Michael Bailey's Views From The Longbox

Welcome to Views From The Longbox's Bat Week; a six day celebration of the Dark Knight Detective. For the next six days Michael and his sometime co-host Shag discuss the cinematic versions of the Caped Crusader as well as taking one day to talk about Batman's greatest villain. In the fifth instlamment Mike and Shag talk about the previously mentioned Batman's greatest villain Egghead...er...the Joker. Favorite stories are discussed, Mark Hamill is discussed and the Joker is given his due, which is good because if he didn't get his due he would have killed Mike and Shag. Part 5 of 6.

Welcome to Views From The Longbox's Bat Week; a six day celebration of the Dark Knight Detective. For the next six days Michael and his sometime co-host Shag discuss the cinematic versions of the Caped Crusader as well as taking one day to talk about Batman's greatest villain. In the fourth instlamment Mike and Shag hash out BATMAN AND ROBIN and never once vomit, which was amazing all things considered. Then they move on to the greener pasutres of BATMAN BEGINS. Part 4 of 6.

Welcome to Views From The Longbox's Bat Week; a six day celebration of the Dark Knight Detective. For the next six days Michael and his sometime co-host Shag discuss the cinematic versions of the Caped Crusader as well as taking one day to talk about Batman's greatest villain. In the third installment Mike and Shag talk BATMAN RETURNS and BATMAN FOREVER, which are both kind of terrible, though RETURNS sucks worse. Penguins with rockets on their backs. That's all that needs to be said. Part 3 of 6.

Welcome to Views From The Longbox's Bat Week; a six day celebration of the Dark Knight Detective. For the next six days Michael and his sometime co-host Shag discuss the cinematic versions of the Caped Crusader as well as taking one day to talk about Batman's greatest villain. In the second installment Michael and Shag take a very long look at the 1989 Batman film. This wasn't so much a movie as it was an event and the guys take this one from all sides. The movie, the music, the merchandising. It's all here. Well, it's nearly all here. They don't actually play the movie or anything. Part 2 of 6.

Welcome to Views From The Longbox's Bat Week; a six day celebration of the Dark Knight Detective. For the next six days Michael and his sometime co-host Shag discuss the cinematic versions of the Caped Crusader as well as taking one day to talk about Batman's greatest villain. In the first installment of this "mini-series" Michael and Shag looks at the 1966 live action Batman film as well as the television series and the impact that show had on comic fans. Part 1 of 6.

After two weeks away Michael is back and has more random stuff to throw at you muck like a primate in a zoo. It's a pretty mixed bag at that with Michael discussing the comics he's been reading lately before unleashing several bits and pieces of a talk he had with Shag. The two mostly discuss some of the news that came out of San Diego...mostly and then Shag tells a story of his recent trip to New Orleans. All of this and a big announcement regarding a special Views From The Longbox event that starts next week.

Michael flies solo again this week for a standard sized episode and as the title suggest it is a pretty random one at that. This week's offering includes; a twenty year old animated theme song, Michael complaining about his day job, some of the comics he has been reading lately, a list of podcasts he listens to and one of the reason being a Superman fan sucks. All of this in only twenty-seven minutes. How about that? No really, how about that?

Michael takes the plunge into his Superman fandom this week with having not one but two guests. Steve Younis, webmaster of the Superman Homepage, and Neal Bailey (no relation), also of the Homepage join Michael to discuss the Man of Steel and some of their experiences at the recent Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Ill. Unfortunately they never get to Neal's experiences and Steve has to pop out early, but the discussion is lively and Michael learned a lot about the history of the site he reviews for and how Steve and Neal got into Superman in the first place.

Part two of the Hulk discussion and this time it's pretty much all about the two Hulk films. Michael and Brad go over their problems with the 2003 Ang Lee film were Mike just has to do the whole origin joke again. They move on from their to the 2008 film and along the way get side tracked with all kinds of tangents, including one about Marvel's past comic book movie adaptations that must be heard to be believed. All in all a fun show and comes in about twenty minutes shorter than the first part. A quick warning as always; the language gets a little blue, so throw those headphones on if you are at work.

Michael once again teams up with Brad Douglas, webmaster of the Spider-Man Crawlspace (or as Michael at one point refers to it the "Crider-Man Crawlspace") and host of the Spider-Man Crawlspace Podcast. This time out the die-hard Superman fan and the die-hard Spider-Man fan discuss their second favorite character; the Incredible Hulk. In between some really messed up digressions the two manage to spend an hour and twenty minutes discussing the Hulk television series, the various animated series and about twenty years of Hulk comics including their thoughts on Peter David's run, Planet Hulk, World War Hulk and why John Byrne's second crack at the character sucked beyond belief. All of this and a special appearance by the hokey-pokey Hulk too. A quick warning as always; the language gets a little blue, so throw those headphones on if you are at work.