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S3E80 -Chapter Eighty: Earth's Mightiest Mortal!

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As long as there have been superheroes, people have been making fun of them, but the deconstructionist satires of superheroes really kicked into gear in the 80s. A precursor to stuff like Watchmen and Squadron Supreme, though, wasn't a comic at all--it was a novel, SUPERFOLKS! by Robert Mayer. In riffing on superheroes and their place in pop culture in the alienated post-Watergate US, it was a weird, silly, exuberant, and often tasteless--just like superhero comics themselves.

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Additional Music: "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner

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As long as there have been superheroes, people have been making fun of them, but the deconstructionist satires of superheroes really kicked into gear in the 80s. A precursor to stuff like Watchmen and Squadron Supreme, though, wasn't a comic at all--it was a novel, SUPERFOLKS! by Robert Mayer. In riffing on superheroes and their place in pop culture in the alienated post-Watergate US, it was a weird, silly, exuberant, and often tasteless--just like superhero comics themselves.

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early!

Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon

What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter

What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed

Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross

Theme song by Jack Feerick

Additional Music: "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner

(c) 2022 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators.

Used under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution 3.0 International License.

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