Alpha Waves
Blog posts will announce new episodes and news pertinent to the Why Not?! Podcast
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Have a Drink! Ep 6 OR Alpha Flight Ep 30a: Thunderbolts
Hi folks, it’s summer, and things have got a bit busy-ier in our day-to-day. We’re dipping in to our Patreon exclusive Why Not Have a Drink episode where we discuss Thunderbolts Asterisk. Seemed appropriate this week, what with the movie hitting digital and all that. So kick back with your refreshing summer beverage of choice
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Episode 30: “Marrinapalooza”
In this episode we finally catch up with everyone’s favorite fish lady from Newfoundland, MARRINA! And, really, we do. Not messing with you. Which also means we have to spend time with no one’s favorite Atlantean…Namor. He brought some friends with, though, in the form of the 1986 Avengers! It’s a team-up! In this episode,
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Episode 29: “What Color Is Your Sasquatch?”
Welcome to Episode 29, in which we wrap up Snowbird’s magical mystery pregnancy, encounter a real-life tale of Arctic exploration gone wrong (redundant, really, that “gone wrong”) made mystical(?!), and run into Talisman again. And, y’know what? Chris may have had a point about her. But maybe don’t mention that to him such that it
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Episode 28: The Doug…Undone!
It’s a surprise-entirely-unnatural-pregnancy episode, everyone’s favorite scifi/fantasy trope! And The Doug Thompson handles it…poorly. Little less of the Puck/Bochs self-loathing (though not none of that nonsense), but the issues covered this episode represent a real corner being turned as we put the…rocky start to Mantlo’s time behind us. Overly optimistic? Probably! In this episode, Chris:
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Why Not?! Have A Drink Ep.5: Captain America: Brave New World: MOAR COMMAS
It’s another episode of our periodic series where Tom and Chris have a drink and discuss a movie. This was recorded when it was timely but fell off the editing task list for a month so apologies, and our assurance we will get you Thunderbolts* soon but for now enjoy our dated take on Captain
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Episode 27: Big Throuble in Westchester County
We’ll be at The Uncanny Experience in July, giving a talk on the history of Department H, which sounds boring, but it’s us, so we’ll find a way to spice it up (I mean, a full-scale assault on civil rights tends to make for spicy conversation)! But in today’s episode, we cover the last(?) two
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Episode 26: “Tall Tale”
Do you ever feel like you’re just talking to yourself most of the time? Just Tom? Because he spends swaths of this episode doing voices? Ok. Just Tom. It’s time for that episode folks. THAT episode. Wherein we learn how Puck came to be…Puck…according to Bill Mantlo. But! We make the most of it. We
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Episode 25: “Pucking Around and Finding Out”
Well, we’re back from C2E2 and boy howdy was that a good time. Great meeting folks and finding out just how many folks can recognize Puck in the wild (and were incredibly excited to see the costume!). We’re back in your ears today with a deep dive on issue 31 and the return of Deadly
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Episode 24: “Elbows Up” Alpha Flight vol 1 #30
Why Not?! Episode 24: “Elbows Up” …and we’re off! We spend this episode solely discussing Issue #30, which will be our approach for the next few issues as we get used to what Mantlo is bringing to the table. And, boy howdy, is this already a VERY different book than what came before. Oh, and
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Episode 23: “Bills, Bills, Bills”
Here we go! The Mantlo era has begun! Only one issue today as we get our feet under us a bit. And what with all the sturm und drang we (Chris) injected in anticipation of this run…it might not be terrible? Or, more accurately, parts will be rough and other parts will be great and