Sidekickcast this week is brought to you this week by the art of manga and the number one. Joining regular Sidekickcast hosts Dan and Gavin is the new manga sidekick, Niall Ryan Sharpe. We lead out with some news on Sugar Glider #1, Uncanny X-Force, Man of Steel and The Walking Dead.

Only number ones or one-shots for Stack Attack reviews including Infinite Vacation #1, Green Wake #1, Nonplayer #1, Undying Love #1, Book of The Skull and Fear Itself #1.

The comic news quiz with a twist, Secrets and Lies takes it's toll on our guest as avid home-player, Niall, finds out it's not quite so easy in the Danger Room. Dig That! makes a ramatic return to the cast as we go all manga and take a look at Naruto vol 43! Don't forget to listen past the outro music for some hilarious out-take action.

We may be a month into 2011 but The Sidekicks haven't had a chance to lay their 619's of the year...until now. Journey through time and space, just like Batman and Mr Benn, as Gavin and Dan rummage through the last year's comics and pick out their favourite titles, creators, covers and splash pages of 2010.

There's time for some comic book news talk and as part of the Countdown to Cardiff Con we talk to author and fellow podcaster, Barry Nugent, about the launch of the comic book adaptation of his novel, Fallen Heroes.

The show rounds out with a special 619 version of the comic book news quiz with a twist, Secrets and Lies. There's an announcement about the winner of the special signed Sidekickcast mug and of course hang on past the outro music for some of the best out-takes yet.

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This week Triv returns to update us on his burgeoning comic collecting habit and to cover The Walking Dead in our new reader section Dig This!. We stay on a horror tip as Gavin (The Boneman) gushes over Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft in Trade Talk. And will Dan (Marshalllaw) enjoy The Boys volume.1 enough to pick up volume.2 for Knowing Me, Knowing You? And a message from the X-Centric UnderGround makes it's way out of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.

We've got a packed package of new comics to cover in Stack Attack including Secret Six #5, Spider-Man Noir #1, Cable #10, Dark Avengers #1, Mighty Avengers #21, The Punisher #1, The Punisher: War Zone #4-5, Justice Society of America #22, Captain Britain & MI:13 #9, X-Men: Legacy #220, Uncanny X-Men Annual #2 and many more! Just how many comics can Gavin review in 2 minutes, you're about to find out.

A tense yet informative Secrets and Lies this week as the score is now tied so every point counts, whose side are you on? We have lots of other Geek chatter in any other business with discussions on The Spirit, The Wrestler, Battlestar Galactica, The Clone Wars and Wolverine and the X-Men, aswell as a triumphant return for Challenge Mikey.
Don't forget to check out the outtakes after our outro music.