Panel Chewing is on video! After a stretch of audio-only episodes, Jarrod and I are back on camera, and apparently we picked a pretty quiet week of comics to do it.

We start with Jarrod’s thoughts on Supergirl, which leads us into a larger conversation about superhero movies, shorter theatrical windows, interconnected universes, and whether Marvel and DC would be better served by worrying less about the bigger universe and simply making good individual movies.

Then it’s time for this week’s comics, including Lost Fantasy #2, Absolute Cassandra Cain #1, Detective Comics #1113, Absolute Green Arrow #5, The Hab #4, and Hellraiser: Resurrections #1. There aren’t any complete disasters in the stack, but there are definitely a few books hanging on by a thread.

That brings us to what we’re calling our “light Picks of the Week.” Jarrod falls back on an old favorite with Savage Sword of Conan #16, while Steve goes with Viking Moon #4. Good comics? Absolutely. Books that blew us away? Not exactly.

But then there’s Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 17: The Will of the Fang.

The series continues to ramp up as Ogami faces bounty hunters, former pupils, desperate peasants and the brutal winter itself. More importantly, we’re beginning to see something unusual from Ogami: the stoic assassin is starting to crack. One confrontation in particular produces an emotional response unlike almost anything we’ve seen from him so far.

By the end, we realize the truth: Lone Wolf and Cub was our real Pick of the Week.

Join us for another week of comics and now you can watch along with us again, too.