ABC Podcast, Episode #31 and visual aids

This episode of Awesomed By Comics is brought to you by the Forkies, who are enraptured. In a week where the Big Two fight for easy press, the biggest story for us is the beautiful conclusion of I Kill Giants, which made Aaron cry even harder than the end of Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Captain Britain and MI13 turns in another fine chapter, and two series starring kick-ass ladies come to a premature end. SPOILER: Batman died. SPOILER TWO: Batman will be alive again soon enough. Happy new president week!

ALSO: Because we got a lot of follow-up questions to last week's show--here is the link to the iTunes store for Aaron's band, or search for "The Ampersands" (album called "And") at Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, CD Baby, or wherever you get those things.

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Cover(s) of the Week

Evie's pick, Anna Mercury #5 painted cover by Paul Duffield:


Aaron's pick, Final Crisis #6 by JG Jones:


Panel(s) of the Week

Aaron's pick, from Captain Britain and MI13 #9 by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk (context: Pete Wisdom is destroying a corridor of dreams where people are falsely living out their hearts' desires):


Evie's pick, from Final Crisis #6 by Grant Morrison and 600 artists:

A tangled web

Alright, so, here's a big media push by Marvel to publicize next week's Amazing Spider-Man #583, which features an oh-so-collectible Obama cover (didn't someone already do that?). In my effort to find out who did the interior pencils for a little lighthearted mocking about the fact that he apparently doesn't know what the President-Elect looks like, I turn up this solicitation on Marvel.com for an Amazing Spider-Man #583 coming out next week that, uh, is totally not an Obama issue in any way shape or form nor written by Zeb Wells.

So what's going on? Is there a fist-bump or not?? How will we ever figure out if we need to buy it???

I like the hat

(via, thanks to my friend Dave who works, appropriately, for the Justice Department)