, American Jr.net, Black Terror, God The Dyslexic Dog, Rick Remender, What Angie Wanted To Talk About and Asobi Seksu.

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I am joined by Damian Smith and Brian Matus from Kryptographik as we discuss issue 6 of the Avatar Press miniseries Black Summer, created by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp. We also talk about Dilbert, Sarah Palin, mandatory voting and I play a random song by Nine Inch Nails for no good reason.

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No review this week but Angie and Derek talk about The death and return of Angie's laptop, keeping appointments at the Genius Bar, laptop woes, comicsaddiction.com, Stephen's birthday, The Kirkman Manifesto and The Bendis Response, Angela loves totebags, Supermarket Sweep with Derek and Patti, Internation Shipping for $7, cakespy.com, Meat Is Murder (but delicious), Review of Dock Walloper from Virgin Comics, Review of The Boy Who Made Silence from Markosia Comics, face punching, A Review of Screamland from Image Comics, Angie's YouTube Channel, foldable totes and Unbeatable from Razor Wolf Entertainment.

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I am joined by Damian Smith and Brian Matus from Kryptographik as we discuss issues 4 and 5 of the Avatar Press miniseries Black Summer, created by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp. We also talk about name pronounciation, coloring, jabbering while fighting, the Resident Evil movies, adaptation worthiness, child violence, ad placement, the physics of superspeed in relation to stationary objects, classes taken in high school, overseas perception of The US Constitution and the Illuminati.

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I am once again joined by Damian and Brian from Kryptographik in taking a look at Black Summer issues 2 and 3, created by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, published by Avatar Press. We also talk about collecting multiple covers, separating cinematic storytelling from movie pitch comics, realistic body types in comics and why big breasted women aren?t necessarily unbelievable.

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I talk about some recent controversies surrounding opposing manifestos, debates about creators and critics and I admit that I was wrong about something pretty big.

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No Bruce this week, but we call in Heath Holland from the Geek Brunch podcast to pinch-hit with a preview of Atomic Robo: The Dogs of War 1 from Red 5 Comics. Then Angie and I start talking about San Diego, Mary Jane, Recipe of the day?, Obligatory Fuzzy Typewriter mention, Foodie blogs vs Comic Book blogs, TMZ for comics, Garbage causes Alzheimer's?, People who Angie met, Klum or McDonald, The worst part about Angie's new job, Angie's first pull list, No Grab Bag for Angie, What Derek Got, Angie's DCBS stuff, What Is The New York Four? (SPOILERS), What Is The Water Baby? (SPOILERS), "Is it called homosexuality when it is two girls?", Jamie McElvie's Wonder Woman, Apple Technical Support, The Secret Origins of Angie's laptop, "Who says I don't like Grant Morrison?", Missing Trades, How Angie Got Her Job, Imagecomics.com, The Boy Who Made Silence from the publisher's site, www.perhapanauts.com, Liquidating rude artists and Chocolate Truffles with dark chocolate powder.

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I am joined by Brian Matus and Damian Smith for a look at the first two issues of Black Summer from Avatar Press.

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I talk about where I have been, where I am now and where I am going. Oh and the name I couldn't remember was Trenchcoat Mafia.

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We're joined by Derek Coward, they guy who makes a lot of Noise, for a discussion on fat Slave Leias, Savage Dragon, television shows that our cousin sent us from other countries, the merits of Peter Berg, and The Dark Knight movie. Featuring the song "Staring at the Sun" by TV On the Radio, as found on the podsafe music network.

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No Bruce, Introduction, Turning on TV, thecomicaddiction.com woes, Unemployment Stories, The Dark Knight review, Hancock review, Tribute to Geek Brunch, Is podcasting failing?, Watching cartoons with the kids, America's Most Top Model, Comic book talk, Watchmen trailer talk, Movies wrap up, The Worst Comic Book Derek Ever Read, American Flagg!, Fuzzy Typewriter, No skits, Crankcast, Telephones, iPod Touch, Goodbye

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I respond to audio feedback left by Bruce Rosenberger, Damian Smith and David A Price.

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In this week's segment of Small Press Comic Book Noise, Bruce talks about Juan Ortiz and Silver Comics. As for the rest of the show: Stimulus checks, Skype = terrorists?, silver lined clouds, thecomicaddiction.com, link farms and domain kiting, the history of boxxonline.com, budget for comics, Angie's quandary, Should Angie read Godland, Deliberate Noise 104: The short music-less version, Flat tire soliloquy and why I need to record everything, This week's releases, David A Price, Angela Paman and Stephen Coward, The work of Alan Moore, Remembering Inferno, What Angie WANTED to talk about, What to get out of San Diego, First Light from DCBS, Hellboy II: The Golden Army review, http://forum.deliberatenoise.com, http://forum.comicbooknoise.com, http://www.thecomicforums.com, 206-984-1993

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Talk about the weather, $1 trades, bag things about Bruce Jones, Days Like This, Dioramas: A Love Story, Lost At Sea, New X-Men Vol 5, Contrary Coward talks about Books of the Month, What I got last week, What Angie got last week, Our weekends, Hancock review, Starbucks vs Dunkin Donuts, Going to Canada, Social Network overload, No Dunkin Donuts in California until 2010, Shownotes, Countdown/Final Crisis rant, Lateness vs consistent art, Hilarity ensues, My hope for Final Crisis, Angela's grandkids, Awkwardness ensues, What Angie's getting, Conan had a comic book?, Regarding Henry: The Further Adventures, Well I thought it was funny, Free Pints for Alan Moore, Hellblazer, Love for Andy Diggle, David not Dave or Davey and Calling it a show.

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In this special Independence Day episode, I give my top five favorite Star Spangled heroes and I put in a plug for my friend Carlos Weiser.

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No Bruce this week means no Small Press Spotlight this week, but Derek and Angie make up for it by talking about a lot of stuff. Fuzzy Typewriter, Ayre Force, David's NYComicon plans, REVIEW: Eye Of The Storm, A CHUD-Free place, 5 minute comics, Something new that bugs me, Evaluating lazy artwork, The origin of The Number One Comic Book Show, REVIEW: Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1, Cameo by Stephen, "Is Naruto an anime", REVIEW: Wanted, Looking for Locke and Key, Michael Turner is dead, A kiss is blown, Hypocrisy when dealing with death, Cranky old 30, Free plug, Wuthering Heights is a love story?, Why does a Californian need an umbrella?, The End of The End League, Hardcovers are not trades, The solicitation for Vinyl Underground 12, Teen Titans: Year One and the connection to podcasting, No Question For Derek, Inappropriate Batman sighting, "Comics that came out four times a year?", The Ethan Van Sciver Is A Nice Guy Society, Derek earns another punch in the throat, 40 pages for 2.50, comicBOOKdb.com, The W word, Random people earn punches in the throat, Madame Xanadu has beautiful arwork, Page 132 is Back To Brooklyn, My favorite Youngblood, Explaining Rob Liefeld, My all-time favorite artists, Angie is speechless and mind-blown, "Rob Liefeld is the Jack Kirby of our age", Art or story?, Guess which of us is a big fan of Heroes, Jim Lee more rare than Alex Ross, Cringeworthy pricing, I still don't like wacky, Another plug for The Perhapanauts, Three of the best books in comics today, A reference to an unheard conversation about Charles Schultz, Derek wants The Stand while Angie wants Marvel Previews, Dark Tower Crap, Two stories that I will pick up in any format, Age of Bronze is better than Marvel's The Iliad, What's the difference between a bobblehead and a headknocker?, Halloween costumes should be lethal, Another reason why I thank God I was born a man, We talk about shoes (no kidding), Angie's busy schedule, Food allergies and Chip Mates are not exactly Chips Ahoy but they still taste good

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I try in vain to remember my first comic book and instead start rambling about being a drunk, porno shops, Don Heck, LSH weddings, comics that I have bought more than once, favorite super villains, comic book fans getting pissed on, Heath Ledger's Oscar hopes, an update on the comics giveaway, I ask for feedback and I insult Watchmen a little.

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I begin the show by saying I think there are too many comic books. You can only guess where the show goes from there.

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I give advice to publishers who are redefining their universes and mention a new podcast.

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