This is it! The clock has run out on Zero Hour Strikes, leaving this second of two epilogue shows with only Extant's final story in JSA #11-15 for Siskoid and Bass to cover. Get your final dose of the show before reality collapses in on itself!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 33 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple …

The penultimate episode has Bass and Siskoid look at some sequels to Zero Hour, including Booster Gold #0, Adventures of Superman #522, and Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe. The clock is running out on this podcast... fast!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 32 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.R…

While there are a couple of episodes after this, Bass and Siskoid polish off what's left of Zero Month with Wonder Woman #0, Hawkman #0, and Aquaman #0.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 31 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Relevant images and further credits at: Zero Hour Strikes ep.31 Suppleme…

Bass and Siskoid return to the Batman Family of books and their #0 issues, including The Outsiders, Catwoman and Robin! Who gets a bold new direction?Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 30 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Relevant images and further credits at: Zero Hour Strikes ep.30 Supplement…

Several series were launched on Zero Month, springing (sometimes limping) from the crossover event. Bass and Siskoid take on Primal Force, Fate, Manhunter and, yes, finally, you can stop hounding them, Starman #0!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 29 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Relevant im…

Bass and Siskoid take a look at the Green Lantern family of titles and their zero issues, including Green Lantern itself, Darkstars and Guy Gardner: Warrior, but also a Zero Hour epilogue with Green Lantern/Silver Surfer: Unholy Alliances, in which they further discuss whether Parallax could or should be redeemed.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Ep…

Bass and Siskoid take aim at the Justice League's zero issues, including Justice League America, Justice League Task Force, and Extreme Justice! Will the franchise pivot towards success or keep diving head first into a vat of boiling failure? History's already been written, but what do our two Zeroes think?Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 2…

Bass and Siskoid talk about the zero issues of several series starring heroes relatively new on the scene - Superboy, Steel, the Ray... and Green Arrow? Get all the skinny, right here, right now.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 26 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Relevant images and further c…

Bass and Siskoid reach for an old favorite, covering the zero issues of all four Superman books, but is it Superman #0, or Conduit #0? Whose origin are we really telling? Only the Podcasters of Steel can get to the bottom of this.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 25 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Sp…

Bass and Siskoid head to the more supernatural side of the DC Universe to cover The Spectre and The Demon's zero issues, as well as explore the possible/controversial connection between Zero Hour and Neil Gaiman's Sandman!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 24 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Re…

A true test of their mettle, Bass and Siskoid's coverage of DC's Zero issues takes them on a dark path, looking at young hero books like Anima, Damage, Gunfire and Xenobrood! Will they make it out alive and sane?Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 23 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on iTunes.Relevant images and further cre…

Bass and Siskoid's coverage of the Zero issues continues with a quartet of Legion-related books! The Legion is rebooted in Legion of Super-Heroes and Legionnaires; the L.E.G.I.O.N. gets rebranded as R.E.B.E.L.S.; and Lobo, well, Lobo continues to be Lobo...Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 22 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podc…

It's The Beginning of Tomorrow for three more titles as Bass and Siskoid cover Deathstroke the Hunted, Flash, and The New Titans all at #0! It's a Marv Wolfman sandwich!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 21 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on iTunes.Relevant images and further credits at: Zero Hour Strikes ep.21 Supplement…

We said we'd do it and we are! All ZERO ISSUES following Zero Hour will be covered. What's changed? What's new? What stays? And we start with sacred cow Batman and his four Zero issues - Batman, Shadow of the Bat, Legends of the Dark Knight, and Detective Comics - to see where the Bat is going next as this is - tag line please - The Beginning of To…

This is it! Zero Hour Crisis in Time #0! Technically the end of the crossover event! Who will live? (Most people.) Who will die? (Most people.) Will the DC Universe ever be the same again? (Depends who you ask.) There may not be a reality anymore, but Bass and Siskoid are going to do their best to discuss the death and rebirth of the DCU in detail!…

Some stray (cat joke!) tie-in issues before we get to the Zero Hour finale - Catwoman #14 and Anima #7 - certainly don't share the tightest continuity with the crossover event, but then, that's never been too important, either to the DC editors nor the hosts of this podcast. Siskoid and Bass cover it all!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 18 …

Bass and Siskoid dig into "Return of the Hero", Christopher Priest's pinch-hitting story across the three Justice League monthly titles tying into Zero Hour - America #98, Task Force #16, and International #68 - as Triumph makes the scene as the League founder no one remembers. But don't you forget to listen!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode…

Bit of a hodgepodge of books this month, as Zero Hour Strikes tackles Action Comics #703, Team Titans #24, and Damage #6 (guest-starring the New Titans who didn't otherwise tie into the event). Guess which one we thought was good? Are you sure? Only one way to find out. Press play!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 16 below!Or subscribe to Th…

It feels like Zero Hour #1 should be the beginning, but remember, the series is counting DOWN. So then it's the end? No because we're counting down to ZERO. Siskoid and Bass make sense of it all (or do they?) as in its penultimate chapter, Zero Hour switches villains and the crowd of heroes standing around in New York almost definitely probably kin…

In one time track, Siskoid and Bass cover Green Arrow #90 and the end of an era. In another, they're up against Guy Gardner: Warrior #24 as Guy tries to headline the crossover event himself! Then the timelines merge back just in time for Letters Lost in Time (your feedback from our previous episode).Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 14 below…

Unlucky episode 13! Bass and Siskoid have drawn the short straw this month and have to plunge head first into two pretty opaque series, with L.E.G.I.O.N.'94 #69-70 and Outsiders #11. Will they make it out okay? They always do, don't they.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 13 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on iTunes.Relev…

Bass and Siskoid might not have forgiven what the previous issue did to the Justice Society as they enter Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2. Believe it or not, things get worse for the JSA. Plus, Team Titans' last stand! Oh, and the boys talk about Shaq's Steel movie!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 12 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes…

Bass and Siskoid cover Adventures of Superman #516 and Steel #8, two very different Zero Hour tie-ins - in fact, one of them mistakenly didn't get a ZH banner! - introducing the Alpha Centurion, and also a bunch of '90s morts you've never heard of.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 11 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on iT…

Bass and Siskoid cover Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3, in which the Justice Society of America makes its last stand. How does it rate? Well... I guess you'll just have to listen.Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 10 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! Podcast on iTunes.Relevant images and further credits at: Zero Hour Strikes ep.10 Sup…

Legion - End of an Era is a big chunk of what makes Zero Hour important, as the future holds some of the most important impacts of the event. Join Bass and Siskoid as they cover Legionnaires #17-18, Valor #22-23, and Legion of Super-Heroes #60-61. It's the end of the Five Years Later era, but really, it's the end of something that started way back …

We did it! We made Bass read five consecutive issues of Hawkman! In episode 8 of Zero Hour Strikes!, he and Siskoid cover the Godspawn storyline (Hawkman vol.3 #9-13) which ends on a Zero Hour tie-in, though the anomalies start to crop up earlier. One could say the whole of Hawkman's post-Crisis history is an anomaly. So... does Bass like Hawkman n…

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 7, Bass and Siskoid connect back to the Batman Family again (it's the '90s, what can we say) to cover Batman: Shadow of the Bat #31 and Robin #10, where temporal anomalies continue to hit Gotham City. Quite a lot of Robin talk, actually, since Tim Drake didn't even exist back when the boys covered Invasion. Have a list…

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 6, Bass and Siskoid follow Superman to Smallville where his Kryptonian parents have just landed (Superman #93), then to some planet somewhere for Darkstars action (Darkstars #24). It's Zero Hour, and the answer to the question "Aren't you dead?" isn't always what we expect!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 6 bel…

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 5, Bass and Siskoid finally hit the main series. Zero Hour #4 was the first issue cuz it's a countdown, don't you know. Follow our time-tossed hosts right into the vortex... (Apologies department: Our own temporal anomaly - or some background activity on our computer, really - caused sound problems in this episode, som…

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 4, Bass and Siskoid look at some legacy heroes. Kyle Rayner has just become Green Lantern, and Wally West is trying to get Bart Allen home. How does Zero Hero come into it? Find out by reading Green Lantern #55, by Ron Marz and a slew of artists, and Flash #94, by Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco, with our time-tossed host…

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 3, Bass and Siskoid follow Batman to the Superman family of books, specifically to Superman: The Man of Steel #37 by Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke. Then, it's off to Smallville for Superboy #8, by Karl Kesel, Tom Grummett and Doug Hazelwood, where it's Superboy vs. Superboy! Plus, things look bad for …

In Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 2, Bass and Siskoid follow the Dark Knight's encounter with the first time anomalies! In Detective Comics #678 by Chuck Dixon, Graham Nolan and Bob McLeod, Batman finds himself on the fateful night, dead at his parents' feet. In Batman #511 by Doug Moench, Mike Manley and Josef Rubinstein, he's shocked to find Batgirl …

This is it! Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 1! Bass and Siskoid cover all the teasers and prologues, in particular, Zero Hour material from Showcase '94! Join in the timey-wimey fun (and head-scratching) as Monarch and Extant are discussed, and time itself comes under threat!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes! Episode 1 below!Or subscribe to The Zero Hour …

He was born in the ashes of Invasion, and he will die on Zero Hour. Call him Lar Gand, Mon-El or Valor, he has a very specific destiny. Unless history collapses of course, then destiny means nothing. Before starting their new podcast, Zero Hour Strikes!, Bass and Siskoid come together for one last First Strike: The Invasion Podcast to cover this Da…

Every month, co-hosts Siskoid and Bass cover the whole of DC Comics' Zero Hour 1994 crossover event in THE ZERO HOUR STRIKES! PODCAST. Every issue, every tie-in, every zero issue, and a little more besides! Siskoid revisits it; Bass discovers it for the first time!Listen to the Zero Hour Strikes Promo below, or subscribe to The Zero Hour Strikes! P…

Siskoid, Bass, Furn and Marty are back to talk spooky romance in time Fire & Water's Dark Podcasts of Forbidden Love crossover event, looking at Elvira's House of Mystery #4 (June 1986) and its two stories of supernatural love. Let the off-topic rambling begin! Listen to Episode 18 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings apply), or subscri…

This is it. The final episode of First Strike: The Invasion Podcast. We discuss stealth Invasion Aftermath Extras, gene bomb appearances, the fate of the aliens, behind the scenes material, Who's Who entries, and even Siskoid's use of Invasion in his role-playing game campaigns. Plus, rumors of a bonus episode and your feedback! Listen to Episode 4…

A Marvel book?! What do Uncanny X-Men #245 have to do with Invasion? Find out, and do it fast before the Jean Bomb explodes! And while we're across the street, we might as well talk about Marvel's output in late 1988. Oh, and a special guest star crashes our penultimate episode. Remember Sidney! Listen to Episode 39 below (the usual filthy filthy l…

Bass and Siskoid turn on their televisions to watch the second season of Young Justice, as it adapts Invasion, and then it's back to the long boxes for more Invasion Fallout, most especially Wonder Woman #27 and Princess Diana's rematch with the Khunds! Listen to Episode 38 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe t…

All-humor episode! Bass and Siskoid start off by reevaluating the Blasters Special, then head to Justice League International #24, where Justice League Europe gets its real start, and an old Invasion enemy provides a quick "last scare"! Listen to Episode 37 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to First Strike: T…

Bass and Siskoid hit the Invasion spin-offs! The Starlag escapees find their way to Colu in L.E.G.I.O.N.'89 #1, then Captain Atom is rewarded for his role during the Invasion with a leadership of Justice League Europe in that book's #1! Listen to Episode 36 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to First Strike: T…

What happens after Invasion? Siskoid and Bass uncover the secrets of the meta-gene in The Spectre #24! And since they recorded on Free Comic Book Day, they went out to the comic book store to take the podcast to the people! Do they remember the Invasion? Listen to Episode 35 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe …

We're here! Invasion #3! Follow along with Bass and Siskoid as they chronicle the events that result from the detonation of the Dominators' gene bomb in this massive episode, as the show enters its third act! Listen to Episode 34 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to First Strike: The Invasion! Podcast on iTun…

No Invasion banner on Animal Man #7? That mistake isn't going to stop Bass and Siskoid from covering along with the other Aftermath Extras! Cuz it definitely links to Invasion! Plus, our hosts take a look at what else DC was publishing during those two months of tie-ins to create a more complete picture of the DCU in late 1988. Listen to Episode 33…

It's the end of the Doom Patrol as we knew them! Before they crawl from the wreckage, they must deal with Invasion fall-out. Unlike other heroes, the DP can never catch a break! Siskoid and Bass not only discuss Doom Patrol #18's Invasion Aftermath tie-in, but the team's publication history. Listen to Episode 32 below (the usual filthy filthy langu…

Siskoid and Bass have returned to the New Guardians and are determined to have fun with it. Plus, discussion on the team books that DIDN'T tie into Invasion, like Legion of Super-Heroes, New Titans and Young All-Stars, among others. Listen to Episode 31 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to First Strike: The I…

The Suicide Squad comic that ties into Invasion forgot to put an Invasion banner on its cover, but Siskoid and Bass saw right through Task Force X's disguise and not only cover the issue, but discuss the Squad in its various forms over the years. Listen to Episode 30 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to First…

Starman helps with the relief effort before going home in this Invasion Aftermath extra, which guest stars, among others, one Hal Jordan, Green Lantern of Earth. Well, that just seems like the perfect pretext to talk about Green Lanterns in our second segment! Bass and Siskoid continue their coverage only at the Fire and Water Podcast Network! List…

A Superman double feature! Bass and Siskoid continue their coverage of Invasion Aftermath with Superman #27 and Adventures of Superman #450, a major turning point in Superman's life AND in DC Universe history. Check it out if you don't believe us! Listen to Episode 28 below (the usual filthy filthy language warnings may apply), or subscribe to Firs…

Double feature! Bass and Siskoid continue their coverage of Invasion Aftermath with Wonder Woman #26, and since it guest-stars Captain Atom, they might as well keep going with Captain Atom #25! They will answer the question: Can the Durlans be well used? Because the evidence has been pretty damning up until now. Listen to Episode 27 below (the usua…