Get ready for the holidays by spending some time with your good friends here at Graphic Novice.  This pre-holiday special starts out with a discussion of the Doc Thirst's four day work week, Canadian Christmas, embellishment fines in the NHL, Twitch TV, Creed front-man Scott Stapp as a CIA agent, iTunes reviews, and a possible hangover day proposal. 

In comic book news, the guys look at the DC movie poster themed variant covers, Loot crate, Marvel and DC series coming to an end, and projected sales for Marvel's Star Wars #1, and its many, many, many variants.

In the segment formerly known as "Rapid-Fire Review" we focus our attention on Bitch Planet #1, East of West The World #1, Sex Criminals #9, Southern Bastards #6, Amazing Spider-Man #11, and Uncanny X-Men Annual #1.

We then take a quick look at the November 2014 sales, before a look ahead to December 17, 2014, and all the books we plan on picking up on the upcoming new comic book day (also known as #DollyPartonWednesday)

We start out by providing some outtakes for the blooper reel, as VF proves that the fate of the podcast lies with the person who controls the soundboard. We talk the perils of alcoholism, blues jams at work, and another discussion of the World of Warcraft, where we get to celebrate a once in a lifetime gaming achievement in the life of Doc Thirst. Once the show gets back on track, we lay down some crack reporting in the "Comic News" segment, and touch on the new Star Wars comic, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, Aquaman, and the Preacher TV series.

We then welcome Michael Leal, from the Who The What Now podcast, to help us discuss The Walking Dead, Trade Paperback Volume 12 (Issues #67-72).

"Rapid Fire Review" gets scrapped in favor of spending more time on a smaller number of books, as we take a slightly more in depth look at Crossed + One Hundred #1, Batman Eternal #35, Wolf Moon #1, Jennifer Blood Born Again #5 (of 5), and '68 Homefront #4 (of 4). 

We wrap things up with a discussion of the books being released December 10, 2014, and let everyone what we'll be reading, and what we'll be leaving on the shelf.  Thanks to everyone who takes the time to check out our show. We appreciate it, and apologize in advance. Stick with us…  we’ll get better…  eventually.

Graphic Novice records on a day of contraversy after VF mysteriously announces the end of the podcast.  Nickel is taken along for the ride with the rest of the twitterverse, and starts planning his podcasting life after Graphic Novice, while Doc Thirst went goes on with his life, completely unaware of anything announced on twitter.  However, despite the ongoing turmoil in the graphic Novice studios, we are happy to announce that this will not be our final episode. 

Once that's cleared up, we start things out with a discussion of Doc's return to Azeroth, as he joins VF in the World of Warcraft.  Nickel then addresses the nightmare that is the Edmonton Oilers before we move on to talk about some actual comic-related news. 

The Flash-Arrow television crossover leads us into our pseudo-comic discussion as we compare some of the current television shows, including Gotham and The Walking Dead.  We also look at news regarding Howard The Duck, DC's Convergence event, Tooth and Claw legal issues, and a rumored third installment in Frank Miller's Dark Knight series. 

After a week off, we need to cover 2 weeks of books during "Rapid Fire Review", including books released November 19, 2014, and November 26, 2014. We dont spend much time on some of these books, but we briefly look at Lumberjanes #8, Batman and Robin #36, Batman Eternal #33, Teen Titans #4, Wonder Woman #36, Deadly Class #9, Intersect #1, Thief of Thieves #25, Amazing Spider-Man #10, Avengers #38, AXIS #6, Axis Revolutions #2, Daredevil #10, Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #2, Fantastic Four #13, Guardians of the Galaxy #21, Inhuman #8, Magneto #12, Moon Knight #9, New Avengers #26, Punisher #12, Spider-Woman #1, Uncanny X-Men #28, Crossed +100 Taste Test, Arkham Manor #2, Batman Eternal #34, Ody-C #1, Trees #7, Lazarus #13, Annihalator #1, Amazing X-Men #13, Nova #24, Wolverine and the X-Men #12, and Sally of the Wasteland #5.

We close things out with a brief discussion of the Collectorz software, possible format changes for the show, and a look a the comics being released December 3, 2014. thanks so much for checking out the Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast!