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#123 – Who Or What Is Moon Knight?: Multiple Personalities, Resurrection & The Oscar Isaac Series With Scott Weatherly

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Episode notes

Scott Weatherly of the 20th Century Geek podcast and the Stories Out Of Time & Space podcast joins Mike again this week, this time to discuss one of his favourite Marvel comic book characters, who has recently had a live-action TV series starring Oscar Isaac announced; Moon Knight!

In more detail, Scott explains Moon Knight’s first appearances, an overview of his character, appearance and potential psychological disorders, before talking about the artists & writers who handled him, how his character has changed over the years and why he’s different to other superheroes, what Scott wants from the upcoming series and they finish with Scott’s comic recommendations for Moon Knight and Mike & Scott’s thoughts on the MCU series in general!

Supporters of GCC on Patreon had access to this episode a week early and had early access to both parts of Mike & Scott’s H.P. Lovecraft chat! For only £2/$3 a month, get early access to GCC conversations as well as exclusive access to Mike & Megan’s Afterthoughts show (with 2 episodes are *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), so if you want to support the show and get more content, or just check out free stuff, go to http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat!

Last episode, Mike & Scott spoke about the life of fantasy/horror writer; H.P. Lovecraft! They discussed his bigotry, relationships & death, before talking about Lovecraft’s writing style, the realm of Lovecraftian horror that he created including ancient beings like Cthulu, what happened to his works after he died, Alan Moore’s Lovecraftian comic, surviving in Lovecraft’s world, Scott then reads out a short passage from a Lovecraft story, explains why it’s hard to adapt Lovecraftian stories onto screen, plus Scott recounts how he first got into Lovecraft!

20th Century Geek: http://www.20thcenturygeek.com/ – Stories Out Of Time & Space: http://www.20thcenturygeek.com/timeandspacepod – Twitter: @20thCenturyGeek

Mike & Scott had a conversation on sci-fi crossovers, special effects and loads more in late 2020, so check out episode 107 of GCC for that!

Promo by American Slacker: https://www.aspodcast.com/  

Find Mike’s other show; Star Wars: Comics In Canon on Spotify & the other podcast apps on the feed of Comics In Motion. Episodes are out every Saturday; episodes 0-52 are out now, with ep 52 being about the villains of the sequel trilogy, 51 was about Aphra & force-sensitive space mould and 50 was a Q&A episode with Mike & Megan! Previous episodes topics include Lando comics, the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi, Count Dooku, Kylo Ren, Darth Maul, how C-3PO got his red arm, book reviews & more - https://spoti.fi/3sOtqCw

Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here:  http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ

Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m

Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT

Mike & Megan also appeared on the 52 Love Podcast where they wrote & read poems to each other: http://spoti.fi/3ruHXmF

Mike appeared on episode 76 Frank Burton’s Ragbag podcast: http://spoti.fi/3aLgx5e

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