Batman & Blackest Night dominate this week’s reviews. As always we let you know to BUY IT, WAIT FOR THE TRADE or DON’T BOTHER.

Green Lantern #45 (BUY IT)
Blackest Night: Titans #1 (BUY IT)
Detective Comics #856 (BUY IT)
Batman & Robin #3 (SPLIT DECISION)
New Avengers #56 (WAIT FOR THE TRADE)
Gotham Sirens #3 (DIANA’S BOOK OF THE WEEK)
Batman: The Widening Gyre #1 (SHOLA’S BOOK OF THE WEEK)
Beta Ray Bill #3 (JON’S BOOK OF THE WEEK)
Diana’s Recaps (Last Days of Animal Man, Sinister Spider-Man, Dark X-Men: Beginnings)

Special thanks as always to Comic Smash for providing Diana’s books for review and Midtown Comics for providing Jon’s.

Jon and Shola review new releases from DC, Marvel, Vertigo & Image and Diana swings by to talk up some indies. As always we let you know to BUY IT, WAIT FOR THE TRADE or DON’T BOTHER.

Batgirl #1 (BUY IT)
Batman: Streets of Gotham #3 (BUY IT)
Blackest Night: Superman #1 (BUY IT)
Invincible #63 (BUY IT)
Dark Reign: The Hood #4 (BUY IT)
Brave & Bold #26 (SHOLA’S BOOK OF THE WEEK)
Dark Entries (BUY IT)
Archie #600 (DON’T BOTHER)
Diana’s Picks (Batgirl #1, Poe #2, Assassin Swordsmith #1)

Special thanks as always to Comic Smash for providing Diana’s books for review and Midtown Comics for providing Jon’s.

Better late than never, the difference between PopCultureShock and these other podcasts is that PCS run on CP time (as explained in detail in the intro of Part 2 here lol). Jokes aside, we also hit a bunch of more serious topics in our two-part wrap up.

Comicon is over but Ernie, Shola & Jon are here to leave you with some final thoughts.

SDCC Wrap-Up, Part 1
• How Comicon has changed over the years for press, fans and retailers
• Our cool swag
• How to pick up geek girls

SDCC Wrap-Up, Part 2
• The difference between CP time and BP time
• Comics on Kindle
• News wrap ups for Archaia, Dark Horse and more

The WHC crew tackles a huge stack this week — a trio of Blackest Night books, a couple Ultimate Comics debuts, Marvels Projects and more.

Intro
Batman #689 (BUY IT)
Blackest Night #2 (BUY IT)
Green Lantern Corps #39 (BUY IT)
Blackest Night: Batman #1 (BUY IT)
Red Robin #3 (SPLIT VERDICT)
Marvel Divas #2 (SPLIT VERDICT)
Marvels Project #1 (BUY IT)
Ultimate Comics: Avengers #1 (BUY IT)
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1 (BUY IT)
Adventure Comics #1 (BUY IT)
Titans #16 (BUY IT)
Indies & Outro (Unwritten #4, Red Herring #1, Stuff of Legend #1)

Special thanks as always to Comic Smash for providing Diana’s books for review and Midtown Comics for providing Jon’s.

Diana & Shola review Warner Bros. latest and greatest animated feature.

Green Lantern: First Flight (BUY IT)