Aug 3
House to Astonish Presents: The Lighting Round Episode 15
Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2023 by Al in Podcast
The mystery of Scourge deepens while Atlas gets drunk, and we look at Thunderbolts issues 40-42 (with a brief detour into Avengers 32 for good measure) and the T-Bolts begin the twisty, turny climb towards issue 50. It’s all go around here!
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I agree about Battlestar. Definitely one of those minor characters I have an irrational attachment to but there’s potential for a lot more.
What’s worse … Paul’s dislike of the Fantastic Four or Al’s dislike of the Flintstones?
Such a waste to use that version of the Wild Pack and not include Paladin, who never gets enough love
Paladin was the Wasp’s Booty call in the 80’s he gets plenty of love around the ladies of the 616
I was not expecting to be reminded of the genius of Adam Buxton’s jingles when listening to this, but I am here for it.
Battlestar did appear in the Captain America and the Winter Soldier tv show, where he was promptly killed off to push John Walker into a murderous rage.
“What’s worse … Paul’s dislike of the Fantastic Four or Al’s dislike of the Flintstones?”
Both are completely justified.
Zachary Q Adams: Such a waste to use that version of the Wild Pack and not include Paladin, who never gets enough love.
Instead, more recent writers have largely written Paladin as an utterly mercenary type to the point that he’s a borderline villain, albeit one with an unwillingness to kill innocent people.
It seems like the fate of most Thunderbolts characters in recent years has been to end up written as petty villain “faces in the crowd” or as Z-list, rarely seen heroes.
It’s always fun when you digress onto weird nineties comics ads. Ploids sound strangely similar to the old-fashioned, uncool idea that, back in the eighties, we used to call “tokens”.
I kind of want to see this website that maintained “late nineties cool” long after the nineties, but I’ll be disappointed if it isn’t written entirely in Comic Sans with seizure-inducing flashing headers. And embedded MIDI.
Two things you can always count on with a Fabian Nicieza story: there will be countries outside of the USA, and someone will be naked.
That’s a shame. I liked Paladin in the 80s comics.
I think its funny that everyone is referred to be their Thunderbolt name except Moonstone. It took me a couple mi utes to even remember her other name. 😉
As I recall, everybody else pretty much identifies with their hero personas now, while Karla really did drop the Meteorite thing at the first opportunity and go back to Moonstone.
Fixer dropped the Techno codename, but that’s complicated by the need to distinguish himself from the robot with his memories.
As to Moonstone, it probably doesn’t help that her powers come from a moonstone, and her subplots revolved around with copious use of the word.
“Two things you can always count on with a Fabian Nicieza story: there will be countries outside of the USA”
This is a good thing. Nonstop US-centric stories in a _UNIVERSE_ full of superheroes both stretches disbelief and is just pretty boring.
Absolutely, I didn’t mean it in a derogatory way.
Mankiller’s use of the name “Wilma” wasn’t a Flintstones reference: it was a shoutout to a real-world person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller