JLMay 2017: Justice & Liberty

JLMay 2017-- The Justice maxi-series (2006) Podcast Crossover Event reaches chapter three, as Diabolu Frank offers a dramatic reading, which carries over into coverage of JLA: Secret Origins (2002), JLA: Liberty and Justice (2003), a smidge of Kingdom Come and more!

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Interview conducted with treasured comic book scripter and  screenwriter John Marc DeMatteis at The Texas International Comic  Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 24, 2015. The interview has  been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

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Podcast-- Operation: Cheetah (1992)

Finally, we're talking about the William Messner-Loebs run on Wonder  Woman, the host's favorite series of Amazing Amazon adventures!  Unfortunately, the transition out of George Pérez's long and well  regarded run isn't the smoothest. We chart some of the bumps along the  way from War of the Gods to Wonder Woman Special #1 & Wonder Woman (Vol. 2) #63. Bonus interview material read from Amazing Heroes #197 featuring Loebs, artist Jill Thompson, and editors Tom Peyer &  Dan Thorsland discussing thoughts early in the run, story plans that  never came about, and more!

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Podcast: Who is Wonder Woman? (2006-2007)

This episode we look at the first four issues and only annual from the 2006 volume of Wonder Woman,  written by film co-screenwriter Allan Heinberg and drawn by Terry &  Rachel Dodson. Introducing Agent Diana Prince of the Department of  Metahuman Affairs and featuring every Wonger Girl, as well as a slew of  other heroes in cameos. For Martin Gray's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary  Special #1 review, visit TOO DANGEROUS FOR A GIRL!

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Bloodlines: Outbreak is nearly over! Before the first quarter of the  event closes, we meet ex-S.W.A.T. officer Kelvin Mao in his insectoid  exoskeleton, and a new blond Batman who is never positively identified  throughout the story (with the reasons for his replacement only alluded  to.) Guess that means we should also look at the Batman: Sword of Azrael mini-series and do an overview of Knightfall/Knightquest/KnightsEnd to  better understand what Jean-Paul Valley is doing here. I once did a wine  tasting tour in the Jean-Paul Valley. That's a joke I now regret  because it conjures imagery I hadn't considered before making it. Where  was I again? These were not engaging stories, so I keep getting  distracted, but you can follow along with 1993's Batman Annual #17 at Scans Daily and get a deeper dive on the Azrael mini-series at NOT BLOG X.

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Podcast: Justice League Action upon The Transconsciousness Articulator

This time we revisit the Joe Kelly/ChrisCross issues of JLA #s 83 (September, 2003) and 90 (January, 2004) covering fantasy stories involving the World's Finest Trinity versus George Bush President Lex Luthor, as well as Diana and Bruce considering the  possibility of a romantic relationship. It's supposed to be a Martian  device facilitating this, but it sure sounds like more of a Paradise  Island or Kryptonian sort of thing. Then, Frank dishes on the first ten  episodes of the new Cartoon Network show Justice League Action. Finally, your comments are addressed, plus we run promos for Justice League Universe Podcast, The All-Star Comics Review Podcast, and the latest podcast about Wonder Woman, Lasso of Truth (not to be confused with the long running non-Amazonian podcast of nearly the same name.)

The ancient immortal African mystic Doctor Mist was introduced in a cameo on the last page of 1978's The Super Friends #12 before continuing into appearances in The Super Friends #13 & 45-46 before officially forming the Global Guardians in DC Comics Presents #46. We cover these comics to varying degrees, but our primary focus is  the supposed true story of "Nommo," appended to tales starring Zatara  and Zatanna. Is Dr. Mist one of the most powerful and important figures  in the history of the DC Universe, or a sad and lonely fraud? You  decide, and you can follow along with our  reading of 1988's Secret Origins #27 at The Secret Origins Podcast.

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Podcast: The Mystery of Nubia

By all indications, 2017 needs a podcast dedicated to Queen Hippolyta's  "second," "other," "dark" daughter who debuted on November 7, 1972 in Wonder Woman #204, so we're "Introducing Nubia!" The soul sister of the Amazing Amazon went on to appearances in Wonder Woman #205-206, including a solo back-up story, plus cameos in Supergirl #9 and The Super Friends #25 before vanishing from comics entirely for twenty years (and  actually closer to a quarter century if you discount a single page of  one of those comics.) Despite barely escaping 1973 in comics, Nubia  managed to make appearances on television and in toy form when that was  an extremely rare accomplishment, and her origin has a massive impact on  Wonder Woman's own. Nubia was a contender, and we argue that she still  matters 45 years later on this episode!

After slipping to an unintentional monthly schedule with some  uncomfortable elements and unfortunate timing, the DC Bloodlines Podcast  returns for a thirteenth episode set on breaking its unlucky streak  (and nearly broke Diabolu Frank with all the editing it required.) In  this novel edition, special guest Pekita Trotamundos helps produce a  two-person radio drama in the style of ABC-TV's 1979 Saturday morning  favorite, The World's Greatest Super Friends. This is meant to  reflect the early appearances of Brazil's premier super-heroine in the  DC Universe, Beatriz da Costa, originally known as The Green Fury! Later  known as Fire, she was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon  for the comic book tie-in Super Friends #25, cover-dated October,  1979. After that brief cameo battling Superman, The Green Fury went on  to appear in issues #42-44, with her origin finally revealed in a full  length starring role in the series' final issue, the August 1981  cover-dated #47. Foregoing the usually biting commentary and  contemporary music soundtrack, this episode is a loose adaptation of  these stories featuring scores culled from numerous cartoon favorites of  the era. However, there is a political subtext that's hard to miss. For  a peek at the early Beatriz da Costa in action, here's a look at sample  pages from The Super Friends #43 at Scans_Daily.

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Podcast: DC's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special (2016)

Along his way to covering DC Comics' special issue released to  commemorate the Amazing Amazon's three-quarters of a century in action,  Diabolu Frank lost his way and stumbled into so many outtakes from the 75 Birthdays-- The Secret Origins of Wonder Woman episode recording sessions that it became a second special its own self.

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