The Jedicole Universe

There are some really oddball characters in comics.  And sometimes they inexplicably make it into the mainstream.  Not always, but at times it does happen and leaves fans scratching their collective heads.  Thus your hosts Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston find themselves talking about some of their favorites.  And some of their least favorite characters as well!

Way back in 1995 Marvel Comics did the unthinkable - unless you were Marvel Comics in the 90s - they went into self-distribution as Heroes World.  This was part of their vaunted, and soon failed, Marvelution.  (Read all about that here.)  Now DC Comics has found an excuse to do something similar, likely crippling an industry that has been hobbling along since Marvelution.  Once quite capable of seeing the writing on the wall, the new corporate masters of the home of Superman have both done the unthinkable and given your hosts Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston plenty to talk about on this (now rather dated) issue of the show.

Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston return to talking up comic book topics (after a lot of not-exactly-comic-themed issues) with a look at some of the worst that the industry has ever had occasion to offer!

With over 350 individual issues, annuals, and specials behind them, Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston take a look back at the history of the show.  Derived from JediCole's budding research (actually listening to each issue and taking copious notes), a discussion begins that opens up memories of in-jokes, recurring characters, and a staggering volume of movie and television references over a mere 50 issues from #0 forward!

It's baaaaaack!  

The bane of 90's collecting has returned in a new and different form.  While the madness of the foil-enhanced, poly-bagged, embossed, holographic, gimmick covers and editions of comic publications have largely gone extinct, the powers that be have found new ways to generate sales through exclusives and variants that hearken back to the "collector speculator" era.  Join Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston as they take a dive into the past and the curiously similar present state of the comics industry!

There's a dark side to the Justice League of America, sort of, that rears its ugly head from time to time in the form of the Crime Syndicate of America.  Dark analogues of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, the Flash, and Green Lantern from the extra-dimensional Earth-C.  They are the topic of discussion as Andrew Farmer and Cole Houston talk up the diabolical doppelgangers this week.