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Jaffe

◉◉maru Too many syllables

Tradeghouls 'n ghosts

What is the Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles of DC comics?

Jaffe

Tradeghouls 'n ghosts Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run.

IrishNinja

solid recommendations here!
okok i’m a big green lantern fan who fell off after johns had too many events - did i miss out, how was grant’s run? any lesser known GL arcs you’d recommend?

also your artist shoutout list to the tune of ATCQ was fantastic. is there a dream creative team you’d have liked to see on a certain book that we never got?

Jaffe

IrishNinja okok i’m a big green lantern fan who fell off after johns had too many events - did i miss out, how was grant’s run? any lesser known GL arcs you’d recommend?

If you like Grant Morrison’s stuff, then The Green Lantern is another chapter of that overarching meta-work that they’ve been doing since Animal Man. Personally, I love Robert Venditti’s Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, and Sam Humphries’ Green Lanterns made me fall in love with Jessica Cruz. A little before that, Charles Soule had a very entertaining run on Red Lanterns. 2016-2018 was a great time for GL.

IrishNinja also your artist shoutout list to the tune of ATCQ was fantastic. is there a dream creative team you’d have liked to see on a certain book that we never got?

Dwayne McDuffie, Darwyn Cooke, The Question.

dracula

Is there a good way to look at a full release schedule? I generally see what new books are coming as they’re added to the Apple Books store for pre-order. I also peek at the monthly DC Connect issues and I just found this Wikipedia page. I just feel like I don’t have a good pulse on what’s happening like I used to.

Jaffe

dracula Solicits are always published 3 months prior to release. Personally I just google “September 2023 DC Solicits” if I want to see them for that month. I usually get a Newsarama link.

deepspacefine

If you were going to make an Insert Credit Show about dc comics (instead of Sega/NEC like the real Insert Credit), who would be your favorite guest panalists (the people too mainstream to be on all the time, but still fun and hip with the vibe)?

Jaffe

deepspacefine WATCH THIS SPACE.

Jaffe

Okay, I’m good to announce this: Gita Jackson(!) and I are developing a NEW PODCAST about DC Comics, through the lens of the 2006 year-long maxiseries 52. It’s gonna be extremely good.

Mnemogenic

I read all that stuff you recommended me! Wanted to share my brief thoughts about each.

Potential spoilers for Justice League: Generation Lost, Jeff Lemire’s Animal Man, Christopher Priest’s Deathstroke, Gene Luen Yang’s New Super-Man, and Robert Venditti’s Hawkman:

Generation Lost: Wow, I love these goofballs! Captain Atom is especially interesting. Great premise for a story, loved it every step of the way.

Jeff Lemire Animal Man: I didn’t expect this to be such a gnarly horror story. I love Brother Blood. Very cool book!

Priest Deathstroke: I had a hard time following this one at first. Just on a storytelling level. It has a rhythm to it that took me a while to get used to. By the time it got to Deathstroke Defiance, I had hit a stride and started really enjoying it. And by the end I felt like I had gotten to meaningfully know some of those characters. Good.

Gene Luen Yang’s New Super-Man: This one is very fun. The way it fuses Chinese mythology with American super heroes makes for something pretty novel. They created so many characters that I really want to know more about. Alpaca especially! I would love to see a Baixi and Deilan book.

Venditti’s Hawkman: Very compelling right from the start. It feels like an adventure story by way of a myth. They do so many things with the past lives idea that are all cool. Taking that all away and making the final story about their last life in the golden age was a good way to end it. Hawkwoman is cool.

As I was reading, I made a list of characters I wanted to know more about. I’m going to start exploring that next.

◉◉maru

Jaffe Congrats. Is it going to be a year-long, weekly podcast? That would make 52 episodes.

Jaffe

We’re working out the details! We’re shopping the show to networks and have multiple formats prepared.

DaveedNoo

Noice! I will listen!

◉◉maru

Hey @Jaffe what’s your view on Rob Liefeld and what would you say is the most interesting work he has done for DC? I thought this was a pretty interesting and nuanced take on the character.

Jaffe

◉◉maru My view is that his ability as a stylized artist is overshadowed by the fact that he’s kind of a huge jerk in real life! It’s fun to make fun of him sometimes not because he is an inherently poor artist, but because he is a dude with regressive ideas who is very shitty to other people in the industry.

I’d say his most interesting work for DC is his Hawk & Dove and Deathstroke comics in 2011-2012 which somehow managed to be the worst part of an already controversial publishing initiative. It really lays bare how badly his shtick had aged in 20 years.

Aizen

Besides Rock of Ages, what Darkseid stories would you recommend?

Jaffe

Aizen Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Saga still rules. New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Forever People all from the 70s.

The best to ever do it after Kirby was Walt Simonson, with his Orion series from 2000. Issue 5, which is just one long gladiatorial combat scene between Orion and Darkseid, is an all timer.

For a more recent book, Tom King and Mitch Gerads really nailed how we perceive Darkseid today in the 2018 Mister Miracle series. The book is not perfect, but their Darkseid Is.

Aizen

Thanks. I’ll check those out. Darkseid is one of my favourite DC villians

Mnemogenic

I’ve been reading the New 52 Captain Atom and I’m kind of obsessed with Freddie Williams II’s art for this book. I saw he got an Eisner for a Mister Miracle series; is there anything else I should check out from him?

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