The X-Men TAS Podcast: X-MEN 97 + DP3 TRAILERS + Batman: Animal Act + Old Wounds

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on February 19th, 2024 by Willie

Finally, we get our first proper glimpse of X-Men 97 as well as Deadpool and Wolverine! We also race to the end of Batman TAS with a double episode dip featuring Nightwing so join us as we discuss…

  • The highs, lows and sweet creamy middles of our thoughts on the X-Men 97 trailer and the worldwide reaction!
  • Grabbing our popcorn as we witness new X-Men TAS in the era of social media!
  • Between X-Men TAS, Deadpool and Wolverine and Fantastic Four, feeling thrilled that some oxygen is finally back in the MCU!
  • Not forgetting Batman, we see him fight in the circus and AT LAST, we get Nightwing’s origin (well most of it anyway)!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: Batman – Never Fear

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on November 20th, 2023 by Willie

The Dark Knight loses his sense of fear and mayhem ensues…luckily a 12-year-old boy has the strength to stop him on the latest episode of Batman TAS! Join us as we discuss…

  • A new Mr. Fantastic and a new terrible looking Sony-verse movie!
  • Doesn’t Batman already have no fear? It’s a little confusing…
  • Why Tim Drake makes us both uncomfortable for a lot of reasons!
  • Tracking all the various Batmen and their personalities throughout the years!

The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit group, join by clicking here! We are 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 or iTunes and tell all your friends about it! Last but not least, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and Threads and please join our Facebook Group!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: Batman – Make ‘Em Laugh

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on August 21st, 2023 by Willie

The Dark Knight avoids getting mustard on his cape when he tackles the Condiment King but Robin can’t avoid getting spanked by a Rosanne clone on the latest episode of Batman TAS! Join us as we discuss…

  • Why the Fantastic Four should be the only characters that survive the MCU!
  • Would you give up your money if the Condiment King was robbing you?
  • Reminiscing about going to malls in the 90s!
  • A rule of thumb on this show is the Joker always delivering!

The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit group, join by clicking here! We are 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 BuzzsproutiTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Last but not least, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and Threads and please join our Facebook Group!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: BONUS – Fantastic Four (2015)

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on July 6th, 2020 by Willie

How Fantastic is this movie? Not very…Join us to discuss…

  • One of the more interesting behind the scenes Hollywood disasters in Marvel history!
  • A missed opportunity for Tommy Wiseau!
  • All your favorite FF4 characters with practically zero personality traits!
  • Our attempts to script doctor (doom) this thing into something better!

While this movie wasn’t great, the discussion was fun and hopefully the podcast will continue to be as we barrel headlong into the unknown! 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!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: BONUS – Fantastic Four (2005)

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on June 22nd, 2020 by Willie

When there were no more original X-Men or Spider-Man TAS episodes to cover, we ventured back to the movies, this time with the immortal classic, Fantastic Four from 2005! Join us as we discuss…

  • The hell-scape of mid-2000s culture!
  • The tragedy of the Invisible Woman!
  • The triumph of the Thing’s rubber suit!
  • Doom, petty tyrant with petty problems!
  • A decent setup leads to a pointless ending!

Strap in for more Fantastic Four stuff as we barrel through their entire cinematic history in the coming weeks! 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!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: The Spider-Man Years – Secret Wars: Chapter Three: Doom

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on May 25th, 2020 by Willie

The Fantastic Four take center stage as they take on the benevolence(?) of Dr. Doom in the third to last Spidey TAS episode ever! Join us as we discuss…

  • Why Dr. Doom is awesome and the FF4 are kind of lame!
  • Is slapping “new” on a freshly discovered region lazy cartography?
  • More sad moments from Jack Kirby’s underappreciated life!
  • Lets face it, if any hero is going to invent time travel, it’s Mr. Fantastic!
  • Spoiler alert: Good wins!

We also talk a little bit about the greatness of the “The Great,” a cool new Hulu show we very much enjoyed this week! 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!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast: The Spider-Man Years – Secret Wars: Chapter One – The Arrival

Posted in The X-Men TAS Podcast on May 11th, 2020 by Willie

For Spider-Man’s final adventure, he is beamed across the galaxy to fight in a battle of good vs. evil because some super god can’t tell the difference yet! Join us as we discuss…

  • Shopping a better title for planet Earth!
  • How the bench for the team of evil gets a little weak at the end!
  • Super-hero hype vs. super-hero tropes!
  • Should we read the Secret Wars comic book?
  • Ranking the Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man shows!

We’re into the home stretch here for our old pal Spider-Man and again, we’re pleased as punch for everyone who strapped into this ride with us! 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!

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The X-Men TAS Podcast – BONUS – Silver Surfer TAS

Posted in on October 22nd, 2018 by Willie

We step away from the world of mutants to explore the world of self-torturing overly philosophical silver people with a look at the almost forgotten Silver Surfer animated series! Hop on your glittering cosmic surfboard as we discuss…

  • Shalla-Bal!!!!!!!!!
  • Silver Surfer’s personality?
  • The various origins of the Silver Surfer throughout the years!
  • If you were brainwashed into killing, is it your fault?
  • The greatness Galactus!

We had a lot of fun watching all 13 episodes of the Silver Surfer this week and we highly recommend you give it a shot if you have never seen it. You can watch them to by clicking here. Make sure to subscribe to our podcast via iTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Also, find us on Facebook! Also, follow Willie Simpson on Twitter and please join our Facebook Group!

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The Real History of Marvel Comics with Jack Kirby in an Ultra Rare Interview

Posted in Comic Books, Jack Kirby on July 2nd, 2012 by Willie

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.

The video is courtesy of the Jack Kirby Museum, an incredible YouTube channel started by Jack’s family that fans of Jack should all subscribe to.

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