The ComicMix podcast is in the air!

The first ComicMix podcast is now available for your listening pleasure!

A three-times weekly feature here at ComicMix, broadcaster Mike Raub has produced our initial 12 minute program featuring news, features and interviews. A new podcast will be available every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday — today’s podcast includes a look at new comics that are available at your friendly neighborhood comics shop, and this will be a feature of every Tuesday program. Thursday’s programs will feature reviews and Saturday’s will include full-length interviews.

Also featured in today’s podcast are salient mutterings from Peter David, The Beatles, and ComicMix’s editor-in-chief, and a nostalgic look at comics and popular culture that people were enjoying this week, back in 1963 and 1971.  All this plus updates on Indiana Jones and The Flash.

We encourage you all to participate in our fun and games. Contact us with any questions or comments and when we’ve got our ComicMix message boards up and running, join Mike and the ComicMix crew in our online dialog!

Transcript

It's picking up a signal someone is broadcast ComicMix hi and welcome to the very first ComicMix podcast My name is Mike Raub for the next day on millennium or two I'll be bringing you these little bursts of fun just about three times every week They'll be downloadable on the site ComicMix calm and you'll be able to subscribe to the cast as well

It's really easy best of all like everything on ComicMix. It is absolutely free So this week we'll take a look back at a really big shoe We'll find out what happens when cool comics come out at midnight And the first time that funny books fell in love all for the podcast on February 13th 2007

So our first big question is what is ComicMix and who better to answer that question than ComicMix mastermind? my goal well ComicMix is Sort of the 21st century of comic books I know everybody sort of says that you know well comics is sort of stuck and that sort of thing But you know I don't want to see the comic book medium the comic art medium

Go the way the newspaper is going so the idea here is to provide readers with a one-stop experience where they can Participate in blogging or in commenting with the creators they can read new comics they can read Old comics they can get all the latest news and not only in terms of the comics field, but also in terms of the movies and television shows and music and other aspects of pop culture that most

Comics fans and comics readers are interested in we'll talk more with Mike and hear a whole bunch of his diabolical plans coming up This week in our Saturday podcast In a move that's signal to step forward for the direct market 150 comic book retailers participated in a special midnight release of Marvel's much anticipated Stephen King project Dark Tower a gunslinger-born those stores who took part were allowed to put the item on sale at 12 midnight

Tuesday evening last week and some celebrated with special sales or creator signings at New York's Midtown comics bitter cold temperatures Didn't stop hundreds of fans from lighting up including one guy who had a very specific reason for being there Peter David absolutely we've heard a few eels. He's a nice guy I love his writing Peter who adapted a project for Marvel was pretty pleased at the whole event himself You know midnight in in

Midtown Manhattan, and it's like about 20 below it feels like you know We've got some real hearty customers here have shown up, and I was I could not have been happier I Just days ago David Goyer announced He's off the movie adaptation of the flesh, but you know that job didn't stay open for long no pun intended

According to the Hollywood reporter Sean Levy the guy who put together night at the museum has stepped in as the new director for the Warner Brothers Project now again the reporter says that Levy's gonna oversee the writing of the new draft and believe that elements of Goyer script will be Used in the development process We wowed down the road Paramount Pictures has said Thursday May 22nd 2008 for the release of the next Indiana Jones movie the studio is officially referring to it now as the fourth installment of the Indiana

Jones adventures no other title given the picture maintains a Memorial Day weekend release strategy of the last two Indiana Jones movies And yes before you ask Harrison Ford is going to star You're the man I knew ten years ago It's the mileage What's coming out this is this week every week on our Tuesday podcast?

We're gonna run down a list of some of the big things are gonna be coming out that week now We should tell you right up front This is not a list of everything coming out and some stores may get some items and some may not Our job is to try and point out some things you should be aware of and give you a 24-hour head start to run to Look this week for another issue of Star Wars legacy number eight from Dark Horse from DC 52 of course continues with issue

41 and Batman number 663 is out another collection actually another printing of Batman the greatest stories ever told a wonderful collection of Dark Knight stories is out this week One of the final issues of the boys number seven comes from DC as well as gen 13 number five green arrow number 71 Green Lantern Corps number 9 JLA classified 34 and the third issue of Justice Society of America right along with the variant cover Martian manhunter checks in with number seven and manhunter at number 28 don't get those confused

Omak wraps up with number eight the last of that miniseries Sandman Mystery Theatre sleep of the reason number three comes along as well as a huge volume of Aquaman stories great great stuff It's showcase presents Aquaman all the early stories in one volume from DC Aquaman you cannot marry a woman without deals You from two different words

Tales of the unexpected is at number five trials of Shazam is also in at number five Coming along from Devil's Dew is Forgotten Realms the streams Which is an excellent book a lot of people have talked about it premieres with its first issue From dynamic Battlestar Galactica's Eric the second issue of that is out from image cast in over number seven fear agent number 11 And another issue the invincible number 39 come along and then over to Marvel for amazing spider girl number five

Astonishing X-Men is soon to be wrapped up without Joss. It comes in right now though with number 20 Avengers Earth's mightiest heroes to number six is along blade number six an issue of Civil War the next to the last issue Number six is here along with Civil War casualties of war Exiles number 91 ghost writer number eight the director's cut of the immortal iron fist number one You might want to check out also new Excalibur number 16 new X-Men number 35 next wave agents of hate number 12

Punisher presents Barracuda max first of a five issue miniseries there a collection of those secret war stories Holland one trade paperback this week sensational spider-man 35 Thunderbolts number 111 and ultimate X-Men number 79 as well as Wolverine origins number 11 And if you're going to toy fair just real interested in the course action figures and whatever There's a great issue of toy fair coming out this week with the Transformers movie cover. You're not gonna want to miss that's issue number

116 Alright we're also gonna keep you a little praise of the things that are not coming out things that might be late that you're looking for So you're not too disappointed Here's a couple of them this week rush city number five and the team Titans around the world trade paperback from DC Those have been delayed till next week February 21st

100 bullets number 81 has been moved to the 28th of February and dead man number seven as well as Jla number six will be coming out on the 7th of March. We'll let you know. There's any more updates there ComicMix ComicMix timeline February 13 1964 it was kind of a mixed bag when we hit the drugstore after school this week the human torch met spider-man in amazing Spider-man number eight Hulk and Submariner hung out together in Avengers number three waiting for Captain America to show up a month later

And over in Lois Lane She was that kind of in a family way in Lois Lane number 46 with a story called Lois's outlaw son The Dark Knight did that crossing over thing in the ghost of Batman of world's finest number 139 But the biggest thrill was finding a hawk man smack dab on the cover of mystery in space number 89 On TV this weekend. We settle down watching CBS just to see if lightning could strike

Live from Miami Beach the Ed Sullivan show And now from the stage of the doville hotel here he is Ed Sullivan You Know So very nice to be here

Thank you Ralph runnicks for that very nice intro and now this has happened again last Sunday on our show in New York The Beatles played to the greatest TV audience that's ever been assembled in the history of American TV Now tonight here in Miami Beach again the Beatles face our record-busting audience Ladies and gentlemen here are four of the nicest junkies we've ever had on our stage Thank you, thank you very much

I can do February 13th 1971 well we ran to the store to grab the second issue of Kirby's forever people this week We couldn't get enough of that Green Lantern and Green Arrow met some kids who looked a lot like Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in Green Lantern number 83

And we felt all grown up sliding away from the comic book rack and over to the men's Magazines to buy a copy of Savage Tales number one from Marvel Meanwhile on the radio a bunch of corn fed kids from the Midwest hit the charts It was a guilty pleasure that we still kind of like I know we tapped a beat to it. It's the osmond ComicMix mailbag all right click on the icon. Let's see what we got this week from Genzo hotdog at gmail.com

Thanks for writing Genzo and Genzo says I know superhero comics were big in the Golden Age followed by science fiction and war comics But what about romance titles when did they come along? Well Genzo was the post-war period Superhero comics were kind of dropping in sales and publishers were scrambling to try and find something to replace them It seemed that at the time a number of adult women were major consumers of comics

That's a little different and the closest thing in the genre at that time of course was Archie and his many clones that have premiered a couple of years earlier The idea of a comic version of the popular radio soap opera was actually conceived by two of Comics most well-known artists and writers of any time period these men kicked off a book called Young Romance in 1947 soon to be followed by a second title called Young Love and then every other publisher jumped on the bandwagon

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Yeah, the guys who created Captain America and so much more a decade earlier premiered the very first romance comic by the mid 1950s Pretty much every publisher was churning these things out by the ton But by the end of the 70s the very last titles published by DC Comics faded away today There aren't really romance comics in that particular form, but you got to admit relationship comics like strangers in paradise kind of fit the bill

Genzo, thank you for your question. You can ask us anything you'd like to it's real easy Just whip it along the podcast at ComicMix calm and for more information on Joe Simon Jack Kirby Romance comics or even strangers in paradise. Just search right here ComicMix calm. Thank you. You've been a wonderful audience and good night Good night. Good night

That does it for a Tuesday podcast Thanks a lot for coming along a lot of big things coming up probably in less than 48 hours next time we get together We're gonna premiere our brand new review staff a whole bunch of people who have a whole lot of things to say about a whole bunch of comics that you may or may not agree with and then coming up after that on Saturday We talked more to my goal to unveil more of the secrets behind ComicMix

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