Episode 98 – Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1: Issues 1-6
Episode description
Like the animator’s giant eraser in Chuck Jones’ classic Merrie Melodies short “Duck Amuck,” a wave of anti-matter sweeps across countless realities, obliterating everything in its path until only a handful of universes are left in the epic 12-issue event Crisis on Infinite Earths, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, published by DC Comics!
Aided by the mysterious Monitor, some of comics’ greatest heroes are all that stand between the remaining worlds and the malevolent ... um, Anti-Monitor!
Join us as we answer the burning questions: Can George Perez draw every single DC character before this crossover event is through? And can this world-changing saga survive that End of the Effing World known as ... The Comics Canon?
In This Episode!
- The history of the DC multiverse
- We have to talk about Pariah
- Characters referring to other characters by their names
- Does The Haunted Tank have a horn that plays Dixie?
- DC: The New Frontier
- “You’re going to die now! ... But later!”
- The worst name in comics
- Swamp Thing: American Gothic
- Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 1
- Six Crises by Richard Nixon (yes, really)
Join us in two weeks on Wednesday, New Comic Book Day, as this story shifts into gear, resulting in some memorable moments and the birth of a new universe in issues #7-12!
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