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Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast #452 Super Hollywood

·1 hr 7 min·4 clips

John Rhys-Davies arrived in a NASA tie, asked everyone their name and job, then roped them into his line.

1. KA-POW! The Pop Cultured Podcast focuses on Asylum Comics, the Cincinnati Comic Expo, and a Columbus-area toy-store stop. 2. Jordan Lowe, Cliff Barnes, and Seth host the show, and Jordan drives the convention report because he runs Asylum Comics in Marietta. 3. The episode asks what a 20-year comic shop looks like when it gets a newspaper feature, a local con run, and a day of signing-table encounters. 4. Jordan says a paper for his 20th anniversary at Asylum ran a My Marietta interview with store history and colorful online photos. 5. A listener tells him Asylum may be the longest-running comic shop in the Mid-Ohio Valley, and Jordan says that idea had never crossed his mind. 6. Jordan compares Asylum to Books and Things, Alonzo, and other shops that opened in the early 1980s and closed in the late 1990s or early 2000s. 7. At the Cincinnati Comic Expo, Jordan leaves before 6 a.m., gets inside at 10 a.m., and stands in the cold for about 20 minutes before the doors open. 8. He expects long celebrity lines for John Rhys-Davies but finds himself third in line with almost nobody else in the room. 9. John Glover enters first, walks around with coffee, and starts singing hymns like "Nearer, My God, to Thee" while waiting for John Rhys-Davies. 10. John Rhys-Davies arrives around 10:30 in a shirt, tie, and NASA tie, then asks people their names and jobs before chatting at each table. 11. Jordan tells Rhys-Davies that Sliders is his favorite performance and signs a comic while Rhys-Davies mentions a petition with Jerry, Sabrina, and Clavant. 12. Rhys-Davies asks permission before putting his arm around people for photos, then tickles Jordan to force a natural smile. 13. Helen Slater signs Jordan’s Batman poster and offers to write "Talia" under her name, which he wants because she voiced Talia in Batman: The Animated Series. 14. Jordan says he rewatched Billie Jean, and Slater reacts with visible embarrassment before he buys a photo with the original Supergirl. 15. The Superman-heavy floor includes Brandon Routh, Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Laura Vandervoort, Tim Daly, Gerard Christopher, and a canceled Dean Cain appearance. 16. Rags Morales becomes Jordan’s most awkward signing-table encounter when Jordan offers $20 for four signatures and struggles to explain that one copy is for a friend. 17. Morales signs a Superman poster and an Identity Crisis copy, then has to stop Jordan from smearing a Green Arrow poster because the paint pen is still wet. 18. John Bogdanoff spends a long time on a Superman remark, co-created Steel, and writes down his email so Jordan can send him a finished jam piece later. 19. The conversation keeps a convention-report tone with long anecdotes, running jokes, and a lot of artist-table logistics rather than formal interviews. 20. Fans of Superman conventions and comic-shop road stories will get the most out of this episode, while listeners wanting a tight topical interview may skip it.

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A loose comics-and-convention hangout built around a newspaper chase and a Howard Chaykin anecdote.

This episode opens with a newspaper chase that starts small and then keeps widening, from a local interview to the hunt for a printed copy, then out onto the convention floor and into a Howard Chaykin anecdote.

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For a newspaper quest, convention-floor banter, and a $15 Star Wars signature story.

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