Who's on the Cover of Entertainment Weekly?

Loyal listeners know that we regularly finish our podcast with a game we call “Who’s on the cover of Entertainment Weekly?”. I’ve been making Mark guess who is on the cover of the magazine for years. I don’t know that he enjoys the game, but I do.

This week, though, Entertainment Weekly actually changed the cover! The issue subscribers (like me) received was Paul Rudd. The issue on the newsstands features Natasha Richardson.

I have never noticed that happening before. I wonder if they really think Natasha will sell more magazines? Tragedy is better than comedy. But does this mean Mark didn’t really lose WOTCOEW this week?

No Comics for You!

Okay, I didn’t get to read many comics this week. I really meant to, but at least there weren’t very many this week in the Wednesday pickup. DC had a very light week. Which also explains why we really only talk about two comics in this week’s episode.

But one of them is Star Trek (and Mark goes very in-depth into the Star Trek comic timeline). And just to let you know, Mark and I were introduced at a Star Trek convention. But we weren’t in costume (that time).

Old Comics

I have decided I want to decoupage a table for the comic book lounge, and I want to use old comics to do so. Of course, I can’t use Mark’s comics, so I recently purchased a bulk lot of comics online. Basically, quarter comics. There were a lot of middling old Marvels and DC’s, mostly from the early ’90s, as well as several independents.

In particular, there were several from Valiant, a now defunct comics publisher. And one of those from Valiant was “The Second Life of Dr. Mirage.” I loved this comic. While still in the superheroic vein, it did not have all the “back story” that the DC Comics Mark was reading did. I could pick this up, and start from the beginning. And, in fact, I am going to go back and reread them again. If you get a chance, read the eleven issues that were published. You won’t be sorry.

Facebook

I’ve had some feedback on the website, so I really appreciate that. I am working on how to add comments to our posts (so you could comment on the pages for our podcast, or this blog). That is, hopefully, coming soon. For now, though, you could look for us on Facebook. We’ve set up a fan page for “How I Got My Wife to Read Comics” and you can post in the discussion boards, or on the wall, there.

I really don’t want to encourage anyone to join Facebook. It can become an awful time waster. But it is also a great tool for finding old friends (or enemies...).

And as a final note, I did read 19 comics in one day (the 10th). I almost got caught up reading. But I haven’t read even one of the four current issues of “The Umbrella Academy.” I will make that my goal this week!

Read, Read, Read!

Our new feed is officially up and running on iTunes, so PLEASE make a note of it. You can subscribe in the iTunes store, or you can copy the RSS link location from the podcast page, and paste it into your iTunes (under the “Advanced” pull-down menu.

I am looking at the pile of comics I have to read, and am wondering where to start. Once a year, usually in January or February, Mark consolidates all the comics for the year into his big collection. Every week he bags and boards what I’ve read (because I am so much slower than him...), and puts it into a long box for the current year. Then, as I’ve said, once a year he consolidates that into the main collection, while “archiving” series that have ended into separate boxes. It is a pretty big undertaking, and he always asks me to try to finish up any issues of series that have ended so he can put them away.

He just finished this years...

and I am looking, in my pile of TBRs, at issues 7 and 8 (of 8) of Reign in Hell, issue 6 (of 6) of Terror Titans, and issues 2 and 3 (of 3) of Batman Cacophony. Now, I am pretty sure that some of these came out after Mark’s big consolidation effort, but what lousy timing.

So, my goal is to have all of those, plus 14 more from two weeks ago, in the next 24 hours. Do you think I can do it? Only time will tell....

More Episodes, New Feed

Here are five more old episodes, along with episode 47 from this weekend. I’ve also updated the tags on the episodes. I am getting the hang of how this all works now.

All new episodes will be posted here, starting Sunday. Our new feed should be active in iTunes very soon -- it has been submitted.

I didn’t read any comic books today. I am trying to finish reading “Revelations” for a book discussion group with some teens. It is one of a myriad of vampire books being written for teen girls now. But I’ll be back to reading comics come Saturday morning.

Back to Work

I have spent the last few days getting the first 20 episodes of our podcast posted to this new site. Now, though, I have to go back to work. Look for the remaining 20 to go up five or six at a time, over the next four or five days.

I also need to read comics (like always). I picked them up today, and it seemed like a light week -- I did see a new issue of Buffy, though!

And I am only two issues behind on Trinity!

You can read this now...

Well, since you can read this now, I guess I figured out how to upload. It is still a little iffy, as the ftp client I am using seems to flake out a little with the hosting service I am using. It is amazing how much has to work out to bring a web page up.

But, tomorrow is comic book day! Of course, I still haven’t read most of last week’s comics. But that is of very little concern. I read the ones I wanted to read, like Echo 10.

And the second wave of Watchmen figures came out last week, too. So, hopefully, this will be a light week at the comic book store.