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Belated Happy New Year, 'Nation!
The Tres Amigos are recovered and ready to bring you the art funky like none other. First, we have some unfinished business from last year as we present Dwight with his belated Christmas gift (it's good, too!). Then, Swain and I give thanks for bundles of amazing books that we received from friends of the show (Thanks, Derek and Colby!).
Then it's our Feature Presentation of the roundtable segment we like to call 'Run For Your Life'. For the uninitiated, this is the segment where Dwight, Swain and myself each choose a run of comics that impacted us personally and chop it up. Dwight chose Fantastic Four issues 279-281, Swain chose Amazing Spider-Man issues #18-22 and I chose The Invaders issues #1-28, plus the Giant-Size Annual PLUS the What If? issue #4. (It all fits together, trust me.)
Hope you enjoy the talk and here's to an awesome 2013!
- ADRiAN
Great show! Why aren't mainstream "super hero" comics that fun anymore? There's plenty of thought provoking stuff out there but not much i'd call "fun". I remember giving up on buying monthly comics around 2001 when it all just seemed to be getting way too serious. I then picked up a 70's issue of "Avengers" drawn by Byrne where they're battling this guy called Count Nefaria. All over the top stuff! They're throwing buildings & blasting things & I put it down & said "Damn that was a good comic!"
What happened to fun comics?
PS. I LOVED the "Invaders" back in the day! That & "All Star Squadron" at DC were awesome!!
(Marc, we cite that Avengers vs. Count Nefaria issue often in past episodes. GREAT issue and story arc. Just a good ole unabashed, over the top superhero slobberknocker! YEAH! It's up there with Avengers Annual #10. Matter of fact, I need to check and see if I have those Count Nefaria issues in my short boxes...Thanks, Marc! - ADRiAN)
Posted by: Marc | March 23, 2013 at 11:24
I have been away from the podcast for a while and am catching up now. I love love the round table discussions. You all echo what I have believed for a long time. That just because something is fun, that should not be a reason to roll your eyes. Can't wait to catch up at Spectrum Live in a month. Hope all is well.- db
(RE: Doug, thanks for checking back, and yes, see you in a few weeks. Until then, brother.)
Posted by: doug bell | April 18, 2013 at 18:54