11th: Sandman - Preludes & Nocturnes

10/02/20 • 102 min

Sean has some loose ends to follow up on, particularly Age of Apocalypse, Mind MGMT, and Fear Agent. For the meat of this episode we discuss the first Sandman volume, Preludes & Nocturnes, and why it is so great.

Also:
- Mike Tyson makes a lot of sense in the Age of Apocalypse
- The Summers brothers, "naw, but actually"
- Claremont's X-Men makes us love the characters, and you can't go wrong
- Mind MGMT follows the rules and pulls it all together
- Fear Agent belongs in the dictionary for "Stick The Landing"
- Harbinger doesn't live up to the memories, for one of us
- Ranking the adult animated comedy shows!
- We need a James Joyce moment comparing Ulysses to Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
- Maybe Watchmen IS a good starting point for comics...

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10th: Tony Hawk Pro Skater

Welcome to the physically middle aged, mentally adolescent podcast! We relive our virtual glory and dig into the remaster of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2. We are having a ton of fun.

Also:
- Physically - middle aged; mentally - adolescent
- A Black Panther heads up
- Who doesn't remember Bonk!?
- Is the guilt of betraying your video game system loyalties real?
- Simulation vs just simple skins on the gameplay, we like one more than the other
- We recount our video game system history
- The old days of hard wired Xbox leads to the best video game experience ever
- The good old days when video game fun took EFFORT.
- Do YOU remember the first time you saw The Matrix?
- What does all this have to do with Biggie and Tupac?

Next Episode

12th: Collection Pruning & Audiobook Listening

Do you ever find your shelves overflowing with books? We do, so we discuss some of our strategies to prune the collection of the fruit that may not be as ripe as it used to be. (The fruit is a metaphor for comic books)

Also, we recount our adventures in listening to Audiobooks. Does it work for you? When, and when not? We discuss the types of audiobooks that work for us and the types that don't.

Also:
- Parenting tips in the morning
- How to make Marvel Unlimited worth it
- Nobody cares about Hawkeye!
- Selling regrets! Selling triumphs!
- We never take breaks
- The circle of giving is a beautiful thing
- Great courses are great
- Vegan eatin' is good
- The "genre" of anime, and how we approach that
- Nausicaa finds the cracks in the definitions!
- 20th Century Boys is GOOD
- Fourth World vs Jonathan Hickman

And one very noisy blue jay!