This episode begins with Don talking about a comic that has already been discussed on an earlier episode, and Rook finishes with two new books we haven’t seen. We talk about Heavy Metal in the middle. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dallas Busha
The sixties comic She’s Josie takes up the first half of the show talking about the creators, Saturday morning cartoons and changes during the first decade of the series. Accidents And Old Lace And Other Stories, the comic industry after the code, realizing what a visionary Jack Kirby was and having to tell the origin story in most comic book movies.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Autour de Lucie
She’s Josie 7 By Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle And Rudy Lapick.
Continue readingStorage for comics and magazines start the conversation off, but almost immediately goes into music, humor magazines and things that are hard to find. Then Al starts asking about comic book distribution and what past artists are doing now. Scott answered a couple, but not all.
Even though no one read any comics this week, we talked about them anyway.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Flash
We start off with the dollar box find Captain Victory, which leads into page rates, inkers and barbarian comics of the seventies. It was brought up that we do not talk about Joe Kubert enough, so we did, as well as American comics reprinted overseas. Stay safe.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: The Beckies
Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers 10.
Continue readingOn the first episode of 2020 we start off talking about our lack of flying cars, and how misleading time saving devices can be. The book A Man Called Destruction: The Life And Music Of Alex Chilton is mentioned (by Al of course) then we get on to comics, but finish with Tampa Bay radio shows.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Johnny Thunders
EC Horror Comics Of The Fifties.
Continue readingThe new Legion Os Super-Heroes title starts this one off, followed by book stores and the culture of reading comics. Translating foreign comics, the massive published work of William Stout, Conan and new Elfquest should have finished it out, but Don HAD to bring up King Kong again.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Klaatu
Black Panther, The Eternals and 2001: A Space Odyssey were titles Jack Kirby created when he returned to Marvel. We talk about those as well as Brandon Graham’s Multiple Warheads 2 and Ishinomori Shotaro’s Kikaida.
Musical Spotlight: Anna O
The work and thought process of Alex Toth is discussed as well as newspaper comics we had never seen or didn’t bother reading when they were being published. Don talks about the incredible work of Matt Howarth while Al stays silent until Howard Chaykin is brought up.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Emitt Rhodes
Alter Ego 63 Remembering Alex Toth.
Rook! Dallas! Don! Jethro! (a.k.a. Al)
The core crew returns to talk nothing but MOVIES!!!!! ……..okay, and a couple TV shows….
Here’s the lowdown of movies we discuss: 30 Days of Night, Bulletproof Monk, Cowboys and Aliens, The Last Dinosaur, Blade, Constantine, The Crow, Fritz the Cat, the animated Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, From Hell, Wanted, The Losers, Smallville, Heavy Metal, Aeon Flux, Spawn, Tank Girl, V for Vendetta, Kick-Ass, Lone Wolf and Cub, Scott Pilgrim, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: THE GRIM FAERIES
30 Days Of Night
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