Indie Comics
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SCP Book Club #8 – Invincible: Family Matters
Nic Baldwin joins me to talk about the comic that inspired Amazon's Invincible animated series. We discuss the first volume, Family Matters, and Nic provides some more context for the way the series chose to adapt the comic.
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Episode #122 – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Kae Wilson from the Call Us Casters podcast sits down with Perry to discuss Hellboy II: The Golden Army. An original story written by Gulliermo del Toro, it's a movie that unfortunately didn't do as well as the first Hellboy film and ultimately resulted in an incomplete trilogy. We revisit Ron Perlman's excellent performance, Doug Jones stepping up to take on the voice of Abe Sapien, and how this movie proves del Toro needs to make a steampunk film.
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SCP Book Club #6 – The Bounce
In the latest Book Club episode, Kae Wilson of the Call Us Casters podcast joins to discuss The Bounce, a limited indie superhero comic by Joe Casey and David Messina.
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Episode #104 – Bloodshot
Bloodshot was supposed to be the start of a shared Valiant universe, but it ended up being mostly overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Comic book investor Andrew Davis and host of the Pop Anime Podcast joins to discuss what was supposed to be Valiant's answer to Iron Man, but instead just turned into a pretty generic and forgettable Vin Diesel action flick.
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Episode #85 – The Phantom
Before the superhero cinema boom, there was a smaller trend in the 90s of translating pulp characters into film and TV. This week, Perry is joined by pulp author John Bruening to discuss The Phantom, a kind of bridge character between the pulps and superheroes. The movie's not as bad as you may have heard, but it's not without its flaws.
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Episode #80 – Mystery Men
What if there was a superhero parody before superhero movies were big enough to be parodied? Well, that's exactly what happened in 1999 with Mystery Men. Despite having pretty big comedic names like Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, and Hank Azaria attached, it's a movie that's probably not remembered by most. Michael Hale of the KMP Podcast is the guest this week to discuss this forgotten but interesting episode in superhero cinema.
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Episode #69 – Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Voice actor David Ellis joins us this episode to talk about the animated Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! We discuss the history of the Turtles, the comic this movie was based on, and how these two seemingly disparate worlds unite in a fun way.
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Episode #45 – Kick-Ass
In this episode, we discuss the very funny, very entertaining, very over-the-top Kick-Ass! They talk about their thoughts on Mark Millar adaptations in general, rave about the performances (especially Nicolas Cage and Mark Strong), and discuss how this movie takes you from the mundane to the insane without you even realizing it.
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Episode #39 – The Spirit
Frank Miller's take on The Spirit opens with Gabriel Macht and Samuel L. Jackson fighting in a pool of literal crap...and that's really the perfect metaphor for this movie. It's the first film the guys review that they hate, and Perry swears to one day make Derrick pay for forcing him to watch it.
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Episode #36 – Witchblade
Perry and Derrick discuss just some of the news coming out of the DC Fandome, and that takes up a good chunk of the episode. But eventually, they get around to discussing Witchblade, the made-for-TV movie that led to the successful (yet short-lived) TNT TV series. There's praise for Yancy Butler and how she went beyond the T&A aspects that made the comics so popular, but also find some critiques.
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