Crisis On Infinite Midlives

Episode 175: Avengers: Infinity War, or: They’re Not Called Hippie Stones

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 01 May 2018 02:32:00 +0000

Marvel Studios’s Avengers: Infinity War opened last week and scored the biggest box office opening weekend of all time. It pulled in about $640 million in four days, meaning that, at around $15 per ticket, it was seen by roughly 43 million people.

Episode 174: The Shemp of Superman

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:51:12 +0000

It’s a bit of a mixed bag this week, as we discuss, first of all, that we’re not dead (but thanks for asking!). We then talk about the ongoing process of getting ready to attend San Diego Comic-Con, which, once upon a time,

Episode 173: The Full Bonaduce

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:10:51 +0000

Season two of Marvel Studios’s / Netflix’s Jessica Jones dropped late last week, and as with most of Marvel’s / Netflix’s shows, we burned through it in a single weekend binge. And this binge was more enjoyable than the last couple,

Episode 172: Embezzly McCokeHabit

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:17:10 +0000

With all the excitement and hype surrounding last week’s release of Marvel Studios’s Black Panther, it’s easy to forget that, when the movie was announced as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Three three and a half years ago,

Episode 171: Think Pieces About Underpants: The 2017 Crises Awards

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:12:36 +0000

We are smack in the middle of awards season, when networks cynically fill their airtime with slapped-together ceremonies celebrating old crap you already know about, all in the hopes that someone will get drunk and start making a damn fool of themselve...

Episode 170: Gleek Flings Poo

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:27:02 +0000

It’s been an speedy week, from the threat of yet another government shutdown, to calling other nations ugly names, to a 30-something minute span where it seemed like a large chunk of the population of Hawaii might be on deck to have a chance at their o...

Episode 169: Sports is a Fantastic Album, Selina

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:27:04 +0000

After a couple of weeks off due to holidays, family travel, blizzards, arctic vortices, and professional obligations, and we’ve moved past holiday genre movies and into the pre-convention season lull. Meaning that until Marvel Studios’ Black Panther dr...

Episode 168: Look at The Porgs, Artoo

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:07:54 +0000

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the inarguably most anticipated genre film of 2017 (at least the most anticipated by everyone except Rob) was released last Friday, and based on the box office returns approaching half a billion dollars in four days,

Episode 167: Metallo’s “O” Face

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 01:29:54 +0000

Crisis on Earth X, the annual crossover between DCW (Rob swears he will make DCW a thing) shows Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Agents of Tomorrow aired a couple of weeks ago, and while we’re a little late to the conversation,

Episode 166: The World’s Worst Detective, or: Rorschach, Meet Vibe

Crisis On Infinite Midlives — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:06:17 +0000

Marvel Studios’s latest Netflix series, The Punisher, dropped all at once a couple of weeks ago, and it was, in a lot of ways, very different than the series that have been delivered up until now. Sure, the other series dealt with adult themes – Jessica Jones tackled being a survivor of abuse, Luke Cage dealt with racism, and Iron Fist took on the perils of being a boring rich white guy no one likes – but none of those series featured a protagonist who stabs people in the neck just to watch them die.

So we spend a chunk of the show talking about The Punisher, how it handles themes of PTSD and how war destroys not only soldiers, but also their families… and how those weighty issues map to a story that delivers the cheap thrill of watching Jersey mooks having their legs broken by a man sometimes known as “Shooty Batman.”

But the money of the week is the release of the first issue of Doomsday Clock #1, written by Geoff Johns with art by Gary Frank. This is the real beginning of DC Comics not only sequelizing Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen, but putting characters from the DC Universe onto a collision course with that universe. While we’ve both been enjoying DC: Rebirth, Rob is a huge fan of the original Watchmen, and thus has been DREADING the release of this book. So we break it down, and come to a couple of surprising conclusions.

This episode was recorded live to tape, with minimal editing, so if you’re looking for a podcast where the hosts are pretty convinced they came up with the moniker, “Shooty Batman,” you’ve come to the right place!

Thanks for listening, suckers!