There is, I think, a New Teen Titans issue where the framing device is a narrator asking “What do you do after the day after you’ve saved the world?” or something similar over and over…
I’ve written before, I’m sure, about the cognitive dissonance in listening to the Beatles for the first time at any point after, say 1990-something; it’s not just that the work is “old” — although, let’s…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp16.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: With #125, Fantastic Four permanently lost both of its creators. Yes, almost two years after Jack Kirby jumped ship, Stan Lee also moved on after proving that he really couldn’t…
Continuing a re-read of Captain Britain comics, pre-Excalibur, which started back here. If the first run of Captain Britain demonstrated ably that the Mighty Marvel Age of Comics couldn’t really come to grips with the…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp15point5.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: Not so fast, dear Whatnauts — due to technical problems, what would be Baxter Building Ep. 16 is delayed until some mysterious, undefined point in the next week or so,…
Fun Fact #1: The original Captain Britain comic book series lasted 39 weekly issues. Fun Fact #2: 11 of those issues are taken up with a storyline so long and boring that, at one point,…
You may or may not remember, back in July last year, DC announcing 8 new miniseries intended to “freshen up and contemporarize” a number of fan-favorite characters with that tried-and-true method: bringing back old-school writers,…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp15.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: Just when all seemed lost, Archie Goodwin saved the day by stepping in as guest-writer on the series in mid-storyline and demonstrated that there was life in the Fantastic Four…
I’m not sure quite why I’ve been thinking so much about the comic book/TV theory lately. It’s got something to do with both the DC Rebirth announcement and Eric Stephenson’s keynote from ComicsPro, I know…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp14.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: The Thing has gone bad (again)! And he’s not the only one — unlike Benjamin J. Grimm, who has the excuse of the seeming shock of being given the ability…
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