iFanboy: Don't Miss #103 - Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1

06/04/12 • 34 min

iFanboy: Don't Miss - Comic Books Podcast

One of the most controversial comic events starts this week with the release of Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 by Darwyn Cooke. In an extended interview, we spoke with Darwyn Cooke, cartoonist on Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 about what it was like to take on one of the biggest projects of the year and what we can expect from this first chapter in the event. We also talk about his collaboration with Amanda Conner on Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre and what we can look forward to from the next graphic novel in the Parker series, The Score. Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 By Darwyn Cooke $3.99 DC Comics Music: “This Ain’t No Picnic” Minutemen

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iFanboy: Don't Miss #102 - Grim Leaper #1 with Kurtis J. Wiebe

If he’d first seen Ella at any other point in his history, Lou’s pulse would’ve been racing. Unfortunately, Lou doesn’t really have one of those anymore. Not one of his own, anyway. See, Lou’s dead. But that doesn’t mean he’s not kicking. That’s because our intrepid hero is playing a game of Scott Bakula with the mortal coil. Lou Collins is a Grim Leaper. This week, we sit down with the writer of Green Wake and Peter Panzerfaust to learn more about romance and rigor mortis in his latest mini-series from Image Comics. Grim Leaper #1 By Kurtis J. Wiebe Art by Aluis Santos $3.50 Image Comics Music: “I Want to Be Buried in Your Backyard” Nightmare of You

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iFanboy: Don't Miss #105- Get Jiro! with Joel Rose

Anthony Bourdain is well known in the food world, first for his years a chef in New York City, then as an author of books like Kitchen Confidential, and then as a TV host on the show No Reservations, but now Bourdain joins Joel Rose in writing the graphic novel Get Jiro! with art by Langdon Foss. Set in the near future in Los Angeles, the world has we know it is shot to hell. Everything is broken down, save for one thing: Food. The new economy and celebrity is built around food and warring factions of corporate dining vs. vegans wage war while a sole hero and sushi chef stands in the middle. We chat with co-writer Joel Rose about the origins of the graphic novel and what it was like to bring it all together as Bourdain and Rose craft an amazing world that comes to life thanks to Langdon Foss. It will have you forever questioning ordering that California Roll. Get Jiro! Written by Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose Art by Langdon Foss 160 pages/$24.99 Vertigo/DC Comics Music: “With or Without U2′′ Jawbreaker