ARP - 05 - Armor Wars

Tony Stark goes crazy, attacking his allies and villains alike in a quest to recover his technology that he fears will fall into enemy hands and be used for evil. Does this arc work as a story or will it fall flat on its face. Join Dylan and John as they give their opinions on the good, the bad, and the interesting things from this classic Iron Man tale from 1987 and 1988.

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Topics
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• Titanium Man's lack of an extinguishing system
•  Stingray - one of the 10 worst Avengers
• Why did the Avengers not intervene?
• Litigation against Superheroes
• Iron Man jumping out of Stark's helicopter

Our next comic arc will be Wonder Woman -Gods and Mortals. This will be released on Sept. 8th.

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ARP - S03 - Secret Origins

In this episode, Dylan and John recount their history with comics, how the podcast began and how they met. Other topics include the New 52 and Marvel Now as well as comic book movies and Superior Spider-man. There are minor spoilers for Superior Spider-man and Man of Steel.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - Supplemental 03 - Secret Origins.mp3

Topics:

1) Our personal comics history
2) Superior Spiderman
3) New 52
4) Marvel Now
5) Villians Month
6) Comic book movies
7) Comic book death

On August 25th, we will return with Armor Wars, a Iron Man story from Marvel Comics.

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ARP - S02 - The Wolverine (film)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

This episode is heavy with spoilers about The Wolverine film that is in theaters now. I recommend downloading the podcast and saving it until you have watched the film. After you have watched the film, listen to this podcast and see if you agree, disagree, or learn something you didn't know about Wolverine.

 

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Arc Reactions Podcast - s02 - The Wolverine (film) 

 

 

Stay tuned this Sunday for supplemental #3 where we introduce ourselves a little more fully than we have so far in the podcast. We also discuss some topics that do not fit a specific story arc that we are going to cover.

 

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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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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.

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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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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.

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ARP - Episode 02 - Death of the Family (Batman)

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 02 - Death of the Family

In this episode, Dylan and John discuss the most recent Bat family crossover event Death of the Family where the Joker returns in the New 52 after being gone for a year and he wants to break up the Bat Family.

Follow along with these notes and the discussion points:

Timeline
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Joker's thugs kidnap Barbara's mom (Batgirl 13)

Joker gets his face back (Batman 13)
Joker on TV (Batman 13)
Joker meets up with Harley and sends her to ACE factory (Suicide Squad 14)
Joker kidnaps Alfred (Batman 13)
Joker confronts Catwoman at the amusement park (Catwoman 14)
Batman fights Joker at the reservoir/aqueduct (Batman 14)
Harley fights Joker (Suicide Squad 15)
Joker at Skate Rink with Barbara's mom (Batgirl 14)
Bat family in the batcave (Batman 15) ******
Joker kills Jimmy and takes Raya to Kline Industries (Nightwing 15)
Joker has a surprise for Nightwing at Amusement Mile (Nightwing 16)
Joker and Batgirl at church (Batgirl 15-16)
Joker and Robin at the zoo (Batman and Robin 15-16)
Joker kidnaps Red Robin (TT 15)
Joker and Red Hood somewhere (Red Hood 15)
Joker, Red Robin, and Red Hood somewhere (TT 16)
Batman and Joker in Arkham (Batman 16)
Bat family at the dinner (Batman 17)

Topics
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Snyder writing the psychological thriller story.
Simone writing Batgirl's rage and dealing with her paralyzing and the man responsible.
Timeline
Both Robin and Batgirl will break their rules to kill the Joker if given the chance.

The next episode will be released on July 14th. Join us as we review the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix saga.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - Supplemental 01 - Man of Steel (film)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

This episode is heavy with spoilers about the new Man of Steel movie that is in theaters now. I recommend downloading the podcast and saving it until you have watched the film. After you have watched the film, listen to this podcast and see if you agree, disagree, or learn something you didn't know about Superman.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 01a - Man of Steel

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