Comics Misremembered Podcast

We are covering a comic related item this week - the recently released Netflix movie called The Old Guard.

This is based on a comic series written by Greg Rucka and art by Leandro Fernandez.  It is published by Image comics.  In fact, Greg Rucka wrote the script for the movie.

We normally like to read the comic that the movie is based on and then do a comparison of the movie to the comic to see if it is true to the source material or does it stray... *cough*Last Days of American Crime*cough*.

Unfortunately, we could not get a copy of the 1st trade paperback - it was sold out everywhere I looked.  We will still try to pick it up and do a review of it later.  For this review, we focus on the movie.

I know it was hard to wait a week for our review but thanks for coming  back!  We continue with our examination of the Wolverine miniseries  written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Frank Miller.  It was published by Marvel in 1982.  We also compare the miniseries to the 2013 The Wolverine  movie and show you how much they used from the miniseries in the movie.

A new week and a new comic.  This week we are talking about Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's collaboration on the 1983 Marvel miniseries Wolvervine.

We recently read the trade paperback of the 4 issue miniseries and took some time out to watch the 2013 The Wolverine movie.  There are many moments the movie uses which is directly taken from the miniseries.

This is it - the final installment of our Dystopia Futures run on comics.  This does not mean that we won't talk about Dystopian Futures in... the future, but it mean next week will not be a Dystopian Future theme.

We are continuing were we left off last week - we are concluding our discussion of Frank Miller's Ronin six issue prestige format miniseries that was published by DC from 1983 - 1984.

We are at the final comic we will be covering for the #DystopianFutures theme and it is Frank Miller's Ronin.  This podcast is so epic that we had to split into two!  We will be posting part one today and follow up with part two next week.

Ronin was published by DC in 1983.  DC's Editor in Chief, Jenette Kahn lured Frank Miller away from Marvel to publish this original story as part of DC's Prestige format comics - all glossy pages, 48 pages per issue and no ads.  DC offered more creative control and Miller wanted to do a more mature comic so he agrees to write and draw the six issue miniseries.

We go over the history of what lead to the creation of Ronin.  Influences Miller had when creating this comic and we start to talk about the story.  Come back next week for the conclusion to our Ronin podcast.

It is Jon's birthday today (wish him a happy one), I gave him the  opportunity to pick what ever comic related item he wanted to cover for  the podcast.  He kept the Dystopian Futures theme going by picking Akira  - the anime movie to review.

We have been doing dystopian future comics for a few weeks now and there are still several ideas we want to talk about in the coming weeks but a couple of weeks ago, I saw a movie that I thought was really good and would fit nicely into our Dystopian Futures conversation.  That movie was:

                                                                                                           Alita Battle Angel.

Last week, The Walking Dead aired episode 15 (the  penultimate episode) of Season 10 and episode 16 will not air until  Summer.  Well, that is too long for us to wait to recap the season.   There is a reason why we call part of the podcast “misremembered” – we  don’t have the best memories.  We knew we could not wait until Summer so  we are going over what we saw so far in Season 10’s 2nd half.