New 52 Third Wave Pitch: Brian Clevinger Edition

Here's the deal: Way back in August and September, when the New 52 rumor mill was in full swing, one of the tidbits floating around was that Brian Clevinger (Atomic Robo, 8bit Theater) had been asked to write one of the relaunch titles but declined. As a fan of his work, this was sad news to me. Atomic Robo has proven that he is able to mix crazy ideas with humor, science, science fiction, and strong character work. Regardless of whether he declined DC's offer or not, there are already several books he would have been perfect on. (For example, Firestorm, Captain Atom, and the already canceled Mister Terrific) However, there are still a few characters that have yet to make an appearance in the DCnU that would benefit from Clevinger's writing ability. That's what I am focusing on today, exploring a couple of DC properties that I want to see in the hands of the Atomic Robo scribe.

FIG's 2011 Top Ten Lists!

Last week, in honor our one year anniversary, the FIGcast team recorded a few lists notable stuff that has happened, debuted or been published in the last year.  You can listen to it here but, for posterity's sake, I have collected them all in one handy-dandy post!

Tripp's List:

Honorable Mention: The Magicians and The Magician King

10. Kickstarter
9. Battle Los Angeles
8. A Dance With Dragons
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Discovering Kevin Hearne's Books
5. Community
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
3. Ready Player One
2. The Wise Man's Fear
1. The Game of Thrones show on HBO

Trey's List:

1.Mark Waid and Marcos Martin's Daredevil
2.Brian Azarello and Cliff Chaing's Wonder Woman
3.Community Season 3, Episode 4: Remedial Chaos Theory
4.Portal 2
5.Atomic Robo Volume 5: The Deadly Art of Science
6.Captain America: The First Avenger
7.Thwipster
8.Swamp Thing / Animal Man
9. Terminator: The Second
10. Parks and Recreation, Season 3, Episode 13 "The Fight"

Darren's Top 11 Tech Fails of 2011:

1. Netflix presents Qwikster
2. Blackberry network outage
3. Congressman Weiner
4. Bing stealing from Google
5. GoDaddy stands behind SOPA
6. Alec Baldwin / Words with Friends
7. Google+ real names policy
8. Playstation network hack
9. iOS4 is tracking you
10. Cisco kills Flip cameras
11. AT&T fails at buying T-Mobile
    

Keith's Top 10 List of Things (?) from 2011:

10. The Help

9. The cancellation Scalped, DMZ, Fear Agent

8. Alan Moore has completely lost it.

7. 2011, the year DC and Marvel went crazy.

6. Deus Ex

5. Star Wars on BlueRay

4. In Time

3. You can't screw with the internet.

2. Game of Thrones

1. Walking Dead

FIGcast - Episode 45 - "Magic Christmas Trees"

Where do Christmas trees come from in NYC?  Magic elves, that's where.

FIGcast - Episode 45 - "Magic Christmas Trees"

Shownotes:

• (01:45) Darren gives us the inside scoop on Rachel's new play and magic NYC Christmas trees
• (14:45) Trey watched a WoW documentary called "Race to World First" (and reminisced a bit), read Red Mass for Mars, The Nightly News and The Eternals and had a wild adventure with Tripp
• (26:15) Tripp wound up in Nashville, stole Trey's Amazing Screw-On Head and Atomic Robo, got Skyrim, played Skyrim a lot
• (42:45) Blu-Rays - (Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Fright Night; Kung Fu Panda 2; The Rocketeer)
  
• (52:50) Coming Attractions - (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows; Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked)
• (62:30) Box Office - (New Year's Eve wins)
• (65:00) "What Would Darren Read," with equal love to Marvel and Vertigo
• (80:00) Trey's take on the week's new comics

Don't forget, you can email us at FullyIntegratedGeeks@gmail.com, you can follow us on Twitter with @theFIGcast, or you can look for us on Facebook or the iTunes Store.

FIGcast - Episode 28 - "Shady Shady Tweens: Comic-Con Special Part 2"

The title is our suggested renaming of the ABC Family network.

FIGcast - Episode 28 - "Shady Shady Tweens: Comic-Con Special Part 2"

Shownotes:

• (01:33) Darren watched Shatner's The Captains and Whoopi's The Captain's Summit
• (06:50) Trey moved, and accidentally bought volume 2 of Atomic Robo
• (09:52) Keith turned 30, gave up a tooth and fell asleep in a movie
• (15:21) Tripp accidentally bought Astonishing X-Men and Northlanders and finished Ghost Story
• (24:25) Blu-Rays (Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, The Name of the Rose, Rio)
• (27:51) Coming Attractions (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Change-Up)
• (33:58) Box Office Results (Cowboys & Aliens wins!) and a little Cowboys & Aliens tangent
• (44:39) We go more in-depth about the actual comic book news from Comic-Con

Don't forget, you can email us at FullyIntegratedGeeks@gmail.com, you can follow us on Twitter with @theFIGcast, or you can look for us on Facebook or the iTunes Store.

FIGcast - Episode #23 - "Underwear On The Inside"

"Friend of the Show" Shaun stops by and adds his voice to our extensive discussion of how good or bad Green Lantern was or was not.

FIGcast - Episode #23 - "Underwear On The Inside"

Shownotes:

• (02:04) Darren got the first four books of ASoIaF from Amazon and made a dent in A Clash of Kings
• (06:16) Trey went to Nashville and his mommy bought him Atomic Robo
• (11:07) Shaun played Infamous, courtesy of Sony and their bad PS3 network
• (14:35) Tripp watched the first season of Community, and is now a Human Being; also, True Blood S3
• (20:50) Blu Rays (The Adjustment Bureau, Unknown, The Island)
• (27:55) Coming Attractions (Bad Teacher, Cars 2)
• (32:10) Box Office (Green Lantern wins!!)
• (40:21) Green Lantern: the good, the bad and the ugly
• (110:16) Game of Thrones is over, and it ended on a high note

Don't forget, you can email us at FullyIntegratedGeeks@gmail.com, you can follow us on Twitter with @theFIGcast, or you can look for us on Facebook or the iTunes Store.