Week 0 - Forgot About Lane

Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and DC Lore Expert Alex Jaffe set the stage for full analysis of 52, the most important comic book of the century and the best series you’ve never heard of.

Chapters:

1. How did Gita and Alex get into comics? (09:48)
2. What is 52? (22:33)
3. Which characters are in 52? (48:33)
4. The Blackboard (01:27:55)
5. Favorite Characters (01:33:15)
6. The Mailbag (01:38:25)
7. Sign-Off (01:47:07)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Black Adam
• Batman/Superman: World’s Finest
• 52
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
• When Joss Whedon Was Our Master
• Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
• Kite Man
• Egghead
• Stan Lee
• Dan DiDio
• Captain Marvel
• Doctor Sivana
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Justice League Unlimited
• Steel
• Booster Gold
• The Question
• The Trial of Superman
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Teen Titans
• Shade, the Changing Man
• Sandman
• Neil Gaiman
• Tim Drake
• Superboy
• Young Justice
• Spoiler
• Cassandra Cain
• Batman: Wayne Family Adventures
• The Batman (2022)
• DC Universe Infinite
• The Brave And The Bold
• DC Comics Presents
• Geoff Johns
• Seven Soldiers of Victory
• Grant Morrison
• Infinite Crisis
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• Marv Wolfman
• George Pérez
• Doomsday Clock
• Superboy-Prime
• Wonder Woman
• Villains United
• Keith Giffen
• JSA
• Greg Rucka
• Gotham Central
• Mark Waid
• Kingdom Come
• Alex Ross
• Superman: Birthright
• 2000 AD
• New X-Men
• Doom Patrol
• Lost
• 24
• The Flash (2023)
• Identity Crisis
• Armageddon 2001
• Brad Meltzer
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Legends of Tomorrow
• John Constantine
• Donald Faison
• Scrubs
• Clueless (1995)
• Ted Kord