Underwear On the Outside: Recent Episodes
Jenna and John
Jenna and John, two long time comics fans, take listeners on a journey through the infinite worlds of DC Comics, talking about issues from every era and covering any character or crises. Find us online at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1783419.
After the events of Hell Planet, Jessica and Simon get a chance to relax for Halloween....or they would, if there weren't Dominators out to capture their resident Guardian and his Power Ring!
The end of Hell Planet, as Jessica and Simon must stop Atrocitus and his Red Lanterns from transforming the Earth for their own ends. Will these two unlikely partners learn how to work together in time to save the Earth?
It's the beginning of the firsts story arc for Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, as they go up against the Red Lanterns and their leader, Atrocitus! The Red Lanterns want to make Earth a Hell Planet, and only our heroes can stop them.
We're starting a new limited series, looking at two new Green Lanterns, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz! This is their first appearance as a team, where we learn how a Muslim under surveillance by the government and a woman with anxiety issues are paired as a duo, and how that partnership looks like it's going to go!
Its the final episode looking at the early adventures of the Justice League! Come see the League induct their first new member, Green Arrow, in one of the more confusing issues in the run! Then, as soon as he's made a member, the team accuses him of treason, and we get to see our first group of super-villains! We wrap up with two of the weirder issues of the series!
We continue looking at the Silver Age Justice League adventures as the team fights an incursion from Magic Land and meets Merlin, and then we get to meet the most dangerous paddler in comics, Kanjar Ro!
We continue our look at the Silver Age Justice League of America, where they finally move into their own title. And the craziness continues, as the League faces one of their iconic villains, Amazo! They'll meet a 130 year old man, fight an android whose ears change size, and we'll learn how mild chlorine gas is! Then they meet Despero and we learn why Snapper is perhaps the most useful member of the team?
We're going back to the Silver Age for the first time to examine the origins of the Justice League of America! They start out in a try-out book in The Brave and the Bold and we've got an all star team: Aquaman! Wonder Woman! The Flash! Green Lantern! Um, Martian Manhunter? Snapper Carr? And occasionally Batman and Superman. Come join us from some Silver Age goofiness!
We're finishing up our series on the original Birds of Prey comic, and they finally get their own ongoing series, after a ton of one-shots! Join us as we meet a new team of villains (the Ravens) and then see the first adventure of Barbara and Dinah in their own title, as they tackle a very odd ransom scheme!
We continue our look at Birds of Prey with the next three one-shots from the late 90's. Here the Birds face a crisis in their working relationship and they figure out how they can continue working together in the future. Also, how is Barbara Gordon running around as Batgirl again?
It's the first Birds of Prey miniseries, and we have guest-stars! Catwoman and the Huntress drop by to join in the fun, as the team goes up against a bad guy who jilted some of our heroes!
Note: We thought we had the audio fixed after the last episode. We were wrong. However, we have consulted an expert and have our problem licked and we promise next episode our audio will be back to normal.
We're going to be spending the next four episodes looking at the first issues featuring the Birds of Prey! This is their first appearance, as Black Canary and Oracle team up for the very first time.
We finish up this first year of Justice League International with crossovers and the final reveal of just what is up with Maxwell Lord.
Justice League becomes Justice League....International! The machinations of Maxwell Lord continue as the team gets chartered by the U.N., fights the Gray Man, meets the Creeper, and starts sliding more into comedy.
The Justice League series continues, and we're introduced to another new member in Booster Gold! We're also introduced to some new "villains" who look suspiciously like some members of the Avengers, a Middle Eastern country and ruler who might be racist and more about the mystery of Maxwell Lord.
It's the beginning of a new title, as we look at the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths launch of a brand-new Justice League book! Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire bring us a team with some of the biggest names in the DC Universe in a book that would redefine how DC told stories. It's a more humorous look at superheroes, but does it still hold up, 35 years after its release? We'll discuss the stories, the new characters and launch into our look at the first year of this title.
We finish up the Lois Lane maxiseries by Greg Rucka, as Lois Lane and the Question deal with the forces arrayed against them!
Our look at Greg Rucka's Lois Lane series continues, as Lois continues to investigate the forces that conspire against her!
We continue our look at the Rucka/Perkins Lois Lane series from 2019, with guest appearances by a lot more Lanes and even another Kent!
We are going to spend the next few episodes looking at the 2019 maxi-series Lois Lane, written by Greg Rucka with pencil and ink art from Mike Perkins. We get a chance to see a really well written Lois, along with the always amazing Renee Montoya as the Question!
The mystery of Holiday is solved as we learn who the killer is! Does this story stick the landing? Does the answer we are given make sense and stand up to logic? We break it down in this episode!
We continue our exploration of The Long Halloween, as Holiday's murderous crimes continue and more of Batman's Rogues Gallery rear their beautifully drawn but oddly designed heads.
We continue our look at the Loeb/Sale classic The Long Halloween. There's more Joker, plus the first appearance of Alfred in this series, and the Riddler!
We're back with a look at the classic Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale classic Batman: The Long Halloween! There's a serial killer on the loose in Gotham during the early days of the Batman's career, and the new crimefighter has his work cut out for him in trying to figure out who's behind the holiday killings! Get a look at the early career of not just Batman, but also James Gordon, Harvey Dent, Catwoman and Joker!
We're taking this week off because of scheduling issues, but we'll be back in two weeks!
We finish off Naomi's six issue limited series and hopefully answer the question: did anything actually happen in these six issues?
Its a two episode look at the 2019 miniseries Naomi, introducing the character who's soon going to have her own TV show! How well does this miniseries introduce this character and does it set her up for success? We'll find out, starting here!
We finish up our look at the opening arc of James Robinson's Starman, examining whether we think this book starts strong and finding a few more story types that the book will continue to use throughout its run.
We continue our discussion of the opening arc of James Robinson's Starman, as the Mist's plan starts to come to fruition and things look bad for our hero!
Welcome to our new series, as we discuss the opening arc of James Robinson's magnum opus, Starman! This is the series that helped clean up decades of tangled continuity surrounding those who took the name Starman, and also leads directly into Courtney Whitmore's career as Stargirl. Here we start with the zero issue, spinning directly out of the massive crossover Zero Hour!
We finish our look at the beginnings of the first Suicide Squad as the Squad tries to survive their trip to Russia, fight some communists and see someone die! And then an issue of therapy!
We're still talking Suicide Squad, and this time we meet William Hell with an all too relevant plotline, and then we're off to the Soviet Union with the Penguin to rescue a dissident.
We begin the first Suicide Squad series with the first three issues of the series, which introduces the team, their support crew and a nasty group of terrorists. Plus, there's Darkseid and the Female Furies, some cameos from some famous villains and someone dies!
Its time for a new storyline, and this time we'll be looking at John Ostrander's Suicide Squad, the book that made this concept popular and laid the groundwork for what it has become today! This Suicide Squad started out in Legends, but that's a title for another miniseries, so for now we'll start here, in the Secret Origins issue that laid out the entire history of the team.
We're finishing off the last two issues of the opening arc of George Perez's reimagining of Wonder Woman after Crisis on Infinite Earths. Not only do we see the end of the Ares' plotline, but we get a teaser of villains to come!
The George Perez Wonder Woman reboot continues, as Ares' plan starts to come to fruition and Diana and her allies are forced to fight the gods themselves (or at least their kids)!
The exploration of the George Perez Wonder Woman reboots, as we finally see our Amazing Amazon in action and we meet more of her supporting cast. It's Diana versus the Ares family in this episode of Underwear on the Outside!
Its the first episode of Underwear on the Outside, as Jenna and John start to discuss the post-Crisis reboot of Wonder Woman that was drawn and plotted by George Perez! This first issue focuses on deities and demigods, as we learn the origin of the Amazons!
Welcome to a new podcast which examines DC comic storylines from the DC Infinite app. This episode lays out the premise a little more and introduces your cohosts, Jenna and John. We'll be dropping episodes every other week going forward except for the first episode, which will drop one week from today, on July 5.