They Sell Comics

Tell 'Em Bry-John

kageguerette — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:03:48 -0500

I absolutely agree with Bryan’s response to this reviewer. The first line is a bit from the actual review. Everything that follows is Bryan’s review.

“(Bryan Said) the corseted goth girl who tries to sell a Chucky doll looks like she’s “mentally ill,” which is why I have no problem saying that he looks like Dumbledore f**ed a mushroom”

First off I didn’t make the remark about the goth girl, Walt did. In fact, I wasn’t even in that scene. Nice journalism & way to pay attention to detail. Secondly, the Dumbledore ‘joke’ (talk about playing into nerd stereotypes) you claim to have no problem making…Of course it’s not a problem when you’re sitting in front of a computer monitor congratulating yourself on your biting wit. Maybe we’ll happen to meet up in San Diego con this year and we’ll see if you have a problem running your b*tch mouth in person.

You’re like every other elitist comic book reviewer out there. You know how the show SHOULD have been made but shockingly no one approached YOU to make one. Nor did you have the juice to get in a room to pitch one. And by golly, I’m sure the conversations you and your buddies used to have when you worked in a comic book store were just scintillating and put ours to shame.

Though you could check with our ‘Tell ‘Em Steve Dave’ podcast audience. We have 100K listeners+ downloading our show every week. Something tells me you’re getting way fewer hits than that with your dopey articles. And btw, if you’re going to curse, curse. Enough with the asterisks. You sound like a complete a**hole.

By judging everyone & everything on the show negatively in the span of one episode all you do is hurt a dying industry you claim to love. In the end all you do is play into the smug, know-it-all, jealous comic book/collectible jerk off stereotype which we all know the general population regards with a negatively charged judgmental slant.

F**k you and your bulls**t review,

Bryan Johnson

ps can you please tell Laura Hudson she has a nice smile for me? C’mon, hook a brother up.

Issue Three

kageguerette — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:10:06 -0500

To Michael!

We begin the episode with some talk of The Strange Talents of Luther Strode.

This episode took place right after Steve Jobs’ death. R.I.P. Steve.

Ming reminisces about G.I. Joe.

Mike talks about his massive interest in Huntress # 1 and his past with the character.

We hear a bit about Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes.

And a bit about All Star Comics back in the 70’s.

Apparently The Flash, OMAC, and Batman have all been big sellers at The Stash.

After a long-winded discussion about the amount of Green Lanterns that patrol our Earth, and a sidenote about the different ring colours…

A bit of Guardians talk.

After the Green Lantern movie disaster, Mike has some choice words for the writers. ”Go with Rebirth!”

Don’t get sand kicked in your face by the way.

Ultimate Fallout Issue 4 mention.

And the Brand New Day.

Gil Kane’s Green Lantern.

Mike requests that ming reads The Avengers: The Corvac Saga.

Trade #1 of North 40.

CHEW #1

Stash Bootytime!

Once again it’s Widening Gyre.

Kingdom Come

Pinoy Superman

The Six Most WTF comics ever made.

The Marvel Swimsuit Edition

Batman Knight Gallery

The Marvel Strength and Fitness Guide

DC Valentines

Marvel Superheroe’s Cookbook

Super Dictionary!

That’ll have ta do ya.

Issue Two

kageguerette — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:35:33 -0500

After almost 7 minutes of SIR advertisements and another 3 minutes of music and sweet tunes regarding the Fantastic Four, we receive the epicness of Mike and Ming’s opening to Episode two.

We start off with a long discussion of the awesome World of Icarus record.

Mike describes the confusion with DC’s New 52… We’ll get back to that later.

First comic mentioned!

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Crisis 5

Mike and Ming have a huge discussion about Crisis on infinite earths. Ming sounds like he has no idea what’s going on while Mike just destroys you with his encyclopedic knowledge.

Here’s an image of the two page spread that Mike is talking about in the episode.

Pick of the week; Ming

IDW’s Ghostbusters 1

Variant cover drawn by Nick Runge

Locke and Key

Once again GEN 13

The Goon from darkhorse

Hellboy

Red Hood and the Outlaws

Some sexism here? I don’t know… I kind of enjoy this.

Walking Dead issue 89

Spider-Island (AMS 666)

Daredevil # 1 marc wade

Kevin Smith’s daredevil

Indie talk; The Goon by Eric Powell “The Rough Stuff”

I Am Legend (the Steve Niles adaptation)

“Walking Dead in black and white is awesome. It’d be all red from the blood if it was in colour.” Ming Chen

“Where is Marvelman?”

Annihilators Earthfall

This is honestly such a sick storyline.

Cap and Bucky

Secret Society of Supervillains

Supervillain teamup

Batman Widening Gyre (bootytime of the week)

X-Men 143 and 150

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Alpha Flight (represent the great white north)

Walking Dead Chronicles

The Question or Rorschach?

This was a good episode. Always enjoy hearing the guys banter on and on about this stuff.

That’ll have ta do ya.

Issue One

kageguerette — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:50:17 -0500

This episode highlighted the origins of Mike and Ming, while explaining their introductions to comic books and the books that appeal to them. Check it out.

The first comic mentioned is Ming’s first comic which he received in grade one from a friend. Here is Avengers # 214.

Ming discusses his high school exposure with TMNT.

Ming’s favourite memory of X-men comes from these panels.

At Ming’s Asian design college he got off daily to the beautiful Caitlin Fairchild, and also stumbled upon Preacher.

At the present time, Ming can be seen enjoying The Walking Dead, Ex Machina, Y the Last Man and anything from DC’s new 52.

Mike’s first exposure came from Iron Man, The Avengers, and Captain America.

Mike and Ming discuss the risk associated with ripping up the legendary Hulk 181.

Somewhere in the mix we hear about Batman and Robin #1, Detective Comics #1, Justice League #1 and the direction of the New 52 as Mike displays his genius and attempts to explain it to Ming and the listeners.

Ming begs the question, “What was the point of Flashpoint now that the reboot has occurred?”

Mike and Ming show some love to Big House Comics’ Old Soldiers.

We then hear Mike and Ming discuss possible animated series of their old favourites; Superfriends, Madman, Space Ghost, The Impossibles and The Herculoids.

A viewer asked a question about Mike and Ming’s favourite origin story, mentioning Superman Birthright and Green Lantern Rebirth.

Mike then goes on about Green Lantern; Emerald Knights, and GL; Dawn.

Then a discussion about Fear Itself ensues, followed by a comparison of Blackest Night and Marvel Zombies.

Mike and Ming then go on to discuss their top five favourite comics.

Mike says the following.

Ming’s list was not exactly very descriptive. He didn’t even make it to five comics.

He had also included Gen 13 #1 and TMNT #1.

Ming however reclaimed his glory and began his top picks of the week with Greeen Arrow #1, Green Lantern #1, and Batman #1.

Mike chose Nightwing #1 and Bionic Man # 1 and 2.

After a brief discussion of Kevin Smith’s Bionic Man, we near the end of the episode. Mike and Ming recommend a “Trade of the Week.” If you want to start getting into comics, you should take a look at these and really think about purchasing them.

Ming recommended Starman; Sins of the Father.

Mike recommended The New Teen Titans Omnibus. I’m telling you first-hand that it is absolutely amazing!

Mike closed the episode with a recommendation for Alan Moore’s epic “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”

Well this has been fun. Check back in a few days for Issue Two.

Follow Ming on Twitter at Mingchen37

Follow Mike on Twitter at MichaelZapcic

That’ll have ta do ya!

Opener

kageguerette — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:34:38 -0500

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