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Dave and Alex pick the best comics moment of the week!
Alex: Horror of Godzilla #1 (Ethan Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Tristan Jones)
Dave: Queen in Black: Hela (Al Ewing, Carlos Magno)
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Come on.
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>> Moving on to our next segment, standout
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>> panel
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>> moment of the week, our favorite panel
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of page.
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>> Wow.
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>> Wow, this is so cool. We get to talk
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about art.
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>> Stop.
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>> You go to the APC Comics podcast post on
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apccomics.com, you can see the art. I
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know you can and listening and there's
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also going to be a YouTube clip if Alex
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remembers
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to edit it.
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>> And I'm not because [ __ ] you all. No,
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I'm kidding. It's going to be up there
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right on time. No, I'm just kidding. Uh
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what was your favorite panel of page?
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>> My favorite page. Usually I do panels,
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but I had to capture this whole page. Um
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a bit of a spoiler, if you haven't read
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Horror of Godzilla number one, it kind
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of spoils the major twist of what the
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real horror is. Um
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written by Ethan Parker and Griffin
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Sheridan with really gorgeous art by
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Tristan Jones. Um
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not the
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meatiest start to a series, but the art
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was absolutely gorgeous and Godzilla is
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truly terrifying and monstrous. Um
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You know, Dave and I were talking about
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this before the pod, but going into
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this, I assumed that this was just going
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to be leaning into the horror of
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Godzilla's symbology as nuclear warfare,
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which is, you know, what Godzilla was
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created to embody in media. Um
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But this comic takes it even further and
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it uh shows some of the more lasting
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effects of nuclear bombs, not just the
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explosion, but the radiation that
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happens after a detonation. So in this
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comic
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rain in the sky absorbs radioactivity,
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which is a real thing that hop can
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happen after nuclear bomb dropped. Yeah,
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um
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>> One guy gets his whole face melted off.
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Yes, some people fully just melt and
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then other people are being transformed
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into these Godzilla-esque
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basically like gamma monsters. It's very
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like, you know, Hulky transformation.
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They're being
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>> still has his hat on.
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>> No, there's this one guy who like
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looks like he was going to a baseball
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game and now he's a [ __ ] lizard
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monster. Um The use of green and shadows
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is amazing. This comic also just uses my
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favorite villain trope, which is when
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the villain is like completely blacked
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out and you can just see the dark
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glowing eyes. Um you know, perfectly
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represented by the void in Thunderbolts.
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Um
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So, just recommend this book just
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visually and I hope that the um
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Yeah, I hope that the story catches up
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to the art in terms of that oomph I
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want.
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>> This creature is really creepy with the
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three heads.
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>> Yeah, no, it's not cute.
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>> Uh what if what if this wasn't the rain
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but Godzilla's piss?
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>> Aw.
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>> Yeah, no.
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>> He just had to go to the bathroom,
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that's why he's so angry?
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>> Yes.
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>> Damn.
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>> My favorite page mostly page, but
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there's some pages that are cut out here
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panels that are cut out here. I really
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like the a scene in Queen and Black Hela
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by Al Ewing and Carlos Magno. This is a
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one-shot showing it's actually it's told
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via Hela's wife
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uh who
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I'll get to that in a sec. Anyway,
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there's a scene where she has to travel
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and she goes through hell Mephisto's
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hell here and it may look like he's just
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a regular guy with a tube TV, but Hela
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is in this teeny little boat because
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he's actually humongous. He's like a
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skyscraper in this shot. And you can
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actually confirm it here where Hela is
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as big as his mouth.
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Uh and he's just so drastically evil in
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this, like just loving life. I love that
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he has a tube TV in hell of all TVs that
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he could have.
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And uh and this is like I think I don't
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even know when this is set actually.
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Maybe it's really old. Maybe it's really
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young. Maybe it's really new. I don't
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know what I'm saying. Anyway,
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uh if you look at the details though,
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Carlos is drawing like this tree trunk
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with screaming heads. There are faces in
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the fire back here.
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Um and and then just again, I love the
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scale of it all. Like it it does make
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him seem like he is all powerful here.
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He can do and and and and be any size he
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wants.
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>> Who's in the TV? It looks like Mothman.
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>> Uh if you scroll down, it's actually uh
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Doctor Doom when he uh was uh Sorcerer
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Supreme.
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>> Yes, you can totally see the uh pointy
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parts of his cape when he was uh Emperor
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Doom. Nice.
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>> My one criticism of this book, and I
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really liked it a lot. I gave it like a
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nine out of 10, was that when Hela
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kisses her wife, it's in silhouette.
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And I feel like Marvel legal was like,
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"We can't see them actually kiss. We
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have to have that hidden." And I just
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feel like it was kind of weak.
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>> Embarrassing, yeah.
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>> Kind of hiding the queerness, you know?
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>> Yeah. Wow, that is sad.
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>> [music]
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>> Come on.
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