Life in the Gutter – Back from the Depths

Life in the Gutter

I know, I know.  It’s been late April since I posted anything on the website.  For that, my deepest apologies.  The explanation is a long, long story but involves hospitals, state-mandated Response to Intervention training for school, a late out for our school, and a killer time getting the Senior Issue of our school newspaper to printer before the seniors actually left school.  All in all, it’s been a crazy couple of months.

I quickly came to the realization that it would be impossible for me to completely recap everything that has happened in the last couple months comic-wise.  But, here I am trying to get caught up on Raging Bullets episodes and just finally getting around to listening to 207 on the Smallville season finale, and I’m internally cracking up at all the things that have come to light since the episode aired.

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Bat Casebook — June 16 Catch-Up Edition

The Bat Casebook

Hello, and welcome to the Bat Casebook, where I review the Bat-Comics that came out during the week for you–usually. Right now I’m going to do something a little different, and do last week’s books. I didn’t do it last week, because the “big book,” Birds of Prey #2, was unavailable on my side of the Union. So I’m going to talk about that, go briefly on Azrael #9, and then talk about the Joker’s Asylum books that came out in the past two weeks, including the one from this week, Killer Croc. This will be a bit shorter, so I can also get this week in, so let’s dig in!

Birds of Prey #2

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Episode 212: Jonah Hex film review, Brightest Day, Birds of Prey, Digital Comics, Dracula and more

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Episode 212: Speeding Bullets Show: We talk about a ton this episode including Brightest Day 4, Justice League Generation Lost 3, Booster Gold 33, Birds of Prey 2, the Jonah Hex Movie, the future of DC film.

BREAKING NEWS: There is also a quick segment on the just released DC Digital Comics initiative on iTunes and Playstation Portable.

We also have a special extra bonus segment with Daryl Gregory on “Dracula: The Company of Monsters”.

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.

5:47 Speeding Bullets: Brightest Day 4, Justice League Generation Lost 3, Booster Gold 33, Birds of Prey 2

1:28:20 Daryl Gregory and “Dracula: The Company of Monsters”

1:48:55 Jonah Hex Movie Review and the future of DC film and television

2:58:54 BREAKING NEWS: Quick review of the newly released DC Comics App for Apple products and Playstation Portable

3:13:16 Show Closing

We’ll be back next week with our next episode.  Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates.

Daryl Gregory

http://www.boom-studios.net/

http://darylgregory.wordpress.com

http://twitter.com/darylwriterguy

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Biting the Bullet: Digital Comics are here from DC!

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http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/06/23/for-immediate-release-dc-comics-launches-digital-publishing/

I have mentioned on the show many times that I am a fan of comics reaching out to a digital audience. I don’t feel we need to get so worried about this as a replacement for paper copies but as an opportunity to reach out to a new digital crowd.

Comics as a storytelling medium have much in common with today’s Video Game and digital media culture. Video game storytelling is becoming more and more complex and this is not longer restricted to role playing game. I think many video game fans that have never been exposed to comics are comic fans in the making. The type of serialized deliver they expect from the best in video game sequels is exactly the type of storytelling they will get in comics.

I don’t think this is the only crowd that will be attracted to digital comics for the first time but it is certainly an audience base that is much larger than even the top selling comics of today. I am hoping we see advertising initiatives to reach this audience base and draw them into the wonderful world’s that we have been loving for so long.

My big frustration with digital initiatives is the fear that it will hurt the comic retailer. The only way that will happen is if fans of the paper product prefer the digital. I just don’t see that being the case. As long as there are collector’s, there will still be a paper product. While I am an advocate of digital comics, it won’t be a replacement for my paper comics. I look at this the same way as I looked at the birth of the trade paperback. It’s just another avenue of content delivery to increase exposure. I firmly believe that digital deliver should target an new type of potential comic fan vs. the current audience.

New Episode tonight

Show news

Jim and I are preparing for vacations but we want to make sure you have content during that time. Jim will be in Italy for 3 weeks. During that time, I will be airing a very special Speeding Bullets show (tonight). We cover Brightest Day 4, Generation Lost 3, Booster Gold 33, Birds of Prey #2. We also chat about the film Jonah Hex, the future of DC films and television and much much more.

As a bonus, we had an opportunity to chat with Daryl Gregory, cowriter of Dracula: The Company of Monsters from Boom! Studios. We will be airing the fun interview we had on this episode as well.

After Episode 212, we will have 2 more JLA/Avengers Episodes covering issues 3 and 4 which were previously recorded to plan for this vacation. I will also be bringing on some friends of the show to discuss current comics while Jim is on vacation so you’ll still be getting some great content.

Episode 211 is up: JLA/Avengers Issue 2

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Episode 211: JLA/Avengers Issue 2: This episode is a very in depth look at JLA/Avengers issue 2. We are joined by friend of the show Kent Hare. We have a pretty wild Aquaman tangent as well.

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.  

4:38 Part 1

1:04:40 Part 2

2:02:34 Show Closing

We’ll be back in a few days our next episode.  Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates.

Kent used part of these as reference during the discussion and they are here for you to check out:

Comic Geek Speak Footnotes episodes (5 total) on JLA/Avengers at http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes.php?podcast=FOOTNOTES

Eric J. Moreels’ Annotations to the four issues at the Comixfan fora:

1:  http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=8ce85ab3620cade10d0e45890e54c802&threadid=21651&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

2.  http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23074

3. http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24043

4. http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26985

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Episode 210 is up: Raging Summer Officially Begins

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Episode 210: Speeding Bullets: We discuss a great deal in this episode including a speeding bullets segment focusing on American Vampire 1, I Zombie 1, JSA All Stars 7, The Shield 9, Secret Six 21, Magog 9, Booster Gold 32, The Legion of Super Heroes 1, DCU Legacies #1, Justice Society of America 39

We also have a listener voicemail on Red Robin 13 as well.

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.  

5:55 Speeding Bullets

1:59:15 Red Robin  Voicemail

2:13:12 Show Closing

We’ll be back in a few days our next episode.  Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates.

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Episode 210 and 211 update

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I am just wrapping up end of the year paperwork and closing up my classroom for summer. I was hoping to post a show tonight but will have to finish tomorrow.

I am working on 2 episodes for the next 7 days.

210 will be speeding bullets on Secret Six, Magog, Red Robin, DC Legacies, I Zombie, American Vampire, JSA All Stars, Justice Society of America, the Shield, Booster Gold, and some quick follow ups from forum discussions.

211 will be JLA/Avengers issue 2.

Over 5 hours of content in two shows in 7 days.

Summer is here and we have big things planned.

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