397 - FCF: Black Hammer

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Hammer</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Barbalien, Talky-Walky, Colonel Weird, and Madame Dragonfly sure do. For this month’s</span> <strong>Four-Color Flashback</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Paul and Arlo discuss the recently concluded “main” storyline of Lemire and Ormston’s ever-expanding creation, consisting of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Hammer</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">issues #1-13 and</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Hammer: Age of Doom</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next: we have no plans.</span></p> <p><br /> <br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>THE BREAKDOWN</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Total Run Time: 02:33:48</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">00:00:37  - Intro</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">00:02:14  -</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Black Hammer</span></em></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">02:29:10  - Outro / Next</span></li> </ul> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>THE MUSIC</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” by R.E.M.,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Reckoning</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(1984)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 4