This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew pick up the second volume of Maus by Art Spiegelman. From Library Journal Spiegelman’s Maus, A Survivor’s Tale (Pantheon, 1987) was a breakthrough, a comic book that gained widespread mainstream attention. The primary story of that book and of this sequel is the experience of Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, a Polish Jew who survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany during World War II. This story is framed by Spiegelman’s getting the story from Vladek, which is in turn framed by Spiegelman’s working on the book after his father’s death and suffering…
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We all love Science Fiction movies, and the Sci-Fi SyFy Channel does a bang up job with cranking out some of the strangest original sci-fi movies we’ve ever seen. Take Sharktopus and Gatoroid for example; a giant alligator and a shark-octopus hybrids. Champions both, showcasing the pinnacle of movie storytelling. But it does bring up an interesting question; If Gatoroid and Sharktopus were put in a tank to fight it out to the death, who would win? FIGHT! [poll id=”171″]
Comics can be fun, and comics can be serious. This week, the Major Spoilers crew takes a look at Maus by Art Spiegelman. From the Wiki: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek’s life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek’s later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City. The work is a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. It is the only…
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew of three take a look at I Kill Giants from Image Comics. It’s a story about a girl who’s a bit of an outsider – she’s smart-assed and funny, but totally in our geekland: she’s obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons, she doesn’t have a lot of friends, she’s a bit of a social misfit. She’s taken her fantasy life a little far, and really only talks about giants to people. She’s convinced that giants are real and giants are coming, and it’s her responsibility to stop them when they show up.…
When it comes to parody that goes to the next level, The Venture Brothers show that you don’t have to be a one gimmick show to make something work right… or something. This week, the powers that be have taken Race Bannon and tossed him in the ring with Brock Samson to see which will make it out alive. VOTE! [poll id=”169″]
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew takes a look at Okko: The Cycle of Water from Archaia. The Cycle of Water was originally published as a two-issue mini-series by Delcourt in 2005, and has been reprinted by Archaia Studios Press as a four-issue mini-series (2006–2007). The year is 1108 in the official calendar of the Pajan Empire. Far from the fields of battle, Okko the ronin heads a small group of demon hunters, wandering the realms of Empire. He is accompanied by Noburo, a mysterious giant who hides his face behind a red oni mask, and the…
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew take a gander at Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1. From 1983 through 1987, a young British writer named Alan Moore revolutionized the American comic book. His groundbreaking tenure on DC Comics’ SWAMP THING set new standards for graphic storytelling and touched off a revolution in the medium that is still expanding today. Building on the title’s framework of gothic horror with a remarkably intuitive narrative style and an unprecedented depth of characterization, Moore’s vision was realized through the hauntingly beautiful artwork of such collaborators as Stephen Bissette,…
There are a number of comic book movies headed to the big screen this summer. The studios are trying to grab your dollars, and here’s your chance to give them an idea of what movie you are most looking forward to seeing. VOTE! [poll id=”167″]
On the next Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew takes a look at Tim Seeley’s Hack/Slash: My First Maniac from Image Comics. Hack/Slash: My First Maniac explores 16-year-old Cassie Hack’s first case – she’s been forced to kill her mother, the undead murderer known as the Lunch Lady! Now faced with overwhelming guilt, she must decide if she can make a life with her foster parents and at her new school or if she should use her new-found slasher killing skills to save other screaming teenagers! But does the apple fall far from the tree? As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast…
We’re all trying to be better stewards of the planet at Major Spoilers, but sometimes trying to be green leads to a bit of conflict – especially when Marvel and DC are involved. This week it is the battle of the creatures from the bog; Swamp Thing and Man-Thing. VOTE! [poll id=”166″]
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew returns to discuss all things comic book related, and dive into Top Cow’s Aphrodite IX trade paperback. Aphrodite IX Trade Paperback collects issues #1-4 of the series of the same name as well as the hard to find issue #0 plus incredible bonus art by Marc Silvestri (Civil War: The Initiative, Hunter-Killer), Joe Benitez (Supergirl), and Michael Turner (Superman/Batman, Ultimate Wolverine). Aphrodite IX is the perfect weapon, only she doesn’t know it. She’s programmed to kill and then erases all memory of her mission and her former life, like a reset…
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2010 is officially over, and we can now sit down and look back at the year that was. This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew pick their best and worst moments, news items, comics, movies, and whatever else pops into their heads of the past year. As always, the Major Spoilers Podcast is nothing without comments from great readers and listeners like you. You can use the comment section below, 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. Here’s…
As the year draws to a close, it is time once again to reflect on the year ending and prepare to move forward. We’ve had many success (Critical Hit, The Major Spoilers Store, increase in writing staff, more special features, to name a few), and many headaches over the past year (site crashes, increased costs due to server moves, writers moving on, databases going bonk for the so science could make a move forward). We’ve mentioned multiple times that Major Spoilerites are free to offer up their suggestions for what they want to see from Major Spoilers. Now is the…