Sunday, July 28, 2013

ARP - 04 - Killing Joke and Death in the Family

Dylan and John discuss the Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Death in the Family (Batman 426-429) from 1988-89. These comics were published by DC comics and focus on Batman, Robin, and Barbara Gordon.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 04 - Killing Joke and Death in the Family.mp3

Follow along with the podcast with our notes:

Talking points
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KJ - Sadistic Joker

KJ - One Bad Day turned this struggling commedian into the Joker
    - Joker trying to create another crazy person by inducing One Bad Day with Jim

KJ - Joker not 'remembering' his origin (Dark Knight has this nod with Ledger)

KJ - originally designed as an Elseworlds story (DC wikia)

KJ - Misogany of leaving Barbara paralized until the New 52. Would DC have left Nightwing in this state had he been the one paralized?

DITF - Politics of the time (Lebanon/Israel conflict, Reganomics, Iran)

DITF - Killing Jason Todd (the vote line)
    - after 427, 50 cents a call, over 10,000 votes. 5343-5271 was the final tally

DITF - Writer acknowledging that the Joker is not dead even though he appeared to be in the crash

DITF - Would Batman have killed Joker if given the chance?

DITF - Is it a believable story? (nuclear missle)

DITF - Does Joker know that Bruce is Batman based on putting the pieces together of Jason's death the same time that he killed Robin?
    -Batman changing in front of Joker in the assembly
   
DITF - Should Jason have stayed dead?



Our next podcast will be a supplemental where we will give a bit of our own history with comics and superheroes as well as discuss some topics that do not fit in directly with a specific story arc. This podcast will be uploaded on August 11th.  In 4 weeks, we will be covering Armor Wars from the Iron Man comic series.

The intro music was composed by longzijun and can be found on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIcNYDGMk4&feature=player_embedded

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

ARP - 03 - Phoenix Saga (X-Men)

Dylan and John discuss the Phoenix Saga and Dark Phoenix saga from X-Men 101-108 and 129-138. Marvel Comics published these stories in 1976 and 1980.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 03 - Phoenix Saga.mp3


Talking Points
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Jean - weakest X-Man to Strongest X-Man (106?)

Professor is a coward

Did Hellfire (Mastermind) manipulate Jean to release the Dark Phoenix?

Weird fill-in issue (106 - another issue with the new team fighting the old team. same as 100)

Wolvie/Jean and Peter/Kitty romances

Best Mastermind story ever?

Storm's ability to make her costume with her 'powers' (also Phoenix and Colossus at times)

Family relations (brother/cousin) being immune to your mutant power

Trope of women being incapable of handling great power and self sacrificing

The mental blocks holding back the Phoenix and allowing Jean to control it



 First appearances
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 Black Tom Cassidy (101)
 Kitty Pride (129)
 Starjammers (107)
 Dazzler (130)
 Sebastian Shaw (129)
 Emma Frost (129)
 Hellfire Club (129)
 Senator Kelly (135, mentioned in 133)
 Gladiator (107)
 Storm's Origins (102)


Our next podcast will be covering A Death in the Family and Killing Joke, both Batman tales. That podcast will be uploaded on July 28th.

The intro music was composed by longzijun and can be found on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIcNYDGMk4&feature=player_embedded

We look forward to hearing from you.

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