True Believers Issue #7 – DC Comics Summer 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
In this issue, we finally return to a regular schedule. Join us as we discuss what we’ve missed in the DC Universe since we’ve been gone. The following books are discussed in great detail: Final Crisis, Batman, Action Comics, Green Lantern, Rogues’ Revenge, Legion of 3 Worlds, The Flash, Green Arrow/Black Canary, Robin, Nightwing, Green Lantern Corps, Justice Society of America, Supergirl, and Justice League of America. Tune in later this week as we switch our focus to Marvel, and be sure to check out October’s Book of the Month Selection: Gotham Central Book One – In The Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, and Michael Lark.
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Y The Last Man Vol. 5In this final Deluxe Edition hardcover collecting Y #49-60, Yorick and Agent 355 prepare for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed. Then, Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to its dramatic, unexpected conclusion.
I wanted to listen to this episode, but I’m so behind on comic books… Curse you college town with comic book shop that I can’t find!
Hey guys, I saved both the Marvel update and the DC update for work today as I was filing, thank you so much, my office is so dull and drab and horrid this really helped a lot.
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Scott, the Alana Moore DCU book is worth every penny. I ordered a copy of it a bit back and it was awesome. Worth it along for just his Superman and Batman stuff. But his Green Arrow story was a surprise to me. I also enjoyed his handfull of Green Lantern Corp even though I generally am not a fan of the Corp series in general
I’ve recently just thrown myself back into DC after many years of being out of it (the last non-Vertigo book I bought before recently was Death of Superman, lol, that my father still thinks will have value someday, haha) and I have been having tons of fun with it. Over the last few months I’ve scooped up a lot of the Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Wonder Woman books that everyone tells me are the ‘must reads’ and whilst some I’ve enjoyed more than others I really agree with you guys, Geoff Johns has stood out of the pack for me as far as modern DC goes.
Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of crossover spectaculars in general. I tried to read the original Crisis a while ago (luckily the library had it so I didn’t spend money) and it honestly gave me a headache, and so far every other attempt to read a ‘crisis’ since has netted the same result.
The DC book that I’ve gotton the most excited about lately has been the Green Lantern series. Hal Jordon returning was a godsend. He’s, honestly the only lantern I’ve ever found compelling and I Sinestro Wars was mad cool. *totally revved for
Side question: You guys did a “State of Marvel Adress” and a “State of DC adress” will you guys be doing something similar with independent/non superhero comics lately? Because that’d be fun.
Wow Sunshineyness, I think you’ve totally made up for not hearing any feedback on these episodes singlehandedly! Thanks!
It’s nice to hear that about the Alan Moor DC trade. I’m going to have to pick it up.
The Crisis series are definitely tough to read without a knowledge of what’s going on. My favorite between the three has definitely been Geoff John’s Infinite Crisis, but you have to read the original Crisis to really understand everything. If you keep reading the DCU like you have been, I would try reading that stuff again about a year from now. I bet you’ll be surprised at how much more you’ll understand. But, the original Crisis is still really tough to get through, tho, I mostly blame Marv Wolfman’s dialogue for that. It just comes from a different time where actions were spoken throught the dialogue. Rather than just having a panel where a character is being electricuted and letting the art speak for itself, the dialogue bubble reads “OH NO! I am being electricuted! Whatever will I do?” To be totally honest, I’m not sure how or why comics ever caught on. LOL
Green Lantern has been fantastic. There’s a one shot prologue to the next arc called “Revenge of the Red Lanterns” and it came out this week. Definitely check that out. It says its a Final Crisis book, but I really don’t know why. Can’t wait for Blackest Night!
Side Answer: I think we’ll get to that eventually, but we won’t do it nearly as often. I don’t read enough independent books to warrent an episode every month, and Ben reads at least half of what I do. I definitely want to get to it tho.
Uh….Green Lantern’s the guy with the ring right…?
^^^ No moron! That’s Green Ring. Green Lantern is the guy who carries a purple lantern everywhere he goes. Obviously!