Episode 1459 Talkback - Comic Talk
Adam_Murdough
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The Geeks take a little time to catch up on correspondence, review some recent comics news, react to a few celebrity obituaries, and just enjoy each other's company. Join them, won't you? They're lonely. (1:32:54)
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Posted on another thread that I'm having trouble downloading this via iTunes (actually via an android app that pulls podcasts off itunes). I'm able to download other previous CGS pods, but not this one. Any chance you can reload it on itunes? (if that's even a thing)
This morning I was able to download it from the Podcasts app on my iPod Touch sans issues, so I'll assume that iTunes now has the correct link associated.
Much thanks for the advice. Through the magic of the intergoogle the glitch appears to have straightened itself out though and it has now successfully downloaded.
"The sweet anthem of anal-retentiveness." @Adam_Murdough
Classic.
Thanks guys.
About the comic shop stuff: I too often hear these stories about clerks making fun of customers' purchases and pull-lists. Actually, I should qualify that statement to say that I read about such incidents online but have never actually heard anyone in real life tell me about such a thing, nor have I had it happen to myself. On the one hand, I think that maybe certain people (especially those prone to profuse complaining on the internet) are oversensitive and could be misinterpreting some slight good-natured ribbing as blatant harassment. On the other hand, people these days seem more callous than ever. So probably some of this phenomenon is due to oversensitivity on the part of some customers, and part of it is due to callousness and just plain rudeness on the part of some clerks. But even if the clerks are just kidding around or whatever, they should still have the sense to pick up on any offense taken and apologize. I caught that too. LOL!
Here ya go, boys ... just for you:
We were cold and soaking wet and lost out in a storm
We went inside a spooky house just hoping to get warm
The dusty clock said half past six, we knew that it was wrong
When we set the hands to twelve the clock began to gong
We found a friend, friend, friend in Funky Phantom
He'll pop right in just when you need him most
And Boo will too, and you can't do without 'em
That cat and that Funky Phantom ghost!
I'd do a Monkey Punch one too :D
(Btw, anyone else think the chick from Funky Phantom was totally hot?)
As for character returns we haven't yet seen in the New 52, I'd love to see them bring Ralph and Sue Dibny back finally. Given the popularity of Sherlock Holmes in 3 entirely different takes on the material in the past few years (Sherlock, Elementary, and the Robert Downey Jr. Holmes movies), I think a book about a superpowered consulting detective would be interesting and could hopefully find an audience. And Sue could be bumped up from background character/retroactive plot device to becoming a more active participant, the Watson to Ralph's Holmes.
I'd read it, anyway.
I'll confess that there appear to have been some interesting characters that ultimately came out of it, Gates, for instance, had just made his entrance when I bailed on the book but so much of it was a rehash that I was looking at Legion On the Run with nostalgia. I liked what I saw of the new characters when I returned to the team with Legion Lost.
Ultimately, I'm working on filling in my gaps during that era, when I can find the books cheap so that I can read the entire build up to a Legion of the Damned / Legion Lost. I hope to be pleasantly surprised because that era has already been such a disappointment.
*Lightning Lad died
*The rest of the team was prepared to sacrifice themselves so that Lightning Lad could be resurrected.
*Triplicate Girl loses one of her selves at the hands of Computo
*Ferro Lad had sacrificed himself to save the galaxy
*Duplicate Girl and Bouncing Boy married and left the team
*Cosmic Boy developed a stalker
*Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad married, had kids, had a kid stricken with an obscure illness and had kidnapped
*Chemical King makes his appearance and dies
*Invisible Kid dies
*Element Lad is the sole survivor of planetary genocide
*Braniac 5 goes insane.
*Braniac 5 causes Matter Eater Lad to go insane
*Darkseid
*Projectra and Karate Kid get married.
*The UP is a scary enough place that they create not one but two different prison planets - entire planets devoted to containing the rough things intent on doing harm to the innocent.
*Earth War
*Karate Kid dies - Projectra responds by executing his killer with her bare hands.
I'm fairly sure that only the last item occurs in the Baxter run, though it was well before Crisis. The Legion characters had been maturing for at least a decade leading up to Crisis. That's one of the things that I loved about them - I was exposed to them with my uncles comics going back to the Adventure Comics days but the books that I was buying and reading had the characters maturing even as I was maturing. More importantly, they faced serious issues - people died - and they carried on.
Granted, it was still a fairly shiny, happy future... definitely a happier future than what occurred in 5YL, but it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns. Were it, there would have been no story. 5YL was an extreme extension of the more mature concept, but that trend was happening throughout comics at that point in history. This is the same period where we're getting Return of the Dark Knight, Watchmen, the Punisher has been transitioned from villain to protagonist, Nick Fury is at war with his own organization. 5YL was a pretty apt reflection of the cynicism of the late 80's - early 90's. It wasn't optimistic, but it was some damned good story telling within the confines of that cynicism.
Post-Zero Hour, may have brought back the bright and shiny, but the cynicism was still there - it was just masked behind the brighter colors - this is the period were they're actually discussing merchandising and PR and that we're seeing the rise of groups like the Workforce. Yet at the same time, we're being forced to relive many of the same origin stories and trials and tribulations of the past but with, IMO, lesser craft applied.
I personally use Herring and Robinson and they get two thumbs up.
Here's a thread for them from another forum.
There is also a gallery of my books from them on the CGS forums....which I need to update.