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Nov 28, 2018

The Last Outpost aka Cavalry Charge is the quintessential (although certainly not the best) "Civil War Western", a staple mid-century genre which performed yeoman ideological work on a pair of dubious fronts: 1. Doubling down (often literally, by offering up equally likable brothers on either side of the conflict) on...


Nov 22, 2018

 Dave takes a little time at the beginning of this episode to laud Stan Lee and express his continued dissatisfaction with The Comics Journal. Then your hosts launch into a discussion of Wolfman and Perez's most space operatic effort yet. Topics include: the narrator's shabby (and contradictory) treatment of those...


Nov 21, 2018

This time on the podcast, journey back to August 2018, when your faithful panelists projected their hopes and fears onto the post-Midterm landscape. After 38 minutes' worth of our deathless political prognostication, journey back even further to yet another lackluster late-1930s Dick Powell film. Ol' Dick must...


Nov 18, 2018

A momentous episode this week, as Elise traces the root of her superhero fandom to a childhood encounter with The Passion of Starfire (Perez's exquisitely Paglian cover to issue #23). 'Nuff said!  

 

Audio Credits:

Intro music: Debbie Harry - "Comic Books"


Nov 11, 2018

This week on the podcast, a little-seen Pine-Thomas "Far-Easter" that has been identified (by one or two dreamers - i.e. 20% of the living people who've watched it) as an antecedent of the Indiana Jones films. Why? Well, there's the hat. You need more than that to hang a theory on? You might be out of luck. HONG KONG...