February 25, 2015

Major Spoilers Podcast #613: STRIKE!

1 hour 43 minutes

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast - Strike! How the West Coast strike affects your comic shipments and more, Diagram for Delinquents, Savage Dragon #202, and Legendary Star-Lord #9 go under the microscope. Plus, your normal assortment of Cat Grant, Jason Momoa, and SDCC news…

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NEWS

Colista Flockhart cast as Cat Grant in Supergirl series

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First picture of Jason Momoa as Aquaman appears

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REVIEWS

STEPHEN

Diagram for Delinquents (Movie)

In 1950, America was in a state of panic; many felt that juvenile delinquency was destroying the very fabric of society. In 1954, psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham wrote a scathing indictment of comic books called Seduction of the Innocent. Its central premise was that comics were the leading contributing factor to juvenile delinquency. (At the time, 90% of all children were reading comic books.) That same year, Dr. Wertham testified at special hearings on comic books at the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. Comic books were on trial!

Diagram for Delinquents captures the zeitgeist of late 1940s / early 1950s America and investigates how the funny books found themselves on the bonfire. Using expert interviews and never-seen-before historical photographs and films, Diagram goes further than any documentary to explore and understand the controversial figure at the center of this American tale: Fredric Wertham.

The DVD (as well as a digital download version) is now available for purchase at the Sequart Store.

[rating:3.5/5]

MATTHEW

Savage Dragon #202

Story By: Erik Larsen

Art By: Erik Larsen

Cover By: Erik Larsen

Price: $3.99

Stripped of his lightning powers, Malcolm Dragon finds that he can no longer rely on the one thing that kept him alive! Now he faces his most fearsome challenge yet—at a time when he’s at his most vulnerable. Malcolm Dragon fights the Deadly Damsels of the Vicious Circle! Raptor! Vein! Samurai! Insect! Tigress! Volcanic! Climax! Double-Paige!

[rating:2.5/5]

ZACH

Legendary Star-Lord #9

Written by

Sam Humphries

Art by

Paco Medina

Cover Price: $3.99

BLACK VORTEX PART 3 With a schism forming within the assembled heroes, the youngest among them face the temptation of immeasurable power. Sometimes those with great power shirk their responsibility to use it for good, though. And with Knife and his new business partner looking to take back the Black Vortex, the group may have left themselves defenseless.

[rating:3/5]

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DISCUSSION:

James Thatcher breaks down the situation with the west coast strike and how it my delay your comics, and related merchandise, the Matthew, Stephen, and Zach briefly discuss the Power Rangers fan film.

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