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Podcast: The Top 10 Most Important Martian Manhunter Villains As part of the sixth seasonal Super Blog Team-Up 's theme of top ten lists, Frank offers an audio synopsis of the series of essays The Ten Most Important Martian Manhunter Adversaries from 2010, which has held up pretty well these past four years since  nothing much ever happens to the Alien Atlas, even during a line wide  reb...

Super Blog Team-Up #6 seemed like a perfectly fine event to  premiere the upconverted DC Bloodlines in its second life as a podcast!  Once again, we take the blog's title entirely too seriously and actually  discuss (shudder) New Bloods and Bloodlines Parasites from the 1993 DC  Comics Annuals theme event! Oh, and before you all comment, I screwed up  with the Levelator an...

Podcast: Threessentials In a second(!) episode for April (clearly failing weekly offerings,  that's a step up from monthly!) we catch up with correspondence given  short shrift since the last mail heavy episode, #6: Strawmanhunter from Mars .  Besides reading all the long form comments since mid-March, Frank  elaborates at length. For instance, he reads a letter about applying...

Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1956 After a hiatus of four episodes and three months, we finally return to  our year-by-year overview of the Sleuth from Outer Space's early  adventures, 1956 being his first full year of publication with a dozen  cases to cover. Co-creator and initial writer Joe Samachson is replaced  first by Dick Wood before the arrival of the longes...

Podcast: The New 52 Martian Manhunter In light of DC Comics' official discontinuation of the "New 52" brand  just as they finally announce the now-not-New 52 Martian Manhunter  series we've been waiting for since 2011, Frank looks at the history of  the Alien Atlas within the context of the current publishing continuity. We enjoy dialogue on the red planet, so here are our non-telep...

Podcast: Strawmanhunter from Mars This episode, we look at the solicitation copy for the 2015 Martian Manhunter (mini-?) series, as well as a fan rumor about Vile Menagerie favorite appearing on the upcoming CBS Supergirl show (we know better than to even hope without confirmation.) Then we  answer your comments from previous shows at length, including which  Marvel Comics heroes he most...

Podcast: Making Sense of the Martian Manhunter This episode, Frank responds to an article on Comics Alliance by Chris Sims where the columnist devotes more time to thinking about the pros and  cons of the Manhunter from Mars than most folks would ever spare. Sims  felt the Alien Atlas compared unfavorably and unavoidably to Superman  and Batman in the Justice League, and that he wor...

Podcast: Martian Manhunter Multiversity As part of a Super Blog Team-Up crossover, we look at Imaginary Stories featuring the unfamiliar J'Onn J'Onzzes of parallel dimensions! Trip the light fantastic with the below blogs/vlogs/podcasts! #SBTU Multiversity Chasing Amazing: The Case Against Spider-Man Reign Superior Spider-Talk: The Case For Spider-Man: Reign Between The Pages: A Tale Of Two Cities...

Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1955 Three episodes in, we finally cover the debut comics of J'Onn J'Onzz,  the Manhunter from Mars. The Batman and Roy Raymond TV Detective stories  from Detective Comics #225 are given brief nods before diving  into a synopsis of "The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel" (01:46). A  rather overwrought analysis of this first story of Detect...

Podcast: The Debut of Despero (1960) This week, we look at one of the primary villains of Martian Manhunter  and the Justice League of America, Despero of Kalanor. Starting with a  brief glimpse at the JLofA's earliest issues and foes, we progress to a  synopsis of 1960's Justice League of America #1 (02:38,) Frank  discussing his first exposure to and thoughts on the Silver Ag...

Episode #1 (Original Airdate: Dec 13, 2014) The Idol-Head of Diabolu, a blog for J'Onn J'Onzz, the Manhunter from  Mars, is revived in podcast form ahead of the Alien Atlas' Sixtieth  Anniversary year. Acting as a prelude, this episode covers the prototype  of the Sleuth from Outer Space. Meet Roh Kar, Lawman of Mars... Roh Kar, First Lawman of Mars (Profile Page) Batman #78 (Aug.-S...