It is way past Free Comic Book Day, but here is a road show we did during that time. Give it a listen.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Music By JC
Invincible By Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker And Ryan Ottley.
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388 | Comic Apps And Recommendations
Chris has subscribed to Marvel Unlimited and has asked for recommendations. We do that on and off throughout the extremely long episode. We argue about Iron Fist, talk about Unnatural Order And Freddy Lombard in between that.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Olde Rage
Spirits Of Vengence:Rise Of The Midnight Sons By Howard Mackie,
Len Kaminski, Christian Cooper, D.G. Chichester, Andy Kubert,
Adam Kubert, Ron Wagner, Richard Case, Ron Garney,
Alex Saviuk, Klaus Janson, Joe Kubert.
385 | Memory Triggers And Protecting Trademarks
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Joyeater
Animated cartoons we watched as kids leads into cereal prizes and fast food premiums. Comics For Ukraine finally arrived, more Nancy talk and we discovered the work of Ben Sears. The many different Green Lanterns, Static and the horrifying journey Ms. Marvel took before taking on the mantel of Captain Marvel. Of course, that leads into the different Ant-Men, and the one and only Rain Like Hammers finishes it out.
Known As Prince Planet In The United States, But Started
Out In Japan As Yusei Shounen Papi | 遊星少年パピイ.
302 | 100-Page Giants And Red Sonja
Don has squandered a lot of time on YouTube and talks about The Daily Doug, Loop TV, NewsFromMeTV and the loss of Steve Sherman. 100-Page Giants, Ultraman and MEGO action figures, Prince Planet, Red Sonja and Frank Thorne are discussed after that. Detailed, decorative artists that can be confusing to read, Fantastic Four: Life Story and other silver age comics being retold.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Joyeater
DC 100-Page Our Fighting Forces Giant!
Continue reading294 | Harry Lucey, Golden Age And Animation
John Lennon: the final interview is mentioned at the beginning, but a discussion of Harry Lucey, Archie artists and golden age reprints start up the comic book talk. Animation history, random comic books and artists who never lost the spark are discussed.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Joyeater
Archie: The Best Of Harry Lucey.
Continue reading290 | Yellow, Fanzines, Illustration And More!
The 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 reading268 | The Unread Pile
Reading piles of comics laying around the house. Been pretty fun!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Cotoba
267 | Jack Kirby, Inkers And More!
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 reading259 | Legion, November And Thor
Legion Of Super-Heroes and the many changes the comic has gone through takes up most of the show. November Vol. 1 comes up, then the many changes Thor has gone through takes up some more. We also question why Glactus keeps trying to devour the earth when it is obvious he can’t.
Then Marvel’s The End titles are coming back, and DC Black Label titles are talked about.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Deloris Telescope
Superboy: Legion Of Super-Heroes 198 By Cary Bates And Dave Cockrum.
Cover By Nick Cardy.
252 | Buck Rogers, Nexus And Drawing Styles
As always, we start off talking about something other than comic books, and this time it is the movie The Last Man On Earth, which led into Night Of The Living Dead, The Omega Man and I Am Legend. Then we talk about the Florida nuisance known as love bugs. We do talk about comics eventually.
Buck Rogers By Howard Chaykin.
Continue reading247 | Lovecraft, The Crow And The Incal
The works of H. P. Lovecraft and his long reaching influence is discussed, along with The Crow and yet another copy of The Incal that Don bought. Avengers Endgame and Dark Phoenix finish everything out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Peter Case
Lovecraft: Four Classic Horror Stories By H.P. Lovecraft And Ian Culbard.
Continue reading241 | Warner Bros. Titles, Dark Comics And Antiquated Design Techniques
The soon to be cancelled Hanna-Barbera DC comic books are talked about, along with a lot of stuff Rook has been reading. Lighthearted to dark comics and antiquated design techniques fill out the rest of the episode.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: The Jury
225 | Steve Ditko, The Spectre And Books About Comic Book Heroes
Even though this is a comic book podcast, Al starts the conversation off asking about the film In The Mood For Love. The life and work of Steve Ditko is discussed for most of the show, then The Spectre, books about comic book heroes and Jules Feiffer are talked about as well.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Mr. Partridge
Marvel Tales Reprints Was The First Time Al Saw Steve Ditko.
223 | Binge Reading And Filling In Blanks
Catching up on reading The Walking Dead, and learning there was one more issue of Miracle Man written by Alan Moore we were not aware of. Binge reading comic series and filling in the blanks to a story because of issues you missed was discussed. Somehow the Muppets roll into the conversation and we finish out with Kong Crew.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Ed Woltil
222 | Blade Runner, Incal, Action 1000 And Fool Killer
This conversation begins with Blade Runner 2049 and moves into Deconstructing The Incal, Jodorowsky’s Dune and the many works that occurred after the project never came to fruition.
Limited edition books, Action Comics 1000 and how the human need for bathrooms would affect Superman. Things get even more random after that. No kidding, they do.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Geneva Wollett
Blade Runner 2049 Poster By Adam Cockerton-Rai.
214 | Webcomics And Dollar Boxes
Vague talk of the new Star Wars movie and a discussion of the webcomic Blue starts the episode off. Page design, storytelling and website navigation come up, along with the new trailer for the upcoming Avengers movie. Dollar box diving, overinflated prices for back issues in the past and airline meals that no longer exist.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: The Blow
211 | Two Brothers, Wild Things And Mighty Crusaders
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.
193 | All-New X-Men
Dallas and Don have read the All New X-Men Trade 1 and discuss their thoughts on the book through Skype. Don briefly talks about The Maxx, and brings up that he confused that character with The Goon and Lobo, only because they were big guys with four letter names.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Robert Fripp & Andy Summers
All New X-Men Trade 1 By Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen,
Wade Von Grawbadger And Marte Gracia.
172 | Rebirth Overload, Organic Growth Comics, Fantastic Four Movies And James Robinson
The core four return with Baby Emily to talk shop about comics! Don gives the gang rose rocks from Oklahoma, Dallas considers his multiple attacks by animals this past week, and Rook *finally* swears off DC’s exhausting Rebirth series.
Big event books are compared to popular series that grew organically are discussed, along with the lackluster Fantastic Four movies, Ang Lee films, Lady Snowblood, and James Robinson.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Purity Ring
Rook Says Goodbye To DC Rebirth.
170 | Super-Hero Movies, And Nothing But Super-Hero Movies
Dallas and Rook discuss their love of coffee while gushing over the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically Captain America: Civil War.
They also review Batman vs. Superman and Ant-Man, and Rook highlights his interest in DC’s WB shows along with Marvel’s Netflix Shows.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Arkasia
160 | Injection, Hilda, Jonah Hex 33, Catwoman And Pullapalooza
Dallas starts it off talking about Injection, then Al and Don come in and look at the Free Comic Book Day issue of Hilda, Jonah Hex 33 and Catwoman 17, 18 and 19. Then it goes into a massive pullapalooza.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Be Bop Deluxe
Injection By Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey And Jordie Bellaire.
155 | Black Widow, Early Work, Missed Opportunities, Flash Gordon And Starman
Fast reading comics starts it off, along with early work we may not have liked as kids. Artists we missed out on meeting, Flash Gordon, remaking movies and James Robinson’s Starman finishes it out..
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Blue Ash
Black Widow By Chris Samnee And Mark Waid.
138 | Beware The Claws Of The Cat, Tigra The Were-Woman And Hellcat
Since Don Liked talking about Man-Wolf last episode, Al was forced to talk about the confusing history of the Bronze Age C list characters Tigra The Were-Woman, Beware The Claws Of The Cat, And Hellcat.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Five Man Electrical Band
Tigra The Were-Woman Was Introduced In Giant-Size Creatures 1.
Cover By Ron Wilson And Frank Giacoia.
105 | X-Men Comics And Nothing But X-Men Comics
Happy Halloween!!! Don and Dallas are joined by their friend Desmond to talk everything X-Men!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: DANNY ELFMAN
X-Men Drawn By Dave Cockrum.
104 | Comic Strip Reprints, Comic Book Schools, Follow Creators Or Titles And Silver Surfer
Al and Don discuss old comic strips reprinted in the seventies and comic book schools, They bring up the question of creators or titles, buying properties only to alter it for the screen and Silver Surfer by Slott and Allred is also discussed.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: The Dukes Of Stratosphear
103 | Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Rot & Ruin And Favorite Creative Teams
Episode 103 finds the entire crew returning once again at their secret lair deep within Rook’s house. Don, Al, Rook and Dallas discuss their favorite writer/artist and penciller/inker duos.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: In honor of the beginning of the Halloween season,
it’s CONCRETE BLONDE with BLOODLETTING!
101 | Comics Of The Past
Special guest Joust joins Al and Don to discuss The Marvel Super Heroes Animated Cartoon From 1966, The current Hawkeye comic, Joe Simon, Harvey Comics Thriller Line, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Frank Robbins, George Perez, Dave Cockrum and Steve Rude.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Jules and the Polar Bears
The Marvel Super Heroes Animated Cartoon From 1966.
91 | Creator Owned Comics, Black And White Explosion And Finding Comics Off The Rack
Walking Dead is mentioned which quickly turns to creator owned comics and the black and white explosion of the eighties. A comparison of Alex Toth and Jaime Hernandez occurs, as well as a short discussion of nineties comics, titles about villains, newspaper strips and finding comics off the rack. And of course, more Fantastic Four talk. Whoo hoo!
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Wilco
The Walking Dead All Out War Storyline.
By Robert Kirkman And Charlie Adlard.
90 | Comics Overseas, Color Or Black And White, Kirby’s Fantastic Four And Inkers
We start off talking about living with no rules, shipboard life, and nine minutes later finding comic books overseas. Once again black and white or color is discussed, as well as Kirby’s epic run on Fantastic Four 41-50. Vince Colletta, Walt Simonson’s Star Slammers and old war comics finish it out.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Ed Woltil
Teen Weekly Komiks From The Philippines.
Artist’s Signature And The Time It Was Done,
From Teen Weekly Komiks.
89 | Comic And Fantasy Artists Of The 70’s, Dragon’s Dream And Steve Ditko
Jack Kirby’s epic run on Fantastic Four is mentioned, then quickly goes into comic and fantasy artists of the seventies, books from Dragon’s Dream, Steve Ditko, Days Of Future Past (the comic book) and IDW’s upcoming Star Trek: City On The Edge Of Forever.
MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: The Stranglers
Don Is Currently Reading His Way Through Kirby And Lee’s
Fantastic Four Run, But Didn’t Want To Talk About It At This Time.