Episode 214: JLA/Avengers Part 4 and so much more

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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.

Paul’s Cancer Walk Link

http://longislandwalk.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=347198&lis=0&kntae347198=8894F5AC57244ECAA2C6598340075061&supId=0&team=3780548&cj=Y

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Slight delay due to technical problem for Episode 214

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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

Sean back from vacation! New show will be up tomorrow night!

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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

This week, the gals rule the conversation

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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?!?!

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Episode 213 is up: JLA/Avengers Part 3 of 4

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Episode 213: JLA/Avengers Issue 3 and more: Going on vacation won’t stop us from bringing you content! Kent Hare joins us again for part 3 of this 4 part in depth look at JLA/Avengers.

We also have a special listener content segment with emails and voicemails.

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.  

4:26 JLA/Avengers Issue 3 Part 1

1:11:49 Listener emails and voicemails

1:49:16 JLA/Avengers Issue 3 Part 2

2:20:12 Show Closing

We’ll be back next week with 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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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

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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

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http://twitter.com/darylwriterguy

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Biting the Bullet: Digital Comics are here from DC!

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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.