Podcasts about Epic Comics

Morgana is back to join us for Twiple Dip! We read the next volumes of My Love Mix-Up!, The Summer Hikaru Died, and Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai! We also talk about the full color AKIRA, Batman: The Animated Series, Shuzo Oshimi's new manga Mabataki no Oto, and more!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new commentary channel! https://www.youtube.com/@MangaMacWatches Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Epic Comics' AKIRA - 00:03:15 Gogogogo-Go-Ghost! - 00:07:45 The Hobbit - 00:08:13 Batman: The Animated Series - 00:15:51 Mabataki no Oto - 00:19:54 Next Episode Preview - 00:27:46 Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai 3 - 00:29:47 The Summer Hikaru Died 3 - 00:48:22 My Love Mix-Up! 2 - 01:08:40 Our Rankings - 01:27:02 Outro - 01:30:24 Song Credits: "Hopscotch" by Louis Adrien "Jiggin the Jig" by Bless & the Professionals "Green Light" by Emily Lewis "Tasty Bites" by ZISO

Chichester Chats Ep #37: Clive Barker's Hellraiser #13 Welcome back to the Chichester Chats! In each episode Phil and Lilith chat with writer D.G. Chichester about one of his comic book creations. This time the group discusses Clive Barker's Hellraiser #13 (June 1992) featuring a story by D.G. Chichester and Mike Mignola. PLUS: discussion on horror in comic books and movies.   Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can!     Chichester Chats Links  → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/ChichesterChats → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/capeslunatics/ → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ChichesterChats → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics   ==================  

In this episode, Steve and Chris discuss the serialized story, GENERATION ZERO, from Marvel Comics' defunct Epic Comics flagship book, Epic Illustrated. A sci-fi story written by long-time comic industry luminary Archie Goodwin with painted art by the famed Spanish cartoonist, Pepe Moreno.Check out more of Pepe Moreno's art at https://pepemorenostudio.com/Support Our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/c/ComicsRotYourBrainCheck out our website, www.comicsrotyourbrain.com0:00:00 - Music & Intro0:02:55 - Primer on Generation Zero0:07:26 - Contextualizing Contemporary Pop Culture0:17:35 - Moreno on his love of America0:20:46 - Praise of Archie Goodwin as Editor and Writer0:24:09 - Discussing Chapter One (Epic Illustrated 17)0:47:38 - The issues of Epic Illustrated that contain Generation Zero0:48:10 - Irony of the collected version by DC Comics 0:50:00 - Obscure nature of Generation Zero0:52:08 - Discussing Chapter Two (Epic Illustrated 18)1:05:18 - Discussing Chapter Three, "Desert Hunt" (Epic Illustrated 19)1:17:21 - Moreno's penchant of Suspect Page Design Readability1:24:40 - Discussion Chapter Four, "The Rat's Nest" (Epic Illustrated 20)1:27:00 - The Lived-In Detail to Moreno's Incredible Casablanca1:30:00 - Inexplicable Cybernetic Arm Non-continuity1:50:18 - Discussing Chapter Five, "Jungle Trail" (Epic Illustrated 21)1:55:48 - Yonomani Tribe makes an appearance?2:12:16 - Discussing Chapter Six, "Terror In Paradise" (Epic Illustrated 22)2:25:50 - Shock at the giant story reveal!2:26:55 - Discussing Chapter Seven, "The Last Battle" (Epic Illustrated 23)2:29:22 - Odd letdown of exposing the lingering mystery of Juan's father2:54:47 - Discussing Chapter Eight, "Face To Face" (Epic Illustrated 24)2:55:00 - The inappropriate nature of the cover art3:19:00 - Steve's Theory that there were supposed to a follow-up series3:27:00 - Talk about what made Epic Comics line so specialCopyright © 2024 Comics Rot Your BrainDrop us a line! + Check out our YouTube channel to get a look at some of the fantastic art featured in our episodes. Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column. You can also find us wherever you stream your favorite podcasts.+ We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: ComicsRotYourBrain+ For even more cool shit, read Chris's Substack (cinema, comics, and culture) - THIN ICE©2024 Comics Rot Your Brain!#dccomics #vertigocomics #alanmoore #comicbooks #new #content #80scomics #explained #indiecomics #scificomics #marvelcomics #horrorstories #spaceopera #scifi

Chichester Chats Ep #33: Doctor Zero #1 & #2 Welcome back to the Chichester Chats! In each episode Phil and Lilith chat with writer D.G. Chichester about one of his comic book creations. This time the group discusses Doctor Zero #1 & #2 (April & June 1988) featuring the origin of the mysterious Doctor Zero. PLUS: discussion on the Epic Comics Line and the Shadowline Saga.   Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can!     Chichester Chats Links  → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/ChichesterChats → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/capeslunatics/ → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ChichesterChats → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics   ==================  

COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comics (plus a few notable exceptions).In this weekly podcast, screenwriters Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) and Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age.• In this week's episode, Steven and Chris continue their wide-ranging discussion of Epic Comics' ALIEN LEGION series (Also check out Part One [link], which went live last week). Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, Frank Cirocco, Larry Stroman.SHOW NOTES00:08 - Issue 6: “Operation Nerve Center!” - The character of alien soldier, Dirge, and his all-too-human battle with an addiction to a performance-enhancing drug01:53 - The use of thought balloons as an essential window into the deepest vulnerabilities of our traumatized cosmic battalion. “Soldiers in this insane crucible of battle.” 08:01 - Impostor syndrome in ALIEN LEGION -- the neurotic, inadequate, deeply insecure messes, who are our main players, along with the increasingly expansive cast of characters in this world12:50 - Sarigar usually keeps a lid on his id, but sometimes a mofo's gotta use his big-ass lizard/reptile tail to beat some ass14:51 - Issue 7: Whilce Portacio (!) inked this issue of ALIEN LEGION15:37 - Issues 8 - 11: The Chris Warner issues: rock-solid work in between the more idiosyncratic runs of Cirocco and Stroman16:59 - The rise of the grimmest and  grittiest of all legionnaires, Jugger Grimrod, in the era of Wolverine and the Punisher24:08 - Issue 12: “Hollow Harvest!” The arrival of the great Larry Stroman brings a distinctly new visual flair to the book and some awesomely stylized hair!48:25 - Issue 13: “Moonlilies for Cora Cora!” = FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON56:31 - Issue 14: “Reprise!” - the devastating next chapter1:20:53 - Issue 15: “The Official Death of Jugger Grimrod!” The title says it all.1:35:42 - Issue 16: “Demons!” - Intro of Tamara, the first woman legionnaire2:04:04 - Travis Charest & Larry Stroman both drawing DARKSTARS for DC! Discussion of Charest's early work -- WILDCATS w/ Alan Moore and METABARONS2:06:23 - You can tell every genre of story as a war story.2:07:51 - ALIEN LEGION as the ultimate, hyper-compressed metaphor for life. “We're all in the ALIEN LEGION.”#alienlegion #thealienlegion #carlpotts #larryst+ Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to get a look at some of the fantastic art discussed in our episodes!+ We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: ComicsRotYourBrain+ Join us! Sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column, at CRYB! Check out our YouTube channel. You can also find us wherever you stream your favorite podcasts.+ For even more cool shit, read Chris's Substack (cinema, comics, and culture) - THIN ICE©2024 Comics Rot Your Brain!#comics #comic #comicbooks #comicbook #comicbookfan #comicbookfans #comicpodcast #comicspodcast #comicbookpodcast #comiccollecting #comicscollecting #comiccollector #comicscollector #comiccollection #comix #80s #bronzeagecomics #bronzeage #thebronzeage #1980s #dc #dccomics #dccomic #dcuniverse #marvel #manga #marvelcomic #marvelcomics #comiccon #indiecomics #darkhorsecomics #understandingcomics #imagecomics #vertigocomics #eighties #comicsrotyourbrain #cryb #comicsrecommendation #comicsrecommendations #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #80scomics #80scomic #1980scomic #1980scomi...

COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comics (plus a few notable exceptions).In this weekly podcast, screenwriters Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) and Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age of comics.• EPISODE 3:  This week, Steven and Chris begin their two-part exploration of Epic Comics' ALIEN LEGION, published in 1984, created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco. Part One covers issues one through five; subscribe and tap the bell, so you don't miss Part Two — it drops next week!Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to get a look at some of the fantastic art discussed in our episodes.SHOW NOTES0:15 - Intro to the ALIEN LEGION series02:07 - How the floppies differ from the collected trade editions, in regard to THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE-style entries provided for the main legionnaires08:55 - Issue One, "Survival of the Fittest!" Zelenetz and Cirocco's specific way of approaching this sprawling space opera28:15 - Issues Two: "Blind Trust!"30:31 - Allusions to LOST — Did that classic TV series draw inspiration for its “bottle episodes” and their solo character flashback structures from ALIEN LEGION?44:39 - Torqa Dun & Jugger Grimrod as sketchy legionnaires in the Wolverine and Punisher mold58:12 - A detour into the challenges of creator-owned comics1:08:38 - Issue Three, "Last Gamble!” and its Back-up Story1:20:53 - Era of post-decompressed storytelling and Frank Cirocco's exquisitely-designed cover art1:25:19 - Issue Four: "The Killing Zone!” - the big Torie Montroc's solo issue1:40:21 - Zeerod's Back-Up Story in Issue Four: “Conscience!"+ Goodwin & Simonson's phenomenal ‘70s gem,  MANHUNTER#alienlegion #thealienlegion #carlpotts #larrystroman #epiccomics+ Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to get a look at some of the fantastic art discussed in our episodes!+ We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: ComicsRotYourBrain+ Join us! Sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column, at CRYB! Check out our YouTube channel. You can also find us wherever you stream your favorite podcasts.+ For even more cool shit, read Chris's Substack (cinema, comics, and culture) - THIN ICE©2024 Comics Rot Your Brain!#comics #comic #comicbooks #comicbook #comicbookfan #comicbookfans #comicpodcast #comicspodcast #comicbookpodcast #comiccollecting #comicscollecting #comiccollector #comicscollector #comiccollection #comix #80s #bronzeagecomics #bronzeage #thebronzeage #1980s #dc #dccomics #dccomic #dcuniverse #marvel #manga #marvelcomic #marvelcomics #comiccon #indiecomics #darkhorsecomics #understandingcomics #imagecomics #vertigocomics #eighties #comicsrotyourbrain #cryb #comicsrecommendation #comicsrecommendations #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #80scomics #80scomic #1980scomic #1980scomics #eightiescomics

COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comics (plus a few noteworthy exceptions).In this weekly podcast, screenwriters Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) and Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age.In this very special ZERO EPISODE, Steven and Chris sit down and gab about the genesis of this podcast: how the team was formed and our mission!SHOW NOTES:1:05 - Why we're doing this show5:02 - Experimentation in mainstream comics in the ‘80s, specifically Jenette Kahn's extraordinary, game-changing reign as Publisher of DC Comics.6:44 - Why the ‘80s were such a halcyon period to read American comics and the importance of examining the more obscure titles from that era.9:10 - DC's much lamented horror anthology, WASTELAND, and other comics that leave a lasting mark on their audiences, regardless of commercial success.10:56 - Paul Chadwick's CONCRETE from Dark Horse Comics and other once-acclaimed works that slip between the cracks of our collective memory.12:05 - Marvel, Ron Perelman, HEROES REBORN, and the birth of the modern comics mainstream as IP farm, first and foremost.13:37 - Epic Comics, EPIC ILLUSTRATED, DREADSTAR, ALIEN LEGION, GROO THE WANDERER, AKIRA.16:00 - SKREEMER, VIGILANTE, GRENDEL, and our raison d'être. Also: Chris' love of big French words and the types of comics that inspired us.17:59 -  MR. MONSTER and revisiting the indie comics of our youth to see how well they hold up (spoiler: still dope).19:43 - The list of comic books we want to cover: SCOUT, HAWKWORLD, AZTEC ACE, BROUGHT TO LIGHT, COYOTE, BWS' STORYTELLER, WISE SON: THE WHITE WOLF, THE LIGHT & DARKNESS WAR, MARS, AMERICAN FLAGG, THE SHADOW (Mike Kaluta, Howard Chaykin, Andy Helfer, Bill Sienkiewicz, Marshall Rogers, Baker).23:10 - The pre-Vertigo era, Vertigo, AMERICAN CENTURY by Chaykin, Tischman, and Laming; BLACK KISS and the transgressive works of Howard Chaykin.28:00 - Tim Vigil and David Quinn's FAUST: “If you're not offending somebody with your work, you're not doing it right.”29:52 - The difference between mainstream comics then and now — the devolution of American genre comics. IP management versus creative stewardship — the work of Steve Englehart, Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino's insane TRIAL OF THE FLASH, Ann Nocenti, JRJR, and Al Williamson's DAREDEVIL. Today, Marvel and DC Comics feel like product; back then, at their best, they were zany expression+ Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to get a look at some of the fantastic art discussed in our episodes!+ We appreciate your support of the show via Patreon: ComicsRotYourBrain+ Join us! Sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column, at CRYB! Check out our YouTube channel. You can also find us wherever you stream your favorite podcasts.+ Read, Subscribe to, and Support Chris's Substack - THIN ICE©2024 Comics Rot Your Brain!#comics #comic #comicbooks #comicbook #comicbookfan #comicbookfans #comicpodcast #comicspodcast #comicbookpodcast #comiccollecting #comicscollecting #comiccollector #comicscollector #comiccollection #comix #80s #bronzeagecomics #bronzeage #thebronzeage #1980s #dc #dccomics #dccomic #dcuniverse #marvel #manga #marvelcomic #marvelcomics #comiccon #indiecomics #darkhorsecomics #imagecomics #vertigocomics #eighties #comicsrotyourbrain #cryb #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #80scomics #80scomic #1980scomic #1980scomics #eightiescomics

Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkHTY1eNYHr9JoTndx_m6kA/join New T-shirts & more are now available! http://tee.pub/lic/BAMG John & Richard dive into the Viewer Mailbag to remember the first big Marvel Comics crossover event, more chat about THE MARVELS, and new topic ideas from our viewers. Our Hot Book of the Week features an Epic Comics deep cut and the Old Fart Rule looks at the final years of Charlton Comics. Finally, our Underrated Books of the Week feature Nick Fury vs. Hitler and a new beginning for the Doom Patrol! Bronze and Modern Gods is the channel dedicated to the Bronze, Copper and Modern Ages of comics and comic book collecting! Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BronzeAndModernGods Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bronzeandmoderngods #comics #comicbooks #comiccollecting --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bronzeandmoderngods/support

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Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, and Mr. Fixit go back to the Dark Age of deconstructionist super-heroics under the pen of Roarin' Rick Veitch, specifically his incendiary work Bratpack from 1990, with a side of 1992's The Maximortal, both published by Tundra (& Kitchen Sink Press.) Then Frank has a solo rant at the end where he summarizes 1985's Epic series The One (which almost certainly influenced Watchmen), before tearing into Don Simpson's 1990 Bizarre Heroes one shot & 2023's X-Amount of Comics: 1963 (WhenElse?!) Annual from Fantagraphics. Episode Gallery On Barry Blair, Founder of Aircel Comics by Don Unger Swamp Thing #88 script & partial art at 20th Century Danny Boy Friend us on Facebook Thumb through #UnderGuides Roll over our tumblr Email us at rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com Tweet us as a group @rolledspine, or individually as Diabolu Frank & Illegal Machine. Fixit don't tweet. The Under Guides Graphic Novel Podcast Blog Rolled Spine Podcasts The Under Guides Graphic Novel Podcast, 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Alan Moore, Comic Books, Fantagraphics, IDW, Marshal Law, Rick Veitch, Don Simpson, The One, Bratpack, The Maximortal, Epic Comics, Tundra, Kitchen Sink Press

Zach is joined by Tom Roberts (last appearing on The Incal episode) to talk about the seminal classic manga and anime, Akira! In 1988 an atomic bomb is dropped on Tokyo to stop the ultimate force known as Akira from growing any further. Now, in 2019, Neo Tokyo, a similar force rises again in a young, biker, thug named Tetsuo. Can his childhood friend Kaneda save him from being experimented on by the government? Or is it everyone else who needs saved from Tetsuo? And what happens if Tetsuo were to resurrect the powerful, Akira?Written and drawn by: Katsuhiro Otomo---------------------------------------------------Join the Patreon to help us keep the lights on, and internet connected!https://www.patreon.com/tctwlWant to try out all the sweet gigs over on Fiverr.com? Click on the link below and sign up!https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=323533&brand=fiverrcpaTune in here for every episode of the show!https://kite.link/the-comics-that-we-loveFollow on Instagram for Comics Obscure and More!The Comics That We LoveFollow on Tiktok!The Comics that We LoveFollow on Twitter!@Z_Irish_Red

Say you're studying filmmaking. And then you bankrupt yourself on one of your student films. Where do you go for a job to make ends meet? Well, if you're D.G. Chichester, the answer is the office of Marvel's EIC, Jim Shooter! From those humble beginnings as the assistant to the assistant of Marvel's head honcho, D.G. went on to serve as editor of the creator-owned imprint Epic Comics. And if that wasn't enough, he started writing comics too, including runs on Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD and Nightstalkers. D.G. is perhaps best known for a long stint on Daredevil, where he concocted fan-favorite storylines like "Fall of the Kingpin" and "Fall from Grace". We also get into his horror roots and fandom as illustrated by his work on Terror Inc. and Clive Barker's Hellraiser. So saddle up, Banditos, because this interview is a hell('s kitchen) of a good time!You can follow D.G. on Twitter @dgchichester and subscribe top his newsletter: storymaze.substack.com. ______________________Check out a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/dollarbinbandits.If you liked this podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And tell your friends!Looking for more ways to express your undying DBB love and devotion? Email us at dollarbinbandits@gmail.com. Follow us @dollarbinbandits on Facebook and Instagram, and @DBBandits on Twitter. 

What's your pleasure, sir? Today we're talking about Clive Barker's Hellraiser, the first comic to... embrace... the iconic horror franchise. We were incredibly lucky to talk about this Epic Comics series with none other than D.G. Chichester, who Clive Barker described as the "Godfather" of Hellraiser and served as both an editor and writer on the book!----more---- Transcripts are coming soon! We're in the process of putting together a new site, which will have a dedicated transcripts section.  Special thanks to DG Chichester for joining us on this episode! You can connect with him at https://storymaze.substack.com/ and can find him on Twitter: @dgchichester.  Ten Cent Takes contact info: Email: tencenttakes@gmail.com Twitter: @Tencenttakes Instagram: @Tencenttakes Facebook: /Tencenttakes   Our banner art is original work by Sarah Frank  (https://www.lookmomdraws.com/)

In Part 2 of our limited Hellraiser series, Bryan and Joe dive into the comics to see where David Gordon Green's HBO TV series could go. This episode explores: Epic Comics anthology entries, which are one-off stories Clive Barker's Hellraiser (Volumes 1-5) which turns Kristy into the Hell Priest; and The Dark Watch which brings Lords of Illusions protagonist Harry D'Amour into the fray as the Leviathan battles a rival hell: Abbadon. Suggested homework for this episode: in addition to reading the comics, watch Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 and Lord of Illusions. Wanna connect with the show? Bryan: @eviltaylorhicks Joe: @bstolemyremote Music Credit: Hellraiser Theme by Christopher Young If you like the podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe! Check out Anatomy of a Scream for more great content and the other Network pods. 

We have our comics expert, Miguel, join us once again to tackle comics released these past few weeks. We discuss X-Men: Red #3 and #4, X-Men #12, Knights of X #3, Immortal X-Men #3, New Mutants #26, and Sabretooth #4. There were some great titles in this batch! You can find Miguel on Instagram: @comixguy78

Quarter-Bin Podcast #180Moebius' Airtight Garage: The Elsewhere Prince #1,  Epic Comics, cover-dated May 1990, for #GlobalComicsMonth"1st Sonnet: The Jouk,"story by Moebius, script by Jean-Marc L'officier, with art by Eric Shanower.What happens when an artist joins a group of soldiers and embarks upon the adventure of his lifetime? And what will he do when he comes to face to face with a really ugly huge beetle?Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:  Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed. Promo: Who's EditingNext Episode: Not Brand Echh! #13, Marvel Comics, cover-dated May 1969, for #HumorComicsMonth Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: Half-Price Books

Quarter-Bin Podcast #179Vision & Scarlet Witch #1, Marvel Comics, cover-dated October 1985, for #RomanceComicsMonthUntitled story, or maybe "Lovers," written by Steve Englehart, with art by Richard Howell & Andy Mushynsky.What happens when a relationship expert and 'shipper extraordinaire Stella stops by to talk about one of Marvel Comics leading (albeit strange) couples? Does she approve of mutant - synthezoid relationships? Does she let Professor Alan get a word in edgewise? Does she even believe that he paid a quarter for this comic?Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:  Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed. Promo: Deconstructing ComicsLink to Professor Alan's appearance on Required Reading #50, discussing his favorite novel of all time, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy. Link to Stella's Batgirl to Oracle podcastLink to prior Quarter-Bin Podcast episode covering the start of the 1982 Vision and Scarlet Witch mini-series.Next Episode: Moebius' Airtight Garage: The Elsewhere Prince #1, Epic Comics, cover-dated May 1990, for #GlobalComicsMonth Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: In the Ballpark

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

Sumner is joined on this week's Hard Agree for a wide-ranging comics-heavy conversation with one of his all-time favorite comic book editors: artist, writer & thirteen-year Marvel Comics veteran Carl Potts. Carl joined Marvel in 1983 and, in addition to co-creating Alien Legion, he oversaw the reinvention & redevelopment of The Punisher (transforming Frank Castle from an occasional Spider-Man/Daredevil supporting player into one of the two most popular Marvel characters not created by Kirby, Ditko or Lee) and served as the executive editor/editor-in-chief of Marvel's high-quality Epic Comics imprint from 1989. Throughout those years, Carl worked alongside many legendary comics creators, from Al Milgrom and Neal Adams to Jim Starlin, Jim Lee and the peerless Steve Ditko. Sumner and Carl talk about all of this at length before discussing Carl's latest creative project: two beautiful volumes of Pacific Theater graphic novels that he's creating with artist Bill Reinhold - The Flying Column and Guests of the Emperor - inspired by Carl's family's unique experiences during WWII. Follow Carl on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/cpotts1 https://twitter.com/cpotts1 https://www.instagram.com/potts4751 Follow Hard Agree on Twitter: https://.twitter.com/hard_agree Follow Sumner on Social Media:http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media:http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountry

Quarter-Bin Podcast #171Six from Sirius 3 & 4. Epic Comics, cover-dated September & October 1984."Phase 3: Heavenstone" and "Phase 4: Mindprime," both written by Doug Moench, with art from Paul Gulacy. What happens when Professor Alan tackles the last 2 issues of this Epic mini-series? Or is it the last half of a graphic novel? Does he make it out alive when the bar brawl begins?Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:  Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed. Promo: The Overlooked Dark KnightNext Episode: Power Man & Iron Fist 87, Marvel Comics, cover-dated November 1982.  Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: In the Ballpark

*Spoilers We roundtable Beyond the Breach by Ed Brisson, Damian Couceiro, Patricio Delpeche, & Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Plus: Werewolf By Night #32 Facsimile Edition, Moonshine #26, Immortal Hulk #48, Something is Killing the Children #16-17, Ascender #16-17, The Old Guard: Tales Through Time; Invincible Red Sonja #3, Justice League Last Ride, Video Jack #1 (Epic Comics), Karmen #5, Post Americana #6, The Nice House on the Lake #2 NCBD: Proctory Valley Road $5, Moon Knight #1, Blue & Gold #1 

Quarter-Bin Podcast #170 Six from Sirius 1 & 2. Epic Comics, cover-dated July & August 1984."Phase 1: Phaedra" and "Phase 2: Masterfax," both written by Doug Moench, with art from Paul Gulacy. What happens when Professor Alan heads to outer space to keep two planets from going to war? How does the kidnapped Ambassador fit in? How about the robot assassin? And the quintet of dead spiritual Elders?Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:  Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed. Promo: The Trekker Audio DramaNext Episode: Six from Sirius 3 & 4, Epic Comics, cover-dated September and October 1984.  Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: In the Ballpark

Continuing the celebration of FIVE YEARS of Chris and Reggie with a compilation of another one of our "tentpole" series' wherein we go deep into the somewhat seedy, certainly salacious, world of Underground Comix!  We start with Tijuana Bibles... and don't stop until present day... talking about what Underground Comix were, what they became, and how they're still relevant to this day. I hope you enjoy! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Part I: Tijuana Bibles, Joe Shuster, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, and More! (01:13:54) Part II: 1968, Robert Crumb, art spiegelman, Trina Robins, Marvel's "Comix Book", and More! (02:47:49) Part III: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Harvey Pekar - Underground-to-Indie: Peter Bagge, Wendy & Richard Pini, Dave Sim, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and More! (04:23:18) Part IV: Underground-to-Corporate: Marvel's EPIC Comics, DC's Vertigo, Webcomics, Minicomics, and More! Originally Weird Comics History, Episodes 12-15 (2017) Total Run Time: 5 Hours, 41 Minutes, 53 Seconds -- Voicemail: 623-396-5375 Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com

Quarter-Bin Podcast #169Police Action #2, Atlas Comics, cover-dated April 1975."Taxi 2147 is Missing," by Gary Friedrich, with art by Mike Sekowsky & Al McWilliams. and "Whatever Happened to Luke Malone?" by Gary Friedrich, with art by Mike Ploog and Frank Springer.What happens when Professor Alan visits New York City in 1975? Does he get mugged? Taken hostage? Does he make it out alive?Listen to the episode and find out!Click on the player below to listen to the episode:  Right-click to download episode directly You may also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or the RSS Feed. Promo: What the Frell?Next Episode: Six from Sirius 1 & 2, Epic Comics, cover-dated July and August 1984.  Send e-mail feedback to relativelygeeky@gmail.com "Like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/relativelygeekyYou can follow the network on Twitter @Relatively_Geek and the host @ProfessorAlanSource: World's Greatest Comics

All the news you really care about in While We Were Away. Plus, Darren RetroActively Reviews Bill Mantlo, and Jackson Guice's Epic Comics title “Swords of the Swashbucklers”.

Alien Legion is a comic that was originally produced by Epic Comics imprint under Marvel Comics in 1984. It was created by writers Carl Potts and Alan Zelenetz with artist Frank Cirocco. Potts described the story “The French Foreign Legion in space”. The original series ran for about 18 issues and was relaunched with writer … Continue reading CM Podcast 289 – Alien Legion: Tenants in Hell (Comic 1991)

The Father and Child Re-oo-oo-niun... is only a mutant away-ay. Today we hang out with the Shaws... Sebastian and Shinobi, as they (maybe?) attempt to put aside their differences and work together for the betterment of mutantkind... or, the financial milking of humankind. Also: I wax nostalgic over Shinobi's old running buddies: the Upstarts, Bill Jemas' failed EPIC Comics relaunch (announced in Marville), and trawlin' Mall Cons looking for the early issues of X-Factor! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen  

On episode 55 of Highway2Helms w/ Shane Helms, Shane discusses his birthday, being “Pre Owned,” getting into “Spandex Shape” for potential future returns, his life on the FARRRRRMMMMM, masks and COVID, and the new Hurricane masks and Gregory Helms t shirts available at Pro Wrestling Tees! Plus, the Cornhole Championships, going 4 for 4 on his UFC picks this past weekend, rewatching Batman vs. Superman and The Fantastic Four, and appearing on Keepin It 100 with Konnan to talk a little wrestling and do a deep dive on HBO’s Watchmen. And in this week's "Comic Slam," Shane talks DC Comics & the Green Lantern 80th Anniversary, Avengers Empire, She-Hulk, the Atomic Empire comic shop, Epic Comics comic shop, Manhunter, Sleeping Beauties, Doctor Tomorrow and more!Check out "The Hurricane" Shane Helms Pro Wrestling Tees store at prowrestlingtees.com/shanehelms and get Hurricane shirts and masks, 3 Count shirts, a new Gregory Helms shirt and more!Support Highway2Helms and check out Real Good Foods! This is a perfect fit for us and for the members of our audience trying to eat better foods, get healthier and lose weight. Plus, Real Good Foods is open for business and will continue to ship during this crazy time, and they’ve lowered their shipping minimum. And if you go to their website at realgoodfoods.com and use the code HELMS, you can get 15% off your entire order! From breakfast sandwiches, to pizzas, to Italian entrees, to stuffed chicken and more, all this stuff is delicious, they use real ingredients, and they are high protein and low carb. PLUS, try their new ICE CREAM!

This week hosts Sam Bashor and DJ Wooldridge discuss the biggest comics crossover of 1996, Marvel vs. DC, and discuss the possibility of it happening again, and how it might be different! PLUS, Netflix's Extraction, Middleditch and Schwartz, and MORE! Don't forget to check out https://www.patreon.com/OnlyStupidAnswers to help support the show and receive EXCLUSIVE content! This episode brought to you by: Feals - feals.com/stupid (https://feals.com/?utm_source=stupid&utm_campaign=flight-1&utm_content=50-offer&utm_medium=podcast)

We return to the EPIC comics for a self-isolated quarantined chat. Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus Peter & Phil have had to record separately and then splice the two halves together but we hope that it still sounds the same as usual.  After a little bit of Hellraiser news about the current reboot in the works we launch into a discussion of Books 9 & 10, featuring stories by Lana Wachowski, Nicholas Vince, Scott Hampton and D. G. Chichester. Join us as we discuss Russian Roulette, the heavyweight champion of the world, and a dive back into the world of The Devil's Brigade. Join us on Twitter @HellraiserCast

It’s part two of our first Marvel Noise/Indie Comic Book Noise Podcast Crossover event! Check out Part 1 on Marvel Noise Episode 341. www.marvelnoise.com We talk about Dreadstar #11 (Epic Comics) through Dreadstar #21 in depth but we give a quick wrap-up through the end, including the move to First Comics, key story points like […]

We’re back with another podcast covering comics and this week, we will be talking about a favorite of mine. A 6 issue miniseries called The One written and art by Rick Veitch. The One was published under Marvel’s imprint called Epic Comics. Epic Comics was a creator owned comic that had the publishing support of … Continue reading CM Podcast 245 – The One (1985)

This is part five of the epic interview Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman and I conducted with famed comics writer/editor Jim Shooter. This time we discuss Frank Miller's meteoric ascent as comics' greatest artist, the way Walt Simonson explained to Shooter that Thor would be turned into a frog, the secret origin of Epic Comics, the evolution of Marvel between different generations, Shooter's time at Disney, and much more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Alex Grand and Jim Thompson interview Mark Chiarello, illustrator, former art director and editor in the comics business. As a painter, he has worked on such projects as the Batman story Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop and Clive Barker's Hellraiser. As an editor for DC Comics, he co-created the Batman: Black & White mini-series (for which he received Eisner Awards in 1997 and again in 2003) and fan favorite series like Solo and Wednesday Comics. In this episode we discuss the first half of his career starting at Disney World, then Animation, then Marvel Comics Epic imprint under Archie Goodwin, and his initial works at DC Comics. Images used in artwork ©Their Respective Copyright holders, CBH Podcast ©Comic Book Historians. Thumbnail Artwork ©Comic Book Historians. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistoriansSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians)

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We continue exploring the stories from "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" - the EPIC comics from the early 1990s. This time we have stories by Nicholas Vince and Larry Wachowski, and we launch into the multi part story The Devil's Brigade. Meet a clown who entertains Hell's children. Meet a Cenobite's pet. Meet the Devil's Brigade. Come. Join us.    @HellraiserCast

Thanks for listening to The Clive Barker Podcast, the only podcast dedicated to the works and worlds of Clive Barker. This is episode 149 with David, Jose and me (Ryan) talking about Issues 1-6 of Marvel / Epic Nightbreed comics. If you have them, give them a read before listening and join the conversation. Discussion, Epic Nightbreed Issues 1-6 Issue 1 Where the Monsters Go (April 1990) Issue 2 …Down Among the Dead Men (May 1990) Issue 3 Masks (June 1990) Issue 4 See Midian Fall (July 1990) Issue 5 The Blasphemers Prelude Scattering the Seeds of Damnation (September 1990) Issue 6 The Body and Blood (November 1990) And this podcast, having no beginning, will have no end. The Clive Barker Podcast (or @Barkercast) is an independent  editorial fan site and podcast that is not affiliated with or under contract by Clive Barker or Seraphim Films.  This is a labor of love by the fans, for the fans. web www.clivebarkercast.com iOS App | Android App, iTunes (Leave a review!), Stitcher,Libsyn, Tunein, Pocket Casts, Google Play, DoubleTwist and YouTube Facebook and Join the Occupy Midian group Twitter: @BarkerCast | @OccupyMidian

Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) conclude their history of Underground Comix, by now arguably not underground at all! We talk about the histories of Marvel's Epic imprint and DC's Vertigo imprint, and then go on to talk about the final frontier of underground comics today: the internet. We also describe minicomics and ashcans, give a nod to Steve Ditko, and talk about dirty comic books from the back of the shop! It's sure to be a mixed bag of leftover information that didn't quite fit anywhere else in the series. Enjoy!   weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com Break snipped: Levi's 501 "Button Your Fly" commercial from 1990, directed by Spike Lee, starring Rob Liefeld TAGS: comic book history, underground comix, Epic Comics, Vertigo, webcomics, minicomics, ashcans, Steve Ditko, Cherry Poptart, Omaha the Cat Dancer, Doujinshi, lolicon, manga

-Noticias-Esto lo van a ver dos personas: El Protegido-Invitado al programa: Portillo del podcast “Condenados Podcast”-Debate: Superheroes sin poderes o Superheroes con poderes-Zona Spoilers: Deadpool, Flash, ArrowDEADPOOL NO SPOILERS:Una de las cosas más curiosas que existen de la película Deadpool y no mucha gente conoce es que 20th Century Fox no confiaba en el proyecto de Tim Miller; el estudio le pidió grabar un "metraje de prueba" con Ryan Reynolds para tener una idea de lo que podría resultar, y luego lo guardó durante dos años. Hasta que en 2014 se filtró un extracto en Internet y los fans EXIGIERON la película.Miller acaba de iniciar su carrera como director de largometrajes* pero ya tenía experiencia narrando historias de superhéroes. Joe Quesada, director creativo de Marvel, ha aprovechado el taquillazo de 'Deadpool' para recordar que Miller les ayudó con su primera película, 'Iron Man'; en la fase inicial del proyecto, necesitaban saber qué hacer con el personaje, cómo presentarlo y venderlo, y Miller les dio valiosas ideas con unos videos cinemáticos que ya estaba acostumbrado a hacer. Uno de los mejores es un video que aquí colocamos el enlace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pg5moqGr04 el cual es para el juego DC Unicerse Online y en el que se pueden ver héroes contra villanos luchando al máximo.- Los 6 siniestros Grupo original liderado por Octopus y formado por Mysterio, Electro, Sandman Buitre y Kraven estaba preparada para 2016, quedó cancelada después de que Marvel llegara a un acuerdo con Sony para introducir a Spiderman en el UCM en la película de Civil War. Parece ser que de momento la producción está pausada aunque hay muchas noticias que lo desmienten y confirman que Marvel está trabajando en ella.-Algo parecido ha pasado con Venom, porque Sony todavía quiere hacer una película protagonizada por Venom: Parece ser que a Sony le han puteado los chicos de Marvel Studios, ya que tenían intención junto con los 6 siniestros hacer una película protagonizada por Venom, no que fuera el villano sino que fuera el prota con su propia historia. Esto no son rumores ya que se sabe quién será encargado de escribir el guión y quien estará tras la producción.- Las gafas de Clark Kent: Alguien se ha preguntado infinidad de veces incluso nosotros en el podcast, porque nadie reconoce a Superman cuando va con las gafas de Clark Kent.La respuesta es muy sencilla, Prosopagnosia. Que si buscamos su significado encontramos lo siguiente: La prosopagnosia (del griego prosop: aspecto, y de agnosia: desconocimiento) es una forma específica de agnosia visual, caracterizada por una incapacidad de reconocer los rostros.-Todd Macfarlane asegura que la nueva película de Spawn va a ser muy diferente a cualquier otra cosa vista antes del superhéroe. Confirmado también que va a ser clasificación R o como dijo él “Hard R” y que no va a ser una película que englobemos en la clasificación de Superheroes, más bien irá englobada en el apartado Terror/Suspense/Genero supernatural- Taron Egerton que pudimos ver en Kignsman y hará de Eddie en la película Eddie the Eagle que se estrenará este 2016 junto a Hugh Jackman, podría ser el elegido para interpretar el papel de Jason Todd en el Universo cinematográfico DC. Es un rumor todavía pero parece ser que está en el punto de mira de Warner Bros.Los mismos rumores apuntan a que la próxima película de Batman podría adaptar el arco argumental de Una muerte en la Familia, (NO VAMOS A DECIR SPOILERS) y más adelante el cómic de Bajo la Capucha.- Se han hecho pública la lista de los ganadores a los premios Razzie o Anti-Oscar. Entre los grandes ganadores de esta edición de Razzie 2016 se encuentran las películas ‘Cuatro Fantásticos’ con tres galardones (peor película, peor remake y peor director) y ‘Cincuenta sombras de Grey’, con cinco galardones.-Las noticias que nos van llegando sobre el nuevo Spiderman son a cuentagotas, en esta ocasión no hablamos del prota, ahora se ha conocido un nuevo nombre en el elenco de actores. La actriz y cantante Zendaya. La estrella de Disney que participó en Shake It Up seguramente hará el papel de Michele que apareció en Amazing Spiderman como compañera de Peter Parker.-El Comic Empress que Mark Millar ha llevado a cabo para Epic Comics todavía no ha salido a la luz y ya se están buscando a los actores porque se va a convertir en película. Y una de las favoritas es Angelina Jolie, que ya protagonizó otra adaptación de Millar, Wanted. El comic se estrenará en abril, y se centra en la mujer de un dictador galáctico que decide abandonarle, con la ayuda de un guardaespaldas y se lleva a sus tres hijos a su mundo nativo para buscar refugio, parece que no todo va a ir muy bien porque alguno de los hijos no quiere abandonar al padre y ahí comienzan los problemas.-Se han cumplido este mes los 30 años desde que el gran Alan Moore escribiera Watchmen. Que por cierto HBO la quiere llevar a la televisión en una serie. Es un simple rumor pero nos pone los dientes largos.-Batman VS Superman va a ser en la versión Blue Ray para mayores de 18 años Calificación R y para el cine para mayores de 13 años.ESTO LO VAN A VER DOS PERSONASEste mes gracias a nuestro invitado vamos a hablar de El protegido.No es una película de Superheroes como las que estamos acostumbrados a ver últimamente, pero está claro que es la historia del descubrimiento de un superhéroe, un poco atípico, pero superhéroe al fin y al cabo.Película dirigida por M. Night Shyamalan director y guionista indio, especializado en películas que tienen giros inesperados y rozan el terror o suspense.Es el artífice de la película que tiene el peor spoiler imaginable en toda la filmografía mundial. El sexto sentidoY ha sido director de películas como, el sexto sentido, el protegido, Señales, El bosque, La dama del agua, El incidente, Airbender el ultimo guerrero, La trampa del mal, After Earth, y La Visita en el pasado 2015Empecemos a desgranar la película, tengo que decir que esa manía en España de cambiar los títulos originales aquí vuelve a aparecer, y esta vez, a mi juicio sin ningún sentido. El título original es Unbreakable que se traduce como Irrompible y aquí la tradujeron por El protegido.El director intentó repetir la fórmula que lo encumbró con el sexto sentido, repite actor, y una trama sobrenatural que poco a poco se va situando hasta un final sorpresa sin recurrir a efectos especiales.Antes del primer fotograma con actores en la película aparece un mensaje sobre fondo negro que una vez leído y empezada la película lo olvidas por completo, pero si haces un segundo visionado tiene mucho sentido que aparezca.En un comic hay de media 35 páginas y 124 ilustraciones.El precio de un cómic puede variar entre 1 dólar a más de 140 dólares.En Estados Unidos se venden cada día 172.000 cómics.Más de 62.780.000 cada año.El coleccionista de comics medio posee 3.312 cómics y empleará aproximadamente 1 año de su vida en leerlos.David Dunn, (Bruce Willis) un guardia de seguridad de mediana edad viaja en un tren que tiene un accidente brutal en el cual mueren todas las personas que viajaban excepto él que sale sin ni siquiera un rasguño. Días después, se encuentra con el misterioso Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), un amante de los cómics que padece una extrañísima enfermedad ósea que le convierte en el ser más frágil del universo. Éste le expone una extraña teoría que justifica el hecho de que David haya salido ileso del accidenteEn mi opinión tiene algunos fallitos como por ejemplo, tener que esperar hasta los 45 años para no darse cuenta que jamás has tenido una lesión o jamás has estado enfermo?, que tipo de infancia ha tenido?Y otro fallo, es el momento en medio de la estación de tren tocando a la gente para que le vengan los flashes de lo que ha hecho mal el individuo al que toca. ¿Eso no le ha pasado nunca? Le empieza a pasar justo en ese momento??DEBATESuperheroes con poderes o Superheroes sin poderes.Los cómics de ciencia ficción me han enseñado muchas cosas en la vida:No vivir NUNCA en la ciudad de Nueva YorkEstudiar Física y Química te puede convertir en un psicópata que busca conquistar el mundoLa mortalidad no existeUno puede ganarse la vida como fotógrafo freelancePero de todas estas lecciones quizás la más valiosa es valorar los propios recursos que te da la naturaleza.Es cierto, a todos nos gustaría volar, mover montañas con nuestros brazos o teletransportarnos a cualquier parte del mundo. Pero afortunadamente el cómic también guarda un lugar para aquellos que no han nacido con poderes o los hayan obtenido de alguna forma poco cliché… como un accidente de laboratorio, eso no pasa nunca…Nuestro amigo Portillo, nos brindó la oportunidad de hacer un debate para precisamente hablar de esto, es cierto que existen muchos podcast que hablan de superhéroes tipo Marvel y DC con superpoderes y capa y traje ajustado, etc, etc pero que hay de esos superhéroes o héroes los cuales desprovistos de poderes nos han brindado grandes momentos en el cine en una serie o en nuestra infancia con los juguetes.Poseer habilidades sobrehumanas te lo pone todo más fácil, pero en contrapartida los villanos a los que te enfrentas también tienen poderes o habilidades proporcionales a dichos superpoderesPor regla general estos héroes que no tienen superpoderes la historia profundiza mucho más y ellos son bastante más creíbles.Link del Grupo Telegram de Oyenteshttps://telegram.me/joinchat/AJwxZz48g6f7qUpB05dRlw

-Noticias-Esto lo van a ver dos personas: El Protegido-Invitado al programa: Portillo del podcast “Condenados Podcast”-Debate: Superheroes sin poderes o Superheroes con poderes-Zona Spoilers: Deadpool, Flash, ArrowDEADPOOL NO SPOILERS:Una de las cosas más curiosas que existen de la película Deadpool y no mucha gente conoce es que 20th Century Fox no confiaba en el proyecto de Tim Miller; el estudio le pidió grabar un "metraje de prueba" con Ryan Reynolds para tener una idea de lo que podría resultar, y luego lo guardó durante dos años. Hasta que en 2014 se filtró un extracto en Internet y los fans EXIGIERON la película.Miller acaba de iniciar su carrera como director de largometrajes* pero ya tenía experiencia narrando historias de superhéroes. Joe Quesada, director creativo de Marvel, ha aprovechado el taquillazo de 'Deadpool' para recordar que Miller les ayudó con su primera película, 'Iron Man'; en la fase inicial del proyecto, necesitaban saber qué hacer con el personaje, cómo presentarlo y venderlo, y Miller les dio valiosas ideas con unos videos cinemáticos que ya estaba acostumbrado a hacer. Uno de los mejores es un video que aquí colocamos el enlace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pg5moqGr04 el cual es para el juego DC Unicerse Online y en el que se pueden ver héroes contra villanos luchando al máximo.- Los 6 siniestros Grupo original liderado por Octopus y formado por Mysterio, Electro, Sandman Buitre y Kraven estaba preparada para 2016, quedó cancelada después de que Marvel llegara a un acuerdo con Sony para introducir a Spiderman en el UCM en la película de Civil War. Parece ser que de momento la producción está pausada aunque hay muchas noticias que lo desmienten y confirman que Marvel está trabajando en ella.-Algo parecido ha pasado con Venom, porque Sony todavía quiere hacer una película protagonizada por Venom: Parece ser que a Sony le han puteado los chicos de Marvel Studios, ya que tenían intención junto con los 6 siniestros hacer una película protagonizada por Venom, no que fuera el villano sino que fuera el prota con su propia historia. Esto no son rumores ya que se sabe quién será encargado de escribir el guión y quien estará tras la producción.- Las gafas de Clark Kent: Alguien se ha preguntado infinidad de veces incluso nosotros en el podcast, porque nadie reconoce a Superman cuando va con las gafas de Clark Kent.La respuesta es muy sencilla, Prosopagnosia. Que si buscamos su significado encontramos lo siguiente: La prosopagnosia (del griego prosop: aspecto, y de agnosia: desconocimiento) es una forma específica de agnosia visual, caracterizada por una incapacidad de reconocer los rostros.-Todd Macfarlane asegura que la nueva película de Spawn va a ser muy diferente a cualquier otra cosa vista antes del superhéroe. Confirmado también que va a ser clasificación R o como dijo él “Hard R” y que no va a ser una película que englobemos en la clasificación de Superheroes, más bien irá englobada en el apartado Terror/Suspense/Genero supernatural- Taron Egerton que pudimos ver en Kignsman y hará de Eddie en la película Eddie the Eagle que se estrenará este 2016 junto a Hugh Jackman, podría ser el elegido para interpretar el papel de Jason Todd en el Universo cinematográfico DC. Es un rumor todavía pero parece ser que está en el punto de mira de Warner Bros.Los mismos rumores apuntan a que la próxima película de Batman podría adaptar el arco argumental de Una muerte en la Familia, (NO VAMOS A DECIR SPOILERS) y más adelante el cómic de Bajo la Capucha.- Se han hecho pública la lista de los ganadores a los premios Razzie o Anti-Oscar. Entre los grandes ganadores de esta edición de Razzie 2016 se encuentran las películas ‘Cuatro Fantásticos’ con tres galardones (peor película, peor remake y peor director) y ‘Cincuenta sombras de Grey’, con cinco galardones.-Las noticias que nos van llegando sobre el nuevo Spiderman son a cuentagotas, en esta ocasión no hablamos del prota, ahora se ha conocido un nuevo nombre en el elenco de actores. La actriz y cantante Zendaya. La estrella de Disney que participó en Shake It Up seguramente hará el papel de Michele que apareció en Amazing Spiderman como compañera de Peter Parker.-El Comic Empress que Mark Millar ha llevado a cabo para Epic Comics todavía no ha salido a la luz y ya se están buscando a los actores porque se va a convertir en película. Y una de las favoritas es Angelina Jolie, que ya protagonizó otra adaptación de Millar, Wanted. El comic se estrenará en abril, y se centra en la mujer de un dictador galáctico que decide abandonarle, con la ayuda de un guardaespaldas y se lleva a sus tres hijos a su mundo nativo para buscar refugio, parece que no todo va a ir muy bien porque alguno de los hijos no quiere abandonar al padre y ahí comienzan los problemas.-Se han cumplido este mes los 30 años desde que el gran Alan Moore escribiera Watchmen. Que por cierto HBO la quiere llevar a la televisión en una serie. Es un simple rumor pero nos pone los dientes largos.-Batman VS Superman va a ser en la versión Blue Ray para mayores de 18 años Calificación R y para el cine para mayores de 13 años.ESTO LO VAN A VER DOS PERSONASEste mes gracias a nuestro invitado vamos a hablar de El protegido.No es una película de Superheroes como las que estamos acostumbrados a ver últimamente, pero está claro que es la historia del descubrimiento de un superhéroe, un poco atípico, pero superhéroe al fin y al cabo.Película dirigida por M. Night Shyamalan director y guionista indio, especializado en películas que tienen giros inesperados y rozan el terror o suspense.Es el artífice de la película que tiene el peor spoiler imaginable en toda la filmografía mundial. El sexto sentidoY ha sido director de películas como, el sexto sentido, el protegido, Señales, El bosque, La dama del agua, El incidente, Airbender el ultimo guerrero, La trampa del mal, After Earth, y La Visita en el pasado 2015Empecemos a desgranar la película, tengo que decir que esa manía en España de cambiar los títulos originales aquí vuelve a aparecer, y esta vez, a mi juicio sin ningún sentido. El título original es Unbreakable que se traduce como Irrompible y aquí la tradujeron por El protegido.El director intentó repetir la fórmula que lo encumbró con el sexto sentido, repite actor, y una trama sobrenatural que poco a poco se va situando hasta un final sorpresa sin recurrir a efectos especiales.Antes del primer fotograma con actores en la película aparece un mensaje sobre fondo negro que una vez leído y empezada la película lo olvidas por completo, pero si haces un segundo visionado tiene mucho sentido que aparezca.En un comic hay de media 35 páginas y 124 ilustraciones.El precio de un cómic puede variar entre 1 dólar a más de 140 dólares.En Estados Unidos se venden cada día 172.000 cómics.Más de 62.780.000 cada año.El coleccionista de comics medio posee 3.312 cómics y empleará aproximadamente 1 año de su vida en leerlos.David Dunn, (Bruce Willis) un guardia de seguridad de mediana edad viaja en un tren que tiene un accidente brutal en el cual mueren todas las personas que viajaban excepto él que sale sin ni siquiera un rasguño. Días después, se encuentra con el misterioso Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), un amante de los cómics que padece una extrañísima enfermedad ósea que le convierte en el ser más frágil del universo. Éste le expone una extraña teoría que justifica el hecho de que David haya salido ileso del accidenteEn mi opinión tiene algunos fallitos como por ejemplo, tener que esperar hasta los 45 años para no darse cuenta que jamás has tenido una lesión o jamás has estado enfermo?, que tipo de infancia ha tenido?Y otro fallo, es el momento en medio de la estación de tren tocando a la gente para que le vengan los flashes de lo que ha hecho mal el individuo al que toca. ¿Eso no le ha pasado nunca? Le empieza a pasar justo en ese momento??DEBATESuperheroes con poderes o Superheroes sin poderes.Los cómics de ciencia ficción me han enseñado muchas cosas en la vida:No vivir NUNCA en la ciudad de Nueva YorkEstudiar Física y Química te puede convertir en un psicópata que busca conquistar el mundoLa mortalidad no existeUno puede ganarse la vida como fotógrafo freelancePero de todas estas lecciones quizás la más valiosa es valorar los propios recursos que te da la naturaleza.Es cierto, a todos nos gustaría volar, mover montañas con nuestros brazos o teletransportarnos a cualquier parte del mundo. Pero afortunadamente el cómic también guarda un lugar para aquellos que no han nacido con poderes o los hayan obtenido de alguna forma poco cliché… como un accidente de laboratorio, eso no pasa nunca…Nuestro amigo Portillo, nos brindó la oportunidad de hacer un debate para precisamente hablar de esto, es cierto que existen muchos podcast que hablan de superhéroes tipo Marvel y DC con superpoderes y capa y traje ajustado, etc, etc pero que hay de esos superhéroes o héroes los cuales desprovistos de poderes nos han brindado grandes momentos en el cine en una serie o en nuestra infancia con los juguetes.Poseer habilidades sobrehumanas te lo pone todo más fácil, pero en contrapartida los villanos a los que te enfrentas también tienen poderes o habilidades proporcionales a dichos superpoderesPor regla general estos héroes que no tienen superpoderes la historia profundiza mucho más y ellos son bastante más creíbles.Link del Grupo Telegram de Oyenteshttps://telegram.me/joinchat/AJwxZz48g6f7qUpB05dRlw

SUMARIO -Noticias -Esto lo van a ver dos personas: El Protegido -Invitado al programa: Portillo del podcast “Condenados Podcast” -Debate: Superheroes sin poderes o Superheroes con poderes -Zona Spoilers: Deadpool, Flash, Arrow -Trailer Deadpool español -Audios de oyentes DEADPOOL NO SPOILERS: Una de las cosas más curiosas que existen de la película Deadpool y no mucha gente conoce es que 20th Century Fox no confiaba en el proyecto de Tim Miller; el estudio le pidió grabar un “metraje de prueba” con Ryan Reynolds para tener una idea de lo que podría resultar, y luego lo guardó durante dos años. Hasta que en 2014 se filtró un extracto en Internet y los fans EXIGIERON la película. Miller acaba de iniciar su carrera como director de largometrajes* pero ya tenía experiencia narrando historias de superhéroes. Joe Quesada, director creativo de Marvel, ha aprovechado el taquillazo de ‘Deadpool’ para recordar que Miller les ayudó con su primera película, ‘Iron Man’; en la fase inicial del proyecto, necesitaban saber qué hacer con el personaje, cómo presentarlo y venderlo, y Miller les dio valiosas ideas con unos videos cinemáticos que ya estaba acostumbrado a hacer. Uno de los mejores es un video que aquí colocamos el enlace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pg5moqGr04 el cual es para el juego DC Unicerse Online y en el que se pueden ver héroes contra villanos luchando al máximo. – Los 6 siniestros Grupo original liderado por Octopus y formado por Mysterio, Electro, Sandman Buitre y Kraven estaba preparada para 2016, quedó cancelada después de que Marvel llegara a un acuerdo con Sony para introducir a Spiderman en el UCM en la película de Civil War. Parece ser que de momento la producción está pausada aunque hay muchas noticias que lo desmienten y confirman que Marvel está trabajando en ella. -Algo parecido ha pasado con Venom, porque Sony todavía quiere hacer una película protagonizada por Venom: Parece ser que a Sony le han puteado los chicos de Marvel Studios, ya que tenían intención junto con los 6 siniestros hacer una película protagonizada por Venom, no que fuera el villano sino que fuera el prota con su propia historia. Esto no son rumores ya que se sabe quién será encargado de escribir el guión y quien estará tras la producción. – Las gafas de Clark Kent: Alguien se ha preguntado infinidad de veces incluso nosotros en el podcast, porque nadie reconoce a Superman cuando va con las gafas de Clark Kent. La respuesta es muy sencilla, Prosopagnosia. Que si buscamos su significado encontramos lo siguiente: La prosopagnosia (del griego prosop: aspecto, y de agnosia: desconocimiento) es una forma específica de agnosia visual, caracterizada por una incapacidad de reconocer los rostros. En el año 1978 el guionista Martin Pasko, imaginamos que por las críticas que la gente hacía del parecido entre el de krypton y el señor Kent y más concretamente en el número 330 dio una respuesta creíble a la cuestión de la doble identidad. Y no era ni más ni menos, agarraos bien fuerte, que Superman tenía la habilidad de hipnotizar a la gente que tenía alrededor con sus gafas hipnóticas recubiertas de cristal de Kryptonita y así provocar en ellos la PROSOPAGNOSIA ….dejamos unos minutos para que os sequéis las lágrimas y dejéis de llorar de la risa para poder continuar. Esperemos que ahora podáis descansar por las noches conociendo este secreto sobre la identidad de Superman -Todd Macfarlane asegura que la nueva película de Spawn va a ser muy diferente a cualquier otra cosa vista antes del superhéroe. Confirmado también que va a ser clasificación R o como dijo él “Hard R” y que no va a ser una película que englobemos en la clasificación de Superheroes, más bien irá englobada en el apartado Terror/Suspense/Genero supernatural – Taron Egerton que pudimos ver en Kignsman y hará de Eddie en la película Eddie the Eagle que se estrenará este 2016 junto a Hugh Jackman, podría ser el elegido para interpretar el papel de Jason Todd en el Universo cinematográfico DC. Es un rumor todavía pero parece ser que está en el punto de mira de Warner Bros. Los mismos rumores apuntan a que la próxima película de Batman podría adaptar el arco argumental de Una muerte en la Familia, (NO VAMOS A DECIR SPOILERS) y más adelante el cómic de Bajo la Capucha. – Se han hecho pública la lista de los ganadores a los premios Razzie o Anti-Oscar. Entre los grandes ganadores de esta edición de Razzie 2016 se encuentran las películas ‘Cuatro Fantásticos' con tres galardones (peor película, peor remake y peor director) y ‘Cincuenta sombras de Grey', con cinco galardones. -Las noticias que nos van llegando sobre el nuevo Spiderman son a cuentagotas, en esta ocasión no hablamos del prota, ahora se ha conocido un nuevo nombre en el elenco de actores. La actriz y cantante Zendaya. La estrella de Disney que participó en Shake It Up seguramente hará el papel de Michele que apareció en Amazing Spiderman como compañera de Peter Parker. -El Comic Empress que Mark Millar ha llevado a cabo para Epic Comics todavía no ha salido a la luz y ya se están buscando a los actores porque se va a convertir en película. Y una de las favoritas es Angelina Jolie, que ya protagonizó otra adaptación de Millar, Wanted. El comic se estrenará en abril, y se centra en la mujer de un dictador galáctico que decide abandonarle, con la ayuda de un guardaespaldas y se lleva a sus tres hijos a su mundo nativo para buscar refugio, parece que no todo va a ir muy bien porque alguno de los hijos no quiere abandonar al padre y ahí comienzan los problemas. -Se han cumplido este mes los 30 años desde que el gran Alan Moore escribiera Watchmen. Que por cierto HBO la quiere llevar a la televisión en una serie. Es un simple rumor pero nos pone los dientes largos. -Batman VS Superman va a ser en la versión Blue Ray para mayores de 18 años Calificación R y para el cine para mayores de 13 años. ESTO LO VAN A VER DOS PERSONAS Este mes gracias a nuestro invitado vamos a hablar de El protegido. No es una película de Superheroes como las que estamos acostumbrados a ver últimamente, pero está claro que es la historia del descubrimiento de un superhéroe, un poco atípico, pero superhéroe al fin y al cabo. Película dirigida por M. Night Shyamalan director y guionista indio, especializado en películas que tienen giros inesperados y rozan el terror o suspense. Es el artífice de la película que tiene el peor spoiler imaginable en toda la filmografía mundial. El sexto sentido Y ha sido director de películas como, el sexto sentido, el protegido, Señales, El bosque, La dama del agua, El incidente, Airbender el ultimo guerrero, La trampa del mal, After Earth, y La Visita en el pasado 2015 Empecemos a desgranar la película, tengo que decir que esa manía en España de cambiar los títulos originales aquí vuelve a aparecer, y esta vez, a mi juicio sin ningún sentido. El título original es Unbreakable que se traduce como Irrompible y aquí la tradujeron por El protegido. El director intentó repetir la fórmula que lo encumbró con el sexto sentido, repite actor, y una trama sobrenatural que poco a poco se va situando hasta un final sorpresa sin recurrir a efectos especiales. Antes del primer fotograma con actores en la película aparece un mensaje sobre fondo negro que una vez leído y empezada la película lo olvidas por completo, pero si haces un segundo visionado tiene mucho sentido que aparezca. En un comic hay de media 35 páginas y 124 ilustraciones. El precio de un cómic puede variar entre 1 dólar a más de 140 dólares. En Estados Unidos se venden cada día 172.000 cómics. Más de 62.780.000 cada año. El coleccionista de comics medio posee 3.312 cómics y empleará aproximadamente 1 año de su vida en leerlos. David Dunn, (Bruce Willis) un guardia de seguridad de mediana edad viaja en un tren que tiene un accidente brutal en el cual mueren todas las personas que viajaban excepto él que sale sin ni siquiera un rasguño. Días después, se encuentra con el misterioso Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), un amante de los cómics que padece una extrañísima enfermedad ósea que le convierte en el ser más frágil del universo. Éste le expone una extraña teoría que justifica el hecho de que David haya salido ileso del accidente En mi opinión tiene algunos fallitos como por ejemplo, tener que esperar hasta los 45 años para no darse cuenta que jamás has tenido una lesión o jamás has estado enfermo?, que tipo de infancia ha tenido? Y otro fallo, es el momento en medio de la estación de tren tocando a la gente para que le vengan los flashes de lo que ha hecho mal el individuo al que toca. ¿Eso no le ha pasado nunca? Le empieza a pasar justo en ese momento?? DEBATE Superheroes con poderes o Superheroes sin poderes. Los cómics de ciencia ficción me han enseñado muchas cosas en la vida: No vivir NUNCA en la ciudad de Nueva York Estudiar Física y Química te puede convertir en un psicópata que busca conquistar el mundo La mortalidad no existe Uno puede ganarse la vida como fotógrafo freelance Pero de todas estas lecciones quizás la más valiosa es valorar los propios recursos que te da la naturaleza. Es cierto, a todos nos gustaría volar, mover montañas con nuestros brazos o teletransportarnos a cualquier parte del mundo. Pero afortunadamente el cómic también guarda un lugar para aquellos que no han nacido con poderes o los hayan obtenido de alguna forma poco cliché… como un accidente de laboratorio, eso no pasa nunca… Nuestro amigo Portillo, nos brindó la oportunidad de hacer un debate para precisamente hablar de esto, es cierto que existen muchos podcast que hablan de superhéroes tipo Marvel y DC con superpoderes y capa y traje ajustado, etc, etc pero que hay de esos superhéroes o héroes los cuales desprovistos de poderes nos han brindado grandes momentos en el cine en una serie o en nuestra infancia con los juguetes. Poseer habilidades sobrehumanas te lo pone todo más fácil, pero en contrapartida los villanos a los que te enfrentas también tienen poderes o habilidades proporcionales a dichos superpoderes Por regla general estos héroes que no tienen superpoderes la historia profundiza mucho más y ellos son bastante más creíbles. V es el protagonista del famoso cómic V de Vendetta, una verdadera joya de Alan Moore que inclusive le valió una adaptación al cine. Este carismático combatiente de libertad carece de habilidades sobrenaturales para llevar su tarea a cabo, se vale principalmente de su inteligencia y sus facultades de sigilo El Juez es uno de los personajes más conocidos del género cyberpunk. De origen británico, este luchador de la ley no lo duda dos veces en ajusticiar un criminal haciendo uso de su gran arsenal de armas mortales. Pero no, nada de poderes. Hawkeye y Green Arrow no son más que combatientes con excepcional puntería y talentos varios, lo que les permite ser extremadamente efectivos en combate, y sin necesidad de facultades sobrenaturales. ¿Hay algún personaje más apegado a la normalidad que Dave Lizewski? Quizás la única habilidad sobrenatural de Kick Ass sea su resistencia a los golpes que recibe una y otra y otra vez. Tony Stark es la muestra de que no se necesitan súper poderes cuando se cuenta con una súper cuenta bancaria. Claro que poco podría hacer Tony Stark en un mundo donde el dinero es obsoleto (a no ser que conserve uno de sus trajes). En este caso se necesita echar mano al coraje y el instinto de supervivencia, facultades que Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead) tiene bien pulidas. Rocky Balboa Indiana Jones James Bond Natasha Romanoff. La Viuda Negra Green Hornet y su ayudante Kato Hit Girl de Kick Ass Rorschar Batman y todos sus compañeros The Punisher y Elektra The Phantom Flash Gordon Superman realmente no tiene superpoderes SPOILERS Deadpool apareció en 1991 Coloso mucho más fiel a las viñetas que lo que pudimos ver en la saga de X-Men protagonizada por Daniel Cudmore. La novia de Deadpool, Vanessa en la pelícla no hemos podido ver nada pero quizá se lo guarden en la manga para la segunda parte ya que en los comics se la conoce como Copycat, una mutante que puede duplicar a otros seres a nivel celular. Además de físicamente podía copiar poderes y habilidades El amigo Jack Hammer más conocido por Comadreja La ciega Al esa relación materno-colega la representan a la perfección en la película Negasonic Teenage Warhead es una mutante muy poderosa en los comic, estudiante de Emma Frost e incluso ha pertencido al Club Fuego Infernal junto con Cassandra Nova. Creo recordar que en los comic de Astonishing muere en el genocidio de Genosha Ajax o Francis, también como en la peli fue villano recurrente en Deadpool y sus poderes después de recibir unos implantes era velocidad sobrehumana y agilidad además de eliminación de los nervios para aumentar la tolerancia al dolor. Angel Dust o polvo de angel, la actriz Gina Carano realmente en los comics no se ha visto relacionada con Deadpool ¡¡Entra a nuestro telegram!! https://telegram.me/joinchat/AJwxZz48g6f7qUpB05dRlw

Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester begin part one of their two part odyssey to answer questions from supporters on Patreon.  Questions and answers include:  scary comic book reading rituals, guilty pleasures, the worst substitute members of the Fantastic Four; Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye; the amazing world of Epic Comics; New Suicide Squad; hoarders; Ann Nocenti, and much, much more!   Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

As part of a Super Blog Team-Up crossover, the boys look at The Shadowline Saga, four interconnected titles published in 1988 under the Epic Comics imprint that are being folded into the Marvel Universe proper as part of Secret Wars 2015.

Mutants. They are the first thing anyone thinks of when they hear the name Chris Claremont. And rightly so; the man wrote the X-Men for an 17-year unbroken stretch, and has returned to the characters several times, including his current run on the Nightcrawler ongoing series. We've even talked about his X-work on the show before. But there's more to the man than mutants, and Exhibit A in that case is the re-release of The Black Dragon, his miniseries with artist John Bolton originally published by Epic Comics and now brought back into print from Titan Comics. Greg got the chance to talk with Chris about this book, his collaboration with Bolton on that book and others, his thoughts on Gambit and the news that the upcoming film was based on a treatment he wrote, why he still has things to contribute to comics, and so much more.  Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth's surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. This episode is brought to you by Third Eye Comics. Enjoy your funny books.

The comics from 1990 continue! How does a Cenobite create puzzle guardians? Can you follow someone into Hell after they've been dragged through? Would you move into a house with a puzzle on the floor and a mysterious door to nowhere in the wall? These comics really are very good. 

Carrying on through the Hellraiser EPIC comics from 1990, featuring stories written by Peter Atkins (Hellbound, Hell On Earth) and Nicholas "Chatterer" Vince! What is Leviathan's plan for a distant planet in the future? How did Face become a cenobite? What's the worst thing that could happen to you while playing the piano? Find out here ...

The first two books from the EPIC comics which were first released in 1989. The world of Hellraiser was opened up for the first time. From the Crusades to the near future via the Old West, the box and the Cenobites have been around for a long time. See what they've been up to!