Week 42 - Trigger Effect

Too good to be Warner Brothers IP! All-Star Alex Jaffe and World’s Finest Gita Jackson pull the trigger on issue #42, exposing the mysteries (and alternate ending) of the Ralph Dibny arc, Lobo as a butch space lesbian, favorites from the Absolute DC line, and why the X-Men are more like DC characters than Marvel ones.

Show Notes:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• Talmud
• Autism
• Shavuot
• Counting of the Omer
• Aftermath
• Hasan Piker
• Young Heroes in Love
• Muppet Babies
• Alan Grant
• Lobo
• Bob the Galactic Bum
• Crush
• Teen Titans
• Damian Wayne
• Absolute Wonder Woman
• Circe
• The Odyssey
• Wishbone
• Absolute Batman
• Absolute Superman
• Absolute Flash
• Sweet Tooth
• Mountainhead (2025)
• Succession
• Absolute Green Lantern
• Stephen King
• Absolute Martian Manhunter
• Fantagraphics
• Emil Ferris
• Martian Manhunter
• Javier Rodríguez
• Shade, the Changing Man
• “Absolute Martian Manhunter” Embraces the Challenge

1: Let’s Talk Talent (16:55)

• Steel
• Ralph Dibny
• Renee Montoya
• Wonder Woman
• Darick Robertson
• Transmetropolitan
• The Boys
• Garth Ennis
• Doctor Fate
• Zatanna
• Seven Soldiers of Victory
• Zatanna (2010 series)
• Doctor Fate (1988 series)
• Doctor Fate (2015 series)
• Batman
• Batman: Hush

2: Let’s Talk About 52 #42 (25:00)

• Allegory of the cave
• Sue Dibny
• Felix Faust
• Saw series
• Monk
• Columbo
• Final Destination series
• Dan DiDio
• Dev-Em
• Tim Trench
• Croatoan Society
• Detective Chimp
• Gingold
• Hellblazer: Rise and Fall
• Rorschach
• Neron
• Underworld Unleashed
• Identity Crisis
• Fire

3: The Backup (39:34)

• Green Arrow
• Green Arrow: Quiver
• Onoma