The GAR! Podcast 121: Cartoons, Comics, and Controversy

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / technical difficulties / Marvel anime / the Punisher / special effects / feeling good about the Punisher / Glenn doesn’t like the Punisher / Ray loves the Punisher / Punisher The End / Colonel of Two Worlds / KFC and The Walking Dead / Ray sings / Earth-Three / Secret Wars and Sue / comic news / bad behavior in comics / turning folks off to comics / Julius Schwartz / sexual harassment in comics / The Avatar Returns / baseball and Back to the Future / closing / Frank Miller still hates superheroes /

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Links:

Colonel of Two Worlds

Ben Grimm’s Twitter

Dark Horse Incident

Gobbledygeek

The Avatar Returns

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

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GAR! Podcast Episode 114: Finally, Fantastic Four! (And Denny’s!)

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

apology and intro / Deptford 8 / Fantastic Four 2015 / corporate war / Josh Trank / what FF should be / the best FF comic run / Invisible Woman / The Thing / Human Torch / Reed Richards / Doctor Doom and origins / Namor / box office / romantic rivals / cinematic rights / Ben Grimm / what Ray wants / Johnny and Sue / favorite FF comics / the end of the FF comic / Audacious Eleven / aftermath / Ray’s initial thoughts on a bad movie / the good first half / clobbering time / spoiler warning / superhero movies and heroics / exclusive Sue / the acting / the blame / editing / flaws / Denny’s / The Thing Burger / Make Mine Magic / end of the film franchise / The Terminator / FF in the comics / Deadpool / trust / Wolverine and the X-Men / Kitty Pryde / the special effects / acting with effects / things about the movie Thing / origin without training / locales / cartoon with no plot / Doom’s lack of motivation / scars / anti-source material / the soul of Chronicle / oral history / Denny’s just desserts / thumbs up to Denny’s / young Ray’s thoughts / rating the movie / how bad is it? / closing / All Things Fun! Doctor Who Day / send Ray your toys /

Links:

The Fantastic Four Trailer

Ray Watches the Trailer Live

Andy Burns’ review at Biff Bam Pop!

Skott Stotland’s review at The Nerd Signal

Johnny and Sue, and Grant Morrison

The Deadpool Trailer at Biff Bam Pop!

Denny’s Blackwood-Clementon Road

Screen Crush ate everything on the Denny’s Fantastic Four Menu

All Things Fun!

Doctor Who Day at All Things Fun! August 15, 2015

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

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GAR! Podcast Episode 113: Ronda Rousey and Rowdy Roddy Piper

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / Rowdy Roddy Piper / Ray rips Glenn’s RIP / Ronda Rousey / wrestling anger management / the Entourage movie / UFC / Hollywood Ronda Rousey / movie super-heroines / point vs. punch powers / Hawkman casting / Best / the calculator of the future / geek cred / HeroClix / Godzilla for PS3 / Pain / Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell / one season wonders / that forgettable actress / Dewey / dog query / closing /

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Links:

Welcome to Hell

RIP Roddy Piper

Glenn’s review of Entourage

Glenn on Morning Coffee

Kristin Battestella

Hawkman casting

HeroClix

Glenn on Pain

Glenn on the end of Pain

GAR on SDCC

Sarah Hawkins-Miduski

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The Adventures of Ray

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

Contact us directly here.

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GAR! Podcast Episode 75: The Fantastic Four Conspiracy Theory

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / nerd certification / 75th issues / cruisin’ and workin’ / special guest CL Quillen / Fantastic Four cancellation / James Robinson / Jose Ladronn / snookered / film licensing / the new FF film / rumors / Avengers Disassembled / Crisis of Heroes Reborn / spoiler warning / She-Thing / Malice / Reed gets a job / fall and rise / CM Punk / this is real / sales effect / relaunch / getting the characters right / Doctor Who / research / continuity errors / Bentley 23 / Future Foundation / Matt Fraction / closing / James Robinson’s Twitter /

Links:

“Read On … Romance” by C.L. Quillen and Ilene N. Lefkowitz

Booklist

our first FF cancellation discussion

Jose Ladronn

James Robinson’s Twitter

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest

The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook

The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook

 

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GAR! Podcast Episode 52: Comics and Sexism

Ah, Silver Age sexism.
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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / Camden Comic Con / Jamie Foxx on Sirius XM / kids with cards / Comics Interview and Amazing Heroes / press conferences / CO2 Comics / the elusive Bob McLeod / DIS Meet / spring cleaning comics / Alan Moore / returning vidcasts / no Avengers spoilers / Wanna Cook? / Crossed / Tampa / The Vril Agenda / ComiXology and Amazon / and Diamond / New 52 Teen Titans / Janelle Asselin / women who read comics / Glenn’s sister’s influence and her comics / sexy vs. sexism / Starfire / Power Girl / turnabout is Tempest / Phil Jimenez / Angela and crossovers / closing /

Links:

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Buffy to Batgirl

Free Comic Book Day

Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer

The Foxxhole

Ventriloquist Ernie

Khari Productions

CO2 Comics

Comics Interview

Amazing Heroes

Steve Lafler

The World of Ginger Fox

Bob McLeod

Locust Moon Comics

Rob Kelly

The NJ DIS Meet Weekend

DIS Unplugged

DIS at French Fry Diary

Give Kids The World

All Things Fun!

The All Things Fun! Vidcast 2.0

The Biff Bam Popcast

Glenn’s Wanna Cook? review at Biff Bam Pop!

Wanna Cook?

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

The Vril Agenda by Derrick Ferguson and Josh Reynolds

Forbes on ComiXology

Bleeding Cool on ComiXology

Janelle Asselin on the cover of Teen Titans #1

Rape threats over cover at The Daily Beast

Asselin on the rape threats at XOJane

Comic Book Resources

Women in Refrigerators

Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez’ cover for Tempest #2

Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

 

GAR! Podcast Episode 44: Hell’s Cutthroat Kitchen of Comics

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro and premise / next week’s guest / South Park videogame / Ray’s iPads / Woot! / Hell’s Cutthroat Kitchen / Haunt / 300, no, not that one / Fantastic Four #1 / Alicia Masters and bad FF / The Thing / FF fashion / This Is 40 / Mr. Peabody and Sherman / inorganic Spider-Man / Mike Weiringo / Forever and ever Evil / the Nightwing thing / Legion Five Years Later / new reader friendly / Fantastic Four #200 / Marvel Unlimited / the bad comic shops / comics prices / Camden Comic Con / plugs / Rustler Steakhouse / happy ending /

Links:

The All Things Fun! Podcast

The All Things Fun! New Comics Vidcast

All Things Fun!

Woot!

Glenn talks Haunt on the All Things Fun! Podcast

Glenn’s Fantastic Four #1 review

Marvel Unlimited

Camden Comic Con on Facebook

Camden Comic Con on Tumblr

Camden Comic Con on Twitter

Glenn’s review of Stan Lee’s Mighty 7

Biff Bam Pop!

The GAR! Podcast at Biff Bam Pop!

French Fry Diary

Rustler Steakhouse at French Fry Diary

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

Mr. Peabody & Sherman trailer

 

GAR! Podcast Episode 40: OK, It’s All Comics and Wrestling

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

stolen intro / WWE Network / history of wrestling / Bruno Sammartino / Lucha Libre / The Golden Girls / Mae Young / women’s wrestling / marketing wrestling / CM Punk / meta-reality / Triple H / Daniel Bryan and the Royal Rumble / Indiana Jones and Ghost / Chozen and Archer / The Super Bowl / Prince on “New Girl” / halftime show / just football / the commercials / Ultimates vs, Galactus / rebooting the Fantastic Four, twice / Doctor Doom / Doom 2099 / Kang the Conqueror / villain color and design / She-Hulk / plugs and outro /

Links:

WWE Network

Strong Bad

Chris Rock on O.J. Simpson (NSFW)

“Murder, Sex” by Chozen (NSFW)

Bill Burr Podcast

Glenn’s Favorite Reboots

Glenn reviews the start of Cataclysm

Glenn on Kang the Conqueror

Make Mine Magic Podcast

Audacious Eleven

Robin Renee

February Faves at Biff Bam Pop!

Ace Kilroy

ComiXology

Furious on Facebook

Furious on Twitter

Bryan J.L. Glass

Glenn’s Twitter

Ray’s Twitter

The GAR! Podcast on Facebook

Videos:

The Dudley Boyz vs Mae Young and other women

Bruno Mars Halftime Show

Jaguar Super Bowl Commercial

Radio Shack Super Bowl Commercial

Dannon Oikos Super Bowl Commercial

GAR! Podcast Episode 18: Ray-to-Glenn Ratio Is About 80-20 This Week

Ever have a case of blabbermouth? Yes, that was me (Ray) this week. I overwhelmed Glenn. Bless him for letting me. After two days of being cooped up in a hotel, working hard, and spending another 6 or so issues in the car, I was looking forward to this podcast. Maybe a little too much, because I was just bursting at the seams…anyway, give it a listen. Please remember to give us some feedback! We’ll take any of the following:

This week’s podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / the lottery / mortal enemies / poisoned / reverse Chris Rock logic / comics for 45 year olds / Harlan Ellison on Scooby-Doo / grumpy little troll / Harlan and Fantagraphics / Kirby creates the Marvel Universe / revision rights / Jack’s artwork / it always comes back to Steve Ditko / smelliest super-villain / Breaking Bad / Paul Dini / Agents of SMASH / Avengers Assemble / Clancy Brown / Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker / Ray’s worst college year / Arch Rivals / Prince or The Time / Stories About Prince / Silver Age Superman newspaper strips / what we’re reading / Into the Woods / cat shoutouts, excuses, and closing / baked beans / Sonic Drive-In /

Links:

“We publish comics for 45 year olds.”

Harlan Ellison on Scooby-Doo

Ellison Vs. Fleischer

Court Rules Against Kirby Heirs

Glenn’s review of “Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.”

Glenn’s reviews of Avengers Assemble

Arch Rivals

Stories About Prince

Nick Kroll – On a Scale of One to Prince (not safe for work or family)

Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies Vol. 1: 1959-1961

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Wives

L.D. Davis

South Jersey Writers

Glenn’s review of Earth 2 #15

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

Into the Woods

Pineland Players

Sonic at French Fry Diary

Videos:

Chris Rock on Pre-Nups (NSFW, I think)

Harlan Ellison on Scooby-Doo (Ray’s note- holy crap, Glenn’s right)

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

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