Part of me wishes that the Justice League mini really was called Gay For Justice.
Is it sad that I have been waiting for this and refreshing the page every 30 mins or so ?
Tried listening to other comics podcasts and they really suck .. can anyone recommend any once I have had my fix of House to Astonish ?
Extreme Justice 2: Justice Boogaloo!
Didn't someone just go up to Doctor Strange and shoot him in BKV's The Oath or Waid/Ringo's FF?
Sammy - In addition to House To Astonish, the only other comics related podcasts I listen to (and therefore recommend) are WordBalloon and the Pipeline Podcast.
The former offers plenty of interesting interviews and with the latter, I always find Augie De Blieck Jr. to talk a great deal of sense, both in audio and written form.
http://wordballoon.libsyn.com/rss
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www.comicbookresources.co...st_pipeline.xml
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Yea but if I remember correctly it was a mystical luger that had been cursed by the nazis.
Man I miss that book. BKV rocked on that.
Quick question for Paul (or Al); Why is it that you guys very rarely review X-books on the podcast? I understand that it would obviously get a little redundant to go into great depth about something on the blog, and then do it again in podcast form, but isn't it warranted at times? Certainly something like the Dark Avengers/X-men Utopia crossover is of more note than yet another weird little Peter Milligan concept book? By my reckoning it's been at least ten years since the x-men franchise has crossed over into the main Marvel Universe in any significant way... Even if you guys both hated it, it seems like something worth mentioning.
Just for the record, re: the current status of Asgard: [THOR SPOILERS] The Asgardians (or the vast majority, at least) are in Latveria. The floating city's still in Oklahoma, but is currently abandoned. [/THOR SPOILERS]
That was meant to be whited out. Apparently (font color="white")...(/font) [replacing the round-brackets with angle-brackets, of course] doesn't work.
As a non-X reader (although reader of Paul's blog), I'm happy to only see the occasional one show up on the podcast.
I haven't read JL yet, but it seems that Robinson has been getting a good deal of praise recently for his work on the Superman books (the Jimmy Olsen one-shot was really good), so hopefully, the writing on JL 1 was an aberration.
I quite enjoyed the Utopia special (although the weird little Peter Milligan concept book was better). But we just did X-Men Forever last time round, so it would have been a bit of overkill to do X-books in consecutive podcasts.
(Also, we've covered X-Men Forever, New Mutants, Exiles, X-Men: Kingbreaker and Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes. So nearly 1/3 of our episodes so far have featured an X-book review.)
Yep, the podcast's had the right balance of X-books so far. Keep it that way.
Wouldn't Mister Rasputin have been killed off in that utterly, utterly crap Colossus mini a few years back?
> Gravatar Didn't someone just go up to Doctor Strange and shoot him in BKV's The Oath or Waid/Ringo's FF?
The Oath. However, it involved The Gun That Killed Hitler.
Which fails to take into account that MU Hitler was burned to death by the original Human Torch.
And then got better and fought the Fantastic Four.
I Am Not Making This Up.
Only in comics would a ressurected Hilter using a 'hate-ray' and calling himself the 'Hatemonger' be seen as a good idea.
Wonder Woman - Probably won't be redrawn or redressed for the 99 crossover, but I wouldn't be surprised if she adopted a more modest costume - perhaps with headscarf? - if the story specifically requires her to visit a country where this is the norm. At least, I think she's done that in the past.
Green Wanktern - I'm not sure "proactive superheroing" is the sort of thing a "space policeman" should really be involved with - especially as it sounds a wee bit Earth-centric. "Proactive" policing - certainly in the British experience - would involve, I dunno, going into schools, doing community outreach, involving small businessmen, charities, churches, etc.. in a bid to PREVENT crime, rather than THWART or AVERT it. Finding a way to obviate crime, as much as warning potential criminals that Green Daddy Is Watching. Hal Jordan steaming in with his giant green boxing glove and punching a ten year-old boy in the mouth because, someday, he might acquire fire breath is not proactive. Although it is funny.
Is Green Lantern ever really a space policeman, though? Does he solve the space equivalent of space theft auto? Space larceny? Does he hand out Anti-Spatial Behaviour Orders? What are the fundamental questions of space-morality and space-bureacracy that space-challenge the character, month-on-space-month? DOES he struggle to understand what "theft" might mean to a silicon-based atemporal miasma? Or does he just muck around with other jewelry-based characters, shooting coloured lights at each other like the world's most overwrought game of LASER Tag?
Maybe he needs the equivalent of a Community Support Lantern. Someone to patrol the streets as a symbol or avatar of the service, as much as an official in their own right. Someone to reassure the public, and deter the dastards. They could call themselves the Belisha Beacon, or something.
Actually, fuck it: The Belisha Beacon TM & C. Not letting anyone take that corker away from me.
Doctor Strange - "EXPELLIAMUS!" I think you'd probably need to hire a really logophillic writer in order to make Doctt - oh, I'm sorry, "Mister" Strange (he's had to return his medical degree) work again. Someone who combines a love of the thunderous lyricism of the English language and its torrential fluidity with a capacious vocabulary and gleeful delviery. Someone who straddles the line between Leean pomposity and Tolkeinesque grandeur. Someone who embodies and encapsulates the overlap between between Shakespeare and Cervantes, between Wodehouse and Wogan. Someone with an absolute purity of heart and clarity of tongue, and someone for whom every sentence is a feast of aural, and indeed oral, magic.
Stephen Strange deseves no-one less than Stephen Fry.
Longbox - sounds absolutely fantastic. Wish I had something to sell on it right right now. Glad I have time to work something up. Oh, hey, there's a thing - filters and democracy. Access and elbows. Is the playing field going to be level? How are they going to work out who gets to play and who doesn't? Is there going to be quality control, or won't that matter? If M&D join the party, are they going to want preferential treatment? Would it be better to be an early adopter? I think so. Hm.
Ra-Ra-Rasputin - kinda surprised they didn't put a cheerleader supervillain in HEROES. I guess that wouldn't have turned the stereotype on its head enough.
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Actually, when you put it like that... I'd really like to see Mr Fry write Thor.
For some reason only the first 14 episodes are appearing on your iTunes entry now, at least to me...
In fairness, Mister Rasputin changed his name to Plotnick precisely to keep himself from drifting back into supervillainy, having become a thoroughly alright suburban dad.
He didn't fight Cloak and Dagger, but helped rescue them when his kids stumbled on Dad's old gear and magically kidnapped Cloak under the misimpression that Cloak was "Death." As he himself said in that story, "If I ever felt the old bug again, the very thought of a villain named 'Mr. Plotnick' was more than enough to stop me."
iTunes looks fine to me - I can see episode 4 through the present day. Anyone else missing episodes? It might conceivably be displaying differently in other countries.
Hey Mammalian Verisimilitude,
You tried so hard to put a thoughtful spoiler warning on the Thor info, but didn't think to do so on this:
"MU Hitler was burned to death by the original Human Torch. And then got better and fought the Fantastic Four."
Come on now! No fair!!!
If not a spoiler warning, then maybe some kind of "awesome alert" at least.
The gimmick with the INFAMOUS game is that you can choose whether your character is good or evil. So a bunch of the adverts have been nearly identical except with either blue or red lightning and slightly different text, to try and get the gimmick over.
I think I heard about the Ninety-Nine recently, and didn't realise the book was actually from the Middle East; the idea of heroes named after the 99 names of Allah sounded like some misguided Middle Eastern version of the Great Ten.
"Ollie, gay for Hal" cropped up even more blatantly in the main book recently. In fact, it was during the "Cry for Justice" lead-in, which makes me wonder if Robinson actually intends this to be one of the themes of the book, and McDuffie was told to put in the line where Canary calls GL Ollie's boyfriend. Yes, really.
(Or maybe some DC highup wrote a note to both of them that he wanted to see Ollie cry for Hal...)
In STARMAN, the main characters were a somewhat pretentious art-collector and an enigmatic Victorian fop, so the dialogue more or less worked. I don't think Robinson's writing like this in SUPERMAN, although he has taken the precaution of having a lead character whose first language is Daxamite.
(Incidentally, I've just discovered that a peculiarity of Windows Media Player is that if it can't find a cover image for what you're listening to, it has a guess on something that has a similar title. So I've been listening with this guy staring out at me. I haven't decided if it's you or Al.)
Oh, and it's just occured to me that I think Larry Niven did the "do most of the incantation in advance" idea in a short story. Since they didn't have macros in those days the analogy was something like "like a telephone number that has been dialed except for one digit".
Following on from that analogy, I suppose the argument as to why Doctor Weirdstuff Can't Do That is that, if he needs to cast a different spell, he not only needs to do the entire incantation for that one, but first he has to do the mystic equivilent of hanging up and waiting for the dial tone...
Oh, hey, here's a thing - they...they wouldn't make Longbox content specific to the user's region, would they? Like, restricting access to certain content to people outside the continental United States? I mean, that would be AWful, wouldn't it?
But one could imagine a scenario where COOL INDIE DARLING might be blocked in the UK because, five years after it debuted, a British book publisher has suddenly licensed it for bookstore release, and they don't want Britons to get hold of it without putting money in their pocket.
...if you follow... *taps nose*
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Well, that would be the whole point of using DRM, wouldn't it.
Since even the music industry is finally getting the idea that DRM is bad, it's painful to see the comic industry making the same mistake...
Is that DRM, then? The thing that makes that notice come up whenever I try to watch something on Hulu, or Comedy Central, or Adult Swim US?
See, comics is mercifully free of the myriad pressures that might result in regionicity. I mean, sure, the adverts in the print comics are all American, but if you're putting a book online, then why would you be stuffing it full of adverts, right?
...who said "product placement?!"
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re: Ben Johnston & Infamous.
Is it just me, or is that a rather ineffective ad? I mean, even if you put in enough effort to figure the ads out, if the the only thing that differs is the colour, you're basically saying,"in this game, the difference between good and evil is largely aesthetic."
Although come to think of it, I would really enjoy a villain who chose evil purely for the aesthetic. The dank lair, the black costume, the big guns--really, what other reasons do you need?
I think Rantz Hoseley is the only person who can answer questions on Longbox. Our speculating about it doesn't really achieve anything.
Well, I'd forgotten about his Twitterview - ew, ew, ew - with Johnsto the other week, so reading that over again, my question about access is well and truly answered - there WILL be a filter, you WILL have to prove worthy of Lb status.
As to my other questions of regionicity (and sundry financial concerns that occurred to me while I was out driving last night), I'll just have to wait for the Beta thing.
Rantz says specifically not to email him, so, well, ngsh.
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Well, he says that people shouldn't email him to become beta testers. I'm not sure he doesn't want anyone to email him ever about Longbox.
Re: Infamous, I saw the ad in a comic shop this afternoon, and it really is tremendously poor. If I didn't already know about the game's premise, I'd never have figured it out from the ad.
Any chance of doing WEDNESDAY COMICS #1 on next weekend's podcast?
*shakes magic 8-ball*
"Outlook is good."
Petty criminals doing petty magic sounds like an actually good idea to me. Beats the hell out of the 'magic as drug addiction' metaphor that gets wheeled out now and again.
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