It’s that time of year once again! The Celery Day Stalkslam is upon us! Four comic book characters representing Christmas, four representing Halloween, battle to determine which is the best holiday of all time…I guess? Is that what this is about? We’ve admittedly lost track. Anyway, violence!
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Holy hell, we have an episode to record! Time to pull out whatever miscellaneous crap we can find! For you, the listener, whom we’re, like, in love with and going to marry, apparently.
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Can you believe it’s been 30 YEARS since the birth of Image Comics? Either can we…. but we accepted it and moved on….. moved on to talking about Image Comics! Talking about who formed this indie powerhouse and where they went after that. Are they all still there? Do they still work in comics? Do they buy million dollar baseballs? So many questions. All that PLUS we three each ‘discover’ little known early Image gems! Comics you’ve NEVER heard of! And they are BLOODY gems! Plus news! We talk the IDW loss of GI Joe & Transformers, The Moon Knight Trailer and the tragic loss of one of their talented cast, new Captain America series, Spider Punk, and the twisted true tale of Spider-Man & Wolverine giving out their phone numbers on the side of an LA building…… join us won’t you.
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Well we had a fun & spooky month but now…. it’s back to business.
On to the news!
A lot has happened in comic book/film news so we dive right in with Marvel’s problems with Penguin/Random House distribution, Image Comic’s startling decision about reprints, the bisexual Superman ‘controversy’, Bill Murray being… well… Bill Murray, Spiderman Far from Home rumours, Steven DeKnight astonished by the miscreant Akira Yoshida, Brendan Fraser double DC duty, McFarlane toys Bathorse…… and Owen Wilson as a centaur!
And don’t miss the news intermission with Kyle’s classic ‘Hulk out or Fake out’!
It’s 10 alarm chili time on Zero Issues!
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Submitted for the approval of the audience, I call this story The Tale of the Cactus that Loved…. To Kill.
*throws Iced tea mix on an open fire*
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Lightning Round! Y’all know what this means: we’re pingponging through topics like a trio of Speedballs. Two quizzes, a marry-screw-kill, talking Matt Reeves’ The Batman villains, all the Stephen Dorff news you can handle, toy-talk, and even some sound effects provided by a toy laser gun that Merk got for Christmas. This episode literally has everything.
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And just like that, 2019 is over, and 2020 is upon us! Last year, we made a whooooole bunch of predictions for how 2019 was going to go, and now it’s time to crack open that audio time capsule and see how well it bears out, along with making some new predictions for this year! Did…did we get anything right? We did? Cool!
Plus: what better way to start a new decade than with Character Storm?
Minus: news this week, as nothing has happened yet this year. Nothing!
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No tears for Claremont! This week, we discuss (at length!) the life and work of Chris Claremont. From the man that made the X-Men who they are today to… well, he’s– he’s doin’ stuff… this prolific writer of comics has certainly left an impact on all of us. But what happened? Where did he go? Is he relevant? Those questions and many many interruptions.
Plus: Merk creates a new card game, a mystery figure joins the League of Baldos, and we all avoid talking about the film Wild Hogs, even though we really, really want to talk about Wild Hogs.
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This week, we’re tackling game changers, with very little prep! Hopefully it doesn’t show! Those things that have come, seemingly out of nowhere, and changed the comic book industry. Grim ‘n gritty re-imaginings, non big-two comic publishers, the balance of art and writing (it was a little off in the ’90s, y’know), and the whiplash effect of what happens after Grant Morrisson leaves a book.
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Outro Music: Ocean City Defender – The Nature of Things