When It Was Cool Dark

The 100 Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels podcast special has been available to Patreon supporters of WhenItWasCool.com for a long time now. We wanted to give you an example of what you could be getting by supporting us. This special is based on the most popular article in the history of the When It Was Cool website discussing the best comics of all time. Batman, Superman, Watchmen, Avengers, Justice League, Thor, GI Joe, independent comics and much more are ranked in this extensively researched list.

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at the news, current events, modern politics, and asks the very valid question - Are you being controlled? For hundreds of years there has been talk of an Illuminati type organization pulling the strings on world events and while that may (or may not) be a work of fiction, events in the world that we are told are organic have a feel of orchestration.

The NoFriender Thrash Metal Show Podcast is back with a look at Anthrax and the album Among the Living.  This is part one of a series. The Thrash Metal Show Podcast is a documentary style series taking a look at the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal music and is presented by WhenItWasCool.com

As Halloween approaches this week, we have spent the month talking about archetype monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein but the monsters of the modern era are even more intense and frightening. Freddie Kruger, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, Michael Myers, Pennywise and the other slasher killers play on a newer type fear. On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern discusses the modern horror icons and why we fear them. There is additional added Patreon content for today's show.

NoFriender Thrash Metal Show Podcast is back talking more of the origins and evolution of thrash heavy metal music. On this episode, NoFriender takes a look at Nuclear Assault and the epic Game Over. This is part three of a series. If you are interested in music, particularly heavy metal music, then the Thrash Metal Show Podcast is for you! A docu-series taking a look at the history of the metal genre that gave us Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and more!

On this edition of DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern examines the lore surrounding mummies- the specially wrapped and prepared Egyptian dead. Ancient Egypt includes all sorts of supernatural and macabre elements including a great collection of gods, an elaborate afterlife ritual, and magnificent structures. It also came with elements that were picked up in pop culture based on the real life archeological discoveries of the late 1800s and early 1900s including curses on those who disturbed the dead.

Today the NoFriender and DragonKingKarl team up to talk lots about rock music. We start out talking about the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees including Def Leppard and Judas Priest being left off the ballot this year. Then we begin to talk all things rock and roll including (but not limited to) Metallica, KISS, Rush, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, hair metal, and then we dive deep for the geeks and talk drumming, music theory, and more.

Host Karl Stern continues our celebration of Halloween month at When It Was Cool with a look at another classic monster. This week DragonKing Dark looks at The Wolf Man and the werewolf.  The belief in werewolves is very ancient but much of the lore and mythos surrounding them comes from the Universal horror films. Karl tells you about a case from history where a man was tried and convicted of being a werewolf, studies the 1941 movie The Wolf Man, and talks about the modern era werewolf lore as well.

NoFriender Thrash Metal Show Podcast is back talking more of the origins and evolution of thrash heavy metal music. On this episode, NoFriender takes a look at Nuclear Assault and the epic Game Over. This is part two of the Game Over series. If you are interested in music, particularly heavy metal music, then the Thrash Metal Show Podcast is for you! A docu-series taking a look at the history of the metal genre that gave us Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and more!

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern begins prepping us for Halloween with a look at the mythos surrounding the Lord of the Vampires- Dracula. He discusses the gothic horror novel, what influenced the novel, the Universal horror movie classic, and Dracula in popular culture since then. Also he examines just how much Vlad Tepes actually truly influenced the classic Dracula character.