| Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:45 |
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This past week, the COMIC GEEK SPEAK podcast covered the topic of CAPTAIN AMERICA IN THE '00s. Topics include the Brubaker run, Marvel Knights, Truth, Civil War, and Steve's current job as Top Cop of the Marvel U.
You can listen here....
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1230.php
For Cap's 70th Anniversary next month, they've been doing a celebration of the character all year. If you missed past Spotlight episodes, you can listen here...
Spotlight on Captain America in the '90s
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1214.php
Spotlight on Captain America in the '80s
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1177.php
Spotlight on Captain America in the Marvel Age
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1115.php
Spotlight on Captain America in the Golden Age
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1086.php
And then next month they should finish up with CAPTAIN AMERICA IN OTHER MEDIA which covers the movies, TV, animation, live action, and probably the audio dramas. If all goes right, I should be their guest.
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| Posted: 29 Nov 2010 23:32 |
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That was fun to listen, they did agree with me Captain America lives (The mini series where the Nazis won the war and took over the world) was the best back in the early 2000 years.
They brought up Avengers Forever, always fun to read about that 70s Cap, with super strength and dissillusioned with his government and country character.
Touched on the good and strengths of Brubaker's run: Highlight, they guessed that Rogers will be back as Cap in maybe an event or big moment in Marvel U or outside, like during the movie, Steve might be Cap for awhile and then back in charge of the Superhero U. Which I agree would be cool to see, and since I'm still a fan of the teen-out-of-time Bucky/Cap character.
Shame that they didn't talk about some of the bad stuff of Cap's book, CapWolf, ArmoredCap, Ameridroid, etc. They did however rave about Armin Zola, which I when I first read about him thought he was a silly character, now is very very interesting (Zola being used in that Cap video game and that he can jump from one android body to another and Falc and Bucky using an abandoned body to find info).
They did say that no one had done a story of Bucky's death (that it was a retcon from Cap's memories), but in an Avengers book 50-something issues, Cap, with the Panther, Hawkeye, Giantman, used DrDoom's time machine to find out what happened during that time (They ended up fighting Zemo's giant men).
Then something happened and this Avengers team ended up fighting the original Avengers team in the following 2 books, later made into an annual and in the Avengers Essentials.
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| Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:02 |
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"Death Be Not Proud". One of my favorite Cap stories. I guess maybe what they meant was that the story was never not in the comics as a retcon and, as Brubaker points out, you never see a body to be absolutely sure.
Avengers Forever was great. Carlos Pacheco at his best. And Cap at his nadir. An interesting idea.
Their Cap expert, Jamie D., wasn't there that night. Cap's his favorite character. I talked with him for over 3 hours about Cap on his spin off show last year.
Check out the 1990s one for the Cap Wolf stuff. Heroes Reborn gets roasted too. The Marvel Age one is the 60s and 70s and they had Roy Thomas on as one of the guests.
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Finally, I finished listening to all these podcast, ... Thanks for posting them, probably take me a long time to find them on the web.
The Cap in the golden age of comics were interlaced with history, not too much with the other time periods.
The 90s should've mentioned how Marvel was so Xmen-favored (coming out of the 80s), that they allowed the other non-X books wither in story and art, resorting to high-profile ad promotional-gimmicks like Heroes reborn to bring attention (they said something that everyone was trying to do 'Image') to those books. Plus, Xmen editor Harris, which I think, didn't like Captain America, and tried to promote lesser Avengers people like Sersi, Black Knight, Crystal, Hercules, ...and tried to run all these ongoing story themes and portends that made X books a success. No mention of Jack Kirby's passing in the 90s?
The 60s and 70s were probably dead-on, great listening to Roy Thomas recount those periods (Which I grew up reading those books), and stress the Don't-know-what-to-do-with Cap series of books, and giving kudos for Englehart in providing direction for Cap in his run. I should add that in the 80s, Marvel was planning on ending the Cap book, with a final fight to the death with the Red Skull, but it was Gruenwald that fought to keep the book running and started his incredible long run as a writer.
Red Skull's true origin was a hot fudge sundae?? Simon saw a cherry on top of the ice cream and thought it looked like a red skull, ... Funny!!! And great.
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| Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:51 |
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Kirby's passing didn't happen in the comics and they freely admit they don't get to cover everything and leave it up to the listeners to post in their forums to fill in the gaps. They are also currently doing a History of DC Comics series. The did Superman and Batman with this era by era spotlights and will probably tackle Wonder Woman next.
Yeah, that was crazy about the Skull's origin. The guest on the Golden Age episode was great and I tried to talk to him at the San Diego con last summer but he was away from the Titan Books booth. Titan put out a new book called SUPERHEROES with the non Marvel and DC Simon and Kirby stories and I think they have the rights to the new Joe Simon biography coming soon.
Bad news for the two Captain America-centric podcasts that were out there the past year. I just chatted with Roch who did THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN AMERICA podcast which covered an issue by issue synopsis of Cap starting with issue #100. He went on break, came back with a change in the name of the show, and has now stopped doing his Cap podcast.
The other Cap podcast by Brian Hancock seems to have podfaded. Brian went on vacation and never got back to the show after he returned.
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I like to hear more and read more on your interviews. Keep it up, and thanks.
The announcers mentioned their research, Alter ego, etc. I read a lot of Cap research from Wizard, Hero, Cap index book, Steranko history of comics, Comic reader, Comic buyers guide and other rare or out of print stuff over the years. Find a lot on Bats, Supes and Spidey stuff. Cap, Iron man, Daredevil and other less popular characters were much harder and rarer to find research.
Say, do you consider Cap an A-list comic character, like Wonder Woman, very well known but doesn't sell oodles of books or make lots of money. Supe, Spidey and Bats have multiple ongoing books and make oodles of money (I think of them as the Super A-list).
After Iron man's movies, is IM an A-list? Obviously Wolverine is an A-list, and the Xmen, but individuals like Collossus, Cyclops and company, are hovering in the B-list.
Anyone have a rating system? A general cross the board rate? This is just mine opinion.
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 15:21 |
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The final episode in CGS' series spotlighting Cap is out with SPOTLIGHT ON CAPTAIN AMERICA IN OTHER MEDIA where I talk to the guys about Cap movies, TV, animation, and audio dramas with just a touch of video games. And thanks to you guys here, I didn't know about the Saban-proposed 1990s animation until you all mentioned it the other year.
I hope I don't come off too boring. We were going to play some audio clips but the disc got lost or slowed down in the holiday mail rush.
You can listen here:
http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-1257.php
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