For this final episode, Rob welcomes back network all-star The Irredeemable Shag to discuss ALPHA FLIGHT #4!
Check out images from this comic by clicking here!
This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK:
- Visit the Fire & Water WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com
- Follow Fire & Water on BLUE SKY – https://bsky.app/profile/fwpodcasts.bsky.social
- Like our Fire & Water FACEBOOK page – https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork
- Support The Fire & Water Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fwpodcasts
- Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts
- E-MAIL – fwpodcasts@gmail.com
Thanks for listening!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
I’m not going to mourn Mountain Comics, I’m going to celebrate the 58 wonderfully nostalgic episodes we have. Thank you Rob, 58 times. This was an amazing podcast, and I was so happy to listen to every single one of them.
In regards to whether this is an Alpha Flight story or a Fantastic Four story, I have to agree that this is a Fantastic Four story. In fact, it’s the only Alpha Flight comic I ever read, because it was included in a John Byrne Fantastic Four tpb. The only other times I read about these characters was when they appeared in other comics.
Thank you once again Mr Kelly for Mountain Comics, not only for the entertainment, but because it was also my podcast debut. So let me raise my bottle of Yoo-Hoo! to you. Cheers.
The Master of the World played a prominent role in Kurt Busiek’s late Avengers run, defending the world against Kang using massive weapons platforms around the globe that he built underground centuries ago without anybody noticing. That was where I first encountered him, so it gave me the impression that he was a Big Deal. He’s basically Marvel’s answer to Vandal Savage.
This was the first F&W-related podcast I ever listened to and I will miss it. Thanks, Rob!
Thank you for all you do, Robert.
I very much enjoyed the podcast series. Thank you. Please consider more comic podcasts. They are a big part of my day and you are one of the best!
This is my first time commenting on this show, so I figured I better get a comment in under the wire! I wanted to say that I’ve enjoyed this podcast a lot all these years. I discovered it in the third season and then went back and listened to the first two seasons. I didn’t really have a version of mountain comics, but I grew up in the same time period, and this show always made me feel nostalgia for the comic books of that era and the places that no longer exist where I used to buy comics. I hope you end up doing another comics podcast. (But in the meantime, I’m looking forward to MASHCast!) Thanks for a really great show!
Yeah, it was fun while it lasted, Rob, but I like the way you decided to conclude the show on a high note – with the added symmetry of Shag as a guest and an issue of Alpha Flight as the topic.
I also hope you decide to launch another comics-related podcast. Somehow it just doesn’t seem right that the network no longer has a regular comics show with you at the helm.
Thanks for these trips back to your childhood that always inspired me to look back on my own. And if you do start another comic book podcast sometime, I will be listening.
Great episode and way to go out on a high note! (Even accounting for having Shagg on…)
Seriously, Rob, I appreciate you bringing me into this community. On the one hand, I am sorry for the end of For All Mankind, TreasuryCast, and Mountain Comics, but am grateful for having a chance to be on each of them, and share my memories with you as you shared yours.
Thanks for the show Rob, so great for so many reasons.
One, the randomness of the issues really was sort of like a podcast-ian spinner rack. And hearing people discuss these issues with memory and nostalgia worked well.
Second, it really brought me back to my youth where my summers as a kid spent at a beach house where I bought a ton of comics at yard sales.
Sad to see it go but get why. Hope you do more comic shows!
If I hear that Yoo-Hoo went out of business due to the sudden drop in sales after this show ended, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Congrats Rob on a great run, and just a fun series. I think this show kind of typifies the F&W network. It was bathed in nostalgia, and revisited entertainment you first absorbed as a kid, now examined through adult eyes. I hope if the mood strikes you, you do launch that new comic show. But either way, thanks for the hours of entertainment, and sharing your memories with us. I have never been to the Poconos, but I somehow feel connected to them.
The end of Mountain Comics, it’s so sad! Thanks for all the great listening, Rob, and for letting me into your cabin (and for not making me drink Yoo-Hoo, which I always hear as Uhu, a UK brand of glue – actually, a dairy-free chocolate drink sounds even worse). I echo the hope you do more comic shows, as you have a wonderful knack for entertaining and insightful chat.
Alpha Flight #4. By this time I was getting very impatient with the lack of actual team adventures, and here we had to put up with Captain UpHimself Namor and the stupendously annoying Marrina. Sue Richards is always fun, but she had her own book. I wanted to see Alpha Flight, the Canadian super-team, kicking butt (politely) and taking names.
Unlike Shag, I do blame Byrne for substandard work – backgrounds are important – as he shouldn’t have taken on so much work. Where was backgrounds man Keith Williams? Also, Byrne wasn’t his own best inker, he should’ve stuck to writing and pencilling.
I loved hearing Rob talk about the ‘aloha’ typo, given the way Namor is South Polynesian-ish in the Marvel films, he could be a member.
So, on changing one letter of a super-team name to make a new super team, how come Shag never saw that if you change one letter from Secret Six from ‘i’ to ‘e’ you get… Well pretty much Gail Simone’s Secret Six, actually.
Rob,
I just want to say thank you for all the hours of enjoyment listening to Mountain Comics. This premise triggered the ol’ nostalgia bone in me…back to my earliest memories of reading comics on our family’s annual camping trips along the Jack’s Fork River in southern Missouri. From the early 70s until the mid 80s, I’d stay for 2-3 weeks at our semi-permanent and private campground. It was a magical time, and in large part because I’d pack up the stacks of comics my uncle brought me from World Color Press in Sparta, IL, where he worked. There was nothing like the joy of reading comics in the shade next to the river with a Vess cola in hand, even if I had to bribe by younger siblings and cousins with a few Harveys and Archies to get some peace and quiet!
I don’t get a chance to post here often, and when I do it’s usually late. If I had the chance, I would be posting all of the hundreds of thoughts I have while listening to all of the FW episodes. Either way, I wanted to be sure I thanked you for stoking the great memories for me!
Thanks for an amazing series, Rob. Mountain Comics walked the perfect line of personal and comic book nostalgia. Thanks for being so forthcoming with your memories and the comics that captured your imagination as a kid. This show will be missed!
Well done, Rob. I still think Yoo Hoo tastes like rainwater, but go crack open one more on the front porch as the sun goes down in the Poconos.
Great final show wonder what the next comic show
Will be here’s some random joke style guesses
1. Ww2 adventures (covering different random comics from marvels version of ww2 doing at Radar and hawk eye from mash .)
2. Monsters and cowboys a weird westerns podcast .
What a fun choice for a final comic! I remember being thrown by the stealth crossover Byrne did between FF and AF for this story, with Namor and Sue having setup scenes in FF #259-260, leading to the surprise final page in AF #3, then backfilling the what happened between the end of FF #260 and AF #3 in the start of AF #4. It was Marvel continuity at its finest, and before Byrne’s use of “non-linear storytelling” got out of control. But I love Byrne’s run on AF and can always give it a re-read happily.
Well Rob, thank you for sharing your Mountain Comics. Such a great concept, with fun comics whether I’d read them before or not. It’s been a joy to experience them with you, and I look forward to your next comic book podcast.