Listen Up Casuals! Welcome to a show for the casual fan. We break down your favorite comic book shows and movies and compare them to the comics they are based on. Did they nail it? What was different? Did we love it or hate it? Tune in to find out!

Get your engines ready because Rocco and Chris are back with another hauntingly dark episode of Listen Up Casuals! On the season finale we are discussing the Ghost Rider. We hope you enjoyed this season and we have some ideas for season themes cookin' so stay tuned. Speaking of cookin', let's talk the Spirit of Vengeance! This is LUC Dark.

INTRO

What are you reading?

NEWS

• RIP Ray Stevenson
• Miles Morales live action movie
• Spiderman 2 VG
• Marvel “retires” Nick Fury
• Kamala Kahn to die
• Alligator Loki comic
• New DD creative
• GODS
• Gotham War
• TMNT trailer
• Image to depart previews

COMMERCIAL

CHARACTER DISCUSSION

Character Origin in Comics

• Carter Slade - Ghost Rider #1 (February 1967)
• Johnny Blaze - Marvel Spotlight #5 (Aug. 1972)
• Danny Ketch - Ghost Rider (vol. 3) #1 (May 1990)
• Robbie Reyes - All-New Ghost Rider #1 (March 2014)

TEAM UPS

• Champions
• Secret Defenders
• Marvel Knights
• Midnight Sons

Current Status in Comics

• Ben Percy current run
• Weapons of Vengeance this summer w/ Wolverine
• Danny Ketch mini series

MOVIES

• Ghost Rider (2007)
• Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

TV

• Agents of SHIELD - Robbie Reyes - Gabriel Luna & Tom McComas
• 90’s cartoons - appearances on X-Men, F4, Incredible Hulk (voiced by Richard Grieco)

PLUGS

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Listen Up Casuals! Welcome to a show for the casual fan. We break down your favorite comic book shows and movies and compare them to the comics they are based on. Did they nail it? What was different? Did we love it or hate it? Tune in to find out!

Abra cadabra! Rocco and Chris are back and we are talking all about everyone's favorite cynical, chain smoking sorcerer, John Constantine. Tune in as we talk about his comic book origins, animated and live action appearances, and more! Welcome to LUC Dark.

INTRO

FCBD?

What are you reading?

NEWS

• Jim Lee promoted
• Krypto in Superman Legacy
• JSA members get their own minis
• DC Knight Terrors
• McFarlane Toys Gold Label Superman Unchained patina version -10k qty
• Marvel Star Wars xover event Dark Droids
• Daredevil Reborn to be affected by strike? Blade production halted.
• F4 castings?
• Midnight Suns P6?

COMMERCIAL

Character Origin in Comics

Swamp Thing #37 (1985) - created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and John Totleben

Runs

Hellblazer (1988- 2013) 300 issues

Justice League Dark (2011)

Constantine (2013)

Constantine: The Hellblazer (2015)

The Hellblazer: Rebirth (2016)

Current Status in Comics

The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer (2019) - one-shot

John Constantine: Hellblazer (2019) - set in Sandman Universe - 12 issues

Hellblazer: Rise and Fall (2020) Tom Taylor - Black Label

Swamp Thing: Green Hell (2022-2023)

CHARACTER DISCUSSION

Keanu

• Constantine (2005)
• Newly announced sequel

Matt Ryan

• NBC show (2014)
• Arrowverse - Arrow (4th season), Legends of Tomorrow (3rd season and became regular on 4th)
• DC Animated movies
  • Justice League Dark (2017)
  • City of Demons (2018)

Listen Up Casuals! Welcome to a show for the casual fan. We break down your favorite comic book shows and movies and compare them to the comics they are based on. Did they nail it? What was different? Did we love it or hate it? Tune in to find out!

On this episode we talk about another character near and dear to Rocco's heart, Elektra! We talked Daredevil in S1 and we thought it was about time we talked about his counterpart. This season has been dubbed LUC Dark as we are talking all about your favorite vigilantes, assassins, sorcerers and more!

INTRO

What are you reading?

NEWS

• The Marvels
• Kraven rated R & details
• The Flash trailer 2
• Mangold Swamp Thing
• Penguin teaser
• Creature Commandos cast
• Blue Beetle ongoing SEPT
• Brzrkr: Poetry of Madness

See it or skip it?

COMMERCIAL

Character Origin in Comics

• First Appearance - Daredevil #168 (1964) Frank Miller introduces Marvel’s deadliest assassin. In a former lifetime she was a woman of privilege, a disciplined student of martial arts. But after her father’s death, Elektra focused solely on violence, masking her grief with rage
• Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #3 (1993) While students at Columbia, a Greek heiress and a blind law student fall hard for each other- and embrace the danger of young, reckless love.
• Daredevil #181 (1981) One of Frank Miller’s most famed Daredevil issues. Elektra and Bullseye engage in a ferocious battle. The death of Elektra.
• Daredevil #190 (1982) The Hand, an occult clan of ninjas, resurrects Elektra for their own nefarious means. Once she was a disciple of their shadowy order is she now The Hand’s greatest weapon? Elektra’s abilities take a supernatural turn.
• Elektra #1 (1996) first time having her own run.

Current Status in Comics

• Ongoing as Lady Daredevil, Queen of the Fist and Daredevil’s wife in current Daredevil ongoing run by Zdarsky. In current Daredevil, Matt and Elektra go on a quest with The Fist, enemy of The Hand to take The Hand down once and for all. Matt and Elektra are married and take on titles of Kind and Queen of The Fist. Elektra’s new alter ego as Lady Daredevil. This run continues to collide with current The Punisher run as Frank is High Slayer of The Hand.

CHARACTER DISCUSSION

Daredevil (2003)

• Jennifer Garner cast

Elektra (2005)

• Jennifer Garner reprises her role in a generally maligned movie

Netflix’s Daredevil Season 2 (2015) & Defenders (2017)

• Élodie Yung portrays Elektra back closer to her comic book origins
• Élodie Yung reprises her role as the villain w/ The Hand

Daredevil: Born Again? (2024)

• Bringing in Elektra?

Thunderbolts? (2024)

• Brief stint with the Thunderbolts in the comics.

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