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We're back with more of Joshua Williamson's Flash run. This time we're talking volumes 7 to 9 (issues 39 to 57). Williamson's run really feels like a great jumping on point for the Flash. Since it's during Rebirth, it gives us a great reintroduction of not only Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne but also Wally West. This part of the run felt like Williamson telling all of us that grew up with Wally as our Flash that his years as the Flash mattered. And while this series is centered on Barry, it felt good to get acknowledgement of Wally's years (decades) as the Flash.
Issues:

* The Flash Volume 7: Perfect Storm
* The Flash Volume 8: Flash War
* The Flash Volume 9: Reckoning of the Forces



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We finally get back into recording Character Corners and it still takes me 2 weeks to release the episode. Smh. Sorry for the delay folks but we're finally hitting the Joshua Williamson run of The Flash. We consider this the reintroduction of Barry Allen. Sure in 2009 Geoff Johns did a "rebirth" of Barry Allen, having him finally return to the mantle after being dead for so long. But this run during DC's rebirth really gets Barry back to the basics. Anyone that's read this run knows it comes back down to Barry vs Thawne but the way this run starts off, it removes some of the staples like Thawne and the Rogues and focuses first on undoing some of the mistakes from New 52. We start with Wally coming back then there are hints of Jay as well. And of course the most important thing: how naive Barry is and how he runs into situations without seeing the big picture.
We start with the first three volumes and when we come back we'll hit The Button (the crossover with Batman and setup for Doomsday Clock).
Issues:

* The Flash Volume 1: Lightning Strikes Twice
* The Flash Volume 2: Speed of Darkness
* The Flash Volume 3: Rogues Reloaded



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Kriss and Dpalm are back and this time we're revisiting a character we've spent some time talking about before: Dick Grayson aka Nightwing. We've covered Dick before in our previous Robin Part 1 Character Corner that covered Dick Grayson's years as the first Robin along with Jason Todd. This episode we're spending some time talking about his years after he put up the Robin suit and became Nightwing. 
Much like his best friend Wally West, Dick Grayson is one of those characters that started off as a sidekick but then became their own hero and eventually even took over the mantle. What's so great about this character is how both similar and different he is from Bruce Wayne/Batman. Dick Grayson is what Bruce would be if Bruce Wayne didn't hate being Bruce Wayne.
Issues:

* The Judas Contract

* The New Teen Titans #39
* The New Teen Titans #40
* Tales of the Teen Titans #42
* Tales of the Teen Titans #43
* Tales of the Teen Titans #44 - First appearance of Dick Grayson as Nightwing
* Tales of the Teen Titans #3


* Robin Year 1
* Nightwing Volume 1 (1995) 

* 4 issue miniseries and first Nightwing solo book


* Nightwing Volume 2 (1996)

* Issue #25 - Tim and Dick ride the train
* Nightwing Year 1

* Nightwing vol2 101 - 106




* Birds of Prey #8
* Batman Knightfall
* Battle for the Cowl
* Grayson
* Nightwing Rebirth



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Stephanie Williams is a comic book historian and pop culture critic who has written for SYFYFANGRRLS, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. Stephanie is also a comic creator with three ongoing webcomics, Parenthood Activate!, But What If Though?, and Living Heroes. She made her Marvel debut with a short story featuring Monica Rambeau in Marvel’s Voices: Legacy. She recently made her DC Comics debut in Wonder Woman Black and Gold #2 and is co-writing the Nubia and the Amazons miniseries.
 


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We're getting closer to the end of out Hickman Marvel series and things are starting to fall apart for everyone. In the two series we watch as Steve not only remembers what the Illuminati did to him but also becomes hardened in his decision that they are wrong and must be stopped. On the New Avengers side, we watch as the Illuminati becomes even more broken. T'Challa, Namor and Black Bolt are all Kings without Kingdoms. Dr. Strange has sacrificed everything. Reed has pretty much given up his family (and we saw in Hickman's Fantastic Four run what happens when Reed does that). Beast and Banner are facing a crisis of humanity. And Tony...well Tony is definitely broken but he also seems to be the only one that truly understands how all this is going to end. 
We will tackle Time Runs Out in the next part and we see that like before, All Hope Lies in Doom. 
Issues:

Avengers:  25 - 28
Original Sin 1 - 8
Avengers 28 - 34
New Avengers 16 - 23



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Reboots are a thing that happens all the time in comic books. But there are reboots and retcons and then there's what DC Comics did with the Legion of Super-Heroes. I take back what I said during part 1. The Legion of Super-Heroes might have the most complex and complicated history in DC. Yes that's over Wonder Woman and the Hawks. See, with the Legion, you take the confusion and complicated histories of Wonder Woman and Hawkman. Add in the time traveling of ALL the Flash characters. Sprinkle in some good ole "unnecessary DC Editorial decisions". Then...MAKE ALL THE HISTORY MATTER. That's the Legion of Super-Heroes.
There's at least 6 different origins, 5 of them unique. What's really interesting is that outside of the 5 Years Later/Glorithverse reboot (seriously, its terrible don't read it), all the reboots are pretty decent reads. This means you can find a team you like and have a decent run reading them. Sure they'll be rebooted for no reason sometimes but...come on...it's comics. That happens.
We cover each of the reboots (and some of the behind the scenes mess) in this episode. Don't know how we covered it all in two episodes but we did. Check out Part 1 here. We'll be back in a bit to head back to the Hickmanverse and the Avengers soon.
Issues:

* Original Team

* Superman Crossover

* Legion of Super-Heroes #37 & 38
* Superman #3
* Action Comics #591


* Magic Wars

* Legion of Super-Heroes #59 - #63




* Reboot 1 (1989): 5 Years Later - The Glorithverse
* Zero Hour (1994)
* Reboot 2 (1994 - 2004)

* Legion of Super-Heroes
* Legion Lost (2000 - 2001)
* Legion Worlds
* The Legion (1 - 38)


* Reboot 3 (2004 - 2009)

* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 1: Teenage Revolution
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 2: Death of a Dream
* Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 3: Strange Visitor from Another Century
* Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 4: Adult Education
* Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 5: The Dominator War
* Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6: The Quest for Cosmic Boy
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 7: Enemy Rising
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 8: Enemy Manifest


* The Lightning Saga

* Justice League of America #0, #8 - 12
* Justice Society of America #5 & 6


* Reboot 4 - Return of the Original Team

* Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
* Superman: Secret Origin #1 - 6
* Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes

* Action Comics #858 -863


* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 1: The Choice
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 2: Consequences
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 3: When Evil Calls
* Legion Lost Volume 1: Run From Tomorrow
* Legion Lost Volume 2: The Culling


* Reboot 5  (2019 - ) Bendis

* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 1: Millennium
* Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 2: The Trial of the Legion
* Justice League vs The Legion of Super Heroes





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We're back for Part 7 of our Into the Hickmanverse series as we got through the world in Marvel that Hickman has built. After looking at what we have remaining, there will be 11 total parts. We'll get the way through Secret Wars with Part 10 and for Part 11 we'll talk about the new age of X-Men that Hickman has ushered in. Before that though, things are starting to heat up in Hickman's Avengers story with the Infinity Crossover. 
There are three main stories here and they’re all connected.

Thanos searching for his Inhuman son...so that he can kill him
The Avengers go to space to stop the Builders who are conquering and destroying worlds on their bee-line to Earth
The Illuminati stuck between #1 & #2: Helping stop the Thanos invasion (also helping Black Bolt) and Dealing with an incursion that leads to them having a chat with a Builder from another universe

This is where we start seeing more and more things come together for Hickman's vision. The theme of Life/Death is very heavy here in all the books. From Thane/Thanos to how the Avengers deal with the galactic threat versus the Illuminati. We also get some of the call backs to his Fantastic Four run, like with the Bridge being recalibrated to look at other worlds and how they dealt with incursions. Then there's the hints of how much worse things are going to get. 
Issues:

Infinity #1
New Avengers #8
Avengers #18
New Avengers #9
Infinity #2
New Avengers #10
Avengers #19
Infinity #3
Avengers #20
Infinity #4
Avengers #21
New Avengers #11
Infinity #5
Avengers #22 to #23
Infinity #6
New Avengers #12
Avengers #24 (also labeled #24.NOW)
New Avengers #13 – #15
New Avengers Annual #1



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So for the 100th episode of the Character Corner, Kriss & Dpalm are finally back on the DC side and we decided we didn't want to make it easy on ourselves and so we’re tackling the Legion of Super-Heroes. The the history of the Legion of Super-Heroes is one that rivals Wonder Woman, Donna Troy and Hawkman as having some oof the most convoluted and rebooted/retconned history on the DC side. There are several reasons for why the history of the Legion is so hard to pin down. Part of that is like with a lot of these characters, it was never the plan for them to be around as long as they were. That coupled with a few other things make the Legion really hard to follow a history on:


* They’re from the future. The 30th century (and 31st century) and time travel almost always makes things messy
* Their history is centered around Superboy

So the first isn’t too big of a deal. there’s a lot of characters in DC history that play around with time. But when it comes to tying the characters to  to Superboy…the follow up question has to be: Which One?
 
Now we’ve covered Superboy's history on another episode but there’s going to be some overlap here. Particularly in the early years of the Legion. 
Remember, there is a version of Superboy, particular the one we’re talking about with the Legion that is a version of Clark Kent that later grows up to become Superman. Some other notable Superboy versions:


* Superboy Prime - From earth prime. Earth destroyed during Crisis. Becomes a villain
* The Metropolis Kid/Connor Kent (the clone)



But for the Legion, we're talking Earth-1 Superboy (Later Pocket Universe Superboy which we will get into in episode 2). For this episode we keep it nice and simple and cover all the way up to the Great Darkness Saga which is still pre-crisis and before things get all weird. We focus mostly on how the concepts and early stories for the Legion of Super-Heroes really laid the groundwork for a lot of modern stories both in and out of comics. In episode 2 we'll really dive down into some of the specific characters as well as try to unwrap the craziness that happens post-crisis. 
 
Issues:


* Adventure Comics #247 - First Appearance

* First Appearance of Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad/Boy


* Adventure Comics #267 - Second Appearance
* Adventure Comics #304 - “Death” of Lightning Lad
* Adventure Comics #329 - Brainiac 5 Introduces the Legion’s Flight Ring
* Adventure Comics #346 - Jim Shooter’s first story. Creates Ferro Lad, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, 
* Adventure Comics #352 - First Appearance of the Fatal Five
* Adventure Comics 353 - First real death of a Legionnaire 
* Earthwar

* Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #241 - 245


* Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas and Paul Levitz Run

* Legion of Super-Heroes #259 - 286


* The Great Darkness Saga

* Legion of Super-Heroes vol 2, #287, #290 - 294, Annual #1 & 3






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We're ending 2021 with the beginning of the end. We've started Hickman's epic Avengers/New Avengers run. This is one of our favorite runs. We've covered it several times from Comic Book Book Clubs on premium to when we cover individual characters like Black Panther, Iron Man, Captain America, etc. This time we're covering it from the perspective of looking at how Hickman sets up and builds out this really long story. If you read these books in their individual release date order and not by the volumes, the story tends to hit a bit different. You start to realize things like, Avengers is really just Tony babysitting Steve and building out a more powerful Avengers team after the Illuminati mind-wiped Steve. Avengers also introduces us to The Builders & Builder Code as well as the fact that the Universe is sick. It's like reading Avengers shows you the symptoms of the problem while New Avengers shows just how bad the illness is. 
We end this first part right before the Infinity event starts up. Part 2 will cover that before we hit the home stretch to Time Runs out.
As we bring 2021 to a close, we did want to take a minute and thank all the fans that have stuck with us over these rough last couple of years. Between the pandemic and outside obligations, Dpalm and I have struggled to keep pumping these episodes out every month. We've still managed to do about 1 every month though. While we can't make any promises because no one knows what the future will hold, we're hoping in 2022 to get back to our regular, 2-episodes a month cadence. For episode 99 we'll do a Pull List and talk about all the good comics that are out there that we haven't had a chance until now to catch up on. And then for episode 100, we're going to head back over to DC (finally) and dive into the Legion of Superheroes. Thanks for sticking with us all these years and we hope you all have a safe and happy holidays. 
Issues:

* Avengers Volume 5: Issues 1 - 17
* New Avengers Volume 3: Issues 1 - 8



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We're back with part 5 of our Into the Hickmanverse series. This time Hickman teams up with Bendis again to dive into the Ultimate universe. But before we do that, we first have to address how we got here. Yes that means retelling the story (if you can call it that) of Ultimatum and how the Ultimate universe was left in shambles. We then cover Bendis' trilogy (Ultimate Enemy, Ultimate Mystery and Ultimate Doom) that casts the Ulimate Universe's Reed Richards as a villain.
 
All of that sets the stage for Hickman to come in and tell his story. But first he gives us a little background on Ultimate Thor and retells the story of Ragnarok. Then Hickman tells the story he was telling in Fantastic Four but this time with another evil Reed Richards. The story of "The Maker". Again, this is all laying the groundwork for what Hickman will be doing next: Avengers. We'll be back soon to tell that in a three-part series soon.
Issues: 

* Pre-Hickman

* Ultimate Enemy 1 -4
* Ultimate Mystery 1- 4
* Ultimate Doom 1 - 4


* Ultimate Comics Thor 1 -4
* Ultimate Comics Fallout 1 - 6
* Ultimate Comics Ultimates 1 - 6
* Ultimate Comics Hawkeye 1 -4
* Ultimate Comics Ultimates 7 - 12



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The latest part of our Into the Hickmanverse series by wrapping up his Fantastic Four run. This covers both Fantastic Four and FF (Future Foundation).
We kick everything off with the new series, FF as well as some new uniforms for Marvel's first family. Also, Spider-Man comes in to fill in the spot left by Johnny. Things really take off here. First on the list of things for the Future Foundation to do: Solve the issue of Doom's diminished intelligence. The next thing? Get some of the Fantastic Four's most intelligent enemies and have them come together to do one thing: Defeat Reed Richards. Since there are now 4 other Reeds from other universes running around thanks to lil ole Val.

As the series goes on Hickman starts to reveal what's really going on and why future Val & Franklin are manipulating the past. It all comes down to buying 27 minutes to align everything perfectly to save the universe. And at the heart of that is Doom standing against mad Celestials. 
Hickman's run ends with him laying the groundwork for his big event (Time Runs Out/Secret Wars) that is still a few series away. We get the returning of Black Bolt and the Inhumans to earth as well as the bonding of Reed Richards and T'Challa. These have big impacts later on in the New Avengers run when these three link back up as members of the Illuminati that's trying to stop the incursions. 
But before we get into all that, we need to take a trip over to the Ultimate universe where Hickman apparently took a look and said "Here I can build".

Issues:

* FF Volume 1

* FF #1 - #5


* FF Volume 2

* FF #6 - #11


* Story alternates between FF & Fantastic Four going forward
* Fantastic Four #600
* FF #12
* Fantastic Four #601
* FF #13
* Fantastic Four #602
* FF #14
* Fantastic Four #603
* FF #15
* Fantastic Four #604
* FF #16
* Fantastic Four #605 & #606
* FF #17 & #18
* Fantastic Four #607 & #608
* FF #19 - #21
* Fantastic Four #609 to #610
* FF #22
* Fantastic Four #611
* FF #23



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All good things must come to an end and so it is with our read through the Invincible series. Now it's well known that even the best series have a hard time sticking the landing. How did Invincible do? Well...it stuck the landing. Kirkman really gives this series the ending it deserved and it felt like it came full circle and was completely earned. 
Of course it also comes with a lot of brutality and shocking deaths but we would have it now other way because...well...this is Invincible. This was a really great series to read and gives you a taste of what a big superhero epic could be if there was a finite story and end in mind. 
Issues:

* Invincible Volume 21: Modern Family
* Invincible Volume 22: Reboot?
* Invincible Volume 23: Full House
* Invincible Volume 24: The End of All Time Part 1
* Invincible Volume 25: The End of All Time Part 2



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Now the fun begins. Secret Warriors gave us a taste of what was in that crazy brain of Hickman. S.H.I.E.L.D. is where we really start to see things form. This is the series that will have readers going back to issue 25 of Secret Warriors to start piecing things together. It's also where the foundations for what Hickman does in his Fantastic Four run gets set. 
We not only get the foundation of SHIELD starting way back in ancient Egypt by Imhotep (with a young Apocalypse and Moon Knight) but establishing it as a secret brotherhood whose purpose was/is to stop the premature destruction of mankind. And this highlights what makes Hickman's runs so good. In a way he's a history professor whose main focus is finding the obscure in the Marvel Universe and making it not only relevant, but expanding the universe. Sure, at its core we're getting a fundamental power struggle between Leonardo DaVinci and Sir Isaac Newton about whether man should continue to fight or survival or accept its fate. But outside of that, we're also given a young Howard Stark and Nathaniel Richards as agents of SHIELD. And what happens with both of them is then seen later in how their sons turn out. We see why "our" Reed Richards is so important and different from others. We see why Tony , despite all his flaws, can be one of the most prolific and accomplished (and focused) builders in the universe. 
This is the beginning of the theme of fathers and sons and what they owe each other. It's something we're going to continue to see throughout Hickman's runs (especially with Fantastic Four). But we also get the themes of Expansion vs. Contraction, Life vs. Death, Infinite Human Existence vs Inevitability.
Issues:

* S.H.I.E.L.D #1 The Unholy Resurrection of Leonardo da Vinci
* S.H.I.E.L.D #2 Newton's Theory of Eternal Life
* S.H.I.E.L.D # 3 The Theory of Eternal Life
* S.H.I.E.L.D #4 The Madness, the Star Child, and the Celestial Madonna
* S.H.I.E.L.D #5 The Forgotten Machines of Nikola Tesla
* S.H.I.E.L.D # 6 The Master's Hand
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 #1 Terribilita
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 #2 Fire
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 # 3 The Fall
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 #4 All Together Now
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 #5 Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
* S.H.I.E.L.D Volume 2 # 6 I Am the Sun
* S.H.I.E.L.D Infinity



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With Deadpool 2 hitting theaters this weekend we've finally recorded our Character Corner episode on Nathaniel Christopher Charles Summers, aka, Cable. Now first off, we've touched on a lot of the early years with Nathan/Cable already in some previous Character Corners. We cover Nathan's birth and being sent to the future in the Cyclops & Alex episode as well as him being genetically created specifically to be a weapon against Apocalypse in our Apocalypse & Mister Sinister episode. And if you want more on Deadpool and Cable's relationship, we covered that all the way back in our Deadpool Character Corner.

Now Cable wasn't originally created to be the grown up, future Nathan Summers. Originally Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld created him to just be a military leader who was the complete opposite of Professor X and would lead the young New Mutants. Things changed rather quickly as the character became more popular and soon it was revealed he was not only Nathan Summers but his clone was Stryfe who founded the Mutant Liberation Front. It only gets stranger and weirder from here and we cover it all. From his half sister from an alternate timeline (Rachel Summers/Grey) to Cable going becoming the protector and father of Hope Summers. There's a lot going on, it can be convoluted but it's all connected. We try to make sense of it all.

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Issues:

* Uncanny X-Men #201 - First appearance of Nathan Summers
* X-Factor #68 - Infected with the Techno-Organic virus and sent to the future
* New Mutants #86 - First Appearance of Stryfe
* New Mutants #87 - First Appearance of Cable 
* X-Force #1
* Cable Volume 1 (1993)

* Issue #6 he's confirmed to be Nathan Summers


* The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix - Scott & Jean get pulled into the future by Rachel Summers to raise the young Nathan
* X-Cutioner's Song

* Uncanny X-Men #294
* X-Factor #84
* X-Men #14
* X-Force #16
* Uncanny X-Men #295
* X-Factor #85
* X-Men #15
* X-Force #17
* Uncanny X-Men #296
* X-Factor #86
* X-Men #16
* X-Force #18
* Uncanny X-Men #297


* Soldier X
* Cable & Deadpool (2004)
* Messiah Complex Saga

* Messiah Complex
* Cable Vol 2 (2009)
* Messiah War

* X-Force/Cable Messiah War #1
* Cable vol 2 #13
* X-Force Vol 3 #14
* Cable Vol 2 #14
* X-Force Vol 3 #15
* Cable Vol 2 #15
* X-Force Vol 3 #16


* X-Men Second Coming

* X-Men Second Coming #1
* Uncanny X-Men #523
* New Mutants Vol 3 #12
* X-Men Legacy #235
* X-Factor #204
* X-Force Vol 3 #26
* Uncanny X-Men #524
* X-Men Hellbound #1
* New Mutants Vol 3 #13
* X-Men Blind Science #1
* X-Men Legacy #236
* X-Factor #205
* X-Force Vol 3 #27
* Uncanny X-Men #525
* X-Men Hellbound #2
* New Mutants Vol 3 #14
* X-Men Legacy #237
* X-Factor #206
* X-Force Vol 3 #28
* X-Men Hellbound #3

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Kriss talks with Sam Stevquoah about his own production company's flagship animated project, Mill City's Finest. Sam describes Mill City's Finest as an "urban, superhero coming of age story" in the same vein as Young Justice and Static Shock. 

We chat about how Sam got involved in animation, what makes this series so unique and culturally diverse and what's next to get more people behind this project. 

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Avengers Infinity War is in theaters now and is already crushing records (and souls). While you wait for Avengers 4 to come out, now is a perfect time to catch up on Thanos in the comics to see just how accurate the movie is. But before we can get into Thanos, we first have to give a brief overview of Marvel Cosmic. We've touched on Marvel Cosmic a bit with Inhumans and when we talked Alex Summers. But Thanos throws us right in the middle of it. Jim Starlin really helped solidify the cosmic side of Marvel and so we give a condensed rundown of the Celestials, Eternals, Adam Warlock and more. Trust us, we will revisit all of this more in later episodes in more details.
We then jump forward a bit to go through Jason Aaron's Thanos Rising which while it's more recent (2013), it gives a pretty great (and dark) view of Thanos' origins. Then its back to the early 90's and Thanos collecting the Infinity Stones (or rather, Soul gems as they were called) in Thanos Quest, the Infinity Gauntlet crossover and more.
We end with the recent Thanos solo book that if you're not reading it...you're missing out on greatness.
Reading List (As usually with Marvel, most of these are on Marvel Unlimited)


* First Appearance

* Iron Man #55
* Captain Marvel #25 - 32
* Avengers #125
* Captain #33 - 34


* Thanos Returns

* Strange Tales 178 - 181
* Warlock 9 - 15
* Marvel Team-up 55
* Avengers Annual #7
* Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2


* Silver Surfer

* #34 - #38


* Thanos Quest

* Thanos collecting the Soul Gems (what the Infinity Stones used to be called)


* Infinity Gauntlet #1 - 6
* Infinity War
* Secret Defenders 11-14
* Cosmic Powers
* The Thanos Imperative
* Thanos Rising (Jason Aaron)
* Infinity #1 - 6

* #1 - First appearance of The Black Order


* New Avengers

* Vol 3 #23


* Secret Wars
* Ultimates

* Volume 1
* Volume 2


* Thanos

* Volume 1 - Thanos Returns
* Volume 2 - The God Quarry
* #13 - 18 - Thanos Wins



 

We finish up the Dark Knight himself with what might be the greatest and longest streak of great stories for a solo character. From the time Grant Morrison takes over Batman to today’s Tom King Run, we have what is arguably the best storytelling at DC. It gets weird, it gets crazy and it brings in things all the way from the 50’s & 60’s. If you want to truly understand Bruce Wayne and Batman, pick up the Grant Morrison Batman omnibus and strap in, you’re going to be in for a ride.
But before we get to Morrison, we pick up where we left with Knightfall and Bane breaking the Bat. While not the best, the ending arc (KnightsEnd) sees some really great reflection of Bruce getting to the core of why he matters as Batman. After that, what we start to see is authors coming in and telling some really great Batman stories.  Jeph Loeb and The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, then Hush and Judd Winick and Under the Hood.
And then Grant Morrison steps in and says “So you know all the weird and crazy things from the 50’s & 60’s that went away when Batman became darker? What if we could have both?” and away we go for a ride. There’s A LOT that is in that run and we only scratch the surface but if you want to really dig into the run (and you should) we have the links below.
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Issues:

* Batman: Knightfall

* Knightfall
* Knightquest
* KnightsEnd


* Batman: Year One (Frank Miller)
* Batman: The Long Halloween
* Batman: No Man’s Land
* Batman: Hush
* Batman: Under the Hood

* Batman: Red Hood - The Lost Days


* Batman: War Games
* JLA: Tower of Babel (Mark Waid)
* Grant Morrison’s Batman (Reading Order)

* The Black Case Book (Not by Morrison but a collection of earlier Batman stories that lay the groundwork)
* JLA Rock of Ages
* Batman and Son
* Batman R.I.P.
* Batman & Robin

* Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Volume 3


* The Return of Bruce Wayne
* Batman Incorporated
* Grant Morrison Ombnibus Vol 1


* Scott Snyder

* Court of Owls
* City of Owls
* Death of the Family
* Zero Year Secret City
* Zero Year Dark City
* Grave Yardshift
* End Game
* Superheavy
* Bloom
* Epilogue 


* Tom King

* I am Gotham
* I am Suicide
* I am Bane
* The War of Jokes & Riddles



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We’re back with Part 2 of our Batman Character Corner. Part 1 focused mostly on the early comics up through the introduction of Tim Drake in Batman #440. For this episode, before diving back into the comics, we wanted to cover the other media that Batman has been prevalent in. Considering that TV has had a big impact on Batman in the comics, we felt throwing this episode in between the two comic focused episodes was best. Both the 66 TV show and the early 90’s Animated Series have led to some characters making their way from the TV screen to the comic book pages. Also Batman’s presence on TV and in film have had an huge impact on his popularity and for many, was their first introduction to not just Batman but comic book characters.

So sit back and listen as we dive into the world of Batman from TV to Film to even Video Games.

TV:

* 66 Batman
* Super Friends
* Batman The Animated Series
* Justice League
* The New Batman Adventures
* Batman Beyond

Live Action Movies

* Batman The Movie
* Burton/Schumacher

* Batman
* Batman Returns
* Batman Forever
* Batman and Robin


* Nolan

* Batman Begins
* The Dark Knight
* The Dark Knight Rises


* Snyder

* Batman v Superman
* Justice League



Animated Movies (too many to list all):

* Mask of the Phantasm
* The Red Hood
* The Dark Knight Part 1 & 2

Video Games:

* Arkham Asylum
* Arkham City
* Arkham Knight

It all started with an idea. 10 years ago Marvel Studios launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and nothing was the same again. Ten years and 18 (soon to be 19) films and over 15 BILLION dollars. It’s the highest grossing movie franchise of all time and Marvel Studios is one of the most innovative companies and movie studios there is. So how did it all start? We break it down and go over the history of Marvel Studios from creation all the way up to our reaction to the Infinity War trailer. So strap in and give it a listen.
Phase 1:


* Iron Man
* The Incredible Hulk
* Iron Man 2
* Thor
* Captain America: The First Avenger
* Marvel’s The Avengers

Phase 2:


* Iron Man 3
* Thor: The Dark World
* Captain America: The Winter Soldier
* Guardians of the Galaxy
* Avengers: Age of Ultron
* Ant-Man

Phase 3:


* Captain America: Civil War
* Doctor Strange
* Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
* Spider-Man: Homecoming
* Thor: Ragnarok
* Black Panther
* Avengers: Infinity War
* Ant-Man and the Wasp
* Captain Marvel
* Avengers 4

This time on the Character Corner we’re finally talking about The Batman. We’ve talked around Batman for a while now. We covered him a bit in our Suicide Squad Character Corner, then the Rogue Wars episode on is villains. We’ve also covered one Robin and all of the Batgirls and even Batwoman. So it’s about time we finally dive into discussing the big guy himself.
We’ll be breaking this out into three parts. For this first part we cover the early years of Batman up to the introduction of Tim Drake as Robin. That’s about forty years of history from 1939 when he first appeared in Detective Comics #27 to the late 80’s and A Lonely Place of Dying. We also spend some time addressing the tragic story of Bill Finger who for the longest time was the uncredited creator of not just Batman but a lot of Batman’s villains as well as the classic conceptions we associate with the character. If you have Hulu, you should definitely check out Batman & Bill that goes into way more detail over how poorly DC treated Bill Finger and how everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
Issues:

* Writer Bill Finger

* Detective Comics #27 – The Case of the Chemical Syndicate – First Appearance
* Detective Comics #29 – First Utility Belt
* Detective Comics #31 – First batarang and first bat-themed vehicle
* Detective Comics #33 – First telling of origin
* Detective Comics #38 - First Appearance of Robin (Dick Grayson)
* Batman #1 – First Appearance of The Joker & Catwoman


* Superman #76 – First teamup with Superman
* World’s Finest Comics
* The Brave and the Bold #28 – Joins JLA
* Tales of the Demon (1971-1980)

* Detective Comics #411 – First appearance of Talia Al Ghul
* Batman #232 – Daughter of the Demon (First appearance of Ra’s al Ghul)
* Batamn #235
* Batman #240
* Batman #242
* Batman #243
* Batman #244 – The Demon Lives Again
* DC Special Series #15
* Detective Comics #489
* Detective comics #490


* Strange Apparitions

* Detective Comics #469-479


* Batman #357 – First appearance of Jason Todd (Pre-Crisis)
* Batman #366 – First Appearance of pre-Crisis Jason Todd as Robin
* Batman #408 – First Appearance of post-Crisis Jason Todd
* Batman #410 – Post-Crisis Jason Todd as Robin
* The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)
* The Killing Joke
* Batman: Year One (Frank Miller)
* Batman: Death in the Family
* Batman #436 – First appearance of Tim Drake
* A Lonely Place of Dying

* Batman #440
* New Titans #60
* Batman #441
* New Titans #61
* Batman #442 First Appearance of Tim Drake as Robin



Short list of some of Bill Finger’s Batman Creations:

* Batman
* Joker
* The Penguin
* Scarecrow
* Two-Face
* The Riddler
* The Calendar Man
* Gotham City

Part 2 of this series we’ll take a break from the comics and go into some of the other media interpretations of Batman and then we’ll return for the rest of the comic history for Part 3.
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We're back with another Character Corner. This time we're doing double the trouble with two classic X-Men villains: Apocalypse and Mister Sinister. It's actually pretty fitting that we do these two at this point. We recently did an episode on the Summers brothers, Scott & Alex. And we're also planning on doing an episode on Cable and the rest of the Summers bloodline. Throwing Sinister and Apocalypse in between those two seems pretty fitting considering how tied these villains are to the Summers clan. So in this episode we skip over some stuff but only because we'll be diving into more detail when we do that other episode.

The interesting thing about Apocalypse and Mister Sinister is how due to their longevity they've been incorporated into almost everything. Some for the good and some for the bad. But their tale is one that spans generations and overall, is pretty damn good. So sit back and give this episode a listen to find out just out evil these two are.

And for the record, we should make it very clear, neither of these characters are #VillainAgenda. They're just pure evil. It's like Hitler and Josef Mengele. 

Oh and Louise Simonson is a national fucking hero. Put some respect on her name.

Key Issues:

Apocalypse

* X-Factor Volume 1

* Issue #5 – First Cameo
* Issues #6 – First full appearance
* Issue #15 = First appearance of The Horsemen
* Issue #24 – Archangel revealed as Death
* Issues #65 – 68

* First appearance of the Dark Riders
* Infects baby Nate Summers with techno-organic virus


* Cable Volume 1

* #75


* X-Cutioner’s Song
* Cable Vol 2 #19 – Resurrected
* Uncanny X-Force (Remmender)
* Age of Apocalypse
* The Twelve



Mister Sinister

* Mutant Massacre

* Uncanny X-Men #213 – Sabretooth first mentions the character
* Uncanny X-M3n #221 – First appearance


* Inferno

* Uncanny X-Men #241 – Reveals that he cloned Madelyne Pryor from Jean Grey
* X-Factor #39 – Cyclops “Destroys”


* Classic X-Men #41 – 42
* X-Factor

* #74 & #75 – The Nasty Boys


* X-Cutioner’s Song (1992-1993)
* X-Men #23 – Brothers
* The Further Adventures of Phoenix and Cyclops
* Cable Annual 1999
* Gambit Ties

* X-Men Volume 2 #6 – Sabretooth suggests that he has ties to Remy
* X-Men #41 – 45
* Uncanny X-Men #350
* Gambit #13 – 23

* Explains some of Sinister’s new powers including shapeshifting (got them from experimenting on Courier)


* X-Men 99 – 103
* Messiah Complex

* Mystique “kills” him


* X-Men Legacy #211 – 214

* Xavier Ties


* X-23
* Uncanny X-Men #544
* Uncanny X-Men #14 - 17 (AvX Tie-In)



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We’re back! While our Summers Brothers episodewas technically the first Character Corner of 2018, we recorded it in 2017, so this Lex Luthor episode is the first real episode of 2018. And you all are in for a treat. This episode is slightly different from our other Character Corners. We still go through the history of Lex but we spend more time really discussing and breaking down the core of the character. Unlike other DC characters, the core of Lex Luthor has strangely been consistent throughout his depictions. Sure his early first appearance in Action Comics #23 really set up as the ridiculous comic book villain stereotype, but the interesting thing about Lex is how his depiction mirrors the “stereotyped” bad guy of the era he’s in.  He’s been a ridiculous caricature of a bad guy in the 40’s, evil real estate billionaire, overweight and shrewd corporate exec and even a billionaire evil President. Each version might have a reworked background but for a DC character, he’s oddly enough very consistent in how he’s portrayed.
 
The basis of Lex is always his absurd hatred of Superman followed by his true belief that if not for Superman, he himself would be a good guy/hero. There are some really great non-canon stories that show this (Lex Luthor: Man of Steel and All-Star Superman for example). 
 
This is a great episode that you’re not gonna want to miss as we break down what makes Lex Luthor tick. Oh and Kriss makes it very clear, Lex doesn’t qualify for his “Villain Agenda”. Find out why.
Key Issues (we cover a lot more than what’s listed here):


* Action Comics #43 - First Appearance
* Non-Canon 

* Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
* All-Star Superman (Grant Morrison)

* Issue #5 - Clark visits Lex in jail




* The Man of Steel (1986) - John Byrne redesigns the character

* Issue #4 - sets up a hostage situation on his own boat to try to hire Superman


* The Death of Superman: Superman vol1 #149
* Superman vol 2 #2 - Is told Clark Kent is Superman, doesn’t believe it
* President Luthor

* President Luthor: Secret Files & Origins
* Our Worlds at War
* Superman - Batman (Jeph Loeb)

* Vol 1 - Public Enemies - Whole series is great, first 6 issues deal with the end of President Lex 




* Superman: Birthright (Mark Waid)
* Infinite Crisis
* Fifty-Two

* Issues 34 & 35 - Turns off the Everyman powers for citizens and makes it “rain bodies” on New Years 


* New Krypton saga

* Superman: New Krypton
* Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton
* Superman: War of the Supermen


* Superman: The Black Ring
* Forever Evil
* Rebirth

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We’re starting 2018 off right by going through the essential comic books for Scott Summers and Alex Summers. That’s right it's Cyclops and Havok time. Any chance we can get to talk X-Men, we’re going to leap at it. This was a fun episode to do because Cyclops and Havok have such long and rich histories not only with the X-Men but X-Factor as well. 

Scott Summers first appeared in X-Men #1 and Alex debuted in issue #54. Scott starts off as the boy scout and natural leader while Alex is more reluctant to lead and a bit more rebellious. Throughout their history in the comic books though, they gradually switch places as Alex becomes more of a team player & leader and Scott becomes a revolutionary. 

Some of Scott’s decisions through the years are tough to defend. After marrying Madelyne Pryor (the clone of Jean Grey), he ends up abandoning her and their child when he finds out Jean Grey is still alive. It’s a real shitty move. Years later, while recovering from Apocalypse messing with his head, he starts cheating on Jean psychically with Emma Frost. Hey, he might be a great team leader but his love life leaves a lot to be desired. But once mutant kind is facing extinction, it’s hard not to see why Scott makes some of the choices he does. You might not be full Team ‘Cyclops Was Right’ but the extreme choices makes are a direct result of having the weight of the entire mutant race on his soldiers. 

There are a few things we don’t cover here. First, we don’t cover the young, time displaced Cyclops. He’s basically become his own separate character and we might cover him at a later date. Second, the Summers bloodline is actually pretty complex and A LOT. So we limit this discussion to just Scott and Alex (with a touch of Gabriel). We’re going to cover Nathan (Cable) later on this year closer to Deadpool 2. Although, we do get a bit of him in The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix.

Here are some of the essential comic issues we covered:
Scott Summers:


* Uncanny X-Men 1 - First appearance of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and the X-Men
* Classic X-Men 42 - Mister Sinister in the orphanage
* X-Men Giant Size #1
* Uncanny 125 - 128 
* Dark Phoenix Saga
* X-Factor Vol 1
* Uncanny X-Men 243
* X-Men Vol 2 

* #1 - 3
* #30 - Scott Summers marries Jean Grey


* Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix
* Search for Cyclops 1 - 4
* New X-Men - Grant Morrison - #114 - 154
* Astonishing X-Men - Joss Whedon
* Messiah Complex
* Schism
* Avengers vs X-Men
* Uncanny X-Men - Bendis
* Death of X


Alex Summers:

* Uncanny X-Men 54 - First appearance of Alex Summers
* Uncanny X-Men 58 - First appearance of Alex Summers as Havok
* X-Factor Minus 1
* Incredible Hulk #150
* Uncanny X-Men Volume 1

* Issue 158
* Issues 233- 255


* Wolverine/Havok Meltdown
* X-Tinction Agenda
* X-Factor #87
* X-Factor 101 - 105
* Mutant X
* Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire - Uncanny X-Men 475 - 486
* X-Men: Emperor Vulcan
* X-Men Kingbreaker
* Uncanny Avengers

 
 
 

We're back to wrap up our Batgirls Character Corner with two special characters: Cassandra Cain and Kate Kane. Now, Kate really isn't a Batgirl as she never took up the mantle and her origin as Batwoman is pretty much autonomous from Batman but we're including her in this series anyway. Cassandra is also an interesting case. She's definitely a Batgirl, as she's the first to hold that mantle and get her own solo series, but in many ways she's closer to a Robin and a good case could be made for her being a direct heir to the Bat. 

We had a lot of fun discussing these characters and you're not going to want to miss this. This also might be the last Character Corner of 2017 but we'll be back in 2018 with more comic book character goodness.

Cassandra Cain

* Batman No Man's Land 

* Batman #567 - Mark of Cain - First Appearance


* Batgirl Volume 1
* Robin/Batgirl Fresh Blood
* Gates of Gotham
* Justice League Elite
* Nightwing #81
* Red Robin #17-25
* Superboy #8
* Batgirl Volume 2

Kate Kane

* 52

* #7 - First appearance of Kate Kane
* #11 - First appearance of Kate as Batwoman
* #33


* Batwoman: Elegy (Detective Comics #854-860)
* Detective Comics #861-863
* Batwoman (New 52)

* Volume 1 - Hydrology
* Volume 2 - Drown The World
* Volume 3 - World's Finest


* Detective Comics (Rebirth)

* Volume 1: Rise of the Batmen
* Volume 2: The Victim Syndicate


* Batwoman (Rebirth) Volume 1

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It's been a while but....WE'RE BACK! Feels like a while since we've done a Character Corner. But we're back now and it's time to enter once again into the Bat-Family, this time with the mantle of Batgirl. To the uninitiated, the Batgirl mantle might just seem like the female-version of the Robin mantle. But that couldn't be further from the truth. 

We start this two-part series exploring the most well known Batgirl, Barbara Gordon and her journey from the daughter of a Police Commissioner to Batgirl then to Oracle and back to Batgirl. We then move on to Stephanie Brown who held both the title of Robin (albeit short) and Batgirl as well as coming into her own as Spoiler.

Next show we're talking Cassandra Cain, Helena Bertinelli and Kate Kane

Barbara Gordon

Detective Comics #359 – First appearance
Batgirl Year One

The definitive Batgirl origin story


Batgirl Special #1 by Barbara Kesel (1988)

Barbara retires


The Killing Joke (1988) - only because it's significant not because it's good
Suicide Squad #23 first appearance as Oracle (1989)

The death game (#38) revealed as Oracle


Batman Chronicles: #5 Oracle Year One

John Ostrander and Kim Yale work to fix what Moore and others did


Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey #8 
Birds of Prey – The Gail Simone Run (56-90, 92-108) – (2003-2007)

69-73 Between Dark and Dawn




Birds of Prey volume 2
Batgirl vol 4 19-25
Batgirl Zero Year

Stephanie Brown 

* Detective Comics 647- 649
Batgirl 20, 26, 28, 38
Birds of Prey 39 - 40
Robin 100-120
Robin/spoiler special
War drums
War games 1 - 3
War Crimes 
Batgirl rising
Batgirl vol 3

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Thor: Ragnarok drops this week and so it's time to wrap up our Thor Character Corner with part 2. First we quickly cover what happened when we last left Thor during part 1. Ragnarok happened and Thor and the rest of Asgard died. And Thor stayed dead for a while. When the road to Civil War started, Thor was still gone but Mjolnir makes an appearance, falling to Earth as the Gods died, tearing a hole that allows Doctor Doom to escape Hell. After a brief attempt by Doom to take the hammer for himself, we then get Tony Stark's bad idea to make a Thor clone that...has disastrous results.   

Finally Thor returns. We focus on two writers this episode that really encapsulate Thor's return and that's J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) and current Thor writer Jason Aaron. JMS and Aaron really lean into the idea of Thor and the rest of Asgard being Gods. In a way, Thor is written much like Jesus is from the Bible and there are a lot of great stories. Asgard is reformed above Broxton, Oklahoma and while it seems like this could be a repeat of what happened the last time Thor & Asgard floated above earth, this time is vastly different. 

JMS and Jason Aaron really call into question not only what it means to be a God and if mortals still need Gods.

You'll want to listen to our full Character Corner as we follow the journey of Thor (Odinson) to Thor (Jane Foster).

Issues:

* Fantastic Four #536-537 - Moljnir comes back to Earth & Doom escapes Hell
* Civil War #7 - Thor Clone destroyed by Hercules
* Thor Volume 3 (JMS Run)

* #1 - 12, #600-603, Thor Giant Size


* Jason Aaron's Run

* Thor: God of Thunder

* #1 - 5 - The God Butcher 
* #6 - Gorr's backstory
* #7- 11 - Godbomb
* #19-23 - The Last Days of Midgard (Future Thor fights Galactus)


* Original Sin

* Original Sin Thor & Loki 5.1 - 5.5 - The Tenth realm & Angela
* #7 - Nick Fury whispers something to Thor to make Thor become unworthy & drop the hammer


* Thor Volume 4 (Jane Foster as Thor)
* Thors (Secret Wars book)
* The Unworthy Thor
* The Mighty Thor Vol 2

* #19 - Thor vs the Phoenix
* #20 - War Thor's origin





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We’re a few weeks out from Thor: Ragnarok being released so I guess it’s time to drop our latest Character Corner: Thor Part 1!

First off, we recorded this over a month ago so please excuse any outdated references. If you’re listening to this I’m assuming Trump hasn’t killed us all so that’s a positive. Anyway, in this first part of a two part series, we cover Thor Volume 1 and Thor Volume 2. Our main focus though is the Walt Simonson run from volume 1 that ran from issues 337 – 382. Simonson both wrote and draw these issues and the entire run is a masterpiece. He introduces Beta Ray Bill, gives us an epic battle with Sutur, Skurge’s Last Stand and even turns Thor into a frog. It’s a wonderful run that is always at the top of any “Best of Thor” list.

We then get into Dan Jurgen’s volume 2 which starts off rough but really picks up with the death of Odin and Thor taking over as the All Father. We find out why Thor’s connection to humanity is needed and the disastrous results if Thor fully embraces being a God without that connection. And then Ragnarok comes.

In both volumes 1 & 2 we see the story of Ragnarok with volume 2 fully seeing Ragnarok coming to fruition. If you want to prepare for Thor: Ragnorak come November 3rd, make sure you listen to this Character Corner, then check out the issues below. Every issue should be on Marvel Unlimited, so get to reading.

 

Issues:

* Thor: Tales of Asgard (2009) – Remasters old Jack Kirby & Stan Lee stories that flesh out Odin & Asgard
* Journey Into Mystery #83 – First Appearance of Thor
* Avengers #1
* Thor Volume 1

* Walt Simonson’s Run

* #337-340 – The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill
* #340 – 353 – The Sutur Saga
* #362 – Skurge’s Last Stand


* Thor Volume 2

* #36 – 43 - The Death of Odin
* Gods on Earth – # 51- 58, Iron Man #64, Avengers #63
* Spiral - #59-67
* #80 – 85 - Thor Disassembled (Ragnarok)





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Journey with The Doctor and Tim Lewinson, writer and creator of Savage Empire, into a world of time rifts, urban warfare, and dinosaurs.  Tim joins me to discuss his debut novel, how his work in video games lent itself to writing, the difference between the media, creating a diverse world with 3 dimensional characters, and the amazing story that Savage Empire introduces.

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We’re back with another Character Corner and this time we’re covering the Inhumans. First off, let’s make it clear that we’re mainly focused on the Royal Family of the Inhumans. The “Nuhumans” or the Inhumans created on earth due to the Terrigen bomb that Black Bolt sets off during the events of Infinity are definitely a separate category. We might cover some of the more famous “Nuhumans” in a later episode. But for this, we’re focused mostly on the Royals

Issues:

Fantastic Four
Issue #36 - First Appearance of Medusa
Issue #44 - First Appearance of Gorgon
Issue #45 - 48 - The rest of the Royal Family & first "appearance" of Inhumans
Issue #150 - Crystal & Quicksilver wedding
Thor #146 - 153
Inhumans vol 1
Marvel Knights Inhumans (1998 - 1999)
Inhumans Vol 3 - Inhumans vs The Kree
World War Hulk
The Illuminati
Son of M
Quicksilver loses his powers and steals Terrigen Crystals to get them back. Leads to the kick off of Silent War
The Silent War
Secret Invasion: Inhumans
War of Kings
Entire reading list is here
Realm of Kings
Infinity
Inhuman
Uncanny Inhumans
Death of X
Inhumans vs X-Men
Inhumans Prime
Inhumans: Once and Future King
Royals
 

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We're wrapping up our Peter Parker Character Corner with the third and final part. We go over (quickly) the introduction of Carnage and then Peter & Harry's final confrontation. Then its on the one of the most controversial storylines: The second clone saga. No matter where you fall in the debate, we can all agree things got a bit out of control. It's not all bad though since Ben Reilly has become a pretty popular character and so despite the mess, there were some good outcomes. We then get into Civil War, One More Day and where Peter is now. Our Rogue Wars character corner covers a lot of the later issues of Peter so you'll definitely want to check that out.

Carnage & the Death of Harry Osborn

Issues:

Carnage
Amazing Spider-Man #344 - Cletus Kasady
Amazing Spider-Man #360-361 - First Appearance of Carnage
The Spectacular Spider-Man #200 - Harry Osborn Dies
The Second Clone Saga (won't list out all the issues, there are too many)
Web of Death: Amazing Spider-Man 397, Spectacular Spider-Man 220, Amazing Spider-Man 398, Spectacular Spider-Man 221
Amazing Spider-Man #418 - Return of Norman Osborn/reveals he was behind everything
The Clone Saga Mini-Series - 6 issues that follows the original script
Amazing Spider-Man vol 2 #38 - The Conversation
Marvel Knights Spider-Man 1 - 12
Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure - Brian K Vaungh
Spider-Man The Other - gives him new powers
Civil War #2 - Peter reveals his identity to the world
Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1
One More Day - Peter & MJ make a deal to give up their marriage to save aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man #544
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24
The Sensational Spider-Man vol 2 #41
The Amazing Spider-Man #545
Amazing Spider-Man #638 - 641 - One Moment in Time 
Amazing Spider-Man #655 -656 - No One Dies
Superior Spider-Man
Spider-Verse
Spider-Men - 616 Peter meets Miles Morales
Clone Conspiracy 
Ultimate Spider-Man (the entire run)
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Welcome back to another artist spotlight from Awesome Con 2017.  This time I sit down with Ashley Gonzales of Zeefa Studio, an artist whose fantasy based pieces find their way into your spirit.  We discuss her journey as an artist, her affinity for fantasy based pieces, Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 (come on, EVERYONE is talking about THAT ending), her commission work, and the importance of family support in the life of an artist pursuing their dream.

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We took a little break but we’re finally back with another Character Corner. We still have to finish up our Peter Parker series but we wanted to take a bit of a detour from Marvel and head over to DC and cover one of the most confusing comic book character histories ever: Hawkman.

Now you may be asking yourself “Why Hawkman? Why now?” And that’s a very valid question. Why would we tackle one of the most confusing comic book characters of all time at this point? The answer is simple: Scott Snyder’s Dark Knights: Metal. Snyder wrote an incredible 52 issues of Batman during New 52 and he’s now back with a series that not only answers questions about Batman but also Hawkman, Nth Metal and the rest of the DC Multiverse. While it’s a daunting task to take on Hawkman’s history (one that rarely works out), Snyder definitely has our attention with the first issue of Metal, as well as the preludes Dark Days: The Forge and The Casting.

Key Issues:

Flash Comics #1 - First Appearances of Carter Hall and Shiera Sanders
Brave and the Bold #34 - First Appearances of Katar Hol and Shayera Thal/Hol
Crisis on Infinite Earths
The Shadow War of Hawkman
Hawkworld - Tim Truman's mini-series
Hawkworld - John Ostrander's ongoing series
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time - Merges Carter, Katar and Shiera
JSA Secret Files #1 - First appearance of Kendra Saunders
JSA
The Return of Hawkman (Issues #16 - 25)- Carter Hall returns
Black Reign
Hawkman Volume 4
Issues 1 - 25 Geoff Johns Run 
Issues #43- 45 - Charlie Parker reveals that Fel Andar was his father
Issues #47 - 49 - Rann/Thanagar War
Issue #50 becomes Hawkgirl
Hawkgirl
Issue #60 - Kendra/Shiera defeat Hath Set, ending the curse

One of my goals at Awesome Con this year was to find and highlight creatives of color who were engaged in inspiring and interesting pursuits.  There were so many individuals at the convention this year involved in outreach and development.  I was able to sit down with two representatives from a few of these organizations.

PBS Media Creative Director Naseed Gifted talked to me about the organization and their new graphic novel PB Soldier, which Gifted created.  The novel is drawn and colored by Abel Garcia.






PB Soldier follows Nat Cummings, a hacker turned government operative who finds himself in the middle of an intrigue he must extract himself from before it is too late. Billed as The Bourne Identity meets V is for Vendetta, Cummings' adventures takes him and the reader all over the world.  We also discuss the importance of representation and connecting youth with the material that they are interested in by cultivating their interest in creating art.  Find out more about their graphic novel and their outreach efforts by visiting their website at www.pbsmediastudios.com.

Art Way Alliance Communications Director Sierra Dangerfield-Harris sat down with me to discuss the mission of the nonprofit, it's diverse artist staff, and the importance of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) to the K-12 educational system and how their organization seeks to promote this creativity in youth of the D.C. area.  If you would like to assist or have their artists visit your venue, information is available at their website at www.artwayalliance.org.

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With Spider-Man: Homecoming right around the corner, we take a look at why Peter Parker, particularly teenage Peter Parker, is such an important character. Appearing in 1962 in Amazing Fantasy 15, Peter Parker broke from tradition by featuring a high school student as the lead superhero. At the time, most teenagers were just sidekicks to the main hero of the story. 
“With Great Power There Must Also Come Great Responsibility”
The early runs of Amazing Spider-Man holds up pretty well considering its age. The early issues are basically a gauntlet of what will eventually become one of the greatest rogue galleries in comics (for a full breakdown listen to our Spider-Man Rogues Character Corner). But beyond just the introduction of his villains, these issues also define why having a young Spider-Man is so important. The famous line "With Great Power There Must Also Come Great Responsibility” has been retconned to have been words spoken by Uncle Ben to Peter. however originally, this is just a line written as a narration on the final panel in amazing Fantasy 15. But starting with Amazing Spider-Man #1, we see Peter struggling with balancing the power he has and what his responsibilities are. It’s easy to see why Spider-Man resonated so much with young kids. Peter has the power of a superhero but has to deal with being teased at school, going to school and maintaining his grades, helping to support his aunt who is struggling to pay bills and more every day life issues. On top of that, he’s constantly surrounded by people who only like part of him not the whole. Flash Thompson bullies Peter Parker but idolizes Spider-Man. Betty Brant loves Peter but isn’t too sure of this Spider-Man character. The only person that treats Peter/Spider-Man the same is really J Jonah Jameson and that’s because he treats both equally terrible.
If This Be My Destiny & Spider-Man No More
Issues 31 - 33 kick off an important mini-arc for Peter as well as introduce characters that will have a significant impact on his life. It’s Peter’s first day in college and we’re introduced to characters Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn and Miles Warren. This arc doesn’t really focus on them and in fact, Peter spends most of these 3 issues rubbing Gwen & Harry the wrong way for ignoring them. But for good reason. Aunt May is sick and might not make it. We find out that after getting a blood transfusion from Peter, she’s been infected by his radioactive blood. This leads to a recurring theme with Peter: The people around him end up harmed or worse either directly or indirectly because of him. Peter as Spider-Man works with Dr Connors to develop a cure but the isotope they need is stolen by Doc Oct. We then get some great panels as an exhausted and nearly defeated Spider-Man powers his way through an army of enemies and almost being trapped and drowned. It’s basically Peter coming to terms with being a hero and digging deep to save the ones he loves. Speaking of who Peter loves. Aunt May finally succeeds in introducing Peter to MJ and it's an introduction that no one forgets in issue #42.

Issue 50 introduces Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin for the first time. But it also has Peter finally having enough and giving up being Spider-Man. He’s tired of not being able to spend time with his friends, the struggle for money to help his aunt and feeling completely unappreciated do to J Jonah’s campaign to turn the city against him. But after saving a security guard who reminded him of his Uncle Ben, Peter realizes that it’s his responsibility to help those in need.
The Death of Gwen Stacy
Make no mistake about it: Gwen Stacy is the love of Peter Parker’s life. Everyone (yes even MJ) is secondary. Some could argue that Gwen Stacy’s death is a case of “fridging a female character”. But unlike most cases where a female character is unceremoniously killed off just for a ...

We're back with another Character Corner, this time as a follow up to the Wolverine episode we did here. The first time we covered Logan, we didn't get a chance to go over in detail some of his recurring enemies. To be fair, most enemies of Wolverine end up dead (or resurrected only to be killed by him again). But we decided to do a quick rundown of them anyway. Most of the story details we cover in the first episode and here we just give a bit more background and talk about the problems with some of Logan's deadliest foes.

Enemies & Issues:

* Lady Deathstrike & The Reavers

* Daredevil #197 - First appearance as Yuriko Oyama
* Alpha Flight #33-34 - First Appearance as lady deathstrike
* Uncanny X-men #205
* Uncanny X-Men #251


* The Hell Fire Club

*  Original - Uncanny X-Men #129 - #138
* New Hell First Club (kids) -

* X-Men: Schism
* Wolverine and the X-Men




* Viper/Madame Hydra

* Captain America vol 1 #110 - First Appearance


* Omega Red

* X-Men #5 - First Appearance
* The Omega Clan  - Uncanny X-Force (2010) #26


*  Cyber

* Marvel Comics Presents #85 - First Appearance


* Lord Shingen & Silver Samurai

* Wolverine Vol 1 1- 6
* Daredevil #111 - Silver Samurai first appearance.
*  Wolverine Vol 2 2-3


* The Hand

* Wolverine Vol 3 20 -25: Enemy of the State


* Matsu’o Tsurayaba

* Uncanny X-Men #255 - First Appearance
* Wolverine Vol 2 #57 - Poisons and kills Mariko. Wolverine promises to take a body part from Tsurayaba on the anniversary of her death each year
* Wolverine #175 - shows some of the times Wolverine kept his promise to take a piece of Matsu 


*  Daken

* Wolverine Origins #10 - First Appearance
* Dark Avengers #1 - as Wolverine
* Dark Wolverine


*  Romulus

* Wolverine Origins #39


*  Mystique

* Ms Marvel 16 -17 First Appearance
* Messiah Complex
*  Wolverine vol 3 62 -65 - Get Mystique 
* All-New X-Men 
* Mystique solo series by Brian K Vaughn


* Sabretooth


* Iron Fist 14 - First Appearance
* Wolverine #10 - Retells First Wolverine-Sabretooth fight.
* Wolverine #90
* Origin II #5 - Reveals why Sabretooth haunts Wolverine on his birthday
* Sabretooth mini-series - 1993/1994 - Contracted to kill Mystique,  learns that Graydon Creed is his son 
* Uncanny X-Force (2010) #25 - 34 - Manipulates Daken forcing Wolverine to kill his own son


 

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We're finally ready to finish off the Green Lanterns. We continue with the rest of Geoff John's run through the War of Light, Blackest Night, Brightest Day all the way through New 52 and the DC Rebirth. We talk about some of the issues that happen with this run where it just starts to get to be too much. But there is also a lot of good that comes from it (the additional Corps along the color spectrum, a conclusion on Sinestro's run and the introduction of Simon Baz). Outside of Johns, we talk about how good the Green Lantern Corps book is and how it does a great job on telling stories outside of the Earth Lanterns. 

There's a lot to read here. We list the major books we read but also include links to the entire reading order for storylines like Blackest Night.
Issues:


* War of Light

* Green Lantern #29 - 35 Secret Origin 
* Green Lantern Corps #20-26 - Ring Quest
* Rage of the Red Lanterns
* Agent Orange (Green Lantern #39-42)
* Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphire


* Blackest Night

* Entire Blackest Night Reading Order (Includes non-GL books)


* Brightest Day
* War of the Green Lanterns
* Green Lantern #1-6 (Start of New 52)
* Ring Bearer New Guardians
* Rise of the Third Army

* Green Lantern #13-16
* Green Lantern Corps #13-16
* New Guardians #13-16
* Red Lanterns #13-16
* Green Lantern Corps Annual #1


* Wrath of the 1st Lantern
* DC Rebirth

* Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps
* Green Lanterns 


* Geoff Johns Omnibus - Get the entire Geoff Johns GL run in 3 volumes

* Volume 1
* Volume 2 - Green Lantern Rebirth - Wrath of the First Lantern
* Volume 3




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We're finally back for Part 2 of our Green Lanterns Character Corner. This time we talk about the aftermath of Hal Jordan destroying the Corps after becoming Parallax. Kyle Rayner becomes the loan Green Lantern for a while and...he's pretty good at it. We also check in on where Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner are and what's going on with them.
 
Then we get to the Geoff Johns run. First with Green Lantern: Rebirth (the first one from 2004) where Johns brings Hal Jordan back and expands the mythos of Parallax. We cover all the way through the Sinestro Corps War.
 
We'll be back for a final part that covers the War of Light, Blackest Night and two additional Earth Green Lanterns.
 
Issues:


* Emerald Twilight (Green Lantern Vol 3 48 - 50)

* Issue 48 - First appearance of Kyle Rayner
* Issue 50 - Hal Jordan becomes Parallax, destroys the Corp, Kyle gets the last power ring


* Green Lantern Vol 3

* Issues 129 - 136
* Issue 137 - Terry comes out to Kyle
* Issues 142 - 150 - The Power of Ion
* Issues 151 - 155


* Green Lantern: Rebirth
* Green Lantern Vol 4

* No Fear (1-6)
* Revenge of the Green Lanterns (7-12)


* Green Lantern Corps Vol 2

* Recharge
* To Be a Lantern
* Wanted


* Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual 2 - From last time but is important for Sinestro Corps War
* Green Lantern: Secret Origin
* Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War


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Kriss and Dpalm are back for the second part of our Heroes for Hire Character Corner. You can find Part 1 here.

In this part, we talk about Danny Rand, Iron Fist, and the badass Samurai, Colleen Wing. We start right away addressing the elephant in the room: The cultural appropriation/white washing with Danny Rand and Asian culture. Yes, Danny should have been Asian American. Period.  With that out of the way, we go through some of the early years with Danny which are pretty well done and build a pretty good story. It also introduces us to Colleen Wing and how much of a badass she is. We end with Fraction/Brubaker's Immortal Iron Fist run & the new The Living Weapon run

Danny Rand

* Marvel Premiere #15 - 25

* First Appearance Marvel Premiere #15


* Iron Fist #1 - 7 - The Search for Colleen
* Iron Fist #14 - First appearance of Sabretooth
* Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1

* Issues  #50-54 - Danny gets his money back, helps Luke start Heroes for Hire
* Issues #118 - 125 - K'un Lun gets destroyed, Danny contracts cancer & is replaced by a H'ylthri imposter that is killed. Luke gets blamed for his "death"


* Daredevil Vol 2 #82 - 87  - Danny pretends to be Daredevil while Matt is locked up
* The Immortal Iron Fist
* Iron Fist: The Living Weapon
* Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 3

Colleen Wing

* Marvel premiere #19 - First Appearance
* Iron Fist #5
* Power Man and Iron Fist Vol 1 #70 - Colleen recalls her samurai training from her Grandfather
* Daughters of the Dragon #1 - 6
* Heroes for Hire
* Shadowland: Daughters of the Shadow #1 - 3 - Revealed that Colleen's mother led Nail



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He's the best there is at what he does and what he does isn't very nice. Our massive Character Corner on the X-Man named Wolverine. Despite becoming overused in the Marvel universe, there are actually a lot of good Wolverine stories out there. A lot of the old stuff also holds up pretty well. Some of our favorite writers have also done short runs with Wolverine since there is a massive amount of content out there. We cover so much in this we made a decision that we will come back to do a second part that covers the enemies Logan has racked up over the years.

* Essentials

* Incredible Hulk #181 -  First Appearance (1974)
* X-Men Giant Sized #1 -  Second Appearance joins the x-men (1975)
* The essence of [Logan's] character [is] a "failed samurai." To Samurai, duty is all, selfless service the path to their ultimate ambition, death with grace


* History

* Chris Claremont era

* Uncanny X-men #120 - #121 - Alpha Fight (1979) 
* Uncanny X-Men #129 - #138 - Dark Phoenix Saga  (1980)
* Uncanny X-men #162 -#167 ( 1982) - Logan versus the Brood
* Wolverine limited Series (1982)
* Kitty Pryde and Wolverine (1985)
* Wolverine Vol 2 #1 - #6 - Madripoor (Patch)1988


* Weapon X (1991)

* Marvel Comics Present #72 - #84


* Fatal Attractions & aftermath (1993)

* X-Men #25 - Magneto rips out his adamantium
* Wolverine #75 - Revealed that he has bone claws
* Wolverine #90 - Fight with Sabretooth right before Age of Apocalypse
* Age of Apocalypse 
* Wolverine #119 - #122 - Not Dead Yet (97, Warren Ellis)


* Return of his Adamantium

* Wolverine Vol 2 #145 - Becomes a horseman of Apocalypse


* Origin - Logan's childhood history as James Howlett
* New X-Men 146 - 150 Planet X - Jean dies again
* Astonishing X-Men  - Whedon's run (2004)
* House of M (2005)
* Wolverine Vol 3 20 -25: Enemy of the State - Wolverine gets brainwashed by HYDRA & the Hand and takes on the rest of the Marvel universe
* Wolverine: Origins 
* Logan  - Brian K Vaughn (2008)
* X-Men: Schism (2011)

* X-Men: Regenisis
* Wolverine and the X-Men (2011 - 2014)
* Uncanny X-Force #1 - #35 - Remender (2010 - 2012)
* Origin II - Kieron Gillen (2013)


* Death of Wolverine


* Enemies 

* Lady Deathstrike & the Reavers

* Alpha Flight #33-34
* Uncanny X-men #205
* Uncanny X-Men #251




* Lord Shingen
* Silver Samurai
* Omega Red

* X-Men #5




* Cyber
*  Mystique

* Wolverine Vol3 #62-#65: Get Mystique




* Hulk

* Incredible Hulk #340




* Daken/Romulus
* Sabretooth

* Wolverine: Origin 2 - explains Logan's history with the Creed clan
* Wolverine #10 - retells First wolverine-sabertooth fight. Every birthday Sabretooth tracks down wolverine on his birthday
* Uncanny X-Men #2013




* Other Media

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 Call this our Green Lantern Teaser. Kriss & Dpalm go over the early years of Green Lantern and the Green Lantern Corps and cover some of the basics you'll need for our massive second (and possibly third) part. This Character Corner basically covers the introduction of the 4 main Green Lanterns of Sector 2814: Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner. The focus is mainly on Hal's rise and fall ending with him becoming Parallax and destroying the Corps. We'll be back at the end of March/April to cover the second part (after detours to talk Wolverine and Iron Fist).
 
Issues:


* All American Comics #16 - First Appearance of Alan Scott the first Green Lantern
* Showcase #22 - First appearance of Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan
* Green Lantern Vol 2 #7 - 9 - First appearance of Sinestro
* Green Lantern Vol 2 #59 - First Appearance of Guy Gardner
* Emerald Dawn I 1- 6 - Retells Hal's origin
* Emerald Dawn II  1 - 6 - Retells Hal meeting Sinestro & Sinestro being kicked out of the Corp
* Green Lantern Vol 2 #76 - 89 Hard Travelin Heroes Green Lantern/Green Arrow

* Issues 85-86 - Speedy is a junkie
* Issue 87 - First appearance of John Stewart


* Green Lantern Vol 2 #181 - Hal retires from the Corps
* Green Lantern Vol 2 #182 - 200
* Green Lantern Vol 3 #14 - 17 - John Stewart's Mosaic storyline starts 
* Green Lantern: Mosaic #1 - 18  - John Stewart becomes the first mortal Guardian
* Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale - Origin of the Guardians
* Tales of the Green Lantern Corps 1 - 3
* Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual 2 - 3
* Emerald Twilight (Green Lantern Vol 3 48 - 50)

* Issue 48 - First appearance of Kyle Rayner
* Issue 50 - Hal Jordan becomes Parallax, destroys the Corp, Kyle gets the last power ring




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First Character Corner of 2017 is here! Kriss and Dpalm start the year off talking about Piotr Rasputin (Colossus) and Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). We start with Giant Size X-Men #1 that gives us our first introduction of Colossus along with a bunch of other fan favorites like Storm & Nightcrawler and the second full appearance of Wolverine. We then go through the Claremont years and discuss then the introduction of Kitty Pryde and why the character is so important. The relationship between Peter and Kitty is a bit weird because of their ages but it develops into something less creepy.  This Character Corner also was a great excuse for us to re-read Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men run which at its core is a Colossus/Shadowcat story. Along the way we geek out over how much we love the X-Men growing up and the potentials for doing Wolverine and Cyclops Character Corners.  
 
We talked for almost 2 hours and still cut out a lot, so give this a listen and let us know what you think
 


* Giant Size X-M3n #1 - First Appearance of Colossus
* Uncanny X-Men #129 - First Appearance of Kitty Pryde
* Uncanny X-Men #141 & 142 - Days of Future Past
* Uncanny X-Men #165  Kitty propositions Colossus
* Uncanny X-Men #174 - Kitty and Colossus officially start dating
* Secret Wars 

* Secret Wars #5  - Colossus cheats


* Uncanny X-Men #183 - Colossus breaks up with Kitty, gets into a bar fight with Juggernaut
* Kitty Pryde & Wolverine 

* Kitty goes to Japan, becomes a ninja, takes the name Shadowcat. 


* Uncanny X-Men #285 - Finds out his brother Mikhail is still alive
* Uncanny X-Men #295 - Mikhail drowns the Morlocks and himself
* Uncanny X-Men #303 - Illyana dies of the Legacy virus
* Fatal Attraction

* Colossus leaves the X-Men to join Magneto


* Uncanny X-Men 390

* Colossus sacrifices himself for the cure of the Legacy virus


* Astonishing X-Men (Joss Whedon)

* Vol 1 Gifted - Return of Colossus
* Vol 4 Unstoppable - Breakworld. Kitty sacrifices herself 


* Uncanny X-Men #522 - Magneto brings Kitty back
* Uncanny X-Men #534.1 - 544

* Conclusion to the Breakworld story in Astonishing X-Men
* Kitty becomes tangible again
* Colossus sacrifices himself to become the new Juggernaut


* Generation Next (Age of Apocalypse)


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Last Character Corner of 2016! We wrap up our Teen Titans coverage with a discussion with watching the Titans mature as well as the next generation (Young Justice) becoming the new Teen Titans. Part 2 focuses on the relationships amongst the group, Cyborg's development and a lot of tragedies & deaths. Oh and throw in a continuation of Deathstroke's tragic relationship with the Teen Titans.

It's been a great year for not only the MTR Network but the Character Corner. We can't wait to come back in 2017 for more. Hope you enjoy!

Issues:


* JLA/Titans Technis Imperative
* The Titans 1 - 20 (Devin Grayson)
* Young Justice

* Our Worlds at War
* Sins of the Youth


* Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day
* Teen Titans Vol 3

* Issue 1 - 12
* Issue 16 - 23
* Issue 42 - 54
* Issue 88 - 100




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Issues:

The Brave and the Bold #60 - First Appearance as the Teen Titans
Teen Titans Vol 1
Issue #19 - Speedy joins the team officially
Issue #25 - Dr. Arthur Swenson is killed, marks turning point for Titans
Issue #45 - First appearance of Karen Beecher (Bumblebee)
Issues #50-52 - Titans West
DC Comics Presents #26 - The New Teen Titans (Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Beast Boy aka Changeling, Cyborg, Starfire & Raven)
Tales of the New Teen Titans
Issue #1 - Cyborg's origin
Issue #2 - Raven's origin
Issue #3 - Beastboy's orign
Issue #4 - Starfire's origin
New Teen Titans (1980 - 1996)
Issue #2 - First appearance of Deathstroke, death of his son Grant
The Judas Contract (#42-#44 & Annual #3)
Titan Hunt (#71-#84)
Tales of the Teen Titans (Volume 1)
Trial of the Terminator (#53-#55)

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Dpalm is joined once again by James Roberts, author of IDW's critically acclaimed Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic series. On the heels of smashing final issue, Mr. Roberts is on hand to talk about working with editors and corporate, talk about introducing a brand new cast for fans to love, and walks us through all of Season 2. We even get a sneak peek of what lies ahead as Roberts previews the (presumed )return of Rodimus and crew to our comic shelves in Lost Light 1, available everywhere in December.

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This Character Corner we take a trip to the mystical side of the Marvel Universe and talk about Doctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme. With Doctor Strange making his live action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we thought it wise to give a break down of the character and some essential reading. We start off with his origins and discuss Strange's ethnicity as well as some of the problematic issues at the base of the character. Dpalm talks about some of his issues with early appearances of Doctor Strange and how the more modern takes address some of those issues and make the character more interesting. We also discuss the trade paperback, Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph & Torment and how it's not only great insight into both the characters of Strange and Doom but also a good starting point before getting into Hickman's New Avengers & Secret Wars. Give the episode a listen and let us know what you think.

Issues:


* Strange Tales #110-146

* Issues #1110 - First Appearance
* Issue  #111 = First appearance of Baron Mordo
* Issues #126-127 - defeats Dormammu; Given the Cloak of Levitation and the Eye of Agamotto


* Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph & Torment
* Infinite Gauntlet Trilogy

* Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme 31-36


* World War Hulk - Read New Avengers: Illuminati first.
*  Bendis

* New Avengers: Illuminati
* New Avengers (2004-2010)

* New Avengers Annual 2 (2006)- Gives up being the Sorcerer Supreme
* Issues #51-55- Search for the new Sorcerer Supreme


* New Avengers (2010-2012)

* Issues #1-6 - Doctor Vodoo sacrifices himself
* Issues #31-34 - Regains being the Sorcerer Supreme




* Doctor Vodoo Avenger of the Supernatural
* Doctor Strange: The Oath (Brian K Vaughan)
* Hickman

* New Avengers (2013)

* Issues 14, 20, 21, 27 & 33
* Annual #2


* Secret Wars


* Doctor Strange (2015)

* Volume 1: The Way of the Weird
* Volume 2: The Last Days of Magic




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New Character Corner time. This time Kriss & Dpalm tackle the first team of Superheroes, the Justice Society of America. These are heroes who heroes like Batman, Superman & Wonder Woman look up to and find inspiration from. The JSA is about family & legacy and training the next generation to be heroes. We break down what makes the JSA so special and important in the DC Universe. 
Founders:


* Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson)
* Hour-Man (Rex Tyler)
* the Spectre (Jim Corrigan)
* Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
* Atom (Al Pratt)
* Flash  (Jay Garrick)
* Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
* Hawkman


Other Notable Members:

* Wonder Woman (Queen Hippolyta)
* Wildcat (Ted Grant)
* Doctor Fate (Hector Hall)
* Power Girl (Earth-2 Kara Zor-El)
* Hourman (Rick Tyler/(Matthew Tyler)
* Atom Smasher (Albert Rothstein)
* Starman (Ted Knight)
* Mr Terrific (Terry Sloane/Michael Holt)
* Doctor Mid-Nite (Charles McNider/Pieter Cross)
* Sandy (Sanderson Hawkins)
* Johnny Thunder
* Jakeem Thunder
* Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore)
* Black Adam
* Captain Marvel
* Jesse Quick (Jesse Chambers)
* Damage (Grant Emerson)
* Citizen Steel (Nate Heywood)
* Obsidian (Todd Rice)

Issues:

* All Star Comics #3 (1940) - First appearance & first team of superheroes in comic books
* The Flash #123 -  Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash) meets Jay Garrick (Goden Age flash)
* The Flash #129 - all of the JSA
* Justice Leage of America #21-22 - Justice League meets the JSA
*
Zero Hour Crisis in Time 


* Hawkman & Hawkgirl merges with the other Hawks from other timelines
* Atom(Al Pratt), Doctor Mid-Nite(Charles McNider),  Hour-Man(Rex Tyler) & Dr Fate (Kent Nelson) die
* Merges the timelines


* JSA Volume 2

* Stealing Thunder (32-37)
* Black Reign
* Black Vengeance 


* Kingdom Come
* JLA/JSA Virtue and Vice
* Justice Society of America volume 2

* The Next Age
* Thy Kingdom Come Part 1
* Thy Kingdom Come Part 2
* Thy Kingdom Come Part 3


* Justice League of America - The Lightning Saga

Also check out our Black Adam Character Corner& reading list. It has more JSA issues centering on Black Adam and also covers 52 & World War II

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It's time for another Character CornerLuke Cage debuts on Netflix this Friday. Misty Knight will also make her live action debut in that 13 episode series. We decided that this is going to be Part 1 of our Heroes for Hire series as its hard to talk about Luke Cage and Misty Knight without Danny Rand (Iron Fist) and Colleen Wing. So we'll definitely be talking more about Cage & Knight when we do Iron Fist/Colleen Wing next year, but we start you off with the essentials. Luke & Misty are both African-American characters that come from the blaxploitation era of Marvel but have become solid characters that are so much more than that. Luke Cage's origin story still holds up pretty well and is very relevant in today's climate. Misty Knight has never had her own solo book, but she's been central in several series. Give this episode a listen and check out the reading list. Most issues are on Marvel Unlimited.
Luke Cage:

* Luke Cage Hero For Hire

* Issue #1 - First Appearance
* Issues #8-9 - Beats up Doctor Doom for $200


* Power Man Volume 1 #48-49 - Meets Danny, Misty & Colleen for the first time & clears his name
* Power Man and Iron Fist Volume 1 - Starts at #50 picks up from #49 with Luke's name being cleared and teaming up with Danny
* Relationship with Jessica Jones

* Alias
* The Pluse


* New Avengers (2004) - Bendis Run

* New Avengers Annual #1 - Wedding between Luke & Jessica
* Issue #22 - Civil War Tie-In. Refuses to sign & joins Cap
* Issue #47 - The story of when he fell for Jessica


* Mighty Avengers
* Power Man and Iron First (Current David Walker Run)

Misty Knight

* Marvel Premiere #21 - First Appearance
* Daughters of the Dragon
* Heroes for Hire (Volume 2)
* Heroes for Hire (Volume 3)
* Villains for Hire
* Fearless Defenders
* Captain America: Sam Wilson

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We're back with another episode of the Character Corner. This time Kriss & Dpalm step out of their comfort zone and deal with a character (or rather a set of characters) that they don't have a lot of prior knowledge on: Ghost Rider. We cover the original Ghost Rider with Johnny Blaze, then move on to his brother Danny Ketch and then finish with the All-New Ghost Rider that will be appearing in this upcoming season of Agents of SHIELD, Robbie Reyes. We were pleasantly surprised by what we found, researched and read with Ghost Rider and we really think people will enjoy this episode. 


Runs:

* Ghost Rider Vol. 2 #1 - First Appearance of Johnny Blaze
* Ghost Rider Vol. 3 #1 - First Appearance of Danny Ketch
* Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears
* Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation
* Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch
* Ghost Rider Vol. 6 #20 - 35 - Jason Aaron's run
* Ghost Rider: Heaven's on Fire 1 - 6
* All New Ghost Rider #1 - 12 - First Appearance of Robbie Reyes
* Ghost Rider Vol. 7  Fear Itself - Alejandra becomes Ghost Rider
* Ghost Rider Vol. 6 #12 - 13 - Ghost Rider (Blaze) vs The Hulk

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We end our 3 part Rogue War Character Corner special with the only group of villains to actually be Rogues (well at least part of them). They might have silly costumes and silly names but when you realize that these villains go up against the Fastest Man Alive and routinely give him hell, you realize just how powerful and dangerous Flash's rogues are. Dpalm and Kriss make the case that not only are the Rogues of Barry Allen and Wally West underrated, but that this is actually the best Rogues Gallery in comic books. Bold statement but we have plenty of evidence to back it up. So give this show a listen.
The Minor Players


* Murmur
* Girder
* Rainbow Raider
* Turtle
* Peek-a-Boo
* Magenta
* Blacksmith


The Rogue “Affiliates"


* Doctor Alchemy
* Gorilla Grodd

* Flash Vol. 2 #178
* Flash Vol.2 #192 - 194
* Flash Vol.2 #210 - 211
* Gorilla Warfare


* Abra Kadabra

The Rogues


* Pied Piper
* Trickster/Jesse James
* Captain Boomerang/Digger Harkness
* Mirror Master/Sam Scudder
* Legacy Rogues

* Trickster/Axel Walker
* Captain Boomerang/Owen Harkness
* Mirror Master/Evan McCulloch

* Flash Vol. 2 #212




* Weather Wizard
* Heatwave
* The Top

* Flash Vol. 1 #243 - First "death"


* Golden Glider
* Captain Cold

* The Flash Vol. 2 #182





The Speedsters


* Inertia/Kid Zoom/Thaddeus Thawne
* Savitar

* Flash Vol. 2 #108 - 111


* Black Flash/Black Racer
* The Rival
* Professor Zoom/Hunter Zolomon

* Flash: Blitz


* Reverse Flash/Eobard Thawne

* The Death of Iris West Allen
* The Return of Barry Allen



Runs

* Flash: Wonderland - Flash Vol. 2 #164-169
* Flash: Rogues - Flash Vol. 2 #177-182
* Flash Vol. 2 #19 - A Meeting of Rogues
* Final Crisis: Rogue's Revenge
* Flash: Rogue War - Vol. 2 #220 - 225
* Flash: Rogues Revolution- Vol. 3 0, 9-12, Annual 1
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So here it is. Part One of our Rogue War Character Corners. First up, we talk about Batman's classic gallery of rogues. And when I say "talk" I really mean that. We put together 2 1/2 hours worth of discussion on the villains that oppose the Bat and even then we had to limit it to the most well known of the villains (Sorry, no Kite Man). We tried to break them out into categories to keep the flow going. Also, unlike previous Character Corners where we have a fairly linear list of comic book runs, I just listed out most of the books we discussed since there's a lot of jumping around. Also the links to the issues go to Amazon where you can buy the Comixology digital copies.

Mobsters

Carmine Falcone
Sal Maroni
Penguin
Two-Face


Stone Cold Killers

Victor Zsasz
Deadshot


Monsters

Killer Croc
Clayface (Basil Karlo)
Solomon Gundy
Mr. Freeze


Psychological villains 

Hugo Strange
Scarecrow


Femme Fatales 

Poison Ivy
Catwoman
Harley Quinn


Strategists

Hush
Riddler
Bane
Ra’s Al Ghul


The Joker

Key Issues:

* The Long Halloween


* Dark Victory


* Hush


* Birth of the Demon


* Tower of Babel


* Batman: Prey


* Batman and the Monster Men


* Batman Annual #1


* Gotham City Sirens


* Batman Vol 5 Zero Year - Dark City


* Vengeance of Bane/Bane of the Demon


* Knightfall


* Death in the Family


* The Killing Joke


* Death of the Family


* End Game

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The MTR Network sat down with Greg Burnham and Marcus Williams, the creators of a new comic launching in late July 2016, the Tuskegee Heirs.  Driven by a desire to provide representation for young Black people, they discuss the inspiration and purpose of the artwork, the reason for linking a new comic property to historical events, and the challenges in creating a campaign with a goal of creating an animated property.








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When Dpalm suggested we do Superboy for our next Character Corner, I was skeptical that we would be able to cover a whole show. Boy was I wrong. We ended up doing 90 minutes on Connor Kent and that's after condensing and skipping over a lot of things. This is only the beginning though since we clearly have to do a Teen Titans Character Corner now. Superboy is a really interesting DC character since its really easy to follow a linear progression for this character from his first appearance up to the New 52 (but as Dpalm says...don't read any New 52 Superboy...its bad). We also cover Superboy Prime because he's an important piece of Connor's story.

Issues:

* Superman: Reign of Supermen

* Adventures of Superman #500 - 1st Appearance
* Adventures of Superman #501
* Adventures of Superman #502


* Superman: Return of Superman

* Superman #81 - meets the real Superman for the first time


* Superboy Volume 3

* Issues #25-30 - Losing it Part 1- 6 Knockout betrays Superboy
* Issue #59 - Superman brings Superboy into the House of El as Kon-El
* Issue #74 - Tana Moon is killed


* Young Justice (1998 - 2003)
* Teen Titans Volume 3

* Issue #1 - Finds out half his DNA is Lex Luthor
* Issue #24 & 25 - Lex "activates" Superboy and Connor takes out the Teen Titans
* Issue #26 - Raven tells Connor he has a Soul
* Issue  #32 - vs Superboy Prime
* Issue #33 - Teams up with Night Wing


* Superboy Prime Issues

* Crisis on Infinite Earths
* Infinite Crisis Secret Files & Origins - Superboy Prime changes the DC Universe by beating on reality
* Infinite Crisis #6 - Connor dies stopping Superboy Prime


* Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds 1 - 5 - Bart & Connor return & stop Superboy Prime in the Future
* Superboy: The Boy of Steel

* Adventure Comics 504, 505, 506, 508 & 509



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We cover another X-Man villain turned...good? This time we cover Magneto, the greatest enemy of the X-Men. Magneto has a very interesting arc as a villain. He starts off as the perfect antithesis to Professor Xavier. He starts with the simple idea of "never again" will he allow his people to be slaughtered to believing he's the messiah for mutant kind to dealing with the guilt when he fails. Kriss once again finds himself defending some of the more awful crimes Magneto commits but maybe once you finish listening you'll be agreeing that Magneto was right too.
There's a LOT of issues involving Magneto. Below I just list some of the ones we talked about but there's plenty more. Marvel Unlimited is your friend. A great place to start is Cullen Bunn's 2014 Magneto solo series as it ends up covering a lot of Magneto's history as well.
Issues:

* X-Men #1- First appearance
* Classic X-Men #12 - Magneto's origin
* Magneto's Children

* Vision and Scarlet Witch vol 1 #4 - learns he is the father of Wanda & Pietro
* New X-Men #132 - Revealed that Polaris is Magneto's daughter


* X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
* X-Men #200 - Trial of Magneto
* X-Men #1 - 3
* Fatal Attraction

* X-Factor #92
* X-Force #25 - Magneto nearly rips Cable apart
* Uncanny X-Men #304
* X-Men #25 - Magneto rips the adamantium out of Logan's body, Xavier wipes Magneto's mind


* House of M #1 - 8
* New X-Men #115 - Genosha is wiped out
* New X-Men #146 - 150 - Planet X/Xorn as Magneto
* House of M #1 - 8
* Nation X

* Uncanny X-Men #516 - Magneto pledges himself to Cyclops 
* Uncanny X-Men #521 & 522 - Magneto proves himself to the X-Men by bringing Kitty Pryde home


* Magneto solo series by Cullen Bunn

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If you're looking for the essential marvel comics to read for Black Panther then look no further. With his first solo movie just over a month away, its time to revisit our Character Corner episode that goes through the history of the first black super hero in mainstream comics. T'Challa made his live action debut in Captain America: Civil War but the importance and interest in the character goes back much further. 

In this episode, we break down what exactly Wakanda is and how progressive the writing for both Wakanda & T'Challa was even back in the 60's. Black Panther was given the spotlight in the Jungle Action series where he even took on and fought the KKK. The last 90's saw a new revival for T'Challa when Christopher Priest took over for Black Panther Volume 3. Looking back, this run is very problematic (it's a bit hotepy and the depiction of women/little girls is bad), but it represented a huge shift in how Black Panther & Wakanda were represented. This is the run that hooked a lot of people on the character of T'Challa and the concept of Wakanda. For all it's issues, Priest did a great job of elevating T'Challa to basically being Marvel's Batman while expanding on what Wakanda really was. As problematic as the depiction is, credit also has to be given to Priest for introducing the concept of the Dora Milaje. 

Priest's run redefined Black Panther and subsequent writers just built on that. Reginald Hudlin's run on Black Panther has moments that fall flat but also provide some significant changes to the character. For good or bad, Hudlin retcons the history of T'Challa and the X-Men Storm so that Ororo is the "one true love" of T'Challa. Personally the Storm/T'Challa marriage was poorly thought out, unnecessary and executed. But Hudlin also introduces us to Shuri, T'Challa's sister and eventual successor as ruler of Wakanda.

Our episode goes into further details with each of these series and more. We go into  T'Challa's relationship with the other rulers in the Marvel Universe: Namor, Black Bolt and Doctor Doom. The rivalry between Doctor Doom & T'Challa takes the character to the next level. 

Like I said, we cover a lot. So give it a listen.
Comic Issues:

* Fantastic Four #52 - First appearance of Black Panther (T'Challa)
* The Avengers #52 - Black Panther joins the Avengers
* Jungle Action #5- #24 - First feature with Black Panther as star

* #6 - First appearance of Erik Killmonger
* #19-24 - Black Panther vs The Klan


* Black Panther vol 3 - Christopher Priest
* Black Panther vol 4 - Reginald Hudlin 

* Bride of the Panther Issues 14-18. Marries Storm in issue 18


* Black Panther vol 5 - Reginald Hudlin

* #1 - first appearance of Shuri
* #10-12 - Prelude to Doomwar


* Doomwar - Doom takes over Wakanda in order to steal the vibranium
* Fantastic Four #608 - Becomes "King of the Dead"
* Avengers vs X-Men #9  - Marriage to Storm annulled
* Jonathan Hickman's Avenger's run has some great Black Panther Moments

* New Avengers Vol 3


* Issue 7 & 8 - Wakanda & Atlantis go to war


* Avengers (2012) #40  - T'Challa "kills" Namor
* Secret Wars


* Ultimates - Al Ewing
* Black Panther vol 6 - Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

 

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This is a massive Character Corner episode. We cover 3 characters: Daredevil, Elektra and Punisher. This was a really great episode that allows us to dig into the depressing life of Matt Murdock. What makes Daredevil such a great character is how much Matt Murdock matters to understanding the character. We cover the major moments in Matt's life and how it all continues to spiral downhill. From crazy ninja ex-girlfriends, to dead girlfriends to murderous villains like Bullseye and Kingpin. We then talk a little bit about Elektra and then dig into the craziness that is Frank Castle, aka The Punisher. We end with a discussion on how Punisher and Daredevil really work well as competing narratives of the same end goal. You're not going to want to miss this.

There are some spoilers here for Daredevil Season 2 on Netflix

Daredevil:

* Daredevil #1 - First Appearance
* Daredevil : The Man Without Fear - Best to read First
* Daredevil #131 - First Appearance of Bullseye
* Daredevil #181 - Bullseye thinks Matt Murdock is Daredevil. Also he kills Elektra
* Daredevil Volume 1 #227 - 231 - Born Again. Karen sells out Matt's secret identity
* Daredevil Volume 2 #5 - Bullseye kills Karen
* Daredevil Volume 2 #26 - 81 - Bendis' run. Matt's secret identity goes public
* Daredevil Volume 2 #82 -119 - Brubaker's run


Elektra:

* Daredevil #168 - First appearance
* Elektra (2001-2004) - Bendis run

Punisher:

* Amazing Spider-Man #129 - First appearance
* Punisher vol 4 #1-12 Welcome Back Frank - Garth Ennis

* #3 - Punisher gives Daredevil an impossible choice


* Punisher Max vol 3 - Mother Russia * Not on Marvel Unlimited

* Frank takes a mission for Nick Fury


* Punisher War Journal (1988)
* Punisher War Zone 2012 -Frank vs the Avengers
* Daredevil vol 1 #257 - Daredevil vs Punisher

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This time Kriss & Dpalm cover Wonder Woman before her debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This is the oldest character we've done (She's been around since 1942) and we talk about how this has lead to some problematic ways she's been depicted. While now seen as a feminist icon, the character's beginnings are full of problematic depictions and just flat out bad writing. But we've found some really good reads that do her justice and really highlight her being "Truth" in the Trinity (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) of DC Comics.  This was  a great discussion and I think we pulled out some great comics that really highlight what makes her so great.

Issues:

* Gods & Mortals
* Spirit of Truth
* JLA - A League of One
* Wonder Woman - The Hiketeia
* Batman-Superman-Wonder Woman: Trinity
* WW Volume 2

* Issues 195-200
* Issues 206-2013


* WW Volume 3

* Issues 14-17 - Gail Simone run


* Flashpoint Paradox

* Flashpoint - Emperor Aquaman
* Flashpoint - Wonder Woman & The Furies




* First 7 Volumes of New 52 

* Issue #3 - Hippolyta reveals Diana is a child of Zues
* Issue #7 - The male children of Amazon
* Issue #12 - Diana takes off her bracelets to unless her true powers
* Issue #23 - Becomes the new God of War



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Dpalm and Kriss present the final part of their Character Corner series on Doctor Doom. During this final part we focus mainly on Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four run that leads into New Avengers/Secret Wars. The heart of this story is a Reed Richards vs Doctor Doom story but there's so much more. We see Doom become a God, twice. We also see more of the relationship between Valeria & Victor. Doom kinda sorta tries to redeem and do good but ultimately is still a dick. We also finish up by talking about the new direction we see for Victor Von Doom in the new Invincible Iron Man run. This is one of our favorite Character Corners and you're going to want to listen.
Issues:


* Doomwar #3 - Doom confronts the Panther God and is judged as having "pure" intentions
* The Entire Jonathan Hickman run of Fantastic Four (Volume 3 #570-611) & FF(Volume 1 #1-13)

* FF #2 - Doom mocks Ben for watching Johnny die
* FF #12 & 16 - All Hope Lies with Doom
* Fantastic Four #611 - Reed, Valeria, Nathaniel go to save Doom from Doomworld


* Fantastic Four Annual 2014 - Sue goes to Latveria to get Valeria
* Loki: Agent of Asgard #6 & 7 - Doom and Valeria take on Lokia
* Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers & Secret wars

* New Avengers #6 - an Incursion happens in Latveria
* New Avengers #24 - Namor comes to Doom & Doom rejects him. It's revealed...Doom has a plan
* New Avengers #33 - Doom confronts the Beyonders
* Secret Wars #8 - Doom vs Thanos
* Secret Wars #9 - Doom vs Reed


* Invincible Iron Man #1-5 - The new Victor Von Doom...is he a good guy?

* For New Avengers, check out the complete reading list on our Comic Book Book Club
*You can find the reading order for Hickman's Fantastic Four run here. We'll be doing a Comic Book Book Club on it soon
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Dpalm and Kriss present part 2 of their character corner on Doctor Victor Von Doom. If you thought Doom was evil in part 1, he gets even worse. Doctor Doom decides that he needs to get back to his roots and decides to concentrate more on his magic and becomes even more terrifying. He takes trolling the Fantastic Four to a new level by helping Sue give birth to Valeria and it begins a very interesting relationship between Doom and his goddaughter. Doom also survives Hell and then gets revenge after millions of years, cementing that Doom is not to be fucked with. Oh and we throw in Doctor Doom vs T'Challa & Wakanda for good measure.

Issues:

* Marvel Graphic Novel - Emperor Doom #27- Doom uses the Purple Man to take over the World
* Fantastic Four Vol3 #54 - Doom helps deliver Valeria, and saves Sue's life in the process
* Fantastic Four Vol 3 #67-70  - Unthinkable.
* Fantastic Four Vol 3 #556-565

* Fantastic Four Vol 3 #566-569 - The Masters of Doom
* Doomwar 1- 6 - Dr. Doom successfully takes down Wakanda and steals vibranium and becomes nearly unstoppable

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On this Character Corner Dpalm and Kriss cover the Merc with the Mouth, Wade Wilson aka Deadpool. Deadpool is a unique character in that you can pretty much read anything with Deadpool in it. We have a ton of suggested reading for the character include a surprising "cameo" in a DC Comics book.

Issues: *All of these issues are on Marvel Unlimited except Superman/Batman Annual #1 obviously*

* New Mutants #98 - #100- First Appearance of Deadpool
* Deadpool (1997-2002) #1-#33- Joe Kelly run. First appearance of Blind Alfred
* Deadpool and Death Annual - Flashbacks to Wade's time in Weapon X & feud with Ajax/Francis. Also his love with Death
* Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars - the retelling of the 1984 Secret Wars with Deadpool as the hero
* Deadpool: Suicide Kings
* Cable & Deadpool
* Uncanny X-Force Volume 1
* A+X #8 - Hawkeye & Deadpool team up
* Agent X #1-7 & #13-15 - Gail Simone's first mainstream comic
* Superman/Batman Annual #1 - Yes...this is not a mistake. This is DC embracing the fact that Deadpool is a parody of Deathstroke. See an "alternate" Deathstroke who looks (and behaves) an awful lot like Deadpool

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Dpalm and Kriss finally get around to their character corner on Doctor Victor Von Doom. We're going to have to break this up into two parts (maybe even three). For this first part we give a primer on Victor Von Doom's background. We cover the origin of his feud with Reed Richards. We also talk about about what makes Doom so terrifying (and a dick), his over confidence and his never ending quest for power. So check out Part 1 of this Character Corner. It only gets worse from here with Doom.
Issues:


* Fantastic Four 4 & 5- First Appearance
* Fantastic Four 6 - Doom tricks Namor into attacking the Fantastic Four
* Fantastic Four 57 - 60 - Tricks the Silver Surfer and stills the Cosmic Power
* Iron Man 149 & 150
* Fantastic Four 196 - 200 - Fantastic Four help Zorba to overthrow Doom in Latveria
* Fantastic Four 246 & 247 - Doom returns to Latveria. First appearance of Kristoff
* Secret Wars (1984) 1 - 12 - Doom takes the power of the Beyonder

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We do a dual episode this time to cover Rip Hunter and Vandal Savage as a primer for CW's upcoming Legends of Tomorrow. We talk about how there's some really good stories with Rip Hunter although DC hasn't really used him much lately. Vandal Savage is another story. He seems to be very underused in the comics but has been used fairly well in other media like the animated shows/movies and has a lot of potential in Legends of Tomorrow up against Rip Hunter.

Rip Hunter:

* Showcase #20- First Appearance
* 52
* Booster Gold Volume 2
* Time Masters: Vanishing Point - Dark Phoenix Saga

Vandal Savage

* JSA #43 & #45
* Villains United #5 & #6
* JSA: Classified #10-13
* Animated

* Young Justice
* Justice League Doom
* Justice League Unlimited



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We talk about our first X-Men/Mutant with this discussion on Emma Frost. We cover her entire history from her being introduced as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club to her transition to becoming an X-Men and protector of the mutant race. We talk about the recurring tragedies that help mold Emma from being just an evil villain to the hero she is now. An interesting thing about Emma is that despite this change, she still maintained her elitism and coldness but it has a purpose.

Reading list (Most if not all of these are on Marvel Unlimited):

* Uncanny X-Men #129 - First Appearance
* Uncanny X-Men #129 -133 - Dark Phoenix Saga
* Uncanny X-Men #314 - Takes over Iceman's body
* Generation X (63 - 70 are on MU)

* #70 - Massachusetts Academy is blown up by her sister, another student dies


* Uncanny X-Men #331 - "Helps" Bobby with his powers in a very Emma Way
* Grant Morrison's New X-Men (2001-2004)

* #115 - Genosha wiped out
* #116 - Emma gets secondary mutation
* Annual #1 & #131 - Her psychic Affair with Scott begins
* #139 - Jean finds out and forces Emma to confront her past


* Whedon's Astonishing X-Men (2004)

* Volume 3: Torn - Emma Focus. Whole run features Emma but especially this volume


* Dark X-Men The Confession 1

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X-Men Regenesis

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X-Men vs Avengers 1-12 (mostly 6-11)

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On this Character Corner, we do our first solo episode on a villain. We talk about DC's Black Adam. Black Adam is such an interesting character because while a lot of what he does is wrong, the motives are something you can understand. Complexity like this makes a villain good. When you can make a character that slaughters an entire country of 2 million people sympathetic in a way, you're doing something right.

Reading list:

* The Marvel Family #1 -Origins (Fawcett Comics 1945)
* JSA: Black Reign

* JSA #56
* Hawkman #23
* JSA #57
* Hawkman #24
* JSA #58
* Hawkman #25


* Fifty Two

* Adrianna Tomaz (future wife/Isis) 1st appearance
* #12 -  Adrianna becomes Isis
* #16 - Proposes to Isis and marries her
* #23 - Amon becomes Osiris
* #43 - Osiris is killed
* #44 - Isis is killed
* #45 - Black Adam slaughters 2 million in Bialya
* #50, 50b, 50c, 50d, 50e - World War III. Black Adam vs the World

* World War III Part 1
* World War II Part 2
* World War III Part 3
* World War III Part 4
* World War III Part 5




* Justice Society of America: Black Adam and Isis

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Time for another Character Corner. This time we're discussing Jessica Jones and giving the rundown on what makes this character so different from those we've seen before. She'll make her live action debut on November 20th on Netflix. Listen to our discussion on her history.

Reading list:

* Alias Volume 1 - First appearance of Jessica Jones
* Alias Volume 2  "Come Home"
* Alias Volume 3 "The Underneath"- Teams up with Jessica Drew to save Mattie Franklin
* Alias Volume 4 "The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones" - Jessica Jones' origin story
* The Pulse 1 -14 - Jessica works for J Jonah and has her child
* New Avengers Annual #1 - Jessica and Luke Cage get married
* Young Avengers -
* Mighty Avengers - Luke starts the Mighty Avengers and Jessica isn't thrilled

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We're finally back with a new Character Corner. This time we're here to discuss Tim Drake, the third Robin. We talk about how unfair it is for Tim to become the "Forgotten" Robin and how good of a character he is. Each of the Robins have distinct personalities and traits and Tim Drake is "The Detective". Check out our discussion.

*I said Nightwing #1 on the show, it's actually #25

Reading list:

* Batman #436 - First appearance of Tim Drake
* Batman #442 - First appearance as Robin
* Red Robin #1 - First appearance as Red Robin
* Nightwing #25 - Great Dick & Tim issue
* Identity Crisis- Tim Drake's father, Jack is killed
* Teen Titans #20- Tim dealing with his father's death with the Titans
* Teen Titans #29 - Tim Drake vs Jason Todd
* Red Robin #1-26 - Great run that really defines Tim Drake as "the Detective" and Bruce Wayne (not Batman) successor

 

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Kriss and Dpalm are joined by N'jaila Rhee to discuss black female comic book characters. This is a little different from our usually Character Corners since we go through several different characters. But I've made sure to list/link to some key issues and runs for some of these characters so you can look them up and read more about them.

Marvel

* Storm

* Giant Size X-Men #1- First Appearance *
* Uncanny X-Men #170 - Fights for leadership of the Morlocks*
* Uncanny X-Men #201- Powerless Storm beats Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men *


* Shuri

* Black Panther Volume 4 #2- First Appearance *
* Black Panther Volume 5- Shuri takes over as Black Panther *


* Monica Rambeau

* The Amazing spider-Man Annual #16 * - First appearance as Captain Marvel
* Avengers Unplugged #5 - First appearance as Photon
* New Thunderbolts #9 * - First appearance as Pulsar
* Mighty Avengers vol 2 #1 * - First appearance as Spectrum
* Nextwave: Agents of HATE * - great series with Monica as the leader of a team


* Misty Knight

* Marvel Premiere #20 - first appearance
* Simone Missick has been cast as Misty Knight for the Luke Cage Netflix series



* Issue(s) is on Marvel Unlimited

DC/Milestone/Vertigo

* Amanda Waller

* See the list of issues from our Character Corner on her & the Suicide Squad


* Vixen

* Action Comics #521 - First Appearance
* Justice League of America Volume 2


* Bumblebee

* Teen Titans #45 - First appearance as Karen Beecher
* Teen Titans #48 - First appearance  as Bumblebee
* Young Justice cartoon


* Thunder & Lightening (Black Lightning’s Kids)
* XS (Jenni Ognats, Barry Allen’s granddaughter)

* Legionnaires #0


* Agent 355

* Y the Last Man



Image

* Michonne

* The Walking Dead #19 - First appearance
* The Walking Dead Volume 6 - her graphic dealings with the Governor


* Dee from Rat Queens

* All of Rat Queens



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We're back and this time it's to discuss Miles Morales, the Spider-Man from Marvel's Ultimate universe and soon to be MAIN Spider-Man of the All-New universe Marvel creates after Secret Wars. We talk about why the character is so significant and was a great move by Marvel. We also talk about what makes him different from Peter Parker and how that's a great thing. Finally, we geek out over the future of the character and how exciting its going to be to see him in the new universe(The first panel in Avengers with Kamala Khan/Miles Morales is going to be amazing).
*Note* Due to the weird numbering of some of the comics we were a little off on the issues we talked about so check the show notes to find out exactly where to get the issues. The links go to the Comixology pages.
Key Issues:
Ultimate Comics Fallout (Volume 1) #4 - First Appearance of Miles Morales
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 1 (collects 1 - 5 & Ultimate Comics Fallout #4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 2(collects 6 - 10)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol 3 (Collects 11- 18)
Spider-Men 1-5 - Miles Morales meets 616 Peter Parker and gets his blessing
All-New Ultimates - Miles, Jessica Drew, Bombshell, Cloak & Dagger form the new Ultimates team

* Vol1 (Issues 1-6)
* Vol2 (Issues 7-12)

Ultimate Spider-Man #200

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Kriss and Dpalm discuss Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad. We talk about the Amanda Waller's history and backstory and what led to her creating the Suicide Squad. We also discuss the changes DC has made to the New 52 and Live Action Waller and why they seem to be missing the point of the character.  Check out the episode and let us know what you think .

Key Issues:
Legend #1 - First appearance of Amanda Waller
The Brave and the Bold #25 - Original Suicide Squad
Legend #3 -  Modern Suicide Squad
Secret Origins #14 - Backstory on Silver Age Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad Vol 1 (#1 - 67)
Suicide Squad Vol 3 (1 - 8)
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Kriss & Dpalm are back to discuss Wally West, The Fastest Man Alive. Wally is the third person to take the mantle of the Flash. While the focus has been on Barry Allen recently, we talk about how Wally West was THE Flash for many of us growing up and how important he is. We talk about the similarities and differences between Flash and Batman. How Flash's rogue gallery is up there with Spider-Man and Batman in terms of being the best and most dangerous. We also go over some key issues involving Wally and what makes them so good.
Key Issues:
Flash Vol 1 #110  (Dec. 1959) - 1st Wally West appearance (Kid Flash). Retold in Flash Vol 2 #62
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (1986) - 1st Wally West as Flash
Mark Waid - Flash Vol. 2
Issues #74 - #79 - The Return of Barry Allen/Reverse Flash origin
Issues #95 - #100 - Terminal Velocity, first mention/definition of the Speed Force
Issues #150 - #159 - Alternate Wally West
Geoff Johns Run
Issues #192 - #200 - Flash Blitz, First appearance of Hunter Zolomon as Zoom
Issues #201 - #119 - Identity Crisis Tie-ins
Issues #220 - #225 - Rogue Wars
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In our first episode of The Character Corner, Kriss & Dpalm discuss the character of Scott Lang (Ant-Man).  We talk about how Scott's character has been a consistent presence in the Marvel Universe. His story is actually pretty easy to follow and when you pay attentiont ot he whole thing, its actually really good. We discuss how the center of Scott Lang's story is his relationship with his daughter Cassie and how it starts with his first appearance as Ant-Man in 1979 and ties directly into his current run in his solo Ant-Man book.
Key Issues:
Avengers #181 - First appearance of Scott Lang
Marvel Premiere #47 & #48 - First appearance of Scott Lang as Ant-Man
Avengers #223 - Iconic cover with Ant-Man on the tip of Hawkeye's arrow. Hawkeye & Ant-Man take on Taskmaster
Avengers #477 - Scott officially joins the Avengers (also loses custody of Cassie)
Avengers #500 - Death of Scott Lang. Avengers Dissembled
Young Avengers - Cassie Lang joins in issue #2
Avengers: The Children's Crusade 1-9 - Resurrection of Scott Lang, death of Cassie Lang
FF #16 - Scott vs Dr. Doom
Avengers World #16 - Dr. Doom resurrects Cassie Lang
Ant-Man #1-5 - Current Ant-Man solo book
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