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bag Hello and welcome to the pole bag this is

one of hopefully three origins episodes Based

on the what's on Joe mine crew and their comic

reading I am of course your host TFG on Mike

and if you have not heard one of the origins

episodes before here inside the pole bag Basically,

it's a discussion on how Myself and the guest

of that episode got into reading comics got out

of reading comics whether they still read comics

Whether they're Marvel DC or just don't care

They like giant robots or you know Cobra killing

machines as I said, hopefully one of three this

time around we have Mike from what's on your

mind because I'm not even gonna try to pronounce

your last name. You're a Zerry There is there

there we go it's like it looks uh... all right

uh... pretty good pretty good uh... so mike is

here as i said he is one of the four five six

originating members of what's on your mind the

uh... only famous internet fancast about the

world to gi joe will take a week again Yeah,

yeah. So, alright, normally how we start this

off is I usually ask a question, something like,

was there a certain family member, a friend,

a parent, grandparent? How, Mike, how did you

get, who first said, here Mike, here's this comic

with Transformers in it, go leave me alone instead

of watching TV? It wasn't even that. It was the

real comic guy in the family to this day is my

older brother Rob. He's two years older than

me. He was a reader at a very young age. When

he was five and I was three, he had probably

eight, nine comics. that a family member had

given to him and had read them back and forth

and upside down until the covers were coming

off and all that other good stuff. And he started

to teach me how to read using old issues of Justice

League of America. Oh, that's awesome. So there

I am, three years old, sitting there reading

comic books, wondering why sometimes the roll

call for the Justice League doesn't match who's

actually in the book. But that's kind of how

it started. It snowballed from there and kind

of has ebbed and flowed over the years. I'm actually,

as we were talking about before we started recording,

I don't actually read comic books at the moment.

It's more of a financial thing than anything

else. But I do try to keep up. I'll still sneak

over to my brother's place and read his comics

because he's still picking up entirely too many

titles every month. Yeah, that seems to be the

problem with a lot of comic collectors, whether

they be old ones or new ones, they still pick

up entirely too much. I've tried to limit myself,

as many of the other listeners will know from

listening to my original Origins episode, I've

tried to limit myself to characters, but at the

same time I still have maybe 10, 15 ongoings

that... that I get every month or so. All right,

so after your brother taught you how to read

with comics, as a kid, what comics or what franchises

interested you to read comics from? Well, Rob

is a big Batman guy. And so for a number of years,

that was kind of the theme from Halloween. I

kind of gravitated towards Batman because I was

a natural Robin for him. uh... but uh... what

that sounds so wrong uh... i'd be there if we

don't know it's pretty good we have my grandma

made uh... halloween costumes for us that still

are intact uh... which uh... i mean you know

like real corduroy and and and cloth kind of

costumes and uh... that we that we were for for

died like he was bad and i was robin for a couple

years and then i graduated to the mantle of the

baton It was a very Dick Grayson -esque tale

for me. But on my own, I also learned to appreciate

Spider -Man. I became a very big Spider -Man

fan from an early age to where I still have a

copy of, again, going back to when I was three,

four years old, my little Golden Books copy of

Spider -Man's ABCs. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's been

a long disease, man, a long disease. I remember,

this wasn't even a comic, and I've said this

many times before. For me, reading in books in

school and all that stuff, I think it was like,

I don't know, it had to be like, it was probably

either kindergarten, first or second grade. In

the school library, I found some Transformers,

it wasn't a golden book, it was... Some transformers

actual story book and everything to do with wheelie.

Yeah Which at this point I don't even care the

sad thing is someone found that online for me

somewhere and Said here look and I looked at

it and I'm like, oh my god, it's going for Obscene

amounts of money, which it should not be going

Should any of it really Depending All right,

so Batman, Spider -Man, what are some of your

favorite Batman stories before the New 52? Well,

because really the list would be the same because

the New 52 has been terrible for Batman. We'll

get into that later, I'm sure. Yeah, oh yeah.

What I always liked about Batman was he was very

versatile. It tends to be Superman who's more

famous for those those one -shot out -of -continuity

You know fantasy stories, but I think they really

did a good job with a number of Batman tales

to Under the Elseworlds title in the 80s and

90s Gotham by Gaslight comes to mind the subsequent

sequels weren't as good, but the first one was

real solid Yeah, I've got that I have yet to

read it because we will be covering it at some

point here inside the poll bag But I have yet

to read that one. I'm killing joke is is every

bit the masterpiece people say it is They're

the ones that really stick out to me I like it

Batman is is kind of a touchy subject for me

these days because I Don't I don't know this

news. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean it's it's The

movies are one thing and that's its own continuity

and that they're fine I don't I don't have a

problem with the movies doing whatever they want

You have to do things a little bit differently

when you're trying to appeal to a mass audience

than when you're dealing to a comic book audience

But alright, so what are your issues with Batman

nowadays? He hasn't really been at all interesting

for about 15 years It's it's just that Batman

has become this this magic Cure all potion for

the DC universe. That's well, whenever there's

a problem. That's too big Send in Batman. He'll

solve it. Regardless. He's Batman. He always

wins. Yeah Yeah, with his sliver of kryptonite.

Yeah, you know and it's just Not that not that

the heroes shouldn't win in the end. I think

ultimately that's that's kind of what comic books

are for To you know to build that there are mythology

I think as a culture but Not not that the hero

shouldn't but like Batman hasn't been challenged

in that long I think the best thing they've done

with Batman in the last two decades was killing

I Think passing the mantle on to Dick Grayson

was probably the most interesting thing to happen

to Batman last 15 years I wish they'd kept it

that way There's nothing else to do with Bruce

Wayne Yeah, I I kind of agree with you. That's

only because I'm a huge fan of Grayson as well.

I am too. He's probably my favorite DC character.

And mind you, I'm not necessarily a fan of Dick

Grayson as Batman. I've enjoyed Nightwing when

he's had his own book. I enjoy him in groups.

I would miss the Nightwing character. You mean

to say you are going to miss the Nightwing character,

correct? Yeah. I don't... You know, Forever Evil

hasn't, as of this recording, has not yet finished

up. We haven't gotten the issue where everything

is supposed to come ahead for Dick Grayson in

the new 52. But news has come out that, you know,

after issue 29 of the ongoing for Nightwing,

Kyle's not gonna be on it. The final issue is

gonna be issue 30. So they're basically killing

the book. Don't know if they're doing that because

of sales or because of the storyline in forever

evil that Jesus John's created or Anything like

that, but yeah, I'm currently getting Maybe six

DC titles including Masters of the universe No,

it's well, we'll talk about that later, but it's

actually pretty good. I have a reputation to

maintain Well, I could always have some Showtime

synergy where the guys and furry shorts are concerned.

I have to I have to Yes But as I said I'm getting

about six DC titles right now, it's probably

gonna cut back to three once Nightwing Yeah,

it's really it's it's I don't like hardly anything.

They're doing over there So Aquaman has been

fantastic of all the guys to just show up and

be like, hey, this is a really good comic. Aquaman.

This is outrageous! I don't get it, but sure.

Not gonna complain. As long as, specifically

to the Bat family, as long as Gail Simone stays

on Batgirl permanently for... The time being,

long as they don't try to fire her again, I will

be perfectly happy just reading Batgirl. Because

Batgirl, that series. Batgirl and Nightwing are

my top two from DC. I'll be honest, I have not

read that title. You haven't read Batgirl? I

have not. Some people might say, oh, well, they're

going in reverse because somehow she miraculously

starts walking again, goes from Oracle to being

Batgirl again. But after that, the book is more

of a psychological superhero book than just a

generic, hey, I'm going to go out and save the

day. And I have my mission where I can't kill

anybody because my parents got murdered and everything

else. It's a good solid solid story because I

love anything to do with the Gordon family Commissioner

and Barbara herself Yeah, Batman I You know Steve

Megashon the co -founder of GCR and he Basically

was the one that actually turned me on to even

collecting comics. I started like full -time

in 2012 and it was death of the family or was

the return of the Joker and I read that. I started

reading Zero Year. I went back and I read Court

of Vowels. Out of everything Snyder has done

since the New 52, Court of Vowels is his best

work. That was a really, really awesome story.

Death of the Family ended with no climax. It

was very anti -climactic. And Zero Year, for

me personally, is a huge mishmash of, okay, this

I like. This I don't, oh my god, I'm done with

this book. Yeah, it was tough to follow. Especially

speaking from a more casual reader's standpoint,

I don't know what they were going for there.

I don't know. It's tough to determine editorial

direction out of DC these days. Makes me sad.

Alright, so what about Spidey? What are you reading

from Spidey? What are some of your favorite Spidey

stories over the years? Well, let's see over

the years I Mean going back to the classic stuff.

I mean even if you go back to the 70s with with

the Harry Osborne drug stories, they were You

know fantastic and then probably 20 years ahead

of their time Craven's last hunt is a great story

Just issue to issue spider -man's generally been

a better read what I like about Marvel with Spidey

and They're not afraid to take those chances

that that DC is with with Batman Spider -man

makes changes. Sometimes they make changes back.

Sometimes it doesn't work Granted, you don't

want to make any more deals with the devil Yeah,

no like that that that was I I kind of liked

Spidey with the public identity cuz We were out

of things for Peter Parker to do. It's kind of

like Steve Rogers. We get it already. He's broke.

He takes pictures for the bugle. He's a lot smarter

and more talented and more savvy than this, but

somehow he can't come up with a better way to

make money. I don't understand. It works fine

when he's high school, college age, but as Peter's

been... He's kind of comic aged into his mid

20s by now He should have his feet under him

a guy who's that smart should have his feet under

him at least So but from from Spidey said what

even what they're doing right now with with Octavius

and in Peter's body is is great From a storytelling

standpoint, they're not gonna keep it that way.

It's not a forever deal I know there's people

out there that that spit acid when you bring

that up, but See, that's the thing. When I jumped

on to collecting, I jumped on at $6 .98. Someone

told me, in order to understand Superior, you

have to read at least $6 .98 to $700 to get the

ending. I read it, and I thought it was great,

brilliant, and Superior has done so much for

and against Peter's own life. Yeah, I mean Octavius

has gotten him a doctorate. He's got him his

own company at the same time He screwed all of

Peter's personal life relationships And it's

been great and the news came down that they you

know, like you said, it's not gonna stay this

way Which saw it for me. That's what sucks is

that it's not gonna stay Octavius and oh, hey

We just have to do that cuz hey, it's a new movie.

Yay. Well, I think too from from a Just from

a storytelling perspective, I don't think that

Like we know Octavius's motives You know, he's

not really a good guy. He's just trying to be

a better good guy than Peter was at a spite Yeah,

so eventually he's gonna quit looking at himself

in the mirror and he's gonna turn the page on

that and just Go back to being Otto Octavius.

We we you know this this is this is how it is

It has to be so him Peter Parker coming back

Almost has to happen I mean, I'll read it, you

know, to see. I have nothing against Dan Slott

or his writing. He is one of my absolute favorites.

Yeah. What I don't like is, as you said earlier

about the editorial stuff, is how these companies

go about bringing these changes just because

of something. or because they want to bring in

the mainstream readers from the the new film

that's coming or That's what I more so don't

like about it. You know sure I mean I'll be somewhat

optimistic about seeing how Peter is gonna come

back and we kind of already have seen it a little

bit I have not read issue 26 yet, but issue 25

he Showed up briefly and then went back to his

Neverland hiding spot But yeah, no, Superior

was, is awesome and was awesome. And yeah, I

absolutely love that direction. Cause my thing

is you can only tell so many of the same stories

with Spidey versus Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, Venom,

you know. I did like what they did with Superior

Carnage. I thought that was interesting. Yeah.

Talk about a character I never had any affinity

for at all. Was yeah, well, you know carnage

was was a spin -off of venom, of course and yeah

when venom first came around was was it back

in your late 80s my first run of collecting amazing

spider -man and You know McFarland had a big

hand and it was doing the art at Spidey at the

time and he showed up I Believe he was introduced

in spider -man. I think was 300 and I remember

counting Or 299 specifically but but basically

shows up an issue 300 Basically venom is is on

at least one page of the book 28 out of the next

30 issues Wow And I remember sitting there and

counting that out and and going and tell my brother

about this is like can can we please? Not have

venom anymore. I'm so tired of venom And and

it was terrible because again it was it was like

so many of Todd McFarlane's ideas great concept

With questionable execution. Yeah, I'm gonna

eat your brains. Whatever. Whatever dude. Just

just come on and let's fight but uh, I Can't

you know, you just you just picture yourself

at Spidey shoes like I don't even have witty

banter for this just come on Yeah, let's go but

You know I Conversely I Dan Dan slot like I said

a minute ago. He's one of my favorites Whether

it's it's his run from she hulk or his very short

run on the thing I was absolutely enthused when

when when I heard he was getting the reins for

spider -man and You know similarly tearing my

hair out when I heard the news that they were

gonna kill Peter Parker And then I stopped and

actually read it and was like oh my god. This

is actually awesome And so I don't think enough

people talk about Dan Slott. He's fantastic.

Yeah, he really is. Like I said, I've only read

from 698 to whatever now is for that story. And

at this point, because it's ending, I'm just

going to wait for the trade for the final arc.

Don't know I just can't I for me I need to read

it and this is something you can mention here

in a minute for me I did have this thing of oh

I have to get the single issues because I want

to I want to know what's going on but at the

same time it's like Yeah, I'd rather wait for

the trade to see the whole story the bigger picture

at once then I've kind of become a trade guy.

I never thought that would be the case, but when

I do buy a book, it's trade Yeah, I'm it's much

easier for me to at one one sitting To throw

down twenty twenty five dollars than it is to

to worry about four bucks every month Yeah, yeah

All right. So how does The Joes come into your

comics? How does that all happen? We all know

you're a huge GI Joe fan And and really it did

start with the comics for us again my brother

and I he was he was nine I was seven in 1982

So we are right in the wheelhouse of the mines

that they're trying to corrupt to their side

The the mad genius Kirk bazigian as I like to

call it And so we see the ad for the issue number

one on TV Mm -hmm, and we're both kind of sitting

there and and we we Knew that GI Joe was was

a property from from the 60s. We knew about 12

inch Joe. We actually funny we had bullet man

From from the old GI Joe and we didn't have any

other Joe's but we had bullet man and And I remember

we kind of we looked at one another and we kind

of smiled and Because you don't see you know,

you don't see comic books on television. It's

1982 It's like this isn't what you advertise

on TV and truthfully we weren't able to verbalize

it as such at the time But it felt a little desperate

It was just like yeah, man. This can't be any

good if they're trying this hard to sell it to

us We just weren't used to something coming after

Us as nine and seven year olds that hard, you

know, it was just hey buy this And it was just

so in your face and and it just felt a little

felt a little forced Well fast forward a couple

of months There's a there used to where we went

to church on Long Island there used to be a convenience

store across the street and Occasionally we would

stop in there afterwards. They'd be You know,

there's comic books their baseball cards, whatever

we throw some change at it while we're there

and I was sick on that particular Sunday and

Rob comes home. He's got GI Joe number five Which

if you go back you you read it's um, it's kind

of a standalone issue Or Cobra is Trying to capture

the MOBAT the tank Because it's it's a you know

top top of the line state -of -the -art stuff

in terms of what's inside that tank and and they

even go through some exhibit exposition rather

at the beginning of the story that you know It's

like hey, it just looks like a normal tank, but

this is what this baby can do and it's a so what

they do is they organize a parade and They they

invite the motor pool at Fort Wadsworth to be

part of this parade and and Steeler clutch and

breaker are driving the tank in the parade with

general flag up in the grandstand and underneath

the grandstand of course is Cobra commander and

the Baroness and there there's this like this

this whole this marching band starts putting

on this show all around the tank and it's not

you know not something that they're ready for

and they realize that the float behind them is

this giant you know Armored thing that's looking

to just swallow them up. So it becomes this chase

through the streets of New York With with this

this Cobra marching band And this this this giant

float thing chasing down a tank that doesn't

have any ammunition for its guns Wow, so so it

was really it was it was really a neat story

really well crafted you know, just kind of a

standalone issue real fun ending a little unbelievable,

but It worked for what we were dealing with.

It was a showcase piece for Steeler and the Tank

and for General Flag a little bit. From that

moment on, we were hooked. We were in. A couple

of weeks later, he got a couple of the figures,

I got a couple of the figures, and we're off

to the races. Some 30 years later. Still going.

So it's because I have yet to dig into any of

the IDW stuff But what is going on currently

with are you reading the Joe stuff now? I Will

I get caught up with the trades on Larry Hama's

book? I Don't want to I hate to badmouth it but

I haven't I have been able to stay plugged into

the IDW stuff. Oh really it's It's a little too

Little two sigma six? No, not even that. It doesn't

treat the property right. It doesn't give enough

respect to the property, I think. They have this

unfortunate habit of they'll introduce a character

and give them one of the classic code names and

not really do anything with that character and

kill them off a couple panels later, which always

is a That's a massive pet peeve of mine when

you when you do it when you don't when you basically

they Most I top my head I can remember them doing

this with bazooka. They did it with barbecue

Where they're giving this guy this code name

to to get the longtime fan ago. Oh, hey, and

And that's all they're doing with it. They're

just yanking your chain to get an oh, hey reaction

at a I Mean, it would actually bother me less

if they spent Couple of pages building up who

bazooka was and then killed him off or they spent

a couple of pages You know getting to know barbecue

and then killed him off that would bother me

less because at least they're they're treating

him like a character But they're just treating

them like a code name There was some interesting

stuff going on in Cobra files which was You know

like the chuckles spotlight book But even there

too they they they killed him off they so it's

a It just kind of seems It's almost like it's

it's it's GI Joe done for the 90s comic fan And

I'm I don't have a real warm place in my heart

for the 90s comic fan I Think comics in the 70s

and 80s then to the Silver Age They were they

were fun. They were written for for all ages.

They they supposed to be entertaining and and

and you know, sometimes the good guys won sometimes

the good guys lost fine, but then somewhere in

the 90s everything got to be about blood and

killing and and body counts and who was a bigger

ass kicker and and it just it was It was terrible,

you know, and we've backed away from that somewhat,

you know, I don't have to deal with six Punisher

books on my shelf anymore but Well, there's not

even one currently. Yeah. OK, there's there's

there's stuff coming up for Punisher, but there's

not currently an ongoing because you can't count

Thunderbolts. Yeah, no, no. And I don't want

to diss the Punisher. I think the Punisher is

a great character, but I don't think the Punisher

is is necessarily one of those guys you built

the company around. And that's what they were

doing for a good part of that time. You know,

they the 90s, everybody raves about. you know,

Wolverine and X -Men and I think Larry Hama did

a great job building Wolverine into an actual

character. And then you'd turn over and you'd

read an X -Men book and he was just almost a

different person in X -Men. And in the X -Men,

Wolverine was just this wild rabbit killing machine

that was barely restrained and generally poorly

drawn. You know, these warm spots that a lot

of the fans that are out there today have, I

don't share it with them. And I think that's

maybe why I'm a cranky old man as far as comics

go these days is that, you know, I harken back

to, I'm kind of the last entry from Silver Age

type storytelling. Yeah, you're not the only

one. It's not the stories with the stuff, because

I've read some of the Punisher 90s stuff since

doing this podcast. You're not the only one.

But it's not the stories that arc me, it's the

art. Generally, yeah, exaggerated and terrible

and I'm not sure what anatomy they're drawing,

but most of the time it's not human. It's Teenage

Mutant Alien Turtles, that's what it is. Yeah,

just everybody is it looks like this steroided

out fiend. I'm not saying Superheroes shouldn't

look fit. I'm not saying superheroes shouldn't

look more than fit They're superheroes. They

bench press Buick's it's it's this is what they

do But at the same time, let's let's keep them

within the species, you know, let's Let's dial

it back a little bit. I I tend to think that

that a guy like Like George Perez who's kind

of carried the standard The last 40 years or

so as far as how to draw The the superhero, you

know the human superhero We should be paying

more attention to that guy than we should to

to some of the the the folks who We technically

grew up with in the 90s. It's it some of it's

just terrible Alright so Marvel or DC or both

It's uh, it's tough right now. I think Marvel

does a better job of storytelling Right now.

I'm definitely in the Marvel camp Historically

I was you know growing up was super friends was

on TV the whole time So I will always hold DC's

heroes in a high regard So I guess the answer

is both I wish it was both right now But man,

I hate the new 52 All right, well if you hate

the new 52 I'm hoping that this is a yes, but

have you ever seen Batman Beyond? Yes Have you

seen the whole series? I can't say I've seen

the whole thing, but I've caught good chunks

of it Probably have you seen return of the Joker?

Oh, yeah Okay Did you see the last, well technically

it's the last episode, but the season episode

epilogue from Justice League? Yes. Okay, good.

Batman Beyond started 2012 by Adam Beechin. Currently

it's written by Kyle Higgins, the Nightwing scribe,

and he is playing in the DCAU like nobody else's

business and it's awesome. The first title was

Batman Beyond Unlimited for print. The second

title for print is Batman Beyond Universe. It's

Batman Beyond 2 .0 if you get it digitally. Just

simply amazing. The storytelling, the characters,

the callbacks to everything else in the DCA,

it's just great. It's better than the Doof 52.

Well, that's not setting the bar real high. But

yeah, Batman Beyond was a great property. Really

enjoyed it. I didn't it was it came on at a time

where I wasn't watching a lot of TV You know

as it was it was it was kind of at a weird place

for me, but I went back and caught it all later

Thank God for reruns. Yeah, and I was not I was

not expecting to enjoy it. Let me let me preface

it by that I'm I was not You know, I'm looking

at this thing and I'm seeing well, okay, so Bruce

Wayne's old now but We don't know what happened.

Where's Dick Grayson? Where's Barbara Gordon?

She would turn up pretty easily enough. Where's

Jason Todd, or rather, Tim Drake? We're the characters

that we love. They wouldn't just disappear. And

I just, stupid me, just had to be patient and

everything would reveal itself. But yeah, I wound

up really liking Batman Beyond a lot. Yeah. I'm

telling you, read the... If you go back and you

read the second trade for it is coming out in

April. Volume one is 10 ,000 Clowns. Volume two

coming out is Batman Beyond, Batgirl Beyond.

And it collects all of Adam's run. And then currently

Kyle is writing 2 .0, which basically takes place

a year after Adam's run. And it's so good. Very

nice. So so good. I cannot say enough positive

things about Batman Beyond Universe. It's just

it's just great Absolutely love reading that

What else Do you have a preference in the art

style as far as are you one of those guys that

I prefer that they draw it? Traditionally or

oh, I like digital art. Do you have a preference

at all? I don't I think well done is well done,

right? And then however you get to that is great.

You know, I can think of There have been a couple

of books over the years. There was I'm trying

to think of a title of it, but it was a It was

a spider -man book, but they did it in watercolors

And I just bought it because I thought it was

a really interesting take on spider -man Who's

normally, you know Spidey's a Everything's really

crisp, you know on his as far as his his uniforms

all segmented up with the webbing and he's always

swinging around New York and there's these lights

and you know All this stuff going on. So I and

and the story itself was crap But but but it

was real interesting visually. So yeah, I can't

say I've got a preference. I think Good is good

is good Yeah All right, is there anything else

you want to bring up as far as your origins go?

Well, that's about the extent of it I've kind

of like so many of the the comic guys they've

You know, I've become more of a TV guy as times

I kind of hear about things first if it's on

if it's on the tube But it's it's I Would say

that there's one one book that I've really enjoyed

that has hasn't come up yet in more recent times

Really like Robert Kirkman's invincible Interesting

I think for when when he first started that book

it was really a fresh take and they gave him

the opportunity to to crisp up the lines and

they be Image universe so to speak. I think you

did a really good job with that because it's

not just all about invincible It's he kind of

gets out and plays well with others as well So

that's that would be a book that if I was gonna

recommend somebody to go back and You go all

the way back to the beginning if you want because

that's that's a fun read. You'd enjoy it Very

cool. Very cool. All right, you got anything

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