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On #MOMBcast 41, we talked about the following comics:

@JaneMOMB
16:30 Madame Xanadu #24 (Matt Wagner/Marley Zarcone)

@JamesMOMB
23:10 Northlanders #29 (Brian Wood/Fiona Staples)

@DavidWynne
29:00 Captain Swing & The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island #2 (Warren Ellis/Raulo Caceres)

@nixsight
44:10 Invincible Iron Man Annual (Matt Fraction/Salvador Larroca)
45:30 Thor #611 (Kieron Gillen/Richard Elson)

54:10 Particle Fiction! (David Wynne)

01:14:30 Spotlight: The Life And Times Of Martha Washington In The Twenty-First Century (Frank Miller/Dave Gibbons)

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On #MOMBcast 40, we talked about the following comics:

@JamesMOMB
10:30 Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark #1 (Ryan Ottley/Jason Howard)

@JaneMOMB
20:10 Joe The Barbarian #6 (Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy)

@Chris_TOMP
27:30 X-Factor #206 (Peter David/Valentine de Landro)
28:40 Avengers #2 (Brian Michael Bendis/John Romita Jr)
29:20 Thunderbolts #145 (Jeff Parker/Kevin Walker)

@nixsight
45:10 Zatanna #01 & 02 (Paul Dini/Stephane Roux & Karl Story)

51:00 Daredevil: Shadowland spotlight by Chris_TOMP

01:09:00 Spotlight: Runaways Vol 1 (Brian K Vaughan/Adrian Alphona)

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On #MOMBcast 39, we talked about the following comics:

@JaneMOMB
12:30 The Killer – Modus Vivendi #1 (Matz/Luc Jacamon)

@nixsight
22.40 DV8 #3 (Brian Wood/Rebekah Isaacs)
25:30 New Mutants #14 (Zeb Wells/Ibraim Roberson & Lan Medina & Nathan Fox)
31:30 New Avengers #1 (Brian Michael Bendis/Stuart Immonen)

38:30 Hideously ill-conceived but heartfelt Al Williamson tribute

MOMBcast Submit! finds this week:
41:30 Ulises Farinas
45:30 Neill Cameron

48:00 Spotlight: Astonishing X-Men Vols 1-4 (Joss Whedon/John Cassaday)

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On #MOMBcast 38, we talked about the following comics:

@nixsight
15:00 Daytripper #7 (Fabio Moon/Gabriel Ba)

@JaneMOMB
18:50 Demo #5 (Brian Wood/Becky Cloonan)
24:00 Madame Xanadu #23 (Matt Wagner/Amy Reeder Hadley)

@JamesMOMB
27:50 Astonishing X-Men – Xenogenesis #2 (Warren Ellis/Kaare Andrews)
35:20 Chew #11 (John Layman/Rob Guillory)

47:40 Spotlight: Pluto Vol 1 (Naoki Urasawa/Takashi Nagasaki/Osamu Tezuka)

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On #MOMBcast 37, we talked about the following comics:

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21:00 Daytrippers (Fabio Moon/Gabriel Ba)
48:00 UK Thing 2010 – Small Press Highlights (Various)

@JamesMOMB
30:00 Joe The Barbarian (Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy)
36:15 Marvel: Siege (Brian Michael Bendis & Everyone Else/Olivier Coipiel & Everyone Else)
45:30 2000AD (Various)
54:00 Particle Fiction (David Wynne)

@nixsight
58:10 Thought Balloons – Ryan K Lindsay’s high-concept script-writing site – http://thoughtbaloons.blogspot.com/
01:00:00 S.W.O.R.D (Kieron Gillen/Steven Sanders)

@JaneMOMB
01:05:00 Demo (Brian Wood/Becky Cloonan)
01:12:00 Spotlight: Kill Your Boyfriend (Grant Morrison/Philip Bond)

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Jeremy Paxman is doing the full Morris, about the spree shootings earlier today, so it seems like as good a time as any to escape into the brighter, sharper world of Lost.

Oh, yeah, I forgot… Previously on Lost, three beloved characters got obliterated. One literally, and two disposed of at the bottom of the ocean, where their bodies won’t ever be retrieved. Sigh.

So, we start on Jack’s eye – this shot is a favourite convention of the show, and if somebody hasn’t already compiled all of them together, somewhere, it’s bound to happen soon enough.

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On #MOMBcast 35, we talked about the following comics:

@JaneMOMB
09:30 Stealth #1 (Robert Kirkman/Marc Silvestri)
13:30 American Vampire #3  (Scott Snyder & Stephen King/Rafael Albuquerque)

@JamesMOMB
20:00 The Avengers #1 (Brian Michael Bendis/John Romita Jr)
26:00 Joe The Barbarian #5 (Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy)

38:10 JonMOMB Spotlight: Kill Audio (Chondra Echert & Claudio Sanchez/Sheldon Vella)

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On #MOMBcast 34, we talked about the following comics:

@JaneMOMB
19:40 Demo #4 (Brian Wood/Becky Cloonan)
25:00 Madame Xanadu #21 (Matt Wagner/Amy Reeder Hadley)

@nixsight
29:10 New Mutants #13 (Zeb Wells/Lan Medina)
30:45 Daytripper #06 (Gabriel Ba/Fabio Moon)

@JamesMOMB
34:20 Return Of Bruce Wayne (Grant Morrison/Chris Sprouse)
39:30 Siege #4 (Brian Michael Bendis/Olivier Coipiel)

44:10 Spotlight: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Vol 1) by Bryan Lee O’Malley

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Two reflective blog posts about (oh dear) bigotgate, that don’t entirely gel with my own thoughts, but are worth a read:

Angry Mob – “You Can’t Talk About Immigration”:

I was pretty certain that the Daily Mail runs huge amounts of stories about immigration, as does the Express, the Sun and other tabloid newspapers. These tabloids and some of the broadsheets also point out that if we reach a population of 70million because of immigration bad things will happen and life in Britain may well end. Immigration, immigration, immigration. One of the key issues of this election. Everyone is talking about it. When prospective and current PMs go on Radio 1 it is the main issue that young voters want to bring up. As far as I can perceive: everyone wants to know what is going to be done about immigration, and they are not shy to talk about it.

Yet it turns out I am badly mistaken, because of course ‘You can’t talk about immigration.’

Elmyra – “I Am An Eastern European”

At that point I completely lost it. I’m not sure I can explain how this whole sordid affair makes me feel, but let me try.

Anger. Anger at Gillian Duffy, anger at all the people who weren’t willing to stand up to her.

Shame. Shame at the realisation that I had only allowed myself to feel this anger after I had been “given permission” by the comment from the native British person who stood up for me. Blaming myself for not standing up for myself earlier, more forcefully.

A desperate need to justify myself. I pay higher-rate income tax. I contribute to the UK economy, I contribute to UK society. I probably pay into the tax system more than I get back out of it. Extending that justification to other immigrants – parts of the UK economy probably would collapse without immigrant labour; I wonder how much immigrants contribute in total to the economy; we all come here to work, and we work damn hard. A range of other economic arguments, all around contribution, all around this incredibly Tory notion of my money being the only thing that entitles me to anything like decent treatment from this society.

More anger. This time at being disempowered and disenfranchised; at being a cheap target for political point scoring because Gillian Duffy and the 60 million people like her have a vote, and I and the couple of hundred thousand people like me don’t, and therefore she will always get a grovelling apology from the Prime Minister, and we won’t.

Mili’s post is well-written and quite sad, and while I think that a lot of people over-reacted to the situation yesterday, I should state right now that I entirely understand why she, as an immigrant, and one from the same group that was mentioned so often yesterday, might feel marginalised or upset by the situation, or more accurately by the fallout. But I have to say that my experience on Twitter yesterday was, barring one particular exception, completely opposite to hers. I found there was no shortage of people attacking Duffy, or defending Gordon Brown. Actually more common in my timeline was people attacking Duffy and attacking Gordon Brown!

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