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This issue: Trying something a little different this time as Stephen picks a book from his growing pile, reads it, then talks about it. Also, Matthew and Rodrigo make an appearance to talk about their reading (or lack of) books. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: This issue features LEGOs, Dingos, Heroes, and Number Six. NEWS iPad reactions REVIEWS Stephen The LEGO Book Rodrigo Dingo #3 Matthew Irredeemable #10 MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK What comic book city would you want to live in? MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: The Prisoner - Shattered Visage Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: It starts okay, then suddenly the discussion turns to comics as a niche market for only those in the know. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: This issue features Captain Americas, Batman, and Greyshirt. Plus Joe the Barbarian... enough said. NEWS Torchwood headed to the U.S. and Fox Television REVIEWS Stephen Batman: Streets of Gotham #8 Rodrigo Joe the Barbarian Matthew Captain America #602 MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Kitty Pryde vs. Phantom Lass - Set the Phasers to stunned. Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: Greyshirt - Indigo Sunset Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: It's all about feedback from the listeners, as the Major Spoilers Crew dives deep into the mailbag and answer your letters. BONUS: Check out the feedback and responses from that other podcast - Critical Hit. Yup, it's a crossover episode. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: Can anything stop the Juggernaut? The Major Spoilers Crew will find out in this brand new (and still free) installment of the Major Spoilers Podcast! NEWS Trade in your comics for a Deadpool variant LINKAGE REVIEWS Stephen Booster Gold #28 Written by Dan Jurgens; co-feature written by Matthew Sturges; Art by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund; co-feature Art by Mike Norton and Norm Rapmund; Cover by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund After the shocking events of BLACKEST NIGHT, Booster Gold finds himself lost in time! And in the co-feature, Jaime Reyes at last comes to terms with the scarab's murderous side — and Blue Beetle will never be the same! Rodrigo Nola #3 Written by Chris Gorak, Pierluigi Cothran Drawn by Damian Couceiro SC, 24 pgs, FC, (3 of 4), SRP: $3.99 COVER A: Erik Jones COVER B: Chris Brunner She cheated death and now the hunt is on! Nola continues her quest for revenge in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and finds herself in the destroyed city’s twisted web. From Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) and scripted by Heroes comic writer Pierluigi Cothran! Matthew Amazing Fantasy #15 Yes, that Amazing Fantasy #15. MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK As mentioned yesterday, the S.W.O.R.D. series is coming to an end, but writer Kieron Gillen says it will end naturally and make a heck of a mini-series.  This got us thinking - instead of an ongoing series that has the potential of being canceled midway through its run, would going the mini-series route be the better option?  That way if the series stumbles, it can wrap up the mini-series and the company can move on.  As long as the minis continue to sell, the company can keep producing arc after arc. What say you the fine Legion of Major Spoilerites? Long running series for me, I gots to have my epic tale Make ‘em short and sweet, but keep ‘em coming Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut Black Tom Cassidy dispatches the Juggernaut to kidnap Madame Web in the hope that her psychic powers would help them defeat the X-Men. She receives a vision of their plan, and calls Peter Parker to ask him to stop the Juggernaut. Spider-Man makes many attempts to stop the Juggernaut, all of which end in failure. When the Juggernaut reaches Madame Web, he separates her from her life-support system, almost killing her. As Madame Web is taken to a hospital, Spider-Man again tries to stop the Juggernaut, finally trapping him in a vat of wet cement. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: Famous immortals throughout pop culture are discussed, and it leads to a discussion of what The Major Spoilers Crew would do if they were immortal. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: This is has Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla trying to achieve world peace by kicking the crap out of Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan... what else do you want? Oh, we've got Spider-Man 4, Buffy/Angel, and Brightest Day talk too, if you are really into that thing, but really, it's all about science. SCIENCE! NEWS Angel is Twilight Spider-Man Kicked to the Curb Linkage Brightest Day follows the Blackest Night Linkage REVIEWS Stephen BPRD: KIng of Fear #1 (64 in the series) Writer: Mike Mignola, John Arcudi Artist: Guy Davis Colorist: Dave Stewart Cover Artist: Mike Mignola After the defeat of the mystic Memnan Saa, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense -- on the outs with the United States government after the bloodstained rescue of Liz Sherman -- embarks to the Ural Mountains, the site of B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth, to put the frog menace to rest once and for all. Rodrigo The Muppet Show Comic Book #1 Written by Roger Langridge Drawn by Roger Langridge Roger Langridge’s celebrated run on THE MUPPET SHOW continues with this first issue of the new ongoing series! With the theater in disarray after the events of PEG-LEG WILSON, the Muppet gang decides to take their show on the road! Is the world ready for traveling Muppet minstrels? Matthew Suicide Squad #67 Written by John Ostrander and Gail Simone; Art by J. Calafiore; cover by Daniel LuVisi Original SUICIDE SQUAD writer John Ostrander and Gail Simone resurrect The Suicide Squad as they take on BLACKEST NIGHT and the Secret Six! The Fiddler has risen from the dead, and he's targeting Deadshot and anyone who stands in his way. But someone else has targeted Deadshot – the Suicide Squad! Everything is about to hit the Wall (Amanda Waller, that is) – and this Wall hits back! MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Alfred Pennyworth has been the Batman's batman for years and has patched up the Dark Knight more times than we can count.  Likewise, Edwin Jarvis began catering Tony Stark, but eventually found himself waiting hand and foot on anyone who stopped by the Avengers Mansion.  Both butlers have extensive military experience, and both know how to keep a stiff upper lip, but in a fight, who would emerge victorious? Alfred Pennyworth Edwin Jarvis Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: The Five Fists of Science True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of mankind. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: Matthew and Stephen share their thoughts on the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and dive in to the last three episodes of the David Tennant Doctor Who Episodes. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: The Supreme Power returns, Thor is spectacular, 2010 is Spidey's year, and much more in the latest installment of the Major Spoilers Podcast! NEWS Thor will change the conventions of the superhero movie Linkage 2010 is the Year of Spider-Man Linkage REVIEWS Stephen Buck Rogers #7 Writer: Scott Beatty Penciller/Inker: Carlos Lopez The Future is here! From Dynamite, writer Scott Beatty and artist Carlos Rafael comes the all-new adventures of Buck Rogers! In "The Space Beneath: Parts 1 (of 2)" Buck goes underground on the trail of his captured ship as he despearalty fights for a hope of home! Matthew New Avengers #60 WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis PENCILS: Stuart Immonen Get ready for something you never thought you'd see! Is this the end of Luke Cage? Has the Dark Reign found a casualty so horrifying that the Avengers may not be able to keep it together? Another shocker from the crack team of Bendis and Immonen. Rated A …$3.99 MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK What USPS Stamp is your "Do Not Mail" stamp? Archie Beetle Bailey Calving and Hobbes Dennis the Menace Garfield Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: Supreme Power Babylon 5 creator and Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Straczynski presents a new vision of a world about to give birth to its first generation of super-heroes! Follow the origins of these new heroes and anti-heroes – from their birth through adulthood – and examine how their lives and abilities change and shape the world around them. The god-like Hyperion discovers his whole life has actually been an elaborate government-made lie, and his reaction could mean the end of the Earth! Do the world’s other super-powered beings have any chance at stopping Hyperion if the truth sends him over the edge? Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: The Major Spoilers Crew take a moment to reflect on the best and worst 2009 had to offer. There are also plenty of listener comments and phone calls to fill out the episode. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: Matthew takes a moment to speak with the Robot Overlord. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: Rodrigo is MIA once again, but that doesn't stop Matthew and Stephen from having a lively discussion about The Squadron Supreme, Ghostbusters, Brian Singer, and Santa's Naughty and Nice list. NEWS Ghostbusters a go in 2010? Linkage Brian Singer to direct X-Men First Class Linkage Best of 2009 Linkage REVIEWS Stephen Ghost Busters Displaced Aggression #4 Writer: Keith Champagne Artist: Tom Nguyen Part 4 (of 4): "A Win-Winston!" While Peter, Ray and Egon were trapped in the time stream, Winston has been waging a guerilla war against Kozar'Rai and his demonic stormtroopers. But before the four of Ghostbusters can celebrate their reunion, they need to stop Kozar'Rai from reassembling Stonehenge in the heart of Central Park! Also, a bonus 8-page back-up story starring Janine, from Ilias Kyriazis and artist Mike Dialynas! Matthew THUNDERBOLTS #139 Written by JEFF PARKER Penciled by MIGUEL SEPULVEDA Cover by FRANCESCO MATTINA Scourge and Ghost vs. Gorilla-Man and M-11, the Human Robot? Oh, it’s on! A former ally has earned Norman Osborn’s ire, and now he’s sent his team of psychos to unearth—and kill—none other than The Agents of Atlas! Can the Thunderbolts take down the squad of ‘50s misfits, or will they destroy themselves first? That’s right, writer Jeff Parker has brought his cult-fave team to town for a two-part throwdown…and when the dust clears, one T-Bolt won’t be left standing! MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Have you been Naughty or Nice in 2009? Loving every minute of it Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: The Squadron Supreme Freed from the constraints of keeping the comic’s Earth looking (at least superficially) like our Earth and of tying into the continuity of other books, Mark Gruenwald explored the ramifications of super-heroes taking over the world to save it from itself. A “pre-Watchmen Watchmen“; it substitutes for that book’s cynicism with a sense of humor and history. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This issue: Stephen, Rodrigo, and Matthew talk up James Bond; the movies, the actors, the good and the bad, and what they like and don't like about the series. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

In this issue: Zombie Blue Beetle, Angelus returns, Mark Waid is Incorruptible and The Super Friends forget they are friends, and forget they are super heroes. It's all in the latest installment of the Major Spoilers Podcast! NEWS What are you looking forward to this week? Linkage Best of 2009 Linkage REVIEWS Rodrigo Angelus #1
(W) Ron Marz
(A) Stjepan Sejic
(Cov) Stjepan Sejic, Eric Basaldua Taking flight from the pages of “War of the Witchblades”! Danielle Baptiste returns home to New Orleans to come to grips with her new role as the Angelus, the human bearer of the primal force of Light. To complicate matters she must sort out her undefined relationship with Finch while maintaining control of the Angelus host, some of whom covet her power. Stephen Booster Gold #27
Written by Dan Jurgens; Art and cover by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund Black Lantern Ted Kord is out for blood in this BLACKEST NIGHT tie-in issue! Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes joins forces with Booster Gold in an attempt to take down Black Lantern Ted Kord once and for all. But the battle will have consequences for the Blue and the Gold, and Booster and Beetle's lives will be forever changed! Matthew INCORRUPTIBLE #1
Written by Mark Waid
Drawn by Jean Diaz
COVER A: John Cassaday
COVER B: Tim Sale
COVER C: Jeffrey Spokes Last April BOOM! Studios showed the world that MARK WAID IS EVIL with the smash-hit series IRREDEEMABLE. This December, BOOM! shows the world that Mark Waid is now… INCORRUPTIBLE! Super villain Max Damage had an epiphany the day The Plutonian destroyed Sky City. When The Plutonian turned his back on humanity, Max Damage decided to step up. Now Max Damage has changed his name to Max Daring and turned from his formerly selfish ways to become… INCORRUPTIBLE. MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK How would you rate DC’s Blackest Night event so far? Loving every minute of it It’s good, but not the top of my stack Too many tie-ins, I’m only buying the main title I hate it I haven’t read any of it Get over to the Major Spoilers Website and vote. VOTE MAJOR SPOILERS DISCUSSION: A Midsummer's Nightmare Something is wrong with DC’s classic heroes. Each has forgotten the life in which he or she wore a flamboyant costume and protected the weak with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Even stranger, ordinary people everywhere are gaining their own powers in an insidious plan to cultivate Earth’s population as a race of super-soldiers. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show! A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.