February 23, 2011

MSP#281: The Maus Podcast

This week on the show: Eclipso returns, a three-year-old weighs in, Dwayne McDuffie passes, and the crew looks at the first volume of Maus. Plus, boinkidy-boink-boink, spricky spricky.

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Stephen

QUEEN SONJA #14

32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +

Written by LUKE LIEBERMAN

Art by MEL RUBI

Covers by FABIANO NEVES (50%) & CARLOS RAFAEL (50%)

From wild child, to thief, to warrior – the metamorphosis is nearly complete as Sonja and Kain confront Lord Fellon in his lair. A suicide mission, but they must atone for their sins. And what of Jubal, their master, where do his loyalties lay? A thrilling episode that strikes at the heart of Red Sonja’s psyche!

[rating:3.5/5]

Rodrigo

Minor Acts of Heroism

[rating:4/5]

Matthew

Justice League of America #54 
Written by JAMES ROBINSON 
Art by BRETT BOOTH & NORM RAPMUND 
Cover by BRETT BOOTH 
1:10 Variant Cover by DAVID MACK 
"The Rise of Eclipso" begins here as the dark energies that have surrounded Earth are harnessed once more to usher in the great Lord of Darkness! And it looks like the corruption of all mankind starts with the members of the Justice League! When things go dark, which teammate poses the greatest threat to mankind – Obsidian or Jade?

[rating:1/5]

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Maus

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek’s life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek’s later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City. The work is a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. It is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Music from this episode comes from Armin Brewer (intro) and James Kennison (closing) from the Nobody's Listening Podcast. A big thanks to both of these guys for creating kick-ass music for the show!

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