The Incomparable Podcast, number 92, May 2012.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable Podcast.

I'm Jason Snell, your host.

And on this edition of The Incomparable, we're going to be talking about the summer blockbuster spectacular written and directed by TV's Joss Whedon.

It's The Avengers.

A wildly popular movie, rapidly ready to surpass every other movie ever made by anybody

except James Cameron as the greatest grossing movie of all time or something like that.

Marvel's culmination of years of plotting and planning that began with the little scene that

happened at the end of the credits of Iron Man.

The Avengers big hit this summer to kick off the summer movie season.

Here to discuss the matter are my guests, a fine panel, one of the finest ever assembled, in fact.

They're like my own little Avengers if I were Nick Fury.

So, hmm, who would be who? That's the question that I have

for myself. I'd like to introduce my very own Hawkeye, Dan Moran. Hi, Dan. Oh, man, I was really

rooting for Hawkeye. I'm pretty, I'm pretty psyched. I mean, he doesn't, you know, not last

your time, but I appreciate it. Thanks, Jason. Good to be here. I'm glad to have you here.

Also, joining me is my own Captain America himself, Ben Boychuk. Hi, Ben.

I kind of wanted to be Iron Man, but hello. You actually were a big fan of Iron Man.

Huge, yeah. All right, you can be Iron Man then. How about that?

Goody. You can be Iron Man. Oh, Dan, you could have been Iron Man too.

If I just, if I just argued for it. Pretty much. Yeah.

Yeah, Ben wanted it. I would not deprive him of that joy. Now, please welcome the Norse god of thunder, John Syracusa.

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