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Agent Codenames: Old Dude; Diabolu Frank
Assignment: Father & Son Spy-Fi Podcast
Mission: Discuss the serialized Mack Bolan men’s action/adventure novel series, created and originally authored by Don Pendleton, beginning with 1969’s The Executioner #1: War Against the Mafia. Continue with an overview of the 631+ book collection, including the spin-offs Able Team, Phoenix Force, Stony Man, and Super Bolan. Include the typical autobiographical diversions, without warnings related to animal cruelty or racist attacks.

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Crew Log: Captain Entropy 

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Meanwhile... A roaming b-roll conversation with special guest Julia Raul. Todd & Rob? Savage Dragon? WildC.A.T.s? Don't worry fanboys, it all gets back to DC animation and Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) eventually!
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Iron Man & Hellcat (2020-2023) Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here...
Face Front, True Believer! Illegal Machine guides Diabolu Frank through the entirety of Iron Man Volume 6, running 25 issues that were collected in the trade paperbacks Books of Korvac I-IV: Big Iron, Overclock, Cosmic Iron Man, & Source Control! Then Frank turns around and guides us through Iron Man/Hellcat Annual (2022) and Hellcat #1-5 (2023), collected as Devil on My Shoulder! Most of this was written by Christopher Cantwell, who also did the 2019 Doctor Doom, and we have opinions! Boy, those Alex Ross covers sure were pretty! Excelsior!

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Face Front, True Believer! Fry-Hole reunites with Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, and Mr. Fixit for the final Thor movie that we haven’t previously covered (because it preceeded the creation of our podcast!) And twenty minutes later, we’re out of Dark World stuff and Frank’s doing a ranking of Marvel cinematic Asguardian projects for the rest of the show, including Loki Season 2 and The Incredible Hulk Returns from 1988! Plus, Fry-Hole on Mar-Vell! Excelsior!

Rolled Spine Thor Podcasts

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Agent Codenames: Old Dude; Diabolu Frank
Assignment: Father & Son Spy-Fi Podcast
Mission: Discuss the Ian Fleming 007 novels, with copious autobiographical diversions.

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• Original Comic Art with Billy Hynes 00:00:23
• Marvel Comics Writing with Token Fire Guy 00:04:56
• Nightwing & Trading Cards with derekwc00:14:21
• Martian Manhunter Classified 00:19:50
• Kong v. Godzilla: Dawn of MonsterVerse 00:22:56
• Prey / Evil Dead / The Orville 00:32:41
• Pub Talk with Billy... 00:39:02

Spawn #39 & Megaton #1-4 & Vanguard #0-6 & Berzerker #1-6 & Vanguard: Strange Visitors #1-4 & Megaton Holiday Special

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Spawn #39 by Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo "Noel" Dedicated To: Phyllis Capullo
Christmas Eve. Harlem, New York. Rows of buildings house people... families. Some extended, some broken. The lucky ones prepare for the evening's festivities.
Footsteps. Lots of them! OH! Maybe... YES! It's them! The little helpers! THAT means... ...SANTA'S HERE!
He forgot us. Maybe I can still catch him. Don't go. You forgot mommy's present.

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• Iron Man Can't Well / Media Machine / Under Guide 00:00:17
• ROM comms 00:09:18
• Brat Unpack / UnaVailable / Terminator Comics / Robocop 00:13:54
• Picard / Defiant / Max'd 00:40:30

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Face Front, True Believer! Frank & Mac handicap the next Avengers movies' casting and reception! Emphasis on handicaps! Excelsior!

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Meanwhile... Diabolu Frank, Mr. Fixit, & Illegal Machine discuss Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, James Gunn's Superman, Doomsday Clock, The Flash movie, and more!
We Think You're Special!

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Spawn #38 by Todd McFarlane & Julia Simmons & Tony Daniel & Kevin Conrad "Mind Games"
Dedicated To: Marv Wolfman
My name is Frederick Willheim, and I was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Anna. Intelligent. Caring. Beautiful... she did me the honor of becoming my wife... Her health then declined rapidly... I then focused solely on studying neurology, and vowed to save her or die trying.
Learning of my research, the U.S. Army invited me to head up their Cybernetic Simian project.

When the Cy-Gor moved of its own free will... I've had a stroke... I cannot reach her. My Anna... The beast... It hasn't eaten. It will escape... It will want my Anna...
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9

by Jim Lee with Brandon Choi, Scott Williams, & Co.

Cyberforce #0-3 & (1993-1994)

by Marc Silvestri & Eric Silvestri with Walter Simonson
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Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, and (a little bit of) Fry-Hole take you on a winding journey through the early history of the direct sales market, specific to the initial competitive independent publishers Pacific, Capitol, and First Comics. All this is specifically with regard to how that relates to the Organic Theater Company stage play Warp by Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld (as "Bury St. Edmund,") and its comics adaptation by Peter B. Gillis, Frank Brunner, Jerry Bingham, Mike Gustovich, Howard Chaykin, George Freeman, Marc Silvestri, and others; Mike Grell's Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger, as continued by Lenin Delsol and others; and the early Grimjack back-up strips by John Ostrander & Timothy Truman.

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Face Front, True Believer! Against Frank's intentions and over his protestations, Illegal Machine has engineered a whole episode devoted to The Nick Fury versus Skrulls mini-series! And being Frank, he kinda makes it all about Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Excelsior?

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Crew Log: Fry-Hole

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Paramount Pictures & Marvel Studios Iron Man 3 Tenth Anniversary Ultimate Edition (2013) Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here...
Face Front, True Believer! We're well into the fifteenth year of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so deep that we didn't notice when the third Iron Man movie celebrated a decade months ago. Illegal Machine, Diabolu Frank and Mr. Fixit fulfill contractual obligations to cover Shane Black's follow-up to the movie that revived Robert Downey Jr.'s career, the vastly superior Kiss Kiss Bang Bang... oh, and also the Iron Manses, we guess. Three times the Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) Potts, Don (Terrence Howard) Cheadle, and even an UnHappy (Jon Favreau) Hogan (not to mention another cameo by Stan "The Man" Lee himself!) Yet, it still rests around the bottom of most MCU rankings, aside from the Box Office ones? Plus, relatively spoiler-free Secret Invasion half-season criticism from Frank! Excelsior!

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Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, and Mr. Fixit return to "The Metamorphosis Odyssey," Jim Starlin's sci-fi/fantasy, as it transitions from a series of fully painted special edition graphic novels into a comic book series. First up is 1981's The Price, which introduces the saga's "wizard," Syzygy Darklock. Originally published in a black & white magazine format as Eclipse Graphic Album Series #5, it was colorized for the comics format Dreadstar Annual #1. Next comes Summer 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #3, the first chapter in the series actually called Dreadstar, the title of the ongoing series and the more famous branding for the odyssey overall. Finally, a story threaded through the December 1982 issue of the anthology magazine Epic Illustrated, where the fourth member of the developing rebel band is (unintentionally) introduced. We also continue to compare the various editions and formats across the epic's many publishers.

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Face Front, True Believers! Our three olds, but mostly Mac & Frank, discuss their ignorance of "new" characters like Miles Morales (2011) and Spider-Gwen (2014) in the context of catching up with their Oscar-winning animated film franchise! Excelsior!

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Face Front, True Believers! The universe's most polyphallacious Marvel Comics podcast returns to discuss the long-delayed, kinda-anticipated final (as the MCU gets) sequel to one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most beloved and surprising films, Guardians of the Galaxy! Join Illegal Machine, Mr. Fixit and Diabolu Frank as they debate the highs and lows of Marvel Studios' late blockbuster franchise! The episode isn't as long as the actual movie for once, mostly because the flick is too long itself! Excelsior!

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Agent Codenames: Old Dude; Diabolu Frank
Assignment: Father & Son Spy-Fi Podcast
Mission: Discuss the James Bond 007 film starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, and Harold Sakata.

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A capsule review buffet, mostly served by Frank. Reaching back to 2017 in a discussion originally earmark for Vol. III, we talk The Coldest City (Atomic Blonde Edition) by Antony Johnston & Sam Hart, Horizon Volume 1 by Brandon Thomas & Juan Gedeon; Renato Jones: The One% Season One by Kaare Kyle Andrews; Throwaways by Caitlin Kittredge & Steven Sanders, ROM Vol. 1: Earthfall & Vol. 2: Reinforcements by Chris Ryall, Christos N. Gage, David Messina, and Paolo Villanelli; G.I. Joe: COBRA by Christos N. Gage, Mike Costa, & Antonio Fuso; Coyotes, Vol. 1 by Sean Lewis & Caitlin Yarsky; Rockstars Volume 1: Nativity in Blacklight by Joe Harris & Megan Hutchison; Royal City Volume 1: Next of Kin by Jeff Lemire; Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire & Dean Ormston; Dark Ark by Cullen Bunn & Juan Doe; Seven to Eternity, Vol. 1: The God of Whispers by Rick Remender & Jerome Opeña; Curse Words Volume 1: The Devil’s Deal by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne; Harrow County by Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook; Courtney Crumrin: The Night Things by Ted Naifeh; The Manara Library Volume One: Indian Summer and Other Stories by Milo Manara with Hugo Pratt; and Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, and Caliber Presents: Volume 1 (2016).

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Face Front, True Believers! Illegal Machine & Mr. Fixit observe the  conclusion of the Ant-Man trilogy that directly contradicts the previous  film and also technically this is the second "...and the Wasp" flick  even though she's barely a blip in it also launch of Phase Five plus  Loki but all the Kangs, too! Funny? Actiony? Auntie? Just be glad Frank  sat this one out, or it would have been 200 minutes of gripes with a 90  minute stinger! We're barely over 45 minutes for the entire thing as a  duo! You want more of this, right? Excelsior!

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Face Front, True Believers! For the second time, the Black Panther film  franchise brazenly, arrogantly thinks it doesn't need a Samuel L.  Jackson appearance! Yes you do Wakanda-- Yes. You. Do! And what you  have instead is Letitia Wright as Shuri T'Sistah, Lupita Nyong'o as  Nakia, Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Tenoch  Huerta Mejía as Namor, Winston Duke as M'Baku and Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross Dr. Watson with a dicey American accent! Mr. Fixit, Illegal Machine,  and Diabolu Frank are bulls in your China shop as they take on the  sacred jaguar of the MCU with no holds barred! Also, the core discussion  is under two hours, but feel free to stick around for the Talking Dead  aftershow! Excelsior!

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Spawn #37 & 1963 (1993)

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"The Freak"
Dedicated To: Keith Giffen

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Meanwhile... Diabolu Frank, Mr. Fixit, & Illegal Machine discuss the failure of Shitzam! Black Adam, and the radical changes coming from James Gunn and Peter Safran as the new heads of DC Films at Warner Bros. Discovery.

We Think You're Special!

Spawn #36 &  Spawn Movie Adaptation (1997) & Dengeki American Comics

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"Set Up" Part Two
Dedicated To: Keith Giffen