RSS Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 In this edition of Waiting for the Trade, Tom and Chris dig deep into their libraries to cover Elephantmen: Devilish Functions, the first volume of Daredevil by Mark Waid, and Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty. [ 1:22:35 || 40.2 MB ] To listen, click here: http://www.earth-2.net/theshow/episodes/e2ts_545.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Come, marvel at the open wound that is my psyche and let me know if it just me on the Elephantmen thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Correction: there will be 11 Nikolai Dante trades altogether. Also, Tom has elephantmen posters in his room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Come, marvel at the open wound that is my psyche and let me know if it just me on the Elephantmen thing. That would presume that I would use my rare dip into comic books to read Elephantmen. I'm good, thanks. The name-dropping is flattering by the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Great episode as always, gents, but I'm afraid I can't comment intelligently on the Elephantmen thing, having not read the series (or been much encouraged to do so by your review). Also... Aaron and I recorded our review of Order of the Phoenix the other week, Ian, and you were name-dropped in it at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 It's not an Earth-2 podcast if you don't namedrop another podcaster at least once every three segments. I think me and Hannah average at least once every two recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Not sure why I keep name dropping Ian, I think it's some sort of subconscious vendetta. For an example of the weirdness of Elephantmen, here's the typical human woman/elephantman relationship. There are many more examples of this, almost all significantly less tame/SFW. I think it's super-creepy material that sorta references bestiality but in a way that make you look like a dick if you suggest that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Then I will invite the label of dick and say that this particular relationship is bestiality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Yeah, looking at that, that looks like one of the tamer furry fanart you'd find on DeviantART. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 I've only ever flipped through Elephantmen, so I cannot comment on how it's handled within the story, but, from the art, I can say that the more sexual scenes have always made me uneasy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining knight Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Regular listener, first time poster. Thank you for covering Nikolai Dante. Its my favourite series to the point I post a series of articles on it on a 2000ad fansite. Its such an epic series and it builds its supporting cast so well that it can tear you apart inside when terrible sad things begin to happen to them. My personal favourite supporting character (who was introduced in the first trade at least) Is LuLu Romanov. Thanks again and keep up the excellent work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Welcome to the forums, Shining knight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Hurrah! I am normal! (for the given value of normal). Welcome Shining Knight, glad to have another Dante fan around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Hi Shining knight, welcome. Lulu's great, I agree. Personally my favourites of Dante's siblings were always Andreas and Viktor. Arkady was Joffrey Baratheon before there was a Joffrey Baratheon... except that Game of Thrones was released a full year before Dante started. Still, what a cunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining knight Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 Andreas was always a favourite as well. It was kinda neat how out of all the assholes in the romanovs there was at least one who was almost exactly like Nikolai himself. Its so hard to talk about some things without spoiling the wonderful story. Arkady while being a nasty little berk had one of the better storyarcs going from a bitter young guy who was pissed at Dante for taking something which belonged to him to the man he eventually became. Viktor is impossible to talk about hes the other Romanov who had a hell of a journey during the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 See, now you're making me want to get into this more. Gotta find the second trade somewhere on the cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 It might be hard. I didn't realise this until recently but Rebellion seems to be following Marvel's policy of not going to second runs. I can understand why as they need to keep a close eye on their budgeting but it does mean that the first Nikolai Dante graphic novels (ie the ones most people will want to read right now) are out of print. I think there's some pressure on them to get them back into print. Depending on how well the Simon & Schuster runs do, there might be a US printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 I'll wait on that then. I've got 2 inches of Box Office Poison to get through a the moment (yeah, once again I bought a book I was due to review anyway). I'm about 50 pages in at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shining knight Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Courtship of Jena Markarov (the third trade) in perticular is so important to the series yet so hard to get it I've seen it go for about 80 pounds uk sometimes on ebay. Despite owning the original comics for the series of Articles I mentioned in my first post I went and bought up the trades I was missing. If I recall it was Sword of the tsar onwards and getting some of those was a pain in the uk so god knows how America would fare. About those series of Articles. I am quite proud of them as both Simon Fraser and former editor David bishop has helped and encouraged me to go onwards with it. I made a link today on my blog to all of them so far (I've gotten to the end of the third trade) I would like to warn that if you do read them there are story spoilers all over the place due to the nature of them. http://thrillpoweroverdose.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/nikolai-dante-too-cool-to-kill.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 From this image, I take the following: she procreated with a cyborg rhinoman, killed it, then decided to wear it's robotic skull a la Cubone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 ....Hi there, bottle of wine. We're gonna be REALLY good friends tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 HA! Mike, I nominate that for Post of the Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 I'm refusing to read it but I'm going to assume that Mike's guess is exactly right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 +1 for the Cubone reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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