This week on The Watchtower, you won’t hear a lot of something. Namely, Jeff.
That’s right, Jeff lost his voice so we called in a more than capable pinch hitter: Katherine Curtis of Naked News!
Donnie and The Naked Nerd go one-on-one and explore the Female comics market. Marvel is making a huge push towards this untapped territory with titles like Girl Comics, Her-Oes, and Heralds. But is it enough to draw in the new readers? Or just pandering?
Next, Son-of-Gene Nick Simmons is in some hot water over allegations that he copied popular manga Bleach in his debut title for Radical, Incarnate. Is this stealing 101, or just part of the business of comics?
Also, is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? Teasers have been all over the net for yet another Avengers title. Also, a 4th Green Lantern title in the works, Web of Spider-Man recently rejoined spidey’s titles. Can Teams/Characters really sustain so many books (cough* Deadpool) and make it worthwhile for the fans? Is it too much? Or are they stretching these characters too thin?
All this and of course, The Forecast, Questy’s Rant Farm and Katherine even holds her own on soundFX duties!!
11:59 am on March 4th, 2010
Judging from his twitter comments I’m fairly certain that Stan Lee will condone and support any decision that Marvel makes. If Peter Parker became a white supremacist I’m sure he’d say it was a great development for the character as long as he gets to make a cameo in the next movie.
2:55 am on March 8th, 2010
Best show of the year so far. Okay that’s a lie the Kevin smith interview was ill. But you guys should consider having Katherine on the show all the time. Jeff could come or go as he pleases. It’d be nice to have him around until Questy and the Nekkid Nerd’s weird “I like you but I’m in a relationship” vibe subsides. You guys are doing a good job of being my audio crack though. I have to try hard not to phone Jeff @ the 4th wall on Wednesday afternoons and be like “where the fuck is the podcast already?. On a side note I can’t wait to hear what you thought of Smith’s Geen Hornet.