Two True Freaks

Today on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A new season means a new villain! Lord Zedd makes his debut, requiring the Rangers to upgrade their Zords. But first, they need to free them from the control of Zedd's monster, Pirantishead.

In this week's adventure, Magnus takes a quick look back at Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace on (or at least near) its twentieth anniversary and a much longer, much more critical look back at The People Vs. George Lucas on (or at least near) its ninth anniversary.

Fifty-nine and a half minutes of non-stop awesome is just a click away. So what are you waiting for? Start listening now before Obi-Wan saws you in half with a lightsaber or something.

In episode 136 of the Man of Screen Podcast, Mike Zummo continues his run through the 1983 “Lost Season of Superfriends”.

And theyre going to lead things off with some time travel, and a very heady concept for the Superfriends cartoon. Superman goes back in time and finds himself with the opportunity to save his birth planet of Krypton. What does Superman do? Does he change history? What will be the consequences of this decision?

Youll find out when we are diagnosed with “The Krypton Syndrome”.

And then were going to run afoul of toys. Yes. You read this correctly. Toys are going to try to take the world by storm. Make sure you check your Duracells as we fight off “The Invasion of the Space Dolls”.

And then were going to get a history lesson. Well, not exactly, but the Superfriends are going to visit an actual shipwreck, “the RMS Titanic”, which famously sunk in 1912.

I wonder if well encounter a zombie ship.

Will the Superfriends put the sunken ship back where they found it? Come experience, “Terror on the Titanic”.

And then were going to meet some old friends, or rather some old enemies as the Legion of Doom makes its return. Remember how long it took the Sueprfriends to resolve a Legion of Doom plot? Yep. 22 minutes. This time they must do it in 7 minutes.

So, lets take a trip to the “Playground of Doom”.

Now heres a story about a child who needs a blood transfusion and only his father is a match. Of course, hes out of the country so its up to the Superfriends to secure “A Pint of Life”.

So now were going to take a trip underground to find civilizations that have been buried for hundreds of thousands of years. Even underground, there is a battle of the haves and have-nots and the haves are going to threaten anyone that possibly threatens their way of life.

Come underground for the “Day of the Dinosaurs”.

Next time: Mike will finish his coverage of Superfriends: The Lost Season.

In celebration of July 4th, the Vault crew, Them Jaconetti Boys (Luke and Jason) and The Corsican Chris' (Tyler and Honeywell), pick UNCLE SAM, the patriotic slasher that answers the question - What happens when William Lustig and Larry Cohen collide? It's not necessarily pretty!

Scott and Pat take on the fourth episode of Legions final season and in true X-Men fashion we learn that mucking about with time can cause some serious problems. Except when it comes to pop culture references and we get a fair few in this one. Everything is wonky and Davids attempts with Switch to “save” his infant self has let loose the Time Demons, who look suspiciously like either The Goddess Kali or Blue Meanies, take your pick. Farouk and the Division Three folks are off exploring a French science fiction movie, Lenny is just trying to get her love child into the world and David gets to talk to his mom when she was in the camps. Syd gets drunk with her past self, maybe, Ptonomy has some temporal and some mustache issues and Cary Loudermilk breaks Davids spell, so you know, this means war. Four more episodes to go and we have no idea whats to come, or has that part of the podcasts time stream just been devoured? Your guess is as good as ours, but were looking forward to completing the journey with you on Weekly Heroics Legioncast.

In this week's adventure, Magnus takes a quick look back at Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace on (or at least near) its twentieth anniversary and a much longer, much more critical look back at The People Vs. George Lucas on (or at least near) its ninth anniversary.

Fifty-nine and a half minutes of non-stop awesome is just a click away. So what are you waiting for? Start listening now before Obi-Wan saws you in half with a lightsaber or something.

Six episodes and a wake-up!

It's time to do another tour with Frank Castle as I look at two separate Punisher storylines from the 1990s. First up is the trade paperback The Punisher in The 'Nam: Final Invasion, a post-cancellation publication of what was supposed to be issues #84, 85, and 86 of the series. In it, Frank re-ups for another assignment and takes on a mission to rescue a group of POWs from a NVA camp called "The Death Hole."

The second storyline is a five-parter from Punisher: War Zone #26-30 where Ice has to rescue Frank when he is captured by a powerful gangster who runs a cartel on an island nation in Latin America.

Scott McGregor and Chris Honeywell go at the Garage Trail without Tina this week and uncover a NEST OF PORN, pick up a FURBACCA hitchhiker, a boxful of Magic Cards, some SPACE SHEET MUSIC and MANY MORE TREASURES!

Blandon is coming back to play Superman for the Arrowverse's Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover.

And Magnus is something other than happy about that.

Listener discretion is advised. The Surgeon General was tempted to add a label to this episode with a warning that nobody anywhere at any time should listen to this show. But His Excellency won on appeal.

So here's the episode.

It's back to the classics, as Paul is Joined by J David Weter to take a look at the first big screen appearance of Frankenstein! How has it held up over the years? Listen in and find out!