2 IN 1 SHOWCASE EPISODE 79: SHOWCASE TANGENT 4-SAN DIEGO SO FAR

[Blake Petit]

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Episode 79: Showcase Tangent 4-San Diego So Far
by Chase Bouzigard and Blake Petit

Once again, the boys come at us with a special Showcase Tangent, in which any and all topics are up for grabs! The guys start by picking apart all of the news that's come from this year's San Diego Comicon so far! Mark Waid writing The Incredibles? Disney is making a Tron 2? Johns, Robinson and Gates on Superman: New Krypton? Will Blake ever see sunlight again after DC Universe Online is released? Plus, even more thoughts on The Dark Knight, Chase reviews The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and the guys make a BIG announcement about the next Showcase special project! Then, there's plenty of time to answer your e-mails! Chase doesn't have a pick this week, but Blake tells you about the coolness of Archie #587. That's right. Archie. Want your own comments to be read on a future episode? E-mail us with your comments, "Ask Chase Anything" questions, or anything else at Showcase@comixtreme.com!

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Episode 79: Showcase Tangent 4-San Diego So Far

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[staredcraft]

Hey guys, thanks for answering my questions. For the record I've been sending in so many questions to make up for my late getting into this podcast...but don't worry, from this point on I'm going to just save my e-mails for specific shows.

[Blake Petit]

Originally Posted by staredcraft

Hey guys, thanks for answering my questions. For the record I've been sending in so many questions to make up for my late getting into this podcast...but don't worry, from this point on I'm going to just save my e-mails for specific shows.

Heh -- s'alright, man, we love getting 'em! Send as many as you want! More people should follow your example.

[staredcraft]

Originally Posted by Blake Petit

Heh -- s'alright, man, we love getting 'em! Send as many as you want! More people should follow your example.

Okay...oh and expect a HUGE post (bigger than my Mark Millar one) for the Marvel Cosmic stuff!

[Chase Bouzigard]

Originally Posted by staredcraft

Okay...oh and expect a HUGE post (bigger than my Mark Millar one) for the Marvel Cosmic stuff!

Good deal but expect a long show for that one

[staredcraft]

Hey Blake, any chance you checked out those Bleedman webcomics I suggested?

[Blob_Liefeld]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to state this, but I just listened to the Quarter Bin episode of "2 in 1 Showcase" and I wanted to respond to the discussion of "Captain Confederacy" therein.

You guys really should have stopped and wondered why a mainstream American media company such as Marvel Comics would publish under its Epic imprint a comic that was as racist as you took the comic to be as late as the early 1990s, decades after introducing characters like Black Panther. Why would the editor of such a major company suddenly decide: "gee, let's publish a comic book glorifying Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan." If that was the kind of company they were, their "Civil War" crossover would have taken place during the actual Civil War.

The comic book was not a racist tract. The hero of the comic book was a white "Captain America" type who is created as a propaganda figure of an Apartheid-like state, but who rebels against his government to fight for racial equality. The hero of the comic is a white guy in love with a black woman who has a baby with that black woman, and they fight together against the Confederacy. Hardly the stuff a white supremacist would write.

The author of the comic was himself threatened with having his house burned down in real life by the KKK when he was a child. He wrote the comic specifically as an anti-racist morality tale. See this Comicon.com interview:

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultim...;f=36;t=004840

I realize you guys may have rushed through your reading of this comic, but I thought a gentle correction might be in order, given you guys stated on your podcast that Marvel published a horribly racist comic, and you may have influenced people to judge this comic book unfairly. As you'll see in the interview linked above, you are not the first to have judged the book by its cover and slammed it in the media.

[Blake Petit]

Originally Posted by Blob_Liefeld

Apologies if this is the wrong place to state this, but I just listened to the Quarter Bin episode of "2 in 1 Showcase" and I wanted to respond to the discussion of "Captain Confederacy" therein.

You guys really should have stopped and wondered why a mainstream American media company such as Marvel Comics would publish under its Epic imprint a comic that was as racist as you took the comic to be as late as the early 1990s, decades after introducing characters like Black Panther. Why would the editor of such a major company suddenly decide: "gee, let's publish a comic book glorifying Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan." If that was the kind of company they were, their "Civil War" crossover would have taken place during the actual Civil War.

The comic book was not a racist tract. The hero of the comic book was a white "Captain America" type who is created as a propaganda figure of an Apartheid-like state, but who rebels against his government to fight for racial equality. The hero of the comic is a white guy in love with a black woman who has a baby with that black woman, and they fight together against the Confederacy. Hardly the stuff a white supremacist would write.

The author of the comic was himself threatened with having his house burned down in real life by the KKK when he was a child. He wrote the comic specifically as an anti-racist morality tale. See this Comicon.com interview:

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultim...;f=36;t=004840

I realize you guys may have rushed through your reading of this comic, but I thought a gentle correction might be in order, given you guys stated on your podcast that Marvel published a horribly racist comic, and you may have influenced people to judge this comic book unfairly. As you'll see in the interview linked above, you are not the first to have judged the book by its cover and slammed it in the media.

To be fair, blob, I didn't read the book at all. I selected it just to see what Chase's reaction would be. I pretty much assumed it would be a satire along the lines of what you're saying.

[Blob_Liefeld]

Originally Posted by Blake Petit

To be fair, blob,

The combintion of serious response with my ludicrous screen name made me LOL there!

I'm not seriously worked up over this, despite the appearance the length of my post above may have created. Just wanted to explain what I found when I went to investigate this comic book that sounded insane from the description on the show.

I'm off to read a Kurt Buskie comic....

[Chase Bouzigard]

Originally Posted by Blob_Liefeld

The combintion of serious response with my ludicrous screen name made me LOL there!

I'm not seriously worked up over this, despite the appearance the length of my post above may have created. Just wanted to explain what I found when I went to investigate this comic book that sounded insane from the description on the show.

I'm off to read a Kurt Buskie comic....

Good Points, I did read the book, However I had no Frame of refrence, just the book, and that is what I took away from it.

[Blob_Liefeld]

Well, I'll be lookin' for my No Prize in the mail...

[staredcraft]

Hey blake they announced an archive/omnibus of the Monster's Society of Evil that was announced at the DC Nation 2 panel on Sunday!

[Blake Petit]

Originally Posted by staredcraft

Hey blake they announced an archive/omnibus of the Monster's Society of Evil that was announced at the DC Nation 2 panel on Sunday!

Really? Suh-WEET. I'm totally getting that.

[Blake Petit]

I've been listening to the podcasts of various panels all week, and I'm loving it. Next best thing to being there!

One of my favorite tidbits that I haven't seen mentioned online? When Geoff Johns said a significant character in Blackest Night will be...

Ronnie Raymond, the original Firestorm.

[Chase Bouzigard]

Hay guys don't For get to listen to the save the adv. club radio show tomarrow at 10:00 pm cet. time.
over at www.raidotalkblog.com

and to call in to talk to me live.

[Terry Verticchio]

The snow worked for me in the X-Files...but then I'm Canadian.

But yeah it was a good X-Files episode.

[Rainbow Raider]

Originally Posted by Blake Petit

I've been listening to the podcasts of various panels all week, and I'm loving it. Next best thing to being there!

One of my favorite tidbits that I haven't seen mentioned online? When Geoff Johns said a significant character in Blackest Night will be...

Ronnie Raymond, the original Firestorm.

The Firestorm news is awesome Blake, hadn't heard that one. Loved me some Ronnie, never could get behind Jason as Firestorm.

[Blake Petit]

Originally Posted by MongelRedCorps

The Firestorm news is awesome Blake, hadn't heard that one. Loved me some Ronnie, never could get behind Jason as Firestorm.

I have no problem with Jason -- his series was really quite good, and McDuffie especially did great stuff with him towards the end. Still, I'm sure Ronnie as a Black Lantern will be particularly interesting.