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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Comics Corner #14 | Legends

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Connor and Harry discuss John Ostrander’s sequel to Wolfman & Pérez’s Crisis on Infinite Earths: Legends (1986), its Christian, anti-Liberal politics, and the new anti-communist Justice League during the final years of the Cold War.

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0:00.0

Hello and we are continuing from our

0:02.0

I am your host Connor. Yes, I found my glasses I lost on the train so it's by new ones

0:06.2

My co-host Harry. Hello and we are continuing from our prior discussion of crisis on infinite

0:10.6

Earths because we ran so long talking about that 12-issue

0:13.8

Maxi series to discuss its sequel, I think probably superior in storytelling and

0:18.3

it's maybe odd. I preferred it a lot. If you've watched the other episode by now, you'll understand that while I recognize and respect its significance within the DC universe, I think as a self-contained story,

0:31.0

crisis on infinite Earth's is really sluggish and difficult.

0:34.4

And legends is very coherent and sometimes a bit hamfisted but has a great pro-Christian

0:41.6

anti-communist, pro-American revolution ethic.

0:46.7

And I think the setting at odds of the sort of French,

0:51.0

proto-communist and post-communist revolutions and the American Revolution

0:54.3

which for all its thoughtful faults at its inception with slavery and since taking the foundational

1:01.3

these nominal Christianity out as a building block and now they're just

1:04.0

squabbling over equality. I do admire some nominally Christian Englishman going up and setting

1:10.2

out a colony where they self-govern. So I've got a lot of sympathies for the American Revolution,

1:14.4

and as does legends.

1:15.4

And it's very interesting that this was in 1986

1:17.9

at the peak of Reagan's popularity,

1:19.8

and you have a lot of...

1:20.3

Reagan features as a character,

1:21.6

and unlike what you would expect these days again I don't really read

1:25.2

modern comics so I'm sure that there have been plenty of depictions of Trump or

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