The Crisis Tapes Talkback - Episode 09: Monitoring the Monitor Part 4
Adam_Murdough
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Twenty-five months later, The Crisis Tapes return! Concluding our examination of 1984, the final pre-Crisis year, through the lens of the multiple Monitor cameos planted throughout the DC Comics publishing line during that year. Featured are issues of Batman, DC Comics Presents, Superman, G.I. Combat, Jonah Hex, and The Warlord. (3:06:36)
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Just to let you know someone was going to get juuged (sp? never had to spell that particular slang). I got a pocket knife and it was on the verge.
I can't wait to dig into it.
Thanks Adam !
I can offer little in the way of insight here, as I've never read a single one of these issues. well, that's not quite true – I've an extremely vague memory of owning the Forgotten Heroes on once upon a time. Suffice to say I feel much more illuminated after Mr @Adam_Murdough's synopses and dissections. Fantastic work. I particularly liked the lengthy letter - fascinating to hear how Crisis was presented in advance.
As to how to proceed from here, I for one am ready for the full Footnotes treatment on this (I've just recently blazed through the incredible Watchmen footnotes, so I'm hungry for more...), but on the other hand I am enjoying the four-year tease for issue #1.
What I would like at some stage, after the series itself and the aftermath, is an episode (or 12) focusing on the thesis... or is that too much to ask?
You asked for some suggestions, and the only one I thought of might be one you already thought to do. This would be WAY later if you wanted to do it, but after you are done going through the actual Crisis story and the tie-ins, I would love a couple episodes or more talking about the changes that were made to the characters and titles after the event from the way they were before the event. For example, what was the situation with Superman before Crisis and then what was changed about Superman after Crisis.
I know I would find that very interesting and informative. Just a thought.
this was awesome! Thank you for returning to the Crisis. I look forward to future installments (of this and the Time Bubble).
chris
I'm sure you will get to this in the podcast but I was wondering your opinion on something that is seen several times in the DCU and that is the hand holding the Universe, also known I think as the DC Big Bang. Do you believe, like I do, that the hand is supposed to be the hand of the creators (writers, artists, etc)?
Loved this episode. Don't wait 2 years to do the next!
J.
One thing though @Adam_Murdough - with regard to the Haunted Tank, I can't speak for the Crisis specific episodes, but the Haunted Tank was almost always a Stuart tank. Over the course of the episode, you made reference to it being a Sherman.
Part of the whole Haunted Tank story was that Jeb Stuart, a decendent of JEB Stuart was commanding a Stuart tank (typically, US tanks are named for US Army generals - the Stuart for JEB Stuart and the Sherman for Wm. Tecumseh Sherman). I think that there may have been a story in which they are forced to transfer into a Sherman but it was a touchy thing for the ghostly general to be forced to ride in the namesake of a Yankee general.
Anyone recall where in the episode this occurred? I've been clicking through the episode, but can't find it. (It may have been the previous episode, if anyone recalls it.)