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The Flash starts to behave oddly after an encounter with Professor Zoom. Is all as it seems? Join David and Peter as they cover this story from Flash 233. Don't miss it!   Email us at theearth2podcast@gmail.com Facebook www.facebook.com/theearth2podcast Instagram www.instagram.com/theearth2podcast Twitter www.twitter.com/podcast_earth2 Leave us a Voicemail at www.speakpipe.com/theearth2podcast   #DCComics #Comics #Flash #TheFlash ##ReverseFlash #CaryBates #IrvNovick

Professor Zoom has been defeated, Wally West has regained his top speed and put aside his insecurities about living up to Barry Allen's legacy, and Mark Waid's Flash is now a comic book to watch as 1993 turns into 1994. As rookie penciler Mike Wieringo comes aboard as new regular artist, Waid teams Wally up with Nightwing and Starfire (and his ex-girlfriend), puts the Flash on trial, and hints at the secret source of superspeed. We also meet breakout character Bart Allen, soon to be known as Impulse! We'll guide you through a chunk of issues that may not contain any six-issue epics, but it puts Wally on the path to maturity and makes his relationship with Linda Park into the focus of the series. Discussed in this episode: Flash #80-94 You can support this podcast at patreon.com/ironageofcomics

We take our first look at a Flash-affiliated character with Barry Allen's nemesis EOBARD THAWNE! Things go off the rails pretty quickly, but it's ok, because we can just jump to another timeline where everything is fine, and no one will be any the wiser - except for Eobard... Intro Background (2:05) Eobard Thawne, aka Professor Zoom or the Reverse Flash, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in The Flash #139 (Sept. 1963) Eobard Thawne is a scientist from the 25th century, where superheroes are few He becomes obsessed with learning about the Speed Force, but he initially encounters some obstacles until his future self intervenes several times: He was jealous of his younger brother growing up, until his future self prevented Robern from being born and then his future self caused the death of his parents, since they were worried about his obsession He kills another professor who is close to unlocking the secrets of the Speed Force After Eobard falls in love with a reporter, his future self kills her fiance and any man she ever dated - when she still rejected him, his future self went back to her childhood and traumatized her to the point of rendering her mute He becomes obsessed with Barry Allen, to the point of getting cosmetic surgery to resemble him Obtains a Cosmic Treadmill, a copy of the Flash's costume, and replicates the accident to give himself Flash's powers - he traveled back to a few years after Barry's death, and learned that he would become Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash, and Barry's greatest nemesis This caused a psychic break, and Thawne became convinced he *was* a resurrected Barry Allen, and even managed to convince several of Barry's friends he was Barry - after attacking several heroes for “forgetting” him, Wally West tricked him into returning to his home time Thawne became obsessed with replacing Barry, to the point of killing Iris West, and when he attacked Fiona Webb, Barry broke his neck and killed him Flash: Rebirth reveals that Thawne is responsible for every tragedy in Barry's life, including the death of his mother - after killing several speedsters, he announces his connection to the Negative Speed Force, and says he will kill Iris before Barry has a chance to meet her - as Barry and Wally travel backwards in time, they merge into the lightning bolt that originally gave Barry his powers #BecauseComics - Thawne is imprisoned in a device that severs his connection to the Speed Force, removing his powers The broken neck version was resurrected during Blackest Night and then purified by a white light  Thawne is the central villain of Flashpoint - when Barry travels back to prevent Thawne from killing Nora West, the resulting timeline is drastically different - Thawne is then killed by the new Batman, and Barry goes back to prevent himself from stopping her murder, which creates a new third timeline Rebirth revises his origin - he's met in the 25th century by Barry, who prevents him from carrying out further crimes - he is temporarily rehabilitated, until he travels to the past and learns Barry didn't consider him as much of a friend as he initially thought, so he vows to make Barry miserable until Barry “makes time” for him He's one of the primary villains of the Button, where he has memories of every timeline, and uses this knowledge to torture Barry, Bruce Wayne, and heroes, until he's killed by Dr. Manhattan, although he's resurrected by the negative Speed Force once again Finish Line - Thawne vibrates into Barry, taking over his mind and trapping Barry in the Speed Force - Thawne says he and Barry will forever be trapped in a loop, until Barry forgives him - this confuses Thawne, and Barry is able to reset him in the 25th century, where he is a tour guide at the Flash Museum with no memory of being a villain Issues - “Eobard Thawne. The man who reads the Evil Overlord List and reacts with an oblivious bemusement. The man with an absolute pathological need to prove himself superior to everyone around him to the point where even other villains hate his guts. Thawne has spent the last 60 years elevating the concept of the Villain Ball to an almost comical extent, and is fortunately so ridiculously chatty and forthcoming about himself and his feelings that we can easily mine a ton of his many issues from it to figure out why.” (15:56) Absolute obsession with and desire to replace The Flash. Thawne comes from a time when superheroes are thought of as a quaint anachronism, and striving to be one would be like someone today saying their dream was to be a medieval knight. But he idolized the era and The Flash in particular enough to become obsessed with becoming him. After recreating the accident that gave The Flash his super speed and traveling back in time to meet his hero, he found out that his destiny was instead to become The Flash's greatest enemy, and it simply broke him inside. From then on, his entire reason for being became wrapped around inserting himself into Barry's life, alternating between trying to ruin it and trying to usurp it. He tried getting Barry's wife to fall in love with him, tried to take Barry's place in the original accident and become the original Flash, and ultimately settled on using his time travel ability to become the source of every bad thing that ever happened in Barry's life. It's not an exaggeration to say that Thawne does not have or want a life of his own; he actually does want Barry's for himself. Superiority complex. When you think about Eobard Thawne is actually capable of doing, it's a real wonder why he ever fails at anything at all. The man can move at many times the speed of light. He can cross the room and shred your heart before your eyes can even send the signal to your brain that it's happening. He can kill a room full of a hundred people in a hundred different ways before any of them could react. All of which pales in comparison to his mastery of time travel. If anyone or anything is an obstacle to his objectives or even so much as affronts his sight, he can go back in time and completely erase it from existence. That's an actual thing he does with regularity. There is quite literally no goal on any scale he could not achieve with his powers. But that's simply not enough for him. At the moment of every single one of his triumphs, he has to let everyone in earshot know that it was him who did it. He grandstands and gloats about his success, explaining in great detail everything he did, how he did it, and how powerless everyone is to stop him from keeping on doing whatever he wants. Invariably, this winds up with the heroes either having the time to make their move or having the exact information they need to stop him. Thawne didn't invent Evil Monologuing by any stretch, but he's perfected it to an art form. It's a pathology with this man. He has to have you acknowledge his greatness, or he doesn't consider it a victory. There is no limit to what he could achieve if he just didn't care about getting the credit for it. (22:18) Pettiness on a scale hitherto undreamt of. To paraphrase Billy Beane in Moneyball, there's petty, there's that which petty aspires to be, there's fifty additional magnitudes of petty that the English language doesn't have words for, and then there's Thawne. The man responds to personal slights as if they were absolute declarations of war. He has completely erased his younger brother from existence because he thought his parents loved him more. He got a crush on a woman and erased her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends from existence so she'd have no reason not to date him, then when she still rejected him, he traveled back in time and repeatedly traumatized her as a child to the point where she wound up in a permanent vegetative state for the rest of her life. He found a limiting factor on his time travel that he couldn't kill Barry Allen or do anything that prevents him from becoming The Flash, so instead he settled on simply becoming the direct cause of every bad thing that's ever happened in his life, including things so minor as making him late for class in school and making him miss a catch in a baseball game. He's done this with villains who annoy him as well; Hunter Zolomon owes the entire line of tragedies that led to him becoming Professor Zoom to Thawne traveling through time and causing them. There is no slight so trivial that Thawne won't respond to it with the most disproportionate retribution he can imagine. (28:28) Dozens and dozens of lifetimes worth of memories. Thawne's use of the Negative Speed Force gives him a form of superceding time travel. He can alter history and retain the memories of his life and the world exactly as it was before he changed it. Unfortunately, he has time traveled and altered history so many times and so drastically that his memories now consist of dozens of lifetimes all folded into themselves. He remembers every version of himself in every timeline he's ever existed in, and every version of every other important person in his life and how their histories have changed as well. It all just blends together for him in a way that makes absolutely no linear sense trying to keep it all straight. That has to be absolutely maddening; like a Mandela Effect, but for your entire life, and multiplied by every single time he changes the timeline. No one else remembers anything in the same way that he does, and there's absolutely no way he can convince anyone about the way things used to be. (38:22) Break (45:33) Plugs for Ignorance Was Bliss, Geek Peak, and Gail Simone Treatment (46:46) In-universe - Transcranial magnetic stimulation analogue to help Thawne's brain Out of universe - Use CBT to help people to slow down and notice things more (49:40) Skit (54:34) Hello Mr. Thawne, I'm Dr. Issues. Hmm…you seem out of breath - *heavy breathing* It took a lot for me to get here. But I can't ignore a slight like that. As you know, a doctor should only address a colleague with a title the equivalent to their own. You can't be serio…ow! What was that? -The skin of the areola is incredibly sensitive to certain angular forces. Your nerve endings are actually a bit different based on your scream. Most people have a heightened reaction from the pain itself, but for you, the mere sensation of unexpected touch and pressure were too much for you. *yawn* But as all plebians before you, your nervous system stood no chance in keeping up with my abilities. And that, my dear doctor, was only a sample of what I am capable of. *pause* You just gave a soliloquy on a purple nurple? -I had to demonstrate that you are not superior to me in any aspect of existence. Ok -*pause* That's it? Just, “OK?” You don't protest? Where's the fear? Where's the awe? Anger? Something besides “Ok”? Okaaaaay…Professor? -That's better…wait, still no emotion behind it. What is wrong with you? Do I have to phase through you and shatter your spleen? Needlessly graphic but no…*sigh* Look, I'm not superpowered, you're not controllable, so I'm a sitting duck just for agreeing to meet with you, no matter what safeguards I may have thought of. -That was very naive of you. I'd be insulted if I didn't already feel insulted about the fact that some version of me that I talked with at some point in the future thought this was a good idea. What will I be thinking? Um…was thinking. You get the point. Sure. So, what can I do for you? -There's someone I know that I used to idolize. Now I hate him. He killed me, but I came back. Now I can't destroy him because I want to exist, but I want to ruin every part of his life. You know, “as you do” Are you expecting me to empathize with that? OOOOF; what did you do now? -Matter has multiple phases. Most people will only experience the most basic solid, liquid, and gas. But, as a scientist at heart, I'm sure you're aware of plasma. Under typical Earth conditions, you would only be able to withstand a nanoparticle of any element in a picosecond of time as it sublimates from a liquid format and dissipates instantaneously in some form of biological substrate in an elongated but small cavernous bony structure with a malleable yet firm membrane *Interrupting* You spit in my ear?! What are you, 12?! - Superspeed saliva, sir! It's your privilege. The fact that your head did not disintegrate is only because I can control my mouth and tongue with exquisite precision. You could kill me at any moment, and you torture me with pranks? What's the point? -I've given you a glimpse of my power. Now imagine that for every moment of your life. To know that at any point, I can cause you immeasurable suffering and pain with the slightest show of effort on my part. THAT is what I live for.  So you can be the most influential being for every person's life who ever existed, and you choose to make it miserable? Not exactly a way to win friends. -But you're wrong. I've created factions of allies that bring dimensions to their proverbial knees! Until you, what, give them a thermonuclear wedgie? That's what the history books will say. Eobard Thawne, the person who created a black hole constructed out of his own spite and misery. -You do realize that with what you're proposing, there would BE no history books, because I would have wiped out recorded history by definition of Do you have an off switch for that? -My genius? No, unfortunately for you, I don't. Then why don't you find someone else to bounce your evil plans off of? I'm too ethical to help you make things worse for yourself. -*pause* Come again? Ever heard of mimetic thinking? It's the idea that an individual's goals in life are constantly shaped by the goals they've observed set by others. We're unique in our existence, but not in our shared outcomes. You already determined one failpoint, whoever you were talking about -Barry. His name's Barry *dismissive for once* whatever. The point is, you must have gotten this idea, somewhere, from someone, that destroying everything is a positive. But the lack of anything is sure to be a negative when there's nothing left. Will you just do it again? Are you so unoriginal that you just want to run a time loop hamster wheel? -You are NOT getting away with comparing me to a hamster on a wheel, just because I use a treadmill to guide the fate of the universe!  I didn't even…uh…wow. That's um…that's a…thing, I guess -You don't even know your own argument. You're bluffing! This is beyond trivial. Hey, you said that at some point, YOU told yourself that talking to me was a good idea. I have no inkling WHY, because you're the self proclaimed genius with the speed to do it all whenever you want, and you make yourself trivial in the process. I don't think you're capable of relating anymore. At least not with someone like me. Go find my evil doppleganger or something in another dimension, I don't know. -*evil laugh* YES! You stupid, foolish brilliant doctor! That makes sense. There must be a negative version of you.I just have to find him. He will unlock the last mysteries of my negative speedforce forever! But I needed you to tell me that.  Wait! I *zoom sound, door shut* I guess I should be glad he took the “evil dimensional twin” comment and not the nuclear wedgie one. *more zooming, then door knocking* Um, come in. -*heavy breathing* Hello Mr. Thawne, I'm Dr. Issues. Hmm…you seem out of breath - *heavy breathing* It took a lot for me to get here. But  *interrupting* It's still me, Eobard. I think you've got yourself stuck somehow. -*pause* How…I know this is Barry somehow. It has to be. It's his ultimate prank on me. He's getting me back! I'm forced to listen to an incompetent shrink until I find a way out! Hey!…or…ORRRRR…you could try doing some positive coping activities that open your mind so that you end up with a sense of gratitude for what you have, which will lead to better things in the future. Huh/ Huuuuuh? You ever think of that? You're stuck with me until you get it right anyway. -Oh for the love of…how about if I shortcut this whole thing to the end and tell myself that you are worth talking to so we can all get along and I can move on to wrecking Barry's life again. Deal?  Isn't that just -Don't care, I'm doing it. Goodbye, Doctor *zoom* Ending (60:22) Recommended reading: Flash: Rebirth Next episodes: Aquaman, Echo, Speedball Plugs for social & GonnaGeek Network References: Timey-wimey ball - Anthony (8:44) Imitute it exarctly - Doc (20:40) “Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?” - Doc (24:02) “I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating” - Doc (25:40) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Anthony (39:18) Planet of the Apes Simpsons - Anthony (63:04) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook TikTok  Patreon TeePublic Discord

Brawlers this week join Nemesis, Doom, Bullseye and Sinestro and they deliver THE definitive top 10 comic book villain list. Although, the final spot on the list tied, so we will need your help! Head on over to Comic Book Brawl to vote for either Ultron or Dark Phoenix to make the final spot on the list. Also, in this weeks Brawl of the Week we have Dr. Doom vs Professor Zoom, admin Doom again walks the filthy line and Bullseye learns how the Avengers originally came together! Join us for episode 20!

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE! In our MID-SEASON FINALE, we wrap up our coverage of The Flash Rebirth with Volume 15 aka FINISH LINE! It's all led to this. Barry Allen vs Eobard Thawne. Flash vs Reverse Flash. The Flash Family vs The Legion of Zoom. A knock-down, drag-out war the likes of which Central City has never seen before! With allies and enemies alike arriving from throughout the Flash's timeline, this conflict promises to be the war to end all wars for speedsters of all time. But when the dust settles, when the city has been ravaged, and when all other participants have fallen… we will see the FINAL race between The Flash and Professor Zoom! And the Speed Force will never be the same again! And we will answer the question we've all been wondering… Where is Wally West? Covers The Flash (2016) #756-762 and Death Metal: Speed Metal by Joshua Williamson, Christian Duce, Rafa Sandoval, Scott Kolins, Howard Porter and Eddy Barrows Send us your questions for the Book Club Mailbag! Email: geeksplained@gmail.com Follow us! Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=en Instagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=en Music Sampled: "Alive" by Warbly Jets “2099 | EPIC VERSION” by Carameii “Am I Dreaming (cover)” by R3 Music Box

On this episode of The Flash Podcast, Andy and Rebecca Johnson (of Supergirl Radio) went LIVE on YouTube to break down Zack Snyder's original plans for the Scarlet Speedster in the DCEU/Snyderverse! It turns out that Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Professor Zoom, was a major villain Snyder had planned to use in his franchise that would make him one of the ultimate big bads for the Justice League. Tune in as the Super-Friends go over the new details (as well as a hilarious Snow White tangent!) and more on this episode of The Flash Podcast! ICYMI NOTES: Missed TFP's Discussion Of The Series Finale? Listen To It Now! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Rick Cosnett On The Flash Series Finale EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Teddy Sears On The Flash Series Finale EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kayla Compton on Directing 9×11 & More! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Matt Letscher On Finishing His Reverse-Flash Saga EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Batwoman's Javicia Leslie On Season 9's Red Death Saga EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Brandon McKnight's On Chester P. Runk's Season 9 Arc EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Richard Harmon On Arrowverse's New Captain Boomerang EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Andy Mientus On Pied Piper's Massive Season 9 Arc EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Flash Boss Eric Wallace Breaks Down Season 9 Spoilers & More | (Audio Version) | (Video Version) Missed TFP Episode 300? Listen To It Now! Find The Flash Podcast on: Social Media: Facebook – @TheFlashPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – Multiverse of Color – DC TV Podcasts – Google Podcasts – iHeartRadio – Spotify – Amazon Music – Podchaser – TuneIn – Podcast Index Contact: TheFlashPodcast@gmail.com Support: TeePublic Store

On this episode of The Flash Podcast, Andy and Rebecca Johnson (of Supergirl Radio) went LIVE on YouTube to break down Zack Snyder’s original plans for the Scarlet Speedster in the DCEU/Snyderverse! It turns out that Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Professor Zoom, was a major villain Snyder had planned to use in his franchise that would make him one of the ultimate big bads for the Justice League. Tune in as the Super-Friends go over the new details (as well as […] The post The Flash Podcast Episode 332: Zack Snyder’s The Flash Plans Revealed! appeared first on Multiverse Of Color.

On our DC Studios news update podcast, we discuss the surprising news that Gal Gadot is still working on Wonder Woman 3. Plus, The Rock comments on the lack of a Black Adam sequel, Zack Snyder planned a trilogy of Flash films, and Stephen Amell has failed this union.Episode Rundown:Gal Gadot working on Wonder Woman 3 for the new DCU: https://comicbook.com/movies/news/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-3-james-gunn-peter-safran-dc-films/ The Rock Thinks dropping Black Adam 2 “will always be one of the biggest mysteries”: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dwayne-johnson-talks-black-adam-sequel-failure-dc-studios-1235551611/ Zack Snyder planned a Flash trilogy, with Professor Zoom as the big bad of Snyderverse: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/zack-snyder-original-flash-movie-plan-jay-oliva Aquaman 2 is expected to stay on December 20: https://variety.com/2023/film/features/blue-beetle-director-angel-manuel-soto-latinos-hollywood-strike-1235685134/ Stephen Amell makes an oopsie on the SAG-AFTRA strike James Gunn says we can expect theatrical animated movies from DCU: https://www.threads.net/@jamesgunn/post/CvXnlA8PFAz?hl=es-la Nicolas Cage comments on The Flash cameo: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/07/27/nicolas-cage-sympathy-for-the-devil-movie-interview/70470149007/SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, RSS, 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

The Waverrider is in Central City but we get to fire up the time circuts today and head back to the year 2000! A blue force has sent Barry back in time. Not only does he face Reverse Flash, Eobard Thawne, but also faces a new villian set on destroying him. Is this Cobalt Blue or something new? We also thought we were watching Eddie Thawne but his name is Dr. Gilmore. This looks to be a great close to the series. Cougar's Comic Corner: Flash (2nd Series) #147 - The introduction of Cobalt Blue.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0765ZN7RS Part of the Chain Lightning series. This issue has Cobalt Blue, Reverse Flash, Professor Zoom, Kid Flash (Iris Allen), Flash (Jay Garrick), Max Mercury, Flash (Sela Allen), Impulse, Flash (Thondor Allen), Flash (Wally West)   Contact Information If you want to join in the discussion, you can submit feedback via email to TomorrowsLegendsPodcast@gmail.com. Please submit all feedback by 7:00 pm eastern on Friday. You can also join the Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/tomorrowslegends. Answer all the questions and agree to the group rules to be accepted. You can follow us on Twitter @tomorowslegends.  You can support the show on our Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/TomorrowsLegends You will get access to bonus content like advanced releases, extra questions answered, hang-out sessions, bonus episodes, and merchandise of course!

Eobard Thawne, aka Professor Zoom, aka Reverse Flash, ultimate flash baddie, and truly one of the most well designed villains in my opinion. I've been wanting to do an eppie on this dude for a minute but never seemed to find the right time. So I'm happy I was able to finally tap into the speed force for some extra recording seconds. Support the show

SUBSCRIBE NOW to get access to this episode and over 200 Duel matches and reviews at https://dynamicduel.com/subscribe.• 0:00:00 - Introduction • 0:02:35 - No-Prize Time • 0:08:33 - Leslie Grace cast as Batgirl in upcoming HBO Max film • 0:12:21 - Question of the Week • 0:12:57 - Michael B. Jordan developing Val-Zod Superman miniseries at HBO Max • 0:15:22 - Professor Zoom vs Kang the Conqueror intro • 0:18:48 - Professor Zoom profile and powers • 0:27:19 - Kang the Conqueror profile and powers • 0:36:47 - Fight speculation • 0:44:48 - Duel results • 0:48:35 - Sign offiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamic-duel-dc-vs-marvel/id1076213902Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPFg1DRSzHvWlbkYG5l0SFacebook: https://facebook.com/DynamicDuelPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dynamic_DuelInstagram: https://instagram.com/dynamicduelpodcastPatreon: https://patreon.com/dynamicduelMerch: https://tee.pub/lic/dynamicduelExecutive producers: John Speas, Jace Crump, Ken Johnson, Zachary Hepburn, John Starosky and John BechininaScissors by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4329-scissors, Psychedelic Crater by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4248-psychedelic-crater, Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance, Clash Defiant by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3510-clash-defiant, License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license#MarveVsDc #KangTheConqueror #ProfessorZoom

On this week's Stack podcast, check out reviews for: Seven Secrets #1, Dark Nights Death Metal #3, Something is Killing the Children #9, Empyre #5, The Flash #759, Adventureman #3, Marauders #11, Judge Dredd: False Witness #2, Wonder Woman #760, Big Girls #1, The Immortal Hulk #36, Stealth #4, The Amazing Spider-Man #46, Transformers: Galaxies #8 and Excellence #9. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. TRANSCRIPT: Alex:         What's up, you all? Welcome to The Stack, I'm Alex. Justin:       I'm Justin. Pete:         I'm Pete. Alex:         And on The Stack, we're talking about a bunch of books that have come out this very week. Kicking it off with a big new book from BOOM! Studios, Seven Secrets #1, written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Daniele Di Nicuolo. Pete, I want to go to you first, because I was very surprised to hear, I think this was your favorite book of the week. Is that right? Pete:         It really was. Justin:       Yes. Pete:         It is. It's a great book, I love the art. It's a very interesting idea, that there are seven secrets and they are highly guarded secrets. And people kind of like dedicate their lives to them. There's this kind of like societies built around, protecting the secrets. I think it's just a very creative idea, and fun, amazing art. A lot of action right out of the box. So, yeah, I think this is a great book. I'm very excited for more. Justin:       Yeah, I agree. This is really fun. It reminded me a lot of the Iron Fist run, that I want to say, Matt Fraction did which dealt with the… Alex:         I think it was Fraction and (Ed) Brubaker, right? Justin:       Yes, yes, that is accurate. Which got into all the different sort of fighting squads in doing battle throughout all of time. It has that same sort of dynamic art style, and feels like it's very numerical, you're chasing very specific things. So, I really like this. Alex:         Yeah, I thought this is great as well. I mean Tom Taylor is such, such a reliable writer and Daniele Di Nicuolo almost has like this Proto, Manga style in a way, where feels more detailed than that in terms of the fight, but the propulsive nature of the action suggests that a little bit. There's also a really good emotional underpinning, that I won't spoil for any or somebody who's planning on reading of the book. My only little quibbled with it… Pete:         Hey, watch yourself. Alex:         All that… It reminded me a little bit in pacing of Wynd from BOOM! Studios, another book we really liked a lot. But both of them felt like… Just to take like a very broad view, back in the day, you had these ‘done in one issue', right? People still do aim for done in one issue, then you had (Brian Michael) Bendis came along with Ultimate Spider-Man and this whole decompression, and aiming for the trade thing. Both Wynd and Seven Secrets which I both like a lot, seem almost different in a way where it's not decompression for the trade, so much as here are the first 20 pages of the story. Where they ended places, where it's like not even the of a chapter, exactly, so much is it almost feels in the middle of a chapter. and I need to read the second issue to understand more of what's going on. I don't know if you guys got that same feeling for that. Justin:       No, I hear you. Especially in Wynd. Pete:         That's a very weird thing to say, but, okay. Justin:       No, but I get it from a storytelling perspective, it's like we've talked about writing for the trade for almost the entire run of our podcast, and this is taking it to the next level. It's like literally writing the trade, and then chopping it up with like a butcher's knife, and here's the first issue. Alex:         Yeah, which is, it's a good first issue, and I highly recommend picking it up. But it just, it needs more, for me. Pete:         I don't… Yeah, I disagree. I think the ending was a fucking crazy ending and it's a kind of fun place to leave it off until next time. Alex:         It's good. It's a good book. Definitely pick it up. That's why we wanted to lead with it. Next up, Dark Nights: Death Metal #3 from DC Comics written by Scott Snyder and art by Greg Capullo. Talk about wild. This is a wild ride to through the DC Universe. The heroes of the DC Universe are being completely beaten down by the Batman Who Laughs, who now is the Dark Knight, I think he's called. Justin:       The Darkest Knight. Alex:         Yeah, there we go… Because he has Doctor Manhattan powers. They're trying to stave off the death of the Multiverse as usual, as you do. And so, they've invaded Apocalypse to go and rescue Superman in this issue. Some other things happen. How'd did you feel about this? Pete:         Now this is just a fun comic. Like by the title it's like, Dark Nights: Death Metal. Like let's take this, what we know and love, and just turn it to 11. You got para Robins; you've got like insane crazy ideas. Everything is fun and over the top about this. You've got Superman with like knuckle-dusters on. I mean this is just crazy fun that like you know, just makes the young kid inside of you excited about what you're seeing on the page. [00:05:00] Justin:       The way you even structure your review, Pete, reminds me of Stefon on SNL, which is actually sort of a good description of this book. But it's like you want to go to the craziest night club in the DC Universe. [laughter] Pete:         Yeah. Justin:       You've got Batman a dinosaurs, you've got a dwarf riding another Batman. And that's literally what this is, it's like a million ideas jammed up in a blender and spread out over a crisis style storyline line. And I like it as well. It's like they took a hammer to the Elseworld's annual crossover from like the late ‘90s, smashed up all those bits, jammed them together, and we're like, “This is an event we're actually going to spend some time in.” And this issue, especially, I thought was super fun. All the Superman stuff was great. The Mister Miracle escape, all that. I… Pete:         Yeah. The use of Mister Miracle is amazing. The dark side of Batman was crazy. Like seeing Wonder Woman with like a metal ass chainsaw. It was just so badass. Justin:       I could do with a few less Batman, let me just say that. Alex:         Yes, it is… We're reaching critical mass with Batman, and I think they would kind of realized that to the point where Harley Quinn is like, “Man, he's really good with branding”, and just calling that out. And I think like that's the sort of cheeky self-awareness that makes this work, because it's Scott Snyder realizing how ludicrously over the top it is. Everything that's going on and leaning into that, versus saying, “No, no, no. This is serious stuff here. Okay, there's a lot of Batman.” It doesn't feel… The stakes are high, but it doesn't feel serious at any point, and I think that's good. Like that gets into you. One of my favorite characters from Scott Snyder's run, we get Jarro the pint-sized Starro [overlap talk] who think Batman is his dad. Pete:         Come on. Alex:         It's great. It's super fun, and cute. Justin:       It's so funny. Alex:         That's enjoyable. I do want to ask you guys… Pete:         The all hands in moment was fun. Alex:         Super fun. I did feel like this issue was a little more expository than I would've liked. There was a lot of standing around and be like, “Okay, real quick, here's what we need to do, and here's what's going on. This is complicated. I'm just going to bring you up to speed”, in between the fun moments. But there was a hint that there's something else going on with both Batman and Superman, where they turn to each other in the middle, after they freed Superman. And I think it's Superman says, “Does Diana know about you?” And Batman says, “No. Does she know about you?” So, what do you think's going on with them? What is the deal? Justin:       I don't know, that moment it stressed me out little bit because it… To me, not to be the Pete in the situation… Pete:         Yeah. Justin:       But it made me feel like it's going to be like, “Did you tell her that this is all a simulation that's happening?”  “No, I didn't tell her. Did you?” It felt like a ‘too cool for school secret' that I don't want to disrupt the flow just when I'm really getting into the flow of the book. Pete:         Yeah, yeah. Alex:         Yeah. I could see something like that. I mean my big thought is that Batman is already dead. That he died, that's why he's running around with the Black Lantern Ring. That's why he was able to escape the omega beams, that hit him from the Dark Side Batman. I don't know what Superman's secret is, but to me that feels like the most reasonable thing that could happen to him, and that would be sad for Diana because they essentially have already lost. Pete:         Well, but like this is, it sort of exists in the dark Multiverse. So, it's the flip flop of everything. So, maybe that's the win, the fact that they're already dead or there's something, where it's going to be something with emotional resonance, like them being dead, but that is actually the victory they find or the loophole they escape through. Alex:         I mean, I think you kind of just said this, but what if the whole thing is in the Dark Multiverse? What if they're not in the Real Multiverse at all but this is just where the heroes have lost already, and this the flip side of the story to show them the way that things could've have gone horribly wrong. Justin:       Yeah, I mean that to me… Because all this hype about like this is the real continuity. I'm like, “I don't need that.” This is just as good a story if it takes place in a Dark Multiverse, but I think what emerges from that I guess is what the lesson is. It's are we going to get this Superman in the world or some version of these characters. Alex:         Good fun stuff. Moving on, Something is Killing the Children #9 from BOOM! Studios written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Werther Dell'Edera. If you happen to read this book Something is Killing the Children, it's a bunch of monsters. They like to eat children. And there's one woman who may or may not be able to stop them. In this issue, she trying to appeal to a young boy who has previously been attacked by the monsters to try and act as bait for them. Man, this book is so good. So, well drawn, so well written. This is almost the opposite of what I was saying with Seven Secrets where it's like not a lot happens every issue but it feels so weighted every single time. [00:10:06] Justin:       Yeah, there's just a creeping dread all the time, and we get little dribs and drabs of backstory each time. It's really interesting, and also really horrifying, the stuff that happens. The adults feel like they're crippled and stuck in place the entire time. There's a whole section about like, “I'm just handing out beers, because I don't know what else to do.” While the kids are either being murdered or trying to act against these monsters. And the sort of reveal, at the end, is interesting and maybe spins the story in a different direction. Pete:         Yeah, I mean this is a very interesting comic. Each issue has been a fun surprise of like, what's kind of in store. In this one, we kind of get her back story, the main hunter's backstory and it's very cool the way it's told. I really love the paneling and the art of this book. It's just very unique and cool. And I think this is one of my favorites in this stack. It's really great every time we get to read this. Alex:         I agree. Let's move back to Marvel for Empyre#5 story by Dan Slott and Al Ewing, written by Al Ewing, art by Valerio Schiti. And when I say move back to Marvel, this is the first time we're talking about Marvel in The Stack. I thought here's another on… [chuckle] So, this is the second to the last issue of Empyre, Marvel's big events, which is plants versus zombies. In this, the Cotati, a plant race, has been attacking Earth. They want to take over the Earth and the entire universe. The Kree and Skrull are trying to stop them. But in the middle of all of that whole Hulkling has been leading the Kree and the Skrull army, except not really. There's actually somebody masquerading as him, Wiccan who secretly married him. Figured that out the last issue. That's where they pick up this issue, with both that, and the fact, that She-Hulk, who has been taken over by one of these plant creatures, and is supposedly dead is attacking the Thing. So, lots of stuff going on here. As we round up this event, how are you feeling about it? Pete:         Well this issue, I'm like, “All right now, things are happening.” Like things are really cooking now. I feel like I'm just starting to get into this event. But this was a great issue; a lot happened. It's sad though we didn't address the She-Hulk stuff yet, but I feel like this had a great amount of kind of like story mixed with action and the weight of everything happening. I really like this issue. Justin:       I like this issue too. It really is… I'm so surprised it's ending already. It does feel like it's just ramping up. It feels so short to go right into the final movement right here. I really like that they folded in the wedding between Hulkling and Wiccan, as sort of a main story point. Like that feels really good. But I feel like I need two more issues to really elevate the stakes. And if the She-Hulk death is like the whole thing here, it's like… I don't know, it feels a little disjointed. Alex:         It's… Pete:         I… Oh, I'm sorry… Alex:         All I was going to say is, this struck me over the past couple of issues but it really started to hit me with this one. And I know this isn't a TV show, so it's the wrong term, but there's not enough sets in this book. Like it takes place… Pete:         Ha… Weird. Alex:         It takes place on the alien ship mostly, where they really haven't left the throne room that Hulkling is in. And then there's a couple of glimpses of other places that they go to that mostly seem motivated by what's happening in the spin offs side stories. So, we get a bunch of stuff at Wakanda, but it's more like here's an overview of what's happening in other places, and then Tony Stark and Reed Richards are just hanging out in Avengers Mountain and putting together a suit. So, like you guys are saying every issue of this is good and fun. Dan Slott and Al Ewing know what they're doing. Valero Schiti's art is very good superhero art, but there's not a lot going on, which is surprising. Pete:         Yeah… So first of, I want to say I'm sorry Wakanda is not enough for you. Secondly, I love… Alex:         Hey, what can you, Wakanda do about that? Pete:         Ahhhhhh… Justin:       Oh, boy. Alex:         Giddy-up… [chuckles] Pete:         Anyways… I really love The Thing stuff in here like this. Like when you're talking about a classic fight and this whole thing about giving up. I thought that was a perfect kind of monologue for The Thing to have. I really thought it was a cool bad ass moment. Alex:         Yeah, I agree The Thing stuff is good, the character stuff is good, like I was saying it's well written, it's well drawn. I just want a little more out of a big cosmic event. Justin:       Yeah, of course, the small moments are great and you would expect that out of these writers, but like when you think about the great epic crossovers like Infinity Gauntlet, every issue a massive event happened, and you really felt the movement of the book. [00:15:00] And to your point Alex, there aren't a lot of sets; the movement has been very small. And you want those big sweeping moments like remember that… I want to say fifth issue of Infinity Gauntlet, when all of the beings of the universe showed up and it was like, “holy shit”. It felt huge, and this feels small. Alex:         Maybe part of it is the name. They've been selling it as this big event. They've been building up for a while. They called it Empyre, and so far, the Cotati haven't done anything. Like they're trying to take over Earth, but we don't get to actually see them really taking over Earth. Not to armchair write this but I want to see them take over Earth in issue one, and then expand outward from that like what happens next how what happens when they start to actually take over the universe make this a big thing and it just I don't know it feels small. Next up, Dryad #4 from Oni Press, written by Curtis Wiebe and illustrated by Justin Osterling. We launched this in a live show, but we are setting up an interview with the creative team. So, check for that in your local Comic Book Club feed. But this book is great and wild, every issue. We talked about it as the heir to Saga very purposely. I think, in the promotional materials, they call it the Saga Continues for the next issues. But if you haven't been reading, it started off as a fantasy story. It's about two parents, take their kids, hide out in a fantasy style town. Turns out, it's not really a fantasy world; it's actually a tech world with some fantasy looking creatures. Magic has disappeared, except the dad actually has magic. And last issue, they got picked up by a mercenary team, and taken back to the city that they've fled from, that's where they had this issue. Things go terribly wrong for there. I just don't know what this book is, from issue to issue, and I love it. I love it. [chuckle] Justin:       Yeah, it's mixing up a lot of stuff in a good way though it's moving through it very specifically in a smart way. I'm totally on board with it. The Saga comparison is great. I that we've made that… I think it also reminds me of Ascender and Descender as well; the image book. Because it is blending that science and magic worlds. Pete:         Yeah, I just think it's very interesting the way each issue is so different. This one is very action packed and a lot of crazy stuff going on. So, it's very cool when you pick up a book and you think you're like you have an understanding of it and it still surprises you. Justin:       Yep. Alex:         Good stuff. Let's move on to The Flash #759, from DC Comics, written by Joshua Williamson art by Rafa Sandoval and Scott Kolins. This kicking off finish line, which is technically Joshua Williamson's, I believe, last arc on The Flash. Something he teased way back when he was on our live show. So, this is something he's been building to for a really long time. Reverse Flash, Professor Zoom, has taken over Barry Allen's body, stranded him in the Speed Force, and meanwhile, he's trying to turn all of his friends against him. I know you guys aren't really into the speedsters. I, of course, enjoyed this issue because I love the speedsters. Love Bart Allen, like seeing him interacting with Barry and everybody else. What'd you guys feel about this one? Pete:         Well, I felt like we had, the art's unbelievable. And then, we had like an evil Flash messing with a younger big haired Flash, and then all old timey Flash was like, “Leave them damn kids alone.” Alex:         Oh, it was great, what a great cliff-hanger. Justin:       Yep, what a great summary of the book. Almost like a live reading of it. [chuckles] Alex as such a fan of the speedsters, does this make you like do wind sprints or does this make you sort of speed up in your own life. Alex:         I never stop moving when I read this book. Pete:         Wow. Alex:         Like I'm just, I'm going, going, going, the entire time. Justin:       Always on your treadmill that doesn't travel through time. Your very terrestrial… Alex:         My comic treadmill. [overlap talk] Justin:       Ah, that's good stuff. Pete:         Oh, boy. Justin:       I like this. I love Impulse, one of my favorite characters in the original comic, way back in the day. So, it's great to see him here and sort of getting a little bit of an emotional moment, which I think is something that's been missing from the character of Bart Allen for a while. It's sad to see Barry Allen being such a jerk. Alex:         Yep. There you go… Next up, Adventureman #3 from Image Comics written by Matt Fraction, pencils and colors by Terry Dodson, inks by Rachel Dodson. This about a woman who discovers that the old timey pulp hero, she loves and obsessed with, was actually real. She becomes the heir to his power and his mysteries and everything else. In this issue, she's dealing with that in some very weird ways. [00:20:01] As it turns out, she's just getting real buff and larger. And getting information that is powered by the pulp stories that powered Adventureman. This is great. I love seeing Matt Fraction just having fun and also clearly just leaning into letting the Dodson's do their stuff. Pete:         Yeah, yeah. This is what, I mean if you're going to say… The art is worth picking this up alone. I mean this is definitely… Alex:         If I was going say that Pete? Pete:         If anybody was going to say it. I'm just saying… Justin:       If any one of the three of us were to hypothetically say that… [chuckle] Let's call it a catch phrase. Pete:         Yeah. I feel like… This story is good, but really, it's just fantastic art, and it's so weird the way we're kind jumping between worlds and stuff. But I'm very interested in the story. I think it moves really well. We're kind of finding things out with the main character, which is cool. But yeah, it's interesting. I'm curious to see how this kind of unfolds. Justin:       The main character grows 15 inches in her time. What would happen with you guys if one of you or both of you grew 15 inches Alex:         Whew. I would probably scratch against the ceiling, first of all, in this basement where I'm taping right now. Justin:       [chuckle] That's right, because you're already six two, right? Alex:         Yeah, I'm very tall, as you guys know. [chuckes] Justin:       Yeah. Pete:         Yep. Justin:       Maybe you have grown this much. We don't even know. Alex:         That'll probably hurt a lot, right? Justin, you probably know this, but when my kids grow, they go crazy, like literally, insane. Justin:       Yeah… When children grow, they scream the entire time, right? Alex:         Yup, pretty much. Justin:       That's what happening with my kids… Pete, if you grew, you'd be mad, though, because you like to be Wolverine sized. Pete:         Yeah, I like to be short. But I would say if I would've have grown 15 inches maybe like during high school, that would've been glorious. Really could've changed my volleyball career. Alex:         Too many inches… Too many inches, I don't like it. Justin:       Also, I'd like a longer definition of volleyball career, eventually, but that's cool… It's cool for now. I like this comic a lot. I think we've given sort of the crown of cleanest comic to a TV or movie adaptation to Kieron Gillen's Once and Future. I think we can share that crown with this book. It feels like very much writing it for the eventual TV show or movie that this would become. Alex:         Yeah, and Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick have that TV production arm, Neutral Milk Hotel or whatever it's called… Justin:       [chuckle] Whoa… Hipster slam… Pete:         Hipster slam… Alex:         Yuhhh… Got you guys, know I love you. I think you're amazing. We're happy over your house, once. It was very nice. Marauders #11 from Marvel Comics, written by Gerry Duggan and art by Stefano Caselli. Pete:         The Duggs! Alex:         This is… Man, this cover, so nervous with this cover. You know I love the Kate Pryde, man. I was really nervous, man, Pete:         Yeah, man. Alex:         I was really freaking out, it was tweaking here. Justin:       It's game over man. Alex:         Game over, Red. So, Kate Pryde was killed off a couple of issues back, by Sebastian Shaw on a boat. She wasn't coming back. She wasn't allowed to Krakoa. They couldn't reincarnate her in a new body. That's what this issue is dealing with. I'll spoil it right here… Three, two, one… Kate Pryde comes back! They figure out how to get her back. It turns out that she wasn't able to phase through their eggs, and all that Emma needs to do is pull her through. I'll tell you what, I love that Gerry Duggan is pushing the ‘frenemy-ship' or whatever you want to call it between Emma Frost and Kate Pryde. So much fun, I'm glad she's back. I know there's more mysteries to figure out but this a good book. I enjoyed it. Pete:         I got some questions. Alex:         Yeah, what up, Pete? Pete:         So, we get kind of, she has like a Viking funeral, do they purposely kind of make her look like Michael Jackson… In the boat? Or is that just me… Justin:       Let me ask you, Pete… Pete:         Like it was a weird choice, for she has like the kind of red jacket, and then the quarters over eyes or half dollars… Alex:         Oh yeah, like how Michael Jackson always had half dollars over his eyes? Pete:         No, but I mean it looks like a Michael Jackson outfit. Justin:       Like Captain Eel? Pete:         Yeah, I'm just… Maybe it's just me… Alex:         Okay. Pete:         But anyways… Justin:       Let me argue… Maybe say, Pete… I feel like maybe you're looking… If you guys have an X-Men book, you're maybe looking for something to… I believe it's called nit-pick? Pete:         Oh, interesting. Justin:       Or Pete-pick? Pete:         You know, I don't… Yeah, I mean, so we see a funeral, and then it's like me really like, “No, no… “ It was just the we didn't figure out the eggs part, right? Which, “Okay, cool, cool”  but then there was this weird moment where it was like, “Yeah, it took 18 eggs.”… “Oh, so she's 18 now?” Like that was a weird pervy moment. Alex:         Hold on. First of all, A) definitely misinterpreting that. But I did want to ask about that moment just because it's Nightcrawler calls out that they tried to resurrection her 18 times. I did a quick search for that because it seemed to me that was like some sort of religious thing that I wasn't picking up on. I couldn't find anything on it. I don't know if you guys know if there's anything from non-Judaism? I want to say Christianity or Catholicism… But something that is about 18 resurrections? Is there anything about that? Pete:         No. Not that I know… That's just why I thought it was something about her age or something because she's always been younger. Alex:         No, it's not about the age. It's definitely about like the 18 resurrections. So, I don't know if it means that there's like 18 Kate Pryde bodies out there that Nightcrawler's going to find, or if that is a specific reference to something. It was definitely a weird moment, but it was not a creepy age moment. Pete:         Okay, well it's definitely a weird moment that stuck out to me. Justin:       I would say we're not the most theological podcast hosts, when it comes to doing a deep dive on a religious reference. Alex:         Sure… Pizza priest though. Justin:       Pizza priest… No, pizza, pizza priest. Alex:         Yehey, pizza priest. Pete:         Yeah… Have a pizza priest. I'm not a regular priest. Justin:       Nice… I don't know the reference. I did like this book. I liked the position Kate Pryde had in the X-Men world where she was sort of ‘outsided' and not allowed. It's a good mystery. I don't know if that's over now, or what the deal is going forward. But I think this book is a fun sort of side book to the X-Men universe right now. Alex:         Yeah, I agree. Stefano Caselli's art is always good. Let's move on to Judge Dredd: False Witness #2 from IDW, story by Brandon Easton, art by Zei Kama, excuse me, Kei Zama. I think we have some pretty nice things to say about this book last time, which is why I thought it would be interesting to revisit. This is somebody on the outskirts, who lives in the wastelands outside of Mega-City One, comes into the city finds out that him and other people like him are being harvested. And that's where we pick up this issue. He continues to run very parallel to the storyline with Judge Dredd. But I like this book. I think, I'm surprised how much I like this book because I'm not the usual Judge Dredd fan. But I think it's doing a good job of channeling social commentary storytelling character along the way, even though you do have these two characters that really have not met yet at all. Justin:       I feel like a lot a book we'll talk about in a little bit, Transformers book, and a lot of like books that have been around for a long time that maybe need a little reinvention. I think there's been a lot of smart takes, and this feels like right in that line where it's like, “Let's look at these characters from a different angle and find a new story here.” I don't know what… so I like this. It remind me of a show called Exosquad… You guys ever watch Exosquad back in the day? Alex:         No… I've heard the name. Justin:       Pete, no? Pete:         Nothing. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking… Justin:       Cartoon… Very cool. Pete:         What's it about? Help me out. Justin:       It's a lot like, sort of pilots of these mech-suits. They have cool haircut. There's a lot of good relationships in it. It's fun. Pete:         Cool. Justin:       It's in the world in the sort of the style of Starcom, you ever watch that? Pete:         No. No. Justin:       I guess maybe I grew up in a different Multiverse. [chuckles] Alex:         Yeah. Pete:         Yeah. I guess so. Alex:         This does feel like stuff that is right across to play for you, Pete. I'm surprised you don't know it. Pete:         Yeah, yeah. I mean you can't watch every cartoon, I guess. Justin:       That's true. Pete:         Yeah, I would like to try, I would like to try, yeah. I just want this to kind of get going. I thought this was really cool comic I do like this, but I wanted the main characters to kind of come together a little bit it. It seemed a little too side story, but I really think it's very cool. Art's great. Alex:         Let's move on to something that was a huge surprise for me in a very pleasant way. Wonder Woman #760 from DC Comics, written by Mariko Tamaki, art by Mikel Janin. So, Wonder Woman is, at least initially, going up against Maxwell Lord, thinks Maxwell Lord is brain washing a bunch of people in the city. By the end, things seem to be going at a very different direction. Mariko Tamaki is… On such a roll. Justin:       Yeah. Alex:         Just with writing, with her storytelling, with every that's going on. This is one of the better Wonder Woman arcs I think I've read in a very long time. [00:30:04] I love that it's not mining the Greek Gods stuff anymore, or anything like that. But it still feels very emotionally grounded. And man, Mikel Janin's art is gorgeous. Pete:         So good. Justin:       Yeah, the art is so good in this. How about that cute rabbit… I mean damn. Alex:         Yes. Justin:       Yeah, Melanie the Rabbit, I believe is the name. Alex:         Yeah… I also want to call out the cover, which is one of the best covers I've seen in a really long time. Pete:         Yeah, I just Wonder Woman, like kind of talking shit to robots. I loved it. Justin:       Well what I liked about this and a lot of Mariko Tamaki's work is, rather than… I feel there's such a trend in trying to scoop up every aspect of the characters and trying to like mash it up and be like, “This is what it all means.” and I think that's just, it's so much work when this is just a great story that is like scoping up some aspects, and being like, “Here are the things about Wonder Woman I want to talk about,” and then telling that story. And I think this is great. If you're a fan of Alias, the (Brian Michael) Bendis book from back in the day, the Jessica Jones character…  I think feel like there's a connection point there, especially with the Purple Man stuff, in this book. Pete:         Yeah, yeah. You got the creepy mind control guy. But yeah, I really think the art is great. We get the pair of demons, there's a lot of fun stuff going on. But yeah, the writing is the real hero. This is very interesting. I'm excited to see where this goes. Alex:         Let's roll out to a new book from Image Comics, Big Girls #1, story and art by Jason Howard. This is about a world where some children are growing to gigantic size, men grow into monsters, women usually grow into gigantic helpful people… There's one… [chuckles] Justin:       That's such a true statement. Alex:         Yeah. A gigantic helpful woman who is trying to hold back the monsters. And that's basically what you get in the first issue, as well as some moral quandaries. I overall like this, but had some concerns about it. Curious to hear what you guys think though. Pete:         Yeah, there was a kind of a real fucked up moment in the book. Justin:       Yes. Pete:         That I was like, “Yeah, I don't know if you can come back from that.” But it's a fun premise. It's cool. The art's great. I'm excited to see where this goes but it's an interesting enough story that I'm definitely going to pick up the next issue. Justin:       Yeah, I agree that. It felt like, of all the comics we read and cite, it's so hard to have a premise that feels super fresh, and then executing it in a way that invites you in with the characters. And I think this book does a good job of that and it's a fun surprising idea, and it's such a visual idea that I think is well done. And the emotional hit that… I guess we're not spoiling… It was sort of harsh. Pete:         Yeah… It was very harsh Justin:       Especially, the way the story was told where that harsh moment happened, and then the reason why it happened came after, which I think was smart from a storytelling perspective, but a little more difficult to read. Pete:         Yeah. It was tough on the reader. Alex:         I'm curious to see where they go with this one, because my big concern about it was, I love the idea that men grow up to be monsters, women are the only people who could protect us… Like there's so much metaphor that you can mine there, and I think it hasn't quite gotten there yet and it also muddies the ground a lot with the reveal at the end of the issue, which again, I won't spoil here. So, it's going to be interesting to see what Jason Howard has to say with this comic, and how he says it. Particularly, because he is a man saying something about misogyny, so I don't know. There's a lot of opportunity with this book, and I'm very excited to see where it goes. Jason Howards aren't always very good, but again, I'm a little concerned/nervous about what direction it might head in. Justin:       I really thought earlier on, that you're going to say, “Oh, it's like men are from Mars and women, they're from Venus.” [chuckles] Alex:         Yeah. Have you thought about that?… Have you thought about it? Immortal Hulk #36 from Marvel, written by Al Ewing and art by Joe Bennett. Man, this book is fucked up bad. Oh my god. Justin:       Yeah. Alex:         It's fucked up… Hulk is now, Dumb Hulk, and Rick is evil, and turned into to a horrible monster. Absorbing Man is getting ripped into pieces. Horrible things are happening all the time. Pete:         I can't take this anymore… I'm tapping out. I want my Hulk back. I can't… This was cool for a little while, guys. But it's getting weird now. [chuckles] It's getting really weird now, guys. Justin:       I still love this book. I'm very excited for the story line coming with a leader; I feel like we're leading up to. [00:35:03] Pete:         Yeah. Justin:       But… Alex:         Well, I think the leader is inside of Rick, right? Justin:       Yeah, but it's like… Well the trap hasn't been fully sprung; I feel like. Alex:         Okay. Justin:       But I also think another title for this book would be, Everybody's Clay Face…? Pete:         Yeah. Justin:       In a lot of ways… And to Pete's point, how does Hulk come back from this and go back to being just a regular old dude? Pete:         I just… Yeah… I can't anymore. Alex:         I feel like they're already doing it though, right? Like there was no way they were going to keep Hulk out of crossovers and showing up in other books. I wish they had. I wish they could've kept it in this own pocket thing. But they've already had him show up, and be like, “Yeah, I'm the Asshole Hulk, let me help you.” [chuckles] It just doesn't quite work at all. But to your point, Justin… Like particularly, Joe Bennett's art is… Shade. The splash page towards the beginning that reveals the twisted monstrous Rick… Pete:         No… no… Alex:         Is nightmarish like literally out of a nightmare and it's… amazing. It's great stuff. Justin:       Yeah. Pete:         It's too much. Alex:         Stealth #4 from Image Comics. Pete:         They've gone too far. Alex:         [chuckle] Stealth #4 from Image Comics written by Mike Costa and art by Nate Bellegarde… I don't know why I can't pronounce that name. So, this is starting to wrap up. This story about a man who has this powerful like Dark Hawk-esk armor, the stealth armor. He is suffering for dementia. It may be because of the armor, maybe not. His son is trying to track him down and save him/help him/slash stop him Meanwhile, there's a two-faced… Half-faced, I guess, gangster… Pete:         Half a face. Alex:         Half a face, who's trying to kill him. This book is so good. And particularly, Nate Bellegarde's pacing… Pete:         Yeah. Justin:       Yeah. Alex:         That's between like amazing action and hilarious moments. Particularly in this issue, that are wonderful. Justin:       And just, there's a couple of panels… This guy gets shot, sort of halfway, maybe in the two thirds away through the book. And it's just… It's so surprisingly done that it really sticks with you. A lot of the angles that that he chooses to draw the characters from are so good. It's just a great book. Pete:         Yeah, it's really awesome. There's some real cool fight sequence stuff like this one guy gets his leg kicked in, that was really brutal. But also, what's tough for me is to see a sweet white Lincoln get destroyed. And that was that was tough. That was tough to watch. But this is a great book. Fun design on the villain, it keeps getting more and more interesting, and yeah, I'm very, very much enjoying this book. Alex:         Great stuff… Amazing Spider-Man #46 from Marvel written by Nick Spencer, and art by Marcelo Ferreira. It's continuing with the Sins Rising storyline where the Sin-Eater is back. Turns out the Sin-Eater is maybe not exactly what you think he is, and he is attacking villains. And in this issue, maybe be making them better, maybe making them worse, not entirely clear. Justin, you were very excited about this issue talk about it a little bit. Justin:       I can't believe the turn that Nick Spencer's taken this book on. After doing such a light hearted Spider-Man, and then now the Sin-Eater story, the set-up issues, and then getting here, it's like so much more topical, so much more like satirical. And it's just, these panels where Sin-Eater kills this villain and then we get this moment where the crowd starts clapping… It was devastating, and it felt like it just, it activated all of my stress about our world in a way. And Pete, to you, I don't know what you think about this. But it feels like an indictment of the Punisher, and that whole… His whole world… Pete:         Yeah, yeah. I mean they're like basically booing people who clap at violence. You know what I mean? But it's also tough because it's like there's violence in comics, and there's real life. But this is supposedly real life and they're saying that like people would enjoy killing in real life, which I don't think, if you like the Punisher that's not what you're saying in life. I mean there might be people out there like that. But I think it's nice to have a person like the Punisher fighting a good fight, instead of like going through things in normal way. It's a creative outlet for things and your anger, or this is saying people are too dark… [00:40:01] People are too fucked up, the world is too fucked up. And this is very depressing. I'm very surprised that you like this issue. This is my least favorite. You got Spider-Man kind of shaken to his core being like, “I can't believe everybody clapped. What kind of world this is? I don't feel like the quippy self, happy go lucky Spider-Man.” And it's kind of like the darkness of the world is affecting Spider-Man here. Justin:       I love that though. I think that is what… It feels like Nick Spencer is channeling the world around him, and being like, “This world feels darker than I ever thought it was.” And Spider-Man doesn't have a place in that world, in this world. And he's showing that in the story, and using this Sin-Eater as a way of talking about that, I think, is just so smart. I really love this story. Alex:         It's definitely very surprising and going in different directions. Let's move on and talk about Transformers Galaxies #8 from IDW, written by Sam Maggs, art by Beth McGuire-Smith and Umi Miyao. This is something that I think we were very surprised about the last issue. This is about a young Transformer on a ship that is escaping from Cybertron, turns out things are not exactly what they seem. This issue where he… He? She? I don't know, bro?… Yep… Pete:         It's a robot. Alex:         A robot has met up with Arcee and Greenlight to the Transformers, who revealed the truth about what's going on. And course, everybody is being brainwashed, they're trying to… they're the baddies, and yeah, that's kind what it follows. Another really good issue of this title just because it grounds the emotion of the Transformers which I am very impressed by. Justin:       Yeah, I agree. I love this. This feels like a Twilight Zone or a Black Mirror version of a Transformers story. It's tense. It's sort of stressful. It gets into like philosophy, religion, and it's just really well done. Pete:         Yeah, it's very interesting. It's cool, this kind of series, characters kind of find this information struggle within stuff. I think this as, it's hard because I keep wanting there to be more Transformers that I know, you know what I mean? They talk about Cybertron, and all that kind of stuff, and Primus… But like I keep wanting to see like a different Transformers that I know from the ‘80s, and from the cartoons, and stuff like that… But the fact that they're telling this kind of more original story is very cool. Justin:       You want them to turn into cars. Pete:         No, I just want like Laserbeak to be in the background, spying on them or you know something else. Justin:       Would you say there's more than meets the eye here? Pete:         Oh yeah, there is more. Justin:       One more question… Alex:         The thing I… Justin:       Oh, go ahead… You go ahead… Alex:         No, no, please I want to I hear your question. Justin:       No, it's just definitely unrelated [chuckle]. Alex:         My question is also unrelated, so you go ahead. Justin:       Okay, great. Well then, let me ask you… Pete, as a pizza priest, are you marrying slices back together or how does that work? Are you a priest, two slices of pizza? Or are you bringing the good word of pizza to the people? Pete:         I'm doing both. I am bringing slices together. I'm am also, trying to make sure that people know about the good pizza, are partaking in some good pizza. Alex:         Do you ever take two slices of pizza, and hold one on each hand, and say, “I now pronounce you”, and then slapped them together and say, “Calzone!” [chuckles] Pete:         No no, I wouldn't do that. That's sacrilege. Alex:         Got you… Back to the Transformer book, the main thing that I was thinking about the entire issue, do Transformers kiss? And when they kiss does it sound terrible? Like because they're two like… Justin:       Metal on metal. Alex:         Yeah, like two cars smashing into each other. Pete:         Yeah, but it doesn't sound bad to them. Alex:         Right, but would it sound bad to us humans? Pete:         Yes. Yeah, sure. Justin:       Like when cars kiss, we call it an accident. [chuckle] Pete:         Yeah, it's loud. Alex:         That's true. Last book we're talking about Excellence #9 from Image Comics created and written by Brandon Thomas, created in art by Khary Randolph. I know we have talked about every issue of this book. But every issue of this book is absolutely insane. Pete:         Phenomenal. Alex:         Oh my god, so good. Justin:       So, good. Alex:         This issue we have our main character who's been trying to start a magic revolution. Travels to a library to gather information, and finds out he is way out of his depth.  He is doing this way to soon, but now it is too late because he has already started the revolution. God, I love how direct every issue is in terms of the story it's telling. [00:45:03] And also, of course, Khary Randolph's art is out of control. Justin:       Yeah. Pete:         It's bananas. The character designs are fantastic. It's got like an old-school hip hop vibe to it. It's glorious. The panel work is… This is just such a fun book. Justin:       Yeah. This book… We talk about it so much, please check this book out it is… I'm trying to think of… Because the art isn't like reminiscent of a particular other style, it just encapsulates so much of just great comic book art from very still, emotional panels to super dynamic action panels. It's just a real textbook book on great comic book art, as on the writing and art side. Alex:         There's a thing that happens… I will now spoil something that happens in the issue, but as he comes into the library, he sees a bunch of grannies who were looking at him, and he's like, “That's weird they never looked at me before.” When he messes up, they all pop up and they're like, “Oh, that's it. You fucked up. We're taking you down son.” And there's a panel where there's just all three of them floating in the air about to attack him that I think I shouted, “Oh, shit!”, out loud when I was reading it. [chuckle] It's great. The action in this book is great. It's so tense. It's so creative. Definitely picking up. And that's it for The Stack. If you like to support us, Patreon.com/comicbookclub. Also, we do a live show every Tuesday to Crowdcast and YouTube. Come, hangout, and chat about comic books with us… iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher or the app of your choice, to subscribe and listen to the show. ComicBookClubLive.com for this podcast or at Comic Book Live on Twitter. Come chat with us. And that's it. We'll see you next time at the Virtual Comic Book Shop. Pete:         I now pronounce you, pepperoni and mushrooms. [chuckles] It's a good combo. [00:47:02] The post The Stack: Seven Secrets, Dark Nights Death Metal And More appeared first on Comic Book Club. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Flashuary, fellow Flash Museumgoers! This month our host Ryan is taking the boys through a curated list of some of the most infamous Flash stories, starting with Barry Allen v. Eobard Thawne AKA Professor Zoom (as well as an extended discussion over the trial of Barry Allen)! There’s drug rings, time travel, a […]

Because Oatman demanded it, we finally take a look at the DC animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. SPOILERS begin at the 7:30 minute mark. Other topic discussed: Star Trek: Voyager

The Flash meets the Reverse Flash for the first two times while villain from the 1960s battle to win top ranking in the prison newspaper.Affiliate link included. Transcript:Graham:Meet the Reverse Flash for the first time as we take a look at The Flash: The Silver Age Vol. 3, straight ahead. [Intro Music]Announcer:Welcome to the Classy Comics podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise Idaho, here is your host Adam Graham Graham:The third volume of Flash Silver Age comics features some milestones but a little bit less than in previous volumes. Probably the first one that happens. This book, I should say, collects issues 134 to 147of the Flash, running up to about September of 1967. The first big thing that happens is in Flash number 135, when the earth is being invaded from another dimension and Wally West gets a new costume. His original Kid Flash costume was just a mini Flash costume. A bolt extends from Barry's chest and changes his costume into the traditional Kid Flash costume, which I think is just a great look. Barry says that the costumes being the same could create confusion and it didn't really do it too much because you could always tell from a perspective, as long as you made it clear that Barry was bigger, draw him bigger, you could tell who was who but you don't always look at people from that particular perspective. So, now with the new costume, and they actually drew a few panels where Wally was in the foreground and was bigger, just because of his placement in the panel but you could still tell it was Wally. So, it was a nice change. One thing I don't like about it is because you have the bolt of energy extending from Barry's chest to change the costume, he delivers a page long technobabble incomprehensible explanation of why it happened, which has to do with the interdimensional alien invasion and super weapons. It just bogs down the story. It would just have been a lot simpler and made a lot more sense just to have Barry say, “By the way, I've been thinking our costumes, you need your own look. I came up with this design. What do you think?”, and if he likes it, just super sew it up, be a lot simpler. But at any rate, it does introduce that classic look for Kid Flash. Issue 139 introduces the Reverse Flash, one of the most dangerous and deadly Flash villains. He is a man from the 25th century, who, his favorite historical character is the Flash but not for fighting crime or virtue, that part he doesn't like. He just likes it that he goes really fast, which I think explains why some people like superheroes. Not for their values but just because they do cool things even if they don't really like the superheroes' virtues. So, what had happened was that a time capsule was sent into the future and it was found and Eobard Thawne ran off with the Flash costume that the Flash had put in the time capsule. The goofiness of the origin comes from the fact that Thawne's claim was that there were super speed wave patterns that were on the costume from 500 years previously that he was able to amplify with 25th century technology. I mean it's a really silly idea for giving him powers. The story is good once he gets powers and really tries to find a way to compete with the Flash and the Flash travels back in time. It's a really fun epic story. I think the second story is better in issue 147, the second Reverse Flash story. He finds a way to…because he also goes by the name Professor Zoom, he finds a way to get powers through element Z and he comes up with a plan for a criminal activity that involves making the element man return to his life of… The Element Man really has been trying to reform, and so there is this sort of battle for his future and for his life between the Flash and the Reverse Flash that really is just a nice touch for this issue.

In this episode, Curt and Kevin lace up their running shoes for a mad dash through a mad, mad world as they careen headlong into Flashpoint, the five-issue miniseries by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert — the storyline that paved the way for DC Comics' New 52! Barry Allen, a.k.a. the Flash, wakes up one day to a drastically different reality: His late mother is alive, he's lost his super-speed, and the Justice League never existed. And as a war between Aquaman and Wonder Woman threatens to tear this world apart, Barry begins to lose his memories of the world he knew! Will Flash's arch-nemesis Professor Zoom have the last laugh, leaving Barry marooned in this darkest timeline? Or can the fastest man alive avert Armageddon, set history back on its proper course, and race across the finish line into that winner's circle known as … The Comics Canon? Things Discussed in This Episode: • Season 3 of The Flash • Geoff Johns, The New 52 and Rebirth • Event books • Alternative history stories • No one likes that one guy … • Time travel • The Speed Force • Professor Zoom is a lousy super-villain Join us in two weeks as we web-swing our way back to the Big Apple (and Marvel Comics) to relive The Night Gwen Stacy Died! Until then, we want to hear from you! Rate us on iTunes, send us an email, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook. We'll read your comments in an upcoming episode, and who knows? You could win a prize from the Comics Canon Prize Vault! And as always, thanks for listening!

Corey and Mat discuss this week's news, and Mat gets a bit more in-depth with his thoughts on Fantastic Four. The two discuss this week's comics, answer your questions and talk to Van Jensen and Brett Booth about Professor Zoom's new rogues

Episode Description: Mark Mardon, who has the ability to control the weather, returns to Central City to avenge the death of his brother Clyde and sets his sight on Joe. Cisco begins to believe Joe was right about Wells, so he rechecks the containment field for the Reverse-Flash. He discovers that the Reverse-Flash was never in the containment field, and it was only a hologram. Wells arrives, reveals himself to be Eobard Thawne, a man from the future who killed Barry’s mother incidentally when he was really trying to kill Barry. Wells also reveals that he is pushing Barry to get stronger so that he can use Barry’s powers to return to his time; afterward he murders Cisco to protect his secret. Mark kidnaps Joe and forces him to watch as Mark send as tsunami into the city in the hopes of killing Iris. Barry is forced to reveal his secret identify to Iris in order to save the city. Barry runs back and forth across the coast line to create a barrier against the tsunami, but he runs so fast that he creates a time warp and travels back in time to when Mark first arrived back in Central City. 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Welcome back to The Flash Podcast! On this episode, Andy Behbakht is joined by Justin Mouton from Unleash the Fanboy and together they do a character spotlight on another very iconic Flash villain: Hunter Zolomon a.k.a. Reverse-Flash! Throughout the discussion, they go through Zolomon's comic book history in the Pre-52 era as the Reverse-Flash/Zoom as he was also known for. In addition, they talk about the differences betwen Zolomon and Eobard Thawne aka Professor Zoom! They also go through The New 52's Reverse-Flash who, in this continuity, is a member of the West family: Daniel West, the brother of Iris West. At the end of the episode, they speculate on how the new TV show is going to portray Reverse-Flash or even Professor Zoom for that matter.

Welcome back to The Flash Podcast! On this installment, Andy is joined by his friend Siike Donnelly (from OSSM Comics) who was a guest host at the start of Season 0. Together they do a character spotlight on The Flash's arch nemesis, Eobard Thawne aka Professor Zoom! Throughout the discussion, they go through Thawne's comic book history in major comic events such as "The Flash: Rebirth", "Flashpoint" as well as his appearances in the media. They also speculate on how Eddie Thawne (to be played by Rick Cosnett) is going to be like on the new TV show as wel as how Professor Zoom will be portrayed.

(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") There are rogue patrons and there are Rogue Patrons and Mr. B-Natural, Grumpiest Old Man in All the World, was usually somewhere in between.  Not an evil human being by any stretch, but a tremendously cranky man, except when in the presence of his beloved pooch, Bubba.  Our main beef with him is that Mr. B-Natural was a guy who definitely took pleasure in annoying the bejeezus out of the library staff by blatantly breaking as many rules as he could get away with just to piss us off.  To hear him tell it, a library needs patrons who break the rules, otherwise we would have no reason to have rules at all.  (Which, I think, was exactly the motivation of Professor Zoom, the arch-nemesis of The Flash.)  So he continually signed his name upside down on our computer sign in sheet and tried to sneak his coffee back to the computers for his daily crossword.  These are but a few of his stories.

(A REPOSTED CLASSIC EPISODE INTRODUCING CHARACTERS THAT PLAY A PART IN THIS WEEK'S NEW EPISODE) There are rogue patrons and there are Rogue Patrons and Mr. B-Natural, Grumpiest Old Man in All the World, was usually somewhere in between.  Not an evil human being by any stretch, but a tremendously cranky man, except when in the presence of his beloved pooch, Bubba.  Our main beef with him is that Mr. B-Natural was a guy who definitely took pleasure in annoying the bejeezus out of the library staff by blatantly breaking as many rules as he could get away with just to piss us off.  To hear him tell it, a library needs patrons who break the rules, otherwise we would have no reason to have rules at all.  (Which, I think, was exactly the motivation of Professor Zoom, the arch-nemesis of The Flash.)  So he continually signed his name upside down on our computer sign in sheet and tried to sneak his coffee back to the computers for his daily crossword.  These are but a few of his stories.

It’s the end of the Tri-Force as we know it! That’s right, this is the final PixlTalk hosted by Julian, Rob, and Patrick. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for the official announcement of our new show, Nerds Without Pants. We don’t leave you on a sour note, though. We talk about sooo many games, including Lollipop Chainsaw, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Apple Jack 2, and Julian’s reaction to  the Mass Effect 3 ending, three months late. Then we move into the sequel to the Popcast! In that episode, we talked about pop culture properties we’d like to see turned into games. This time around, we talk about  games we’d like to see move into other forms of media. Just like Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash, we present you with the Reverse Popcast. Julian and Rob have some sensible ideas when compared to the insanity that Patrick comes up with, considering that his ideas are harmful to children, adults, the elderly, and stunted monkeys. Also: Statham Sightings(tm)! We’ve had a blast bringing you our version of PixlTalk. Look forward to the new incarnation of the show, and come back for the first episode of our new PixlBit podcast: Nerds Without Pants. The Tri-Force is dead. Long live Nerds Without Pants! Featured Music: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts-Cherry Bomb The Dickies: Banana Splits (Kick-Ass film version)

It’s the end of the Tri-Force as we know it! That’s right, this is the final PixlTalk hosted by Julian, Rob, and Patrick. Stay tuned at the end of the episode for the official announcement of our new show, Nerds Without Pants. We don’t leave you on a sour note, though. We talk about sooo many games, including Lollipop Chainsaw, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Apple Jack 2, and Julian’s reaction to  the Mass Effect 3 ending, three months late. Then we move into the sequel to the Popcast! In that episode, we talked about pop culture properties we’d like to see turned into games. This time around, we talk about  games we’d like to see move into other forms of media. Just like Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash, we present you with the Reverse Popcast. Julian and Rob have some sensible ideas when compared to the insanity that Patrick comes up with, considering that his ideas are harmful to children, adults, the elderly, and stunted monkeys. Also: Statham Sightings(tm)! We’ve had a blast bringing you our version of PixlTalk. Look forward to the new incarnation of the show, and come back for the first episode of our new PixlBit podcast: Nerds Without Pants. The Tri-Force is dead. Long live Nerds Without Pants! Featured Music: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts-Cherry Bomb The Dickies: Banana Splits (Kick-Ass film version)

There are rogue patrons and there are Rogue Patrons and Mr. B-Natural, Grumpiest Old Man in All the World, was usually somewhere in between.  Not an evil human being by any stretch, but a tremendously cranky man, except when in the presence of his beloved pooch, Bubba.  Our main beef with him is that Mr. B-Natural was a guy who definitely took pleasure in annoying the bejeezus out of the library staff by blatantly breaking as many rules as he could get away with just to piss us off.  To hear him tell it, a library needs patrons who break the rules, otherwise we would have no reason to have rules at all.  (Which, I think, was exactly the motivation of Professor Zoom, the arch-nemesis of The Flash.)  So he continually signed his name upside down on our computer sign in sheet and tried to sneak his coffee back to the computers for his daily crossword.  These are but a few of his stories.