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This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs focus on the DC Trinity! Following the Events of Absolute Power, The newly formed Justice League Unlimited must face off against Darkseid who has combined himself with the Spectre in DC All In Special #1. Superman finds himself an unwilling combatant in a war of a thousand worlds! Either he completes the challenges, or we lose the cities of Paris, Chicago, and Kandor in Action Comics #1069. Batman investigates a new mystery involving a series of murders targeting young criminals, while also grappling with his aging body and the invention of a new serum that can make him younger in Detective Comics #1090 & 1091. Batman investigates the murder of Mayor Nakano which leads him back to Jim Gordon. The Court of Owls has a new leader, while the Riddler has seems to gone straight with a new tech company in Batman #153 & 154. When an unexpected fire breaks in the sub-basement of the Sacred Heart Medical Center during a fundraiser, Bruce and Damien soon figure out it wasn't an accident in Batman and Robin #14 & 15. Superman and Superwoman fight against Doomsday, while a mysterious being known as the Time Trapper asks for Superman's help in Superman #19 & 20. The Sovereign strikes back against Wonder Woman the only way he can...her heart in Wonder Woman #14. While Diana babysits, The Wonder Girls strike the Sovereign where it hurts...his piggybank in Wonder Woman #15. All this plus, DC News, Shout Outs, and much, much more! ------------------------ Table of Contents 0:00:00 Show Open 0:01:02 DC News 0:04:27 DC All In Special #1 0:09:52 Action Comics #1069 0:12:58 Detective Comics #1089 0:14:50 Detective Comics #1090 & 1091 0:17:55 Batman #153 & 154 0:24:32 Batman and Robin #14 & 15 0:26:58 Superman #19 & 20 0:30:18 Wonder Woman #14 0:35:42 Wonder woman #15 0:38:32 Show Close Links DC All In Special #1 Action Comics #1069 Detective Comics #1089 Detective Comics #1090 Detective Comics #1091 Batman #153 Batman #154 Batman and Robin #14 Batman and Robin #15 Superman #19 Superman #20 Wonder Woman #14 Wonder woman #15 Booster Gold #1 (Cletus's Read More Comics Pick) Wonder Woman #1 (Drew's Read More Comics Pick) Earth Station DCU Website The ESO Network If you would like to leave feedback, comment on the show, or would like us to give you a shout out, please call the ESDCU feedback line at (317) 455-8411 or feel free to email us @ earthstationdcu@gmail.com
This is it! The exciting conclusion! The finale of the live script reading of the never-seen first draft of the unmade 5th Christopher Reeve Superman movie that was performed in Los Angeles on November 12th, 2024. The stage reading of the script was made with actors. The audio is presented here like an old-fashioned radio play. It stars Ray Carsillo as The Narrator, Jonathan Cahill as Clark Kent / Superman, Kenna Roubicek as Lois Lane, Jamal Henderson as Brainiac, David Pinion as Kosmo David Kocher as Jimmy Olsen / Ensemble Barry Papick as Perry White / Ensemble Veronica Warner as Lyla / Ensemble Bill Kates as Max - Dur / Ensemble and Caitlin Morris as Martha Kent / Ensemble. It was directed by Ray Carsillo and produced by Ilya Salkind, David Kocher, and Ray Carsillo.—story by Ilya Salkind, Mark Jones, and Cary Bates Screenplay by Mark Jones and Cary Bates. The story so far: Superman was “killed” in Part 1 (Episode 413) and was transported to the Bottle City of Kandor. Lois Lane, desperate to find out what happened to Superman, gets transported to the bottled city as well. Superman V was in the script stage that was drafted when Alexander and Ilya Salkind reacquired the rights to Superman. They attempted to restore the franchise to greatness by making Superman V. Salkind met with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder to discuss a plan to make the 5th movie, but ultimately, it was never made. Superman is created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Based on characters from DC. This Presentation was funded by the Kaplan-Loring Foundation. For more information on the project and history of Superman Reborn, please visit our official IMDb page at the link below. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34615846... Please donate to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for spinal cord injury research at the link below. https://www.christopherreeve.org/.
Send us a textIn this episode, Matt and Enn dive into The Path of Daggers from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series! This week we cover the Prologue and Chapter 01 - thanks for joining us!Prologue - Deceptive AppearancesCh. 01: To Keep the BargainSupport the show
Host Anthony Desiato and guest Rich Roney dig into a selection of classic Pre-Crisis stories featuring the Bottle City of Kandor, including: "The Super-Duel in Space" (ACTION #242), "Superman in Kandor" (SUPERMAN #158), "The Feud Between Batman and Superman!" (WORLD'S FINEST #143), "Let My People Grow" (SUPERMAN #338), and many more.Support the show and receive exclusive podcast content at Patreon.com/AnthonyDesiato, including the spinoff podcasts BEYOND METROPOLIS and DIGGING FOR JUSTICE!Visit BCW Supplies and use promo code FSP to save 10% on your next order of comics supplies. FACEBOOK GROUP: The Flat Squirrel Podcast NetworkFACEBOOK PAGE: @diggingforkryptonitepodINSTAGRAM: @diggingforkryptonitepodTWITTER: @diggingforkrpodEMAIL: flatsquirrelproductions@gmail.comWEBSITE: FlatSquirrelProductions.com Digging for Kryptonite is a Flat Squirrel Production. Key art by Gregg Schigiel and theme music by Basic Printer.
This week Zach is joined by Matt Tuex from Always Hold On To DC's Legends Of Tomorrow to discuss the one hundred eighty first episode of Smallville, “Kandor." They talk Julian Sands, favorite Jor-Els and Zods, the admirable job this episode does at continuity clean up, and how "Relic" is required viewing going into it. The council has approved the latest Always Hold On To Smallville!Check out Matt's work including Lois & Clark'd: The New Podcasts of Superman at The Daily Knockoff.And his current podcast Always Hold On To DC's Legends Of Tomorrow.EPISODE ROUNDUPZach's Grade: AMatt's Grade: BIMDB Grade: 8.2Superman Homepage Grade: 4.5/5 Bechdel Test: FAILSERIES TALLY BOARD...From Metropolis: 17Amazing Technicolor Kryptonite: 15Amnesia Count: 68 Blue Shirt/Red Jacket: 89Chloe's Unseen Connections: 29Clark Loses His Powers: 14Episode Title Said In Episode: 73Hospital Visits: 139cIn Media Res: 7Injection Count: 54Kent Truck Accidents: 10KOs to Keep Clark's Secret: 55KOs to Keep Oliver's Secret: 3Lana Kills: 7Let's Do The Time Warp Again: 7Lois Arm Punches: 9Lois' Costume Closet: 10zMain Character Deaths: 21Mind Control Count: 25Movie Plot As An Episode: 21Not The Last Son Of Krypton: 45Possession Count: 27Product Placement Pete: 30Queen Airways: 8Shirtless Oliver: 9Shower Count: 23Shut It Down: 10Shut That Laptop: 33Smallville High School Faculty Deaths: 5Smallville High School Student Deaths: 17Under The Influence: 37Wakes Up Tied Up: 11Weddings: 4"You Weren't Yourself": 37Always Hold On To Smallville is brought you to by listeners like you. Special thanks to these Meteor Freaks on Patreon who's generous contributions help produce the podcast!Chris Fuchs / @crfuchs7Kevonte Chilous / @chill_usJoey Dienberg / @JoeyD94_13DJ Doena / @DjDoenaIsaiah GoodridgeCory MooreNathan RothacherAtif SheikhThomas NavenAndrew Parker / @parkerstpaulAdam SullinsMarc-ids FoppenPatricia Carrillo / @MsCarrillo92Tim MillerMichael HartfordJim CrawfordKasey Vach / @ThePandaSupremeMegan RichRouie HumphreyAlex HamiltonMatt DouglasMatt BDaniel CurielBishBashBosh's Lemon PledgeNathan MacKenzie / @maccamackenzieSteve Rogers / @SteveJRogersJrMollie FicarellaJohn CurcioJames Lee / @Jae_El_52Jo Michael / @jweissbrod86Jason Davis / @superjay_92Patrick BravoJacob StevenartDana BiusAlex Ramsey / @aramsey1992Zachary Burkhalter / @ZGBurkTae Tae / @doomsday994Meryl Smith / @MelXtreme84Daryn Kirscht / @darynkirscht16Dylan DiAntonioNick Ryan Magdoza / @nickryanEddie Bissell / @Kal_Ed11Jim ThomasClunk Kant / @clunkKantNicholas FanslerStephanie Rawnsley / @stephrawnsleyJohn LongRuth Anne CrewsKen HuiJan RollingsMolly WuolletNicholas CosoJarrett GibbsAnthony Anderson / @NigandNogJasmine Magele / @Jas mindaMT_NZKeith FaulsRob O'Connor / @TheGothamiteJames Hart / @jaohartsAnthony DesiatoCrystal CrossJake C.John SweitzerTravis Kill / @tjkill81Kirin KumarPATREON: patreon.com/alwaysmallvilleTWITTER: twitter.com/alwaysmallvilleFACEBOOK: facebook.com/alwaysmallvilleEMAIL: alwaysmallville@gmail.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5495171/advertisement
PORTRÆT H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) i dag allestedsnærværende i populærkulturen, herunder ikke mindst tegneserier. Kultister, kosmiske guddomme og fangarme har opnået meme-status. Det var ikke altid sådan: han begik sig i fanzines og pulp-hæfter, fik aldrig udgivet en reel bog og døde i fattigdom, da han var på sit kreative højdepunkt. Det er i dag stadig de færreste, der har læst ham og på det litterære parnas er han, trods sin enorme betydning, tæt på ukendt. Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Radio Arkham har inviteret Jakob Levinsen, som har oversat hele forfatterskabet til dansk (Kandor 2018-19), og forfatter Benni Bødker i studiet til en samtale om Lovecrafts liv, forfatterskab og betydning. Vi diskuterer gennemgående motiver og tematikker, fra hans ‘kosmiske indifferens' til hans notoriske racisme, kigger nærmere på klassiske noveller som “The Call of Cthulhu (1926), “At The Mountains of Madness” og “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” (begge 1931) og diskuterer hans litterære sprog og dets kvaliteter. Og ja, lidt snak om tegneserier bliver det også til. Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Denis covers three really fun stories in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #53! One where Jimmy Olsen is made tiny and sad inside the bottled city of Kandor! The second story is the cover story of Jimmy becoming a giant turtle monster inspired by an old sci-fi pulp! And in the last story, Jimmy outsmarts Mxyzptlk in Middle Times! Not to be outdone, David decides to discuss current-day Superman comics! In particular: Superman Space Age #3, Superman (volume 6) #1, Action Comics #1052, and Batman/Superman: World's Finest #12! Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomeyoder Follow Denis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deniscomix Check out comics by Denis: https://www.deniscomix.com/ Support Denis on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denisstjohn You can also hear Denis (and occasionally David) on The Buffy Virgin Podcast: http://www.buffyvirgin.net/ Denis drew the logo for this episode!
Things are shaking up at @DCComics like the city of Kandor in a snow globe!! New Leader of the #Justiceleague the end of Djs beloved @dctitans and @jamesGunn is about to begin sculpting his masterpiece
En el mundo no hay un solo fan de los cómics que no haya escuchado hablar de Superman, Batman, y por supuesto de la Botella de Kandor, uno de los canales de YouTube que desde siempre se ha caracterizado por el punto de vista único de su líder, Javi Olivares, en diversos temas de la cultura pop y el cual hasta hoy ha reunido a más de 620 mil suscriptores en su canal. Nacido en Málaga, España, y además de reacciones, noticias, opiniones y extensos debates sobre series, juguetes de colección, películas y cómics, Javi Olivares también se ha hecho un gran lugar como streamer, y es uno de los talentos UCAM Stars del equipo de e-sports de la universidad católica de Murcia. Por si fuera poco ha publicado al momento 4 libros, entre el que destaca Lo que Quizá no Sabías de Superman.
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Our humble little podcast was invaded by bots this week! Actually, just one bot... Brian, along with John and B from the incredibly ridiculous and amazing Green Cows Don't Fly podcast! And in typical Silver Age comic fashion, crazy things happen, including long naps and the taking and bottling of some of the finest cities in the universe! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/multiverseofbadness/message
En este programa exclusivo que únicamente se puede encontrar en formato podcast, hacemos un paseo por el cosmos de la editorial DC Comics a modo de presentación e introducción. Por supuesto, NO se trata de repasarlos todos, que sería imposible, sino de una especie de "paseo virtual" por los más importantes. Situar las piezas en su sitio para aquellos que no conozcan bien el universo DC. No tocamos los universos paralelos ni las historias del futuro de la legión que tienen una cierta entidad independiente. Pasearemos por los siguientes mundos: ✓ Krypton: Argo City, Daxam, Kandor, … ✓ Imperios galácticos: Khundia (los Khund), Okaara, La ciudadela, Mundo guerra, … ✓ Planetas de origen: Thanagar, Tamaran, Rann, Colu, Durla, Czarnia, … ✓ Green Lantern Corps: Maltus, Oa, Mogo, Korugar, Volovax Vik, Zamaron, Qward, … ✓ El sistema solar: Marte, Saturno, Tierra, … ✓ El cuarto mundo: Apokolips, New Genesis, … (Podcast 148 ESDP) ❇️ Si quieres saber más de El Sótano de Planet os dejamos todos los enlaces de interés: 🔷 WEB: www.ElSotanoDelPlanet.com 🔷 PODCAST IVOOX: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-podcast-el-sotano-del-planet-podcast-superman_sq_f173777_1.html 🔷 TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/elsotanodelplanet 🔷 YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVezUEZeVU2pDJvQ0NFM6CQ 🔷 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/elsotanodelplanet/ 🔷 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ElSotanoDelPlanet 🔷 TWITER: https://twitter.com/SotanoPlanet 🔷 DISCORD: https://discord.gg/qtarkDZpyB (Si no funciona la invitación, solicitadlo por redes sociales y os ofreceremos la nueva invitación activa) 🔷 MAIL: ElSotanoDelPlanet@gmail.com 🔷 PODCAST ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/podcast-el-s%C3%B3tano-del-planet-podcast-superman/id1041625748 🔷 PODCAST SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1nlF54BDI8dsIxo6Az51zK?si=5XQJoWR1Rq6kN-FMo9RN2g 🔷 PODCAST ANTIGUOS: https://go.ivoox.com/sq/1136166
EPISODE 10 - "The Trips with President Seinfeld”Greetings Super friends! Welcome to Superman & Lois & Pals. I'm Henry Bernstein and alongside me is my favorite super pal, Professor Sam Brody. Let's talk about Superman and Lois Season 2 Episode 10S02E10 - “Bizarros in a Bizarro World”Directed by:Louis Shaw MilitoWriting Credits:Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing Superman races through the portal after Ally Allston, but when he arrives on the other side, he discovers everything on this parallel earth is... bizarre. Navigating his way through deceivingly familiar faces and landscapes, Superman goes on one wild ride in his fight to stop Ally from merging.HENRY'S NOTES:Opening: Last time you said he was sort of creating a rock shield but I speculated that he was sort of decomposing into a Bizarro creature. Here it seemed like both? RED CUBE SUN! CUBE EARTH!!! WE GOT OUR CUBE EARTH!!!! Bizarro's fortress - Bottled City of Kandor, Kryptonian revival suit, GIANT KEY. Superman's costume looks great in Bizarro world. He should stay there. Superboy has a backwards Death Of Superman shirt. Is that like the most 90's superman thing ever? Clark can figure out how to speak backwards!Bizarro Jonathan El: There is so much Silver age silliness here, I love it. It's actually what we talked about. Of course the opposite of “our world” is Superman and Lois are famous and there's no Clark. Haha, love the Bizarro Superman hand gang sign! Great superhero montage. He's wearing Doc Martins!Bizarro world/Superman: “Hosting the Kevins, the trips with President Seinfeld.” Wouldn't the opposite of Clark on Bizarro world be a dad who was around for his family? Bizarro Superman is addicted to Kryptonite, loves the spotlight, very angry. Jordan has straight hair lol. Backwards WB tower. Cube pool. Cube glasses. Espy's - Jordan Michaels is a jerk. “Why on square earth,” Persons Magazine. Bizarro world - bride wears black. Bizarro cat is KryptoWhat happened to Bizarro Superman? How did he get like that? Kryptonite? Great acting by Tyler. Love the desperation.Bizarro Smallville Gazette is bustling with a full staff. Also 1998 Macs? Why?Bizarro Lois: Very upsetting seeing them fight but it makes sense that their bizarro marriage sucks. Bizarro Lois “failed” as a mother. Anderson: Wait why is he suddenly not on Ally's side? Greaaaat, another random person know's Clark's identity.Um, where's Lucy? TERRIFYING CLIFFHANGER Follow us twitter @supermanpalspod
Arafel, Kandor, Saldaea, and Shienar; the nations that protect the southern nations of the Westlands from all the crazy dangerous creatures waiting to descend from the Blight. This week we cover them all. First half spoiler free, second half spoilers. Thank you, thank you for joining us! Our new shop with Wheel of Time merch can be found here: https://cozy-contorta-creations.myshopify.com/ There are also links and merch for the other projects we are currently developing. Go look it over and let us know what you think. Don't forget we post bi-weekly content on youtube as well. Road to Tar Valon listener support https://anchor.fm/roadtotarvalon/support Our website: https://roadtotarvalon.weebly.com/ Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/roadtotarvalon?fan_landing=true --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roadtotarvalon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/roadtotarvalon/support
This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs discuss the series finales of Supergirl and Y: The Last Man! Brainiac returns to Earth when he discovers a signal sent to the Bottled City of Kandor in Superman '78 #4. Oliver and Arthur's plane is attacked in Aquaman/Green Arrow - Deep Target #2. Leviathan makes their move to obtain the heroes network in Checkmate #6. Deathstroke rides a unicorn into battle against Cheetah while Black Canary tries to uncover the truth about T.R.U.S.T. in Deathstroke Inc. #3. Damien uncovers the truth about the Island in Robin #8. Superman and the Authority confront Mongol in Action Comics #1037. Batman must save Nakano and fought off the infestation in Detective Comics #1045. Selena must get Ivy to safety as the Magistrate move in on Alleytown in Catwoman #37. Red-X interrupts recruiting day, while some of the kids steal the H-Dial to contact Roy Harper beyond the grave in Teen Titans Academy #8. Flash Teams up with Doctor Fate in a race to stop Eclipso before it is too late in The Flash #776! All this plus, DC News, DC TV, Shout Outs, and much, much more! ------------------------ Table of Contents 0:00:00 Show Open 0:01:28 DC News 0:10:02 Superman '78 #4 0:13:16 Wonder Woman Black & Gold #6 0:22:49 Aquaman/Green Arrow - Deep Target #2 0:25:30 Checkmate #6 0:31:08 Deathstroke Inc. #3 0:34:43 Robin #8 0:37:38 Action Comics #1037 0:41:59 Detective Comics #1045 0:46:41 Catwoman #37 0:49:48 Teen Titans Academy #8 0:57:09 The Flash #776 1:02:13 Supergirl S6 Ep20 – Kara 1:11:38 Titans S3 Ep12 – Prodigal 1:18:28 Y: The Last Man S1 Ep10 – Victoria 1:27:52 The Flash S8 Ep2 – Armageddon, Part 2 1:36:22 Show Close Links Superman '78 #4 Wonder Woman Black & Gold #6 Aquaman/Green Arrow - Deep Target #2 Checkmate #6 Deathstroke Inc. #3 Robin #8 Action Comics #1037 Detective Comics #1045 Catwoman #37 Teen Titans Academy #8 The Flash #776 Justice League of America #111 (Cletus's Read More Comics Pick) Earth Station One Tales of the Station Earth Station One Tales of the Station Vol. 2 The Chameleon Chronicles: Colors of Fate The Chameleon Chronicles: Sisters of the Thorn Want to Donate to the Show or Sponsor our Comics Talk for this week? No problem! Just click on the donate button below! If you would like to leave feedback, comment on the show, or would like us to give you a shout out, please call the ESDCU feedback line at (317) 564-9133 (remember long distance charges may apply) or feel free to email us @ earthstationdcu@gmail.com
Max and Chris parse their way through the Last Jedi-flavored third episode of Star Wars Visions: THE TWINS from Studio Trigger! Evil Protocol Droids! Darth Anime Girls! One more conversation about midi-frickin'-chlorians! All this and the bottle city of Kandor too! Be sure to follow us in your hearts, the force and the internet @animedeathray
This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs are monkeying around. When Batman learns that Mayfield is running for Mayor again, The Bat-Family try to intervene in Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #6. Dick invites the rest of the Robins for snacks and to talk about the good ol' days in Robins #1. Darkseid seeks out the Anti-Life equation against his girlfriend's Wonder Woman's wishes and the results are catastrophic in Justice League Infinity #4. Harley and Ivy are on the run from Commissioner Gordon in Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1. Kal-El surrenders to Brainiac and is placed in the city of Kandor in Superman '78 #3. Jor-el and Laura escape the destruction of Krypton to give birth to their baby boy on Earth in medieval times in Dark Knights of Steel #1. Christopher Chance is dying after drinking poison meant for Lex Luthor in The Human Target #1. Batman seeks the help of Superman and the Authority when the Al Ghuls pose a multiversal threat in Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1. Batman and Miracle Molly track down Scarecrow while Ivy is on the verge of collapsing the city in Batman #116. Levi must track down Jennifer Reece when Prescott Industries kidnaps her to help unlock his secrets in The Swamp Thing #9. The Titan students face off against Gorilla Grodd in his attempt to mind control the whole island of Manhattan in Teen Titans Academy #7. Yara Flor trains to become Hera's new champion in Wonder Girl #4. All this plus, DC News, DC TV, Shout Outs, and much, much more! ------------------------ Table of Contents 0:00:00 Show Open 0:01:36 DC News 0:06:40 Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #6 0:10:35 Robins #1 0:19:05 Justice League Infinity #4 0:24:22 Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1 0:27:16 Superman '78 #3 0:32:46 Dark Knights of Steel #1 0:38:52 The Human Target #1 0:42:28 Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1 0:47:31 Batman #116 0:53:49 The Swamp Thing #9 0:58:08 Teen Titans Academy #7 1:02:05 Wonder Girl #4 1:07:32 Supergirl S6 Ep17 – I Believe in a Thing Called Love 1:12:15 Stargirl S2 Ep12 – Summer School: Chapter Twelve 1:18:58 Titans S3 Ep9 – Souls 1:25:12 Y: The Last Man S1 Ep7 – My Mother Saw a Monkey 1:31:35 Show Close Links Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two #6 Robins #1 Justice League Infinity #4 Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1 Superman '78 #3 Dark Knights of Steel #1 The Human Target #1 Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1 Batman #116 The Swamp Thing #9 Teen Titans Academy #7 Wonder Girl #4 Demon Knights (2011-2013) (Cletus's Read More Comics Pick) ESO Network Patreon Earth Station One Tales of the Station Earth Station One Tales of the Station Vol. 2 The Chameleon Chronicles: Colors of Fate The Chameleon Chronicles: Sisters of the Thorn Want to Donate to the Show or Sponsor our Comics Talk for this week? No problem! Just click on the donate button below! If you would like to leave feedback, comment on the show, or would like us to give you a shout out, please call the ESDCU feedback line at (317) 564-9133 (remember long distance charges may apply) or feel free to email us @ earthstationdcu@gmail.com
Bienvenidos a una nueva Charla en la que vamos a hablar sobre el futuro de la saga galáctica, sus próximas series y películas, y lo que más esperamos ver en un futuro. Todo ello con unos invitados de lujo: Javier Olivares de La botella de Kandor, Mario Pinchudo, David de Perdidos en Hoth, Alex Randir y Gorka Salgado. Enlace video: https://youtu.be/Qu7UzefEphM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Podéis seguirnos en nuestra web Labibliotecadeltemplojedi.com Podéis seguirnos por las redes sociales: ⭐Facebook⭐ ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/Labibliotecadeltemplojedi/ ⭐Twitter⭐ ➡️ https://twitter.com/bibliotecaJedi?s=09 ⭐Instagram⭐ ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/labibliotecadeltemplojedi ⭐Ivoox⭐ ➡️ http://www.ivoox.com/27456176 Además, tenemos proyectos como nuestros libros, cards, imanes, etc que podéis conseguir en: ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/Archivosbibliotecajedi/ Y si os gusta lo que hacemos y queréis apoyarnos, tenemos cuenta de ⭐PATREON⭐: ➡️ www.patreon.com/labibliotecadeltemplojedi #starwars #starwarsbooks #starwarslibros #starwarscomics #laguerradelasgalaxias #comic #labibliotecadeltemplojedi #marvel #instabook #booklover #bookstagram #bookday #youtube #podcast #stories #moments #skywalker #BibliotecaJedi #bibliotecastarwars #TheCloneWars #TheRiseofSkywalker #themandalorian #episodeIX #episodioIX #babyyoda #grogu #LaAltaRepublica #TheHighRepublic #StarWarsTheHighRepublic
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 Earths sunset, he'd have to deal with deadly new versions of some of his classic foes in the two-part farewell Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, courtesy of superstar writer Alan Moore, quintessential Superman artist Curt Swan and legendary editor Julius Schwartz! (Content warning: Things get a bit dark.) And as if that weren't enough story for our landmark 150th episode, we also crack open The Superman Super-Spectacular from 1963's Action Comics #309, featuring a guest appearance by none other than President John F. Kennedy! Can 60s Superman protect his secret identity from Lois Lane and Lana Lang for the umpteenth time? Can 80s Superman protect his friends—and himself—when his rogues gallery gets a lethal upgrade? And can these stories survive a trip to that Bottle City of Comic-Book Candor known as ... The Comics Canon? Discussed in This Episode! The unfortunate timing of Action Comics #309 The bottle city of Kandor's greatest foe! Let's just say we briefly mention the website Does the Dog Die?, if you catch our drift Lloyd Llewellyn Don Rickles and Goody Rickels in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen Superman Breaks Loose from Superman (Vol. 1) #233 Join us in two weeks, when we hope to welcome a very special guest! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!
This week Negin is joined by Jason Kander and Christian Finnegan. The panel discusses Joe Manchin's failure to understand bipartisanship is over and what Kyrsten Sinema seeks to gain by staying elusive. Negin and the panel dissect why many people are leaving their jobs post-pandemic and if Katie Couric's RGB reveal will be attributed to the decline in mainstream media credibility. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
En una increíble plática con el youtuber español del canal “La botella de Kandor”, hablamos de todo lo que nos espera en el DC FanDome y lo que más nos emociona del futuro en el universo de DC. Síguenos en: www.quepeliculaver.com
Con Salva Espín, Antonio G. Caballer y Javier Olivares de La botella de Kandor, hablamos de la actuación que estrenará Salva Espín junto con Javier Olivares y más invitados el próximo 10 de octubre en 'El Palacio de la Prensa' y que se llamará 'Los Cuatro Fantásticos'.Salva Espín ha descrito cómo será la actuación, comentando que se interactuará con el público contando con divulgadores del contenido de Marvel en plataformas digitales, estando entre ellos los antes mencionados Álvaro Wasabi, Strip Marvel, el propio Salva Espín y La botella de Kandor.
What happens when you combine two of the biggest brands of the early 1980s? You get RadioShack's TRS-80 Whiz Kids comics, with special guest stars from the DC Universe. Marvel at snarky teens sassing the Man of Steel, then laugh at how he makes them perform complex math with mediocre computers! ----more---- Episode 16 Transcript Mike: [00:00:00] I used to go into an office, and when I did that, I had a dog that everybody loved and I baked cookies every day. Hello, hello, hello, welcome to Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we sell out as superheroes, one issue at a time. My name is Mike Thompson and I am joined by my co-host, the talk show host of terror, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Bwahahaha! I like when you give me nicknames that are a little mischievous and/or villainous, by the way. Mike: I mean, villains are always the most fun. Jessika: They really are. They get to do all the cool shit. Mike: Yeah. You need a strong villain in order to have a good story. Jessika: Absolutely. Mike: The purpose of this podcast is to look at notable moments in comic book history. [00:01:00] They can be big or they can be small, but we always hope that they're interesting, and we like to talk about them in ways that are both fun and informative. Today, we are going to be going back back back to the eighties and talking about the time that Superman sold computers for Radio Shack. Jessika: Fucking sellout. Mike: Man, I don't. Can you blame him though? I mean, he was a reporter, like he needed the extra cash. Jessika: That's true. That does not pay all that much, from my understanding Mike: Uh, speaking as someone who worked as a journalist for a decade, I can tell you it does not. Jessika: Confirmed, everyone. Mike: Confirmed. Before you freak out and think that you've missed an episode or that things are airing out of order, we are actually still doing the Sandman book club series, but we have decided to break it up, so it's not just one giant slog for people who aren't interested in Sandman. So that way there's a little something for [00:02:00] everybody, even as we're doing that prolonged experience. So every other episode will be the Sandman book club. Before we get to that though. What is one cool thing that you have read or watched recently? Jessika: Just last night, I watched the first episode of the Amazon Prime, let me just say it's 18+, animated series, Invincible. Mike: Hmm. Jessika: Have you seen that yet? Mike: I haven't, I read the comic for a while and I really liked it, but then it just kind of felt very repetitive. And also, I didn't like how the comic got very women in refrigerator-y. Jessika: Oh, okay, fair enough. Mike: Like yeah. Um, I hear it's great. I just, it's kind of, it's kind of like The Boys where like, I read the comic and, and then when they announced they were making a TV [00:03:00] show, I went, eh don't know. I like, I'm not sure. I really want to see that translated to the screen and then it was great. And so I'm sure that Invisible will be great. Jessika: I will be talking about The Boys later, in fact. Mike: Oh okay. Well, then. Jessika: But for now, yeah, I know, spoilers. So for those of you who hadn't seen it yet, it's about a teenage boy whose father is a famous superhero and the kid himself has also potentially expected to get powers, which he, not spoiling anything, he does, and very early on in this episode. And when this happens, his father starts teaching them how to use them properly, even though he seems a little disappointed, even, that his really did have powers, which was kind of strange, but we'll see where that goes. But what I really liked about this series, is that they make fun of our well-known superheroes with a character like Batman and one that's very much like Wonder Woman, et cetera. And again, I don't want to give too much away, but the ending is [00:04:00] super intense, and I'll definitely be watching more of it tonight after we've finished recording this. Mike: Yeah. And I will say that the comic itself has moments that are shockingly intense too. And it's really interesting because there are these moments that feel very wholesome and playful, and then there are other scenes that are complete 180 and it's really, it's kind of whiplash. Jessika: That was how it felt in the show as well. So I mean, that translated definitely. Mike: Yeah, it's one thing that's actually really neat is that it's the guy who wrote the comic, Robert Kirkman, is also the guy who created the walking dead. Jessika: Hm. Mike: So, you know, dude knows how to write a hit. Jessika: Yeah.I guess so, huh. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Well, what about you? What have you been reading or watching? Mike: You mentioned a couple of weeks ago that you had read the first issue of a series called Die, by Kieron Gillen. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I'd heard about it. I thought it looked [00:05:00] interesting. And then you mentioning that, threw it back on my radar, and so I found the first three volumes on Hoopla and I wound up bingeing through all of them in a couple of hours. And it's really good. I really like how it matches up a bunch of D & D tropes along with other things. And I just, I really, really enjoyed it. And so I want to say thank you for putting that on my radar. Jessika: Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, absolutely. You're welcome. And I'll have to go on Hoopla and check out more myself because I'd been wanting to, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Mike: No, shall we, uh, shall we mosey along? Jessika: Mosey let's do it. Mike: What do you remember about Radio Shack when you were growing up? Jessika: Good old Radio Shack. Radio Shack was huge, when I was growing up. It was [00:06:00] definitely a household name and it had a reputation that it carried most electronics related items that you may want or need to purchase. So just on my memory block here in particular, they used to carry a radio that was pretty easy to alter, to be a scanning radio, to use for ghost hunting. And for a while, it was a great cheap alternative to buying something made for that purpose. And it was priced really low and like affordable versus like buying something that was made for that purpose. Mike: Mm. Jessika: And I've trying to find one of those radios for years now, but honestly, it's probably a dead end at this point, and I should just pony up the money to buy actual ghost hunting equipment. I mean, honestly, I should probably, if I want it, like I'm a full ass adult, I can afford the expensive things, maybe. Mike: We have credit cards now, Jessika. Jessika: Just charge it.I say I can afford the expensive things, like I really can, which isn't actually true. Mike: All right.[00:07:00] Jessika: I can afford the mid-level things. Mike: Yeah. I dunno. We used to have money and then we got air conditioning, and we're poor now. Jessika: I'm safe. I'm squirreling it away, man. Trying to buy a house, it's expensive. Mike: Yeah. Especially where we live. Jessika: I don't recommend it. Folks. Mike: Yeah, no, just. Jessika: Just stay away. Mike: Yeah. Welcome to the Bay Area. The dystopian capitalist apocalypse. Jessika: Everything is overpriced, and on fire. Mike: We're not making this up. Everything is literally on fire these days. And, and over priced, but that's just California in general. Yeah. Well, I mean, I had a similar experience to you, in different ways, but like, you know, it was the same brand awareness of Radio Shack. I didn't realize until I was doing the research for this episode, that Radio Shack is actually a hundred years old [00:08:00] as of this year. Jessika: What? How? Mike: Yeah. It was founded in 1921 by these two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutchman. They set up a mail order business and a single retail location that was focused on providing parts for ham radio, which was a field that was still pretty new back then. And they wound up doing pretty well for a while, but they basically were bankrupt by the early 1960s. But you know, like 40 years is not a bad run. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And then they got acquired by the Tandy corporation in 1960 for $300,000. Up until this point, Tandy had been this leather goods company and they were looking to basically get into the business of appealing to hobbyists, which they felt Radio Shack would be able to do. So, in order to do this, Tandy basically performed a complete overhaul of the unprofitable company it had just acquired, and the Wikipedia page has a really solid [00:09:00] summary of what happened. Jessika: Tandy closed Radio Shack's unprofitable mail order business, ended credit purchases, and eliminated many top management positions eating the salespeople, merchandisers and advertisers. The number of items carried was cut from 40,000 to 2,500, as Tandy sought to identify the 20% that represents the 80% of sales and replaced Radio Shacks handful of large stores with many little holes in the wall, large numbers of rented locations, which were easier to close and reopen elsewhere if one location didn't work out. Mike: Yeah. So basically they were just going for a strategy that made Radio Shack into a much leaner, more nimble operation, which that's like the goal these days, those are kind of the golden buzzwords, but they were actually trying to do that. Charles D. Tandy, who was the guy who actually ran Tandy corporation back then, said that they were [00:10:00] basically not looking for the guy anymore, who wanted to spend his entire paycheck on the sound system, and instead they were looking for customers who wanted to save money by buying cheaper goods and then like improving them through modifications and accessories. So now they were really appealing towards nerds, and aiming at kids who are going to like work on stuff for the science fairs. And honestly it, it worked. I mean, when I was growing up Radio Shack was that store you went to, when you needed some small part a replacement, there was always one nearby. And even if they didn't have a name brand part, they usually had an off-brand version of whatever you needed. And, I never went there thinking that it was going to break the bank. It was always a fairly affordable thing. Jessika: Yeah. Agreed. I can think of like four different locations where they had a Radio Shack, just like in our area here. Mike: Yeah. And I mean, like, I grew up in San Francisco in the eighties, and they were all over the place.[00:11:00] So now, what's interesting is that the whole rise of personal computers happened to coincide with this period of success for Radio Shack. The late seventies was when personal computers with microprocessors started to actually be a thing on the consumer market, but typically if you wanted one, you had to build them from a kit. Like you, you physically had to, like, buy the kit and then assemble it, following the instructions, which, I mean, I'm not going to lie. That is terrifying to me. Jessika: That is terrifying. And it's total nerd shit too. They were right. Mike: Right. Fucking nerds. Jessika: Nerd bait. Mike: Radio Shack actually wound up introducing the TRS 80 in 1977. And it was a game changer for the company because it was one of the first pre-built computers. And it was simultaneously backed by a national retail chain. It was this super basic computer that sold for $600, which adjusting for inflation is like $2,700 nowadays. [00:12:00] Jessika: Holy shit. There's no way. There's no way the average family is like, let's get one of those right away. Mike: No, it was, I mean, you know, this was for people who were super enthusiast, or had a lot of disposable income, which the middle-class used to have back then. Jessika: Different times. Mike: The salad days. But yeah, so the TRS 80, even though it had a fairly high price point sold like hotcakes, like gangbusters. I found this book and it's called, Priming the Pump: How the TRS 80 Enthusiast Helped Spark the PC Revolution, by Teresa Welsh and David Welsh. It has this really interesting history about that point in time, which, I mean, I'm not going to lie, I was waiting for her to be really dry, but it's full of a lot of really personal stories and anecdotes and it's cool, I really dug it. Basically, when they started manufacturing this computer, they were only expecting to sell 50,000 units. There's this great quote, talking about how [00:13:00] much of a surprise the first TRS computer sales were. Jessika: Both Charles Tandy and John Roach may have been skeptical about such a large. But it turned out to be an underestimation. When the first anniversary of the products came, the company found the, had sold many more than the prediction and taken a whopping 250,000 orders for TRS eighties. Most of them still undelivered. Actually we've seen various numbers in different sources, so we can't verify this number, but they certainly sold considerably more than 50,000. Don French said they received a number of threatening phone calls from people who demanded delivery of their TRS 80 right away. Ooh! Mike: Yeah, so after this huge success, they then ended up following the TRS 80 with the TRS 80 Color in 1980. And basically the first TRS computer was kind of like a full, complete unit with a built-in monitor and everything. [00:14:00] The TRS 80 Color, in turn, was just the computer itself, and then you would plug in a color TV instead of using this built-in monitor. The TRS computers wound up selling well enough that Radio Shack really leaned hard into the computer business, and they even started offering computer camps for pre-teens in the early eighties, which was kind of an extension of that mission that they wanted to appeal to kids who wanted to excel at science fairs, because I mean, you know, those were the new nerds. So if you want to learn more about the TRS computers, by the way, there's this really great site called MatthewReadsTRS80.org. That helped me kind of learn about a lot of this stuff. I'll put it in the show notes, but it's really kind of an interesting walk-through, this particular venue of history. Anyway, this was the high point for Radio Shack, to be perfectly honest. By September of 1982, the company had more than 4,300 stores just in America and [00:15:00] more than 2,000 independent franchises and towns that were not large enough to have a company owned store. So, for comparison, there are fewer GameStops worldwide today than there were Radio Shacks in the early eighties. Jessika: Wow. Mike: Like, I realized that GameStop has been having a rough go of it lately, but there's still a lot of them around. Jessika: Yeah. Huh. Mike: And during this period of unmitigated success, that's when the Whizkid's started to show up in comic books. The early eighties were right around the time when computers were starting to get a lot of prominent, you know, quote unquote roles in media. If you're listening to this and you want to learn more, there is a site dedicated to media prominently featuring computers and storylines, and it's called Starring the Computer, that tracks stuff like this all the way back to the fifties. It's an incomplete list, but it's really interesting, and they have a whole section devoted to Tandy computers.[00:16:00] Like, I remember there was an episode of Murder, She Wrote very early on where she moves to New York and there's this whole plot about how she's gotten a computer to write her novels on. And then evidence is falsified with a modem. It's really interesting. And you know, the computer was this suddenly viable object that could play a part in people's everyday lives and could serve as a driving narrative device. But as far as I can tell the first time anyone made comics specifically focusing on educating people about personal computers was when Radio Shack started to do these comic books. And I think that's just because it was such a new thing, especially on the personal consumer market, because, you know, up until recently computers had been these huge things that took up buildings on their own. Jessika: Yeah. And they had to be, like cooled, professionally, and I mean, it was just this whole thing. Mike: Yeah. I mean, there [00:17:00] is a movie right now on Disney plus called The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes. Jessika: Oh, yeah! Mike: A very early Kurt Russell, and it's one of those things where the whole he's in college and he winds up getting shocked, I think, and there's this whole thing, this computer gets basically downloaded into him. So he has the processing power and knowledge of this computer, but they show you the computer and it like, it is a giant monstrosity of a thing that takes up, I think, an entire lab. Jessika: It does. I remember that movie. Mike: And I mean, our phones, these days are more powerful than those. So RadioShack started making comics in 1971. They were putting out a series of educational comics called the science fair story of electronics via the Radio Shack education comic book program. But, then in 1980, they pivoted and they started giving away these new comics in stores. You could also, [00:18:00] if you were a teacher, you could send in a request to Radio Shack on school letterhead and get a free pack of 50. Jessika: Oh, wow. Mike: And yeah, like, you know, they were really pushing that hard because these comics were educational, but they were also advertisements. Jessika: Very much so. Oh, that was something I messaged you earlier, was like, wow. I was reading just an ad there, wasn't I? Mike: But, I mean, I will say they were, they were educational. Jessika: Yeah, absolutely. Mike: Yeah, so the Superman Radio Shack giveaway comics starred the aforementioned Whiz Kids, Alec and Shanna, along with their teacher Mrs. Wilson, but for the first three issues, which were published in 1980, 81 and 82, they also starred Superman and other characters from the DC Universe. Jessika: I need to correct you for a second, because you said Mrs. Wilson, and it definitely was Ms. Wilson. Mike: Oh, I'm sorry. That's right. Jessika: It was Ms. Wilson, and I think that will come into play [00:19:00] later. Mike: That is true. She did not have a ring on her finger. Jessika: She did not. She looked a little close to all the superheroes that waltzed right up in there, half naked into her classroom. Mike: I mean, can ya blame her? Jessika: No, she was hot too. Mike: Right? We're going to talk about each of these specific issues, but first up is the Computer That Saved Metropolis, which was published in July of 1980. So, even though this was a promotional giveaway, DC committed some pretty serious talent to the book. The first two issues were written by Cary Bates, who was this long-term writer for DC. He wrote a ton of action comics, Superman, and the New Adventures of Superboy, as well as being the head script writer for the live action Superboy series in the 1980s that we discussed a couple episodes back. Jessika: Totally. Mike: He also worked as a script writer for various cartoons, including Gem and Gargoyles. Jessika: Oh, hell yeah. Mike: Right. [00:20:00] But then also his name might sound familiar to some people listening to the show because we mentioned him on the New Guardians episode where, it turns out he wrote issues two through 12 of the New Guardians. The art for this issue, meanwhile, was handled by Jim Starlin and Dick Giordano. Both of them are pretty big deals too. Starlin became a big name in comics during the seventies. He garnered a lot of acclaim for his cosmic space opera stories. He co-created characters like Shang-Chi and Thanos. Giordano in turn was an artist who had recently come back to DC comics and was serving as the Batman editor at the time. He actually got promoted shortly after this to be the company's managing editor in 1981. And then he was promoted again to executive editor in 83, and then he stayed with the company until the mid nineties when he retired, after his wife died. And then, aside from being a giveaway issue, this comic actually ran as a backup story in the July, 1980 ssues for Action [00:21:00] Comics, Legion of Superheroes, House of Mystery and Superboy. So Superman schilling Radio Shack computers, and forcing children to perform complex math for him, and definitely, probably schtupping Ms. Wilson, like, I think we need to agree that, that those two totally smashed. Jessika: Oh, absolutely. And I have my theories about her and Supergirl as well. Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Jessika: They had a moment. Mike: Right? Jessika: We both took the same picture of that same shot and I sent it to you and you were like, no way. Mike: I thought that was so funny. Jessika: Don't worry, we'll post that one. Mike: I, oh God. Like, I just, that was great. It was like great minds think alike. But yeah, all of this is officially a canon part of DC comics lore, which is wild. Like [00:22:00] Jessika: It's bat shit bananas. Mike: Yeah. Now weirdly it looks like this is the only issue that actually made it into other DC comics. So, you know, the other two or their own standalone things. And aren't officially cannon, I guess. All right. How would you describe the 1980 issue? The Computers That Saved Metropolis? Jessika: Well, these were like both very advertisey and complex at the same time in their narrative, which was interesting. So, this first one, I'm going to give you a little bit of backstory about these bitches. I say these bitches, because I'm going to be talking about a whole classroom full of children. So I obviously really like children. I have a bachelor's in French and everyone's like, you should teach. And I'm like, no, I shouldn't. Mike: Oh, oh no. Let's talk about that for a sec. I majored in history my first time through college, and everyone also said I should teach. And I was like, I fucking hate [00:23:00] children. I worked at Disneyland it poisoned me again. And don't get me wrong. I have, I have two stepchildren now. I love them. I would die for them. They're great. But kids in general, not a fan. They're sociopathic little monsters. Jessika: Mm hmm. So the comic starts off with Superman doing patrols around Metropolis, and apparently he just does that. And he just jets off to a sixth grade classroom at the whim of Ms. Wilson. Mike: I have my own theory about this. Jessika: Oh my goodness. He's supposed to be a guest teacher about computers, apparently. Like, First of all, for some reason, along with his super abilities, he's also a super computer genius. And is he accredited? Like is he allowed to be teaching students? Mike: No. Okay. There, there are two things to discuss here. So you have [00:24:00] to remember that Superman from the Golden Age through the modern age was largely a weird sci-fi series where the main character was this alien who had all these powers that constantly changed. There wasn't really any editorial control until they streamlined it with Crisis on Infinite Earths. But on top of that, he was generally shown to be an amazing genius, like just whenever they needed it. But ,he built the Superman robots. He. I can't remember if he made the Phantom Zone Projector or if the Phantom Zone Projector was on artifact from Krypton, he was constantly trying to restore the city of Kandor, which was basically shrunk down to the size of a bottle, and it was a Kryptonian city, to restore it to its full size. Like in that issue of Super Boy, we read, he like put all those chemicals together and created the pools that granted the dogs, various powers. Jessika: Yeah, no, I guess you're, I guess he's always been [00:25:00] smart. Mike: Yeah. But then the other thing is that Superman is a little bit too earnest in this issue. Like, he shows up exactly on time. And then he is clearly trying to impress these kids to make a good impression with Ms. Wilson. And everything about this reeks of a dude who had a one night stand and is now desperate to hook up again. So what he's doing is he's trying to prove that A) he is reliable and B) he is good with kids. Jessika: Yep. No, that's totally how it felt. Mike: I'm not speaking from experience. Jessika: Oh, so anyway, Superman creepily knows all the students' names, I guess, because he used his x-ray vision to look at the teacher's seating chart, even though that's not how x-rays work. That's always bothered me. I'm sorry, we don't have time for this. Mike: [00:26:00] Thomas Edison would like a word. Jessika: Seriously. Also, I have to mention that the whole class was bored as fuck even after Sups flew in. And I don't know about you, but every kid I knew, wanted to know about computers and have a turn on the computer when we got them in the library at school or when someone got one at home. Mike: Oh, yeah. Jessika: So the idea that one of the kids in his class is being dismissive of the whole idea of not doing normal schoolwork and just doing computer class instead with fucking Superman of all people. It's just ridiculous. Mike: Oh yeah. And that kid actively shit talked Superman repeatedly. Jessika: Oh, he's a shit heal. Oh. And he still gets to be the fucking like, protagonist. Fuck. Mike: Oh, it was so funny. I like, my favorite was when he beats Superman at a math problem later on and like the shit talking starts immediately, and I'm like, my dude, this is possibly not a good move to irritate a guy who could literally vaporize you with a [00:27:00] glare. Jessika: That's just it. That is just it. Yeah. No. Why would you try to piss this guy off? And then Shanna's like, Ooh, Superman. You better tell him. I was like, dude, Shanna, you, you need to shut the fuck up immediately and not goad this situation. Mike: You know, that was probably the most realistic part of this entire comic, because speaking as someone that lives with an 11 year old, they are shit stirrers. Jessika: Oh my gosh. So, Supes takes the kids up to the roof because of course he does, and he proceeds to give the class some very long-winded exposition about the history of computers and their size and what they do and how they've evolved from the first computers, and moving into how they're used in society today from space travel to transistor radios, which what a time capsule of a callout. Mike: [00:28:00] Yeah. Jessika: This whole thing was a whole time capsule. Mike: Yeah. Very much is. Jessika: Of course, there was also some lovely product placement throughout and some not-so-subtle comments on affordability versus common household items. Tangent that always cracked me up to say, this computer is less expensive than a TV. Well, okay, but maybe I need a TV and I don't need a computer. They do vastly different things, or they did at that point. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: It kind of reminds me of saying like this China set costs less than a month of gross. Okay, well, I need to eat and I don't necessarily need a China set, so. Mike: Yeah, I mean, he was hard selling those kids. Jessika: Oh yeah. He was like, you should ask your parents to go out and buy you one. Mike: Yup. Jessika: So, of course, Supes hears with his super hearing a tornado and he like jets the fuck out of there. And, he defeats it by [00:29:00] blowing the wind or something like that. And then he feels all sick and shit, and comes across a villain named Major Disaster who, you know, just as his name implies, causes quote unquote natural disasters like there's floods and shit. It was a little ridiculous. Mike: Yeah, he was always kind of like a C- to D-list villain who would use weapons and equipment to make natural disasters. My knowledge of this character is hazy at best, but I think eventually he gained the ability to manipulate probability. He didn't appear a lot and he's been dead for a while, I think. Cause I remember him showing up as a zombie in Blackest Night. Jessika: Oh. Mike: But, I mean, I remember reading this stuff and I was like, this is kind of a cool, like off-the-wall villain. I dig him. You know, I certainly liked them a lot better than other villains that I've seen in Superman books where it's like, you know, generic alien warlord number five. Jessika: Seriously. Well, and when I read the name, Major Disaster, I was like, [00:30:00] same, girl. So, of course Superman needs the help of these children that he like, makes them perform these, like, high-stress situational calculations on the computer for him. Instead of like asking the adult he's banging in the room. Mike: I mean. Jessika: Honestly, come on, like, get the adults involved, like, Alec and Shanna don't need to save the day. They're supposed to be in sixth grade, even though they look way older than that. Mike: Like, yeah, they looked like kind of like eighth or ninth graders. Like they were a little bit older, it seemed. Jessika: The second one, they looked older than that, they looked like they were teenagers in the second one, for some reason, I was like, what's that? And then the third one, they got young again. And I was like, I don't know what's happening with you guys, but. Mike: Yeah. I mean, I will say that I was willing to believe that Alec was in sixth grade just because he had that awful fucking bowl haircut that like. Jessika: My brother had that. Mike: Right. Yeah. But [00:31:00] when did he stop having it? Jessika: No, no, you're right. Probably after he was like in, probably after middle school. Mike: Yeah. It's, you know, it's that thing where suddenly you realize, oh, I can go to a barber instead of having my parents cut my hair. Jessika: Oh. So the kids basically do a bunch of calculations, and they double check each other's work by doing the same calculation on two separate computers that Supes and flown in prior and just left there. Apparently. Mike: Yeah. And there's a whole thing about how Major Disaster had knocked out all the other computers in town, but he didn't know about these two personal computers because personal computers were a new thing. And that's the other reason that they're the ones who were performing the calculations and then they're on radio headsets with Superman providing this information. Jessika: I still say you're in a school that has way more adults than just the one standing in that room, and even that one's not involved. So. Mike: I mean, well, and the other thing is that the math equations that he's throwing at them are like this jet is falling out of the sky at this speed. [00:32:00] The wind is this fast. They're going at this angle. How fast do I need to go to catch them without doing damage to the plane or the people inside. And it's like, first of all, of course, yes, as you said, it's high stress, but second, like I still don't know how to do that math equation. I don't know how these sixth graders did because they looked like they were in a pretty shitty school that Superman made worse at one point when he liked tunneled up through the floor and just left a giant hole. Jessika: He was like, I'll fix that later. Mike: Sure you will, sure you will, Clark. Jessika: It's awful. Uh. So he finally of course finds the villain, defeats him, whatever. Then the kids are hailed as heroes and as a reward, I guess they get to be at a Radio Shack commercial about the computers they used. I mean, cool. I guess. Mike: Yeah. It was kind of a, a, meh ending, but, but yeah. Like, I dunno. Did you [00:33:00] like the issue overall? I'm curious. Jessika: It got really in the weeds playing up the computer aspects, which okay. I get it. You know, again, I get it. This is an advertisement, but dude, snooze fest, I put it down a few times and had to pick it back up, during those computer exposition parts. And you know, I'm slightly bothered by a vague plot line, but all in all, like it was, it was fine. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: To use your line. Mike: Yeah. I mean, reading through it, some of the computer history stuff I thought was actually pretty interesting Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. Mike: Like, when they went up on the roof and he was saying, you know, so the space that we're sending in actually is the size of what computers used to fill. And yeah, it does get a little too in the weeds because they're trying to get a little too much exposition in there at the same time. I felt like overall it walked a relatively fine line of providing action that was kind of [00:34:00] interesting. And, and the plot line of, oh, well, yeah, his powers were on the fritz because there was microscopic kryptonite particles in the tornado and he inhaled them when he was getting ready to blow it out. Like, I thought that actually was surprisingly well thought out for basically a licensed advertisement. You know, this was, this was effectively a full length version of one of those like hostess, Twinkies ads that they used to do. Jessika: Right? Mike: Yeah. But like, I didn't hate it. I found it charming. Jessika: It had its moments. Mike: Yeah. I'm not going to lie, I found the undeniable sexual attention between Superman and the kid's teacher really entertaining. Jessika: Yeah, definitely it was palpable. I thought it was even funnier too, that the kids were even, like Ms. Wilson, how do you know Superman? Mike: And she doesn't answer! Jessika: And she was like, She like side eyes.[00:35:00] How do I know Superman?…Biblically. Mike: Well, and that was the funny thing was when we were talking about this ahead of the episode, I was like, so yeah, they, they totally smashed, right? Like, like that's not up for debate. Jessika: No, it's really not. It happened. Mike: All right. let's move on to the next issue. So. Clearly, this was a successful marketing tool because in 1981, DC and Radio Shack released a brand new book that was called Victory By Computer. So this time the main story was illustrated by a couple of legendary artists. There was Curt Swan and Vince Colletta. Coletta started as an artist and anchor from the Silver Age of comics. He frequently collaborated with Jack Kirby who is known as, you know, the king of comic books, and a lot of folks considered their run on Thor to be the definitive take on the character. Kurt Swan's involvement, on the other hand, is especially noteworthy. [00:36:00] He is considered by many comic book artists to be the Superman artist. He started penciling Superman and Superboy comics in the late forties. And he didn't stop until DC put them out to pasture in the mid eighties because they were rebooting Superman via Crisis on Infinite Earths. Arlen Schumer, who's this major comic book historian, says Swan penciled over 19,000 covers and pages of interior art for Superman comics. Jessika: Whoa! Mike: Yeah. Like again, they were putting some serious talent behind these books. Jessika: They were pumping out a lot of content, to be fair. Mike: Yeah. How would you summarize Victory By Computer? Jessika: We find ourselves, yet again at the elementary school, I put in heavy quotations of kids that look like they're about 17 years old, this issue. So Shanna and smartass Alec are back at it. This time, Supergirl joins the class to [00:37:00] teach them about the pocket computer. What a fucking throwback. Mike: Like, that's something that we need to explain. Like the pocket computer was, basically kind of like a smart calculator that could perform basic functions and had a little keyboard in there. And I don't know how much they sold for, but they couldn't have been cheap. Jessika: I can't imagine so, yeah. Well, and by the way, at this point in the scene where Supergirl pulls out, her pocket computer, she pulls out of a pocket on her cape. So canonically, there are pockets in the capes. Mike: Yeah. They can't get them on the rest of their costume, but they can get them in their capes. Jessika: Which means that there's just stuff like weighing down the cape, so it shouldn't even be moving like it does. Mike: I remember in an early issue of Superman, the eighties series that John Byrne was doing, there is a bit where he stops by a balloon vendor because he's got a drone pursuing him and he winds up like [00:38:00] thinking, oh, it's lucky that I always carry a few spare dollars in like my belt buckle because he had that yellow belt back then, which side note I miss the yellow belt. I don't know if it's back, cause I haven't read any Superman comics for a while, but they got rid of it for quite some time. Like, I mean, you know, it's the Henry Cavill look now or it's the full blue suit. I miss the red trunks in the yellow belt. Jessika: Yeah. the good old days. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: So Supergirl decides to use her super powers to show the class they are able to find information on the TRS 80's as fast as she was able to find it, like physically with her super powers looking for it. And it was like, okay, sure. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: When an odd comparison, but fine. Mike: Yeah, it was really weird, there was a bit where they, like, it almost felt like they were hacking into the newsfeed of, I think the Daily Planet to get headlines, even though I'm sorry, but like, come on really, you think that a [00:39:00] print journalistic outlet is going to have top of the line technology back then come on. Jessika: No they're not putting any of that into a computer. They're still handwriting everything. Mike: Yes. I think back then they were still using, the electric typewriter that had like the built-in, it was quote unquote memory, but it was, you know, not really. Jessika: Not as we know it now, at least. And there was some definite sexual tension with Ms. Wilson at Supergirl as well. We will post the picture. Um. Mike: Right. It's this whole bit where Supergirl is like, oh, don't worry. I'm a school teacher in my secret identity. And I'm like, I don't know. Like, Are you just trying to impress her with this? What's the end goal of revealing this crucial information about your secret identity, Supergirl? Jessika: I know, right. She's just trying to connect with another human. She's like I'm also a school teacher. We should talk about it over dinner sometime. Mike: And then maybe move in together after three weeks of dating, and adopt three cats. Jessika: Oh, my gosh. So, Super girl basically [00:40:00] teaches the class and then she I'll bet she just left those fucking pocket computers too, because you know, just like Superman just left the computers there. He was like, have fun kids. Mike: Okay. Yeah, but here's the thing, like, you really think that some middle school kids or elementary school kids, however old they fucking are. You really think that they're going to sit there and try to steal the computers that the literal alien gods from other planets dropped off and taught them about? Jessika: Oh, I'm not, I'm not worried. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, no, I'm not worried about them stealing it. I'm just like Superman just apparently has like the extra spending cash that he can just like drop off two computers to a school and just like fuck off. Like really? Mike: No, I mean, I, I viewed it the other way of just like, they're like, they're not worried about it. They're like, yeah. We'll, we'll get those back. Don't worry. Jessika: Oh, so Supergirl apparently gets asked to go on [00:41:00] patrol by Superman and she spots something fishy. And so she goes to check it out, but it was a trap, of course. Mike: Yeah, but I mean, it wasn't even a very good trap. Jessika: Is a stupid trap. It was like, if you're a superhero and you happen to get curious, because you happen to be going near this location, maybe. And she like fell right into maybe a four foot by four foot hole in the ground. So I'm not really sure how that worked either. They just were like, nah, she's going to fall right here. Mike: Yeah. Like she fell through the skylight after getting hit with like a blast of red sun radiation, or whatever it is. Jessika: You know what it was, they used their TRS 80 to calculate where she was going to fall. So she gets stuck in what's basically like, it's like a lounge. It's like somebody's living room, and they have a computer there with a phone. So it's like, they weren't even trying that hard to keep her [00:42:00] there. Mike: No, it was, it was absolutely the, like what a seventies swinger house looks like in all the movies that we see now where you're just like, oh, oh, okay. Jessika: It basically had a conversation pit. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Yeah. So of course, she remembers the phone number from Ms. Wilson's classroom. Mike: Yeah, because the rotary phone had the phone number printed on the front of it, because that was a thing that used to happen. Jessika: I feel like that's a little more explaining than she needed to give. I think she is making up for the fact that she just knows that number by heart. Mike: I was going to say, I think she really wanted to get Mrs. Wilson's phone number, and then it just happened to actually be helpful in a way other than getting her a date. Jessika: Gosh, Ms. Wilson, man. And canonically bisexual? Question mark? Mike: I don't see why not. I think we can, I think we can [00:43:00] officially declare it. Jessika: Someone's going to @ us, I hope they do. So at any rate, she gets in touch with the class. She makes them do all these weird wacky calculations, has some get in touch with Superman. And by the time Superman gets there, like she's gotten out of it because she also used the computer to find out that there were like underground tunnels. And so she's like, I'll just walk out of these tunnels. Mike: Yeah, basically it turns out it was like an old mob hide out and the students were able to look up some articles, which again, like, I don't know, because I was born in 81 and I don't have a good idea of what computer and internet adjacent technology was like back then. But they apparently look up articles about this hideout that got busted and they learned from the articles that there were underground tunnels that. Whatever, it was dumb, they don't even show her getting out. It was dumb. Jessika: No, she's just like walking out afterwards and Superman's, like, [00:44:00] oh, I was here to save you. And she's like, I just took the tunnels dude. And then like the bad guys are just, they just happened to be driving by. So they were like, well, let's just go get the bad guys. What do you think? It looks like, oh those are Lex Luther's dudes. Let's just go get the bad guys. Mike: Yeah. And there's a whole thing where like, Lex Luther has announced from jail that like Superman is going to break him out and it's a much looser plot than the first issue was. Like the first issue, there was like, I felt like a much tighter story, you know, in between the educational bits, this one, it felt like they were kind of stretching to figure out a way to connect all this stuff. Jessika: For sure. Yes. Mike: Yeah. Yeah. So I think we can safely say that this was not our favorite of three books. Jessika: No, this one was so ridiculous. I mean, I loved the heavy, heavy [00:45:00] gay overtones. Mike: I mean, when do we not love the heavy gay overtones? Come on. Jessika: It's the agenda after all: brunch for everyone. Mike: Yeah. So like, do you have any final thoughts on this, or should we move on to the last of the three books? Jessika: Ugh. That's just once mosey. Mike: Okay. All right. So 83 was when we got the final book, which is the Computer Masters of Metropolis. So, this time Paul Kupperberg wrote the script for the comic. Kupperberg, he's not exactly a household name in terms of comic books, but he is actually pretty prolific. He's written over a thousand comics during his time as a writer, including the first appearance of He-Man and then he wrote the subsequent Masters at the Universities for DC. Yeah, like, you know, so I've read some of his stuff and I didn't even realize it. Also like, this is actually my favorite factoid about him. He served as the senior editor of the Weekly World News shortly [00:46:00] before it got shut down in 2007. Jessika: What? Mike: Yeah. And like that automatically makes me like the dude, because the Weekly World News was one of my favorite things when I was in college, and because I was so good at Photoshop in high school and college, and I was interested in journalism, but I also love the weird stuff, I actually wanted to apply to the weekly world news for a job just for like a little while. And be like, yeah, like I Photoshop pictures of bat boy. Like, I really was hoping that that would be a thing, and then they shut down right after I graduated college and broke my cold black heart. Jessika: It's a damn shame. Mike: But yeah. So, meanwhile, the art was handled again by Curt Swan and then he was also assisted by Frank Chiaramonte. Chiaramonte was Swan's regular anchor on the main Superman book from 1978 to 82. And then this is one of his last books that he worked on because he died really young in January of [00:47:00] 83. He was only 40 years old. Like. Jessika: Oh. Mike: Yeah, it's really weird too. I was trying to figure out what happened and all I could find was that just, he died young. But, he was regarded pretty well and he worked on a lot of stuff. So I think if he hadn't died, he probably would've, you know, gone on to great things. But the Computer Masters of Metropolis doesn't have a publish date other than 1982, which means it came out less than a year before his death, because he died in January of 83. Jessika: Oh, dang. Mike: Yeah. All right. So what happened in the Computer Masters of Metropolis? Jessika: So, those are some lucky kids studying at whatever outskirts elementary school this is. Cause it's not in Metropolis proper, it's like in the suburbs of Metropolis somewhere. Mike: Yeah. You know, it's superhero-adjacent to the city. Jessika: Yeah. Yeah. Right. And again, not sure why Ms. Wilson seems to be on really, really [00:48:00] friendly terms with all the superheroes in the area, but Wonder Woman shows up to take them to the World's Fair, which of course is being held in Metropolis. Mike: Yeah. Which I mean, okay. Why, why not? Jessika: Exactly. Meanwhile, Lex Luther was salty about being denied entry for an exhibit for the World's Fair because the organizers didn't want to encourage his villainy. Mike: It's so good. It's so good. Jessika: And so Luther decides to try to blackmail a way in, but that didn't work. So, of course he decides the thing to do is to threaten, to like completely destroy the fair, and ultimately creates another red solar radiation trap. This time, luring Superman into a room, rigged with explosives and bathed in red solar radiation, dun, dun, dun. So once again, there are computers in the room, I think, so. So he reaches out to [00:49:00] Alec and Shanna who are told that Wonder Woman should also be at the fair and to page page her. And she's basically like, okay, why are children paging me right now? But finds out that Superman is being held at the plantarium. She lassos the whole damn building and whips it around and it somehow deactivates the red solar radiation beam? Question mark? Mike: I don't know, man, I was pretty checked out when I was reading this. Like. They reused a lot of the same stuff, too. Like the same art where they were showing the computer chip, getting threaded through the needle, the bit where the kids are all walking on the giant demo version of the TRS, Jessika: Oh, and those kids were being very nice because they acted surprised and very impressed to see that same damn exhibit for a second time. Mike: Yeah. Which previously had showed up in the last issue. And I mean, like, it was a lot more exposition this time around too. Jessika: It was. Mike: [00:50:00] Anyway, sorry. Jessika: No, not at all. So Superman escapes and they catch Luther and the day is saved. And the end scenes were particularly silly. The mayor I'm assuming goes to thank Wonder Woman for saving the day. And she's like, but also these children, who just happened to be standing on the stage, like right behind her anyway, like the mayor, just, wasn't going to say anything about those kids on the stage, too, apparently. And they had a computer on stage with them? They were like, and this is the computer, let it hold the key too. And you got to know that like both Wonder Woman and Superman have to have entire rooms dedicated to the key to Metropolis that they get every time they save some damn building or something, they're all like, chuck another one in there. No, no, no. You kids keep that one. Mike: It's fine. I've got 12 at home that are much nicer. Jessika: They're hanging on a wall around in a study. Mike: They just use them as like coat racks. Jessika: [00:51:00] So Alec and Shanna, once again, saved the day, I guess. Mike: Yeah, I mean, this was actually my least favorite of the three comics, because again, it was recycling art or, or using very similar art. It was making a lot of the same points, but it felt a lot more telling, not showing. And while I was really happy to see Lex Luther being next level petty, which, these days, you know, Lex Luther is a billionaire CEO, scientist who also has like armies of underlings performing super science for him that he's able to utilize. He's basically he is a more- Jessika: Jeff Bezos. Mike: Yeah, He is He is a, I was going to say, he's just, he's a more nakedly transparent, Jeff Bezos. Jessika: Oh, you actually were going to say that. I'm sorry. I stole that right from out from under you. Mike: [00:52:00] No. I mean like it's, I'm sorry, like Jeff Bezos exploits his workers and use the money that he got from that to take a rocket ship and play astronaut, which side note, one of my favorite things about that entire story is that NASA at the last minute redefined, I think it was NASA, redefined what constitutes the definition of an astronaut, so he couldn't get an astronaut patch or pin. An astronaut pin, I think. Jessika: Which, again, the level of petty, but this is what I need. This is what I need to see, because it can't always be fucking Lex Luther winning. Mike: Yeah. But anyway, like I really appreciated that we got to see Lex Luther being a super villain goon, like very flamboyant, flying around with his own little personal jet pack or jet boots, whatever they were like, they were like, it was like little rockets that he had attached to like his. I'm I'm struggling to remember if it was on his boots or on his waist. It was one or the other, right? Jessika: Yeah, I think it was [00:53:00] on his, I think you're right about the boots. And then he also had those fancy power gauntlets. Mike: Yeah. And I mean, the other thing is back in this era, Lex Luther actually had a couple of different costumes that he wore that were very colorful and over-the-top, and it was like green and purple. So it kind of was that, that Joker color motif again, you know, it was really striking. And so he had that outfit of kind of the purple and green spandex that we saw in this issue. But then he also had this really baller set of green power armor that he used to really make Superman's life miserable for awhile. Like I said, after 1983, Radio Shack stopped with the Superman comics, but they didn't actually stop making comics. They kept on doing these comics with the Whiz Kids, but they instead moved over to Archie comic publications. I haven't been able to find out why the partnership's stopped. There's very little actual [00:54:00] documentation about these comics outside of a bunch of articles saying, oh yeah, they happened. Like they were a thing. They were dumb. And then pretty much all I've been able to find otherwise is people selling them. Cause there's still a lot of them around. And if you're looking for a fun piece of comic book history, these aren't very expensive, even in mint condition. That said the Tandy brand was starting to fall out of popularity by 83. For some perspective, it's estimated that Tandy controlled up to 60% of the personal computer market in the late seventies, which is like an astronomical market share. However, and this is from an article by a guy named Ron White, that he wrote for a magazine called 80 Micro in 1987, and you can now find it on a site called Vintage is the New Old, and we'll put this in the show notes again, Tandy's market share was down to 25% by 86. So it's a pretty fast fall from grace. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And then, even though Archie was publishing the comics, [00:55:00] none of the Archie characters actually showed up in any of these books with the Whiz Kids, although Radio Shack did publish Archie in the History of Electronics separately. Jessika: Oh. Mike: Like, yeah. But based on that, my guess is that Radio Shack was looking to save some cash and Archie was probably a much better deal. I'm guessing it costs a lot more to license DC superheroes than it does to just make a comic without any big name characters. Jessika: Oh, I am sure. Mike: Yeah. And then shortly after Archie took over the publication duties, the TRS computer line got rebranded to the Tandy computer. So it makes sense that the comic was rebranded from the TRS Whiz Kid's to the Tandy computer Whiz Kids. And that's actually, when I first became aware of this whole venture, because Nostalgia Alley, which is the local retro game store up in Petaluma, has a copy of one of the Tandy Whiz Kids comics on the shelf behind the counter. And so I [00:56:00] spotted that one time and I was talking to Jason, the owner, and he let me check it out for a couple of minutes. And that's when I started looking into this whole thing, which, per usual, led us down a rabbit hole. Jessika: Love these rabbit holes of ours. Mike: Yeah, they're fun. Anyway, the Tandi Whiz Kid's comics kept on coming out until 1992. And based on what I understand, they featured the Whiz Kids solving crimes, using Tandy computers and other Radio Shack products. I haven't read them. I do really want to track down a copy of the Computer that Said No To Drugs though. Jessika: Who was offering computers drugs? They are expensive! Mike: I, I don't know. I'm really curious about everything about that. Jessika: Hey man, you want to hit this? It's just a fucking computer. And it's like, what are you talking about, dude? Mike: Oh, I'm having flashbacks now of that episode of, uh, Futurama where Bender gets hooked on electricity. Jessika: Oh, hahahaha. [00:57:00] Mike: They keep on referring to it as jacking on anyway. Yeah. But the early nineties were when things really started to go downhill for Radio Shack and they never really stopped, because stores like Best Buy and Walmart just started to really eat their lunch. And then, it got to the point where they've had to declare bankruptcy twice in the past five years or so. Like they also declared Nick Cannon as their chief creative officer around the time of the first bankruptcy. Yeah. And now they've been bought by some shady sounding company out of Florida. So the brand is still around, but it's not really the company that we grew up with. And I don't know, I'm honestly not sure what's worse, like partnering with Nick Cannon, or being this pale reflection of your former glory. They both sound pretty bad. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: But yeah, that's the story about Superman, and how he wound up acting as a computer salesman for [00:58:00] a couple of years. You got any final thoughts? Jessika: So I'm just shaking my head over here. Like my nostrils are flaring. Mike: How was that different from any other conversation I lead though? Jessika: I literally prepare myself for these, cause I'm like, all right, you can get angry, but don't get too angry. My secret is I'm always angry. Mike: Dun dun dun. Jessika: Hmm. So you know, it's really interesting to see how very far we've come since these issues came out in the early eighties. Like, we're sitting here on small laptops, I've got a phone and a tablet right here in front of me as well, and you and I are basically sitting across from each other, having a conversation, even though we're not even in the same physical location. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: It blows my mind how amazing things like high speed trains and basic information [00:59:00] searches seemed back then, when they're so commonplace now. Like, I seriously Google everything. I would be nowhere without Google. Mike: Yeah. My career is because of the internet. Jessika: Yeah. Yours, yours sure, is absolutely that's, yeah. That's a wild thing to think about too. And it's also wild to think about how much more advanced technology has become even in just, I had to do the calculations 40 years time, which I about had a panic attack when I mathed that out because. Ha ha ha. We're almost 40. Mike: Yep. Actually this episode is going to air right around the time that I'm going to be turning 40. Jessika: Yup. Happy birthday, to Mike. Mike: Thanks, I hate it. Jessika: No, Yeah. Right. At least you're not my mom giving my dad a [01:00:00] vulture piñata for his 40th birthday. Mike: No, Sarah has declared that she wants my 40th birthday to be a super soft birthday, which if you've ever watched Letterkenny. Jessika: Yes! I was hoping You were going to say that. There has to be a unicorn. Mike: I know, I think it's going to be put on hold until we're all vaccinated, but we might do a belated super soft birthday. Jessika: Yeah, okay. I figured you guys are going to have a family super soft birthday. But, if you want to have a super soft after birthday, when things clear up, I am, I am there and I will be eating some lovely pink frosted cupcakes with you. Mike: You're on, big shoots. So we are now at the point of the episode where we're going to wrap things up with our Brain Wrinkles, which is when we discussed the one thing that is comics or comics adjacent that we just can't get out of our head. So you want to start things off? Jessika: Oh sure. [01:01:00] As I promised, I just finished watching the latest season of The Boys, which is season two. Holy shit. Holy fucking shit. That show is bat shit wild. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And what's been sticking in my head is the abuse dynamic between Homelander and mean, anybody he deals with, really? Mike: I was gonna say, everybody? Jessika: Yeah. And it's so interesting, cause as he was growing up, he was taught that not only is he more powerful than any person, he has been told that he is special and is entitled to do whatever pleases him. Which is really scary to see him manipulating others, using fear as a motivator to encourage them to comply. And honestly, the reason it scares me the most is just the powerlessness that these people, and most often women, are terrified into just following through with Homelander's whims. Mike: Yeah. yeah. There's a lot of really [01:02:00] uncomfortable moments in that show. But I like the show, which I didn't expect. Jessika: Well, I do like that it's putting a spotlight onto that dynamic, cause that's a dynamic that we show is very one-sided, usually a little victim blamey. Mike: Mmhmm. Jessika: You know, why didn't she just leave kind of a narrative, which we all know it's not that easy. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And I think this is a really good example of why it's not that easy, in a very powerful way. And, it does remind me of people who are stuck in abusive households or relationships and are in different ways, powerless to leave their situations. So, hopefully it sparks some conversation. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Well, but what about you? Mike: Mine is also TV related, but it's not quite as topical as your thoughts. So, I actually was trying to show my stepson[01:03:00] some X-Men cartoons the other day. And as we started to watch the first episode of Wolverine and the X-Men, he started to ask me all these questions about who the different characters were, because they basically start the show off assuming that the audience knows who all of the X-Men are, because at the time when it launched, the X-Men were a major brand, and then Disney acquired Marvel right before this. And then, they kind of made mutants personas, non grata, and, the mutants have not been featured in Disney programming up until the point where basically for the past 10 years, major media representation for kids of characters, like the X-Men, aren't all that common. And so it was just kind of a really thoughtful moment for me, where I realized I had to start them over from the beginning with an earlier X-Men cartoon, where he gets all these introductions. And I think there's going to be this generation that is going to grow up learning who the X-Men are a lot later than a lot of us [01:04:00] did. Like I knew all of the X-Men by the age of nine and I suspect. Jessika: Oh, yeah. Mike: Yeah. And so I think it's going to be really interesting to watch a generation of teenagers discover the X-Men really for the first time outside of, you know, Wolverine and Deadpool, because everybody knows who they are. Jessika: Yeah, of course. Hm. Mike: But yeah. Jessika: That's wild. Mike: Yeah. It's kind of one of those surreal moments of realization. Yeah. Jessika: Hmm. Mike: So, in two weeks we will be back with our next installment of the Sandman book club, which is going to be volumes three and four. And then until then we'll see you in the stacks. 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In this episode, Andrew + chrs step back into DC Nation's Future State to recommend and review their favorite serieses. ig: @truebelieverspodtwitter: @truebelieverspfacebook: @truebelieverspod (facebook.com/truebelieverspod)email: 1truebelieverspod@gmail.comNOTES: Fun fact: chrs doesn't even enjoy the movie “Back to the Future”Yara Flor's design is inspired by an indigenous Brazilian model named Suyane MoreiraThe concept that chrs was thinking of when she was struggling to define Yara Flor's story was a parable. A parable is a story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, and they're very common in most theologies.It's actually Brainiac's skull ship where Diana encounters The Spectre. The Spectre is...something like the DC Comics version of Ghost Rider. You'd have to look it up. I'm not wrong, but I'm also not making an effort to be right. Their interplanetary group is called the United Planets. Not the Federation. Before Krypton exploded, the Bottle City of Kandor was captured and miniaturized by Brainiac. After defeating him, Superman brought the city to his Fortress of Solitude and spent many years attempting to return it to the normal size. Because the people of Kandor are alive and thriving, Superman has never actually been the last son of Krypton.The space/time ocean was called the Confluence. A confluence is the joining of two rivers.chrs did in fact accidentally make a Moana reference. The fish were called the Glimmerfish.The Aquaman: The Beginning miniseries starts on 9/21 and Brandon Thomas also wrote FS: AquamanBobo T. Chimpanzee is also known as Detective Chimp. Similarly to Throg and Spectre? You better use google.Andrew was wrong. It's actually “Gone, gone, the Simian, arise the demon Etrigan.”The Doctor Fate of Future State is Khalid NassourMongol 2 actually said that Superman wouldn't be able to save the people next to him, not that he wouldn't be saved.We both said "Mr. Terrific" but we both MEANT "Mister Miracle" ...sorry, Scott Free.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOyE_l80D4YMikel Janín is pronounced like Mik-ell Yah-neen.My friend legitimately has somewhat of a Jesus fetish or, rather, has been known to be attracted to Jesus Christ in multiple forms of media. Talk about a holy roller.Music: “Big Boi Pants” by Shane Ivers - www.silvermansound.com
All Star Superman è una miniserie a fumetti di dodici numeri dedicata all'omonimo personaggio, scritta da Grant Morrison, disegnata da Frank Quitely, colorata digitalmente da Jamie Grant e pubblicata dalla DC Comics tra il novembre 2005 e l'ottobre 2008; in Italia è stata edita da Planeta DeAgostini dal 2009.Uno: https://amzn.to/3ceydbbDue: https://amzn.to/3fGV80HLa trama verte sull'ultimo anno di vita di Superman, colpito da una massiccia dose di radiazioni solari, dopo aver compiuto un salvataggio sul Sole, che hanno "sovraccaricato" le cellule del suo corpo, innescando un processo degenerativo che condurrà Superman alla morte in un arco di tempo di dodici mesi. La notizia del suo imminente trapasso lo porta a sciogliere tutte le questioni irrisolte e lasciate in sospeso nella sua vita: dall'eterno problema di Kandor, ultima città del suo pianeta ridotta a vivere in forma miniaturizzata, al suo rapporto con Lois Lane, fino al confronto con il suo acerrimo nemico, Lex Luthor.Elogiata dal pubblico e dalla critica, in particolare da autori come Mark Waid, la serie ottenne diversi riconoscimenti, tra cui tre Eisner Award, tre Eagle Award e due Harvey Awards ed è la seconda collana ad essere lanciata sotto l'etichetta All Star DC Comics, dopo All Star Batman e Robin nel settembre 2005. Questa linea è la risposta all'etichetta Ultimate della Marvel Comics in cui gli autori possono rinarrare le storie dei personaggi al di fuori della continuity vigente sulle altre pubblicazioni con gli stessi protagonisti. Secondo gli editori l'intento della serie era quello di «Riportare l'Uomo d'Acciaio ai suoi elementi essenziali e senza tempo».*** Iscriviti al Canale ➜ http://bit.ly/Lucadeejay ****** Qui trovi tutto: https://linktr.ee/ilucadeejay ***#dc #superman #lucadeejay #allstarsuperman #grantmorrison #frankquitely
Seré Franco, se hizo la planeación de este mes, la descarga y el Re visionado de los episodios desde antes, esto debido a que esta misma dinámica de estar viendo especiales de Halloween y Navidad fue muy divertida, y nos puso en un mode como ningún año previo, supuse que pasaría lo mismo para San Valentín pero es un hecho que no da el mismo el juego, la pasión por la fecha claramente es mucho menos, pero como mi esfuerzo esta hecho y no vivo de esto, terminare lo que empecé, este es de Sitcoms, el siguiente de Películas y ya, podremos pasar a otra cosa, espero no se mal entienda, los capítulos con tema de San Valentín son buenos pero tal vez el llamarlos especiales pueda resultar exagerado y los especiales no son tan especiales, ni por nuestra parte, ni los contenidos mediáticos en si le echaban esas ganas, salvo muy pocos, por supuesto incluyo caricaturas también, espero les agrade mas que a nosotros mismos, algunos episodios no tan ESPECIALES de San Valentín y por supuesto hablando del episodio de WandaVision de esta semana y algún divague sobre la palabra Super siendo usada en relación a Superman, espero les Agrade, VOLVAMOS A SER NIÑOS!! Portadas a Detalle: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.155757829602828& Facebook e Instagram /infanciaeternapodcast @infanciaeternapodcast 00:00 Intro 01:30 Bienvenida 01:58 Nuestra Semana (La Botella e Kandor, Cuby, Naruto Shippuden, Anne with ann e, Sex Education, Que Esperar cuando estas Esperando, Hora de Aventura, Mujercitas, Pecera Nueva de Zuicyd) 15:42 WandaVision (Episodio 7) 59:59 Super (lo que sea) es por Superman? 1:15:22 Retomando WandaVision (Episodio 7) 1:38:00 “ESPECIALES” DE SAN VALENTIN EN SITCOMS 1:47:12 Love in Bloom 4x15 (Sabrina, la bruja adolescente) 2 de 3 1:50:40 La manipulación de la locomoción 07x15 (The Big Bang Theory) 3 de 5 1:52:30 El 14 de Febrero es el Cumpleaños de Guadalajara (Eventos de Gobierno) 2:03:50 Love is a Many Blundered Thing 03x19 (The Nanny) 2:06:43 If Boys Were Girls 04x10 (Malcolm in the Middle) 2:09:50 Todos los del Chavo del 8 2:10:55 El del Unagi 06x17 (Friends) 2 de 3 2:13:50 Día de San Valentín en Quahog 11x12 (Family Guy) 1 de 2 2:17:58 ¿Quién ama a quién-ooh? 03x21 (Kenan y Kel) 2:19:00 One Little Word 05x03 (American Dad) 1 de 2 2:20:55 El Día de San Valentín 02x10 (Manual de Ned) 2:23:55 Despedida.
Obrim la porta de l'Hotel Vader a un dels més grans influencers Freaks del nostre país: Javi Olivares de La Botella de Kandor. Parlem amb ell del seu últim llibre, Mi Universo Freak, y també parlem de les últimes novetats del món dels jocs de taula amb en Litus. Abrimos la puerta del Hotel Vader a uno de los más grandes influencers Freaks de nuestro país: Javi Olivares de La Botella de Kandor. Hablamos con él de su último libro, Mi Universo Freak, y también hablamos de las últimas novedades del mundo de los juegos de mesa con Litus.
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The Thanksgiving holiday is once again upon us, and that means it is time to review another Asterix book! Plus we are getting Wonder Woman for Christmas! We review Star Wars Adventures #2, Legion of Super-Heroes #11, the Animaniacs reboot, and more! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS https://variety.com/2020/film/news/wonder-woman-1984-hbo-max-release-1234804411/ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/black-lightning-final-season-4-cw-1234836722/ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-last-of-us-series-hbo-1234836778/ REVIEWS STEPHEN STAR WARS ADVENTURES #2 Writer: Michael Moreci, Cavan Scott Artist: Illas Kyriazis, Derek Charm Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 25, 2020 Between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, Poe and Finn have taken Rey to a remote planet to continue her Jedi training. But they're surprised to find that the First Order's reach extends far and wide. Plus, an all-new tie-in story to the Shadow of Vader's Castle one-shot! [rating:3.5/5] MATTHEW LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #11 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Ryan Sook Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 25, 2020 For a thousand years, the planet Krypton has been rebuilding itself, and the House of Zod has kept the legacy of Krypton alive throughout the galaxy. For a thousand years, the capital city of Kandor-home of the hero known as Mon-El-has been a beacon of hope across the universe. But now the shocking news that Superboy has come to live in the 31st century with the Legion of Super-Heroes has awoken Krypton's greatest foe! How can the Legion of Super-Heroes stop the destruction of New Krypton? Plus, delve into the mystery behind Gold Lantern!For a thousand years, the planet Krypton has been rebuilding itself, and the House of Zod has kept the legacy of Krypton alive throughout the galaxy. [rating:3.5/5] RODRIGO ANIMANIACS (2020) Producer: Wellesley Wild, Steven Spielberg Platform: Hulu Release Date: November 20, 2020 Animaniacs is an American animated comedy musical television series developed by Wellesley Wild and Steven Spielberg for the streaming service Hulu. It is a revival of the original 1993 television series of the same name. The new series sees the return of the Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko and their sister Dot (voiced respectively by their original voice actors, Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, and Tress MacNeille), and of Pinky and the Brain (voiced by their respective original voice actors Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche). Two seasons were ordered to be produced by Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation; the first season premiered on Hulu on November 20, 2020, and the show's second season will premiere in 2021. [rating: 4/5] ASHLEY [rating: 3.5/5] DISCUSSION ASTERIX: THE MANSIONS OF THE GODS (Album 17) Writer: Rene Gosscinny Artist: Albert Uderzo They want to pave paradise and put up a housing development. That's why a multinational team of slave construction workers are clearing the forest just outside the Gaulish town. Will the Gauls be fast enough to stop them and prevent Roman upstarts from moving in? CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!
The Thanksgiving holiday is once again upon us, and that means it is time to review another Asterix book! Plus we are getting Wonder Woman for Christmas! We review Star Wars Adventures #2, Legion of Super-Heroes #11, the Animaniacs reboot, and more! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS https://variety.com/2020/film/news/wonder-woman-1984-hbo-max-release-1234804411/ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/black-lightning-final-season-4-cw-1234836722/ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-last-of-us-series-hbo-1234836778/ REVIEWS STEPHEN STAR WARS ADVENTURES #2 Writer: Michael Moreci, Cavan Scott Artist: Illas Kyriazis, Derek Charm Publisher: IDW Publishing Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 25, 2020 Between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, Poe and Finn have taken Rey to a remote planet to continue her Jedi training. But they’re surprised to find that the First Order’s reach extends far and wide. Plus, an all-new tie-in story to the Shadow of Vader’s Castle one-shot! [rating:3.5/5] MATTHEW LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #11 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Ryan Sook Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 25, 2020 For a thousand years, the planet Krypton has been rebuilding itself, and the House of Zod has kept the legacy of Krypton alive throughout the galaxy. For a thousand years, the capital city of Kandor-home of the hero known as Mon-El-has been a beacon of hope across the universe. But now the shocking news that Superboy has come to live in the 31st century with the Legion of Super-Heroes has awoken Krypton's greatest foe! How can the Legion of Super-Heroes stop the destruction of New Krypton? Plus, delve into the mystery behind Gold Lantern!For a thousand years, the planet Krypton has been rebuilding itself, and the House of Zod has kept the legacy of Krypton alive throughout the galaxy. [rating:3.5/5] RODRIGO ANIMANIACS (2020) Producer: Wellesley Wild, Steven Spielberg Platform: Hulu Release Date: November 20, 2020 Animaniacs is an American animated comedy musical television series developed by Wellesley Wild and Steven Spielberg for the streaming service Hulu. It is a revival of the original 1993 television series of the same name. The new series sees the return of the Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko and their sister Dot (voiced respectively by their original voice actors, Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, and Tress MacNeille), and of Pinky and the Brain (voiced by their respective original voice actors Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche). Two seasons were ordered to be produced by Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation; the first season premiered on Hulu on November 20, 2020, and the show's second season will premiere in 2021. [rating: 4/5] ASHLEY [rating: 3.5/5] DISCUSSION ASTERIX: THE MANSIONS OF THE GODS (Album 17) Writer: Rene Gosscinny Artist: Albert Uderzo They want to pave paradise and put up a housing development. That's why a multinational team of slave construction workers are clearing the forest just outside the Gaulish town. Will the Gauls be fast enough to stop them and prevent Roman upstarts from moving in? CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends!
The actor looks back on working with Peter O'Toole in Supergirl.
Alex Grand and Jim Thompson interview Hendre Weisinger, son of former DC editor Mort Weisinger, discussing his legacy and career as science fiction author and agent, former editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories for Standard Magazines, DC Comics editor from 1941-1970, with a variety of concepts that came about under his editorship: Supergirl, Krypto, Phantom Zone, Kandor, Legion of Superheroes and having more than 1 kryptonite, the Yellow vs Red sun, Imaginary Stories, Superman Annuals. Co creator of Johnny Quick, Vigilante, Tarantula, Green Arrow and Aquaman, story edit the George Reeves TV Superman series, and was Jim Shooters child hood mentor in comics. Who was his favorite Superman Artist? What did he think of Neal Adams or Jack Kirby? How was his working relationship with Julius Schwartz, Forrest Ackerman or Jack Schiff? Alot to find out! Images used in artwork ©Their Respective Copyright holders, CBH Podcast ©Comic Book Historians. Thumbnail Artwork ©Comic Book Historians. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistoriansSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians)
On today’s ALL NEW Nerdtastically Newsworthy episode of #NerdORama…With the SyFy series “Krypton” making its debut on the DC Universe App; we’re revisiting our conversation with actor Cameron Cuffe who stared in the beloved, but short lived series, centered on Superman's grandfather Seg-El!!!
Ya se ha producido el tan esperado Evento de la DCFandome donde muchos esperábamos un montón de anuncios y otros iban con las expectativas más controladas, pero en definitiva todos hemos disfrutado de una fiesta que esperemos que cree precedente y se convierta en un evento anual. El Sótano del Planet no se podía quedar al margen de esto y lo cubrió en riguroso directo en el canal de La Botella de Kandor con un programa que se alargó 9 horas. Pero hemos visto conveniente dejar nuestras opiniones de una forma más sosegada y reposadas en forma de programa de una duración contenida (menos de 2 horas) donde el equipo de Sótano y los nuevos Sotaners os dejamos nuestras opiniones sobre el evento. El programa se ha extraído del realizados en el Canal de YouTube de Sótano del Planet emitido el día 26 de Agosto de 2020 con el equipazo del Sótano: Alberto Díaz, Antonio Monfort, Pako Garrido, Javier Olivares, Alex Benito, Matías Lertora, Francesc Gascó (Pakozoic), Vito Vázquez, Enrique Vegas y un servidor Juan Carlos Hernández. Un auténtico lujo de equipo.
This week we’re looking at superhero movies that were spun off from major franchises. We start with Jeannot Szwarc’s Supergirl (1984), where Helen Slater plays a very well-informed cousin to Superman. Next up is Tim Miller’s Deadpool (2016), with Ryan Reynolds breaking fourth walls like a meta wrecking ball. Last up is Cathy Yan’s Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020), which got a raw deal on release because of COVID lockdown and deserves to be seen.Also: Our hottest episode ever. The Bottle City of Kandor. Fly by wire. Die Hard Himbo! 80’s swamps. Kevin Conroy. Tom Petty reference. Green Lantern (2011). Deathstroke. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) title sequence. Leaked test footage. Haywire (2011). Exoskeleton by Shane Stadler. Suicide Squad (2016)’s trailer. Entitled douchebro. Rosie Perez. X-Men sucks. Tim Booth from James. We play a game of “You Spin Me Right Off”
Como todos sabéis por los diferentes circuitos de los que disponemos (Redes Sociales, Canales de YouTube, ...) el pasado fin de semana hicimos un seguimiento pormenorizado de la Justice Con a través de un total de 3 directos realizados en el Canal de YouTube de El Sótano del Planet y de La Botella de Kandor. Lo que os ofrecemos en este Podcast es un resumen de los mejores momentos de ese seguimiento que realizamos para que todos los que nos seguís por Podcast únicamente o bien os sea más fácil escucharnos que vernos, lo tengáis disponible. El seguimiento cubrió los dos días (sábado y domingo) y después de una sesuda edición, el Podcast ha quedado en casi 4,5 horas de sesión Sotanera. El programa se ha extraído de los directos realizados en YouTube los días 25 y 26 de Julio de 2020 por el equipo formado por Javier Olivares, Antonio Monfort, Alberto Díaz, Juan Carlos Hernández y la nueva incorporación al equipo del Sótano, el gran Matías Lertora.
We're back for part 2 of our discussion on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. We pick up right where we left off, with Superman surrounded by flames. There's definately a lot to talk about in this movie, which is why I split it into two parts. Let's dig deep into this fascinating movie. ----more---- Transcript Lex is conspicuously absent from his seat in the hearing. Finch finds a little message he left behind for her, referencing an earlier conversation. And then the wheelchair explodes, taking out the senate building. And Superman is distraught as he stands there, surrounded but unharmed by the flames that kill the vulnerable humans around him. At that same moment, Bruce sees the final message from Wallace. “You let your family Die.” This of course, is referencing his employees. It seems this guy not only blames superman, but he blames Bruce as well, for not protecting his workers from an alien invasion. That’s pretty unreasonable. But these words really set Bruce off. His family DID die. He watched his parents be gunned down. At this point in the story, we’re faced with a question. Did Lex hide the bomb in the wheelchair without the knowledge of Wallace, who sat in it, or was Wallace a willing martyr? This now, is the moment when the movie starts to get dark. Until now, it really hasn’t been. Superman is Helping bring survivors out of the building. It’s not much, but it’s all he can do. This explosion wasn’t his fault, but he can’t help but blame himself. He knows that someone is using him, everything he stands for, to hurt people. And that brakes him. Now here’s the one moment that does make me a little uncomfortable in the movie. Superman leaves. Are there still survivors in the building? The movie doesn’t really say at this point. If there are, and he’s abandoning them because he can’t handle the pain of this moment, then he’s being very un-Superman. But I have to believe that he’s already got all the survivors out that he can. Although a news report in a later shot seems to suggest there may still be survivors. If there’s one thing in this movie that I’d change, it would be this. I’d say that may have gone a step too far in actually having Superman abandon the suffering like this. But it shows the turmoil he’s in. I would suggest that right now he’s feeling like his help is not wanted. That it may even be inappropriate for him to be there. Haven’t you ever felt that? When someone is upset because of something you’ve done. You want to walk away because you feel like you’re the last person they’d want to comfort them. And yet, you’re wrong. They don’t want you to walk away. I know I’ve been in that situation. So I think I understand what they were trying to portray here. Having the final push he needed, Bruce steals the Kryptonite from Lex. He’s gonna do it. He’s gonna kill Superman. In true Batman tradition, he begins to plan. He readies the Kryptonite, and he strengthens his body. He’ll never be as strong as Superman, of course, but he needs every edge he can get. Superman is doubting himself. He’s doubting everything. He’s been living the life he believed his father wanted him to live. Saving people for a ghost. How arrogant to have thought he was here to do good, like some biblical prophet. A man with a destiny. How could he have thought so highly of himself. He says Superman was never real. He didn’t see the bomb because he wasn’t looking for it. Superman has come face to face with his fallibility. But worse than that, he’s come face to face with the consequences of his fallibility. He has such power, that when he makes a mistake, the consequences are huge. He can’t do that anymore. He can’t be that. People criticise this movie, saying that Superman spends the whole film brooding, but that’s supposed to be Batman’s thing. But, this is the first or maybe two scenes in the film that Superman has actually brooded, if you really want to call it that. Personally, I’d call it taking a good long look at himself, which is exactly what the dictates of story-structure demand, by the way. No, up until now, Superman has been the idealistic reporter. The complete opposite of Batman. Given all he’s going through, you can forgive the guy for losing his faith and his hope. But Lois reminds him that the symbol he wears on his chest means hope. That hope is real for a lot of people. Clark acknowledges that it stood for hope on Krypton, but he’s not convinced it does here. Not anymore. But we’ll come back to this. Now Lex puts the next step of his plan into motion. This isn’t exactly a backup plan B. It’s just another part of the complex web he’s weaving. He puts Zod’s body into the Genesis chamber, he learns that Zod was from the city of Kandor. Lex blends his own DNA with Zod’s to create a monstrosity once known, and outlawed, on Krypton. Now we get a little tease for the future of the DC extended Universe. Bruce looks at the meta-human research from the hard drive he stole from Lex. There he learns of Wonder Woman, who apparently hasn’t aged since 1918. I love how we see this photo which depicts a scene from the Wonder Woman movie, which hasn’t even come out yet. It was really cool. Lois finds proof that Wallace didn’t know he was going to die. He’d bought groceries. The wheelchair was made from the same metal as the bullet. And it was lined with lead so Superman couldn’t see the bomb. It’s all becoming even more apparent that Lex is manipulating the entire situation from the background. The world had accepted Superman, but Lex couldn’t handle that, so he’s been pushing his pieces around the board to heighten the natural fear people had of Superman’s power. Fears they had mostly put to rest. But he’s been waking them up again. So we get a nice little scene where Clark sees his dead father. He’s come to the top of a mountain, is it Everest? He needs advice, but he’s got nobody to go to. Both his father figures are dead. So his subconscious, his imagination, re-creates his dad, Jonathan Kent, the man who raised him, the man who made him what he is. Desperately hoping for some words of wisdom. Jonathan tells a story, Probably one he told Clark in the past, that he’s now remembering, of a time he worked hard to save his dad’s farm, only to realise his actions had doomed the neighbour’s farm. It was an unexpected consequence from his actions which had been nothing but good-intentioned. It’s a story Clark can relate to. Jonathan also explains how Martha helped him see there is good in this world. See, there’s a lot of positivity weaved into this movie. I don’t deny that it’s dark, although it’s nowhere near as dark as some people like to make out. But personally, I find, as others have said before, that the light shines brightest in the dark. A story needs both. If you don’t see the darkness in a story, then you don’t get to see the triumph of light. Some have referred to this movie as Grimdark. I strongly disagree. I think a much better descriptor of the genre of this film is, as I first heard E Stephen Burnett of Speculative Faith say, is Nobledark. Because ultimately, this movie shows the triumph of nobility over darkness. Alfred tries to talk Bruce out of his suicidal plan. You can’t win, not against Superman. Bruce notes that he’s older now, that his father ever was. That must be an unsettling realisation. Bruce has spent 20 years stopping criminals. But as he says, they’re like weeds. You pull one out and another takes its place. Bruce is looking for something more. He’s searching for purpose. He wants to make a lasting difference in this world. I guess you could say he’s having something of a mid-life crisis, but as Batman, he does everything bigger and more intense. As he sees it, ridding the world of Superman may be the one thing he ever does that matters. In his own way, he’s wanting to save the world. Lex pushes Lois off a building to get Superman’s attention. It’s time to put the final stage of his plan into motion. And this is where we begin to understand what this is all about. Why Lex is doing this. As a child, Lex was abused by his father. Nobody intervened. No Superman. Not God. Lex has come to the conclusion that if God is all powerful then he can’t be all good, and if he’s all good, he can’t be all powerful. You see, this is the age-old question of suffering and evil. A question that philosophers and theologians have been debating for centuries. Millennia. In fact, when Superman appears, Lex says outright, this is about the problem of evil in the world. Lex likens Superman to God, the God he feels failed to help him as a child. Lex can’t abide the idea of a heroic Superman because of his perceptions of God. Superman cannot be good, given his power. And he wants the world to see that. He wants to expose Superman as the fraud he believes him to be. This whole thing is because of Lex’s theological beliefs. Of course, Superman is not God. He is neither all powerful, nor all good. Superman has unimaginable powers, when compared to a human, but those powers have limits. Superman cannot shape the entire world to his will. He couldn’t save the people in that senate building. And he’s not all good, either. He may not be human, but he’s still a man. A man with all the frailties, and flaws that come with the package. Lex confirms that the red notes were not from Wallace. They were from him. Lex has spent two years setting this up, pushing Bruce bit by bit until he goes over the edge. Lex never intended to use that Kryptonite himself. He’s not gonna get his hands dirty like that. And frankly, he doesn’t have what it takes to defeat Superman in battle. Lex isn’t a fighter. He’s a manipulator. He wanted Bruce to use the Kryptonite. He wants Bruce to try to kill Superman. But ultimately, he wants Superman to kill Bruce. He wants Superman to be exposed as a killer. Either way, Lex wins. Either Superman is shown to be good, or powerful, but not both. And now he reveals that he’s kidnapped Clark’s mother. If Clark doesn’t kill Batman, Martha will die. Clarke and Bruce have very opposing philosophies, but it’s taken all this manipulation to make Superman and Batman fight. I think this movie makes it all very believable. So just when Clark thought he had worked through his issues, He says those words which critics of this film love to quote. “Nobody stays good in this world.” And that’s how he is honestly feeling at the moment. It doesn’t mean he is right. But he says outright to Lois, his primary intention here is to convince Batman to help him. He’s not going there to kill. He wants to find another way out of this. He’s been in this situation before. In the last movie, he was forced to kill Zod And that broke him.. He’s in a similar situation here now. He doesn’t want to have to kill again. He’s determined to find another way. Once again he’s in the position of having to choose between taking a life, or letting the innocent die. This time it’s not all the people of the world, it’s his mother, who he loves. You see, in his desperation, his words say that nobody stays good, and yet, his actions tell a different story. His actions show that he is still looking for another way. And yet, he can’t let his mother die. Meanwhile, Dianna finds an email from Bruce. He cracked the data, which she hasn’t been able to do. She sees the photo, that meant so much to her. She hasn’t seen that photo in almost a century. But he’s got more for her. We see information about other metahumans. The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. This was all setup for Justice League, and it was a fun tease. In true Superman form, he starts by talking. “Bruce, I was wrong. Lex is--” But Bruce isn’t interested in talk. He never gives Superman the chance to explain. Clarke gives an effective demonstration of his power before saying “If I wanted it, you’d be dead already.” See, it’s hard to even call this a real battle. Because Superman doesn’t really fight Batman. He’s certainly not trying to kill him. But this is when Bruce employs the Kryptonite in gaseous form. Superman feels fear for the first time when he realises his strength is gone. Bruce makes a good point when he says Superman isn’t brave. He isn’t. He’s never had to be. Men like Bruce are brave, because they can be hurt. The fight between them is a very small piece of the movie. If this film had a failing, I’m convinced that failing was bad marketing. Possibly even the wrong title. I think a lot of people came into this movie with the wrong expectations. I think a lot of them were expecting a popcorn superhero battle. You know, the age old question, who would win in a fight. It’s a very geeky question, but ultimately pointless. So they came in for popcorn, but were served a nice steak dinner. And then they complained that the steak dinner wasn’t very good popcorn. I remember going into the cinema to see this movie. There were posters saying “Who will win.” They even had stickers, with Batman and Superman logos you could put on the poster, to predict who you thought would win. That’s not the point. That’s not what this movie is about. As long as they’re fighting, they’re both losing. So Bruce finally has Superman at his mercy. He pulls out the pre-prepared Kryptonite spear. He’s gonna use it to kill superman. He stands over him, with the deadly weapon. And says what I already discussed. “You were never a god. This is Clark’s last chance. So he forces out the words. “You’re letting him kill Martha.” And while he doesn’t know it, those are the words that are gonna really speak to Bruce. Ok. This is the most ridiculed moment in this movie. And quite unfairly in my opinion. Bruce wants to know what Clark means. Did Clark know that Bruce’s mother was also called martha? Maybe. Perhaps that’s why he says Martha, rather than “My mother.” Bruce’s whole life has been defined by the death of Martha Wayne. But Bruce couldn’t save Martha. Martha was taken from him. Lois arrives just in time to explain that Martha is Clark’s mother’s name. Now, they don’t suddenly become friends because their mothers have the same name, as the memes suggest. Bruce realises a bunch of things at this moment. First of all, this humanised Superman in his eyes. Superman has a mother. But Bruce had already acknowledged Superman’s parents earlier in the battle. But it raises an important question. Why is Superman talking about his mother? Now, at the moment of his impending death. Why ask Bruce to save Martha? He realises at this moment that there’s more going on. He realises that they’re both being manipulated. Manipulated by Lex Luthor. Superman is only here because he’s being coerced. If he kills Superman, then he becomes the thug from that ally. He kills Martha. And that cannot be. Martha cannot die. Not again. Bruce won’t be that guy. He thought he was saving the world from a monster, but now he realises that he’s just the pawn of the monster. The real monster. Bruce won’t kill martha and he sure as hell won’t do Lex Luthor’s dirty work. That’s why he drops the spear. It makes sense. It’s dramatic. It’s emotional. It’s powerful. Dare I say, it’s beautiful. And that music, we get a reprise of the music from the opening credits, where we saw the Waynes killed. I’ll say it again. Hans Zimmer and JunkieXL are absolute masters of their craft. Something is happening at the Kryptonian scout ship. Superman is needed, but his mother needs him too. And that’s when Bruce says those beautiful words. “I give you a promise, Martha won’t die tonight.” This is Bruce’s chance to finally put his demons to rest. Tonight he saves Martha. Superman makes the decision to trust Bruce to save his mother, and goes off to do what only he can. What follows is a truly epic battle as Batman takes out Luthor’s thugs to save Martha. It’s a wonderful action movie sequence. Some have criticised Batman for killing in this scene. I’m fine with it. We’ve established this is a battle-hardened Batman who has lost any idealism he may have once had. He’s here to save Martha. Nobody is gonna stand in his way. Tonight, he’s a soldier. He’ll go through anyone that stands in his way. And Batman HAS killed before in multiple media. I mentioned in my Man of Steel podcast, that in the 1989 movie, Batman murdered a minor thug while cracking a joke. I really like the moment when Bruce finally arrives and saves Martha. And then we get yet another joke. “It’s ok, I’m a friend of your son’s.” “I figured. The cape.” This was a nice little chuckle-worthy moment. This movie DOES have humour in it. So this is the next stage of Lex’s plan. After Superman had been discredited as a killer, he still needs to be taken out. Doomsday was there to actually kill him. But it makes me wonder, what was Lex’s plan for deal with Doomsday if Batman had been victorious? So let’s talk about Doomsday. He’s pretty creepy I might have preferred if he looked a little more like he did in the comics, with the spies sticking out of him, but I do like his appearance. He looks suitably hellish, . But what really makes Doomsday scary and effective as a villain? It’s not what he looks like. Doomsday brings out our deepest fears because he killed Superman in the comics. If even Superman can die, then what can possibly save us? But surely they weren’t going to do that in this movie. What a waste of doomsday to bring him in now as a last minute threat. I think that’s what a lot of us were thinking. Dianna sees what’s happening and sets off to help. So does Bruce. The president is willing to let Superman die as an innocent casualty if it means killing doomsday, but the nuke doesn’t do the job. Doomsday falls back to earth and continues his rampage, with no Superman to stop him. Enter Batman and Wonder Woman. The nuke seems to have made Doomsday even more powerful. And now he’s starting to look more like he did in the comics. Of course, Superman’s not dead either. He just needs to be recharged by the rays of Earth’s sun. We don’t see a lot of Wonder Woman in this movie, but what we do see is pretty darn awesome. Her introduction as she saved Bruce from a blast of doomsday’s heat vision is fantastic. And yet again the movie gives Lois a chance to make a significant contribution to saving the day as she tries to retrieve the kryptonite spear. There’s another humorous moment when Superman asks, about Wonder Woman, “is she with you?” And Batman replies “I thought she was with you. So then, as the music that will become the new wonder woman theme plays, we see them standing together for the first time, the trinity of DC comics. It’s such a wonderful moment. The battle that ensues is a feast for the senses. Bruce and Dianna are fighting a losing battle against this thing. They’re trying to keep it busy, but they can’t kill it, although Dianna does some significant damage,but it just grows back stronger. As soon as Clark says “I love you,” to Lois, we know what’s coming, and so does she. It’s a very emotional moment. She cries out as he flies off, grabbing the kryptonite spear. Every second he holds it, he weakens. Superman is the only one who can get close enough to stab Doomsday with the spear, but in his weakened state, he is vulnerable, and doomsday stabs him through the chest, symbolically, through the symbol that represents hope. So has doomsday destroyed our hope by taking Superman from us? This is the moment that Superman redeems himself. Superman had said earlier, that nobody stays good. Superman has proven himself wrong. He resolved the situation with Bruce without bloodshed, and now, he makes the ultimate sacrifice. He gives his life to save the world. Superman proved himself wrong. And he proved Lex wronth. I’m watching this in that cinema, and thinking, I can’t believe it. They’re really going there. They’re going to have Doomsday kill Superman! They’re actually doing it. Despite what those critics said, I think this movie is dripping with hope and nobility. I saw this movie opening night in Australia. It was Good Friday. That made this moment all the more poignant. On a day that I had been remembering the sacrificial death of Jesus, I watched the sacrificial death of Superman. It impacted me in a powerful way. It moved me deeply. We get that quick image of Steppenwolf. It’s a little confusing. Is it meant to be a hologram? I mean, he’s not actually there in the scout ship, right? Lex is captured. And he has his head shaved in jail, giving us a more classic Lex Luthor look (but let’s not forget, early versions of Lex weren’t bald, they had orange hair, just like the lex in this movie) So we see two funerales. A state funeral for Superman (clearly with no body). And a small funeral for Clark. I think it’s fitting that the body is in Smallville, with his family. It’s nice to see the minister from Man of Steel performing the ceremony. No doubt the local pastor in Smallville. Martha probably attended his church. We also see Pete Ross there. And this is a very emotional moment, as Lois sees the engagement ring Clark had intended to give her, and would have, had he not died. I got choked up when I first saw this. Bruce is a changed man. He’s been truly impacted by Superman’s example and his sacrifice. When he says “Men are still good”, it pays off that moment when Superman said “Nobody stays good.” Bruce has finally found his purpose. This last moment in the movie is filled with optimism and hope. And when you see the Superman logo with the words “If you seek his monument, look around you” it shows how Superman has inspired the words, and it proves that Superman’s symbol still stands for hope. It always will now. No, Doomsday hasn’t robbed us of our hope. That symbol stands stronger than ever before. Bruce knows there’s more danger coming from out there in the universe. He knows this from questioning Lex, who says “The bell’s already been rung, and they’re heard it.” Lex has sent some kind of message. And so he asks Dianna to help him find the other meta-humans. They’re going to need to come together and fight, if they hope to save earth from whatever is coming, now that Superman is no more. This of course, is setting up Justice League. And that very last shot as the dirt begins to move, on Clarks coffin, gives us hope, that Superman may rise again. One of the biggest issues some people have with these two films is the portrayal of Superman with flaws. It’s one of the few criticisms I give any credence to, even though I disagree with it. I have a theory as to why this bothers some people, but not others. And to explain it, I need to talk about Star Trek. Let me quote Jeri Taylor, one of the writers on TNG and Voyager. In this quote from the book Star Trek The Next Generation - The Continuing Voyager by Judith and Garfield reeves-Stevens, she is speculating on the reason for the appeal of Star Trek. “We don’t have them anymore. We have lost the traditional arenas of heroes. We don’t have gods and legends and myth anymore. We have lost sports figures as heroes--they have been proven all too human and vulnerable. We have lost politicians. We have lost movie stars. We’ve even lost royalty, who have feet of clay also. So, there doesn’t seem to be those icons, now, that are the role models, larger-than-life people who are better than we are, who are heroic, who stand for something. I think that what Gene gave us in Star Trek characters is these larger-than-life people who are committed to an ethical and moral way of life, who are not afraid to go into the wilderness and to confront the feats and terrors of the demons and dragons that are out there, who have a moral principle and a moral centre, and who will not stray from that, no matter what. Star Trek presents godlike figures for us to admire and emulate. And I think that is a need that people have deep inside them that is not being satisfied otherwise today.” I think this also explains why Superman is popular to many people. They’re looking to him to fill that same need. That’s why some fans want to keep Superman on that pedestal, and not let him have any flaws. But, I haven’t lost my god. I’m a Christian. I still believe. I have Jesus to fill that need deep inside me. I don’t look to fiction to fill that need. So I prefer flawed characters in my fiction. I still want heroes with that moral centre, but I don’t expect them to be perfect. Because none of us are. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying all atheists hate this movie, and all people of faith like it. But we all come to stories for different reasons. Not every story is going to satisfy every person’s reasons. And that’s okay. I’ve never been under any illusion that this movie is for everyone. But I’m one of the people who loved it. For me, it worked. I was in the target audience. And I for one, was very glad that Warner Bros chose to make this niche movie for people like me, rather than water it down and produce something with mass appeal. Of course, as we’ll see, as we continue through these movies, that wouldn’t continue to be their approach. But that’s another story. You can go a lot deeper into this movie than I have in this podcast episode. If you’re interested in going further down the rabbit hole, I’d like to recommend another podcast. It’s called Batman V Superman By The Minute. This podcast will spend an entire episode talking about 1 minute of the movie. It’s pretty full on. But now that I’ve recorded my thoughts, I intend to go through and binge their episodes. Should keep me busy for a while. I invite you check them out. Next time, I plan to talk about Suicide Squad. That should be a shorter episode. Catch you then.
Menudo notición!!!! Hoy durante el visionado que ha realizado Zack Snyder de Man Of Steel desde la plataforma VERO y en la que por sorpresa Henri Cavill ha aparecido en el último momento, Snyder ha anunciado el estreno en la plataforma HBO Max de su versión de la Justice League y como no podía ser de otra manera había que grabar un Podcast. El podcast se ha realizado de un método un poco extraño ya que para poderlo cubrir todo, se ha extraído del directo de YouTube que realizamos la pasado noche desde el Canal de La Botella de Kandor, pero con un formato Podcast, así que no notaréis mucho la diferencia. El directo y el Podcast se grabó la noche del 20 de Mayo de 2020 con el equipo formado por Javier Olivares, Antonio Monfort, Alberto Díaz, Alejandro Benito y Juan Carlos Hernández, y para que la fiesta fuera completa, participaron Matías Lertora, Alvaro Luthor y Ruben de la Tribu de Wakanda.
This week we discuss the last of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Trilogy, Dark Knight: Master Race. It’s been three years since the Batman saved the world from tyranny. But now a new war is beginning. An army of unimaginable power, led by Superman’s own daughter, is preparing to claim Earth as their new world.
EPISODE 35: SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11, 'FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING' (1985) The Last Sons continue their Super journey with a listener request - it also happens to be a damn classic! Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's masterpiece, 'For the Man Who Has Everything' is given the spotlight this episode, alongside the usual Kryptonian chat between the House of El (Connor) and the House of Zod (Rey). Tune in to hear if the Last Sons hold the same opinion of this seminal issue, as you, the Super fan! SYNOPSIS: Superman Annual #11 - 'For the Man Who Has Everything' (1985) (Courtesy of Wiki) Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman pay Superman a visit at his Fortress of Solitude, with Batman and Wonder Woman bearing gifts for the Man of Steel's birthday. However, upon their initial entry, they see Superman standing rather still with a strange alien plant attached to his chest and wrapping its tendrils around him. They call out to him, but Superman doesn't respond. His mind is entranced by a vision he sees... ...a vision of him being on a Krypton that never exploded, living out the normal life of an average Kryptonian, being married and having a son and a daughter. He comes home from work and is greeted by a surprise firstday party which most of his family, except for his father Jor-El, attends. His father has become angry and bitter over being the laughingstock of the Science Council for predicting the end of Krypton which never happened, and is now joining with an extreme political sect called the Sword of Rao in the hopes of restoring Krypton to the way it used to be. As the three heroes try to determine where the plant came from and what it's doing to Superman, a gigantic yellow-skinned muscular humanoid male named Mongul shows up, telling them that the plant is a Black Mercy, which gives its victims the desire of their hearts, trapping them in a dreamworld that they cannot escape from. He challenges the three heroes to take him on one-on-one to find one among the Earth beings worthy enough to kill. Wonder Woman steps up to the challenge, nearly breaking her hand when she gave Mongul a punch. Mongul throws her through a wall, where she enters the weapons room of the Fortress, and uses one of the more powerful energy blasters to take on Mongul. Meanwhile, Batman tries to reach out to Superman to get him to snap out of his dream world as he attempts to unwrap Black Mercy's tendrils from the Man of Steel. On Krypton, Kal-El meets his aunt Allura in the hospital to comfort her when his cousin Kara fell victim to a violent protester demanding the release of the Phantom Zone criminals. He calls his wife and tells her to go someplace safe with their daughter and that he and their son will meet her there. Along the way Kal-El finds a gathering of Sword of Rao loyalists hearing Jor-El's charged speech about the current state of affairs on Krypton. Finally he takes his son to the site where the city Kandor used to be, and tells him that he has a feeling that nothing he has experienced is even real. Soon he starts to see his son and all Krypton vanish before his eyes... Batman succeeds in pulling Black Mercy off Superman's body, only for it to now latch onto him and give him a fantasy based on the desires of his heart. In Batman's fantasy, he sees that his father, on the night that his parents were murdered by a low-life criminal on the street, succeeds in overpowering the criminal and thus preventing the murder from ever happening. Bruce grows up happily, marries Kathy Kane, and they have a teenaged daughter. Superman, now freed from the Black Mercy's thrall, attacks Mongul in a rage, angry that he had been pulled from his fantasy of being on a Krypton that was never destroyed and losing everything that was so dear in the process. During this fight, Robin uses the gauntlets that Mongul pulled off his hands and grabs Black Mercy, pulling it off Batman and carrying it to where he would hope to dump it on Mongul. The fight between Superman and Mongul, with neither side prevailing, carries over into a room where the Kryptonian is distracted by the statue of his parents holding up a globe representing the lost world of Krypton, and Mongul uses it to pummel Superman. However, Mongul is distracted by Robin calling to him and sees him through a hole in the ceiling one floor up. Robin then drops Black Mercy right on Mongul, and instantly it wraps itself around Mongul, giving him a fantasy of his own heart's desire. In that fantasy, he kills Robin as well as Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman and then takes over as the leader of a new Warworld. In reality, Mongul simply drops to the ground, with the heroes now relieved that the fight is over. Batman and Wonder Woman finally present their birthday gifts to Superman. Wonder Woman shows him a perfect replica of the Bottle City of Kandor made by the Paradise Island Gemsmiths. He quickly goes to hide the replica he already has before taking the one from Wonder Woman and kissing her. The two think about a romantic relationship, but concede it will be too predictable. Batman shows him a new species of a plant blossom called the Krypton -- a blossom that ended up being crushed during the fight. Superman nonetheless is pleased that his friends and allies have even thought of bringing him gifts and then offers them coffee. SHOW NOTES: Superman Annual #11 (can find where its collected at the bottom) Action Comics #0 Daredevil #304 Superman Peace on Earth Swamp Things Podcast Signal of Doom World of Krypton Into the Knight episode with Connor and Rey PRE-LSK SEND IN YOUR FEEDBACK OR THOUGHTS ON - email : lskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LSKPodcast FB Page: facebook.com/lskpodcast Proud Member of The Collective The music for this episode contains excerpts from various songs and is copyrighted by Styzmask. The music used on Last Sons of Krypton - A Superman Podcast is licensed under an Attribution License;
Just Role With It returns for a new season of D&D with a new campaign, a new player, and a new world! Released from their respective duties at the end of the day, acquaintances Lance, Quercus, Pimur, and Amena gather again in the forest to investigate the tracks of the dogwolves that had previously attacked them. Following the tracks to a nearby mine, the party stumbles into two human guards. A silk handkerchief with an old royal insignia is as intriguing to Amena as the matching well-made pistol is to Pimur, but there is no further sign of canines to be found. The party ventures deeper into the tunnels, bickering and wary. Twitter: @just_role Instagram: @just_role_with_it_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/66qgJRj Patreon: www.patreon.com/JRWI
EPISODE 30: SUPERMAN YEAR ONE, FINAL CHAPTER The Last Sons reunite to review the final chapter to the 3-part saga that is Superman Year One. Things take a slight turn towards the end - for the better, or for the worst? You'll have to tune in to find out! Connor-El and Rey-Zod also chat about the current Superman news of the week, and again get caught up with their thoughts on the latest iteration of Superman for the small screen. We wrap it all up in a big, red, cape, right here! SYNOPSIS: (Written by Connor-El) Lois Lane is searching for Superman underwater in a sub when territorial atlanteans fire on her craft which begins to take on water which quickly envelopes her. Superman comes to the rescue and carries Lois to the shore, where he carefully administers CPR. He then leaves her in a tree as NAVY seals are also tracking him, they attempt to capture him but he knocks them out with ease. A second team comes in and tries to use electricity on him, but that actually seems to empower him and he again disables them with ease. He goes back to Lois who has gone into Shock and finds her ID, Lois Lane of the Daily Planet and takes her to a hospital. Time passes and Clark enrols in Kansas State University and graduates, with solid grades, nothing too perfect so he doesn't stand out. He is referred to Perry White of the Daily Planet so he heads to Metropolis. As soon as he arrives he rescues a child about to be hit by a truck much to the relief and amazement of everyone, then heads to the planet where he reads the paper and finds out there is a huge amount of crime in the city. Clark is hired and sees Lois in the bullpen and realizes she knows his face as Superman so he goes to get a disguise for Clark Kent and finds an old fashioned hat and large glasses. Clark constantly hears sirens, crime never stops so he proceeds to start fighting it. He stops a bank robbery, a drug operation, an abusive husband, a car-jacking operation and much more. Superman becomes the talk of the town. At the Daily Planet Lois muses on Clark's similarity to Superman when a Hostage crisis arises at Lexcorp and Clark dons his Superman garb and flies off to deal assess the situation. He overhears Lois calling Clark useless which cuts him every time she ever says it. The men behind the crisis put a gun to a little girls head and demand they be released with 1 billion and transport, but Superman intervenes and saves the girl (who barfs on him) and leaves her tucked in his cape on a roof and calls the police to come get her, then heads off and deals with the rest of the criminals. As he is doing so he realizes he is getting stronger every day. As all this is happening Lois ties a line around herself and jumps down onto the building, snapping pictures of Superman taking out the bad guys. As the hostages flee Lex himself comes up, noting they are fleeing just on time, to go talk to Superman who he wants to control. Superman doesn't like or trust Lex and suspects him of setting this whole thing up, but Lex convinces him to come inside and take a look at something. Lex shows Superman a photo of the Batman who he says is a terrorist and an agent of chaos. Lex says Batman is rough, Superman is skeptical so Lex shows Superman some photos of Batman's victims. (Written by Rey-Zod) Aboard a ship in Gotham Harbour, Batman intervenes a black market arms shipment, which catches the eye of Lex Luthor. Using the aggressive nature in which the Dark Knight metes out justice, Luthor turns the public against Batman, and cunningly thrusts the Man of Steel in the limelight as the one who can bring tranquility back to the city, and who can oppose the Dark Knight. In doing so, Luthor hopes to manipulate and defeat his foes simultaneously, and it appears there’s not much Superman can do about it. Later, Batman catches wind of a meeting between Luthor and his own nemesis, The Joker, and it’s after extracting more information from the Clown Prince, that Batman is able to further frustrate Luthor’s plans by blowing up a downtown drugs lab. The incident is just the catalyst Luthor needs to pressure Superman into bringing Batman in, and upon their inevitable confrontation atop a roof in Gotham City, their battle begins. Though Batman can’t get the measure of Superman, just as Superman begins to retaliate, Wonder Woman intervenes and convinces that they all should be working together. The Trinity confront Luthor in his office, and unable to withstand Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Submission, Luthor reveals all - all his underhanded, sinister schemes for financial gain and power. Added to this, Luthor also reveals a stunning secret that staggers Superman. Luthor speaks of the bottled city of Kandor and the evil Brainiac, and now with a new, all important purpose, Superman takes leave, innocently unaware of Wonder Woman’s burgeoning feelings towards him, and leaving her and Batman to deal with Luthor. Year One ends with Superman leaving Earth, unsure how long he will be away from his adopted home planet, but if anything, more assured of his place in the universe, and the role and responsibility he now has as a powerful protector of justice. SHOW NOTES: Superman Year One, issue #3 Superman and Lois Morrisons Cruelest Superman Superman Year One 3 Variant Superman John Byrne Omnibus Superman Alvin Schwartz Strip Collections SEND IN YOUR FEEDBACK OR THOUGHTS ON - email : lskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LSKPodcast FB Page: facebook.com/lskpodcast Proud Member of The Collective The music for this episode contains excerpts from various songs and is copyrighted by Styzmask. 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Lacy & Michele are back at it, no car audio this time! We're here to chat the season finale of Krypton Season 2... our ship is sailing, we might be psychic, For has a crib, and Nyssa's on a planet with GREAT lighting! What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, KRYPTONfollows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow. Official Website: KryptonPodcast.com Social Media: Facebook – @KryptonPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Google Play – iHeartRadio Contact Us: KryptonPodcast@Gmail.com Support: TeePublic Store
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Soooo Lyta is NOT DEAD but rather under the dream spell of a Black Mercy! This weeks episode we saw Kryptonopolis and a "What if" scenario as well as just how far Dru is willing to go. Lacy & Michele discuss! What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, KRYPTONfollows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow. Official Website: KryptonPodcast.com Social Media: Facebook – @KryptonPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Google Play – iHeartRadio Contact Us: KryptonPodcast@Gmail.com Support: TeePublic Store
Lacy & Michele are back to discuss the last 2 episode of Krypton! Doomsday's backstory, Baby Jor-El, Nyssa & Seg, Adam & Kem, Space Grandpa, Brainiac and MORE! What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, KRYPTONfollows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow. Official Website: KryptonPodcast.com Social Media: Facebook – @KryptonPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Google Play – iHeartRadio Contact Us: KryptonPodcast@Gmail.com Support: TeePublic Store
General Zod makes one last attempt to stop Kal-El from escaping, before he and his followers are apprehended by Kandor’s Warrior Guild. Guest Commentator: Jacob Oliver
A Rondor welcomes us to Kandor, the capital of Krypton, before things get heated among the Krpytonian Law Council.
It’s another weekly episode of The New 52 Adventures of Superman for you, this week covering Action Comics 7, which includes “Superman’s Doomsday Decision” and “Meanwhile.” Superman goes after the Collector of Worlds on his satellite in space and is forced to make a decision between saving the bottled city of Metropolis or Kandor. We […]
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