Episode 41: “Enter the Jaded Dragon”

We’re wrapping up the Dream Queen arc this episode with some help from…Old Puck?! And, really, that’s not even the oddest thing that happens in these issues, which ya have to hand it to ol’ Bill is kinda impressive. The team meets a dragon, almost start WW3, and see their old friend for just long enough for it all to feel very awkward. Stick around for some excellent fantasy casting in the outtake!

In this episode, Chris:

• does a mean Rod Serling impression
• makes a lama≠llama joke…that Tom reads
• makes a lot, and I mean A LOT, of Dairy Queen© jokes that may or may not take this podcast down

and Tom:

• learns more about the inner workings of Dairy Queen than he ever expected
• (realizes that’s a theme of this podcast: Tom learning things he never cared to know)
• remembers the old days of K-1

Issues covered:
Alpha Flight #59 - “Comes A Dragon!” - cover date June 1988
Story by Bill Mantlo 
Art by Jim Lee and Al Milgrom
Letters by Janice Chiang
Colors by Bob Sharen
Edits by Carl Potts
and Tom DeFalco as Editor in Chief

Alpha Flight #60 - “War! What Is It Good For?” - cover date July 1988
Bill Mantlo is Writer
Jim Lee is Penciler
Al Milgrom is Inker
Janice Chiang is Letterer
Bob Sharen is Colorist
Marc McLaurin is Soldier
Carl Pots is Editor
and Tom Defalco is Dragon in Chief

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Written by Chris Baker
Produced and edited by Tom Flynn
Music:"Oh, Canada" by Five Iron Frenzy

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