Comics In Motion

Welcome to Whats the Topic a podcast where we discuss Superheroes, Comics, Films, Tv and Video games.

This week's episode me and Luke discuss the very first episode of the Loki Disney Plus Series.

We hope you enjoy our ramblings and will join us for future episodes!

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In this episode we get an overview of DC’s first ever comic book series, More Fun Comics. This title featured the first appearances of Dr. Occult, The Spectre, Dr. Fate, Johnny Quick, Aquaman and Green Arrow & Speedy. We will look at the major features and characters as well as reading through some landmark issues and stories.

You can follow the show @ComicsLloyd on Twitter or send an email to [email protected]. You can find me on Twitter @MattB_Lloyd and at www.dccomicsnews.com where I write reviews and edit news stories.

You can also check out my chapter in “Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought.”

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Gotham-Universe-Political-Thought/dp/3030057755

More Fun Comics Links

New Fun Comics at DC Database

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/New_Fun_Comics_Vol_1

More Fun Comics at DC Database

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/More_Fun_Comics_Vol_1

Dover and Clover at Don Markenstein’s Toonopedia

http://www.toonopedia.com/doverclo.htm

Genius Jones at Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_Jones

Jimminy at Don Markenstien’s Toonopedia

http://www.toonopedia.com/jimminy.htm

Mike embarks on the first 5 issues of the War Of The Bounty Hunters 34-issue crossover event, which this month form “the prelude”! This story takes place just after Empire Strikes Back; carbonite-frozen Han Solo is stolen from Boba Fett on his way to collecting the bounty from Jabba The Hutt and now the whole galaxy is after Solo, including Luke & Chewie, Darth Vader, Doctor Aphra, Beilert Valance, Dengar and many other bounty hunters - this is the crossover event of the decade, so is not one to be missed!

This story is set just after Empire Strikes Back (& after the first runs of the Star Wars, Darth Vader & Doctor Aphra comics) and the reading order is WoBH Alpha>SW13>BH12>DV12>DA10.

WoBH Alpha was released 5th May 2021, it written by Charles Soule with Steve McNiven as artist and Laura Martin as colour artist. SW13 was released 12th May 2021, it was written by Charles Soule with Ramon Rosanas as artist and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist. BH12 was released 19th May 2021, it written by Ethan Sacks with Paolo Villanelli as artist and Arif Prianto as colour artist. DV12 was released 26th May 2021, it written by Greg Pak with Guiu Vilanova as artist and Dean White as colour artist along with Giada Marchiso.

DA10 was released 26th May 2021, it written by Alyssa Wong with Ray-Anthony Heigh as penciller, Victor Olazaba as inker and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist.

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike embarked on the penultimate Doctor Aphra story-arc from the 2016 run; The Unspeakable Rebel Superweapon! In addition to detailing what this superweapon is, these issues give backstory to Aphra’s relationship with her mother and shows a huge amount of trickery & madness (as standard with Aphra), plus Mike gives information on RA-7 protocol droids, Gigorans, the Empire’s Gallery Of Peace and more!

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week (with 3 episodes now *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher, The Phantom Menace & Spider-Man 3!), plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this very show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Keep an eye out for the Comics In Motion Book Club, releasing soon, with the first episode tackling the first volume of the 2017 Darth Vader comic run!

Mike was on a recent episode of the I Like To Like Things podcast, talking about his favourite TV show (and no, it’s not Star Wars): https://spoti.fi/3xtlBoJ

Mike is on episode 21 of the podcast Geek Talks on the Fantastic Universes feed: https://spoti.fi/3fOJT5h 

Mike was on ep 37 of What's The Topic, to talk about the first episode of Loki, check it out on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/2SkIwDT

Mike is on episode 21 of the podcast Geek Talks on the Fantastic Universes feed: https://spoti.fi/3fOJT5h

Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook

Intro arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

TV & Movie Reviews: Darkman (1990)

The guys go back to 1990 and review the Sam Raimi character - Dark Man starring Liam Neeson. A reviewers dream movie but does it stand up 31 years later?

Plot Summary:

Peyton Westlake is a scientist who has discovered a way to produce synthetic skin. This could revolutionise skin grafting, except for one minor glitch; the synthetic skin degrades after 100 minutes of exposure to light. When gangsters attack Peyton, he is horrifically burnt, and assumed dead. In his quest for revenge, Peyton, aka the Darkman, is able to take on the appearance of anyone (using the synthetic skin,) but he only has 100 minutes per disguise.

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Before the show, check out my HOT TAKE review of EVIL CAST. Get it free here https://www.ominous.media/

This week, Tony comes face-to-face with one of his childhood heroes. Mr. Don Chin.

Please follow and support Don’s projects below.

https://twitter.com/realdonchin

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beardzzerker-1-a-parody-of-keanu-reeves-brzrkr#/

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https://www.youtube.com/user/DLCVideos

Don Chin went to Eureka High School with Parsonavich. They both later attended Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, where Chin was a journalism major. The two created Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsterswhile still in college. Chin also co-owned a comic book store, Comic Castle, and worked on several other comics, including Overload, Comics Review, Cracked, The Telegraph Wire, The Comic Buyer's Guide, Enchanter, Stargate, Choke and Strip Tease.

He actually gave his phone number out in the second issue of ARBBH and invited fans to call him.

His early influences were Charles Schultz, Berke Breathed, Gary Larson, and Woody Allen.

He often appears in the ARBBH comics as himself. He is usually portrayed as a slight, neat figure in comparison with the disheveled Parsonavich. His in-comic self is usually the butt of jokes about the quality and non-politically-correct nature of the comic.

Comics in Motion is now a Humble Bundle Partner.

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can read his reviews of multiple Independent and DC comics at DC Comics News or at Fantastic Universes. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

We've been Binging Buffy, but now it's time to take a look at something contemporary and current. So, where better to start than with a show you could elevator pitch as Victorian Buffy meets X-Men? That's what we thought.

Join JAC as he breaks down each episode and considers whether it's a show worth your time in this era of episodic abundance or whether you should never.

Each episode he is joined by a special guest so they can provide their unique perspective. For episode 5. Hanged, JAC is joined by regular Seasons Greetings co-host Tony Farina to celebrate the wonderful cast performances and critique the abundance of plot.

Full spoilers throughout for the episode.

If you want to get in touch with JAC about this episode or any other area of fandom he can be found on twitter under the handle @iamjacsmusings. His thoughts on TV, films and comics can be read at iamjacsmusings.wordpress.com.

See you in a week's time for episode 6. True.

It's episode 22 of "Superheroes For Dummies" featuring the Doom Patrol..

Superheroes For Dummies is a podcast where three friends; a comics novice with an interest in finding out more, a comics related media fan, and an ultra nerd, answer questions about the characters YOU want to know more about. The podcast's hosted by Paul McGuigan, Daniel Belgrave and Steve J. Ray. It's produced, mixed, and edited by Adam Ray.

Please contact us on Twitter:

@PaulDaMac @Dark_Ronin84 @el_steevo @IzzetTinkerer

"Theme Music" by Professor Elemental and Tom Caruana. Please check out professorelemental.com and Teasearecords.com for more information.

You can find the DC Comics News Podcast, Mad Love: The Harley Quinncast, I Am The Night and The Spinner Rack here https://dcnewsnetwork.fireside.fm/

Find Mandatory Marvel/DC Podcast, The Indie Comics Spotlight, Classic Comics, The VHS Strikes Back, and a whole host of other great shows at https://play.acast.com/s/comicsinmotion#:~:text=The%20Comics%20In%20Motion%20Podcast,Dave%20Horrocks%20and%20Chris%20Phelps.

Reading and viewing list:

Doom Patrol: The Silver Age (available in seperate volumes, or as an omnibus)

Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison

Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack - this one's gonna be tricky to find

Doom Patrol by Gerard Way

Doom Patrol Seasons 1 and 2... and watch out for season 3, coming soon

This week, Mike embarks on the penultimate Doctor Aphra story-arc from the 2016 run; The Unspeakable Rebel Superweapon! In addition to detailing what this superweapon is, these issues give backstory to Aphra’s relationship with her mother and shows a huge amount of trickery & madness (as standard with Aphra), plus Mike gives information on RA-7 protocol droids, Gigorans, some of the artifacts in the Empire’s Gallery Of Peace and more of the connecting tissue between this story & the rest of the Star Wars universe!

At the end of this episode Mike gives information on next week’s episode, War Of The Bounty Hunters, as well as what you can expect from SWCIC over the coming months.

These comics are set between A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back, after all 2015 Vader comics.

These comics were all written by Simon Spurrier, Chris O’Halloran was the colour artist on all issues (with Stephane Paitreau on 32-34) Pencillers were; Wilton Santos on all issues bar 35 with Andrea Broccardo on 33-35, Caspar Wijngaard on 32 & 33 and Cris Bolson on 34 & 36. Inkers were: Marc Deering on issues 32-35, Walden Wong was on 33, 34 & 36 with Don Ho on issue 32 and Scott Hanna on issue 35.

Issue 32 was released in May 2019, issue 36 was released September 2019 and the trade paperback collection was released December 2019.

For the previous episodes of Aphra, check out episodes 55, 51, 46, 42, 36 & 34 of SWCIC!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike tackled the second half of the 12-issue Kanan comics run; First Blood! The story-arc shows flashbacks of Kanan’s time as a youngling in the Jedi temple, his relationship with his master Depa Billaba and his first missions in the clone wars along with a “present day” story set around season 1 of Star Wars Rebels! Mike also spoke about Bacta, Jedi temple guards, Fenn Rau and many more connections!

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 2 episodes of his show “Afterthoughts” a week (with 2 episodes are *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher and the review of The Phantom Menace), plus there are unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics for this very show) and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content for only £1 a month, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Keep an eye out for the Comics In Motion Book Club, releasing soon, with the first episode tackling the first volume of the 2017 Darth Vader comic run!

Check out Mike’s other podcast, Genuine Chit-Chat where he recently spoke with Matt B Lloyd (Classic Comics) about Star Wars comics from the 80s, newspaper strips and more: https://spoti.fi/2Ql6wFI

Mike was on ep 37 of What's The Topic, to talk about the first episode of Loki, check it out on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/2SkIwDT

Mike is on episode 21 of the podcast Geek Talks on the Fantastic Universes feed: https://spoti.fi/3fOJT5h

Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3

Mike & 4 other members of CiM did a 5-person discussion on Zack Snyder’s Justice League, on this very feed: https://spoti.fi/3lVDsQo

Mike was on the 20th Century Geek to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here: http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

Welcome to Whats the Topic a podcast where we discuss Superheroes, Comics, Films, Tv and Video games.

This week's episode me and Mike discuss the very first episode of the Loki Disney Plus Series.

We hope you enjoy our ramblings and will join us for future episodes!

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9of-mkUwlgWF2kdNSSGmzg?view_as=subscriber

Jasper Reviews Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkY1hF7HL02YRLNJC0jUQyQ?view_as=subscriber

Twitter - https://twitter.com/WhatsThe_Topic

Luke Twitter - https://twitter.com/LFiaca

Matt's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Jasper_Reviews

Mike's Twitter: https://twitter.com/GenuineChitChat

Each week on Indie Comic Spotlight Tony Farina of DC Comics News will be joined by other comic aficionados to do a deep dive into a series or standalone graphic novel from any publisher other than the big two.

Today, Tony is joined by the Kyle Stück . Kyle is the creator of Evil Cast. You can read it online for FREE! It is beautifully illustrated by Enrico Orlandi.

Ominous Media was founded in 2018 by storytellers Kyle Stück and Noah Baslé, two friends bound by creativity and the pursuit of evocative and entertaining content. Noah and Kyle are currently focused on three comic book properties, Give Me to the Waves, an existential dark-comedy adventure, SNAFU, an action-comedy crime thriller, and Evil Cast, a horror buddy comedy. Kyle and Noah also host a podcast, Humming Fools, chronicling their personal struggles as artists and featuring conversations with other creatives from all walks of life.

Check out the Kyle’s Spotify Play List!

Tony and Kyle break down the vampire classic 30 Days of Night and THEN they talk more about it on The Night Shift. Find it here!

Steve Niles (Author) Piotr Kowalski (Artist, Cover Artist) Brad Simpson (Colorist) Ben Templesmith (Cover Artist)

As the sun sets over an isolated Alaskan township—not to rise again for a month—a new evil emerges from the shadows to terrorize the town… But after a series of strange events and horrific killings, the question becomes what lurks in the shadows? 30 Days of Night is reborn in an all new reimagining of the series designed to titillate the mind and horrify the senses!

Comics in Motion are proud to be Humble Partners

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can read his reviews of multiple Independent and DC comics at DC Comics News or at Fantastic Universes. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.