And I don’t take pills for liking Superman IV anymore.

They have a patch now.

It’s terrific that Rob won his award and all, but I hope this isn’t a sign his ego is too big for this wonderful podcast. The last thing Fire & Water needs is for the Shrine component to go all David Caruso circa 1993 NYPD BLUE on everybody.

@Keith – DragonCon is an insane 4 day party! I actually go through culture shock when I try to reintegrate with the “normal” world.

@James – Check this link
http://firestormfan.com/2012/09/11/robot-chicken/

@Frank –
1) You should totally be there next year!
2) Thank you for the obscure reference of the day. 😉 We missed Aqua-rob, but somehow managed to soldier on.
3) It’s a sickness. He takes pills for it.
4) It’s like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy. It seems easy from you couch. Get in the spotlight and try to answer yourself and you freeze. Real life is weird. TV life is better.
5) Slab = not my thing either.
6) Batman… Sure, I used to be into Batman. But it was just a phase. I promise. I was young, curious, and and a little bit experimental. I’ve moved on now.
7) I’m just discovering Starlin’s cosmic stuff within the past year. These bronze age comics hold up better than many others.
8) Nice suggestion! Thanks!

2. Is this the first proper podcast without Rob (discounting the interview audio phone-ins?) It’s always weird when you guys separate, like Archie Bunker’s Place. Does that mean Rob is Carroll O’Connor or Jean Stapleton, and does Michael Bailey become Danielle Brisebois in that equation?

3. Michael Bailey likes Superman IV? Poor Michael Bailey.

4. That quiz show? Exact same thing happened to me in middle school during an academic tournament with a film history component. I spent the whole thing nailing question after question in the audience, but only got something like 2 of 3 on my turn. KAAAAHHHNNN!!!!

5. Slabbing is for suckers. It’s basically everything I hate about comic collecting summed up in reading material rendered permanently inaccessible by being frozen in carbonate.

6. Let me join the choir as a guy who started reading comics with Batman, peaking in the late ’80s with the works of Frank Miller, Jim Starlin and Alan Moore. I also lost pretty much all interest in Batman by the late ’90s. Today, it’s almost impossible to motivate me to read anything Batman. I don’t even care much for the Nolan movies. Whoooaaaa, AVENGERS!

7. Talking of, I cut my teeth on Marvel’s cosmic comics. Jim Starlin was my first fan favorite creator thanks to early exposure to Captain Marvel and Warlock. The latter just got a must read Essential edition, and the artwork is gorgeous in black and white (although I still recommend the mid-80s Deluxe Edition color reprints, because they’re gorgeous +6.) Starlin basically taught me my distrust of organized religion and politics from an early age, and I thank him for it. Not so much the morbid dwelling on schizophrenia and existential tumult, although that made for some trippy comics. I still haven’t met Starlin, so to hell with you guys.

8. Nice work fellas. Cons aren’t necessarily conductive to feedback, so get Michael Bailey back sometime to cover the many team-ups between Superman, Aquaman, and the Firestorm.