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Post by wylietimes on Mar 5, 2016 15:42:23 GMT -5
I saw that this morning and was super excited. I hope wins some people over as I was fearing Iron Fist wouldn't be given a fair chance. Plus Shang Chi is just a cool character.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 7, 2016 7:39:03 GMT -5
I saw that this morning and was super excited. I hope wins some people over as I was fearing Iron Fist wouldn't be given a fair chance. Plus Shang Chi is just a cool character. Bobby, As Marvel no longer has the rights to use Fu Manchu, I wonder if they'll try to link Shang Chi as the son of some Marvel villain?
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Post by BatFonz on Mar 7, 2016 8:12:38 GMT -5
The Mandarin? obviously not the one from Iron Man 3!
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Post by wylietimes on Mar 7, 2016 12:11:03 GMT -5
The Mandarin? obviously not the one from Iron Man 3! Originally I was thinking the red ninja from DD season 1 could be the father, bit I think he was Japanese. Therefore maybe to keep it all synced up his criminal mother could be Madame Gao. This might work. What do you think?
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 8, 2016 6:36:08 GMT -5
There are some good candidates, and I would think the Mandarin would be an interesting choice, but I think it may boil down to how the linkage between the various Netflix shows will continue to evolve?
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 13, 2016 7:39:16 GMT -5
Troops, "Dear Sir Terry..." , Sarah Miles' beautiful piece on how the works of Sir Terry Pratchett influenced her life has me in a reflective mood, thinking about authors who created that transformative moment in my own life. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", "Hiroshima" by John Hersey, "Inherit the Wind" by Lawrence & Lee, some Shakespeare, Homer, and other classics are the "school readings" that have stuck with me for decades, but it's the authors whose works I discovered for myself that seem to have the most hold on my imagination. While searching the shelves in my junior high school library for Mad Magazine paperback collections, I happened upon this collection of humourous essays from the Twenties & Thirties by Robert Benchley. His comedic style and usage of the language hooked me immediately, and I devoured everything of his I could get my hands on. Further, it led me to the wry yet touching works of his fellow Algonquin Round Table member, Mrs. Dorothy Parker, and their world view and combined influence can be seen in nearly every word that I commit to paper. Soon after, whilst on a grocery shopping trip with my Dad, this cover called to me from the racks, and much like the protagonists of Lovecraft's stories, once I opened the "forbidden tome", I was trapped by the words within--as anyone who has listened to our radio play "The Mind's Eye" will attest! Finally, sometime in the early Eighties, at the much-missed Oscar's Bookstore in my hometown of Huntington, I came upon these volumes by Harlan Ellison, whom I only knew through his screenplays for television. Mr. Ellison's fiction is chock-a-block with biting wit and deep understanding of the human condition, and his media criticism is of the highest order of intelligence, fueled by a curmudgeonly attitude that fairly screams "We need to be better than this, folks!", one that has certainly influenced how I approach the world-at-large. I'm eager to hear from some of you on this topic, so chime in!
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 22, 2016 5:57:52 GMT -5
Well, I know where I'll be next Monday night at 8 PM:
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Post by Huw on Mar 22, 2016 8:10:44 GMT -5
Well, I know where I'll be next Monday night at 8 PM: Hell yes, Really looking forward to that!
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 23, 2016 4:52:49 GMT -5
Huw, I'm already planning what sort of noshes to put out on my TV table while watching! By the way, on last night's recording, I mis-heard Bobby's question regarding a "classic cover", thinking that he was talking about the image of Barry and Jay from Flash #123 ("Flash of Two Worlds"), when he was certainly asking about this Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson cover from Superman #199, which is obviously what the producers were referencing:
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Post by BatFonz on Mar 23, 2016 5:50:20 GMT -5
I love that Batman is telling The Flash to 'Show him up' in the current climate this is bang on trend!
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 23, 2016 13:08:53 GMT -5
I love that Batman is telling The Flash to 'Show him up' in the current climate this is bang on trend! Simon, Maybe Bruce has some bets down?
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Post by BatFonz on Mar 24, 2016 3:11:15 GMT -5
Well he didn't become a billionaire by luck, he knows a good bet when he sees it! I agree with the specialist angle: Flash is the fastest man alive.... > > > >>>>>
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 24, 2016 5:30:58 GMT -5
Well he didn't become a billionaire by luck, he knows a good bet when he sees it! I agree with the specialist angle: Flash is the fastest man alive.... > > > >>>>> Simon, I would think that Bruce knows that "specialist" thing, too, so he'd definitely have his shekels on the Scarlet Speedster!
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Post by IncredibleD on Mar 24, 2016 6:29:03 GMT -5
Hey Bob,
I only just now listened to last weeks podcast because i first wanted to read the Fantastic Four books that were talked about on the show.
It took me a while since like most older books I had a hard time getting through all of it(so many words!!!) and there were some minor problems I had with it(most of which were discussed on the show)but I thought they were good stories overall, and I have to appreciate these issues for everything they created...except maybe that weird thing they call the Punisher...think I like Frank Castle a bit more.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Mar 24, 2016 7:04:43 GMT -5
Hey Bob, I only just now listened to last weeks podcast because i first wanted to read the Fantastic Four books that were talked about on the show. It took me a while since like most older books I had a hard time getting through all of it(so many words!!!) and there were some minor problems I had with it(most of which were discussed on the show)but I thought they were good stories overall, and I have to appreciate these issues for everything they created...except maybe that weird thing they call the Punisher...think I like Frank Castle a bit more. Dave, Thanks for taking the time to wade through some very dense material, and I believe that you've taken from both the books and our on-air discussion just the right angles to appreciating these classic works; the need to understand the volume of creativity from people like Lee & Kirby, as well as grasping any issues due to the period of their publication, and all in proper context! Bravo, good sir!
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