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Episode 156 – Batman: The Long Halloween

Our Batman two-parter concludes with a discussion of Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, published by DC Comics! This popular miniseries serves as a de facto sequel to Batman: Year One, despite marked differences in size, … Continue reading

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Episode 155 – Batman: Year One

We’re back, baby! Just in time for the March 4 release of The Batman, we discuss Batman Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, published by DC Comics! Following on the heels of 1986’s acclaimed The Dark Knight Returns … Continue reading

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Episode 153 – Wonder Woman (1987) Vol. 1: Gods and Mortals

(Content warning: Sexual assault) In the first of a two-part series on George Perez, we discuss one of his most famous runs as a creator, the 1987 reboot of DC Comics’ Wonder Woman! Spinning out of the events of Crisis … Continue reading

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Episode 152 – Far Sector

In N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell’s Far Sector (from DC Comics’ Young Animal imprint), Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein is assigned to the City Enduring, a sprawling megalopolis of some 20 billion souls at the far end of space, where … Continue reading

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Episode 151 – Green Lantern: Agent Orange and the Larfleeze Christmas Special

Larfleeze Navidad! Just in time for the holidays, we unwrap not one but TWO tales featuring everyone’s … favorite? … DC Comics ring-slinger, Larfleeze, with a look at Green Lantern Vol 4 #39-42 and Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas Special! First, … Continue reading

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Episode 150 – Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

In 1986, after decades of sneering supervillains, mad scientists and interplanetary despots, the Man of Steel was finally confronted with a foe even he couldn’t defeat—an editorially mandated reboot! But before he could fly off into the post-Crisis on Infinite … Continue reading

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Episode 147 – Swamp Thing: Love and Death

(Content warning: This story contains references to rape by deception and incest.) Our horror-comics miniseries The Tomb of the Crypt continues with Swamp Thing: Love and Death—specifically, Swamp Thing Vol. 2 issues #29-31 and Swamp Thing Annual #2 by Alan … Continue reading

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Episode 144 – All-Star Superman

Because YOU (well, one of you, at least) asked for it, we finally get around to discussing All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Jamie Grant, published by DC Comics! Superman is dying, his cells flooded with solar radiation … Continue reading

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Episode 140 – The Sandman: Fables & Reflections

In this episode, an actual Greek myth gets retconned as Myth Takes, our miniseries on comics and mythology, rolls on with a discussion of three stories from the Sandman collection Fables & Reflections—specifically, Thermidor, The Song of Orpheus and Ramadan! … Continue reading

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Episode 139 – The Sandman: A Game of You

(Explicit warning: A couple of swear words are used.) In this episode, Myth Takes, our series on comics and mythology and folklore, continues with The Sandman: A Game of You, collecting issues 32-37 of The Sandman, published by DC/Vertigo Comics! … Continue reading

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