In this month’s episode of SFR’s comic book vidcast “The Panel,” Chris Diestler is joined by Andy Bramble and Enrique Martinez, who unload on the finale to the 100 Bullets series. Martinez is the artist behind the comic book Syk and Bramble, besides being SFR’s distribution manager, is a 100 Bullets scholar.

They’re also all in costume.

This is the longest episode of The Panel to date in part because the guys had so much to say. Plus, City Councilor Matt Ortiz was complaining that too much time had passed since the last installment. We wanted to make sure he got his wait’s worth.

We haven’t checked in with London Wilder yet to see what he thought of the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine film (or whether his father even let the 7-year-old see it), but if he’s anything like the two guest panelists on The Panel, he probably hated it.

The Panel also offers up some reading recommendations for those truly interested in Logan: Origins, Weapon X and Old Man Logan.

This week Jett Boynton, creator of Animal Hat April, joins Chris Diestler to discuss their final verdicts on Watchman the movie.

No, it’s not your imagination. These Web casts are getting longer. And weirder. And hopefully better.

To give you an idea of how this works behind the scenes: I usually contact Diestler once a month that it’s time again to round up someone for the show. Then after three or four canceled appointments, I finally make it down to True Believers, where we spend about an hour filming the show on my Flip cam, a video camera that cost $100 a year ago. You can prolly get it used on eBay for a few bucks now. Then I go home and edit it as quickly as possible on Windows Movie Maker, while trying not to spill chai latte (from powdered mix) on my keyboard. When that’s done, and it looks all pretty, I uploaded it to YouTube, where it inevitably comes out pixelated and staticky.

Is it the lowest budget comics web cast in New Mexico? Absolutely. But it’s also the high budgeted one as well…it’s the only one as far as we know.

Anyhow, please post your thoughts, not only on our production value, but the style. Do you like seeing customers on the cast? Do you like hearing me behind the camera asking questions? Do you have particular issues (double-meaning there) you’d like addressed by the Panelists? Got a better host than YouTube to suggest? Post a comment or email me: davem @ sfreporter.com

…And now for another installment of The Panel, the semi-regular comics Web cast from SFR and the good folks at True Believers Comics & Gallery here in Santa Fe. Last week, manager Chris Diestler went over the best books of 2008 (and sold me on Joss Whedon’s Firefly tv series in the process). This week, the Big D takes us through best and worst of his favorite writer Grant Morrison’s latest books: Batman R.I.P., Final Crisis and All Star Superman.

This is version is kinda lo-rez, so we’ll have a cleaner version up in the next day or two. My apologies: iMovie just ain’t that reliable. Word.

We tried it with four comic book guys, and it was chaos. So we killed two of them; left one tied to the Rail Runner tracks and fed the other to the St. John’s kids.

The two survivors: Chris Diestler (manager of True Believers Comics) and Bram Meehan ( dude of dudes at 7,000 BC comics collective) were offered the choice: Make a coherent comics webcast show, called “The Panel,” or suffer another culling.

Please enjoy the pilot episode of The Panel, a Web cast about comics. (Diestler will likely have another guest next time. The Web cast was just slightly short of coherent. Bram has been …dissolved.)

In addition to the three comics discussed in the video, (The Umbrella Academy, Iron Fist, and The Astonishing X-men), Diestler and Meehan each forfeited their full lists for your inspection.

Diestler’s Favorite Reads

Bram’s Top 10

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