Friday, May 29, 2015

Media Montage Podcast 103: The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow



The Flash and Arrow have wrapped up their seasons and another show in their universe, DC's Legends of Tomorrow,  has been announced! 

Bruce and Larry take a look at the Arrow-verse family of shows featuring superheroes from DC Comics.  We rundown Season 3 of Arrow and the inaugural season of the Flash.  

How do these two shows set up the third?  What characters were mishandled?  What kind of time travel paradoxes are we in for?  All that and more in Episode 103 of the Media Montage Podcast.

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Media Montage Podcast 102: Stripped (2014)



Newspaper Comic Strips. They used to have massive impact on popular culture, their characters were world famous, as were their creators. The decline of newspapers has led aspiring strip creators to publish on the web. 

In the 2014 documentary Stripped  Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder tell us a brief history of the comic strip, we see interviews with creators, and they delve into a generation gap between the syndicated creators, and those going it alone on the World Wide Web.

Interviews with Jim Davis, Cathy Guisewise, Mort Walker, Scott Kurtz, Kate Beaton and many more tell us the story of a dramatic shift in a beloved industry. 

Larry and Bruce discuss this documentary and some of the issues it raises in episode 102 of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Friday, May 15, 2015

Media Montage Podcast 101: Introduction to the New World Order



New World Order 101: An introduction to the New World System.

This week Bruce and Larry take a look at a couple of foundational items to the modern New World Order conspiracy theories.

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, a document allegedly found inside a copy machine purchased for parts in 1986, lays out a systematic approach to economic warfare that can be waged on a civilian population for all sorts of nefarious purposes.

The New Order of Barbarians is a series of tapes recorded by pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Dunegan in 1988, recalling a presentation he heard in 1969 laying out plans for what he calls the New World System, including control of the media, sex and reproduction and a plan of massive depopulation.

Are these documents real or hoax? Do their predictions come true? Is it all just paranoid rambling? Bruce and Larry try to make heads or tails of a global conspiracy in episode 101 of the Media Montage Podcast!

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars with Diagrams (PDF)

New Order of Barbarians Transcript

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Friday, May 8, 2015

Media Montage Podcast 100: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Plus looking back at 100 episodes



Bruce and Larry reach their milestone 100th episode! 

To celebrate they discuss the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, the blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron.  
They disagreed heartily over the last Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy. Do they find any common ground with the latest super-hero spectacle?

They also take a look back at some of their favorite episodes over the last two years. All that and more in the landmark 100th episode of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Media Montage Podcast Interview Special: Claire Connelly



In this special Interview episode of the Media Montage podcast Bruce and Larry visit with creator Claire Connelly, the mind behind  over 400 pages of moody, stylish and entertaining comics at claireconnelycomics.com. 

They talk with Claire about the influences, process, and philosophy behind her comics. We also talk Kickstarter and her campaign to bring her comics to print. 

Join us for all that and more in an interview episode of the Media Montage Podcast!

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Friday, May 1, 2015

Media Montage Podcast 99 - Marvel 2099



What do we do for a 99th episode? 

We visit the retro-future of Marvel's 2099 line of comics. We go back to 1992 as Marvel traveled to the future with a new Spider-Man, a new Doom, a new Punisher, and a new Hulk. We look at the cyberpunk future of the Marvel Universe in the year 2099.  

How did the 2099 line reflect the era of early the 1990s comics world in every conceivable way? Were the comics actually any good? What cause the end of 2099 as an imprint? 

Claws, foil covers, and grim and gritty stories in Episode 99 of the Media Montage Podcast!

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