Episode 268 – November 1996 Supplemental
Welcome to the two hundredth and sixty-eighth episode of From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast! This podcast has a simple premise; examine just about every Superman comic published between Man of Steel #1 in 1986 to Adventures of Superman #649 in 2006 in an informative and hopefully entertaining format.
This time out Mike and Jeff look at the Superman related books that came out with a November 1996 cover date that weren’t part of the Final Night event. Those books include Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #5, Superboy and the Ravers #3, Showcase ’96 #10, Steel #32, and Justice League: A Midsummers Nightmare #3. After that they look at the first seven (or five, depending on how you want to look at it) episodes of Superman: The Animated Series, which premiered in September of 1996. Episodes discussed are The Last Son of Krypton Parts 1 thru 3, Fun and Games, A Little Piece of Home, Feeding Time, and The Way of All Flesh. For grins, they end their animated talk by chatting about the first issue of the tie-in comics Superman Adventures. Finally, they discuss Lord of the Flys and Battleground Earth, which are the first two episodes of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 4.
Mike would like to take this opportunity to apologize to those listeners that like or love the two episodes of Lois and Clark discussed in this episode. He did not like them and he was not shy about expressing this opinion.
Below are select covers from the comics discussed during this episode.
Shows Promoted in This Episode
- JSA in the 90s – Hosted by Shag
- Transformers University Podcast – Hosted by Anthony
The From Crisis to Crisis theme is by Lucian Desar.
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Next Time: Buy a nice outfit, get some fancy shoes, and clear your schedule because you are cordially invited to From Crisis to Crisis‘ coverage of the wedding of Lois Lane and Clark Kent.
A few notes nothing major.
You both mentioned the Teen Titans book by Jurgens and Perez wasn’t really doing it for you. I read the whole series a few months back and really enjoyed it. It’s possible it’s got a slow start and you might enjoy more as it goes on. I’m particularly fond of Prysm.
At one point Mike mentions Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob but you call him Mr. Krab and I thought that was funny.
Your coverage of the Superman animated series makes me kind of excited and I might actually go through and watch all of that.
Watch Superman: The Animated Series. It is so good!