I complete my review of DC’s New Age of Heroes initiative by talking about The Unexpected #1 (and a bit of #2) by Ryan Sook, Cary Nord, Steve Orlando, Mick Gray, Wade von Grawbadger, FCO Plascencia, Carlos M. Mangual, Dave Weilgosz, and Katie Kubert.
Presenting a joint podcast production with Peter from The Daily Rios podcast (where you can also listen and subscribe to The Legion Project), where we will discuss, issue by issue, the 1984 Legion of Super-Heroes (volume 3) series affectionately known as the “Baxter run”.
In this episode, we discuss Legion of Super-Heroes #8, “To Destroy a World!”. To save the universe, the Legionnaires inflict nuclear destruction on a sun-eater factory, and someone attempts to murder a descendant of Superman. Speaking of Superman, we also talk about DC Comics Presents #80, which features those “lost” Legionnaires.
Timestamps:
(00:42) Preamble and a Legion/Injustice news item
(11:48) Legion of Super-Heroes issue #8 synopsis and initial reactions
(18:27) Continuing subplots, the art team, and the covers
(36:17) LSH #8 main discussion
(1:26:09) Brief thoughts on DC Comics Presents #80 featuring Superman and the LSH
(1:37:28) Who is our core set of Legionnaires? Wrap up and Outro.
George Hanna of the still defunct George and Tony Entertainment Show joins me to go over the July 2018 Previews catalog for items shipping starting in September.
I chat with Damian and Matt about their podcast Never Stay Dead. After we swap comic book origin stories, the guys tell me why they started this podcast and what it is they talk about on their show. Please listen and subscribe to their show!
