422 - FCF: Sandman Mystery Theatre - Book One (feat. Vickie Willis Navarra)

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">For the penultimate</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Gobbledygeek</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of the year, Paul and Arlo return to an institution they dropped like a bad habit at the start of the pandemic: the</span> <strong>Four-Color Flashback</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">! Vickie Willis Navarra, board member of the Comics and Popular Arts Conference at DragonCon, joins the boys to discuss</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sandman Mystery Theatre: Book One</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Matt Wagner’s resurrection of DC’s Golden Age hero Wesley Dodds, with art by Guy Davis, John Watkiss, R.G. Taylor, and David Hornung, explores the dark dreams of 1938 New York. The gang discusses the art’s sketchy, shadowy</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">noir</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">qualities; Vickie interrupts her praise of Dian Belmont long enough to wonder if Dian falls into the “exceptional female” trope; Paul and Arlo ponder the series’ connection to Neil Gaiman’s</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sandman</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">; and more.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NEXT: season 11 comes to a close with a</span> <strong>Geek Challenge</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">featuring</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Thunderheart</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dead Man</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>BREAKDOWN</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">00:00:35  -  Intro / Guest</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">00:11:50  -  Main Topic</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">01:54:34  -  Outro / Next</span></p> <p> </p> <p>