In the first hour, we butt heads on The Irredeemable Ant-Man #3, David praises Peter David, Scot Eaton, and company's work on Friendly Neighboorhood Spider-Man #15, and VinceB launches a long assessment of the second volume of the Essential Defenders! The Pop Cult Online's Rick Gordon and Kevin Moyer from Comic Geek Speak drop by in our second half to help us find books for new readers not familiar with the mighty Marvel Universe! Bonus! The Collected Comics Library's Chris Marshall drops some science for new readers! Scott Cederlund of Wednesday's Haul gets desperate in the wake of Civil War: The Return! Around Comics' Tom Katers! The Big Largeness! Francis E. Dec, Esq.! All this and the usual pop culture weirdness that is Bullpen Bulletins!