The Comics Bunker: Recent Episodes
Elora Zola Powell
DG Davidson is living in a post apocalyptic bunker full of comic books- and evidently recording equipment and all the food she needs to survive and all that- don't think about it too much. Listen weekly as she goes through back issues from "way back in the day" 2019+.
Chapter 2 of Midas: The Golden Dome sees the main characters learning about the creepy, sci-fi biotechnology known as the hylomorphs; and the writer studying abroad in Greece and preparing for Nanowrimo.
Now listen, I know there's some drama going on with Nanowrimo and AI. I'm not really engaged in the discourse, but I don't use AI to write at all. I wrote and recorded this before I knew about all that, so don't @ me.
In 2015, I started writing Midas- a series of novels about college guys trying to escape a VR simulation. When I started out, I was a fundamentalist Bible college student planning to become a Christian missionary. Four years and four Midas novels later, I was out of college, out as queer, and writing psychedelic zines in the Chicago underground art scene. So, what happened there?
This week, I'll introduce you to the concept of the show, and read the first chapter of the first Midas novel. Then, I'll try to explain what in the world I was thinking writing all that.
DG sings the praises of the connective tissue of stories that leads up to/fills in the gaps of Infinite Crisis- The Infinite Crisis Companion.
(Not you, Rann-Thanagar War)
DG tests a series of DC stories against the official comics bunker Crisis Rubric:
1- At least 2 teams that do not usually interact with each other- ideally from different time periods or universes- must interact.
2- A situation that threatens the status quo of one or both teams must occur.
3- Either a new character that spans the realities of both teams must be introduced, or the "death" of an established character must occur.
In a very short episode, DG outlines the terrifying propagandist implications of weird and stupid comics where Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen turns into octopus boy or something...
Zero Hour. It's not great. A true sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths it ain't, but maybe it's still worth talking about? Join DG Davidson in trying to do just that!
This is it. The big one. Universes will live, universes will die, blah blah blah. Dive in to Crisis on Infinite Earths with your basement-dwelling host, DG Davidson.
DG Davidson is finally back, with more summaries of weird comics from the 70s and 80s. Learn how we got from Multiple Earths to Infinite Earths, and how DG classifies a DC Crisis Event.
DG Davidson begins her series on the DC Crisis events with the first four volumes of Crisis on Multiple Earths. The Silver Age of Comics sure was weird; and that's amazing.
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DG proposes a theory of triality in an attempt to unify the varying portrayals of Bruce Wayne across media. Does she succeed? That, gentle listener, is up to you!
DG created a red-string conspiracy board connecting Red X from Teen Titans, Jason Todd, and Racer X from Speed Racer.
DG Davidson, completely of her free will with no outside compulsion, rolls a ten-sided die to determine what comic book she will review on the spot.
DG Davidson looks at the impact of Captain America #1 during the early days of World War II.
DG explores comic book superheroes' earliest interactions with media off-the-page; and how those interactions permanently shaped their lore.
Join DG Davidson for an Apocalypse Book Club discussion on the meaning of masks in superhero comics, with a focus on Nightwing in Forever Evil.