Supermansplaining

Denis and David talk about James Gunn's new film, Superman! And they probably don't talk about anything else. Spoilers abound!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Denis and David talk Modern Superman Comics and all Superman comics from February 1995 in this episode.Superman: The Man of Steel #41 sees the return of Babe Tanaka in full Dracula-mode!Superman #97 introduces new character, Shadow Dragon!Adventures of Superman #520 sees the introduction of new Superman artist, Stuart Immonen! Superman battles a lot of d-list villains on Christmas!Action Comics #707 sees more Shadow Dragon! Wooooo!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Superman #2 features a lot of Lex Luthor and a brutal treatment of Lana Lang!Adventures of Superman #425 sees Professor Emil "Hammy" Hamilton at his lowest!Superman in Action Comics #585 has some fun as the Phantom Stranger and Superman battle a tornado of evil dead bodies!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Superman The Man of Steel #40 sees some brain aliens that come out of walnut shells! And we also get the Rolling Stones! ... kindaSuperman #96 is maybe the most fun of the Dead Again—thanks to Brainiac, we get Superman having hallucinations! It's worth it for a mini-Reign of Supermen Reunion and Ma Kent befriending Doomsday!The Adventures of Superman #519 is just a battle between Brainiac and Superman, at least it's the end of Dead Again!Supergirl in Action Comics #706, you read that right- Supergirl! This story focuses mainly on her visiting the Kents in Smallville and having to stop runaway farm equipment!And even more Superman-related fun, if you can believe it!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Dan Jurgens is back again with another anniversary issue, this time it's Zero Hour's 30th Anniversary!As someone who recently read the original Zero Hour, this was still tough to decipher... So, of course, Denis had to read this as well to do the recap!Over 70 pages of story are broken up into roughly seven 10-page chunks, with different artists achieving varying success!Does Validus from the Fatal Five have a face on his brain? Who knows! Listen for this and more!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Superman #1 features the beginning of a new ongoing Superman title by John Byrne! Superman faces off against Metallo!The Adventures of Superman #424 picks up the numbering of the previous Superman title with a new name! Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Jerry Ordway! Superman fights giant robot terrorists!Superman in Action Comics #584 is also by John Byrne! Superman has gone evil and is fighting the Teen Titans!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

For this episode, both David and Denis have read Dan Jurgen's 3 issue prestige-format mini-series, Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey!This is it! The return of Doomsday! ... Or is that Darkseid? Waverider's here too!And the official introduction of a semi-regular segment: Modern-Day Superman Comics!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Denis got points from Trivia and picks the first appearance of Superman, Action Comics #1! And all the back-up stories as well! Also, Denis tells us about current comics he's enjoying! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Man of Steel #4 sees how manipulative Lex Luthor can be! Man of Steel #5 shows a short-lived Bizarro! Man of Steel #6 Clark recons with his Kryptonian past as well as Lana Lang! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Merry Christmas! We're going back to the start of the post-Crisis Superman! In Man of Steel #1, we get a short Krypton prologue, and then it's the story of young Clark Kent up until his decision to become Superman! Man of Steel #2 is the story of Lois Lane, and we see how she'll risk everything (including her own life!) to get a story with Superman! But then Clark Kent just swoops in and turns in the story first, doesn't really seem fair ... In Man of Steel #3, post-Crisis teams up with Batman for the first time! Except Batman's the same Batman as pre-Crisis? Don't think about it! And we get that classic Batman villain, Magpie! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Superman’s still freaking dead! Superman The Man of Steel #39 Superman isn’t the only one dead, in this issue Keith’s mom returns only to die! Don’t worry, he gets adopted by the Whites. Turns out alive Superman is the fake and dead Superman is the real deal! Superman assumes this is the work of Luthor, but he’s a vegetable! Superman #95 this must be the work of Brainiac then! Except … he’s also a vegetable! Atom hijacks along for an adventure because he’s a teen now, causing trouble! The Adventures of Superman #518 if not Luthor or Brainiac, then it must be Cyborg Superman! Maybe Darkseid knows where he is … which he does, but he’s not telling! Superman in Action Comics #705 Superman goes really crazy assuming it’s Mxyzptlk behind the supercorpse! Except he’s wrong! It turns out it was the second guy, Brainiac? Maybe???

Superman The Man of Steel #38 there's a dead Superman and an alive Superman- which one is real? Superman #94 Superman fights Conduit! Kenny Braverman (Conduit) wants to kill Clark Kent (Superman)! The Adventures of Superman #517 we get introduced to Carl Draper, the master jailer! Superman in Action Comics #704 Superman goes after Eradicator assuming he's behind the fake dead Superman! Also, we cover Outsiders #13, Steel #9, Superboy #9, Aquaman #3, Metropolis SCU #1, AND Guardians of Metropolis #1! And also Ads!! How do we do it??

In this episode, we wrap up listening to and rating all Superman-adjacent songs. Who will end up on top? Who will be on the bottom? Listen and find out!Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out Ryland's soundcloud and internet radio show:⁠https://soundcloud.com/panther_fancy⁠⁠https://fsr.live/shows/music-be-the-food

Denis, David, and special guest Ryland Ianelli listen to and rate all the songs of Superman (mostly those with Superman in the title). This episode covers the first half, and the crew rates them on Song Goodness, Understanding of Superman, and whether Jimmy Olsen would wear the group as a shirt. Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out Ryland's soundcloud and internet radio show: https://soundcloud.com/panther_fancy https://fsr.live/shows/music-be-the-food

Zero Hour is over, but all DC Comics for this month are numbered #0! Superman The Man of Steel #0 introduces us to the villain Conduit and Clark's childhood friend, Kenny Braverman! Superman #0 Clark Kent gets a journalism award, then gets blown up! The Adventures of Superman #0 we learn about the early reporting days of Clark Kent in France! Also, Conduit has Kryptonite blasts? Look out, Superman! Superman in Action Comics #0 is almost as valuable as Action Comics #1! Conduit is defeated? And we discover in the Superman's tomb ... Superman?!?? Steel #0 gets some added backstory and Superboy #0 sees a visit from Emil Hamilton!

It's the conclusion to Zero Hour! From The Adventures of Alpha Centurion #518, Superman in Action Comics #703, Zero Hour: Crisis In Time #2-0, and THE REST! The rest being: Legion '94 #70, Team Titans #24, Green Arrow #90, Guy Gardner Warrior #24, Legion of Superheroes #61, Justice League America #92, Justice League Task Force #16, Justice League International #68, Robin #10, Catwoman #14, Anima #7, Showcase '94 #10, and Damage #6! All covered in under 2 hours!

Another month, another event! Zero Hour: Crisis In Time begins and we cover the first half of the Zero Hour mini-series, half of the Superman comics for September 1994, and half of all other Zero Hour tie-in comics published by DC! Come to learn who Extant is, and stay for the multiple Hawkmans!

We wrap up the Milestone Worlds Collide event with parts 10 thru 14! Including Superman the Man of Steel #36, Icon #11, Steel #7, Blood Syndicate #13, and Static #14! What will be the fate of mailman Fred Benson, AKA Rift? Listen to find out! Also, the rest of August 1994 Superman comics: Superman #92 Massacre returns! The Adventures of Superman #515 Massacre wants to murderlize Superman! And Superman in Action Comics #702 we have to deal with everyone’s least favorite villain- the racist Bloodsport! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

It's the Milestone DC event, Worlds Collide! (or at least Parts 2 thru 9) Issues covered include Hardware #17, Superboy #6, Icon #15, Steel #6, Blood Syndicate #16, Worlds Collide #1, Superboy #7, and Hardware #18. Read along if you dare! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Denis got 50 more points, and this time he's talking about Jimmy Olsen Superman comics written and drawn by Jack Kirby! They've got all the Kirby goodness: tiny Jimmy Olsen clones, giant green Jimmy Olsen clones, hippies, photo collages, four-armed monsters, and Superman's redrawn face! Check out comics by Denis:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.deniscomix.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠