Capes and Japes

Capes and Japes

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Capes and Japes episodes

  • #135 – Misty Knight

    Today we talk about Mercedes "Misty" Knight, who doesn't really have a super-powered name but she DOES have detective experience, a proficiency in hand-to-hand combat, and a cool metal arm that she uses to fight crime.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Netflix's Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Defenders
    -Marvel Premiere (1972) #20
    -Marvel Team-Up (1972) #1
    -A bit about Misty Knight & Blacksploitation
    -Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu (1974) #32
    -Marvel Team-Up (1972) #64
    -Y'all should get gay-married
    -Shadowland (2010)
    -Heroes for Hire (2010)
    -Fearless Defenders (2013)
    -Hunt for Wolverine: Weapon Lost
    -Tales of the Green Lantern Corps (1981)
    -Legends (1986)
    -Green Lantern Corps (1986)
    -Justice League International (1987) vol 1
    -The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    1 hr
  • #134 – Green Lantern Roundup

    Today we talk about some more notable Green Lanterns such as Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, as well as a run-down of the other colors of power rings in the Green Lantern mythos!

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Green Lantern (2011) #13 (Simon Baz)
    -Justice League (2011) #31 (Jessica Cruz)
    -Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
    -Blackest Night (2009)
    -Guy Gardner Star Sapphire (well, and Red Lantern)
    -Dark Knights: Death Metal #1
    -Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling #1
    -Humble Book Bundle: Be the Change

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    1 hr 7 min
  • #133 – Guy Gardner

    Today we talk about Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern who is the Shitkicker of the DCU, Warrior, and a Red Lantern. He loses his ring in a bet, learns he has some alien shapeshifter DNA, and gets punched by Batman really hard in the face.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -TikTok witches hexing the moon
    -Green Lantern (1960) #59
    -Booster Gold (2007) #2
    -Spongebob flying ice cream truck
    -Justice League International (1987)
    -Guy Gardner: Warrior (1992)
    -Green Lantern Corps (2006): Blackest Night
    -Green Lantern: War of the Green Lanterns
    -Red Lanterns (2011) #21 (new 52)
    -Humble Book Bundle: Be The Change

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    57 min
  • #132 – Kyle Rayner

    Today we talk about Kyle Rayner, a Green Lantern who despite being a pretty cool dude has a LOT of bad things happen to the women around him, and also he's kind of like the Avatar of the Lanterns in that he masters all seven colors of rings.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Green Lantern: Emerald Twlight/New Dawn
    -Women In Refrigerators
    -Green Lantern: Circle of Fire
    -Infinite Crisis
    -this means nothing vis-a-vis our naruto debate
    -Green Lantern (2011) (New 52)
    -Humble Book Bundle: Be The Change

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    56 min
  • #131 – John Stewart

    Today we talk about the fourth Green Lantern, John Stewart. He was an architect before becoming a Green Lantern (until he was retconned into a Marine veteran) and all of his ring projections are fully-functioning with every single part, even though he doesn't have to do that.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Justice League Cartoon
    -Green Lantern (1960) #87
    -Green Lantern (1960) #182
    -Cosmic Odyssey (1988)
    -it was all yellow
    -Green Lantern: Mosaic
    -Justice League - Scott Snyder
    -Is'Nana the Were-Spider from Webway Comics

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    55 min
  • #130 – Hal Jordan

    Today we talk about Hal Jordan, a test pilot who had the highest willpower the closest to where a Green Lantern died, and so he then became (arguably the most well-known) Green Lantern. Some weird stuff happened in the 1990's, and he was Spectre for a while, but he's mostly just a Space Cop.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Showcase Presents: Green Lantern vol. 1
    -Showcase Presents: Green Lantern vol. 5
    -The Final Night (1996)
    -Day of Judgement (1999)
    -Green Lantern: Rebirth (2004)
    -Justice League: War (trailer)
    -Dark Knights: Death Metal (2020) #1
    -Being Anti-Racist
    -BlackoutDay2020 (July 7)
    -General Strike 2020 (July 4-7)

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    1 hr 2 min
  • #129 – Pietro Maximoff

    Today we talk about Pietro Maximoff, who can think and go very fast and this makes him incredibly impatient! He loves his twin sister Wanda and hates his dad Magneto. Once he did some messed up things and blamed it on a Skrull even though it was him.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -X-Men (1963) #4
    -Avengers (1963) #16
    -Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #12
    -Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #4
    -West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #1
    -House of M
    -Black Lives Matter Punisher Skull Shirts

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

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    57 min
  • #128 – Wanda Maximoff

    Today we talk about Wanda Maximoff, better known as the Scarlet Witch, who is an extremely powerful mutant who has... some problems with agency, namely that comics don't let her have it very often. She also is able to rewrite reality!

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -X-Men (1963) #4
    -Avengers (1963) #16
    -For Once In His Life He Says Nothing
    -Avengers Disassembled
    -Original Sins (2014) #5 (No, MORE mutants)
    -The two panels where it's revealed that Clint Barton had sex with a doombot
    -Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
    -Valiant Comics twitter thread of free comics
    -Donate to the National Lawyers Guild!

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

    Support Capes and Japes by:
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    Find out more on the Capes and Japes website.

    55 min
  • #127 – Erik Lehnsherr

    Today we talk about a man who goes by many names, mostly Erik Lehnsherr and Magneto, who is a mutant with electromagnetic powers, a Holocaust survivor, and an antagonist to the X-Men. Is he a villain? Well, it's complicated.

    Hey! You might have noticed that last week we didn't release an episode to support #TheShowMustPause, and you might have also noticed that our Twitter page has been retweeting Anti-Racism resources. If you haven't, and you don't agree with the Black Lives Matter movement, I want you to stop listening to this podcast right now and only come back once you've taken active steps to combat racism in your life and your community. This whole paragraph is a link to some things that can help with that.

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -Quentin Quire's Magneto was right shirt
    -X-Men (1963) #1
    -Secret Wars (1984)
    -House of M (2005)
    -Secret Wars (2015)
    -there's plenty of lists of Black comics artists and writers and books, but here's one
    -and here's another!
    -Gail Simone even made a twitter thread!

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

    Support Capes and Japes by:
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    Find out more on the Capes and Japes website.

    59 min
  • #126 – Jean Grey

    Today we talk about Jean Grey, who has most notably gone by Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix, although there's some fun stuff with "How much of this was Jean Grey and how much of it was the Phoenix Force?" because one of the symptoms of Women In Comics Disease is a lack of agency!

    Media specifically mentioned in today's episode:

    -X-Men (1963) #1
    -X-Men (1963) #101
    -Uncanny X-Men (1963) #129
    -X-Factor (1986) #1
    -All-New X-Men (2012)
    -House of X (2019)
    -Jeeves and Wooster

    Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!

    Support Capes and Japes by:
    Checking out our Patreon or donating to the Tip jar

    Find out more on the Capes and Japes website.

    56 min

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