May 6, 2018
There are two guests on this week's Avengers: Infinity
War and the secret history of Marvel vs. DC comics themed
episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
Writer and Hugo-award
nominated podcaster Alasdair Stuart is the first guest on
this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
Alasdair and Chauncey discuss their thoughts on Avengers:
Infinity War and what it reveals about the future of the
Marvel film universe, the pathos and menace of Josh Brolin as
Thanos, and all that Infinity War does so very
right in terms of emotion and relationships. Alasdair also tries to
convince Chauncey that Star Trek: Discovery is
not that horrible and offers some positive energy about why the new
Han Solo Star Wars movie may actually be much
better than expected.
Reed Tucker is the
second guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega
Show. His work has been featured in the New York
Post, Esquire, Fortune,
and USA Today. Reed is also the author of the new
book Slugfest:
Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and
DC.
During this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega
Show, Reed explains the secret history of Marvel and DC
comics, the bust and boom era of comic books in the late 1980s
through to the 1990s, great forgotten and obscure characters, tales
of espionage, the trials and tribulations of Superman, and if this
great era of superhero movies will end well--or terribly.
In this week's episode Chauncey DeVega tries to make sense of a
Donald Trumpian dystopian moment that feels like it is torn out of
the pages of a poorly written science fiction novel or comic book.
To wit: During this wild and wacky last week Trump and Kanye West
united, Alex Jones claimed that Trump is part of a secret alliance
which is fighting a sentient computer program like in
the Terminator movies, and The New York
Times pondered if so-called "incel" terrorists should
have access to sex robots, human sex workers, and other
unfortunates who will be receptacles for male sexual rage. Chauncey
connects the dots so that you can stay (relatively) sane.