Third Issue

Andrew walks John through Marvel's new Avengers #1: Red Hulk's rampage, a world that outlawed superpowers, Luke Cage as mayor, and Doctor Doom on the throne of Hell declaring every one of Mephisto's contracts null and void. That might undo the deal Spider-Man made in One More Day, and Aunt May is the first name on the list. Then John quizzes Andrew on the ten highest-grossing superhero movies ever, and number nine ruins him.

Emergency episode. The news broke that James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer run DC Studios, so we jumped on a call to sort out what's actually confirmed: Gunn stays on as a creative, Jeremy Latcham takes over, and Man of Tomorrow is still coming. Is this the best-case scenario? Did Gunn already know when that Suicide Squad podcast came out? Then Mateo lays out how he'd salvage the DCU, Andrew argues it all hinges on Batman and a Justice League movie, we fact-check whether Lanterns season 2 is really happening, ask if Gunn could end up back at Marvel, and explain why Kevin Feige is still one in a million.

Andrew is back! Vision Quest episode 7: Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, why the Synthetic Man catches fire, Paul Bettany's popped blood vessels, and the ending reveal we're not sure about. Then why Vision Quest does everything Lanterns did wrong, the Surf Dracula problem with every superhero show, whether Lanterns actually made Green Lantern fans, Marvel's big 2026 pivot, James Gunn's ego, and the fact that every live-action Batman has killed somebody.

Halloween episode: Mateo is Daredevil, John is a robber. We pay our respects to Patrick Stewart, ask why James Gunn needs a podcast to explain his universe, pick who dies in Doomsday, and get into two more episodes of Vision Quest.

This week we catch up on Vision Quest: why it feels like old-school MCU, the Ship of Theseus, Ultron waiting in the background and the Jim Hammond theory. Then Clayface: the jump scares, the body horror, why it had to be rated R, Aaron Paul's two seconds, and whether the DCU could pull off a found-footage horror movie. Ace the dog makes his debut.

Andrew missed our Lanterns episode, so this week he finally gets his say: why the show aired in a different order than it was written, why it needed a bigger budget, and how we would have rewritten the finale. Then it's the new Street Fighter movie, from the 1987 opening and Cody Rhodes as Guy to Chun-Li, M. Bison and a tournament that went by too fast, with a detour into Dungeons & Dragons along the way.

Andrew returns and we look back at New York Comic Con: the interviews nobody wanted to give, the best cosplay we saw, and Mateo meeting Matt Hardy. Then the Marvel and DC news, Vision Quest, whether the fans really do know best, and why superhero movies should go back to making us feel like we need a hero.

Today we talk Nations League and Messi's last dance. Portugal looks better without Ronaldo, and we get into why: the ego, the Saudi League, and what he's doing to his own legacy. Then Messi's last game, the Inter Miami versus Barcelona rumour, 17 Ballon d'Or nominations, and whether Lamine Yamal is soccer's Kobe.

Edit: I know we said that Messi has 26 nominations, but it's actually 17 with Mbappe trailing with 9. The point still stands.

**SPOILERS**

Today we give our immediate reaction to lanterns. Hal's goodbye, the moment Carrie pulls the trigger, and whether the Guardians have been the problem the whole time. Where John Stewart goes next, what season two owes Sinestro, and a 9.5 that neither of us planned to give.

FULL SPOILERS for Marvel's Wolverine. We give away the whole game in the first fifteen minutes.

The origin they actually went with instead of Weapon X, the ending that undoes everything you just played, Hal's funeral, Superman's three suits, and which Lantern ring each of us would get.