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Jan 30, 2019

Big life changes this week for Dick Grayson and Wally West – although their respective thunders are kind of stolen the next issue by our pal Brother Blood (points don’t come much more pivotal than rebirth in a caldera of molten blood). Also: newly-made editors Wolfman and Perez maneuver Terra further along her...


Jan 26, 2019

The Gipper’s slow segue out of the Warner fold began with this tone-setting suburban sitcom for Universal-International. Part of his new sometime-studio’s “Big Push” at the dawn of  the television decade, Louisa shows how easily Reagan might have stepped into a Father Knows Best/My Three Sons-style second...


Jan 25, 2019

We devote a good chunk of our program this week to an appreciation of artist George Perez, who announced his retirement very recently. As luck would have it, we’ve also arrived at one of Perez’s greatest contributions to the medium (NTT #38 – “Who is Donna Troy?”)! And, for the sake of narrative coherence, we...


Jan 19, 2019

It’s the return of Brass Bancroft! (In Reagan’s own least favorite of his films.)

This episode was recorded on August 27th, 2018, with your humble panel suffering through the embarrassing Ballet McCainique that had a stranglehold on the American media that week.

After venting our collective spleens on that...


Jan 19, 2019

No George Perez this month, as he was dragooned into producing bonus material for Atari's Swordquest video game, but Elise discovers that she likes fill-in penciller Keith Pollard nearly as much! Too bad about the stories in these issues, though... First, we come to a turning point in the life of Sarah Simms, who almost...