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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1241 - Spotlight on GI Joe in Comics

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comics, Comic Book, Comic, Arts & Entertainment, Comic Books, Superhero, Graphic Novel, Arts

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2012

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We've put the spotlight on the GI Joe toys in the past, but now we shine that light on the comic books. Our emphasis is mainly on the Marvel Comics series started by Larry Hama, but we do touch on the recent series from IDW as well. Chris from Wild Pig Comics joins us again to discuss this great run of comics. (1:29:21)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geeks Speak, episode 1241, toys, artists, come on, come, come, come, come, come, teach me, come, come, come, come, come, come, keep speak, come, come, come, come, keep coming, come, come, keep. United in the world's mightiest heroes, this is... I'm Brian Christman. I'm Shane Kelly. I'm Chris Christman. I'm Brian Christman.

0:39.6

I'm Shane Kelly.

0:40.5

I'm Chris Everley.

0:41.5

And I'm Matt.

0:45.3

And welcome to the show.

0:47.6

So this is our spotlight on G.I. Joe in the comics.

0:52.0

For you longtime listeners, you may recall, we did spotlight on GI Joe back in episode 312, October of 2007.

1:02.9

That was mainly focused on the toys.

1:05.7

We had my friend Pete Calder come in.

1:07.0

That's right.

1:07.5

Talked about the whole origin of the line with the 12-inch figures. Boy, that was in the old studio. That's right. Talked about the whole origin of the line with, you know, the 12-inch figures.

1:12.2

Boy, that was in the old studio.

1:14.4

That's correct.

1:15.1

That's correct.

1:16.0

You mean, AKA Brian's house?

1:17.4

That's correct.

1:18.1

The old house.

1:19.7

Yeah.

1:19.9

And so we talked about the toys, both the 12-inch and the 3-3-quarter-inch and touched

1:24.5

only a little bit on the comics, not whole lot but a little bit so this is mostly mostly going to be about the comic series and uh the working theory of the show was to have it coincide with the release of the movie which we now is push back to like march of 2013 grumble gr, grumble. Grumble, grumble.

2:03.0

I want to see it. I'm excited. Well, actually, I did see. They had some trailers throughout, I guess, X, not X, Men, Avengers. And I thought a couple of movies this year. So I've seen the trailer for it. It looked pretty damn good. That thing with they're climbing the wall sideways. I mean, that was awesome. Yeah. And, of course, you had the rock, and Bruce Walt was in it, too, right?

2:04.1

Yep, he plays... that was awesome. Yeah. And of course,

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