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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2020 12:54:14 GMT -5
What are your favorite comics-related audio dramas? By far, mine is The Red Panda. The Red Panda is a Shadow/Batman-ish character with some cool pulp science and pulp mysticism elements. The series starts in Toronto during the Great Depression, and moves on through WWII and ends shortly after the war. Lots of pulp action, character growth, drama and humor. The episodes are all free, so give it a shot if it sounds intriguing. The creator of the series also produced a TPB of an original Red Panda story, but I don't consider it nearly as good as the audio episodes. I also enjoyed the audio dramatization of the death and return of Superman, despite the fact I don't like those comics. Which audio dramas do ya'all like? |
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 29, 2020 17:16:06 GMT -5
I think the best ones I've heard are the Big Finish Judge Dredd ones. The BBC did one before Big Finish scooped up the license
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 15:24:00 GMT -5
What are your favorite comics-related audio dramas? By far, mine is The Red Panda. The Red Panda is a Shadow/Batman-ish character with some cool pulp science and pulp mysticism elements. The series starts in Toronto during the Great Depression, and moves on through WWII and ends shortly after the war. Lots of pulp action, character growth, drama and humor. The episodes are all free, so give it a shot if it sounds intriguing. The creator of the series also produced a TPB of an original Red Panda story, but I don't consider it nearly as good as the audio episodes. I also enjoyed the audio dramatization of the death and return of Superman, nami one piece despite the fact I don't like those comics. Which audio dramas do ya'all like? Comics are a visual medium, a combination of written words and pictures. But movie adaptations have taught us that comic book stories, whether superhero, crime, biographical or otherwise, can be translated to other media. But even before there were superhero serials on the big screen, comic books were translated to another medium: radio plays, whether it was “The Adventures of Superman” or “Archie Andrews.” In the age of the podcast, the radio drama has seen a resurgence. Marvel has released two seasons of a “Wolverine” podcast and one of a “Marvels” podcast through Stitcher. Both DC and Archie have inked deals with Spotify in recent weeks for their own drama podcasts. And this week, a new audio drama adaptation of “The Sandman” is out through Audible. I’ve been a big fan of audio drama since I discovered old-time radio as a teenager, and so I thought I’d visit some of the more interesting comic book-based audio dramas and audiobooks for this week’s Bonus Rea– Listening. Bonus Listening. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2020 3:52:34 GMT -5
I was a huge follower of Big Finish’s Doctor Who audio dramas but since I changed jobs earlier this year, I’ve fallen incredibly behind.
I enjoyed the Star Wars: Count Dooku audio and have been slowing listening to the Doctor Aphra one.
And I purchased the Sandman Audible one but haven’t listened to much of it yet. It’s hard because I like tI be able to give it a majority of my attention. Otherwise I get lost very easily. I did enjoy all the previous DC stories that Dirk Maggs worked on. I remember getting them at the library back in the day.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 20:54:17 GMT -5
My parents grew up listening to radio shows. They didn't start watching TV until they were in high school. At one point my Dad bought me a bunch of radio shows on records or cassettes. I had a great time listening with him to all those classic radio shows like the Lone Ranger or the Shadow or Superman...
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Post by berkley on Feb 13, 2021 22:20:28 GMT -5
I didn't know there were any modern day comics-related radio dramas until now but I'll have a look around to se if there's anything I'd like to try, now that I do know.
A few months back I decided to try listening to a few episodes of The Inner Sanctum, partly because I was reading the parody in one of the early issues of MAD. They're actually really good! Not that I was shocked - I kind of thought I would like them, based on my tastes in movies and tv shows - but the stories were all interesting and the acting was generally of a higher quality than I'd been expecting. Afterwards I read up a bit on the show and found that some pretty big names appeared on it, e.g. Boris Karloff, though I wasn't able to find any of his episodes to listen to online, unfortunately. I'll definitely be listening to more old radio in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2021 4:49:58 GMT -5
I didn't know there were any modern day comics-related radio dramas until now but I'll have a look around to se if there's anything I'd like to try, now that I do know. A few months back I decided to try listening to a few episodes of The Inner Sanctum, partly because I was reading the parody in one of the early issues of MAD. They're actually really good! Not that I was shocked - I kind of thought I would like them, based on my tastes in movies and tv shows - but the stories were all interesting and the acting was generally of a higher quality than I'd been expecting. Afterwards I read up a bit on the show and found that some pretty big names appeared on it, e.g. Boris Karloff, though I wasn't able to find any of his episodes to listen to online, unfortunately. I'll definitely be listening to more old radio in the future. I'm pretty sure that Mad took its name from parodying the tag-line for Suspense: "we present another tale well-calculated to keep you in... suspense!", and I know at least the first issue of mad reads "Tales to calculated to drive you mad" on the cover. Karloff and other big-name actors of the 40s and 50s are all over the audio drama landscape. It seems that for a while, taking the lead in an episode of one of the anthology series was a way to promote a new movie an actor had coming out. If you're especially interested in genre actors, off the top of my head, Karloff was in some good episodes of Lights Out: "The Dream", and "Death Robbery". Vincent Price starred in "Three Skeleton Key" and "Fugue In C-Minor" |
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 14, 2021 12:38:30 GMT -5
There was a Fantastic Four radio series in the mid-1970s whose cast included a pre-SNL Bill Murray as Johnny Storm (and Stan Lee narrating). These were direct adaptations of the original comic books, adapted in order (Mole Man in the first episode, Skrulls in the second, Miracle Man in the third, etc.). It wasn't very good, objectively, but I love it for personal reasons. A dear friend of mine did the sound effects for the series and gifted me a four-LP collection of it that was, alas, destroyed in a house fire two years later.
Cei-U!
I summon my old transistor radio!
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 14, 2021 14:00:13 GMT -5
There was a Fantastic Four radio series in the mid-1970s whose cast included a pre-SNL Bill Murray as Johnny Storm (and Stan Lee narrating). These were direct adaptations of the original comic books, adapted in order (Mole Man in the first episode, Skrulls in the second, Miracle Man in the third, etc.). It wasn't very good, objectively, but I love it for personal reasons. A dear friend of mine did the sound effects for the series and gifted me a four-LP collection of it that was, alas, destroyed in a house fire two years later. Never knew that! Did hear of a planned Howard The Duck radio series that would have had Jim Belushi as the voice of Howard but it never got beyond the planning stage due to Gerber's legal battle with Marvel I think
Howard has a very specific voice in my head that I don't think anyone has ever come close to. Soft, yet shrill. I guess Frankie Muniz from Malcom In The Middle would be the closest
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Post by shaxper on Feb 14, 2021 17:44:00 GMT -5
As a huge fan of OTR, I recently discovered the Command Performance broadcast of Superman with Bela Lugosi playing the arch villain. Surprisingly hilarious.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2021 20:26:28 GMT -5
There was a Fantastic Four radio series in the mid-1970s whose cast included a pre-SNL Bill Murray as Johnny Storm (and Stan Lee narrating). These were direct adaptations of the original comic books, adapted in order (Mole Man in the first episode, Skrulls in the second, Miracle Man in the third, etc.). It wasn't very good, objectively, but I love it for personal reasons. A dear friend of mine did the sound effects for the series and gifted me a four-LP collection of it that was, alas, destroyed in a house fire two years later. Never knew that! Did hear of a planned Howard The Duck radio series that would have had Jim Belushi as the voice of Howard but it never got beyond the planning stage due to Gerber's legal battle with Marvel I think
Howard has a very specific voice in my head that I don't think anyone has ever come close to. Soft, yet shrill. I guess Frankie Muniz from Malcom In The Middle would be the closest
Yeah, I had heard of the FF radio show (I think I might even have MP3 files somewhere, in a collection of stuff I got that included the Power Records comic material) though I haven't listened to it. I thought I read somewhere that some of the same people who were doing the National Lampoon radio show had been involved, though might have just been Murray (he was part of that group, I believe). I'm old enough to remember some radio drama stuff; not as a regular thing, but as holiday specials and the like. Our local radio station, in the early 70s, used to run a few radio specials over the holidays; I recall one about a cinnamon bear or something like that. We also used to get daily broadcasts of the Ellery Queen Minute Mystery. They presented a fair play mystery plot and then callers would try to solve it, for a prize. Then, they played the solution with the narration. We also used to get EG Marshall's CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Then, there were the Star Wars radio adaptations, which were a pretty big deal, at the time. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2021 23:47:02 GMT -5
Back in the 80s I used to have a vinyl double-album of the radio version of The Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy: I had seen the tv series, or most of it (missed the first few episodes), and somehow found out that it had started as a radio show and that it was available as a record - although how I managed to get that information in those pre-internet days I have no idea. My memory says it wasn't until a little later that I found the books and read them, or rather the three that were out at the time. But perhaps I had at least the first book, which I see came out in 1979 and the concept's beginnings as a radio series might have been mentioned in it somewhere.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 15, 2021 13:08:45 GMT -5
...a few radio specials over the holidays; I recall one about a cinnamon bear or something like that. The Cinnamon Bear radio show has been around since 1937. As the Wikipedia article notes, the show and the character are still very popular here in Portland for some reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cinnamon_Bear |
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 18, 2021 0:02:13 GMT -5
As a huge fan of OTR, I recently discovered the Command Performance broadcast of Superman with Bela Lugosi playing the arch villain. Surprisingly hilarious.
Another big OTR fan here. I pretty much fall to sleep with it every night -- either listening to Internet Archive's massive collection, or the OTRR Library website. There are other online collections out there, but those two are the biggest by far. There's also the CBS Radio Mystery Theater site, which, while not technically OTR itself (it aired from '74 to '82), it is a tremendous homage to many of the shows of yesteryear, particularly Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and Lights Out. I loved the CBS Mystery Theater as a kid, and still listen to it as well.
Also, my truck's XM radio stays tuned to channel 148 "Radio Classics" about 90% of the time.
Currently I've been plowing through "The Man called X", but I've listened to thousands of show episodes on Archive over the years, including the aforementioned Fantastic Four show, which is on the Internet Archive.
I can provide links if people want them... It's theater for the mind.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 14:06:38 GMT -5
As long as we're straying from comics-related (and nothing wrong with dong that), I'm gonna shill for another modern production from the team that bought us the Red Panda I mentioned in my first post: Black Jack Justice. It's a mix of hard-boiled and screwball comedy. As a huge fan of OTR, I recently discovered the Command Performance broadcast of Superman with Bela Lugosi playing the arch villain. Surprisingly hilarious. Another big OTR fan here. I pretty much fall to sleep with it every night -- either listening to Internet Archive's massive collection, or the OTRR Library website. There are other online collections out there, but those two are the biggest by far. There's also the CBS Radio Mystery Theater site, which, while not technically OTR itself (it aired from '74 to '82), it is a tremendous homage to many of the shows of yesteryear, particularly Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and Lights Out. I loved the CBS Mystery Theater as a kid, and still listen to it as well. Also, my truck's XM radio stays tuned to channel 148 "Radio Classics" about 90% of the time.
Currently I've been plowing through "The Man called X", but I've listened to thousands of show episodes on Archive over the years, including the aforementioned Fantastic Four show, which is on the Internet Archive.
I can provide links if people want them... It's theater for the mind.
I wanted to like the CBS Radio Mystery Theater when I first started looking at OTR years ago, but it was too '70s for me in the way it approached sci-fi and the supernatural. I've gone through nearly all of Suspense, Lights Out, Quite Please, Inner Sanctum, Escape, Philip Marlowe, and Pat Novak. What else is good in the crime/action/thriller genres? |
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