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The Walking Dead ftw.

Evans, mail me your paycheck, thanks.

Great work! Reminds me of 3-minute expert. I bet it took you a long time to piece it together. If I make time I'll check out your other vids.

I'm a big fan of this generation's Batwoman. I picked up comics again with the start of the New 52. I read the TPB "Elegy" by Rucka and Williams, but I've wanted more. Since then I've pretty much tracked down everything by Rucka related to Batwoman which has in turn turned me on to Renee Montoya as "The Question". Essentially the only thing I haven't read about is when Kate Kane gets stabbed in the heart by the Religion of Crime...in falling down this rabbit hole to "get the whole story" I've decided that my next reading project will be to read the 4 collected volumes of the series "52". The reviews seem to be very positive from Amazon compared to other universe events. I also like the idea that these two favorite characters of mine as well as other B,C,D-list characters are the focus of this long tale.

Question: Briefly, what do I need to know about the events that occurred before "52" before reading the four trades? At a certain point, I just need a couple of comic whizzes to just explain something in short form. All I know is that Superman, Batman, and Wonderwoman are missing/absent.

I'm a new reader to the DC Universe, joining last september during the New 52. Of those books, Batwoman, Batman, Swamp Thing, and Animal Man are the only ones I've found worthwhile.

I've loved Batwoman, so much so that I went and picked up Elegy. It's made me want to go get the TPB of Chase. I bought a couple of backissues of Manhunter just to see what the DEO cameo was like.

As a new reader, I tried to dig into Bette's backstory because I think all of the characters in Rucka and up to Williams/Blackman's Batwoman are worth delving into. I want to know more about Kyle Abbott the werewolf, I bought the 5 issue Rucka miniseries about the Crime Bible. I want to know more about Kate's relationship with Renee, etc.

As far as Bette? I thought the issue were she was training as a "plebe" was totally bad ass. Dressed in a grey jump suit, cracking skulls against the pool hall gang. It was awesome. I think the idea of a female mentor and female trainee is great and hasn't been explored much. Bette mentions that she has been a teen titan that she has fought deathstroke, etc. But for me, there is still just enough mystery to want to see more of her. I only know about her Robin fangirl-dom through internet wikis. I've been looking all day to see where I should go to read more about her but I think I am just going to let the story play forward. I think Williams'/Blackman will find a strong role for her in this series.

Between, Batwoman's dad, Bette, Kyle Abbot...I think the Batwoman book is establishing for itself a pretty interesting family outside of the mainstream batfamily of characters.

You have a well-thought out post here with some well-written ideas, Rabioso. Kudos.

Y the Last Man

Ex Machina

Fables

I hope Batman is in this game.

stuff is cool

Oh man, so once I drop this book I'll be down to just Ult. Spiderman as far as marvel books.

edit: Honestly, Winter Soldier 1 intrigued me enough to go read Brubaker's entire Captain America run. I freaking love the Winter Soldier. So much potential. But I'm happy that Brubaker is able to make his own books now.

Thanks for doing the weekly podcasts. I usually listen to your podcasts during yardwork.

Anyways, you guys usually focus on the STORIES and sometimes on the WRITING behind comics. Typically, you guys talk about everything cover to cover. But you don't really talk about COLLECTING comics and what that entails.

What do you guys do with the overflow of comics filling up your living rooms, etc? Where do you store this crap? Do you get a TPB to replace the issues? Throw the issues out? Sell them?

With video games there are numerous options for actually getting some of your investment back (amazon credit, trading sites, ebay), but I don't know what to do with comics I'm not going to read any more.

Corey: feel free in the future to talk about the retail side of comics. I find it very interesting, hopefully others do too.

Want to give a shout out to my local comics shop "Austin Books and Comics". Great store.