For some reason, we’ve devoted two episodes to Batman: Hush.
Why did we do this to ourselves? For some payoff with The Riddler? The Riddler!?!?! Damnit, Loeb.
At least Thunderbolts #12 didn’t disappoint with the big finale to their first story arc.
MP3: https://tinyurl.com/b7z6kf9z
Next Time: The Death of Elektra in Daredevil #178-182
Hush up y’all, this week we’re checking out one of the biggest Batman storylines of the 2000s with Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Husssshhhhh [emphasis mine] from Batman #608-619.
We’re reading the first 6 issues in which we learn that Batman had a best friend named Tommy who has somehow never been mentioned in any comic before this one.
There’s also a mystery bad guy who barely shows up.
Cool.
Then, we’re getting real close to the end of the first Thunderbolts storyline in issue #11, which features zappy mind control laser beams!
MP3: https://tinyurl.com/suembnxz
Next Time: We finish up Batman: Hush with Batman #614-619
It’s time.
Time to revisit one of the worst comics we’ve ever read on the show… Frank Miller’s All Star Batman & Robin, the famously crass and unfinished alternate universe version of “The Goddamn Batman.”
Our friend Nick (from the Your Stupid Minds podcast) joined us back when we read the first 6 issues, so of course we had to invite him back to talk about issues 7-10.
We were all desperate for some classic Batman after that, so Nick also joined us as we continued our long read of Batman: Knightfall with Chapter 10 in Detective Comics #663.
Next Time: Cosmic Ghost Rider (2018) + Knightfall #11 (The Breaking of the Batman)
For today’s episode, we’re diving into one of the most poorly received Batman comics of all time from the “All-Star” creative team of Frank Miller and Jim Lee.
We had a good time reading All-Star Superman a while back, so how bad could this be? Embarrassingly bad? Offensively bad? Incomprehensibly bad? Maybe all of the above.
It’s so bad that we needed our friend Nick from the Your Stupid Minds podcast to help us wade through it.
Join us as we read All-Star Batman & Robin #1-6, and then continue our long read of the Korvac Saga with Avengers #172.
Next Time: We return to the Age of Apocalypse with Factor X #1-4
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