Episode 216: Sean is joined by Darrell Taylor to discuss Birds of Prey 3, Batman Odyssey 1, Superman 701 and the current JLA/JSA crossover. (Up by Friday morning at the latest)
Episode 217: Jim is back and we discuss the news coming out of San Diego and what our thoughts are. We’ll also probably discuss some current books depending on time.
I received a really cool email from Matt Brandal that he was trying to sell some items on ebay to get money together to take his nephew to the Chicago Comic Con.
He’s running some ebay auctions. Check them out to see if there are any items you might be interested. It’s a great way to help a friend of the show and to get some cool collectibles.
http://shop.ebay.com/member_11647783/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
Episode 215: Straight from Italy, Jim joins Sean to discuss Legion of Super Heroes #2, Power Girl #13, and Green Lantern Corps #49. We hope you enjoy this special offering.
Show Notes:
0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, our ongoing contest (Ragingcontest@gmail.com), senseiofwhatnot@gmail.com, http://www.geturgeekonradio.com, http://www.comiccollectorlive.com show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype,and more.
4:00 Legion #2
41:25 Power Girl #13
53:00 Green Lantern Corps #49
1:24:10 Show Closing
We’ll be back next week with our next episode. Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates.
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…the DC blog “The Source” gave me a good few reasons to be excited.
Before we get started, a couple things:
Okay, here’s your last warning. New stuff coming…
Superman #701 came out today, and while I haven’t read the whole book yet (my shipment from DCB doesn’t get here until Thursdays), I did read the preview that’s posted all over the Internet right now.
Thoughts?
I love it, and if this is the kind of story JMS is going to be telling, then I’m going to be a very happy Superman camper for the foreseeable future. Can he fly? Yes. Does he want to? No. And really, that’s pretty cool.
It makes total sense to me that after a year off Earth, Superman would feel distanced from humanity and feel it necessary to really get in touch with it again. New Krypton gave him a chance to experience his Kryptonian heritage and know more about where he came from, but it also put him at odds with Earth and its people on numerous occasions. I think that, more than anything, the New Krypton storyline and everything that came along with it solidified what I think Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent knew all along: He might be from Krypton, but Earth is his home.
And the new artist for J.T. Krul’s Teen Titans team is…
Nicola Scott, baby.
That cover for #88, the one that opens Krul’s run with the Titans? Amazing. I’m excited for this, and not just because of the creative team. If the team members on the cover are any indication, this is going to signal the return of the more “classic” team: Superboy, Wonder Girl, Beast Boy, Raven, Kid Flash, and…Ravager. Okay, so I’m curious how she makes her way back into the fold and what happens to other current Titans, like Static, Aqua Girl, Bombshell. It sounds like Blue Beetle is off with the Generation Lost crew. I suppose we have a few months to find out what becomes of them.
The blog post on The Source had some words from Krul about Scott being added to the team. We all know she’s awesome, so I’ll save you the whole paragraph. It’s these couple of lines that really got me excited, though.
“Oh, and wait until you see her take on Damian. That’s right, I said it. What would Teen Titans be without a Robin.”
Lord help us, Damian is going to be a Teen Titan. Krul’s right, of course. What would the Teen Titans be without a Robin? What’s going to be fun is seeing how this Robin differs from the other Robins that have been on the team. I have no doubt that the other members are going to be in need of some serious therapy in the near future.
Jim and I just finished our first recording from Italy. We have an hour and a half show hitting you on Friday that we are super excited about. We were hoping to pull off a mini episode while Jim was in Italy and we are glad to say we pulled it off.
Episode 214: JLA/Avengers Issue 4 and so much more: Going on vacation won’t stop us from bringing you content! Kent Hare joins us again for part 4 of this 4 part in depth look at JLA/Avengers.
We also have a special listener content segment with emails and voicemails covering Colgate, WW 600, Superman 700, Batman 700, Detective Comics 866, Batman and Robin 13, Red Robin 14.
We also share a very special message from Paul Spataro.
Show Notes:
0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com, our ongoing contest (Ragingcontest@gmail.com), senseiofwhatnot@gmail.com, http://www.geturgeekonradio.com, http://www.comiccollectorlive.com show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype,and more.
4:36 JLA/Avengers Issue 4 Part 1
1:20:19 Listener emails and voicemails
2:00:49 JLA/Avengers Issue 4 Part 2
2:42:46 More voicemails
3:17:02 Show Closing
We’ll be back next week with our next episode. Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates.
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AARGH!!! I know I will laugh about this tomorrow but there is a slight technical issue that is forcing me to start over. Audacity has somehow combined the temporary files from 213 and 214. Basically the show spends a minute or two on 214 then reverts to 213 and back to 214.
The good news is that I have the original unedited recordings from 214. The bad news is I have to start over tomorrow. I will post info here. I thought the show was finished and ready to post. I apologize for the delay.
Sean
Hey all,
My wife and I got back this afternoon and I started editing 214. It should be up tomorrow night. I will post more details as we get closer. It will be the last part of JLA/Avengers and listener emails and voicemails.
215 and 216 will contain special guests as we look at some of DC’s current releases while Jim is in Italy. Lots of very cool events to talk about in recent releases.
Sean
I know everyone can guess at least one female character I’m going to discuss this week. And I promise, we’ll get to that. But for now, excuse me while I take a short break to do the Dance of Joy.
Still here? Good. I guess I should probably explain that, huh?
I have to confess that Superman isn’t exactly my favorite character. It’s Lois Lane.
I had ambitions of being a reporter once. (Okay, so maybe I still think about it sometimes.) It was my thing in college. I learned about journalism terms like writing leads (and burying them), the inverted pyramid, and the importance of sources. Sometimes I even slip into reporter mode when I’m writing this blog.
Every so often, we hear about reporters “protecting their sources.” It seems to me the ultimate protection of a source–and no, I don’t care that it’s only a comic book–is Lois Lane’s knowledge that Clark Kent is Superman. Talk about sitting on the story of a century!
But hey, I could go on forever about the character development of Lois Lane. The one piece of information that has bugged me over the last couple of months though, is when Paul Cornell announced that Lois would be featured in his Action Comics run as Lex Luthor’s girlfriend.
WHAT?!?!
Thanks to our friends at CGS for getting the forums back up! We appreciate it.