392: Quantum Computer for Violence

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Step through a teleportation door and boot up your brain’s fight computer, because our Comic Book Club has returned to discuss DC’s “Midnighter.” He’s was once a Batman analogue but now he’s his own man, with no secret identity, a penchant for strategic violence, and an amazing dating profile. And thanks to three recent trade-paperback collections written by Steve Orlando, you can get to know this singular superhero as he journeys from Oakland to Boston to various made-up DC Comics cities.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 392, February 2018.
0:11.2	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host Jason Snell, and I am reconvening our comic book club to talk about a DC comic
0:19.3	D.C. Comics character and series, I don't know the DC Comics that well.
0:24.0	We'll get into it. But I, I enjoy reading Steve Orlando's Midnighter from 2015 and the follow-up,
0:32.2	Midnighter and Apollo. So sort of a couple of trades followed by a third trade. And you don't need to know the background, although we may get into it about who Midnighter is and what's going on there.
0:43.0	Joining me are two people, one of whom I know has better DC Comics knowledge than me, and that's Lisa Schmeiser, who is usually here when we talk about comic books.
0:52.2	Hello, Lisa.
0:52.9	Welcome back.
0:53.3	I've missed the comic book club.
0:54.6	I'm so glad we're doing this.
0:55.8	Well, we are back and joining us a first-time comic book club member, but he liked this comic
1:02.2	and he's one of the reasons why we're talking about it.
1:04.1	It's Joe Rosensteel.
1:05.7	Hi, Joe.
1:06.3	I've maimed a goat from space.
1:07.7	It had power jewelry.
1:08.5	I've seen some things. Yeah. I maimed a goat from space.
1:12.1	You know, there was a point reading Midnighter where I was like, wow, this is so bleak and dark and grim.
1:16.4	I don't know if I can go on. And then there was maimed a goat from space is a pretty great, a pretty great little moment.
1:30.7	Is it fair? I mean, Lisa, you, you probably know more about the origins of Midnighter than either me or Joe.
1:39.3	This, it was Stormwatch, which is then followed by the authority. I have read those, but it was so long ago, because I think that was like back in 2010 or 2011
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