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We've Got Issues 6: Wolverine

In 1982, while sharing a taxi ride in New York City, writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller hatched the plot for the four issue Wolverine mini series. Meanwhile, while sharing a bus stop on a stretch of country road nine miles from nowhere, Steve and Paul hatched a friendship that has spanned nearly four decades. Hugely influential not just in the way Wolverine was written from that point on, the mini series was influential on Paul as well, and later became one of Steve’s favorite stories in this series.

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We've Got Issues 5: Iron Man

Widely regarded as the seminal Iron Man story, the nine-issue-long storyline culminated in Tony Stark facing his greatest adversary, alcoholism. Writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton proved with this story that in an era of flashy costumes and superpowers, heroes are only human.

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We've Got Issues 4: X-Men

One of superhero cinema’s most successful franchises was almost one of Marvel Comics’ biggest failures. Until 1975. The characters introduced in Giant-Size X-Men #1, written by Len Wein and drawn by Dave Cockrum, introduced an international group of mutants, many of whom have endured as part of popular culture to this day.

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We've Got Issues 3: Amazing Spiderman

In Amazing Spider-man #121-122, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s long-time girlfriend died. And so did comic books’ innocence. Writer Gerry Conway and artist Gil Kane gave longtime readers a gut punch that has often been iterated in Spider-man movies, but never equaled.

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We've Got Issues 2: Batman with Robin

Batman #232, published in 1971, might not have been the greatest Batman story ever told, but with “Daughter of the Demon,” writer Dennis O’Neal and artist Neal Adams (Yes, those two again) introduced readers to Ra's al Ghul, one of the most enduring villains in comics history.

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We've Got Issues Episode 1: Green Lantern Green Arrow

Since their inception decades earlier, comic books were viewed as juvenile entertainment. In 1970, Writer Dennis O’Neil and artist Neal Adams set out to change that with a story some refer to as the day comics got “woke.” Steve and Paul discuss Steve’s initial reaction to the story and how the dialogue might be written today. Also in this episode, Paul gives Steve and the listeners a brief history of comics.

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Introducing We've Got Issues - Trailer

This week on NPR, your hosts interview the creators of a new miniseries about comic books. Over 18 months in the making and presented by Big Broccoli Studios: We've Got Issues - a 12 part miniseries about comics. Dropping Halloween 2020.

We’re all comic book fans, most just don’t know it yet. While the movies make millions, maybe the almost century-old history of comics make them too inaccessible to most. In this twelve part series, two friends - one a lifelong fan, the other a noob - take a humorous and conversational look at just some of the stories that helped shape the cinematic universe of superheroes in the hopes of making comics more accessible to everyone.

our elaborate plans DP E200 THE END

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way

Aldi DP E199-8 TAKE THE QUARTER!

Do you take the quarter? You're returning your cart at Aldi. The timing works out just right and someone is arriving at the cart corral to get a cart. They have their Aldi Quarter in hand for their Aldi Cart. You offer them your Aldi Cart. They offer you their Aldi Quarter. Do you take it?

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Endgame 2.0 DP E199: Steve's Take

Steve finally went to see Endgame. And this is his take.