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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 Fry 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 | Episode 063: The Best of The Watchtower It’s The Canada Day Long Weekend here in the frozen north, and thus a holiday for all who call her home! So we thought this would be an excellent time to toot our own horns, and revisit some of our favourite moments from the past 62 episodes. I know what you are thinking: isn’t the big [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Radical Comics� Barry Levine In episode 61 of The Watchtower, we presented an interview with Radical Comics President and Co-Founder, Barry Levine. Unfortunately, we had to edit the heck out of the interview in order for it to fit in to the show! Well, in a special Watchtower Extra, we proudly present (since I remembered!) our exclusive interview with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 062: A Full Buffet Here’s the honest truth about this week’s Watchtower episode. We had a couple of things lined up to bring you guys, both of which fell through at the last minute. Never ones to shy away from a challenge, we dove into other topics and brought you a full plate of Watchtower entrees! We talk Wolverine, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 061: A Personal Best At Podcast Smashing Last week we talked with Sam Sarkar about his Radical Comics release Caliber. Wanting to know more about this new independant publisher, we went straight to the source with Radical President and Co-Founder Barry Levine. We talk Comics, Movies and a whole lot more. Also, tune in later in the week for the full, unedited [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 060: All Hulked Out On Monday, we were invited to the premiere of The Incredible Hulk, so we are able to let you know if it’s worth dropping your hard-earned cash on. We bring you the Geek’s perspective (Jeff), the Hater’s perspective (Donnie), and the Critic’s perspective (Richard Crouse). Also on the show, we talk Caliber with Radical Comics scribe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 059: Strangers In Podcasting This week on The Watchtower: He is the man responsible for the epic self-published book Strangers In Paradise. He has just inked a new exclusive deal with Marvel to write upcoming issues of Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. He also has a really cool brand-new self-published book called Echo that is flying off the shelves. He is the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 058: I Know What You Did Last Weekend The books come out one day later this week, but that can’t stop The Watchtower! We dig into this week’s Final Crisis #1, as well as provide a first-hand report from last weekend’s Anime North here in Toronto. Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, authors of the excellent graphic novel Life Sucks join us, and it’s a huge [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 057: (Not) Starring Jessica Alba US Elections! Myanmar! Gun Laws!! Not one of these things is discussed on this week’s episode of The Watchtower! Instead, we stick to what we know, and go through some hardcover graphic novel ideas, dissect Chapter 1 of Batman R.I.P. and take a look at what DC and Marvel have on tap for our eyes and our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 056: So Fresh and So Clean Hello Friends! This week on the Watchtower we dive headfirst into the latest Secret Invasion news, cast our votes on DC’s upcoming DC Universe: Decision series, and Forecast the heck out of this week and last week’s books. All that, and somewhere in there are a couple of rare moments of agreement. Sounds strange, no? Sounds kinda [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Epidsode 055: Too Much Information With so much happening in the world of comics these days, how can we pack it all in? Free Comic Book Day! DC Universe Zero! New Avengers #40! Iron Man Movie! Speed Racer Movie! Avengers Movie! It’s all in there, along with The Forecast! How can 30 minutes contain it all!? Tune in and find out, True [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras - Iron Man Movie Review Hey Hey! Iron Man comes out May 2nd, and we aren’t ones to leave you hangin’! We’ve tapped our new friend Richard Crause, Reviewer Extraordinaire, to give us his take on this summers first major Blockbuster! And don’t forget, just 2 more sleeps until Free Comic Book Day! We’ll be at Image Collections, 181 Queen St South in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 054: Something Out of Nothing Here it is folks, better late than never! My computer issues have me posting a bit tardy, but the contents within are worth the wait! Take care of all your Forecasting needs, breakdown Countdown, and let you in on all the details for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday!!! Speaking of, don’t forget, you can hang with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 053: New York, New York!! This past weekend was The New York Comic Con, and since we couldn’t be there we bring you the next best thing: Lar Desouza. Lar, Ryan and the rest of the Blind Ferret Crew were at the NYCC, and the brought us back a whole bagload of talkin’ about it! Does that even make sense? Geez, I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 052: The �I�m too tired from putting Ikea furniture together to come up with a witty title� Edition This week on The Watchtower Podcast, we talk movies and Eisners! The Eisners are the Oscars of Comics, so we run down some of our picks in different categories. Our choices may surprise you, and don’t forget to make your own voice heard in the comments or forums! Then, we introduce you to Bryan Deemer, creator of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras - Droppin� Science with Neal Adams This week on The Watchtower, we wrapped up our interview with comic legend Neal Adams. Neal is a fascinating guy, and during our chat we got really indepth on some of his scientific theories about the world we live in, and the universe itself. Try as I may, I couldn’t find a way to fit the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 051: The Adams Sessions (Part II) This week on The Watchtower, we bring you Part II of our incredible discussion with comic legend Neal Adams. Also, we drop some Skrull Science, as we look at Secret Invasion. And in The Forecast, we take on everything that was good, and everything that wasnt. We even managed to keep it to only one rant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras - Secret Invasion! This weeks Watchtower Extra is more of a Watchtower Addition. After we had each read Secret Invasion, we spent the whole next day talking about it and figured why not record it and make it this week’s Extra? So here it is, fresh response to an incredible book, Secret Invasion!!! -JM Related posts The Starting Gun - Secret Invasion #1 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 050: The Adams Sessions (Part I) Well friends, It is our 50th Episode of The Watchtower!! Such a momentous occasion called for a guest of equal stature, and boy did we find one. Artist. Writer. Crusader. Scientist? The one, The Only: NEAL ADAMS!!! Neal was nice enough to spend way more time with us than he said he would, so this is Part I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Watchtower Extras - Kid Robot Quite often when we are putting together The Watchtower, a piece of the conversation or topic lands firmly on the cutting room floor. Be it for reasons of timing, or taste, these little nuggets tend to lie dormant until I want to play them for someone who might think their funny. Today dear friends, that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Epidsode 049: Tasty Whole Wheat Comics This week on The Watchtower, in addition to our sweet new website, we talk all things GI Joe, speculate on a World Without a Batman, and put our spin on last weeks books, and this week’s new releases. and speaking of new releases, last week we were unable to post the show. So in celebration of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 047: Lesbians & Movies - 2 Things I�ll Never Get Into This week on The Watchtower we start with some movie news. Speed Racer and the direct to DVD Justice League: The New Frontier get the royal treatment, and a split decision. Then we move on to Buffy # 12, in which our heroine makes a new friend… of the controversial kind! We talk about it, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 046: The Spider-Sized Edition What can I say about this week’s edition of The Watchtower? Well, this: 1.) This episode features our much talked-about Spider-Man Trivia Challenge; Donnie vs. Mikey Sullz of Morbiopunk fame. Also, Saint Alvia Cartel and Video Dead frontman Ben Rispin joins us as a co-quizmaster. 2.) We go in-depth on the brand new Mark Millar/John Romita Jr. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 045: The Jeff Smith Tapes, Part II Official Press Release: MEDIA RELEASE THE WATCHTOWER PODCAST INTERVIEWS “BONE” CREATOR JEFF SMITH  Part 2 of the in-depth, 2 Part interview with the Comic Legend airs this Wednesday at 10pm EST. TORONTO—February 27, 2008—The Watchtower Podcast is pleased to announce that this week’s show will feature an exclusive, in-depth conversation with “Bone” creator Jeff Smith. The conversation touches on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 044: The Jeff Smith Tapes, Part I Here it is friends!!! The Watchtower’s long-awaited chat with “Bone” guru Jeff Smith! It was a blast to have Jeff on the program, and he delivered one of the most fun and insightful interviews we’ve ever done. This is a man who went as far as Kathmandu to research his work. If every creator in this buisness [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 043: Chicks are for Chicks! On this week’s Watchtower, we hit on a few news stories, do some Forecasting, and defend ourselves against a sexist attack!!! All this, and a very very very very very very special annoucement about next week’s show!! -JM Related posts No related posts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |