Variant Edition Thursday 8/7/08

Variant Edition's on vacation this week...or at least Kevin is. So while the show is a little later than usual, we still pulled together to bring you a quick dose of comic knowledge you need before you step into the comic book shop this week: the best books hitting the stands and the latest headlines.

Mike's at Classic Comics (our usual location) with the Rundown of the books you can expect to find in shops this week. Kevin's got our Pick of the Week from his vacation in Maine. Nick checks in from home with the news including a multitude of Terminators, Batman's never ending record breaking and the Billion dollar super hero summer. Then Luis also checks in from home with some First Looks, including: Hulk #5, Ultimate Origins #3 and Venom Dark Origin #1.

We almost made it for Tuesday...everything was shot...but blame Vacationland.
Next week, we're back in Jersey and hopefully back on schedule!

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[TehBloggaar]

It's my most recent video. Pay attention or GTFO.

[NickShev9]

Look it up. You may not be in power in any form of government but you're the one talking about anti-white agendas.

But I gotta ask, what's with the Obama icon? He's black, why would he be YOUR icon?

[TehBloggaar]

You obviously have no idea what the word fascist means, and you're obviously an idiot.

How does anything i said relate to fascism, moron? You mouth breathing shitheads that willing promote anti-White propaganda are the real 'racists' (I won't use the word fascist, because I know what the word means).

Tell me, what if they changed the race of a non-White character to White? That would be 'racist' and everyone would cry about 'fascism' (a misnomer) and other Marxist bullshit.

Fuck off, geek.

[NickShev9]

Because we're not fascists.

[TheRandomDude11]

when dus venom dark origin 2 come out

[wolfalchemy]

What do you guys think about Ultimo, Stan Lee's first manga.

[TehBloggaar]

It's sickening that my comment has received -3 thumbs.

Why do so many of you support anti-White agendas?

[BigRiggBlues]

I'm assuming you haven't read Ultimates 1 before.

Think of it like this: If you were to script a movie of the Marvel U, without ever having seen what the characters looked like, wouldn't you want to cast the badest Mother F***er in all of filmdom to play the director of SHIELD? Hence, in this line of thinking, the Ultimate Nick Fury's look was based on Samuel L. Jackson.

[SWIFTEST0800]

that episode was good! nice job guys!

[marvel1602]

tehbloggaar, Nick Fury is black in the ultimate universe only. He still is white in the original 616 Marvel universe.