Matt Spectro Thru The Multiverse: I'm appearing on an episode!

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

On Friday April 8th I make my return to Matt Spectro Thru The Multiverse! This week Matt and I review the Batman The Brave And The Bold episode "The Last Patrol" co starring the Doom Patrol! I had a great time reviewing the episode since the Doom Patrol are super near and dear to my little nerd heart, and Matt is a great host as always. I hope some of you here who are interested take the time to check it out.

I'll post a link here Friday when it goes up.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

It looks like the next 2 times I will be on the podcast will be first for a Filmation episode of Shazam, and then for a Swamp Thing episode. Both sound like fun, especially Swampy, which is almost as near and dear to my heart as Green Lantern.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

This weeks episode of Matt Spectro Thru The Multiverse, I make another appearance for the first of Matt's Halloween themed episodes for the month of October! My son Jordan joins us as the 3 of us review an episode of Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, "Bride Of Dracula". If anyone here is interested in these kind of podcasts, I'd be super grateful if you check the episode out. It was a super fun time and look forward to the next one!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000537951056

[Big Blue Lantern]

And here is the link for this week's episode. This is the Green Lantern themed episode that I am the guest host on. Hope some of you enjoy it, and thanks for checking it out!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000520589316

That was quite an entertaining episode. I'm always intrigued to hear how other GL fans receive offerings like First Flight.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

Nice job Dave!

Thanks pal!

[mrumsey]

Nice job Dave!

[Trey Strain]

Gerard Jones and Beau Smith also did a lot of work on Guy.

Frank Miller is probably just as much Batman's creator now as Bob Kane and Bill Finger are.

There's a saying that you can't put your foot in the same river twice. That's because the water will be different the second time.

The issue is pronounced in comics because they last for so long and they get handed down from writer to writer, editor to editor and artist to artist.

You can depict a character in a strikingly different way, and because you're entitled to, you can say, "That's the same character." You might have made him better, but at some point it's just not meaningful to say he's the same character he was originally.

Similarly, musical acts are touring now who have almost nothing to do with the original versions. They can call themselves by those old names because the legal right to do so has in some way or other passed to them. They might do a fine imitation of the originals, but they're not the originals. I don't know of any of them who are actually putting out albums, but people pay to see them do shows, and they applaud for them.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

That's an excellent point Spy. I often think DC LIKES to muddy up the waters over time with revamping and reworking characters. If for nothing else than if and when said character finally makes DC some money, there are so many creators involved through the decades that few or none of them are eligible for royalties. Heck, just look at Guy Gardner and Steve Englehart. He revamped the character but would never get any royalties from his use because he just reworked someone else's creation, even though he basically reworked Guy from scratch. Even the Green Lantern concept. Created by Marty Nodell and Bill Finger, but by the time we get to Teen Lantern and Jo Mulleins, the concept has been through a LOT of hands. "But I created Robin!" No, you created the 27th Robin. Who created Gwen Pool? Who created Batman as a Yellow Lantern? Who should get credit for Blue Beetle if DC finally gets him over?

It's all reminding me how derivative mainstream comics really are, and how seldom fresh concepts ever see the light of day anymore.

[Trey Strain]

Some interesting points about how in modern comics they go to so much trouble to acknowledge who the creators of various characters were. We can all see the upside to that, but there might be times when a character gets completely redone. As in, whoever had the idea to make Alan gay is probably much more his creator now than Art Modell is.

And the hot Boodikka is not the same character as the one who was... well, not hot.

Not that I'm praising those changes, but when the only thing that's still the same about a character is his name and maybe his costume, is the person who came up with his name still his creator? That's simpler of course than to try to do anything else, but is it meaningful?

[Space Cop]

Bumping the link back up so it doesn't get lost in the discussion:

And here is the link for this week's episode. This is the Green Lantern themed episode that I am the guest host on. Hope some of you enjoy it, and thanks for checking it out!

Sometimes I feel like Emerald Knights is better, but I don't get my Hal fix with that one.

Exactly. I mean it has "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" (and well done), but Hal is no more than a framing device.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

Sometimes I feel like Emerald Knights is better, but I don't get my Hal fix with that one.

[Space Cop]

^Yeah, I edited the comment because I realized afterward because total GL I probably like Emerald Knights more, but it's not Hal's story either. And yeah, I love New Frontier both comic and movie.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

And I agree. It's probably the best DC has done with GL. I would say New Frontier but Hal is part of an ensemble cast there and it's not really his story (no matter how much I want it to be).

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

Well thank you Space Cop! That's a nice compliment coming from you. I hope you got some entertainment out of it

[Space Cop]

^Good stuff for a good movie. I think it's a great film representation of GL.

Your voice isn't quite what I expected, but not shocking. Better for podcasting than mine.