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Mike and Eric are back from a short break with our actual 50th episode. But we don’t really make a big deal out of it. It’s business as usual as we start the show with some back issue discussion of Action Comics #428 and The Question #8. We then go over the DC items in the September Previews catalog for items shipping in November 2009. We have a lot of comics to discuss this week and next week since we’ve been away for a bit, so sit back as we delve into quicker than usual discussion of…

Doom Patrol #1 (00:37:10 to 00:49:12)
Flash Rebirth #4 (00:49:12 to 00:55:55)
Secret Six #12 (00:55:55 to 01:02:17)
Last Days of Animal Man #4 (01:02:17 to 01:05:41)
Justice League: Cry For Justice #2 (01:05:41 to 01:12:41)
Booster Gold #23 (01:12:41 to 01:18:32)
Strange Adventures #6 (01:18:32 to 01:21:30)
JSA vs Kobra #3 (01:21:30 to 01:24:13)
Power Girl #4 (01:24:13 to 01:25:28)
Solomon Grundy #6 (01:25:28 to 01:26:46)
and a quick round up of the #4 issues of Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape, Run, Ink and Dance (01:26:46 to 01:33:50)

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Mike and Eric begin episode 52 with some quick discussion of Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink #3 and Dance #3, Gotham City Sirens #3 and some quick discussion of the JLA Deluxe Hardcover volume 2 and specifically the character design of the villain Dr. Light within. Then we have a Top 5 list of our favorite current DC writers. Our spoiler filled comics discussion begins with –

Power Girl #3 (00:21:35 to 00:27:51)
Booster Gold #22 (00:27:51 to 00:36:30)
Adventure Comics #1 (00:36:30 to 00:47:48)
Last Days of Animal Man #3 (00:47:48 to 00:56:55)
Justice Society of America #29 (00:56:55 to 01:04:29)
Batman #689 (01:04:29 to 01:11:27)

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Hosts Mike Myers and Eric Martin open the show with some back issue discussion of Adventure Comics #435 (1974) and Jack Kirby’s O.M.A.C. issues 1 and 2. we then move in to some non spoiler discussion of Wednesday Comics 1 and 2. We also have an impromptu Top 5 list of our 5 favorite strips from Wednesday Comics.

The full spoiler reviews/annotations this time are for
Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #2 (00:19:49 to 00:23:19)
Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #2 and Ink #2 are quickly discussed (00:23:19 to 00:26:07)
Final Crisis Aftermath: Run #2 (00:26:07 to 00:34:59)
Last Days of Animal Man #2 (00:34:59 to 00:40:39)
JSA vs Kobra #1 (00:40:39 to 00:47:12).