Unpacking the Power of Power Pack

    With special guest star comic and video game writer and creator, David Gallaher ( @DavidGallaher ): The New Warriors v1 #68 - 71 Venom: The Hunted: #1-3 The New Warriors v2 #1 We did it! We made it to the end of our New Warriors coverage. And let me just say, it is not the content, it is the pure volume of books we were covering. I just do not think that we will be doing this again. And yet we...

With special guest star Tawmis ( @New_Warriors ) from New Warriors Dot Com website: The New Warriors #61- 67 Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage: Alpha #1 Spectacular Spider-Man #228 Web of Spider-Man #129 Green Goblin #2 Web of Scarlet Spider #3 - 4 We have books and clones, and clones, and book, and books, and clones. You see what I am doing here. I guess we also have the rest of the Warriors as well, w...

          Saved Preview(opens in a new tab)             Paragraph: Change block type or style         With special guest star Delvin "The Dark Web" Williams ( @dee_ray1977 ) from the The Longbox Crusade and covering: The New Warriors #51 - 60 No matter what you may have heard, the co-hosts did not get into a punching match on this show. There was no need to. We both know who Delvin likes more betw...

  With special guest star Corey ( @NewWarriorsTalk ) from the New Warriors Continuity Conundrum and covering:   The New Warriors #47 - 50 Night Thrasher #11 - 12 Nova #6 - 7   OK, what is going on. This is a Power Pack Podcast and it is not Halloween. What is happening here?     So you see, after the original Power Pack run, Alex got his briefs in a bundle and he decided it was time to make a new...

Another interview....are we insane!!!????!!! Well, maybe. We were not sure what we would be getting into once we asked Power Pack Inker Hilary Barta to talk with us...and we are still not sure what happened, but we do know it was a lot of fun. The range of topics for the discussion wandered over art styling, development of skill, breaking into the business, lawn work, and animals. We also talked a...

And this is our second part of our chat with Carl Potts. We hope you enjoy this shorter episode as we ask him some fan questions and get some more information about why Carl is so fascinating.   Check out our website: https://jeffandrickpresent.wordpress.com/2021/08/01/interview-with-carl-potts/ Don’t forget to support us on Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/JeffandRickPresent .  We have started to...

Like Pokeman, we gotta catch them all. Carl Potts was the original editor of Power Pack, and shepherded the book for 52 issues. As the editor, he not only brought together world class talent for the book, but he also developed a passion and team that made it one of the books creators wanted to be on. His influence also appeared in some artistic and plot choices as well. His passions for marine bio...

I know this is a little unusual, but it is going to really get weird soon. We are past the border and heading into the wild west, but first we have to go back and forth in time to cover some stories with a touch of the pack in them. So we have an older Katie sporting all of the Power powers in a New Mutants issue that takes place in the future. And we have a young lady who is a descendant of some...

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. - Vladimir Nabokov I can make that into a new song. - Weird Al (probably) It is time to get silly! And we are not going to dive into the madness alone. We are going to bring a fan with us. No, not that kind of fan. The type of fan that actually sees us perform live at a campground and trades a mess of Hero-clix for a really cool tricycle. Of course I am talkin...

You can listen to the episode by clicking: Episode 84 We are back with two stories for the price of one! Can you believe the value you are getting?? Trust me, it is a lot since you are not paying for this effort and work we put in to give you this entertainment. Speaking of taking something....it looks like Jack is up to his old tricks. I mean, look at this. He has broken into the Bat Cave and is...

YESSSSS!!!! We made it.! This is the content you crave by the creators you love! The PACK IS BACK BABY!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOO Ok, we needed to get that out of our system. This is some prime time, grade A, Power to the Packing good time. The kids are on their way (finally) to talk to the horse heads about what is happening to their family. And you better believe it is all going to hit the fan! We have...

It is time for a vacation! I mean who does not love getting away from it all, going to a land of sun and surf, beautiful women, hunky men, and a catatonic mother! Ahhhh, who am I kidding, Maggie does not appear in this book. The kids have no time to worry about their mom. They have lifeguards to ogle and women to annoy. And let's not forget about diving deep....and we mean DEEP...into Fantastic Fo...

And just when you thought life could not get any darker, you discovered this comic book. We are not done with this Power Pack yet, no way, no how. We have to tie up some loose ends with some stories that make you say…."Who OK'ed this?" And first up, is Excalibur #29 Life in a lighthouse is better than no life at all. I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could sit in there thinking, well, at...

This is the end....the end of Power Pack! The end of the original series! The final issue! Nothing else .......well...actually......we have a a lot more content....BUT THIS IS THE END!!!! There are tears!!!! There are feeling!!!!! There are rain clouds!!!! RAIN!!!! CLOUDS!!!!! I mean....can you acknowledge the absolute finality of this issue? I mean...it is, except for more content that is coming...

We are at the penultimate issue of the original Power Pack run...and it is not looking good folks. There have been some really good story lines in the past 60 issues of this run, and there are some really good threads that the book could go out on, but focusing on a plot by the Red Ghost was never in the running. So where did we start and where are we now? There is a maxim that states something ab...

Schooooool's Back AFTER summer!!!! Wow!!!! Yeah...I did just sing that line. New issue, with the same creator team from the past few issues.....sooooooo, here we are. The most awkward memory of my first days of school never involved showing up in the wrong clothes or looking much older than my age. Mostly because I did not care about fashion and I never played my younger self. But that is just me,...

Step right up! Step right up! Welcome one and all to the greatest show on Earth, presented by Jeff and Rick! It is the one...the only...UNPACKING THE POWER OF POWER PACK!!!! See! The lights of the universe! The infinity of the world! The grandness of timeless space!!! The insanity that comes from seeing it all!!! Bring your family! Bring your friends! If your family has left you alone, then bring...

Wait!!!! What is happening here! This is a Power Pack podcast, what is this New Mutants comic doing here? This is not Halloween.....What is Mephisto up to???? ACTS OF VENGEANCE!!!! Oh....ok....that explains it. Jeff and Rick have been invited to play with a mess of other pod-casters who are all covering different issues of the Acts of Vengeance crossover from the 1990's. Luckily they invaded Derek...

Well helllllo there big boy, how are you doing? It will sure be nice to see an old familiar like Galactus in this issue. I mean, we have been inundated with with a mess of characters of mysterious origins or deep Marvel past, so it will be nice to have an old familiar. We need a big, and I mean BIG star to show up and set this Power Pack ship right. And the big purple people and planet eater is ju...

Who is that knocking on the door to our spaceship?.....Why none other than Shagg from the Fire and Water Network! While he may have heard the word fire, and seen a pretty lady on the cover, I think that he thought that Storm was going be in this issue as he kept saying, and messing up, her name. Firestorm, Firestorm, Firestorm...the man is confused. This isn't an X title and that isn't Storm's pro...

And welcome to the beginning of the end of the regular series. We are not going to sugar coat this folks. This is where the series starts to take a big, huge tonal shift from everything we have known before. New creative team, new story, new characterizations. So when we say "new", what do we mean. Well, the letterer and the editor in chief are the same, but the rest of the team is different. That...

Get ready for a creepy and spoooooooky issue!!!!!!! Now, you may have noticed I mentioned that this would be spooky, and it is. But it is also funny. I mean, yes...there are ghosts and ghouls and jump scares, but there are also a lot (and we mean a lot) of toilets. We have a ghost cam, a toilet cam, a wire cam, and even just people mentioning toilets. You could say that we are left with nothing bu...

We have a very cool hobby. We get to sit, drink beer, talk comics, and every now and again, we get to talk to creators. This is the bit of the job that we love. We are also lucky that we can talk to certain creators more than once. Ain't that cool. This time, the focus of the chat is to meet the author of the last episode, Judy Bogdanove. Not only did she write a Power Pack book, but she also wrot...

  Do you like dinosaurs! That is not a question, it is a statement! YOU....LIKE......DINOSAURS!!! OKAY! You are a kid with some money! You are at a mall with your bestest friend! There is a food court, a toy store, and a DINOSAUR EXHIBIT! What can make this any better????? How about having the writer of the New Warriors Continuity Conundrum ,Corey (@NewWarriorsTalk) on to help us out! Like I said....

  Let me be real with you guys....this is not our favorite issue. There are problems within it. Art, story, characters....you name it. With that in mind, let's see if we can start off with the positives.     This really awesome interior cover was done by friend of the show, Jon Bogdanove. It features the kids with their new powers, and Franklin. Katie is holding up Franklin and Jack, who is shooti...