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Face Front, True Believers! Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit and Diabolu Frank have been podcasting for one week shy of a year, and with other plans for next week, we decided to devote nearly an hour to fellating ourselves like the ribless circle jerks we are on the show's "secret origins" and such, plus we talk Comicpalooza 2015. Then, it's been many, many moons since our last substantial Marvel Mail Bag dive on this podcast, so we devote the better part of two hours in dialogue with you, our beloved listeners. And by "dialogue" we mean shenanigans like Frank going on an epic length rant against Superman based on Kyle Benning inoffensively offering a few modest corrections to our off-the-cuff talk about '90s Man of Steel stories. Frank isn't on meds, but that one is Exhibit "A." Excelsior!

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Interview conducted with the beloved comic book writer and novelist Peter David at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 24, 2015. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

• 00:55 Breaking into Marvel Comics
• 01:53 Jim Owsley & Spectacular Spider-Man
• 04:22 Jean DeWolff
• 06:23 Mark Beachum
• 07:14 Mark Hazzard: Merc
• 09:03 The Incredible Hulk
• 13:10 Justice in the New Universe
• 14:56 Marvel life before and after Jim Shooter
• 17:51 Transitioning to DC Comics
• 21:04 Aquaman & The Atlantis Chronicles
• 27:00 Image Comics & Company

Face Front, True Believers! This episode, Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit, and a hoarse Diabolu Frank offer extensive feature-length commentary on their theatrical experience at the sequel to one of, if not the, greatest super hero movies of all time: Avengers Assemble! Excelsior!

Face Front, True Believers! The crossover of the season, Super-Blog Team Up #6, draws in your favorite Marvel Comics Podcast that's recorded live in Houston by three dudes! The trio return from that rotten Spring Special full force with a cracking good look around Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron via top 10 lists and general discussions but with limited spoilers (which we'll save for next week's exhaustive no-holds-barred examination of the film!) Mac gives his 10 best Avengers, Frank his 10 worst, and Joe Fixit ranks the cinematic Avengers with full knowledge to the hit of the summer's influence! Excelsior!

Face Front, True Believers! It's been four months since #MarvelSHP Annual 2014, so we felt like it was time to push out another clip show as a seasonal event! However, due to another recording error where Frank's stupid laptop with the dicey USB port defaulted to a crumby internal microphone, the vast majority of this extra-length, minimally-edited show will be new material! To listeners, anyway! Well, as new as our continuing to talk noise about comic book media adaptations and other nerd ephemera gets! Besides roughly an hour of Mister Joe Fixit taking the fore (for once,) we also dug into the vaults for a best of compilation of episode three-- SDCC 2014 FYI and episode sixteen-- NYCC 2014 FYI, scavenging whatever pearls we could find from our coverage of comic conventions from last year (including previously deleted tangents!) Also, before and after candor for episode 21-- Howard the Duck (1986)! While Moon Knight is barely a subject this episode, he's an excellent figurehead for the show's dissociative identity disorder, as we spend most of the second hour in the role of The DC Super Heroes Podcast! Cast a nostalgic ear toward the days when our equipment was garbage and there was tons of audible artifacts (Ooo thunderstorms! Dogs! TV in the background!) It's even more strictly amateur hour than usual, so much so that we can't even be trusted to keep it at an hour!
 

• 0:01:19 Fixit on Herb Trimpe & Rob Liefeld
• 0:02:43 Fixit samples the TV shows Constantine, Arrow, The Flash, & Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• 0:10:20 Fixit on the DC original animated movie Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
• 0:12:18 The trio on the teaser trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• 0:17:01 Fixit wants to add Suicide Squad to the mix...
• 0:28:29 Furious 7 sucked.
• 0:30:27 Clip Show: Star Wars movies from Dark Horse to Marvel
• 0:33:25 Star Wars: The Force Awakens preview trailer
• 0:42:09 We are not talking about Jurassic World...
• 0:47:07 ...but we will talk about Jeff Goldblum...
• 0:50:51 ...and somehow, Straight Outta Compton
• 0:54:17 "Deleted Scenes": Superior Spider-Man, Bendis GotG, Angela, Geoff Johns & Ebola
• 1:06:12 "Deleted Scenes": Ducking Hell and the Burdens of Being an Aquafan
• 1:11:38 "Deleted Scenes": Moon Knight
• 1:13:59 Marvel's Ultimate "Catastrophe" and Batman Eternal
• 1:17:03 "Deleted Scenes": The Death & Return of Superman
• 1:23:44 "Deleted Scenes": The New 52
• 1:31:04 The Peter David Discussion: Aquaman/Supergirl/Hulk
• 1:41:42 The Jason Momoa Aquaman/Namor Proxy
• 1:50:51 Batmen
• 1:57:49 Not Iron Man 4
• 2:00:02 Legos Helicarrier
• 2:03:34 "Deleted Scenes": Jim Shooter at Marvel & Valiant
• 2:08:07 "Deleted Scenes": Girlbusters & The Bill Murray Meme
• 2:14:00 The not-so-Mighty Marvel Tweet Bag

Face Front, True Believers! This episode, Iron Man faces the fantastic threat of: "Hawkeye, the Marksman!" From Clint Barton's origin story in Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964) through his reappearances in #60 & #64, you are there! And by there we mean you'll hear Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit and Diabolu Frank talk about these comics, 1966 cartoon adaptation, and their general views of the villain-turned-hero! Also featuring Hawkeye's Russian spy benefactor Black Widow, who soon switched from slinky dresses to battle togs as Clint's tech-happy costumed partner in crime... and love!

More on the official Marvel Super Heroes Podcast blog: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2015/04/hawkeye-and-new-black-widow.html

Face Front, True Believers! Our already edited and nigh-publishable Tuesday episode of #MarvelSHP was lost in the Negative Zone, so Illegal Machine & Diabolu Frank had to whip up an entirely new episode that night so that you wouldn't have to do without this week! Can you center an hour-plus long podcast on a t-shirt? You be the judge as a heavily reworked version of Mike Zeck (and now mucho company) art from Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 unveils an Illuminati-like agenda! What do the incorporation of Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino have in common? How could this impact the Netflix Marvel shows and The Punisher? Is it possible we Homo-Superior-Phobes could have positive things to say about FOX's Deadpool movie? Also, how awesome is Captain America? #JanetVanCrime! The Mandarin! All Your Mails Are Belong To Us! Excelsior!

Burbank, CA and New York, NY, April 1, 2015 —Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, FW Books (NYSE:FWB) has agreed to acquire Rolled Spine Podcasts, Inc. (NYSE:#MSHP) in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.

Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of FW Books on August 28, 2014, Rolled Spine shareholders would receive a total of $0.00000076 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 FW Books shares for each Rolled Spine share they own. At closing, the amount of cash and stock will be adjusted if necessary so that the total value of the FW Books stock issued as merger consideration based on its trading value at that time is not less than 40% of the total merger consideration.

FW Books, publisher of such titles as Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales From The Spinner Rack, will absorb Rolled Spine Podcasts' inventory of recycled audio files and bellicose opinions. The current group of on air talent has been released from their contracts and will be temporarily replaced by the "popular" personalities Rob Kelly & The Irredeemable Shag until more appropriate, listener-friendly permanent hosts can be hired.

Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, March 27, the transaction value is $1.81 Dollars Canadian. Investors in Rolled Spine Podcasts are advised to take stock of their lives.

Face Front, True Believer! This week we introduce a new feature on the podcast, Wild Agents of Marvel, named after the 1990s fan club from the House of Ideas! Here we spotlight the stories of our friends and listeners! Regular commentator and occasional guest Count Drunkula tells how he got into comics, debates the vice/virtues of Hank Pym, and generally gabs with our own Diabolu Frank! Then, Illegal Machine returns to tackle the Mighty Marvel Mail Bag!

This week Frank and Mac take a look at Iron Man Vol 1 issues 219-221, the first appearance of The Ghost, by legendary creative team David Michelinie and Bob Layton (and layouts by Mark Bright).

Discussion ranges from plot to art and even history behind the possible inspiration of The Ghost. Many of the panels discussed are uploaded to our Tumblr page! So check it out!