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A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Matt Fraction 2

$mattfraction$ I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have a chat with writer Matt Fraction, about quarantimes, Orson couching, Lou’s drawings, Paul’s Pony, Ringo’s pogo, Elton’s rocket, Dead reckoning, Blazing Olsen, zdarsky Knights, Criminal ends, Disney Superego, and cheeseburger wellingtons.

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April 15, 2020
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Steve Agee 3

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another chat with actor Steve Agee, about a lot of things, some nonsense, Suicide Squads, Capaldi’s comics, Ringo’s cans, movies, and more nonsense.

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April 14, 2020
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Molly Lewis 10

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another chat with musician Molly Lewis, aboutbirthdays, big doofus energy, typewriters, manholes, hydrants, themes, wolves, shucks, Disney covers, boysenbabies, Song Fu, long hair, sandy shorts, treehouse horror, champagne clown fountains, personhood, Hodgman punches, tiny ukuleles, Nilsson-dipping, therapy, recitals, and peppermint schnapps.

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March 21, 2020
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Doc Hammer 7

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another late night chat with The Venture Bros.’ own Doc Hammer, about Venture Bros., Warburton knives, Enterprise, senior papers, belted gowns, artroom keys, pottery, sinister hands, toilet paper RA, underpant firestarter, legs, constipation, paintings, Fudgie The Whale, brain rewiring, rope, quarter helms, road trips, gallery shows, pencil cups, dollars, and rhymes..

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February 25, 2020
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Chip Zdarsky

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have a chat with writer/artist/certified genius Chip Zdarsky, about deadlines, nothing pits, working holidays, maritime adventures, Spider-Man rules, columnists, Extremely Bad Advice, studio dorms, oil paintings, Tintin hooligans, self-awareness, illustration, copycats, romantic hooky, focus, Sex Criminals, Zdarsky legends, work wives, second acts, Fantastic Four, X-Men, ego, Daredevil, life stories, and no clones.

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February 23, 2020
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Phill Jupitus 2

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another chat with artist/writer/actor/musician/comedian/presenter/badge enthusiast Phill Jupitus, about Bond musicals, Bragg birthdays, London leaving, Scotland calling, Buzzcocks, university boy, Reverend Bluejeans, Swimming Izzard, musicals, Neil Innes, Bonzos, Aural Kaleidoscopes, Idiot Bastards, radio, stand-up, heroes, Noel Fielding, Terry Wogan, Haddock scarves, sunsets, badges, and breakfasts.

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February 20, 2020
FROM THE VAULT: Terry Jones Interviews

Terry Jones was a writer, an actor, a director, and a member of the legendary comedy troupe Monty Python. Sadly, Terry passed away on January 22, 2020.

I had the profound (and deeply surreal) pleasure of speaking with him numerous times over the years, and always found him to be witty, insightful, and wonderfully engaging.

Below, you’ll find both of our conversations…

-Ken Plume

Conducted ~ 1/2004

Terry Jones was a member of Monty Python, as anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of comedy knows full well.

As a Python, he co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam before assuming full directorial duties for The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.

As an ex-Python, he wrote Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and wrote and directed Erik the Viking and the recent adaptation of Wind in the Willows.

Just as fellow ex-Python Michael Palin has become associated with his frequent travel documentaries, so too Jones has also been connected with the documentary form in recent years ““ first with his miniseries about the Crusades, and more recently with a series of programs on ancient inventions and the hidden history of Rome and Egypt.

His current foray into the past, however, is Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives, an 8-part series examining the myths surrounding such historical archetypes as the knight, the damsel, the minstrel, and the monk. Similar to his previous ventures into this territory, the programs present a healthy does of history within an entertaining (and often humorous) vehicle. As they say, a spoonful of sugar…

A companion book to the series is currently available in the UK from BBC Publishing. He’s also authored a look at a particularly fascinating literary mystery with the book Who Murdered Chaucer?, currently available in the UK from Methuen Publishing and in the US from St. Martin’s Press later this year.

Medieval Lives is currently airing on the History Channel Saturdays at 7:00pm EST.

KEN PLUME: Going back to your youth, were you initially more interested in history or literature?

TERRY JONES: It was literature, really. I read English literature at university, and I kind of strayed into history really because I became fascinated by Chaucer ““ and particularly, I became fascinated by the boring bits of Chaucer. Because when you’re reading Chaucer, you see such a wonderful writer and a funny man and so full of good things, you can’t believe he’d write these boring bits! An attempt at saying why he should have written these 30 apparently boring lines about the Knight in the General Prologue is what sort of got me into looking at the history of the period and what was going on behind what he was saying.

PLUME: Why is that a question that was never analyzed by “scholars” prior to that, do you think? It seems like a logical question to ask since, as you say, why would such a good writer write boring bits like that…

JONES: You’d think that would be a reasonable question, wouldn’t you? Well, I think maybe people didn’t realize it was boring ““ that that particular bit was boring, really. I mean, they all liked the idea of this “perfect, gentle knight” – this perfect, aristocratic knight ““ and they thought that was a good thing… It chimed in with the kind of mental outlook of people in the 19th century, when people were very much in the age of imperial expansion, and it never occurred to them that anybody would have thought that somebody who’s lived by violence is not a figure of approval.

PLUME: And the 19th century is really when the mythology regarding the greatness of “chivalry” was built up, wasn’t it?

JONES: I think that’s true, yeah. We feel very much in Medieval Lives ““ one of the points we make in the first program about the knight is that the concept of the “knight in shining armor rescuing damsels in distress” is very much a Victorian concept. One of the things to bear in mind is that “chivalry” was a cult of violence. It was a cult of men killing other men, and that’s what “chivalry” was all about. If you took the killing away, there wouldn’t be “chivalry” there. So all this stuff about the ideals of “chivalry” is very much dressing the stuff up ““ it’s dressing up a cult of violence, for various reasons. The Church would sort of dress it up in godly robes because they were trying to a) utilize the men of violence to their own ends, and also trying to construct a moral code that would modify the behavior of these violent young men who were going around killing everybody.

JONES: Exactly. The violent young men themselves were quite glad to have these sort of “robes of piety” because it sort of justified what they were doing. They were quite glad to have this “code of chivalry” as well. But the whole thing is an impossible construct.

PLUME: But when you look at that 19th century way of reimagining the middle ages, they did that with more than just “chivalry”, as a means of dressing up their history, didn’t they?

JONES: Yeah. I mean, 19th century England was also very keen to find ways to justify the kind of violence that setting up an empire involved. So I guess you’ll be getting the same kind of thing going on in America over the next few decades as Prince Rumsfeld and Lord Wolfowitz start expanding their empire ever outwards, and justifying violence. You can see it happening already in Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay ““ suddenly, “Oh, it’s perfectly all right to suspend people’s rights and oppress people because we’ve got a justification for it!” Things don’t change, really, and I think people’s reasons for going to war don’t change at all, either. Wolfowitz, Pearl, Rumsfeld ““ they’re all making money out of war… That’s the whole point about it. They’ve all got their corporations or themselves. And that’s exactly why people went to war in the middle ages. The Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Warwick hated Richard II’s peace policy with France because they couldn’t make any money out of peace ““ they wanted war. You see the warmongers, in any age it’s the same thing ““ they make money out of it.

PLUME: I think it was fascinating in watching the episode of Medieval Lives about the king, in particular the segment on Richard II and the spin campaign to discredit him and his rule after his enemies came to power…

JONES: Yeah, absolutely. I think Henry IV was very good at propaganda. He wheeled in this propaganda machine and it really got to work, and it wiped out a whole culture, in a away ““ the culture of Richard II’s court.

PLUME: Does it surprise you when you do these investigations and look at history with a critical eye, that previous generations haven’t asked these same questions?

JONES: Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. And so I think it’s partly a difference in the age and in the outlook that I’ve grown up in, I suppose. It is surprising that people haven’t challenged the chronicle accounts more. You can partly understand it because there was such a sort of xenophobia in the 19th century. The chronicles that are pro-Richard are all French chronicles ““ they were mostly chronicles that were preserved in France, so they were written off, because they said, “Oh, they’re French… They’re anti-English!”

PLUME: Going back to the links between literature and history ““ how much of an influence was Shakespeare on defining how certain historical figures and events have been viewed?

JONES: I think he was a big influence. It was very odd, really, You look at some of the most recent biographies of Richard II, and people just can’t get away from the Shakespeare portrait ““ which has no sort of historical foundation. It has nothing to do with it, but it becomes the touchstone to explain what went wrong with Richard’s reign, you know? Because he’s a “tragic hero.” Well, you don’t do that with every other king ““ why do it with Richard? He reigned for 26 years, or something ““ quite a long time. He reigned under very, very difficult circumstances. He came to power as an 11 year-old boy, was constantly being opposed by barons, was probably deposed at one point halfway through his reign, and only managed to get complete control in 1397. So he did well, really.

PLUME: And the spin also took place with Richard III…

JONES: Richard III is no better than he should be, probably, but he’s certainly not a monster. One of those interesting things for me was when we went up to York… One of the great things about doing this series is actually going into the public record office and actually holding these documents from 600 years ago, and there you actually have the thing in your hand. We were up in York in the public record office there, and there we had these records from the town council, and when Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field the council records, in the official meeting it says, “Our Lord, the late King Richard, who was treacherously murdered and slain by the treason of the…” The people who murdered him were in power by then, and to actually write this in your minutes must have been an act of some bravery to say “We really think he was a good man.”

PLUME: Is that the kind of thing that would have brought swift retribution?

JONES: Well, I don’t know… Maybe the powers that be never saw the minutes of the York guild that was writing them.

PLUME: Looking at a series like Medieval Lives ““ even going back to your series on the Crusades ““ where doe the spark to do them come from?

JONES: It came very much out of my own heart, really. The actual format was proposed to me by BBC Oxford Film & TV, who I made it with. They proposed the format, but it was very much something I wanted to do because it’s a way to reexamine the middle ages, and to get away from the lies and misconceptions about the middle ages that have been mainly spread by people who regard the Renaissance as a jolly good thing. Whereas a lot of the things in the middle ages that we regard ““ as this age of ignorance and superstition ““ a lot of those things are actually things that happened in the Renaissance or after the Reformation… Not in the middle ages at all. To give you an example, witchcraft and the burning of witches ““ nothing at all to do with the middle ages. It is totally a figment of the post-Reformation and the Renaissance. Throughout the middle ages, witchcraft really didn’t figure very largely at all. The Church didn’t take witchcraft seriously. It was only in 1484, I think it was, that the Pope suddenly declared that witchcraft was real. They never took it seriously before then.

PLUME: Just because it could be another tool for the Church to use…

JONES: Well, it was probably a bit like the war on terror ““ like Bush declaring the war on terrorism…

PLUME: So we’re now on “Witch Alert: Orange”…

JONES: Exactly. “Witch Alert: Orange” was declared by the Pope in 1484. And from then on it was open season on attacking women. It was all part of the suppression of womanhood that went on after the Renaissance. Throughout the middle ages, we see the gradual empowerment of women, and in the late 14th century, women probably had more power than they had at any other time in the next 600 years. They had a certain amount of equality with men, they were in places in government, they were in trade and they did run businesses. They had quite a considerable amount of independence. It’s after the Renaissance and the Reformation that they get deprived of power and they get suppressed and pushed into the background. Part of the way that this is done by de-sexualizing them. We had a curious bit where Professor Samantha Riches, who does work on the iconography of St. George and the Dragon, she discovered that in the late 15th century and the early 16th century in depictions of St. George and the Dragon, the dragon begins to take on female genitalia.

PLUME: Which was quite a startling find…

JONES: Yeah. She thinks this has to do with the idea that St. George is rescuing the female from her sexuality. And so this is all part of this post-Renaissance, post-Reformation tradition of de-sexualizing women, which is part of dis-empowering them. So by the Victorian age, by the 19th century, women are totally de-sexualized and they’re not supposed to have any sexual interest at all. In fact, any woman with any interest in sex was regarded as being mad and usually put in the asylum. So, I mean, it’s a really extraordinary sort of turnaround and something that would have been incomprehensible to people in the middle ages.

PLUME: And it’s interesting to note how much of that spin happened, as you say, during the Renaissance and the Reformation. While watching Medieval Lives, I couldn’t help but think how much the series cried out for a follow-up explaining what happened during that period…

JONES: Yeah, I think you’re right, funnily enough. I think that’s a really good idea. A very interesting idea… The trouble with Medieval Lives is there’s so little time to do anything. In a way the story, for example, of why we think they thought the world was flat in the middle ages ““ that’s a fascinating story in itself. It actually comes from the American journalist Washington Irving in the early 19th century, writing his biography of Columbus, in which he makes up this thing about the Church fathers at Salamanca accusing Columbus of heresy for saying the world is round when the Church teaches that it’s flat. Which is totally made up! The Church never taught that the Earth was flat, and nobody thought that the Earth was flat in the middle ages. It was just Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle – it was just him making something up. Obviously it sounded rather good.

PLUME: Well, anyone could be historian at that point in time…

JONES: Yes.

PLUME: Does the research process for the show start with you asking a question, or does it start with you stumbling across an interesting piece of information?

JONES: A bit of both, really. What happened with this series was that, as I said, the impulse came from Oxford TV & Film and the BBC, so they started researching and came up with a whole lot of the material. But I was always very conscious that in shows like this you’ve got to have some sort of story that you’re telling. For example in [The Episode] “The Damsel,” it’s not sufficient to just have a list of spunky women who we know lived in the middle ages ““ that doesn’t get you anywhere. You’ve got to have a story to tell. So partly it’s me trying to work out a story out of the raw material and my saying, “Look, I think the story we’re talking about is the story about the gender roles and the relationship between the genders through this period of 600 years and how did it change.” And once you ask the right questions like that, you see how it does change and you see the dynamic that’s going on, and that gives you a bit of a story then.

PLUME: It’s also interesting to note that, in reference to that episode on gender roles, we’ve seen the recent return of the idea of the “professional religious hysteric”…

JONES: Yes!

PLUME: In going back to even how you tackled your series on the Crusades, there was that through-line of trying to tell stories within the larger story…

JONES: With Crusades, what appealed to me when Alan Ereira, who was producing the series, he sort of said, “The idea is to tell the story of the Crusades, but tell it through Arab eyes and get the Arab point of view.” And I though, “Well that really sounds interesting.” And that’s what got me hooked onto that, because it was a new way of looking at the period ““ which I didn’t know anything about in the first place.

PLUME: How cursory were your explorations into the period when you were doing your research for Holy Grail in the 70’s?

JONES: Well, I suppose the research was fairly cursory. We sort of read some of the Arthurian legends and things, but at the same time we were doing The Holy Grail, I was actually involved in researching my book on Chaucer’s Knight at the time ““ so I was kind of moonlighting off in the British Museum. So I was kind of well into the 14th century when we were doing that, so I was kind of quite comfortable doing a film set in the medieval world.

January 23, 2020
2019 FRED Holiday Shopping Guide

It’s that time of year again, when sites the web-over compile helpful holiday shopping lists to guide you into the deepest, darkest pits of retail with a map that will hopefully get you out alive. Here now, without further ado, is the 2019 FRED Holiday Shopping Guide.

(If you see anything you like, please support FRED by using the links below to make your holiday purchases – it’s appreciated!)

I’m a tremendous fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I had high hopes that the documentary What We Left Behind (Shout Factory, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.99 SRP) would pay proper tribute to the show and its creatives, both behind and in front of the camera. Thankfully, it delivered in spades, proving to be a loving tribute and celebration of the show and its dedicated fans, with participation from nearly everyone involved (sans the ever-elusive Avery Brooks). Bonus features include nearly an hour of additional interviews, a roundtable discussion, and featurettes.

A bona fide holiday classic, It’s A Wonderful Life (Paramount, Rated PG, 4K-$35.99 SRP) gets a stunningly pristine high definition upgrade in a release featuring both black & white & colorized versions of the film, original cast home movies, a featurette on the 4K restoration, and more.

Speaking of gorgeous high definition upgrades, The Wizard Of Oz (Warner Bros., Rated G, 4K-$41.99 SRP) has gotten its own eye-popping trip down the yellow brick road, with bonus materials including an audio commentary, featurettes, and more.

Hot Toys has done loads of stellar work over the years, but I still can’t help but be impressed whenever they drop a new figure. Holding their 1/6-scale Iron Spider (Sideshow Collectibles, $259) ““ aka the Stark-armored Spider-Man seen in Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, & Spider-Man: Far From Home ““ it’s a marvel of screen-accurate reproduction, right down to finding a flexible suit material that has a metallic shine to it. You can pop the optional articulated spider-arms on or off, and he comes with two masked heads ““ one containing an LED light feature for the eyes ““ and an unmasked Peter Parker head that looks eerily like actor Tom Holland.

For many years now, Chronicle Books has been publishing a stellar line-up of Disney animation books. For contemporary fans, there’s The Art Of Frozen II (Chronicle Books, $40 SRP), loaded with production insight into the sequel. For deeper dive fans, they’ve continued their series chronicling the development art crafted at the studio during various periods in its history, the latest two volumes of which are They Drew As They Pleased – The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Mid-Century Era: The 1950s & 1960s (Chronicle Books, $50 SRP) & They Drew As They Pleased – The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Early Renaissance: The 1970s & 1980s (Chronicle Books, $50 SRP).

But those aren’t the only Disney books that should be on your holiday list. Disney Editions is releasing a few titles of note, including the tie-in to the Disney+ series One Day at Disney (Disney Editions, $50 SRP), Pete Docter & Christopher Merritt’s 2-volume celebration of a Disney artist & Imagineering legend in Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks (Disney Editions, $150 SRP), the revised special edition of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons (Disney Editions, $80 SRP), The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot to Remember (Disney Editions, $60 SRP), Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks (Disney Editions, $60 SRP), and former Imagineering president Marty Sklar’s Travels with Figment: On the Road in Search of Disney Dreams (Disney Editions, $26.99 SRP).

Yes, it is a Christmas movie, and you can celebrate the 35th anniversary of Gremlins (Warner Bros., Rated PG, 4K-$41.99 SRP) by watching it in 4K high definition, which means it’s never looked better. Bonus features include a pair of audio commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes, galleries, and trailers.

Documenting his creative career in exquisite detail, Rick Baker: Metamorphosis (Cameron, $250 SRP) is a massive two-volume set containing a comprehensive visual archiving of nearly every creature, makeup, and effect crafted by the legendary cinema artisan. Listen, this thing is massive ““ And dense. Drop it and it’d break a foot.

Disney has been very kind to fans of both their theme parks and novelty vinyl, releasing a trio of picture albums featuring the complete ride-through audio and songs from Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, and It’s a Small World (Walt Disney Records, $21.98 SRP each).

If vinyl’s not your thing and you’re just keen on some CD stocking stuffers, you can also score the soundtrack albums for Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Frozen II, Dumbo, & Descendants 3 (Walt Disney Records, $10.99 SRP each).

Largely fallen off the radar, China Beach (Time Life, Not Rated, DVD-$149.95 SRP), while leaning more towards drama than comedy, is to the conflict in Vietnam what M*A*S*H was to the Korean War, and is a series worth your time to explore ““ or revisit ““ via this new box set, collecting all 4 seasons plus audio commentaries, interviews, and featurettes.

Years and years ago, the fine folks at Sideshow released a 1/6-scale “figure” of Han Solo in Carbonite (Sideshow Collectibles, $249.99), to the delight of Star Wars fans eager to fill out their displays (particularly their Jabba’s Palace). Fans frustrated that the original piece sold out years ago will be very happy with their new release, with full control panel light features. The main difference is in the display stand, where the original release was intended to represent the alcove in Jabba’s Palace, this new edition has the flooring found in Cloud City from Empire Strikes Back.

And because there’s a new Star Wars film, it also means we get the information & trivia filled Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Visual Dictionary: With Exclusive Cross-Sections (DK, $24.99 SRP).

Oh, and hey, Star Wars fans, while I have your attention, the actor inside one-half of your favorite droid duo, Anthony Daniels, has released a memoir ““ I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story (DK, $24.99 SRP), which contains all of the firsthand anecdotes and details you could hope for, along with a clutch of personal photos.

While I don’t think any of them have aged particularly well as films, there’s no denying that the Batman 4K Film Collection (Warner Bros., Rated PG-13, 4K Blu-Ray-$124.99 SRP each) ““ which contains 4K presentations of Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, & Batman & Robin – looks truly spectacular, from the gothic glory of the Burton films to the day-glo camp of Schumacher’s. Bonus features are all carried over from the previous special editions, including commentaries, documentaries, and more.

Over the course of its 5 seasons, Gotham (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$112.99 SRP) abandoned any pretense of being a somewhat serious Batman prequel series and instead leaned”¦ no, barreled into being a completely bizarre, totally unhinged meta goof that could more easily have been a prequel to the ’66 Batman series. You can now own the complete run, containing featurettes, deleted scenes, panels, and more.

When Batman Beyond (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$99.99 SRP) was announced as a follow-up series to the now-legendary Batman: The Animated Series ““ leaping forward decades from that show & featuring a teenager as the new Batman ““ I feared a shark-jumping in the making. But nope, instead it proved to be a brilliant extrapolation of the animated universe, and ended with one of the best Batman films ever crafted, Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker. The show is finally getting a high definition release via this box set, with bonus interviews and featurettes.

Speaking of comic books, there are a couple of hardcover tomes you might want to add to your shelves ““ DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle (DK, $50 SRP), Brave And Bold: Female DC Heroes Take On The Universe (DK, $16.99 SRP), and The Marvel Book (DK, $25 SRP).

More books? More books! Creator Rebecca Sugar has written a fully-illustrated storybook, Steven Universe: The Tale of Steven (Abrams, $14.99 SRP), a classic comic strip is celebrated in Art of Nothing: 25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell (Abrams, $40 SRP), and BoJack Horseman: The Art Before the Horse (Abrams, $40 SRP).

Insight editions has a dragon-sized and comprehensive The Art Of Game Of Thrones (Insight Editions, $75 SRP), which collects the awesome development art generated for the flawed series. Spider-Man: From Amazing To Spectacular ““ The Definitive Comic Art Collection (Insight Editions, $45 SRP) is an oversized spotlight on over 50 years of character artwork. Old school and new fans of the recent Netflix series will probably want to check out The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance ““ Inside The Epic Return To Thra (Insight Editions, $50 SRP). Those keen on process should find plenty of interest in Masters Of Comics: Inside The Studios Of The World’s Premier Graphic Storytellers (Insight Editions, $24.99 SRP). Finally, it may be small, but there’s one more bit of Star Wars fun to be had ““ the pocket-sized Star Wars: The Complete Marvel Comics Covers ““ Volume 1 (Insight Editions, $11.99 SRP).

In a post-Stranger Things world, the big-screen take on Stephen King’s It (Warner Bros., Rated R, 4K-$44.95 SRP) and its ragtag band of kids fighting a terrifying evil creature couldn’t help but feel a bit “been there, done that”, but the performances from all involved (including Bill Skarsgard as the monstrous Pennywise) made for a film that’s worth a watch. The completion of the story in It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros., Rated R, 4K-$44.95 SRP) doesn’t quite live up to part one, but it does expand the cast out with the adult version of the Losers’ Club. Bonus materials include audio commentary, featurettes, and deleted scenes.

The Warner Archive Collection continues to impress with catalogue titles both unexpected and appreciated. For animation fans, they’ve collected together the first high definition release of Popeye The Sailor: The 1940s Volumes 1-3 (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP each), Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.99 SRP), Teen Titans: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$44.99 SRP), and Hanna-Barbera titles Wally Gator: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$24.99 SRP) & Lippy The Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP). On the TV side, they’ve put out Babylon 5: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$47.99 SRP) back into MOD print, along with the uncensored first season of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$24.99 SRP). Finally, see the historical debut of a lot of elements we consider canon for the character in Superman: The Theatrical Serials Collection (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$29.98 SRP).

I mean, I really do love the Warner Archive, as they deliver deep dives and fan favorites from the vaults directly to fans who wouldn’t otherwise be able to get them if these niche titles had to reach a normal retail threshold to trigger release. On the theatrical side, you’ve got John Milius’ coming-of-age surfer film Big Wednesday (Warner Bros., Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), the Steve Martin comedies The Man With Two Brains (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP) & My Blue Heaven (Warner Bros., Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), Harry Belafonte & Mel Ferrer in The World, The Flesh, And The Devil (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), Lana Turner & Kirk Douglas in The Bad And The Beautiful (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), Sophia Loren & George Peppard in Operation Crossbow (Warner Bros., Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), Arthur Penn’s crime thriller Night Moves (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), the pitch-black cult comedy The Loved One (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), the pilot for film for the Patrick Duffy series Man From Atlantis (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP), the legendary Cleopatra Jones (Warner Bros., Rated PG-$21.99 SRP), My Favorite Year (Warner Bros., Rated PG, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP) and Bette Davis in the 1940 W. Somerset Maugham adaptation The Letter (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP).

Flicker Alley has carved out a wonderful niche for themselves in providing beautifully restored high definition releases of historical importance. Their latest is Melies Fairy Tales In Color (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$36.95 SRP), a selection of hand-colored films made between 1899-1909, the last silent Sherlock Holmes film ever made, Richard Oswald’s Der Hund von Baskerville (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.95 SRP), from 1929, 1922’s The Last Warning (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.95 SRP), and the film that was one of the inspiration’s for the Batman villain The Joker, 1928’s The Man Who Laughs (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$35.99 SRP).

The folks at Flicker Alley have also been doing a fantastic job restoring, preserving, and presenting vintage large format films, including those shot for Cinerama, that would otherwise have been unavailable to film aficionados for home viewing. Their latest releases are the rarely-seen Cinerama film The Golden Head (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.95 SRP), a slapstick heist yarn about a pair of kids who run afoul of two thieves (Buddy Hackett & George Sanders), and the 70mm film Flying Clipper (Mediterranean Holiday) (Flicker Alley, Not Rated, 4K-$39.95 SRP), a documentary following a Swedish sailing ship as it navigates the Mediterranean.

Meanwhile, Mill Creek has been consistently stepping up their catalogue title game, as their latest batch of cult titles attests ““ including the pitch-black Aykroyd/Belushi comedy Neighbors (Mill Creek, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), the 1985 Helen Slater-starrer The Legend Of Billie Jean (Mill Creek, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), and Pamela Anderson’s Barb Wire (Mill Creek, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP). They’ve also dipped into the 90s with the Van Damme/Rodman actioner Double Team (Mill Creek, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), Dana Carvey in Opportunity Knocks (Mill Creek, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), Alicia Silverstone & Benicio Del Toro in Excess Baggage (Mill Creek, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), Pauly Shore in Jury Duty (Mill Creek, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), and the double features Stepmom/The Deep End Of The Ocean (Mill Creek, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), Mo’ Money/High School High (Mill Creek, Rated R/PG-13, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), The Trigger Effect/Body Count (Mill Creek, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$14.98 SRP), and Mindwarp/Brainscan (Mill Creek, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$14.98

SRP).

And because this world contains more films than you can shake a stick at, Olive Films is also able to do some stellar cult catalogue releases, including the high definition debuts of How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (Olive Films, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP), The Believers (Olive Films, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP), and The Bells Of St. Mary’s (Olive Films, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$27.99 SRP).

For the cinephile on your list eager to expand their knowledge or just indulge their particular fandom, check out the books Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker And His Work (White Lion Publishing, $25 SRP), Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker And His Work (White Lion Publishing, $35 SRP), Alien Vault (Epic Ink, $45 SRP), and Cult Filmmakers: 50 Movie Mavericks You Need To Know (White Lion Publishing, $16.99 SRP).

Oh, but those aren’t the only film & TV books that you should give serious gift consideration to, as Titan Books has a veritable bookshelf worth of titles to consider, including J.W. Rinzler’s definitive The Making Of Alien (Titan Books, $60 SRP), Alien: The Blueprints (Titan Books, $44.95 SRP), Joe Alves: Designing Jaws (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP), Star Trek: The Art Of John Eaves (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP), Alita Battle Angel: The Art & Making Of The Movie (Titan Books, $45 SRP), The Addams Family: The Art Of The Animated Movie (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP), Men In Black Films: The Official Visual Companion To The Films (Titan Books, $50 SRP), The Art And Making Of The Expanse (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP), Making Moon (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP), Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches & Drawings From The Welles Estate (Titan Books, $50 SRP), and the gallery collection Rick And Morty: Show Me What You Got (Titan Books, $39.95 SRP). Quite the line-up, eh?

It’s always a surprise to find what subject Ken Burns has turned his documentarian eye towards, as it forever seems left field from where you’d expect him to go. I was certainly intrigued when I heard his next massive project would be Country Music (PBS, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$75.80 SRP), as it’s a rather sprawling, unwieldy topic. Leave it to Burns to pull off a miracle, then, by crafting a structure that explores its musical and cultural roots, personalities, and legacy, warts and all. The box set includes over 3 hours of additional content, including bonus video, featurettes, and more.

One of the most successful and longest-running sitcoms in television history, fans can now indulge their obsession with Big Bang Theory: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$179.95 SRP) with a deluxe collector’s boxed set containing all 12 seasons, plus featurettes, gag reels, and more.

It may not be awesome, but everything is pretty good in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros., Rated PG, 4K Blu-Ray-$ SRP), which captures enough of the fun and energy of the first film to make for an enjoyable return. The real highlight, though, is the musical numbers. So many musical numbers! Bonus materials include deleted scenes, featurettes, music videos, and more.

It says something about the declining influence of the show that revisiting the episodes contained within South Park: The Complete Twenty-Second Season (Comedy Central, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.99 SRP) felt like watching them for the first time. The show is still entertaining, but it’s moved beyond groundbreaking or culturally relevant. Bonus materials include mini-commentaries, #Socialcommentary, and deleted scenes.

Guillermo del Toro is probably the closest we’ve got to an inheritor of the unique visual world building ability of Terry Gilliam, and that claim was made decidedly clear with Pan’s Labyrinth (Warner Bros., Rated R, 4K-$44.95 SRP), whose visual splendor makes its way to 4K high definition in style. Bonus materials include an audio commentary, featurettes, a gallery, and more.

While you’re in with the family this holiday season, why not partake of a pair of delightfully offbeat classics now bundled together on one release with The Addams Family/Addams Family Values: 2-Movie Collection (Paramount, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$16.99 SRP)? It’s altogether ooky.

I’m not sure the world needed another remake of A Star Is Born (Warner Bros., Rated R, 4K-$19.96 SRP), but at least this one features a pair of incredible performances from Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, and lands its emotional core with devastating effect. Bonus materials include additional performances, a featurette, and music videos. Also available is the A Star Is Born: Encore Edition (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$24.98 SRP), which features an extended cut with extended musical performances, jam sessions, and scenes.

When it aired in 1983, V: The Original Miniseries (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$21.99 SRP) seemed a revolutionary bit of television science fiction ““ Dark, caustic, and full of social commentary. It was as close to John Carpenter’s They Live as you could imagine network television getting. Bonus materials for this release include an audio commentary with writer/director Kenneth Johnson and a behind-the-scenes documentary.

To wrap things up on a fun note, for ages I’ve been praising the work that Diamond Select does with their Diamond Gallery PVC dioramas (Diamond Select, $50-70 SRP). Not only have they been exploring a deep bench of characters from Marvel, DC, and more – including film, TV, and animation ““ with solid sculpts and paint work, but they’re incredibly inexpensive compared to the more traditional resin or polystone statues. Here’s hoping they keep expanding the line into new and interesting directions, including pieces based on the artwork of specific artists”¦ If only so I can finally get some John Byrne Fantastic Four statues.

December 15, 2019
An Evening With John Hodgman & Ken Plume XIII

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another of my periodic chats with writer, deranged millionaire, minor television celebrity, PC, literary trivialist, judge, and performer John Hodgman, about lingering, beloving, unasked questions, AfterThis, Blues Brothers fusion, Dan Aykroyd side missions, fan letters, Sisyphean twisters, judicial juggling, Daily memories, generational tastes, Star Wars promises, Galaxy’s Edging, Mandalorian madness, and starliner friends.

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December 13, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Dan Schreiber 3

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In this episode, I have another chat with the co-host of NO SUCH THING AS A FISH, Dan Schreiber, about Fish Tales, travel ills, Harkined, furious booksellers, malortified, Apatow cost, Ig Nobels, 21 seconds, looping pilots, vindication, curious museums, badger holes of ignorance, Gentlemen Adventurers, comedy education, New York nights, Chicargo, James Acaster, interstellar cockblocking, street-spotting, Neil Innes, Marxist memorabilia, signed books, big hands, and fact farewells

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December 12, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Kelly Thompson 2

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In this episode, I have another chat with writer Kelly Thompson, about Disney Minus, twins, prose woes, brass rings, Tele-Hawkeye, misinformation, Captain Marvel, Deadpool, West Coast Endings, promotional conundrums, Jeff the Land Shark, collectible cat-astrophes, Sabrina surprises, love triangles, drama, poker nights, turtle talk, Rogue thaws, Fearless babies, endings, numbing renumbering, melody makers, and cursing Zdarsky.

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November 20, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Matt Fraction

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In this episode, I have a chat with writer Matt Fraction, about dark humor, cold comfort, sponsors, great courses, shingles, Canadian hips, Uncle Chip, stress, Lynchian pizza, processing emotion, deep Sex Criminals, embracing Jimmy Olsen, Steve Lieber’s dinosaur, lightness, and Hawkeye’s dog.

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November 6, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Janet Varney

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In this episode, I have a chat with actor Janet Varney, about soup, brick sick, placebo effects, sleep, jokes, bodily rejections, jar jar binks, Last Eels, sandwich moats, meat ravines, puppy power, hipster games, Domino Hustler, salons, ApprovOwls, SketchFest, Albert Brooks, and heroes.

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October 24, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Disney Dan Becker

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In this episode, I have a chat with vlogger Disney Dan Becker, about Royal Plumage, Lord Beckeredge, pie flights, Depressorman, pumpkin pie pop tarts, bacon, horror nights, lo-fi Fantasmic, Mansion burials, upsells, penny sacks, salt lamps, and Galaxy’s Edge wars.

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October 21, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Tony Thaxton

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In this episode, I have a chat with musician & presenter Tony Thaxton, about Dirty Baker’s Dozen, Bizarre Albums, rocking wrestlers, crooning Terry Bradshaw, Lenny & The Squigtones, special Guest-ing, Chris Gaines, Derek Smalls, California Raisins, Urban Chipmunks, Spider-Man, Animalympics, Archies, baffling Bruno, drumming, faking it, pantheons, Michael McKean, Motown, masked singers, obscure Star Wars characters, and Christmas Number 1s.

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October 13, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Glen Tickle

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In this episode, I have a chat with comedian Glen Tickle, about steel skeletons, Chuy’s, de-nesting, Van Wildering, lab coats, Laika, cricket crackers, Wednesday daughters, impossible sliders, Doctor No Dad, Strawberry Longcake, My Little Pony appeasement, Buckaroo Hodgman, Jojo Siwa, barf tablets, funny movies, process, MIAlvin, Burton fails, Muppets, and Endgaming.

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October 6, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Jenny Klein

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In this episode, I have a chat with writer Jenny Klein, about vacations, eye twitches, Daisy Jones, genres, missed connections, ice cream tours, chili myths, affy tapples, weasel pops, seat filling, Paul F. Tompkins worship, haunted diners, mopey ghosts, Supernatural, writing, couch possums, pottery, jar visitation, yard turtles, Vent Haven, Mr. Meat, Jessica Jones, specs, bathroom desks, swamps, mosquito suits, Cloak & Dagger, 90 Day FiancÃ©, Disneyland, Dapper Doc, and parties.

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October 3, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Jonah Ray

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In this episode, I have a chat with performer Jonah Ray, about Care-ometers, leg days, Valley guys, tiny streets, Terry Gross Drivetime, LA deep dish, coyote solicitors, Haole boys, shark tales, Tahoe Kraken, big for nothing, anger, punk tribe, hobo-bee, resentment, fear, drumming, Weird Al, maturity, Jonah Sauce, and Kumail action figures.

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August 7, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Steve Agee 2

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In this episode, I have another chat with actor Steve Agee, about preambles, not coolness, WTFed, Dumb Ravager Gef, Sarah Silverman, Smokey Southern Nights, AM Gold, photography, Catalina copters, bird flu, fevers, control issues, stones, strictures, and Chuy’s.

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August 6, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Calvin Lester & Kelsey Ann Brady

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In this episode, I have a chat with performers Calvin Lester & Kelsey Ann Brady, about dignity, Hoop-Dee-Doo, Walt’s chili, Chuy’s balloon animals, Frank and Jim, side hustles, Bird Call Radio, international Disney, Doofenshmirtz, tater tots, Hagrid’s motorbike, undead Cats In The Hat, Suite Life Of Terror, and FozzCasting.

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August 1, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Symphony Sanders

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In this episode, I have a chat with performer Symphony Sanders, about windy cities, deep dish crusauchee, wonder sporks, onion bombs, magical housewarmings, booze bastards, nesting, Daleks, joy sparking, smoke exits, rude patrons, sky monsters, vocal routines, EuroCows, tender Halburgers, Nightvale, circus school, accidents, Tamika Flynn Fight Club, Tiny Baby Driver, Beyoncicorn, cat ears, and Salty Pepper.

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June 29, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Juliana Hansen

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In this episode, I have a chat with performer Juliana Hansen, about Toy Story 4, Funkoforky, Miss Wendy, direct offers, wild teachers of the wasteland, weeping Hanks, Disney range, bright voices, high school musicals, Tomorrow, bullying, Broadway, road warrior, London, Popeye, Disneyland, Jasmine’s stomach, J-babies, magical maps, inspiration, vocal scares, Richard Sherman, Hayley Mills, Pollyanna, and snap jokes.

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June 27, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Nathan Hamill

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In this episode, I have a chat with artist Nathan Hamill, about stupid friends and family, domes, MarioKart grifting, Lavawear, ascots, spats, artisanal vinyl, Hamadu’s Lost, sandbox lightsabers, Gilligone, Venkman reassessment, Horror the Duck, Get A Life, and collecting.

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June 24, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Kelly Sue DeConnick 2

I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.

In this episode, I have another chat with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, about hypervigilance exhaustion, woof-fors, Captain Marvel, third points, slamming on the gas, comics, cameos, premieres, candy rooms, Tony Stark’s admin, Flerken things, Ikea famous, AquaBendis, Modesty Blaise, Precious Lane, Evil Queens, backstage cruelty, princess snubs.and boutreats.

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June 20, 2019
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Patty Hawkins

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In this episode, I have a chat with performer Patty Hawkins, about Boardwalks, cocaine cola, board games, horsey moves, geek subcultures, eating vegetables, raiding, Carpenters, Crewsin, Disney, signing snafus, and hosting.

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May 20, 2019