Murd's Time Bubble Talkback: The Twentieth Time
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The Time Bubble is running on Mountain Time, as Murd, just returned from the Denver Comic Con, reminisces about a batch of comics he bought during his last trip to Colorado, twelve years ago! Featured are the last pre-Straczynski Spider-Man story; a few classic Bronze Age Superman tales; and some high and low points of cosmic superheroics, '90s style! (2:25:26)
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As usual, the selection of spotlighted issues was great this Time around. I had read none of them, and yet I was thoroughly edutained.
My only complaints are petty:
-No Tammy the Cat??? You teased us with this guest-star and then promptly wrote her out of the series! Hopefully she'll be around for the Twenty-First Time. If not, if I were her, I'd think of going solo. Or maybe Jamie's Essentials would appreciate Tammy's services more.
-Toward the end, when you began to tell us that a musical ending song was imminent, I began to assume that YOU were going to sing it! The song you played for us was nice, and appropriate, but perhaps by the Thirtieth Time you will have your own rendition (or even an original composition) to sing for us yourself?
;-) Great stuff as always!
I did find that the last issue came out of left field though, and when you look at the 18ish issues of 3 Geeks/Geeksville it doesn't really fit. However I thought for a final issue it was a fitting close to their friendship. Also I just read The King this week wow that was good.
An essentials Fantastic Four podcast would be a great substitute for any future Age of Ultron-type podcasts... ugh. Assuming you meant the World's Greatest Comic as opposed to the Matt Fraction FF. Perhaps between your treatments and your big2boycott, you'll be able find the time to catch up on your reading buddy. I hope so :)
Thanks again for these podcasts guys.
And it was fun to hear you talk about the Quasar issues in this episode. BI loved that Barry Allen made a secret appearance in those issues. I'll have to search the back issue bins to find these. I would like to have them in my collection.
The Mary Jane plane crash. Ahhhh, the 90's. I feel as if MJ was "dead" for exactly 83 seconds. Cuz she was!
I had also completely forgotten that Charlie Adlard ever did art for Peter Parker: Spider-Man. Mind it, it was this one issue, but his art has become so synonymous with The Walking Dead that you forget there was ever anything else. Heck, he even did a fill-in issue of Chase back in the day!
I was a big fan of Paul Jenkins' Spider-Man, both Peter Parker and Spectacular. He had quite the grasp on Peter Parker the man, and the "Return of the Green Goblin" arc he did with Humberto Ramos is still one of my favorite arcs of all time.
Also, am I the only one who always wanted a villain named "The Hanging Chad?"
Sorry to hear it took you so long to find Quasar #17. I bought the entire series off eBay for $16. It might be cheating by not going through long boxes..I don't know. Anyways, the race is my favorite story in this excellent series. Like you say this was pure comics fun. The introduction of "Buried Alien" is just icing on the cake.
I'm hoping they simply relent and do a two-part Spotlight episode on all things Marvel Cosmic - beginning with FF, Galactus and the SSurfer all the way through Thanos and the newest Guardians of the Galaxy, while squeezing the Collector, the Celestials, Eternity, and everything else in between... it would be an epic undertaking, so I don't want to rush or overwhelm the CGS crew.
I'm just thankful they take the time to even record these podcasts, so God bless 'em!
Alternately, you could send all your podcast listeners into another Time Bubble at near the speed of light, then bring us back, meaning the relative time for the listeners was much shorter than the time you stayed on Earth. Thus, more time for you means more episodes for us, but in our time shortened Bubble by comparison, we'd have more episodes in a shorter time. Relativity rules!
Can you PLEASE finish Legends miniseries first?
A really REALLY patient comic geek,
Matthew
If anyone on the CGS team is capable though @Adam_Murdough is the man to do it. He's like the Les Daniels of Comic Geek Speak.
One more idea. Since some episodes of the Time Bubble have gone over 2 hours, how about just doing two one hour episodes and release them 6 weeks apart?
And yes, what I've read of the rest of Jenkins's Spider-Man output was much better than that, particularly Peter Parker: Spider-Man #33, "Maybe Next Year..." which is not only my favorite Spider-Man story ever (despite a noticeable lack of Spider-Man), but maybe my favorite single issue ever (it's in the running, anyway). It's about dads and baseball and it came out at a time when my own baseball-loving dad was fighting cancer and it didn't look good (though he thankfully rallied back and kicked its ass), so it hit all the right buttons. If you have that sitting in the pile somewhere, I really look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
I am excited because - after a near eternity of listening to all of your podcasts from the First Time onward - I finally have caught up! YES!! It happened yesterday, on the 101 Freeway here in Los Angeles, which isn't surprising in that most of my podcast listening happens either in my car or at the gym. So there I was, driving along, when the Twentieth Time came to its Laupery close... and it dawned on me: these Time Bubbles are now at a premium for me. I cannot just launch a new one whenever I desperately need to hear the dulcet tones of Adam Murdough (who, for the record, sounds just as dulcet whether he is in the studio or his kitchen). Which is all my way of saying that I pray that not too much *time* passes between new podcasts; I just love these Time Bubbles too much to go long without my next fix. Matter of fact, I think my hand is shaking as I type this!
As for my next topic - our host's fear that his Time Bubbles go on too long - Murd, allow me to assure you - extended length is no problem at all! Especially since you can't put these things out every day or week? The more Murd, the merrier. Please wax on with your nuggets of nostalgia for two, three, four hours at a time, if you wish. If there truly is a listener somewhere who'd prefer that you not, then perhaps he or she should be listening to Furd's Space Bubble instead because I cannot imagine a true fan of yours wanting less *time* with you.
Lastly, atop my general gratitude and praise for you, I wanted to give you specific thanks for a couple of comic book works toward which your Time Bubbles recently led me. The first is Gaiman's Superman/Green Lantern "The Legend of the Green Flame," a comic which I already owned but for some reason had never read. Hearing you discuss it so lovingly prompted me to pluck it from my own stacks (i.e. the 24 short boxes which make up what's left of my collection) and reading it provided me with a grand old time, indeed. The second comic is Garth Ennis' two-part Enemy Ace "War In Heaven" story, which I did not own, but I was able to grab it off eBay (for under five bucks!) and it just arrived and I can't wait to dig in.
So this is me, sighing in contentment. After years of climbing, I have reached the top of the Time Bubble mountain - and the view is splendid! I look forward to your Twenty-first Time giving me even more and greater perspectives on the world of comic books which we all love so much. And again, Murd, I offer my sincere thanks for so many hours of listening pleasure. Until next *time,*
BionicDave