52 Pickup

You can always trust me! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe cling desperately to issue 36, featuring an update on our beloved space heroes, neckless Trent Reznor, and the lovable and irascible Sobek the Talking Crocodile!

Show Notes:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• James Brown
• From Hell
• Alan Moore
• Neil Gaiman
• Lost Girls
• Animal Man (1988 series)
• Lady Styx...

All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe plummet into 52 #35, featuring bad puns for gruesome events, Kirkland Signature Superman, and shocking new developments for everyone’s favorite storyline, Lobo and the space heroes.

Show Notes:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• Shohei Ohtani
• The Further Adventures of The Joker
• Batman: the Animated Series
• Joker
• Batman
• Lex Lu...

Gaslight, gatekeep, graveboss! All-Star Gita and World’s Finest Alex are joined by The Black Casebook Podcast’s Walt Lewellyn to rise up for issue 34, taking on Barbara Gordon’s Boiler Room set, whether or not 52 counts as an event comic, and the DC Universe’s own version of WikiFeet.

SHOW NOTES:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• Beyonce - Irreplacable
• Miley Cyrus - Can’t Be Tamed
• ...

Giddyup, Jinglehorse! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe sleighride into Week 33, the Christmas Issue! Celebrate Lex Luthor’s memecoin launch, Batman’s canonical Judaism, and lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent: Don’t Have Heroes (04:42)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #33 (19:14)
3. The Backup (57:59)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (01:05:57)
5. The Blackboard (01:08:06)
6. Asking The Questions at 52m...

All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Music Meister Paul Chin to leap into week 32, featuring talking crocodiles, the least disrespectful ways to pay homage to Watchmen, and Pulsar, Master of Sound.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (21:26)
2. Let’s Talk About the Cover (27:34)
3. Let’s Talk About 52 #32 (28:40)
4. The Backup (01:21:03)
5. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (01:23:11)
6. The Blackboard (01:27:26)
7. As...

Oy oy, wots all this then?! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe flay the skin from issue 31 of 52, exploring Green Lantern cop discourse, DC reinventing the industry to screw Alan Moore, and why Jimmy Olsen is black now.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (06:26)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #31 (10:39)
3. The Backup (40:55)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (50:35)
5. The Blackboard (53:05)
6. Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@g...

All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Astonishing Ash Parrish to strike again at 52 #30, including the return of DC’s Most Toxic Yuri Couple, deciding the most fuckable Batman, and the true reason for the Dark Knight’s cape.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk About The Cover (12:11)
2. Let’s Talk About Grant Morrison’s Take on Batman and A Little of 52 #30 (12:47)
3. Let’s Talk Talent...

Dick Death Determined via Dan DiDio! The Dynamic Duo of Podcasting Gita and Alex feast on issue 29, cooking up opinions on Grant Morrison’s writing of women, the importance of Thanksgiving tables in DC history, and some unsubtle jabs at the idea of IP rights by the authors of 52.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (08:45)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #29 (11:48)
3. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (32:53)
4. The Blackboard (36:50)
5. Asking The...

A crocodile ate my parents! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with Emerald Artist Ted Brandt of Connor Hawke’s DC Pride story, tackling Australia’s place in DC, why Etrigan can’t rap, and Jason Todd’s tragic origins.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Supernatural, Connor Hawke, and Rereading 52 (05:09)
2. Let’s Talk Talent (23:12)
3. Let’s Talk About 52 #28 (23:42)
4. The Backup (46:18)
5. What...

Merry Crispmus! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe find acceptance of the self in #27 of 52, as well as vengeance for Identity Crisis, good reasons to quit smoking, and why Dan DiDio may actually be Lex Luthor.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent, Industry Machinations, and Poaching Steve Wacker (02:58)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #27 (14:16)
3. The Backup (41:50)
4. What’s your favorite part of the ...

Blessed Be the Hoochmaker! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe have reached the halfway point of 52, and take a moment to recap every major storyline in the series so far, as well as inventing new games to test each other based on both obscure trivia and romantic shipping possibilities. If you’d like to start listening, this is a great place to jump in!

SHOW NOTES:

• 52
• Geoff Jo...

It’s a two-turkey dinner! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe reach the halfway point of 52, where they encounter Crockamurderer, draft an all-new teen superhero team, and reveal whether or not drug-sniffing dogs react to vacuum-sealed smoked turkey legs.

Chapters:

1. Is it pronounced Raahs al Ghul, or Raysh al Ghul? (01:18)
2. Let’s Talk About The Cover, and hear some commentary from ...

Happy Halloween, Judeo-Christians! All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Booty of Bludhaven Josh Rivera to descend into issue 25, revealing which wrestling PPV is the good one, which DC characters love musicals, and the origins of Nightwing’s hot butt.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk About the Cover and Talent (08:34)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #25 (15:15)
3. The Backup (48:21)
4. What’s your fa...

Send a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe team up with Eisner-nominated writer and podcaster Jordan Morris for issue 24, featuring the debut of E. S. Pete, the death of a character introduced last issue, and how Booster Gold caused Reaganomics.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent and the Cover (07:00)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #24 (17:39)
3. The Backup (49:50)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (53:53...

Look out, my Cricketron’s gone berserk! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe collapse onto the beaches of issue 23, detailing mysteries of the Religion of Crime, mad scientists on Hookers & Blow Island, and what Grant Morrison thinks about Ayn Rand.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (02:21)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #23 (07:31)
3. The Backup (29:59)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (33:50)
5. The Blackboard (39:01)
6. Asking The Questions at 52m...

ou’re ownin’ for a zonin’! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe smother issue 22, and in the process explain convoluted celebrity antics, examine the history of Native Americans in DC, and venture into The Nute Gunray Hole.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (03:16)
2. Let’s Talk About The Cover (07:09)
3. Let’s Talk About 52 #22 (10:29)
4. The Backup (52:52)
5. What’s your favorite part of the issu...

Ah, Shuddup! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe kick the twenty-first issue of 52 down a flight of stairs, and in the process discuss Jaffe’s incredible American Idol experience, Power Boy’s deficit of chest exposure, and the death of Manchester Alabama’s second fastest speed-based superhero.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (04:44)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #21 (10:43)
3. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (41:53)
4. The Blackboard (44:58)
5. Aski...

I Died And Was Reincarnated As The World’s Greatest Monster! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe breeze through the Morrison-heavy and story-light issue twenty of 52, making space for Tim King’s public apology for being a CIA asset, Steel’s exposed penis, Superboy Prime as isekai, and Jaffe’s biggest DC blind spot.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (05:14)
2. Let’s Talk About The Cover (0...

He knows! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe fly into issue nineteen, taking on Space Pope Lobo, which members of the DC universe are Charli girls vs. Taylor girls, and the most shocking twist of the series so far.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent (09:12)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #19 (12:17)
3. The Backup (38:40)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (44:11)
5. The Blackboard (45:26)
6. Asking T...