00:01:05Why we're doing this show
00:05:02Experimentation in mainstream comics in the 80s, specifically Jenette Kahn’s extraordinary, game-changing reign as Publisher of DC Comics
00:06:44Why the 80s were such a halcyon period to read comics and how the more obscure books from that era must be reckoned with today — again, why this show exists!
00:09:10DC’s much lamented horror anthology, WASTELAND, and other comics that leave a lasting mark on their audience, regardless of commercial success.
00:10:56Paul Chadwick’s Concrete from Dark Horse Comics, and once acclaimed works that somehow slip between the cracks of modern collective memory.
00:12:05Marvel, Ron Perelman, Heroes Reborn, and the birth of the modern comics mainstream as IP farm, first and foremost.
00:13:37Epic Comics, Epic Illustrated, Dreadstar, Alien Legion, Groo the Wanderer, Akira.
00:16:00Skreemer, Vigilante, Grendel, and our Raison d'être. Also: Chris’ love of big French words and the types of comics that inspired us
00:17:59Mr. Monster and revisiting the indie comics of our youth to see how well they hold up (spoiler: still dope); why these works deserve to be reckoned with — the magnificent Trevor Von Eeden, Pete Milligan, etc.
00:19:43The list of comic books we want to cover - Scout, Hawkworld, Aztec Ace, Brought to Light, Coyote, BWS’ Storyteller, Wise Son: the White Wolf, the Light & Darkness War, Mars, American Flagg, The Shadow (Mike Kaluta, Howard Chaykin, Andy Helfer, Bill Sienki
00:23:10The pre-Vertigo era, Vertigo, American Century by Chaykin, Tischman, and Laming; Black Kiss and the transgressive works of Howard Chaykin.
00:28:00Tim Vigil and David Quinn’s Faust: “If you’re not offending somebody with your work, you’re not doing it right.”
00:29:52The difference between mainstream comics then and now — the devolution of American genre comics. IP management versus creative stewardship
00:33:15Illustrating the preceding point, Chris discusses The Mighty Thor, Beta Ray Bill, and the brilliant Walt Simonson.
00:35:56“Do you remember when First was publishing Lone Wolf & Cub?” reflections on the early days of US manga comics translation — Mai the Psychic Girl and the Legend of Kamui, Eclipse Comics, etc.
00:38:30Why we feel deeply committed to the cause of this show: remembering and celebrating iconoclastic comics. Reckoning with great old comics and WHY IT MATTERS.
00:43:53Our idiosyncratic definition of “The Bronze Age.”
