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MATT & BRETT LOVE COMICS #1
with NICOLE DRESPEL

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Show notes!

0:00:00 Introductions are made! Welcome to Matt & Brett Love Comics!

0:03:50 Matt and Brett discuss DC’s domination of the market share.

0:07:56 Nicole just doesn’t get Animal Man! Otter Man, though, is mighty appealing…and also worth discussing in-depth.

0:13:08 Matt recounts his favorite Spider-Man 3 background extra.

0:15:33 Adam X makes the first of surely many mentions on the podcast.

0:17:29 Amazing Spider-Man #673 facilitated Matt’s single white female-ing of Spidey.

0:23:44 Animal Man #3 and Swamp Thing #3 were both incredibly disturbing

0:29:05 Avengers Academy #21 is the first of the school books to be discussed. It has everything Nicole likes in comics, except type faces.

0:34:12 If you were a superhero, where would you go on a roadtrip?

0:35:31 Action Comics #3 shows the 1% of Krypton. Should there be a spinoff called Krypton Babies?

0:45:00 Regenesis fever kicks off with New Mutants #33 and X-Men #20! Nicole perks up when she hears that the X-Men have fought vampires, and what should the New Mutants really be called?

0:52:05 Uncanny X-Men #1 is discussed; does Cyclops’ letter to humanity make him an asshole?

0:59:57 Brett says that he could be pleased with a story that is just X-Men remembering things they did, which leads to a discussion of Jean Grey’s botched proposal to Cyclops

1:01:20 Wolverine & The X-Men #1 is pretty much the best thing ever.

1:08:05 Nicole leads the talk on the elaborately named Anita Blake: Circus of the Damned - The Scoundrel #2. Watersnake Vampire

1:13:56 Matt thinks Nicole will love one of DC’s relaunched heroines.

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Action Comics #684, “Doomsday 5 of 7: …Doomsday Is Near!,” December 1992, written by Roger Stern, penciled by Butch Guice

Things get real ’90s when Doomsday terrorizes a suburban shopping center named Lex-Mart, and then gets an urge to head to Metropolis after watching a wrestling promo on a big screen TV. Superman continues to try to stop his rampage, but nothin’ doin’. By issue’s end, Doomsday is heading towards Metropolis.

What the 26 year old thinks: A little dumber than the previous chapters (Doomsday knows English? And knows how to read English on road signs pointing him to Metropolis?) but the ’90s-ness of it all tugs at my nostalgia heart. Come on, Lex-Mart and pro-wrestling? In “Death of Superman”? Toss in a fanny pack and well-placed “…whoah!” and it couldn’t GET more ’90s. Also Stern’s writing seems a hair more capable than Ordway…is that a controversial assertion? Yikes, I just mean I liked Stern more than Ordway.

What the 8 year old thinks: He’s still eating this up. Of course he is. This is tailor-made for an 8 year old, especially one that’s just started reading comics. This is the most important thing he’s ever read. And he’s read like, a chapter of “White Fang.”

Verdict: “If this happened in MY Wal-Mart, you bet I’d be high-tailing it outta there, running as fast as Flash! Or Superman! Okay, I gotta go back to playing now. There’s Doomsday! Graaaaaaargh!”

Action Comics #901, July 2011, written by Paul Cornell, penciled by Kenneth Rocafort and Jesus Merino

Action Comics #900, June 2011, written by Paul Cornell, Damon Lindelof, Paul Dini, Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, Richard Donner and Derek Hoffman, penciled by Gary Frank, Jamal Igle, Dan Jurgens, Jesus Merino, Rags Morales, Ardian Syaf, Pete Woods, Ryan Sook, R.B. Silva, Miguel Sepulveda, Matt Camp and Brian Steelfreeze