In which I am probably a little unfair to Peter Milligan. I’m finding it difficult to take certain kinds of corporate comics seriously, no matter who the creators involved happen to be.

We talk about Umbrella Academy.

Chris and Pedro snark about the long-awaited end of Planetary. It’s taken a very long time for Messrs. Ellis and Cassady to publish 28 issues, 27 of which are quite good (haven’t read the final issue yet).

We discuss Give Me Liberty, the first of the Martha Washington graphic novels by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons.

Our obligatory Dark Reign discussion. We try to frame it by talking about the character of Norman Osborn, and the different perspectives that Marvel writers have taken on his rise to power. Is he an authoritarian jerk or a potentially genocidal maniac? You decide.

Pedro reviews Daredevil: The List David reviews Dark Avengers I review Moon Knight.

We’re still refining this, but I think we’ve done pretty good here.

We discuss Disney’s takeover of Marvel, and Marvel’s Strange Tales anthology featuring work by ‘independent’ creators. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have talked about the former at all.

We find a meta way of discussing the San Diego ComicCon and Marvel’s Marvelman announcement.

Don’t ever read any of the comics reviewed in this podcast.

Chris Eckert reviews the fifteen strips in the first issue of Wednesday Comics in Twitter format. Go Read It. It’ll only take a minute.