Many of you may have heard Steve talk over the years talk about his start in talk as a producer for the "Joe Pyne Show" in the 1960's. It was a nationaly syndicated show, that was in the same style that Steve uses today with guests.
A website called T.V. Party has some clips of interviews that are a lot of fun to watch. Keep in mind at the time of this show no one was doing issues on TV like this. Click here to watch.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Steve Kane's start in talk
Posted by Brian Craig at 2:29 PM 2 comments
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Captain America
Captain America is our biggest chronic. A chronic is not defined by calling everyday, a chronic can call once a year and be a chronic. The definition of a chronic is someone who calls but has nothing to say, which is the case with Captain America.
Captain America is right about one thing, orignally the comic book hero was black.
Marval comics developed an incredible backstory which made its way to a series of comic books detailing how Steve Rogers became Captain America.
During World War II the U.S. Army launched the "Super Soldier" Program, which turned Steve Rogers, who you see above into Captain America. The formula that was used to create Captain America was first tested on black soldiers, taken from the Tuskegee Syphlis Experiments
The product of those experiments was Isaiah Bradley.
Isaiah had a son who took the name Josiah X.
After September 11th, Captain America (the white one) learned for the first time the true story of the experiments that turned him into a superhero, and began to work with Isaiah's grandson, Elijah, known as the Patriot, seen below.
The story of Isaiah Bradley can be read here.
If making Captain America into a hero who only became a hero out of the exploitation of blacks was not enough to stain him, Marval Comics decided to make him a Liberal who understands why the Terrorist attacked the United States. A terrorist named Al-Tariq was introduced after 9-11, Micheal Medved in the National Review wrote a review of the pro-terrorist Captain America.
So, in the end our Chronic Captain America has more in common with the latest Marval Comics version Captain America than you would think.
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