Two True Freaks

IT'S TIME FOR TODD MCFARLANE! YAY!!!

This time around, I take a look at G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #60, the issue that was commanding a pretty good price on the back issue market in the early 1990s because of the art by (then) future Spider-Man artist and Image co-founder Todd McFarlane! I review the comic and dig a little into its backstory (courtesy of Comic Book Legends Revealed) as well as share memories of a sleepover party from 1987 that has something to do with comics and G.I. Joe.

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Chris and Scott cover first season episodes of Agents of SHIELD and Arrow this week with episodes fourteen and seven respectively. Over on the Marvel side the team, with the help of the late, great, Bill Paxton, is frantically trying to find the T.A.H.I.T.I. lab that brought Coulson back from the dead, in order to save wounded agent Skye, and the secrets that are revealed could shake the foundations of the greater Marvel cinematic universe. On Arrow, we have lots of people having dinner and trying to fall into bed together. Oh, also Ollie gets in bed with the mob in order to solve the mystery of the dark clad assassin taking out gangsters in Starling City. Bonus coverage of some Inhuman news and fresh gushing from Bingestorm about the new Logan movie. Dont forget kids, just because youre the Green Arrow doesnt mean you should always think with your shaft!

With continuing service to Dreamland! But don't worry, YOU, gentle listener, will not be fatigued as you listen to Earth Destruction Directive cover not one, but TWO episodes of the classic series Ultraman! Featuring the monster Gavadon, born from a child's drawing! (No, seriously!) And also featuring the return of the devious Space Ninjas, the Baltans! (Now we're talking!) Plus: It's Godzilla vs Sin City in Marvel Godzilla #9! Featuring The Alan Parsons Project! Plus emails, news, and a NEW SPONSOR! We've got lots of ground to cover before we all get washed away by the floodwaters off the Colorado River, so download and check it out!

Ride into the Danger Zone with the Joes and Cobras as I cover a comic that featues a good old-fashioned mid-1980s dogfight in G.I. Joe: Special Missions #5! I review the comic and also talk about the perfect timing that was my owning at least a few Joe planes and my obtaining the Top Gun soundtrack, complete with my thoughts on Harold Faltermeyer's "Top Gun Anthem."

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In episode 54 of The Man of Screen podcast, season of 4 of “The Adventures of Superman” will come to a close.

First, its a case thats baffling the police. Someone is committing burglaries all over Metropolis and no one can get a look at the guy. Is it because hes invisible? Clark Kent seems to think so, but Bill Henderson isnt buying it. This episode has it all, invisibility, some nice Superman action, and a homing pigeon.

Whats an “Adventures of Superman” episode without a homing pigeon?

Plus, Lois and Jimmy will get in the action as they try to solve the mystery of “The Phantom Ring”.

And then the season will end with perhaps the strangest group of pirates you ever saw. Theyve been stranded on an island for hundreds of years and clearly dont know how to be pirates. Fortunately, its all written down for them.

But theres also the case of the Navy. Theyre planning to shell an island during weapons tests and our heroes are to get before and after photos. They wont even have to give their lives for the Sunday Supplement.

So, bring your sea sickness pills as we suffer together during “The Jolly Roger".

Next time: It will be time for something a little different as George Reeves will take on sitcom work as a guest star in the “I Love Lucy” episode, “Lucy and Superman”.

Join HOPE MULLINAX and CHRIS HONEYWELL for their DROID ZAPPING take on the eighth episode of season 3 of Star Wars - The Clone Wars - EVIL PLANS! There will be - AN UNBELIEVABLY AVOIDABLE SECURITY BREACH - TWO DUKES OF HAZZARD REFERENCES - ARTOO GETS A RUBDOWN - POPPIN' FRESH GROWS A 'STACHE - POO EMOJI THE HUTT - AND CAD BANE WONDERS WHAT THE HELL HE'S DOING HERE! Hope you like C3PO, because there's a LOT of C3PO! Also - hope you like singin', because there's singing!

EAT IT & BEAT IT IS BACK! Join your stalwart hosts DARIO GONZALEZ and CHRIS HONEYWELL as they ride the THIN LINE between FOOD and SEX and come out the other side a little fatter and in need of a shower!This month, the boys go BACK TO THE SOURCE, with most people's first food - MILK! THEN - they go back in time to when your porn was held together with STAPLES and the sun never set on the filth because there were TWO, GIGANTIC, SAGGING SUNS! YES - YOU GUESSED IT - we are talking about JUGGS MAGAZINE!!BONUS - Luke Jaconetti invites you to SWEAT AND SALVATION at SAINT FABIAN'S!

Record of Lodoss War...Attack on Titan...What to do? Why not both. Bill and Gene jump into two new series for the show.

In this week's ball-biting episode, Magnus continues the Smallville season 05 retrospective. Going under the microscope this week are the episodes Thirst, Exposed, Splinter and Solitude.

This is a pivotal part of the Smallville retrospective as Magnus not only talks about the changes that were happening in the Superman fan community during this time (eg, the fall of 2005) but he also talks about the episode many people consider to be the very worst of Smallville's entire run.

Yes, they consider it to be even worse than the entire dreaded fourth season.

Of perhaps greater importance though is the lesson Clark learns in one of these episodes. Depending on your definition of the word "victory", Clark was defeated in this episode. But he learns that sometimes there are degrees of victory and he has to be ready to accept them. A very important and, ahem, revealing episode of Smallville.

All that, and Clark discovers how Krypton was *REALLY* destroyed.

So what more do you need? Start listening now or Lana Lang will come to your house and suck the life out of you.

Due to the blitzkrieg of badassitude this week, unfortunately there's just no time for listener feedback this week. But don't cry about it, some is coming in the future!

So dry your eyes! Use the time wisely! This would be an opportune time to send in any feedback you may have as the vault could get totally cleared out of feedback in the relatively near future. So get to writing!

In the meantime, though, don't let the lack of feedback this time get you down! You can still offer your feeble effort at tribute! You humble serfs are always welcome to kiss your benevolent leader's ring. Corrupt DiManzocorp interns are ready, willing, able and eager to accept your bribe to present your meager missives to your wise emperor. The email address to use is [email protected] as the other seems to be having technical problems.

In an another sublime act of truly unprecedented charity, your emperor permits you lowly rabble to suggest topics for a future episode. Thus, petitions may be sent to [email protected] for DiManzocorp interns to review, whereupon your leader might consider thinking about the possibility of potentially discussing whatever you have in mind some day. And that's a promise!

Its a Giant Sized Weekly Heroics as Bingestorrm teams up with the Immortal Reader Murf Tipton to try to make sense of chapters three and four of the FX channels maybe X-Men property Legion. Coming to us from the Hero Unabridged podcast, Murf adds his considerable powers of observation to our crew in a vain attempt to discern what in this show is real and what is an insane reality created by its main character David. In Chapter Three we get more memory work with Ptomony and Dr. Melanie Bird, with Syd coming along for the ride, in order to determine what Davids amazing powers might be. Exposition abounds and we feel like were finally getting a grasp on our place in this bizarre alternate X-Universe. Then Chapter Four happens and the rug is slowly and systematically removed from under our feet. To even attempt a description here would be folly so just go ahead and watch and listen and well do the group therapy together. It feels like theatrical madness worthy of a Greenwich Village improv group, but is probably more accurately a methodical mind fuck from the magnificent bastards making this show. Keep with us on the ride, who knows if it has a destination or not, but the journey is a hoot. To me, my atypical anti-psychotic meds!