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Dave and Alex pick their favorite comic book moments of the week after reading nearly everything! Those picks include:
Ultimate Wolverine #12 (Condon, Cappuccio)
Absolute Batman #15 (Scott Snyder, Jock)
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Come on.
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Moving on to our next segment, stand out
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moment of the week. our favorite panel
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or page
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uh where we get to talk up some art
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because comics is mostly the artists
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doing all the heavy lifting. So why are
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people talking so much about writers?
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You jerks.
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Literally. God,
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it's why we talk about cover art later
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in the show, too. Because again, like
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you need to be uplifted.
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I honestly think AFT might be the only
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website that's lifting up cover art with
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Judging by the Cover and with our
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podcast here with Judging by the Cover
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Junior. Uh, but
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yeah, there's not a lot of emphasis on
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like what makes a comic comic. Like,
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yeah.
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Sorry. Are we reading novels? No, we are
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reading art, guys.
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Exactly. So, my uh favorite panel or
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this is actually the full page you're
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looking at. If you're watching this on
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YouTube,
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we both have full pages. Yeah.
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But if you go to a com, you can see the
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art. It's also in the article. Uh I
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pulled it from absolute admin number 15
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from by Scott Snider and Jacques. This
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is uh the moment Joker goes from human
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normal guy in clo street clothes to
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Joker. And it's particularly this left
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hand panel here where we see the spine
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cracking as he grows
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uh from a normalsized human to this
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beast, this Joker beast. And I just
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loved how Jock, he makes it look long
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and senuey and twisting. So the
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transformation and it's something we see
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a lot of especially with like immortal
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Hulk. We see a transformation from human
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to this beastly thing a lot. And yet
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Jock has found a new kind of gross way
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to portray this cuz it's the length of
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him that's growing in this panel. Of
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course, there's panels on the right
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that's enhancing the the the specifics
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of like the teeth and the eyes and the
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shock of a guy seeing this happen in
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real time, but really good body horror
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here and an interesting angle to show
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it.
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Yeah. I also just love how you can tell
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that obviously this transformation hurts
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like a [ __ ] but he loves it.
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He's a sadistic freak and he's probably
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he probably is also masochistic, too.
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Like I think he enjoys the pain. Like he
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is smiling through this horrifying. And
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then on the top he is, you know, really
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really into stem cell research. Let me
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just say that.
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Yeah. He's like eating babies or
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something. And oh god,
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their essence is being sucked into his
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body and he's just chilling there on the
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table.
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I cannot wait for more Joker. Like this
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issue was a really great way of getting
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an inside look on the backstory, but now
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let's see him fight Batman, you know?
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Yeah, it's twisted. I love it. But your
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favorite page comes from Gh. I just love
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when the X-Men slaps. And of course,
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this isn't in main universe X-Men. God
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damn it. Um, this is from Ultimate
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Wolverine number 12 by Condan and
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Capuchio. Uh, finally after 12 issues,
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uh, Gan Gray has been released by
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Wolverine. Uh,
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it's great. I didn't actually think we
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were going to see Ultimate Phoenix in
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this because she really looked like her
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she looked mindless like her brain had
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been melted by what uh the Eurasian
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Republic and the Rasputans had done to
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her. So, this was an honest surprise for
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me as a reader to be like, "Oh [ __ ] not
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only is Wolverine freeing Gan Gray, but
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she is able to access her Phoenix
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powers." Like, [ __ ] Um,
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Capuchio's art is gorgeous. Has such
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like an ethereal
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almost dark phoenixy vibe and then she
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melts the [ __ ] out of Coloss.
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Oh my god, it's like mask. She's like
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melted her from the inside.
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It reminds me a lot actually of um when
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Nimrod melted Iceman at the Hellfire
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Gala during the fall of KCOA. that
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horrifying scene of Iceman melting from
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the inside out. Um, and the Rasputans
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are like, you know, hardcore villains in
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the Ultimate Universe. So, it is truly a
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joy to see Colossus murdered. Um,
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yeah, I just thought this was sick. Uh,
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also love how Wolverine looks in the top
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right, which have with half of his mask
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ripped off. Um it it was just really
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beautiful and and I'm excited to see
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what happens in the next issue with
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Phoenix now uh unleashed
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for sure. Yeah. Yeah. This
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you did bring up a good point like how
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could the Phoenix not just them like
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kill the Maker? Like it's literally the
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Phoenix. So that's an interesting thing
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that they're going to have to contend
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with,
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right? Uh there's a reason why she was
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already like chained up and in control
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being controlled because obviously the
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maker doesn't want Phoenix running
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around. He's that's probably something
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he can't necessarily stop very easily.
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Yes, that is not a threat. He could only
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contain it. He couldn't kill it,
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right?