Ep. 58 I AM THE MASTER OF THIS UNIVERSE w/ Gunton Blurpus (Patreon)

Topic: Fletcher Hanks: I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (2007) + You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (2009)Guest: Gunton Blurpus (@CentipedeMouse)

Gunton returns to talk about Golden Age American comics oddity Fletcher Hanks, and his two most iconic creations, Stardust the Super-Wizard and Fantomah, the most remarkable woman that ever lived- this episode explores Hanks' own 'evil creations' as epitomising the duality of the superhero: on the one hand, a champion of imaginative freedom- on the other, a Sadean tyrant"WE MUST DESTROY HIM AS SOON AS HE ARRIVES! GET HIM IN THE DARK! USE THE TYPHOID GERMS, AND POISON GAS ON HIM! USE OUR HOT-X FUSING LIQUID ON HIS APPARATUS! TAKE HIM APART WITH THE ATOM-SMASHER! TURN THE NEW SHREDDING GUNS ON HIM! GET HIM OUT OF OUR WAY!!!""I'll swear that he was drunk for that concluding showdown. You could smell the liquor on his breath and he was stumbling and uncoordinated, otherwise I doubt I could have thrown him into his own icy chamber of eternal torment quite as easily as was in fact the case."