The Quad

Plop! Here’s another episode of the Distinguished Comic Book Podcast dropped in your ear hole! The lads blather about bat conspiracies, waitin’ a while for title characters to appear in their own book, being your own book,  Ben touches base with Frank Miller’s Daredevil run,  Buddy Baker’s family life, goat men that will escort you through the underworld, and that’s it! Chip chip! 1. Batman (DC) 2. Swamp Thing (DC) 3. Frank Miller’s Daredevil (Marvel) 4. Animal Man (DC) 5. A little bit about Buddy Bradley, Double Barrel, Heck, ComiXology and more Music: Chuck Ragan – California Burritos Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com MysterySolvedComic.com BenjaminTiede.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.com SummitCityInk.blogspot.com NedWeinerman.com

Destroying your ear muscles one word at a time, Ben and Zack are back with a new episode of the Distinguished Comic Book Podcast! The lads talk about ritual murder and beautifully written brutal violence, Zack is haunted by Judge Holden, Ben rediscovers Grant Morrison’s caped crusader tales, they chat about tiny dinosaur bullies, the mystery of the fifth Beatle is unveiled, they discuss mind burglars and the bureaucracy they have to deal with, and much, much more! Chip chip! Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)Batman, Batman & Robin, Batman, Inc. (DC)Gon volume 1 (Kondasha Comics)Baby’s in Black (:01 First Second)Mind MGMT (Dark Horse) Music: The Beatles – Baby’s in Black             Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com SummitCityComicCon.comDCBPodcast.blogspot.com MysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comComixNonsense.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

WHU-HUT! Aw yeah, busy schedules be danged! Ben and Zack have a brand new episode of the show ready for you just two days before the 2012 Summit City Comic Con and it’s because they love you very, very much. As the boy get wound up for Summit City Con they talk about a true American hero and Cleveland’s greatest curmudgeon, post-apocalyptic barbarians in America that drive Honda Civics, the awful mess that occurs when you don’t make sacrifices to wolf gods, learning hard lessons about not pissing off wolf mothers, the rot, pterodactyl onion skins, moon bears, unsettling children’s comics, confusion over potentially Norwegian names, great horror comics from Dark Horse, sadness is funny when it’s in the Van Houten house,  new John Prophet, a serious Tick centennial,   Chip chip! Cleveland (Top Shelf)American Barbarian (AdHouse)Night of 1,000 Wolves #1 (IDW)Animal Man (DC)Pterodactyl Hunters in the Guilded City (Top Shelf)Abominable Charles Christopher (abominable.cc)Amulet (Scholastic/Graphix)Ragemoor (Dark Horse)Bart Simpon’s Pal Milhouse (Bongo)Prophet #24 (Image)The Tick #100 (New England Comics) Music: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Modsquadrophenia             Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com SummitCityComicCon.comDCBPodcast.blogspot.com MysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comComixNonsense.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.com

Ben and Zack are joined by Matt Gross and Andy Tom as they recap this year’s C2E2 adventure and the fun times that were had! Huzzah! Listen as they talk about their trip! Marvel as Andy gets needlessly impatient! (to be fair, he was pretty tired) Laugh at Matt’s jokes! Then they talk about drunk guys on trains, trips to Challengers, bringing in your own gin, getting original art from legends and soon to be legends, convention finds and buys, good friends, good food, and a great time! Chip chip! Music: Frank Sinatra – My Kind of Town            Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse, @MattyLeeGross, @AndrewJTom E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com SummitCityComicCon.comDCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

WHUT? It hasn’t been two weeks, but Ben and Zack have a brand new episode of the show ready for you because they love you so very, very much. As the boys get ready for the 2012 C2E2 adventure, they take some time out to talk to you about the most horrifying holiday monster of all time and the coming rabbit apocalypse, well colored worms, GLORY!, the pros and cons of how characters are presented (maybe some are too sexy?), the best barbarian book in a while, Becky Cloonan is sooooooooo good, escaping from magic burlap sacks, ram horned men marryin’ dragon winged ladies, C2E2 plans, how you can get free passes for the Summit City Comic Con, and so much more!  Chip chip! Hellboy & BPRD (Dark Horse)Glory #24 (Image)Conan the Barbarian #2 (Dark Horse)Adventure Time (kaboom)Saga (Image) Music: Fishbone – Shakey Ground            Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com SummitCityComicCon.comDCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

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HEY! It’s comic book time! This episode listen Ben and Zack talk more about Preachers and boys from Hell, Harry Potter analogs, the sadness that is Mr. Jeppard, Cormac McCarthy, the Allen County Public Library, Lynda Barry, sadness meals eaten by people who need hugs, angst that perpetuates through the ages, a little bit of a let down and fun!  Chip chip! Preacher (Vertigo)Hellboy Library Edition volume 2 (Dark Horse)The Unwritten (Vertigo)Sweet Tooth (Vertigo)Everything (Drawn & Quarterly)Life With Mr. Dangerous (Villard)Buddy Does Seattle (Fantagraphics)The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec volume 1 (Fantagraphics) Music: Nick Cave – Nutted by Reality            Beastie Boys – The Lisa, Lisa Full Force Routine             Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com SummitCityComicCon.comDCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

FLARGAN! It’s podcast time fools! Hear two good pals talk about the comics that they read. It’s a real fun time. Bring the kids.  In this episode, Ben and Zack talk about Preachers, well written Wonder Woman analogs, World War II adventures, Tom Waits (or waits?) on the moon, supernatural crime noir horror, Becky Cloonan and Dave Stewart kill on Conan, and John Prophet is the honey badger of time travelers…he don’t care. The boys cover all of that and more along with listener e-mails! Chip chip! Preacher (Vertigo)Glory #23 (Image)Peter Panzerfaust (Image)Athos in America (Fantagraphics)Fatale #1-2 (Image)Conan the Barbarian #1 (Dark Horse)Prophet #21 (Image) Music: Junior Walker & The All Stars – Shotgun            Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com SummitCityComicCon.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

So. We had a little bit of trouble with Skype and internet connections, but we made it work because we love you! In this episode we drive deep into post apocalyptic Canada (in a collected edition!), pre-teen mall parties (you know, the kind where the kids have a summertime romance and have pie fights and stuff), them crazy indie comix, horrific violence on Mining Colony X7170, oooh heaven is a place at the center of the earth, men who dress like bats and are beautifully drawn, existential despair in Gumby’s neighborhood, Gumby goes to Hell…no, really! Once we get through all of that neat stuff we, and the Ben Tiede Doll, answer listener questions! Chip Chip! Sweet Tooth (Vertigo)Kramers Ergot 8 (PictureBox)Batman #1-5 (DC)Gumby’s Spring [Art Adams] Specials (Gumby Comics) Music: Blind Melon – Skinned            Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com SummitCityComicCon.comComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

WHUUUUUUT?! It’s DCB Podcast time fools! Ben briefly mentions Frank Miller’s Daredevil, then we talk about space rabbits, Macaulay Culkin, awkwardly approaching Michael Golden, Danzig, children who won’t go to bed, triceratopses fighting sharks, hippos with go-rilla heads!, Communism in the New Frontier,  dudes whose bodies turn into molten metal and have the strength of an ox team, and killin’ evil dads of good children. Chip Chip! Frank Miller’s Daredevil (Marvel)Bucky O’Hare (Vanguard)Kona #3 (Dell)New Frontier (DC)Man o’ Metal in Reg’lar Fellers’ Heroic Comics (Eastern Color Printing [home of Max Gaines!])Two Generals (McClelland & Stewart) Music: Das Racist – Rainbow in the Dark            Das Racist – Booty in the Air Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityComicCon.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.com

In this meandering episode, we get deep. Real deep. But first we talk about children, the Unwritten, Mike Kupperman’s genius, Jason, Dan Nadel’s Art in Time, Lapham-pires, Del Toro, crappy Hemmingway jokes, genetically manufactured spacemen, the function of comic book story telling, mud powered teenagers, mind boggling comics, Zoroastrianism, and fun! Chip Chip! The Strain (Dark Horse)Spaceman (Vertigo/DC)Mudman (Image)Forming (Nobrow Press/http://jessemoynihan.com/) Music: The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityComicCon.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

DARE! You hold the future in your hands! It’s time to take a stand! You can win if you dare! It’s the end of the year and we’re wrappin’ it up in style…we’ve been doing this show for a whole year. What? Why? AAANNNNNYway, we figure out the ins and outs of marshmallow buying, Tezuka!, reading habits and our to-read piles, Ben drops sadness-bombs, the new volume of  Conan, Skynet in Detroit, Frank Miller’s Batbooks, a long lost Jim Henson script, some of our favorite titles of the year, production values in collected editions, various jibber jabber, and Andy Tom! Chip Chip! Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight (Vertical)Robocop v. Terminator (Dark Horse)A Tale of Sand (Archaia) EOCAnthology.blogspot.com Music: Stan Bush - Dare Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse, @AndrewJTom E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityComicCon.comBenjaminTiede.blogspot.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comNedWeinerman.com

Modest audio trouble be damned! We’ve got an awesome guest with us in the great and wonderful Shawn Pryor from Action Lab Comics and the PKD Black Box podcast. Shawn is not only a great friend and a great guy, he’s the man with the plan at Action Lab and he’s gonna tell us all about it. Then we talk about all kinds of great stuff, including: how much we miss Bronze Age storytelling, a little bit of inside baseball, talkin’ about philistines, Roy Lichtenstein, the importance of cake, Bill Cosby, Alfredo Alcala, Bob Kanigher, anthologies, comic book movies, Comic Book Comics, Blacksad, The Centurians, Don Heck, West Coast Avengers, Bob Hall, and lots and lots more! ACTION LAB COMICS: http://www.actionlabcomics.comPKD MEDIA BLACK BOX: http://www.hhwlod.com/pkd-media-black-box/blog@PKDMedia Music: INTRO – Bad Religion – Best For You           OUTRO – The Urge – Liar, Liar Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comSummitCityComicCon.comNedWeinerman.com

Chewing on food loudly! Just in time for Thanksgiving Ben and Zack are here with a brand new episode for you! That’s right, you! The boys find out who Jake Ellis is, talk about the peculiarities of the elderly, The King, prostitution: Canadian Style, child-wolves, and more!  Chip! Chip!  1.            Who Is Jake Ellis?  (Image)2.            Special Exits (Fantagraphics)3.            The Comics Journal Library: Jack Kriby (Fantagraphics)4.            Paying For It (Drawn & Quarterly)5.            Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August  (Dark Horse) Music: Sleigh Bells – Tell 'Em Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comSummitCityComicCon.comNedWeinerman.com

After wrapping up what how they spent their Halloweens, the boys discuss the indomitable Steve Ditko (there ain't nobody better), then they talk about terrific all-ages graphic novel series, and death guns.  Chip! Chip! 1.            Mega Man (Archie)2.            Horror comics from Charlton, EC, Warren and beyond3.            Unexplored Worlds: The Steve Ditko Archives vol. II (Fantagraphics)4.            Amulet (Scholastic Graphix)5.            Death-Ray (Drawn & Quarterly) Music: Mike Ness – Misery Loves Company           Alan Moore – Mr. A Twitter: @BenTiede, @ZackKruse E-mail: DCBPodcast@gmail.com DCBPodcast.blogspot.com ComixNonsense.blogspot.comMysterySolvedComic.comSummitCityInk.blogspot.comSummitCityComicCon.comNedWeinerman.com