DC Bloodlines Podcasts
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA companion to both the DC Comics blogging of Diabolu Frank and The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast, DC Bloodlines covers the library of one of North America's longest lived and most respected comic book publishers, as well as their usage in other media, often with a focus on lesser known characters.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Power of the Atom Podcast #611 - "Victory Day"
April 26, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.21 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Joining the Justice League? By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more! From DC Comics’s Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #9 & Justice League International #24!
Power of the Atom Podcast #610 - "Eye of the Storm"
April 19, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.65 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Invasion! Aftermath Extra! By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more! From DC Comics’s Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #8, plus Starman #6 & Invasion #3!
Power of the Atom Podcast #609 - "Behind Enemy Lines!"
April 12, 2021 05:00 - 8 minutes - 3.1 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Invasion! First Strike! Extra! By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more! From DC Comics’s Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #7, plus Invasion #2 & Hawk and Dove #1!
Power of the Atom Podcast #608 - "Time, Time, Time -- See What's Become of Me"
April 06, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.17 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Chronos strikes with art by a Legend! By Roger Stern, John Byrne & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’s Winter 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #6!
Power of the Atom Podcast #607 - "Comings and Goings"
April 04, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.92 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Guest-Starring The Elongated Man, Maxwell Lord & Oberon! By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’s December 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #5!
Power of the Atom Podcast #606 - "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
April 02, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 2.49 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Featuring Hawkman and Hawkwoman! By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’s November 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #4!
Power of the Atom Podcast #605 - "Skulduggery"
April 01, 2021 05:00 - 11 minutes - 4.01 MBEmail?Tweet?#AtomPod?Power of the Atom?Rolled Spine Podcasts The Atom in DC Bonus Book #8! By Joe Calchi, Jim Balent, & Dan Schaefer! From DC Comics’s November 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #4!
Power of the Atom Podcast #604 - "15 Minutes of Fame!"
March 31, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 1.99 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts The Atom versus Strobe! By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’ October 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #3!
Power of the Atom Podcast #603 - "Just Like Starting Over"
March 30, 2021 05:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts The Atom returns to super-heroing! By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’ September 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #2!
Power of the Atom Podcast #602 - "Home Is the Hero!"
March 29, 2021 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.83 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts The last Ray Palmer Atom ongoing series begins! The destruction of Morlaidh! The conclusion of Sword of the Atom! By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’ August 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #1!
Power of the Atom Podcast #601 - "The Secret Origin of the Atom"
March 28, 2021 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.25 MBEmail*Tweet*#AtomPod*Power of the Atom*Rolled Spine Podcasts Soft launch of the mild old direction Post-Crisis Atom! Debut of new creative team of Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson! From DC Comics’ August 1988 cover-dated Secret Origins #29!
DC Special Podcast: The Worlds Of DC 2020
January 10, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBCoarse Language: Listener Discretion is Advised Meanwhile… Mr. Fixit & Diabolu Frank talk “Worlds Of DC,” meaning the DCEU and DCTV and DC Universe app and a little bit of actual comic books, hence the rare use of the term “Worlds Of DC” because nobody actual calls DC media by that name. Included are Harley Quinn, Birds of Prey, the Berlanti/CW/Arrowverse’s Crisis On Infinite Earths (especially Black Lightning,) Wonder Woman 1984, Batman/Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League Unlimit...
Comic Reader Résumé #7: Auditing (June 1983)
January 09, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes - 6.92 MBré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic boo...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Richard Dragon’s Fists
April 06, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes - 11.8 MBAfter nearly a year since the last episode… we’re still doing random one-off spotlights rather than actually talking about the Bloodlines event. Richard Drakunovski was a bullied white boy who trained to become a world class martial artist under the Asian O-Sensei and/or an African-American man named Benjamin Stanley and/or Ben Turner, depending on what continuity we’re talking about. This is all before we try to address Lady Shiva and her damsel-in-distress sister you probably never heard o...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Eclipso-- Hero and Villain in One Man!
June 24, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBThe show returns as part of a multi-blog/podcast crossover covering the 1992 DC Annual event Eclipso: The Darkness Within by offering a detailed account of the first three decades of the villain's career derived from numerous print and online sources. Created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias in 1963, Eclipso appeared in House of Secrets for 19 issues before moving on to guest roles in Justice League of America, Metal Men, Green Lantern, Adventure Comics, Outsiders, The Phantom Stranger and more! S...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Ballistic Sword of Azrael
March 13, 2017 05:00 - 36 minutes - 12.8 MBBloodlines: Outbreak is nearly over! Before the first quarter of the event closes, we meet ex-S.W.A.T. officer Kelvin Mao in his insectoid exoskeleton, and a new blond Batman who is never positively identified throughout the story (with the reasons for his replacement only alluded to.) Guess that means we should also look at the Batman: Sword of Azrael mini-series and do an overview of Knightfall/Knightquest/KnightsEnd to better understand what Jean-Paul Valley is doing here. I once did a wi...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: You May Call Me Doctor Mist!
February 13, 2017 06:00 - 30 minutes - 10.6 MBThe ancient immortal African mystic Doctor Mist was introduced in a cameo on the last page of 1978's The Super Friends #12 before continuing into appearances in The Super Friends #13 & 45-46 before officially forming the Global Guardians in DC Comics Presents #46. We cover these comics to varying degrees, but our primary focus is the supposed true story of "Nommo," appended to tales starring Zatara and Zatanna. Is Dr. Mist one of the most powerful and important figures in the history of the ...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: The Green Fury meets The Super Friends
February 02, 2017 06:00 - 36 minutes - 12.7 MBAfter slipping to an unintentional monthly schedule with some uncomfortable elements and unfortunate timing, the DC Bloodlines Podcast returns for a thirteenth episode set on breaking its unlucky streak (and nearly broke Diabolu Frank with all the editing it required.) In this novel edition, special guest Pekita Trotamundos helps produce a two-person radio drama in the style of ABC-TV's 1979 Saturday morning favorite, The World's Greatest Super Friends. This is meant to reflect the early app...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Nightblade
January 09, 2017 06:00 - 29 minutes - 10.2 MBThis episode looks at Nik Mayak, a New Blood with extraordinary body regeneration powers, supplemented by great agility and uncanny accuracy with blowing blades. Debuting in 1993’s Green Lantern Annual #2, we give an overview of the rest of his career in Eclipso Annual #1 & Bloodbath #1-2, the Blood Pack mini-series, Guy Gardner: Warrior #29 & 39, Deathstroke the Terminator #49, Infinite Crisis #7, Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D #1-2, and finally 2010’s Adventure Comics #4-5. You can follo...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Green Lantern
December 16, 2016 06:00 - 45 minutes - 16 MBThe Guardians of the Universe chose Hal Jordan to be their Emerald Gladiator for Space Sector 2814, wielder of a Power Ring that could create jade energy constructs limited only by the bearer’s willpower and a necessary impurity that rendered it ineffective against anything colored yellow. However, the day would come when Hal Jordan would falter, and on that day his successor would rise to command the energies derived from the Master Power Battery on Oa, and that man’s name was John Stewart…...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: The Origin of Captain Comet!
November 30, 2016 06:00 - 30 minutes - 10.8 MB"He was a mystery to himself! Why-- young Adam Blake wanted to know-- was he so different from other people? How did it happen that there was no one else like him in the whole wide world? Where did he really come from? Who was he? All these questions which might have unsettled an ordinary mind-- only served to whet the brain and steel the mettle of the extraordinary youth who, without knowing it, was fated to fulfill a grand and awe-inspiring destiny on Earth-- as Captain Comet-- First Man o...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Myriad!
November 16, 2016 06:00 - 28 minutes - 9.94 MBhis episode looks at the New Blood Myriad and the Cyborg Superman, neither of whom debuted in 1993's Superman Annual #5 (the only instance of that occurring in the Bloodlines annual event that was specifically created to introduce new characters.) Getting to know Hank Henshaw means going back to 1990 to cover Superman #42, Adventures of Superman #465 and especially Adventures of Superman #466, followed by Sasha Green's first (and technically last) appearance in Superman #77. Next we get to t...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: The Vixen is a Lady Fox
November 02, 2016 05:00 - 39 minutes - 13.8 MBFinally, the DC Bloodlines Podcast reveals its greater scope than just one 1993 event, but rather a mandate to cover the under-served DCU by looking at the earliest published (and especially the unpublished) comics of what was intended to be the first super-heroine series for a character of African decent, Mari McCabe: The Vixen! We start with the aborted 1978 first issue created by Gerry Conway & Bob Oksner from the second Xeroxed collection of "Cancelled Comic Cavalcade" and the rejected e...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Anima Attacks New Titans
October 17, 2016 05:00 - 37 minutes - 13 MBSigh. It’s time to deal with Courtney Mason, the heroine of The New Titans Annual #9 and her own sixteen issue series, Anima (we cover the first two issues.) Created by novelists Elizabeth Hand & Paul Witcover, Anima was one of the highest profile and powerful New Bloods, but also one of the most painful to actually read. Hope the riot grrrl soundtrack helps us get through this one. You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily. This episode’s non-paying advertisers: M...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Argus and Flash
October 03, 2016 05:00 - 40 minutes - 14.3 MBThe (finally bi-weekly as originally intended) podcast (not really) dedicated to DC’s New Bloods returns (for a second “season” of indefinite length after a one-off in Spring 2015 & four episodes in April)! We’re (actually only one person involved) back with a show that was 100% completed on May ?15th but left on the shelf for nearly five months because Frank got distracted by the next shiny object (specifically, four Martian Manhunter podcasts for a JLA: Year One crossover rather belatedly ...
DC Special Podcast: The Joke That Keeps On Killing
August 24, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 21 MBCoarse Language: Listener Discretion is Advised Meanwhile… Mr. Fixit, Illegal Machine, & Diabolu Frank look at the controversial 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke prestige format one-shot that has gone from one of the most revered works of a new wave of mature readers books to a (mostly) direct-to-video animated film and an albatross around the neck of DC’s attempts at outreach to modern women not in refrigerators. While the comic and flick are a touchstone, this is less an individual critiq...
DC Special Podcast: Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad (2016)
August 10, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 34 MBCoarse Language: Listener Discretion is Advised Meanwhile… Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine & Mr. Fixit are indentured through explosives implanted in their spines to endure a Suicide Squad mission, and the word cloud is swollen with “gross.” We Think You’re Special! *across social media only. Friend us on Facebook Email us at [email protected] Tweet us as a group @rolledspine, or individually as Diabolu Frank & Illegal Machine. Fixit don’t tweet. If the main DC Bloodlines bl...
DC Special: Dawn Of Justice Ultimate Edition
July 17, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBCoarse Language: Listener Discretion is Advised Meanwhile... Illegal Machine & Mr. Fixit revisit Batman v Superman, this time in the extended length edition favored by the director and joined by Diabolu Frank. Come join us in jeering the DC Extended Universe debuts of Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Flash and Aquaman while we try to find any peanuts left to pick out of this thoroughly canvassed turd! We Think You're Special! *across social media only. Friend us on Facebook Email us at rolle...
DC Special: Rebirth Pain
July 08, 2016 05:00 - 23 minutes - 8.13 MBMeanwhile… Mr. Fixit & Diabolu Frank talk briefly about DC’s latest not-a-reboot, Reberf, its shallow talent pool due to past brush-ups, as well as the shift at Vertigo from a creative doorway to a mail slot. If you’re super-duper excited and positive about the direction of DC Comics, you’re listening to the wrong podcast. There’s nothing but bellyaching and backbiting here.
Comic Reader Résumé #1: Entry Level Position (1982)
July 01, 2016 05:00 - 20 minutes - 7.23 MBré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic boo...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Pagan and Joe Public
April 28, 2016 05:00 - 41 minutes - 14.4 MBTwo flavors of vigilante are covered on this episode: the brutal anti-heroine Pagan (Marian Mercer, of Batman #479) and the incompetent New Blood civic pridester Joe Pubic Public (Nobody Cares, Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #1,) neither of whom had much of a career to speak of. Also, this is the only Bloodlines story featuring Bruce Wayne before he had to file a lawsuit against an unlicensed chiropractor from Santa Prisca.
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Edge Of Steel
April 14, 2016 05:00 - 34 minutes - 12.1 MBSTEEL YOURSELF! Here is the first in what will become a recurring instance of bifurcated broadcasting, as we not only look at the prickly New Blood known as Edge, but also the rookie super-hero who hosted Tom O'Brien's debut in Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #2, Iron John! Well, you might not remember that short lived moniker, but surely you know Dr. John Henry Irons, the armored engineer who stood as part of the titular quartet from the epic storyline "Reign of the Supermen" who briefly ...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Layla
April 07, 2016 05:00 - 17 minutes - 6.3 MBStill not guaranteeing this show as a weekly, but since I have a bunch of Bloodlines already about wrapped and no time to work on any other Rolled Spine Podcasts, you get this episode less than a week after the last (a huge improvement on the previous "annual" schedule.) The coverage of the 1993 event begins in earnest with Lobo Annual #1, featuring the debut of Layla, the tougher than nails L.E.G.I.O.N. agent with 'tude to spare! Not only can you follow along with most of her origin story v...
The DC Bloodlines Podcast: Outbreak
April 01, 2016 05:00 - 36 minutes - 12.7 MBAlmost a year after our secret trial episode during Super Blog Team-Up #6, The DC Bloodlines Podcast begins in earnest during another blog/podcast crossover, #BestEventEver, devoted to the 1993 DC Comics annuals. In that vein, Diabolu Frank spends this episode discussing the history of comic book annuals and the direct sales market leading to The Chromium Age, including "Doomsday" "Knightfall" & "The Clone Saga," before circling in on the 1993 character generating spectacles at DC and Marvel...
DC Special: Berlanti Television (2016)
March 08, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBMeanwhile… Mr. Fixit & Diabolu Frank welcome back the uncensored cuss words favored by Rolled Spine Podcast listeners as they discuss the “Berlantiverse” of DC television adaptations The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. It’s an ADHD ramble though, so the conversation jumps around to the announcement of #Rebirth, Alan Moore’s legacy at the company, Jack Cole’s Plastic Man, Snyder & Capullo Batman, the Dark Knight Returns sequels, Roy Harper Lee, Forever Evil, the DTV anim...
DC Special: Dawn of the Justice League (2016)
January 26, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - 21.6 MBMeanwhile… Mr. Fixit, Diabolu Frank & Illegal Machine cross over to DC-Earth for their irregular looks at how the other super-hero universe lives. First, we talk a bit about Gotham and the side projects of Batman scribe Scott Snyder, then we dive into the TV special DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League to discuss Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and more!
Power of the Atom Podcast #5 - "The 2nd Man in Space"
October 05, 2015 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.22 MBThe second ever adventure of Captain Atom by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko. From Charlton Comics’ June 1960 cover-dated Space Adventures #34! Text version here. Email. Tweet. Comment on Power of the Atom blog. Comment on Rolled Spine Podcasts blog.
Power of the Atom Podcast #4 - "The Dooms From Beyond!"
July 21, 2015 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.78 MBThe fourth episode of the Tiny Titan’s mini-podcast looks at November-December 1961’s Showcase #35 featuring a Mighty Mite Mystery requiring The Atom, courtesy of Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson.
Power of the Atom Podcast #3 - "Introducing Captain Atom"
June 23, 2015 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.61 MBThe third episode of POTAcast takes its cues from the blog and turns over its space/numbering to co-star Captain Atom! We cover the debut of Charlton’s Atomic Age Action Hero in March 1960’s Space Adventures #33, near-identically paralleling the anthology bow of the Tiny Titan (off by one issue and predating it by more than a year!) courtesy of Joe Gill and Steve Ditko. Text version here.
Power of the Atom Podcast #2 - "Battle of the Tiny Titans!"
June 16, 2015 05:00 - 7 minutes - 2.79 MBThe second episode of the Mighty Mite's mini-podcast looks at the second story from October 1961's Showcase #34 featuring the debut of Ray Palmer in his costumed identity as The Atom! "Battle of the Tiny Titans!" comes courtesy of Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson. Text version here.
Power of the Atom Podcast #1 - "Birth of the Atom!"
May 30, 2015 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.13 MBThe debut episode of a sporadic podcast covering The Tiny Titan... The Mighty Mite... the Silver Age shrinking super-hero Ray Palmer in his original story by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson from Showcase #34 (October 1961). Text version here.
DC Bloodlines Podcast #1-- The Top 10 Bloodlines Characters
May 02, 2015 05:00 - 18 minutes - 6.57 MBThe introductory episode to our podcast, embracing the dozens of obscure and poorly regarded New Bloods superhumans created by spinal fluid sucking alien parasites as part of DC Comics' 1993 Annuals event Bloodlines/Bloodbath. DC Bloodlines will continue to explore the shadier corners of the DC Universe, proving it's bigger than just the circles of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the name brand Justice Leaguers.