Thursday
Jan252007
Flashback: Ep 23 Superman
Thursday, January 25, 2007 ;)
What makes Superman a great character? Does being an alien from another planet separate him from being human? Or does growing up as a simple farm boy from Smallville, Kansas make him human? Listen in as the Dollar Bin guys and our new friend Trey discuss Superman.
Runtime: hour minutes seconds
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My head hurt really bad while this website wasn't allowing me to comment and I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that. I think that you guys really need to act like young professionals and assume some of that responsibility. You know why nobody is posting comments about Superman? That's right. It's because no one listens to your show. But besides that it's because their heads were hurting. Now I don't want to speak for anyone else but I was confused and anxious. I had to put balls in my mouth to calm down. It was almost like I lost my memory. I started forgetting things like... like this web address. You wouldn't want that would you? The millions of people that listen to the Dollah Bin to just... I don't know... forget about it... would you? Think about that, guys. No more mistakes. If it's that hard to maintain the site correctly then maybe you should put a machine in charge of it.
I'm not opposed to machines running this site. It sure as hell would make things easier. Hell, maybe we can have machines talk about comics too. They couldn't be any more boring than me when I open my mouth on the show. I do have to ask though ... Are you referring to machines taking over in a Terminator movie kinda way with SkyNet or the Matrix kinda way? I guess either way is bad. How about the Short Circuit kinda way.
Wow
Mandroid was drunk last night and posted a comment, the one up top, in total jest giving the dollar bin guys a hard time. But Mandroid also has a jackass friend named Todd who posted some other rather unsavory comments in response to Kris's comment, without Mandroid knowing and under Mandroid's monicker. Kris removed them because they were mean. Mandroid would like to apologize to Kris for those comments and remind everyone that the Dollar Bin show is the shit and Kris is a badass. Todd is not a badass however. He has been dry shaved, raped with a pineapple, strapped to a rocket, and shot into the sun. All is well and at one according to the great provider. Peace, bitches.
Yeah, uh...Mandroid is it? Don't worry about the comments left by your "friend", but just so you know, we have kids with very protective parents that read our site and I just didn't want to leave up offensive comments. I'd hate for Flaco to have to go into a rant again about the whole "who's responsibility is it to censor and protect kids from offensive content in comics." Flaco just never seems to get anywhere with that rant. Of course, I'm giving Flaco a lot of credit in regards to him figuring out how to leave a comment, let alone having the patience to finger peck the keyboard to leave an entire rant in our comment system.
You're cool in my book Mandroid. Not too keen on your Web address though.
I know you don't believe me, Kris. And that's okay. I had a friend over. He read the comment I had left. He laughed. He read yours and told me he was gonna leave a comment. I said go ahead. My bad. I can't speak for what my "friend" did but if any of the first comment is offensive to anyone then I apologize. I was just having a good time and similar sites aren't as specific as to what one can and cannot say on a web site. I'm not trying to make a censorship argument in any way. I am just stating that I didn't know those rules. So cool man. No more having a good time. Just kidding. Thanks for the heads up.
Wow.
I have to agree with Adam.
On an unrelated topic though, I think that those of you that haven't read the older Superman stuff by Byrne should give it a shot. I'm just reading through a lot of it for the first time and some of it as a second time through but I have been really impressed. A lot of it is available in the Man of Steel trades which I think are up to volumue 5 and the cool thing is that these trades include all 3 titles and even some tie-in books from the time. I'm a little hesitant to barrel to quickly forward because I know things are heading to the crazy stuff that came about after his "death" but I'm enjoying the run so far.
I think Kris and Mandroid should fight to the death live on the Dollar Bin.
I think that's a great idea!!!!
Me too, Flaco's a genius!!!!
YEAH! I'd love a fight.
Adam bring your Wii and Mandroid and I can box.
Wow. Are we talking about Superman any more?
Back to the discussion at hand...
I have never really been into Superman comics (although DC has me reading 3 of them right now - Action, All Star and Confidential) but as a kid I loved the idea of having "super powers," what kid doesn't, and with Superman being about the first and having a lot of them, he stood and still stands as the icon of "super hero." After watching the first Superman movie as a kid I wanted to be able to fly, so I put on a cape and jumped off the couch and broke my collar bone(damn you superman, I'm suing). Even though I didn't like the lastest Superman film, the scene of him flying after the crashing plane was off the hook, and I thought again, I want to fly, so I put on a cape and jumped off... no not really, but it did bring back those feelings I had as a kid. In short I think that's why Superman continues to be the "icon" of superheros. If done right Superman makes you wish you could fly and do good things for people.
Oh yea, I would do "pay-per-view" for a fight on the podcast.
Peace brothers, Peace!
This is a cool quote from a lecture on Watchmen by John Sanderson.
"American comics takes the idea of Nietzsche's superman and makes him into a servant of ordinary man who lives among them, just as Superman uses the Clark Kent disguise, and who doesn't impose his will on the rest of society but helps it and protects it."
Since his creator's were Jews I think it's interesting to think of Superman as sort of a jewish reaction to the Nazi bastardization of Nietzsche's "ubermensch" or superman. Taking something negative and turning it into a positive, a force of good and optimism.
A. Will, you must not be focusing hard enough and maybe you just need a better towel. Now that you are older I think you can do it. You should give it another go. But kids, don't try this at home. Just Will.
B. Jody, that makes me really want to read Watchman and I think it totally makes since as a reason for the creation of Superman. I think looking at him that way gives another reason to compare him to Captain America, but naturally created instead of a scientific bastardization and way more physically perfect.
C. My Wii will only be used for good.
MANDROID DEMANDS LIVE WII BOXING ON DOLLAH BIN! FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A MANDROID! IF MANDROID WINS HE GETS KRIS'S WOMAN! IF KRIS WINS HE GETS...uh... DEATH AT THE HANDS OF MANDROID! MU HA HA HA HA!
You hear this Adam. You have to bring the Wii the next time Mandroid is in town. But ... uh ... my wife is staying out of this. You can have all my comics if you win, but you want. I am the master of Adam's Wii. Uh yeah, that came out wrong.
Mandroid will TAKE your comics! Mu Ha Ha Ha (coug) (cough).
You people are just strange.