What is the aftermath of two of the biggest of Big Two Mega-Event Crossovers in comics history? Are our buying habits…FOREVER CHANGED??? (Yes.) How or can we justify $5 cover prices? Find out in a truly 80-ish-“page” (minute) Giant episode of the show!
- Crossovers Epic Event: Second Epilogue (No, For Real This Time)
Special Guest
- Jim Shooter, former Marvel EIC and writer of Secret Wars (1984) and Secret Wars II
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Crossover Crisis Infinity Canonical Series Episode Checklist
Now that Convergence and Secret Wars (2015+2016) are over, this episode serves as the true finale to Crossover Crisis Infinity, our 2015 multi-part series on All Big Two Crossovers Ever…which, like Secret Wars, ends the following calendar year and ends up longer in terms of installments than was ever advertised.
- Prelude - All-New Secret Age of Infinity Crossover War CrisisPoint Convergence
- 1 - #24: Your World is Going to be Destroyed! (DC pt1)
- 2 - #25: End of the Universe (DC pt2)
- 2.5 - #25.5: A Game for Children (Non-Canonical Trivia Game tie-in)
- 3 - #26: Heroes Punching Each Other (Marvel pt1)
- 4 - #27: The Experience Has Been Consummated! (Marvel pt2)
- 5 - #28: Chain Mail and a Bomber Jacket (Marvel pt3)
- 6 - #29: Doctor Strange Explains It All (Marvel pt4)
- tie-in A - The Incomparable #140: The Sublime Magicks of Exposition
- tie-in A deleted scenes - The Incomparable #140b: No More Merlins
- 7 - #30: Beyond Continuity Porn (Marvel pt5)
- 8 - #31: This Hero Must Die! (Marvel pt6)
- Marvel NOW! tie-in A - ORIGINS #9: Illusion of Beginning/Middle/End
- Marvel NOW! tie-in B - ORIGINS #10: Heavy Metal Album Cover
- Epilogue - #32: Every Flavor is Chocolate
- Prelude to Final Aftermath - One-Shot #2:Issue 10 Out of 8
- RetConned Final, True Epilogue - #42: No Children Were Murdered
Reading List
- Grab the current Image Humble Bundle (ends 26 january 2016), it’s a ridiculous deal. 40+ issues (each!) of Invincible and Stray Bullets and much, much more!
Oni Press
- KaijuMax
“New Vertigo”
- Art Ops
- Red Thorn
- Lucifer
DC
- Prez
- Cyborg
- Martian Manhunter
“Valiant”
- X-O Manowar
- Harbinger
- Ninjak (yes, seriously. It is great)
- Unity
- Faith (#1 out this month)
- Death-Defying Dr. Mirage
Marvel
- The Mighty Thor
- Ms. Marvel
- Captain Marvel
- Ultimates
- Howard the Duck
- Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
- Silver Surfer
- Dr. Strange
- Scarlet Witch
- The VISION
Titan
- Surface Tension
Image
- Monstress
- Citizen Jack
- Black Magick
- Plutona
- Paper Girls
- We Stand on Guard
- The Private Eye
- God Hates Astronauts (going back to no-publisher independent)
Boom!-Archaia
- Toil and Trouble
Dark Horse
- The Steam Man
NEXT, IN A GIANT SIZE ONE-SHOT
We finally tackle Captain America Vol.1 #395, better known to longtime listeners as Captain America and Bearded Not-Original Thor vs. ”The House that Dripped…DOUGH???”, the Mark Gruenwald-written issue from 1994 wherein The Red Skull has sex with Viper in a hot tub (no, really!)!
