House To Astonish Episode 46
Paul’s back from his holidays and the podcast is back too, with discussion of Alan Moore’s Bleeding Cool interview, Kieron Gillen’s Marvel exclusive, Black Panther’s new status quo, the Spider-Man musical’s costumes and the Sandman TV show, as well as reviews of Billy The Kid’s Old Timey Oddities and the Ghastly Fiend of London, X-23 and CLiNT, and we unlock the secrets of the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. All this plus a male voice choir, a walking tin-opener, the world’s most violent atheist and the plot of The Aristocats.
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This should be the jingle for The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO9q4H49cGA
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The drill sounds made me think that Julie Taymor had sent Swiss Miss (FUUUUUUUUuuu—) to get ye!
I’m determined to do my Wolverine Family sitcom LOGAN’S RUNTS someday. I just hope I get there before Neil Flynn is too old to play Uncle Vic.
(“He’s the best there is at what he do, and what he do is Dad. He’s Big Jim Logan, and this is his story…”)
Al, if you hated that issue of The Sandman, you’re going to loathe Gaiman’s upcoming appearance on ARTHUR. Which I know everybody watches, obv.
(modesty prevents me from mentioning that the current Bostin Heroes story is all cats, all cataclysm, all the time)
The thing about Sandman that makes me think that they’ll have a hard time televising it is the thought that, aside from it appearing dated, in what it covers and how it covers it, and aside from the size and complexity of the cast (they’d need to cut it right back and have somebody, maybe Rose Walker?, be in every episode, for audience continuity’s sake, if nothing else), it’s just a big bloody suicide note.
I mean, isn’t it? Who’s going to watch a sixty five-episode suicide note, no matter how many cats and weepy-eyed girls are in it?
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And re; The Black Panther, you know, I was all ready to hoof the comic oot the windae. The Shadowlands thing has been the breaking point for me with that whole milieu, and I didn’t really feel like paying for what sounded like a totally unoriginal take on The Black Panther – oh, he’s coming to America, is he? Is he going to live somewhere rough, with lots of crime, and somehow regain his skill and composure before returning to Wakanda a new, refocused man? Will he have to rely on his wits this time, and not his Kimoyo Cards, Vibro-Knives and Paddington Bear? Will it be set in New York?
(I mean, if he wanted a real challenge, he’d go to Sao Paolo, right? Or Johannesburg.)
But, you know, I saw that art. And it’s really nice. So maybe I’ll give it a go.
Have you seen the new Heroes For Hire teasers, by the way? They are off the chain. I mean, Elektra and Misty Knight have gone up three cup sizes, and developed a severe case of Raised Seamitis, but if you can get past the gratuitousness, it looks great.
(I mean, for God’s sake. Elektra with raised seams runnnig down her breasts. That isn’t a leather corset, man! It’s wraps! No underwire!)
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RE: X-23
Yost and Kyle wrote both miniseries. Liu wrote the recent X-23 one shot
I thought that said “the plot of the aristocrats.”
Ooh! And don’t forget: The Native’s Wolverinebryos are still out there, somewhere, waiting to be implanted in, I don’t know, Psylocke or something.
(there’s a rather horrific five-week event in there, I’m sure)
(oh God I can’t stop seeing it in my head stop it Logan, stop trying to decide whether to destroy the embryos or whether to hold onto the last piece of The Native in the world stop it stop it stop)
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I thought it said Aristocrats too. lol.
Skeleton Ki turned up in Guardians of the Galaxy recently, didn’t he? I think he was one of the minor league villains left dumped in 42 when Blastaar overran it.
Actually, did that ever get followed up on? Quite a lot of humans were essentially drafted into Blastaar’s cosmic army there, it seems a bit odd that no Earth heroes/authority bothered to possibly rescue/recapture them.
Didn’t Skeleton Ki show up in a Guardians of the Galaxy arc featuring the Negative Zone prison Mr Fantastic built?
Loved the review of Clint–it sounded more entertaining than the actual magazine.
Yeah, he had a walk-on part in that (we actually recorded a brief bit about how he must be the worst super-lock-picker ever if he got stuck in a jail, though it didn’t make it through the edit) but he’s still sufficiently low-rent to make the OHOTOHOTMU.
“Oh-Hot-Oh-Hot-Mu” sounds like a Doctor Strange villain.
“By The Ten-Thumbed Tomes of Ohotohotmu!”
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Strangely enough, the reason I know of H.H. Holmes is…Eric Kripke’s Supernatural.
I wondered about a Facebook page, but assumed there wasn’t one because you preferred to keep discussions consolidated here. I take it FB is intended as more of a free-for-all, then, for posting about any and all comics-related topics?
This would never happen, but I’d kind of like to see Marvel kill off Logan and make X-23 the new Wolverine.
And that surprises me because I generally don’t like clones or female versions of existing male superheroes, and she’s both.
But I don’t see anywhere else for Laura to go. The whole “Do I have a personality or not?” mystique she has right now can’t go on indefinitely.
I’m glad you didn’t understand Frankie Boyle’s comic. I thought I was just being dense in not understanding what the heck was going on. What a shambles CLiNT is.
what sounded like a totally unoriginal take on The Black Panther – oh, he’s coming to America, is he?
If they did a pastiche of Coming to America with the Black Panther in the Prince Wakeem role, that would be amazing.
Who is Marvel trying to convince that “the man without fear” is some kind of title worthy of legacy? What does it even mean?
The Spider-Man musical sounds like a real-life version of The Producers.
“Springtime for Goblins and Swiss Misses, Winter for Peter & MJ…”
I’d never heard of HH Holmes, but my first thought given the setting (before Al explained his backstory), was that he was some unknown brother of Sherlock. That’d be a neat twist; I wonder if they’ll tie it in somehow.
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It’s funny that you talk about Supernatural and then HH Holmes, because everything I know about Holmes I learned from the episode of Supernatural they did set in Holmes’ house. I have been meaning to read The Devil In The White City, which I’ve heard good things about.
Is Panther going to be Luke Charles, public school teacher again? Or is he going to be King T’Challa of Wakanda, who happens to be hanging around Hell’s Kitchen? Or will he just be Black Panther, The Man Without Fear all the time?
Not only did I read Aristocats as Aristocrats, there was also a weird moment when I thought Marvel had an exclusive contract with Karen Gillan.
Your point about Skeleton Ki being like Uri Geller reminded me of the old Fry and Laurie sketch with Hugh as Geller, being interviewed by Stephen, and he bends a spoon by holding it in both hands and pulling.
“I can bend spoons with my hands.”
“I have never claimed that these powers are unique. Always I say that anyone can do what I can do. And my book is quite inexpensive, by the way.”
The writer says T’Challa will be building a new secret ID, but didn’t say if he’d reuse his old Thomas-era Avengers one.
There’s probably a position going at Peter Parker’s old school, now that he was never a teacher. Or something.
The Devil in the White City is very good – listened to it on a road trip and found it pretty fascinating. Holmes was clearly a sociopath, but bizarrely controlled (which I suppose many sociopaths are).
Episode 25, forty minutes in – Al Kennedy invents BATMAN INC.
That is all.
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