This Week: Another fan chose book for March Madness, Superman Secret Identity: In this critically acclaimed work from writer Kurt Busiek (ASTRO CITY) and artist Stuart Immonen (Ultimate X-Men), an alternate “Clark Kent” encounters complications the real Superman never had to handle: a career, a wife, children—a real life.
Read MoreThis week we’re reading the best selling graphic novel of all time (or so the cover says), The Death of Superman. It’s the comic book event that crossed over to pop culture in a big way. It also influenced the film Batman v. Superman.
Read MoreA gap in Q's knowledge: JLA
Read MoreWith beautiful art by Alex Ross, a script by Mark Waid this DC Elseworlds mini-series made a splash in 1996. This week we are discussing Kingdom Come. A futuristic story that deals with the conflict between the out of touch heroes we know, and a new group of dangerous vigilantes.
Read MoreComrades! Its Episode 8, which according to Adam, makes us a real podcast now! In this episode we discus the 2003 prestige comic from DC Red Son. Like most episodes there are quite a few tangents and rants. We discuss how Q stole his dads Russian vodka and snuck it into my sisters wedding. We argue over Russian Batman’s fashion choices, and why divorce in comic books is not allowed if it is inconvenient to the story.
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