Giant Penny

Jay, James and Jason discuss their favorite indy comics.  No spoilers, but James likes Savage Dragon, Jason likes the ones by Chris Claremont, and Jay likes some really old ones from before everybody was born.  There is discussion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and of The Rocketeer, and of other things that got made into movies in the year 1990. Also, we talk about John Byrne, our favorite subject.  JOHN BYRNE.

Jay, Doot, Hector, James and Li’l James reflect on Adam West’s Batman, and then after the Jameses’ bed-time, the Jay/Doot/Hector triumvirate stick around to talk about Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. We learn that Jay hates Chris Evans, Hector hates X-Men: First Class, and Jason hates music.  HOWEVER!!!  We all loved Wonder Woman.  Such is the power of Princess Diana.

Jason and Jay discuss Wild Cards, George R.R. Martin’s prose “superhero” series, written by a slew of authors including Martin himself. Jason is a slavish fanboy; Jay is relatively new to it (via Jason’s years’ long constant neurolinguistic programming).  Between the two of them, they give lots of love to this remarkable sci-fi series, which infuses the tropes of the superhero genre with the same intensity and grit that Game of Thrones gave to the conceits of epic fantasy.

Jay and James wax philosophical about their love of muscular, half-naked men holding giant phallic swords. Jason listens uncomfortably. Conan and He-Man are discussed, and classic ripped 1980s action stars like Arnold and Sly get their due.

The Giant Penny Crew discusses Chris Claremont’s epic run as author of”The Uncanny X-Men,” which lasted (amazingly) from 1975 to 1991. How we first discovered the run, what we love about it, and who of us is so obsessed with Claremont that he wrote a whole book about him (spoilers: Doot)

The Giant Penny crew, in their inaugural podcast, discuss what they love about Alan Moore, their first exposure to his work, their favorites of his work, and his overall legacy. (And they talk about how the movie adaptations are not good, except Jay likes the Watchmen movie for some reason.)