In today’s episode, we welcome special guest and long-time friend of the show, Arco Esposito. We talk about how he got into pop culture, his love of Spider-Man, finding Mint Condition, Squadron Supreme, X-Men and more. Arco is also the host of his own podcast, “Movie Challenge Accepted.” You will find the link below. If you are a fan of our podcast, you will enjoy his as well. Movie Challenge Accepted
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movie-challenge-accepted/id1594407562
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00:00 James introduces the show and our special guest, Arco Esposito. We start by asking Arco what got him into pop culture and comics. This gets us talking about Star Wars, his love of Spider-Man, and Marvel Comics Secret Wars.
6:23 Chris asks Arco if reading Secret Wars #8 was a good entry point for him into comics or if he got into comics in spite of jumping into the middle of a huge storyline. This leads to a conversation about where Arco first got his comics, his first comic book store, and how he got
into DC comics.
12:30 Chris asks Arco if his reasons for liking Marvel over DC are the same as they were when he first started collecting. Joe also asks Arco if he is more into the street level character than the larger scope superheroes, such as Iron Man or Thor.
16:54 James asks Arco about his origin story with Mint. As it turns out, Arco has not one, but two origin stories! One good and one...not so good. But he makes an apology for the not so nice origin! This opens up a conversation about Thanos Quest, Squadron Supreme, comic book collecting
in general, and his love of the Ultimate Comics.
27:12 James asks if Arco was collecting any books other than the Ultimate Books. This begins a discussion about the X-Men books at the time, as well as what other books Arco was collecting.
32:58 Arco talks about whether Spider-Man and Daredevil should be Avengers. This takes us to a broader discussion about Civil War and Identity Crisis.
47:43 James asks Arco what he would recommend to a new comic book reader, as well as who is Arco's favorite character now.
53:53 We wrap up the show with our recommendations for the audience and Arco talks about his own podcast, “Movie Challenge Accepted”.
