5 thoughts on “Episode 219 – Knockin’ Dirt Daubers off the Barn f/ Jason Latour”

1. I didn’t have problems reading Multiversity #1. HOWEVER, I realized that because of Morrison’s reputation, people will want to find and understand all the layers that he placed on this comic. To the point that as straightforward as it is, people don’t think it could ever be that simple. They want it to be harder to understand than it actually is.

   Also, I think you guys nailed it on how this requires a little more time to read. I read it in a loud comic shop next to a bunch of chatty people. It was hard to focus, so I did have to take more time to read the page, but no one should really have trouble understanding this first issue.

   1. I love Morrison. He’s probably my favorite comic writer. But I completely understand why he loses people. It’s not that the concepts are confusing, it’s that the pacing is.

      In the episode, Chris and Matt mention people being confused by Rock of Ages. I was one of them – JLA was my first Morrison comic. And the thing Morrison does is throw plot elements that would be explained across five pages, or a whole issue, in any other comic into a single panel, with maybe a few dialogue balloons to explain it.

      In Rock of Ages where Metron shows up in the middle of an unrelated story and sends the heroes on a psychadelic trip through space-time, which we see in disjointed snippets and flashbacks instead of as an actual narrative, to hunt for a thing we have never heard of before, and none of it is explained until a month later. After you know what the Worlogog is, and read the whole story to the end, it makes sense – but when that issue came out it was freaking incomprehensible, to me at least.

      Multiversity is like that (and so are a lot of Morrison comics). Once it’s finished and you re-read it, it will all make perfect sense. The first time, there will be whole pages of stuff where you have to just accept that things aren’t really going to make sense yet.

2. To help Matt out, here is the Every Story Ever list WITHOUT today’s entries:
   Amazing Spider-Man #31 -#33 If This Be My Destiny
   Batman Year One
   Watchmen
   All-Star Superman
   Gotham Central by Brubaker & Rucka
   Supreme by Alan Moore
   Daredevil Born Again
   the Dark Knight Returns
   Hitman
   Impulse #3 Mr. Popularity
   Fantastic Four #51 This Man, This Monster
   Runaways by BKV
   NEXTWAVE Agents of HATE
   the Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck
   Preacher
   Punisher Welcome Back Frank
   X-Men the Dark Phoenix Saga
   Batman RIP
   Y: the Last Man
   Transmetropolitain
   the Great Darkness Saga (LEGION)
   Flash: the Return of Barry Allen
   Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
   Superman: the Man of Steel (John Byrne)
   Starman (James Robinson)
   OMAC 1-8 Jack Kirby
   COPRA vol. 1
   Batman #156 Robin Dies at Dawn
   Superman For the Man Who Has Everything
   X-Men Days of Future’s Past
   Cosmic Odyssey
   Infinity Gauntlet
   Thor the Mighty Avenger
   Squadron Supreme
   Frog Thor
   the Last Iron Fist Story (Fraction/Brubaker)
   Age of the Sentry
   Punisher vs. Archie
   Judge Dredd the Apocalypse War
   Final Crisis
   Secret Wars (1985)
   JLA/Avengers
   New X-Men: E is for Extinction
   Planet Hulk
   Persepolis
   Planetary
   JLA the Nail
   the Authority 1-12
   DC the New Frontier
   Palmiotti/Gray/Conner’s Power Girl
   the Mighty Thor-cules
   Batman No Man’s Land
   Teen Titans the Judas Contract
   Joe Kelly’s Deadpool
   Marvel’s Godzilla
   SMAX by Alan Moore & Zander Cannon
   Secret Six
   Sea Guy
   OMAC 1-8 Giffen/Didio
   Superman Red Son
   Irreedemable
   Power Pack: Thor & the Warriors Four
   Pride of Bagdahd
   Green Arrow by Brad Meltzer & Phil Hester
   the Ultimates by Millar & Hitch
   Spider-Man Identity Crisis
   Spider-Man 2099
   Batman Year Two
   Fifty-Two
   Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight
   X-Men by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
   Marvel Zombies
   Batman: Seduction of the Gun
   WildCATs 3.0 (Joe Casey)
   Wolverine: Old Man Logan
   the Sentry
   Earth X
   X-Tinction Agenda
   Maximum Carnage
   OMAC by John Byrne
   Marvel 1602
   Ultimate Galactus Trilogy
   House of M
   Civil War
   Flash Rebirth
   Civil War Front Line
   Heroes Reborn
   the Ultimates 2
   Superman/Batman Generations Three
   Batman Arkham Asylum OGN
   Batman War Games
   X-Cutioner’s Song
   Spider-Man: One More Day
   Supreme Power
   New 52 Suicide Sqaud
   Spawn/WildCATS Devil Day
   All-Star Batman & Robin
   Spider-Man Chapter One
   Rising Stars
   Maximum Cloneage
   Batman: Hush
   Kick-Ass
   Jusitce League: the Rise of Arsenal
   Batman the Widening Gyre
   Trouble
   Justice League: Cry for Justice
   Ultimatum
   Spider-Man Sins Past
   X-Men the Draco
   Mar-ville
   Identity Crisis

3. I had SO MUCH FUN listening to this interview–a blast of pure nostalgia for the 16 years I lived in central North Carolina. And your focus on “the logos” gave me a much greater appreciation for how Latour’s depth of backgrounds makes SOUTHERN BASTARDS such a rich comics experience. So thank you guys for that.

   AVENGERS ANNUAL 10 directly followed from the events of two issues of MS. MARVEL that were left unpublished when the book was canceled; those were published in the mid-1990s in an issue of (if memory serves) MARVEL SUPER-HEROES. I would rate ANNUAL 10 higher than you guys did because of the glorious Michael Golden art–there was a period in which this was my absolute hands-down favorite art on any comic ever. Golden is largely overlooked these days, which is a real shame–his small body of work was an acknowledged major influence on Art Adams (and thus on Todd McFarlane) and I suspect on Mike Wieringo and Humberto Ramos.

   Also, “Michelinie” rhymes with “pickle-my-knee”. Just so’s ya know.

4. Mystifies me that people are confused by Multiversity.

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