233: Selective Amnesia

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2015

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We convene our Comic Book Club not to talk about a specific comic, but more generally the plight of the comic-book reader when it comes to events and continuity. Marvel and DC are both in the process of revisiting and changing their continuity via dramatic in-universe events. Is continuity worth the trouble? Are events fun, or soul-crushing? How do we feel about the old and new Marvel Secret Wars? Does the new all-woman Avengers team fill us with excitement or trepidation or both? And stick around after the show as we discuss Superman’s new power, the appeal of Harley Quinn, and even more comic nerdery!

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0:28.0	The incomparable number 233, February 2015.
0:36.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable podcast. I'm your host, Jason Snell. And I'm convening a
0:41.2	special edition of our comic book club, I guess. I'm joined by Comic Book Club stalwarts, Lisa Schmeiser,
0:49.1	Monty Ashley, and Andy Anadco. We're not actually talking about a particular work in this episode. We're going to be
0:56.0	talking about comic book continuity and storytelling and business decisions made by large publishing
1:02.6	conglomerates regarding their intellectual property, which actually I think is a really interesting
1:07.4	topic. You know, a few weeks ago, Marvel Comics announced that they were going to be doing a kind of
1:14.1	capping off a story arc from their Avengers comics and doing something new that was going to
1:20.5	lead to a new status quo and they were going to do another Secret Wars miniseries and, you know,
1:27.0	and seems like shut down the ultimate universe and
1:29.6	maybe do a soft reboot of the existing Marvel universe. And of course, a couple years ago,
1:35.6	DC Comics did the same thing with something called the New 52 after their Flashpoint miniseries.
1:41.1	And actually, as we record this, today, DC Comics announced that they're doing
1:46.3	another kind of thing that is not the new 52, but it's like the old 25 and the new 22 or
1:53.8	something like that. These are big companies, obviously Marvel's owned by Disney and DC Comics
1:58.3	is owned by Warner. But I just, I think it's interesting because we've got comic storytelling and then we've got
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