103: Fat-Guy Comics

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2012

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Our Comic Book Club returns to discuss super-team comics. What makes them work, and what makes them fail? And our primary subject is Top 10, Alan Moore’s other amazing twelve-issue superhero comic series. If you haven’t read it yet, you should!

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0:00.0	The incomparable podcast, number 103, August 2012.
0:14.2	The incomparable is sponsored by immersive.
0:18.5	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast.
0:20.5	This is Jason Snell, and I'm joined today by the two
0:23.1	stalwart members of our comic book club. We haven't met in a little while, but we've managed to
0:27.7	get us all back together in the same room, believe it or not. Lisa Schmeiser joins us. Hi, Lisa.
0:33.7	It's a pleasure to be back. Now, you're on lots of incomparables these days, but the comic book club has been, has been scarce for a little bit.
0:40.7	It has. We've all been busy.
0:42.1	Yeah, sure.
0:43.0	Sure.
0:43.4	We've been busy.
0:44.0	All of my comics are in storage right now.
0:46.6	Yeah, yeah, that's right.
0:47.9	That's right.
0:48.5	Don't read anything.
0:49.7	And also Jason Brightman is here.
0:51.4	It is fantastic to be back. It is great to have you here.
0:54.6	And this is, we're in our temporary podcast studio here, but it should, it should, work out
1:00.1	just fine.
1:01.1	So when we set up this, this conversation, we were talking about, like the Avengers
1:07.9	had just come out, which brought up the question of teams, super teams in general, which I think is a good question because I was watching The Avengers and I enjoyed the Avengers. Some people didn't, but I enjoyed it.
1:21.1	But there is a level of kind of silliness of, you know, one superhero was kind of silly. But like eight
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