Slott and Allred's Silver Surfer with Ben Dewey

 

I met Ben Dewey (Autumnlands, Beasts of Burden, Namor, Vampirella, The Tragedy Series, etc. etc.) about 20 years ago when we worked together on a Roller Derby comic.  He's been one of those guys in comics that I'm always happy to chat with when I get a chance ever since.  He picked Dan Slott and Mike Allred's Silver Surfer run to discuss.  Mike Allred is one of the greats and Dan Slott... well, he's fine, too.  Find out why Ben picked this run, and hear him compare drawing comics to being a musician in more ways than one. 

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Strakzynski and Romita Jr.'s Amazing Spider-Man with Mark Ginocchio

 

Mark Ginocchio, co-host of the Amazing Spider-Talk Podcast, comes by this week to talk about... Spider-Man.  But not just any Spider-Man! This is one of the most divisive runs in Spider-Man History, as evidenced by Mark declaring that it's the run that made him a Spider-Man lifer and me dumping all over it.  In a very unintuitive-for-the-internet approach, things never get heated, we just each present our opposing point of views of praise and scorn for this love-it-or-hate it run.  I will, however, apologize in advance to all of Mark's regular listeners for being such a negative Nancy.   

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McDuffie and Bright's Icon with Ronell Whitaker

 

This week's guest is comics educator Ronell Whitaker, who chose Icon as the run to discuss.  Icon was the flagship title of the Milestone line, which may have been the only new comics universe worth following of all the many that launched in the early 90's.  Ronell is the first guest that I'd never spoken with before recording but I found him to be very interesting and easy to talk to.  I'm really glad he proposed that we read this series because it's definitely a hidden gem of the 90's and there are lots of interesting elements within it to get into.  Just as a tip of the iceberg, it may be the only superhero comic in which one of the main heroes is shown buying a home pregnancy test.  

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The Mutant Massacre with Zayd Dohrn

 

This week's guest recently won the DuPont Columbia University Award for audio and visual journalism for his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, and now he's here to talk with me about The Mutant Massacre.  Zayd Dohrn is an accomplishment playwright, film and tv writer, and a low key comic book nerd.  This episode marks the first time that a crossover event is discussed instead of a single title. Find out why The Mutant Massacre had such an impact on Zayd in his youth and hear my spiel about why crossover events ruined mainstream comics.  All this, plus an issue of Ann Nocenti's Daredevil!  

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