448: Icon (Milestone Comics)
Geek History Lesson
Jason Inman
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Actually, I have a feeling that a lot of people are listening to this podcast right now and |
| 0:17.7 | they have no idea who the superhero icon is or about the importance of the 1990s company |
| 0:25.5 | Milestone comic books. So for those people, because of course I'm going to go into detail on all |
| 0:31.4 | those, but for those people, what would you say to them about the importance of icon and the |
| 0:36.7 | importance of the 1990s Milestone comics run? 1990s Milestone comics is for comic books, what, |
| 0:46.4 | to make a very lazy comparison, rap music is for a black audience in music. It is black creators |
| 0:53.3 | telling black stories of black excellence in a superhero setting. And icon is the face of that. |
| 0:59.8 | And it comes with the Superman of that. Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | Because the Superman analog of that universe. And the level of care and intelligence with which |
| 1:09.0 | this whole universe is crafted is like beyond beyond anything else that was being done at the time. |
| 1:15.0 | I didn't know about icon. If you go back, I don't know what episode it is, but you can hear me being |
| 1:19.1 | taught about icon by Jason hearing Geek history lesson. I think Milestone is starting to get it to |
| 1:24.1 | do in comic book history. And I'm so glad that we're going to get a chance to dive into it. |
| 1:28.6 | And that's a perfect place to bring this Geek history lesson to session. Hello and welcome |
| 1:33.1 | to Geek history lesson. I am Jason. I stand at the altar of Dewey McDuffie Inman. |
| 1:37.5 | I am actually Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto |
| 1:42.9 | the podcast where we take one character construct or super powered being from popular culture and |
| 1:48.4 | teach you everything you need to know about them in about an hour. I think that was my favorite of |
| 1:52.0 | your middle names to date. And I'm like I said, like no joke. I'm I'm hyped that we're doing icon |
| 1:58.2 | today. Well, we're talking about icon. The Milestone comics and technically DC comics character. |
| 2:03.1 | He is one of my favorite superheroes. He is one of the most important black superheroes that have |
| 2:08.2 | ever been written that has ever existed. And I want to give a quick shout out here because |
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