TheDuke

Congrats, Marty!

Hi I just want to encourage anybody else who has an interest in Hulk or Green Lantern to give this episode a listen. Johnny and Kelly are great hosts and it's a lot of fun. Those Showcase books of DC's were great. I remember reading the one that covered Silver Age Green Arrow when he had the goofy trick arrows and such. Then all of a sudden at the end it jumped to the Neal Adam's redesigned Green Arrow from I think Brave and The Bold in the late 60s and its a complete tonal shift. I think that the Green Arrow back up stories were cancelled for a while until the redesign so in real time in the 60's, the goatee Green Arrow appeared years afterwards, so it didn't seem like such an abrupt change. It's make me realize that it wasn't a sudden leaping transition from Silver to Bronze age comics but more of a slow gradual morphing. I never saw the GL cartoon, but the Hulk cartoon reruns I watched in the 90s was the same show that had that Captain America show that Kelly sang the song to and those other Marvel cartoons you mentioned. I remember the lyrics "ain't he unglamorous ". I saw the first episode of the Hulk series in the 80s. We had it on video tape, so we either taped it off tv or it was at the local rental store and we rented it and copied the tape. We had both VHS and Betamax so I think my dad hooked them together so would rent one format and make a copy in another. The Hulk show may look and sound campy now, but as a child I took it all seriously and thought Hulk was terrifying. Hearing you guys talk about the Hulk show made me look to see if it was available on any of the streaming services I subscribe to. It's not, but there are 2 made for TV movies on Amazon Prime Video in Canada that I will need to check out. I think the Hulk Returns and Trial of the Hulk. The Hulk series may not be there but I see Bionic Woman is on Prime Video so I may be watching that show too. I feel like I remember seeing reruns of that show as a kid in the 80s and thinking it was cool.

Another fun episode Johnny and Kelly.

I think you might have posted this in the wrong thread. Also I agree with Sleaze about kicking out of the finisher only to have that same finisher hit again resulting in the pin. It is anticlimactic and I feel like it brings the energy down a little bit.

Imaginary Stories was awesome. I love how you guys just kept the numbering. Maybe a future episode could be "Amazing Adult Fantasy Masterpieces". Lol

I was hoping to see a series of fun vignettes of Mark Briscoe being initiated into the Don Callis Family. ("Carry these gym bags, young boy. Handwash these jockstraps") I like the idea of the Death Riders being these attack dogs that Jon Moxley has starved and beaten and trained to be these uncontrollable monsters, and now Moxley has lost control and they turn on him and just run roughshod through AEW unleashing chaos and destruction. Then the question becomes, is there somebody who can get them under control?

I used to love getting the essential Marvel books. They were a lot of comics for a cheap price but were black and white. This is how I read the classic X-Men stories that came out before I started reading comics. It's funny, I believe Volume 2 was the one I was missing. I believe I had 1, 3, and 4. I feel like 2 had the most famous Byrne stories which was why it probably wasnt in stock at my local comic shop when I bought 1, 3, and 4.

"I then had to convince my childhood friend Andre the Giant not to shoot on Hulk Hogan in the main event of Wrestlemania 3."

"SHE LIKES IT! SHE LIKES IT!"

"Khamzat carries a notable scar on his lip, which he got at the age of two when he fell down on concrete stairs, leaving him unable to breathe correctly through one nostril." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamzat_Chimaev "In April 2023, du Plessis underwent surgery to fix a breathing impairment in his nose. According to his coach Morne Visser, du Plessis had been competing in the UFC with "only 8% oxygen" intake through his nostrils." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricus_du_Plessis It's the battle of the mouth breathers!

I tend to skim through multiman matches unless I see something interesting like run ins or weapons or something then I will watch a few minutes and if it doesn't interest me I fast forward. They feel like placeholders, like nobody is really beating anybody since everyone is ganging up on everyone so anyone who is pinned has an excuse and the person who does win you could say somebody else did most the work. I just don't find them satisfying. Similarily I am not a fan of six man or more tag matches unless its a bunch of babyfaces teaming together against a heel faction because they usually feel like such meaningless matches. I do love during a shine or comeback when you have a bunch of heels bumping for a fired up babyface. For a while those Judgment Day tag and 6 man matches were the highlight of the show for me seeing them bump all over the ring for the face teams.

I usually hate Nia Jax, but I really liked the Last Man Standing with Tiffany Stratton. I was originally going to skip it, but I saw a couple highlights (Tiffy jumping from the apron to run into the steps Jax was holding, and Jax splashing off the apron onto Tiffy through the table on the floor) that made me go back and watch the whole match. I think it was probably Tiffy's selling which makes me want to watch her matches more closely from now on. It's kind of silly that she won, but she seems like she is good at getting destroyed by a bigger woman.

If we can bring up anecdotal evidence, i don't see non-wrestling fan friends or people at my work or whatever talking about wrestlers like I saw during the Hogan, Monday Night Wars, or Cena eras. I feel like their success right now is from doubling down on the modern WWE fans they already have and catering to their whims more (which I think are different from a lot of the people who visit this board). Also, I feel like Undertaker belongs in that list with Foley and Austin etc. Again speaking from anecdotal evidence, I really feel like most of the people I went to school with in the 90s who didn't watch wrestling still knew who Undertaker was.

Wow i feel kinda dumb (my excuse is that Im Canadian). I totally didnt realize until you pointed it out here that IRS is a villain because a lot of political conservatives believe taxes are bad in general ( I always assumed it was because having to sit down and do taxes or getting audited was annoying)

I think the idea is that if you own all the places wrestlers are able to work then you can pay them less because where else are they gonna go.