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Monstres géants, robots extraterrestres, savants fous mégalomanes, pendant de nombreuses années, les super-héros et les super-héroïnes de nos bandes dessinées préférées ont fait régner la justice en affrontant toutes sortes de dangers plus excentriques les uns que les autres, défendant par la même occasion l'image d'une Amérique unie contre des menaces extérieures. Mais qu'en est-il à leur retour sur Terre ? Leurs combats changent-ils vraiment le monde dans lequel vivent leurs concitoyens ? Aujourd'hui, fini le rêve américain, on revient sur Green Lantern / Green Arrow de Dennis O'Neil et Neal Adams, chez DC Comics !Les comics recommandés dans cet épisode :* Green Lantern / Green Arrow par Dennis O'Neil et Neal Adams - Urban ComicsD'autres comics Green Arrow à découvrir :* Green Arrow : The Longbow Hunters par Mike Grell - Urban Comics* Green Arrow (New 52) par Jeff Lemire et Andrea Sorrentino - Urban Comics* Dawn of Green Arrow & Black Canary - Tome 1 - Urban Comics* Green Arrow : Année Un par Andy Diggle et Jock - Urban ComicsD'autres comics Green Lantern à découvrir :* Green Lantern : Emerald Twilight - Urban Comics* Green Lantern : Terre Un - Tome 1 - Urban Comics* Blackest Night - Tome 1 - Urban Nomad* Blackest Night - Tome 2 - Urban NomadRetrouvez le podcast POP CULTURE & COMICS sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute !Mes réseaux sociaux. Get full access to CHRIS - POP CULTURE & COMICS at chrisstup.substack.com/subscribe

It's a Hard Travelin flashback to Hal and Ollie on the road, and then Hal teams w Barry, all to take on Deathstroke! Be sure to email us your thoughts or call/text us on our voice-mail at 708-LANTERN.

It's a new comic Wednesday and a new drop of number ones! Nico and TK (plus of course Producer Kevo) take a look at the newest launch of Hellverine under Ben Percy, who has otherwise departed the Wolverine and Ghost Rider titles he previously ran the show on. Then, switch over to the MCU inspired take on TVA in an all new TVA title. After that the duo jump into DC with a new title – Challengers Of The Unknown, which now features Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, & the rest of the Justice League, before finishing things off with Green Lantern/Green Arrow: World's Finest Special, which leads the team to believe things for the GL are gonna change in 2025! It's all this and more on an all new X Is For Podcast! X IS FOR SHOW is a talk show for your favorite media, the same way THE OFFICE was a documentary about a paper company. Every week, THE ACTION PACK gathers to discuss a wide range of entertainment media and news, from film & TV to comics to gaming, music, and beyond. Led by showrunner NICO (@NicoAction), with co-hosts TK (@TKElemental) and producer KEVO (@KevoReally), as well as a variety of friends and special guests, these LIVE discussions are not to be missed - so be sure to tune in and join us for all the fun!

Steven and Chris take a roadtrip back in time, eventually arriving on the pothole-riddled streets of Hub City, and man do they have a lot to say -- almost 4 hours' worth of comic book chatter! Steve Ditko's urban vigilante, The Question, is boldly re-imagined by Denny O'Neil and Denys Cowan as a Zen crimefighter for the ages. Check it out; here we cover issues #1-#8 of THE QUESTION (DC Comics, 1987). COMICS ROT YOUR BRAIN! is a deep dive into ‘80s comic books (plus a few notable exceptions) in a weekly podcast format. Screenwriters Steven Bagatourian (AMERICAN GUN) and Chris Derrick (STAR TREK: PICARD) & discuss their favorite books, runs, and creators from the Bronze Age. SHOW NOTES:00:30 - Intro to Vic Sage a.k.a. The Question (covering SteveDitko and Ayn Rand, Denny O'Neil and Denys Cowan)02:57 - THE QUESTION & SWAMP THING as “Proof of Concept” for Vertigo Comics24:14 - Vic Sage's relationship with “Tot” a.k.a. Aristotle Rodor35:53 - Denys Cowan's smart, efficient page compositions1:27:30 - An urban vigilante story written by... a metaphysically minded, left-leaning zenned-out hippie?!1:34:17 - Drawing Black characters in comic books1:47:24 - Cowan's skill at conjuring real-looking people who don't all fit into cookie cutter, visual molds  2:08:18 - Giving Denny O'Neil his flowers as a writer and noticing his evolution on THE QUESTION vs. GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW; an exsmination of his intricate, multi-character storylines 2:40:05 - Cowan's lively, kinetic, uniquely gestural linework2:55:55 - The “generosity of content” of ‘80s comic books -- more story pages, denser stories, letter columns, editorials, etc.#dccomics #vertigocomics #alanmoore #comicbooks #new #content+ Visit ComicsRotYourBrain.com to get a look at some of the fantastic art discussed in our episodes and to sign up for our newsletter, Letter Column. Check out our YouTube channel. 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!#alanmoore #80scomics #indiecomics #scificomics #dccomics #marvelcomics

This week the guys look at four examples of media covering real world issues and historical events. Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Amazing Spider-Man, Futurama and the 2013 Mark Wahlberg film Patriot's Day are all featured.  To write in, e-mail us at qnoanswers@gmail.com!

Black Widow and Hawkeye are teaming up for a new book. DC releasing Compact Comics. And they're also releasing all of Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Traveling Heroes as an Omnibus. All on Comic Book Club News for November 3, 2023.SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sector 2814 Ep #139: Green Lantern/Green Arrow - Peacemakers Welcome back to Sector 2814, the Green Lantern podcast. In this episode Phil and Will review “Peacemakers” from Legends of the DC Universe #7-#9 (August-October 1998) featuring a flashback tale prequel to Hard Traveling Heroes by Denny O'Neil of the first meeting of Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen in the middle of a war torn country. PLUS: Will's review of Green Lantern #3 and Phil's reviews of Green Lantern: War Journal #1 and Green Arrow #4 featuring Parallax.   Tune in today and don't forget to review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you can!     Sector 2814's Links  → Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GreenLanternPod → Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clsidekicks → Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GreenLanternPod → YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/CapesandLunatics   ==================   Please contribute to help Charlie's family in this time of mourning:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/charlies-funeral-and-expenses  

Crónicas Superheroicas #8: Green Lantern/Green Arrow, héroes errantes en el espacio. por Patricio López Tobares. ¿Por qué comenzar con la segunda etapa de un clásico? Fácil. Fue una de las primeras cosas que leí -y me impactó- en mi infancia. Una etapa plena de aventuras interestelares de la mano de Dennis O'Neil y Mike Grell. Con muchos secretos y perlitas de esa y la etapa anterior. Pueden leer todas las Crónicas Superheroicas en ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ o ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Siempre con el aguante comiquero de ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meridiana Comics. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Seguinos en Instagram en @labatea_podcast,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ y si sos fan del programa pedinos ingreso a Discord.

In this episode, Chris welcomes Jess AKA “Omnidog” from “Omnidog's Vault ” YouTube channel to discuss one of his favorite comic book runs of all time, “Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Traveling Heroes”. Dennis O'Neil and Neil Adams raised the expectations for and expanded the idea of what could be accomplished with mainstream commercial comics. What does it take to be a superhero? Where should a superhero stand in society? What is important to a superhero? These are all questions Green Arrow aims to ask Green Lantern by forcing the space cop out of the stars and onto the ground where real issues are festering. Together, these hard-traveling heroes traverse America, and a few alien landscapes, to understand how the world is not black-and-white. Poverty, corruption, pollution, racism and drug addiction are only some of the issues the emerald warriors face. Omnidog's Vault on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OmnidogsVaultOnidog's Vault on Instagram: omnidogs_vaultWFTB on Twitter: @FinestBelieversWFTB Email: worldsfinesttruebelievers@gmail.comChris on Twitter: @ChrisBalgaGeek Ultimate Alliance on Twitter: @GUAPodcast NetworkSupport The Alliance On Patreon & Get Ad-Free, Exclusive, Early Episodeshttps://www.patreon.com/guanetworkGeek Ultimate Alliance Network Is Produced By GeekVerse Podcast www.geekverse.caNetwork Schedule Monday: Slice Of Film/Rangers Alliance (Bi-Weekly)Tuesday: DC Alliance Wednesday: The Animation NationThursday: Star Wars AllianceFriday: Marvel Alliance Saturday: A Walk Through the Multiverse (Bi-Weekly)Sunday: World's Finest True Believers (Monthly)Follow the respective shows on Twitter so when they record live on GeekVerse Podcast Network you can join the chat and add to the conversation!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4330657/advertisement

Content warning: racism, drug abuse, death by overdose. Bryan Stratton and Robb Milne from the Marvel by the Month podcast return to discuss a pair of pioneering DC comics stories: No Evil Shall Escape My Sight! from Green Lantern #76, and the Snowbirds Don't Fly two-parter from issues #85-86, by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams! 1970's GL/GA #76 kicked off a run of socially conscious comics that found straight-laced space cop Hal Jordan and liberal archer Oliver Queen confronting such hot-button issues as racism, the environment, and government treatment of Native Americans in ways the superhero genre hadn't seen before. This unprecedented run arguably reached its peak with Snowbirds Don't Fly, which unflinchingly addressed the issue of teen drug abuse (just one month after Marvel's take on the topic in Amazing Spider-Man)! These comics were inarguably groundbreaking, but are they hard-hitting enough to warrant inclusion in that After-School Special known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode:   “Only there's skins you never bothered with—the black skins!” Similarities to Amazing Spider-Man #96-98 The Question, by O'Neil and Denys Cowan The introduction of Green Lantern John Stewart Hard Looks: The Adapted Stories of Andrew Vachss The Vigilante, as seen in Peacemaker Runaways from New Teen Titans #26-27 Join us in two weeks as we get into the holiday spirit with a collection of Christmas comics featuring the Caped Crusader! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!

In this episode, we return to a fantastic world of dragons, princesses and stupid, stupid rat creatures with Bone: The Great Cow Race, written and drawn by Jeff Smith, published by Cartoon Books and Scholastic! Things get fast and furious when Phoney Bone attempts to fix the annual cow competition of the title with a little help from a certain “mystery cow.” Meanwhile, a lovelorn Fone Bone races for his life, pursued by the mysterious rat creatures! And what's behind Thorn's disturbing dreams about a cavern full of dragons? Can Phoney and Smiley Bone defeat defending champion Gran'ma Ben? And can this charming tale cross the finish line on that fast track to glory known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche What's the deal with this cow race, exactly? Sign PEN America's petition to protest Missouri book bans Dope by Sara Gran RASL by Jeff Smith The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal Finding Batman by Kevin Conroy and J. Bone Curt's favorite Kevin Conroy moment Join us in two weeks as we discuss the Green Lantern/Green Arrow anti-drug story Snowbirds Don't Fly by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!

Joe and Mike remember the comics work and careers of three all-time greats that left us in recent months. We dig into Neal Adams' defining art on Batman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow, as he brought a healthy dose of realism to our four-color friends. We talk about our personal favorites within George Perez's huge body of work, appreciating the expressive detail he brought to The New Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earth (among others). And finally, we tip our hats to Tim Sale, a painterly artist who's deep dives on characters like Batman, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Daredevil will forever be seared in our mind's eye. RIP, and thanks for all the beautiful imagery you left behind.__________________________________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. 

Sector 2814 Ep #69: Three Of A Kind - Green Lantern/Green Arrow/The Flash Welcome back to Sector 2814, the Green Lantern podcast. In this episode Phil, Will and special guest Lilith review Green Lantern #95 (February 1998) featuring a murder mystery on an alien world and a crossover with Green Arrow and the Flash from Green Lantern #96, Green Arrow #130 and The Flash #135 (March 1998). Show notes: Sector 2814 Ep #69: Three Of A Kind - Green Lantern/Green Arrow/The Flash Check out all of our social media here: https://linktr.ee/CapesandLunatics Check out Will's website: willallred.com Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Will Allred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wallred Follow Matt Kona on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattKona Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: Capes and Lunatics Sidekicks Podcast Production Team: Phil Perich Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics Cash App: $CapesandLunatics

Sector 2814 Ep #67: Green Lantern/Green Arrow - Hate Crimes Welcome back to Sector 2814, the Green Lantern podcast. In this episode Phil and Will review “Hate Crimes” from Green Lantern #92 and Green Arrow #125-#126 (October-November 1997) featuring the return of one of Oliver's Queen's oldest enemies.  PLUS: Farewells to Neal Adams and George Perez. Show notes: Sector 2814 Ep #67: Green Lantern/Green Arrow - Hate Crimes Check out all of our social media here: https://linktr.ee/CapesandLunatics Check out Will's website: willallred.com Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Will Allred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wallred Follow Matt Kona on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattKona Produced by: Capes and Lunatics Sidekicks Podcast Production Team: Phil Perich Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics Cash App: $CapesandLunatics

Green Lantern and Green Arrow team-up to confront menaces of a different kind: racism, poverty, drugs, and other social ills!  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/PlanesTrainsandComicBooks Follow us on social media: https://linktr.ee/planestrainsandcomicbooks

Neal Adams was a legend in the comics industry and the second most influential comic artist behind Jack Kirby. From his take on Batman, to his run on books Green Lantern/Green Arrow with Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano, to his role as a champion for creator's rights; his impact was undeniable. On April 28, 2022, Neal passed away at the age of 80, and we pay our respects to him on this week's episode. 

From Dec 2005, The man who redefined the DCU. The man who smacked the camp out of Batman, and made him the dark knight badass once again. The man who had Superman fight Muhammad Ali...and Supes actualy lost the battle! Legendary artist Neal Adams actually tolerated my silly questions for over 90 minutes, and was ready to give me even more time!!!! Listen , as Neal brings us tales from the early days of Comics Bronze Age. You'll hear about his Green Lantern-Green Arrow run with Denny O'Neil, The Deadman Saga, and many behind the scenes stories of the Dc Offices of the 1960's & 70's. Neal also goes in depth on his scientific theories about an expanding earth, and answers the obvious question, how does an un-accredited science enthusiast pitch his theory, when the conventional science world refuses to listen?

This week we're joined by comedian Michael LoBosco! What crazy thing happened to Brett on a Zoom show? What lesson did Michael learn at a young age? What comics did Michael read back to back? How much did people hate Jason Todd? Do readers hate Damian Wayne? Which are the best digital comics services? What comics does Michael read in the apps? What amazing thing happened in the Civil War comic? What did they stop doing in physical comic books? What point did Stan Lee make about comic books? What obnoxious thing did someone say to Michael in a comic book store? Who is Green Lantern Jessica Cruz? Is Hal Jordan boring? Which Green Lantern is gay? What's the deal with the different colored Green Lanterns? Would Batman Beyond work as live action? What cool thing did they do on the DC Infinite app when The Suicide Squad movie came out? What's the story with the Batgirl series on HBO Max? What Grant Morrison story did Brett not like? Is Brett willing to read message boards to figure out a comic book? Reading tips: Death In The Family; Killing Joke; Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (Batman #440 - Batman #442); Green Lanterns: Rebirth; Green Lantern/Green Arrow; Catwoman by Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke; Suicide Squad by John Ostrander; Firestorm by Gerry Conway; Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison Recorded 3-13-22 via Zencastr

One of my marathon conversations with the great Dennis O'Neil from 2018 . An epic discussion with the acclaimed writer of Batman, and so much more. We talk about his early days at Charlton Comics, why did he leave DC for Marvel in the 80s and why did he return to DC in the 90s? We talk about the Knightfall event, the story choices Dc wouldn't allow him to do and a lot more.From his first days at DC, to the Hard Traveling Heroes run of Green Lantern/Green Arrow, and the social justice agenda , The master writer shares many stories from the silver bronze and platinum ages

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Green Lantern/Green Arrow" by Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams, in which they had these classic superheroes tackle some real world issues.

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

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Our hard traveling hosts, Doc and Angus, conclude their review with the Mosaic series having covered Green Lantern/Green Arrow in PART ONE. These landmark series would go on to tackle many social issues of their day and many we still wrestle with proving that comics can be a powerful medium to deliver stories that matter. Please drop us a message on the anchor app or send us an mp3 or email to kirbyskidspodcast@gmail.com. The Graphic Novel of the Month for April Was Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 This volume collects GREEN LANTERN from the early 1970s, featuring classic team-ups written by Dennis O'Neil with art by Neal Adams! In these stories, Green Lantern Hal Jordan continued his usual cosmic-spanning adventures, as he used his amazing Power Ring to police Sector 2814 against universe-threatening menaces. Meanwhile, on Earth, Oliver Queen, the archer known as Green Arrow, was confronting menaces of a different kind: racism, poverty, drugs, and other social ills! Collects GREEN LANTERN #76-87 and 89, and stories from THE FLASH #217-219 and 226. The Comic Book Character of The Month for April was Green Lantern John Stewart! Green Lantern: John Stewart - A Celebration of 50 Years https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-John-Stewart-A-Celebration-of-50-Years/digital-comic/945613 Fifty years after John Stewart's debut, this collection highlights the character's greatest moments over the decades-both spacefaring and earthbound-from his first appearance in the legendary O'Neil/Adams Green Lantern run, to taking over from Hal Jordan as Earth's Green Lantern, to being rechristened as the first mortal Guardian of the Universe. This volume includes Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87, #182, and #185, Green Lantern Vol. 3 #74 and #156, Green Lantern Vol. 4 #49, Green Lantern: Mosaic #18, and Justice League of America #110. Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

Welcome to another edition of My Big Fat Pull List's Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include a discussion regarding the return of comic books back in shops, DC Comics decision to break ties with Diamond Publishing, the unfortunate passing of the legendary Denni O'Neil, and a revisit to some of our past topics. (originally released 6/24/20) — Visit Our Patreon Page And Support The Show! — DC Breaks From Diamond Publishing https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0PFyY4ro/dc-breaks-ties-with-diamond-comic-distributors — Denni O'Neil https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/books/denny-oneil-dead.html — Green Lantern/Green Arrow run https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538793.The_Complete_Green_Lantern_Green_Arrow_Collection — The Joker's Five-Way Revenge https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman_Vol_1_251 — The Question run http://sequart.org/magazine/59799/denny-oneil-the-question/ — Birds Of Prey https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7713068/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 — Cassandra Cane https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Cassandra_Cain_(New_Earth) — Star Wars: Doctor Aphra https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Doctor_Aphra — Star Wars: Bounty Hunters https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Bounty_Hunters

Green Arrow 80th Anniversary Spectacular #1 DC has released a Denny O'Neil tribute comic.The six page short (which you can read now on DC's website), is illustrated by Jorge Fornes (Rorschach), colored by Dave Stewart, and written by Larry O'Neil, who is the late Denny O'Neil's son. Green Arrow was just one of the many characters who Denny O'Neil wrote for DC Comics over the years, perhaps most-famously penning the Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics, which were illustrated by Neal Adams, O'Neil's collaborator on Batman.A HUGE Thank You To All My Patreon, Members, & Subscribe Stars! I Love You All!Simon BarnettRaymond CandelaGPSpectorDavid LDaniel GuitronTKnotatpostJohn LeAuthenticity SeekerBrian KMAY BE MEDocHollidayFrank the Redsatchell78RC ScottThe dukeMarcos R.Razor-sharp Though...Alexander LeonardWelcome To The SH!T ShowJason JohnsonJobustifyMAGAirMike PorterJeffery CarnesRobert WillingCaligula BearP MoneyKenny GSwany RiversLisa DonahueMuddledMessJasValin RookAlazmat FilmsAlexander Trapp Waelse1Raymond CandelaThe Killing JokeBeau ScottBrian KBiggles Macy RRob LynchMathew DrewJohn LeBrandon AllenAlyssa Annette Ybarra Brian HawkinsChris David Raiford B LRyan DeckertMizen Barbarossa Jerm Debo Ruakar-McTwizz-Jade Wheatley Zach Richmond JDthecomicotakuMighty PawsKato Rone Steve Glaskar Dav RozTimothy French Mike Buckner BruceyJeffrey Alan Carnes Anne HolydayNitrosgal 2Sylvia La ChivaJD2981 GPSpectorJ ThreefingersBjörn PerssonSimon Barnett Lil PoetboyLet me know what you think!

Our hard traveling hosts, Doc and Angus, review the Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Mosaic series and frame them in the eras that inspired them. These landmark series would go on to tackle many social issues of their day and many we still wrestle with proving that comics can be a powerful medium to deliver stories that matter. Please drop us a message on the anchor app or send us an mp3 or email to kirbyskidspodcast@gmail.com. The Graphic Novel of the Month for April Was Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 This volume collects GREEN LANTERN from the early 1970s, featuring classic team-ups written by Dennis O'Neil with art by Neal Adams! In these stories, Green Lantern Hal Jordan continued his usual cosmic-spanning adventures, as he used his amazing Power Ring to police Sector 2814 against universe-threatening menaces. Meanwhile, on Earth, Oliver Queen, the archer known as Green Arrow, was confronting menaces of a different kind: racism, poverty, drugs, and other social ills! Collects GREEN LANTERN #76-87 and 89, and stories from THE FLASH #217-219 and 226. The Comic Book Character of The Month for April was Green Lantern John Stewart! Green Lantern: John Stewart - A Celebration of 50 Years https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-John-Stewart-A-Celebration-of-50-Years/digital-comic/945613 Fifty years after John Stewart's debut, this collection highlights the character's greatest moments over the decades-both spacefaring and earthbound-from his first appearance in the legendary O'Neil/Adams Green Lantern run, to taking over from Hal Jordan as Earth's Green Lantern, to being rechristened as the first mortal Guardian of the Universe. This volume includes Green Lantern Vol. 2 #87, #182, and #185, Green Lantern Vol. 3 #74 and #156, Green Lantern Vol. 4 #49, Green Lantern: Mosaic #18, and Justice League of America #110. Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

Angus reviews in the screening room the 2001 Justice League the animated series story "In Blackest Night" in celebration of John Stewart's 50 years in comics and animation, in celebration of Green Lantern month. Please drop us a message on the anchor app or send us an mp3 or email to kirbyskidspodcast@gmail.com. Justice League (2001–2004): In Blackest Night https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0618149/ Justice League of America (1960-1987) #140 https://www.comixology.com/Justice-League-of-America-1960-1987-140/digital-comic/593585 The Graphic Novel of the Month for April is Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 Discussion April 30th The Comic Book Character of The Month for April is Green Lantern John Stewart! We will read the following selections: Green Lantern (1960-1986) #87 (Green Lantern/Green Arrow) https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-87/digital-comic/8412 Justice League of America (1960-1987) #110 https://www.comixology.com/Justice-League-of-America-1960-1987-110/digital-comic/467355 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #182 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-182/digital-comic/33679 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #185 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-185/digital-comic/13804 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #74 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-74/digital-comic/77739 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #156 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-156/digital-comic/242405 Green Lantern (2005-2011) #49 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-2005-2011-49/digital-comic/5317 Discussion April 28th *Bonus Retrospective Read & Review of Mosaic by Doc & Angus on a Kirby’s Kids episode in celebration of John Stewart! Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

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Angus reviews the comic book origins of John Stewart throughout his 50 years in the series, in celebration of Green Lantern month. Please drop us a message on the anchor app or send us an mp3 or email to kirbyskidspodcast@gmail.com. The Graphic Novel of the Month for April is Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 Discussion April 30th The Comic Book Character of The Month for April is Green Lantern John Stewart! We will read the following selections: Green Lantern (1960-1986) #87 (Green Lantern/Green Arrow) https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-87/digital-comic/8412 Justice League of America (1960-1987) #110 https://www.comixology.com/Justice-League-of-America-1960-1987-110/digital-comic/467355 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #182 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-182/digital-comic/33679 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #185 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-185/digital-comic/13804 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #74 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-74/digital-comic/77739 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #156 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-156/digital-comic/242405 Green Lantern (2005-2011) #49 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-2005-2011-49/digital-comic/5317 Discussion April 28th *Bonus Retrospective Read & Review of Mosaic by Doc & Angus on a Kirby’s Kids episode in celebration of John Stewart! Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

Angus uncovers an essay written by Green Lantern/Green Arrow writer Denny O'Neil that reveals the origins of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series and frames it in the era that inspired it, in celebration of Green Lantern month. Please drop us a message on the anchor app or send us an mp3 or email to kirbyskidspodcast@gmail.com. The Social Justice essay can be found in: Green Lantern: 80 Years of the Emerald Knight The Deluxe Edition https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-80-Years-of-the-Emerald-Knight-The-Deluxe-Edition/digital-comic/875152 The Graphic Novel of the Month for April is Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 Discussion April 30th The Comic Book Character of The Month for April is Green Lantern John Stewart! We will read the following selections: Green Lantern (1960-1986) #87 (Green Lantern/Green Arrow) https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-87/digital-comic/8412 Justice League of America (1960-1987) #110 https://www.comixology.com/Justice-League-of-America-1960-1987-110/digital-comic/467355 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #182 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-182/digital-comic/33679 Green Lantern (1960-1986) #185 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1960-1986-185/digital-comic/13804 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #74 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-74/digital-comic/77739 Green Lantern (1990-2004) #156 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-1990-2004-156/digital-comic/242405 Green Lantern (2005-2011) #49 https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-2005-2011-49/digital-comic/5317 Discussion April 28th *Bonus Retrospective Read & Review of Mosaic by Doc & Angus on a Kirby’s Kids episode in celebration of John Stewart! Leave a message via the anchor app at Kirby's Kids. www.anchor.fm/kirbyskids Join the Community Discussions https://mewe.com/join/kirbyskids Please join us down on the Comics Reading Trail in 2021 https://kirbyskidspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/holiday-special-kirbys-kids-giving.html For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

WELCOME to another episode of Signal of Doom! This is a BIG EPISODE as Richard FIRES UP, Dave declares we aren't far away from the mob mentality with the pitchforks and the town lynching's, we have a Comic Retailer Pricing Controversy, Dave talks about Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Richard has a HOT TAKE on Neal Adams, Battle Chasers is getting RELAUNCHED, Did a Comet END the Dinosaurs, and MUCH MORE! Weekly Comics Crime Syndicate #1 Infinite Frontier #0 Demon Days: X-Men #1 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack#4 Brzrkr #1 Suicide Squad #1 TRADE OF THE WEEK Deathlok: The Complete Collection Follow us on Twitter: @signalofdoom Legion Outpost: @legionoutpost Follow Dave on Twitter: @redlantern2051 Please support the show on Patreon! Every dollar helps!https://www.patreon.com/SignalofDoom

It is time for episode 21 of Mandatory Marvel & DC, a show from the Comics In Motion network that looks back at the very biggest and best stories from the annals of the Big 2 - Marvel and DC! Each episode, Max Byrne will be joined by a special guest to enjoy a chat about that episode's subject matter, talking about what we love about these top tier titles! For this 21st instalment, we look back at the classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Travelling Heroes from DC Comics. Written by Denny O'Neil with art by Neal Adams, this classic story examined the state of play in America at the dawn of the 1970's, looking at social injustice, racism and many more issues. This week, Max is joined once again by the amazing Tony Farina, an amazing writer and, of course, host of the fantastic Indie Comics Spotlight podcast right here on the Comics in Motion Network! If you want to get in touch with Max about comics or to suggest any future shows, please say to him on Twitter @maxybyrne. You can read his reviews of all kinds of content at www.dcworld.org.uk, www.darknightnews.com, www.fantasticuniverses.com, and www.getyourcomicon.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/support

At the dawn of the 1970s, legendary comic book artist Neal Adams forged brand new artistic identities for several mainstream comic book characters, including Batman and The X-Men, as well as two distinctive DC heroes, Green Lantern and Green Arrow. Adams’ photorealistic visual acuity enabled he and his writer/collaborator, Denny O’Neil, to break new ground telling the kinds of reality- based stories that could be told in “superhero” comic books. In advance of his webinar on Thursday night via New York Adventure Club— THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW webinar Thursday, November 19 @ 7:00pm EST; tix: nyadventureclub.com join Pop Culture Man Arlen Schumer tonight as he discusses how their Green Lantern-Green Arrow run of (only) 13 issues became one of the most honored and esteemed, memorable and influential in comic book history, directly responsible for the 21st Century successes of the recent Arrow television series and the forthcoming Green Lantern feature film. Arlen’s call-in guest on tonight’s show: GUY COLSTON is a comic culture entrepreneur and pop culture enthusiast; find him on Facebook and https://colstonconsolidated.com arlenschumer.com  

En esta nueva entrega de reseñas de comics hablamos sobre una obra icónica de los años 70's, Dennis O'Neil nos entrega Green Lantern/Green Arrow en un cross over épico donde los héroes "Verdes" de DC viajan al interior de Estados Unidos exponiendo los problemas sociales más complejos y humanos, analizamos cómo esta magnífica historia toca las fibras más sensibles de la sociedad y visibiliza el sufrimiento de la gente más vulnerable. Problemas sociales que siguen vigentes hasta nuestros tiempos. " ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. ¡ Síguenos ! 😉 Para Más Placer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Visita Nuestro Sitio - https://cutt.ly/nacionpoperto_web 2. Únete a La Comunidad - https://cutt.ly/nacionpoperto_grupo 3. Mira los Directos - https://cutt.ly/nacionpoperto_youtube 4. Síguenos en las Redes - https://flow.page/nacionpoperto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. ¡ Encuentra ! 👌 Tu Contenido Preferido ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Listas de Reproducción - Reseñas: https://bit.ly/np_ivoox_resenas - Especiales: https://bit.ly/np_ivoox_especiales - Música Spotify: https://bit.ly/np_music_spotify ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. ¡ Conoce ! 🙏 Amigos de La Nación ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Comics Aquí: http://bit.ly/comicsaqui_youtube - Life Anime Bo: https://bit.ly/lifeanimebo_ivoox - La Zona Fronteriza: https://bit.ly/zonafronteriza_ivoox - Épocas Épicas: https://bit.ly/epocasepicas_ivoox

En esta nueva entrega de reseñas de comics hablamos sobre una obra icónica de los años 70's, Dennis O'Neil nos entrega Green Lantern/Green Arrow en un cross over épico donde los héroes "Verdes" de DC viajan al interior de Estados Unidos exponiendo los problemas sociales más complejos y humanos, analizamos cómo esta magnífica historia toca las fibras más sensibles de la sociedad y visibiliza el sufrimiento de la gente más vulnerable. Problemas sociales que siguen vigentes hasta nuestros tiempos. Visita

Since their inception decades earlier, comic books were viewed as juvenile entertainment. In 1970, Writer Dennis O’Neil and artist Neal Adams set out to change that with a story some refer to as the day comics got “woke.” Steve and Paul discuss Steve’s initial reaction to the story and how the dialogue might be written today. Also in this episode, Paul gives Steve and the listeners a brief history of comics. For more great shows or to connect with Paul and Steve, go to BigBroccoliStudios.com

Angus hosts a brief retrospective celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the podcast and expresses gratitude for all of the listeners and active members of the Kirby's Kids community. He also thanks fellow 'Kids' Ray, JJ, and Doc for their contributions and support! Check out Doc's work at CBR https://www.cbr.com/author/scott-shoyer/. Angus is also joined by Comics Cowboy Troy who performs a dramatic reading of the 2021 Kirby's Kids Graphic Novel Reading List selections. KIRBY’S KIDS GRAPHIC NOVEL READING LIST FOR 2021 January - VERTIGO MONTH - Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile https://www.comixology.com/Fables-Vol-1-Legends-in-Exile/digital-comic/48288 February - The Metabarons: Digital Omnibus https://www.comixology.com/The-Metabarons-Digital-Omnibus/digital-comic/882426 March - APPENDIX N MONTH - Barbarian Life: A Literary Biography of Conan the Barbarian (Volume 1) https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Life-Literary-Biography-Conan-ebook/dp/B07L7N392D & Conan The Barbarian Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years - The Coming Of Conan https://www.comixology.com/Conan-The-Barbarian-Epic-Collection-The-Original-Marvel-Years-The-Coming-Of-Conan/digital-comic/851628 April - Green Lantern/Green Arrow https://www.comixology.com/Green-Lantern-Green-Arrow/digital-comic/60663 May - IMAGE COMICS MONTH - The Red Star Vol. 1 https://www.comixology.com/The-Red-Star-Vol-1/digital-comic/155823 June - Planet of the Apes Archive Vol. 1 https://www.comixology.com/Planet-of-the-Apes-Archive-Vol-1/digital-comic/537264 July - DARK HORSE COMICS MONTH - Danger Unlimited https://www.comixology.com/Danger-Unlimited/digital-comic/30088 & John Byrne's Classic Next Men Vol. 1 https://www.comixology.com/John-Byrnes-Classic-Next-Men-Vol-1/digital-comic/26312 August - JACK ‘KING’ KIRBY MONTH - The Demon by Jack Kirby https://www.comixology.com/The-Demon-by-Jack-Kirby/digital-comic/582106 & Demon Knights (2011-2013) Vol. 1: Seven Against the Dark https://www.comixology.com/Demon-Knights-2011-2013-Vol-1-Seven-Against-the-Dark/digital-comic/56798 September - MANGA MONTH - Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 https://www.comixology.com/Battle-Angel-Alita-Vol-1/digital-comic/521616 October - HALLOWEEN HORROR MONTH - The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Vol. 1 https://www.comixology.com/The-EC-Archives-Tales-from-the-Crypt-Vol-1/digital-comic/458438 November - ALAN MOORE MONTH - Promethea: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Book One https://www.comixology.com/Promethea-20th-Anniversary-Deluxe-Edition-Book-One/digital-comic/759601 December - Archie Christmas Classics https://www.comixology.com/Archie-Christmas-Classics/digital-comic/14846 _____________ KUDOS KIRBY - Machine Man by Kirby & Ditko: The Complete Collection https://www.comixology.com/Machine-Man-by-Kirby-Ditko-The-Complete-Collection/digital-comic/405687 For detailed show notes and past episodes please visit www.kirbyskids.com

G.I.Jolie, Mike-EL + Mike-DELL attack youth's greatest problem...DRUGS! In the early 1970s, Green Lantern + Green Arrow took on a whole slew of 'relevant' social issues, climaxing with the infamous story in which Oliver Queen's ward Roy Harper (aka: Speedy) becomes a certified Heroin addict! Tune in for a complete rundown of the various slang terms used to describe Keith Richard's favourite pastime. www.ComicBookSyndicate.com

Nerd +/- explores the age gap in fandom, and how things are seen from different generations. Join hosts Brian (age 48) and Aidan (age 18) for a special tribute to comic legend Denny O'Neil as we discuss Green Lantern/Green Arrow 85. Theme song by Team Powellstein Exit music by Mark Christensen

This week on the show, we remember Dennis O’Neil with a look back at his run with Neal Adams on Green Lantern from 1970, in which he explored a few topics that superheroes didn’t often tackle. Green Lantern shared the spotlight with Green Arrow to start their “Hard Travelin’ Heroes” Era, and we read issues 76-81. After that we jumped into another DC/Marvel team-up with the first issue of JLA/Avengers from 2003. Next Time: Aliens vs. Predator (1990)

The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the Hard-Traveling Heroes, the run of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow book from the early 1970s. This was the reboot of Green Arrow, making him an ex-millionaire and a champion of the downtrodden. We talk about the history of the title, the characters and their backstories, some of the hot-button issues this series brings, the impact of the series on other books (including trade paperbacks), and a bunch of stuff in between. Plus our usual tangents galore and our comics picks of the week.   Announcements: Come hang out with us! We usually have monthly meetups on 2nd Saturdays in Garland, TX; details on Facebook & Twitter & the Events tab on our website We're super excited to announce our partnership with ComicBooks For Kids. Details on the website (and you should be listening to hear more, too

As much of the world is still marching and protesting the untimely death of George Floyd, we thought this was an opportune moment to discuss protest and activism in one of our favorite mediums: comics. On today’s episode, we recall our earliest memories of comic book stories that were meant to do more than simply entertain: Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow in the 1970s, Captain America‘s lost period as 'Nomad' and a secret history of Captain America revealed in the story 'Truth' with the character Isaiah Bradley. We also get into the inherent "conservative" nature of superheroes, as well as how social media has become the main platform where many of us show our activism. Sidebar Forever offers its condolences to the families and friends of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. All three recently lost their lives; two of them at the hands of the police. Also, the comics community said goodbye to writer Denny O'Neil who passed away on June 11, 2020. He was 81 years old. Rest in peace, sir.

ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike's Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We'll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It's part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This special "zero" episode covers comics-related material from my earliest years, before I was technically a collector, including runs of Strange Tales, Doctor Strange, Warlock, Tomb of Dracula, Power Records, Marvel Premiere, Captain Marvel, The Adventures of the Big Boy, and the single issues Howard the Duck #2, Green Lantern/Green Arrow #84, Stalker #1, Logan's Run #1, Astonishing Tales #23, Famous First Edition #C-61, The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu #46, Weird Worlds #8, Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk in "The Great Rodeo Robbery", Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Woman in "The Mystery Of The Power Crown", TSR-80 Computer Whiz Kids: The Computer Trap, Captain America #207, and Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty. “Transcripts” Episode Art Tumblr Twitter Facebook rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com Comment on Résumé page or Rolled Spine Podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diabolu-frank/message

It’s nearly closing time for Judd Winick on the Green Lantern books, and Ben Raab is poised to step in and tell his stories. But before we get to that, we’ve got the final Green Lantern/Green Arrow crossover in the JUST ONE OF THE GUYS era, which surprisingly features books [...]

Andy and Derek are back at Lone Star Comics in Plano, TX, and this month they're talking about American-themed comics with the scheduling manager of the shop and good friend of the show, Shea Hennum. Since this is the month of Independence Day, the Two Guys with PhDs thought it would be a great opportunity to focus on comics about the United States, its history, its culture, and its people. Among the many comics they discuss are Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, Steve Darnall and Alex Ross's Uncle Sam, John Ridley and Georges Jeanty's The American Way, Howard Chaykin's American Flagg, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher, Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams's Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics of the 1970s, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing,  the Marvel event Civil War, the various incarnations of Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, and Paul Pope comics. They also talk about other kinds of comics, such as Adventure Time, Brandon Graham's Prophet (which Derek does like, thank you very much), Frank Young and David Lasky's The Carter Family, Garth Ennis's Fury MAX, and erotic comics, among others. They also give their two cents on the recent announcements on the acquisition of Archaia by Boom! Studios and on Kitchen Sink joining forces with Dark Horse. And as an extra added bonus, you get to hear Shea, Andy, and Derek describe what they plan to do for the July 4th holiday (nothing exciting, really). The Two Guys with PhDs also name the winner of their July contest and announce the theme of next month's Lone Star Comics discussion and giveaway: all-age comics. So be sure to check back in August for that episode!

From Dec 2005, The man who redefined the DCU. The man who smacked the camp out of Batman, and made him the dark knight badass once again. The man who had Superman fight Muhammad Ali...and Supes actualy lost the battle! Legendary artist Neal Adams actually tolerated my silly questions for over 90 minutes, and was ready to give me even more time!!!! Listen , as Neal brings us tales from the early days of Comics Bronze Age. You'll hear about his Green Lantern-Green Arrow run with Denny O'Neil, The Deadman Saga, and many behind the scenes stories of the Dc Offices of the 1960's & 70's. Neal also goes in depth on his scientific theories about an expanding earth, and answers the obvious question, how does an un-accredited science enthusiast pitch his theory, when the conventional science world refuses to listen?