Happy Issue 250 of The Black Variant! For your audio convenience, we're breaking this special event up into three parts. For part 1, Van and X are joined by Daddy Dom Griffin AKA The Armchair Auteur and lead culture reporter Murjani Rawls to talk the Hot Hero Summer AKA the summer of Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps; what success looks like for each film, what they mean for their respective franchises, and the futures of the MCU + DCU respectively.