Let's Do Lunch: Raymond Riethmeier

In this episode of Let’s Do Lunch I have a discussion with 

Mr Raymond Riethmeier.

I had the pleasure of meeting Ray when I worked with his incomparably talented wife at a local parochial school in Minnesota. Ray is a man of many talents; he is on the board of the Sherlock Holmes Society “The Norwegian Explorers”, is vice president of the “Friends of Sherlock Holmes” and was recently inducted into “The Baker Street Irregulars” out of New York. He contributes to various fiction collections and worked on a publication about the character, The Shadow. Ray and I share a common love of movies, comic books, collectibles, and prog rock.  In this episode we discuss the history of comic books, the turn that comics took in the 1980s, and the future of comics as contributing to a vision of heroism and nobility in our culture.

• What is the value of comics as a medium? 

• Why do people appreciate comics, superheroes, and the accompanying movies so much? 

• What is the future of this distinctly American art form?

All this and more can be found in this episode of Let’s Do Lunch with Avalon Mentors podcast.

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Watchmen

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