William and Dane return from an extended break for an extended discussion about the current status of X-Men: Regenesis, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Eric Trautmann‘s Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist #1 and take a look at the New 52′s progress a full three months in.

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Between the Panels: Issue #134 – Comics Discussion for November 30, 2011
Run time: 54:56

• Episode start
• 1:53 - X-Men: Regenesis Discussion
• 12:56 - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man
• 17:34 - Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist #1
• 28:21 - Discussion: The New 52

Here’s Chris Sims’ review of Uncanny X-Men. Also, here’s my ‘Thought Catalog’ piece in case you missed that as well.

Make sure you also check out our interview with Eric Trautmann about Flash Gordon.

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Between the Panels: Issue #132 – Comic Reviews for September 21, 2011
Run time: 33:30

• Episode start
• 1:35 – Hello and Welcome
• 2:27 – Supergirl #1
• 12:39 – Ultimate Comics Hawkeye #2
• 20:11 – Book of the Week: Batman #1

Here’s that Comics Alliance article about The Dark Knight.

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With the debut of the New 52 from DC Comics, William and Dane sit down to discuss Geoff Johns and Jim Lee‘s Justice League #1, the first of the 52 relaunched titles that DC will release over the month of September. Listen as they discuss the impact of this bold new direction for the DC Universe.

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Between the Panels: Issue #130 – Justice League #1 Review

Run Time: 41:47

• Episode Start
• Hello and Welcome: 1:08
• Justice League #1 Review: 1:47
• Closing Time: 39:30

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Here’s the Bleeding Cool article Dane was referring to during the podcast.

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William and Dane talk about the end of War of the Green Lanterns, the start of X-Men: Schism and Jonathan Hickman’s The Red Wing.

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Dane and William tackle the week’s comic reviews including Fear Itself #4, Flashpoint #3, and Red Skull: Incarnate #1.

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William and Dane talk about comics for the week of June 22, 2011 including Ultimate Spider-Man #160, Vampirella #7, and Superman #712.

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William is joined by Hunter Camp to chat about Strange Adventures #1, Secret Avengers #13, and Wolverine #9.

Check out Hunter over at the Gotham Central podcast.

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With everything else going on this week William and I didn’t have time to sit down and record our regular reviews episode, but that won’t stop us from chatting up our Book of the Week! Hit the jump for our commentary and review of Marvel’s newest release, Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Moon Knight #1

William: So, Moon Knight is the first in Marvel’s series of this semi-relaunch of the ‘Marvel Legends’ which sees top-tier writeres taking on some of Marvel’s street level characters.

Dane: Also known as B-level characters.

William: I would say Daredevil is not a B-level character, but he’s become one, sadly, through Diggle’s run.

Dane: Even Daredevil was never a heavy hitter like Spider-Man, Captain America or Wolverine

William: Fair. But he’s had critically accalimed runs before, but not so much now. And you don’t get a much better creative team than Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. At least for this first Moon Knight issue.

Dane: Indeed, speaking of Daredevil, their run on that book is a personal favorite of mine. And calling Moon Kight a B-level character is not a diss, I think we all have our favorite characters that sometimes get ignored by the public at large. Case in point, Bendis loves Moon Kight.

William: Right and he and Maleev tried to do something similar with Spider-Woman, which we personally loved, but it didn’t end too well. Although, I think Moon Knight gets off to a better start than Spider-Woman does.

Dane: For good reason, Meleev is able to loosen up his artwork since he doesn’t have to worry about it being transitioned to motion comics and Bendis has (more or less) a fresh start for the character.

William: Exactly. When they launched Spider-Woman, they had to deal with a lot of the emotional gravitas that they dealt with in Secret Invasion. With Moon Knight, a character that’s bounced around several different mini-series, none of which have real lasting effect, he’s able to craft this new story for the character.

Dane: Marc Spector (Moon Knight) still has his own unique problems but I think they tend to push the story along as opposed to slowing it down.

William: Which plays into the overall twist of the story. Had you read any of the press coverage for this beforehand?

Dane: Not a thing. Pretty much every article about Moon Kight had spoiler tags on it so I stayed away and boy am I glad I did.

William: I really need to stop reading spoilers. I knew about the twist going into it, so some of these scenes in the beginnging made more sense then they may have. Cause the characterizion of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America is a little off to start.

Dane: Same, which was even stranger to me because a lot of what I have in my head for those characters comes from Bendis’ writing.

William: Spider-Man not knowing what Admantium was threw me off the most and I then remembered what was going on.

Dane: And it’s weird that those three Avengers are there before and after the mission but don’t lift a finger to help Moon Knight during it.

William: It’s neat to know that we’re almost getting kind of a team book within a solo title. I’m interested to see how the different personas come into play, depending on what’s going on. But you make a good point, why didn’t Cap step in? Or Spidey or Wolverine for that matter?

Dane: Wait, does that mean Bendis is writing another team book?

William: Not really, but it can certainly be seen as that way.

Dane: Winding down, basically Bendis fooled me into thinking this was a bad first issue then at the end showed why in reality this is a perfect introduction to Moon Knight.

William: You nailed that point. I really was wondering what was going on, and then the ending places everything into perfect perspective.

Dane: I usually read the books we review more than once but I almost never read a book a second time right after the first reading. So in that Bendis accomplished another rare feat. The twist in the issue may not be completely unique but it’s not a twist for the sake of novelty. It fundementally changes the way these stories will be told and I’m digging it.

William: Exactly and even if you knew the twist, it’s still an amazing and compelling story.

Dane: Few books get better the second time around and that’s all the more reason this deserves Book of the Week.

William: I couldn’t agree more. Add in Maleev’s wonderful pencils, seriously that opening two-page spread is unbelievable, and you’ve got another solid hit from these two. And one that I think should hopefully stick around longer than Spider-Woman did.

Dane: Indeed, let’s help make Moon Knight the next Daredevil.

That’s it for now! Join us on the podcast next week for our regular audio reviews show and let us know what you thought of Moon Knight and this new review format in the comments section below.