Episode 381

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RISE! [ 1:14:54 || 34.3 MB ]

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[Venneh]

Okay, just got past the theme song, have to ask what the song was that was spliced with "Iron Man". Also, can't WAIT to see what you two think.

[Missy]

"Rise" by Pantera.

[SuaveStar]

Just started. Awesome idea.

[Dread]

This was a lot of fun. A lot more fun than it was reading the comics, that's for sure.

[SuaveStar]

Mike, when did the on site player change? Also, I can't wait for you two to talk about the

Suicide Squad. As that is the only one I picked up.

[Missy]

The thing in the Earth-2.net toolbar, you mean? Since I use Chrome, I don't have the toolbar installed. Is it acting up?

[SuaveStar]

The thing in the Earth-2.net toolbar, you mean? Since I use Chrome, I don't have the toolbar installed. Is it acting up?

I mean when you play the podcasts. It used to be a silver player thing on a white background, and now its a slightly bigger player, centred and on a black background.

[Dread]

He means the embedded mp3 player with a Quicktime look. Now it's black with a silver play bar.

[Koete]

I lost my shit at

Black Lantern Coyote from Coyote Gospel.

[Stavros]

Re Starman. The Black Lanter Starman was Jack's older brother David (not Ted, who was his father and the original Starman), who was a semi-regular character post-mortem in Starman. The issue of who the protector of Opal City was was always important in the book, with Shade finally taking on the responsibility after Jack retired (and the way he retired was so good that it would be a travesty to bring him back for one issue). Shade finally becoming a hero in all but name was a very big deal, since he'd been a villain/anti-hero in the book for long periods during its run.

Stargirl appeared in the book just once in the modern day, when Jack gave her the staff. Their interaction was entirely in the Johns written JSA up until Jack quit that team a couple of trades in. He gave her the staff because it had similar tech to her belt and because he had seen her in the future as a grown woman carrying that staff and being a big time hero. Honestly it would have been wrong to have her feature as the main character here when she really bore no relation to series directly. Batman was in it more. She wouldn't have a clue who David Knight was and what he meant to Jack, and if you're going to have a Black Lantern in this book it has to be the guy who died in the first issue. Its as obvious as Deadman or Spectre being involved in Blackest Knight.

[Dread]

So, set against the series, how doe sit hold up since you're a Starman fan?

[Stavros]

I liked it a lot. Firstly, the art. Not usually my thing but the sketchy style with heavy and light lines and some really bright colours, I thought it was an excellent and very readable effort. Second, the Shade vs David was perfect in terms of the two men from that book who should have been facing each other. David's look incorporated a lot of his Starman of the 1950's look as well as his traditional outfit, his dialogue was Black Lantern 101 but his threats to Jack and Shades response were what drove the climax. Considering how Jack has aided Shade in the past it was very fitting that Shade do the same for him. Its one issue, there isn't a lot you can do with it but as a coda to the series it was very good. I'm not really looking for more from that series because it ended so well, just a clip demonstrating where those characters have come to was enough for me. It made me want to go back and read it all again.

[Molly]

I liked parts of the Question issue, myself. Cowan's art was terrible, but Shiva meditating to get rid of Vic was awesome. Renee and Tot, not so much. Cowan's art was terrible, but the thing that I loved the most was Tot's "Son." to Vic. There's been a lot of theorizing that Tot is actually Vic's biological father (which would piss Ditko off SOOOOO much) and this is a nice little shout out to that.