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On this Character Corner Dpalm and Kriss cover the Merc with the Mouth, Wade Wilson aka Deadpool. Deadpool is a unique character in that you can pretty much read anything with Deadpool in it. We have a ton of suggested reading for the character include a surprising "cameo" in a DC Comics book.

Issues: *All of these issues are on Marvel Unlimited except Superman/Batman Annual #1 obviously*

New Mutants #98 - #100- First Appearance of Deadpool

Deadpool (1997-2002) #1-#33- Joe Kelly run. First appearance of Blind Alfred

Deadpool and Death Annual - Flashbacks to Wade's time in Weapon X & feud with Ajax/Francis. Also his love with Death

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars - the retelling of the 1984 Secret Wars with Deadpool as the hero

Deadpool: Suicide Kings

Cable & Deadpool

Uncanny X-Force Volume 1

A+X #8 - Hawkeye & Deadpool team up

Agent X #1-7 & #13-15 - Gail Simone's first mainstream comic

Superman/Batman Annual #1 - Yes...this is not a mistake. This is DC embracing the fact that Deadpool is a parody of Deathstroke. See an "alternate" Deathstroke who looks (and behaves) an awful lot like Deadpool

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Dpalm and Kriss finally get around to their character corner on Doctor Victor Von Doom. We're going to have to break this up into two parts (maybe even three). For this first part we give a primer on Victor Von Doom's background. We cover the origin of his feud with Reed Richards. We also talk about about what makes Doom so terrifying (and a dick), his over confidence and his never ending quest for power. So check out Part 1 of this Character Corner. It only gets worse from here with Doom.

Issues:

Fantastic Four 4 & 5- First Appearance

Fantastic Four 6 - Doom tricks Namor into attacking the Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four 57 - 60 - Tricks the Silver Surfer and stills the Cosmic Power

Iron Man 149 & 150

Fantastic Four 196 - 200 - Fantastic Four help Zorba to overthrow Doom in Latveria

Fantastic Four 246 & 247 - Doom returns to Latveria. First appearance of Kristoff

Secret Wars (1984) 1 - 12 - Doom takes the power of the Beyonder

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Join Kriss and Dpalm as they ring in the new year with Movie Trailer Reviews's first interview of 2016. The MTR crew sat down with the writer of IDW's Transformers More Than Meets The Eye, James Roberts. Roberts was recently named Comic Alliance's Outstanding Writer of 2015. We talk about the transition from fan to writer, the unique perspective of writing a licensed comic, and welcoming new readers to a 30 year old franchise. Of course, we talk about the book itself as the series nears its landmark 50th issue.

Here is a sample of what we talked about:

On why More Than Meets The Eye can be a good book for new readers:

There was a decision to, I guess you can call it a soft reboot, sort of definitively move the IDW books into a second phase and the foundation for that was going to be the end of the war. That’s as good of a fresh start as you can have without starting from the very beginning and doing a proper reboot. So with John Barber with Robots in Disguise and myself with More Than Meets the Eye, two new books, two new on-goings, [there’s] a very simple pitch to the uninitiated which is: You know about the Autobot and Decepticons. Beyond that you know that they’ve been age old enemies. Well that stopped, there’s an uneasy peace…start reading now and let’s see where it goes. And that’s compounded by the fact that MTMTE is a good ole quest book. Its age old trope stuff. A group of mismatched people, you don’t need to know who they are, they’re on a ship and they’re flying into adventures. So that’s your background. MTMTE is a bit of sealed discrete book because of the quest format (with the exception being when we have crossovers) but its quite insular in the sense that you’re focusing on a finite group of characters and they’re moving further way from Cybertron into uncharted space and it doesn’t lend itself to jumping into other books. So you can start with just MTMTE and it wouldn’t  be very often that you’d feel wrong footed by a piece of information or a character that you’d expected to know. Its pretty much its own thing going forward.

On how many of the story seeds are planned in advance:

Its mainly planned. Not exclusively sometimes opportunities come up. The Chaos Theory stuff on a textural/thematically level was designed to take Megatron forward as a character in particular. Some of the Chaos Theory stuff we literally reintegrated into Elegant Chaos using the same pages. When I did Chaos Theory I didn’t have that in mind. When I wrote Shadow Play, which is the second of the three pre-war stories, I did think ‘okay we are going to revisit these pages in a couple years time’. That was with a greater amount of foreknowledge. You know there’s a degree of naivety here certainly in the early days, because as I said at the beginning we thought 12-16 issues would be fine and yet I was still thinking “well you know if we stick around…”

Is Issue 113 the end or are there other stories to tell:

You’re not the first to suggest 113 would be an appropriate end point. But I said with issue 1 that a fitting end would be issue 100. Do I have Transformers stories to tell after that? I don’t know We’ll see. I might have said everything I’ve needed to by then. We’ll find out. If we get to, so hey…keep buying it.

Is there another franchise or passion he’d like to take on:

I love Spider-Man that would be great. I’m a big fan of Death’s Head, another Marvel/UK character from the 80’s. Kieron [Gillen] is a similar age as me. We both grew up on Transformers UK. We’re both fanboys. And we both put soundtracks to our comics as well. Dr. Who is the other huge one. Not principally a comic series but I’d love write Dr. Who whether its a TV episode or a comic.

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That's just a sample of the interview. Dpalm & Kriss talk with James Roberts for over 50 minutes and there's plenty more covered. Plus Dpalm gets to nerd out and we all know how great that is.

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We do a dual episode this time to cover Rip Hunter and Vandal Savage as a primer for CW's upcoming Legends of Tomorrow. We talk about how there's some really good stories with Rip Hunter although DC hasn't really used him much lately. Vandal Savage is another story. He seems to be very underused in the comics but has been used fairly well in other media like the animated shows/movies and has a lot of potential in Legends of Tomorrow up against Rip Hunter.

Rip Hunter:

Showcase #20- First Appearance

52

Booster Gold Volume 2

Time Masters: Vanishing Point - Dark Phoenix Saga

Vandal Savage

JSA #43 & #45

Villains United #5 & #6

JSA: Classified #10-13

Animated

Young Justice

Justice League Doom

Justice League Unlimited

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We talk about our first X-Men/Mutant with this discussion on Emma Frost. We cover her entire history from her being introduced as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club to her transition to becoming an X-Men and protector of the mutant race. We talk about the recurring tragedies that help mold Emma from being just an evil villain to the hero she is now. An interesting thing about Emma is that despite this change, she still maintained her elitism and coldness but it has a purpose.

Reading list (Most if not all of these are on Marvel Unlimited):

Uncanny X-Men #129 - First Appearance

Uncanny X-Men #129 -133 - Dark Phoenix Saga

Uncanny X-Men #314 - Takes over Iceman's body

Generation X (63 - 70 are on MU)

#70 - Massachusetts Academy is blown up by her sister, another student dies

Uncanny X-Men #331 - "Helps" Bobby with his powers in a very Emma Way

Grant Morrison's New X-Men (2001-2004)

#115 - Genosha wiped out

#116 - Emma gets secondary mutation

Annual #1 & #131 - Her psychic Affair with Scott begins

#139 - Jean finds out and forces Emma to confront her past

Whedon's Astonishing X-Men (2004)

Volume 3: Torn - Emma Focus. Whole run features Emma but especially this volume

Dark X-Men The Confession 1

X-Men Regenesis

X-Men vs Avengers 1-12 (mostly 6-11)

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On this Character Corner, we do our first solo episode on a villain. We talk about DC's Black Adam. Black Adam is such an interesting character because while a lot of what he does is wrong, the motives are something you can understand. Complexity like this makes a villain good. When you can make a character that slaughters an entire country of 2 million people sympathetic in a way, you're doing something right.

Reading list:

The Marvel Family #1 -Origins (Fawcett Comics 1945)

JSA: Black Reign

JSA #56

Hawkman #23

JSA #57

Hawkman #24

JSA #58

Hawkman #25

Fifty Two

Adrianna Tomaz (future wife/Isis) 1st appearance

#12 -  Adrianna becomes Isis

#16 - Proposes to Isis and marries her

#23 - Amon becomes Osiris

#43 - Osiris is killed

#44 - Isis is killed

#45 - Black Adam slaughters 2 million in Bialya

#50, 50b, 50c, 50d, 50e - World War III. Black Adam vs the World

World War III Part 1

World War II Part 2

World War III Part 3

World War III Part 4

World War III Part 5

Justice Society of America: Black Adam and Isis

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Time for another Character Corner. This time we're discussing Jessica Jones and giving the rundown on what makes this character so different from those we've seen before. She'll make her live action debut on November 20th on Netflix. Listen to our discussion on her history.

Reading list:

Alias Volume 1 - First appearance of Jessica Jones

Alias Volume 2  "Come Home"

Alias Volume 3 "The Underneath"- Teams up with Jessica Drew to save Mattie Franklin

Alias Volume 4 "The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones" - Jessica Jones' origin story

The Pulse 1 -14 - Jessica works for J Jonah and has her child

New Avengers Annual #1 - Jessica and Luke Cage get married

Young Avengers -

Mighty Avengers - Luke starts the Mighty Avengers and Jessica isn't thrilled

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We're finally back with a new Character Corner. This time we're here to discuss Tim Drake, the third Robin. We talk about how unfair it is for Tim to become the "Forgotten" Robin and how good of a character he is. Each of the Robins have distinct personalities and traits and Tim Drake is "The Detective". Check out our discussion.

*I said Nightwing #1 on the show, it's actually #25

Reading list:

Batman #436 - First appearance of Tim Drake

Batman #442 - First appearance as Robin

Red Robin #1 - First appearance as Red Robin

Nightwing #25 - Great Dick & Tim issue

Identity Crisis - Tim Drake's father, Jack is killed

Teen Titans #20 - Tim dealing with his father's death with the Titans

Teen Titans #29 - Tim Drake vs Jason Todd

Red Robin #1-26 - Great run that really defines Tim Drake as "the Detective" and Bruce Wayne (not Batman) successor

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Kriss and Dpalm are joined by N'jaila Rhee to discuss black female comic book characters. This is a little different from our usually Character Corners since we go through several different characters. But I've made sure to list/link to some key issues and runs for some of these characters so you can look them up and read more about them.

Marvel

Storm

Giant Size X-Men #1 - First Appearance *

Uncanny X-Men #170 - Fights for leadership of the Morlocks*

Uncanny X-Men #201 - Powerless Storm beats Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men *

Shuri

Black Panther Volume 4 #2 - First Appearance *

Black Panther Volume 5 - Shuri takes over as Black Panther *

Monica Rambeau

The Amazing spider-Man Annual #16 * - First appearance as Captain Marvel

Avengers Unplugged #5 - First appearance as Photon

New Thunderbolts #9 * - First appearance as Pulsar

Mighty Avengers vol 2 #1 * - First appearance as Spectrum

Nextwave: Agents of HATE * - great series with Monica as the leader of a team

Misty Knight

Marvel Premiere #20 - first appearance

Simone Missick has been cast as Misty Knight for the Luke Cage Netflix series

* Issue(s) is on Marvel Unlimited

DC/Milestone/Vertigo

Amanda Waller

See the list of issues from our Character Corner on her & the Suicide Squad

Vixen

Action Comics #521 - First Appearance

Justice League of America Volume 2

Bumblebee

Teen Titans #45 - First appearance as Karen Beecher

Teen Titans #48 - First appearance  as Bumblebee

Young Justice cartoon

Thunder & Lightening (Black Lightning’s Kids)

XS (Jenni Ognats, Barry Allen’s granddaughter)

Legionnaires #0

Agent 355

Y the Last Man

Image

Michonne

The Walking Dead #19 - First appearance

The Walking Dead Volume 6 - her graphic dealings with the Governor

Dee from Rat Queens

All of Rat Queens

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We're back and this time it's to discuss Miles Morales, the Spider-Man from Marvel's Ultimate universe and soon to be MAIN Spider-Man of the All-New universe Marvel creates after Secret Wars. We talk about why the character is so significant and was a great move by Marvel. We also talk about what makes him different from Peter Parker and how that's a great thing. Finally, we geek out over the future of the character and how exciting its going to be to see him in the new universe(The first panel in Avengers with Kamala Khan/Miles Morales is going to be amazing).

*Note* Due to the weird numbering of some of the comics we were a little off on the issues we talked about so check the show notes to find out exactly where to get the issues. The links go to the Comixology pages.

Key Issues:

Ultimate Comics Fallout (Volume 1) #4 - First Appearance of Miles Morales

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 1 (collects 1 - 5 & Ultimate Comics Fallout #4)

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 2(collects 6 - 10)

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 3 (Collects 11- 18)

Spider-Men 1-5 - Miles Morales meets 616 Peter Parker and gets his blessing

All-New Ultimates - Miles, Jessica Drew, Bombshell, Cloak & Dagger form the new Ultimates team

Vol1 (Issues 1-6)

Vol2 (Issues 7-12)

Ultimate Spider-Man #200

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