Mark vs Mark: The Next Iteration (The Podcast That Never Was)
The debate of which iteration of a cherished Intellectual Property is superior isn’t a new one. As end credits roll, we’ve all heard the same laments from the audience. ‘The book is better than the movie.’ ‘That was nothing like the comics.’ ‘J J Abrams skull-f@cked my childhood.’ Pop culture discourse is the stuff friends are made of, and 29 years ago, that same debate introduced me to a kindred spirit, another creative geek named Mark with whom I argued Star Trek and Star Wars for three decades. Mark E. Seeley was a few years older than me, so as an only child, since I had been perpetually searching for brothers and sisters throughout my youth, meeting him felt like discovering an older brother I had lost. He was the only person I had met at the time who recognized Transformers The Movie and was reading the now ‘Legends’ Star Wars books. His knowledge seemed to dwarf mine so I would try to absorb all I could, not to mention that h e had gone to school for filmmaking...
