The Departed, Under The Skin and genre fan films.

Episode 28 - We wax fantastic about Barenaked Ladies' new album and midnight excursions to aquire Star Wars merchandise. Enjoy!

We're back. Finally. In this show, we look at some of our favorite cult movies including Deuce Bigelow, Big Trouble in Little China and even a little film called Clerks.

It's all about the latest and greatest comic books, including Athena Voltaire, X Isle and Nextwave.

Pt 1: The future of Wednesday's Haul

Pt 2: Around the web:Around Comics, The Comic's Reporter "5 For Friday"

Pt 3: Comic reviews for August 30th:
Athena Voltaire: Flight of the Phoenix #1
Nextwave Agents of H.A.T.E. This is What They Want HC
X Isle #2

Pt 4: Previews for November 2006
The Art of Making 300
Hellboy Animated Volume 1: The Black Wedding Dress
Batman/The Spirit
Superman Confidential #1
The Nightly News
Elephantmen #0
Following Cerebus #10
Girl Genius: Omnibus Edition #1
Yoshitaka Amano's Hero vol. 1: Party of One
Curses HC
Will Eisner's A Contract With God, Dropsie Avenue & A Life Force

Pt 5: New releases for September 7, 2006

This week, Scott talks about Mark Bagley and his Ultimate accomplishment, collecting comics, reviews of last week's comics as well as a quick look at this week's new release list which includes Astonishing X-Men and Absolute Dark Knight.

Ty's monthly movie podcast for August.  As always a look at theatrical and DVD releases for the month.  Also Ty reviews five films, Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, The Lady in the Water, A Scanner Darkly, Clerks 2, and Little Miss Sunshine.  Plus, for no charge, Ty sings part of the theme from Hong Kong Phooey!

We're so organized that we're actually going to have official show notes for this week's Wednesday's Haul podcast. 01:12- 06:42) Collected Comics Library Contest (click here to get more info.) 06:45- 13:06) Reviews of Superman #655 & 52 Week 14 13:10-18:01) Civil War #4 Delayed until September 18:06-23:34) Why is it bad to be a collector? Check out this forum topic. 23:36-37.58) New Comic Book releases for August 16, 2006

This week, we run down new releases and review Wizard World Chicago 2006.

A preview of this week's new comics plus a look at the offerings in the Oct. 2006 Previews.

Brad and Scott have seen Michael Mann's big-screen update of Miami Vice. Is it worth your timet to check it out? Listen to what Brad & Scott have to say.

With Clerks 2 now out in theaters, we thought it was a good time to look back on the career of Kevin Smith. Note: Due to Skype issues, Scott's volume is really low this episode. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes and we hope it doesn't happen again.

A discussion about new comics for Wednesday, July 26th.

Brad, Ty and I celebrate our 25th episode with a very unspecial episode. Enjoy.

A quick look at the Fall 06 offerings from First Second book as well as a look at new books for 7/12 and 7/19

A weekly look at the latest and greatest comics. This week, we also hit the back half of the July Previews.

Where we discuss the end of Infinite Crisis and the beginning of Civil War.

Ty's monthly movie podcast for July.  This episode contains reviews for Superman Returns, The Break Up, and A Prarie Home Companion.  Then it's a look at upcoming theatrical and DVD releases for the month of July.  Cappped off with a Warren Zevon tune.  Hope you enjoy it!

This week, we look at the new comics for June 28, 2006 as well as a my top 5 desert island trades or graphic novels.

My Odeo Channel (odeo/78b223b06c6fbbd3)

This week, we look at the new comics for June 21, 2006 as well as a my top 5 desert island single issues.

The Omen. Ocean's Eleven. His Girl Friday. All remakes. Join us as we discuss what we think of remade movies.

Weekly Shopping LIst Review: Matt Madden's 99 Ways To Tell a Story Previews Talk: Dark Horse, DC, Image, Marvel

WHAT IS WEDNESDAY'S HAUL? Wednesday's Haul is a new weekly feature here at View From the Cheap Seats. For the past month or so, I've been wanting to do something different. Some days, it was going to be something different with the blog. Then other days, it was something different with the podcast. I had even gone so far as to record a proto Wednesday's Haul podcast a couple of weeks ago, a #0 issue, but ended up abandoning it. The main problem was I enjoy both blogging and podcasting. In a cathartic way, they're both fun to do and less structured than reviews for Pop Syndicate. Over the weekend, it finally dawned on me: why not take all of my ideas and combine them into both a blog and a podcast!!! Stupid, isn't it? Each week on either Tuesday or Wednesday, there will be a new Wednesday's Haul, a combination blog and podcast. Some features will be up on the blog and others will be featured in a short 15-30 minute podcast. This week, I hope to have an even balance on the blog and podcast of features and reviews but that may not always be the case. It kind of depends how I feel any given week. Some weeks the podcast may have more stuff than the blog and vice versa other weeks. The first rule of this is that there are no rules. Well, other than a Wednesday deadline, there are no rules. Hope you enjoy everything. PODCAST What's Coming out this week? New Comic Release list @ Midtown Comics WEEKLY SHOPPING LIST 52 Week 5 Batman Under the Hood V2 TP* DMZ V1 On the Ground TP* JSA #86 Power Girl TP (maybe?) DE Tales V1 TP* Star Wars Legacy #0* Modern Masters V7: John Byrne *= DCBS order Quick Review: Tag #1 by Giffen and Chamerlain (advance review) Previews Talk: Aardvark Vanaheim to Zenescope For the rest of Wednesday's Haul, check out View From The Cheap Seats.

The episode where we drive around on Free Comic Book Day, 2006.

All about having to move large collections.

Where Brad and Scott talk about techy stuff like Google Calendars, Apples booting up Windows and other fun stuff.

Brad takes a look at the history of the great unsung band from the seventies - Badfinger.

Ty goes solo and give everyone a heads up on upcoming theatrical releases for April, May, and June!

We talk about concerts we've been to since Garageband ate our first podcast.

A quick look at books in the latest Diamond Previews.

Alan Moore month is on hold. Instead, we discuss musicians who have stayed around too long, what movie theaters can do to get more people in them and theories on Marvel's Civil War.

Contest: Design us a logo for our website. Deadline is 2/14/06. Prize is Queen & Country V7 HC: Operation Saddlebags.

New Podcast Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cheapseatspodcast

Music: Opening-- Beirut Taxi from the Syriana OST by Alexandre Desplat
Molossus from the Batman Begins OST by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Main Theme from the Fantastic Four OST by John Ottman

As you'll hear in the first part of this podcast, we were over an hour into recording when Garageband 3 ate the whole thing. So, we abondoned what we were doing and started a rapid fire-type forum without the rapid fire time limits.

And if you get a chance, drop us an email at viewfromthecheapseats@gmail.com and let us know how this podcast sounds. We recorded it with Garageband finally and I think it sounds a lot better.

Business #1: The new feed for our podcast is http://feeds.feedburner.com/cheapseatspodcast. Please update your favorite podcatcher with this feed. Business #2: Near the end of this episode, we announce our first contest-- design us a logo for our webpage. It's as simple as that. Design a View From The Cheapseats logo and email me it to us by February 14th. The prize is a limited hardcover to Greg Rucka's QUEEN & COUNTRY V7: OPERATION SADDLEBAGS. So onto the show. This week's show feature's us reviewing the first 3 issues of INFINITE CRISIS, just in time for the fourth issue to come out next week. Great timing, eh? http://feeds.feedburner.com/cheapseatspodcast

In this latest mess, we spend some time talking about TV, movies and comics that we're looking forward to in 2006.

GI Joe, Battlestar Galactica and Mego-- we spend a bit of time talking about our favorite toys of old. Merry Christmas everyone!

Brad and Scott spend a few minutes talking about Peter Jackson's latest little film.