Stories of the Third Wave, Episode 3
On WSVN’s As Far as We Know, John Christianson interviews Dr. Gunner Helfstrom, author of the bestselling A History of Heroes. Featured music:
- Peter Parker by The Great Luke Ski featuring Sudden Death
Stories of the Third Wave is a companion piece to Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps, and is a terrific excuse for a bunch of other people to play in her world. The show contains no book spoilers.
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Having complained about last week’s episode, I thought it only fair of me to post again this week saying that I really liked it. The voice work in particular was superb; I really could have believed that this was an NPR interview. Maybe he should have been a meta-sociologist rather than -anthropologist, though.
I’m a little confused about the timeline, though. The story started off talking about 70 years of heroes and comics around WWII, but then the first wavers were only born in 1980? Perhaps I misunderstood some element of the world’s history, though…. were there heroes pre-Zupra?
Anyway, well done.
Sorry…we were talking about WWII heroes in comic books, not “RL” in Seventh City. Sorry that was unclear.
Glad to hear you enjoyed this one!
RL - Real Life. Heh. Programmers and their damn abbvs.
Got it, Chris — what was unclear to me was that I thought the comics industry had changed shortly after WWII due to the appearance of RL heroes…. Eh, it would probably be clear to me on a re-listen. Thanks.