Extrasode #7 : Casting the voices of the Sentinel Comics

I feel Joe Zieja got robbed

http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/extrasode-7-casting-the-voices-of-sentinel-comics

I highly favor that switch to Weird Al for Green Grosser.

Y'know, I'd been considering skipping this one, because I was afraid it was going to be a list of millennial actors I've never heard of, but it sounds like Christopher is as bad at knowing actors as I am? And while I don't know half the people on the list even after looking them up on IMDB, there are quite a few that I do know, and I had fun listening to this one. :D

And of course, now I'm really excited to see what comes after the Extrasodes now...

Sadly nothing.   You’ll hear in the Editor’s Note what the plans are.  

I called James Hong as soon as they said Zhu Long. Because yes, once you've played Lo Pan you are the go-to for every other "Not Fu Manchu, Really" role. I know, it's a bit of Central Casting stereotyping; but Zhu Long (like most other NFMRs) exists as a post-hoc metacommentary on that exact role anyway...and I think I've disappeared in a Klein Bottle of metacommentary now.

Keith David is inspired casting for OblivAeon.

One aspect of voice casting as opposed to live-action casting is that it is a different skillset, and there are reasons that there are "regulars" in that industry too, who are distinct. (The How Stuff Works network of podcasts did a dozen episodes this past summer about animation, called "Drawn"; their episode on voice acting was fascinating.) Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen..there are reasons their names keep popping up. So yeah, if we assume the Metaverse that has Sentinel Comics as the major comis industry, then their names would show up there as well. (Whoops, there's that Klein Bottle again.)

for reference i asked about Frank Welker playing Absolute Zero because he played Ice Man on Spider-Man and his amazing friends. The Reva-Corp neutralizer looks like Ray Stanz from real ghostnbuster who he also voiced

Oh man, and Lorenzo Music for the Restrainer. ;_; Like, I don't think they would be in more than one episode of the cartoon, but c'mon.

I'm only partway through this, but I love the idea of casting Jensen Ackles as Tyler Vance, IF you can fit it around Supernatural.  (Maybe that show only had one season in the Metaverse)

I was thinking of Erica Mendez for Wraith, myself. 

I'm mildly annoyed that the monkeys aren't called the  Simians  of the Monkeyverse.

Did anybody collect together the list somewhere?

Also, if Willem DeFoe is Omnitron, is he also Omnitron-X? 

There’s a list already in the show notes.

If you want a list annotated with voice sample clips for everyone, there’s WalkingTarget’s summary on the wiki: Podcasts/Episode X-7 - Sentinel Comics Wiki

Voice samples? What a great idea! So many of those names I've just never encountered before...

Good on you, WalkingTarget! :D

Ah, cool. My app doesn't always show all the show notes content. I also finished listening to the episode and got the answer to my Omnitron question.

Someone I kept wanting to use was Wayne Pygram - maybe for OblivAeon, actually, though off chance he could work for Baron Blade.

Patrick Warburton seems strange for Mainstay. Partly I think this is because he often plays kinda dumb characters. But also, partly I think it's because every time I see Mainstay character art, Z Z Top's "The Grange" starts playing in my head.

I found it interesting they went with Billy Boyd for Argent; a tenor I was expecting yes, but a more bombastic one. Gives the statement that their conception of Argent is as a softer, more ethereal-voiced guy trying to project as bigger than he really is, rather than being someone who already is that over-the-top.

Yeah, oh boy, that scene gives me chills. It was a treat going through all those clips, though. Pretty much every one, you listen to it and go, yeah, I see why they picked that one.

Though I will note, the Rufio clip was used for Wager Master. :B Dunno what was supposed to be there instead.

It’s “La Grange.”  It’s named after a town in Texas.

And, as much as I love Patrick Warburton, I have to agree. 

Whoops. That would be a copy/paste error. It was supposed to be this one for some interplay with the Guise voice. Edit to the wiki incoming.

Thanks, Blackfang.

I suppose, in fairness, "La Grange" isn't the only song that plays in my head when I look at Mainstay's cards. "Highway to Hell" and "Ballroom Blitz" also feature prominently. None of this really screams Kronk, though, in any case!

Or The Tick, for that matter.

(I also get Renegade by Hammerfall on a couple of his cards)

I kind of figured that Brock Sampson was the main reason to have chosen him as the voice, which is why I used a Venture Bros. clip for his sample.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has a musical reaction to Mainstay!

Jeffrey Combs as Writhe?

...Perfect.

I figured this episode was going to be a total snooze for me, since I don’t know ANYBODY in the voice-acting world, beyond really famous people like Keith David. But then I figured out an angle that would work for me to push, and I’m gonna make a project of it over coming weeks as I get time. I don’t know any modern VAs, so instead I’ll use classic VAs from the Golden Age of Radio, which I’m extremely familiar with. Since most people won’t know these mostly long dead individuals, I’ll include a YouTube clip with each one so you can hear them saying something that I can directly imagine them saying in-character. Obviously, it’ll take some time to collect almost 100 samples, so watch this space.

To start us off, here’s Peggy Webber as Nightmist: