{"id":21617,"date":"2011-07-17T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21617"},"modified":"2011-07-17T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:10:47","slug":"dave-does-the-comics-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-1.html","title":{"rendered":"***Dave Does the Comics &#8211; Issue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookshelves_144x144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21616\" title=\"Comic Books\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookshelves_144x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>Hey, Kids! Comics!<\/p>\n<p>I finally got around  to doing the inaugural DDtC podcast this afternoon.  You can get to it through <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/davedoesthecomics-2011-07-17.mp3\">this link<\/a>, or use the little player at the bottom of the post.<\/p>\n<p>Comics reviewed include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Captain America<\/em> #1 (Marvel &#8211; Brubaker \/ McNiven<\/li>\n<li><em>FF <\/em>#6 (Marvel &#8211; Hickman \/ Tochini)<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men: Schism<\/em> #1 of 5 (Marvel &#8211; Aaron \/ Pacheco)<\/li>\n<li><em>Green Lantern<\/em> #67 (DC &#8211; Johns \/ Mahnke)<\/li>\n<li><em>Journey into Mystery<\/em> #625 (Marvel &#8211; Gillen \/ Braithwaite)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mystery Men<\/em> #3 of 5 (Marvel &#8211; Liss \/ Zircher)<\/li>\n<li><em>Teen Titans<\/em> #97 (DC &#8211; Krul \/ Scott)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ka-Zar<\/em> #2 of 5 (Marvel &#8211; Jenkins \/ Alixe)<\/li>\n<li><em>Superman <\/em>#713 (DC &#8211; Straczinski, Roberson \/ various)<\/li>\n<li><em>Fear Itself<\/em> #4 of 7 (Marvel &#8211; Fraction \/ Immonen)<\/li>\n<li><em>New Avengers<\/em> #14 (Marvel &#8211; Bendis \/ Deodato)<\/li>\n<li><em>Birds of Prey<\/em> #14 (DC &#8211; Andreyko \/ Tucci)<\/li>\n<li><em>DC Universe Online Legends<\/em> #11 (DC &#8211; Wolfman \/ Miller)<\/li>\n<li><em>Defenders &#8211; Marvel Vault One-Shot<\/em> (Busiek, Nicieza \/ Bagley)<\/li>\n<li><em>Avengers Assembled<\/em> Vol. 1 (Busiek \/ Perez)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an inaugural effort, it took me about 4 hours to do it all (for a 15 minute podcast), which is far too long to sustain &#8230; but a big amount of that was learning curve: getting used to Audacity, figuring out how to mix in the music I&#8217;d selected (not sure I&#8217;m doing that in the most efficient fashion), figuring out how to edit out some gaps, figuring out how to export and the tags to use, playing around with PowerPress, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I also did a lot of prep on the material, not sure I&#8217;d be able to do it off the cuff for 15 minutes. As it turned out, I blssted through the prepped stuff in 10 minutes, leaving me to vamp with some other comics I&#8217;d pulled (fortunately!) for another 4.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I can cut the prep down substantially in the future, if I continue.<\/p>\n<p>But, then, the question is: \u00a0 should I continue? \u00a0What sayest thou, readers?<\/p>\n<p>(Feedback both on the content and on the podcast tech\/process\/product itself welcome.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Kids! Comics! I finally got around to doing the inaugural DDtC podcast this afternoon. You can get to it through this link, or use the little player at the bottom of the post. Comics reviewed include: Captain America #1 (Marvel &#8211; Brubaker \/ McNiven FF #6 (Marvel &#8211; Hickman \/ Tochini) X-Men: Schism #1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-1.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;***Dave Does the Comics &#8211; Issue 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-does-the-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookshelves_144x144.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/brian-bendis-moves-marvel-dc.html","url_meta":{"origin":21617,"position":0},"title":"Brian Bendis moves from Marvel to DC","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Nov-17 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which means absolutely nothing to people who don't read comics, but is akin to Jack Kirby's famous move from Marvel to DC back in the early 70s (where he promptly created the New Gods and a host of of other zaniness). 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But Marvel the comics company is struggling with diminishing sales.This article recaps a lot of what's been said elsewhere (and echoed by me), but it's still worth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-recommendations-marvel.html","url_meta":{"origin":21617,"position":4},"title":"Dave Does the Comics &#8211; 2014 Recommendations (Marvel)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 31-Dec-14 10:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm listing out comic series I'm currently reading that I'd recommend people give a try. Marvel was, for many years, my \"go to\" company, especially once DC went with their New 52 \"Let's Make All Our Heroes Unheroic and Stories Grim 'n' Gritty\" direction. 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