In this episode, Mike and Andy run down four more issues and decide whether they are one and dones, or keep on readings (or whatever). Andy also describes his birthday weekend and we talk a variety of things we thought were interesting as usual. Boy were we wrong! We talk about hot dog eating contests, kaiju, Green Arrow, Talos and Mike Wierengo, and Mark Waid's World's Finest. Tell a friend about the show!
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In this episode, Mike and Andy run down four more issues and decide whether they are one and dones, or keep on readings (or whatever). Andy also describes his birthday weekend and we talk a variety of things we thought were interesting as usual. Boy were we wrong! We talk about hot dog eating contests, kaiju, Green Arrow, Talos and Mike Wierengo, and Mark Waid's World's Finest. Tell a friend about the show!
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patreon.com/AndThisIsWhyILoveComics and get eventual early show release and some exclusive content.
Thanks to all our supporters and friends of the show! We couldn't do it without you!
Check out Jamie’s YouTube show at https://www.youtube.com/@jhoodcomics/featured
Thanks to Producer Tony, Co-hosts Matt 2.0, Kevin, Jamie and Matt 10.0., Katie, and Nick.
Thanks to Thunder Chicken for the tunes! Check them out on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IlO3mSZd0XlwWfzRs1kUA?si=Vv2kTfrcRWOSs7QuQ7aKYA&dl_branch=1
And This Is Why I Love Comics 42 One And Done.mp3
I'll just have to make certain I am talking with a verbose volume.
So how's your week been otherwise?
Well, better than last week. Let me tell you a little birthday story.
Yes, getting older is always a good start for any story, but I know this was going to be a good.
Here's the the harp's ringing as we go into a flashback.
Delete, delete, delete, delete.
So a couple weeks ago I went to.
The ear, nose, throat, doctor. Cause I was having some ear issues.
So I got tested and they found out I had some reduced hearing.
Eight months. Maybe you should have this look right.
Probably should have it looked at.
The thing he said was, well, let's are you claustrophobic?
Said oh crap, I said no, I'm not. And so he said, OK, well, you, you're going to need an MRI.
Last Thursday, day before my birthday and in actuality.
It's an older machine, so it takes a little longer.
No metal you know. Do you have hip replacements? Do you have anything, you know? Yeah, right. Pins.
And I don't. It's like, OK, so I got an MRI done.
But on my stomach, you know, like around 2000.
After you swallowed all those babies.
Right. Yes. Yeah, that was painful. They shot right out of my stomach.
Yeah, right. To them right. Here we go.
Yeah, because it's a large magnet basically taking pictures.
And I go home and I have a normal.
And I'm sicker than a dog, and I am throwing up, and I got a fever.
Come to find out I'm allergic to the dye they used in my head.
For the MRI, so I had a bad reaction to the MRI on my brain.
And all that stuff. My funny story is, you know, it's my birthday and I'm.
In the middle of the night, going to the mighty toilet and throwing up.
Time I threw up, I said, well, happy birthday, Andy.
Seems like the right thing to say.
Ohh my gosh, is this what turning 52 is like?
It's like ohh my body is breaking down and my mind is apparently too.
You're listening too, and This is why.
Love comics medical questions.
That way, like do we really like comics?
Right. Welcome to another episode. I'm Andy.
Also is gonna be 52 in about a month, so.
New 52 weekly series 52 was really good.
Yeah. So we're here. Welcome to the show.
We are old men talking old stories, reading new and old comics.
And we talked about whatever we.
And if you want us to talk about something.
I remember one time one of my older brothers.
And justice, emptying out every part of his intestinal system.
After that you get this like weak voice.
At the doorway, there's a hand slowly creeping out.
Fingers underneath it. Ohh man. So as the old song goes, it's my birthday. I can die if I want to.
Shunts everything away from it itself so.
Yeah, right. Just over. I'm doing the work. I'm doing the worm.
Just doing that though, that was pretty much you.
But it was my birthday. So, you know, I made it to 52. That's all I gotta say.
I survived. I survived that, though, yeah.
So yeah, that was pretty funny.
You know, it's like the Marilyn Monroe, except totally opposite.
He got me the job later in life.
But because he worked at this processing plant, one of the main things.
That they produced was hot dogs.
And this guy had unlimited access to hot dogs.
And the genie took it literal.
Yep, you get unlimited hot dog.
Us, you know, realized he had unlimited hot dogs, and we decided let's try.
A hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July.
And this is when metabolism was OK. Metabolism.
Yeah. And two other buddies were really into.
Died. They're no longer with us.
Ohh yeah, they were buried with their wieners.
They got into the teens and I remember I think it was like 1516.
Then it was another contest. Who could throw up the wound?
We gotta, you know, change the fish tank. So we had to put the fish in in this one did.
We did have a what we called the bucket.
Bucket and I don't think it was an actual bucket. I think it was a bowl, but.
We had the catch all. Literally every.
It's like you needed it for this. Yep, we'll just wash it out. Really good.
It's like if you wash it out really good.
And I mean, the good news is I did get the results back and it's not a tumor.
Yeah, you get hearing aid, so I'll have a hearing aid. I don't know. Maybe in a week or so, but.
Can you talk into my left ear please?
So there's some of the stuff that we talk about that gets slightly confidential.
Of that machine and for the life of me, more often than not, I'm.
It was interesting taking a hearing test after not having one for such a long time.
OK, I might have heard that one.
Yeah, phantom beeping. When was the last time? Was it elementary school?
I don't recall doing it as an adult, really. I no reason to really, really at all.
And you know, eventually wears on you. But.
Yeah, I mean I I worked in a factory for a couple years, but nothing too loud.
Seeing your brain, I finally had. I finally had proof that I had one or have one. Sorry and.
It's not just rolling around in there. They were able to find it.
Great. And it was, you know, it was pretty normal looking, they said so.
Yeah, yeah. And some that are just open.
Rolled heads around your head.
So you're not being slid into that very confining.
Do they strap you down at all or is?
Because they can hear you. But.
I was gonna ask is there like an emergency like ejector seat. It spits, yell like a bullet.
You get some frequent flyer miles for.
It's amazing cause like some of that stuff I know like.
Think it was like a barium was one.
Of the old like chemicals that people.
Yeah. And then that would flow through your whole system.
They can detect you with that for a.
Week. Yeah, your kids will come out with gamma radiation.
Yeah. What happened? Well, my dad.
Or radioactive substances? I mean, like there's been stranger Origins.
Back through some of the like Golden Age characters and a lot of them in the public domain.
Most of them maybe not all but a good portion of them make zero sense as far as.
Their origins go they're like the.
Granted, in simpler times, as they say.
I think that's it. I think it was.
Yeah, that's how his origin was.
It's like Tarzan being raised by apes. It's like.
There's some plausibility, at least they're mammals.
Amongst the many, many options, one of them was I asked my mom what?
And he said, well, bricks like a fireplace. And I said OK, that's great.
Just like a mighty Python, what floats and what doesn't float?
You know how many bricks it was going to take and I'm thinking like, OK, I'll just get a bunch.
Of bricks and make a jet pack out of.
And then the other was, I think it was the same summer, but my goal was to train myself.
To the bottom of the stairs, and then I'd be able to go to school and family.
Big, big smile. So much sense of being raised by by birds. So yeah, why not?
Right. Like 3 hospital visits later.
That didn't work. Didn't work at all, that somebody could have told me. Yeah.
Yeah. It's kind of like a Uncle Rico moment and Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, there's.
I wish doesn't work. Somebody should have told.
That Uncle Rico comes out with that ice bag. He's.
What are we doing today? Well, we're doing.
All the way back to the beginning, we're back.
Did you get new microphones again?
Right. Thanks for some emails and stuff telling us that we are fun to listen to.
And also that we repeat ourselves a lot, we know we're old we.
Still dimension give us some people call it dimension, we call it our yeah.
The invisible iron and it was.
And if you're new to the show, this is what we do.
Do you have any funny stories to tell Mike?
Ohh, nothing really hilarious this.
It's throwing up and wishing yourself a happy birthday.
Yeah, that one. OK, I'll leave you with that. But my gosh, I can only.
Sympathize at best, but mercy. Yeah, we.
Only get better from there. You know, I I joked with my wife during that I said, you know.
I've had worse birthdays, not many, but.
Say you know anything like you know.
At least this time, it wasn't your cooking or anything like that. Will get you into trouble.
I was like, oh man, I'm just thinking about the kids.
Now, at any point did your life flash before you during that whole sequence?
Absolutely. You know, I'd be lying if I said I didn't think I was dying at one point and.
Death becomes more of a possibility.
Wasn't that what one of our friends said?
About driving and then he took his hands off the wheel.
We are going to crash. Yeah, it's not the time to kind of make.
No, I mean we I still felt safe like if we were gonna hit anything, it was gonna hurt them not.
Right. Yeah. At least 1/4 mile.
Oh, I thought it was so airplanes wouldn't try to land on them.
Yeah, it was easier for the satellites to, you know, keep track of things too, you know.
You know, man, those things are just a massive vehicle.
I don't know what movie we were dying to see, though.
It was probably nothing of a movie. It was probably something where it was like.
You know, you know Space Hunter in 3D.
Adventures in babysitting? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
That girl had a Thor helmet. It's gotta.
They were obviously a lot of these had like what they call those backdoor pilots or something.
The trial and I I recently saw that episode.
Maybe they'll do Thor, right? And it's like everything they could have done.
Wrong. They did wrong with it though.
And you can just hear that dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung, dung.
I would openly weep every episode.
And when, even as kids watching this is.
Just stood there yelling like.
Ah, I can't believe it. He's getting it away.
And then computer animation came into the equation and changed.
Right. What are they going to do now with AI?
And the writers strike, they're just going to let the computers run it.
Might as well. Might as well now. Have you ever read? Do you remember reading American flag?
Basically, artificial intelligence. They had enough to basically now what's called a deep.
And they had enough footage. They didn't need him anymore to act. They had.
Do you want, you know, young Luke Skywalker?
It'll be interesting where it goes after this. You know the next decade.
Something bad's going to happen, and then people will have to make a decision on whether they do.
Oh man, are we down today or is it just me? I think I've shown.
Done last time, we both kind of picked random issues.
Some odd issues all at one time hadn't done that in.
And so I thought I will make use of this and grab a couple of issues at random out of that stack.
So how did you come to your book selection?
I I noticed neither one of us has a free comic book day story.
As I was saying, happy birthday and throwing up. So what's your excuse?
About free Comic Book day well.
It was Saturday and it is so last Saturday.
That artist from that Super Dinosaur had his.
But then ultimately, it was just like.
They come out and they do the whole.
You know, make a big deal with cosplay and all this other stuff going on at the same time so.
It's actually, I mean a good like thing for comics, but.
You know what it does? It's it's good for the brick and mortar.
Comic shop because they can get people in the door.
Of people and they had events going on in sales.
You know how it would be rarer to get, but you know just the same books the same year.
And a day afterwards, and they're on eBay for $10 like you.
People ruin things, you know, it's just another thing that to me is just ruined by.
Speculators coming into the marketplace just grabbing the stuff and.
Marvel released it's like the Dollar Comics and.
They were just kind of putting that.
Reprinting various issues and then reprinting them.
And as much as I like him, there's also another level of like.
Color everything and it's a dollar, so it's like, why are all the other issues?
That they're producing 499-390-9899.
When these true believers, same amount of pages, same amount of art.
Well, we'll say with the X-23, let's say.
Yeah. And there's what's the point of that then the Marvel or DC or whoever might as well just.
If they want to do another series, just print off each issue and sell them monthly again, you know.
They'd probably make some money off of that.
You know, they they do that with trade. Sometimes they collect them.
And then there was Americas or the world's greatest comics.
And that reprinted Fantastic Four and that's the one I got the bulk of that run, if not all.
Yeah, classic X-Men. And we printed all.
Back into buying monthly issues.
Because one of the things and this is where I do like the dollar comics.
Is that I am more willing to experiment on the dollar comic.
Then on you know a four or five dollar comic. It's kind of like I don't see.
You know that this story progresses or it draws me in with such a.
A try right for a buck. It that to me is a sweet.
I won't like it because maybe I will, but for a book I'll take the risk.
That's very impulse driven and that's something I think current comics.
And someone gets pulled from a.
Everything changes on you. It's like ohh crap I'm stuck. Whereas you could wait.
Way or wait until that run is done and then find out whether or not it was worth it and.
No, I do remember last time the one and done.
Reading those some more for this time I picked up an issue, one that I heard was pretty good.
You know that TV show he does, but and then the second issue, I just grabbed a part one of a.
Of a storyline and it was from.
With my sons and that'll be fun. Don't get me started on May and graduation and.
And then the other is Ultra Mega, which is a Kaiju kind of like.
Yeah. Previously I did that. Oh, man, the wolf.
Boy or wolf man, or whatever the astounding man.
And then, and oddly enough, the guy who did the Super Dinosaur also did the art on that one too.
Eclectic gregs for free comic book day books.
Unfortunately, Michael Wingo passed away at some point.
That one had Mark Wade, who wrote your.
So Ultra Mega by James Herron.
Paul, I think the guys name was like Paul Pope or something like that. Does that sound right?
And that's where it was kind of like, hmm.
On our website, you did the astounding wolf man.
Yeah, and I did DC's judge tread and Abcs Prometheus, so.
Yeah. We haven't talked about him that much.
We haven't talked about him too much, but.
No underrated but fantastic stuff. And when he was at the top of his game he was a a heavy hitter.
Yeah, and he said with his and.
It's just each panel. It's got so much energy to it.
Yeah, very cartoon, but not like overly cartoon. I mean, he can.
But what was good about this is.
Kid. And he's got a tiger companion.
Anthropomorphic tiger, I should say and.
The Dragons, named Brad, and he's basically like a surfer dude who?
And they have to, after having a fight that must have wrapped up in issue.
Story is fairly straightforward.
There are some moments of like what is going on here because like the main villain.
Fill, fill, fill that up. But then there's 123.
But I got like 678 and 9:00 so I got like.
Four issues of it or something like that.
Site what they were promoting or.
And Tamara Bond villain, which is a great name.
Aditya Bidi harded, the letters and Paul Hemsky is the editor. This is some from 2022 May of 2022.
Mark Wade, of course. Who did some book called Kingdom Come.
Never heard of that title any good?
So I snagged up a couple issues of this. I've only read the first issue.
And thought I'd give it a try.
There's a bunch of variant covers and I picked the Jerry Seinfeld one for some reason.
I I I do like the show that he's on and stuff like that. But anyway, the comic itself is kind of.
Takes me back to the 80s, maybe early 90s. It's basically it flashes back and forth.
Hey, I'm going to go stop this film.
He did, Klaus. He did, didn't he? Ohh yeah.
That might also, and it all comes together and makes sense.
Does see and his art was cool with Graham Morrison and his art.
With Mark Wade, I like his style.
I'm still trying to figure out which Robin it is. He's got long pants.
It I'm not sure. I think it's **** Grayson.
But it also could be Tim Drake.
So I haven't. I haven't figured that out yet.
Or happening to him, you know, during the flashback, they fight the Penguin.
And it's a really cool scene, you know? It's just nice, classic villains and.
He actually uses the communicator in his helmet.
Yeah, that's from episode one of the podcast.
And suddenly you turned the page in the original Doom Patrol shows up.
You know, like read afar, Elastic Girl, robot man and.
Because if Mark wades getting his own corner of the universe.
Just going to tell solid superhero stories. I'm going to.
Put my money where my mouth is and just, you know, tell DC that I approve of this message.
What comics used to be? You know, there were just meant.
You know, just padding and dialogue for the sake of dialogue, but not advancing the plot dialogue.
Good to see Batman and Superman kind of taking the lead and.
The jokers on another murderous rampage, and we're going to focus on that.
The Batman might show up for two panels, all right.
And it's like, Nope, this is just sounds like it's a great, great, straightforward comic.
Chuck up another one for the wins column.
A quick synopsis to kind of keep you a little bit up to speed.
Like when you really think about what would happen if monsters like giant monsters really existed.
And that these world of these monsters are, you know, crashing into ours.
Regular hero and then for three minutes he can turn into Ultraman.
I don't want to be like them when.
I don't want to be grumpy. I don't want to be so mean and just.
You know, have a. Do they have to be?
And it is a brilliant classic of like the pacing of, you know, most Kaiju movies.
Is, you know, the hero comes in at the very end pretty much and.
Is $8 an issue? They are somewhat in what used to be called prestige format, but it's $8 in it.
There's four of them, so simple maths. Is this about 32 bucks? No big deal.
Highly recommend it. Suggest people go ahead and.
Yes, Sir. Sins of the mother, green arrow rebirth #6.
I've I've liked Green arrow. I like green arrow Black Canary, as I've said in the past.
So but this is my first take of the new rebirth.
One of the other arrow characters shooting off into the reader.
So that was pretty cool. The art was pretty good. There was some questionable panels, I think he.
Like she's a little cartoony and they're not.
Allie's new partner, and also her half sister.
So Ali's father and shadow had this.
Parents that aren't around anymore, I think.
I don't know mixing up with the show now, but you know he's training her.
To be a spy, a spy? Ish superhero.
Quite the whiny liberal that he was, I don't know. I'm I'm I'm mixed on this.
One, I would say my instinct is that this is a one and done officially and just.
But I I think I was expecting something a little more.
Different than The CW Green Arrow, and that's all I got was the.
If I were to just to buy something, pick something up, could I just dive right into it or?
Would I be like hard pressed to go like this isn't for me, I just can't.
I can't follow the story. I can't figure out where.
I'm supposed to be going from.
Book and you're like, wait a minute.
Tony Stark is not in there. I think. If anything, it's like there's a hologram of him or something.
You know, it's like mercy. None of these comics that I'm like I.
So there are times where you do want to.
Them to align you do want them to kind of.
But you just don't want copycats or I don't, anyway, but I don't know.
Yeah, not too bad. OK, so I had two. Well, no, I had one.
One and done and one great you had.
Have any comics you want us to read? Any series you want us to try? One and done so let us know.
What did my what did producer Tony call it? Oh addict, Kickstarter addict, yeah.
Tony uh, let's see. Thanks producer Tony Co hosts Matt 2.0. Kevin and Matt 10.0.
Four, and This is why I love comics. I'm Andy.
Everything as your tears down all might slow down.
OK, I thought you were saying. Happy birthday Andy again.
I got to do the sound effects for that.
It's my party. I can vomit if I want to.