Cerebus #8: “Day of the Earth-Pig”

Listen to the show HERE!

 

Music

1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)

2. Ramones, “I’m Against It”  (from Road to Ruin)

 

Simage Gallery

Caveat Elrod

 

Ditkoesque Maw

 

Mental turbulence

 

Fever tendrils

 

Subjective correlative

 

Objective Quarrelative

 

Mind Game #0

 

bridging the gap

 

Spare the Elrod, Spoil the Trial

 

I'm a doctor, not a Bismarckian

 

Getting Fisted

 

The Three Faces of Cerebus

 

Conniptin Fit

That’s It!

Thanks for reading! See you soon!

Oh! Don’t forget to give The Legion of Substitute Podcasters a try!

Dave

Frank Borzage’s That’s My Man (1947)

Listen to the podcast HERE.

 

Frank Borzage

For a good introduction to the director, read Joel McElhaney’s Sense of Cinema article.

Here’s a piece I wrote on Strange Cargo about 6 years ago.

 

That’s My Man [1947]

Note: The copy I was able to obtain had hard-coded Spanish subtitles, so, if you can read the language, enjoy!

Is that a colt in your pocket?

Our narrator

The nerve!

The coat off his back

Sweet surrender

Honeymoon haul

love is a prison

love is freedom

the ultimate Borzage set

coziness impinged upon by the socio-political carnival

love (and family) is a prison

aftermath of the Frere Jacques sequence (not discussed in the podcast)–an emotional triumph

Gallant Man makes his move

Thanks for listening! (and if you want to see the film, don’t hesitate to contact me!)

Dave

 

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117 (February 1964)

Listen to the episode HERE!

Music Track List

1. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)

2. T. Rex, “Mambo Sun” (from Electric Warrior)

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117

“The Many Traps of Baron Mordo” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

Script: Steve Ditko (plot, un-credited); Stan Lee (script)

Art: Steve Ditko

Letters: Sam Rosen

 

Spell Cheque (a running count of extra-dimensional countersignatories invoked in Dr. Strange)

This issue:

Dormammu: 1// Vishanti: 1

Series Total:

Agamotto: 2// Dormammu: 5//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 2//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1

Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!

 

Doctored images:

Double Trouble

protagonist?

Baron Mordo, will you never learn?

Bleecked Out (House)

Divide to conquer

Dimension Praecox

Ethereal Under Fire

Can Mordo do it?

Knave in the Woods

Magic loophole

Express tunnel

Evil eye

Mystic Melee

The Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light

Another Sorcerous Night, and He Ain't Got Nobody

Thanks for listening!

Talk at you soon!

 

Dave