Episode 141: Hal Jordan’s Festival of Fun Part II or “I’m a Pretty Lady”

Once again I head to the vaults and pull out a “lost” episode and I write “lost” episode because I have known exactly where this audio has been since it was recorded but just never got off my lazy, lack of ass to get the thing cut together.  I know that I have been doing the whole “Summer of Spider-Man” thing but I really wanted to get this out because it was recorded over a year ago and I felt bad about that.

Anyway, this time out my other semi-regular co-host Thomas Deja (you know him from Better in the Dark, DJ’s Comics Cavalcade and Damn Your Eyes, Damn Your Ears) and I present part 2 of our Hal Jordan’s Festival of Fun series.  In the last installment that went up several years ago we talked about Hal’s life from birth to the end of his run in Action Comics Weekly.  For this installment Tom and I get all decompressed and cover Emerald Dawn, the first eight issues of the Gerard Jones Green Lantern series from 1990 and we finish things off with Emerald Dawn II.  While we don’t get super detailed with the issues a lot of ground is covered with the basic theme of the episode being that this era of Green Lantern had a lot going for it and while this take on Hal has fallen out of fashion it still is equally as valid as what has been going on since 2004.

If you want to hear another take on these issues I would recommend Just One of the Guys: A Green Lantern/Guy Gardner Podcast.  It is hosted by my good friend Shawn Engle and I really meant to mention it in the opening and closing tag but just plum forgot to.  Shawn produces an excellent show and has a great take on this era of Green Lantern.

Next time: Savage Steve Raker from Marvel Noises joins me once again and we talk about the origins of Spider-Man as well as Peter discovering the shocking truth about his parents.  Don’t miss it!

Episode 140: The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man

After yet another hiatus I am back with an episode that was supposed to be part of my Summer of Spider-Man and I guess it still is because the summer isn’t over yet.  As I suspected real life got in the way pretty hard core through late July and August and thus this episode, like so many others, is late.  However I think the wait should be worth it because not only is my semi-regular co-host the Irredeemable Shag on the show and not only do we go on some of our patent pending tangents and not only do we actually sing at one point but we talk about the various villains that have plagued Spider-Man over the years.  After Shag gives his “How I got into Spider-Man” story we got into our Top 5 Favorite villains and then run through a bunch of others including the villains of lesser renown.  This one is two hours, folks, so grab a cup of coffee and sit back because you are going to be here awhile.

Next time: A “lost” episode of Views comes to the surface!