Episode 1470 Talkback - Questions From the Internet (and Stuff)
Adam_Murdough
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Returning to a time-honored but long-neglected CGS tradition, we the Geeks use questions and suggestions solicited from the listening audience to help us concoct our signature blend of Comic Talk. Along the way, our friend and fellow 'caster Ian Levenstein offers a review of the new, Charles Soule-written She-Hulk series, and we sound off on 'Muppets Most Wanted' (with our very special guest star, SPOILERS! Yaaaaaaay!). (1:32:58)
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I only owned one copy of that X-Men #1until four or five years later. I was at the mercy of whatever our local drugstore had available when that issue hit the racks.
Years ago when I was making, and selling custom Mego action dollies I did a lot of research into Public Domain characters. Green Turtle was one of my "discoveries".
1. As stated in the previous talkback, The identity of the Winter Soldier is not something the movie studio feels it needs to keep under wraps, nor is it heavily promoting it. It can be deciphered if you're looking in the right places.
2. The outrage seemed forced on the last show because you all in the studio were already aware of the identity. As were the thousands of comic fans that have read the storyline the movie's based on. So now we're down to a very tiny demogrpahic of people that are super excited to see the movie, but don't want to be spoiled on a reveal they were currently unaware of, but yet have taken the time to seek out multiple promotional material that again, implies the identity, but doesn't outright reveal it. For all anyone knows, it could be a misdirection.
3. People across the pond have already seen this movie. Trust me, the Winter Soldier's identity is far from the big reveal.
I myself am not anywhere near current on Daredevil, so it didn't even register on my Spoileradar.
-that was announced six months ago
-that has been talked about on the front page of every major comics website multiple times over the last six months
-that finally happened in an issue that came out a month and a freaking half ago
-that is not really an "aw-snap" sort of spoiler, because it's a development that's all about the "how?" and not that "what?"
-that was already alluded to multiple times on Previews and Comic News episodes of this very podcast.
Totally inappropriate. What the F were you thinking.
It was slightly amusing when Murd and Jamie D started arguing about whether or not Murd was muddled...
What was the criteria for Internet Question again? Jamie just wants us to send him random questions or topics for the Nerds to talk about?
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Loved Jamie and Murd arguing about whether he was muddled or not. As an aside, I didn't hear anyone mention "Mantis" as an Asian hero from that era? And sorry Jamie D, but I don't think Ellery Queen was part of the "NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie" lineup. I think it was just Columbo, McCloud, McMillan and Wife, and Heck Ramsey.
And finally, I've decided to risk causing irreparable harm to the space-time continuum and have taken out a subscription to "Murd's Time Bubble." Currently reading the original Thunderbolts series, so hoping the Citizen V discussion doesn't spoil too much for me.
WildC.A.T.s was always a big favorite of mine from the early Image days, probably BECAUSE it was a X-Men analogue with Jim Lee art. I agree that they became much more interesting later on, and Alan Moore's run was a very good read.
The book that ended up becoming my absolute favorite out of the original run of Image books, though, was Shadowhawk! I think that thing that sucked me in and got me so invested in that character back in the day was the fact that we didn't know everything about him at first. When his identity was revealed in the 2nd miniseries and the realization that he was a vigilante with AIDS was heavy-duty stuff to me in 6th and 7th grade!
Murd was incorrect in this instance.
The criteria is that you need to muddle Murd on all three questions in order to muddle him. If he gets one correct response then he is not muddle.
Same criteria apply to Deceiving the D. All three deceivements or there's no deceiving the D.
And no, deceivements is not a word. :)
The other thing that I need to do, which is even harder to do is to go through the comics that I am getting on a regular basis and eliminate some titles. I get a lot of Marvel and DC titles that could be eliminated because I'm not enjoying them or they are just okay, but the collector in me has a hard time of letting those go. It doesn't makes sense to keep getting them though if I don't enjoy them anymore....and in the past when I have cut titles that I found just okay or I wasn't enjoying, I found that I really didn't miss them, or even notice that I wasn't getting them anymore.
Too much to read in so little time.
That has actually happened to me a few times where I passed on a trade or hardcover and then 6 months or a year later I decided to go get it and it was for ridiculous prices. So there are certain ones that I won't pass on when they are in Previews for that reason. Luckily, those types of trades and hardcovers are fewer and fewer since I'm completing a lot of collections that I always wanted in those formats.
How many years ago did that giant Tori Amos-inspired anthology Comic Book Tattoo come out? Still unread. And yet I can't bring myself to just give up and get rid of it because it's such a gorgeous-looking book with so many great creators involved!
I have finally gotten to the point where I am ready to start back into doing monthly DCBS orders, and I'm now finding that I have scaled myself waaaaaaaaaaay back, because there are only a handful of things that I really want to pick back up on/catch up with (mainly Valiant).
I still have a fairly sizeable backlog, but I got to take care of some stuff that I had been burning to read for awhile, like the complete '80s-'90s Animal Man and Jim Lee's run on Punisher War Journal. And my DCBS order has gone from $80-ish to about $30 or less.
My LCS does not help when they constantly have Essentials/Showcases and Archive editions 50% off.
Being a self-described "completist" has created a challenge in my comics hobby. For instance, completing my run of Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970-1976) wasn't too tough, until it came to getting issue #11 (first furry appearance of the Beast of the X-Men) so I have hung on to that run a bit longer (plus I love Killraven for some reason...). Same goes for Sensational She-Hulk's final isse (and I like that series enough to probably keep a while).
But, it appears that lately I barely have time to read more than 2 or 3 books a week, and most of the time that happens in a trade (2 or 3 parts per week). I'm currently prepping a long box of books now that I'll be putting up on Ebay within a week or two. Hopefully that will help me cull the herd...