Hello again, dearest Robot Panic readers. I have returned from my far too long hiatus that may or may not have involved secret ninja training, world domination planning or seeing how many bags of Goldfish brand crackers I could ingest before my stomach ruptured. During my awesome and very hush hush ninja training, I have discovered something that I felt I need to share with all of you. It is a book, nay, a tome of collected literature/art hybrids. I shall call them…”comics”.

This particular collection is dubbed “Wednesday Comics”. A little backstory, if I may. About one year ago, a bunch of DC wiseguys put their artsy fartsy heads together and came up with an idea that would harken back to the early 1920′s and 1930′s, when a reader of the daily or in those days, weekend, newspaper would be entertained by pages of adventure comics featuring superheroes and other various kinds of heroes. This concept proved to be hugely successful, that is until it stopped being successful and became unsuccessful. So like many people before them that have fallen victim to the old addage of “History repeats itself”, DC has decided to bring back a form of entertainment that has been the way of Gary Coleman (too soon?) for decades. So DC decided to bring some of their most popular characters, with a few less popular, give each a team of great writers and artists, print each issue on shitty classic newsprint paper and ship em out every Wednesday for 12 weeks straight. It was a huge success and as of this day no word on whether or not another series will happen again. (I guess that DC doesn’t like money.)

Enclosed in this HUGE hardcover book, are the originally released 15 character based stories, plus 2 unreleased stories. And who might these characters be? Well, has anyone ever heard of Metamorpho? Or the Metal Men? Or Kamandi? Yes! These DC flagship characters are all in this collection, featuring new stories and collaborations from the top writers and artists that DC keeps locked inside a small, poorly lit basement surrounded by a chicken wire fence at an undisclosed location. Oh, and some jerks like Bat-something, Superbro and the Green…um…Giant are also in there, but no one cares about them. They suck and will probably never be heard from again after this. (more…)

Tyler Durden 84 sends us some reviews of comics sitting on your local shelf right now! Enjoy!

Author:Tyler Durden 84

Amazing Spider-man #568-569
Written by: Dan Slott
Art By: John Romita Jr

Continuing the arc titled “New Ways To Die”, Amazing Spider-man #569 gives us the next issue that tells about Spider-man dealing with a political candidate who may have some secrets that he would rather not become public. In the previous issue, Spider-man finds a sweatshop that is later linked to a politician. Parker gets heat from the new boss at the Daily Bugle and decides to fight back by giving Ben Urich’s paper, Front Line, his newest pictures, proof of candidate Crowne’s sweatshop.

Meanwhile, at the DB, Betty Brant is tasked with finding dirt on the other mayoral candidate, Martin Li. Li runs the F.E.A.S.T. centers. F.E.A.S.T. or Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter and Training, are designed to help the downtrodden get back on their feet. Pete’s very own Aunt May often helps out there, too. A surprising guest to the FEAST center is former Mr. Venom himself, Eddie Brock, only now a cancer patient due to the symbiote leaving his body and attaching itself to the former Scorpion and new Thunderbolt member, Mac Gargan. Eddie, in the last issue, was “healed”, unknowingly, by Martin Li, curing Eddie’s cancer and ridding his mind’s obsession over Venom. He returns to the FEAST center to tell everyone the good news. Becoming yet another “miracle person” that had once frequented mayoral hopeful Li’s FEAST centers.
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