To celebrate Free Comic book Day 2024, we're doing a special cross-posted episode of Transcending Comics and Giant Sized Violence. Eri and Tomi go back and forth discussing their free comic picks, and have a quick discussion on a great graphic novel find, Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka (to be covered in a future episode of Transcending Comics). Eri's Picks: Monster High Mad Magazine: FCBD 2024 Special Edition Unico: The Awakening
Tomi's Picks: Gatchaman #0 UltraDuck Energon Universe Special
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Music.
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Welcome, everyone, to a very special cross-posted episode of Giant Size Violence
and Transcending Comics.
In honor of Free Comic Book Day, my partner, Ari, and I are both going to be
doing a quick informal roundup of the books we picked out today,
as well as what we're going to be reading going forward.
So, joining me, as mentioned earlier, is my fashion consultant,
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roommate, and romantic partner, Ari.
Welcome back to the show. Hi, everyone.
Oh, you always build me up. Thank you.
And I'm excited to say that, surprisingly, the books I picked out,
while this wasn't my intention, I do think they fall within the realm of both my comic podcasts.
So I'll be posting this to both feeds. And if you listen on one,
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you'll have no obligation to listen to it on the other.
But we're just going to go kind of back and forth, Ari and I,
going between the books we both picked out.
Thankfully, we were picking out separate books specifically on our route to
this shop today. But I think we both got things we were really excited about
and fairly satisfied with, with some big surprises in there.
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Ari, do you want to give us the list of the books you picked out today?
Yeah, yeah. The first one I've got here is Monster High.
I don't know why I'm showing it to the camera. Some of this might wind up in TikTok clips.
Oh, cool. Cool. So I picked Monster High as my one of my free comics because
I am I wouldn't say a big fan of the show, but I'm a fan of the show.
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It's the perfect show if you're cleaning to have on as background noise.
You just kind of enjoy all the all the little monster puns that happen in there.
Yeah. And I know friend of the show, Tilly Bridges from Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
is actually written for the Monster High series.
So i've always had a eye for that
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show i've loved what they did with the dolls and like i'm
just really glad that i grew up in a time where monsters were very
much like the boys thing where as like princesses and dress-up dolls were more
for girls i love that they've like found a way to mix those two up or like at
least reintroduce the classic monsters for a way that appeals to younger girls
and boys too but yeah monster high is a lot of fun i really wish i could have grown
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up with it but it came a little after my time as well yeah i
certainly did not grow up with it i was in my 30s when
i discovered monster eye but yeah it's really cute and you're right i love the
dolls like just the fact that there's like barbie sized like monster girls whose
fashion choices i really enjoy is super awesome i secretly want to get some
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of the dolls but yeah and i.
It's probably one of, so I would say it was the one that bowled me over the
least to where I was going to like, okay, so it's got about three or four pages of story,
which is a really cute little story about Frankie Stein.
Then it's got bios, which I did enjoy.
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And then it's got a, this is
actually a really cute monster high new scare
master schedule so it's like their little
semester schedule and it's got cute little
punny monster classes that they're taking so i i do like that and then they've
got an interview with jock right i believe you pronounce her name but they are
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a writer on monster high so that's really cool and interesting and i enjoyed that and then it has
about eight pages of ads
so that's why i'm gonna
put it kind of at the at the bottom
of my list as but i still very much enjoyed
it and the little monsters are really
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cute yeah and that's really pretty common for
free comic book day issues at least the prominence of
ads since i mean yeah these are being
given out for free a lot of studios and especially
small studios will put these out just so people are aware of like
what they have on offer usually it'll
be like small anthologies though in those cases but i
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did look through your monster high book and what i
did like was that like the character bios all had like a full body diagram of
each of the characters and i liked like knowing my younger self and how i like
to trace my comics or draw the characters in them i think this will be really
good to give girls like something they can easily go off of if If they want
to draw these characters.
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But otherwise yeah. I'd be pretty disappointed. If I was like a little Monster
High fan. I got four pages of comic.
Some of the like in universe stuff. Like the schedule is cool.
But yeah I think that maybe.
There should have been a little more comic content. In the free comic book day issue.
I will say it kind of matches the mood. Of the media or of the franchise.
Because like really. Like I mean. They don't even have a series for it.
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It's just the little Netflix movies that they have. And the story is never the thing.
It's always like the designs of the monsters, what they're wearing,
and just all the monster puns. So it's never really been about the story.
It's always been about the little everything else and the style of it.
They're almost kind of like Bratz dolls or something.
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So I get it. But at the same time, I was a little disappointed.
Now, similar to you with free comic issues that were based on cartoons,
I picked up Gatchaman Issue Zero for Free Comic Day.
This is a little anthology of three different short comics featuring the Gatchaman
characters, which a lot of people in the U.S. will know this series as Battle
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of the Planets or G-Force.
Or if you're a fan of obscure 90s media, you might know it as Eagle Riders from
when Saban had the right to reanimate this.
So i really don't know much about these
characters or this world but i know it's kind of
adjacent to tokusatsu it has that same like superheroes or superhero ninjas
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in this case with super vehicles that come together in a big jet and like well
i think power rangers is a weird unique franchise with its strange history like
really there's no shortage of shows like gotcha man that have a.
Crazy history of like being localized several
different times having a weird release options like
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this i know voltron is kind of a similar history
robotech good god i love robotech this
was really my first time like ever trying out anything
gotcha man related so this one has shorts written
by a colon bun and drawn by chris batista for
the first one and i know they're going going to be carrying on and writing
a gotcha man series proper going
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forward as well as minis from tommy lee
edwards and daniel hansen and steve orlando and
kath lobo honestly i really liked the self-contained shorts
that were done by steve orlando and tommy
lee edwards just not really knowing anything about this
world them having a little self-contained thing that shows
me a little bit about the characters or their villains sort of
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what i'm looking for and i think what a lot of fans of this
are going to be excited about just like i like
to think of when i first got power rangers comics in
2016 and how pumped i was that we'd get these
little side stories about obscure characters or expanding the
world and i know how little people have been
given that were like fans of this back in the day so like while.
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I didn't quite know everything enough to appreciate this and
it might not be my thing enough to like get it on my pull list i really hope
that some gotcha man fans are excited and plus it's got a little bit of a power
rangers connection since colin bun is writing this and he uh is also writing
the godzilla power rangers crossover comics so i think this will be so cool yeah.
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Gosh, I've seen the previews of the sequel series they're doing and that Godzilla
wears the Dragonzord as a hat.
And I am so excited to talk about that on the show someday.
I'm so excited to see that. That sounds adorable.
Overall, though, I'd say, like, if you're a fan of Gatchaman,
definitely pick this up. Like, create some incentive for them to keep making,
like, comic content for it.
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If you're like me, though, and had never heard of it, this will be a good place to dip your toes in.
But definitely not like a must grab by any
means if there's other books you got your eye on what about
you area what's your next book my next one is asterix as in double x and asterix
so these are actually rather than being a new thing because that's what i thought
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it was i thought they were kind of doing a new run of asterix and then i saw
the original artists on there go skinny and.
Uderzo, and sorry if I'm pronouncing those wrong.
And then I realized a lot of these, it's just kind of collections of pages from
the classic 60s and 70s, mostly,
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or 50s, 60s, and 70s into the 80s, asterisk, comics, and I really loved it.
From here on, I kind of loved all the ones I got, but nothing new.
A lot of these I'd kind of read, but they were really hard for me to find as
a kid because they had done like an animation of it when I was a kid.
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And I saw that on TV and really fell in love with them.
And my poor parents had to find these French comic books translated for me. And they're great.
They're, you know, in as you would expect, they are from the 50s and 60s and French.
So but you might be surprised
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how wholesome and innocent they are
there was only kind of one thing that i
saw that was like oh okay yep that was a different time yeah i saw they had
the little disney plus like there might be some outdated depictions in this
book or them trying to say it might be kind of racist in the most gentle terms
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possible yeah there was like one one thing I saw and I was like, yeah.
But at the same time, you know, it's history. These things were published, people read.
And it's a really Asterix is a really interesting comic book because it is about the Gauls.
So the original French people when the Romans are taking over.
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And so there's Asterix and then they have druids and all that stuff, all the Gaul stuff.
And they're always fighting with the Romans and the Romans are trying to take
over, which is just really fun.
It's a really clever idea for a comic book and very classic.
Thank like the Donald Duck comics, you know, just like really silly dad humor.
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With a little bit of historical splash to
them for my next book i picked out ultra
duck from arcana comics or arcana studios and i really wasn't sure what to expect
when i got this it was like is this going to be like a darkwing duck crossover
or tie-in but i'm pretty sure that's like a comic publisher i'd actually heard
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of before that was doing that but i thought this
was actually really fun and surprisingly a surprisingly needy first issue for
this little world of ultra duck while it is yes, another superhero duck.
And there's no shortage of those out there with the dark wing duck and duck
Dodgers and the mighty ducks cartoon.
This I was surprised very much feels like a duck version of radiant black or
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like radiant black for kids that it's like sort of the same situation of like
Like a very everyday millennial or zoomer coded hero that finds some kind of
alien technology that some forces,
like some cosmic forces may be coming after.
They don't really understand it, but the hero takes a lot of selfies and seems
to be caught up in the clout. He doesn't really know what he's doing,
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but he has some really great powers.
But what I really liked was not that much of the book is actually focused on Alter Duck himself.
A lot of it is this little side story about this one girl that I think is friends
with them, works at some kind of club bar situation,
who then like uses her stage prowess and like some technical skills with her
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and her sound and lights person.
And they fend off like some thugs trying to extort the studio by dressing up
in a similar outfit and like using lights and a taser to make it seem like they also have duck powers.
And like it felt like just watching a
couple episodes of an ultra duck cartoon and
sure enough i found out afterwards that this whole studio putting this out is
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mostly known as an animation studio they did like the steam engines of oz as
well as the howard lovecraft movies and some others like the clockwork girl
some other oz related things and then a number of.
Children's books and other like young comics that kind of tie in with their animation
so i guess this is really more of like a
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film studio that's trying to promote an upcoming ultra duck
movie and i'm not sure like i'll
be the target audience for ultra duck but i will certainly like check out some
trailers and see if it garners enough interest because yeah this was a surprisingly
good modern version of like the duck superhero thing wasn't just cashing in
on old tropes like i felt like this was written by someone who is well versed in modern comics and
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taking a page from things other than just what we see from Marvel and DC and
all the classic tropes from that,
like something like Duck Dodgers and Darkwing Duck might do.
I definitely have to check that out. I have to admit, that's the one,
one of yours that you grabbed that I had my eye on of like, okay, that looks really cool.
And I might even be that that target audience with my Monster High book over here.
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But when I looked at it, my first thought was Howard the Duck,
because I'm a huge Howard the Duck fan.
And it looked like sci-fi Howard the Duck or something, which is cool.
Yeah. Eric, what's your next book? So my next one is very similar to the last one.
It is an edition of Mad Magazine.
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That's the superhero edition. so same thing of asterix of it's like a lot of
older just a collection of their older stuff like there are some segments in
here from like the 70s and stuff but yeah they're all,
mad magazine cartoons about superheroes and
honestly flipping through this one and it
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was so nostalgic because i was such a mad
magazine kid like oh every issue
i was obsessed but i will say flipping through it
it's probably aged worse than the
asterix comics i was reading which is highly surprising um
and like i even ran into some uh you might want to call it transphobic stuff
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in there but um good going mad magazine but still very nostalgic very you know
dad humor very silly and And honestly,
like, you know, the asterisks I got, you know, I never really laugh out loud
because it's just silly dad humor or whatever.
With the Mad Magazine, I have to admit, there were some jokes in there that literally made me LOL.
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So it's Mad Magazine. You get what you expect. But classic.
Great. Yeah. Like except for the transphobic stuff.
I probably won't read that one since I'm not much of a Mad Magazine person.
But I will say that, yeah, like the cover gag is even pretty great of Superman
accidentally ripping his superhero outfit, forgets that he's already in uniform
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before changing into Superman.
He's like, crap, I'm already in costume and his bare chest is hanging out.
Yeah, it even got a laugh out of you. so like i
know comedy often ages like milk
but i have to say i'm surprised that in all the years of
man magazine like when they're tailor tailoring specifically for the free comic
book day presumably like all ages or most ages comic they still weren't able
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to find like at least a single issue worth of non-problematic comics from their
history yeah even asterix did it like Like,
even the 1950s French thing was able to do it pretty well, but Mad Magazine was just like, nope.
Now, for my next book, I think this is probably my favorite of the free comic
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book day issues that I picked up today, and that's the Energon Universe comic, or the 2024 special.
Now, I've got a pull list for both Void Rivals, which is kind of the kickoff
series that started this crossover G.I.
Joe Transformers universe, and I also have a pull for Transformers.
I'm a little behind, like, I do a lot of reading for both of my podcasts,
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so I really can only keep up with, like, one or two series at a time.
And sadly, Transformers and Void Rivals, I'm both just letting get,
like, a season or two worth of stories before I catch up.
But this was awesome. Like, this really made me want to dive back into those
and get caught up. because all three
of the series they sampled between Transformers, Void Rivals, and G.I.
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Joe in this all knock out stories that like I can tell how well they're playing
with these existing characters.
Like they're not trying to reinvent the wheel or like reintroduce you to these
like Autobots and Cobra and G.I. Joe or just like we're going to tell the story our way.
Like it is retelling like the Transformers origin in a way but in a very different
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way that's still true to the origin But seeing like, what would it actually
be like if these Autobots woke up in modern times after crashing here years ago?
Like, how would the local populace actually deal with this? Or like,
hey, there's been robots scattered across the planet.
Like, what's happened to those over the years?
And also seeing that like, there's a bigger galaxy of aliens that interact with
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Autobots and Decepticons.
And like i know that robert kirkman the person behind skybound that's making these like.
Transformers the movie was a huge inspiration for him
and honestly that's one of my favorite movies and you can see that in this there's
deep nods to characters introduced in that like hot rod and the quintessence
and yeah like i just am really excited to read everything like i'm probably
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gonna pick up the gi joe graphic novels now because of this book and i was previously
letting that be the one I pass on.
But no, I need to read it now because I loved the G.I. Joe story here too.
The G.I. Joe fan that you live with is very happy about that as well.
And when you were done with it, you just handed it to me and were like,
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you have to read this because there is some awesome G.I. Joe surprises in there.
I'm not going to give it away. But yeah, super cool.
Yeah, well, like I will say, I know you're a fan of Baroness and
the story is kind of focused around her and like
yeah this got me on board like i want to read
more baroness and like you've actually done a great
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job getting me into gi joe comics this year like
i know i got you some for your birthday uh and
you had me read them because i can't believe
how wild those books are like we got around issues 49 50
and in the first issue i read They
kill Clifford the Big Red Dog As a puppy Like they're evacuating some Cobra
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town of sleeper agents And some family's like we gotta leave the dog behind
And they're pulling out a gun And the dog is like It's the living image of like
Puppy Clifford the Big Red Dog For no reason.
The Cobra town is amazing. It is this town that is taken over by Cobra and there's
little kids in it and families and they're just all like in Legion with Cobra.
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And it's just this little Cobra town. And it is great.
There's so many, especially in those Cobra town issues.
It's so wild. Like there's so many wild things.
Yeah. And when we we actually got a chance, surprised me this year to meet Larry
Hama, the writer of those comics at a local convention going on.
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And I had no idea the legend that was Larry Hama, also known as the Korean doctor
for mesh, and that he wrote like 300 and counting some G.I. Joe issues.
He's even doing some of the modern ones, to my knowledge.
And, yeah, he just stuck through it. And a lot of that is gold.
Like, from my understanding, it's like around issues 20 to 100, 150 are amazing.
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And like, yeah, I've only read two or three issues so far and I'm hooked,
like hooked enough that I thought about doing a little side podcast miniseries
of two trans girls read G.I.
Joe because it's that fun, that crazy.
And I did have Larry Hama sign that Clifford the Big Red Dog page and he looked
at me weird, but it was absolutely worth it.
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I wanted to add to his resume too and
say because this is probably how a lot of people my
age will know him he wrote the character cards on
the toys as well and that was actually my first impression of his writing and
then later as a kid like i got the comics and stuff but didn't realize how crazy
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they were till i read them as an adult are we ready for yeah tell us about your next book Yes.
So this is my my favorite one.
It is Unico the Awakening. And I will say I didn't know anything about it when
I picked it up other than it has a cute unicorn on it.
And that is absolutely enough to sell me and cute baby unicorn,
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I might add. Yeah, like it looks kind of like a My Little Pony character.
Not gonna lie, that's kind of what I thought it might be related to My Little
Pony or something of which not afraid to admit this.
I am a I'm a big fan of My Little Pony. You're a Pegasister.
I'm a Pegasister. Yeah, it's good show, but it's just really good if you like cute things.
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Ponies that look like cats yeah sign me up anyway unico
is actually based on a manga
that's fairly old like like this particular manga came out in the 80s even though
just discovered the author of it is like huge in manga kind of like the inventor
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of manga yeah the godfather of manga They call it. Yeah. Tezuka or Suzuko.
Osama Osamu Tezuka might be killing the pronunciation. Yeah.
OK, cool. Yeah, you're probably doing better than me. But I fell in love with this book.
I want to read the manga now. I want to see the anime.
I want to. And when this comes out in August, I want to read every issue that
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comes out because I am obsessed.
It is about this unicorn, baby unicorn, that gets banished by the goddess Venus
because they're taking attention away from Venus and she likes her attention.
So she banishes this unicorn, gets one of her servants called Nightwind to take
it to the Hill of Forgetfulness.
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But the Nightwind keeps letting Unico kind of live a life and then taking Unico
to the Hill of Forgetfulness and then taking him back out,
letting him live life and then taking him back, which she realizes is actually really cruel.
Rule so she takes him like way
far ahead in time in the
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future to like now so that
he can kind of hide there so venus won't find him and then once in modern times
we get into like this cat society and these cats have like this guard system
because a cat just was recently killed by a raccoon So all of these cats are on guard,
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like on the little, oh, what are those things outside of city apartments?
Firescapes? Yeah, outside on the firescapes doing their cat watch.
And this cat sees Unico and leaves their station of duty to save him and gets
in trouble with the other cats.
But brings it brings Unico back to her little place where she lives,
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her owner's apartment, and shows him what a heater is.
They actually pronounce a heater
with a D, which is really cute and animal like. And it's just adorable.
Like, I loved it enough. But once the little secret cat society got introduced
and the cat showing him around the house and stuff, oh my goodness, cute attack.
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I love it. Yeah, and it was weird that that book has just a very coincidental
connection with the graphic novel I picked out there.
So the shop we were in, Daydream Comics, was very packed, which is pretty typical
of any free comic book day.
But like i it was hard to really browse the actual
comics on the shelves that you pay for but i
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just was squeezing past their one manga shelf
when a book caught my eye princess knight it
was called and i just read the back and it seemed like something
that was perfect for transcending comics
which i've been looking for a good manga to
cover there to just expand our comic selection but yeah
this so far i'm really liking and
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i didn't have any idea the historic impact of
this book when i picked it out so yeah this is also by osamu
tazuka who is the creator of astro boy
as well as like a number of other huge
foundational early manga and as i've
done just a little bit of like wikipedia research i found that this
was like the first real narrative shoujo comic
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or like story comic to my understanding i guess before that
they'd been like little funny gags or like
morality tales in a short comic this
was the first like really string them together to tell a larger story
and it's also kind of the foundational text of a lot of magical girl media like
because it follows a and kind of androgynous protagonist that's given the heart
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of both a boy and a girl when they're a little cherub baby up in heaven.
And they're now born as a princess, but they have to live as a knight and a
prince so they can inherit the kingdom someday because there's some rule saying
that only a male heir can wear the crown.
And yeah, like the whole double life kind of transformation aspect has been
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huge and inspiring a lot of media and like is sometimes even called the first like.
Comic heroine or superheroine and i
think this is just really the perfect book for me to find right now
i've only read the first chapter and i'm sure there's going
to be problematic elements because this is a 1950s
comic it's literally might be the oldest comic
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i've ever read but i'm really excited to cover this
on transcending comics someday since yeah i don't
think there's a better first manga i could have found and
it's all in one nice self-contained book so i don't
have to read a long series like Rama one half and sift
through a longer probably problematic depiction of
gender at play in a series so I'm so
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excited to dig into this yeah we just started kind of
like researching him today once we realized like
oh we both have books by this guy and wow he's like the grandfather of manga
and yeah found out all these things that he'd done that we were somewhat familiar
with like astro boy like i was like oh that's astro that's who did astro boy
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oh okay cool because that i'm pretty familiar with,
Yeah, and I feel like it's not a real episode of one of my podcasts,
or at least Transcending Comics, if I don't get a little into Tommy's spiritual woo-woo bullshit.
But, like, I don't know. It was just really poetic to me that this was the book
that called to me on the shelf.
Right now I'm in a course that's specifically about narrative archetypes.
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It's being led by Arden Lee, who's kind of like the spiritual protege or at
least student of Grant Morrison.
And, yeah, her class has been really cool so far. And the archetype that I've
been looking into is specifically like that, not of the magical girl,
but kind of above that of just like kind of the transforming Amazon female warrior type of thing.
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Like that's had elements in Wonder Woman and the She-Ra and yeah,
of course, like every magical girl anime.
And I just don't think there was like feels very coincidental that this would
then be the book that I would find today of like the few I got to browse.
And I think this is going to be a really important one for me to read while
I'm looking into this archetype, since this might be one of the first real incarnations
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of that, at least the first in comic or manga form.
Yeah, I definitely want to check it out when you're done with it.
It looks really cool. Now, I think you've kind of answered the question, at least about Unico.
But of the series you've read today from the free comic day,
which, if any, do you think you would feel tempted to actually follow the series
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properly month to month or buying it as a graphic novel once it gets collected in a trade?
Any real standouts for you? You, Nico, 100 percent, even though that's a little
bit of a cheat of an answer,
since the other three that I got were kind of rehashes of things I already really enjoyed.
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Like I'd already read some of those Asterix comics and had seen some of the
mad ones as well because I was already a giant fan.
But yeah, 100 percent, you know, I am such a fan right now.
Similar for me, like, I mean, the Energon book is the one that jumped out at
me the most and two of those books I'm already on the pull list for.
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But this really did sell me on buying the collected trades of G.I.
Joe whenever that's released, largely because I started to find how much of the story is told there.
Like, that's where we find out what's happened to Megatron over all these years.
And plus, like, I now have the new found appreciation for G.I.
Joe comics outside of this. And this seems to be no exception for how good and fun they can be.
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So I'm glad that this has helped sell me into like diving into this universe
of toys and stories and comics that like kind of missed me growing up,
but actually has enough appeal to draw me in as an adult.
Any final thoughts, Aerie, before I wrap this up? The only thing I was going
to add, and this is a little bit late to the party, but I wanted to just add
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one more thing to Larry Hama's resume.
Sure. Which has always impressed me and I always think this is super cool.
He's an actual veteran. I believe he fought in Vietnam.
And just really cool. I would have never have thought that the person that wrote the G.I.
Joe stuff was an actual veteran. But now when I go back and reread it and everything,
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I notice all of these little things that I didn't necessarily need as a kid
since I came from a military family.
But there's like he'll put like little glossary terms and notes at the bottom
or whatever to kind of translate a lot of military speak for you,
which I was really impressed by.
So just fascinating individual, awesome history and really good.
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If you want to just go down a fun like research
rabbit hole just kind of wiki larry hama
he's an amazing person yeah and
i suppose last notes for me as well one thing that i
think a lot of people don't know when they go into free comic book day is that
the comic shops usually have to actually buy all of these comics from whatever
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publisher i mean they're usually pretty cheap compared to standard comics like
maybe 50 cents or less i don't know the exact price but that's That's why at a lot of them,
you'll see a limit of like three or four comics that you can take.
Others are generous and let you take as many as you want.
But with that said, like, I mean, we just kind of popped into the comic shop
because we were downtown anyway.
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If you go to a shop and pick these up, I do really recommend that you buy at
least something from the store to kind of show your support.
I knew I wanted to get something while I was there, and thankfully Princess
Knight stood out to me right before we left.
But also, Daydream Comics, I've got to shout them out because they also had
a stand that would let you buy most in-demand graphic novels for a local bookmobile service.
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So if there was nothing you wanted particularly, you could still buy a book for a good cause.
And this is a day this is the most
stressful day for most comic book stores in the country
a lot of them need to get volunteers brought in a lot
of them pull out all the stops and they also
have to rework their stores to jam a lot of people
into what usually is not a very big space so like please be really cool to the
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staff be cool to their inventory and try and buy something or show your support
for your local comic shop because they're pretty much universally locally owned
so So show some appreciation to your local comic book store, wherever that may be.
Now, wrapping up today's show, thankfully, the very talented Ray Day Parade
does the logos for both my shows, so shout out to them for doing just such a great job on both.
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Intro and outro music this week is going to be A Little Soul and You've Been Starring by Carlson.
He's got a new album coming out this year, so do keep an eye on his social medias
or just keep track of carlson.com.
I'm really excited to hear what he has in store.
Otherwise, we hope you'll check us out again during our next episode.
I swear it'll be a bit more formal. But until then...
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Music.
Music.
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Welcome, everyone, to a very special cross-posted episode of Giant Size Violence
and Transcending Comics.
In honor of Free Comic Book Day, my partner, Ari, and I are both going to be
doing a quick informal roundup of the books we picked out today,
as well as what we're going to be reading going forward.
So, joining me, as mentioned earlier, is my fashion consultant,
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roommate, and romantic partner, Ari.
Welcome back to the show. Hi, everyone.
Oh, you always build me up. Thank you.
And I'm excited to say that, surprisingly, the books I picked out,
while this wasn't my intention, I do think they fall within the realm of both my comic podcasts.
So I'll be posting this to both feeds. And if you listen on one,
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you'll have no obligation to listen to it on the other.
But we're just going to go kind of back and forth, Ari and I,
going between the books we both picked out.
Thankfully, we were picking out separate books specifically on our route to
this shop today. But I think we both got things we were really excited about
and fairly satisfied with, with some big surprises in there.
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Ari, do you want to give us the list of the books you picked out today?
Yeah, yeah. The first one I've got here is Monster High.
I don't know why I'm showing it to the camera. Some of this might wind up in TikTok clips.
Oh, cool. Cool. So I picked Monster High as my one of my free comics because
I am I wouldn't say a big fan of the show, but I'm a fan of the show.
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It's the perfect show if you're cleaning to have on as background noise.
You just kind of enjoy all the all the little monster puns that happen in there.
Yeah. And I know friend of the show, Tilly Bridges from Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
is actually written for the Monster High series.
So i've always had a eye for that
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show i've loved what they did with the dolls and like i'm
just really glad that i grew up in a time where monsters were very
much like the boys thing where as like princesses and dress-up dolls were more
for girls i love that they've like found a way to mix those two up or like at
least reintroduce the classic monsters for a way that appeals to younger girls
and boys too but yeah monster high is a lot of fun i really wish i could have grown
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up with it but it came a little after my time as well yeah i
certainly did not grow up with it i was in my 30s when
i discovered monster eye but yeah it's really cute and you're right i love the
dolls like just the fact that there's like barbie sized like monster girls whose
fashion choices i really enjoy is super awesome i secretly want to get some
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of the dolls but yeah and i.
It's probably one of, so I would say it was the one that bowled me over the
least to where I was going to like, okay, so it's got about three or four pages of story,
which is a really cute little story about Frankie Stein.
Then it's got bios, which I did enjoy.
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And then it's got a, this is
actually a really cute monster high new scare
master schedule so it's like their little
semester schedule and it's got cute little
punny monster classes that they're taking so i i do like that and then they've
got an interview with jock right i believe you pronounce her name but they are
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a writer on monster high so that's really cool and interesting and i enjoyed that and then it has
about eight pages of ads
so that's why i'm gonna
put it kind of at the at the bottom
of my list as but i still very much enjoyed
it and the little monsters are really
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cute yeah and that's really pretty common for
free comic book day issues at least the prominence of
ads since i mean yeah these are being
given out for free a lot of studios and especially
small studios will put these out just so people are aware of like
what they have on offer usually it'll
be like small anthologies though in those cases but i
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did look through your monster high book and what i
did like was that like the character bios all had like a full body diagram of
each of the characters and i liked like knowing my younger self and how i like
to trace my comics or draw the characters in them i think this will be really
good to give girls like something they can easily go off of if If they want
to draw these characters.
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But otherwise yeah. I'd be pretty disappointed. If I was like a little Monster
High fan. I got four pages of comic.
Some of the like in universe stuff. Like the schedule is cool.
But yeah I think that maybe.
There should have been a little more comic content. In the free comic book day issue.
I will say it kind of matches the mood. Of the media or of the franchise.
Because like really. Like I mean. They don't even have a series for it.
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It's just the little Netflix movies that they have. And the story is never the thing.
It's always like the designs of the monsters, what they're wearing,
and just all the monster puns. So it's never really been about the story.
It's always been about the little everything else and the style of it.
They're almost kind of like Bratz dolls or something.
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So I get it. But at the same time, I was a little disappointed.
Now, similar to you with free comic issues that were based on cartoons,
I picked up Gatchaman Issue Zero for Free Comic Day.
This is a little anthology of three different short comics featuring the Gatchaman
characters, which a lot of people in the U.S. will know this series as Battle
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of the Planets or G-Force.
Or if you're a fan of obscure 90s media, you might know it as Eagle Riders from
when Saban had the right to reanimate this.
So i really don't know much about these
characters or this world but i know it's kind of
adjacent to tokusatsu it has that same like superheroes or superhero ninjas
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in this case with super vehicles that come together in a big jet and like well
i think power rangers is a weird unique franchise with its strange history like
really there's no shortage of shows like gotcha man that have a.
Crazy history of like being localized several
different times having a weird release options like
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this i know voltron is kind of a similar history
robotech good god i love robotech this
was really my first time like ever trying out anything
gotcha man related so this one has shorts written
by a colon bun and drawn by chris batista for
the first one and i know they're going going to be carrying on and writing
a gotcha man series proper going
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forward as well as minis from tommy lee
edwards and daniel hansen and steve orlando and
kath lobo honestly i really liked the self-contained shorts
that were done by steve orlando and tommy
lee edwards just not really knowing anything about this
world them having a little self-contained thing that shows
me a little bit about the characters or their villains sort of
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what i'm looking for and i think what a lot of fans of this
are going to be excited about just like i like
to think of when i first got power rangers comics in
2016 and how pumped i was that we'd get these
little side stories about obscure characters or expanding the
world and i know how little people have been
given that were like fans of this back in the day so like while.
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I didn't quite know everything enough to appreciate this and
it might not be my thing enough to like get it on my pull list i really hope
that some gotcha man fans are excited and plus it's got a little bit of a power
rangers connection since colin bun is writing this and he uh is also writing
the godzilla power rangers crossover comics so i think this will be so cool yeah.
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Gosh, I've seen the previews of the sequel series they're doing and that Godzilla
wears the Dragonzord as a hat.
And I am so excited to talk about that on the show someday.
I'm so excited to see that. That sounds adorable.
Overall, though, I'd say, like, if you're a fan of Gatchaman,
definitely pick this up. Like, create some incentive for them to keep making,
like, comic content for it.
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If you're like me, though, and had never heard of it, this will be a good place to dip your toes in.
But definitely not like a must grab by any
means if there's other books you got your eye on what about
you area what's your next book my next one is asterix as in double x and asterix
so these are actually rather than being a new thing because that's what i thought
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it was i thought they were kind of doing a new run of asterix and then i saw
the original artists on there go skinny and.
Uderzo, and sorry if I'm pronouncing those wrong.
And then I realized a lot of these, it's just kind of collections of pages from
the classic 60s and 70s, mostly,
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or 50s, 60s, and 70s into the 80s, asterisk, comics, and I really loved it.
From here on, I kind of loved all the ones I got, but nothing new.
A lot of these I'd kind of read, but they were really hard for me to find as
a kid because they had done like an animation of it when I was a kid.
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And I saw that on TV and really fell in love with them.
And my poor parents had to find these French comic books translated for me. And they're great.
They're, you know, in as you would expect, they are from the 50s and 60s and French.
So but you might be surprised
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how wholesome and innocent they are
there was only kind of one thing that i
saw that was like oh okay yep that was a different time yeah i saw they had
the little disney plus like there might be some outdated depictions in this
book or them trying to say it might be kind of racist in the most gentle terms
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possible yeah there was like one one thing I saw and I was like, yeah.
But at the same time, you know, it's history. These things were published, people read.
And it's a really Asterix is a really interesting comic book because it is about the Gauls.
So the original French people when the Romans are taking over.
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And so there's Asterix and then they have druids and all that stuff, all the Gaul stuff.
And they're always fighting with the Romans and the Romans are trying to take
over, which is just really fun.
It's a really clever idea for a comic book and very classic.
Thank like the Donald Duck comics, you know, just like really silly dad humor.
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With a little bit of historical splash to
them for my next book i picked out ultra
duck from arcana comics or arcana studios and i really wasn't sure what to expect
when i got this it was like is this going to be like a darkwing duck crossover
or tie-in but i'm pretty sure that's like a comic publisher i'd actually heard
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of before that was doing that but i thought this
was actually really fun and surprisingly a surprisingly needy first issue for
this little world of ultra duck while it is yes, another superhero duck.
And there's no shortage of those out there with the dark wing duck and duck
Dodgers and the mighty ducks cartoon.
This I was surprised very much feels like a duck version of radiant black or
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like radiant black for kids that it's like sort of the same situation of like
Like a very everyday millennial or zoomer coded hero that finds some kind of
alien technology that some forces,
like some cosmic forces may be coming after.
They don't really understand it, but the hero takes a lot of selfies and seems
to be caught up in the clout. He doesn't really know what he's doing,
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but he has some really great powers.
But what I really liked was not that much of the book is actually focused on Alter Duck himself.
A lot of it is this little side story about this one girl that I think is friends
with them, works at some kind of club bar situation,
who then like uses her stage prowess and like some technical skills with her
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and her sound and lights person.
And they fend off like some thugs trying to extort the studio by dressing up
in a similar outfit and like using lights and a taser to make it seem like they also have duck powers.
And like it felt like just watching a
couple episodes of an ultra duck cartoon and
sure enough i found out afterwards that this whole studio putting this out is
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mostly known as an animation studio they did like the steam engines of oz as
well as the howard lovecraft movies and some others like the clockwork girl
some other oz related things and then a number of.
Children's books and other like young comics that kind of tie in with their animation
so i guess this is really more of like a
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film studio that's trying to promote an upcoming ultra duck
movie and i'm not sure like i'll
be the target audience for ultra duck but i will certainly like check out some
trailers and see if it garners enough interest because yeah this was a surprisingly
good modern version of like the duck superhero thing wasn't just cashing in
on old tropes like i felt like this was written by someone who is well versed in modern comics and
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taking a page from things other than just what we see from Marvel and DC and
all the classic tropes from that,
like something like Duck Dodgers and Darkwing Duck might do.
I definitely have to check that out. I have to admit, that's the one,
one of yours that you grabbed that I had my eye on of like, okay, that looks really cool.
And I might even be that that target audience with my Monster High book over here.
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But when I looked at it, my first thought was Howard the Duck,
because I'm a huge Howard the Duck fan.
And it looked like sci-fi Howard the Duck or something, which is cool.
Yeah. Eric, what's your next book? So my next one is very similar to the last one.
It is an edition of Mad Magazine.
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That's the superhero edition. so same thing of asterix of it's like a lot of
older just a collection of their older stuff like there are some segments in
here from like the 70s and stuff but yeah they're all,
mad magazine cartoons about superheroes and
honestly flipping through this one and it
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was so nostalgic because i was such a mad
magazine kid like oh every issue
i was obsessed but i will say flipping through it
it's probably aged worse than the
asterix comics i was reading which is highly surprising um
and like i even ran into some uh you might want to call it transphobic stuff
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in there but um good going mad magazine but still very nostalgic very you know
dad humor very silly and And honestly,
like, you know, the asterisks I got, you know, I never really laugh out loud
because it's just silly dad humor or whatever.
With the Mad Magazine, I have to admit, there were some jokes in there that literally made me LOL.
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So it's Mad Magazine. You get what you expect. But classic.
Great. Yeah. Like except for the transphobic stuff.
I probably won't read that one since I'm not much of a Mad Magazine person.
But I will say that, yeah, like the cover gag is even pretty great of Superman
accidentally ripping his superhero outfit, forgets that he's already in uniform
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before changing into Superman.
He's like, crap, I'm already in costume and his bare chest is hanging out.
Yeah, it even got a laugh out of you. so like i
know comedy often ages like milk
but i have to say i'm surprised that in all the years of
man magazine like when they're tailor tailoring specifically for the free comic
book day presumably like all ages or most ages comic they still weren't able
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to find like at least a single issue worth of non-problematic comics from their
history yeah even asterix did it like Like,
even the 1950s French thing was able to do it pretty well, but Mad Magazine was just like, nope.
Now, for my next book, I think this is probably my favorite of the free comic
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book day issues that I picked up today, and that's the Energon Universe comic, or the 2024 special.
Now, I've got a pull list for both Void Rivals, which is kind of the kickoff
series that started this crossover G.I.
Joe Transformers universe, and I also have a pull for Transformers.
I'm a little behind, like, I do a lot of reading for both of my podcasts,
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so I really can only keep up with, like, one or two series at a time.
And sadly, Transformers and Void Rivals, I'm both just letting get,
like, a season or two worth of stories before I catch up.
But this was awesome. Like, this really made me want to dive back into those
and get caught up. because all three
of the series they sampled between Transformers, Void Rivals, and G.I.
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Joe in this all knock out stories that like I can tell how well they're playing
with these existing characters.
Like they're not trying to reinvent the wheel or like reintroduce you to these
like Autobots and Cobra and G.I. Joe or just like we're going to tell the story our way.
Like it is retelling like the Transformers origin in a way but in a very different
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way that's still true to the origin But seeing like, what would it actually
be like if these Autobots woke up in modern times after crashing here years ago?
Like, how would the local populace actually deal with this? Or like,
hey, there's been robots scattered across the planet.
Like, what's happened to those over the years?
And also seeing that like, there's a bigger galaxy of aliens that interact with
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Autobots and Decepticons.
And like i know that robert kirkman the person behind skybound that's making these like.
Transformers the movie was a huge inspiration for him
and honestly that's one of my favorite movies and you can see that in this there's
deep nods to characters introduced in that like hot rod and the quintessence
and yeah like i just am really excited to read everything like i'm probably
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gonna pick up the gi joe graphic novels now because of this book and i was previously
letting that be the one I pass on.
But no, I need to read it now because I loved the G.I. Joe story here too.
The G.I. Joe fan that you live with is very happy about that as well.
And when you were done with it, you just handed it to me and were like,
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you have to read this because there is some awesome G.I. Joe surprises in there.
I'm not going to give it away. But yeah, super cool.
Yeah, well, like I will say, I know you're a fan of Baroness and
the story is kind of focused around her and like
yeah this got me on board like i want to read
more baroness and like you've actually done a great
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job getting me into gi joe comics this year like
i know i got you some for your birthday uh and
you had me read them because i can't believe
how wild those books are like we got around issues 49 50
and in the first issue i read They
kill Clifford the Big Red Dog As a puppy Like they're evacuating some Cobra
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town of sleeper agents And some family's like we gotta leave the dog behind
And they're pulling out a gun And the dog is like It's the living image of like
Puppy Clifford the Big Red Dog For no reason.
The Cobra town is amazing. It is this town that is taken over by Cobra and there's
little kids in it and families and they're just all like in Legion with Cobra.
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And it's just this little Cobra town. And it is great.
There's so many, especially in those Cobra town issues.
It's so wild. Like there's so many wild things.
Yeah. And when we we actually got a chance, surprised me this year to meet Larry
Hama, the writer of those comics at a local convention going on.
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And I had no idea the legend that was Larry Hama, also known as the Korean doctor
for mesh, and that he wrote like 300 and counting some G.I. Joe issues.
He's even doing some of the modern ones, to my knowledge.
And, yeah, he just stuck through it. And a lot of that is gold.
Like, from my understanding, it's like around issues 20 to 100, 150 are amazing.
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And like, yeah, I've only read two or three issues so far and I'm hooked,
like hooked enough that I thought about doing a little side podcast miniseries
of two trans girls read G.I.
Joe because it's that fun, that crazy.
And I did have Larry Hama sign that Clifford the Big Red Dog page and he looked
at me weird, but it was absolutely worth it.
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I wanted to add to his resume too and
say because this is probably how a lot of people my
age will know him he wrote the character cards on
the toys as well and that was actually my first impression of his writing and
then later as a kid like i got the comics and stuff but didn't realize how crazy
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they were till i read them as an adult are we ready for yeah tell us about your next book Yes.
So this is my my favorite one.
It is Unico the Awakening. And I will say I didn't know anything about it when
I picked it up other than it has a cute unicorn on it.
And that is absolutely enough to sell me and cute baby unicorn,
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I might add. Yeah, like it looks kind of like a My Little Pony character.
Not gonna lie, that's kind of what I thought it might be related to My Little
Pony or something of which not afraid to admit this.
I am a I'm a big fan of My Little Pony. You're a Pegasister.
I'm a Pegasister. Yeah, it's good show, but it's just really good if you like cute things.
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Ponies that look like cats yeah sign me up anyway unico
is actually based on a manga
that's fairly old like like this particular manga came out in the 80s even though
just discovered the author of it is like huge in manga kind of like the inventor
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of manga yeah the godfather of manga They call it. Yeah. Tezuka or Suzuko.
Osama Osamu Tezuka might be killing the pronunciation. Yeah.
OK, cool. Yeah, you're probably doing better than me. But I fell in love with this book.
I want to read the manga now. I want to see the anime.
I want to. And when this comes out in August, I want to read every issue that
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comes out because I am obsessed.
It is about this unicorn, baby unicorn, that gets banished by the goddess Venus
because they're taking attention away from Venus and she likes her attention.
So she banishes this unicorn, gets one of her servants called Nightwind to take
it to the Hill of Forgetfulness.
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But the Nightwind keeps letting Unico kind of live a life and then taking Unico
to the Hill of Forgetfulness and then taking him back out,
letting him live life and then taking him back, which she realizes is actually really cruel.
Rule so she takes him like way
far ahead in time in the
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future to like now so that
he can kind of hide there so venus won't find him and then once in modern times
we get into like this cat society and these cats have like this guard system
because a cat just was recently killed by a raccoon So all of these cats are on guard,
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like on the little, oh, what are those things outside of city apartments?
Firescapes? Yeah, outside on the firescapes doing their cat watch.
And this cat sees Unico and leaves their station of duty to save him and gets
in trouble with the other cats.
But brings it brings Unico back to her little place where she lives,
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her owner's apartment, and shows him what a heater is.
They actually pronounce a heater
with a D, which is really cute and animal like. And it's just adorable.
Like, I loved it enough. But once the little secret cat society got introduced
and the cat showing him around the house and stuff, oh my goodness, cute attack.
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I love it. Yeah, and it was weird that that book has just a very coincidental
connection with the graphic novel I picked out there.
So the shop we were in, Daydream Comics, was very packed, which is pretty typical
of any free comic book day.
But like i it was hard to really browse the actual
comics on the shelves that you pay for but i
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just was squeezing past their one manga shelf
when a book caught my eye princess knight it
was called and i just read the back and it seemed like something
that was perfect for transcending comics
which i've been looking for a good manga to
cover there to just expand our comic selection but yeah
this so far i'm really liking and
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i didn't have any idea the historic impact of
this book when i picked it out so yeah this is also by osamu
tazuka who is the creator of astro boy
as well as like a number of other huge
foundational early manga and as i've
done just a little bit of like wikipedia research i found that this
was like the first real narrative shoujo comic
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or like story comic to my understanding i guess before that
they'd been like little funny gags or like
morality tales in a short comic this
was the first like really string them together to tell a larger story
and it's also kind of the foundational text of a lot of magical girl media like
because it follows a and kind of androgynous protagonist that's given the heart
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of both a boy and a girl when they're a little cherub baby up in heaven.
And they're now born as a princess, but they have to live as a knight and a
prince so they can inherit the kingdom someday because there's some rule saying
that only a male heir can wear the crown.
And yeah, like the whole double life kind of transformation aspect has been
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huge and inspiring a lot of media and like is sometimes even called the first like.
Comic heroine or superheroine and i
think this is just really the perfect book for me to find right now
i've only read the first chapter and i'm sure there's going
to be problematic elements because this is a 1950s
comic it's literally might be the oldest comic
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i've ever read but i'm really excited to cover this
on transcending comics someday since yeah i don't
think there's a better first manga i could have found and
it's all in one nice self-contained book so i don't
have to read a long series like Rama one half and sift
through a longer probably problematic depiction of
gender at play in a series so I'm so
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excited to dig into this yeah we just started kind of
like researching him today once we realized like
oh we both have books by this guy and wow he's like the grandfather of manga
and yeah found out all these things that he'd done that we were somewhat familiar
with like astro boy like i was like oh that's astro that's who did astro boy
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oh okay cool because that i'm pretty familiar with,
Yeah, and I feel like it's not a real episode of one of my podcasts,
or at least Transcending Comics, if I don't get a little into Tommy's spiritual woo-woo bullshit.
But, like, I don't know. It was just really poetic to me that this was the book
that called to me on the shelf.
Right now I'm in a course that's specifically about narrative archetypes.
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It's being led by Arden Lee, who's kind of like the spiritual protege or at
least student of Grant Morrison.
And, yeah, her class has been really cool so far. And the archetype that I've
been looking into is specifically like that, not of the magical girl,
but kind of above that of just like kind of the transforming Amazon female warrior type of thing.
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Like that's had elements in Wonder Woman and the She-Ra and yeah,
of course, like every magical girl anime.
And I just don't think there was like feels very coincidental that this would
then be the book that I would find today of like the few I got to browse.
And I think this is going to be a really important one for me to read while
I'm looking into this archetype, since this might be one of the first real incarnations
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of that, at least the first in comic or manga form.
Yeah, I definitely want to check it out when you're done with it.
It looks really cool. Now, I think you've kind of answered the question, at least about Unico.
But of the series you've read today from the free comic day,
which, if any, do you think you would feel tempted to actually follow the series
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properly month to month or buying it as a graphic novel once it gets collected in a trade?
Any real standouts for you? You, Nico, 100 percent, even though that's a little
bit of a cheat of an answer,
since the other three that I got were kind of rehashes of things I already really enjoyed.
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Like I'd already read some of those Asterix comics and had seen some of the
mad ones as well because I was already a giant fan.
But yeah, 100 percent, you know, I am such a fan right now.
Similar for me, like, I mean, the Energon book is the one that jumped out at
me the most and two of those books I'm already on the pull list for.
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But this really did sell me on buying the collected trades of G.I.
Joe whenever that's released, largely because I started to find how much of the story is told there.
Like, that's where we find out what's happened to Megatron over all these years.
And plus, like, I now have the new found appreciation for G.I.
Joe comics outside of this. And this seems to be no exception for how good and fun they can be.
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So I'm glad that this has helped sell me into like diving into this universe
of toys and stories and comics that like kind of missed me growing up,
but actually has enough appeal to draw me in as an adult.
Any final thoughts, Aerie, before I wrap this up? The only thing I was going
to add, and this is a little bit late to the party, but I wanted to just add
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one more thing to Larry Hama's resume.
Sure. Which has always impressed me and I always think this is super cool.
He's an actual veteran. I believe he fought in Vietnam.
And just really cool. I would have never have thought that the person that wrote the G.I.
Joe stuff was an actual veteran. But now when I go back and reread it and everything,
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I notice all of these little things that I didn't necessarily need as a kid
since I came from a military family.
But there's like he'll put like little glossary terms and notes at the bottom
or whatever to kind of translate a lot of military speak for you,
which I was really impressed by.
So just fascinating individual, awesome history and really good.
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If you want to just go down a fun like research
rabbit hole just kind of wiki larry hama
he's an amazing person yeah and
i suppose last notes for me as well one thing that i
think a lot of people don't know when they go into free comic book day is that
the comic shops usually have to actually buy all of these comics from whatever
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publisher i mean they're usually pretty cheap compared to standard comics like
maybe 50 cents or less i don't know the exact price but that's That's why at a lot of them,
you'll see a limit of like three or four comics that you can take.
Others are generous and let you take as many as you want.
But with that said, like, I mean, we just kind of popped into the comic shop
because we were downtown anyway.
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If you go to a shop and pick these up, I do really recommend that you buy at
least something from the store to kind of show your support.
I knew I wanted to get something while I was there, and thankfully Princess
Knight stood out to me right before we left.
But also, Daydream Comics, I've got to shout them out because they also had
a stand that would let you buy most in-demand graphic novels for a local bookmobile service.
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So if there was nothing you wanted particularly, you could still buy a book for a good cause.
And this is a day this is the most
stressful day for most comic book stores in the country
a lot of them need to get volunteers brought in a lot
of them pull out all the stops and they also
have to rework their stores to jam a lot of people
into what usually is not a very big space so like please be really cool to the
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staff be cool to their inventory and try and buy something or show your support
for your local comic shop because they're pretty much universally locally owned
so So show some appreciation to your local comic book store, wherever that may be.
Now, wrapping up today's show, thankfully, the very talented Ray Day Parade
does the logos for both my shows, so shout out to them for doing just such a great job on both.
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Intro and outro music this week is going to be A Little Soul and You've Been Starring by Carlson.
He's got a new album coming out this year, so do keep an eye on his social medias
or just keep track of carlson.com.
I'm really excited to hear what he has in store.
Otherwise, we hope you'll check us out again during our next episode.
I swear it'll be a bit more formal. But until then...
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