Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 110 - "Call and Response"

Wow.  That's it.  The show I've personally been anticipating for years just finished it's first season run.  Travis and I talk expectations vs. reality on a variety of levels as we cover not only the season finale, but the first season as a whole.  "Call and Response" is the proper sendoff for those wanting to get to the meat of the comics, while also giving our home city of Annville it's proper due. Yes, I'm being short because this is better said aloud this time.  A full review, some time to thank all of our great guests, a bit of our post 'Preacher', pre- 'Flash' plans, some 'Suicide Squad' and a comic you NEED TO READ on this week's Fan X Fan Show!!!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 109 - "Finish the Song"

He's back! After a week with his OTHER friends in the American Midwest, Travis is back to reading comics and talking shop with yours truly! We touch a bit on his time at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (for the full story, listen to the 7/27/16 edition of the PW Torch East Coast Cast) and travels along the way. We talk a bit about the episode he skipped out on (thanks Trevor) before getting the visually stunning penultimate episode that was "Finish the Song". Jesse escapes custody, and eats "under the bridge brunch" with the locals. Tulip escapes her babysitting duties, and proceeds to see about a man in Albuquerque. And Emily escapes the lame she was seeing, who Cassidy, in turn, sees and eats. IT'S ALL RELATIVE! Jesse makes peace with Cassidy, Quincannon prepares for his greatest victory, and we go to Hell like 45 times. Deblanc does his best goalie impression, The Sheriff eases a bit of built up stress... and we'll never look at PetSmart the same way again on this week's Fan X Fan Show!

 

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 106 - "Sundowner"

PANTHEON EPISODE ALERT!  Even though it's been a short run, THIS IS the episode of 'Preacher' you go and show your friends not familiar with the material.  In "Sundowner", Jesse's arrogance (and maybe guilt?) reaches new heights, Cassidy struggles w/ the "homies over heauxs" conundrum (a phrase, not an indictment), and Eugene's newfound friendships help him give him some clarity in a world quickly falling apart. Angels fighting vampires fighting martial artists?  Check.  Piles of bodies filling hotel rooms?  Check.  People quite literally going to Hell?  Check.  Skinny guys doing laundry in their underpants?  DOUBLE CHECK.  The war between Heaven and Hell seems to have some very clear lines, and when those are crossed? Well, we get a TV show!!!  I tell you about the audio that'll NEVER see the light of day, Travis tells us about the time he was STABBED FOR WEARING JEANS TO A BASKETBALL GAME, and I tell you how a 3 hours cut of 'Batman V. Superman' was just an excuse for more bathroom breaks on this week's Fan X Fan Show!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 105 - "South Will Rise Again" (w/ Bruce Mitchell)

After a few bumps in the road, we're here at the halfway point of the inaugural season of 'Preacher'!  We start off celebrating the news of the show's early renewal, then meet this week's guest, Senior Columnist (and my personal favorite podcaster) Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch!  Bruce takes us to school on 'Preacher', Garth Ennis, ultra violence in comics and maintaining the soul of the art in the transition from page to screen.  We take turns yelling at Travis for being a terrible, terrible advice taker, and have some extended time discussing 'Lucifer', 'Rebirth' and 'Watchmen'.  This week's episode, "South Will Rise Again", gives us peak arrogant Jesse, Tulip buying the most expensive item on the menu, and Cassidy capitalizing on said item.  We have another extended "Saint" flashback, talk about the terrible children that love Native scalps, the old western trope of shooting people in the hand, and maybe bringing your dying child medicine instead of doing other stuff.  We find our weekly Easter Egg, and try our best to keep our wives from screwing Russell in Accounting!  All this, and Wade Keller's Curry 2 Lows, on this week's Fan X Fan Show!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 104 - "Monster Swamp" (w/ Dani Lipari-Mareth)

Fan... X Fan... X Fan!  After Travis and I give our just due to the NBA Finals, and one of the most jam packed Sunday nights in recent memory, we welcome in our guest Dani Lipari-Mareth, fellow Texas Ex and avid 'Preacher' fan.  We talk about her adoration for the source material, have the very necessary "they didn't do that in the books!" conversation, and talk Annville vs. the open road.  On this week's episode, "Monster Swamp", we find our townsfolk involved in a few... wait for it... shi**y situations! (couldn't resist)  We've got the hooker paintball challenge, the cheeto dust conundrum, and the flatscreen for your shame giveaway!  Quincannon continues to be my favorite, the Mayor is somewhere between the friend zone and the g spot, and Cassidy eviscerates himself into a kiss from Tulip!  Trav very appropriately calls out Jesse's Hubris, a few flashbacks take me back to my Sunday school secretary/ usher days, and Dani waits for the writers to put their foot on the gas on this week's Fan X Fan ... X Fan Show!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 103 - "The Possibilities"

This week, prior to our episode breakdown, we take the time to thank the lovely folks of Ashburn, VA, for rocking with us.  Specifically because we know NO ONE there, y'all must really dig us!  Also, we salute Belgium for the same reason, and I refrain from any waffle jokes.  We talk just a bit about our weeks, I talk about how hard it is to get your friends to listen to your mixtape, and completely forget to talk about the greatness of the OJ Simpson 30 for 30 (even though I talked it up for 20 minutes of our preshow).  This week's episode "The Possiblities" gives us a snuff film festival, Jesse with a really bad haircut, and proves that children are the most hurtful creatures on planet Earth.  Tulip plays war vet, Cassidy plays middleman, and Jesse plays puppetmaster en route to figuring out just what the power is residing inside of him.  Quincannon shines, Geico Peter Pan unwittingly throws his pops to the wolves, and our two "Agents" give us a closer look into their mission.  All this, GUNS ON GUNS ON GUNS ON GUNS, and the "dinner tray in the stone", on this week's Fan X Fan show!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 102 - "See"

With a short turnaround between shows, we dive deeper into the peculiar world of Annville, TX.  Travis still can't fathom the logistics of a Meat and Energy Company, I try and understand the logistics of... wait for it... the attack of the clones!  Cassidy continues to shine, and I wonder aloud if a change was made between his fighting style between the pilot and our second episode, "See".  We talk about the wonders of short shorts, Tulip being a treat, both in dialogue and action, and how manifest destiny translates to dark skinned folks getting their wigs split.  Jesse struggles with trying to build up his congregation, and this week's tasks involve tempering the desires of a pedophile, and finding the right way to address a comatose teenager.  All this, as well as properly rating 'The Big Lebowksi' and 'Clerks' on this week's South Kongress Fan X Fan Show!

Fan X Fan Show: 'Preacher' 101 - "Pilot"

No Flash? No Problem!  Travis and I team up for a new season of the South Kongress Fan x Fan show to cover one of my longtime loves-turned-show, 'Preacher', based on the Vertigo Comics title of the same name.  In the 90 minute premiere, we talk about the great state of Texas, different states of vampirism, and state our undying love for Priscilla-Jean Henrietta O'Hare.  We get to see our titular character do his best to balance his commitment to the world with his desire to hold onto a past life, while dealing with momma's boys, funny-style policemen and women that like things... a bit rough.  I touch on a few of the other Vertigo comics in this universe, some noticeable differences from the comic continuity/ characterization THAT BIG GIANT EASTER EGG FROM THE JUMP, our new format for this season, and welcome in a new audience to this little thing of ours.  And naturally, us being us, we do a bit of the "oh, THAT'S how you feel about organized religion?" song and dance.  All this, and a boy with an ass where his face used to be, on this week's Fan X Fan Show!