On   this week's Vundacast we close out January with a Pop-Culture Flow chart all about comic books. Stephen and Mr. J give out some Vundacast seals of approval. They breakdown their respective Top 5 Comic  Books of the year, as well as the best new series, Favorite Writer and Artist of the year. We also do some comic book reviewing talking about Justice League #38 from DC comics and Bitch Planet #1 from Image comics.  Lots of fun is had, so join us in this celebration of comics. Tweet us @Vundablog o r @Vundacast let us know your thoughts, comments, suggestions or your top comics of 2014.  Please subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher .  powered by podcast garden Click through after the break to see the comics and creators we celebrate on this episode. 

 In Justice League of America #1 Geoff Johns and David Finch take us through the introduction of the American wing of the Justice League. The driving force of this first arc seems to be the machinations of a Secret Society of super-villains. The issue is basically centered around Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman's one time love interest) working under Amanda Waller (who I'm disappointed to see in her new 52 incarnation is now a thin woman). Waller wants the JLA to form as a balance of power in case the actual Justice League gets too powerful and tries to conquer the world or something. The issue has the choosing and breakdown of the team. Trevor and Waller design a team to match up with every members power set.

I enjoyed the heck out of Vibe #1. To be honest, I'm a huge Geoff Johns fan, and have recently realized I'm apparently also a fan of Andrew Kreisberg . I enjoyed Andrew's work on Green Arrow/ Black Canary where he introduced a pretty cool villainess named Cupid . Here Kreisberg and Geoff are trying to reinvigorate the most wacky character of the Justice League Detroit crew of the 70's (for more info on that check out comics 101 here ). I also have dug his work on Mission Hill, Eli Stone, The Simpsons, and Justice League to name a few. The writers embrace the wacky world of Vibe and set the book in modern day Detroit. The book ties in with the first storyline of the new 52's Justice League when they stopped an incursion by Darkseid into their world. Vibe was born from this event. Being caught in the blast of a boom tube granted him with special gifts and abilities which make him uniquely suited to finding and stopping Darkseid's threats. This book was so g...

My apologies for not being around but this week. We are going to talk millar, have 3 movie reviews, and have multiple pre-post Batman blogs. #1 MARVEL 1985 #3(OF 6) - Love this series Millar is really making me happy. I will talk about him more this week. #2 FINAL CRISIS ROGUE'S REVENGE #1(OF 3) - Johns is god.  #3 MIGHTY AVENGERS #16 - meh. #4 TRINITY #7 - This series is working for me even the Tarot back ups.  #5 TINY TITANS #6 - This series is perfect for toilet reading. #6 JOKER'S ASYLUM POISON IVY #1 - I'm not loving these Joker Asylum as much as I should.  #7 DC WILDSTORM DREAMWAR #4 (OF 6) -  This is  a pretty dumb series I think I'm dropping it,  #8 TANGENT SUPERMAN'S REIGN #5( OF 12) - This series is really poorly planned. This series should be an event. You shouldn't schedule this at the same time as Final Crisis when is this supposed to be happening? moment of weekness I'm hyped about The Dark ...