Episode 24 - We've Totally Solved This One, Sure - Week of 8/10/16
In which the geeks disrupt the continuity.
The Fellowship is pleased to present a discussion about retcons and reveals. We include the sometimes weird things publishers do with stories, and how they're trying to sell books. A handful of tangents and several bad jokes ensue. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Atomic Robo: The Ring of Fire (also the Robo webcomic)
Sergeant York (the Gary Cooper movie)
Fantastic Four omnibus (Lee & Kirby, the first one)
Link to the article that inspired us:
Bronze Age Babies article on retcons
Picks for the week of 8/10:
Black Monday Murders #1
The Accused one-shot (Civil War 2 tie-in)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas #4
Three O'Clock Club #1
Blue Hour #1
Atomic Robo: The Temple of Od #1
Atomic Robo: Hell and Lightning (collects volumes 7-9)
Shoutouts:
You, gentle listeners!
Question of the Week: Favorite or least favorite retcon? Let us know on social media!
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion about Star Trek Beyond and some of the news bits around it. Also, we have a longish story about one geek's fandom. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
San Diego Comic Con highlights - too many to note here; you'll just have to download and listen :-p
Also, farewells to Anton Yelchin and Jerry Doyle
Picks for the week of 8/3:
Kill or Be Killed #1
Nailbiter #24
Lady Killer 2 #1
Battlestar Galactica 3 #1 (Cullen Bunn!)
Penny Dreadful #3
E.V.I.L. Heroes #1
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan The Complete Joe Kubert Years
Rachel Rising Omnibus
Shoutouts:
You, gentle listeners!
Question of the Week: What was your favorite news from SDCC? Let us know on social media!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of comic book sales for the month of June. Apparently June was the best sales month in 20 years, and we have a few ideas about that (for what it's worth). And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Hammer Dracula movies
Westerns on cable TV
Glenn Ford movies
Links to the articles we talk about:
Washington Post article about recent sales
ICv2 article about declining digital sales
Comichron report on sales for June 2016
Picks for the week of 7/27:
Mae #3
Postal #13
Mechanism #1
Bone Coda collection
Tomboy #6
Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth #1
Machine Man by Kirby & Ditko Complete Collection
Shoutouts:
Link to the article about the end of VCR production
Eli Luna, faithful listener and inspirer of this week's topic
You, gentle listeners!
Question of the Week: Do you buy variant covers? Why or why not? Let us know on social media!
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our favorite potential upcoming comics-related TV shows. We got new shows, renewed shows, and shows that haven't even been published yet. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Pokemon Go (which actually none of us are playing)
Mycroft Holmes (book, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse)
Infamous Iron Man (new Dr Doom title - Thomas predicted this…)
Deadman vs The Darkness (new gothic romance title - also foreseen by your humble servants :-)
The upcoming TV series we talk about:
(here's the Den of Geek article that sparked us)
Scarlet
The Wicked + The Divine
Y: The Last Man
Hawaiian Dick
Hack/Slash
Scalped
Harrow County
Briggs Land
Concrete
Krypton (not a glowing reaction, but there it is)
Picks for the week of 7/20:
A & A #5
Faith #1 (ongoing series)
Red Team: Double Tap, Center Mass #1
Groo: Fray of the Gods #1 (woo!)
ROM #1
Tales From The Darkside #2
Weird Detective #2
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Hall of Fame Edition with Russ Heath cover
Shoutouts:
The Countdown Podcast
PurrKayla - thinking about you, girl :-)
You, gentle listeners!
Question of the Week: Which of these new TV shows are you ready for (or not)? Let us know on social media!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our summary of the summer movie crop so far. What has come (and gone, in some cases) and what is yet to come, and whether we want to see it or not. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Rat God (Richard Corben)
Les has been sleeping, mainly
The original Planet of the Apes film franchise
The movies we talk about:
Oh God, please don't make me type out all of those titles here. We talk about all of them, okay? Now move along.
Picks for the week of 7/13:
Norman #2
DC Elseworlds: Justice League TP Volume 1
Horizon #1
Satellite Falling #3
Insufferable: On The Road #6
Al Williamson's Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Artist's Edition
Shoutouts:
You, gentle listeners!
Question of the Week: Which summer movies are you looking forward to? Let us know on social media!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship is pleased to present a discussion of genres that don't really get used much anymore. We look at connections between media and between genres, and we talk about what we'd like to see come back. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Lady Killer (Joelle Jones)
Marked Man (Howard Chaykin)
Supurbia (Grace Randolph)
Sitcomics (new publisher, headed by Darin Henry)
Genres we don't see much anymore in comics:
Westerns
War
Romance
Medical
Celebrity
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
Picks for the week of 7/6:
Spread #14
Vampirella V3 #5
Weird Love #13
Kim & Kim #1
Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #1 (weekly series)
Batman '66 Meets Steed & Mrs. Peel #1
Future Quest #2
The Flintstones #1
Shoutouts:
SciFiFX (podcast/website/friend of the show)
Comic Confidential podcast
Jake & Tom Conquer the World podcast
Darby Pop Publishing
Les does NOT sound like Moltar (Ricky!)
You, the listeners!
Question of the Week: Which genre of comics do you think should come back? Let us know on social media!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our ideas on how a national chain of comic shops would work. MBAs we ain't, but we get into how distribution would have to change (fictionally, of course) and what kinds of effects it would have on the industry as a whole. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
No Such Thing As The News (TV show/YouTube)
Also No Such Thing As A Fish (podcast) and QI (TV show)
The Secret History of AA Comics by Bob Rosakis (book)
Make Mine Indie (preview magazine for indie comics)
Picks for the week of 6/29:
Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years
Hillbilly #1
Justice League of America Omnibus volume 2
DC Superhero Girls volume 1 - Finals Crisis (great title)
Hot Damn #3
Mars Attacks: Occupation #4
Spectrum #1 (from the Con Man webseries)
Shoutouts:
You, the listeners!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship, along with guest Eddie Medina from the Rantcor Pit Podcast, is pleased to present some of the cartoon shows we'd reboot. There's a whole lot of childhood memories going on in this one, let me tell you. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Fake Empire by Eric Palicki & Vinnie Rico
Houdini and Doyle (book and TV series)
ArlingCon
Dead by Daylight (still) and Reality Comics (social media)
Cartoons we mention:
Green Lantern (2012, 1 season)
Jonny Quest (1964-65 and others)
Dinosaucers (1987, 1 season)
Young Justice (2010-13, 2 seasons)
Dexter's Laboratory (1996-03, 5 seasons)
Phineas & Ferb (2007-12, 4 seasons and a movie)
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (1993, 1 season and a comic book and an arcade game)
Codename: Kids Next Door (2002-08, 6 seasons)
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000-01, 2 seasons)
Dudley Do-right (part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, 1959-64, 5 seasons - not the movie)
Spider-Man Unlimited (2000, 1 season)
Battle of the Planets (American version 1978-80, 85 episodes)
Honorable Mentions:
Danger Mouse
Lance Link: Secret Agent Chimp
Clutch Cargo
Super Chicken
George of the Jungle
Davey and Goliath
Picks:
Action Man #1
Pre-Code Classics: Journey Into Fear Volume 1
Bitch Planet #8
Pretty Deadly #10
Back Issue #89
Man From Atlantis (novel)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation #1
Deadpool v Gambit #1
How to find Eddie:
And their live video podcasts/YouTube channel
Shoutouts:
You, the listeners!
To find us, go to:
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The Fellowship is pleased to present some of their favorite licensed properties and adaptations. We're digging deep into the dark recesses of our fandom this week, spanning media such as video games, prose fiction, film, and even roleplaying games. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Rock Show with Gully and Joe
Twitch channel for Dead by Daylight
Properties we mention:
Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder
Star Trek
Conan and Red Sonja (Robert E. Howard)
Battlestar Galactica
Adaptations of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft by I.N.J. Culbard
The Halloween franchise (John Carpenter and others)
Picks:
The Joyners #1
The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade #1
Han Solo #1
Lazarus #22
A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #4
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser: The Cloud of Hate and Other Stories
Shoutouts:
You, the listeners!
To find us, go to:
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Schedules and plans sometimes go awry, and so this week we present a bit of Fellowship history - our test recording with Holly. We're talking about comics characters we'd like to see in their own solo titles, and we stick to our own rules about as well as normal. And as always, our picks of the week.
Characters we mention:
Henry Lyme from Mind Mgmt
Doctor Doom
Mera, Queen of Atlantis
Blackhawk (the Will Eisner one)
Joacquim Morray from Lazarus (or Sonja Bittner, either way)
Ra's al Ghul
Lying Cat from Saga
Lying Cat (no really, two of us chose the same character)
Adam Strange
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (cheating a bit, but bear with us)
Bette Kane aka Hawkfire
Poison Ivy (Cycle of Life and Death is not enough)
Challengers of the Unknown
A non-specific, non-tricked-up western
Danger Girl one-shots
Any of the gods from The Wicked + The Divine
Also mentioned:
Atomic Robo and the Knights of the Golden Circle (when we talked about westerns)
Picks:
Wonder Woman Rebirth #1
Wacky Raceland #1
The Fix #3
Empress #3
Aquaman Rebirth #1
Earth 2 Society #13
Renato Jones: The One% #2
Faster Than Light #7
Shoutouts:
You, the listeners!
To find us, go to:
www.thefellowshipofthegeeks.net
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Twitter - @FellowshipGeeks, @MikeyGeek, @HollyBlakeee, @TomTCGeek