The Incomparable, number 24, April 2015.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I am your host, Jason Snell.

We're here for another edition of our comic book club.

We're talking about two limited series, one from Marvel, one from D.C.

They're both from the mid-90s-ish.

Both feature art by Alex Ross.

I stopped reading comics after Watchmen came out

because I thought, like like suddenly all other comics were

just a but a pale imitation of the greatness that was Watchmen and I also was going to college

and wanted to pretend that I wasn't act like I wasn't a comic book reader and I didn't know

the detailed history of everybody who was in the X-Men. So in the mid-90s, I discovered marvels on a bookshelf at a bookstore on the shelf. And I saw it and I thought,

oh, wow, that looks really cool. And I bought it. And that was essentially my re-entry in very slowly,

but that was my re-entry into the comics world. And a year or two later, I saw Kingdom

come on the stand at a bookstore. We had bookstores. They were still in business back in the

20th century. And I bought it too. And it's a very different kind of story from Marvels, but also

really interesting. Same art, obviously, in that this is Alex Ross or at least the same

artist and a story the likes of which I did not expect from DC Comics. So I think these are really

interesting books that are from they're of a time and they're of an artist and I think they're

worth talking about and you can pick them up and read them because they're self-contained,

which is also really nice.

Let me introduce the people who are going to talk about this stuff with me tonight.

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