December 24th, 2007 Randal
We uphold our annual tradition of discussing Starman at Christmas (traditions have to start somewhere, right?); for weeklies, some Green Lantern books and Simon Dark.
We uphold our annual tradition of discussing Starman at Christmas (traditions have to start somewhere, right?); for weeklies, some Green Lantern books and Simon Dark.
Show Notes:
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Welcome to the first annual Starman Special.
We cover Randal’s favorite comic of all time Starman Volume II, written by James Robinson, with art by Tony Harris and Peter Snejbjerg starring the smoothest motherfucker of all time: Jack Knight.
We also go over our favorite characters (almost all of them), our favorite arcs (almost all of them), how Tony Harris is amazing, how unbelievably awesome Opal City is (and it’s probable real world location), spend an incredible amount of time discussing both the nature of Jack Knight and what it is about him that we love and the nature of Jack’s relationship with Sadie, and bemoan the fact that no one has used any of the excellent tools characters or settings that Robinson left behind at the end of the series.
We then realize how we’ve barely scratched the surface and decide to make it a yearly thing.
We also continue on our quest to make an episode under 3 hours long.
It’ll happen. One of these days.
Meanwhile we discuss books that came out in the last two weeks, namely:
SIMON DARK #3: Because Charles promised he would, and we can’t agree on whether or not Simon’s crazy or heroic.
and GREEN LANTERN #25: Where we discuss the end of the Sinestro Corps war (and stin got pretty drunk).
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December 21st, 2007 admin
We uphold our annual tradition of discussing Starman at Christmas (traditions have to start somewhere, right?); for weeklies, some Green Lantern books and Simon Dark.
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December 10th, 2007 Randal
We discuss V For Vendetta, and weeklies Invincible #47, Daredevil #102, Casanova #11, Overman #1, Buffy #9, and Sub-Mariner #6, and random Shakespeare.
“Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!“We unleash the Kracken in this episode by allowing Charles to quote prodigiously from Shakespeare, because our topic is none other than “V FOR VENDETTA”.
We discuss whether or not V was truly a terrorist as depicted in the book, compare the movie and book versions, debate whether it would have worked as a book without pictures, and disagree entirely as to whether V specifically chose Evey or she was a random passerby that took up the cause on her own.We then geek out over the comics put out in the last two weeks, namely:
INVINCIBLE #47: Allen the Alien is a badass of Vick Mackey proportions, awkward costuming and how William is the best Jimmy Olsen ever, Oliver’s flight school and how we’d fly all the fucking time if we could and the need to pick up the Invincible Universe Handbook.
DAREDEVIL #102: And how the continuing story of Matt Murdock has become almost un-fucking-readable. We come to the conclusion that hotdogs are a better three dollar investment than this book. Also, Mr Fear is a douchebag.
CASANOVA #11: Best Matt Fraction book out on the market (tied with Iron Fist), superspys, lesbian assassination sex scenes, and amazing back matter.
OVERMAN #1: A book Randal and Stin didn’t pick up but is apparently Escape from New York on the moon. MOON!
BUFFY #9: We’ll stop talking about Buffy when it stops being awesome. Translation? We will NEVER stop talking about Buffy.
SUB-MARINER #6: Namor does Namor things, in this order: 1) Be a Badass. 2) Evacuate Atlantis. 3) Continue to be a Badass. 4) Bitch Slap Tony. 5) Make a statue of himself as a Badass and then Destroy it. And finally, 6) Make the best, most BADASS alliance ever. |
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December 10th, 2007 Randal
Sounds great — less filling! We discuss Hellblazer and John Constantine; also bi-weekly picks.
| Hellblazer is the main topic along with: X-Factor #25; Simon Dark #2; Umbrella Academy #3; All Star Superman #8; and Booster Gold #4. |
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December 8th, 2007 admin
We discuss V For Vendetta, and weeklies Invincible #47, Daredevil #102, Casanova #11, Overman #1, Buffy #9, and Sub-Mariner #6, and random Shakespeare.
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