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The Incomparable Mothership

336: You Had Me at 'Splorch'

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Comic book movies got you down? Too much of the same old thing? This episode has the cure for what ails you, as we pitch a bunch of great comics that we’d like to see get the big-screen treatment that would be guaranteed to enliven the genre. And maybe along the way, we’ll add to your comics reading list, too.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 336, January 2017.

0:09.0

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. I am your host, Jason Snell. We're here for a fun thing, sort of like a draft, but also sort of like a pitch session like like we did a while ago about TV reboots,

0:22.2

we're going to talk about comic book movies.

0:24.4

Now, the idea here is there have been a lot of comic book movies lately, especially superhero

0:28.0

movies.

0:28.9

And we, in our, in our conversations, not on the show, we talked a little bit about how

0:35.2

maybe they were all kind of samey, and it might be nice to see some different kinds of comic book-based films in the future.

0:45.9

And so we're just going to throw these ideas out there of comics that we would like to see made into movies and maybe some ideas of what those movies might be.

0:53.9

And so, yeah,

0:55.0

it's a little mini draft, little idea session joining me to share some ideas about comic book

1:01.8

movies that we would like to see. Are these fine people? I'm going to introduce them in the

1:07.3

order in which they're going to tell you their ideas.

1:13.9

First up, his first time on the incomparable, but you may have heard him.

1:16.7

He is the host of sophomore lit on this very network.

1:17.6

It's John McCoy.

1:18.4

Hello, John.

1:19.0

Welcome.

1:19.8

Hey, kids.

1:20.4

Yay. Comics.

1:21.1

It's good to Kay Kids Comics.

1:22.7

There's two exclamation points after all of those words, I think, in the spinner rack.

1:29.0

David J. Lour also here. Hello.

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