Golden Age Comics: The Crime Comics Podcast! 🌭
Added 2021-08-12 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
Happy Podcasting Day palookas, palookettes, and non-binary palookos alike! It’s Golden Age Comic Week! A whole week full of hardboiled detectives and hard-sockin’ soldiers, selfish dames, heroic white men, and evil every other race.
For this week’s podcast we welcomed K Thor Jensen, because his name is Thor -- and we found out he knows a lot about comics, too! Follow his excellent Twitter for insight into comic books, writing, the world, and what it’s like be named Thor when everybody else is named stupid shit like Jeff.
We’re not just talkin’ any Golden Age Comics, we’re talking comics that only existed in the Golden Age -- we’re talking Crime Comics! Back when they wrote whole comic books about the general concept of crime. Not crime-fighters, just crime! Crime was the main character. Sometimes the stories were true, sometimes they were “true,” and mostly they were just total horse-hockey, because it was a simpler time when it was too hard to check on a lie so nobody ever did it.
Seanbaby takes us through each of the evolving eras of crime comics, all the way up to their brutal murder. It’s gonna take all our detective prowess to crack that case -- luckily Seanbaby bought a hat, Brockway already had whiskey, and K Thor Jensen is a Thor!
What a superteam!
Remember to tune in to the Dogg Zzone 9000 same time next week, and tell your chums at the soda jerk we’re the cat’s pajamas!
Subscribe to us and review the podcast. That’s what I’m saying. I’m cutely saying that but I still need you to actually do it.
Also don’t be racist, don’t be sexist, and probably don’t buy a knit mask and a gun and prowl the streets as The Kestrel or some shit. But that one’s less my business.
Comments
So the Comics Code is really the same as the Parental Advisory Warning that Tipper Gore put on CDs in the early '90s thinking that chain stores would refuse to carry them? Weird that stores hadn't clued in to the whole money thing by 1955.
Bonnybedlam
2021-08-14 19:56:09 +0000 UTCThor!
AU
2021-08-13 23:09:11 +0000 UTCOh damn, I always loved shortandhappy.com Letters to Amber was one of the funniest things ever.
Mike Metzler
2021-08-12 22:50:22 +0000 UTCUpbeat ending. Kids are crying now. Cheers.
Gareth Powell
2021-08-12 19:28:04 +0000 UTCOk, so...I'm really glad you guys mentioned EC comics sometime during the Golden Age Comics Week. I'm actually a huge fan and semi-collector of them and can back how good they are. I have a few hardcover volumes (also an original I'm super proud of), and the art is really intense (one has a klansman on the cover, for instance). I'm not really much of a Discord guy but I'd love to share them with you guys if anyone's interested.
do you know the muffin man
2021-08-12 17:59:11 +0000 UTCPlease, the hotdog website is the BEST place to expose all your hidden bits. Now go forth and seize your non-binary day!
Vooster
2021-08-12 16:29:30 +0000 UTCMaybe the hotdog website isn't the best place to expose my soft underbelly but fuck it: I appreciate the NB shoutout and it made my day, thanks!
Clementine Danger
2021-08-12 12:25:41 +0000 UTCThank goodness that Canada finally repealed its ancient ban on crime comics a few years ago.
Dave Dalrymple
2021-08-12 12:19:16 +0000 UTC
