Today on All Comics Considered we talk about how to prepare for an ending, and then a little bit about our current and upcoming work, Project Superkid and the ACC Book Club!

Project Superkid!

Bookclub

• Why?
• Expectations
• Contest! Give our Bookclub a better name!

How do we prepare for The End? 

This week, Marty and Hannah are your conductors on the hype train to talk about Endgame, House of X and Power of X (ten). 

House of X, Powers of X

Notes from the Marvel Panels at C2E2

X-men: Asgardian Wars 

• Part 1 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #1
• Part 2 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #2
• Part 3 – New Mutants Special Edition #1
• Part 4 – Uncanny X-Men Annual #9

Images from the series:

Check out Pepe Larraz's art!

Endgame

https://twitter.com/Ethan_Anderton/status/1110592345567883269

And Today on All Comics Considered we’ll talk about superheroes as a medium, and do a short Pullbox.  Let’s turn the page!

Superheroes as a Medium - What’s your favorite genre that’s also a superhero movie?

• Nick - Buddy comedy “Captain Marvel”
• Marty - Logan “Western-Horror”
• Tim - Coming of Age, “Into the Spider-Verse” and probably “Shazam”.

Pull Box

• Nick -Umbrella Academy
• Tim - MODOK: Marvel Adventures the Avengers
• Marty - Thor: God of Thunder
  • Jason Aaron 
  • Esad Ribic (et al), Russel Daughterman, 
  • Matt Wilson 
  • Dean White 

C2E2 Preview

• Surviving Cons in general
• General feelings about C2E2
• Panel recommendations/activities
• • Thursday: Adler After Dark
  • Friday
  • • 11 am: Sorting Fair Play Through the Universe (Doctor Who & Inclusion)
    • 12:30: Real life justice league
    • 1:30: This week in Marvel: Spider-man, The Hunted
    • TKO Live!
    • Podcaster Meetup
    • War of the realms: 230
    • Lion Forge
    • 4pm Super Heroes of DC
    • 5:30 Costume Design (hosted by Oliver)
  • Saturday
  • • 11: From Sulu to Rose Tico: Celebrating & Fighting for Asian-Americans in Geek Culture
    • 11:15 Comics Code at 65
    • Nerd Boss
    • 12:15 Batman turns 80
    • 12:45 Miss Spoken @ CAH
    • 1:30 Business of Comics/Budgeting
    • Eve Ewing Chats Ironheart
    • Afrofuturism
    • 2:30 Iron Circus Comics
    • Marvel: Next Big Thing
    • 14 years of supernatural
    • Marvel Fanfare with CB Cebulski
    • Ming na wen and Clark Gregg talk SHIELD
    • 5:30 Comic Colorists (hosted by Oliver)
  • Sunday
  • • Dark Fantasy Panel (zenescope)
    • True Believers Panel
    • Life stage: Wakanda Discussion
    • Cosplaying while Black
    • Women of Marvel
    • Representation in the Spider-verse and why it matters
    • George Perez and Marv Wolfman in conversation

PullBox

• Marty - Naomi and Bitter Root and LaGuardia
• Nick - Some thoughts on ethno-futurism - Spec-lit that imagines worlds that exist by different cultural values - what we think of as science-fiction is really just western-futurism - it celebrates and promotes western ideas, and often western(white) people
• Roots - Archetypes, Story Archetype modes
• Iconography - Representation, different symbol set
• Pallette - cultural expressions of color

Hey their ACC-tion heroes! Today, in addition to some house keeping about episodes and teasing future projects, I go give a Kirby Rating™ and a recommendation for Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetoo,Sunny Gho, and Clayton Cowles'DDrun which began in February of this year.

Kirby Rating: .85-.9

Recommendation: Buy it

Bonus: Marco's going to be at C2E2 WHAT?

Today on All Comics Considered we’ll do a Project Runway grading of superhero costumes. Let’s make it work! 

Project Runway: ACC Style (Costumes Hot or Not)

• Marty:
  • Kris Anka
  • Hot: McKelvie Captain Marvel
  • 
  • Not: every other captain marvel costume ever
  • 
  • https://www.instagram.com/p/BqavvD7hedK/
  • 
  • 37813
  • Hot:
    • God Doom
    • 
  • Unpopular opinion… red 3 piece suit with vest and whatnot. Actually, super inappropriate costume because no one wears suits like that on the West Coast. -- Tim
    • 
• Literally from a west coast tailor -- Marty
• Hannah
  • McKelvie Interview 
• Nick
  • Good - Beard Captain America, WW2 Captain America, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Man Noir, Kamala Khan
  • Dated - weird chainmail wings on the head Captain America
  • Bad - Namor gets a loincloth, Azrael Batman, Black Widow’s poor spine,
  • Power Girl, (redesign didn’t take)

c’mon guys...

• Adam Warlock
• 

Tim

• Bad - Spider-People: Scarlet Spider’s spandex cum torn sweatshirt. Iron Spider, and Armored Spider-Man.

• Good - Secret Wars Black Spidey suit, Miles’s, and Spider-Gwen’s sweet hoodie costume.
•  
• Good - Adam Warlock’s current incarnation, I’m a sucker for a thunderbolt motif.

Bad - Basically every She-Hulk costume, in all reality.  The purple and white number was the best, but even that was jjust a one-piece bathing suit.

Today on All Comics Considered, to kick of Black History Month, Marty and Tim discuss the state of the late great Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone/EarthM and the Shuri Series! Let’s turn the page!

Milestone and EarthM

• What was Milestone
  • Static Shock
  • Currently Milestone Media
• Variety Article
• ResetEra Timeline

It’s been over 3 years since the Milestone relaunch was first announced and at this point we don’t have any idea if it’s happening or not.

Timeline by Lojo

• January 2015: Reggie Hudlin, Denys Cowan, and Derek Dingle announce the return of Milestone under the name Milestone Media 2.0.
• July 2015: DC announces partnership with Milestone 2.0, relaunching the Dakotaverse under the name Earth M.
• 2015-2017: We hear nothing about the relaunch, but an occasional it’s still happening.
• May-June 2017: Michael Davis, an original co-founder of Milestone, writes two articles about how he was left out of the reboot and why he thinks Milestone 2.0 is going to fail.
• August2017: We learn the reason that the relaunch hasn’t happened is a lawsuit between the Dwayne Mcduffie estate and Milestone 2.0. The lawsuit claims Milestone 2.0 hadn’t included McDuffie’s shares in the new company and that his estate had been excluded from all plans for the relaunch.
• October 2017: DC and Milestone announce that Earth M will launch in Spring 2018.
• 2018: Earth M does not launch in Spring. We later hear that it was moved to October and again nothing happens with little information given. The last we heard Bendis wanted to use Static in Young Justice, but was denied permission from Milestone.

Shuri!

Writer: Nnendi Okorafor

TED Talk:  https://youtu.be/Mt0PiXLvYlU

Artist: Leonardo Romero

Colorist:Jordie Bellaire

Today on All Comics Considered, as we prep for Valentines day--we prep for valentines day?-- we’re going to delve into a comic book staple. We are speaking, of course, of the Fuckboi....

Let’s turn the page...

What is a fuckboi

• “man whore”/Player + misogynistic ass hole = Fuckboi.

• • Not just a man who has lots of sex

  • A particular combination of douchebaggery and player mindset

  • Example

  • • Tony Stark

  • Example: not a fuckboi

  • • Oliver Queen

    • Clark Kent

Fuckbois to Discuss

• Daredevil

• Gambit

• Human Torch

• Bruce Wayne

• Jason Todd

• Lex Luthor

• Cyclops

• • Does it count if you’re constantly cheating on your wife when your “true love” who she is a clone of comes back to life?

  • Also, Emma.

Characters we disagree on “fuckboi” status

• Thanos

• • Fedora Thanos

  • “Fuckboi” Thanos

• John Constantine

Today on All Comics Considered, in honor of Into the Spider-Verse, which was the perfect translation of a comic book to animation, we’ll be talking about some of our favorite other cartoons!  Let’s press play!

Animation We’re Into

• She-Ra
• Into the Spider-Verse
• Voltron

Classic Cartoons: Stuff you watched as a kid

• Tim:
  • SuperFriends
  • Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
• Hannah:
  • ReBoot,
  • 90s Spider-man & X-men
  • BatmanTAS
  •  Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
• Nick:
  • He-man
  • Pirates of Dark Water
• Bonus Marty
  • Superman: The Animated Adventures

Marty

• Games
  • Squeenix Avengers 
  • Ultimate Alliance on Switch 
• Comics
  • Ascender 

• Kamala and Miles written by Saladin Ahmed 

• Captain Marvel 
• Endgame

This week, after dealing with technical issues and audio quality issues, we have our episode on Stan Lee's Legacy. So join us as we talk about one of the founders of shared modern mythology.

• Stan, Steve, and Jack

• Stan as creator or Stan as Funky Flashman

Recent Character Discoveries

• Marty
  • Nightwing!
    • Tom King
    • Danny Miki
    • Tony S. Daniel
  • Gabby “Honey Badger”
  • Matthew, Sandman
• Nick
  • Cassandra Cain - sadly just a rubric right now
  • Jonathan Kent - a kid I don’t hate
  • The Gifted
• Tim
  • Toni Ho
  • Iron Patriot

Pull Box

• Marty
  • My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
  • Brubaker, Phillips, Phillips
• Nick
  • The 6th Gun
  • Cullen Bunn
• Tim
  • Shadowman #1 Valiant Comics -
  • Writer: Andy Diggle,
  • Art: Stephen Segovia

Good morning ACC-tion heroes. We recorded this episode before the passing of Stan Lee. While we will talk about the godfather of Marvel in an upcoming episode, today's show is all about the first three episodes of Daredevil Season 3, and then a dive into some of the books and shows we love this week, including: The Batwang, Juke Join, Sabrina, and the Haunting of Hill House.

Daredevil: The first 3 episodes

• Marty:
  • Y'all....
• Nick
  • Interesting new take on Bullseye - much creepier than in the comics
  • Elden Hensen knocking it out of the park as Foggy
  • The whole show should just be titled “You’re So Dumb, Matt!”
  • Seeing more of the newspaper guy makes me think he’s gonna get killed this season
  • Fisk’s white suit
  • Dear lord the entire Catholic contingent was ordered from a catalogue 
• Tim
  • It’s so good that I’m not even that mad that Luke Cage got cancelled.
  • The black costume
  • The Bullseye costume
  • OMG THE FIGHT SCENES

Pull Box

• Marty
  • Juke Joint
    • Writer: Tee Franklin
    • Artist / Cover:Alitha Martinez
  • Batman: Damned
    • Art:Lee Bermejo
    • Written:Brian Azzarello
• Nick
  • Erased
  • Haunting at Fucking Oh Shit I’ve Got to Close My Eyes
• Tim 
  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina- 
    • Roberto Aguirre-Sacco
    • Robert Hack
  • TV show.

Hey there ACC-tion Heroes! In this week's episode, Marty and Tim independently bring a handful of books to the table. Including:

Bordertown!

Cement Beach!

AND MORE

Today on the show,  we’re going to chat about Iron Fist season 2, Spider-man, the new Captain Marvel photos, and speculate on what’s next. Let’s turn the first page!

Iron Fist season 2 Trailer

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvvWB0GwCek

Spider-man:

• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utVr-n0MaU0
• Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsQJSAb7cI

Captain Marvel

• https://ew.com/movies/captain-marvel-first-look-images/

What’s next?  Game of Thrones, Comic Book movies, what’s the next aspect of nerdery that gets mined?

• Marty

• Nick

Join Marty, Nick, and Tim as we talk about comics that hold a different meaning for us, years after we originally read them. Then stick around for the pullbox, where we talk about The Life of Captain Marvel, Farmhand, Superman and Spider-man!

What comic speaks to you differently now than when you first read it?  What did it say then?  What does it say now?

• Marty - Born Again & Dark Knight Returns 
• Nick - Sandman 
• Tim - Love and Rockets: Luba 

Pullbox

• Marty 
  • The Life of Captain Marvel
    • Margaret Stohl 
      • Carlos Pacheco
      • Marguerite Sauvage
      • Marcio Menyz
      • Rafael Fonteriz
  • Farmhand
    • Rob Guillory
    • Taylor Wells
• Nick 
  • Superman Reborn
    • Dan Jurgens
    • Patrick Gleason
    • Peter Tomasi
• Tim
  • Amazing Spider-Man #795 
    • Dan Slott 
    • Mike Hawthorne

ACC-tion heroes, this week we have an interview with Sean Lewis, a playwright, actor, essayist, and comic book writer. Sean's breadth of experiences AND body of work could have led to a three part series. For now, though, we focus on Coytoes, the book he wrote with Caitlin Yarksy (who has an amazing instagram feed.)

If you wanna check out any of the books or plays mentioned in the show, check out our show notes!

1.  Radio
   1. This American Life
2. Plays
   1. Dogs of Rwanda
   2. Just Kids
   3. Red Hills
   4. The Magic Agency
3. Comics
   
   1. Coyotes
      1. With Caitlin Yarsky
   2. Saints
   3. Few
   4. Bethroted
   5. Clankillers
4. TV
   1. Saints
5. What is Restorative Justice
   1. Dr Obari Cartman

Hello there ACC-tion heroes! This week we dive, head first, into Avengers: Infinity War. Just a warning: This episode is chock-full o'spoilers. In part one of our discussion, we cover:

• Overall first impressions
• Favorite scenes
• Favorite lines
• Favorite storylines

We are also announcing the launch of our Patreon! Listeners, we have plans for our little show, and making these plans come true will require more resources. So if you have ever thought, "I'd like to buy my podcast friends a coffee/tea/beer" now you can! Any little bit helps, and every little bit means the world to us.

Feature 1 - What book would you recommend for a college class?

• Nick - Astro City
• Tim - Maus (especially given that on the internet they say that the holocaust is ‘fading from memory’).
  • Example #1
  • Example #2
• Hannah - Pedro and Me / My Friend Dahmer

Feature 2 - Comic book coding

• What is comic book coding?

• What are some good examples?

• What are some bad examples?
• Is it an effective technique?

Feature 3 - Pullbox!

• Hannah -
• Tim - Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (2009),
  • Writer: Kieron Gillen
  • Penciller: Kano
• Nick -

I’m Marty and I am swimming in comic books.

I’m Hannah and won’t someone please ask me about Pop Team Epic?

I’m Nick and I am stupid into curling right now

I’m Tim and all about the Garlic Girls, the best curling team in the world.

Feature 1 - Pullbox

• Marty - Black Comix Returns!
• • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neurobellum/black-comix-returns-african-american-comic-art-and
• Nick - PJ Masks and vigilante culture (SuperWhy, LabRats)
• Tim - Poe Dameron because Charles Soule and Phil Noto
• • http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Shattered_Empire
  • http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/From_a_Certain_Point_of_View
• Hannah  - Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War Prelude (2018) #1 (of 2)
• • Carmine Infantino

Feature 2 - ANOTHER Jessica Jones trailer + Legion teaser

• Jessica Jones
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4Fo6dJ3o8
• Legion
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s1M-rkDO8Q

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