TRAPPO's Comic Book Cavalcade!
This week's episode is a bit of an informal discussion. We, the hosts of TRAPPO, just wanted to chat about comic books for a while, and this is the ensuant episode. (As a side-note, I am finding it extremely vexing that Blogger, this blog's host, does not recognize the word "ensuant" as valid. That's just damn stupid. Good job Blogger!) Yes, "comic books" is a rather large topic of discussion, to say the very least, but that's the beauty of comics. The medium is so much bigger than any one thing. The comic book is extraordinarily versatile, an innocuous-seeming folded and stapled pamphlet, inside of which can be... anything. The only limit is the imagination of the creators. Endless worlds of possibilities are within comics, from the fantastic to the mundane, and everything in between. I love comics. They helped shape my personality, they helped me learn to read as a child, and they gave me permission to dream a little every day. So let's have a relaxed chat about comic books, dear listener.
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Join the conversation! Tell us all about your cherished comic book memories below. And if you're feeling a bit more verbose, you could always send us those memories in a big, sprawling email. Our address is trapposhow@gmail.com, so click away and sound off! Thanks for listening!
Who reads comics anymore? I read a lot of manga, and so do my friends. If we want to see Batman or Iron Mana we’ll see a movie. Chainsaw Man is better than anything Marvel Comics is publishing today.
ReplyDeleteI’m not big into mainstream comics these days, but I did just pick up the first issue of Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham, a new miniseries written and drawn by Rafael Grampa. It’s pretty cool, so far. Im definitely picking up the rest of the series. Grampa’s art is amazing.
ReplyDeleteSo you made a bunch of comics and sold them at school? I’m sure lots of kids did that. Don’t act like you’re special. You’re not Jack Kirby you’re an idiot.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what I was listening to, but it was definitely all over the place. Two minutes in, and you're talking about The Thing "sandblasting" his blind girlfriend, then you're rambling about something called an "impossible Cutlass Supreme", then you guys just talk about a bunch of vaguely comic book-related memories for an hour. At some point, one of you just starts talking about Glen Danzig at a theoretical concert with one person in attendance, completely without context. Is this just what your podcast is? Does anybody really listen to your podcast? It sounds like a show recorded and edited by crazy people.
ReplyDeleteThe Danzig joke was the best part. You could imagine (at least I could imagine) Glenn Danzig doing exactly that at a concert where only one person shows up. And hey, you listened to their podcast. So maybe the joke’s on you. Also, I’m the REAL Jeremy Wade, so you can go ahead and jump into an active volcano.
DeleteI know you’re not the real Jeremy Wade because you told the other Jeremy Wade to jump into a volcano, and Jeremy Wade wouldn’t do that. He’d tell his impostor to get devoured by the hideous “devil catfish” or something like that. You’re not on brand, “Jeremy Wade”. Also I’m pretty sure Jeremy Wade has better things to do other than posting comments on some random blog.
DeleteAnd Jeremy Wade hates Danzig. He talked about it all the time on River Monsters. It was like a running joke on the show.
DeleteI'm sorry you lost all of the comic books you made with your friends, dude. I used to do a comic strip with a friend of mine when we were in high school, it was actually punblished in our school newspaper, which we thought was cool. It was called "Warp Speed" and it was kind of a Star Trek Academy joke strip that followed some future space cadets going on dangerous training missions with a terrible teacher/supervisor who spent more time trying to impress his buxom assistant than actually trying to teach the students. One "red shirt" student would die horribly in every story, but the teacher never got in any real trouble for his ineptitude, because his higher-ups just assumed at least one student wouldn't survive any given mission.
ReplyDeleteThe strip lasted two school years, but the school kept all our original strips, which we drew on comic book backing boards we'd buy from our local shop because they were cheaper than real quality art paper. We never got them back, and I'm sure the school just threw them away because nobody cared. I'm sure looking back that the strips were terrible, but I would've liked to still have the originals. It's a nostalgia thing.
I don't read many comics these days, but I still keep up with Love & Rockets stuff because Los Bros for life. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I was never productive or motivated enough in school to make and sell comic books, so you've got one on me. I love hearing stories like that, because it's creative and fun, and I dig stuff like that. If I'd made a bunch of comics that people actually bought when I was a kid, I'd never shut up about it to my friends, acquaintances, and even complete strangers. I'm 33 years old, and I'd still be blabbing about that all the time. 'Did you know when I was ten years old I was slinging comics at recess? Kids were asking for my autograph! I was somebody!' It's a cool story. Sorry you lost all your copies. I would've liked to read Death Match.
ReplyDeleteThis episode was boring. Nobody wants to listen to nerds ramble about pointless crap with no structure. Throw it in the trash
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