What does this cover make you think of? If you're one of the casual comic fans that I'm friends with it's just a normal picture of an American hero taking out the enemy. What's so weird about that?
Well for one it's the fact that this was cover dated March of 1941 but was on sale in December of 1940. Don't forget that the United States didn't enter World War II until December of 1941. So we've got a US publisher not only telling the tale of an American hero punching the leader of a foreign nation in the face, but we have it flat out on the cover. There's no hiding what the creators of this comic or the publishers felt.
Keep in mind too that before the US entered the war there were a shit ton of reasons why people wanted the US to stay out of it.
I get it, going to war on a very international level like that is a big deal. And to a point I can even understand an attitude of letting the people closer to the situation geographically try to handle it themselves first, especially at a time where moving that amount of people and supplies was a big deal.
Here's the bigger thing, you do what you can when you can. If you can actually go out and directly fix the problem then that's great. If all you can do is bring awareness to it then that's fine too. Nobody can fix a problem that they don't know exists.
What does this cover make you think of? If you’re one of the casual comic fans that I’m friends with it’s just a normal picture of an American hero taking out the enemy. What’s so weird about that? Well for one it’s the fact that this was cover dated MarchContinue Reading
I get that this has been done to death. And that I’m probably preaching to the choir since all of you listeners seem to just not be poop heads. I love that about y’all. Unfortunately we live in a world where that isn’t always the case. And basically from theContinue Reading
We finally get to one of my favorite characters, The Hulk. He’s the strongest around, except when he’s not. And you better hope that you don’t have to spend much time as Bruce while playing because, well, then he’s not Hulk.
Listen in as Phil Primeau of Semi Intellectual Musings joins the show to take a look at one of Marvel’s most misunderstood characters.Continue Reading
Batman returns with this game based on the 1992 movie Batman Returns. There’s wacky origins, crazy life restoring animals, and we haven’t even started talking about Batman himself yet.
Listen in as Roger Reichardt from Gamerheads comes to take a look at this game based on the final Tim Burton Batman movie.Continue Reading
What happens when you have a wonderful Marvel franchise that’s had a string of crappy games? Eventually you have to get something good, right? Well GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! WE FINALLY GOT IT!
Listen in as Miles Stokes from Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men comes on to talk X-Men for the Sega Genesis. I promise you, this one is totally x-ellent.Continue Reading
What’s silly, blue, and might secretly know what’s going on but probably not? A lot of things, but the answer we’re looking for is The Tick. Listen in as Joe and Carlos from Life, Death, and Taxonomy come to talk about The Tick and all the insanity that comes along with that.Continue Reading
Cars! Dinosaurs! It’s every little kid’s dream! Come listen as Kelsey and Torey from all your favorite podcasting groups on Facebook join the show to talk about Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.Continue Reading
So you’ve got Spider-Man, a character with so many games out at this point that I’m too lazy to count. You’ve got the X-Men, who have games out but they mostly suck. But both of them are beloved franchises, both helped to save Marvel. And you’ve got Adam Higgins from Odd Dad Out, who admittedly has not directly saved Marvel. Put them all together and what do you get? Let’s just say that the LJN rainbow strikes again.Continue Reading
Thanks for your patience, we’ll be back with your regularly scheduled programming on Sunday September 23rd.Continue Reading
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but I’ve got a stupid hurricane coming at me. So the show is going to be on a bit of a break.Continue Reading
Batman and The Joker, it’s an iconic pairing that will never go away. At least not for long. Listen in as Steven and Chris from Is This Adulting? come to talk about Batman, Robin, and the fact that this game just doesn’t really make much sense at all.Continue Reading
Apparently Asterix is a big deal. Who knew? Chris didn’t, that’s for sure. Good thing we have Kayleigh and Matt Sanderson coming back to let us know about the Gaul village that just might have something up their sleeve when it comes to defeating those pesky Romans.Continue Reading
Just like back in the 1990s, we can’t escape the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. List this week as John Horsley from Spoiler Country joins the fun to look at the titles for the original Gameboy (yay….) and Tournament Fighters (YAY!)Continue Reading
The Ninja Turtles pretty much sum up the 1990s. But what happens when Megan and RJ from Oh No! Lit Class come on the show to look at not 1, not 2, but 3 games all in one shot? Can we handle that much excitement? Or does Shredder take one of his many forms to strike us down?Continue Reading
The X-Men are one of the most important teams that Marvel has. So what happens when somebody actually make a good game about them? Listen in as Mike Ryan from The Controller Throwers joins in to talk about the first actual good game featuring this iconic team to get released for home consoles.Continue Reading
Spider-Man has some of the most iconic villains around. But what happens when he faces off against someone so sinister that he has to employ the help of one of his firecest foes? Find out as Kyle from The Real Dudes Podcast joins us to talk Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage.Continue Reading
Epic heroes deserve epic villains, and Spider-Man sure has plenty of them. Scott Niswander of NerdSync joins us for a look at The Amazing Spider-Man vs The Kingpin on Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, and Sega CD.Continue Reading
We take another look at The Punisher, this time in a much better game. Listen as Joe Bunzerelly of The Bunzerelly Show joins Chris to talk about The Punisher in all of his shooting glory on this Sega Genesis and arcade classic.Continue Reading
Superman Returns (see what I did there) with a game that exists and has a Superman sprite that looks like Superman and, ummmm, I don’t know I’m really stretching here because this game isn’t very good. Listen as Chris is joined by Karrington Martin of the RealDudes Podcast as they break down another Superman game that still can’t quite get the hero right.Continue Reading
The X-Men return with an arcade game that came to home consoles a mere 18 years later based on a cartoon pilot that eventually became our beloved 90s X-Men cartoon. Listen as Chris is joined by John Horsley and Kenric Reagan of Spoiler Country take a look at this gem of the 90s arcade world.Continue Reading
