This week, Tucker, Chris, Matt and Joe talk about Wayward Girls, Zaucer of Zilk, a bit on Dredd, then Saga, then something else about comics, there’s a part where Tucker yells too long and Chris sort of loses it, Matt uses the word "integrity", Anne Sullivan and the Trails of Helen Keller, and then Tucker talks about Godzilla.
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This week, Tucker, Chris, Matt and Joe talk about Shiguru Mizuki and Wolverine. To be clear: there is a differentiation between the two topics. You don’t have to listen to the Mizuki stuff to keep up with the Wolverine conversation, or vice versa. Obviously, we’d hope that you want to hear both conversations—that’s why they were recorded at the same time. But we can’t make these decisions for you. We wouldn’t ever try. That wouldn’t be fair to you, to your people.
This week, the team discusses which fine artists they most wish had done comics, a discussion which leads into Jesse Jacobs and his new book, By This Shall You Know Him. After that, it’s time for Chester Brown and the recent release of Ed The Happy Clown, which opens up a whole bag of history: and unsurprisingly, Joe has you covered. This one is accidently a little longer than usual, and Tucker’s volume drops a little too much for our liking..but we’re getting there! An RSS feed is to come as well!
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This is an episode of limited focus and unparalled depth, half on Otomo, half on Chip Kidd. Two topics, and all of comics must be contained within them…or, at the very least, a proper amount of venom. Let’s get it on.
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In this, our fourth episode, the boys tackle the super-hero question, Eddie Campbell’s latest, the pictorial representation question, and the question of whether or not Matt is being a dick. Tucker is definitely being a dick. But Matt’s status remains up in the air.
Sure, Bruce Wayne is a secretive guy, but from a psychological perspective, is anything really wrong with him? A psychologist considers this question.
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Celebrate Independence Day with everyone’s favorite patriot, and one of our favorite oddio comics ever! A re-post of our rendition of "Captain America: Bicentennial Battles - The Face of the Future!"
This episode chronicles one of Cap’s cosmic adventures as he is hurled through time and space by the mysterious Mr. Buda, in search of the American dream. Instead he finds work in a Hollywood musical (and gets really cheesed off!) He eventually takes comfort in the hearts of some fiddle music and ghetto kids, and is inspired enough to give a speech on the good ol’ U.S. of A. Actually, several speeches. It gets kind of tedious, really, but hey, it’s written by Jack ‘King’ Kirby. What did you expect?
How has the Man of Steel evolved over the past eight decades — and what has made him so popular? Those were the questions that intrigued biographer Larry Tye, whose book Superman tells the story of the red-and-blue-clad icon who Tye calls "the longest-lived American hero of the last century."
"Americans embrace Superman partly because he captured so many things that are part of our psyche and part of our sense of ourselves," Tye tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. "… He gave us an unwavering sense of right and wrong. He sweeps in to solve our problems. He was a bit like a Messiah in that he descended from the heavens to help us discover our humanity. And unlike all these other heroes — the dark Batman or the fraught Spider-Man — Superman was out there, always like a clear sign of light."
While there was a new batch of audio problems on this episode, it seems like we’re getting closer to the point where we’ll be proud enough to use actual numbers.
Here’s our second installment, which was recorded at the same time as the first, and therefore suffers from the same problem as the first: it’s hard to listen to. However, Robin McConnell (of Inkstuds fame) was kind enough to help…