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The Watchtower: Mixtape 001 Hey friends! Moss here and Donnie is out sick with the flu, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to try something a little different! Next to comics, my biggest passion is Music. I get quite a few questions about some of the music we use on the show and what I’m listening to and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 231: Upper Anger Management This week on The Watchtower, we shine a light on an area of comics that’s rarely seen: Editing. We chat with Dark Horse’s Scott Allie (Hellboy, BPRD, Buffy, Serenity, and more) about what it is exactly an Editor does, and how good editors can make or break a book! Then, there are some huge rumors [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 230: Who You Gonna Call? This week on The Watchtower its a DC Free-For-All! Starting of course, with this: DC’s new Logo is… something, but that’s not all! Seconds after we wrapped last week’s show, DC cancelled 6 titles and announced 6 more! We break down this “Second Wave” of the New 52! Also, Rob Liefeld’s Hawk & Dove has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 229: It’s Good To Be Baaaack! It’s good to be back on The Watchtower! While we had a bit of an extended holiday break, the comics world swirled around us! So much to talk about including: -Avengers Vs X-Men Tie-In (note the sigular)! -DC’s no-so-much holding the line at $2.99! -Pandora’s box is open, and impending crossovers in the New 52! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 228: Sh*T Donnie Says This week on The Watchtower, it’s almost Christmas! Which means we’re mailing it in! (not really) Actually there is a lot of Movie news to get to this week. Brand new trailers for GI Joe, Ghost Rider and The Hobbit have all dropped and need to be picked apart. Plus, I’m sure you’ve seen the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 227: I Had A Really Witty Title, But Forgot To Write It Down This week on The Watchtower, there’s a whole lot of stuff to get to! First up, Defenders #1 offered us not only a decent book, but a new level of teasing from the folks at Marvel. Isn’t it about time the tease ended? Then, with Avengers vs X-Men on the horizon we look at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 226: Don’t Be a Dick. This week on the Watchtower there’s big things afoot in the Marvel U! Marvel announced this week the mega-event Avengers Vs X-Men. With 12 issues, 5 writers and 3 artists can this be the most ambitious comic story ever told? Or too much putting all the eggs in one basket. Then, from the forthcoming Amazing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 225: It’s Time To Light The Lights This week on The Watchtower we take a look at some burning questions! First up, the Human Torch returns in Fantastic Four #600! An over-sized mess, or the new milestone for anniversary issues? Then, you know what burns me up? Comic Book Marketing! Do these guys have any idea how to draw in the new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 224: It’s The F&%King Watchtower This week on The Watchtower, anything can happen (and does)! Marvel has gone cancel-crazy lately. X-23, Ghost Rider, Punisher MAX, Black Panther, Alpha Flight, Destroyers, Victor Von Doom, Daken: Dark Wolverine, Iron Man 2.0, and All-Winners Squad have all bit the big one. Some without even publishing an issue! Is it as a result of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 223: Comic Book Babble-On, and on, and on… This week on The Watchtower… We’re really tired. So there might be some… drifting, in this week’s show. First up, Marvel’s Point One. This issue is supposed to set the stage for the Marvel U in 2012, but did it leave us with more questions than answers? Then, Joe Mad is back! In a big, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 222: When Nothing Becomes Something This week on The Watchtower, we are making a whole lot of something out of nothing! Nothing seemed to happen this week in comics, but that don’t stop us! We kick it off by talking some TV. With the success of The Walking Dead, can other networks make “geek-friendly” fare that will be just as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 221: Return of The Boom Bap And we’re back! After a brief hiatus, The Watchtower returns! And what a world we’ve returned to! Watchtmen 2? Are you serious? Apparently there’s a good chance that it’ll happen! Also, Fear Itself is over, but there’s something else scary lurking on the horizon. The Phoenix! It’s coming back, and no one really knows why. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 220: Fillin’ Up The Dustbin This week on The Watchtower, we are sweeping up the floor and dealing with a lot of mini-topics! -Marvel fires a Digital shot across DC’s Bow! -The numbers on the New 52 are in! -NYCC is almost here and with it come rumours galore! -The Avengers trailer has hit but did it knock us out? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 219: Return of The Son of the Return of The Something or Other This week on The Watchtower, after a brief hiatus we’re back! And while we were gone the whole world lost it’s mind over the New 52. Sexy Times, Homophobic Villains and The Crisis of Crisis’ are all covered! Speaking of losing minds, Frank Miller might have lost his. At least that’s what our review of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 218: It’s The Here and The Now This week on The Watchtower, it’s the end of the world! Slave Labor Graphics has announced it’s going all-digital with it’s single issues. The beginning of the end? or a shrewd business move? Also, could X-Sanction be Marvel’s answer to some other time-spanning stories of late? One observer seems to thing so… Plus, there’s a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 217: We’ll Be Singing When We’re Winning This week on The Watchtower, it’s all about winning (and not in a Sheen-esque way)! First up, Cable wins because he’s back from the dead! But can he win against the Avengers in the upcoming X-Sanction? And can any of it win at getting anyone’s attention? Then who wins during the debut of a brand [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 216: Behind the Curtains It’s here! It’s here! It’s the Watchtower!! This week there is plenty to get to as we are finally able to get a toehold on the New DCU. Is it living up to the hype? And on that front, when is a comic book sell out really a sell out? Could it be never? We [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 215: The Beginning of The End of The Prelude To The Beginning This week on The Watchtower there is all kinds of newness afoot! First, the new DCU is upon is! We finish off our three-part look at all 52 books, and a wee sneak peek at Justice League #1! Then, we thought Fear Itself was over in October… Think again, true believers! If you thought comic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 214: The Grand Questys Eve Reveal! This week on The Watchtower, yeah we’ve got stuff. Stuff to talk about in the Forecast, and our second-of-three part look at DC’s New 52. But the big nut? The real thing that’s got everyone excited? We have and interview with, and will reveal the identity of the Special Mystery Guest who will be appearing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 213: They Have Comics In Books Now This week on The Watchtower, it’s all about the books! First up, we start a three-part series in which we break down the New 52. What’s good? What’s worth missing? What’s a Must Have? We let you know! Then, the Marvelous Mavens of Marketing, Marvel have announced… ready for it? More polybags! But these ones [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 212: The 2011 Questy Awards That’s right folks! The most wonderful time of the year is here, and we have all the info you need on the 2011 Questy Awards! Katherine Curtis joins us in studio to let you know the Where’s, When’s and very special Who’s that make up this year’s event! Plus, lots has been said about Miles [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 211: The Vengance of ChubbyBandito And we are back! And we’ve brought a friend! Donnie’s girlfriend Sabrina is here, and she’s brought with her a non-comic fan’s review of Captain America: The First Avenger! Could this be the film that builds bridges? Plus, we get the rundown on the SDCC experience, and don’t worry Marvel! We won’t spoil the contents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 210: Back To The Future From The Past’s Present This week on The Watchtower, it’s San Diego Comicon! (And by that, we mean that Jeff’s there and Donnie’s mad about it.) So we are broadcasting from the past, but that doesn’t stop us from delivering your dose of the non-frightening lighting! We take a look back at 2011 (so far). What were the big [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 209: We’re Just a Great Big Tease It’s all about the tease this week on The Watchtower! Marvel has released a virtual slew of teaser images that it promises to elaborate on during SDCC. Assuming of course they don’t tell the New York Times the day before the panel. Also, the identity of the new Ultimate Spider-Man is a big tease? Have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Epsiode 208: Mysterious Seductions of The Red This week on The Watchtower, we are diving deep into the mysterious unknown! First up, DC has released it’s “New 52 FAQ” and it contains… well, a lot of the same stuff we already knew. But there are some new points that are worth a gander! Then, Ultimate Spider-Man’s swan song has swung, so what’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 207: Deadly Digital Dilemmas This week on The Watchtower, we get a whole bunch of stuff done. First up, the DC Retailer Roadshow has swung through and given us some more details on how their relaunch is going to roll out. Advertising, incentives, variants and print outsells digital by how much?! Then, it’s a somber, spoiler-riddled segment as we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 206: The Terrible Trifecta This week on The Watchtower, it’s a perfect storm. Doing this show is always a blast, but there are three instances in which it’s even more fun: 1.) There is a big-budget superhero movie to review (ie Green Lantern). 2.) There is an issue to discuss that transcends the books themselves (ie racial or gender [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 205: The Super-Bro Code This week on The Watchtower, we’re going back and forth! First we look ahead to the DCNu. The books have been announced, the teams have been announced and the looks have been revealed. And what looks they are. Five ups and Five downs to the DC Relaunch! Then, we reach back a couple of weeks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 204: The Good, The Bad and The Donnie This week on The Watchtower it’s wall to wall coverage of the DC-Nu-s that’s hit in the least week! We run down what’s going to be happening with your favourite titles, characters and creators. JLA, Batman, Superman, Morrison, Lee, Johns, Lanterns, Legions and more!! Then, we dive into the digital debate. Are “combo” packs really [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 203: Goint Back To One This week on The Watchtower, huge news that has rocked the comics world! Yes, that’s right Katherine Curtis, the Naked Nerd is back! Also, there may be something about DC comics rebooting their entire universe with all-new first issues in September. Might we have something to say about that? Yeah, I’d like to think so. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 202: Building A Better Mouse Trap Greetings friends and neighbours! It’s, once again, The Watchtower! This week, its all about Flashpoint and Fear Itself! The opening salvos have been thrown in the “Big 2″ summer events, so which one seems better? Which is being executed properly? And more importantly, which one will be getting the numbers? Then, a discussion about comic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 201: The Mighty Hammer of The Warrior Questyll This week on the Watchtower, we’re heading to Asgard and back! Thor has officially hit world wide movie screens, which means we’ve seen it and we’ll give you the ins and outs of what was good and what was not so good! Then, in other movie news, huge and gargantuan spoilers from the sets of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 200: The Bi-Tennial Edition Yes, you read that right folks. It’s the 200th episode of The Watchtower!! To kick it all off, we get Ultimate as Marvel unveils it’s new line of Ultimate comics. Can Hickman, Spencer and Co revive what was greatest about Ultimate Comics? Or could be be looking at another Ultimatum? Then, someone’s gotta call Batman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 199: Honkin’ On Bobo This week on The Watchtower, Donnie has the night off so in between periods of the tragic Montreal/Boston hockey game, Moss is going solo! There’s plenty of stuff to get fired up about, including the arrival of yet another huge Vertigo Character in the DCU! Could this be the start of a whole new trend? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 198: Magical Dinosaurs Await Thee! This week on The Watchtower, we’re taking it to the streets! I have no idea what that means. What I can tell you though is we’ve got big news to talk about! Starting with a brand new Ultimate Spider-Man! Who will wear the costume? What will become of Peter Parker? Will the fact it’s been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 197: A Sidebar With an Open Bar That’s right kids, The Watchtower is back!!! And we have a lot of stuff to get to: First up, there’s two huge returns in comics and both were spoiled before we could read the book! Swamp Thing has hit the DCU, and Steve Rogers is picking up the shield once again. Also, some interesting Batman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 196: The Crankpants Hypocrite Edition This week on The Watchtower, I’m tired, cranky and can barely remember what I said. So, on with the show! First up, the Black Panther is on his way to becoming the American Panther. Will this be another triumphant usurping of Cap’s costume a-la Captain Punish-erica? We shall see… In other costume news, the internet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 195: In Which The Shilling Commences It’s something of a new-look show this week as the Watchtower returns from a brief hiatus! C2E2 exploded in Chicago, assuring it’s place among the top-tier conventions of the season. There was huge news from Marvel about Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider and More! Not to be left out, Image and DC also made some announcements, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 194: Full of Tiger Blood and Win This week on The Watchtower, everyone’s jumping on the Charlie Sheen saga so why not us? Joining us for an exclusive interview is Mark Shapiro, writer of the upcoming Charlie Sheen bio-comic from Bluewater. Have we seen all there is to The Warlock? or is there more? Also, the Year of The X-Men is upon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 193: The Deafening Sound of Silence This week on The Watchtower, there is an absolute ton of stuff to get to. There really wasn’t a single huge story this week, but there were certainly lots of things to talk about! The Cape says goodbye as Powers starts up. Scooby’s done something wrong, and Anne is totally a cat, AND: Spidey’s daring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 192: Giving. Stuff. Away. This week on The Watchtower, there are a ton of things to get to, both big and small. First off, the comics world was stunned this week by the sudden death of Milestone co-founder Dwayne McDuffie. We take a moment to remember a man who may have been under the radar for some, but who’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 191: The Future of The Foundation Is Fantastic This week on The Watchtower, there is so much to get to it’s a wonder this wasn’t a 2-parter! In the wake of Johnny Storm’s death, the remaining members of the Fantastic Four are re-branded as Future Foundation. They add Spider-Man to their roster and steal X-Force’s uniforms. Big Mistake? Or the Future…? um, foundation. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 190: Donnie Does The DCU There is a metric ton of stuff to get to in this week’s episode of The Watchtower! First up, we break down and review the Superbowl’s biggest Comic/Sci-Fi trailer Debuts!! -Thor -Captain America -Transformers 3 -Cowboys & Aliens -Pirates of The Caribbean 4 and More! Then, the Mecca of ComiCon’s, SDCC has sold out again. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 189: Later Than Spawn #202 This week on The Watchower we got snowed in. But fortunately we’re Canadian so that didn’t keep us down for long! Flashpoint has been revealed to be DC’s next MEGA event. And when they say Mega, they mean MEGA. With 15 mini-series and several tie in one-shots ON TOP of a regular series, is this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 188: Death Comes To Us All This week on The Watchtower, we discuss two huge deaths in the comics world. First up, Wizard Magazine, the publication that used to make or break those in comics industry has closed hit’s doors forever. A sign of the times? or a sign that should read “under new management?” Also, the Fantastic Four suffers a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 187: Live… From The Kitchen! This week on The Watchtower, I won’t lie: Things get weird. First off, Donnie’s sick with Bubonic Dysentery or something, and I can’t even reach him by phone. So, I’ll do waht any good friend would: Assume he’s ok, and soldier on in his absence. So we’ve got a SLEW of new movie pics to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 186: Shining It Right Up This week on The Watchtower, we shine up a Diamond as there’s NOTHING going on. But fear not, there’s always something to talk about. Like the comic book “Media” for example. Could they be contributing to the success or defeat of certain titles? And Wonder Woman… first a lukewarm re-launch, and now a passed over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 185: Kickin’ It In The 2K11 Yes, that’s right it’s The Watchtower in 2011!! We took a couple of weeks off but we’re back, and have a TON of stuff to get to! Marvel’s got a new evernt on the horizon: Fear Itself. Are we ready for another big event? And more importantly, is Marvel? There’s a new Venom in town, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 184: The 2010 Christmas List Edition This week on The Watchtower, we go a-wassling! That’s right, it’s the annual Christmas List edition, in which we spell out for you the best Christmas gift ideas for the geeks on your list! And this year as our gift to you, we’ve brought in the lovely Katherine Curtis of Naked News to decode the best way [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 183: Phoning It In For A Change This week on The Watchtower, we’re back! But somehow still phoning it in. First up: Shadowland is over… and Daredevil is… something? …maybe? 27 #1 from Image is on shelves this week, but advance copies are already selling for $35-$50 on ebay. Has Image grown to be the best place for creator owned and indie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 182: Don’t Get Any Ideas This week on The Watchtower its big news, big people and big ideas!! We kick it off with all kinds of news on the new Spider-Man movie… that starts shooting in 2 WEEKS?!?! Also, rumor has it director Zack Snyder is looking to Avatar’s special effects crew, because he wants his version of Superman — rumored [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 181: How Are We Supposed To Stop…THE END OF THE WORLD!?! This week on The Watchtower, we dodge disaster after disaster!!JMS is leaving Monthly Comics to focus on the sequel to Superman: Earth One, and apparently THE WORLD IS ENDING BECAUSE OF IT!!!Spider-Man is going to die (but not that Spider-Man), and Doomsday will reign… and apparently THE WORLD IS ENDING BECAUSE OF IT!!!The first Green [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 180: In Which We Resume Talking About Batman The week on The Watchtower, The Dark Knight isn’t the only one returning! The Naked Nerd Katherine Curtis joins us in studio! Batman’s Back!! And with him comes more details on Batman Inc! Is this gonna work? Or is he doomed to be “Bruce” the way Captain America is “Steve?” Judging a book by it’s cover: With [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 179.1: In Which We Hardly Talk About Batman This week on The Watchtower, there’s plenty of tomfoolery afoot! In the new year, DC and Marvel are going to be focusing on attracting new readers. Marvel has set up a “Point One” program, and DC is trying a series of one shots featuring it’s “Key” characters. Will either of these work? Or are they just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 178: The Watchtower Rises… Then Falls Asleep Again This week on The Watchtower, there’s a ton of stuff to cram in! In addition to your weekly dose of The Forecast, there’s also the title of the new Batman movie, and news that The Riddler will not be the villain as suspected! But what does it all mean…? Also, does the internet kill comic sales? Not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 177: The Edge of Forever (or something) This week on The Watchtower there are many shocking and appalling moments! First up, we talk TV as we run down ABC’s wishlist of Marvel properties to make into ongoing shows. Are they close to a hit? Or way off base? Also, Ryan Reynolds has a Lantern. It looks like this: Finally, along with an awesome Rant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 176: The Show That Will Not Die After an absolute SLEW of problems (Physical, Mental and Societal), The Watchtower is here!! Last weekend was New York Comicon, and it ended up being a massive show, not only in size but news as well!! -DC and Marvel are dropping prices! -Theres new Captain America on the way! -Aquaman is the “leader” of the DCU! -A Zombie infestation is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 175: Super-Snyder-Sexy-Stone-Shot-Specials This week on The Watchtower, we slow it down a bit and get a little sexy! For example, is there a line when it comes to comics and sex? Is there a time when things can get too sexy? Or is that just at Donnie’s house? Also, in movie news, Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) is on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 174: Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss This week on The Watchtower, there’s a virtual pantload of stuff to get to! The Big News this week: DC has a new boss, and the thing about this boss is he’s the former boss at Marvel, Bob Harras. He’s also the recipient of one of the most famous digs in comics. Will this bring fresh [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 173: Movin’ On Up, To The West Coast (Kinda) This week on The Watchtower, it’s moving day! That’s right not only is Marvel cashing in some of it’s Disney Dollars and getting swanky new digs, but DC is headed bi-costal! What does this mean? Not good things if you work at Wildstorm… Also, there’s a new Man Without Fear in town and it’s not Donnie! Can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jimmy Palmiotti Think’s We’re Neat! Check out this clip from the latest “Listen To Jimmy with Jimmy Palmiotti!” The full show can be downloaded via iTunes, or through WhereMonstersDwell.ca Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 172: Headfirst Into The Reach This week on The Watchtower, it’s not just about comics! That’s right, the newest and biggest installment of the most massive video game franchise in history has hit stores. Halo: Reach is up and running, and to find out what the deal is with this huge game, we go right to the source: Microsoft. Then, the first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 171: Grumpy Old Bat-Men This week on The Watchtower, we’re back and there’s a ton of stuff to get to! DC is going to bring you two-times the fun this fall when Bruce Wayne returns to the cape and cowl he made famous. But what of Dick Grayson? No worries, they can BOTH be Batman! Wha…? Daredevil is going down for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 170: Holy, uh, Batman, Batman! This week on The Watchtower we have the ONE TRUE BATMAN!! That’s right, not Kilmer, not Keaton, not the other guys… the one and only ADAM WEST joins us to talk Batman, Family Guy, and dating. Uh, what? But that’s not all! Katherine Curtis is here for a preview of the first annual Questy Awards! This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 169: Donnie Rocks The Socks Off The Ol’ Xbox This week on The Watchtower, Donnie’s full of excitement! Moss is full of tacos. That doesn’t have a whole lot to to with this episode though. The man they call Questy has played all of Fall’s releases for the XBox!! Halo, Mortal Kombat, and one game that is so huge to comic fans, it needed it’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 168: The Adventures of Bruce and Steve This week on The Watchtower some surprising (and not so surprising) returns. First up Donnie’s back! But where’s our intrepid reporter been? Find out! Also since Daredevil’s going bad, we think it’s time that a villain went good. But who’s the best Marvel Villain for the job? We speculate and pontificate! Hal Jordan’s mentor may have been Sinestro, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 167: On Tape and On My Own! If you don’t like the sound of me talking, you’re in for a rough ride on this week’s edition of The Watchtower! That’s right, my parter in crime, the man they call “Questy” is enjoying a much-deserved vacation, so I’m bringin’ it to you solo this week! But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a butt-load of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 166: In Which No One Was Stabbed In The Eye With A Pen San Diego Comicon has come and gone once again! And like years past, there has been a bevy of news and information expunged into the internet from this once-small convention. Movies, TV, Video Games and even a few Comics were at the centre of this year’s Con, and we run down all the headlines you need [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 165: The Watchtower’s Finest Hour (or 43 Minutes) This week on The Watchtower, there’s a whole bunch of stuff to get to! In addition to the usual stuff like The Forecast and Questy’s Rant Farm, Holy Hell! Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern!! What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just strange… Also, unless you read comics under a rock, you know Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 164: Scott Pilgrim Vs The Watchtower This week on The Watchtower there is so much to cram into one show, at the end you’re gonna need a nap! I know I did. Any way, first up, the lovely and talented Katherine Curtis is in the studio, and she’s bringing one hell of a surprise with her. Buckle up and get ready because [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 163: What Not To Wear This week on The Watchtower we break it down and put it back together! The world has a new Spider-Man! And he’s… who? Andrew Garfield was introduced to the world as the newest Peter Parker. Will he live up to the responsibility? Or the Power? Or… the… I dunno, something else? Up next, Makeovers!! Jeff “Clinton” Moss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 162: Saving Comics, One Cover At a Time This week on The Watchtower, there’s much ado about nothing… and much ado about something! (What?) We dig deep into the Marvel Vs DC Digital Compensation arguments. Healthy competition is one thing, but these guys are one step away from Yo Mama jokes! Next up, our friends The Suicide Girls aren’t going to be at this year’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 161: They’re Both Words (The Just Don’t Make Sense Together) This week on The Watchtower we get down and dirty with the biggest issues (see what I did there?) facing comics today!! First up, with the One Moment In Time story looming in the distance, we ask can retconning a retcon really work? And honestly, was Brand New Day that bad? DC Comics has come under fire [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 160: The Revenge of The Return of The Naked Nerd That’s right, she’s gorgeous, she’s sassy and she’s back! This week on The Watchtower, Katherine Curtis of Naked News (aka The Naked Nerd) joins us for the full program! And what a program it is! First up, it’s E3 this week which means gaming, gaming, gaming! But is there something in there for the comic fans? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 159: Nothing But The Solid Gold Fresh as a daisy, and ready to go here comes the new episode of The Watchtower! It’s not just the Emperor that gets some new clothes! Captain America, Thor and Scott Pilgrim all have some new gear! Who’s the freshest of the fresh? Find out! Up next, Marvel experiments with same-day distribution of it’s print and digital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 158: Water Bagged and Boarded This week on The Watchtower, Donnie’s back! And not a moment too soon, as we’ve got a whole bunch o’crap to jam into this week’s episode! Movies movies movies! So much news this week, all coming out faster than we could keep up with! We’ve whittled it down to the big stuff though! Green Lantern, The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 157: All By Myself, Don’t Wanna Be All By Myself This week on The Watchtower, Donnie is no longer with us. No, he didn’t die or get “restructured,” he’s come down with a pretty nasty throat infection (No word on if Despotellis was involved). So, I thought to myself “What would I want to hear on The Watchtower?” I can tell you this: It [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 156: A Pants-Off Dance-Off That’s right ladies and gents, this week on The Watchtower it’s the one thing you’ve always wanted from us: PORN! Yep, that’s right, we go deep in an exclusive one-on-one probing interview with Axel Braun, the man behind Vivid Entertainment’s Batman: A XXX Parody. As the hits on the Youtube explode, we penetrate the internet buzz and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 155: Steal This Radio Show This week on The Watchtower, we tackle all the issues, and we start by donning our Eyepatches and Peg Legs to talk about Piracy!The popular website for scanned comics HTMLcomics.com was shut down this week by a coalition of publishers, retailers, and creators. Is it OK to download comics? We’ve almost all contributed to piracy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 154: A Doozie of An Iron Man Twozie This week on The Watchtower we pry Donnie away from the Xbox long enough to talk about a few things. First up, Free Comic Book Day has come and gone for another year. Did you have a good time? We certainly did, and we’ll tell you all about it! Plus, are the books worth it? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 153: You Get What You Pay For This week on The Watchtower, there’s even more than usual to get to! We’re on the cusp of Free Comic Book Day 2010, but what’s the big deal? Are there any books really work slogging to the store for? Or is this another case of “get what you pay for?” We break it all down. On [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 152: Siege The Moment, Donnie This week on The Watchtower, we try and wade through the slew of news that came out of last weekend’s C2E2 show in Chicago. There’s a whole lot happening in the X-World, as 2 new series and a reboot were announced in Chicago. But who will the X-Folks be up against? Sinister? Apocalypse? Dracula? Yeah, you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 151: Doctor. . . Who? This week on The Watchtower, there’s so much to get to only point-form questions can truly lay it all out: -What’s a Hulked-Out-Hero? -Who’s gonna direct The Avengers? -Where are Disney and Marvel going next? -Why does Witchblade stink? -How come Green Lantern’s got no pants? All that teasing, plus The Forecast, and the funniest Questy’s Rant Farm this year! Related posts No [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 150: The 150th Episode That’s right friends and family, it’s the 150th episode of The Watchtower! And what have we got planned for this extra-special anniversary episode? Absolutely nothing! Except, of course, the fun and frolic that you’ve come to know and love from The Watchtower! First up, Blackest Night #8. Did it live up to the hype? Are we really [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 149: A Dynamic Trio! This week, it’s a super-sized edition as we are joined by a Canadian superstar artist for a full hour!! Cameron Stewart has worked with some of comics biggest writers such as Joss Whedon, Ed Brubaker, and frequent collaborator Grant Morrison. Having just finished up a 3-issue run on Batman & Robin, Stewart joins us to chat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 7 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 148: Wizards of The Coast (Not Really) This week on The Watchtower, we break the news and clean it up again in our Comic News Roundup! Plus, a feature interview with Gareb Shamus, founder and CEO of Wizard Entertainment. Wizard’s first convention outside of the US is about to hit Toronto, and we’ve got all the info! Also, Motion Comics are once again in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 147: In Which We Learn The True Meaning of Thanksgivng The Watchtower’s back and at full power! First up, there’s a whole lot of screen-related news out there this week, both Big and Small. There’s a new trailer for Iron Man 2, some details on Thor, Smallville gets another lease on life, and they want WHO to be Captain America? Find out! Up next, Bruce Wayne is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 6 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 146: Voice of The Voiceless This week on The Watchtower, you won’t hear a lot of something. Namely, Jeff. That’s right, Jeff lost his voice so we called in a more than capable pinch hitter: Katherine Curtis of Naked News! Donnie and The Naked Nerd go one-on-one and explore the Female comics market. Marvel is making a huge push towards this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Donnie on Superman Last week, Donnie was a guest on Newstalk 1010’s The Ryan Doyle show to talk about the million dollar sale of Superman. Have a listen! Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 5 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 145: Crisis Counselling This week on The Watchtower we handle a few different crisis’! First off, the Financial Crisis of the Million-Dollar Superman comic! Could there be a hidden gem somewhere in your stack of Deathblow issues? We’ll find out if you can get rich collecting comics! Then it’s a Managerial Crisis as DC restructures it’s management team! It’s totally [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 4 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 144: Better LIGHTS Than Never This week on The Watchtower, we’re totally on time with everything!! Yeah, any way, We take on Marvel’s new Astonishing line, AKA the “Earth What?” line, as well as some of the creative teams behind it. Speaking of creative teams, Green Lantern is about to go through a team change on all three of the Green [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 3 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 143: If I Were A Scientist. . . This week on The Watchtower, it’s the return of The Red-Headed Stranger! Our very own Katherine Curtis of Naked News drops by to join us for the full show. And what a show it is! Huge Captain America movie news broke this week. Apparently Cap’s origin and backstory are to be changed dramatically, and include [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin Smith: The Director’s Cut All right Watchtower Faithful, due to circumstances beyond our control, Episode 143 is going to be a bit late. But fear not! In reparation, I present to you the full version of our talk with the one and only, Kevin Smith. Needless to say, it’s an unedited, uncensored chat with a pop culture icon, so [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 2 Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 142: iDonnie Meets The iPad This week on The Watchtower, it’s time to weigh in on the biggest thing in the world right now: The iPad. What will it mean for comics? Is it a good investment? Or another nail in the print comic coffin? Then, it’s all about The Avengers. There’s a new team in town come this may, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Watchtower Throwback: Volume 1 I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from people mentioning that our archives are kind of incomplete, and some of the early shows are unavailable. Well, mention no more! We happily present the first Watchtower Throwback! Every Friday I’ll post two previously unavailable shows from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Watchtower Archives, and you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 141: Guest Starring Shecky! This week on The Watchtower, there’s only one thing to talk about: Kevin Smith. Sure, we get to the biggest books of last week and the ones you should be looking out for in the Forecast. But the big deal this week is our exclusive interview with writer/director Kevin Smith. The mind behind films like Clerks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 140: Logging On and On and On. . . There’s big doin’s a-happenin’ on The Watchtower this week! First off, apparently Siege is the end of The Avengers!! What will this new “Heroic” age mean for Marvel? We have no idea, but some pretty good suggestions! Blackest Night vs Siege. Both have promotions running, the most successful being DC’s Ring Promo of a few weeks back. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 139: For The Love of Lively This week on The Watchtower, we could barely keep up with the comic news as it was breaking! Huge movie news beyond the casting of the Green Lantern’s leading lady! Spider-Man 4 is done! Finito! Scrapped!! Raimi and Co are out, and some other dude is in. But will taking Peter Parker back to High School [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 138: New Year’s Revolution We’re back! It’s the first show of 2010 and it’s jam-packed with Watchtower goodness!! 2010 is going to be the “Year of Spider-Man” according to Marvel, who released a teaser image of the Ol’ Web-Head and his… wife? Zuh? Also, Marvel announced this week a series of Deadpool variant covers, thus re-igniting the age-old debate. Variant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 137: What’re You Talking About? It’s Totally Wednesday This week on The Watchtower, we gear up for the holidays! It’s our annual Gift-Giving-Guide For Dorks as Donnie and I tell you what you can get the comic book fan, or hard to please person on your list! There are a lot of good suggestions, so have a pen and paper ready! But wait! There’s huge [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 136: I Hope Anne Hathaway Hears This This week on The Watchtower there is a LOT of stuff to get to! DC shocked the industry this week by announcing their new Earth One line, due out in 2010. Featuring superstar creators, and all-new contemporary origins of classic characters Earth One seems to be the, er, Ulimate way to jump into these comics. But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 135: New and Improved With More Stain-Resistant Power Here it is folks! The All-New Watchtower!! We kick things off with a discussion about Blackest Night #5. Is it the best comic ever written, ever? EVER? Probably, and we’ll tell you why! Next we move from the page to the screen where we have mucho movie news! Green Lantern, Avengers, Iron Man 2, Silver Surfer, were [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 134: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? This week on The Watchtower, it’s the end of things as you know them! That’s right, this episode contains an announcement that is so huge, so shocking, so incredible, that nothing will ever be the same again. But before all that there’s comics to get to. We have a discussion about the newest Thor cast member, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 133: Haven’t You Always Wanted A Monkey? This week on The Watchtower, it’s all the news and views that you will probably never, ever use! We kick it off with a moment of silence as we mourn the passing of a major member of the Green Lantern Corps. Will his death be in vain? Will it ever live up to that other guy’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 132: Tweetly-Dee! This week on The Watchtower it’s all about the big news, the hard hitting facts and excessively-researched journalism! Wow, Wouldn’t it be weird if we were like that? No, we do comics, and comics are what we’ve got for you! Marvel’s Man-At-Arms Brian Michael Bendis let a whole lot of info slip in a recent Twitter-chat. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 131: The Long Distance Relationship And we’re back, faithful believers! Not even the Flu or a distance of 500+km can keep The Watchtower down! This week, we talk about one of our favourite creators looking for a career change! But will it work out for him? And for us? What is his new secret project? Do we have the answers to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode… 44? The Flu Edition Hello Watchtower Faithful! Donnie was unfortunately stricken with the Flu this week (the regular kind, not the scary kind) so we were unable to record a new slice of Watchtower pie for you. But, as the road to recovery continues, I wanted to give you a little something from the archives. Presented here are both parts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 130: War! Uh, Sort of… This week on the Watchtower, it’s all about even more Marvel event news! First up is DOOM WAR. What else do we have to say? It’s a War, against Doom. This looks to be an incredible story, but is one of Marvel’s premiere bad guys up to the task? Find out! Next, it’s Ultimates 4! Uh, I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 129: The Late Night Shift This week on The Watchtower, we turn down the lights, thrown on some Chicago and bring you the late-night edition of the show. This week some light shed on the nest big Marvel Event. Seige will last 4 Bendis-scripted issues, but what will it mean for the Marvel U? The original Avengers back together for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 128: Astonished Public Enemies #1 and 2 This week on The Watchtower we get Astonishing! Astonishing X-men, the once-jewel of the X-Empire is back this week, both as a book and a Motion Comic. What happened to this book? Will new art breathe life back into it? Find out! Also, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies has been on the shelves for a while now, but is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 127: Delayed No More! Have no fear, it’s here, it’s here! The new episode of The Watchtower! The “Ultimate Cut” of Watchmen is due on store shelves this November. The multi-disc sets sound pretty great at first glance, but is this really the set Watchmen fans have been craving? Find out! In last week’s Dark X-Men: The Confession one-shot, Cyclops and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 126: Cookies and A Morally Casual Attitude This week The Watchtower sees the return of the one and only Naked Nerd, Katherine Curtis of Naked News! She joins us as we break down the brand new lineup of the Justice League. Mon-El? Donna Troy? Dr. Light II? Who are these people? We’ll let you know, and Donnie will let you know who should [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 125: Holding Out For A Hero It’s a big week on The Watchtower! First off, we break the news (I swear, it looked stronger than that) of the next big DC storyline to be adapted into an animated feature! Plus our choices as to which big stories we’d like to see animated by DC, and by Marvel since they’ve got all that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 124: Watchtower ODST’s This week on The Watchtower, we are joined by a video game guest so huge, even I know who he is. No, it’s not Mario, or even Luigi. It’s Steve Downs, better known to the gamer world as Master Chief of the HALO franchise! Donnie geeks out harder than ever as we talk HALO, Sci-fi, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 123: The Wonderful World of Donnie Judging by the enormous amount of comments, there was one story in the comics world this week: The Disney buyout of Marvel. We take a look at this story from several angles, retail, characters, stories, business, and cull all the opinion and speculations into one discussion. We like to have fun on The Watchtower, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 122: Heads In The Cloud City Sometimes a day job comes in handy. Today, thanks to my day job, I got to speak with the one and only Billy Dee Williams, aka Lando Calrissian. It was a brief conversation about his upcoming appearance at Fan Expo, but as I’m always thinking of you guys, I grabbed some tape and have it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 121: What? No Barbeque? It’s an action-packed show this week, chock full of GI Joe action and Kung Fu Grip! The new GI Joe movie has been in theaters for a few weeks now, which gives us just enough time to properly digest it. But will knowing truly be half the battle? Or does the flick fall short of even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 120: Abusing Your E-mails Since 2007 Our apologies for the tardiness of this week’s episode, but to make up for it we’ve packed in as much as we possibly can! Guess who’s back? Back again? Not Shady, but Todd Macfarlane. He’s teaming with Robert Kirkman on a new project that’s over two years in the making. Is it worth the wait? Find [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 119: Exciting and New! This week on The Watchtower we take a look at what’s new(ish) in the news. San Diego Comicon was a couple weeks ago and a few huge stores broke! We give you all the juicy details and reveal one huge story that no one else is talking about! Then, it’s a great season for video games, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 118: Patent Pending! Patent Pending! Patent Pending! This week on The Watchtower (tm), we are joined by two very special guests. They are both greatly respected in their own rights in the comic field, and together they launched the Marvel “Noir-verse” via their hugely successful X Men Noir (tm). They are absolutely a blast and two of my favourite people in comics [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 117: Return To Senders Its all about returns this week on The Watchtower. Donnie returns to the studio in spite of his vacation plans. Geoff Johns returns to The Flash, this time as producer and co-writer of a live action movie, and Blackest Night features the return of… well, almost everybody. We also return to Marvel Divas. A heated [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 116: On The Eve of The Blackest Night This week, there’s two stories and one hero to talk about on The Watchtower. It’s all about the Green Lantern, as we get you ready for this week’s Blackest Night #1! Who are the other Lantern Corps involved? What should you read leading into Blackest Night? And most importantly, what’s it all going to cost [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 115: I Need a Hug, Dammit! This week on The Watchtower, I seem like something of a grumpy-pants. Maybe it’s because of last week’s Captain America: Reborn. Has the return of Steve Rogers signaled the return of my crankiness? Or is it the price tag on the first “issue” of DC’s Wednesday Comics that’s got my panties in a twist? Could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 114: When It Dark Reigns, It Dark Pours This week on The Watchtower, we tell you about almost every book under the sun. We had to Super-Size The Forecast in order to fit in all the great books that are coming out this week, and the zillion Dark Reign titles that his stores last week. Which are good and which are bad? Find [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 113: Cursed Pirate Donnie This week on The Watchtower, we start off by talking about last week. Last week’s big story that is. We finally get to throw our two cents in on Captain America #600. Was it worth the wait? Or in our case, the EXTRA wait? Find out! Next up we are joined by the one and only Jeremy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 112: Who You Gonna Call? Someone, I Hope… This week on The Watchtower, we have the benefit of some adult supervision in the form of The Naked Nerd, Katherine Curtis. Katherine took the afternoon off from her Naked News gig to co-host with us, and declare Donnie her Arch Nemesis! In amongst all that chaos though, we get down to it. The final word [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 111: Wow… That’s a Lot of “1’s” This week on The Watchtower, the Number 1 issue is, well, the Number 1 issue of Batman & Robin. We give a full review of the newest chapter of Batman’s life. I had some pretty strong things to say about it last week, and Donnie is here to make sure I don’t forget ‘em. Next [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 110: For This, You Will Pay A Terrible Price This week on The Watchtower, we experience the final, mind-blowing, emotional rollercoaster that is Donnie Does Trinity. These last 51 issues have been… well, something. Will 52 live up to the legacy? Find out! Also, we’ve taken a lot of crap for people over the years, as being too pro-Marvel. Well, hang onto your hats as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 109: Bestest Friends We’ll Always Be This week’s episode of The Watchtower is all about friends. Old friends, Donnie and myself, sit down with a new friend, Best-selling author of The Book of Lies, Brad Meltzer. Brad’s writing credits include Novels, TV & Movie scripts and of course comics. His most noteable works feature DC’s bestest of friends, The Justice League [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 108: From The Victors Come The Spoils This week on The Watchtower, we’re gonna wreck some stuff (most of which was wrecked by other people first). First off, remember last week when Donnie said “I hate Star Trek?” Well, someone went to the movies this weekend, and guess what he saw? We talk about the new Star Trek movie, and if you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 107: The Blue Room (Rated: 14A) This week on The Watchtower, completely through no fault of our own, things get a little blue. It might have something to do with our special guest co-host, Katherine Curtis, who is best known as the Naked Nerd on the immensely popular Naked News. Katherine is an uber-comic fan, and we talk all things geek, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 106: What’s “Vacation?” On This week’s Watchtower, we get the lowdown on a few issues: 1) X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Good? Bad? Ugly? Now that it’s legal to do so, we let you in on the real deal with the first blockbuster of the season. 2) Free Comic Book Day! Blackest Night! Avengers! But which one comes out on top? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 105: The Curse of Shadowhare! When you hear about everything we have on The Watchtower this week, you’ll have to listen just to see how we jam it all in! FORTY new books will be available for FREE on Free Comic Book Day this weekend. We let you know which ones to get up early for. In today’s world of computer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 104: “I dunno, I’m not good at titles.” This week on The Watchtower we get picked up for solicitation! Not that kind of solicitation, the July Marvel and DC solicitations! There’s big Blackest Night news, and some big stories coming out from Marvel as well. How do we feel about these future-books? Find out within! Also, The Black Terror. The Green Lama. The Phantom Reporter. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 103: Straight Toothwiggy, Son! This week’s episode of The Watchtower is something of a mosaic.There wasn’t a whole lot going on in the land of comics and comic-related stuff, so we dig deep and found some stories that you need to hear about but may have missed: -HUGE Green Lantern casting rumors. A MAJOR star has expressed interest in playing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 102: We Fought The Law, and It Was No Contest This week in comics there was one story: The leaked version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. We take an indepth look at what a leaked copy of this movie means for Fox and the industry at large, as well as some of the ethical debates that the illegal downloading of the movie has begun. Joining us in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 101: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Flash (But He Ran By To Fast Too Ask) And the winner for longest title ever: Episode 101 of The Watchtower! This week DC Comics Flash: Rebirth hits the shelves, but what exactly is the deal with the Flash? A lot of people have donned the red tights, some have lived, some have died, and some have had really cool hats. So in preparation for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 100: The 100th Episode! This is it friends and neighbours! The 100th Episode of The Watchtower!!! What can we do to mark this momentous occasion? Well, we take a look back at a few of our favourite moments, we have a roiling debate suggested by a listener, and we finally reveal the origins of the man they call Questy! As if [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 099: The Gretzky Edition You know how I know I’m Canadian? I was able to spell “Gretzky” on the first try. This, and other starling revelations are contained within this week’s episode of The Watchtower! First up, you know how we were all excited about Battle For The Cowl? Well, the first issue is out, and there’s a lot to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 098: Crime Pays, But Who’s Buying? This week on the Watchtower we’re joined by a very special guest. He’s worked on Countdown, Leigion of Superheroes, and X-factor amongst others. These days he’s known as the man behind the art of X Men Noir, as well as the spectacular variant covers for the entire Marvel Noir line. That’s right, he’s Dennis Calero, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras: Richard Crouse’s Watchmen Review In this Watchtower Extra, we are pleased to present our full, unedited conversation with noted film critic, Richard Crouse about the Watchmen movie. Have a listen before you hit the theatres this weekend!! Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 097: Who Watches Us Watching The Watchmen? This week on The Watchtower, there is pretty much only one thing to talk about: The release of the Watchmen movie. To get the low-down skinny, we turn to one of the most respected movie reviewers inthe business (at lease until work gets out he does our show), the one and only Richard Crouse. Richard [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 096: Endless, Nameless This week on The Watchtower… well, I’m not exactly sure. See, this past week in the world of Comicdom has been somewhat quiet. So quiet in fact, that it was hard to find stuff to talk about. What does that mean for you, the good listener? It means that we touch on a variety of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 095: Spoiler Sports This week on the Watchtower, we ruin everything. But don’t worry, we had it ruined for us first! Marvel and DC have put out their solicitations for the month of may, and each company has a couple of very interesting books. Or at least they would be had they not spoiled the hell out of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 094: New York, New York! This week on The Watchtower, it’s one story with many parts: The New York Comicon. The Watchtower was there all weekend, and we have interviews with up and coming publisher Ernst Dabel of Dabel Brothers, as well as the stars of the convention, Oni Press and the release of Scott Pilgrim Book 5. But that’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extra – Lights While I am knee-deep in the New York Comicon, we thought it would be fun to offer up this special Watchtower Extra. This is our full conversation with the lovely and talented Lights. She sings, she dances, and she reads her comics! Enjoy! Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 093: The Too Big To Be Contained By 30 Minutes Edition The first thing that you’ll notice about this week’s Watchtower is that it’s 3 minutes and 33 seconds longer than usual. That’s because there was so much going on, we could not physically jam it all into our usual 30! First off we are joined by the delightful singer/songwriter, Lights. Singer/Songwriter? What’s she doing here? Well, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 092: Circle Gets The Square This week on The Watchtower, we delve into all things dark. First off, Dark Reign kicked off in a big way with Dark Avengers #1, and we were once again proven very stupid. We should have seen that coming!!! Seen what, you ask? Find out within! In other dark news, some incredible spoilers regarding The Blackest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 091: Push It. Push It Real Good. This week on The Watchtower, we’re getting pushed! That’s right, the new movie Push (due out Feb 6th) has a prequel comic mini-series out from Wildstorm, and we have Adam Freeman, writer of said mini-series to tell us all about it. It’s a look behind the scenes at creating a world, within a world. Also, did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 090: It’s Totally The Watchtower It’s our 90th episode of The Watchtower! And to celebrate, we’re doing absolutely NOTHING! Well, that’s not entirely true. In this week’s episode, in addition to your favourites like The Forecast and Donnie Does Trinity, we also talk about Final Crisis #6, we talk Watchmen, and we talk about Donnie possibly offending one of Canada’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 089: Flow Charts and Cowls and Donnie! Oh My! It’s our first episode of 2009, and it’s great to back!! This week, we take a peek under the cowl, er, cowls, in DC’s latest teaser image for The Battle For The Cowl. Who will end up with Batman’s mantle? I don’t know. Do you? Next we introduce you to Marvel’s Secret Warriors, and the viral [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 088: The Merry Christmas Edition! This week on The Watchtower, Santa makes a special stop on the Weather Submarine! There’s presents, merriment, laughter, and of course comics! We take a look back at some of the best books and events of 2008, as well as what to look forward to in 2009. And it wouldn’t be The Watchtower without The Forecast, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 087: The General Manager’s Edition What can I say about this week’s edition of The Watchtower? The Dark Reign has fallen on the Marvel Universe as power shifts in the wake of Secret Invasion. Will it be a dynamic shift? Or a shift into third that causes you to stall out on a busy highway, careening dangerously close to a busload [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 086: Love/Hate Relationships This week on The Watchtower we talk all about (gasp!) comic books! Marvel’s Secret Invasion rocked their universe, but will it’s follow-up, Dark Reign, be setting the same kind of records? To continue the darkness trend, X-Men Noir has sold out it’s first printing. Could this be the start of the Noir-verse? Over on DC’s side, with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 085: The Christmas List Edition It’s Christmas time! And not just in Hollis, Queens! Do you have someone on your Christmas list who is a huge comic fan? Are you a huge comic fan who is dreading the idea of another Christmas morning with only brand new socks to cheer about? Well as always, we solve all your problems on The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras: Dan Goldman Dan Goldman is a smart man. Smart enough to condense an entire presidential election into a graphic novel, smart enough to be one of creative forces behind the webcomic and graphic novel Shooting War, and more than smart enough to be deserving of a special Watchtower Extra. When we originally spoke with Dan, we had to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 084: Dark Knight Avengers -or- The Dressing Room Edition This week on The Watchtower we get dark, and no I don’t mean our rapier-like wit. With the release of the final part of Grant Morrisson’s Batman RIP storyline, we feel the need to attempt to look into the future and speculate about what it might hold for the Dark Knight. Or will there even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 083: The One On The Left Is On The Right This week on The Watchtower, we do our best to cram 78 minutes of programming into 30 minutes of airtime! First, the February solicitations for both Marvel and DC have been released and there is some great stuff on tap, as well as some terrible, terrible stuff on tap. But which is which? Find out within! Then, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 082: In The End, Crime Pays This week on The Watchtower things get dark and mysterious! Not to fear though, we have Fred Van Lente, writer of the upcoming X Men Noir to shed some light on things! Fred tells us all about what’s in store for Marvel’s Merry Mutants in his upcoming series, as well as some tidbits on his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 081: The Excitement of Us Talking If you took all the news, rumors, and reviews that have come out of the comic book world in the last week, put them in a blender and hit “frappe,” you might get this week’s episode of The Watchtower. -Who’d make the best Marvel U President? -Major firings on the set of Heroes! -Dave Gibbons in Toronto! -Who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 080: Why We Can’t Have Nice SFX This week on The Watchtower, we have two huge books to tear to pieces! Both Final Crisis and Secret Invasion gave us new installments, and we have more than a few thoughts on both. A couple weeks ago, I hit up an event called 24 Hour Comics Day with our buddies Sohmer and Lar. Through the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 079: The Fem-Com-Fan-Pan This week on The Watchtower, we are invaded by female comic fans! Our much-talked about Female Comic Fan Panel (or Fem-Com-Fan-Pan) discuss comics from the female point of view, talking about strong characters, stereotypes, and uncomfortable silences in comic book stores. The Panel is: Jessica Frey of HardcoreNerdity.com Stephanie LaLonde, Teacher and Professional Cosplayer Liana K of Ed and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 078: No Moustaches Here It’s a day late, but never a dollar short as the newest episode of The Watchtower hits the streets! Have you noticed how many real-life celebs are appearing in comics today? Donnie did, and shockingly, he doesn’t like it! Plus we’ll have a chat with the man they call Sohmer about the upcoming 24 Hour Comic Day [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 076: Weather Submarines Are A Hefty Investment This week on The Watchtower it’s all about the movies! We have a first hand account from the Toronto set of Kick-Ass, the adaptation of the Mark Millar/John Romita Jr. book, as well as tidbits on the sequel to The Dark Knight, the forthcoming Green Lantern movie, and the beginnings of a prequel to the epic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 076: Hell Experiences A Signifigant Temperature Drop This week on The Watchtower, we both do something we’re not used to: admit we’re wrong. Ultimates 3 has been a much-favoured whipping boy of this program, but with the release of issue 5 this past week everything came together. The story became a much better one that we thought, but what does this mean [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 075: Son of The Freshness It’s the Diamond Episode of The Watchtower! Since it’s such a bling’ed out edition, we felt it necessary to find someone to join us who’s got his own abundant supply of The Freshness. He’s drawn Spider-Man for Marvel, Clerks for Kevin Smith, as well as his own Stupid Comics, Felt, and his newest joint: Kick [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 074: The Broken Sidewalk Edition This is the Broken Sidewalk Edition of The Watchtower, in that all the stuff we lined up seemed to fall through the cracks at the last minute. Never ones to be kept down though, we hit the net and came up with some suitable topics. We break down some upcoming Marvel and DC solicitations, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 073: Dark Watchtower Noir There’s a lot to get to in this week’s episode of The Watchtower. First off, this is a pretty slow period in movieland, unless of course you deal in rumors! We have all the newest, uh, news, and even one tidbit that would make Eartha Kitt spin in her grave! Assuming of course she’s dead. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 072: The Watch-Terry Moore-Cast This week on The Watchtower, we touch base with a man who’s becoming a good friend of the program, Terry Moore. Terry joins us from Texas to talk about the first issue of his Runaways run, as well as answering that age-old question: If you were to die at the hands of a super-villian, who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 071: Live(ish) on Location (kinda)! This week The Watchtower comes to you Live(ish) from the Toronto Convention Center, and Fan Expo! We took a few moments and talked with some lovely Suicide Girls, Gaming Fans, and Friend of the program Richard Crouse, all from Table A49 in the Artist Alley. Then, using our magical Slideways Technology, we whisked ourselves back [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 070: We’re Mad As Hell… … and we ain’t gonna take it anymore!! On this week’s Watchtower, we ask some tough questions of our comics. Ultimate Origins: What’s your deal? Kick-Ass: Where ya been? Spider-Man: Brand New Day was 7 months ago. When are ya gettin’ good? All this, plus we give you the total Fan Expo rundown for The Watchtower and No Reason [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 069: An Initiative of Our Own This week on The Watchtower, we kick things off with talk of this year’s Fan expo, as well as how dumb Iron Man is. Also, this is probably the first time “initiative” and “The Watchtower” have been in the same sentence. We talk with Jim McLauchlin, President of The Hero Initiative, the only not-for-profit organization [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 068: The Calm Before The Storm With the San Diego Comic Con firmly in our rear-view mirrors, the world of Comics has entered into a bit of a post-con lull. We here at The Watchtower however, are just ramping up! This week we dig deep and come up with some movie news and rumors, as well as ask some hard questions about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 067: We Come With The Freshness This week on The Watchtower we take a look at some of the bigger announcements made during last weeks San Diego International Comic Con. There were a lot of stories to come out of the con, and shockingly we haven an opinion on just about all of ‘em. Then we attempt to up our cool [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 066: The Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Spectacular This week is a very special edition of The Watchtower as we dig deep into one of our favourite “guilty pleasure” books of all time. August 6th, 2008 sees the return of everyone’s favourite redhead as Marvel Comics launches the lastest volume of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. Wanting to know more, we decided to go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower on The Radio Our good friends at Toronto @ Noon with Dave Trafford on Newstalk 1010 CFRB asked me to join them on the air today to review The Dark Knight. I thought it was a fun couple of minutes that you guys would enjoy hearing. Because, y’know, I haven’t talked about The Dark Knight enough in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 065: “The Complete and Utterly Horrible Jeff Being a Douchebag Edition” Yes, it’s a long title, but it applies for a couple of reasons. First, because I saw The Dark Knight, and provide a full review right off the top. Also, becuase this episode contains one of my biggest technical screwups ever. You gotta hear it to believe it, and trust me: this is a collectors [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 064: A Classy Affair Tie those ties, and polish up them cufflinks! This week on The Watchtower, we attempt to bring some class into our affair by speaking with Andrew Bolton, Curator of Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. An Exhibition currently showing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We also take a look at the new class of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |