If I were forced to choose a favorite out of all the extremely likable Comic Geek Speak hosts, Peter might be the one I'd choose, mainly because he's seems the most grounded. But taken out of the CGS milieu and placed on his own without the other Geeks to react against, his groundedness comes across as clinical, boring even. I've only listened to three podcasts so far, but in his analysis of issue 1 of NTT, Peter managed to do something that I didn't think possible: He took the fun out the issue. His analysis was informative and interesting, but the sense of discovery -- the sense of wonder that comes with getting a new issue of a comic that you know immediately is something special -- was missing. I think this is because I am a listener who remembers buying those first issues of NTT in the 80s and being hooked immediately, whereas he discovered them later. In his analyses, I don't feel the "sensawonda" that I had in reading NTT back in its early days. I was a DC fan, but there were no comics I bought regularly. NTT was the first. It was truly something unlike anything else DC was publishing at the time. It was fun, thrilling, stylish, and cool -- things that I guess readers take for granted as expected in our comics now. And it's probably hard to communicate something you didn't experience for yourself.
Still, CGSP: TT is a very well done podcast. I'm looking forward to listening to the other episodes. Peter's love of the Titans -- and Dick Grayson (a favorite character of mine, too) -- is evident, and his ability to add context and background always makes the podcast worthwhile listening. But don't forget the fun of it all.
