Funnybooks with Aron and Paulie

This post will be at the top through Tuesday, so scroll down for all the latest stories, including our NEW CONTEST!

It's a show chock-full of four-color-goodness this week:

• Comics at the public library (2:30)
• Comics keep you fit (4:58)
• Our first podcast contest winners! (6:10)
• The new contest! (12:20)
• Detective Comics #855 (Batwoman) (14:50)
• Justice Society of America #29 (20:15)
• Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 (25:39)
• War of Kings: Ascension #4 (29:03)
• Marvel Zombies 4 #4 (32:45)
• Sinister Spider-man #2 (35:50)
• Dark Reign Rant (37:35)
• Ultimatum #5 (42:55)
• This is Wildstorm Universe #0 (47:30)
• Flash Gordon #6 (51:20)
• Our First Time (55:15)
• Spin racks and fixing what's wrong with the hobby (72:25)
• What if we were writing... Superman? (82:58)

Special Note: Aron will be at GenCon August 13 - 16. If you're a Funny Book fan and you're gonna be in Indy, let's meet-up to chat comics and lay down some tracks for the show. Aron can be contacted via Twitter or by commenting here on the site.

Seems like just a few weeks since we started off Funny Books with Aron and Paulie and here we are already on issue 600. In this very special 600th issue we at long last discuss some Marvel books >gasp< ...

• Incredible Hulk #600
• Amazing Spider-man #600
• Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, and War of Kings
• Green Lantern #44, Tales of the Corps #2, Blackest Night
• Hunter

And don't forget to check out the contest!

We’re still posting new stories, but this one will be at the top for the next day or two! Scroll down for the newest goodies! UPDATE: ONLY TWO ENTRIES SO FAR IN OUR CRAZY COOL PODCAST CONTEST! Enter while the gettin's good! Details are in the podcast! The theatrical release of episode three of Funny Books with Aron & Paulie:

• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• DC's Blackest Night
• Getting back into comics after an extended absence
• Our first podcast contest (BTW, this is the blog article you're looking for). Listen for to this week's podcast for details. Deadline for contest entries is 11:59 pm Central Friday, July 31.

In this episode, we include an excerpt from RPG podcast Kicked in the Dicebags. Check out the IoM review here .

We're still posting new stories, but this one will be at the top for the next day or two! Scroll down for the newest goodies! This week, we discuss all kinds of fun stuff:

• Geek wear;
• DC's all new Wednesday Comics featuring innovative, yet nostalgic formatting;
• Green Lantern #43, Prologue to Blackest Night
• Red Robin #2
• Baman
• The new Green Lantern movie; and
• Last week's decision in the Siegel vs. Warners/DC concerning rights to Superman

A very DC-centric episode to be sure!

In this the very first audio edition of Funny Books with Aron & Paulie, we discuss the return of Steve Rogers/Captain America, the absence of Batman, and the new Batman and Robin. We also chat about Batwoman and Justice League: Cry for Justice in addition to many other books from July 1, 2009.

Plus, an interview with Detective Comics scribe, Greg Rucka!

Note: We had some technical difficulties in this episode. Those responsible have been sacked.