Ep 097 - Batman: The Long Halloween, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Set in the early years of Bruce Wayne's Batmanhood, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Batman: The Long Halloween chronicles a murderous year in Gotham City. The mysterious Holiday killer is instigating and exacerbating an all-out mob war, and the criminals controlling Batman's town unleash a rogue's gallery of costumed "freaks" in response.

This week we talk about the best ways to dive into a superhero's back catalog, the relationship between Greek myths and comic books, failed elevator pitches with Mr. Bob Podcast, and Daddy's dictaphone.

Caveat lictor: The Long Halloween's legacy includes a major reveal of the Holiday killer's identity, which factors heavily into the latter part of our discussion.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Here's something. Yeah, it's the thing. So I'm 29. Right? Right? You're like 27. That's not true.
0:47.7	You're like 23 years old. I'm not seeing your cell. You're having a frame of reference.
0:54.7	I'm seven years old. But some people, I guess, do a list when they turn 29 where they're like,
1:04.4	you're 30 things that I'm going to do before I turn 30. And I don't really feel bad at all
1:11.0	about not having a New Year's resolution. But I do feel like I should do something.
1:17.5	Uh-huh. I don't know. Maybe I should just make it a big list of goals that I've already accomplished.
1:25.2	Like get married. There's a check.
1:29.7	Sorry, I was drinking something while you said that I would have laughed way harder.
1:34.3	I like the idea of turning 30 and just making sure you have a list of 30 things you did.
1:41.2	Yeah, just like taking stock. Not necessarily making any goals for myself, but just making sure that
1:47.4	I've achieved the goals that I set out to achieve so far.
1:51.0	Welcome to Overdo. It's a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.
1:55.9	My name is Andrew. And we are making lists and checking them 30 times.
2:00.4	What else would you put on your list, Andrew? You've gotten married.
2:05.2	Um, it would have to be so like, I don't know. Like the cat continues to be alive. Like, I have a
2:11.8	life that I've, that I've kept going. Okay, you have. So that's good.
2:17.1	Yeah, you have not created life, but you have actively assisted life.
2:22.2	I did buy life for $35 from a shelter.
2:27.2	Not okay. I had to. I got. For some reason, my brain was like, did that, did he buy a real
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