The Pull Bag – Episode 03 – The Origins of Steve & Mike’s Comic Reading

Welcome to The Pull Bag. Join us as we dig out

our latest comics and discuss them with the rotating

panel of the GCRN crew. So sit back and enjoy

this week's Pull Bag. Hello, and welcome to The

Pull Bag, Episode 3. I'm your host, Steve Megatron

Phillips, and joining me is... DFT1 Mike. As

per usual. Yes, as per usual. We're going to

be doing something a little bit different. Different.

Shut up, Gollum. He steals it from us. That's

a little bit different. I've been trying to come

up with ways to not only... I mean, the podcast

has only had technically four episodes, if you

count the zero episodes, but it's only had three

episodes. And I've been trying to come up with

ideas of how we can do stuff differently besides

just doing review episodes where myself and you

or you and someone else or me and someone else

talk about comics. And I have this idea of every

time we bring in someone new, of course, now

that people have heard Episode 2 with JT and

I, I'm going to have to go back and do this with

him, where we interview each other about how

we get into comics. Obviously, with you and I,

we would interview each other here tonight, but

in the future, it would be me, after I've already

told my story here, it would be me interviewing

the other host. just so the listeners can get

a background of how all the different hosts that

will be on the poll bag got into comics and what

they read and what they enjoy and what they don't

like, what they do like. We'll also be having

episodes dedicated to story arcs, such as Dark

Knight Returns, Year One, all those classics.

Those are just the first two that pop in my head,

but we're going to have consistently different

episodes. besides the review episodes that we'll

be doing, because I don't want this to just be,

hey, it's another week or another month, and

here's another review episode, even though I'm

sure people would be interested to hear what

we have to say about the stuff we're reading.

I want to make the show as diverse as I can.

Yes. Yes. So, Steve, how old were you when you

first got into comics? Let me see. It was...

I was probably four years old when I got into

comics. And I think that it started out, my mom

used to go to the bookstore all the time. And

as a way to encourage my reading, and my dad

did this as well whenever we happened to go somewhere,

we would pick up comic books. And my mom got

me into G .I. Joe comic books and Star Trek comic

books. While my dad got me into Batman Detective

Comics and a few other Batman lines, I remember

my G .I. Joe issue. It was the Marvel Comics

run. It was the issue 131, I want to say. There

was no Cobra Commander in there at that time

because he was missing for whatever reason. But

that was one of my first issues of G .I. Joe.

My Star Trek, I think I started around issue

40 -something. And the Batman, the Detective

comics, I started in the very beginning, or actually

just before the Nightfall saga kicked in. Which

was... Very dark for a kid. Yeah. Actually, all

of those comics were dark for a kid. Yeah. Yeah,

comics in the 80s, you know, comics when we were

growing up. They're still dark, but even the

art back then, I got to watch the Riddler get

hit with, you know, venom bullets and bleed.

Yeah, I mean, the art, And when I say this, I'm

not saying that any of the artists on anything

that either one of us have read, I'm not saying

the art's bad, but the art in some books has

always been really dark. At least with DC books.

Specifically, obviously, Batman books, they have

to be dark. It's Batman, for Christ's sake. I

mean, that's just the way it is. I haven't read

a lot of Superman stuff, but... From what I have

seen with Superman in it, it's a lot, obviously,

more brighter because Metropolis is more the

city of tomorrow than Gotham is the underbelly

of today. But yeah, I mean, there really hasn't...

Every single artist's style is different, but

I remember reading Spider -Man books in the 90s

and just reading them now, it's... It's almost

as if nothing has changed with art. I mean, as

I said, the styles are always different. Sometimes

the lines on a certain character might be drawn

differently. But I don't know. It's just weird.

Oh, and I forgot. One of my other comic series

that I got started in was Batman the Animated

Series. Oh, sweet. Yes. I've actually managed

to recollect the first ten issues, which I had

since sold off. But yeah, comics are what pumped

me into not only watching the shows, but also

collecting the figures and also getting into

reading in general. Yeah. We've had two very

different upbringings, apparently. For those

that don't know, Steve and I are six years apart.

I am six years his senior. Old man. What'd you

say? I said old man. Damn right. Get off my lawn.

For me, growing up, reading was obviously very

important. But it was more so books and novels.

And obviously when I was younger, like three,

four, five, it was more so like Berenstain Bears

and, you know, like children's books, that kind

of stuff. And then I graduated to like the Hardy

Boys Case Files. And eventually I got around

to like Dean Kuntz and John Grisham and all that.

Like comics were something that I would go into

a Walden bookstore. For those of you who remember

Walden Bookstores, they stole my gift certificate,

bastards. They were in pretty much every suburban

shopping mall that you could think of. I remember

going in there, and I remember looking at comics,

and it was back in those days, 88, 89, 90. That

was before the whole big boom of... Borders and

Books A Million and Barnes & Noble, like the

really big bookstores with all these cafes, and

you can just go in and read a book without even

having to go in and buy it. Back then, sure,

I could stand there and I could thumb through

an issue at Walden Books, but Walden Books wasn't

one of those bookstores you have today where

a Barnes & Noble might be 5 ,000, 6 ,000 square

feet, maybe larger, you know? The aisles are

all spread out and everything else. Walden Books

was large, but it wasn't that large, but it was

also cramped. Think of it as the KB Toys of books.

I could see that. It wasn't so cramped as KB

was, but it wasn't overtly... There wasn't a

lot of space. So back in those days, it wasn't

like you just go in, you read something, and

then you leave. You go in, you see what you want.

Everybody always says, oh, don't judge a book

by its cover. Everybody does that. I know, but

the thing is, judging a book by its cover, at

least in the actual sense of the line of looking

at a book or a comic or magazine, whatever, back

in those days, You went in, you bought something

because you liked the cover, or you didn't buy

something because you didn't care for what, say,

the magazine said on the front of it or whatever.

You know what I mean? It's one of those things

where it's not like it is now, where you can

just go in, read the entire thing, and not even

have to pay for it. Because that's what the library

was for back in the olden days. That was what

that was for. You go in, you sit down, you read

a book, and then you leave. And I remember one

of the reasons, because I didn't get into comics

until I was, I think I mentioned this before.

I read a Batman graphic novel, and I don't remember

what it was. It was super dark. It was very,

very, I don't think it was The Dark Knight Returns.

This was somewhere around probably 89, 90. Was

it No Man's Land? It might have been. I honestly

do not remember. All I know is the thing was

at least 100 and something pages. And the art

was, as we just said, the art was so dark. I

couldn't even finish the book. I just couldn't.

And like you said with Batman the Animated Series,

for me, I loved Batman the Animated Series as

a kid. By the time I got... down here to Kentucky

in 93, my then -stepmother said, oh, that's too

violent. You can't watch that. Ha ha. Stuck up.

Anyway. You know, so then I graduated to watching

Spider -Man and X -Men and whatever. Well, I

was already watching. That's the funny thing.

They let me watch X -Men, but they wouldn't let

me watch Batman. It makes no sense. You know,

I watched X -Men and Spider -Man and all the

Marvel cartoons, and the Marvel cartoons is really

what made me go look at, like, really look at

all the books to see what comics they had out.

I remember I was reading a couple issues of Amazing

Spider -Man and back then, comics. Anywhere from

$0 .75 to $1 .75 per issue, just depending on

what it was. Whereas today, they're usually anywhere

from $2 .99 to $10, just depending on what it

is. Usually the average issue is $2 .99 or $3

.99. But yeah, I mean, the cartoons is what really

kind of got me into it, but I never really was

like... oh my you were hardcore into it oh no

no no no no um not at all what about you you

you seem like you were once your parents introduced

you you seemed like you were like oh my god let's

do this yeah i the funny thing about it is i

i had so many lines going It was ridiculous.

I had tried multiple different series. For instance,

I had... Back in those days, comics were $1 .50,

$1 .75 at most. It was pretty $2. They were still

affordable. Nowadays, it's sick. You can buy

a gallon of milk cheaper than you can buy a comic.

Which is saying a lot. Or a gallon of gas. sometimes

cheaper than a comic. That's even more sad. But

I had a few issues of Star Wars, a few Ren and

Stimpy, a few Sonic the Hedgehog, a few... I

had a couple X -Men. It ranged pretty much all

over the place, and I had gotten my first Transformers

comic by proxy of the... generation 2 line that

came out in the gi joe comic and i saw these

robots and i'm like what the heck are these i'm

like this is awesome because you see optimus

prime you see bumblebee you see steel jaw chase

hotspot megatron and i'm like who are these guys

and so i of course that's what started my fascination

with Transformers because I saw it happen in

there and then as I started to collect comics

I found another line that Transformers started

through G .I. Joe back in the 80s and I was that

was another line that I collected heavily G .I.

Joe I started to kind of wane into like I started

quitting around like issue 160 something and

I kept Batman up for a while. I kept the Detective

Comics. I kept the animated series through almost

issue 40 from issue one. And I pretty much, I

got burnout on a lot of them other than Batman

and Transformers. And I kept going with them.

I kept collecting all the Marvel Comics line

of it. I did have a few select issues of random

stuff. I even had some Spider -Man up until recent,

which I unloaded because I wanted to collect

more Batman again. Right, yeah. But yeah, I mean,

it's crazy the differences between not only cost,

but in what I collected then and what I collect

now. Oh, yeah. I think partially... I think every

comic shop does this. I could be wrong. At least

as far as I know, most comic shops, if you do

their pull list or holds account or whatever

else, they offer you a certain... It's usually

a 15 % discount. I get that. You don't even have

to hold anything. Okay, well... I'm lucky. I'm

just saying the point of the holds account or

the... the pull list account or whatever else

is that, you know, you, they, they'll set aside

books so you don't have to, you know, go in and,

Oh my God, where's this week's issue? Holy crap.

Did you sell it? It's kind of like me when I

went in looking for amazing Spider -Man 700 a

week after it got released. Yeah. That wasn't

going to be there, you know? Um, but you know,

there are advantages to that and you know, you

just go in and you just say, Hey, I want to get

whatever's in my folder or whatever else, and

boom, there you go. I think it's something like,

for a $3 .99 book, it's a $0 .60 discount. I

think it's something like $3 .39, and I think

it's $2 .54 for ones that are $2 .99. I don't

know. It's something like that. Yeah, for me,

I wasn't really hardcore into comics. I like

comics. I respect what they are. You know, but

it wasn't until... It wasn't until this... Well,

last year, actually. The end of last year, October

2012. You're like, yeah, the Joker's coming back

to Batman in the new 52. I'm like, what? Because

they brought back... an amalgamation of the Jason

Todd storyline title, Death in the Family. Scott

Snyder and Greg Capolo are doing, or they were

doing, Death of the Family. And I had to read

this, just like you. I'm not as, I don't have

such a hard -on for the Joker like you do, but

I do love the character. I think he's great,

and every time I read him, I hear Mark Hamill

in my head. But it's one of those things where,

oh my god, I need to read this. And I read the

13 and 14 and they were awesome for Batman. I

got to 15 and it was all exposition. And I couldn't

stand Damian Wayne and whatever else. 17 was

the climax. 16 was the penultimate and then 17

was the climax. I'm still going to be reading

Batman. It was sadly anticlimactic. Pretty much,

yeah. Like, I was expecting something to the

point of, like, something to change. And the

one thing that did change was they did something

I actually liked, except they did it in the wrong

book. Over in Batman Incorporated number 8, they

killed Damian Wayne, for now. But they killed

Damian Wayne. Why couldn't that have happened

in Batman 17? I have no idea. But, yeah, right

now I am pretty much full into comics, you know,

as an adult. And there's so much now that I really

want to read because I haven't really, like,

I stopped reading books a long time ago. I just

did, like, not. at books isn't comics, but as

like, like John Grisham and all, I don't know.

I'll pick up a book every now and then I may

have one or two book series that I read that

are like once, like an author releases once every

couple of years, but I don't read many books

as much as I used to as in my younger days. But

now it's like, Oh my God, comics. I have to read

these stories. Um, right now I'm collecting Nightwing,

Batman, Batgirl. When they start up, I will be

collecting the new DC Ongoing Masters of the

Universe and Transformers Prime Beast Hunters.

I've gotten Batman Arkham City, Batman Gates

of Gotham, currently collecting the Superior

Spider -Man over at Marvel, so I've got a lot

of comics I'm reading. And it is expensive. Holy

crap. Yeah, especially with, like you said before,

$2 .99 to $3 .99, sometimes $4 .99. They're ridiculous

in some degrees. Like myself, I got out of comics,

actually, quite a few years ago. I would say

probably around 2005. Mostly due to the fact

that I'd spent a lot of money collecting all

of these and I ran out of money. I was screwed

on a job. I had nothing to pay for gas or anything

else for that matter. So I was selling off a

lot of my collection of toys and comics. And

unfortunately, my Batman Nightfall in its entirety,

the animated series. My Transformers, other than

G2, because I managed to still keep those because

they were only like 12 issues. But I'd say a

good majority of my comics I sold for very, very

low and sad prices just so that I could have

cash to pay for things. Even now, when I go into

the comic shop, even this many years later, some

of those issues still sit there for an ungodly

amount of money that will never go anywhere.

So I take great pride in knowing that my comics

will never sell. Even though they've marked them

up outrageously. But then when I heard of various

rumblings of, you know, they killed Batman, I

started torrenting files because I couldn't afford

to buy the comics. And I wanted to know why did

they kill the Batman? And of course, how? And

so I downloaded all of them right ahead. And

then I discovered this magical thing called the

New 52. To which I decided my ass needed to own.

I went out and bought all of the Batman issue

ones. At the time. Yeah. And I still have them.

Wait, wait, wait. You mean all the various number

ones, not just Batman number one with alternate

covers, right? Yes. Yeah, I can't afford that.

Okay. But I went out and bought Detective one,

Batman one, the Dark Knight one, a couple of

the other ones. I, for whatever reason, forgot

completely about the comics. I don't know what

happened, but I just did. I think I was too busy

trying to build my Batman Beyond Joker at that

point. So I got that. I went back to it around,

I'd say, some of them around issue 6 or 7, maybe

even 8. And then I heard about, you know, oh,

the Joker's return and managed to score a review

copy from DC. And that reinvigorated my need

to collect. I went back out. And of course, I've

dropped a couple lines since then. I was collecting

every Batman line. And then I decided that Batman

Inc., I didn't really care. Batman Beyond, it's

kind of hit or miss for me because they have,

as we discussed in the last episode, we did one

for the Batman ones on GCR that they cut too

many different storylines. And it kind of annoyed

me. So it's hit or miss there. And then Batman

Robin, same reason as you, couldn't really stand

Damien. Didn't really see a reason for collecting

all the different bat books. The Dark Knight,

same thing. So I just stuck with Detective, regular

Batman. And now I'm collecting Injustice Guides

Among Us, which was a happy accident. I was like,

oh, it's only going to last a few issues. And

I'm like, fucking hell, I'm stuck in it now.

But it's so good. It takes everybody and... like

perverts their characters to a totally different

end that you would not expect yeah the first

two issues of injustice gods among us did more

with characters that we know from the bat books

than death of the family did at all in its five

or six issue run i don't get me wrong like i've

said before on gcr and i've said it here in the

pull bag that I love Scott Snyder's writing.

I just wish he would pull the trigger and do

something that no one thinks is going to happen.

I have to agree. I love his writing. Don't get

me wrong. I enjoyed pretty much from Batman 13

to 17, because as of this recording, 18 has not

come out yet, or it will come out soon. I enjoy

his writing, but... I was expecting more. I was

expecting death. Yes. That's, yeah. Not just

the Joker falling into an abyss in the Batcave.

Yeah. It was sadly anticlimactic. And Batman

tricked him into killing himself, essentially.

But, you know, he's not dead. So... But, yeah.

In any case, I like the Injustice Guides Among

Us. I... I will continue to collect that Batman

Beyond. Like I said, I'll probably keep going

back to it. It just kind of depends what the

story arc is or who's involved. Like I had special

interest because Wayne is kind of somewhat jumping

back into it a little bit. And you have Grayson

in there and you have Drake. And so it's kind

of interesting seeing their old selves. Kind

of jumping back into, not the suits, but into

the battle. Right. I'm hoping, I don't know,

I'm going to have to email a buddy of mine and

ask him about this. I'm hoping, and I said this

on the GCR episode, I'm hoping that Batman Beyond

Unlimited, the 10 ,000 clowns trade paperback,

will have all of the just the Batman Beyond stories

and not... The Superman or the Justice League

Beyond stories. Because I really do want to get

that trade paperback. I want to be able to read

Batman Beyond Unlimited from the very first issue

in that. And the 10 ,000 Clowns trade paperback

contains the first 13 issues of that series.

So that way, once I get it, I think it comes

out in April or May. Once I get it, I can be

caught up and then I can kind of go back to 14

or 15. I can kind of continue from on there because

it's very rare for me to see a trade paperback

that holds that many issues of the beginning

part of a series. I don't think I ever see that.

Yeah. I just hope DC's website is not wrong when

it says collects 1 to 13 because that's going

to be awesome. The other thing I've been getting

back into, or the one thing that I've been really

noticing now is the Transformers comics. I started

with the Transformers Prime Rage of the Dinobots

four -issue miniseries. And then, as I said before,

once the continuation of that, which is the ongoing

series, Transformers Prime Beast Hunters, starts

in May, I'll be reading that. Right now, I'm

probably going to end up going back and getting

the current ongoing More Than Meets the Eye in

trade because there's three volumes, Volume 1,

Volume 2, and Volume 3 comes out in a couple

of months. Because one of my friends on Twitter,

Ender, from Radio Free Cybertron said, Oh my

god, that's the creepiest origin of Shockwave

ever. I don't think I could ever... see anything

like that ever again or read anything like that

ever again. So now I have to go get that because

now I need to find out what kind of origin they

gave Shockwave. But yeah, I'm pretty much hooked.

And like I said in other podcasts, I pretty much

traded toys for comics. Like, sure, I'm sure

if a book series like Batman or Spider -Man or

something that I'm reading that... That takes

a turn that I don't care to read anymore. I can

just stop. You know, it's not that big of a deal.

But yeah, I mean, I'm pretty much full swing

into this stuff. I don't read everything, obviously.

And for me, it's like, what characters matter

to me? And the reason why I'm reading Spider

-Man at all now is because of how... Amazing

Spider -Man ended, and I like how they went in

a completely different and new direction. And

that's why I'm reading the Superior Spider -Man

now. Batman, I just want to see what happens.

Nightwing, I love so far. I love Kyle Higgins'

writing in that, and I love all the art that's

being done over there. I think we all love Batman.

We all, for the most of us that grew up in the

80s and 90s, loved Kevin Conroy voicing Batman

or Lauren Lester voicing Robin, Dick Grayson,

Nightwing, whatever, what have you. But the thing

is, I find myself more relating to Nightwing

in the comics than Batman at this point. To reach

their own. Well, no, no, no, I'm not saying I

like... I'm not saying I'm liking Nightwing more.

I'm saying as far as a character, I find myself

relating to Dick Grayson more because Bruce Wayne

Batman, he's what, 40, 50 years old? They rebooted

him. He's actually in his younger... 30s or so.

I don't know. It's just like everything I've

seen and read about Batman... Up to now, both

in comics and in animation, it's like, okay,

Batman's the standard. Nightwing is kind of like,

hey, I need to prove myself to be able to live

up to the standard. That's why I liked Gates

of Gotham so much, because it's Dick Grayson

as Batman. And it was just a really, really interesting

story. I can see that. So going forward... Is

there anything that you've seen other than the

Batman stuff that you really want to read? I

wish Transformers had something worth me wanting

to get. I only say that because I used to collect

Transformers. I want the Regeneration one only

for the fact I used to collect the Transformers

comics. And it continues the storyline that was

kind of left hanging because Marvel and Hasbro

decided, oh, let's go in a different direction.

and it kind of pissed off a lot of people. But

then they went G2, and for some it sucked, for

others it was great. But I'm interested in that

because it's the same writers, it's the same

art style, it's just in modern day. So I'm interested

in that. The only other thing I wish is... I'm

kind of waiting to see what happens with some

other lines in the future. I'd like to collect

more Batman stuff, but I'm not quite sure. I

don't want to just collect all of them just to

collect them. I want, because of the storyline

or because of the art or whatever, that's why

I had to limit myself down to... Batman Detective

Comics and then some Batman Beyond and then The

Injustice Gods. But I'm not saying I wouldn't

pick up some of the other ones if it were an

overarching thing like Death of the Family whereas

I'm slowly as I can going to my used shop and

picking them all up. But it's definitely I've

been trying and hoping that some new stuff...

Maybe like a Beast Wars. Maybe IDW could lose

Transformers and somebody else could get it.

I'm not a fan of IDW at all. I would do Turtles

2 as well, but I don't have the extra funds.

I would like to, because I do like Turtles. But

I think I'd be more apt to go after the animated

series ones. And I do have to say the Transformers

Prime stuff, comic -wise, does look enticing.

Whereas the G1 -ish stuff, their original stories,

I don't care for all that much. I'm sure they're

good now, but I just can't get past... I'm not

a fan of the art, even though some of it's similar.

And I'm not a fan of the writing. I liked the

Beast Wars run. Wish they would have done more

with it, but it is what it is. But I think that

their Regeneration 1 and the Prime are pretty

much the only thing I can see worth going towards

Transformers for. G .I. Joe, on the other hand,

I'm interested, but I don't want to spend the

extra money. So it's Batman for life for me.

For me, it really depends. Like, okay, Gates

of Gotham, I would never sell. Like, I have that

book now. Someone got that for me for my birthday

this year. I would never sell that book because

I can always go back and read it and read it

with a new, you know, with new eyes. And even

though I've reread it a couple of times, it's

still an amazing, amazing story. I think if and

whenever I do get something like The Dark Knight

Returns or... year one or something, something

that is one of those seminal Batman works, I'd

probably read it. And then honestly, not saying

that this is a bad, not, I've never read those

books, so I can't, I'm not going to sit here

and judge them, but I would probably, after I

read them, I would probably take them back to

the comic shop and say, hey, can I get, you know,

credit for these so I can get other stuff that

I want to read. I guess only time will tell if

I do that or not, depending on if the stories

blow me away. And I'm not saying that they wouldn't.

I'm just saying that I just don't know yet about

that stuff. I just know that the current stuff

is what I'm most interested in as far as the

DC stuff goes. But yeah, I mean, that's pretty

much it. You know, as I've said before, I went

from... You know, most of last year up until

October, nine months out of 2012, I went from

no comics to basically reading seven monthly

issues. So, yeah. It's all your fault, you bastard.

Yes, I'm the bastard. Yes, yes you are. I got

you into comics and now you are stuck there.

Yes. Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much where

our backgrounds come from comics or not from

comics or whatever else. I guess we'll jump to

a quick ad break and we'll come back to close

the show after this. This is 80s Action Sensation.

I'm Schwarzenegger. And I'm here to tell you

about the podcast I produce called Punisher Body

Count. It's Danette's best Punisher podcast.

But don't take my word for it. Listen to the

hosts. Punisher Body Count is a work in progress.

To listen to this great show, you can find this

on iTunes. Just search Punisher Body Count or

come to our website, PunisherBodyCount .com.

Hey, I'm Gary. I'm Mike. I'm Chuck. And I'm Justin.

Join the four of us every week on the Internet's

number one and longest -running G .I. Joe podcast,

What's On Joe Mind? It's Joe news, reviews, and

interviews like you've never heard them before,

delivered right to your MP3 player. Our guests

include Jason Marsden, Kevin Michael Richardson,

and Matt Yang King from G .I. Joe Renegades,

Larry Hama, Robert Atkins, and John Barber from

IDW Publishing, and many more from around the

online Joe community. Yeah, it's guys talking

about Joe. Think of it as Joe Talk meets Sports

Talk. And we make fun of Chuck. Right, and we,

hey, again? Come on, Chuck. We're just kidding,

kinda. Sometimes Chuck makes fun of himself.

Right, and we, okay, seriously, this is just

getting ridiculous now. It's What's On Joe Mind,

every week on the Geekcast Radio Network, InsidePulse

.com, Stitcher Smart Radio, and iTunes. Download

and listen today. I suppose I still can't say

something about Transformers, can I? Good grief.

What about sports? Yeah, that's alright. So let's

say you're looking for a podcast of your favorite

80s comic books, G .I. Joe, Transformers, Ninja

Turtles, He -Man, etc. Where are you going to

go to find us? Welcome to Star Joe's Podcast.

I'm your host, Ryan. And I'm Chuck. That's right,

everybody. We're the Star Joes. We host a podcast

called Star Joe's Podcast. where we talk about

your favorite comic books, your favorite toys

of all the 80s properties. Star Wars, G .I. Joe,

Transformers, Mask, Thundercats, Voltron, you

name it, we cover it. If it's in the 80s, we

will cover it at some point. Yeah, so what you

want to do to find us, you can go to iTunes,

you can go to www .starjoes .com. And remember,

the Force will be with you. Because knowing us

is half the battle. We are back, and we hope

you enjoyed this discussion that Steve and I

have had on how we grew up on comics and what

we're reading today and what we want to read

in the future. Any final thoughts? Not really.

I'm pretty satisfied with my comic collecting.

I'm looking forward to seeing what I get into

in the future or what... storylines happen to

pop up. So yeah, I'd say overall pretty cool

stuff to look ahead for in the comic lines and

for future reviews. Yes. Speaking of storylines

popping up, as of this recording, we had a huge

press release come out today for Snyder and,

and Capolo over in Batman, uh, zero year is coming

in June. Um, there's an article over at comic

book resources states the associated press reports

this morning that Scott Snyder and Capolo's next

major Batman story looks into the past zero year

to be specific. Quote -unquote, And I will put

the link, obviously, in... In the post, but yeah,

that is after death of the family, was it June?

In June, the zero year is going to happen, and

I am really stoked to see that because we all

know, most of us know the Batman origin. Joe

Chill killed his parents. It drove him, I would

say, mad. Yeah. You know. There's a lot of mad

love in there, you know, and it drove him to

want to, you know, never have that happen to

anyone ever again. And that's how Bruce Wayne

became Batman. We all know that. I want to see

what Snyder does to enhance that story, to see

the details of what happened that first time,

because we all know what happens. in year one

or year two or year you know we all know what

happens in the beginning of that you know what

i mean so i'm really stoked to see what happens

i'm really interested to see what snyder is going

to write up for that one i think that's really

really really cool that they're going to be doing

that and i'm hoping and i know we've said it

several times but i'm hoping it's not sadly anticlimactic

i'm i'm really hoping for an impressive, really

great story. I'm hoping that he writes it in

the way that he and Kyle Higgins wrote Gates

of Gotham, where somehow it has it set in the

present, like after death of the family, and

then tells flash... somehow telling flashbacks.

I don't know. I don't know how they're going

to write it. I don't know how they're going to

do it, but... That is something I'm very interested

to see, and that's one of the reasons why I will

continue reading Batman. Yep. So, this has been

The Pull Bag. You are? Steve Megatron Phillips.

I am TF2 and Mike. Keep reading those comics.

We will catch you next time. It's true, Batsy.

I know everything. And kind of like the kid who

peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit.

sadly anticlimactic. You just heard the latest

episode of The Pull Bag, GCRN's comic book review

podcast. There are several ways to get in touch

with us and leave feedback for the show. You

can visit the website geekcastradio .com where

you can comment on the episode in all of our

different podcasts. You can rate our show on

iTunes and be sure to leave us feedback. Call

the voicemail line. 502 -526 -5821. Please remember

to tell us the show you were leaving the message

for and your name. Become a fan of us on Facebook

by searching Geekcast Radio Network. You can

send us an email, feedback at geekcastradio .com.

Follow us on Twitter at Geekcast Radio. So until

next time, unleash the geek in you.