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

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

love is freedom

the ultimate Borzage set

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

Dave

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

Music

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

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

Simage Gallery

Forging a Smithian atmosphere

Hooray for Elrod Spaulding!

Checkerbird

wavy bricks and stuffed polar bears

Cultist as (Walter) Mit(ty)

Did I triptych you up, son?

J'obtuse!

Agitatin' Cerebus' brain

mistaken identity payoff!

soulless in the void

brigandry just ain't what it used to be

Music Track List

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

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

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #116

“Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic!” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

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

Art: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

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

This issue:

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

Series Total:

Agamotto: 2// Dormammu:4//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1

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

Doctored images:

Spider-Man viewer?

Ditkovian delirium

Enter: the Book of the Vishanti

The Jaws of un-Life

Major Spell Cheque action

Nightmare Hospitality

Dr. Strange descends to the use of parlor tricks

Ditkovian Man on Precipice (by far my favourite image from this issue)

a new friend

Status Quoed

Other shows mentioned this episode:

Amazing Spider-Man Classics

Komics Kast (look in early 2009 and early 2008 for the early Marvel episodes discussed!)

That’s it for now–thanks for listening/reading!

Dave

The Music

1. The Ramones, “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)

2. The Wailers, “She’s Coming Home” — from Merry Christmas From Etiquette Records

3. Darlene Love, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” — from A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

4. The Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Gift of the Magi” — from Christmas Caravan

5. Weezer, “The Christmas Song”

6. Frank Sinatra, “The Christmas Waltz” — from A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra

Paul Reid’s Christmas!

Charles Dickens — “What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older”

Read the FULL TEXT HERE.

The Movies

I'll Be Seeing You

more I'll Be Seeing You

Remember the Night (1940)

more Remember the Night

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

The Books

Peter Godfrey, ed. Murder For Christmas.

Edward Wagenknecht, ed. The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories.

Charles Dickens. Christmas Books.

The Comics

Christmas With the Super-Heroes, #1-2 (1988, 1989)

Marvel Treasury Edition #8: Giant Superhero Holiday Grab Bag (1975)

Walt Disney Christmas Parade #1-2 (1988-1989)

The Christmas Spirit (Kitchen Sink Reprints of Eisner classics)

That’s it!

Hope you enjoyed the show–and I hope you have an even more enjoyable holiday season!

Don’t forget my Neil the Horse contest!

Dave

Music Track List

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

2. The Distillers, “Sing Sing Death House” (from Sing Sing Death House, 2002)

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

4. The Queers, “The Sun Always Shines Around You” (from Punk Rock Confidential, 1998)

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

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #115 (December 1963)

“The Origin of Dr. Strange” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Sam Rosen

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

Agamotto: 1// Dormammu:3// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1

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

Doctored images:

Who is he?

Dr. Feel Nothing

live free or die

Strange days indeed

great window, grim Mordo

more characteristic window, more grim Mordo

clamp got your tongue?

Ditko gropes for the psychology

the moment of Ditkonian decision

The Theatre of the Insured:

Parole Girl [1933]

**Audio Erratum! Apparently, I resent Mae Clarke’s unfortunate grapefruit-in-the-face rep so strongly that I refused to state the facts of the case correctly (although claiming she’d been hit with a watermelon makes it sound even worse)…. sorry about that!

Maeday! Maeday!

the conspirators

"I'm a good girl"

the sorority

a bright idea

manufacturing a third wheel

weirdest boss ever

precarious conviviality

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #6

right between the eyes

the male gaze

E'lass and alack

first contact

Don't you think I'd make a good Christmas Queen?

ambrosia

Lettering with a kick

happiness is a warm aardvark

The eyes (don't) have it

a melancholy wedding present

Thanks for listening folks!

Join this podcast’s Facebook page! Leave an iTunes comment!

Dave

Music Track List

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

2. The Boswell Sisters, “We’re in the Money” (which you can get on this collection)

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

4. The Beatitude, “Jump (On This Hierarchy)” (from …And the Bag of Cacophany)

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

The podcaster and Grand-Maman Leduc, 2002

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #114 (November 1963)

“Dr. Strange, Master of… Black Magic” (5pgs; 3rd feature)

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Sam Rosen

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

Doctored images:

Method mysticism?

The true colours of mysticism

Enter: Rolf

Astral Skype

Victoria Bentley

Ultimate Fighting: Interiority Division

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #5

Y: The Last Aardvark?

Ruler Rain

26???

Art deco skulking--my favourite Sim page to date

Fearful Prophecy

Destiny as Pinata

With great power comes great agency

Thanks for listening folks! See you next time!

Dave

Music Track List

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

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

3. The Boswell Sisters, “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (which you can get on this collection)

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

A Beguiling Haul

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #111 (August 1963)

“Dr. Strange, Master of… Black Magic” (5pgs; 3rd feature)

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Terry Szenics

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

Doctored images:

Black Magic superhero?

intimations of better worlds to come

let's get on with it!

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #4

If death ever sleepwalked

Schulzian

never pull an aardvark's ear

iconic conicity

Where's the "Pop"

Thanks for listening folks! See you next time!

Dave

(Of course, if you’re interested in hearing the episode–I can send it to you in Mp3 form–just let me know via Facebook or a comment)

Welcome to the strep-cast! If you’ll all just gather round my sickbed, I’ve got all kinds of things to say!

We begin with the music track list:

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

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

3. Annette Hanshaw, “Cooking Breakfast”

4. Fight Like Apes, “Snore Bore Whore” (from And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion)

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

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)

“Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts” (5pgs; 3rd feature)

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Terry Szenics

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

Doctored images:

Enter the Doctor!

Dr. Strange knows all

Dream balloon!

Nightmare's scheme

tsk tsk

Cinema of the Insured #2: The Case of the Curious Bride [1935]

WEIRDO!

The Duchess of Dubuque

Wini Shaw does her mid-30s thing

a fine lot of crustaceans

I forgot! Mayo Methot was in this too! (later, she would stab hubby Humphrey Bogart in the back--with a knife, I mean)

"These snails ain't been gettin' all their Vitamin D"

Captain bludgeoned

Cerebus #3: Simage Gallery

compromises

Thugg the Unseemly

errors of inattention

That ‘s it for now! Hope you enjoy–and, if you do, please tell your friends!

I’m off to Toronto for a week–see you in late November!

Dave