Sunday, January 19, 2014

ARP - 12 - Spiderman: The Gauntlet and Grim Hunt

We have finally made it to Spiderman. This is one of our favorite heroes and this arc has a little bit of everything in it. It has most of Spiderman's foes as well as the return of Kraven the Hunter. Will you want to hunt down these issues for yourself? Tune in and find out!
There is a story behind the Superman shirt. Ask Dylan to explain it to you.

Talking points
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Bad things
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  • Financial Crisis (19:42)
  • The Gauntlet (24:09)
  • Domestic violence in comics (33:09)
 Good
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  • Spidey humor (37:58)
  • Characters with great loss (41:08)
  • Flash Thompson backup (44:03)
  • Female art depiction (47:59)
Other
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  • Spidey powers (53:36)
  • Modernizing (59:44)
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ARP-12-GrimHunt.mp3

Our next podcast will be February 2nd and it will be an interview with the good people at Seattle Geekly. Be sure to check back to see what we chat about.

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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, January 5, 2014

ARP - 11 - Age of Ultron

Our first episode of 2014 is the Marvel crossover event titled the Age of Ultron. This was published in 2013 and involved the Avengers, time travel, and the sentient robot Ultron. Who will survive this indomitable foe? Tune in and find out. This is the dawning of the Age of Ultron.

Talking points



BAD THINGS

art style (20:16)
Events in the past (25:35)
The Final plan (35:46)
Fallout (39:35)
Death (45:49)
                - Lots of characters are killed
                                - Ultron attacks
                                - Alternate future
                                - Do we care that these characters die?
                                - B/C they die so quickly and easily, do we know that this reality will be fixed so that the character remains alive?

GOOD THINGS

New future Defenders team (54:28) 

 MISCELANIOUS
                               
Ant Man (1:01:36)
Wolverine (1:11:41)

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Our next podcast will be January 19th and it will be a surprise. Be sure to check back to see what story we cover that time.

We are also now on Comics Podcast Network. Please go over there and check out our section as well as some of the other podcasts they host.


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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