Comics In Motion

After my appearance on Superheroes for Dummies, I decided I wanted to do an episode focused on the Golden Age Starman. We’ll look at the three artists who workded on the strip, Jack Burnley, Mort Meskin and Emil Gershwin. We’ll read through three stories, and take a talk briefly about the two main writers, Alfred Bester and Gardner Fox.

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

Golden Age Starman Links

Alfred Bester

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bester#Early_SF_career,_comic_books,_radio_(1939%E2%80%931950)

Gardner Fox

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

Jack Burnley

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

Earth-Two Starman at Fandom

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Theodore_Knight_(Earth-2)

Starman Archives

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=starman+archives&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

This week Mike embarks on the first volume of the 2020 main Star Wars run, set moments after the end of Empire Strikes Back called The Destiny Path! Luke searches for his lost lightsaber, so heads back to Cloud City with Leia & R2-D2, plus Lando returns searching for an old friend, all while the group evade the pursuing Empire! Mike goes through the plot & gives plenty of details to other connections including the Pathfinders, Ugnaughts, Weequay and more!

This story is set just after Empire Strikes Back (& after the first run of the Star Wars, but before the War Of the Bounty Hunters crossover). The writer for these comics is Charles Soule, Jesús Saiz was the artist, plus Jesús Saiz was the co-colour artist on issues 1 & 6, with Arif Prianto as colour artist on issues 1-6, with Rachelle Rosenberg assisting on issue 4 and Dan Brown assisting on issue 5.

Issue 1 was released January 2020, Issue 6 was released September 2020 and the trade paperback collection was released November 2020.

If you want haven’t listened to Mike’s episodes on the 2015-2019 run of Star Wars comics, start with episode 9 and if you want to hear about the Lando mini-series, check out episode 18!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike did another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era; Into The Dark by Claudia Gray! Mike gives a bit of information on the other releases for The High Republic (the first two waves within Phase 1) and then delves into his spoiler-free review; primarily providing information from the blurb and within the first few pages; talking about the book’s themes, what he enjoyed about it and how it impacts the rest of The High Republic.

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week, plus unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics) & more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check out http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Mike along with 5 other members of Comics In Motion discussed Art Spiegelman's Maus in the 2nd CiM Book Club: https://bit.ly/BC2Maus

Mike on the Have Not Seen This podcast, talking about The Way Way Back: https://spoti.fi/3AbPcV4

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

Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

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

Comics in Motion is proud to partner with Lenovations Press! Check out their high quality independent comics here.

Please read this amazing article about the powerful, female creative minds behind Buffy!

Season’s Greetings and Welcome to the City of Angles where JAC and Tony delve into the Buffy spin off Angel.

This month, the guys are joined by one of the nicest, smartest guys around. Editor, creator and man saving the world, Mr. Neil Vagg. Click on this link to get to all the amazing stuff Neil does around the internet including his brilliant website, Get your Comic On!

Follow JAC on twitter or read his amazing work on I am JACs Musings

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

It's episode 26 of "Superheroes For Dummies" featuring Wolverine.

Superheroes For Dummies is a podcast where a comics novice with an interest in finding out more, a comics related movie/TV/game fan, and a comics specialist (or two) answer questions about the characters YOU want to know more about.

This episode is hosted by Paul McGuigan, Daniel Belgrave and Steve J. Ray.

The show is produced, mixed, and edited by Adam Ray.

Please contact us on Twitter:

@PaulDaMac @Dark_Ronin84 @Scottweatherly @20thCenturyGeek @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 List:

Logan:

Wolverine - by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller

Weapon-X

Wolverine: Origin

Origin II

The Death Of Wolverine

Hunt For Wolverine

Old Man Logan

All-New Wolverine:

Vol 1: The Four Sisters

Vol 2: Civil War II

Vol 3: Enemy Of The State II

Vol 4: Immune

Vol 5: Orphans Of X

Vol 6: Old Woman Laura

This week Mike is doing another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era; Into The Dark by Claudia Gray! Although the book is a “young adult” novel, it’s still an excellent read for teenagers & adults alike and is part of the first wave of the first phase of High Republic content, focusing primarily on padawan Reath Silas & the drengir!

In more detail, for the first half of the episode, Mike gives a bit of information on the other releases for The High Republic (the first two waves within Phase 1) and then delves into his spoiler-free review; primarily providing information from the blurb and within the first few pages; talking about the book’s themes, what he enjoyed about it and how it impacts the rest of The High Republic.

In the second half, Mike provides more details on the characters within the story and gives examples on how the book’s themes work with the story being told and how it fits in with other High Republic material, which falls into light-spoiler territory. He gives plenty of warning before delving into his more detailed review, so you can listen to as little or as much info about Into The Dark before picking it up yourself – Mike ends the review with a general overview of the other High Republic books (released & soon to be released) and talking about where they fit chronologically with the comics & other High Republic content.

Into The Dark was released February 2nd 2021 by Claudia Gray. She has also written the young adult novels Lost Stars and Leia: Princess Of Alderaan, as well as the “adult” novels Master & Apprentice and Bloodline. She has also recently announced The Fallen Star; the third “adult” book in The High Republic era.

Into The Dark is from Phase 1, Wave 1 of The High Republic, also in Wave 1 is Light Of The Jedi and A Test Of Courage. Phase 1, Wave 2 includes The Rising Storm, Out Of The Shadows and Race To Crashpoint Tower and Wave 3 (due early 2022) will include Claudia Gray’s “adult” novel The Fallen Star plus junior-novel Mission To Disaster and young-adult novel Midnight Horizon.

Mike also interviewed Claudia Gray on December 12th 2020 on this very feed, so make sure you check that out if you haven’t already!

Other High Republic content currently available includes; Light Of The Jedi – an “adult” novel by Charles Soule, A Test Of Courage – a junior novel by Justina Ireland, The High Republic comics by Cavan Scott and High Republic Adventures comics by Daniel José Older, plus Cavan Scott’s sequel novel to Light Of The Jedi, named The Rising Storm is available now along with Out Of The Shadows by Justina Ireland, Race To Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older and the audio drama; Tempest Runner, also by Cavan Scott.

Check out the last episode of SWCIC for the third full chapter in the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover, with a ton of action, characters & connections! Join Mike as he takes you through the 6 issues where Valance & Dengar are hunted by Deathstick, Zuckuss gets more canon backstory, Qi’ra takes on Darth Vader, Boba Fett fights everyone’s favourite wookiee and Luke reflects on his time against the dark lord all while Aphra & Sana Starros try to hide from the action while stealing some high-value artifacts – all of this plus many facts & connections from Mike!

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Mike on Star Wars Timeline’s Timecast, talking about the SW trilogies, found here: https://youtu.be/W03gonK4rtw

Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

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

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Comics in Motion is proud to partner with Lenovations Press! Check out their high quality independent comics here.

Welcome to a new era of Indie Comics Spotlight. Once a month, Tony will be joined Pop Guerrillas host/ Co-host of the Nevers series show AND the upcoming Femme on Film Ria! Follow her on twitter.

This week, Tony and Ria travel time and space and life and death while they cover the Image Comic, Pretty Deadly. 

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

EVERYONE IS BRAWLING! This week brings the third full chapter in the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover, with a ton of action, characters & connections! Join Mike as he takes you through the 6 issues where Valance & Dengar are hunted by Deathstick, Zuckuss gets more canon backstory, Qi’ra takes on Darth Vader, Boba Fett fights everyone’s favourite wookiee and Luke reflects on his time against the dark lord all while Aphra & Sana Starros try to hide from the action while stealing some high-value artifacts – all of this plus many facts & connections from Mike as he takes you on this journey!

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 BH15>4LOM&Z>WoBH3>SW16>DV15>DA13.

BH15 was released 4th August 2021, it written by Ethan Sacks with Paolo Villanelli as artist and Arif Prianto as colour artist. 4-LOM & Zuckuss was also released 4th August, with writer Daniel José Older, artist Kei Zama and colour artist Felipe Sobreiro. WoBH 3 was released 8th August 2021, it written by Charles Soule, Luke Ross with David Messina as artists and Neeraj Menon with Guru eFX as colour artists. SW16 was released 18th August 2021, also written by Charles Soule with Ramon Rosanas as artist and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist. DV15 was released 25th August 2021, was written by Greg Pak with Raffaele Ienco as artist and Jason Keith as colour artist. DA13 was also released 25th August 2021, it written by Alyssa Wong with Minkyu Jung as penciller, Victor Olazaba as inker and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist.

In case you missed the War of The Bounty Hunters prelude and chapters 1 & 2, check episodes 60, 64 & 68 of SWCIC and check ep 43 for the Age of Rebellion Villains, which includes stories for Jabba, Boba, IG-88 and Vader, along with additional bio information, and episodes 67 & 71 to show how Aphra got into this mess!

Check out the last episode of SWCIC where Mike embarked on the second volume of 2020 Doctor Aphra comics (that leads into War Of The Bounty Hunters); The Engine Job! In it Aphra searches for a device that could change the way the galaxy uses hyperspace, using tech that is over 200 years old! Aphra is joined by Sana Starros and together they search for the path engine while being pursued by Vukorah; head of the Unbroken Clan all while Just Lucky’s side story shows he’s having problems of his own! All of this, plus the many connections within this story are discussed, including ray shields, Corellia & more!

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week, plus unsplit full-length episodes of GCC (including early access to photos of comics) & more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check out http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Mike on Star Wars Timeline’s Timecast, talking about the SW trilogies, found here: https://youtu.be/W03gonK4rtw

Mike & 5 members of Comics In Motion discussed Art Spiegelman's Maus on the CiM Book Club: https://bit.ly/BC2Maus

Mike on the Have Not Seen This podcast, talking about The Way Way Back: https://spoti.fi/3AbPcV4

Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

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

Comics in Motion is proud to partner with Lenovations Press! Check out their high quality independent comics here.

Please read this amazing article about the powerful, female creative minds behind Buffy!

Welcome to a new era of Indie Comics Spotlight. Once a month, Tony will be joined by his Seasons Greetings co-host JAC. This week, they will be staying on brand and discussing the Dark Horse Comics FRAY

Follow JAC on twitter or read his amazing work on I am JACs Musings

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

A bonus episode for you lovely people this week, taken straight from the feed of Mike's other show; Genuine Chit-Chat and this week, the powerhouse of Star Wars couples makes their way onto our feed; Alex & Mollie Damon of Star Wars Explained are this week’s guests and as you can imagine, this conversation is very Star-Wars-ccentric as Mike & Megan talk to one of the few couples who could destroy them when it comes to Star Wars trivia!

Their conversation beings with asking Mollie how she got into Star Wars which leads to their thoughts on Clone Wars & Rebels, then Alex & Mollie both talk about what Star Wars means to them, their favourite SW facts and interactions with celebrities & fans at conventions. They then talk about book recommendations for new Star Wars readers, some of their favourite Star Wars collectibles/paraphernalia, Mollie’s cosplay, their thoughts on “extended” Star Wars movie and more – all perfect for any fans of Star Wars!

You can watch the video version of this conversation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQAweek

Star Wars Explained’s YouTube - Twitter: @StarWarsExplain & /MollieDamon - Instagram: @StarWarsExplained - Facebook: /starwarsexplained - Patreon: /starwarsexplain – Malex YouTube  – Schmoedown Certain Point Of View

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week, plus unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics) & more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check out http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Mike appeared on Star Wars Timeline’s Timecast, talking about the different SW trilogies, found here: https://youtu.be/W03gonK4rtw

Mike along with 5 other members of Comics In Motion discussed Art Spiegelman's Maus in the 2nd CiM Book Club: https://bit.ly/BC2Maus

Mike on the Have Not Seen This podcast, talking about The Way Way Back: https://spoti.fi/3AbPcV4

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

Outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/