Nov 15, 2017
In this issue we talk all about the characters or schemes that began with good intentions but went horribly wrong. But first we discuss the latest in DC news, with first reviews of Justice League, Mera getting her own solo title, sexual allegations in DC's top management, and Brian Bendis moving to DC! This week surely packs a punch and MORE...
Intro music by Aaron Barry
Prescribed Reading from Issue #23:
Action Comics vol. 2 #40 – Superman finds himself in the Bizarro universe of Earth 29, where he teams up with Bizarro to defeat Doomsday
Superman: Doomed #1 – Superman defeats Doomsday and consumes all of the Doomsday spores to save the people of Earth, causing him to slowly become the monster
The OMAC Project #1-6 – This miniseries follows the waves of destruction caused by Batman’s Brother Eye satellite gaining sentience and using OMACs to destroy metahumans
The New 52: Futures End #0 – In a possible future, Brother Eye succeeds in eliminating superhumans by assimilating them into his cyborg collective
Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 – Pariah’s experiments to witness the creation of the universe unleash the Anti-Monitor, and result in his own travelling the Multiverse only to see the destruction of each world he visits
Titans Hunt vol. 1 – The original Teen Titans are brought together and made to remember their secret history, which had previously been missing in the New 52
Titans vol. 3 – The original Wally West returns from the Speed Force and warns the Titans that a much bigger threat has been altering reality, including erasing parts of the Titans’ own history
Flashpoint #1-5 - Barry Allen goes back in time to save his mother and inadvertently shatters history
SHOW NOTES (courtesy of Josh Gill)