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@dallascomiccon #FanDays 2016 Podcast

John Mayo, of ComicBookPage, talks with Kay Kellam, of PopArtsPlace, about the Dallas ComicCon Fan Days 2016 convention held on February 13-14, 2016.

The two attended numerous panels, including a “Dukes of Hazzard Reunion” with John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Catherine Bach, a Gotham panel with Sean Pertwee and David Mazouz, Arrow panels with John Barrowman and Stephen Amell, a Flash related panel with Robbie Amell… and that only scratches the surface of the fun that was had.

Links:
Dallas ComicCon Fan Days: http://dallascomiccon.com/
Discount Comic Book Service: http://www.DCBService.com
Comics Podcast Network: http://www.comicspodcast.com
League of Comic Book Podcasts:http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/

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Join the discussion on our forum at: http://forum.comicbookpage.com

This podcast episode originated on the Comic Book Page website:http://www.ComicBookPage.com

 

 

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2015 Spring Television Season Preview

John Mayo, of ComicBookPage, and Kay Kellam, of PopArtsPlace, discuss the 2015 spring fall television season.

The short version — the primary focus of this podcast is on the new shows starting up in the spring on “major” networks and cable channels. The shows are in order they are expected to premiere.

With a strong 2014 fall season having resulted in few cancelled shows, the mid-season offerings feel like fewer than expected, for instance iZombie does not yet have a premiere date that we could find.

Keeping that in mind, we covered as many of the December through May offerings we found of interest, and had available to us when we sat down to discuss the upcoming premieres and returning shows: The Librarians, Galavant, Agent Carter, Empire, Hindsight, Expedition Unknown, Melissa & Joey, Switched At Birth, 12 Monkeys, Musketeers, Chasing Life, The Fosters, Justified, Backstrom, Suits, Allegiance, Perception, Rizzoli & Isles, Odd Couple, Vikings, Battle Creek, Secrets and Lies, CSI Cyber, DIG, The Royals, AD, Orphan Black, and Wayward Pines. The episode includes shows from ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, and NBC, as well as ABC Family, History, SyFy, TNT, Travel Channel, USA and VH1.

During the discussion of upcoming mid-season replacements, returning shows, and event series, we also discussed the available trailers, and commercials and how effectively some sold their shows, while others left us needing to find more information.

After recording the episode Kay Kellam discovered PIVOT is moving into scripted programming with Fortitude, just one of many examples of the shows that unfortunately did not make it onto our radar, and the list in time to be included.

Links:
Discount Comic Book Service: http://www.DCBService.com
Comics Podcast Network: http://www.comicspodcast.com
League of Comic Book Podcasts:http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/

Email us at TheGuys@ComicBookPage.com

Join the discussion on our forum at: http://forum.comicbookpage.com

This podcast episode originated on the Comic Book Page website:http://www.ComicBookPage.com

The Flash Welcomes Robbie Amell

Robbie Amell Live Tweet FlashIt is hard to say what the most anticipated show of any television season is, even if you narrow it down to a network or genre, but while many were talking about FOX’s Gotham, lovers of the super-hero were also eagerly awaiting the arrival of the CW’s Flash.

Gotham was the subject of a great deal of conversation and buzz in large part because so little was truly known before the first episode was aired.  Bruno Heller is a name in television, in so much as he is the man behind Patrick Jane and the Mentalist, but that is to the eyes of many a show of a different genre and thus could fans rely use that show to judge what they would be getting in Gotham?

The Flash on the other hand had several advantages.  Not only is it coming from the same production team behind Arrow, but Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) appeared in two episodes of Arrow which laid the groundwork for The Flash.  The episodes were not created to feel like a backdoor pilot, but rather introduced Barry Allen as a character that most of the audience knew, or suspected, would have a show of his own in the coming season and was worth paying that extra little bit of attention to.

Tonight in the season’s third episode, The Flash introduces Ronnie Raymond / Firestorm, played by Robbie Amell (real life cousin of Stephen Amell aka Arrow.)  This is something fans have known about for quite some time and have been eagerly anticipating.  Thus far The Flash has built it’s world, and helped the audience to understand the circumstances in which the characters are existing.  S.T.A.R. Labs particle generator turned on, and for a while seemed to work — and then it didn’t.  And with something like that, when things go wrong, they go very wrong.  Then we take into account we are in the DC Universe, and when gamma radiation and magically scientific sounding things are flung out into the air — superheros are created!  (Or so the non-science version goes.)

The Flash LogoSo far the audience has gotten to know Barry Allen’s work life, and Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) who raised him and is now the cop he works with most often.  His personal life, or what there is of it, in the form of his one true friend, and psuedo foster-sister, Iris West (Candice Patton) who is in College studying journalism, and the S.T.A.R. Labs team who stabilized Barry while he was in a coma and is now helping him to find other meta-humans and make sure the accidents consequences aren’t more than Central City can handle.

At S.T.A.R. Labs, the equivalent of The Flash’s Arrow Cave, Barry is working with Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes),  and the hard to decipher and trust, Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) who was the director of S.T.A.R. Labs when everything went up in smoke.

With the introduction of Ronnie Raymond, not only are fans getting a glimpse of Caitlin Snow before the accident, but we are also getting our first addition to the show, a recurring character who will be introduced in a manner where it feels from the start that he is meant to be here, meant to be a part of the world and the audience is intended to want him to survive and recur.   No offense to Chad Rook who played Clyde Mardon in the pilot, but his evil self was there for our hero to battle and conquer, much as Michael Smith’s Danton Black, aka Multiplex,  was in the second episode for The Flash to discover the hero within and just what he was capable of.  Neither of those characters felt like integral parts of The Flash’s world, but rather stepping stones the plot and characters needed to keep us moving forward.

Where some shows need an entire season to lay the foundation before they can start digging deep, it appears with episode three The Flash is ready to dive in and start giving fans the good, the bad, and the back-story.

The Flash airs Tuesdays on the CW at 8PM / 7 Central

Robbie Amell Live Tweet Flash

The Ice-Bucket Challenge

You’ve seen the Ice-Bucket Challenge going around social media?  To say it has gone viral would be an understatement.  And I can honestly say I believe it has raised awareness that people are trying to raise funds for ALS (at one time called Lou Gehrig’s Disease.) and that people are having a lot of fun doing it.

But do you understand how it got started, and why?  Someone shared the story with me today, and it was not what I expected.  Somehow I thought a group had rallied together to do this, but that it was all prompted and inspired by one young man was far more powerful than I had imagined.

Take a few minutes to watch this story ESPN put together, and next time you are watching one of those Ice Bucket videos… do not just watch, do not just laugh with the folks who are having fun, remember this is about raising funds and awareness for a crippling disease, to help people who can not lift that bucket for themselves.

Countless people have participated in the ice Bucket Challenge to date.  A video pops up on facebook seemingly hourly, whether a friend of a celebrity has just taken the time to do it.  Surf on over to youtube and type Ice Bucket Challenge followed by the name of your favorite celebrity and if they have participated you are likely to find the video.  Andrea Bocelli, Kerry Washington, John Barrowman, Vin Diesel, Stephen Amell, Robbie Amell, Hugh Jackman and the cast of his broadway show Pan, Alex O’Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim and Jorge Garcia are just a few of the celebrities who have posted their videos on facebook participating and keeping the challenges going.