David Guy Levy calls in to talk about BACK TO BACK TO THE FUTURE. Afterwards, Jen "MissJ" Aprahamian joins in to talk about the rest of this week's comics. Also, hints towards SDCC plans are revealed.
Really enjoying @missj on the podcast. Sad to see Sara go but @missj brings an awesome enthusiasm to the podcast. I really hope we can get her on a podcast with James Robinson.
@missj Welcome to Jen, hi there, you sounded delightfully engaged.
@undeadpool So Corey, you're an am dram man? That explains so much!
And thanks to Corey for explaining the appeal of Cassie Cain Batgirl. she never clicked with me - I was put off by the costume and killer background, and the artwork in the early issues of her comic.
@g_man Nice one, Tony, on being quoted on the back of a Marvel trade. I had a nice surprise recently when I spotted a couple of letters I wrote in the Nextwave collection.
And is it indeed so that few people in the US buy DVDs? Blueray never seemed to take off here in the UK, we're happy to save cash and squint.
I took what Rick Remender wrote in Uncanny Avengers versus what Bendis said in All New X-Men as just showing that they have differing points of view, the characters that is. May not represent what the writers think at all regarding these types of issues. Having Alex Summers say I'd rather be called human than mutant and then having some X-Men say they are mutant and proud just introduces the idea for both sides. Both are good guys, but they have different points of view. Neither are right or wrong. It just takes the idea of mutant to a different area, making it more of a political issue.
It's amazing, we haven't had Comicbook for ever. Now the past 7 -10 years we have them and everyone kills every movie. I'm talking about in our community , comic book lovers. Superman sucks ,Avengers should have done this ,Ironman needs this,,
I really don't get the MoS hate, especially if you are a big Superman fan. Don't know which movie everyone has seen. I was smiling throughout the whole movie, felt it inspiring and completely positive. I also don't think Superman made a single bad decision in the movie. If the Avengers would've faced Zod and his crew, they wouldn't have had time to look after civilians. Every single second Clark would've given Zod, while rescuing people, Zod would've killed many more. It was his only option to attack head on!
And about the damage Superman causes in Metropolis... He doesn't. Everyone who says that hasn't paid attention while watching. The only damage Clark does, is to buildings that are already destroyed, when he takes down the scoutship and later he damages a building facade when he pushes Zods face into it, while flying. The rest of the destruction ONLY COMES FROM ZOD. He knocks down buildings, by throwing Clark through them, by heat vision and by throwing stuff. Sure, Clark doesn't try to catch a falling building, but that wouldn't work anyway in a more or less realistic portrayed world, like the one in MoS. The same thing happened when he tried to lift that giant crane thingy on the tanker. He is strong enough, but it doesn't work physically.
He has no chance of saving those buildings and he is not fast enough to superspeed through them to save people. His only option is to attack Zod and to keep him from causing more damage.
For me, MoS is in the top 3 of the best superhero movies of all time, but then again I dislike the Reeve movies a lot (he was great in the role, but for me the movies are way to cheesy and old school) and think that Dark Knight Rises is the best comicbook movie ever, so what do I know, right?
Dunno if it is just me, but saying that you 'grew up' with the BTAS Barbara Gordon is kinda odd... as far as I remember, she only appeared a handful of times throughout the entire series.
But for that question, people tend to favor the Batgirl that they grew up with. Older fans will gravitate towards Barbara, and younger readers will be gravitating towards the two others. Personally I prefer Cain as Batgirl, as I think Barbara became much more as Oracle than she ever was as Batgirl, and Steph's Spoiler is her own ID so she hardly needs to be Batgirl. Also Cain was the peculiar extreme opposite of Barbara in the Bat-line (where Batman is in the middle, Barbara is at one end with her massive smarts and lack of movement and Cain is at the other end with her beyond N'th level Bat-Fu skills but comparable shortage of smarts in comparison to the others).
Superman didn't save his DAD to keep his secret, but he'll save Gotham because it's under siege?
Superman didn't learn how to fly until he put on the suit but "he could have just flown to Gotham and scoop up the nuclear reactor?" I mean because even though he never flew by himself before ONCE THE GREAT ALL MIGHTY GOTHAM is in trouble he'll suddenly realize he can fly.
Especially because Gotham is 10x worth more exposing himself than his own father.
On Man of Steel Clark literally barely puts on the costume, learns to fly, and identifies himself as Superman half way threw the movie. His goal was to be a "ghost" not have a dual identity. He dons the dual identity idea until the end because he decided to introduce himself to the world. Before he never needed the dual identity because his goal was to stay hidden.
You see "Jen" trapped under the debris to show the idea of the movie for every human to strive to be Superman a Nobel Hero. The team/co-workers/friends don't give up and runaway they stay and help.
It's AMAZING how people have a hard time following or shaping some form of continuity but a God-Like-Alien teaming up with a Rich Orphan who wears a BAT suit totally easy to shallow. Why can't Nolan's Universe be connected to all 3 movies.
Batman was the first official hero. Superman was the second official hero and GL was the last hero of that Universe. Superman could have saved Gotham but he didn't want to reveal himself. Same reason why he didn't stop 911 and other natural disasters (PLUS HE NEVER KNEW HE CAN FLY BEFORE.)
At the end this doesn't matter,they won't have the universes connected, but dam can FANATICS nitpick movies/cartoons/new series/et cetera.
My brother found that room. What are you guys talking about and yes before Arkham City was announced. He bugged the $#!% outta me with it like "look what do you think this means." He was 10x more annoying once ACity was announced like "I told you... I told you... blah blah blah." Like If I even cared.
"if you found it by yourself then you should keep it to yourself." Well my brother kind of did... just saying.
Dick Grayson was 16 years old. He was Robin for 2 years then quit. He quit at 18. Jason was Robin for One year until he quit. Tim was Red Robin for a year and a couple months before Damian came to the scene.
@missj: I totally disagree on your opinion of Man of Steel. It doesn't make much sense at all. Because he didn't give a false sense of hope. If he didn't destroy that machine that changes the atmosphere, the whole entire world would have died due to not being able to breathe. So, in a sense he did more than the Avengers because he able to save billions of lives as one man. Also, Avengers is being sort of unrealistic if you look at it because people will always die in destruction no matter how many heroes are in the city. This the only flaw I really saw in Avengers and I don't get it how people don't see it as a flaw.
@foxxfireart: I totally agree with you here. The criticism of Man of Steel in here is too harsh and not making much sense. People need to start thinking harder in here. People are just ranting without giving any thought at it. I just don't get because it's really not that hard.
The last Podcast with just the two was fine.. Three spreads it out a bit more.. Creates a better dynamic but it's always good no matter what - so whateve...
The PRE-orders of Mattel's SDCC exclusive BATMAN Classic TV Series Batmanâ„¢ Batusi Batmanâ„¢ are done. That's a separate line that moves faster at the booth. There is still a standard check out line where SDCC attendees can buy the figure on sight. The remaining stock will be sold on 8/5 at Mattycollector if @missj wants one.
@danaandra I agree, enough with the faux shocked gasps
@zomboner Also agreed. Tony you've been at this for awhile, you can't just grunt and move onto the next topic, there has to be a conversational nature to this type of audio
MissJ is defnintely a nice addition to the cast! Sometimes I feel bad when Corey makes a joke and Tony just leaves him hanging, so it's good to have someone else on the who will at least snicker. :P
@missj: No problem! The one thing I can say is that although the magic urn seemed out of place it kind of acts as a separation between the Golden Age heroes from Project Superpowers and the Pulp characters (The Shadow, The Spider, The Green Hornet, ... etc.) despite some of the cross over seen in Masks. Otherwise the Pulp characters would have been trapped in the urn as well with The Owl.
Does Corey pronounce Constantine as "Constan-t-eye-n" just to be contrary? And really, a few less fake gasps would be far more effective, and much appreciated. Thanks!
@undeadpool: I have to say that I disagree with your opinion on Man of Steel vs. Avengers. There is kind of a double standard. Remember, Avengers was a team movie. Captain America could afford to go and save civilians because if he knew that if he wasn't there, Iron Man, Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, and Hulk were all out there continuing the fight. Superman didn't have that luxury in Man of Steel. It was only him against Zod and an entire army of Kryptonians. He couldn't really afford to save many civilians because he's too busy getting beat on and his first priority had to be to stop Zod from causing destruction.
The magic urn in The Owl #1 that was mentioned in the podcast may have seemed out of place in the story, but this actually comes from Dynamite Entertainment's Project Superpowers comic line. Having The Owl released from the urn not only explains how he is crime fighting again, but opens up the possibility of seeing more of these Golden Age heroes come back to comics. Dynamite seems to be resurrecting the Project Superpowers line.
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