2018-12
2018-12
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018
Chris is on Infinite Earths, Episode 7: JSA #55 (2004)
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018
Tuesday Dec 25, 2018
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Dear Listeners!
This time out, Chris (@acecomics) discusses a wonderful Christmas-themed issue featuring the Justice Society of America... and the return of one of the more unique Golden-Age characters. After going through the issue, he tries (in vain) to qualify and affix the nebulous comic-reviewing metric known as "heart".
During the second half of the episode, Chris (the usual one) is once again joined by Chris Bailey (@Charlton_Hero), and together they share stories of Christmases long, long ago. It's a great time as usual... give it a listen, if you have a free moment or thirty between tearing into all the goodies Santa left under your tree!
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Sunday Dec 23, 2018
Sunday Dec 23, 2018
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! In this episode, workshop janitors Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) read a seasonal favorite enjoyed for generations: DC Comics' Limited Collectors Edition #C-24 from 1973, aka New Giant Adventures of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Sy Reit and Rube Grossman! After some biographical information about our creators, and a look at how these oversized treasury editions came to be in the first place, our reindeer groomers read all three of the Rudolph stories in the book, following each twist and turn, no matter how inane. After a break, they talk about the rest of the Limited Collectors Edition line, including some titles that made it into other formats entirely! It's an episode sure to chase the seasonal doldrums away, don't miss it!
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BREAK: Snippet from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" television special, 1964
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Reggie's Comics Stories ep. 6 - R. Crumb is a Sexual Predator
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Hey folks! In episode of Reggie's Stories, there's some personal recollections about Robert Crumb, a brief biography, and a reading of the essay "Robert Crumb is a Sexual Predator," as written by Kim O'Connor on her site The Shallow Brigade. It's superbly-written, and hopefully this reading does it justice. The episode wraps up with some final–or not-so-final–thoughts on Robert Crumb from Reggie himself. Give it a listen!
Check out the essay here: https://amazingcavalieri.blogspot.com/2017/01/r-crumb-is-sexual-predator.html
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Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 120 - Saved By the Bell Summer Break #1 (1992)
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
hey Hey HEY WHAT is going on here?? In this episode, matriculated students Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) check out one of their other shared interests...bordering on obsessions, when they read Harvey Comics' Saved By the Bell Summer Break #1 from 1992! After a deep dive into the secret origins and trappings of the television show, our Bayside Tigers provide biographies for creators Angelo de Cesare and Hy Rosen. Then, they read every goofy page of the comic, lending about the same level of talent to their voices as most of the actors brought to the show. After a break, they provide a brief history of Harvey Comics, before breezily talking about the show and devolving into fits of wheezing laughter. It's a show these knuckleheads couldn't wait to make, don't miss it!
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Chris is on Infinite Earths, Episode 6: DC Universe Rebirth #1 (2016)
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
Wednesday Dec 12, 2018
This week Chris (@acecomics) is joined by guest Patrick Kotenberg (@dcufanfam) to discuss the world-changing DC Universe Rebirth #1 from 2016. After Chris does his usual blibbuh blabbuh (emphasis on the "blabbuh" this time around) and walks through the issue, Patrick shares how he, as a new-to-DC fan received Rebirth, and how it kept him coming back to the comic shop week after week. It's a great time as usual, doncha dare miss it!
Includes comments/mail from Jeremy Daw & Jeremiah Jones-Goldstein!
Jeremy's Blog: https://jddunsany.wordpress.com/
Jeremiah's Blog: https://comicscomicscomics.blog/
You can check out Patrick's painted miniatures here: https://www.instagram.com/fourstepspainting/
Original Blog Post: https://www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2017/03/dc-universe-rebirth-1-2016.html
Break audio: "What is Rebirth?" from DC Comics YouTube Page (February 19, 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuupQxkEe8
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Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 119 - Star Wars #1 (1977)
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Sunday Dec 09, 2018
Beep beep tweet, folks! In this episode, Nerf herders Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) look at some events that occurred some time in the past, in a remote corner of the universe, as depicted in Marvel Comics' Star Wars #1 by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, published in 1977! After some biographical information about these legendary creators, and a little background information on how the deal was struck, they go through every page of the inaugural issue, butchering the voices as politely as possible. After a break, these rebel traitors return to wrap up their histories of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Chaykin, and wrap it all up by talking about how the comic book fared at Marvel going into the 1980s–including an aside about a giant green bunny? The episode is more fun than a barrel full of light sabers, you don't want to miss it!
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Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Cosmic Treadmill Special: Young Animal "Gatherum", Episode 18
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety-Two Minutes...
One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety-Two Moments stacked up real tall...
One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety-Two Minutes
How do you measure,
Measure Young Animal?
In delays?
In t-shirts?
In f-words?
In cups of milk?
In pages, in singles, in trades and omnibi?
In One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety-Two Minutes.
How do you measure a pop-up imprint?
That's right, Dangerous Humans! Welcome to the final installment of the Young Animal Gatherum! Wrapping up One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety-Two Minutes of analysis of all 83 releases from the imprint! We become a bit emotional... but probably not for the right reasons! Colorful language warning...
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Today's discussions originally aired in segment form during the following episodes of the Weird Science DC Comics Podcast:
Episode 187 (08.05.2018) - Shade the Changing Woman #6
Episode 188 (08.12.2018) - Eternity Girl #6
Episode 189 (08.19.2018) - Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye #6
Episode 190 (08.26.2018) - Mother Panic: Gotham A.D. #6
Episode 191 (09.02.2018) - Young Animal "Post-Mortem"
Episode 200 (11.04.2018) - Doom Patrol (vol.6) #12
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Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Reggie's Comics Stories ep. 5 - Hey Kids, Comics!
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Hiya, folks! This week, Reggie (@reggiereggie) is reading three essays from the book Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales From the Spinner Rack, edited by Rob Kelly, published in 2013. Highlighting stories by Doug Slack, Steve Englehart, and Richard Harland Smith, Reggie provides a little background for each author before delving into their secret comic book origins. At the end, Reggie provides a little context for his own passage into comic book enthusiasm! It's a real love-fest of four-color funnybooks, don't miss it!
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