Episode 180 – The Dark Knight Returns
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
We’ve read a lot of popular books over the years, but this episode might be the one most likely to make men on the internet yell at us. Oh well! We’ve already read The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley and there’s no turning back now. Phillip Mottaz, author of The Murderous Haircut of the Mayor of Bel Air, joined us at the local dump to discuss this extremely influential–perhaps too influential–Batman graphic novel.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Squirrel Girl on Dump Teens
“What was the conflict between Green Arrow and Superman that lead him to lose his hand?” on Quora
“Frank Miller: ‘I wasn’t thinking clearly when I said those things'” by Sam Thielman
Coming up next: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Old Man Batman so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.4 | And for this episode, we read The Dark Night Returns by Frank Miller, |
| 0:24.1 | Klaus Jansen, and Lynn Varley. |
| 0:26.6 | Joining us to discuss this super influential superhero comic is mystery author |
| 0:31.6 | and a man who magically lost his mustache, Philip Madas. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi. |
| 0:38.1 | Hi, Philip. |
| 0:39.8 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:41.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm very excited because I know this book so lines up and is it so important to your lives. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm here for it. |
| 0:54.8 | You know. |
| 0:56.7 | I don't know if every, |
| 0:58.6 | I don't know if every recording of this podcast starts this way, |
| 1:00.9 | but I feel like I have maybe casually counted some like three or four sighs now, |
| 1:08.2 | as we've mentioned, |
| 1:09.1 | either Frank Miller or the Dark Night Returns. |
| 1:12.3 | So just keep it up. |
| 1:14.9 | It's all your, these opinions are very valid. |
| 1:18.1 | I'm genuinely a little nervous recording this because, I mean, we have done like Dianetics and we've |
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