Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 397 - "Four-Color Flashback: Black Hammer"
Art by Dean Ormston (pencils/inks) & Dave Stewart (color) from ‘Black Hammer: Age of Doom’ (2018)
Gobbledygeek episode 397, “Four-Color Flashback: Black Hammer,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here.
Don’t you just hate it when you’re a superhero who saves the world and then gets zapped to a shitty little farm town in another dimension that you literally cannot leave? In Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Dark Horse series Black Hammer, Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Barbalien, Talky-Walky, Colonel Weird, and Madame Dragonfly sure do. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo discuss the recently concluded “main” storyline of Lemire and Ormston’s ever-expanding creation, consisting of Black Hammer issues #1-13 and Black Hammer: Age of Doom issues #1-12. From a backwater farm to the furthest reaches of time and space, our heroes explore every facet of the superhero genre. Along the way, they confront the metatextual realities of comics storytelling–and the just plain textual fact of aging.
Next: we have no plans.
THE BREAKDOWN
Total Run Time: 02:33:48
- 00:00:37 – Intro
- 00:02:14 – Black Hammer
- 02:29:10 – Outro / Next
THE MUSIC
- “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” by R.E.M., Reckoning (1984)
- “How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On the Farm” by Andrew Bird, Soldier On (2007)
THE LINKS
- “Black Hammer, an Indie Comic, Gets a Major Film and TV Deal” by George Gene Gustines, The New York Times
- “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm? BLACK HAMMER and the end of the ‘farm story’” by Joe Grunewald, The Beat
- “Jeff Lemire Returns to His Favorite Black Hammer Character for Colonel Weird: Cosmagog with Tyler Crook” by Grant DeArmitt, Newsarama
- “Tom King breaks down the finale of his Batman run and teases Batman/Catwoman” by Chancellor Agard and Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly