The Dark Knight shames an old actor out of retirement to fight crime, causing him to have a total psychological break with reality! It’s a classic episode of Batman TAS so make sure to join us as we discuss…
The fun of She-Hulk meeting Daredevil and why we want the Mario movie to be whacky and weird!
Being intimidated by the Dewey Decimal System!
Get in line nerds, Batman is the alpha!
Owning black and white TVs and thrill of discovering lost shows!
The Dark Knight meets the DC version of Doctor Strange and completely humiliates him in one of the most entertaining episodes of Batman TAS ever! Join us as we discuss…
Would She-Hulk have been better as an animated show!?
The Batplane just defying all known laws of physics!
Alfred folding underpants and its implications on superhero costumes in general!
Joker, Two-Face and Penguin blindly charging two men firing machine guns in their faces!
How long would you use a dream machine until you got tired of it?
In 2021, it seems like Wolverine is the only one left in the dark when it comes to his mysterious past! This time, Mystique is the one help him find out what everyone already knows on the latest episode of W&tXM! Join us as we discuss…
Our appreciation for 90s Superman TAS and our current hype level for Spider-Man: No Way Home!
Figuring out what the S tier of animation and why it probably peaked in the 1940s!
So it is the Blackbird after all in this universe…excellent!
We get it, Wolverine is a reluctant leader!
Trying to sort out a top five X-Men villain list…harder for us than we thought!
While Wolverine’s origins have been done to death, we are still excited to see where this show leads and hope you carry on with us in our journey! The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit group, join by clicking here! We also on Twitch sometimes… click here to go to our page and follow and subscribe so you can join in on all the mysterious fun to be had! Also, make sure to subscribe to our podcast via Buzzsprout, iTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Last but not least, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and please join our Facebook Group!
The end of Season Three of X-Men Evolution takes us out into the ocean, where the X-Men battle a volcano! Join us as we discuss…
Taking a deeper dive into the DC Animated Universe!
Having very different opinions on exactly what real life city Gotham reminds us of!
I guess Apocalypse just got away?
Iceman should not be afraid of any body of water!
Why there will no plans to record the podcast live on a cruise ship!
We’re looking forward to seeing how Evolution wraps up and hope you have enjoyed the ride with us as we head into the final season! The X-Men TAS Podcast is now on Twitch… click here to go to our page and follow and subscribe so you can join in on all the mysterious fun to be had! Also, make sure to subscribe to our podcast via Buzzsprout, iTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Last but not least, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and please join our Facebook Group!
Spider-Man is a hero of the sky, the skyscrapers, the streets and the sewers on the latest and greatest episode of Spider-Man TAS! Join us as we discuss…
Making out in front of your relatives!
Mary Jane and Lois Lane…taking a lot of crazy risks for their super dudes!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…and Lizards!
Some light Star Trek: PIcard chatter towards the end!
Season 4 is almost at an end and we have no idea what is coming next…or just can’t remember it anyways! Make sure to subscribe to our podcast via Buzzsprout, iTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Last but not least, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and please join our Facebook Group!
Superhero movies are everywhere these days, coldly destroying the competition in the movie theaters in the summer. Their omnipresence is even sparking interesting debate from elitist movie critics at the New York Times. With movies starring classic comic book characters like Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, and the X-Men, the question rises as to what collection of creative geniuses could have possibly come up with these zillion dollar ideas that millions of people have become fiercely loyal to? The obvious answer is that it boils down to two Jewish guys from New York City, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. However, if you really deep fry the question, the answer might just boil down to one man, Jack Kirby. The real story of the history of Marvel Comics is not exactly the tale of a happy collaboration between the revolutionary pop artwork of Kirby and the bottomless imagination of Stan Lee. In actuality, the authorship of these legends is a jumbled and bitter history featuring bad work for hire contracts and editorial self-aggrandizement. According to Jack Kirby, he basically not only created and drew every Marvel Comic of significance, but plotted and wrote all the dialog, a telling of history that leaves little room for one Stan Lee. Jack recollected Stan as a “bother” and “office prankster,” hired as an office boy by Marvel’s owner Martin Goodman as a favor because they were related, and overtime graduated from office paperboy to over-glorified editor. Stan would change some dialog to make it snappier or funnier, as well as changing character’s names on a whim, but Jack did all the heavy lifting, and because he worked at home, had little contact or interaction with Stan Lee. Evidence speaking to this arrangement is found in this wonderful article published in a Jack Kirby fanzine, which you can read here. In that article, you can read more about the troubled history between Stand and Jack, and see Jack’s original artwork and dialog, as well as the light notes Stan put in the margins. Jack’s version of history is very negative towards Stan Lee, probably to an unfair degree. Marvel Comics never properly took care of Jack over the years, treating him as a standard work for hire artist, and not the genius who revolutionized the way comic books are written and drawn, thus creating in Jack a deep bitterness. A popular story out there is that Jack once entered a toy store towards the end of his life, (he died in 1994), and started to cry because he saw that every toy was of something he created, and he wasn’t getting a dime. Stan, to his credit, did have more of a role in Marvel’s success then Jack would ever admit. While Stan’s role in the creation of the Fantastic Four, the hit that saved Marvel from closing its doors in the early 60s, is questionable, Stan did create Spider-Man with artist Steve Ditko, the greatest superhero in the Marvel roster. Jack, filled with bitterness, would claim for years that he was actually the one that created Spider-Man, a claim knocked down by numerous people close to the situation. I could go on and on, but you can see the depth of wonderful intrigue to this history, and I hope one day, someone makes a smart and serious period piece movie about Stan and Jack, bringing this complicated history to light. In light of this history, the global success of the multi-billion dollar Avengers/X-Men/ and Spider-Man franchises, is a bit bittersweet for two reasons. First, Jack never lived to see it, and the second is that Jack’s name is not as well known as Stan’s, who has received an undue level of credit for something that essentially belongs to Kirby. Anyway, the interview below is an incredible document. Its Jack reflecting on his long life, how he started making comics, his stories from being a soldier in Patton’s army, and his personal cosmic philosophy that influenced all of his creations. The interview took place in 1990, and while the interviewers do a wonderful job in allowing Jack to speak, as well as asking pertinent questions, the callers at the end basically have no idea of who Jack Kirby is, and thus ask a series of ludicrous questions, that are equally humorous and slightly disrespectful to a man of Jack’s stature. It’s a great interview and well worth listening to because this is the man who facilitated the enjoyment of millions of people’s childhoods. So, enough yapping, here is Jack Kirby, King of Comics. Oh, the transcript of the interview is here, handy if you want to follow along more closely.
Youtube is kind of awful. I found some absolutely golden clips from “Seinfeld” that I’d love to post and do intensive analysis of, but nearly all of the clips are disabled for embedding. Luckily, I have found a few killer scenes that have escaped the clutches of the youtube machine for now. They’ll probably be taken down in the future, but I live for the moment. The first montage clip is my favorite. It’s the gang all dancing around to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” from Off the Wall. It’s short but sweet. The next clip is everybody making crazy noises, and the clip after that you see them in their craziest get ups. The last clip, the famous Superman montage, is a bonus that I’m linking off site to represent the both the tyranny and wonder of youtube. Enjoy.
