Literally one of the first people I saw – someone dressed as Dazzler, so I took this with her to send to my wife.
Matt, Chuck, Myself
It was with those two I was at WonderCon this year.
Joie Brown was there, so I snapped a photo with her.
Marc Silvestri is probably one of my favorite modern artists. He just draws characters very dramatically – probably the person whom I have the most autographs of.
The Doctor Strange movie came out and it was simply remarkable. But don’t take my word for it. If you have about 48 minutes to kill, listen to us discuss the Doctor Strange movie, and then continue going down the “List of their X’s.”
We discuss the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 teaser, as well as the Logan trailer, and get into a discussion about Netflix’s next big superhero hit, Luke Cage – and – and (just when you thought that was all we could talk about, right? Wait! There’s more! If you continue to listen you will also get – Tawmis and Maico discussing the “original” X-Men as they begin a multi-part series, where they rate and discuss the laundry list of mutants who have managed to join the team “X-Men” throughout the extensive, long, years! Trust me, there’s more mutants in that team than you can shake a stick at! (Chances are that stick you’re waving around is potentially a mutant, too!)
We brought on our good friend, and special guest, Colleen Rodriguez to weigh in her thoughts and opinions. Oddly enough, it seems in so many regards, the three of us didn’t agree on a lot of aspects; where one or two of us might have liked something, the other didn’t; or where two of us thought the movie was okay, the other that it was pretty good (save for a few things). Despite frequently disagreeing with one another throughout the podcast, we managed to stay pretty civil (see folks, you can disagree and still be civil!)
We talk about the (re?!)introduction of some core X-Men characters… We talk about the demise of X-Men characters… we talk about character development of X-Men characters… and the utter lack of character development for some – well, one – X-Men character… We question things like, “Why didn’t Nightcrawler just teleport out of the cage match?” and “How did those guys lift Blob’s body and carry him out?” and so much more! So I will stop rambling and give you the link now that you’re chomping at the bit to hear our thoughts! (You… are chomping at the bit right? Not literally, but figuratively!)
probably my favorite Free Comic Book Day Podcast that we have done to date! The previous years, we had the opportunity to interview fellow artists, writers, etc., that had been in the comic book community in one way or another… But this year, we offered up free Funko pins for anyone who sat down with us and got on our podcast. As a result, we got quite a few kids to come on the podcast to talk about their favorite comics, characters, movies! And to me, that was just such an amazing experience. I was a pretty timid kid (back in the days when I had to run from dinosaurs, because I am so old! Not that you’d know it by how I act…) And to be able to be a part of something, where we could have these kids who are clearly passionate about comics (that’s why they’re at Free Comic Book Day!) and come onto our podcast and talk about their favorites – was a very magical moment for me. Very special kudos to the interview master, and my co-host on the show, Maico Moreno, for knocking out these interviews and doing such an incredible job! It was five hours of unedited audio that I had to cut my way through, and clear up dead space, fix audio issues (where some folks were not sitting close to the mic) – but in the end, it was well worth it – and I think we came out with a very magical issue of our podcast as a result of all these wonderful people!
Because we had quite a few interviews, while we were also discussing Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War I broke down the interview start times, in case you want to zip to the part where you (or your kid!) was doing an interview on the podcast. All times listed below are the start times by Hour: Minute: Second. So for example, 00:15:13 would be 15 minutes and 13 seconds into the podcast, and 01:45:10 would be one hour, forty five minutes and ten seconds into the podcast. There’s a known issue with streaming it from the site (below) where the times often don’t line up. So the times are better off if you either download the episode or listen to it on iTunes (it should be correct).
Anyway! Enough of all that! How about I run down the interview times like I promised?
Interviews:
00:07:10 – Ryan 00:18:45 – Conrad 00:21:36 – Liz 00:26:10 – Isias 00:27:40 – Alicia 00:31:23 – Lance 00:34:37 – Mario of Reality Break 00:45:20 – Dean Lecrone / Dr Peepers 00:50:10 – Ryan Of Toy Star Collectable 00:56:25 – Lena 00:59:10 – Lilly 00:59:58 – Adrian 01:01:20 – Christina 01:02:42 – Jospeh 01:08:43 – Kyle 01:10:20 – Halliard (I am probably slaughtering the spelling…) 01:13:18 – Adara (Hope I got that right…) 01:15:20 – Adelina 01:17:10 – Keira 01:18:19 – Nick
Maico and I discussing – and debating – Daredevil Season 2 – well, debating a specific thing about Daredevil Season 2. If you’ve watched Daredevil, Season 2, see whose side your own when it comes to the impasse about the one thing that we could not see eye to eye (no pun intended with the blind thing, for Daredevil).
Also in this episode, we talked to Arvin Bautista of Greasy Pig Studio. If you have not yet checked out the website for Greasy Pig Studios I would highly recommend checking it out, along with their Youtube Channel so that you can check out the awesome Dazzler video, which led to the Lila Cheney video (which is loosely based off of New Mutants Annual #1). The video takes the New Mutants (beginning with them leaving Stevie Hunter’s class)! Arvin is clearly very passionate about the subject – and knows his stuff. He digs the obscure characters, and knows how to make them shine. So check out his videos – after you listen to the podcast! Then tell him how awesome his videos are and that we sent you towards him!
… the DC movie, and while trying to be silly and find creative ways to call each episode something that relates, I called it Yawn of Justice, both Maico and I actually enjoyed the movie.
Despite the silly title of Yawn of Justice, both Maico and I agree, that the movie scored a pretty solid 7 out of 10, on the scale of movies. We both had quite a few issues with some things they did in the movie, but we felt like that was much more the writing and the directing, rather than the actors. We both felt like the actors knocked it out of the park, given what they were handed.
We discuss Deadpool… and I knew it had Ryan Reynolds in it (does the guy make bad movies?) – so I wasn’t surprised it was a good movie.
I was just surprised how great the movie was. Ryan Reynolds doesn’t need to act to be Deadpool – he’s an actor well known for his sarcasm in movies and how freaking well he does it. So he fit so perfectly as Deadpool.
Deadpod: Maico With The Mouth, Issue #17.Issue #17 of the Comic Relief Podcast is finally out! In this issue, we focus primarily on Deadpool. You may have heard of him? He had this beautiful, Valentine’s Day themed movie that just came out? Biggest opening for an “R” rated movie – ever? About a man’s struggle against Cancer? It’s a beautiful love story! Well, he also happens to be a smart @$$, potty mouthed, unkillable, mercenary – known as Deadpool – the Merc With The Mouth! The first half of the podcast, we recorded just before the movie came out – and we focus solely on the comic books that have featured Deadpool – the second half of the podcast, Maico discusses his thoughts about the Deadpool movie (Spoiler Alert: It’s nothing but endless raving reviews of goodness – so if you haven’t seen the movie yet – you might consider doing that now!)
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