June 2007!
It's an historic time for the city of Medford, Massachusetts as we launch a new tv channel on the web. MICTV! Medford Internet Cable TeleVISION!
Visual Radio #369 Bill Janovitz
http://varulven.com/video.html
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Visual Radio #375 Joe Quesada - Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics
http://www.varulven.com/video2.html
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We have 390 hours of programming, lots more than the public access TV station
in Medford. Timely. Informative. Entertaining.
Rock Journalist Joe Viglione's opinions on politics, music and life are respected around the world. A fierce and courageous proponent of the First Amendment,
Mr. Viglione has a reputation for taking on corrupt lawyers and judges.
Right now a lawyer in Medford is being investigated by the court for a violation
or Rule 11. That alleged lawyer is the counsel for TV 3 Medford and has done all that he can to INHIBIT First Amendment Rights and LIMIT Free Speech.
The beauty of the internet is that bullies like TV 3's attorney have no teeth when we have the ability to put our shows out to the world. Watch as we put up more programming on the internet than TV 3 Medford could ever hope to put on in a month.
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About the host:
Boston Globe Article on Joe Viglione:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/02/01/landing_big_names/
Landing big names
By Diana Brown, 2/1/2004
Cable television host Joseph Viglione launched his Visual Radio Television show nine years ago in Woburn. He has lined up some pretty impressive interviews along the way, which number 300 now and have aired in many local towns. Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson, singers Judy Collins and Suzanne Vega, performance artist Laurie Anderson, ''Mystic River" author Dennis Lehane, professor Stephen Hawking, and band members from The Doors, Grand Funk Railroad, The Rolling Stones, The Cars, and The Jefferson Starship, are just a sample of the notables Viglione has had on his show. Viglione writes for All Media Guide and is working on a book about Lou Reed's 1973 Rock 'n' Roll Animal Tour
Friday, June 8, 2007
Joe Quesada Marvel Comics
Photo by Courtesy photo
Captain America was shot last week as headed into court to testify against the Anti-Registration movement in Marvel’s ‘Civil War’ series.
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Visual Radio #375 now up on the web!
http://www.varulven.com/video2.html
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Joe Viglione's interview with Joe Quesada, co-hosted by Chris Pineo and Jim Gallagher (of Jim's Comics, Winthrop), is now available on the internet.
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Read the article from North Shore Sunday with some excerpts from the interview:
http://www.townonline.com/northshoresunday/homepage/x1773773562
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This is our second show on the internet, our 375th one-hour program in 12 years.
Visual Radio began in 1995 with Marty Balin of The Jefferson Airplane. Called "Groundbreaking" by the Woburn Advocate, one of the creators of the infomericial, John Sgarlat, went further and called it "The Best Show on Public Access in America."
Beverly -
A local cable show gets to the bottom of a superhero’s untimely death
On Wednesday, March 7, Marvel Comic’s yearlong story event “Civil War” ended with a shocker — the death of the 1941 comic icon, Captain America.
“I haven’t gotten any death threats yet, but I hear there are people in Boston that aren’t happy,” says Ed Brubaker, writer of the Captain America comic book.
During interviews on our local cable show, Visual Radio, which was taped on March 7 and 8, Marvel Comics staff responded to the criticism of their momentous decision. They responded first to the idea that the company is using the death as a marketing tool.
“Let me tell you something. At Marvel one thing we know how to do is market and market ad nauseam,” says Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada. “If we wanted the death of Cap to be sheer meat marketing stuff we would have told people. But the truth is that we wanted people to be surprised by this.”
The second question raised, even in mainstream sources such as Fox News, is that the death represents Marvel promoting a political agenda.
“Somebody sent me a link to a conservative message board or blog that had like a big rant about how we were doing this to promote our liberal agenda,” Brubaker says. “I thought, well I guess you haven’t read the comic actually, because it’s not a liberal agenda, it’s a soap opera.”
Unlike characters that spawn effigies in different media forms such as TV and film, Captain America has only appeared in the Avengers and Captain America comic books, Brubaker says.
“You would think that Captain America was the most important character in the world based on the reaction that we got.”
“The super soldier serum (that created Cap in the 1940s) didn’t make him super powered, it took him to the ultimate human extreme,” says Brubaker, an engaging fellow who doesn’t mind taking jabs at his colleagues in the Marvel office and — despite his upbeat demeanor — displays the same level of intensity and seriousness as Quesada. Marvel Comics Group is on a mission to get the gospel of Captain America out to the world through a variety of different media.
“And you know in that same way I feel like he represents the ideal of what America could be or what it should be, as opposed to what it is. That’s not a liberal or a conservative thing,” adds Brubaker.
The legendary company is spending many hours working the phones on the publishing of a comic book, and that speaks volumes about the emergence of the Sunday funnies from almost a century ago as something much more. Not only are comics an integral part of some people’s lives, in some cases, they create an obsession in fans that surpasses a housewife’s need for her daily feed of “Days Of Our Lives” or “As The World Turns.”
“(Captain America) spent most of his adult life in the military seeing things that most people don’t see and wouldn’t want to see,” says Brubaker. “I always thought that he wouldn’t be a guy who was hard right or hard left on anything, I always thought he was a guy who would be more someone who saw the shades of grey in all that.”
Brubaker also talked about how politics is changing things in the world of comics.
“I have a lot of people saying, ‘Well, why don’t you have Captain America go over and catch
Osama Bin-Laden?” he says. “I thought, well that would be kind of insulting to the people who would
still be out there hunting him the next month after the comic came out.”
“Cap’s dying is just an element of a story that we’ve been telling for the last year,” says Quesada. “People can read into it what they like, it’s inevitable and it’s great, but as I said before, we’re just trying to give our readers an entertaining yarn.”
The Big Story
He deserved a better end.
Last week, the powers that be at Marvel Comics quietly “offed” one of their oldest heroes, Captain America. Christopher S. Pineo, a comic book specialist at Harrison’s Comics stores — including one in Salem — and who moonlights as a journalist for The Alewife and other publications, has since been tracing the steps of Marvel’s decision to end a character who reached back into the Paleolithic age of comics.
And last week, Pineo got the big story.
Pineo had scheduled an interview with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada last Wednesday — only because it was his day off from the comic shops. He was surprised to find out that evening that his interview turned out to be on the historic day when Marvel’s decision on Captain America was revealed. Talk about serendipity!
A huge interview with one of comic fandom’s most important personalities, Quesada, morphed from an investigation into Marvel’s “Civil War” series into a whodunit regarding Captain America. No, not the “whodunit” you’ll find in the pages of the book, but the rationale behind the powers-that-be at Marvel.
But Pineo already had his own ideas.
“Cap’s time had come and gone,” he says. “The ideals Cap embraced and represented were no longer the ideals of the American people.”
Pineo knows what people are buying and reading and he says this is the first time in a long time Captain America has gotten the attention and sales the icon should have gotten.
Pineo says Caps’ regular readers will now have to adjust.
“They will see No. 26,” the issue after Cap’s untimely death. “It’s out there. And not only is it out there but I’d bet dollars to donuts that it will be a memorable issue that Cap fans will be blown away by.”
But what does this mean for the collectors and especially the would-be collectors who want to cash in on the big issue of the icon’s death?
“It’s a little like investing in stocks that you know nothing about and have no intention of following in the future,” says Pineo. “In other words, I don’t recommend it.”
And for those who just can’t let go of Captain America, the people Stan Lee Chairman Emeritus of Marvel calls the “true believers,” Pineo says there’s “The Initiative.”
“It’s a follow up to the Civil War series, a year-long story that ended with Captain America. Marvel gave Cap’s hardcore fans a sliver of hope
“(There’s) a plot device exists for Cap to come back ,” says Pineo. “Even if he is even dead.”
Thursday, June 7, 2007
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