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EP0090: Super Sons of Tomorrow, Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Strips, Volume 3, and Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Volume 5
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Damian Wayne, Jonathan Kent, and the Teen Titans faces Tim Drake from the future who wants to kill Jonathan in Super Sons of Tomorrow.
A look at last of the Batman Silver Age newspaper strips from 1969-72 in Volume 3 of the Batman Newspaper Strips.
Hal Jordan teams up with Superman and then the rest of the Green Lanterns in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians
Transcript below:
Tim Drake from the future returns to tamper with history. Join us as we take a look at Super Sons of Tomorrow Volume Three of the Batman newspaper strips collection, and then we take a look at Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp Volume Five, straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
Alright, well, we'll lead off this episode with Super Sons of Tomorrow, and this is a three-way crossover collecting Issues Eleven and Twelve of Super Sons, Superman Issues Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight, and Teen Titans Number Fifteen. And the basic plot is that Tim Drake from the future who we talked about a few weeks ago, appearing in Detective Comics, that he returns to once again try and save the future by murdering someone. In this case it's murdering ten year old John Kent, aka Superboy, and he starts out by disabling both Batman and Superman because he is future Tim Drake aka Future Batman, and then goes after Superboy properly and the Teen Titans get in the way.
Well what did I like about this storyline? Well, I think that like the storyline in Detective Comics, it did really do a good job highlighting the nature of a key relationship – in that case, that between Robin and Superboy, and the way that their partnership helps them and makes them better people. It also suggests that that partnership, that that friendship could cut against or change some of what has been shown as the DC Universe's future, suggesting that these portrayals are only a possible future, they are a shadow of things that might be – not necessarily of what has to be because of the way they relate to each other. And I think that's a really good idea. At the same time, if you were a fan of the Young Justice comic series from the 1990s you get a bit of a treat here as we see that Tim Drake is Batman in this timeline is being pursued and followed by the Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman who are Connor, Cassie and Bart from the Young Justice comic series in the 1990s. So that is nice.
Where I think the story has problems is that, I think that the idea that you could bring Tim Drake back after the Detective Comics storyline where essentially he was doing the same thing, but with Batwoman, is really going to the well too often and way too soon after the last time. I also thought he was a little bit more annoying in this one. He doffs the Batman outfit early on in this story to take on the identity of Savior who is going to save the universe and everything from bad things happening by messing with the timeline and killing people. The Teen Titans are also a bit of a problem in this book. The Teen Titans actually end up dividing against one another on the entire question of cooperating with Savior after Superboy is essentially driven by Savior to a point of giving off this great solar explosion, which was the reason that he had this solar flare power which he couldn't control and was eventually going to lead to killing millions of people. And Savior triggered this so that he destroyed the Teen Titans tower, and the Titans end up divided over whether to follow Tim Drake or not, with two going with Tim Drake and three not going with Tim Drake but trying to catch up to Robin and Superboy to give them time.
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A look at last of the Batman Silver Age newspaper strips from 1969-72 in Volume 3 of the Batman Newspaper Strips.
Hal Jordan teams up with Superman and then the rest of the Green Lanterns in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians
Transcript below:
Tim Drake from the future returns to tamper with history. Join us as we take a look at Super Sons of Tomorrow Volume Three of the Batman newspaper strips collection, and then we take a look at Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp Volume Five, straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
Alright, well, we'll lead off this episode with Super Sons of Tomorrow, and this is a three-way crossover collecting Issues Eleven and Twelve of Super Sons, Superman Issues Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight, and Teen Titans Number Fifteen. And the basic plot is that Tim Drake from the future who we talked about a few weeks ago, appearing in Detective Comics, that he returns to once again try and save the future by murdering someone. In this case it's murdering ten year old John Kent, aka Superboy, and he starts out by disabling both Batman and Superman because he is future Tim Drake aka Future Batman, and then goes after Superboy properly and the Teen Titans get in the way.
Well what did I like about this storyline? Well, I think that like the storyline in Detective Comics, it did really do a good job highlighting the nature of a key relationship – in that case, that between Robin and Superboy, and the way that their partnership helps them and makes them better people. It also suggests that that partnership, that that friendship could cut against or change some of what has been shown as the DC Universe's future, suggesting that these portrayals are only a possible future, they are a shadow of things that might be – not necessarily of what has to be because of the way they relate to each other. And I think that's a really good idea. At the same time, if you were a fan of the Young Justice comic series from the 1990s you get a bit of a treat here as we see that Tim Drake is Batman in this timeline is being pursued and followed by the Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman who are Connor, Cassie and Bart from the Young Justice comic series in the 1990s. So that is nice.
Where I think the story has problems is that, I think that the idea that you could bring Tim Drake back after the Detective Comics storyline where essentially he was doing the same thing, but with Batwoman, is really going to the well too often and way too soon after the last time. I also thought he was a little bit more annoying in this one. He doffs the Batman outfit early on in this story to take on the identity of Savior who is going to save the universe and everything from bad things happening by messing with the timeline and killing people. The Teen Titans are also a bit of a problem in this book. The Teen Titans actually end up dividing against one another on the entire question of cooperating with Savior after Superboy is essentially driven by Savior to a point of giving off this great solar explosion, which was the reason that he had this solar flare power which he couldn't control and was eventually going to lead to killing millions of people. And Savior triggered this so that he destroyed the Teen Titans tower, and the Titans end up divided over whether to follow Tim Drake or not, with two going with Tim Drake and three not going with Tim Drake but trying to catch up to Robin and Superboy to give them time.
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Damian Wayne, Jonathan Kent, and the Teen Titans faces Tim Drake from the future who wants to kill Jonathan in Super Sons of Tomorrow.
A look at last of the Batman Silver Age newspaper strips from 1969-72 in Volume 3 of the Batman Newspaper Strips.
Hal Jordan teams up with Superman and then the rest of the Green Lanterns in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians
Transcript below:
Tim Drake from the future returns to tamper with history. Join us as we take a look at Super Sons of Tomorrow Volume Three of the Batman newspaper strips collection, and then we take a look at Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp Volume Five, straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
Alright, well, we'll lead off this episode with Super Sons of Tomorrow, and this is a three-way crossover collecting Issues Eleven and Twelve of Super Sons, Superman Issues Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight, and Teen Titans Number Fifteen. And the basic plot is that Tim Drake from the future who we talked about a few weeks ago, appearing in Detective Comics, that he returns to once again try and save the future by murdering someone. In this case it's murdering ten year old John Kent, aka Superboy, and he starts out by disabling both Batman and Superman because he is future Tim Drake aka Future Batman, and then goes after Superboy properly and the Teen Titans get in the way.
Well what did I like about this storyline? Well, I think that like the storyline in Detective Comics, it did really do a good job highlighting the nature of a key relationship – in that case, that between Robin and Superboy, and the way that their partnership helps them and makes them better people. It also suggests that that partnership, that that friendship could cut against or change some of what has been shown as the DC Universe's future, suggesting that these portrayals are only a possible future, they are a shadow of things that might be – not necessarily of what has to be because of the way they relate to each other. And I think that's a really good idea. At the same time, if you were a fan of the Young Justice comic series from the 1990s you get a bit of a treat here as we see that Tim Drake is Batman in this timeline is being pursued and followed by the Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman who are Connor, Cassie and Bart from the Young Justice comic series in the 1990s. So that is nice.
Where I think the story has problems is that, I think that the idea that you could bring Tim Drake back after the Detective Comics storyline where essentially he was doing the same thing, but with Batwoman, is really going to the well too often and way too soon after the last time. I also thought he was a little bit more annoying in this one. He doffs the Batman outfit early on in this story to take on the identity of Savior who is going to save the universe and everything from bad things happening by messing with the timeline and killing people. The Teen Titans are also a bit of a problem in this book. The Teen Titans actually end up dividing against one another on the entire question of cooperating with Savior after Superboy is essentially driven by Savior to a point of giving off this great solar explosion, which was the reason that he had this solar flare power which he couldn't control and was eventually going to lead to killing millions of people. And Savior triggered this so that he destroyed the Teen Titans tower, and the Titans end up divided over whether to follow Tim Drake or not, with two going with Tim Drake and three not going with Tim Drake but trying to catch up to Robin and Superboy to give them time.
…
continue reading
A look at last of the Batman Silver Age newspaper strips from 1969-72 in Volume 3 of the Batman Newspaper Strips.
Hal Jordan teams up with Superman and then the rest of the Green Lanterns in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians
Transcript below:
Tim Drake from the future returns to tamper with history. Join us as we take a look at Super Sons of Tomorrow Volume Three of the Batman newspaper strips collection, and then we take a look at Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp Volume Five, straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
Alright, well, we'll lead off this episode with Super Sons of Tomorrow, and this is a three-way crossover collecting Issues Eleven and Twelve of Super Sons, Superman Issues Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight, and Teen Titans Number Fifteen. And the basic plot is that Tim Drake from the future who we talked about a few weeks ago, appearing in Detective Comics, that he returns to once again try and save the future by murdering someone. In this case it's murdering ten year old John Kent, aka Superboy, and he starts out by disabling both Batman and Superman because he is future Tim Drake aka Future Batman, and then goes after Superboy properly and the Teen Titans get in the way.
Well what did I like about this storyline? Well, I think that like the storyline in Detective Comics, it did really do a good job highlighting the nature of a key relationship – in that case, that between Robin and Superboy, and the way that their partnership helps them and makes them better people. It also suggests that that partnership, that that friendship could cut against or change some of what has been shown as the DC Universe's future, suggesting that these portrayals are only a possible future, they are a shadow of things that might be – not necessarily of what has to be because of the way they relate to each other. And I think that's a really good idea. At the same time, if you were a fan of the Young Justice comic series from the 1990s you get a bit of a treat here as we see that Tim Drake is Batman in this timeline is being pursued and followed by the Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman who are Connor, Cassie and Bart from the Young Justice comic series in the 1990s. So that is nice.
Where I think the story has problems is that, I think that the idea that you could bring Tim Drake back after the Detective Comics storyline where essentially he was doing the same thing, but with Batwoman, is really going to the well too often and way too soon after the last time. I also thought he was a little bit more annoying in this one. He doffs the Batman outfit early on in this story to take on the identity of Savior who is going to save the universe and everything from bad things happening by messing with the timeline and killing people. The Teen Titans are also a bit of a problem in this book. The Teen Titans actually end up dividing against one another on the entire question of cooperating with Savior after Superboy is essentially driven by Savior to a point of giving off this great solar explosion, which was the reason that he had this solar flare power which he couldn't control and was eventually going to lead to killing millions of people. And Savior triggered this so that he destroyed the Teen Titans tower, and the Titans end up divided over whether to follow Tim Drake or not, with two going with Tim Drake and three not going with Tim Drake but trying to catch up to Robin and Superboy to give them time.
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