Week 18 - Dismantled, with Questionposting

Emancipate the JLA! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe cross over with Questionposting to tackle issue 18, featuring BREAKING NEWS REGARDING DC CANON and the existence of Tracy Thirteen, Dr. Doom arguing with a drunk person, microdosing Fear Toxin, and the secret unpublished origins of Honest Abe, the Super-Hero Protector of Cincinnati.

Chapters:

1. Let’s Talk Talent, Helmets and what the hell Shadowpact is doing here with Questionposting (04:50)
2. Let’s Talk About 52 #18 (09:16)
3. The Backup (53:17)
4. What’s your favorite part of the issue? (59:37)
5. The Blackboard (01:04:32)
6. Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:10:00)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• 52
• Geoff Johns
• Grant Morrison
• Greg Rucka
• Mark Waid
• Keith Giffen
• Questionposting
• Vic Sage
• Batman
• Dennis O’Neil
• The Question by Dennis O’Neil & Denys Cowan
• Demon in a Bottle
• Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood
• Eddy Barrows
• Rob Stull
• Natasha Irons
• Isis
• Ralph Dibny
• Detective Chimp
• Traci Thirteen
• Terrence Thirteen
• Gorilla Grodd
• Doctor Fate
• Black Adam (2022)
• Day of Vengeance
• Crisis on Infinite Earths
• Shadowpact
• Stephen Wacker
• House of Mystery
• Cain
• Croatoans
• Seven Soldiers of Victory
• Klarion the Witch Boy
• Roanoke Colony
• Stonehenge
• Easter Island
• Kaspar Hauser
• Tim Trench
• Wonder Woman
• Edogawa Sangaku
• Edogawa Ranpo
• Mysto
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• John Constantine
• Jack Cole
• Rob Liefeld
• Renee Montoya
• Kahndaq
• Black Adam
• Dune (2021)
• Doctor Doom
• Namor
• Victor Zsasz
• Batman: Shadow of the Bat
• Alan Grant
• Thomas Szasz
• Hannibal Lecter
• Joker
• SuicideGirls
• L.A.W.
• Vegeta
• Rorschach
• Dwayne McDuffie
• Justice League Unlimited
• Jeff Lemire
• The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage
• Reginald VelJohnson
• Marseille
• Lost
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Adam West
• James Gunn
• Bill Willingham
• Planet of the Apes
• Matt Reeves
• Booster Gold
• Blimp
• Yellow Peri
• Lucian Crawley
• Odd Man
• Beefeater
• Honest Abe
• Girls5eva
• Nicki Minaj
• Clark Kent
• Peter David
• Mark Russell
• One Star Squadron
• Creed
• Ragman
• Nightmaster
• Blue Devil
• Nightshade
• Enchantress
• Blue Beetle
• Tarot
• The Vision of Escaflowne
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Etrigan the Demon
• Madame Xanadu
• Zatanna
• Amethyst
• Suicide Squad Isekai
• Peacemaker
• Harley Quinn
• Suicide Squad Isekai Ending
• Amanda Waller
• Not Like Us
• Sue Dibny
• Stella
• Codename: Kids Next Door
• Joe Bennett
• J. G. Jones
• Doctor No-Face
• Blue Beetle (1967 series)
• The Question (2005 series)
• The Authority
• John Cooper Hawksmoor
• Lois Lane
• Brat
• Black Alice
• Xiomara Rojas
• Stephanie Brown
• Tim Drake
• Gotham Central
• Patton Oswalt
• All-Star Superman
• 52: the Companion
• Adam Strange
• Shining Knight
• Frankenstein
• Hero Hotline
• Dial H for Hero
• Night at the Museum
• Tempus Fuginaut
• Anti-Monitor
• Monitor
• Justice League: the Darkseid War
• Vandal Savage
• Lady Shiva
• Tom Bombadil
• Green Lantern Corps
• Alan Scott
• Guy Gardner

52 Pickup is an Aftermath production, created by Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe, and edited by Esper Quinn, with original music by Jon Ehrens. If you’d like to follow along, you can check out 52 at your local comic book store or library, or the DC Universe Infinite subscription service. The views and opinions expressed on this show are solely those of the show’s personalities, and do not reflect those of DC Entertainment or Warner Bros. Please rate and review our show wherever you can, and send your questions and comments to 52mailbag@gmail.com. Never stop reading comics.