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HOLIDAY: Happy Thanksgiving from Major Spoilers

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Superman flies high in the 1940 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Superman stands 80-feet high, and his chest is 23-feet across.

If you are like us, you’ve already filled your belly with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. While I like fresh, homemade cranberry sauce, it was my grandfather who taught me you can appreciate cranberry sauce from a can. I also remember that after eating at my grandparents house as a kid we would all pass out in a Triptafen induced coma, until my grandmother called us all back to the table for pumpkin pie. I’m thankful that I had those times with them all those years ago. Today, I’m thankful for so many things (some of them you can hear in our Major Spoilers Podcast Network shows this week).

From all of us, to all of you, here’s hoping your holiday is a fun one.  And if you live outside the U.S.A. take a moment to give thanks to all the good things that have happened in 2013.

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Major Spoilers Costume Contest 2013: Meet the Entrants

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The entries are closed for the 7th Annual Major Spoilers Costume Contest, and I think this year features some of the best costumes we’ve ever received.  Take the jump for a look at all the entrants in this year’s contest!

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7th Annual Major Spoilers Costume Contest

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It’s October and that means summer is over and fall is here, and that means Halloween is just around the corner. We’re hoping you’ll celebrate our love of the holiday by entering the Annual Major Spoilers Costume Contest.

This is our seventh year sponsoring the contest, and we know YOU are going to make it even better than last year!

We want you, yes you, to send us pictures of your bad self dressed up as your favorite hero, villain, side-kick – really any comic book/pop culture character. The best costume will not only be hailed as the Grand Prize Winner in Major Spoilers’ 2013 Costume Contest, you’ll also get an awesome prize.

Take the jump for the info!

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Bonus Tracks: Back to the Future Now Available for VIPs

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It’s October, which means it’s time for another Bonus Tracks for Major Spoilers VIP Members. This month, Zach, Rob, Stephen, and Rodrigo sit down to provide commentary for Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, and directed by Robert Zemekis.

VIPs can download the latest release, right now!

If you are not a VIP Member, consider joining today. Not only will you get access to this installment of Bonus Tracks, but previous installments which include Star Wars: A New Hope and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 5: The Pickens County Horror and Others

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, it’s time to visit the world of Hellboy and see what the B.P.R.D. is up to.


B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 5: The Pickens County Horror and Others
Writers: Mike Mignola, Scott Allie
Artists: Jason Latour, Max Flumara, James Harren, Becky Cloonan
In these horrific tales showing the world going to hell, a reclusive vampire clan and a deadly mist create a disastrous mission for a trespassing B.P.R.D. crew; another team investigates an abandoned warehouse in Chicago, only to discover the site of a hundred-year-old magical ritual with shocking revelations about man’s prehistory; and Hellboy appears in a story about Professor O’Donnell’s trip to the secret library of a dead necromancer.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Wolverine by Claremont and Miller

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, an examination of Claremont and Miller’s Wolverine mini-series is in order.

Wolverine’s vacation from the X-Men is interrupted when he discovers that his beloved, Mariko Yashida, has been married off by her criminal father Lord Shingen! When Shingen humiliates Wolverine in front of Mariko, the hero loses heart, drowning his sorrows in beer, bar fights – and the arms of wild assassin Yukio. But when ninjas attack and betrayal strikes from a most unexpected source, can Wolverine reclaim his honor, and rescue Mariko and himself from the trap Shingen has drawn around them both?

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Zach on Film is missing this week

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During our recording of Zach on Film: Singin’ in the Rain, our computer system crashed.  When it was relaunched, the recording was still there, and everything looked fine.  Even after the evening’s recordings, the files were still present and accounted for, everything was saved, and we went about our Major Spoilers business.

Today, however, the story is a bit different. Now the system can’t find the audio files, and we’ve looked everywhere. It can find the audio files for the show we recorded immediately AFTER Zach on Film, but not the files for this episode.  This has only happened one or two other times in the history of our podcasts, and it bums us out each and every time. We won’t rerecord this discussion because most of the time the dynamic is lost.

So, no Zach on Film this week. It was an interesting discussion regarding a ’50s take on a ’20s story, and the fact that the entire song list in the movie had previously been released as singles, and the studio was simply looking for a way to tie it all together.  Zach received passing marks from everyone, and in the next installment we will look at Moulin Rouge that serves as a nice bookend to the musical genre.

 

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Essential Power Man and Iron Fist

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the panel goes back to the ’70s to exam what was great (or not so great) about Power Man and Iron Fist.

Essential Power Man and Iron Fist, Vol. 1
Writers: Chris Claremont, Jo Duffy, Steven Grant, Bob Layton
Artists: John Byrne, Greg LaRocque, Mike Zeck, Sai Buscema, Marle Severin
Publisher: Marvel Comics
A new era of greatness begins for the most unlikely team of all! From a Night of the Town to the Day of the Death Machines, Power Man and Iron Fist – Heroes for Hire – face the Living Monolith, El Aguila, the Maggia and more! Guest-starring the Uncanny X-Men and the Daughters of the Dragon! Collects Power Man and Iron Fist #50-72 and #74-75.

\As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section, drop us a voice mail by calling (785) 727-1939, or record your comments and send it as an MP3 file in an email to podcast@majorspoilers.com.

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Calvin and Hobbes

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This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, we continue or examination of newspaper strips with a look at Calvin and Hobbes.

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this edition includes all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans seek.

 

 

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On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952

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This week, Major Spoilers takes a look at Charles Schulz’s Peanuts.


This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to Peanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips from the series’ first two or three years have never been collected before — in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we’re all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members — Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus — initially show up as infants and only “grow” into their final “mature” selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Thus The Complete Peanuts offers a unique chance to see a master of the art form refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day, week by week, month by month.

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