Dungeons & Dragons’ attempted license agreement and the ripples it caused to the RPG community start this episode off, and finishes with facsimiles and reworked comics from the past.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil
Don read a couple of books that are normally out of his wheelhouse, and he gives his thoughts on it. Rook read a book that is SO in his wheelhouse, you can’t help but wonder why he hasn’t talked about it before. Then somehow they start talking about Jeff Smith.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: TBD
Preacher Book One By Garth Ennis And Steve Dillon.
Continue readingRook received his copy of A Hunter’s Tale and discusses the experience. Four Eras In Comic Book History comes after that along with Ghost Rider 1 (which in real time is 247). Burglar Bill takes up the end.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dallas Busha
A Hunter’s Tale By Charles Kermit Claytor And Ryan Claytor.
Continue readingAl starts the show off talking about the movie Polyester and the forgotten gimmick of Scratch And Sniff. Free Comic Book Day 2021, EC Comics’ creators and humor titles, along with Ghost Rider and deserts. Old Captain America stories finish it out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: DANGERPIN
Usagi Yojimbo Free Comic Book Day 2020.
Continue readingFor this episode we each chose two comics and tell about our first experiences with the titles, characters and themes that have defined us. Rook announces In The Collection, Dan Pritchard tells us about three comic book submissions he did in the past and Dallas talks about upcoming work from Joshua Cotter. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dallas Busha
300 Episodes And Still Unprofessional.
Continue readingThe use of yellow in comics from the golden age until the eighties is a point of annoyance to some readers. Entering the rabbit hole of finding and collecting fanzines from the past and the illustrators that came out of them continues the conversation as well as some random comic books. Many of which we had already read. TV shows from the late seventies that Al did not watch finishes the episode up, but a lot of side roads are taken before it ends.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Panther Burns
Adventures Of The Unknown 60 From American Comics Group.
Continue readingDUNE The Graphic Novel starts a long discussion on the work of Frank Herbert and several different media translation we have seen. Zero issues, how science fiction began with Frankenstein, the comic book series Paper Girls, and the artwork of J. R. R. Tolkien are talked about along with several other topics. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Sokoninah
DUNE The Graphic Novel By Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson,
Raul Allen And Patricia Martin.
Everything starts it off talking about García-López and his many works, then we go into the mini comic books that were packaged with toys during the eighties. Novelty songs, random comics and using rock songs instead of jingles finish the episode out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Heavy Strings
Modern Masters Volume Five: García-López.
Continue readingGoing to the drive-in movies during a pandemic and online Halloween parties take up the first quarter of the episode, but then goes into comic book series Invincible, 100 Bullets and dollar box finds. Comics about Bruce Lee and when Manga entered the mainstream American market finish out the fist half. After that it is the first 35 issues of the New 52 run of Wonder Woman, OMAC and a book Rook bought but has not read.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: French Maide
Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger starts the discussion off, then go off onto page layouts, foreign language comics and convenient labels.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Winter Atlas
Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger.
Continue readingWe start off with Hedra By Jesse Lonergan and go into a discussion of what is storytelling? Comic toy tie-ins are talked about after that, along with staying home, muck monsters and several movies that not everyone liked, but some did.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dungeon Boss
Hedra By Jesse Lonergan.
Continue readingChris Ware’s Rusty Brown begins the conversation, then Al questions why there are no statues of comic creators? Two series Don found in the dollar box that he can’t stop talking about, writers that use too many words, correspondence and Ramona Fradon. Members of the core four slowly drop off as the episode goes on. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Fanny
Even though no one read any comics this week, we talked about them anyway.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Flash
Comic books that seemed odd, quirky or outright silly to an older audience that we loved as kids begins this episode, then moves into the influence one artist has to another. Everything finishes with drive-in movies.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: All Mankind
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 readingMovies with steampunk or science fiction ties that have connections to innovative animators start this one off,which leads into influences artists have from one another and candy we liked (or didn’t like) as kids. Random comics finish this one out, including Al’s newfound interest in the Legion. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dan Souder
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
A rant about the upcoming movie Joker begins this episode, followed by how we prefer Batman to be dark and gritty. This leads into Argo, and an argument about The Beatles sees us to the end. Not for the faint of heart.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: French Maide
Jack Kirby, The King Of Comics’ 102nd birthday starts this conversation off. He invented his own language of drawing that most practitioners follow to this day. Surrealism, graphic and pop art are discussed with mixed results, and we finish with comic books becoming TV shows and a random comic found on the shelf. Enjoy!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Captain Beefheart
It starts up with talk about old commercials on YouTube, the sixtes band Shocking Blue, TV products and the expert hands that sold them. The rest of the episode is all about Stan Lee, and nothing but Stan Lee.
Stan Lee By Shag.
Stan Lee Tribute By JM DeMatteis, And Another By Gerry Conway.
Al is back and joined by Don and they made no time for a music break.
There was a lot of comic talk though.
The Occult Files of Dr Spektor By Donald Glut And Jesse Santos.
It’s Free Comic Book Day and we finally get together to do another episode. A couple of free comics and some new books we were not aware of were discussed, then go into the major comic companies swiping each other. And Jack Kirby. We talk about him as well.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Greymarket
Two Brothers starts this episode off, which leads into The Umbrella Academy, The Airtight Garage and Where The Wild Things Are. The second half covers the 1966 version of the MLJ superheroes The Mighty Crusaders and other lighthearted comic books. We enjoyed recording the second half so much that we did it twice.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Disperse • Jakub Zytecki
Two Brothers By Gabriel Bá And Fabio Moon.
Here Is Their Word Balloon Interview.
This episode is so packed we didn’t stop for a music break. But we did talk about Pee Wee Herman, playing Dungeons And Dragons with Lego, Disney comics, comic book adaptations and outright swipes of other artist’s work. It ends with talk of The Sandman by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon.
A quick discussion of The Archies One Shot starts everything off and moves into Bug! The Adventures Of Forager and the many characters of Jack Kirby. G.I. Combat, comic book ads, differing art styles, The Jack Kirby Omnibus Volume One and Oneshi Press finish everything out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Yellow Magic Orchestra
The Archies One Shot With A Cover By Jaime Hernandez.
More comments about the state of mainstream comic books starts the conversation off, which goes into the giant monster comics from Atlas, 3-D comics and ends with Pullapalooza.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Matthew Sweet • Hi-Standard
Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC By Mark Evanier And Sergio Aragonés,
Al and Don go far beyond the normal time limit and show just how free form they can get.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Mick Ronson
Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s current Nexus work starts this episode off, which quickly turns off to stock poses, The Lost Continent and Shade The Changing Girl 4. A lengthy dollar box segment is followed by Archie: A Celebration of America’s Favorite Teenagers. Pullapalooza finishes it out once again.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Dana Gillespie • hitomi
Nexus: Into The Past And Other Stories By Mike Baron And Steve Rude.
The core four return to discuss Len Wein, the Golden, Silver, Bronze and the never ending Modern Age of comics. Pullapalooza and Strange And Stranger: The World Of Steve Ditko finishes it off.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Groovy Cool
Rereading comics that sit in the box or on the shelf for long periods of time, binge reading, single issue stories, Valerian and Moebius being available in English start this one off. Pullapalooza finishes it out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Thin Lizzy
Akira By Katsuhiro Otomo.
