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

Cerebus #7

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

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

Episode #6: Strange Tales #115; Parole Girl [1933]; Cerebus #6

Listen to episode #6 HERE!

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!

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Dave

Episode #5: Grand Maman’s Crumpets, Strange Tales #114, Cerebus #5

Listen to episode #5 HERE!

 

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

Episode 4: The Beguiling, Neil the Horse, Strange Tales #111, Cerebus #4

Listen to the all-new, all-audible episode #4 HERE!

 

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

Diptych

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

Episode #3: 1st app. of Dr. Strange/The Case of the Curious Bride [1935]/Cerebus #3

Episode no longer available–but enjoy the images!

(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

shouldn’t he want ants?

“Meat is Meat”

my favourite

 

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

 

 

Episode #2: Juke Girl [1942] and Cerebus #2

Episode no longer available–but enjoy the images!

(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)

Hello again–hope you succumb to this two-pronged pincer movement directed at your heart.

First, some details about the music:

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

2. Leadbelly, “Hitler Song” (on the Bourgeois Blues collection)

3. Fight Like Apes, “Pull Off Your Arms, Let’s Play in Your Blood” (from Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner)

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

Theatre of the Insured – #1: Juke Girl (1942)

Film details at IMDB.

Postcards from the Popular Front

on the bum

Whorf and Hale (the Skipper's Dad)

more than mere Oomph

all that beautiful food, destroyed by capitalism

Gene Lockhart, sleaze merchant

benign breaking and entering

Donald MacBride (Muckeye) watches these ruffians tear his joint apart

Rick and Ilsa

get this man a hammer and sickle

Cerebus #2

Previous writing on this issue.

Simage Gallery

Sacred is a relative term

Words Can Wound

the Penciler at his ease

Intro: "the Void"

Moon over Boreala

That’s it for now folks! Hope you enjoyed it–please do drop me a line about the GRS!

Dave

 

The Groucho Ramone Show #1: Intro + Getting Back on the (Cere)bus!

Episode no longer available–but enjoy the images!

(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)

The subject at hand: Cerebus #1 (Dec 1977/Jan 1978)

I’m not keen on the podomatic text page, so we’ll take care of the appendices on WP.

Let’s get to it!

Link section:

Early blog-panion roll call:

Doc Nebula!

Jon Hastings!

Eve Tushnet!

Johnny Bacardi!

The Comic Treadmill!

Sean Collins!

Bill Sherman!

Peiratikos!

David Allison!

…among many others!

Current pod-spirations:

Tom Vs the Flash (Tom Katers takes on the entire Silver Age Flash series; he’s on to Aquaman now)

I Read Comics (Lene Taylor tackles every kind of comic you can think of!)

Look at His Butt! (LT and JK talk Trek–and much more)

Two True Freaks (two entertaining guys delve into the mysteries of Star Trek, Star Wars, old comics and plenty of other schlocky favourites!)

Super Future Friends (a chronological look at the Legion, beginning withAdventure #247)

From Crisis to Crisis (Superman from 1986 to 2006)

Amazing Spider-Man Classics (from the bite until they bite the bullet)

Tales of the Justice Society of America (they’re into All-Star Squadron–a lifelong favourite of mine)

Cerebus #1 fun:

One stop oracle:

Cerebus Fan Girl!

My own previous ramblings on Cerebus #1.

 

Selected Simagery

Stranger comes to town

The Letterer steps up to the plate.

Shadow play--I love those little ombre-varks up there!

Bones of contention

Hazy shades of lotus

Paging Gary Gygax

Pay no attention to that Wizard on the end of your kebab

the nut in question

Ah… much better!

Also–seems like my outro music didn’t make it… but you’ll hear it in episode #2–hope you’ll be back! (I’ll even read the book before I start talking about it next time)

a bientot les amis–thanks for listening!

Dave