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SHOW NOTES:
- Kurt Busiek’s website and Twitter
- The other assistant editors: Marc Sumerak (my successor) & Glenn Greenberg (my predecessor)
- Gold Kryptonite
- Mohel/Moyel
- “Day of the Losers”, by Dick Francis
- From Kurt’s THUNDERBOLTS pitch…the first page and the last page, from July, 1996:
- THE POWER COMPANY
- Mentioned in this episode were the episodes where I talked to Tom Brevoort, Jim Kreuger, Mark Waid and Richard Starkings.
- Haywire, The Swordsman and Magdalena are put in the green room for use by other creators in the AVENGERS/SQUADRON SUPREME 1998 Annual:
- Heavy metals poisoning
- The American Society of Dental Surgeons
- From VAMPIRELLA #62 (1977), Starpatch, Mother Blitz, Quark and Crouchback:
- From UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN #21, the original X-Men and their snazzy lingo:
- Dignity, Always Dignity (from SINGING IN THE RAIN):
- A Kymellian:
- Stuart Immonen
- Kurt’s original drawing/design for ASTRO CITY’S Starwoman (from the back matter of the ASTRO CITY: LIFE IN THE BIG CITY):
- Kurt’s Squadron Supreme joke from JLA/AVENGERS:
- Jello Man (and Wobbly)!
- Support “Stuff Said” (right over there on the top right side of the webpage)
- PixComic.com (Read the first chapter of PIX: ONE WEIRDEST WEEKEND for FREE!)
- “Stuff Said Theme” by Craig Chin (also on Soundcloud)
- Other music/audio: Molly Shannon as Sally O’Malley from Saturday Night Live, “She is Staggering (instrumental)” by Polaris, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” by The Spin Doctors, Jell-o commercial jingle, an excerpt from “Todd Glass” off the Comedy Death Ray compilation album.