Arc Reactions - 89 - Death and the Maiden

We discuss the webcomic Death and the Maiden by Nina Ruzicka. We start 2018 off with a new type of story for us. This will be the first time we have covered a webcomic and we talk aobut how that changes the experience slightly as well as some of the great things this comic does as well as a few things that confused us.

Talking points
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Bad Things
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Death's powers and rules are ill-defined (6:15)
Tone changes as the story goes along (13:00)

   
Good Things
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Death (17:34)
Little Death (27:15)
The Maiden (31:26)
Story (36:59)

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Our next podcast will be our review of  Stumptown v1-3 on February 4th.

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We would like to thank Packie Wambaugh for recording our intro and outro music for us.

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Arc Reactions - 65 - Torchlight Lullaby

Talking Points
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Story (4:00)

Characters (8:14)

Art (17:24)

Metaphor (18:05)

Message (25:53)


AS MENTIONED
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John was wrong about the Radio vs. the Martians episode he mentioned. It was about Don Bluth and not Ralph Bakshi, but its still a great episode to listen to.

Radio vs. the Martian - 25 - There Will Be No Second Disney

Our next podcast will be Spawn by Todd McFarlane on March 5th.


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We would like to thank Packie Wambaugh for recording our intro and outro music for us.

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ARP - 37 - Death of Wolverine

Death of Wolverine, the 2014 event comic from Marvel. Join Dylan and John as they discuss the good and bad points of this anticipated event. Did they include all the right pieces of Wolverine's past? Was his death treated respectfully? Was it worthy of an event or should this have happened in his own title? We cover this and more in this episode of Arc Reactions Podcast.

Talking Points
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BAD THINGS
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How Logan lost is healing factor (9:38)

Support Characters (15:38)


GOOD THINGS
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Big Bad (20:43)

The Death (25:22)

Tie-In material (27:55)


ADDITIONAL THINGS
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Code words (34:07)

Death events (38:36)


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As mentioned in this episode:

ARP - 05 - ArmorWars


Our next episode will be the movie review of Ant-Man on July 19th.

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


We would like to thank Packie Wambaugh for recording our intro and outro music for us.

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ARP - 14 - Reign of the Supermen

Dylan and John discuss the 1993 classic story following the Death of Superman. Steel, Cyborg Superman, Metropolis Kid, and the Last Son of Krypton are all claiming to be the real Superman. Which one will it be and how will they deal with the others. Tune in to find out and also hear what this story did well and what it did poorly.

BAD THINGS
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Suicide Slum (23:15)
   
Female Art (27:44)
   
Lex Luthor (31:31)

Superman (36:39)

   
GOOD THINGS
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Supermen (50:56)

Villain plot (1:01:18)
   
Metropolis Kid learning to be a hero (1:05:10)

The dynamic between Mongul and Henshaw (1:05:34)

Miscellaneous
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Lois Lane (1:10:44)
   
Henshaw's Origins (1:14:44)

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ARP-13-ReignOfSupermen.mp3

Our next podcast will be March 16th and we will be covering Sweet Tooth.

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
 
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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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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:
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