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Spawn #25 & Image Zero #0 & Image X-Month & Operation: Urban Storm & Shadowhawk: Out of the Shadows & The Savage Dragon: Baptism of Fire

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Spawn #25

by Todd McFarlane & Marc Silvestri & Matt Banning & Billy Tan

“Tremors”
Dedicated To: The Spirit of Independence

As for Joe Sakic, three days from now, his body will be found under the George Washington Bridge, with his hands and feet viciously severed. Decapitated. Even his genitals will be missing. The police will conduct a full investigation, but in the absence of anything identifiable about the body, will have to close the case of John Doe 1994-714. Such is the life of a trusted employee of Vito Gravano.

One of the bums he knows says our hero usually hangs out in the same four block radius. I’ve mapped it out already, sir.

God, no. Vito thinks I’M Terry.

Image Zero #0

by Rob Liefeld & Art Thibert; Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Scott Williams; Todd McFarlane & Dan Panosian; Erik Larsen; Marc Silvestri; Jim Valentino & Christopher Ivy; and Whilce Portacio

Extra-Image: Shadowhawk (1992)

by Jim Valentino

Operation: Urban Storm

featuring Shadowhawk, Savage Dragon, & Stormwatch

Shadowhawk #0 (1994)

by Rob Liefeld & Karl Alstaetter & Robert Napton

Cyberforce #8 (1994)

by Eric Silvestri & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & John Cleary

Youngblood #9 (1994)

by Jim Valentino & Dan Fraga

Savage Dragon #13 (1994)

by Jim Lee & Brandon Choi & Richard Bennett & Alex Garner & Dan Panosian & Scott Williams

WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #14 (1994)

by Erik Larsen

Stupid #1 (1993)

by Hilary Barta

Splitting Image #1-2 (1993)

by Don Simpson

The Savage Dragon vs. The Savage Megaton Man #1 (1993)

by Erik Larsen & Don Simpson

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• Episode Art Gallery 2: Wildstorm/Savage Dragon/Youngblood

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]
noun
1. a summing up; summary.
2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Best of DC #49, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #91-92, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #3-7, Daredevil #209, Blue Devil #2-5, Marvel Team-Up #144 & 146, Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner #1, Marvel Super Special #30, Micronauts: The New Voyages #1, Amazing Spider-Man #258, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero and more! Plus a look at movies from the first half of 1984…

“Transcripts”

• March, 1984
• April, 1984
• May, 1984
• June, 1984
• July, 1984
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Face Front, True Believers! On July 14, 2000, the Marvel cinematic universe truly began with the debut of X-Men, the motion picture! For the first time since movie serials, comic book heroes were adapted to the silver screen 100% straight(?), rather than as juvenile-skewing or camp! Blade may have been the first “good” and successful Marvel movie, and it surely influenced X-Men, but this was the film that proved that the complex soap opera of modern comics could be sold to a mainstream audience! X-Men revealed that a super-team property could launch a sprawling franchise, guided in part by Kevin Feige, and paving the way for the true Marvel Cinematic Universe! It’s such a big deal, Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, and Mr. Fixit decided to celebrate Rolled Spine’s sixth anniversary discussing it, 2003’s X2: X-Men United and 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand in one Giant-Sized episode! Bamf! Snikt! Excelsior!

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• 00:00:19 Outbreak/Elist Hollywood Liberal/Wrestling With Depression
• 00:05:13 The Good Star Trek Movies / Woke Space 9 / Pilots
• 00:12:38 COVInDer / Denial-19 / No Comics Day / 9-11
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• 00:37:05 Deja La Forge / All The Treks / Never Surrender
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• 01:01:05 Tiger King / The Hunt / Gore Vidal / Ben Shapiro
• 01:09:47 Zombie Salò Criterion / Kevin Smith: Widowmaker

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Spawn #24 & Bloodstrike #1-3 (1993) & Brigade #1-3 (1993) & Bloodstrike: Brutalists #0 (2018)

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Spawn #24

by Todd McFarlane

“The Hunt” Part 4
Dedicated To: Joe Sinnot

It looks like someone burned his face off. God… waht’s this guy been through?

Jason Wynn has become consumed with this case… He knows Fitzgerald is no traitor, but circumstances made him the logical suspect. Rather than admit his error, Wynn continues to conduct a brutal investigation.

And… if he so much as looks at you cross-eyed, make sure his death looks like an accident. Do you read me?

Bloodstrike: Brutalists #0 (2018)

by Michel Fiffe

Project: Born Again.

We’re… reanimating a civilian?

Bodyslide’s finally patched through– we’ll have to come back for Deadlock. Aw, he was just a pity recruit anyway.

Bloodstrike #1-3 (1993)

by Rob Liefeld & Dan Fraga & Eric Stephenson & & various

It’s been a long time coming, Battlestone, but it looks like we’re finally gonna get the chance to settle our differences once and for all– brother to brother!

Brigade #1-3 (1993)

by Rob Liefeld & Marat Mychaels & Norm Rapmund & Eric Stephenson

It’s been three months since the members of Brigade last set foot on their native earth, although as their ship silently arcs toward their base of operations in Malibu, California, it seems more like a lifetime.

Nice shooting, Cabbot, you nailed the little bimbo right between the eyes! Precision like that almost makes me wonder why they even bother sending the rest of us on these little road trips! I mean, in these recession-stricken times, a solo act of your caliber would definitely be more cost-effective, no?

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Professor Charles “Chuck” Coletta lends his pop culture expertise to a discussion of one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time, Chester Gould’s Plainclothes Detective Dick Tracy. While Chuck & Frank give an historical overview, the emphasis is on the character’s stories since the 1990 Disney/Buena Vista Pictures film, including The Complete True Hearts and Tommy Guns Trilogy, Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive, and Dick Tracy Forever.

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AVENGERS | AVENGERS MANSION | AVENGERS QUINJET | AUTOCRONS

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including…

Avengers by John Byrne & Terry Austin with Angela of Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace

Avengers Mansion by Eliot R. Brown with Pekita Trotamundos of One Song Each B-Sides

Avengers Quinjet by Eliot R. Brown with Illegal Machine of The Coming Thing: An Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Podcast

Autocrons by Paty with Diabolu Frank of ZombiCast: Duration of Dawn of the Dead

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Movies by Minutes-style coverage of George A. Romero’s horror masterpiece, researched by Diabolu Frank with archival footage throughout. This episode offers a memorial to WGON-TV’s Dan Givens actor Daniel Dietrich.

Bonus movie reviews: Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza’s [•REC], [•REC]², [•REC]³: Génesis, & [•REC]4: Apocalypse, as well as the American adaptations Quarantine & Quarantine 2: Terminal.

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Meanwhile… In A Time Before Dan DiDio’s dismissal and Covid-10, Michael Bailey of The Fortress of Baileytude Podcasting Network still joined Diabolu Frank in apocalyptic visions for the 2020 comic book industry. Spoiled the twist ending? Before then, we cover Superman artists* like Jon Bogdanove & Ed McGuinness, Greg Capullo, Helspont & Wildstorm in the New 52 DCU, the fall of John Byrne, and the Speculator Bust of 1993…

*Carlos Meglia was the awful one we couldn’t name.

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Spawn #23 & Violator (1994)

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Spawn #23

by Todd McFarlane

“The Hunt” Part 3
Dedicated To: Don Thompson

Since his reconstruction, Overtkill has been programmed to believe he’s now faces Spawn, who nearly destroyed him a few weeks ago.

Yet for all his effort, Terry is only human– not nearly fast enough to outrun a bio-laser stream.

With uncanny accuracy, the bullet enters Overtkill’s body through a small opening in the ear cavity…

Violator #1-3 (1994)

by Alan Moore & Bart Sears & Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington

I mean, maybe I don’t look like a demon outta hell no more, but that don’t mean I ain’t thinkin’ like one!

Well, before I admonish you, I’d like to know one thing… which one of you is Roosevelt?

HEY, wake up an’ smell the brimstone, pal! How much d’ya think fightin’ four dudes like me is gonna drain your goddamn power levels?? Anyway, once the Malebolgia’s curse is lifted, I can give you the energy back!

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