Episode 79 – Dark Archer
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In a crossover event worthy of the CW itself, the Bellwether Friends, Anna & Alene, joined us to discuss the Arrow tie-in graphic novel The Dark Archer, written by Kait’s nemesis John Barrowman (and Carole Barrowman) with art by Daniel Sampere & Juan Albarran. Are you fan of the CW’s Arrow? Well, too bad, because this comic contains none of the characters you love from that show, only John Barrowman. Alternately, have you never seen Arrow? Don’t worry, neither has Kait, and she understood this comic just as well as everyone else did. (None of us understood this comic at all because it’s extremely convoluted.)
Spoiler warning: This episode contains some spoilers for previous seasons of Arrow, except not really because Renata cannot reliably remember anything that actually ever happened on that show.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Arrow Wiki page for Malcolm Merlyn
Arrow Wiki page for Nanda Parbat
Podcast-strology: WBS’s Compatibility with Bellwether Friends
Dramatic Reading Panels: (click to embiggen)
That Sideboob Tho
Renata’s Future Tattoo
Candy pairing: Alene says bulk chocolate fake M&Ms, Anna says a Choco Taco, Kait says Cool Ranch Doritos, Renata says a jawbreaker with a gummy dino.
Coming up next: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read Kate's Nemesis's fan fiction so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Renata. And I Kate and for this episode we read |
| 0:23.4 | Dark Archer by John and Carol Barrowman for this very special worst best friends |
| 0:29.3 | crossover event joining us to discuss this official arrow tie-in graphic novel are |
| 0:35.4 | Anna and Aline better known as the Bellwether Friends. |
| 0:39.5 | Hi. |
| 0:42.0 | So except in speaking, unison. |
| 0:47.3 | If you're not familiar, which you should be, because we mention it all the time, |
| 0:51.3 | Bellwether Friends is our friend podcast. We were born under us |
| 0:56.2 | the same star. Yes. Yes. We're both, I don't know, Scorpio podcasts. I don't know. Sure. |
| 1:06.2 | Probably. September. It was September, right? Yeah. I don't know. |
| 1:11.2 | I don't know. It's been a long time. |
| 1:12.7 | We'll do a star chart and we'll get back to you. |
| 1:15.4 | Right. But for now, we can definitively say that we're friends and we are having a special |
| 1:20.9 | crossover event, which is very fitting because we are going to be discussing the CW show Arrow. |
| 1:29.1 | And right off the bat, before we get any further, |
| 1:31.8 | I just want to say that there's going to be a lot of spoilers |
| 1:34.2 | for earlier seasons of the show Arrow. |
| 1:37.2 | If you haven't seen them and think maybe one day you're going to watch it |
| 1:41.7 | and you don't want spoilers, I guess stop listening. |
| 1:45.5 | But also it doesn't really matter. |
| 1:47.1 | Totally doesn't matter. |
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