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Podcast: Justice League Action upon The Transconsciousness Articulator This time we revisit the Joe Kelly/ChrisCross issues of JLA #s 83 (September, 2003) and 90 (January, 2004) covering fantasy stories involving the World's Finest Trinity versus George Bush President Lex Luthor, as well as Diana and Bruce considering the  possibility of a romantic relationship. It's supposed to be a Martian...

The ancient immortal African mystic Doctor Mist was introduced in a cameo on the last page of 1978's The Super Friends #12 before continuing into appearances in The Super Friends #13 & 45-46 before officially forming the Global Guardians in DC Comics Presents #46. We cover these comics to varying degrees, but our primary focus is  the supposed true story of "Nommo," appended to tales star...

Podcast: The Mystery of Nubia By all indications, 2017 needs a podcast dedicated to Queen Hippolyta's  "second," "other," "dark" daughter who debuted on November 7, 1972 in Wonder Woman #204, so we're "Introducing Nubia!" The soul sister of the Amazing Amazon went on to appearances in Wonder Woman #205-206, including a solo back-up story, plus cameos in Supergirl #9 and The Super Friends #25...

After slipping to an unintentional monthly schedule with some  uncomfortable elements and unfortunate timing, the DC Bloodlines Podcast  returns for a thirteenth episode set on breaking its unlucky streak  (and nearly broke Diabolu Frank with all the editing it required.) In  this novel edition, special guest Pekita Trotamundos helps produce a  two-person radio drama in th...

Podcast: DC's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special (2016) Along his way to covering DC Comics' special issue released to  commemorate the Amazing Amazon's three-quarters of a century in action,  Diabolu Frank lost his way and stumbled into so many outtakes from the 75 Birthdays-- The Secret Origins of Wonder Woman episode recording sessions that it became a second special its own self....

This episode looks at Nik Mayak, a New Blood with extraordinary body  regeneration powers, supplemented by great agility and uncanny accuracy  with blowing blades. Debuting in 1993's Green Lantern Annual #2, we give an overview of the rest of his career in Eclipso Annual #1 & Bloodbath #1-2,  the Blood Pack mini-series, Guy Gardner: Warrior #29 & 39, Deathstroke the Terminat...

The Guardians of the Universe chose Hal Jordan to be their Emerald  Gladiator for Space Sector 2814, wielder of a Power Ring that could  create jade energy constructs limited only by the bearer's willpower and  a necessary impurity that rendered it ineffective against anything  colored yellow. However, the day would come when Hal Jordan would  falter, and on that day his s...

Podcast: The Ironically Iconic Wonder Woman This episode, Frank offers a rebuttal to Brigit McCone's "Unpopular Opinions" week article for the site B**** Flicks ,  which took the character of Wonder Woman to task for the "revolutionary  banalities" of her "male-authored feminism," especially within the  context of the 1970s TV show. We don't have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to co...

"He was a mystery to himself! Why-- young Adam Blake wanted to know--  was he so different from other people? How did it happen that there was  no one else like him in the whole wide world? Where did he really come from? Who was he? All these questions which  might have unsettled an ordinary mind-- only served to whet the brain  and steel the mettle of the extraordinary youth w...

Podcast: The Second Coming of Robert Kanigher This episode we look at the brief return of writer/editor Robert  Kanigher to the Wonder Woman series following a campaign by Gloria  Steinem to return the Amazing Amazon to her roots. Kanigher decided what  that meant was that he could recycle his own decades old scripts, so we  get to simultaneously cover 1973's Wonder Woman #207-...

This episode looks at the New Blood Myriad and the Cyborg Superman, neither of whom debuted in 1993's Superman Annual #5 (the only instance of that occurring in the Bloodlines annual event  that was specifically created to introduce new characters.) Getting to  know Hank Henshaw means going back to 1990 to cover Superman #42, Adventures of Superman #465 and especially Adventures of Super...

Podcast: The 2016 Wonder Woman Trailers This episode Frank looks at the teaser and first full trailers released for the 2017 feature film starring Gal Gadot. We don't have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to communicate with us about the podcast... Tweet host Diabolu Frank directly, or commune with @rolledspine as a group. Email Diabolu If the main Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog isn't you...

Finally, the DC Bloodlines Podcast reveals its greater scope than just  one 1993 event, but rather a mandate to cover the under-served DCU by  looking at the earliest published (and especially the unpublished)  comics of what was intended to be the first super-heroine series for a  character of African decent, Mari McCabe: The Vixen! We start with the  aborted 1978 first i...

Podcast: 75 Birthdays-- The Secret Origins of Wonder Woman October 25, 2016 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the release date for All-American Publications' All Star Comics #8, which featured the story "Introducing Wonder Woman" by her creators  William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter in her comics debut! In  acknowledgement, your regular host Diabolu Frank covers a variety of &...

Sigh. It's time to deal with Courtney Mason, the heroine of The New Titans Annual #9 and her own sixteen issue series, Anima (we cover the first two issues.) Created by novelists Elizabeth Hand  & Paul Witcover, Anima was one of the highest profile and powerful  New Bloods, but also one of the most painful to actually read. Hope the  riot grrrl soundtrack helps us get through th...

The (finally bi-weekly as originally intended) podcast (not really)  dedicated to DC's New Bloods returns (for a second "season" of  indefinite length after a one-off in Spring 2015 & four episodes in  April)! We're (actually only one person involved) back with a show that  was 100% completed on May ‎15th but left on the shelf for nearly five  months because Frank got...

Podcast: A Final Adventure of Wonder Woman (1985) This episode finally, irrevocably breaks from its previous incarnation  as a podcast! A seasonal/bi-annual show no more! No longer only coming  out only when an issue of Wonder Woman '77 corresponds with the  episode number! This edition, we cover an entire story arc, encompassing  the entire (very brief) run of Wonder Woman's f...

Comics Bulletin & Alex Ross on the Cusp of J’onn J’onzz’s 61st Anniversary On October 8, 2014, the website Comics Bulletin published a discussion between Bryan Stroud and the famous painter of Marvels and Kingdom Come in the article Alex Ross Talks About the Martian Manhunter on the Cusp of J’onn J’onzz’s 60th Anniversary .  Nearly two years later, with the Alien Atlas' next birthday immi...

Podcast- Adjudicating J'Onn J'Onzz (ComicsVerse v Martian Manhunter) The website Comicsverse ,  "your source for in-depth comics analysis" very very briefly ran a  series of podcasts (exactly two to date, the last one in January) under  the banner "Best Underrated Characters in Comics." Mind, this is out of  80 shows in total, and there've been 19 since, so perhaps they just &n...

ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and  professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an  applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike's Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis  point of my lifelong collecting of comics....

Podcast: Wonder Woman '77 Special #3 The currently but not indefinitely bi-annual Diana Prince Wonder Woman podcast returns to look at the third edition of the Wonder Woman '77 Special , as well as the February, 1978 cover-dated Wonder Woman Vol. 37 #240 by Conway & Delbo as a springboard for discussing the  Amazing Amazon's long but unrecognized military career in observance of  Ind...

ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and  professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an  applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis  point of my lifelong collecting of comics....

Podcast- John Ostrander & Mark Verheiden at Comicpalooza 2016 Straight out of Comicpalooza - Texas' Largest Comic & Pop Culture Event comes new interviews with screenwriter/producer Mark Verheiden discussing his work on J'Onn J'Onzz and Zook in Secret Origins and Superman/Batman , then writer John Ostrander covering his three year run on the 1998 Martian Manhunter ongoing series. We enjoy...

Podcast- JLA: Day Zero (1994) The Manhunter from Mars offers a final supplemental postscript to JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event ! Think of it as JuneLA, or maybe a JLMepilogue. In the third edition of JLA: Day One , Diabolu Frank discusses the controversial Zero Hour retcon of Triumph as a founding member of the Justice League, alongside the Post-Crisis Five and Superman, in Just...

Podcast- JLMay (1998) JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event finally reaches  our humble blog full force! Since everyone else partnered up to cover  their chapters of the maxi-series, Diabolu Frank opted to call in his  super buddies at Rolled Spine Podcasts for a sort of hybrid show! Illegal Machine and Pekita Trotamundos lend  their voices to a radio play abridged...