Behind The Panels Issue 140 – Green Lantern: Rebirth (Live at Good Games Hurstville for Free Comic Book Day)

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 140, the comic book show that’s coming to you live from Good Games Hursttville on Free Comic Book Day!

In this issue, we got a bunch of free comics, and we didn’t have to torrent a single page. SO it’s Divergence, Secret Wars, Fight Club and more in What We’ve Been Reading. THEN It’s a live edition of John Dee’s™ Geek Related Challenge…Or Something – with an actual live John Dee.

PLUS: Our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week™: GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH, by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. This is BEHIND THE PANELS.

Your Hosts: Richard Gray, David McVay, David Longo & Guest: Jaime Lawrence (Good Games Hurstville) + Bonus Guest: John Dee (Nerd Corner Podcast)

The Show

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Vintage Clip

Green Lantern versus…Sinestro?

What We’ve Been Reading/Watching

Free Comic Book Day releases

Watching: The Flash, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow 

News Headlines

• Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale will finally re-launch Captain America: White in September after a seven year hiatus
• Wrestler CM Punk will co-write an ongoing Drax series for Marvel, set to kick off later this year.
• 20th Century Fox is developing a sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. No creatives have been announced yet.
• The next Wolverine film has hired Michael Green, who previously wrote Green Lantern and Smallville, as its screenwriter
• Daniel Bruhl has confirmed that he will play Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War
• Meanwhile, Chris Evans has indicated that Avengers: Infinity War will shoot both parts back-to-back in 2016
• Robot Chicken has announced a third DC Comics special called “Friendship Is Magic”
• Toei Animation has announced they are working on a brand new Dragon Ball series called Dragon Ball Super, which is set to debut in Japan in July this year.

Kick-Ass Pick of the Week™

Green Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver

John Dee’s™ Geek Related Challenge…Or Something

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Next Week (141): Fashion Beast by Alan Moore

The Rest…

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Music used in this episode includes samples from Earlene Bentley’s “Caught In The Act” and James Newton Howard’s score for Green Lantern (2011).