Happy B-Day: Cully and Ben

I made the image above in 2009. I forgot to post it that year. I forgot to post it last year too. But I’ll be damned if I let 2011 pass me by without wishing two of the best artists in modern comics a happy birthday.

Why don’t you celebrate these two gentlemen’s day of birth by listen to them talk… to The Fourth Wall? Click on the “Interviews” tab at the top of this page to find interviews with both of these titans of the comic industry.

- Freddie

The Fourth Wall Comics Podcast Episode 69

This week’s mainstream comics:

Detective Comics #859 [01:35]
Superman: Secret Origin #3 [07:03]
Green Lantern #48 + Blackest Night #5 [16:07]
Arkham Reborn #2 [27:06]
Dark Avengers: Ares #2 [30:02]
Fantastic Four #573 [33:54]
Incredible Hercules #138 [36:20]
Ms. Marvel #47 [38:57]
Uncanny X-Men #517 [40:10]
Ultimate Avengers #4 [40:35]

This week’ s independent comics:
The Goon #33 [42:56]
Beasts of Burden #3 [46:05]
Creepy Quarterly #2 [50:19]

This week’s trades [54:58]

ASTONISHING X-MEN TP VOL 05 GHOST BOX
CHEW TP VOL 01
INCOGNITO TP

Fourth Wall Weekly #39

As part of our many New Year’s Resolutions, we’re hoping to get the new podcasts out by Wednesday Night. Sooner even.

And just look at that there image!

COMICS

Mainstream Weekly:

MARVEL

Dark Reign:

[0:00:53] Punisher #1

• **The Big Book of the Week** Written by Rick Remender/Art by Jerome Opena

War of Kings:
[0:08:26] Secret Invasion: War Of Kings & War of Kings Saga

Regular Titles:

[0:11:19] Marvel Zombies 3 #4 (of 4)
[0:14:35] X-Men: Noir #2 (of 4)
[0:15:49] What If: Runaways Became the Young Avengers
[0:17:55] Sub-Mariner: The Depths #4 (of 5)

DC

Regular Titles:

[0:20:39] Black Lightning: Year One #1 (of 6)
[0:28:39] Detective Comics #852
[0:34:23] Faces of Evil: Solomon Grundy
[0:39:32] Secret Six #5

The Lightning Round:

[0:42:16] Vixen: Return Of The Lion #4 (of 5)
[0:44:04] Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The 8th Grade #2 (of 6)

Independents Day:

[0:47:29] Buffy The Vampire Slayer #21

• And if you can’t get enough of Harmony, check out her show exclusively at MySpace Dark Horse Presents: LINK

[0:55:23] Walking Dead #57
[0:56:15] Doktor Sleepless #11
[0:59:25] No Hero #3 (of 7)
[1:03:04] Sandman: Dream Hunters #3 (of 4)
[1:07:15] Rest #2

[1:11:22] House Of Mystery #9

• Click on the title to read “Gothic Romance”, the B-story by Bill Willingham & Bernie Wrightson

[1:13:20] Hexed #1 (of 4)

• Click on the title to read this issue for free. [Brought to you for free by BOOM! Studios & myspace/comicbooks]
• And if we didn’t convince you on the podcast, maybe this passionate YouTube video will. LINK [A short video by BOOM!'s Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid]
• And if you really enjoyed the words, check out Michael Alan Nelson’s (the writer’s) blog: MAN’s Machinery and read his free novel DINGO…you’ll be glad you did.

Trades Show:

[1:16:34] This Week’s Top Releases:

• Rasl TP Vol 1 Drift
• Walking Dead Vol. 9
• Secret Invasion TP

Next Time:

[1:22:27] What’s On Our Watch List For Next Week:

• ACTION COMICS #873
• BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #25
• BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CYLON WAR #1
• CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #9
• THE CLEANERS #2
• DMZ #38
• FABLES #80
• FINAL CRISIS #6
• GREEN LANTERN CORPS #32
• HOUSE OF MYSTERY TP VOL 01
• I KILL GIANTS #7
• INVINCIBLE #58
• NIGHTWING #152
• SIMON DARK #16
• THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #2
• X-MEN/SPIDER-MAN #3

MEDIA

DVD
In DVD This Week (0:01:16):

MAJOR RELEASES

• Pineapple Express
• The Wackness
• Righteous Kill
• Babylon A.D.
• Bangkok Dangerous
• Disaster Movie

TV on DVD

• Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl – Season One
• Dexter: The Complete First Season (Blu-Ray)

Also Released This Week (0:02:10):

• The Alphabet Killer

Other Reviews (0:15:16):

• Pineapple Express
• The Wackness

Next Week on DVD (23:13):

• APPALOOSA
• VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
• Director’s Cut of the Original MY BLOODY VALENTINE
• BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
• MIRRORS
• SWING VOTE
• MY BEST FRIEND’S GIRL
• TOKYO GORE POLICE

Commercial Break: Tentacle Grape -“It’s the most delicious hentai soda on the market.”

Grape Your Friends

GAMES

This Week in Games (25:35):

• Saints Row 2 PC
• Hotel for Dogs PC Wii DS PS2

FILM

In Theaters This Week (27:26):

• Bride Wars
• The Unborn

In Limited Release

• Not Easily Broken
• Yonkers Joe

Coming Soon To A Theater Near You:

• My Bloody Valentine
• Hotel for Dogs
• Notorious
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Movie News (31:42):

• George Romero’s latest zombie movie called Of the Dead
• New Poster Released for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Iron Man 2 Casting Update: Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell
• Simon Pegg & ‘ALIENATE’ Director Encourage Fans: DON’T BUY DVD
• Watchmen: Court Update
• DC/Warner Bros. Put Their Superheroes Films On Hold

TV

The News (47:50):

• “Dexter” marries his “sister”
• Showtime posts “United States of Tara” on YouTube
• Seth Rogen will star in a “Simpsons” episode he wrote himself
• Tom Welling is reportedly on board for Season 9 of “Smallville”
• ABC may be done airing “Pushing Daisies”
• Joss Whedon: It’s been tough hearing “Dollhouse’s” negative buzz

The Reviews (54:58):

• 13: Fear Is Real
• Scrubs
• Damages

What Art’s Looking Forward To This Month:

• Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi) Jan. 16
• United States of Tara (Showtime) Jan. 18
• Lie To Me (Fox) Jan. 21
• LOST (ABC) Jan. 21
• Burn Notice (USA) Jan. 22

Fourth Wall Interviews: Cully Hamner

Thanks to the great people over at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA for giving us (and by us, I mean Fred) a chance to chat with artist Cully Hamner.

Check it out the nearly five minutes of fun!

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Special thanks to the man, Mr. Hamner, himself for giving us even just a few moments of his time. We greatly appreciated it and we’d love to do it all over again.