CCL Podcast #168 - Eric Bieze, Admin, Essentials and Showcases Yahoo! Group, Interview Options

[ChrisCCL]

Collected Comics Library Podcast #168

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http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/

The CCL continues its interviews with a conversation with Eric Bieze, Administrator of the Marvel Essentials and DC Showcases Yahoo! Group. Eric and I talk everything Black and White; what we like and don’t like, what’s coming out and what we would like to see.

Also on the show I go over collected edition news from the New York Comic-Con, and a cool upcoming DC Comics Superhero DVD from Filmation. Lastly, I go over the New Releases of the Week list.

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Chris

Links of Note:
The 10th Annual DC Archives Survey

[Cam]

Great discussion Chris, really enjoyed the episode. I love the Essentials line, I've had to cut way back on my comic purchases the past couple years but I think I might be reading more issues because of Essentials.

I have to agree that I want to see Marvel complete it's Silver Age and early modern age stuff before moving into more modern books. Sure, the Power Man and Iron Fist collection is fun and capitalizes on the current interest in these characters but I want Nick Fury and Namor Essentials! The Essential Worlverine books are collecting issues that are only 10 years old.

You guys mentioned the Essential Classic X-Men Vol.3, the listing online I found -

1969: The X-Men, Marvel''s poorest selling title, flagging in sales and on the verge of cancellation, was in dire need of a shot in the arm. A new direction. A new vision. Enter Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, and True Believer, you had better grab onto your hat and get ready for one of the most amazing evolutions in Marvel history! These two titanic talents threw caution to the wind with sensational stories that brought the X-Men in synch with the thriving youth culture of the late ''60s. Prepare yourself for the introduction of mutant mainstay Havok, the vampiric villain Sauron, the Mutates, and X-Man-to-be Sunfire! Not to mention, the Living Pharaoh, a classic team-up with Ka-Zar in the Savage Land, as well as the return of Magneto and Professor X! Plus: No longer an X-Man, not yet an Avenger, the loquacious, sedulous and conscientious Hank P. McCoy tried a stint as mad scientist and ended up creating - and BEING - his own monster! Now blue but never yellow, the bouncing bombastic one used his new look against old enemies like the Juggernaut and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, with Quasimodo and the Secret Empire waiting in the wings! And while the Beast gets furried and hurried, his former teammates are fighting the likes of Morbius and the Hulk! Whether solo or squad, a mutant''s work is never done! Also featuring the return of Patsy Walker and the end of the Mimic... or is it? Guest-starring Spider-Man and Iron Man!

So we will get those appearences after the series was canceled, good stuff.

Great show Chris, later.

[ChrisCCL]

I hope we get a full list of what will be included soon.