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!

...with Special Guest and former Marvel EIC (and the writer of the original Secret Wars) Jim Shooter.

Now that Convergence and Secret Wars (2015+2016) are over, this episode serves as the truefinale 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.

Secret Wars (2015) is complete as of this, the second week of 2016. Since we did a mega-event-scale series on crossovers last year that was kicked off by the announcement of Secret Wars, we dig into our spoiler-filled thoughts on the final issue, as well as the event as a whole.

In the Epilogue to our comprehensive, decades-spanning, senses-altering Crossover Event(s), we each name the five events from each publisher we would "save", were we forced to choose.

Stay tuned for a shocking conclusion in the conclusion that will change the way you judge us...FOREVER.

• Crossovers Epic Event: Epilogue

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• IDW: Jem and the Holograms #1 is out now. Grab the first printing of this sure-to-sell-out-hit from writer Kelly Thompson and art by John's fellow SCAD alum Sophie Campbell, whom we discuss at the beginning of this episode.

The Crossover Crisis War(s) experience is consummated with a dive from AvX and its Consequences (without ruining it for you) through the recently-concluded AXIS.

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 8 of 8

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• IDW: Want some less-gritty, more-fun stuff appropriate for all ages? Powerpuff Girls Smash-Up #3 (of 6) and Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland #4 fit the bill. If you prefer gritty and violent, Judge Dredd #28 will suit you nicely. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44 is a landmark issue in that series. Avoid spoilers and pick it up if you've EVER been a Turtles fan.

Do our hosts come to blows over heroes coming to blows in Civil War?! Who will leave this battle "WWH Champion"? Have one or both of us been Skrulls the whole time? Find out as we take race across the Rainbow Bridge and out of dark-gritty-dark-darkness, toward The Heroic Age!

• Crossovers Crossover Epic Event: Part 7 of 8

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• IDW: Godzilla - Cataclysm posits the idea that all these monsters caused a global...cataclysm...and follows that destruction. The first volume TPB drops on 24 March 2015, so get this Cullen Bunn + Dave Wachter goodness pre-ordered!

In the aftermath of the 90's and Marvel's bankruptcy, a classic is sequelized, Earth becomes a penal colony for the rest of the galaxy, and Brian Michael Bendis kicks off the modern era of line-wide, connecting crossovers.

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 6 of 8

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• IDW: Louise Simonson's Super Secret Crisis War vol.2 TPB is out soon, as is the third issue of the five-issue Star Trek/Planet of the Apes series.

The trilogy of Infinity Something crossovers (Gauntlet, War, and Crusade) and the rest of the Events of the 1990's employ "crossover tactics" seen in Marvel events through the present. Say "hello" and at once (in many ways) "good riddance" to the 90's!

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 5 of 8

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• Cards Against Humanity: all-powerful despots we can only stop if they, ultimately, are the engineers of their own undoing.

In an episode where we cover both parts of Secret Wars, you'll be amazed at which Marvel crossover we declare the most influential and important to Marvel history in the years leading up to Infinity Gauntlet.

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 4 of 8

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• IDW: Popeye Classics is the only place you can find Sweet Pea asking for (and receiving!) his first firearm from Popeye and Olive Oyl!

In the first of more parts than we planned, we lay the foundation and start into Marvel Comics crossovers, looking at what a crossover really is (and isn't, and is/isn't perceived to be), including how Marvel invented them (no, seriously).

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 3 of 8

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• IDW: Transformers vs. G.I. Joe is like your childhood play with an unlimited budget!

Recorded after our two-part discussion of DC crossover events, this would usually go in the "extras" feed, but this is a major crossover event, so we're including this tie-in that you didn't ask for along with everything else in your subscription box.

Play along with the Marvel Trivia game to tide you over until the next thrilling installment (no fair Googling!).

• Crossovers Epic Event: (Non-Canonical, Inessential, but Fun!) Part 2.5 of 8

The second part of our intra-show crossover event covering DC and Marvel crossover events (all of them), takes us from Zero Hour (1994) to the New52-generating Flashpoint (2011). 

• Crossovers Epic Event: Part 2 of 8

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• IDW: Sam Kieth's The MAXX: Maxximized is being lovingly remastered and reprinted (vol1/vol2, vol3 drops on 10 February 2015). Looking for something kid-friendly? Powerpuff Girls: Super-Smash-Up! is a five-issue miniseries starting this week!

The first part of our intra-show crossover event covering DC and Marvel crossover events (all of them), starting with DC's "Big Bang" that set their standard, Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985). We leave you hanging off the cliff just before Zero Hour (1994). Part 2 posts tomorrow. 

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