11 O'Clock Comics Episode 184

[Wood]

How can anyone hate on the Justice League when im a member

 

Well played Darrel. And your Photoshop skills are MAHHHHHHHHHVELOUS.

[Wood]

BTW, on my drive down to Baltimore this morning for business, my wife called to let me know the power is back on.   

Thanks to everyone for the kind thoughts. 

[Steve Raker]

What irritates me the most is that it appears Irene taught the power company not a damn thing.

...well, mebbe they learned that mother nature is nobody's bitch, and there's nothing they can do when a big storm hits!

[Steve Raker]

BTW, on my drive down to Baltimore this morning for business, my wife called to let me know the power is back on.   

Thanks to everyone for the kind thoughts. 

Glad to hear that the Wood's are out of the proverbial woods!

Travel safe!

[David]

...well, mebbe they learned that mother nature is nobody's bitch, and there's nothing they can do when a big storm hits!

If that includes keeping their customers in the dark - literally and figuratively - I suppose you're right!

[Steve Raker]

If that includes keeping their customers in the dark - literally and figuratively - I suppose you're right!

Like with medicine/health care,some things can't be prevented, only cleaned-up after/fixed as much as can be after the trauma.  Glad to hear 'nook is once again able to enjoy the radio while you're both at work !

[David]

Like with medicine/health care,some things can't be prevented, only cleaned-up after/fixed as much as can be after the trauma.

I get that there isn't much they could have done proactively.  I'm surprised NYSEG actually contracted Nelson Tree Service to cut branches away from the lines (granted, the guy knocked on our door Wednesday and told us they'd be starting over the next couple days, but still).

But to not have enough people on hand to answer the phone or update the website?  That's a big ol' fail.  Especially following Irene.

Information wasn't available.  That's what pisses me off.

Now stop putting the elderly and the ill in a bad situation when the service you provide isn't available, quit fucking up the beautiful New York landscape, and put the lines underground!

Glad to hear 'nook is once again able to enjoy the radio while you're both at work !

Snow on the ground?  Nanuuq be in heaven!!

[Steve Raker]

Information wasn't available.  That's what pisses me off.

Now stop putting the elderly and the ill in a bad situation when the service you provide isn't available, quit fucking up the beautiful New York landscape, and put the lines underground!

I doubt the EPA would let them, but that'd be awesome if they did!

[Wood]

I get that there isn't much they could have done proactively.  I'm surprised NYSEG actually contracted Nelson Tree Service to cut branches away from the lines (granted, the guy knocked on our door Wednesday and told us they'd be starting over the next couple days, but still).

But to not have enough people on hand to answer the phone or update the website?  That's a big ol' fail.  Especially following Irene.

Information wasn't available.  That's what pisses me off.

Now stop putting the elderly and the ill in a bad situation when the service you provide isn't available, quit fucking up the beautiful New York landscape, and put the lines underground!

Snow on the ground?  Nanuuq be in heaven!!

Church!
 

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

How can anyone hate on the Justice League when im a member

I'm loving the placement in between Supes and Bats. World's Finest Sandwich, yeeayaaah!

[David]

Well played Darrel. And your Photoshop skills are MAHHHHHHHHHVELOUS.

Sweet!!  JK Woodward is a member of the Justice League!

[Dave Faust]

I liked Wood’s observation of Wagner’s Mage really feeling like a “creator owned” type of book. There was a lot of that spirit in the early to mid 80’s boom of “independent” comics. The direct market was expanding back then and
there were very few precedents regarding the right or wrong way to do an action, superhero or fantasy comic independent of the big two. So these creators just came out swinging. Publishers like Eclipse, First, Comico, Dark Horse and Kitchen Sink ( not including the B + W boom stuff, which is another thing entirely) just blasted away and for awhile there you never really knew what you were going to get. A very exciting time for comics and I think these books (and their performance in the direct market) really put a fire under the asses of DC and Marvel to take more chances and experiment. Hell, I can’t imagine The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, or Swamp thing being published in a vacuum. Zeitgeist at the very least.

 Absolute truth.

Eclipse and First comics meant the world to me when I turned 16, got a driver's license and was finally able to take myself the 35+ miles into Birmingham to buy books and albums on my own. Back then, I bought comics the way I bought music, looking at the labels. If it was SST, Combat, Megaforce, or Touch and Go, then it was coming home with me. Same thing with Eclipse and First. Can't imagine comics without either.

[zack kruse]

Ya know...if you wanted to read a review of Dan Clowes' oversized collection for Death-Ray to get a feel for it, maybe you have a buddy that wrote an in-depth, spoiler free review of it. It's a relatively dense book, but easily reads in one sitting.



...me are a whore...

[Paul]

TWO black dudes on the team?!?!  This must be an Elseworlds tale.  Or an untold Worlds Collide tie-in.

Does that mean there's a Darrrell colorform to stick to the cover?

[Paul]

Great episode guys.

Haven't been able to get over  here in a while, but the listening has been great!  From the Micronauts talk, which is always gonna fill me with the love, to Wood talking about baggin' other stuff so he can be at his boys' game, to some Danger Girl talk, to Vince's discussion of SOmeday Funnies which led to me ordering the book (there you go Chris, he brought Abrahm's some business precisely because he was so specific.

Micronauts:  The first series I ever collected seriously.  I can still remember sitting in the park at 9 years old with my buddy Jason as we read Micronauts #11, the final chapter in the first story arc, and passed it back and forth reading it over and over again, and talking about how damned awesome the book was!  To me, the series never quite lived up to the promise of those first 12 issues, though I loved Broderick's run on the book.  Once he left, and the book went direct only, and we got the whole Pharoxx thing, as well as Devil and Fireflyte, not even the awesome Guice artwork was enough to keep me onboard, but those first 12 issues may be my favourite comics ever.

Whenever I see copies of those first dozen issues in cheap bins, I  grab them.  When my time comes, my wife will be looking for something to do with 20 odd copies of Micronauts #2, no less than 4 of them signed by Michael Golden.  Guide her well, folks!

Danger Girl:  I was in a period of not collecting comics regularly when this came out, but a friend of mine, a guy who never read comics, but was an animator, lent me his issues of this book.  He loved it.  If there's new stuff coming out, then I can't wait to show it to him, because I know he LOVED that series back in the day.

This Regular Show/Adventure Time of which you speak, isn't available up here yet, but I need to check this out.

As for Walking Dead, well, the leaden pace with which they're proceeding this season kinda makes Johns and Lee's Justice League seem positively dense story-wise.  I hope they're doing more than 6 this time around, because they haven't really done much of anything in the first 3.

[Tom Scioli]

Micronauts is a great example of a series where the first run of issues is so great that I enjoy any Micronauts comic no matter how bad.

[Steve Raker]

As great as the first dozen Micronauts comics were, I really liked the flavor of the next bunch of issues, with the Ant-Man and Psycho-Man/FF stories, and the debut of the 'Tales of the Microverse' back-ups, which were 

[Wood]

Ya know...if you wanted to read a review of Dan Clowes' oversized collection for Death-Ray to get a feel for it, maybe you have a buddy that wrote an in-depth, spoiler free review of it. It's a relatively dense book, but easily reads in one sitting.



...me are a whore...

 

I will read this tonight when I get done working.

 

[Wood]

Sweet!!  JK Woodward is a member of the Justice League!

 

[Wood]

Great episode guys.

Haven't been able to get over  here in a while, but the listening has been great!  From the Micronauts talk, which is always gonna fill me with the love, to Wood talking about baggin' other stuff so he can be at his boys' game, to some Danger Girl talk, to Vince's discussion of SOmeday Funnies which led to me ordering the book (there you go Chris, he brought Abrahm's some business precisely because he was so specific.

Micronauts:  The first series I ever collected seriously.  I can still remember sitting in the park at 9 years old with my buddy Jason as we read Micronauts #11, the final chapter in the first story arc, and passed it back and forth reading it over and over again, and talking about how damned awesome the book was!  To me, the series never quite lived up to the promise of those first 12 issues, though I loved Broderick's run on the book.  Once he left, and the book went direct only, and we got the whole Pharoxx thing, as well as Devil and Fireflyte, not even the awesome Guice artwork was enough to keep me onboard, but those first 12 issues may be my favourite comics ever.

Whenever I see copies of those first dozen issues in cheap bins, I  grab them.  When my time comes, my wife will be looking for something to do with 20 odd copies of Micronauts #2, no less than 4 of them signed by Michael Golden.  Guide her well, folks!

Danger Girl:  I was in a period of not collecting comics regularly when this came out, but a friend of mine, a guy who never read comics, but was an animator, lent me his issues of this book.  He loved it.  If there's new stuff coming out, then I can't wait to show it to him, because I know he LOVED that series back in the day.

This Regular Show/Adventure Time of which you speak, isn't available up here yet, but I need to check this out.

As for Walking Dead, well, the leaden pace with which they're proceeding this season kinda makes Johns and Lee's Justice League seem positively dense story-wise.  I hope they're doing more than 6 this time around, because they haven't really done much of anything in the first 3.

Paul! 

Thanks for continuing to listen, and stopping in. You NEED to peep that Regular Show with the quickness. It's F'REAAAAAAAALZ.

Loved reading your Micronauts love. We all have those series that cemented our lifelong standing as comic book lovers, and I bet if we polled 50 of us, we would get 37 different series (recognizing that 13 or more would name either Teen Titans or X-Men ).