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Mega media news, including the JLA #7 jam cover with about 40 million characters and the seven-and-one-half minute Spider-Man 3 trailer. Wendy Pini gives us the lowdown on her newest project and her brand-new webcast comics, Timeline visits 1974, and once again we dip into our ComicMix mailbag.

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www.ComicMix.com We're all being lobotomized by this country's most influential industry. It's just thrown in the towel on any endeavor to do anything that doesn't include the courting of 12 year old boys. Not even a smart 12 year old. The stupid ones. The idiots. Which there are plenty thanks to no small measure to this network.

So why don't you just change the channel? Turn on your TV. Do it right now. Like 3 and you want to watch it. Hello, here we are in the middle of the week. Welcome to another podcast. It is Mike Raub.

I am trying to get over being traumatized by heroes. Trying to figure out what happened in the lost last night and just basically try to cheer up because adventure television is depressing me this week. Got a lot of news. Oh, and a lot more to get to this week. That should put us in a happy mood. And we'll tell you about a big interview we have coming up on the weekend as well.

All this on March 8th, 2007. ComicMix. Yeah. Well, it pays to hang out on MySpace besides finding the 70 year old guys from Jersey dressed as cheerleaders. You can get some cool comic book news as well.

Justice League of America writer Brad Meltzer has posted the final cover for issue number seven of the popular DC book on his MySpace page. And it is a doozy. It's designed by Eric Wright. It is artwork by George Perez, Luke McDonald, Kevin McGuire, Howard Porter, Gene Ha and Ed Dennis. And the cover depicts every or at least nearly every superhero that's been on that team since well since the beginning.

Now, it's really cool about this because DC has decided they're going to break this image up into two actual covers on the book. One will have Batman, one will have Superman and the rest of the heroes in the back will be also divided. So there'll be two basic covers for JLA number seven and of course, the one in ten variant by Michael Turner. Well, for 24 hours only earlier in the week, NBC and Sony teamed up to stick a large chunk of the web out for you and everybody was trying to download it all at once. Carrie?

Yeah, it was that trailer for Spider-Man number three that got hyped all over heroes on Monday night. Millions, zillions, trillions of folks were on the web trying to download it. If you have dial up, well, you probably wouldn't live long enough to get it. Even those people with faster connections had a large problem, but don't worry. It'll be all over the web in the few days and you'll find shots of it everywhere.

There were some cool things on it. A really impressive shot of Sandman that I liked a lot. But again, you'll have plenty of time to see this. So if you didn't get it, don't despair. Big news in the daily news.

Captain America is dead. Yeah, everybody didn't see this one coming. How about that? Captain America number 25, which came out in stores yesterday. Of course, the big issue that ended up with the alleged death of Captain America.

Now, if we spoiled something for you, come on, are you living in a cave? This is everywhere right now. And of course, the big news is the fact this book is dried up quicker than a cup of water in the Sahara desert. It's already $9 on eBay. We're less than 24 hours from the time it was unpacked from diamond boxes into stores around the country.

I would look for an announcement by Marvel about second printing and different covers and all that. But whenever it happens, we'll cover it right here on ComicMix. Stay with us. Speaking of MySpace, by the way, they're going to soon allow members to get clips of Fox TV shows. Now, here's what you're allowed to do.

You can embed clips of Fox TV shows and other Fox owned videos on your home page. They're actually saying it's okay, even though a lot of people were doing it anyway. You can get details, of course, on MySpace.com slash Fox. But we'll let you know what the deal on that is because it's kind of a gray area. It kind of is frightening.

By the way, also speaking of Fox, they're putting online sneak previews of the first two episodes of The Riches before it premieres in a couple of days on the FX network. And if you want details on that, just search on The Riches. You can do that right here through us at ComicMix. www.ComicMix.com ComicMix.com

While you're at it here first, Wendy Pini is returning to comics. No, it's not another Elf Quest series, although that would be just fine as well. It's a brand new project. Who better to explain it than Wendy herself? We had a chance to get some information and she gave us the scoop right off the bat.

Well, Mask of the Red Death is my new graphic novel series published by Gokomi. And it is inspired by and based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, Mask of the Red Death. But it takes it into an exciting and I think very dark science fictional world rather than the traditional Victorian interpretation. So what will the format of this be? Will it be a regular comic or more manga style?

It's going to be three soft color cover volumes, a little bit larger than the traditional manga size and also in full color. As long as we're talking to Wendy, you know we had to ask it. What's the latest with Elf Quest? Elf Quest continues on. We've been with DC Comics for a while and our next phase for Elf Quest is to launch it as a web comic. The next new material for Elf Quest just like Mask.

Mask will be out before the book is out as a web comic. There will be at least three new pages of Mask every week and we're hoping also to have at least three new pages of Elf Quest every week on the web. Thanks Wendy. We'll be watching for more information on both the projects. Of course, anytime we get a link to where Elf Quest will be and certainly Mask of the Red Death, you'll see those links posted right here at ComicMix. Well this week in comics it was a big big week.

Both in size wise and in money wise. Well come on, I mean spending two dollars for four books with a lot of money in 1974. But this is what you got. For example, for a couple of bucks you could pick up the famous first edition of Action Comics. That was pretty cool.

And another giant treasury limited collectors edition of a bunch of Batman stories with a really cool Neil Adams cover this week. And two of those super 100 page spectaculars. Remember those? This week we got a Brave of Old 112 and a Wonder Woman 211 that had not just new stories in them but a lot of great reprints. Those were incredible.

Over from Marvel, this was first appearance week. We got two comics that had major first appearances in them. Man thing number three, very first appearance of the Fool Killer. And this week Captain Marvel number 31, first appearance of the old baldy herself, Moon Dragon. In news, kind of a quiet week.

Charles de Gaulle Airport opened in France. A lot of fighting in the mid-east though near the Suez Canal. In the movie theaters, yeah, kind of a mixed bag. Phreby and the Bean, The Groove 2, which went to video not long after that. Golden Voyage of Sinbad and of course this one.

The Fans, how many times have you seen that movie? Blazing Saddles of course, 1974 and Mel Brooks and Company. Did you know that it was originally written by a guy named Andrew Bergman and was based on his story and draft? And did you also know that Richard Pryor was one of the main writers of the movie along with Brooks and Bergman?

On TV, well we divided up this week into two categories. First the forgettable shows like The Girl with Something Extra. That was a girl, which actually was a guy dressed as a girl in the Something Extra. Yeah, you can figure that out. The NBC Follies, who remembers that, nobody.

And Bob Carroll, Ted and Alice, the crappy movie that was made in an even crappier television show. For the best side of the chart, well, Kung Fu with David Carradine, the FBI and our very own Gildy Pleasure. Now come on, I can see you shaking your head, but this is the show that gave us happy days. For that alone, we love Love American Style. In music, you had Paul McCartney, you had Wings, and you had a very, very wise studio engineer who was smart enough to turn Linda's microphone down.

For that, we are eternally grateful. Great song though, this one was called… This is one of those questions that I love to do because I get to dig on the internet for hours and that's a lot of fun. It comes from Tomcatff at Forum.uk and Tom said, well, I went to the convention for actually my first one a few weeks ago and I managed to pick up my very first Golden Age comic. I got it because it featured a character I was familiar with, Plastic Man.

The comic was called Police Comics. I noticed it was kind of a high number in the 60s and it got me wondering, I mean, what a cool title that is, Police Comics. How many comics had the word police in them? Oh man, let me tell you something. We burned a hard drive up on this one, Tomcatff.

There were a lot of them. I can't even begin to tell you the actual count, but I'll tell you what some of them were. There was all picture police comics, all famous police cases, authentic police cases, of course, Dream Police and the Fish Police and the Fish Police Hairball Special. There was Jughead's Time Police, there was Allegiance Science Police, there was Police Academy, yeah, that was based on the movie. There was Police Action, Police Against Crime, Police Badge, Police Line Up, Police Trap, Famous Police Cases and Sensational Police Cases in case the famous ones didn't entice you that much.

Tomcatff, thanks a lot for your question. We'd love to hear from any of you. Anything you want to know about comics, we'll do our best to find out. You can write us directly at podcastatcomicmix.com or search around on our site. You'll find all sorts of information.

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You see the movie, tell us all about it on the weekend, and you and I are going to get together, sit down with one of the top dogs in comics. Now, that's not trying to be punny, okay? I'm serious. This guy's been around the business for quite a while. He's got a lot to say, and we're going to share it with you right here this weekend.

I'd love to share anything you'd like to hear, and you know how to get in touch with us. Come on, drop us an email. Podcastatcomicmix.com. Of course, you know that everything on ComicMix is absolutely free. And for news and information, we update several times every day with always something new.

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