After a couple of weeks of really insightful comic talk from John and special guest host (and Fun Time Go EiC), Chase Marotz, David returns just in time to dumb things back down and go “All In” on DC’s K.O. brackets! The guys predict the winning brackets, make a shocking discovery about Batman(?!), announce (again) the return of Vertigo, contemplate Marvel’s ventures into other genres, and speculate about the future of the Ultimate and Absolute Lines. 

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Timestamp Segments

• [00:30] David sees all!
• [01:50] DC K.O.
• [04:33] John goes off on a weird tangent.
• [05:29] The old man reactions.
• [12:04] The fate of the Absolute Line.
• [13:12] The brackets.
• [20:22] A Batman shocker!
• [28:07] DC making all the right moves.
• [29:34] The return of Vertigo (again!)
• [34:44] Marvel announces the end of the Ultimate Line.
• [38:32] Marvel’s other comics.

Notable Quotes

• “You want to see a bunch of superheroes fighting each other? That is what this is.”
• “We’re the Woodward and Bernstein of modern-day comic book reporting.”
• “DC can keep letting me vote if Jason Todd dies, and I’ll keep voting he dies.”

Books Mentioned

• 100 Bullets, by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, & Dave Johnson.
• Alien (2021-2022), by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Salvador Larroca, & Marc Aspinall.
• Aliens vs Avengers (2024- ), by Jonathan Hickman & Esad Ribic.
• Aliens vs Predator, by Randy Stradley, Phil Norwood, Chris Warner, & Wes Dzioba.
• Civil War.
• DCeased, by Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, & Stefano Gaudiano.
• DC K.O. #1, by Scott Snyder, Javi Fernández, & Alejandro Sánchez.
• The Death & Return of Superman.
• Dragon Ball, by Akira Toriyama.
• Fear Itself, by Matt Fraction & Stuart Immonen.
• JLA, by Grant Morrison, Howard Porter, & John Dell.
• Justice League Unlimited, by Mark Waid & Dan Mora.
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.
• Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto.
• The New History of the DC Universe.
• Pokémon.