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.

Take it from me, or take it from London Wilder: Saturday, May 2 (Tomorrow) is the day to show up at True Believers Comics & Gallery. Why?

Free Comic Book Day, Bub.

Free Comic Book Day

Yeah, I told you I was going to post this video again.

Each year, the major comic book publishers join forces to distribute special one-off comic books for free at shops across the planet. Is it a big promotional scam? Yeah, probably, if you’re the sort of addictive personality who susceptible to a William Shatner Presents obsession.

The big reason to show up tomorrow, though, isn’t for any of those main stream books. Rather, Albuquerque-Santa Fe comic book collective 7000 BC will be distributing free copies of its own compendium, “String.”

…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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