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Part 3 Acomi and Turk182 switch targets from Roy Thomas to Rob Liefeld, who also wants to claim more creation rights for characters than he's entitled to. While he did draw and name various characters, like Deadpool, Rob also wants the be recognized for their developed personality and characteristics; of which he wasn't involved. Turk talks about Rob's latest comic book Last Blood, which involves characters he fully created himself; and still has the rights to. Written just for his "true fans" and done in a way on Rob Liefeld would. These iconic creations, brought to misshapen life during his tenure at Image Comics and under his Extreme! Studios. Well known characters like Bloodstrike, Bloodwulf, Bloodstone, Bloodpool, S.P.I.C.E., Fourplay, Deadlock, Task, and Wylder. You know, them! #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.
L'émission Front Page est une revue d'actualité qui s'intéresse à tout ce qui touche le monde de la bande dessinée américaine (comics) du côté des Etats-Unis comme de la France, ainsi qu'à ses adaptations tous médias confondus. Le podcast est une série régulière chez First Print et revient au rythme de trois épisodes par mois, hors contenus spéciaux. Ce Front Page est le premier podcast consacré à l'actualité comics du mois d'avril 2024.Le podcast est sponsorisé par Pulps et on vous propose un "Focus Pulps" chaque mois ! Découvrez une sélection de comics VO à prix de lancement !Le Focus Pulps d'avril 2024 : Profane #1 / Precious Metal #1/ Zatanna : Bring Down the House #1Si vous appréciez le travail fourni par l'équipe et que vous souhaitez soutenir le podcast, vous pouvez partager les émissions sur les réseaux sociaux et vous abonner à nos différents comptes, laisser des notes sur les différentes plateformes d'écoute, ou encore nous soutenir via notre page Tipeee. Très bonne écoute à vous, et à bientôt pour le prochain podcast !Le ProgrammeCOMICS - 03:10Ulule : soutenez les Lanternes de Nedzu chez Bubble La Biennale du Comics, 1ère édition, s'installe à LyonUrban Comics se met aussi aux blindpacks pour TransformersPanini Comics dévoile le reste de son programme Marvel Pocket pour 2024Dynamite récupère les droits de Terminator en comicsRob Liefeld annonce ses mémoires pour 2025Ore : la suite de Starhenge de Liam Sharp chez Image ComicsUn artbook pour Invincible saison 2 (et toujours rien en VF)Lands Unknown : le nouvel univers partagé de Mike Mignola et Ben StenbeckRobin Lives! : DC publie une suite alternative à Death in the FamilyLa nouvelle série X-Force se dévoileTV - 1:15:45On en pense quoi des visuels du Zorro de France TV ? 1h20Criminal : l'adaptation TV chapeautée par Anna Boden et Ryan FleckUn nouveau trailer tout weird pour Dead Boy DetectivesCINEMA - 1:34:33Craig Gillespie en vue pour réaliser Supergirl : Woman of TomorrowAvengelyne et Bloodstrike : on y croit vraiment ?Fantastic Four recrute Julia Garner en Silver SurferUn premier trailer pour Joker : Folie à DeuxHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Depuis de nombreuses années, j'ai tendance à dire que tout a été fait en matière d'histoire de super-héros. Et qui aurait pu croire qu'un comic book sorti de nulle part allait me donner tort ? Aujourd'hui, on parle de COPRA par Michel Fiffe. Je ne vais pas y aller par quatre chemins : la série de comics dont je vais vous parler me semble largement sous-estimée de manière générale, et plus particulièrement par les lecteurs français, qui sont totalement passés à côté de la pépite qu'est COPRA. Réparer cette injustice me paraît essentiel, et j'espère que la lecture de cet article vous donnera envie de plonger dans ce qui est sûrement la meilleure chose qui soit arrivée au comic book de super-héros ces derniers temps. Les gens aiment qu'on leur raconte la même histoire encore et encore, autant pour se rassurer en validant leurs propres connaissances que pour mieux s'offusquer d'être pris pour des idiots, et je ne compte plus le nombre de fois où j'ai été confronté à ce paradoxe. D'un côté, une partie du public se plaint de la redondance et du manque d'originalité des comics de super-héros, de l'autre, les tentatives de certains auteurs pour surprendre le lectorat ou sortir des sentiers battus, que ce soit graphiquement ou scénaristiquement, sont souvent victimes de réceptions désintéressées, voire hostiles. Ainsi, les lecteurs et les lectrices qui déplorent l'immobilisme du genre super-héroïque sont aussi souvent ceux qui l'entretiennent, par un fanatisme borné ou bien tout simplement par manque de curiosité. Heureusement, il arrive que des artistes visionnaires fassent prendre au médium des virages novateurs qui définissent de nouveaux standards, sans pour autant renier leur héritage. C'est le cas de Michel Fiffe, né en 1979 à La Havane, qui commence à se faire connaître au début des années 2010 en réalisant de courtes histoires autour de Savage Dragon, le héros de Erik Larsen, chez Image Comics. En 2012, il débute, en autoédition sur son label Copra Press, la publication de COPRA, série dont il est à la fois le scénariste et le dessinateur, qui va rapidement recevoir d'excellentes critiques de la part de la presse et des sites web spécialisés en comic books. En 2014, il écrit les douze numéros de All-New Ultimates de Marvel Comics et travaille ensuite sur Bloodstrike, spin-off de Younglood de Rob Liefeld ; G.I. Joe : Sierra Muerte, une relecture bad-ass de la licence de Hasbro chez IDW ; et réalise plusieurs variant covers pour Valiant Comics et Dark Horse. Le succès de COPRA permettra même aux lecteurs de redécouvrir l'une de ses œuvres de jeunesse, réalisée entre 2005 et 2008 : Panorama, récit mêlant chronique adolescente et body-horror, sélectionnée au Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême en 2022. Dans COPRA, sa création phare, une équipe hétéroclite de mercenaires dotés de super-pouvoirs intervient dans les situations les plus désespérées, et ses membres ne tirent aucun honneur public de leurs actes héroïques. Parmi les agents les plus emblématiques de COPRA, on trouve Lloyd, combattant aguerri et tireur émérite ; Gracie, une ancienne mannequin star de série B, mais aussi athlète confirmée experte en corps-à-corps ; Wir, à la fois geek et ex-délinquant ayant fabriqué une colossale armure hi-tech, véritable arme de guerre ambulante ; Rax, justicier originaire d'une autre dimension et doté d'une tenue lui conférant un pouvoir considérable ; Guthie, une dure à cuire dont la force surhumaine lui permet de tenir tête à des êtres divins ; ou encore Xenia, une jeune femme qui peine à accepter l'étendue de ses pouvoirs occultes. Tous des archétypes, pour ne pas dire des ersatz, de personnages célèbres, mais dont on comprend rapidement que leur fibre super-héroïque est aussi erratique que la cohésion de la troupe qu'ils forment. Après avoir posé le décor, Fiffe prend le temps de développer chaque personnage individuellement, offrant soudainement bien plus de profondeur à des héros et des héroïnes qui semblaient très secondaires au départ. Les membres de COPRA ne sont pas des super-héros. Dans la veine d'une Doom Patrol ou d'une Suicide Squad, les protagonistes de Fiffe sont des gueules cassées et des freaks à mille lieues des justiciers et justicières classiques que l'on retrouve chez les Avengers ou dans la Justice League. Écorchés-vifs ou survivants victimes de leur propre statut, ils sont aussi très différents les uns des autres, pour ne pas dire incompatibles les uns avec les autres. Pourtant, Fiffe réussit avec beaucoup de talent à articuler leurs relations et met en place une dynamique de groupe tout à fait efficace, ce qui reste un exercice complexe, même pour des auteurs confirmés travaillant chez Marvel ou DC Comics. Fiffe mélange, puis avale d'un seul bloc une quantité phénoménale de références, les digère, les régurgite et nous les renvoie à la face sans sommation. Dans COPRA se côtoient les explosives visions cosmiques de Jack Kirby, le mysticisme misanthropique de Steve Ditko, et la fureur graphique de Frank Miller, pour un résultat qui ne cesse de gagner en qualité au fur et à mesure des numéros, l'artiste affinant peu à peu son propre style pour créer des scènes toujours plus spectaculaires et brillantes dans leur conception. Certains personnages, notamment ses super-vilains, arborent des looks aussi déstructurés qu'improbables, qui défient les lois de la géométrie et de la physique de notre monde réel. Des transgressions permises par la bande dessinée, et pourtant rarement osées par les dessinateurs des publications mainstream. Grâce à ce parfait amalgame d'influences, nourrit de près d'un siècle de comics de super-héros, COPRA peut revendiquer être l'apogée du genre, mais aussi du format comic book, car Fiffe, dans son découpage, joue autant avec le fond qu'avec la forme standardisée des planches pour pousser la narration graphique à un niveau bien trop rare dans la bande dessinée américaine. Étant fan de comics depuis mon plus jeune âge, j'y vois un véritable accomplissement. Comme si le créateur derrière cette BD avait su capter tout ce qu'on aime dans les histoires de super-héros et l'avait porté à maturation pour en donner sa propre version : plus folle, plus dure, et parfois pratiquement extatique. Ce n'est pas très étonnant, dans le sens où, en tant que fils d'immigrés cubains, Fiffe s'est lui-même servi de ses lectures de jeunesse pour s'imprégner de la culture des États-Unis, ce qui, par certains aspects, rejoint la façon dont nous sommes nous-mêmes, en France, exposés au soft power américain et marqués par ses codes les plus forts depuis notre plus tendre enfance. C'est finalement l'une des grandes forces de COPRA : ne pas tenter de singer les classiques en espérant rivaliser avec eux, mais bel et bien proposer une vision nouvelle, par un auteur qui a lui-même dû trouver sa place dans un système qui n'était absolument pas le sien à l'origine. Et si l'incomparable style graphique de Fiffe demandera peut-être un petit temps d'adaptation à une partie des lecteurs, l'effort minime pour accéder à son univers sera rapidement récompensé. Si des pierres angulaires de la bande dessinée de super-héros telles que Watchmen pouvaient déjà être vues comme un couronnement du genre, COPRA compte indéniablement parmi les quelques modèles qui incarnent l'aboutissement moderne de la formule, dont il irradie un amour viscéral hyper-communicatif. Un point culminant qui n'est peut-être que temporaire, mais qui, malgré sa coriace confidentialité auprès du grand public, saura sans aucun doute marquer les esprits des auteurs de demain qui feront évoluer les récits super-héroïques vers de nouveaux horizons. Pour faire simple : si vous trouvez que les comics de super-héros d'aujourd'hui sont mauvais, c'est peut-être tout simplement parce que vous ne lisez pas les bons ! Si vous voulez découvrir COPRA, rendez-vous sur le site de Delirium ! N'hésitez pas à partager cet article sur les réseaux sociaux s'il vous a plu ! 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It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! NYCC Happened this passed weekend and every section is happy for it. Mortal Kombat news in Gaming. Plenty of announcements for Comics. Trailers in both TV AND Movies. Along with new rumors to be excited about.Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsAnders Colsefni - Original Slipknot vocalist tour opener has a poor audio but moderately well shot video of the opening date for their australian tour. https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-original-slipknot-singer-anders-colsefni-performs-entire-mate-feed-kill-repeat-album-at-2023-tour-kick-off New Music/Video(Hed) P.E. - Too Late https://youtu.be/teoXxe_WBA8 from upcoming Detox album. Pretty good mix. Just never got into this band.Orgy - Ghost https://youtu.be/AxDt3f5Arv0 possibly the most aggressive Orgy song I have ever heard, but it is definitely still Orgy.Mark Tremonti - The Christmas Song https://youtu.be/KH_EPlmXny8 wait… so it's just a Frank Sinatra wannabe record? "Christmas Classics New & Old" out Oct 27.Bring Me The Horizon - DarkSide https://youtu.be/3Nt37RGbVjo from Post Human: Nex Gen out in January. These guys know how to use dynamics. Not really a fan of the performance per se, but still pretty good.Spiritbox - Cellar Door https://youtu.be/pZwKjaRHJqo Fear of Fear EP out Nov 3. The most vocally aggressive Courtney has been in a few singles. Just stupid heavy all over… damnMany Eyes - Revelation https://youtu.be/4xk47OMIuqs Keith Buckley's new band. The mix on this is better than anything I remember from ETID… I just am not a fan of Buckley's vocal style.Tours/FestivalsDisturbed - Take Back Your Life tour featuring Falling In Reverse and Plush. Starts Jan 19 through Mar 3. Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday, October 17 at 10 a.m. local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale starting Friday, October 20 at 10 a.m. local time at disturbed1.com/tour. Iron Maiden - The Future Past tour featuring Killswitch Engage in Australia. Sep 1st in Perth, through Sep 16 in Auckland, New Zealand. https://blabbermouth.net/news/iron-maiden-announces-2024-australian-tour-with-killswitch-engage Code Orange - support from Teenage Wrist, Spy, Gridiron, and Soul Blind. Starts Feb 13 in Austin TX through Mar 17 in LAReg ‘ol NewsPappa Roach - Last Resort song passes 1Billion streams on Spotify.Tool - $500 Tour exclusive re-issue of Undertow. 30th anniversary, limited to 7000 copies, all signed.https://loudwire.com/tool-undertow-reissue-500-dollars/ SuggestsAFI “All Hallows” “Black Sails in the Sunset” Stand out tracks - Strength Through Wounding - The Prayer Position - Fall Children - Totalimortal - The Boy Who Destroyed the WorldGaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsMK1 - release dates given. Omni-Man Nov Quan-Chi Dec/Jan Peacemaker Feb Takeda Summer Homelander Spring, with the Kameos presumably coming with each. Though the only one for sure is Tremor coming with Omni-Man. AND Johnny Cage has been changed to Janet Cage.Twitter - Looks like they really ARE charging for X… $1 annually. The Beta will be rolled out in New Zealand and the Philippines to start, and NEW ACCOUNTS will not be affected, this annual fee is only for people who are not currently on the platform.https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/twitter-x-program-will-new-user-charge/ Phasmophobia - Release date delayed indefinitely. Office fire at Kinetic Games Team has affected the development more than anticipated. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/739630/view/6391229148047163660 TrailersMK1 - Omni Man trailer https://youtu.be/ySWxnUqajQ0 Sonic Superstars - https://youtu.be/MsL9pKdJ1A8 Silent Hill Ascension - https://youtu.be/pZzk-Fk07ug New way to enjoy the story. https://ascension.com Reg ‘ol NewsCrunchyroll - New linear anime channel on most of the free streaming platforms. Not on Pluto or Tubi, coming to Freevee on Oct 17.https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/10/11/new-crunchyroll-channel-announced-for-amazon-freevee-the-roku-channel-and-others-heres-the-shows-that-will-broadcast-at-launch/ SuggestsSilent Hill Ascension - seriously go get the app!Comic Books/BooksTrailersBatman: Gargoyle of Gotham - https://youtu.be/RTlxA4uQfk0 Reg ‘ol NewsGhost Machine - Geoff Johns has left DC to form a new creator-owned cooperative media company alongside Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Peter J. Tomasi, Maytal Zchut. Image will publish the imprint.https://youtu.be/JupJQ_JjlNQ Batman: A Death in the Family - The alternate version of the infamous issue number 428 is set to be published later this year.https://comicbook.com/dc/news/nycc-2023-dc-publishing-alternate-batman-a-death-in-the-family/ Superman Superstars - A year long arc starting in January with I, Bizarro (Action Comics 1061) written by Jason Aaron, art by John Timms. Moving into House of Braniac in April (1064) Joshua Williamson and art from Rafa Sandoval.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/action-comics-superman-superstars-initiative-announced-dc-2024/ Elseworlds - DC is set to revive the one off label in 2024. This time though the stories will have more chance to breathe. Gotham by Gaslight is getting a sequel, as well as DC vs Vampires.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-elseworlds-line-gotham-by-gaslight-dark-knights-of-steel-sequel-nycc/#1 James Bond - Garth Ennis to pen a new Bond comic. Title “Your Cold, Cold Heart” for Dynamite Entertainment. Will be more like the books than the movies. Set for a January launch.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/the-boys-co-creator-garth-ennis-to-write-new-james-bond-series/ SuggestsBatman: Gotham By Gaslight - one-shot by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, with inks by P. Craig Russell. The story revolves around a 19th-century version of Bruce Wayne making his debut as Batman just as Jack the Ripper has arrived in Gotham City.TV ShowsTrailersSouth Park: Joining the Panderverse - https://youtu.be/Q9b67g2bopI YES!!The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live - https://youtu.be/WjXQ7nnwmNc Rick and Michonne show has a name. 37 seconds is just enough to keep the hype train running.For All Mankind - https://youtu.be/KaKbUUdzOYw Season 4 on Apple TV+.Invincible - https://youtu.be/tyqiQWxPz0c season 2 Nov 3.Reg ‘ol NewsWalking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Melissa McBride set to return as Carol in season 2. Season 1 is the most watched season premiere in AMC+ history, and pacing to be the most watched series on the platform. https://cosmicbook.news/melissa-mcbride-is-back-for-the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-season-2 Gargoyles - Live-action reboot series in the works at Disney+. Gary Dauberman has been hired to write, showrun, and executive produce the series alongside James Wan and his Atomic Monster banner. Show will also be changing the nature of the curse. As well as it seems to be missing not just Demona but ALL the rest of the Manhattan Clan from the original series, save for Goliath.https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/gargoyles-reboot-series-synopsis-major-change-original-show-disney-plus/ SuggestsFall of the House of Usher - American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. Loosely based on the short story of the same name and other works by Edgar Allan PoeMoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsExorcist: Believer - Movie is going to be available for VOD on Oct 24. After only being in theaters for 18 days.Halloween - Miramax bought it! And it is a wide-ranging deal for TV and Movie assets. https://deadline.com/2023/10/halloween-tv-rights-miramax-deal-trancas-series-cinematic-universe-1235571505/ TrailersBloodstrike - https://youtu.be/f53iN4PPvJk Proof of concept for a Rob Liefeld property. To be developed by Phillip J Silvera, an award winning stunt coordinator who has worked on both Deadpool movies and the Daredevil Netflix show.Wonka - https://youtu.be/wYmtRhKvmVE Hugh grant as the Oompa Loompa is actually pretty great.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - https://youtu.be/JLHsM4bpfxY let's hope they figure out that the MONSTERS are the reason we are watching, and minimize all the annoying people stuff…Snow White and the Evil Queen - https://youtu.be/cl9LZiB0oao Daily Wire, starring Brett Cooper. The original Grimm's Fairy Tale is now public domain. Set to release in 2024 on the new Bentkey platform.Please Don't Destroy - https://youtu.be/2vO4AKM_KGg Conan O'Brien? Sign me up!Reg ‘ol NewsKick-Ass - Getting rebooted. Mathew Vaughn confirmed during NYCC panel.https://ew.com/movies/director-matthew-vaughn-teases-kick-ass-reboot-kingsman-3/ Myspace - a Documentary on the OG viral social media platform is in the works from production companies Gunpowder & Sky and The Documentary Group.https://deadline.com/2023/10/myspace-documentary-1235573294/ SuggestsBeetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film[2][3] directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, and Larry Wilson, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the title character. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Beetlejuice, an obnoxious and devious "bio-exorcist" from the Netherworld, to scare away the home's new inhabitants.Rumor MillNew SourcesLobo - DC's Wolverine is once again being said to be headed to the big screen, as played by none other than Jason Momoa. With the official announcement to happen “sometime next year”New RumorsThe Flash - Ezra Miller is out. Officially?WB for Sale - Universal rumored to be the purchaser of WB Discovery.Nintendo Switch 2 - New rumor says that Nintendo will be removing the cartridge slot. Meaning likely, there will be 2 versions of the console.Green Lantern - Channing Tatum is now being rumored to play Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern series on MAX.Superman: Legacy - Kurt Russel rumored for Jor-El.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! NYCC Happened this passed weekend and every section is happy for it. Mortal Kombat news in Gaming. Plenty of announcements for Comics. Trailers in both TV AND Movies. Along with new rumors to be excited about.Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsAnders Colsefni - Original Slipknot vocalist tour opener has a poor audio but moderately well shot video of the opening date for their australian tour. https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-original-slipknot-singer-anders-colsefni-performs-entire-mate-feed-kill-repeat-album-at-2023-tour-kick-off New Music/Video(Hed) P.E. - Too Late https://youtu.be/teoXxe_WBA8 from upcoming Detox album. Pretty good mix. Just never got into this band.Orgy - Ghost https://youtu.be/AxDt3f5Arv0 possibly the most aggressive Orgy song I have ever heard, but it is definitely still Orgy.Mark Tremonti - The Christmas Song https://youtu.be/KH_EPlmXny8 wait… so it's just a Frank Sinatra wannabe record? "Christmas Classics New & Old" out Oct 27.Bring Me The Horizon - DarkSide https://youtu.be/3Nt37RGbVjo from Post Human: Nex Gen out in January. These guys know how to use dynamics. Not really a fan of the performance per se, but still pretty good.Spiritbox - Cellar Door https://youtu.be/pZwKjaRHJqo Fear of Fear EP out Nov 3. The most vocally aggressive Courtney has been in a few singles. Just stupid heavy all over… damnMany Eyes - Revelation https://youtu.be/4xk47OMIuqs Keith Buckley's new band. The mix on this is better than anything I remember from ETID… I just am not a fan of Buckley's vocal style.Tours/FestivalsDisturbed - Take Back Your Life tour featuring Falling In Reverse and Plush. Starts Jan 19 through Mar 3. Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday, October 17 at 10 a.m. local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale starting Friday, October 20 at 10 a.m. local time at disturbed1.com/tour. Iron Maiden - The Future Past tour featuring Killswitch Engage in Australia. Sep 1st in Perth, through Sep 16 in Auckland, New Zealand. https://blabbermouth.net/news/iron-maiden-announces-2024-australian-tour-with-killswitch-engage Code Orange - support from Teenage Wrist, Spy, Gridiron, and Soul Blind. Starts Feb 13 in Austin TX through Mar 17 in LAReg ‘ol NewsPappa Roach - Last Resort song passes 1Billion streams on Spotify.Tool - $500 Tour exclusive re-issue of Undertow. 30th anniversary, limited to 7000 copies, all signed.https://loudwire.com/tool-undertow-reissue-500-dollars/ SuggestsAFI “All Hallows” “Black Sails in the Sunset” Stand out tracks - Strength Through Wounding - The Prayer Position - Fall Children - Totalimortal - The Boy Who Destroyed the WorldGaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsMK1 - release dates given. Omni-Man Nov Quan-Chi Dec/Jan Peacemaker Feb Takeda Summer Homelander Spring, with the Kameos presumably coming with each. Though the only one for sure is Tremor coming with Omni-Man. AND Johnny Cage has been changed to Janet Cage.Twitter - Looks like they really ARE charging for X… $1 annually. The Beta will be rolled out in New Zealand and the Philippines to start, and NEW ACCOUNTS will not be affected, this annual fee is only for people who are not currently on the platform.https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/twitter-x-program-will-new-user-charge/ Phasmophobia - Release date delayed indefinitely. Office fire at Kinetic Games Team has affected the development more than anticipated. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/739630/view/6391229148047163660 TrailersMK1 - Omni Man trailer https://youtu.be/ySWxnUqajQ0 Sonic Superstars - https://youtu.be/MsL9pKdJ1A8 Silent Hill Ascension - https://youtu.be/pZzk-Fk07ug New way to enjoy the story. https://ascension.com Reg ‘ol NewsCrunchyroll - New linear anime channel on most of the free streaming platforms. Not on Pluto or Tubi, coming to Freevee on Oct 17.https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/10/11/new-crunchyroll-channel-announced-for-amazon-freevee-the-roku-channel-and-others-heres-the-shows-that-will-broadcast-at-launch/ SuggestsSilent Hill Ascension - seriously go get the app!Comic Books/BooksTrailersBatman: Gargoyle of Gotham - https://youtu.be/RTlxA4uQfk0 Reg ‘ol NewsGhost Machine - Geoff Johns has left DC to form a new creator-owned cooperative media company alongside Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Peter J. Tomasi, Maytal Zchut. Image will publish the imprint.https://youtu.be/JupJQ_JjlNQ Batman: A Death in the Family - The alternate version of the infamous issue number 428 is set to be published later this year.https://comicbook.com/dc/news/nycc-2023-dc-publishing-alternate-batman-a-death-in-the-family/ Superman Superstars - A year long arc starting in January with I, Bizarro (Action Comics 1061) written by Jason Aaron, art by John Timms. Moving into House of Braniac in April (1064) Joshua Williamson and art from Rafa Sandoval.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/action-comics-superman-superstars-initiative-announced-dc-2024/ Elseworlds - DC is set to revive the one off label in 2024. This time though the stories will have more chance to breathe. Gotham by Gaslight is getting a sequel, as well as DC vs Vampires.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dc-elseworlds-line-gotham-by-gaslight-dark-knights-of-steel-sequel-nycc/#1 James Bond - Garth Ennis to pen a new Bond comic. Title “Your Cold, Cold Heart” for Dynamite Entertainment. Will be more like the books than the movies. Set for a January launch.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/the-boys-co-creator-garth-ennis-to-write-new-james-bond-series/ SuggestsBatman: Gotham By Gaslight - one-shot by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, with inks by P. Craig Russell. The story revolves around a 19th-century version of Bruce Wayne making his debut as Batman just as Jack the Ripper has arrived in Gotham City.TV ShowsTrailersSouth Park: Joining the Panderverse - https://youtu.be/Q9b67g2bopI YES!!The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live - https://youtu.be/WjXQ7nnwmNc Rick and Michonne show has a name. 37 seconds is just enough to keep the hype train running.For All Mankind - https://youtu.be/KaKbUUdzOYw Season 4 on Apple TV+.Invincible - https://youtu.be/tyqiQWxPz0c season 2 Nov 3.Reg ‘ol NewsWalking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Melissa McBride set to return as Carol in season 2. Season 1 is the most watched season premiere in AMC+ history, and pacing to be the most watched series on the platform. https://cosmicbook.news/melissa-mcbride-is-back-for-the-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-season-2 Gargoyles - Live-action reboot series in the works at Disney+. Gary Dauberman has been hired to write, showrun, and executive produce the series alongside James Wan and his Atomic Monster banner. Show will also be changing the nature of the curse. As well as it seems to be missing not just Demona but ALL the rest of the Manhattan Clan from the original series, save for Goliath.https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/gargoyles-reboot-series-synopsis-major-change-original-show-disney-plus/ SuggestsFall of the House of Usher - American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. Loosely based on the short story of the same name and other works by Edgar Allan PoeMoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsExorcist: Believer - Movie is going to be available for VOD on Oct 24. After only being in theaters for 18 days.Halloween - Miramax bought it! And it is a wide-ranging deal for TV and Movie assets. https://deadline.com/2023/10/halloween-tv-rights-miramax-deal-trancas-series-cinematic-universe-1235571505/ TrailersBloodstrike - https://youtu.be/f53iN4PPvJk Proof of concept for a Rob Liefeld property. To be developed by Phillip J Silvera, an award winning stunt coordinator who has worked on both Deadpool movies and the Daredevil Netflix show.Wonka - https://youtu.be/wYmtRhKvmVE Hugh grant as the Oompa Loompa is actually pretty great.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - https://youtu.be/JLHsM4bpfxY let's hope they figure out that the MONSTERS are the reason we are watching, and minimize all the annoying people stuff…Snow White and the Evil Queen - https://youtu.be/cl9LZiB0oao Daily Wire, starring Brett Cooper. The original Grimm's Fairy Tale is now public domain. Set to release in 2024 on the new Bentkey platform.Please Don't Destroy - https://youtu.be/2vO4AKM_KGg Conan O'Brien? Sign me up!Reg ‘ol NewsKick-Ass - Getting rebooted. Mathew Vaughn confirmed during NYCC panel.https://ew.com/movies/director-matthew-vaughn-teases-kick-ass-reboot-kingsman-3/ Myspace - a Documentary on the OG viral social media platform is in the works from production companies Gunpowder & Sky and The Documentary Group.https://deadline.com/2023/10/myspace-documentary-1235573294/ SuggestsBeetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film[2][3] directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, and Larry Wilson, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the title character. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Beetlejuice, an obnoxious and devious "bio-exorcist" from the Netherworld, to scare away the home's new inhabitants.Rumor MillNew SourcesLobo - DC's Wolverine is once again being said to be headed to the big screen, as played by none other than Jason Momoa. With the official announcement to happen “sometime next year”New RumorsThe Flash - Ezra Miller is out. Officially?WB for Sale - Universal rumored to be the purchaser of WB Discovery.Nintendo Switch 2 - New rumor says that Nintendo will be removing the cartridge slot. Meaning likely, there will be 2 versions of the console.Green Lantern - Channing Tatum is now being rumored to play Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern series on MAX.Superman: Legacy - Kurt Russel rumored for Jor-El.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
We discuss the ingredients that went into making comics Extreme! Behind The Scenes of the BLOODSTRIKE movie footage and a tribute to the late great creator of Marvel's Rocket Raccoon & DC's Lobo, Keith Giffen!
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Al, Ben and Lee talk about their favorite gimmick comic book covers from the 90's. Listen and let us know which one is your favorite. ----more---- The Dark Age of Comic Books was the culmination of a gradual move towards an older audience for Comic Books, particularly those featuring superheroes that had started in The Bronze Age of Comic Books. Sometimes, to follow the Gold/Silver/Bronze progression, at other times it is jokingly called "the Chrome Age", owing to the frequency of publishers selling comics with holofoil covers as a marketing gimmick during the period, but "Dark Age" is the much more common and accepted term. Usually characterized as a Darker and Edgier period featuring an increased focus on sex, violence and dark, gritty portrayals of the characters involved, much of the content produced during this era is very controversial among comic book fans. It's not the world's most exciting cover, but 1991's Silver Surfer #50 gets the nod for being the first comic in industry history to feature the chromium embossed effect, and for how it utilizes the gimmick in a sensible manner. As the 90s chugged along, publishers were seemingly embossing every other comic without much rhyme or reason. But Silver Surfer #50 adds the embossing to the Mr. Radd himself. And that makes sense since the character's name is "Silver Surfer" – so some silver chromium embossing is neither excessive nor inappropriate. Yes, I understand that I'm essentially awarding points here for lack of excess, but considering we're talking about the 90s here, why not applaud Marvel's show of restraint. Tom Chirstopher Cover Art Tom Christopher Inks Ron Lim Pencils - Cover Art James (Jim) Starlin Scripts Tom Vincent Colors Als first pick: Marvels Silver Surfer #50 1991 One of the biggest selling comic books of all time, more than 8 million copies of X-Men #1 were snatched up in the 90s, primarily because of the gimmick – five variant covers that interlocked to create a beautiful Jim Lee-illustrated landscape of the X-Men fighting Magneto (there was also a special edition gatefold version of the comic which contained the entire image). Sure, needing to buy five copies of the same comic in order to see Lee's entire image was annoying and an inefficient use of funds, but the iconography of this issue and its gimmick cannot be denied. Plus, in terms of its historical significance, this was the comic that cemented Lee as one of the industry's best young artists, which of course led to the "Image Revolution" in 1992 of which Lee was one of the core founding member of the company (alongside Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld and Erik Larsen). Chris Claremont-Scripts Jim Lee Pencils - Cover Art Tom Orzechowski Letters Joe Rosas Colors Scott Williams Cover Art - Inks Ben's 1st Pick: Marvels X-Men #1 Oct. 1991 Great interior art from Jim Lee. Look at Magnetos glorious mane. Another amazing interior fold out page The X-Men gather for Illyana's funeral. Magneto brings Avalon to Earth and offers the X-Folk a chance to join his dream. Colossus says "Yes." Script Scott Lobdell Pencils John Romita Jr.; Jae Lee; Chris Sprouse; Brandon Peterson; Paul Smith Inks Dan Green; Dan Panosian; Terry Austin; Tom Palmer; Keith Williams Colors Mike Thomas Letters Chris Eliopoulos Lee's 1st pick: Marvels Uncanny X-Men #304 September 1993 Writer(s) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Penciler(s) Doug Braithwaite Inker(s) Josef Rubinstein Colorist(s) Kevin Tinsley Letterer(s) Mike Higgins Als 2nd pick: Marvels Punisher #75 Feb. 1993 Nails Ghost Rider Writer: Howard Mackie Penciller: Mark Texeira Cover Artist: Mark Texeira Bens 2nd Pick: Marvels Ghost Rider #15 July 1991 Est. Print Run:, 935,000 Cover Date:, Apr '93 Cover Price:, $2.95 Current Value:, $3.00 Blood Brothers: Prelude. Story by Rob Liefeld and Eric Stephenson . Art by Rob Liefeld, Dan Fraga, and Danny Miki. When the government needs a job done, they call in the best, they call in Bloodstrike. An elite group of metas and efficient killers who accomplish their missions with deadly precision. Created out of Project: Born Again, Bloodstrike consists of Fourplay, giantess with four arms of terror, Deadlock, psychotic ex-member of the nefarious Four, Tag, the lassie with the freezing touch, Shogun, robotic killing machine, and Cabbot, their leader who has a mysterious connection to Battlestone, the leader of Brigade. Story continues in Brigade (2nd Series) #1. Dan Fraga Pencils - Cover Art Kurt Hathaway Letters Rob Liefeld Pencils - Cover Art Danny Miki Inks Brian Murray Colors Eric Stephenson Scripts - Editor Byron Talman Colors Lees 2nd pick: Image comics Bloodstrike Apr. 1993 Typical 90's and Image comics artwork Is that Snake Eyes? Spiral and Wolverine? Remastered version Links from the episode: Omug Comics Covert Nerd Facebook Covert Nerd Website Covert Nerd Instagram Covert Nerd Twitter Covert Nerd Merch Proud member of the podcast Arcade Network
Happy Halloween! We're joined by comics scribe Daniel "D.G." Chichester to talk about the history of horror comics, Marvel's return to the genre in the early 1990s, and the macabre anti-hero Terror (whom Chichester co-created). ----more---- Issue 18 Transcript Mike: [00:00:00] It's small, but feisty, Mike: Welcome to Tencent Takes, the podcast where we dig up comic book characters' graves and misappropriate the bodies, one issue at a time. My name is Mike Thompson, and I am joined by my cohost, the Titan of terror herself, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: It is I. Mike: Today, we are extremely fortunate to have comics writer, Daniel, DG Chichester. Dan: Nice to see you both. Mike: Thank you so much for taking the time. You're actually our first official guest on the podcast. Dan: Wow. Okay. I'm going to take that as a good thing. That's great. Mike: Yeah. Well, if you're new to the show, the purpose of our [00:01:00] podcast as always is to look at the weirdest, silliest, coolest moments of comic books, and talk about them in ways that are fun and informative. In this case, we looking at also the spookiest moments, and how they're woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we're going to be talking about horror comics. We're looking at their overall history as well as their resurrection at Marvel in the early 1990s, and how it helped give birth to one of my favorite comic characters, an undead anti-hero who went by the name of Terror. Dan, before we started going down this road, could you tell us a little bit about your history in the comic book industry, and also where people can find you if they want to learn more about you and your work? Dan: Absolutely. At this point, people may not even know I had a history in comic books, but that's not true. Uh, I began at Marvel as an assistant in the mid-eighties while I was still going to film school and, semi quickly kind of graduated up, to a more official, [00:02:00] assistant editor position. Worked my way up through editorial, and then, segued into freelance writing primarily for, but also for DC and Dark Horse and worked on a lot of, semi-permanent titles, Daredevil's probably the best known of them. But I think I was right in the thick of a lot of what you're going to be talking about today in terms of horror comics, especially at Marvel, where I was fiercely interested in kind of getting that going. And I think pushed for certain things, and certainly pushed to be involved in those such as the Hellraiser and Nightbreed Clive Barker projects and Night Stalkers and, uh, and Terror Incorporated, which we're going to talk about. And wherever else I could get some spooky stuff going. And I continued on in that, heavily until about 96 / 97, when the big crash kind of happened, continued on through about 99 and then have not really been that actively involved since then. But folks can find out what I'm doing now, if they go to story maze.substack.com, where I have a weekly newsletter, which features [00:03:00] new fiction and some things that I think are pretty cool that are going on in storytelling, and also a bit of a retrospective of looking back at a lot of the work that I did. Mike: Awesome. Before we actually get started talking about horror comics, normally we talk about one cool thing that we have read or watched recently, but because this episode is going to be dropping right before Halloween, what is your favorite Halloween movie or comic book? Dan: I mean, movies are just terrific. And there's so many when I saw that question, especially in terms of horror and a lot of things immediately jumped to mind. The movie It Follows, the recent It movie, The Mist, Reanimator, are all big favorites. I like horror movies that really kind of get under your skin and horrify you, not just rack up a body count. But what I finally settled on as a favorite is probably John Carpenter's the Thing, which I just think is one of the gruesomest what is going to happen next? What the fuck is going to happen next?[00:04:00] And just utter dread. I mean, there's just so many things that combined for me on that one. And I think in terms of comics, I've recently become just a huge fan of, and I'm probably going to slaughter the name, but Junji Ito's work, the Japanese manga artist. And, Uzumaki, which is this manga, which is about just the bizarreness of this town, overwhelmed with spirals of all things. And if you have not read that, it is, it is the trippiest most unsettling thing I've read in, in a great long time. So happy Halloween with that one. Mike: So that would be mango, right? Dan: Yeah. Yeah. So you'd make sure you read it in the right order, or otherwise it's very confusing, so. Mike: Yeah, we actually, haven't talked a lot about manga on this. We probably should do a deep dive on it at some point. But, Jessika, how about you? Jessika: Well, I'm going to bring it down a little bit more silly because I've always been a fan of horror and the macabre and supernatural. So always grew up seeking creepy media as [00:05:00] a rule, but I also loves me some silliness. So the last three or so years, I've had a tradition of watching Hocus Pocus with my friend, Rob around Halloween time. And it's silly and it's not very heavy on the actual horror aspect, but it's fun. And it holds up surprisingly well. Mike: Yeah, we have all the Funkos of the Sanderson sisters in our house. Jessika: It's amazing watching it in HD, their costumes are so intricate and that really doesn't come across on, you know, old VHS or watching it on television back in the day. And it's just, it's so fun. How much, just time and effort it looks like they put into it, even though some of those details really weren't going to translate. Dan: How very cool. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Yeah. So, but I also really like actual horror, so I'm also in the next couple of days is going to be a visiting the 1963 Haunting of Hill House because that's one of my favorites. Yeah. It's so good. And used to own the book that the movie was based on also. And seen all the [00:06:00] iterations and it's the same storyline the recent Haunting of Hill house is based on, which is great. That plot line has been reworked so many times, but it's such a great story, I'm just not shocked in the least that it would run through so many iterations and still be accepted by the public in each of its forms. Mike: Yeah. I really liked that Netflix interpretation of it, it was really good. Dan: They really creeped everything out. Mike: Yeah. There's a YouTuber called Lady Night, The Brave, and she does a really great summary breakdown explaining a lot of the themes and it's like almost two hours I think, of YouTube video, but she does these really lovely retrospectives. So, highly recommend you check that out. If you want to just think about that the Haunting of Hill House more. Jessika: Oh, I do. Yes. Mike: I'm going to split the difference between you two. When I was growing up, I was this very timid kid and the idea of horror just creeped me out. And so I avoided it like the plague. And then when I was in high [00:07:00] school, I had some friends show me some movies and I was like, these are great, why was I afraid of this stuff? And so I kind of dove all the way in. But my preferred genre is horror comedy. That is the one that you can always get me in on. And, I really love this movie from the mid-nineties called the Frighteners, which is a horror comedy starring Michael J. Fox, and it's directed by Peter Jackson. And it was written by Peter Jackson and his partner, Fran Walsh. And it was a few years before they, you know, went on to make a couple of movies based on this little known franchise called Lord of the Rings. But it's really wild. It's weird, and it's funny, and it has some genuine jump scare moments. And there's this really great ghost story at the core of it. And the special effects at the time were considered amazing and groundbreaking, but now they're kind of, you look at, and you're like, oh, that's, high-end CG, high-end in the mid-nineties. Okay. But [00:08:00] yeah, like I said, or comedies are my absolute favorite things to watch. That's why Cabin in the Woods always shows up in our horror rotation as well. Same with Tucker and Dale vs Evil. That's my bread and butter. With comic books, I go a little bit creepier. I think I talked about the Nice House on the Lake, that's the current series that I'm reading from DC that's genuinely creepy and really thoughtful and fun. And it's by James Tynion who also wrote Something That's Killing the Children. So those are excellent things to read if you're in the mood for a good horror comic. Dan: Great choice on the Frighteners. That's I think an unsung classic, that I'm going to think probably came out 10 years too early. Mike: Yeah. Dan: It's such a mashup of different, weird vibes, that it would probably do really, really well today. But at that point in time, it was just, what is this? You know? Cause it's, it's just cause the horrifying thing in it are really horrifying. And, uh, Gary Busey's son, right, plays the evil ghost and he is just trippy, off the wall, you know, horrifying. [00:09:00] Mike: Yeah. And it starts so silly, and then it kind of just continues to go creepier and creepier, and by the time that they do some of the twists revealing his, you know, his agent in the real world, it's a genuine twist. Like, I was really surprised the first time I saw it and I - Dan: Yeah. Mike: was so creeped out, but yeah. Dan: Plus it's got R. Lee Ermey as the army ghost, which is just incredible. So, Mike: Yeah. And, Chi McBride is in it, and, Jeffrey Combs. Dan: Oh, oh that's right, right. right. Mike: Yeah. So yeah, it's a lot of fun. Mike: All right. So, I suppose we should saunter into the graveyard, as it were, and start talking about the history of horror comics. So, Dan, obviously I know that you're familiar with horror comics, Dan: A little bit. Mike: Yeah. What about you, Jess? You familiar with horror comics other than what we've talked about in the show? Jessika: I started getting into it once you and I started, you know, talking more on the [00:10:00] show. And so I grabbed a few things. I haven't looked through all of them yet, but I picked up some older ones. I did just recently pick up, it'll be more of a, kind of a funny horror one, but they did a recent Elvira and Vincent Price. So, yeah, so I picked that up, but issue one of that. So it's sitting on my counter ready for me to read right now. Mike: Well, and that's funny, cause Elvira actually has a really long, storied history in comic books. Like she first appeared in kind of like the revival of House of Mystery that DC did. And then she had an eighties series that had over a hundred issues that had a bunch of now major names involved. And she's continued to have series like, you can go to our website and get autographed copies of her recent series from, I think Dynamite. Jessika: That's cool. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Nice. Mike: Speaking of horror comedy Elvira is great. Jessika: Yes. Mike: I recently showed Sarah the Elvira Mistress of the Dark movie and she was, I think really sad that I hadn't showed it to her sooner. Jessika: [00:11:00] That's another one I need to go watch this week. Wow. Don't- nobody call me. I'm just watching movies all week. Dan: Exactly. Mike: It's on a bunch of different streaming services, I think right now. Well it turns out that horror comics, have pretty much been a part of the industry since it really became a proven medium. You know, it wasn't long after comics became a legit medium in their own, right that horror elements started showing up in superhero books, which like, I mean, it isn't too surprising. Like the 1930's was when we got the Universal classic movie monsters, so it makes a lot of sense that those kinds of characters would start crossing over into comic books, just to take advantage of that popularity. Jerry Siegel and Joel Schuster, the guys who created Superman, actually created the supernatural investigator called Dr. Occult in New Fun Comics three years before they brought Superman to life. And Dr. Occult still shows up in DC books. Like, he was a major character in the Books of Magic with Neil Gaiman. I think he may show up in Sandman later on. I can't remember. Jessika: Oh, okay. Dan: I wouldn't be surprised. Neil would find ways to mine that. [00:12:00] Mike: Yeah. I mean, that was a lot of what the Sandman was about, was taking advantage of kind of long forgotten characters that DC had had and weaving them into his narratives. And, if you're interested in that, we talk about that in our book club episodes, which we're currently going through every other episode. So the next episode after this is going to be the third episode of our book club, where we cover volumes five and six. So, horror comics though really started to pick up in the 1940s. There's multiple comic historians who say that the first ongoing horror series was Prized Comics, New Adventures of Frankenstein, which featured this updated take on the original story by Mary Shelley. It took place in America. The monster was named Frankenstein. He was immediately a terror. It's not great, but it's acknowledged as being really kind of the first ongoing horror story. And it's really not even that much of a horror story other than it featured Frankenstein's monster. But after that, a number of publishers started to put out adaptations of classic horror stories for awhile. So you had [00:13:00] Avon Publications making it official in 1946 with the comic Erie, which is based on the first real dedicated horror comic. Yeah. This is the original cover to Erie Comics. Number one, if you could paint us a word picture. Dan: Wow. This is high end stuff as it's coming through. Well it looks a lot like a Zine or something, you know it's got a very, Mac paint logo from 1990, you know, it's, it's your, your typical sort of like, ooh, I'm shaky kind of logo. That's Eerie Comics. There's a Nosferatu looking character. Who's coming down some stairs with the pale moon behind him. It, he's got a knife in his hand, so, you know, he's up to no good. And there is a femme fatale at the base of the stairs. She may have moved off of some train tracks to get here. And, uh, she's got a, uh, a low, cut dress, a lot of leg and the arms and the wrists are bound, but all this for only 10. cents. So, I think there's a, there's a bargain there.[00:14:00] Mike: That is an excellent description. Thank you. So, what's funny is that Erie at the time was the first, you know, official horror comic, really, but it only had one issue that came out and then it sort of vanished from sight. It came back with a new series that started with a new number one in the 1950s, but this was the proverbial, the shot that started the war. You know, we started seeing a ton of anthology series focusing on horror, like Adventures into the Unknown, which ran into the 1960s and then Amazing Mysteries and Marvel Tales were repurposed series for Marvel that they basically changed the name of existing series into these. And they started doing kind of macabre, weird stories. And then, we hit the 1950s. And the early part of the 1950s was when horror comics really seemed to take off and experienced this insane success. We've talked about how in the post-WWII America, superhero comics were kind of declining in [00:15:00] popularity. By the mid 1950s, only three heroes actually had their own books and that was Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Which, I didn't realize that until I was doing research. I didn't, I just assumed that there were other superhero comics at the time. But we started seeing comics about horror and crime and romance really starting to get larger shares of the market. And then EC Comics was one of those doing gangbuster business during this whole era. Like, this was when we saw those iconic series, the Haunt of Fear, the Vault of Horror, the Crypt of Terror, which was eventually rebranded to Tales from the Crypt. Those all launched and they found major success. And then the bigger publishers were also getting in on this boom. During the first half of the 1950s Atlas, which eventually became Marvel, released almost 400 issues across 18 horror titles. And then American Comics Group released almost 125 issues between five different horror titles. Ace comics did almost a hundred issues between five titles. I'm curious. I'm gonna ask both of you, what [00:16:00] do you think the market share of horror comics was at the time? Dan: In terms of comics or in terms of just like newsstand, magazine, distribution. Mike: I'm going to say in terms of distribution. Dan: I mean, I know they were phenomenally successful. I would, be surprised if it was over 60%. Mike: Okay. How about. Jessika: Oh, goodness. Let's throw a number out. I'm going to say 65 just because I want to get close enough, but maybe bump it up just a little bit. This is a contest now. Dan: The precision now, like the 65. Jessika: Yes. Mike: Okay. Well, obviously we don't have like a hard definite number, but there was a 2009 article from reason magazine saying that horror books made up a quarter of all comics by 1953. So, so you guys were overestimating it, but it was still pretty substantial. At the same time, we were also seeing a surge in horror films. Like, the 1950s are known as the atomic age and media reflected [00:17:00] societal anxiety, at the possibility of nuclear war and to a lesser extent, white anxiety about societal changes. So this was the decade that gave us Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Thing from Another World, which led to John Carpenter's The Thing eventually. Um, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Hammer horror films also started to get really huge during this time. So we saw the beginning of stuff like Christopher Lee's, Dracula series of films. So the fifties were like a really good decade for horror, I feel. But at the same time, violent crime in America started to pick up around this period. And people really started focusing on juvenile criminals and what was driving them. So, there were a lot of theories about why this was going on and no one's ever really come up with a definite answer, but there was the psychiatrist named Frederick Wortham who Dan, I yeah. Dan: Oh yeah, psychiatrist in big air quotes, yeah. Mike: In quotes. Yeah. [00:18:00] Yeah. And he was convinced that the rise in crime was due to comics, and he spent years writing and speaking against them. He almost turned it into a cottage industry for himself. And this culminated in 1954, when he published a book called Seduction of the Innocent, that blamed comic books for the rise in juvenile delinquency, and his arguments are laughable. Like, I mean, there's just no way around it. Like you read this stuff and you can't help, but roll your eyes and chuckle. But, at the time comics were a relatively new medium, you know, and people really only associated them with kids. And his arguments were saying, oh, well, Wonder Woman was a lesbian because of her strength and independence, which these days, I feel like that actually has a little bit of credibility, but, like, I don't know. But I don't really feel like that's contributing to the delinquency of the youth. You know, and then he also said that Batman and Robin were in a homosexual relationship. And then my favorite was that Superman comics were [00:19:00] un-American and fascist. Dan: Well. Mike: All right. Dan: There's people who would argue that today. Mike: I mean, but yeah, and then he actually, he got attention because there were televised hearings with the Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency. I mean, honestly, every time I think about Seduction of the Innocent and how it led to the Comics Code Authority. I see the parallels with Tipper Gore's Parent Music Resource Center, and how they got the Parental Advisory sticker on certain music albums, or Joe Lieberman's hearings on video games in the 1990's and how that led to the Electronic Systems Reading Board system, you know, where you provide almost like movie ratings to video games. And Wortham also reminds me a lot of this guy named Jack Thompson, who was a lawyer in the nineties and aughts. And he was hell bent on proving a link between violent video games and school shootings. And he got a lot of media attention at the time until he was finally disbarred for his antics. But there was this [00:20:00] definite period where people were trying to link video games and violence. And, even though the statistics didn't back that up. And, I mean, I think about this a lot because I used to work in video games. I spent almost a decade working in the industry, but you know, it's that parallel of anytime there is a new form of media that is aimed at kids, it feels like there is a moral panic. Dan: Well, I think it goes back to what you were saying before about, you know, even as, as things change in society, you know, when people in society get at-risk, you know, you went to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Right. Which is classically thought to be a response to communism, you know, and the feelings of communist oppression and you know, the different, you know, the other, and it's the same thing. I think every single one of these is just a proof point of if you want to become, suddenly well-known like Lieberman or Wortham or anything, you know, pick the other that the older generation doesn't really understand, right? Maybe now there are more adults playing video games, but it's probably still perceived as a more juvenile [00:21:00] thing or comics or juvenile thing, or certain types of movies are a juvenile thing, you know, pick the other pick on it, hold it up as the weaponized, you know, piece, and suddenly you're popular. And you've got a great flashpoint that other people can rally around and blame, as if one single thing is almost ever the cause of everything. And I always think it's interesting, you know, the EC Comics, you know, issues in terms of, um, Wortham's witch hunt, you know, the interesting thing about those is yet they were gruesome and they are gruesome in there, but they're also by and large, I don't know the other ones as well, but I know the EC Comics by and large are basically morality plays, you know, they're straight up morality plays in the sense that the bad guys get it in the end, almost every time, like they do something, they do some horrific thing, but then the corpse comes back to life and gets them, you know, so there's, there's always a comeuppance where the scales balance. But that was of course never going to be [00:22:00] an argument when somebody can hold up a picture of, you know, a skull, you know, lurching around, you know, chewing on the end trails of something. And then that became all that was talked about. Mike: Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, spring boarding off of that, you know, worth them and the subcommittee hearings and all that, they led to the comics magazine association of America creating the Comics Code Authority. And this was basically in order to avoid government regulation. They said, no, no, no, we'll police ourselves so that you don't have to worry about this stuff. Which, I mean, again, that's what we did with the SRB. It was a response to that. We could avoid government censorship. So the code had a ton of requirements that each book had to meet in order to receive the Comics Code Seal of Approval on the cover. And one of the things you couldn't do was have quote, scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead or torture, which I mean,[00:23:00] okay. So the latter half of the 1950's saw a lot of these dedicated horror series, you know, basically being shut down or they drastically changed. This is, you know, the major publishers really freaked out. So Marvel and DC rebranded their major horror titles. They were more focused on suspense or mystery or Sci-Fi or superheroes in a couple of cases, independent publishers, didn't really have to worry about the seal for different reasons. Like, some of them were able to rely on the rep for publishing wholesome stuff like Dell or Gold Key. I think Gold Key at the time was doing a lot of the Disney books. So they just, they were like, whatever. Dan: Right, then EC, but, but EC had to shut down the whole line and then just became mad. Right? I mean, that's that was the transition at which William, you know, Gains - Mike: Yeah. Dan: basically couldn't contest what was going on. Couldn't survive the spotlight. You know, he testified famously at that hearing. But had to give up all of [00:24:00] that work that was phenomenally profitable for them. And then had to fall back to Mad Magazine, which of course worked out pretty well. Mike: Yeah, exactly. By the end of the 1960s, though, publishers started to kind of gently push back a little bit like, Warren publishing, and Erie publications, like really, they didn't give a shit. Like Warren launched a number of horror titles in the sixties, including Vampirilla, which is like, kind of, I feel it's sort of extreme in terms of both sex and horror, because I mean, we, we all know what Vampirilla his costume is. It hasn't changed in the 50, approximately 50 years that it's been out like. Dan: It's like, what can you do with dental floss, Right. When you were a vampire? I mean, that's basically like, she doesn't wear much. Mike: No, I mean, she never has. And then by the end of the sixties, Marvel and DC started to like kind of steer some of their books back towards the horror genre. Like how some Mystery was one of them where it, I think with issue 1 75, that was when they [00:25:00] took away, took it away from John Jones and dial H for Hero. And they were like, no, no, no, no. We're going to, we're going to bring, Cain back as the host and start telling horror morality plays again, which is what they were always doing. And this meant that the Comics Code Authority needed to update their code. So in 1971, they revised it to be a little bit more horror friendly. Jessika: Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with, walking dead or torture shall not be used. Vampires, ghouls and werewolves shall be permitted to be used when handled in the classic traditions, such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and other high caliber literary works written by Edgar Allen Poe, Saki, Conan Doyle, and other respected authors whose works are read in schools around the world. Mike: But at this point, Marvel and DC really jumped back into the horror genre. This was when we started getting books, like the tomb of Dracula, Ghost Rider, where will finite and son of Satan, and then DC had a [00:26:00] bunch of their series like they had, what was it? So it was originally The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love, and then it eventually got retitled to Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion. Like, just chef's kiss on that title. Dan: You can take that old Erie comic and throw, you know, the Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love as the title on that. And it would work, you know. Mike: I know. Right. So Dan, I'm curious, what is your favorite horror comic or comic character from this era? Dan: I would say, it was son of Satan, because it felt so trippy and forbidden, and I think comics have always, especially mainstream comics you know, I've always responded also to what's out there. Right. I don't think it's just a loosening the restrictions at that point, but in that error, what's going on, you're getting a lot of, I think the films of Race with the Devil and you're getting the Exorcist and you're getting, uh, the Omen, you know, Rosemary's baby. right. Satanism, [00:27:00] the devil, right. It's, it's high in pop culture. So true to form. You know, I think Son of Satan is in some ways, like a response of Marvel, you know, to that saying, let's glom onto this. And for a kid brought up in the Catholic church, there was a certain eeriness to this, ooh, we're reading about this. It's like, is it really going to be Satanism? And cause I was very nervous that we were not allowed even watch the Exorcist in our home, ever. You know, I didn't see the Exorcist until I was like out of high school. And I think also the character as he looks is just this really trippy look, right. At that point, if you're not familiar with the character, he's this buff dude, his hair flares up into horns, he just wears a Cape and he carries a giant trident, he's got a massive pentacle, I think a flaming pentacle, you know, etched in his chest. Um, he's ready to do business, ya know, in some strange form there. So for me, he was the one I glommed on to the most. [00:28:00] Mike: Yeah. Well, I mean, it was that whole era, it was just, it was Gothic horror brought back and Satanism and witchcraft is definitely a part of that genre. Dan: Sure. Mike: So, that said, kind of like any trend horror comics, you know, they have their rise and then they started to kind of fall out of popularity by the end of the seventies or the early eighties. I feel like it was a definite end of the era when both House of Mystery and Ghost Writer ended in 1983. But you know, there were still some individual books that were having success, but it just, it doesn't feel like Marvel did a lot with horror comics during the eighties. DC definitely had some luck with Alan Moore's run of the Swamp Thing. And then there was stuff like Hellblazer and Sandman. Which, as I mentioned, we're doing our book club episodes for, but also gave rise to Vertigo Comics, you know, in the early nineties. Not to say that horror comics still weren't a thing during this time, but it seems like the majority of them were coming from indie publishers. Off the top of my head, one example I think of still is Dead World, which basically created a zombie apocalypse [00:29:00] universe. And it started with Aero comics. It was created in the late eighties, and it's still going today. I think it's coming out from IDW now. But at the same time, it's not like American stopped enjoying horror stuff. Like this was the decade where we got Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm street, Evil Dead, Hellraiser, Poltergeist, Child's Play, just to name a few of the franchises that we were introduced to. And, I mentioned Hellraiser. I love Hellraiser, and Dan, I know that you have a pretty special connection to that brand. Dan: I do. I put pins in my face every night just to kind of keep my complexion, you know? Mike: So, let's transition over to the nineties and Marvel and let's start that off with Epic Comics. Epic started in the eighties, and it was basically a label that would print, create our own comics. And they eventually started to use label to produce, you know, in quotes, mature comics. So Wikipedia says that this was your first editorial job at Marvel was with the [00:30:00] Epic Line. Is that correct? Dan: Well, I'll go back and maybe do just a little correction on Epic's mission if you don't mind. Mike: Yeah, yeah. Dan: You know, first, which is it was always creator owned, and it did start as crude. And, but I don't think that ever then transitioned into more mature comics, sometimes that just was what creator-owned comics were. Right. That was just part of the mission. And so as a creator-owned imprint, it could be anything, it could be the silliest thing, it could be the most mature thing. So it was always, you know, part of what it was doing, and part of the mission of doing creator-owned comics, and Archie Goodwin was the editor in chief of that line, was really to give creators and in to Marvel. If we gave them a nice place to play with their properties, maybe they would want to go play in the mainstream Marvel. So you might get a creator who would never want to work for Marvel, for whatever reason, they would have a great Epic experience doing a range of things, and then they would go into this. So there was always levels of maturity and we always looked at it as very eclectic and challenging, you know, sometimes in a good [00:31:00] way. So I'll have to go back to Wikipedia and maybe correct them. My first job was actually, I was on the Marvel side and it was as the assistant to the assistant, to the editor in chief. So I would do all of the grunt work and the running around that the assistant to the editor in chief didn't want to do. And she would turn to me and say, Dan, you're going to go run around the city and find this thing for Jim Shooter. Now, then I did that for about five or six months, I was still in film school, and then left, which everyone was aghast, you don't leave Marvel comics, by choice. And, but I had, I was still in school. I had a summer job already sort of set up, and I left to go take that exciting summer job. And then I was called over the summer because there was an opening in the Epic line. And they want to know if I'd be interested in taking on this assistant editor's job. And I said, it would have to be part-time cause I still had a semester to finish in school, but they were intrigued and I was figuring, oh, well this is just kind of guaranteed job. [00:32:00] Never knowing it was going to become career-like, and so that was then sort of my second job. Mike: Awesome. So this is going to bring us to the character of Terror. So he was introduced as a character in the Shadow Line Saga, which was one of those mature comics, it was like a mature superhero universe. That took place in a few different series under the Epic imprint. There was Dr. Zero, there was St. George, and then there was Power Line. Right. Dan: That's correct, yep. Mike: And so the Shadow Line Saga took his name from the idea that there were these beings called Shadows, they were basically super powered immortal beings. And then Terror himself first appeared as Shrek. He's this weird looking enforcer for a crime family in St. George. And he becomes kind of a recurring nemesis for the main character. He's kind of like the street-level boss while it's hinting that there's going to be a eventual confrontation between the main character of St. George and Dr. Zero, who is kind of [00:33:00] a Superman character, but it turns out he has been manipulating humanity for, you know, millennia at this point. Dan: I think you've encapsulated it quite well. Mike: Well, thank you. So the Shadow Line Saga, that only lasted for about what a year or two? Dan: Probably a couple of years, maybe a little over. There was about, I believe, eight to nine issues of each of the, the main comics, the ones you just cited. And then we segued those over to, sort of, uh, an omni series we call Critical Mass, which brought together all three characters or storylines. And then try to tell this, excuse the pun, epic, you know story, which will advance them all. And so wrapped up a lot of loose ends and, um, you know, became quite involved now. Mike: Okay. Dan: It ran about seven or eight issues. Mike: Okay. Now a couple of years after Terror was introduced under the Epic label, Marvel introduced a new Ghost Rider series in 1990 that hit that sweet spot of like nineties extreme with a capital X and, and, you know, [00:34:00] it also gave us a spooky anti heroes like that Venn diagram, where it was like spooky and extreme and rides a motorcycle and right in the middle, you had Ghost Rider, but from what I understand the series did really well, commercially for Marvel. Comichron, which is the, the comic sales tracking site, notes that early issues were often in the top 10 books sold each month for 91. Like there are eight issues of Ghost Rider, books that are in the top 100 books for that year. So it's not really surprising that Marvel decided to go in really hard with supernatural characters. And in 1992, we had this whole batch of horror hero books launch. We had Spirits of Vengeance, which was a spinoff from Ghost Rider, which saw a Ghost Rider teaming up with Johnny Blaze, and it was the original Ghost Writer. And he didn't have a hellfire motorcycle this time, but he had a shotgun that would fire hell fire, you know, and he had a ponytail, it was magnificent. And then there was also the Night Stalkers, [00:35:00] which was a trio of supernatural investigators. There was Hannibal King and Blade and oh, I'm blanking on the third one. Dan: Frank Drake. Mike: Yeah. And Frank Drake was a vampire, right? Dan: And he was a descendant of Dracula, but also was a vampire who had sort of been cured. Um, he didn't have a hunger for human blood, but he still had a necessity for some type of blood and possessed all the attributes, you know, of a vampire, you know, you could do all the powers, couldn't go out in the daylight, that sort of thing. So, the best and worst of both worlds. Mike: Right. And then on top of that, we had the Dark Hold, which it's kind of like the Marvel equivalent of the Necronomicon is the best way I can describe it. Dan: Absolutely. Yup. Mike: And that's showed up in Agents of Shield since then. And they just recently brought it into the MCU. That was a thing that showed up in Wanda Vision towards the end. So that's gonna clearly reappear. And then we also got Morbius who is the living vampire from [00:36:00] Spider-Man and it's great. He shows up in this series and he's got this very goth rock outfit, is just it's great. Dan: Which looked a lot like how Len Kaminsky dressed in those days in all honesty. Mike: Yeah, okay. Dan: So Len will now kill me for that, but. Mike: Oh, well, but yeah, so these guys were all introduced via a crossover event called Rise of the Midnight Sons, which saw all of these heroes, you know, getting their own books. And then they also teamed up with Dr. Strange to fight against Lilith the mother of demons. And she was basically trying to unleash her monstrous spawn across the world. And this was at the same time the Terror wound up invading the Marvel Universe. So if you were going to give an elevator pitch for Terror in the Marvel Universe, how would you describe him? Dan: I actually wrote one down, I'll read it to you, cause you, you know, you put that there and was like, oh gosh, I got to like now pitch this. A mythic manifestation of fear exists in our times, a top dollar mercenary for hire using a supernatural [00:37:00] ability to attach stolen body parts to himself in order to activate the inherit ability of the original owner. A locksmith's hand or a marksman, his eye or a kickboxer his legs, his gruesome talent gives him the edge to take on the jobs no one else can, he accomplishes with Savage, restyle, scorn, snark, and impeccable business acumen. So. Mike: That's so good. It's so good. I just, I have to tell you the twelve-year-old Mike is like giddy to be able to talk to you about this. Dan: I was pretty giddy when I was writing this stuff. So that's good. Mike: So how did Terror wind up crossing into the Marvel Universe? Like, because he just showed shows up in a couple of cameos in some Daredevil issues that you also wrote. I believe. Dan: Yeah, I don't know if he'd showed up before the book itself launched that might've, I mean, the timing was all around the same time. But everybody who was involved with Terror, love that Terror and Terror Incorporated, which was really actual title. Love the hell out of [00:38:00] the book, right. And myself, the editors, Carl Potts, who was the editor in chief, we all knew it was weird and unique. And, at one point when I, you know, said to Carl afterwards, well I'm just gonna take this whole concept and go somewhere else with it, he said, you can't, you made up something that, you know, can't really be replicated without people knowing exactly what you're doing. It's not just another guy with claws or a big muscle guy. How many people grab other people's body parts? So I said, you know, fie on me, but we all loved it. So when, the Shadowline stuff kind of went away, uh, and he was sort of kicking out there is still, uh, Carl came to me one day and, and said, listen, we love this character. We're thinking of doing something with horror in Marvel. This was before the Rise of the Midnight Sons. So it kind of came a little bit ahead of that. I think this eventually would become exactly the Rise of the Midnight Sons, but we want to bring together a lot of these unused horror characters, like Werewolf by Night, Man Thing, or whatever, but we want a central kind of [00:39:00] character who, navigates them or maybe introduces them. Wasn't quite clear what, and they thought Terror, or Shrek as he still was at that point, could be that character. He could almost be a Crypt Keeper, maybe, it wasn't quite fully baked. And, so we started to bounce this around a little bit, and then I got a call from Carl and said, yeah, that's off. We're going to do something else with these horror characters, which again would eventually become probably the Midnight Sons stuff. But he said, but we still want to do something with it. You know? So my disappointment went to, oh, what do you mean? How could we do anything? He said, what if you just bring him into the Marvel Universe? We won't say anything about what he did before, and just use him as a character and start over with him operating as this high-end mercenary, you know, what's he going to do? What is Terror Incorporated, and how does he do business within the Marvel world? And so I said, yes, of course, I'm not going to say that, you know, any quicker and just jumped into [00:40:00] it. And I didn't really worry about the transition, you know, I wasn't thinking too much about, okay. How does he get from Shadow Line world, to earth 616 or whatever, Marcus McLaurin, who was the editor. God bless him, for years would resist any discussion or no, no, it's not the same character. Marcus, it's the same character I'm using the same lines. I'm having him referenced the same fact that he's had different versions of the word terrors, his name at one point, he makes a joke about the Saint George complex. I mean, it's the same character. Mike: Yeah. Dan: But , you know, Marcus was a very good soldier to the Marvel hierarchy. So we just really brought him over and we just went all in on him in terms of, okay, what could a character like this play in the Marvel world? And he played really well in certain instances, but he certainly was very different than probably anything else that was going on at the time. Mike: Yeah. I mean, there certainly wasn't a character like him before. So all the Wikias, like [00:41:00] Wikipedia, all the Marvel fan sites, they all list Daredevil 305 as Terror's first official appearance in. Dan: Could be. Mike: Yeah, but I want to talk about that for a second, because that is, I think the greatest villain that I've ever seen in a Marvel comic, which was the Surgeon General, who is this woman who is commanding an army of like, I mean, basically it's like a full-scale operation of that urban myth of - Dan: Yeah. Mike: -the dude goes home with an attractive woman that he meets at the club. And then he wakes up in a bathtub full of ice and he's missing organs. Dan: Yeah. You know, sometimes, you know, that was certainly urban myth territory, and I was a big student of urban myths and that was the sort of thing that I think would show up in the headlines every three to six months, but always one of those probably friend of a friend stories that. Mike: Oh yeah. Dan: Like a razor an apple or something like that, that never actually sort of tracks back. Mike: Well, I mean, the thing now is it's all edibles in candy and they're like, all the news outlets are showing officially [00:42:00] branded edibles. Which, what daddy Warbucks mother fucker. Jessika: Mike knows my stand on this. Like, no, no, nobody is buying expensive edibles. And then putting them in your child's candy. Like, No, no, that's stupid. Dan: No, it's the, it's the, easier version of putting the LSD tab or wasting your pins on children in Snickers bars. Jessika: Right. Dan: Um, but but I think, that, that storyline is interesting, Mike, cause it's the, it's one of the few times I had a plotline utterly just completely rejected by an editor because I think I was doing so much horror stuff at the time. Cause I was also concurrently doing the Hellraiser work, the Night Breed work. It would have been the beginning of the Night Stalkers work, cause I was heavily involved with the whole Midnight Sons work. And I went so far on the first plot and it was so grizzly and so gruesome that, Ralph Macchio who was the editor, called me up and said, yeah, this title is Daredevil. It's not Hellraiser. So I had to kind of back off [00:43:00] and realize, uh, yeah, I put a little too much emphasis on the grisliness there. So. Mike: That's amazing. Dan: She was an interesting, exploration of a character type. Mike: I'm really sad that she hasn't showed back up, especially cause it feels like it'd be kind of relevant these days with, you know, how broken the medical system is here in America. Dan: Yeah. It's, it's funny. And I never played with her again, which is, I think one of my many Achilles heels, you know, as I would sometimes introduce characters and then I would just not go back to them for some reason, I was always trying to kind of go forward onto something new. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Is there anything about Terror's character that you related to at the time, or now even. Dan: Um, probably being very imperious, very complicated, having a thing for long coats. Uh, I think all of those probably, you know, work then and now, I've kind of become convinced weirdly enough over time, that Terror was a character who [00:44:00] and I, you know, I co-created him with Margaret Clark and, and Klaus Janson, but I probably did the most work with him over the years, you know? So I feel maybe a little bit more ownership, but I've sort of become convinced that he was just his own thing, and he just existed out there in the ether, and all I was ultimately was a conduit that I was, I was just channeling this thing into our existence because he came so fully formed and whenever I would write him, he would just kind of take over the page and take over the instance. That's always how I've viewed him, which is different than many of the other things that I've written. Mike: He's certainly a larger than life personality, and in every sense of that expression. Jessika: Yes. Mike: I'm sorry for the terrible pun. Okay. So we've actually talked a bit about Terror, but I [00:45:00] feel like we need to have Jessika provide us with an overall summary of his brief series. Jessika: So the series is based on the titular character, of course, Terror, who is unable to die and has the ability to replace body parts and gains the skill and memory of that limb. So he might use the eye of a sharpshooter to improve his aim or the arm of an artist for a correct rendering. And because of the inability for his body to die, the dude looks gnarly. His face is a sick green color. He has spike whiskers coming out of the sides of his face, and he mostly lacks lips, sometimes he has lips, but he mostly lacks lips. So we always has this grim smile to his face. And he also has a metal arm, which is awesome. I love that. And he interchanges all of the rest of his body parts constantly. So in one scene he'll have a female arm and in another one it'll sport, an other worldly tentacle. [00:46:00] He states that his business is fear, but he is basically a paid mercenary, very much a dirty deeds, although not dirt cheap; Terror charges, quite a hefty sum for his services, but he is willing to do almost anything to get the job done. His first job is ending someone who has likewise immortal, air quotes, which involves finding an activating a half demon in order to open a portal and then trick a demon daddy to hand over the contract of immortality, you know, casual. He also has run-ins with Wolverine, Dr. Strange Punisher, Silver Sable, and Luke Cage. It's action packed, and you legitimately have no idea what new body part he is going to lose or gain in the moment, or what memory is going to pop up for him from the donor. And it keeps the reader guessing because Terror has no limitations. Mike: Yeah. Dan: was, I was so looking forward to hearing what your recap was going to be. I love that, so I just [00:47:00] want to say that. Jessika: Thank you. I had a lot of fun reading this. Not only was the plot and just the narrative itself, just rolling, but the art was fantastic. I mean, the things you can do with a character like that, there truly aren't any limits. And so it was really interesting to see how everything fell together and what he was doing each moment to kind of get out of whatever wacky situation he was in at the time.So. And his, and his quips, I just, the quips were just, they give me life. Mike: They're so good. Like there was one moment where he was sitting there and playing with the Lament Configuration, and the first issue, which I, I never noticed that before, as long as we ready this time and I was like, oh, that's great. And then he also made a St. George reference towards the end of the series where he was talking about, oh, I knew another guy who had a St. George complex. Dan: Right, right. Right, Mike: Like I love those little Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, there are a lot of Clive Barker Easter eggs throughout that whole series. Dan: [00:48:00] Well, That's it. That was so parallel at the time, you know. Mike: So around that time was when you were editing and then writing for the HellRaiser series and the Night Breed series, right? Dan: Yes. Certainly writing for them. Yeah. I mean, I did some consulting editing on the HellRaiser and other Barker books, after our lift staff, but, primarily writing at that point. Mike: Okay. Cause I have Hellraiser number one, and I think you're listed as an editor on it. Dan: I was, I started the whole Hellraiser anthology with other folks, you know, but I was the main driver, and I think that was one of the early instigators of kind of the rebirth of horror at that time. And, you know, going back to something you said earlier, you know, for many years, I was always, pressing Archie Goodwin, who worked at Warren, and worked on Erie, and worked on all those titles. You know, why can't we do a new horror anthology and he was quite sage like and saying, yeah. It'd be great to do it, but it's not going to sell there's no hook, right? There's no connection, you know, just horror for her sake. And it was when Clive Barker [00:49:00] came into our offices, and so I want to do something with Archie Goodwin. And then the two of them said, Hellraiser can be the hook. Right. Hellraiser can be the way in to sort of create an anthology series, have an identifiable icon, and then we developed out from there with Clive, with a couple of other folks Erik Saltzgaber, Phil Nutman, myself, Archie Goodwin, like what would be the world? And then the Bible that would actually give you enough, breadth and width to play with these characters that wouldn't just always be puzzle box, pinhead, puzzle box, pinhead, you know? And so we developed a fairly large set of rules and mythologies allowed for that. Mike: That's so cool. I mean, there really wasn't anything at all, like Hellraiser when it came out. Like, and there's still not a lot like it, but I - Jessika: Yeah, I was going to say, wait, what else? Mike: I mean, I feel like I've read other books since then, where there's that blending of sexuality and [00:50:00] horror and morality, because at the, at the core of it, Hellraiser often feels like a larger morality play. Dan: Now, you know, I'm going to disagree with you on that one. I mean, I think sometimes we let it slip in a morality and we played that out. But I think Hellraiser is sort of find what you want out of it. Right. You go back to the first film and it's, you know, what's your pleasure, sir? You know, it was when the guy hands up the book and the Centobites, you know, or angels to some demons, to others. So I think the book was at its best and the movies are at their best when it's not so much about the comeuppance as it is about find your place in here. Right? And that can be that sort of weird exploration of many different things. Mike: That's cool. So going back to Terror. Because we've talked about like how much we enjoyed the character and everything, I want to take a moment to talk about each of our favorite Terror moments. Dan: Okay. Mike: So Dan, why don't you start? What was your favorite moment for Terror [00:51:00] to write or going back to read? Dan: It's a great question, one of the toughest, because again, I had such delight in the character and felt such a connection, you know, in sort of channeling him in a way I could probably find you five, ten moments per issue, but, I actually think it was the it's in the first issue. And was probably the first line that sort of came to me. And then I wrote backwards from it, which was this, got your nose bit. And you know, it's the old gag of like when a parent's playing with a child and, you know, grabs at the nose and uses the thumb to represent the nose and says, got your nose. And there's a moment in that issue where I think he's just plummeted out of a skyscraper. He's, you know, fallen down into a police car. He's basically shattered. And this cop or security guard is kind of coming over to him and, and he just reaches out and grabs the guy's nose, you know, rips his arm off or something or legs to start to replace himself and, and just says, got your nose, but it's, but it's all a [00:52:00] build from this inner monologue that he's been doing. And so he's not responding to anything. He's not doing a quip to anything. He's just basically telling us a story and ending it with this, you know, delivery that basically says the guy has a complete condescending attitude and just signals that we're in his space. Like he doesn't need to kind of like do an Arnold response to something it's just, he's in his own little world moments I always just kind of go back to that got your nose moment, which is just creepy and crazy and strange. Mike: As soon as you mentioned that I was thinking of the panel that that was from, because it was such a great moment. I think it was the mob enforcers that had shot him up and he had jumped out of the skyscraper four and then they came down to finish him off and he wound up just ripping them apart so that he could rebuild himself. All right, Jessika, how about you? Jessika: I really enjoyed the part where Terror fights with sharks in order to free Silver Sable and Luke Cage. [00:53:00] It was so cool. There was just absolutely no fear as he went at the first shark head-on and, and then there were like five huge bloodthirsty sharks in the small tank. And Terror's just like, what an inconvenience. Oh, well. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Like followed by a quippy remark, like in his head, of course. And I feel like he's such a solitary character that it makes sense that he would have such an active internal monologue. I find myself doing that. Like, you know, I mean, I have a dog, so he usually gets the brunt of it, but he, you know, it's, it is that you start to form like, sort of an internal conversation if you don't have that outside interaction. Dan: Right. Jessika: And I think a lot of us probably relate to that though this pandemic. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: But the one-liner thoughts, like, again, they make those scenes in my opinion, and it gave pause for levity. We don't have to be serious about this because really isn't life or death for Terror. We know that, and he just reminds us that constantly by just he's always so damn nonchalant. [00:54:00] Dan: Yeah. He does have a very, I'm not going to say suave, but it's, uh, you know, that sort of very, I've got this, you know, sort of attitude to it. Mike: I would, say that he's suave when he wants to be, I mean, like the last issue he's got his whiskers tied back and kind of a ponytail. Dan: Oh yeah. Jessika: Oh yeah. Dan: Richard Pace did a great job with that. Mike: Where he's dancing with his assistant in the restaurant and it's that final scene where he's got that really elegant tuxedo. Like. Dan: Yeah. It's very beautiful. Mike: I say that he can be suave and he wants to be. So I got to say like my favorite one, it was a visual gag that you guys did, and it's in issue six when he's fighting with the Punisher and he's got this, long guns sniper. And he shoots the Punisher point blank, and Terror's, like at this point he's lost his legs for like the sixth time. Like he seems to lose his legs, like once an issue where he's just a torso waddling around on his hands. And so he shoots him the force skids him back. [00:55:00] And I legit could not stop laughing for a good minute. Like I was just cackling when I read that. So I think all of us agree that it's those moments of weird levity that really made the series feel like something special. Dan: I'm not quite sure we're going to see that moment reenacted at the Disney Pavilion, you know, anytime soon. But, that would be pretty awesome if they ever went that route. Mike: Well, yeah, so, I mean, like, let's talk about that for a minute, because one of the main ways that I consume Marvel comics these days is through Marvel unlimited, and Terror is a pretty limited presence there. There's a few issues of various Deadpool series. There's the Marvel team up that I think Robert Kirkman did, where Terror shows up and he has some pretty cool moments in there. And then there's a couple of random issues of the 1990s Luke Cage series Cage, but like the core series, the Marvel max stuff, his appearance in books like Daredevil and Wolverine, they just don't seem to be available for consumption via the. App Like I had to go through my personal [00:56:00] collection to find all this stuff. And like, are the rights just more complicated because it was published under the Epic imprint and that was create her own stuff, like do you know? Dan: No, I mean, it wouldn't be it's choice, right. He's probably perceived as a, if people within the editorial group even know about him, right. I was reading something recently where some of the current editorial staff had to be schooled on who Jack Kirby was. So, I'm not sure how much exposure or, you know, interest there would be, you know, to that. I mean, I don't know why everything would be on Marvin unlimited. It doesn't seem like it requires anything except scanning the stuff and putting it up there. But there wouldn't be any rights issues. Marvel owned the Shadow Line, Marvel owns the Terror Incorporated title, it would have been there. So I'm not really sure why it wouldn't be. And maybe at some point it will, but, that's just an odd emission. I mean, for years, which I always felt like, well, what did I do wrong? I [00:57:00] mean, you can find very little of the Daredevil work I did, which was probably very well known and very well received in, in reprints. It would be like, there'd be reprints of almost every other storyline and then there'd be a gap around some of those things. And now they started to reappear as they've done these omnibus editions. Mike: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, and going back the awareness of the character, anytime I talk about Terror to people, it's probably a three out of four chance that they won't have heard of them before. I don't know if you're a part of the comic book historians group on Facebook? Dan: I'm not. No. Mike: So there's a lot of people who are really passionate about comic book history, and they talk about various things. And so when I was doing research for this episode originally, I was asking about kind of the revamp of supernatural heroes. And I said, you know, this was around the same time as Terror. And several people sat there and said, we haven't heard of Terror before. And I was like, he's great. He's amazing. You have to look them up. But yeah, it seems like, you know, to echo what you stated, it seems like there's just a lack of awareness about the character, which I feel is a genuine shame. And that's part of the [00:58:00] reason that I wanted to talk about him in this episode. Dan: Well, thank you. I mean, I love the spotlight and I think anytime I've talked to somebody about it who knew it, I've never heard somebody who read the book said, yeah, that sucks. Right. I've heard that about other things, but not about this one, invariably, if they read it, they loved it. And they were twisted and kind of got into it. But did have a limited run, right? It was only 13 issues. It didn't get the spotlight, it was sort of promised it kind of, it came out with a grouping of other mercenary titles at the time. There was a new Punisher title. There was a Silver Sable. There was a few other titles in this grouping. Everyone was promised a certain amount of additional PR, which they got; when it got to Terror. It didn't get that it like, they pulled the boost at the last minute that might not have made a difference. And I also think maybe it was a little bit ahead of its time in certain attitudes crossing the line between horror and [00:59:00] humor and overtness of certain things, at least for Marvel, like where do you fit this? I think the readers are fine. Readers are great about picking up on stuff and embracing things. For Marvel, it was kind of probably, and I'm not dissing them. I never got like any negative, you know, we're gonna launch this title, what we're going to dismiss it. But I just also think, unless it's somebody like me driving it or the editor driving it, or Carl Potts, who was the editor in chief of that division at that point, you know, unless they're pushing it, there's plenty of other characters Right. For, things to get behind. But I think again, anytime it kind of comes up, it is definitely the one that I hear about probably the most and the most passionately so that's cool in its own way. Mike: Yeah, I think I remember reading an interview that you did, where you were talking about how there was originally going to be like a gimmick cover or a trading card or something like that. Dan: Yeah. Mike: So what was the, what was the gimmick going to be for Terror number one? Dan: What was the gimmick going to be? I don't know, actually, I if I knew I [01:00:00] can't remember anymore. But it was going to be totally gimmicky, as all those titles and covers were at the time. So I hope not scratch and sniff like a, uh, rotting bodies odor, although that would have been kind of in-character and cool. Mike: I mean, this was the era of the gimmick cover. Dan: Oh, absolutely. Mike: Like,that was when that was when we had Bloodstrike come out and it was like the thermographic printing, so you could rub the blood and it would disappear. Force Works is my favorite one, you literally unfold the cover and it's like a pop-up book. Dan: Somebody actually keyed me in. There actually was like a Terror trading card at one point. Mike: Yeah. Dan: Like after the fact, which I was like, shocked. Mike: I have that, that's from Marvel Universe series four. Dan: Yeah. we did a pretty good job with it actually. And then even as we got to the end of the run, you know, we, and you can sort of see us where we're trying to shift certain aspects of the book, you know, more into the mainstream Marvel, because they said, well, we'll give you another seven issues or something, you know, to kind of get the numbers up. Mike: Right. Dan: And they pulled the plug, you know, even before that. So, uh, that's why [01:01:00] the end kind of comes a bit abruptly and we get that final coda scene, you know, that Richard Pace did such a nice job with. Mike: Yeah. I mean, it felt like it wrapped it up, you know, and they gave you that opportunity, which I was really kind of grateful for, to be honest. Dan: Yeah. and subsequently, I don't know what's going on. I know there was that David Lapham, you know, series, you did a couple of those, which I glanced at, I know I kind of got in the way of it a little bit too, not in the way, but I just said, remember to give us a little created by credits in that, but I didn't read those. And then, I know he was in the League of Losers at one point, which just didn't sound right to me. And, uh. Mike: It's actually. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to say this cause, it's basically a bunch of, kind of like the B to C listers for the most part. And. So they're called the Legal Losers. I think it's a really good story, and I actually really like what they do with Terror. He gets, she's now Spider Woman, I think it's, Anya Corazon, but it was her original incarnation of, Arana. And she's got that spider armor that like comes out of her arm. And so she [01:02:00] dies really on and he gets her arm. And then, Dan: That's cool. Mike: What happens is he makes a point of using the armor that she has. And so he becomes this weird amalgamation of Terror and Arana's armored form, which is great. Dan: Was that the Kirkman series? Is that the one that he did or. Mike: yeah. That was part of Marvel Team-Up. Dan: Okay. Mike: it was written by Robert Kirkman. Dan: Well, then I will, I will look it up. Mike: Yeah. And that one's on Marvel unlimited and genuinely a really fun story as I remembered. It's been a couple of years since I read it, but yeah. Dan: Very cool. Mike: So we've talked about this a little bit, but, so
We're back to catch up, and we're taking on Michel Fiffe's three-issue continuation of Bloodstrike this month!
Spawn #26 & Bloodstrike #4-10 (1993) & Bloodstrike: Brutalists #23 (2018) & Chapel in Youngblood #7-8 & 10Listener Discretion AdvisedSpawn #26by Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo"The Dark"Dedicated To: Dave SimThat is why, after a very long and difficult deliberation, I've decided to remove her from your care and put her in a new set of circumstances. This, I believe, is for her own good.You torture yourself for answers that, mostly, you've been given. You're just not trying hard enough. Much as I'm tempted to write you off, you do show some spark.Call me Gabrielle, Mr. Simmons. If I might have a moment of your time, I really would like to talk to you. Bloodstrike #4-10 (1993)by Rob Liefeld & Dan Fraga & Eric Stephenson & & variousIt's been a long time coming, Battlestone, but it looks like we're finally gonna get the chance to settle our differences once and for all-- brother to brother! Bloodstrike: Brutalists #23 (2018)by Michel FiffeArms, eyes, surgically removed... prolonged state of anesthesia... medical field... official capacity or independent study... Test subjects? Sex slaves? Young women-- girls-- barely out of high school. Brenda will be a senior soon.Youngblood #7-8 & 10 (1992)by Rob Liefeld with Eric Stephenson, Danny Miki & Jonathan SibalHe shot Bobby-- blew his head clean OFF!As a man who has literally been to hell and back, there is precious little that frightens Al Simmons these days. This, however, comes close. This is the man who killed him. Emerging from the smoke and shadows, he looks like the devil himself, the ghastly white skull he chose long ago as his trademark eerily incandescent in the moonlight. A none-too-subtle reminder of what has passed between these two men... and the unholy bond they share.It wasn't until later I figured out everything for myself in one divine moment of clarity-- if you had really come back from the dead, then so could I! Thing with me though, Al-- I could care less about love and happiness. You can have that crap. I've got bigger plans for my return-- plans that will change everything... forever. Image is EverythingEpisode Art Gallery on tumblrGraphic Violence Episode Art Gallery on TwitterMichel Fiffe's Bloodstrike 25th Anniversary RetrospectivePromotional MaterialOctoberpod: the retro horror show for bold individualists! Our narrator, Edward October, presents real life creepy stories & classic horror...The Longbox of Darkness: Exploring horror in comic book form with Herman Louw & Company/.Midnight…The Podcasting Hour: A rotating anthology podcast reviewing DC Comics' horror heroes and series hosted by Ryan Daly and friends. Spawning GroundTwitterFacebooktumblrrolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com#SpawnometerSpawnometer on BlogspotRolled Spine Podcasts on Wordpress
Bloodstrike 11, Prophet 0, Deathblow 7, WildC.A.T.s 12
Bloodstrike 11, Prophet 0, Deathblow 7, WildC.A.T.s 12
Spawn #24 & Bloodstrike #1-3 (1993) & Brigade #1-3 (1993) & Bloodstrike: Brutalists #0 (2018)Listener Discretion AdvisedSpawn #24by Todd McFarlane“The Hunt” Part 4Dedicated To: Joe SinnotIt looks like someone burned his face off. God… waht’s this guy been through?Jason Wynn has become consumed with this case… He knows Fitzgerald is no traitor, but circumstances made him the logical suspect. Rather than admit his error, Wynn continues to conduct a brutal investigation.And… if he so much as looks at you cross-eyed, make sure his death looks like an accident. Do you read me? Bloodstrike: Brutalists #0 (2018)by Michel FiffeProject: Born Again.We’re… reanimating a civilian?Bodyslide’s finally patched through– we’ll have to come back for Deadlock. Aw, he was just a pity recruit anyway. Bloodstrike #1-3 (1993)by Rob Liefeld & Dan Fraga & Eric Stephenson & & variousIt’s been a long time coming, Battlestone, but it looks like we’re finally gonna get the chance to settle our differences once and for all– brother to brother! Brigade #1-3 (1993)by Rob Liefeld & Marat Mychaels & Norm Rapmund & Eric StephensonIt’s been three months since the members of Brigade last set foot on their native earth, although as their ship silently arcs toward their base of operations in Malibu, California, it seems more like a lifetime.Nice shooting, Cabbot, you nailed the little bimbo right between the eyes! Precision like that almost makes me wonder why they even bother sending the rest of us on these little road trips! I mean, in these recession-stricken times, a solo act of your caliber would definitely be more cost-effective, no? Image is EverythingEpisode Art GalleryFeel The Blood… They Did.Michel Fiffe’s Bloodstrike 25th Anniversary Retrospective Promotional MaterialVan Damme It’s Jean Claude: A monthly Jean Claude Van Damme movie breakdown with Paul Shroyer, starting with JCVD’s first movie and working his way until the last one, and counts the number of splits.“I Must Break” This Podcast: A fan podcast celebrating the cinematic career of action legend Dolph Lundgren! Join host Sean Malloy and a special guest as they go in chronological order discussing, reviewing, and analyzing every film in the impressive canon. It’s sure to be an action-packed time!Night of the Living Podcast: We talk about more than just horror films through our unique staff of contributors Spawning GroundTwitterFacebooktumblrrolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com#SpawnometerSpawnometer on BlogspotRolled Spine Podcasts on WordPress
Stormwatch 25, Bloodstrike 25, Violator 1
Stormwatch 25, Bloodstrike 25, Violator 1
Covering Stormwatch 25, Bloodstrike 25, and Violator 1
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams 10, Bloodstrike 10, Newmen 1
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams 10, Bloodstrike 10, Newmen 1
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this seventieth episode, I discuss WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams 10, Bloodstrike 10, and Newmen 1! This month, the WildC.A.T.s book is taken over by Chris Claremont who brings us the Hunter! Bloodstrike strikes the final blow … Continue reading "All the Pouches 70: April 1993 Part 3"
It's all lead up to this, Xtinction Agenda's first quarterly elimination tournament. Tournament of Firsts!!! Supreme #1 vs. Union #1 WildC.A.Ts #1 vs. Bloodstrike #1 Youngblood #1 vs. Pitt #1 Savage Dragon v2 #1 vs. Team Youngblood #1 Spawn #1 vs. Prophet #1 Stormwatch #1 vs. Cyberforce v2 #1 Shadowhawk #1 vs. Brigade #1 Freakforce #1 vs. The Maxx #1 Which ones will advance to the semi-finals? Which will take the gold for Greatest Image #1 of 1992-1993?!!
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this sixty-fourth episode, I discuss Team Youngblood 7, Brigade 8, Bloodstrike 9, and Codename: Stryke Force 2! This month, Team Youngblood, Brigade, and Bloodstrike each take on Quantum in the first installments of the Extreme Prejudice … Continue reading "All the Pouches 64: March 1994 Part 1"
Gen¹³ 1, Shadowhawk Volume Three 3, Bloodstrike 8, Freak Force 3
Gen¹³ 1, Shadowhawk Volume Three 3, Bloodstrike 8, Freak Force 3
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this sixtieth episode, I discuss Gen¹³ 1, Shadowhawk Volume Three 3, Bloodstrike 8, and Freak Force 3! This month, Caitlin Fairchild joins the revived Gen¹³ program, but all may not be as it seems! Shadowhawk’s origins … Continue reading "All the Pouches 60: February 1994 Part 1"
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this fifty-sixth episode, I discuss Spawn 17, Superpatriot 4, Bloodstrike 7, Supreme 9, and Prophet 3! This month, Spawn faces Anti-Spawn! Superpatriot faces off with Diehard with his own soul on the line! Bloodstrike learns to … Continue reading "All the Pouches 56: January 1994 Part 2"
Spawn 17, Superpatriot 4, Bloodstrike 7, Supreme 9, Prophet 3
Spawn 17, Superpatriot 4, Bloodstrike 7, Supreme 9, Prophet 3
Superpatriot 3, The Maxx 6, Supreme 8, Bloodstrike 6
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this fifty-second episode, I discuss Superpatriot 3, The Maxx 6, Supreme 8, and Bloodstrike 6! This month, Superpatriot is manipulated by the Covenant of the Sword! Lily rejoins the show to see the Maxx confront Mako … Continue reading "All the Pouches 52: December 1993 Part 2"
Superpatriot 3, The Maxx 6, Supreme 8, Bloodstrike 6
Supreme 7, Bloodstrike 5, Brigade 5, Team Youngblood 3
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this forty-eighth episode, I cover Supreme 7, Bloodstrike 5, Brigade 5, and Team Youngblood 3! This month, Supreme is visited by time-traveling future heroes! Bloodstrike is tasked with taking down Supreme, and it does NOT go … Continue reading "All the Pouches 48: November 1993 Part 3"
Supreme 7, Bloodstrike 5, Brigade 5, Team Youngblood 3
In this episode of the Savage FINcast, hosts Craig, Jim, & Raven are joined by rising comic superstar Michel Fiffe! Fiffe is best know for his self-published team action title Copra, as well as short mini-series runs on Extreme’s Bloodstrike and IDW’s GI-Joe. We talk about Copra coming to Image Comics, his comic inspirations, his … Continue reading
Union 2, Images of Shadowhawk 2, Team Youngblood 2, Bloodstrike 4
Union 2, Images of Shadowhawk 2, Team Youngblood 2, Bloodstrike 4
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this forty-fifth episode, I cover Union 2, Images of Shadowhawk 2, Team Youngblood 2, and Bloodstrike 4! This month, Union is settling into human life until he crosses paths with a parasite speedster known as the … Continue reading "All the Pouches 45: October 1993 Part 5"
WildC.A.T.s Sourcebook 1, Bloodstrike 3, Brigade 3
WildC.A.T.s Sourcebook 1, Bloodstrike 3, Brigade 3
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this fortieth episode, I discuss WildC.A.T.s Sourcebook, Bloodstrike 3, and Brigade 3! This month, we take a brief look at some of the new information we learn about the WildC.A.T.s! Then the Blood Brothers crossover comes … Continue reading "All the Pouches 40: September 1993 Part 4"
Shaman’s Tears 2, The Savage Dragon 2, Bloodstrike 2, Brigade 2
Shaman's Tears 2, The Savage Dragon 2, Bloodstrike 2, Brigade 2
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this thirty-third episode, I discuss Shaman’s Tears 2, The Savage Dragon 2, Bloodstrike 2, and Brigade 2! This month, Joshua Brand has to discover the purpose of new powers, and Animus Prime escapes Circle Sea Enterprises! … Continue reading "All the Pouches 33: August 1993 Part 3"
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast is one fan’s exploration of the early years of Image Comics. In this twenty-eighth episode, I discuss the flipbook of Youngblood 5 and Brigade 4! Then it’s catch-up time with Bloodstrike 1, Brigade 1, and Supreme 3! Youngblood’s opening arc wraps (finally) with a final confrontation with both … Continue reading "All the Pouches 28: July 1993 Part 2"
Youngblood 5 / Brigade 4, Bloodstrike 1, Brigade 1, Supreme 3
Youngblood 5 / Brigade 4, Bloodstrike 1, Brigade 1, Supreme 3
Grab your "Frederic Wertham can eat a !@%" T-shirts, and more Cartoonist Kayfabe merchandise at our new storefront: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cartoonist-kayfabe/men?q=D1 Snail Mail! Cartoonist Kayfabe, PO Box 3071, Munhall, Pa 15120 --------------------- • Jae Lee takes center stage and talks Youngblood: Strikefile, WildCATs Trilogy, Namor, John Byrne, and more! • Liefeld interview 2: Youngblood, Bloodstrike, Brigade, Prophet, Image, editors, publishers, and late books • Star Trek comics • Ray Bradbury comics at Topps and the all-star lineup of artists drawing them: Richard Corben, Al Williamson, Mike Mignola! • Topps' Kirbyverse comics: Steve Ditko draws the Secret City! • The Comics Code, Mike Allred in Palmer's Picks, and Wizard's editor vows to never read manga - a proclamation that upsets Jim and Ed so much that they make a new t-shirt in response: https://bit.ly/2WCtmpT • PLUS - the winners of the Cable cover contest in Brutes & Babes! SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS: Who Created Venom? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOKdOv81Jk --------------------- Connect with us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cartoonist.kayfabe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CartoonKayfabe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cartoonist.Kayfabe Ed's Contact info: https://www.instagram.com/ed_piskor https://www.twitter.com/edpiskor https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Piskor/e/B00LDURW7A/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Jim's contact info: https://www.instagram.com/jimruggart https://www.twitter.com/jimruggart https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Rugg/e/B0034Q8PH2/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1543440388&sr=1-2-ent
Snail Mail! Cartoonist Kayfabe, PO Box 3071, Munhall, Pa 15120 Grab your "Frederic Wertham can eat a !@%" T-shirts, and more Cartoonist Kayfabe merchandise at our new storefront: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cartoonist-kayfabe/men?q=D1 Snail Mail! Cartoonist Kayfabe, PO Box 3071, Munhall, Pa 15120 --------------------- Wizard 20, April 1993: • Image and Valiant team-up for Deathmate! Will this be the death of the Direct Market? • Milestone Comics promo with Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, and Derek Dingle - Blood Syndicate, Icon, Static, and Hardware are part of an unprecedented deal at DC Comics! • Image Comics: Year Two - Sam Kieth's the Maxx, Larry Stroman's Tribe, Jerry Ordway's and Al Gordon's Wildstar, and Deathmate • Rob Liefeld returns with news on Youngblood, Strikefile, Brigade, Bloodstrike, Supreme, and Prophet • John Romita Jr stays with Marvel • Tom Palmer, Jr. looks at Scott McCloud's Zot, Destroy, Understanding Comics, 24 Hr Comics, and the Creators' Bill of Rights! • Mini-comics king, Matt Feazell gets a little (get it?) action too! --------------------- SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS: 24 Hour Comics Cartoonist Kayfabe Show & Tell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTEk6qhjZ6k Palmer's Picks 20 column: http://palmerspicks.com/wizard-20-scott-mccloud/ Gareb Shamus Studio visit interview with Style Curator: https://vimeo.com/199579740 Anti Gravity Room episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXN6MqeW2g&list=PL4l7T2nOTlu8zx0kNg2MJgkfRXOmJ-jAV Urban Legends: Did one comic book (Deathmate Red) really collapse the entire comics industry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lnzME3-5lk Inventing Comics - Dylan Horrock's response to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Inventing%20Comics.htm A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario (Official Music Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TLWqn82J4 Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics: S01E05: The Colour of Comics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkPaemrrH7A Milestone Comics Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuLg13QbSSM Dan Fraga's tiny Hulk drawing: https://www.instagram.com/p/BujEDpsHENh/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet --------------------- Connect with us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cartoonist.kayfabe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CartoonKayfabe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cartoonist.Kayfabe Ed's Contact info: https://www.instagram.com/ed_piskor https://www.twitter.com/edpiskor https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Piskor/e/B00LDURW7A/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Jim's contact info: https://www.instagram.com/jimruggart https://www.twitter.com/jimruggart https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Rugg/e/B0034Q8PH2/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1543440388&sr=1-2-ent
Descripción:What do Spiderman, Bloodstrike, Superman, Black Panther, Witchblade, Wolverine and Monster High: Haunted have in common? The talent of our guest! Join us in an amazing conversation with the amazing Dan Fraga!
Descripción:What do Spiderman, Bloodstrike, Superman, Black Panther, Witchblade, Wolverine and Monster High: Haunted have in common? The talent of our guest! Join us in an amazing conversation with the amazing Dan Fraga!
Rachelle is away this week but Dave more than makes up for it with an interview with Michel Fiffe! They discuss Copra, Zegas, Bloodstrike, and his new miniseries, G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte!
Whoa, what in tarnation is this? It's BONUS CONTENT baby! Last week, Talking Joe studios was graced with the presence of the awesome cartoonist, Michel Fiffe. Michel is the creator of the action series COPRA and has worked for Marvel, Valiant, BOOM! Image and IDW for whom he has masterminded the upcoming mini series, G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte for IDW. He stopped by to chat about his love of comics while growing up, his work on the Image book Bloodstrike and also his passion for that era of action comics. Of course, there was a big chunk of G.I. Joe talk and he even managed to stay calm when Chief surprised him with a G.I. Joe pop quiz! Grab yourself a tall beverage and a sugary snack and take a listen!
The wonderful world of rock n roll is full of cool characters. Wednesday 13 is one such character. For the uneducated normies, we always liken Mr.13 to a "modern day Alice Cooper". The dude has a storied career with no let up in sight. Most notably his latest platter (and Nuclear Blast debut) "Condolences". Wednesday recently came thru town making it an opportune to hang out with him. We discussed said record plus his love of horror flicks and 'The Nature Boy". Whoooooooo!! Aside the the creepiness and zaniness, Wednesday has a real ear for talent. Pounding the skins for 13 is Kyle Castronovo. If that name strikes a familiar chord, old timers will remember the senior Castronovo behind the kit for Journey. So there was definitely a story there with Jr. to which he was eager to share.But the awesome characters/guests don't stop there. WE spoke with former Horror Pain Gore Death recording artists Sonic Pulse in our "Extended Indie Spotlight". They gave us the 411 on their new record "Vs. The Internet". In our "News, Views, and Tunes", we go over what we're looking forward to in '19, Steel Panther in "sex" rehab, the infamous Witchrot band breakup announcement, and "No Nut November" (??!!).Musically we crank our guests plus the new Lucifer's Child, hardcore bashers La Armada and BloodStrike!! Horns!! This Episode is sponsored by Trve Kvlt Coffee. Summon the coffee demons to possess yourself a cup today! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Listen Live Thursday's at 8pm eastern on Pure Rock Radio Drop us a line at radmetal666@gmail.com
Friend of the show Michel Fiffe returns to the show this week to talk about his new GI Joe series, Sierra Muerte! We talk a lot about G.I. Joe. A lot. Copra and Bloodstrike come up a couple times, but it's mostly G.I. Joe. Plus, Matt and Chris take a meta listener question!
It’s been five weeks, which makes sense since it’s not easy to find books! Even some mainstays have disappointed the last couple months… and, of course, some haven’t. Floppies – The Weatherman, Punks Not Dead, Barbarella, Bloodstrike, Highest House, Ether: Copper Golems, Infinity 8 vol 2, Maestros, Jimmy’s Bastards, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, […]
Another jam packed episode. This week Iann doubles down on #2 issues of both Superman and Farmhand. Jaimie delves into the debauchery of Savage Dragon as well as showing his feminine side with the girl-artist friendly 2000 AD short story book. Both men talk about their love for Batman #52 and Mister Miracle 10. Iann discovers Black Badge #1 and Long Live Pro Wrestling 0, while Jaimie rediscovers Bloodstrike 1 and Sandman. Plus both Iann & Jaimie get inspired by the Italian graphic novel A Sea Of Love. That and so much more!
Gigant by Rune Ruberg from AdHouse, Die! Die! Die! by Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple, Chris Burnham, and Nathan Fairbairn from Image, Matt Kindt's Dept. H from Dark Horse, Go Nagai-O-Rama: Devilman Vs. Hades Volume 1 illustrated by Team Moon and Devilman Grimoire Volume Three illustrated by Rui Takato both from Seven Seas Entertainment, Superman #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, and Alex Sinclair, Domino #4 by Gail Simone, David Baldeon, and Jesus Aburtov, Bloodstrike, Brigade, and Michel Fiffe, The Teriffics #5, Ant Man and The Wasp, Rumble Volume Four, Luther Strode, plus a whole mess more!
We’re back on track! Sort of! Floppies – Ether The Copper Golems, Barrier, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Doctor Star, The Sentry, Kill or Be Killed, Lazarus, Snagglepuss, Kaijumax, Bloodstrike, Damned, Magic Order, Mister Miracle, Plastic Man, Resident Alien, Weatherman, Barbarella, Flavor, Punks Not Dead, Coda. Retro – Love and Rockets, DC Comics Presents, Star […]
Ah, podcasting. The oldest profession. Since the dawn of time began throughout history it has been podcasters who have kept us warm and fed our children. In some ancient cultures podcasters were revered, even worshipped as living gods. Of course today the podcaster occupies the lowest tier of respectability alongside estate agents, prostitutes and Piers Morgan but where would we be without them? Surely dead. This issue Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die manage to fit in some time for you, generously allowing you to listen in on them talking about Small Press Day, the Kinder Egg scandal that no one is talking about and the collector gene. Then it's off to Outpost Reviewniverse for Dice Man Comic, Proxima Centauri, Slasher, Mister Miracle, Bloodstrike Brutalists, By Night, Oblivion Song, Neil Gaiman's Helblazer, Sandman, Howard Chaykin's The Shadow, Chester Brown's Little Man and The Weather Man Finally there's some Rekkymend from Gary Lactus of Liam Williams's Pls Like and The Beast Must Die has seen Black Panther. You're welcome.
Top 100, Hawkman 1, Plastic Man 1, Titans Special, Man of Steel 3, Flash 48, Thor 1, Marvel Two-In-One Annual, Marvel Rising Alpha, Deadpool Assassin, Nancy Drew, Bloodstrike 0, Magic Order, Stellar, Weatherman, Proxima Centauri, Weeknd Presents Starboy, Awaken Skies, By Night, Zinnober, Incredibles 2 movie review, Crazy Ex Girlfriend s3, Good Place s2, Punisher s1, Am It Glenn?, news, more! Comics Credits: Hawkman 1 by Robert Venditti, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, Alex Sinclair Plastic Man 1 by Gail Simone, Adriano Melo, Kelly Diane Fitzpatrick Titans Special by Dan Abnett, Brian Ching, Sergio Davila, Ben Oliver, Brent Peeples, Max Raynor, Nicola Scott, Vicente Cifuentes, Matt Santorelli, Michael Atiyeh, Jordie Bellaire, Romulo Fajardo, Luis Guerrero, Marcelo Maiolo, Dinei Ribeiro Man of Steel 3 by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Fabok, Ryan Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger, Alex Sinclair Flash 48 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Hi-Fi Colour Design Thor 1 by Jason Aaron, Mike Del Mundo, Christian Ward, Marco D’Alfonso Marvel Two-In-One Annual by Chip Zdarsky, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire Marvel Rising Alpha 1 by Devin Grayson, Georges Duarte, Rachelle Rosenberg Deadpool Assassin 1 by Cullen Bunn, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Edgar Delgado Nancy Drew 1 by Kelly Thompson, Jenn St-Onge, Triona Farrell Bloodstrike 0 by Michel Fiffe Magic Order 1 by Mark Millar, Olivier Coipel, Dave Stewart Stellar 1 by Joe Keatinge, Bret Blevins Weatherman 1 by Jody LeHeup, Nathan Fox, Dave Stewart Proxima Centauri 1 by Farel Dalrymple Weeknd Presents Starboy by Christos Gage, La Mar Taylor, Abel Tesfaye, Eric Nguyen, Guru eFX Awaken Skies 0 by Frank Mastromauro, Marco Lorenzana, Mark Roslan, Justice By Night 1 by John Allison, Christine Larsen, Sarah Stern Zinnober 1 by Thorsten Brochhaus, Ralf Singh, Cristian Docolomansky Incredibles GN: Heroes at Home by Liz Marsham, Nicoletta Baldari Comics Countdown 13 Jun 2018: Mister Miracle 9 by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Thor 1 by Jason Aaron, Mike Del Mundo, Christian Ward, Marco D’Alfonso SHIELD 6 by Jonathan Hickman, Dustin Weaver, Sonia Oback Mech Cadet Yu 9 by Greg Pak, Takeshi Miyazawa, Triona Farrell Damned 10 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree Flash 48 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Hi-Fi Colour Design New Super-Man and the Justice League of China 24 by Gene Luen Yang, Brent Peeples, Scott Hanna, Matt Santorelli, Hi-Fi Colour Design Bloodshot Salvation 10 by Jeff Lemire, Doug Braithwaite, Jordie Bellaire Nancy Drew 1 by Kelly Thompson, Jenn St-Onge, Triona Farrell I Hate Fairyland 19 by Skottie Young, Jean-Francois Beaulieu
The merits of early Image comics and 90s comics in general. Why damaged or maybe "unsheltered" kids need entertainment made just for them, Robocop and Spawn as father figures. Touch the Wonder is back, Bloodstrike is back....RUB THE WONDER!
This week the boys (minus Randy) start their summer interview sessions with the living legend Dan Fraga! You may know him from his work on Black Flag, Bloodstrike and Wolverine! Speaking of that, part one of our two part convo with Fragaboom he discusses his tenure at Marvel and censorship that he encountered. He goes on to tell stories about how the business of comics and entertainment works. Stay tuned for part two where we wax poetic about the evolution of his luminary art style! PS He has an awesome cover to the new Bloodstrike book in stores tomorrow. Pick it up!
Great_Xpectations Ep6: Nightmares PersistSean and Gerry climb inside the head of artist and bestie Don Cardenas to discuss our love (hatred?) for Wolverine V1 #75-90 MUSIC INTRO - Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax -Dawn just sounds better-Bone Claws-Adam Kubert-Cyber-Everything crashes in a Hama book-Heather Hudson and that creeper Puck-Importance of inkers-Origin/First appearance of Truck Stop-Writers draw the best metaphors-Bloodstrike vs Ani-Mator vs Doug Ramsey-Vaughn & Staples's's's Saga (wha?!)-Gambit and Deadpool MUSIC OUTRO - Bonnie Tyler - "Holding Out For a Hero" We have a Tumblr page!!! greatx-pectations.tumblr.com/ Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and find our Facebook group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/Feel like giving us more private feedback? Hit us up at greatxpectationspod@gmail.com Album art by Justin Peterson
We're very happy to welcome the writer/artist of Copra and the upcoming Bloodstrike: Brutalists, Michel Fiffe, back to the show this week! We talk at length about Rob Liefield, comics from the 1990s in general, Suicide Squad, changing up an art style while keeping it distinct, comics superstardom, VHS movies and a whole lot more!
On this 250th episode of Heroes (Monday, June 4th, 2018), Jon Schnepp, Amy Dallen, Robert Meyer Burnett, Markeia McCarty, and Coy Jandreau discuss the following from the world of Heroes and Villains: 1. The panel reviews the best superhero films in the first half of 2018 including ‘Black Panther’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Deadpool 2’. 2. The panel looks at all the current TV series based on comic book properties that are available for fans to enjoy like The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead, Gotham, Black Lightning, Lucifer, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, Agents of S.H.I.E.LD., iZombie, Krypton, and Legion. 3. The panel speculates what they hope to see for the rest of 2018 in the superhero world of Film and TV. 4. Is ‘WW84’ the official title for Wonder Woman 2? 5. Jason Momoa and Colin Hardy both leave the Sony reboot of ‘The Crow Reborn’. 6. Evan Peters says Quicksilver is much more of a superhero in ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’. 7. ‘Legion’ heads into its last two episodes with a 3rd season pickup. 8. The Russos have confirmed offscreen characters who were dusted in ‘Infinity War’ including Betty Ross, and Lady Sif. 9. Behind the scenes pictures of Jigsaw on the set of Punisher season 3 were released. 10. It seems that the Fox/Disney merger is causing significant delays in series like ‘The New Warriors’ and getting next seasons for ‘The Gifted’. 11. Sony’s ‘Silver & Black’ has been officially removed from any release date. 12. The Penguin is rumored to be the villain for either Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’ or the ‘Birds of Prey’ movie. 13. Rob Liefeld’s ‘The Pouch’ makes its debut in Bloodstrike #23. 14. Comic Book Pull List 15. Twitter Questions Follow Schnepp: https://twitter.com/JonSchnepp Follow Amy: https://twitter.com/enthusiamy Follow Robert: https://twitter.com/BurnettRM Follow Markeia: https://twitter.com/markeiamccarty Follow Coy: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau
Episode 10 In this episode of Read It For The Pictures, the comic book podcast by Dave Clarke and Neil Kapit, we talk about Bloodstrike Remastered #1 by Rob Liefeld, Eric Stephenson, Dan Fraga, Danny Miki and Thomas Mason and Blue Beetle #11 by Keith Giffen, J.M.Dematteis, Scott Kolins and Romulo Fajardo. Who has the cleverest comparison to make about Bloodstrike? Who is trying to humblebrag and doing a horrible job of it? Listen and find out. Check in next week to hear us discuss Seven to Eternity #8 by Rick Remender, James Harren and Matt Hollingsworth and Grump Cat Garfield #1 by Mark Evanier and Steve Uy. To find out more about the hosts go to daveclarkeart.com for Dave and wyrecats.com for Neil.
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Episode 9 In this episode of Read It For The Pictures, the comic book podcast by Dave Clarke and Neil Kapit, we talk about Generation Gone #1 by Ales Kot, Andre Lima Araujo, Chris O’Halloran and Tom Muller and Aliens: Dead Orbit #3 by James Stokoe. The Jar gets quite full in this one. Also, who did their homework and watched an Alien movie before this episode? And how effectively does Dave hide the fact he didnt get the Oroborus -> Snake -> Big Boss connection until editing the episode? Listen to find out. Check in next week to hear us discuss ‘Grant Morrison’s 18 Days’ by Grant Morrison and Francesco Biagini(Once again one of our choices was delayed, and instead we'll be reading Blue Beetle #11 by Keith Giffen, JMDematteis, Scott Kolins and Romulo Fajardo) and Bloodstrike #1 Remastered Edition by Rob Liefeld, Eric Stephenson, Dan Fraga and Danny Miki. Also, Heres the Rob video we talked about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ9hjJabvaI To find out more about the hosts go to daveclarkeart.com for Dave and wyrecats.com for Neil.
Show Notes Wednesdays mean new comic day but bi-weekly it means a fresh serving of comic book commentary courtesy of The Variant Issue. The boys pull no punches when it comes to comics so listener discretion is advised! The Pull List July 19, 2017 Aquaman #26 Injustice 2 #6 Batman #27 Batman/TMNT-Trade Paperback DC Bombshells #31 DC Justice League Essentials Robin Vol. 4-Trade Paperback Super Sons #6 Astonishing X-Men #1 Daredevil #24 Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again #2 Strange #23 Invincible Iron Man #9 Luke Cage #5 Mighty Thor #21 Marvel #20 Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #2 Royals #5 Secret Empire #6 of 10 July 26, 2017 All-Star Batman #12 Batman/The Shadow #4 of 6 Flash #27 Flash: The Rebirth Collection-Trade Paperback Wonder Woman #27 Bloodstrike #1 Spawn #276 Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #8 (2nd Printing) Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #5 Black Panther #16 Cable #3 Captain America: Steve Rogers #19 Defenders #1 (2nd Printing) Gwenpool #18 Old Man Logan #25 Punisher #14 Secret Empire #7 of 10 Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Vol. 5-Trade Paperback Thanos #9 Weapon X #4 (2nd Printing) Weapon X #6 X-Men Blue #8 X-Men Blue #5 (2nd Printing) X-Men Gold #5 (2nd Printing) Toycon Avengers: Infinity War Disney D23 Is Captain America becoming Nomad in MCU? Spider-Man: Homecoming Where’s The Beef? Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jimbo Slyice) Co-Sign Time Jimbo Slyice Amok Time TVI Bill Finger Special Rich Castlevania (Netflix) One Punch Man (Netflix) Music Crash Course by Skammadix Follow Skammadix on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Skammadix Need music? Email Skammadix: Skammadix@gmail.com Awesome Places, People & Stuff Ript Apparel: http://www.rageworks.net/ript and use promo code 10%Slyice Long Island Comic Expo Site: http://licomicbookexpo.com/ Long Island Comic Expo FB: https://www.facebook.com/LIComicBookExpo/ Saverio’s Pizza Room: http://saveriospizza.com/ Amok Time: http://www.amoktime.com/ Tehmeena Afzal: https://www.instagram.com/missmeena1/ Keep up with The Variant Issue & RAGE Works The Variant Issue on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevariantissue/ The Variant Issue on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheVariantIssue Follow Jimbo Slyice on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimbo_slyice/ Follow Rich via RAGE Works on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rageworks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RAGE_Works Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialRAGEWorks/ Check Out Some of the Other Shows on the RAGE Works Network The Regular Season Sportscast: http://rageworks.net/podcasts/bitnb/ Black is the New Black: http://rageworks.net/podcasts/cmwio/ Call Me When It’s Over: http://rageworks.net/podcasts/trss/ Turnbuckle Tabloid: http://rageworks.net/podcasts/tbt/
Under the dual specters of Lemmy's death and the Odinson's computer issues, El Goro and SonOfOdin welcome in 2016 with new music from Japanese guitar virtuoso Rie a.k.a. Suzaku and progressive sludgemasters Baroness. In the indie segment, they talk about Denver's Bloodstrike, and Rammstein's third album enters Metal Valhalla. New Releases: Rie a.k.a. Suzaku : Noah's Ark (2015) Rie a.k.a. Suzaku is a female Japanese solo heavy metal guitarist, influenced by Swedish melodic death metal and German speed metal. Her albums feature guest vocalists who sing over her compositions. Get this album: Amazon.com • CD Universe • iTunes • Spotify Baroness : Purple (2015) After a 2012 bus crash splintered the band, both physically and in the lineup, Baroness have refined their progressive sludge tendencies into more complex directions. Get this album: Amazon.com • CD Universe • iTunes • Spotify Local/Indie Band: Bloodstrike : In Death We Rot (2015) Comprised of experienced musicians from the Denver, Colorado metal scene, Bloodstrike are a female-fronted death metal act heavily inspired by the 1990s death metal scene. Get this album: Bandcamp Info: Website • Facebook Heavy Metal Valhalla: Rammstein : Mutter (2001) Boasting a consistent linup since 1994, Rammstein is an industrial metal band, and the most recognized of the German Neue Deutsche Härte movement. The band's live shows are infamous for their pyrotechnic displays and on-stage antics. Get this album: Amazon.com • CD Universe • iTunes • Spotify
HOSTS: Dan, Jared, Shawn NEWS/TALK: The return of Slott & Allred's Silver Surfer, comic book spending habits, Doctor Who TV COMICS: Bloodstrike #2, Secret Identities #7, Tokyo Ghost #1, Black Science Vol 1 WHERE TO FIND US: Comic Book Pitt is part of the SORGATRON MEDIA NETWORKEMAIL: comicbookpitt@gmail.comCALL: 412-450-0227FACEBOOK: facebook.com/comicbookpittTWITTER: @comicbookpittINSTAGRAM: @comicbookpitt
EC 108 - Journey to Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire 01 (de 04). Greg Rucka y Marco Checchetto. (Marvel). - Faster than Light #1. Brian Haberlin y Skip Brittenham. (Image). - Mirror's Edge - Exordium #1 (de 6). Christofer Emgård y Mattias Häggström y Robert Sammelin. (Dark Horse). - Quake #1 (50 years of SHIELD). Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon y Daniel Warren Johnson. (Marvel). - Tyson Hesse's Diesel #1 (de 4). Tyson Hesse. (Boom! Box). Breve repaso a: - Bloodstrike #2. Rob Liefeld. (Image). - King Tiger #2. Randy Stradley y Doug Wheatley. (Dark Horse). - Nicholas Meyers Sherlock Holmes The-Seven-per-cent Solution #2. David y Scott Tipton y Ron Joseph. (IDW). - Red Sonja/Conan #2. Victor Gischler y Roberto Castro. (Dynamite).
EC 108 - Journey to Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Shattered Empire 01 (de 04). Greg Rucka y Marco Checchetto. (Marvel). - Faster than Light #1. Brian Haberlin y Skip Brittenham. (Image). - Mirror's Edge - Exordium #1 (de 6). Christofer Emgård y Mattias Häggström y Robert Sammelin. (Dark Horse). - Quake #1 (50 years of SHIELD). Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon y Daniel Warren Johnson. (Marvel). - Tyson Hesse's Diesel #1 (de 4). Tyson Hesse. (Boom! Box). Breve repaso a: - Bloodstrike #2. Rob Liefeld. (Image). - King Tiger #2. Randy Stradley y Doug Wheatley. (Dark Horse). - Nicholas Meyers Sherlock Holmes The-Seven-per-cent Solution #2. David y Scott Tipton y Ron Joseph. (IDW). - Red Sonja/Conan #2. Victor Gischler y Roberto Castro. (Dynamite).
Frank Miller and Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Image-O-Rama: Bitch Planet #5 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro, Bloodstrike #2 by Rob Liefeld and Karl Altstaetter, Headlopper #1 by Andrew MacLean, and Nick Dragotta and East of West, Daredevil #18 my Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, and Matt Wilson, Savage Dragon, Elseworlds, Valiant-O-Rama: The Book of Death by Robert Venditti, Robert Gill, Doug Braithwaite, David Baron, and Brian Reber, Ninjak #5 by Matt Kindt, Clay Mann, Seth Mann, and Ulises Arreola, and Ninjak #6 by Kindt, Raul Allen, Patricia Martin, and Borja Rindado, Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #4 by Dan Slott and Adam Kubert, Simone Bianchi and Amazing Spider-Man #1.1, Secret Wars, Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars by Cullen Bunn and Matteo Lolli, Bill Mantlo and Crossroads, Rocky Grimm - Space Ranger, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, We Are Robin, Fear the Walking Dead, Mad Max: Fury Road, Alan Davis, Heavy Metal #276 and Jack Kirby, Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders, Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rank Me: Daredevil, and a whole mess more!
Ant-Man, Hawkguy, Siege, Civil War, Action Comics, Skullkickers, Invincible, Book of Death, Mercury Heat, Archie, The Amazing Spider-Man, Renew Your Vows, Green Lantern: Lost Army, Armor Wars, Bloodstrike, Groot, Old Man Logan, Spider-Island, Spider-Verse, Star Trek Green Lantern, Justice League: Gods and Monsters (animated film).
HOSTS: Jared and new addition to the CBP team, SHAWN ATKINS! NEWS/TALK: SDCC, the Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, and Deadpool trailers COMICS: Bloodstrike #1, Big Man Plans #4, Doctor Strange Essentials Volume 4. WHERE TO FIND US: Comic Book Pitt is part of the SORGATRON MEDIA NETWORKEMAIL: comicbookpitt@gmail.comCALL: 412-450-0227FACEBOOK: facebook.com/comicbookpittTWITTER: @comicbookpittINSTAGRAM: @comicbookpitt
In this episode most of the gang is back together to discuss some of the SDCC2015 news, IZombie, new Vertigo announcements, Robin War, Blade, True Detective, Criminal, Action 42, Bloodstrike 1, Airboy 2, We are Robin 2, Justice League United, Squadron Sinister 2, Marvel All New and more Friendly Neighborhood Comics http://friendlyneighborhoodcomics.com/ Discount Comic Book Services http://www.dcbservice.com/index.aspx Instock Trades http://www.instocktrades.com/ Leave us email by putting the show you are commenting on in the heading thetaylornetworkofpodcasts@gmail.com Follow us on twitter: @taylornetwork http://taylornetworkofpodcasts.com/ You can also join us on the Facebook group TaylorNetwork of podcasts Also we ask that if you have some time leave us a rating and or ITunes review because that helps us greatly to promote the show.
In this episode most of the gang is back together to discuss some of the SDCC2015 news, IZombie, new Vertigo announcements, Robin War, Blade, True Detective, Criminal, Action 42, Bloodstrike 1, Airboy 2, We are Robin 2, Justice League United, Squadron Sinister 2, Marvel All New and more Friendly Neighborhood Comics http://friendlyneighborhoodcomics.com/ Discount Comic Book Services http://www.dcbservice.com/index.aspx Instock Trades http://www.instocktrades.com/ Leave us email by putting the show you are commenting on in the heading thetaylornetworkofpodcasts@gmail.com Follow us on twitter: @taylornetwork http://taylornetworkofpodcasts.com/ You can also join us on the Facebook group TaylorNetwork of podcasts Also we ask that if you have some time leave us a rating and or ITunes review because that helps us greatly to promote the show.
- 1872 #1. Gerry Duggan y Nik Virella. (Marvel). - Age of Apocalypse #1. Fabian Nicieza y Gerardo Sandoval. (Marvel). - Archie #1. Mark Waid y Fiona Staples. (Archie Comics). - Bloodstrike #1. Rob Liefeld. (Image). - Civil War #1. Charles Soule y Leinil Francis Yu. (Marvel). - Lando #1 (de 5). Charles Soule y Alex Maleev. (Marvel). - Negative Space #1. Ryan K Lindsay y Owen Gieni. (Dark Horse). - Spider-Island #1. Christos Gage y Paco Díaz. (Marvel). - Strange Fruit #1. Mark Waid y J. G. Jones. (Boom!). - The Tomorrows #1. Curt Pires y Jason Copland. (Dark Horse).
- 1872 #1. Gerry Duggan y Nik Virella. (Marvel). - Age of Apocalypse #1. Fabian Nicieza y Gerardo Sandoval. (Marvel). - Archie #1. Mark Waid y Fiona Staples. (Archie Comics). - Bloodstrike #1. Rob Liefeld. (Image). - Civil War #1. Charles Soule y Leinil Francis Yu. (Marvel). - Lando #1 (de 5). Charles Soule y Alex Maleev. (Marvel). - Negative Space #1. Ryan K Lindsay y Owen Gieni. (Dark Horse). - Spider-Island #1. Christos Gage y Paco Díaz. (Marvel). - Strange Fruit #1. Mark Waid y J. G. Jones. (Boom!). - The Tomorrows #1. Curt Pires y Jason Copland. (Dark Horse).
MP3 Download | RSS Feed | iTunes | Stitcher Welcome back to the official podcast of ComicAddiction.net! This episode talk a little about what's been going on at San Diego. We discuss if we wait for a printed copy of digital books, or do we dive into the digital book first. And then... REVIEWS! Peter finally has a chance to talk about BETTY AND VERONICA #276 and re-visits PRIVATE EYE with the news it will be collected. Ed shares his thoughts on BLOODSTRIKE #1 and drags Chris into talking about it. Chris gets all Grant Morrison with 18 DAYS #1 only to discover came out in 2010. And then the guys open the floor to talk about ARCHIE #1. Want to contact us? You can email us at comicbookaddict@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @ComicAddiction. Find us on Twitter: Ed (@TealProductions)Peter (@TweetGeekSushi)Chris (@ChrisPartin) We appreciate you listening to the show. Intro/Outro Music: “Veronica” by Elvis Costello
On this week's show, Jen and Shawn discuss: Bloodstrike #27 (2012) Quasar #19 (1991)
Rob Liefeld is the creator of Deadpool, Cable, X-Force, Youngblood, Supreme, Bloodstrike, Prophet, and Glory! He founded Image Comics in 1992 with Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, and Marc Silvestri. Currently he oversees the Extreme Universe titles at Image. Follow Rob on Twitter @robertliefeld and see more of his art on robliefeldcreations.com.
Justin, Bryan and Billy Z come back atcha with a whole lotta comic (Brightest Day, Ultimate FF, JK Woodward, 80's Iron Man, Hickman's FF, Marvel Now Point One, Bendis Avengers, Jeff Lemire, Justice League Dark, Green Arrow, AVX: Consequences, Masters of the Universe, Happy, Action Comics Annual, Tony Lee and Doctor Who, Manhattan Projects, World's Finest, Earth 2, Kevin Maguire, National Comics One-Shots, Multiple Warheads, Bloodstrike, Brubaker's Captain America, Before Watchmen, Superman #13, Joe Kubert Presents, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, God Hates Astronauts, Alan Moore's Supreme) and non-comic (knee surgery, Bear Bust in Orlando, Sawmill Campgrounds, Hurricane Sandy, Honey Boo Boo, child actors, the election) jibber-jabber.
Jermaine, Stephen, Frank, Griffin and Mike are joined in the studio by MonstHer creator and Artist Alley Comics co-founder Kelly Yates to discuss the ins-and-outs of the new digital comics distribution site, debuting on June 22nd, just in time for HeroesCon! Then Hammett Time takes a turn that not even Mike's fellow podcasters are prepared for! Finally, it's a fifth week edition of Comics at the Table! Show Notes: Artist Alley Comics.com. Download the Artist Alley Comics Free Comic Book Day preview PDF NOW! Kelly Yates Art.com. Get your tickets NOW for HeroesCon 2012. Acmecast #80, a work in progress. Comics at the Table: Batman Annual #1, Animal Man Annual #1, Wolverine & the X-Men #11, Grim Leaper #1, Bloodstrike #28, New Mutants #43 and Powers #10.
May 24, 2012 - Tim Seeley has made a name for himself in comics in a very different way than a lot of creators. Starting off at Devil’s Due, he made a big impact with Hack/Slash, his creator owned ode to slasher movies, showing the way for genre diversification in comics. At the same time, he can work as a writer, artist, or both, and has around plenty of Marvel and DC books. These days, Seeley can be found writing a whole bunch of books. Hack/Slash continues monthly from Image Comics, as will the mystery Revival with his friend and collaborator Mike Norton. Meanwhile, Tim has taken over as the regular writer on Witchblade for Top Cow, and with what time is left over he’s co-created and drawing Exsanguine for Dark Horse with Josh Emmons. Oh yeah, and he’s also writing Bloodstrike for the relaunched Extreme line of Rob Liefeld comics. It’s a lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jermaine, Stephen and DJ Griffin Kale check in with artists Amanda Rachels and Gregg Schigiel as they prepare for their first and second visits to Acme Comics for Free Comic Book Day, respectively! Then it's a pile of controversy at the table as fan is pitted against creator from Marvel, DC and independent publishers! Show Notes: Get your tickets for the midnight premiere of Avengers at the Carmike Cinemas, part of the 3rd Annual Superhero Film Festival, presents by Acme Comics and Mixed Tape Productions! @Amanda Rachels on Twitter. Blind Eye Comics, the internet home of Amanda Rachels. Hatter Entertainment, the homepage of Gregg Schigiel. The Free Comic Book Day Bongo Free-For-All/ SpongeBob Freestyle, with a cover by Gregg Schigiel. "Parting Shot: 'The Goon' Cover Pokes Fun at Superhero Comic Sales Gimmicks" at Comics Alliance. Comics at the Table - The Goon #39, Popeye #1, AvX Vs. #1, Uncanny X-Men #11, Secret Avengers #26, New Avengers #25, Battle Scars #6, All Star Western #8, Bloodstrike #27 and FF #17.
Reviews: Avengers vs X-Men #0, Bloodstrike #26, New Deadwardians #1, Geek & Sundry channel, Nerdist Channel Jimmy does his best Han Solo as he's sans co-host this week. He discusses some TV returns including Game of Thrones and The Avengers cartoon. Quick news bits from Emerald City Comic-Con about upcoming comic book releases Roundeye from Image, Sunset from Top Cow/Minotaur and a bunch from Dark Horse including a new Ghost series by Kelly Sue DeConnick/Phil Noto, webcomic hit Bucko gets printed, The Victories by Michael Avon Oeming and more! As always, listener feedback, the Top 3 and more! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!
On this edition of Word Balloon, we continue to talk with creators who are experimenting with creator owned ideas in print and the digital markets .First Mark Waid joins us to talk about his foray into the digital comic relm. His blog, markwaid.com launched today to be an open forum showing his process and ideas on his approach to comic storytelling on this platform. You can download his first digital pdf LUTHER Also Mark reveals his plans to fund the venture, which includes putting his huge comic book collection up for sale that goes back to the 1950's. We talk about some of the unique items in his collection and how you can purchase some of these books.Then direct from last weekend's ECCC convention, a crime comics panel featuring Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka, who start with their crime story influences , and talk a lot about their creation of the DC comic Gotham Central. Plus Ed talks about his current success with the Image book FATALE and Greg previews his next spy novel ALPHA due out in May.Finally direct from their Four Star Studio, Tim Seeley and Mike Norton talk about their new Image series Revival , which they describe as a Farm Noir tale. Tim updates us on his other Image books Hack-Slash, Bloodstrike and Top Cow's Witchblade, while Mike tells us about the plan to collect his web comic Battle Pug as a trade collection in July, from Dark Horse.Four Star Studio has been pulishing their digital comics Double Feature for about a year. 2 8 page stories for 99 cents in various genres. The guys tell us how that venture has gone so far.Time Code 00:00 - 48:55 Mark Waid 48:56 - 1:44:11 ECCC Crime Comics Panel With Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka
Jermaine, Stephen, Cody and DJ Griffin Kale are joined by old friend and Mark Waid expert Ryan Rubio...to talk to Mark Waid! Writer of Flash, Captain America, Daredevil, Irredeemable, Incorruptible, Kingdom Come, Fantastic Four, and Marvel's first Infinite Comic, Nova, set to release next Wednesday alongside Avengers vs. X-Men #1! Then, during Comics at the Table, find out why Jermaine can't have anything nice. Show Notes: Mark Waid.com, home of the progress blog that Mark mentioned would be coming in April. Mark Waid on Twitter. 15 Minutes with Mark Waidpodcast archive. Luther, the FREE, proof-of-concept digital comic that Mark mentioned during the show. Comics at the Table = Avengers #24.1, Avengers vs. X-Men #0, Bloodstrike #26, All-Star Western #7, FF #16 and Avenging Spider-man #5.
Aron’s at GenCon this week! If you wanna chat about comics, send him a note on Twitter. Greeting cards (1:45) The Barnes & Noble bargain bins (3:41) Christmas in August (6:32) Justice League: Cry for Justice #2 (13:00) Captain America: Reborn #2 (19:47) Chew #1-3 (27:35) Mayhem #1 (oops…Paul meant BloodSTRIKE, not Bloodshot) (38:20) War […]
Following a slightly more compressed opening theme Michael gives you a slight history lesson that you are no doubt already aware of. After another installment of Out of Context Theater Michael discusses some of the realizations he has made lately and why he's been buying comics the way he has in the past few weeks. Then it is reader mail and the big announcement of who won the first big contest. More fun than a copy of BLOODSTRIKE #1, but then again what isn't?
Following a slightly more compressed opening theme Michael gives you a slight history lesson that you are no doubt already aware of. After another installment of Out of Context Theater Michael discusses some of the realizations he has made lately and why he's been buying comics the way he has in the past few weeks. Then it is reader mail and the big announcement of who won the first big contest. More fun than a copy of BLOODSTRIKE #1, but then again what isn't?
Following a slightly more compressed opening theme Michael gives you a slight history lesson that you are no doubt already aware of. After another installment of Out of Context Theater Michael discusses some of the realizations he has made lately and why he's been buying comics the way he has in the past few weeks. Then it is reader mail and the big announcement of who won the first big contest. More fun than a copy of BLOODSTRIKE #1, but then again what isn't?
Following a slightly more compressed opening theme Michael gives you a slight history lesson that you are no doubt already aware of. After another installment of Out of Context Theater Michael discusses some of the realizations he has made lately and why he's been buying comics the way he has in the past few weeks. Then it is reader mail and the big announcement of who won the first big contest. More fun than a copy of BLOODSTRIKE #1, but then again what isn't?
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