“On today’s show, Chris and Caleb finish the fight in part 2 of their discussion of Mark Millar. We also blow through this week’s releases, including Punishermax #1, Supergod #1, Daredevil, Batman and Robin, Green Lantern Corp, Strange #1, Realm of Kings: Imperial Guard, SWORD #1, Dark X-Men, and many more. Chris also highlights Strange Suspense by Steve Ditko Vol. 1 from Fantagraphics Books, and we welcome our very first guest to Meltcast – Ed LaRoche, writer and artist of Almighty. Check out his site for information on the book at http://almightygraphicnovel.com/”
We find our heroes in discussion in the Gallery at Meltdown Comics where they were joined by one hundred of their closest friends and confidants. When the tape started rolling, no one imagined the breadth of the discussion that was about to ensue.
Included for your pleasure and personal edification:
GM/FC x DC + W, where W = George Bush + eight years + necessity / 3.24 minute boiled egg x (Los Angeles – Scotland + friends + traffic + people + cops) / illness = a year of work
[2-dimensional universal story theory and the eternal nature of Superman] or
[Why Metropolis will outlast New York City]
At last it can be told! The all-new, all-gay Authority you’ll never see!
Steve Rogers sighted at a circuit party in Palm Springs? Can it be?
“You can hide a lot behind a shield.” says cunning Clive Barker
gmHOLLYWOOD revealed in one sentence!
“I often imagine myself in the shower with Anthony Perkins.” says genial Grant Morrison
All this and more is yours to discover with the push of a button!
Take a breath and dive in friend! See you at the bottom!
CLIVE BARKER & GRANT MORRISON. A Convesation.
LIVE AT MELTDOWN COMICS Sunset Blvd. July, 1st, 2009
Transcript after the jump.
We’ve presented several clips already from an interview with best-selling comics author Grant Morrison conducted by Eisner-nominated writer, musician and producer Percy Carey (a.k.a. MF Grimm), but I feel pretty safe sayig that we’ve saved the best for last. In this final interview segment, Morrison addresses why we haven’t seen a movie based on his massively popular, surreal comic book series “The Invisibles” — and why he thinks it might be better off as a video game instead.
“Yeah, I’d love to see it, but it’s not happening anytime soon,” said Morrison. “I kind of want to do a different take on it, because obviously when ‘The Matrix’ came out, it was covering a lot of similar areas. There were bald guys in fetish amounts doing kung-fu.”
“We’ve kind of seen that, so I don’t want to go down that road,” continued Morrison. “But I came up with a take on ‘The Invisibles’ that I think is really new, so yeah, it’s something I’d like to see done. I’d like to see it as a video game as well, if anything.”
Thanks go out to Percy Carey and the great folks at Meltdown Comics, as well as the video team of Milo Popp and Vito Lapiccola of Comics on Comics, the WebTV series where the greatest comic minds meet the greatest minds in comics. Check it out!
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…or any Grant Morrison-written TPB to gain entry to our exclusive Grant Morrison/Clive Barker event, starting @ 6PM.
That pic is the first page of Batman & Robin #2, due out tomorrow — it’s even better than #1…
Meltcast 027: FCBD, Wilson, King of Flies, 20th Century Boys
Half the crew is under the weather but we’re hanging tough — fresh off his Free Comic Book Day Fraggle Rock Mega-Signing, Sam “The Hammer” Humphries fills in for Caleb and the bombs start dropping. ALMIGHTY’s Ed Laroche joins our roundtable discussion of Dan Clowes’ WILSON (and Chris’ comparison of it to INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #25), and shares his thoughts on Mezzo & Pirus’ KING OF FLIES and Naoki Urasawa’s 20th CENTURY BOYS. We also touch on BATMAN AND ROBIN, SIEGE Battlefield Tie-Ins, UNKNOWN SOLDIER #19, and Aaron raves about the new volume of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN.
Oh, and Chris praises Mark Millar (must be a full moon)!