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Comic Obscura Showcase
by Anthony Norris
Discussing the history and background of obscure comic book characters and reintroducing them for today. There are a lot of characters out there in the vastness of comic book history, and lot of them fall to the wayside to be forgotten or neglected. I think looking back on some these characters today is a way to give them a second chance, especially with the popularity of comics being higher than its ever been in recent years. Just because they're obscure, doesn't mean their bad. Or maybe it does. Let's find out.
Episodes
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18. So a Mech, a boy robot and space marine walk into bar...
What do you want from me?! I started this weird naming thing and I'm sticking with it no matter how bad they get. It could be worse. I could have gone with "This Big Robot has a Rusty Exoskeleton". Which...damn it, that is better. Oh well, just look, enjoy the episode if you can. I'm sure it's a...
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17. Spoiler Alert! It's a DC character.
A super long episode?! Haven't had one of these in awhile. So enjoy. Lots of Spoiler talk ahead. But I'm also talkin about other DC characters. I still don't have a good opening routine, but just hang in there, at some point I'm sure I'll stumble onto comedy gold. We're in this together my one...
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16. Automobiles and Big Lizards
The Flintstones wish they were as exciting and high octane as this series! It's the Fast and the Furious meets Jurassic Park. This week I'm talking about Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Or as it's was originally known, Xenozoic Tales. A series that could easily make a comeback today. This episode may…
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15. Wakanda Villain is Living Laser?
Within this age of Isolation, movies and shows are either on hold or pushed back. This includes the next phase of Marvel movies. So while we wait, I was thinking about the already announced Black Panther 2 and how the right villain could help balance out Black Panther's over powered suit from the...
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14. Avengers Assemble... the D team.
When the Top Tier Avengers are out saving the universe, who's left to save your town? The bargain basement heroes of the Great Lakes Avengers of course. They don't have much, but they make it work. Each member of this team brings something different to the table in both powers and personality…
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13. Which Batgirl are you?
Cassandra Cain. That's who. That's who I'm talking about for this short episode. A girl using that name showed up in the Harley Quinn and Birds of Prey movie, but that wasn't much of an introduction to that character. So who is she in the comics? If you don't already know about the real Cassandra...
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12. Hoodie and Small Knife from Marvel
You know...that Cloak guy and Dagger girl. From Marvel Comics. They had a crappy teen drama show on an obscure streaming service that no one used or knew about. Yeah, these two were made for this podcast. I think they have the potential to be bigger, but what do you do with these two runaways who...
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11. Birds Of A Feather Fight Together
Who the hell are Hawk and Dove? Well, a few different people have worn those costumes. They currently exist in the live action Titans show. But let's see what they were about in the comics. Not much. This one is short. I don't even remember if I had a reboot pitch for these two. Why did I bother?…
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10. Halloweeds Episode! Swamp Things & Orchids
Spooky Scary Obscurity. Well, kind of. I think a good bit of people know Swamp Thing or are at least aware of him. He had two movies already. Yeah. Believe it or not. But he hasn't had much of a presence in comics for quite sometime. Then there's Black Orchid, she's even more off the radar. She...
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9. The Unambiguously Crazy Duo (It's Quantum and Woody)
So this crime fighting tag team have been under two different publishing banners. I'll talk about that and the fact there is a potential movie idea floating around somewhere in Hollywood. Will be ever see it? That was unclear even before the now times in 2020. These characters are from a smaller...
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8. Some Wild C.A.T.S Talk, Not The Musical.
More from Image Comics! This episode about The Wild C.A.T.S is more of that special 1990s energy. With lots of alien stuff dumped on top. With this comic someone may have had a hit on their hands, yet it still faded into obscurity, but maybe after a revisit, we can slip on the Infinity Gauntlet…
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7. The Smexy X-men of Gen 13
Spikes, pouches, too many belts, cyborgs, and bikini costumes, this episode, the focus is on Gen 13, the edgy sexy X-men of the 90s from Image Comics. Could stories about this group of teen superheroes on the run work today? Sure, if HBO makes it. What went right, what went wrong, the good, the...
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6. A Tisket A Tasket-Master or something
Taskmaster is in the new Black Widow movie that exists, but hasn't been released in any format yet. This is an older recording, but even so Taskmaster is still what you would consider an obscure character. The movie may change that depending on the depiction Marvel studios uses for their movie…
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5. Special Episode! Fighting Crime in a Future Time.
First special episode! I did it! It's done. There was a show I watched growing up called C.O.P.S. I'm gonna talk about it cause a lot of people probably don't know about it, and also it was a comic. Ha! Loop hole. So let's get into it, it's a long one but a good one if I do say so myself. And I...
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4. A New Arcade Game
This episode I'm talking a protagonist who would be perfect for a superhero survival horror. If you're into that kind of thing. Imagine if the Joker was a engineering genius with the capital to build amusement parks for the sole purpose of killing heroes. Look I'm not even sure Morgan Freeman…
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3. The Heckler (Not So Serious)
As if one day someone said "What if the Joker, but a good guy...and also Looney Tunes". The Heckler is a short lived, yet interesting experiment on the superhero formula. It's a little bit of this and that. I'd say it was a bit ahead of its time and after learning a bit about this character, you...
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2. A Double Feature: B'wanna Beast and Madcap
A DC and Marvel character discussion? What? Why not? This episode I'm talking about two of the weirdest and yet some how obscure characters from their respective publishers. DC's B'wanna Beast and Marvel's Madcap. Who are they, what are they, do they know things? Let's find out. And of course…
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1. What a good Question
My first episode of my first podcast. Go easy on me and give it ...I dunno, 5 stars? If you like it. It's me babbling about one of my favorite characters from the DC comics universe: The Question. I'm talking history and background, and then my thoughts on how to bring him or her (cause there…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Discussing the history and background of obscure comic book characters and reintroducing them for today. There are a lot of characters out there in the vastness of comic book history, and lot of them fall to the wayside to be forgotten or neglected. I think looking back on some these characters today is a way to give them a second chance, especially with the popularity of comics being higher than its ever been in recent years. Just because they're obscure, doesn't mean their bad. Or maybe it does. Let's find out.
HOSTED BY
Anthony Norris
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Discussing the history and background of obscure comic book characters and reintroducing them for today. There are a lot of characters out there in the vastness of comic book history, and lot of them fall to the wayside to be forgotten or neglected. I think looking back on some these characters...
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