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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 12 – Week of May 1st, 2011

In this overdue episode of the MCB, Ed is joined by Jim Beard.

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* Free Comic Book Day (which happened the first Saturday of May)

* Elric: The Balance Lost

* companies losing licensed properties

* Marvelman

* Boom! Studios

* Behold the Man – Michael Moorcock

* Chris Roberson

* Cinderella – super-spy

* Locke & Key

* IDW Publishing

* Walter Simonson’s Thor

 

 

* Fantagraphics [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 11 – Week of Mar 29th, 2011

In this horror filled edition of the Monarch Comics Briefing Ed is joined by Trevor Chapman.

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* Neonomicon

* H.P. Lovecraft

* Sex and Lovecraft

* The Courtyard

* non-linear time / non-euclidian math

* Nyarlathotep

* beyond good and evil / amorality

* Crossed: Psychopath

* Crossed

* Crossed: Family Values

* Horror vs Humor

* Fear Itself #0 – Book of the Skull

* Marvel Events

* [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 10 – Week of Mar 12th, 2011

Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 09 – Week of Mar 12th, 2011

In this In Medias Res edition of the Monarch Comics Briefing Ed is joined by Andy Howell. (The first 5 mins of the original recording was parsed due to technical issues with the sound quality, and there are several points where there is [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 09 – Week of Feb 6th, 2011

In this trudging through the snow edition of the Monarch Comics Briefing Ed is joined by Trevor Chapman.

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* Buffy Season 8 finale

* Angel (IDW to Dark Horse)

* Diamond direct vs Diamond distribution

* Borders vs Diamond

* Uncanny x-Force

* Nature vs Nurture

* Should X-men kill?

* comic-pocalypse

* Ed’s New Year’s Resolution — update

* too many titles?

* Batman & [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 08 – Week of Jan 17th, 2011

In this noise to signal ratio edition of the Monarch Comics Briefing Ed is joined by Jeff Greiner.

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* $2.99 vs $3.99 price points

* Brightest Day / Green Lantern

* Justice League – Generation Lost

* Wonder Woman

* Captain Atom

* Brightest Day

* Justice League of America

* New Gods / Granny Goodness

* Superman/Batman – Apocalypse

* Jeff Loeb

* Bruce Wayne [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 07 – Week of Dec 9th, 2010

For this the super sized holiday specatuclar episode of Monarch Comics Briefing, Ed is joined by that crazy canucklehead Trevor Chapman.

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* Silence of the Lambs

* Tron: The Betrayal

* de-aging actors / licensing actor likenesses

* Kinect ‘pron’

* Doom 2099

* Warren Ellis

* Excalibur

* Psylocke

* Batman Inc.

* Hentai / Tentacle Porn

* Crying Freeman

<<<SPOILER ALERT – 31:26>>>

* Buffy the [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 06 – Week of Dec 5th, 2010

Again this week, Ed is joined by his ‘favourite’ guest, Jim Beard.

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* Mail bag – ‘Where does one start with ‘collecting’ comics?’ — Wesley Cole

                – start with genre

                – collecting vs speculation

                – American comics vs Japanese manga

                – the comic book ‘stigma’

                – “you can’t go home again” / nostalgia is better

                – [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 05 – Week of Nov 7th, 2010

This episode our astute host Ed Katche is joined by Andy MacLean and Heath Huber for a lively discussion of X-Men comics and their periphery.

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* X-Titles

     – X-men
     – vampires vs X-men
     – Rahne’s pregnancy
     – X-Factor
     – Peter David
     – Uncanny X-Force
     – New Mutants
     – Inferno
     – Second Coming
     – X-titles in general
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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 04 – Week of Oct 22nd, 2010

Again this week, Ed is joined by our Canadian ‘bud’ Trevor Chapman.

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* Happy Birthday Natalie Chapman!

* Monarch Comics Weekly Newsletter

* Batman XXX vs BatFXXX: A Porn Parody

* Bleedingcool website

* Julie Taymor’s The Tempest

* Buffy the Vampire Slayer final story arc

* Batman & Robin Grant Morrison’s last arc

* Return of Bruce Wayne

* Batman Inc.

* Iron Man [...]

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Monarch Comic Briefing – Vol 5 Ep 03 – Week of Sept 12th, 2010

This episode Ed Katche is joined by his Canadian co-conspirator, Trevor Chapman.

Topics Discussed

* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Riley One Shot
- Angel returning to Dark Horse
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Buffyverse at Dark Horse

* X-titles
- X-men (new series)
- Uncanny X-Force
- X-Force: Sex & Violence

* Carnage
* Clayton Crain
* X-men Forever/ 90′s X-men
* Comic luminaries – art vs personality
* [...]

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