Issue #23 - "Good Intentions"

In this issue we talk all about the characters or schemes that began with good intentions but went horribly wrong. But first we discuss the latest in DC news, with first reviews of Justice League, Mera getting her own solo title, sexual allegations in DC's top management, and Brian Bendis moving to DC! This week surely packs a punch and MORE...

Intro music by Aaron Barry

 

Prescribed Reading from Issue #23:

Action Comics vol. 2 #40 – Superman finds himself in the Bizarro universe of Earth 29, where he teams up with Bizarro to defeat Doomsday

Superman: Doomed #1 – Superman defeats Doomsday and consumes all of the Doomsday spores to save the people of Earth, causing him to slowly become the monster

The OMAC Project #1-6 – This miniseries follows the waves of destruction caused by Batman’s Brother Eye satellite gaining sentience and using OMACs to destroy metahumans

The New 52: Futures End #0 – In a possible future, Brother Eye succeeds in eliminating superhumans by assimilating them into his cyborg collective

Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 – Pariah’s experiments to witness the creation of the universe unleash the Anti-Monitor, and result in his own travelling the Multiverse only to see the destruction of each world he visits

Titans Hunt vol. 1 – The original Teen Titans are brought together and made to remember their secret history, which had previously been missing in the New 52

Titans vol. 3 – The original Wally West returns from the Speed Force and warns the Titans that a much bigger threat has been altering reality, including erasing parts of the Titans’ own history

Flashpoint #1-5 - Barry Allen goes back in time to save his mother and inadvertently shatters history

 

SHOW NOTES (courtesy of Josh Gill)

News and Notes

• Justice League release early reviews
• Brian Michael Bendis reactions
• • https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/11/07/brian-bendis-switches-sides-signs-dc-exclusive/?utm_source=BC&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=belowpost
• Doom Patrol/Titans TV
• • https://www.cbr.com/dc-titans-tv-doom-patrol/
• Eddie Berganza gets fired
• • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/11/13/longtime-dc-comics-editor-fired-after-sexual-harassment-allegations-resurface/?utm_term=.e6ce675c7f52
• Gal Gadot threatens to quit
• • https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/
• Andrew Kresiberg suspended
• • http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/warner-bros-sexual-harassment-andrew-kreisberg-1202612522/
• Meta solo title
• • https://www.newsarama.com/37302-mera-gets-her-first-ever-solo-title.html
• James Tynion 4th/Conor Kent
• • https://www.monkeysfightingrobots.com/james-tynion-iv-teases-return-of-superboy/
• Doomsday Clock cover #DDCDCC
• Jessica Cruz/Supergirls
• • https://www.cbr.com/green-lantern-jessica-cruz-dc-super-hero-girls-comic/

Good Intentions

• Action Vol 2 #40/Earth 29/Bizarro
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Action_Comics_Vol_2_40
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_29
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bizarro
• OMAC/Brother Eye/Identity Crisis
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Brother_Eye
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Futures_End
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Identity_Crisis
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/OMAC
• Tower of Babel
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/JLA:_Tower_of_Babel
• Pariah witnesses the birth of the Multiverse/COIE
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kell_Mossa_(Pre-Crisis)
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths
• The Hawks/Hath Set
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hath-Set_(New_Earth)
• Sinestro turns yellow
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sinestro
• Major Disaster/JL Antarctica
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Major_Disaster
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Antarctica
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Elite
• Hal Jordan/Parallax/Coast City/Emerald Twilight
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hal_Jordan
  • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern:_Emerald_Twilight
• Titans Hunt (the telling of the story)
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Titans_Hunt_Vol_1
• Flashpoint
• • http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Flash:_Flashpoint