Episode 1308 Talkback: Playin' the Ponies with Katie Cook and Andy Price
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The creative team behind My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #1, writer Katie Cook and artist Andy Price, join us in this episode.We discuss the public's (occasionally extreme) reaction to the book, getting kids into comics, the perils and pitfalls of Disneyland and more. (1:13:15)
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One thing I do want to comment on is the discussion of what comics to give to kids, and how the current comics are so violent. I completely support freedom of speech, and that it is ok for comics of all types of content to exist. I also completely agree that there are not enough current comics that are readable by children, and that is incredibly wrong.
However, it does seem to me like sometimes that people forget that there are almost 100 years of comics that already exist and are still available. If I had a kid now, I could not buy them the new copy of Batman. I can not dispute that. But there are stacks and stacks of DC Showcase Presents are there. I saw a kid with his grandma on the subway the other day reading a Superman archive. When I was a kid, if you took all my comics and sewed them together, it would be less pages than the size of maybe 4 of those showcase/Essential volumes.
TL;DR: New comics are almost all bad for kids, so buy them old ones.
Also, duck comics will never die.
Just imagined the vet who delivers a pony comic to his kid.... =))
Superman, Gronk & Mouseguard fan,
Matthew
But when my son was around five or six, we’d sometimes read the Plastic Man Archives as bedtime stories, which he loved. Then he saw the Justice League cartoon, and Flash became his favorite character. But I would have to buy him Flash comics (Flash being his favorite character) from the ’70s rather than the comic Johns was writing at the time. I could usually find them in the local back issue bins for less than or equivalent to the cover price of the new stuff, so it worked out. Plus he became aware of Carmine Infantino, and even wrote him a letter. He devoured the Flash Showcase Presents books when they started coming out.
Still, there’s nothing like that build-up of excitement that comes from having to wait a month to find out how your favorite hero gets out of a jam. My son never really got to experience that feeling, and my daughter is getting it in a watered down sort of way, because the comics she reads are all done-in-one stories. She's never watched MLP (completely her choice), but I'm getting her the first issue of the comic to see what she thinks.
Verdict... well after seeing the Blues Brothers, "Why Apes Rule", OJ, Twilight Zone, "Incident at Santa Mala", Clobbering time, Shaun of The Dead, Dalton's important lesson, and Ron Burgundy references Im in for the next one! Im sure I have missed stuff, so feel free to add what I have missed. Love stuff that works on so many levels!
Re-listening to this episode now....