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In this episode, we dip into the mailbag and find the solution to the groomsman outfit dilemma (from Episode 5).  Also, Phil discusses Project Runway, including Miss Piggy’s guest judging gig, and a fiction writing secret that he uncovered watching the show.  Phil talks about “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” and Matt gets confused about what he likes about mystery novels.  We Have a lot of comic talk on this episode, and we discuss the Jeph Loeb -Tim Sale collaborations “Batman: The Long Halloween”, “Batman: Dark Victory”, and “Superman for All Seasons”, along with the new DC Comics logo, and the artist (and occasional writer) comic fans love to hate, Rob Liefeld, and his recent gig changes.  We also go a bit in-depth with a discussion of Craig Thompson’s graphic novel: Habibi, a relationship epic melodrama set in a fictional Islamic milieu.  Here are samples of some of the art and artists we discsuss on the show.

Art from Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

Art from Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

We don’t talk about this book directly on the show, but this is art from “Spider-Man: Blue”, another collaboration from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

Here’s more art from “Spider-Man: Blue”, another collaboration from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

Here’s the cover to Rob Liefeld’s first issue of Deathstroke for DC Comics

Here is an action sequence from Habibi by Craig Thompson

Here is an example of the beautiful hand drawn patterns and borders in Habibi by Craig Thompson

more art from Habibi by Craig Thompson

and finally here’s a comparison image of the DC Comics logo through the last 3 iterations.

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In this Episode, we read from the listener mailbag, and Phil solves a mystery.  We discuss Batman and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and a secret movie.  (Here’s a hint, it involves Muppets, and it came out in the last year.)  Also, Matt has an album recommendation.  We discover Phil’s fascination with the Smurfs, discuss the Roots newest album, and real-life superheroes (i.e. Phoenix Jones).

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First up is real-life superhero Phoenix Jones:

And now: The Muppets

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In Episode 5, Matt and Phil read from the listener mailbag, and have our first fashion segment with a question for the listeners.  We also bring out the new awards feature Where we give awards to the best and worst things we experienced in the week: The “Thing of the Week” and the “Whammy of the Week”, respectively.  The award winners in the “Thing of the Week” category are “How I Became Stupid” by Martin Page and “The Walking Dead, season 2, episode 3″  The big losers this week are the new Hawk and Dove comic, and “Howard the Duck: the Movie.”  Listen to the show to find out why.  Matt discusses the Mark Waid Daredevil comics, and the new issue of Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine.  Also, If you make it to the end, you’ll hear the story of the crazy guy that wandered into Phil’s laundry room.

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If you’re interested in the How to be Stupid book I mentioned, here’s a link to the Amazon page for it.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Became-Stupid-Martin-Page/dp/0142004952/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326884551&sr=8-1

So if you haven’t listened to our most recently released episode (and you definitely should), the topic of discussion was music.  I went ahead and listed Radiohead as one of the most overrated bands ever.  Anyways, I found this blog post by Dave Lartigue that expresses some thoughts about Radiohead that are similar to mine, and puts them into words more eloquently than I could manage.  I liked this quote:

I also admit that I have a bad habit of letting something’s fans detract from my enjoyment of the thing itself, and Radiohead fans are extremely…vocal. Apparently you can’t be into Radiohead halfway. You’re either in it to win it or you’re an idiot with no musical taste who should go back to listening to N’Sync. So that could be a big part of it. After all, there are very few bands that could, to me, hold up to the kind of rabid word-of-mouth that Radiohead’s gotten.

also I liked this part.

Whatever the reason, I need to brace myself. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and advance word is that it’s a work of genius which can cure cancer and end world hunger.

Anyway, check it out here at the excellent blog, “Dave Ex Machina”

You’ve waited for it, and here it is: Episode 4.  This is the music episode, and Phil and Matt discuss many things, from the question of whether or not the Kinks was the first punk band, the most underrated, and the most overrated bands, R.E.M. breaking up, R.E.M. vs The Clash, and New Jersey’s favorite musical sons, Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen.  If you make it to the end you’ll also get to hear the Carrot Cheesecake story.  Comments, questions, and complaints about the show can be directed to bombastpodcast@hotmail.com.

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(In the episode we refer to this as episode 3, but I swear, it is episode 4!)

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In Episode 3, Phil and Matt are joined by special guest Janine after watching The Thing in the movie theater.  Naturally, the Thing (2011) and the original John Carpenter/Kurt Russell “The Thing” from the 1980s are the main jumping off point of the conversation.  Topics discussed include suspense, movies in the 1980s versus now, movie remakes, Total Recall, current movie trailers, The Muppets, Harold and Kumar, Contraband, Storage Wars, Dumb and Dumber II: Dumb and Dumberer, when the movie is better than the book, the definition of a “boy band”, Ke$ha, “The Darkest Hour”, Transformers, and Michael Bay.

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We (Phil, Janine and I) recorded the episode after watching the movie “The Thing”  and that’s one of the main things we discuss on the show.

Michael Bay re-used footage from his own movie The Island in one of the Transformers movies.  In the old days, hack B-movie directors and producers like Roger Corman used to use stock footage to save money.  In our current world of filmaking, Michael Bay, director of some of the most expensive (and profitable) moves, ever… is basically creating his own stock footage for use later… all on the investor’s dime!  What chutzpah!

Here’s another one… unbelievable.

And speaking of that Pearl Harbor movie, here’s my favorite joke about WWII movies, from the comic strip “Hark! A vagrant” by Kate Beaton.  It’s the third one down on the page.  http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=292

Peace out!  keep your ears open for episode 3!

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In Episode 2, the sophomore slump episode, Phil and Matt are joined by their first guest, Rory!  Before that, there’s a bit of comics talk.  Topics discussed this episode include the DC Comics New 52 Reboot, Action Comics, Tumor by Joshua Hale Fialkov & Noel Tuazon, and Hawk & Dove. After that, we are joined by Rory, and we discuss Doctor Who, the concept of ‘British Sense of Humor’ PBS vs the BBC, WWE wrestling, and Amish country.  Comments, questions, and complaints about the show can be directed to bombastpodcast@hotmail.com.

But wait, what does Phil have to say about this?

“hey ya’ll, ep 2 is up now! got some more comics, dr. who, wrestling, amish people and special guest tom brokaw. i mean, rory. so, there should be something you like somewhere in this episode.” -Phil Jacke

Rhett and Link, a fantastic comedy and music duo from Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina,  created this video.  Link shares his advice as part of his series: Link’s Golden Advice for Single Guys.  As Link says “You may think the first date is simply an opportunity to get to know a girl – to “hang out”.  Wrong!  The first date is a job interview, in which the girl is being interviewed for the job of making you un-single-ized.”  He then proceeds to give 8 questions to ask, and the red flag responses to look out for.  Good stuff.