The Fellowship is pleased to present our summer movie preview. Once again we go down the list of movie releases for the summer season and talk about the ones we think will be interesting or funny. We might even spot a trend or two, and we just might make a joke here and there. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Dead Hand #1 and Crude #1 - my picks from last week that I didn't get time to review for the website
Les is in Hawaii this week, and may be rubbing it in a bit :-)
Superman 80th Anniversary Collection, Jimmy's Bastards, Oblivion Song
Another vote for Superman with discussion, and teasing an announcement
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So many movies… not going to list them here - there are plenty of websites out there with lists. Just Google "summer movie list 2018" and you'll see them all.
Picks for the week of 4/25:
Abbott #4 (BOOM! Studios)
Demi-God #2 (IDW)
The Prisoner #1 (Titan)
Deep Roots #1 (Vault)
FUBAR: All Star trade (Alterna)
J. Scott Campbell's Danger Girl 20th Anniversary (IDW)
Aliens: Dust to Dust #1 (Dark Horse)
Actionverse #7 featuring Midnight Tiger (Action Lab)
Honorable Mention: Image Firsts - reprints of first issues at a $1 price point, as well as the Image+ anthology series for $1.25
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We won't have a show next week due to life being weird - we'll be back the following week, of course
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our suggestions for crossovers starring Valiant's cast of characters. We had a whole lot of fun coming up with pairings between the heroes of the Valiant universe and the heroes of other comics universes (we get a little obscure at times). A great opportunity, too, for our particular brand of silliness. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Analog #1 & Isola #1 - both Image titles, both very exciting first issues
Actually not watching The Walking Dead, apparently; also high praise for Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The Robert Asprin Myth series - great little fantasy novels, easy to consume, lots of pun - er, I mean fun ;-)
Batman: The Dark Knight Detective volume 1 - a cool throwback to the '60s TV series (from the late '80s?)
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We're teaming up Valiant's finest heroes with DC, Marvel, - hell, whoever we can think of! If you think of any cool ones, let us know on social media!
Picks for the week of 4/18:
Action Comics #1000 (DC)
Skyward #1 (Image)
Black Hammer: Age of Doom #1 (Dark Horse)
Cyanide and Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys With No Kids (BOOM! Studios)
Jeepers Creepers #1 (Dynamite)
Diablo House #4 (IDW)
Honorable Mention: The Black Monday Murders volume 2 trade (Image)
Les' picks (since we lost him in the break): John Wick #2 (Dynamite) and Alien Bounty Hunter #1 (Vault)
Shoutouts:
National Siblings Day - hello, all you siblings out there
Congrats to Joe Illidge for the new gig at Valiant - If you're listening, bud, we want credit for any of this stuff you use :-p
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our celebration of the 80th anniversary of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman. We talk about the character, his origins, and how he's managed to stay relevant throughout the decades. We also wonder about how he might manage to stay relevant for one or two more. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Edgar Allan Poe Chronicles - available on Kickstarter until 4/25
Catching up on Superman comics; "explaining" to the SO that binder clips and comics DO NOT go together EVER!
Caught up on TV; also bought the Batman game (from the last KS episode)
Picked up the Hawk & Dove trade from a few weeks ago; also really digging Scooby Doo Team Up
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Happy birthday, Supes :-)
Picks for the week of 4/11:
Resident Alien: An Alien in New York #1 (Dark Horse)
Survival Fetish #1 (Black Mask Studios)
Domino #1 (Marvel)
Oblivion Song #2 (Image)
Ninja-K #6 (Valiant)
Thanos #18 (Marvel)
Rose #10 (Image)
Shock (AfterShock)
Honorable Mention: Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman Deluxe Edition (DC)
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our celebration of the 50th anniversary of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. We talk about its roots, its story, and its impact on the culture. It's a very influential movie in a lot of ways, and it's also a bit polarizing, so it's a fun one to discuss. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Lucy Dreaming #1 (Boom! Studios) & 2000AD Prog 2073 - books from last week that I would have reviewed had I had time; both are very cool
Norman trade (Titan) & Punks Not Dead #2 (IDW/Black Crown) - rebellious fun in both cases, though in very different ways
MAD Original Idiots: Will Elder - dude is a genius
Ready Player One - amazing movie, true to the book [It sparked a bit of a tangent, too. -m]
DC's Millenium collection - an awful lot like Secret Invasion, but 30 years earlier, and thanks to Joseph Illidge for recommending it :-)
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If you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, you really should. And please try to watch it without any expectations :-)
Picks for the week of 3/28:
What To Do When I'm Gone (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Scales & Scoundrels #8 (Image)
Helm #1 (Action Lab)
Swashbucklers: The Saga Continues #1 (Dynamite)
Jetsons #6 (DC)
Zero Jumper #1 (Alterna)
Batman: The Dark Knight Detective collection (DC)
Deathstroke #30 (DC)
Honorable Mention: Reefer Madness collection (Dark Horse)
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our quarterly look at crowdfunding in comics (and other cool stuff). This is when we go through Kickstarter and find a bunch of exciting projects to recommend to you wonderful people. With our usual silliness, of course. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Thrill of Dracula - part of the Dracula Dossier expansion for Nights Black Agents (Pelgrane Press); great for gaming, but also cool just for the movie knowledge [I got it through a Bundle of Holding offering. -m]
Oblivion Song, Aquaman, Deathbed - all really cool stories
Les' Big Bag o' Nothing® - not much going on this week
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - interesting stories about licensing and titles called Man of Steel :-)
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Our Kickstarter picks this time:
The North Star: The Emancipation of Frederick Douglass (V1)
THE RESURRECTED #1 - A dark sci-fi thriller
Under New Management, the new Evil Inc graphic novel
The Rift Effect - A steampunk, Victorian monster hunt.
MERAKI #2 – An Adventure Story With Greek Gods & Gay Heroes!
Neanderthal Rising: Issue 1 - Let's Print
Batman™: Gotham City Chronicles
Edison Bell: Maker Projects from the Golden Age of Comics
KILLING TIME IN AMERICA - A hardcover ADULT graphic novel
THE COMMON GOOD - A satiric cyberpunk comic
Guardian City Saint - The Source Book
Picks for the week of 3/28:
Farlaine the Goblin #6 (Studio Farlaine)
Breathless #1 (Black Mask Studios)
Hack/Slash Resurrection #6 (Image)
Tinseltown #1 (Alterna)
The Rough Riders: Ride Or Die #2 (Aftershock)
Hit Girl #2 (Image)
Black Magick #11 (Image)
Hawk and Dove: The Silver Age collection (DC)
Honorable Mention: Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Bloodsuckers #1 (IDW)
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March is MS Awareness Month - it's a degenerative disease that we don't know much about yet
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of stories that didn't quite go the way we had hoped. Some stories have an element or a twist that just doesn't sit right, and we're talking about a few examples that we've come up with. Some are minor, some are major, and some are rant-inducing. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Horror Movie Archive channel on YouTube - cool old horror flicks ranging from the 1930s up to at least the 1980s
Going through the Previews catalog for May and waving byebye to all the moneys; also organizing the collection
Bad Flashdance joke; Picked up Sonitus and The XII by Alterna Comics - we definitely love us some Alterna :-)
The Complete Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin; also maybe bringing back a seasonal feature on the website???
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[Note: the Pathfinder series I was talking about was Worldscape. -m]
Picks for the week of 3/21:
The Baker Street Four vol 4 (Insight Comics)
Factory #1 (Titan)
Hope one-shot (Renegade Arts)
Dept. H #24 (Dark Horse)
Wonder Woman Forgotten Legends collection (DC)
Pussycats: The End of Everything #1 (E-Comix)
We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust (IDW)
Vampirella #11 (Dynamite)
Honorable Mention: Corto Maltese: The Golden House of Samarkand (IDW)
Shoutouts:
Farewell to scientific icon Stephen Hawking, who passed away on Tuesday
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our list of "amalgam" characters - that is, characters that are combinations of two (or more) existing comics characters, usually from different universes. We had some fun making up weird and wonderful new characters based loosely on some of our favorites, and we hope you will have fun too. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Two books last week that I missed - Frankenstein Alive! Alive! #4 (Bernie Wrightson's last work) and The October Faction: Supernatural Dreams #1
A new convert to the Kentucky Fried Movie, though maybe a bit awkwardly :-) and also Ice Cream Man (very creepy)
Thomas' Big Bag o' Nothing® [Note: the extra time he's talking about? We recorded on Thursday this week instead of our usual Tuesday. I don't recall mentioning that in the show. -m]
Reading one of the Quarry novels by Max Allan Collins - very entertaining
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As promised, the link to our episode about Amalgam Comics for a little background on the project
[Note: there's a bit of a hum in the background off and on through the recording. Can't figure out a way to remove it - sorry about that. -m]
Picks for the week of 3/14:
Atlas & Axis #3 (Titan)
Infidel #1 (Image)
Cosmo #3 (Archie)
Vampironica #1 (Archie)
Subspecies #1 (Action Lab Danger Zone)
Justice League of America Bronze Age Omnibus Vol 2 (DC)
Quarry's War #4 (Titan)
Eternity Girl #1 (DC)
Honorable Mention: Nailbiter Hardcover Collection Vol 2 (Image)
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March is MS Awareness Month - it's a degenerative disease that we don't know much about yet
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our list of movies or TV shows (mostly) that we think would translate well to the comics medium. Our choices range from obvious to obscure to downright goofy - you know, kind of like our collective taste in comics. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Do Not Adjust Your Set - one of the precursors of Monty Python's Flying Circus; I found 9 episodes on Amazon Prime (they also have a few eps of At Last The 1948 Show, the other precursor)
The Walking Dead is back, and Liz is less than happy (also a brief appearance by Phil, Liz's hubby - hi Phil!)
Les' Big Bag o' Nothing® - read a few books, nothing to write home about
Star Wars Rebels is ending soon - awesome show, going to miss it
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Movies/TV shows/other properties we think would make interesting comics:
Nah, you're going to have to listen to get the list. I'm not making it that easy on you ;-)
[Note: Les was partially right - there was the beginning of a comic based on the Illuminatus! Trilogy in the late '80s. It didn't last long. -m]
Picks for the week of 3/7:
Oblivion Song #1 (Image)
Actionverse featuring Stray #6 (Action Lab)
Ballad of Sang #1 (Oni Press)
Spider King #1 (IDW)
Highest House #1 (IDW)
Unholy Grail trade (Aftershock)
Green Hornet #1 (Dynamite)
Swords of the Swashbucklers trade (Dynamite)
Honorable Mention: Kamandi by Jack Kirby Omnibus (DC)
Shoutouts:
Get well soon, Kevin Smith @ThatKevinSmith - we're pulling for you :-)
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Planet of the Apes movie franchise. It's been a successful series of movies more than once, and also twice made into TV shows (animated and live action). And it's loaded with themes that are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Jetsons - very dramatic and well written; Strangers in Paradise - an intriguing start, to say the least
Ready for the return of The Walking Dead; also quitting smoking (yay Liz!) [Note: we get a bit personal here in support of Liz. Quitting smoking is hard, and we want her to succeed. -m]
Milk Wars (1-3) - bizarre but fun
Moon Knight Epic Collection - there's an awesome movie or Netflix series in there
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Congrats to all involved in making a sci-fi story work for 50 years. It's quite an accomplishment.
Picks for the week of 2/28:
Peek-A-Boo #1 (Zenescope)
Mera, Queen of Atlantis #1 (DC)
Hungry Ghosts #2 (Dark Horse/Berger Books)
Abbott #2 (BOOM! Studios)
Casper & Hotstuff #1 (American Mythology)
Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation #1 (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
Victor Lavalle's Destroyer TP (BOOM! Studios)
The Terrifics #1 (DC)
Honorable Mention: Dirty Duck collection (IDW)
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our conversation with Madeleine Holly-Rosing, creator of the Boston Metaphysical Society comic series. The latest chapter of the story, The Scourge of the Mechanical Men, is available now on Kickstarter. We chat with her about that book, about the Society in general, and about some of her other projects. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
The Winter Olympics - it's fun watching kids get into it for the first time
Dallas Comic Show last weekend - a bit of (awesome) name-dropping
Liz is turning young minds to the ways of comics one at a time ;-)
Still trying to dig out old RPG stuff, and stumbled across old notes from the webcast (shows we did years ago, and a list of old show topics)
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Again, check out Boston Metaphysical Society: The Scourge of the Mechanical Men at the link, and get your copy reserved soon
Also check out her book Kickstarter For The Independent Creator, available on Amazon now
And check out her website and say hi to her on Twitter @MHollyRosing
And while we're at it, Vietnamese steampunk
[Note: the Kasai campaign did end on Friday, before this show dropped. But we talked about it last week in episode 100, so hopefully you got in on it then. And it did fund, so yay :-) -m]
Picks for the week of 2/21:
Sonitus #1 (Alterna)
Deathbed #1 (DC)
Batman: Sins of the Father #1 (DC)
Empowered & Sistah Spooky's High School Hell #3 (Dark Horse)
The Beatles Story (2000AD)
Hit Girl #1 (Image)
Punks Not Dead #1 (Black Crown/IDW)
Ghost Station Zero TP (Image)
Honorable Mention: The Musketeers #1 (Zenescope)
Shoutouts:
Thanks to Madeleine for chatting with us this week :-)
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