PCN - Super-Fly Podcast thread

jfx316 wrote:

comicgeekelly wrote:Listening to last weeks show and I think I'm one of the two listeners that got the CM Punk joke.

That's why we do it. Gotta sneak those obscure wrestling references in or the whore industry will go under.

Look forward to talk of the Macho Man and his new deal with WWE for action figures in 2011 on the show tonight.

should we point out that no ones picked up on clubberin yet?

UltimateUltimacy wrote:so Comic Geek Kelly, or Comic Geekelly?

The first way.


I was thinking, Thacher gets pissed about all the one shots. Did he have a stroke when he saw the oversized Man With a Getaway Face one shot from IDW?

comicgeekelly wrote:

UltimateUltimacy wrote:so Comic Geek Kelly, or Comic Geekelly?

The first way.


I was thinking, Thacher gets pissed about all the one shots. Did he have a stroke when he saw the oversized Man With a Getaway Face one shot from IDW?

No, that was one of my favorite comics from last week. I get pissed when they add one shots to a series that's already ongoing and has a bunch of tie-in miniseries. One shots like Officer Downe, Man with a Getaway Face, that Jimmy Palmiotti horror one who's name I can't remember, all that stuff is great and they should have more of them, because that's what can grow the industry, not trying to get people who are already buying comics to buy more comics related to the ones they're already reading.

I loved MWAGF too, but I figured that because of it's size it'd be a bitch to have to find a spot for it on the racks.

comicgeekelly wrote:I loved MWAGF too, but I figured that because of it's size it'd be a bitch to have to find a spot for it on the racks.

Yeah, it's probably going to live on one of the display tables since it is a little too big, but it's also a great stand-along spotlight thing so it deserves a special spot.

Did you read The Hunter? I haven't, but if it's anything like MWAGF it should be pretty good.

comicgeekelly wrote:Did you read The Hunter? I haven't, but if it's anything like MWAGF it should be pretty good.

The Hunter is amazing. I've been a huge fan of the Donald Westlake/Richard Stark (he wrote all the Parker novels under the name Richard Stark, and Stephen King used the Stark name [George Stark] in the Dark Half for the main character's pen name [and the main character also wrote hard crime fiction]) for years, as well as a huge Darwyn Cooke fan, so the marriage of the two is fucking perfect. The Hunter has been adapted a crapload of times (in the 60s with Lee Marvin and in the 90s with Mel Gibson [Payback]), but the comic is the purest adaptation they've done.

I'm very excited for The Outfit, and the rest of the Cooke Parker adaptations (I think they've said they're going to do 7).

I think I'll have to pick it up. After reading about the Parker series in Criminal I think I'll have to get into the actual book series too.

comicgeekelly wrote:I think I'll have to pick it up. After reading about the Parker series in Criminal I think I'll have to get into the actual book series too.

Unfortunately a lot the books are out of print, but if you can find them they are worth getting.

The podcast recording went well. Slightly less insane than last week. Be on the lookout for talk of aging wrestling icons on the show. Here's this for future reference. You'll know when you get there....


Thank me later.

i fucked up the shout outs. Thats what I get for using notes.

and it was Romeo & Juliet, not Hamlet.

The new podcast is now live. We gets money. Trust us. Download and listen before the Pop-cast tonight.

Macho is one of those few guys who can rant about the most absurd things and he has an amazing promo every time.

comicgeekelly wrote:Macho is one of those few guys who can rant about the most absurd things and he has an amazing promo every time.

Hopefully this'll mean he's in the hall of fame next year. I'm working on his speech pattern for my(bad) impression.

He deserves to be in the HOF, but if the stories are true, Vince doesn't take kindly to humping his underage daughter.

between this deal and the three disc set they put out earlier, i wouldn't be surprised if he was in good enough graces to get in.

I busted out laughing while riding the train when I heard the Macho Rap. Why have I not heard this before? And thank you!

He's got an entire album we(at least Jared and I. Maybe Travis to) suggest getting. Its called Be A Man and if you want to buy a hard copy they aint cheap.

Hey hey hey, I'm on a message board! Been enjoying the show from episode 1, thanks for feeding my ego by acknowledging that I wrote you guys questions.
I heard episode 11 last night and as you all were discussing my question regarding superhero movies I realized I sounded like a dick in the way I phrazed it.
I love superhero films. Loooove them. I dutifully see them often and repeatedly, but too many times these days it feels like the pay-off doesn't live up to the anticipation. For an interesting rant on this issue here's an interesting article that came out earlier this summer: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/05/06/superhero_movies_bankrupt_genre
Don't agree with everything said here but I also think it's worth checking out.

-MC

Welcome to the boards, Mike, and thanks for listening to the show. It's nice, yet weird, to know that people actually are hearing what I say in other places on the world.

I, personally, feel that super hero movies fail most of the time because unlike the comic medium, movies are more a commodity for the masses. The masses that make up the movie going public aren't worried about subtlety in the stories they are watching. If they are watching Kick-Ass, they want see people getting beat up for an hour and a half and not the side story of how being a super hero effects Dave Lizewski's real life.

Most of the time, movie makers act like the story is getting in the way of the action sequences. Take GI Joe. Take the title away and you have generic special ops movie #453. That movie didn't need the GI Joe brand to add to it. It needed it to sell the movie to people that wouldn't have gone to see it if it didn't have the name brand behind it. I'd say most people that liked GI Joe, would have liked it even if it wasn't called GI Joe. That's why there is alot of "comic book movie fatigue" and alot of deep sighs when the new comic movie gets announced.

In the end, it's about quality and staying close to the subject matter. That's why everyone I know is hyped for Thor. That's why Spider-Man was (is) cool. And that's why GI Joe sucks.

Rath99 wrote:I busted out laughing while riding the train when I heard the Macho Rap. Why have I not heard this before? And thank you!

"Be A Man" is better then 80% of what passes as mainstream rap. As much as I joke about it, it's really pretty good. At the very least, you'll get drunk as hell playing the Macho Man Drinking Game. 1. Get friends and drinks 2. Put on "Be A Man" 3. Take a drink every time Randy Savage says "OH YEAH!!" 4. Don't die of alcohol poisoning

In the meantime, buy the whole album here: Be A Man on Amazon.com

Holy crap! Macho's CD is expensive.

I know, right? Selling 3,000 copies will do that. I got mine when it came out. Try iTunes. I'm not sure if it's on there or not.

jfx316 wrote:

Rath99 wrote:I busted out laughing while riding the train when I heard the Macho Rap. Why have I not heard this before? And thank you!

"Be A Man" is better then 80% of what passes as mainstream rap. As much as I joke about it, it's really pretty good. At the very least, you'll get drunk as hell playing the Macho Man Drinking Game. 1. Get friends and drinks 2. Put on "Be A Man" 3. Take a drink every time Randy Savage says "OH YEAH!!" 4. Don't die of alcohol poisoning

In the meantime, buy the whole album here: Be A Man on Amazon.com

I'm a hip of fan of the 80's and 90's. I hate when I talk to my friends 18 year old and he doesn't know who Eric B and Rakim, Kool G Rap are. Not a big fan of much of the hip hop out there today.