View Full Version : Pick of the Week Podcast Episode #147: Fear Agent #23
jaflanagan
08-25-2008, 12:10 AM
The gang is back together and we discuss Josh's Pick of the Week for August 20, 2008:
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Fear Agent #23
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Tony Moore
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luthor
08-25-2008, 12:16 AM
Re: Brave & The Bold
Waid wrote way ahead before he left DC(I think up to the 18th issue), at that point Marv Wolfman is doing a few fill-ins(I think up to 21). After that JMS takes over and the book will feature Batman and the various Archie heroes.
cenquist
08-25-2008, 12:31 AM
You seemed so shocked when you said episode 147.
cenquist
08-25-2008, 12:47 AM
I haven't read a issue of Fear Agent and always considered grabbing it in trades....and I think I will next stop at the LCS. You Ifanboys need to realize that some of us are on a frickin budget! Damn you for always being right with your recomendations!
benjaminsimpson
08-25-2008, 01:00 AM
Josh, I believe you were thinking about Fighting American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_American) when referring to the character that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created as a knock-off of Cap.
jaflanagan
08-25-2008, 02:02 AM
Well played Benjamin...
And The Fly wasn't a knock off of Spider-man. Joe Simon came up with a Spiderman (no hyphen) then changed it to The Silver Spider. Later he took the same concept to develop with Jack Kirby but for several reasons, mostly that spiders are "icky" it was changed to The Fly. Later Jack pitched a spider character to Stan but his take on it was much too close to Captain America's origin - scrawny kid turns muscular. Ditko was much more in keeping with what Stan had in mind and the two of them gave us The Amazing Spider-man.
A more detailed account of the above is in Joe and Jim Simon's The Comic Book Makers.
jaflanagan
08-25-2008, 06:09 AM
I didn't say it was a knock off of Spider-Man. I said it came first, which is to say, what you said, but with less detail.
That book's on my list.
Actually I think it might have been something Ron muttered in the background. Just keepin' you guys sharp.
conorkilpatrick
08-25-2008, 06:34 AM
I wonder, did that The Fly have anything to do with this The Fly:
http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/116/49493_20060901140053_large.jpg
I loved that book!
Same Fly... sorta. When DC relaunched the Archie heroes as the IMPACT line that was the new version. Do you have those comics? If not I think I do. Could be a cheap Christmas present. :)
Published in "widescream."
http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/95/fly.gif
conorkilpatrick
08-25-2008, 06:57 AM
Same Fly... sorta. When DC relaunched the Archie heroes as the IMPACT line that was the new version. Do you have those comics? If not I think I do. Could be a cheap Christmas present. :)
I think I only bought The Fly (because of Mike Parobeck), but yeah, I have all of those still.
Damn. Then it looks like I'll have to part with the Neal Adams Deadman run.
horatio616
08-26-2008, 01:01 AM
I remember in the 80s Archie had a run of superhero comics with those characters. There were action figures too. I had "The Web". Good times. I was a big Mighty Crusaders fan for awhile.
I tried out the Impact line revamps but never took to them. I had forgotten all about those!
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk207/horatio616/t1.jpg
horatio616
08-26-2008, 01:05 AM
Conor: you might want to check the quarter bins for the Red Circle/Archie books. Old school. I thinking there might be a trade...?
jillnerd
08-26-2008, 08:52 PM
I think that's so funny. You guys say AHHH, and UMMMM all the time. It was a video someone cut up to just show the ums and ahs that Josh linked to on Twitter. Someone should do that with every episode of Totally Rad Show too!
Loved Fear Agent
ruo21
08-27-2008, 06:42 AM
Uncanny X-Men #501 just made me think all of the X-Men were assholes. "We drink Red bull, we're rich, and spend millions of dollars on lingerie". Also, bondage? Was that really needed? Also how old is Pixie again? Old enough to be "tweaked and buzzing" in Oakland late at night I guess.
How can you want this Ron?
oh_caroline
08-27-2008, 12:37 PM
Uncanny X-Men #501 just made me think all of the X-Men were assholes. "We drink Red bull, we're rich, and spend millions of dollars on lingerie". Also, bondage? Was that really needed? Also how old is Pixie again? Old enough to be "tweaked and buzzing" in Oakland late at night I guess.
How can you want this Ron?
Well, the only one spending millions of dollars on lingerie was Emma.
And bondage is a rich old X-men tradition, particularly when the Hellfire Club is involved.
I think Pixie is 16, which is probably why the writer made a point she was only buzzed on Red Bull and had just gone to a concert, with a date. I don't think teenagers drinking caffeine and going to shows is exactly pushing the envelope.
horatio616
08-27-2008, 03:22 PM
Well, the only one spending millions of dollars on lingerie was Emma.
And bondage is a rich old X-men tradition, particularly when the Hellfire Club is involved.
I think Pixie is 16, which is probably why the writer made a point she was only buzzed on Red Bull and had just gone to a concert, with a date. I don't think teenagers drinking caffeine and going to shows is exactly pushing the envelope.
Why is it a problem when superheroes have actual personalities?
ruo21
08-27-2008, 04:55 PM
They just seem like jerks to me. Reading X-Men as a kid, maybe I just didn't pick up on this kind of stuff, but now it really bothers me. It's not bad that they have personalities, it's just that I'm not enjoying their personalities. I'm not trying to be mean and I hope I don't come off that way, but I don't see whats to like about this series. Sorry. I just felt like this whole issue was about the X-Men saying "We're Great".
jimski
08-27-2008, 06:32 PM
On some level, a part of me fears that one day I'm going to go back and read the classic X-Men stories I loved as a kid and find out, "Uh-oh... these were never good. I was just 11."
ruo21
08-28-2008, 03:56 AM
Ya I'd imagine that would be the case. Those memories of reading them for the first time will always stick with me though.
oh_caroline
08-28-2008, 06:08 AM
On some level, a part of me fears that one day I'm going to go back and read the classic X-Men stories I loved as a kid and find out, "Uh-oh... these were never good. I was just 11."
I didn't read most of this stuff until I was thirty and I still like it. . .
That may say more about me than it does about the comics.
denmmurray
08-29-2008, 03:58 PM
I didn't read most of this stuff until I was thirty and I still like it. . .
That may say more about me than it does about the comics.
I actually did that with a series in the 90's...and it was not good at all. I think it was the Executioner's Song event...
hank41
08-30-2008, 05:35 PM
I actually did that with a series in the 90's...and it was not good at all. I think it was the Executioner's Song event...
holy shit that sucked. i think i have those issues somewhere