Jermaine and Stephen are joined on the Shadow Council by returning guest Riley to discuss their spoiler-free first impressions of Marvel's the Avengers, out this week!
Then it's a jam-packed week of Comics at the Table featuring the DC New 52 Second Wave, the return of Valiant Comics, Image's newest sold-out creator-owned series, a few more Free Comic Book Day previews and the ongoing saga of the Avengers vs. the X-Men!
All of that on Free Comic Book Day weekend! What are we going?!
DJ Griffin Kale mans the board while Jermaine, Stephen, Frank and Adam recap the Image Expo, gush over the new Avengers trailer, and get you caught up on everything you need to know for Avengers vs. X-Men, starting up in just a few weeks!
Jermaine, Stephen, Frank and Adam are joined in the studio by Acmecast #22 guest Brian Ewing to weigh in on the look of the Lizard in the Amazing Spider-man movie, debate the pros and cons of Peter David's Fan/Pro Convention Bill of Rights, the merits of Locke & Key, and the best gift you can give Stan the Man this holiday season as he celebrates his 89th birthday!
Frank sits down one-on-one with Who Is Jake Ellis and Grifter writer Nathan Edmondson at NC Comic Con to go over the origins of Olympus and the future of the Activity.
And the gang milks everything they can from a meager week of new releases, discussing Daredevil #6, FF #12, Star Trek #3, Uncanny X-Men #2, Avengers Origins Thor #1, Spaceman #2 and the wonderful original graphic novel Rust from Archaia!
I shamelessly used most of the Sci-Fi clichés, but I always kept a deep respect for real science, and real drama. This conflict eventually became an issue I couldn’t avoid any longer about 1985. The editors of Sci-Fi for a generation have fallen in love with their own ‘literary’ wisdom, which is far off the mark, and deceptive; more on the order of pandering profitably to the lowest common denominator: people who comprehend neither science nor drama. The dirty little secret is that you can’t pay to make Sci-fi fans attend a Real Science Presentation, which I used to present at Sci-Fi Cons with a Physics professor partner from Guilford College (now deceased early and much missed). The problem with SF is that the more liberties you take with reality to make a story possible at all, the less meaningful becomes whatever human point the story makes, which is the only one worth making. This Sci-Fi habit is a direct descendent of 1920s Pulp Fiction – and they just moved the exotic locations further off when the old ones became tired from being better known in the real world, and eventually off-world. As the planets ran out, determined uninhabitable, well, then, on to the stars, and when they got too far off, we skipped off to Fantasy which isn’t anywhere at all, and we get to use magic spells. So Tarzan of darkest Africa morphed into Jon Carter of Mars and there he got ray-guns instead of boom-sticks and spears, and could then fly around on Pterodactyls, instead of wearing a loincloth and swinging from the trees on vines. Note that the babes in briefs didn’t change: that’s the key! And if the heroines wear overalls today, that’s only because it’s politically correct.
Dave Sim once told me that Comics was a Medium, but Science-Fiction was a Genre. This is a fine and a real distinction; I am still learning from it. Just so, Cinema is also a Medium. And when you transfer a Drama from one into another medium, there is always a slippage, a shifting of emphasis and content. This isn't an issue of craft, or sincerity, or
Before we being, a word from Jermaine: Now that the new Acme site is up and running, we return you to your regularly scheduled installment of M.A. Foster's Eyeless in Gaza editorial feature! Exclusive to Acme Comics.com, look for never before printed pieces as well as archives from the previous incarnation of our website. Coming soon! And now...our feature presentation!
I am Dead and You are Alive?
(Apologies to Phillip K. Dick and Immanuel Carrere, his biographer)
Before we begin, a word from Jermaine: Now that the new Acme site is up and running, we return you to your regularly scheduled installment of M.A. Foster's Eyeless in Gaza editorial feature! Exclusive to Acme Comics.com, look for never before printed pieces as well as archives from the previous incarnation of our website. Coming soon! And now...our feature presentation!
