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Regular episodes celebrating all things comic book and comic related. A number of different shows drop each week including TV & Movie reviews and news, Indie Comics Spotlight, Mandatory Marvel & DC, Star Wars: Comics In Canon, Superheroes for Dummies, Femme On Film, Classic Comics, Seasons Greetings, Whats the Topic and occasional weekly episode-by-episode shows (including Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian Season 2, with more to come)!

  1. Aug 13

    Classic Comics with Matthew B. Lloyd Alan Scott: The Green Lantern and the Art of the Retcon

    DC’s current Alan Scott: The Green Lanternmini-series seeks recontextualize the history of the first Green Lantern.  How well does it work as a retcon?  Does it fit the character?  Will it necessarily erase more than it gainsfor the sake of diversity and inclusion? It’s a delicate subject and I hope to present a balanced perspective onthis topic.     You can follow the show@ComicsLloyd on Twitter or send an email to ClassicComicsMBL@gmail.com.   You can find me on Twitter @MattB_Lloyd andat www.dccomicsnews.com where Iwrite reviews and edit news stories.   You can also check out mychapter in “Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought.” https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Gotham-Universe-Political-Thought/dp/3030057755 “Black Panther andPhilosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World?” https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Philosophy-Blackwell-Culture/dp/1119635845/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F69N3WJBZMF3&keywords=what+can+wakanda&qid=1642053514&sprefix=what+can+wakanda%2Caps%2C256&sr=8-1   “Batman’s Villains andVillainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives On Arkham’s Souls” https://www.amazon.com/Batmans-Villains-Villainesses-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B0C5SHX9BJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D49SBV4K1UQD&keywords=villains+and+villainess+arkham&qid=1695406720&sprefix=villains+and+villainesses+arkaham%2Caps%2C284&sr=8-1   Episode 39 Notes   The Golden Age Harlequin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_(DC_Comics)   Jade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_(DC_Comics)   Obsidian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_(character)   Irene Miller https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Irene_Miller_(New_Earth)   Dr. Mid-Nite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Mid-Nite   Myra Mason https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Myra_Mason_(New_Earth)

    Classic Comics with Matthew B. Lloyd Alan Scott: The Green Lantern and the Art of the Retcon
  2. Aug 12

    Mandatory Music and CD: Paranoid by Black Sabbath

    Paranoid Review by Steve Huey Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath make it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary, the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness, the lack of subtlety, and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in their path, including their own limitations. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history.

    Mandatory Music and CD: Paranoid by Black Sabbath
  3. Aug 10

    Indie Comics Spotlight: Fables (copyright infringement free re-release)

    Comics in Motion is now a Humble Bundle Partner. This week it takes two guests to grapple with this spoiler free dive into Vertigo Comics Fables. Ms. Kelly Gaines. Please check her out at DC Comics News as a writer and Podcaster. This week, Tony is once again joined by Matthew B. Lloydof DC Comics News. Matt an editor and writer at DCN and has contributed to the book Politics in Gotham. Bill Willingham  (Writer), Lan Medina (Artist), Steve Leialoha (Artist), Terry Moore (Illustrator), Mike Allred (Illustrator), Mark Buckingham, Matthew Sturges Russ Braun (Illustrator), When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf (Bigby Wolf), to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber. If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can read his reviews of multiple Independent and DC comics at DC Comics Newsor at Fantastic Universes. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

    Indie Comics Spotlight: Fables (copyright infringement free re-release)
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Regular episodes celebrating all things comic book and comic related. A number of different shows drop each week including TV & Movie reviews and news, Indie Comics Spotlight, Mandatory Marvel & DC, Star Wars: Comics In Canon, Superheroes for Dummies, Femme On Film, Classic Comics, Seasons Greetings, Whats the Topic and occasional weekly episode-by-episode shows (including Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian Season 2, with more to come)!

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