Episode 50 - Two's A Crowd (Superman: The Animated Series S01E13)

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We're back! Most of us! Well, half of us. Look, the important part is that we are back on your favorite podcast feed and have the Season Finale of Superman: The Animated Series' first season for your ear holes!

With Cameron and Mitch otherwise occupied, Graham and Zack are forced to maintain a conversation for over an hour and a half, covering this episode of Superman where Parasite finds himself having his own extended conversations with his new body-buddy.

While spending a record amount of time being on-topic, Zack and Graham give you their month-old Last Jedi takes, talk about wrestling a bunch and discuss their preferred deli meats.

Your Komix Korner recommendation this week is The Flintstones by Mark Russell and Steve Pugh.

As always, feel free to shoot us an email at allalongthewatchtowerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @watchtowerdcau.

Komic Korner music, "Paris Ballad", provided by Dana Boulé via the Creative Commons License. Check out her work here: 

Our Technical Difficulties Music, "Organ Grinder Swing" by chēēZ π via the Creative Commons License. Check out their work here: freemusicarchive.org/music/chZ_/

Our gorgeous album art was graciously made by Gustav Carlson, check out Gus' fantastic webcomic Tourist Unknown at touristunknown.com

 

Episode 45 - The Savage Time (Justice League S01E24-26)

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It's time! For! The season one finale! Of! Justice League! That's right folks, today's episode means there's only... like, 300-some-odd episodes of the DCAU to go. Buckle your butts in for temporal shenanigans, as Kobik rewrites reality so that Nick Spencer never penned Secret Empire. As a result of this chrono-meddling, however, the earth's Nazi quotient actually somehow increases, and it's up to the time-and-reality-displaced leaguers to punch each and every one of them.

The boys on the watchtower try to maintain their sanity through the three-parter in order to indicate cogent thoughts through sensibly constructed sentences; they sort of succeed. Astute listeners may note that Cameron's audio is in fact an unabridged audiobook of a military encyclopedia. Rest assured, I did not put the wrong audio track in. This was all he talked about. Also, at one point everyone is really mean to Mitchell for no reason! What the heck, guys.

Your Komix Korner recommendation this week is Darkseid Special #1 (of the Jack Kirby 100 commemorative series) by Mark Evanier and Scott Kolins (among other contributing authors and artists).

As always, feel free to shoot us an email at allalongthewatchtowerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @watchtowerdcau.

Our gorgeous album art was graciously made by Gustav Carlson, check out Gus' fantastic webcomic Tourist Unknown at touristunknown.com.

Episode 22 - War World (Justice League S01E10-11)

Mitch is out this week, so we-wait hold on, where are you going? C'mon! We still have jokes! Mostly! Join the remaining crew as we visit beautiful War World, perfect for all your violence based tourism needs. In addition to watching Superman make inspiring a societal revolution look easy, we find some distressing similarities between Mongul and the 45th President of the United States, extol the virtues of John Wick and Graham and Zack fly too close to the wrestling sun while Cameron makes them pay for it.

Your Komix Korner/The Fuck You Read?'s recommendations for this week are Super Sons by Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason and The Wild Storm by Warren Ellis and Jon-Davis Hunt.

As always, feel free to shoot us an email at allalongthewatchtowerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @watchtowerdcau.

Komic Korner music, "Paris Ballad", provided by Dana Boulé via the Creative Commons License. Check out her work here: freemusicarchive.org/music/Dana_Boule/

Our Technical Difficulties Music, "Organ Grinder Swing" by chēēZ π via the Creative Commons License. Check out their work here: freemusicarchive.org/music/chZ_/

Our gorgeous album art was graciously made by Gustav Carlson, check out Gus' fantastic webcomic Tourist Unknown at touristunknown.com

Episode 17 - Paradise Lost (Justice League S01E08-09)

Hail and well met, adventurers! Due to budgetary concerns, the league find themselves scraping together all the loose animation frames they can find as they're sucked into episode writer Joseph Kuhr's D&D campaign. And I mean why not? It's got a giant snake in it!

During today's Wonder Woman-centric episode, Mitchell shares a story of snow day heroics, Cameron dons his dungeon master hat to critique Felix Faust's wizarding tactics (but praise Hades' villainous rhetoric), and Graham becomes indignant that baka gaijin continue to interpret Hades' as villainous at all. [music continues]

Your Komix Korner/The Fuck You Read?'s recommendation for this week is Kingdom Come, by "Wet" Mark Waid and Alex Ross.

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Episode 14 - Feeding Time (Superman: The Animated Series S01E06)

Recurring super-foe Rudy Jones AKA Parasite is introduced to the DCAU canon this week, in another shining example of Superman: The Animated Series' commitment to Good Cartooning.  Did you know that Parasite has a lot of Deviantart porn? Of course you did. Everything has a lot of Deviantart porn. Beyond Cameron's efforts to trick us into learning more about Parasite's aforementioned Deviantart porn, we adjudicate whether any non-McElroys are legally allowed to make the "breaking news" noise in this post-Haunted Doll Watch world, recap Zack's TLC experience (whatever that stands for), and test Cameron's knowledge on our beloved stars of stage and screen.

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Episode 11 - A Little Piece of Home (Superman: The Animated Series S01E05)

Towerheads, prepare yourself for your first proper taste of true Luthor villainy and an introduction to all-state DCAU henchwoman Mercy Graves in episode 5 of Superman: The Animated Series, "A Little Taste of Home." Spoiler alert: it is very good. Along the way, we phone a friend about the proper pronunciation of train-based sentai series ToQger, commend the series' period-appropriate radiation safety protocols, and discuss ancient Babylonian Crockery at length because it annoys Zack.

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Episode 8 - Fun and Games (Superman: The Animated Series S01E04)

And lo, as Dr. Fate did predict, we have returned to cover the second/fourth episode of Superman: The Animated Series, in which our titular hero squares off against a man who is a doll. We're down a co-host for this week's harrowing sprint through Bruce Timm's psyche, but we more than make up for it with a rousing roundtable on Batman's Pokémon type coverage and surefire strategies for all the aspiring toymen out there.

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Episode 6 - Secret Origins (Justice League S01E01-E03)

After dredging through the wasteland, we have found civilization. The Justice League is here. And alongside the World's Greatest Superheroes is a bunch of comics talk, terrifying body horror and  guest appearances from friend of the show Michael Caine, Geoff and Johns, and two different versions of President John F. Kennedy!

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Episode 2 - Last Son of Krypton (Superman: The Animated Series, S01E01-E03)

Our second episode tackles the 3-part premiere of Superman: The Animated Series, "Last Son of Krypton". It's very good! Along the way, we discuss Graham's methods for dealing with difficult fans, Pa Kent's secret Kevin Costner Closet, unveil the Komic Korner and discover the twin joys of BIBBO BIBOWSKI and Soder Cola. We had a few mic issues this week, so please bear with us!

As always, feel free to shoot as an email atallalongthewatchtowerpodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter at @watchtowerdcau.

Komic Korner music, "Paris Ballad", provided by Dana Boulé via the Creative Commons License. Check out her work here:freemusicarchive.org/music/Dana_Boule/

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