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Comic Book Club: Amanda Palmer & Kurt Braunohler
Amanda Palmer stops by to talk about becoming a Kickstart Millionaire, discuss her new comic for Dark Horse, and play some songs on her ukulele! Plus, comedian Kurt Braunohler chats about his one foray into comics, and hosting the new IFC game show BUNK! AND, for the first time anywhere, we perform selections from “What Up! Man-Thing – The Musical!”
This Week’s Stack: Casanova: Avaritia #4, Dark Avengers #176, Saga #4, Godzilla #2 
Week In Geek - Paul Dini is writing a new Batman graphic novel! - Marvel teases This is WAR for October! But is it? War? - Bill Willingham launching FablesCon next year!

Comic Book Club: Dan Slott
Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott drops by our last show at The PIT to talk about the next big Spidey story, Ends of The Earth! Things may or may not get a little anti-semitic.
This Week’s Stack: The Secret History of D.B. Cooper #1, Batman and Robin #7, Saga #1 
Week in Geek: * Its time for ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Finale, and everybody who has no lines… Dies! Except T-Dog. * Michael Bay is rebooting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as aliens… And Pete didn’t know. Ever wanted to hear someone go through the stages of grief live in front of an audience? Here’s your chance.

The JV Club #21: Alison Brie
Episode 21 of The JV Club finds Janet and guest Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) spontaneously writing a movie pitch, discussing the bathroom-centric challenges of leotards, and even catching a few cooties with a fan-made cootie catcher. If you don’t know what that is, it’s not what it sounds like.

SUPERHERO TIME: JULY 31, 2012
The news: Lots of merchandise, but you either can’t buy it or don’t care. So business as usual pretty much. Also, the (potential) cast of Power Rangers Megaforce.
The weeklies: Fourze and Go-busters times two, and we still aren’t even entirely caught up!