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JLMay 2019– Blackest Night 10th Anniversary Podcast Crossover Event
Frank always gets extra with #JLMay, so this first of several tie-in episodes covers three years worth of often extraneous Martian Manhunter material leading to his murder and the aftermath. Series referenced include Infinite Crisis, Amazons Attack, Checkmate, Countdown, Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special, Justice League of America Wedding Special, The Sinestro Corps War, Teen Titans, Black Adam: The Dark Age, Salvation Run, Catwoman, Final Crisis: Requiem, Faces of Evil: Prometheus, Justice League: Cry for Justice, & Blackest Night! From here follow JLMay 2016 to these fantastic podcasts! Each will cover a different issue of SILVER AGE and each will come out in May! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #JLMay2019 when discussing on social media!

JLMay 2019

1. JLMAY Blackest Night Anniversary Special [The Podcast of Oa Episode 138]
2. Blackest Night #1 (2009) [Chris & Reggie’s Cosmic Treadmill ep. 139]
3. Blackest Night #2 and Green Lantern (vol.4) #44 [Idol Head of Diabolu]
4. Blackest Night #3 [The Fire & Water Podcast]
5. Blackest Night #4 [Head Speaks]
6. Blackest Night #5 [Coffee & Comics Podcast]
7. Blackest Night #6 [Longbox Crusade]
8. Blackest Night #7 and #8, and Green Lantern (vol.4) #52 [The LanternCast]
9. Doom Patrol (vol. 5) #4 and #5 [Waiting for Doom]
10. Suicide Squad #67, and Secret Six #17-#18 [Task Force X]
11. Justice League of America (vol.2) #38-#40 [Justice’s First Dawn]
12. Adventure Comics (vol.2) #4-#7, and Untold Tales of the Blackest Night #1 [Coffee & Comics Podcast]
13. Starman (vol.2) #81 [Starman/Manhunter Adventure Hour]
14. Booster Gold (vol.2) #26-#27 [Doctor DC Podcast]
15. Blackest Night: JSA miniseries, issues #1-#3 [Birds of Prey Podcast]

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On our newest episode and latest entry into a social media crossover, Best Event Ever 2018, Martian Manhunter traverses Heaven and Hell to confront the Faustian evil of Neron, the heretical arch-cherub Asmodel, and is introduced to the fallen angel Zauriel. We cover Underworld Unleashed #1-3 (1995,) Justice League Task Force #30, The Flash #127-129 (1999), Rogues Gallery, JLA #6-7 (1997), 35 (1999), & 60 (2002), and JLA: Paradise Lost, featuring creators including Mark Waid, Mark Millar, Christopher Priest, J.M. DeMatteis, Howard Porter, Angel Olivetti and more (one of whom has a brief cameo appearance here.) We also look at the 1995 card set SkyBox DC Villains: Dark Judgment and other related DC offerings.

Underworld Unleashed #BestEventEver

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Audio adaptation of a couple of blog posts with my hot takes on the newly announced 2018 Martian Manhunter maxi-series (scheduled to run as long as the previous so-called “ongoing series”) by Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo.

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This episode wraps our belated coverage of JLMay2018 with the second halves of both the Silver Age event and Robby Reed's adventures in House of Mystery, as well as following the H-Dial across several additional decades of wielders. Writer Mark Waid makes a couple of cameo appearances, as well...

JLMay 2018-- Silver Age (2000) Podcast Crossover Event
Agamemno reaches Earth as the incredible event begins! Gathering some of the JLA's greatest foes --- Lex Luthor, Sinestro, the Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Element, Dr. Light, Chronos, Black Manta, and Felix Faust --- to help him in his plan to conquer the Earth, Agamemno switches the minds of the villains with those of their nemeses! Can the heroes foil the plot before the would-be conqueror prevails? You asked for it-- and you got it! A STAGGERING SUPER STRUGGLE stretching across this month's DC COMICS! Dig what's Coming!

From here follow JLMay 2018 to these fantastic podcasts! Each will cover a different issue of SILVER AGE and each will come out in May! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #JLMay2018 when discussing on social media!

JLMay 2018

1. Silver Age #1 [Justice’s First Dawn]
2. Silver Age: Justice League of America [Coffee & Comics Podcast]
3. Silver Age: Challengers of the Unknown [Relatively Geeky Presents]
4. Silver Age: Teen Titans [Super Mates]
5. Silver Age: Dial "H" for Hero [Idol Head of Diabolu]
6. Silver Age: The Flash [The Longbox Crusade]
7. Silver Age: Doom Patrol [Waiting for Doom]
8. Silver Age: The Brave & The Bold [Comic Reflections]
9. Silver Age: Green Lantern [The Lanterncast]
10. Silver Age: Showcase [Batgirl to Oracle]
11. Silver Age: Silver Age 80 Page Giant [Chris & Reggie’s Cosmic Treadmill]
12. Silver Age: Silver Age Secret Files and Origins [Fire and Water]

Martian Manhunter in...

• Silver Age #1 (July, 2000)
• Silver Age: Justice League of America #1
• Silver Age: Dial H for Hero #1
• Silver Age Secret Files & Origins #1
• Silver Age 80-Page Giant #1

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JLMay 2018– Silver Age (2000) Podcast Crossover Event
Agamemno reaches Earth as the incredible event begins! Gathering some of the JLA’s greatest foes — Lex Luthor, Sinestro, the Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Element, Dr. Light, Chronos, Black Manta, and Felix Faust — to help him in his plan to conquer the Earth, Agamemno switches the minds of the villains with those of their nemeses! Can the heroes foil the plot before the would-be conqueror prevails? You asked for it– and you got it! A STAGGERING SUPER STRUGGLE stretching across this month’s DC COMICS! Dig what’s Coming!

From here follow JLMay 2017 to these fantastic podcasts! Each will cover a different issue of SILVER AGE and each will come out in May! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #JLMay2018 when discussing on social media!

JLMay 2018

1. Silver Age #1 [Justice’s First Dawn]
2. Silver Age: Justice League of America [Coffee & Comics Podcast]
3. Silver Age: Challengers of the Unknown [Relatively Geeky Presents]
4. Silver Age: Teen Titans [Super Mates]
5. Silver Age: Dial “H” for Hero [Idol Head of Diabolu]
6. Silver Age: The Flash [The Longbox Crusade]
7. Silver Age: Doom Patrol [Waiting for Doom]
8. Silver Age: The Brave & The Bold [Comic Reflections]
9. Silver Age: Green Lantern [The Lanterncast]
10. Silver Age: Showcase [Batgirl to Oracle]
11. Silver Age: Silver Age 80 Page Giant [Chris & Reggie’s Cosmic Treadmill]
12. Silver Age: Silver Age Secret Files and Origins [Fire and Water]

Martian Manhunter in…

• Silver Age #1 (July, 2000)
• Silver Age: Justice League of America #1 (July, 2000)
• Silver Age: Dial H for Hero #1 (July, 2000)

JLMay 2017

• Justice (2005)

JLMay 2016

• JLA: Day Minus-One (1977)
• JLA: Day Zero (1994)
• JLA: Day One (1961)
• Secret Origins Podcast: Justice League of America
• JLA: Year One #10

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This episode, we look at the 2003 six issue mini-series JLA: Scary Monsters by Chris Claremont & Josh Hood, with a brief interview segment with the writer following the story synopsis.

Library

• Abel Carmody
• Carmody’s Folly
• Kishana Lewis

Gallery

• 2012 Martian Manhunter vs. the Scary Monsters Comicpalooza Commission by Austin “Redbeard” Rogers
• 2012 Kishana Lewis Comicpalooza Commission by Chris Foreman
• 2013 Kishana Lewis Commission by Chris Beaver

This episode’s non-paying advertiser:

• Beetlemania!, celebrating the legacy of the Blue Beetle.

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JLMay 2017– The Justice (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) and more!

From here follow JLMay 2017 to these fantastic podcasts! Each will cover a different issue of JUSTICE and each will come out in May! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #JLMay when discussing on social media!

• Justice #1 on Aquaman and Firestorm: The Fire and Water Podcast ep. 193
• Justice #2 on Super Mates 70
• Justice #4 on Views from the Longbox Episode 263
• Justice #5 on Pulp 2 Pixel
• Justice #6 on The LanternCast
• Justice #7 on Shazamcast
• Justice #8 on Comic Reflections
• Justice #9 Silver and Gold: The Booster Gold and Captain Atom Podcast
• Justice #10 on The Power of Fishnets: The Black Canary and Zatanna Podcast
• Justice #11 on Waiting for Doom
• Justice #12 on Justice’s First Dawn

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On October 8, 2014, the website Comics Bulletin published a discussion between Bryan Stroud and the famous painter of Marvels and Kingdom Come in the article Alex Ross Talks About the Martian Manhunter on the Cusp of J’onn J’onzz’s 60th Anniversary. Nearly two years later, with the Alien Atlas’ next birthday imminent and with the help of an online text-to-audio program, Diabolu Frank joins their conversation…

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The website Comicsverse, “your source for in-depth comics analysis” very very briefly ran a series of podcasts (exactly two to date, the last one in January) under the banner “Best Underrated Characters in Comics.” Mind, this is out of 80 shows in total, and there’ve been 19 since, so perhaps they just abandoned the premise. I tend to think that’s for the best, since I find the title misleads one into thinking they’re going to select a character they find deserving of attention they haven’t received and tell you why they’re boss.

Unfortunately, in the episodes shining a white hot interrogation lamp on two heroes I’m very fond of, the shows instead felt like inquisitions to determine whether they are in fact underrated, or just poo (with the moderator’s thumb on the scale weighing toward poo in both cases.) One was Doctor Strange, and you should know by the subject of this blog who the other was…

Join me for a special feature length episode with Diabolu Frank for the defense in the case of ComicsVerseS the Manhunter from Mars, but you should lead with the prosecution’s case before you allow me to retort! Superman, Batman, Aquaman, and the rest of the Justice League will be called into question and occasionally treated as hostile witnesses as part of The Trial of the Incredible Hulk Sleuth from Outer Space!

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