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52 Pickup

A show about the most important comic of the 21st century, and the greatest series you’ve never heard of. Each week Journalist Gita Jackson and DC Historian Alex Jaffe read and explore an issue of 52, a 2006 exploration of the DC universe by a legendary team of talent that shaped everything that came after it.

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106:31

Week 32 - Seven Days in Nanda Parbat, with Paul Chin

52 Pickup ·

2025/02/12

All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe team up with Music Meister Paul Chin to leap into week 32, featuring talking crocodiles, the least disrespectful ways to pay homage to Watchmen, and Pulsar, Master of Sound.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (21:26) Let’s Talk About the Cover (27:34) Let’s Talk About 52 #32 (28:40) The Backup (01:21:03) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (01:23:11) The Blackboard (01:27:26) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (01:34:48) A SMALL SELECTION

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70:47

Week 31 - Human Resources

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2025/01/29

Oy oy, wots all this then?! All-Star Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Alex Jaffe flay the skin from issue 31 of 52, exploring Green Lantern cop discourse, DC reinventing the industry to screw Alan Moore, and why Jimmy Olsen is black now.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (06:26) Let’s Talk About 52 #31 (10:39) The Backup (40:55) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (50:35) The Blackboard (53:05) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (55:38) How DC Screwed Over Alan Moore (01:01:15) Your Reviews

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84:44

Week 30 - Dark Knight Down, with Ash Parrish

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2025/01/15

All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Astonishing Ash Parrish to strike again at 52 #30, including the return of DC’s Most Toxic Yuri Couple, deciding the most fuckable Batman, and the true reason for the Dark Knight’s cape.Chapters: Let’s Talk About The Cover (12:11) Let’s Talk About Grant Morrison’s Take on Batman and A Little of 52 #30 (12:47) Let’s Talk Talent (20:22) Let’s Continue Talking About 52 #30, and Marvel Movies

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53:30

Week 29 - Name Calling

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2025/01/01

Dick Death Determined via Dan DiDio! The Dynamic Duo of Podcasting Gita and Alex feast on issue 29, cooking up opinions on Grant Morrison’s writing of women, the importance of Thanksgiving tables in DC history, and some unsubtle jabs at the idea of IP rights by the authors of 52.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (08:45) Let’s Talk About 52 #29 (11:48) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (32:53) The Blackboard (36:50) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (45:49) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS

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78:03

Week 28 - Beyond the Black Stump, with Ted Brandt

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2024/12/18

A crocodile ate my parents! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with Emerald Artist Ted Brandt of Connor Hawke’s DC Pride story, tackling Australia’s place in DC, why Etrigan can’t rap, and Jason Todd’s tragic origins.Chapters: Let’s Talk Supernatural, Connor Hawke, and Rereading 52 (05:09) Let’s Talk Talent (23:12) Let’s Talk About 52 #28 (23:42) The Backup (46:18) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (51:21) The Blackboard (53:11) Asking

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69:34

Week 27 - The Past Best Hope

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2024/12/04

Merry Crispmus! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe find acceptance of the self in #27 of 52, as well as vengeance for Identity Crisis, good reasons to quit smoking, and why Dan DiDio may actually be Lex Luthor.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent, Industry Machinations, and Poaching Steve Wacker (02:58) Let’s Talk About 52 #27 (14:16) The Backup (41:50) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (47:53) The Blackboard (52:46) Asking The Questions at

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100:12

The 52 Pickup Halfway There Extravaganza!

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2024/11/20

Blessed Be the Hoochmaker! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe have reached the halfway point of 52, and take a moment to recap every major storyline in the series so far, as well as inventing new games to test each other based on both obscure trivia and romantic shipping possibilities. If you’d like to start listening, this is a great place to jump in!SHOW NOTES: 52 Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Keith Giffen Bon Jovi -

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79:22

Week 26 - Halfway Home

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2024/11/06

It’s a two-turkey dinner! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe reach the halfway point of 52, where they encounter Crockamurderer, draft an all-new teen superhero team, and reveal whether or not drug-sniffing dogs react to vacuum-sealed smoked turkey legs. Chapters: Is it pronounced Raahs al Ghul, or Raysh al Ghul? (01:18) Let’s Talk About The Cover, and hear some commentary from the creators of 52! (08:38) Let’s Talk Talent (18:50) Let’s Talk About 52

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Week 25 - Liminal Times, with Josh Rivera

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2024/10/23

Happy Halloween, Judeo-Christians! All-Star Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Booty of Bludhaven Josh Rivera to descend into issue 25, revealing which wrestling PPV is the good one, which DC characters love musicals, and the origins of Nightwing’s hot butt.Chapters: Let’s Talk About the Cover and Talent (08:34) Let’s Talk About 52 #25 (15:15) The Backup (48:21) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (56:19) The Blackboard (01:01:24) Asking The

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76:26

Week 24 - Just Imagine, with Jordan Morris

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2024/10/09

Send a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe team up with Eisner-nominated writer and podcaster Jordan Morris for issue 24, featuring the debut of E. S. Pete, the death of a character introduced last issue, and how Booster Gold caused Reaganomics.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent and the Cover (07:00) Let’s Talk About 52 #24 (17:39) The Backup (49:50) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (53:53) The Blackboard (58:01) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com

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56:46

Week 23 - The Island of Professor Morrow

52 Pickup ·

2024/09/25

Look out, my Cricketron’s gone berserk! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe collapse onto the beaches of issue 23, detailing mysteries of the Religion of Crime, mad scientists on Hookers & Blow Island, and what Grant Morrison thinks about Ayn Rand.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (02:21) Let’s Talk About 52 #23 (07:31) The Backup (29:59) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (33:50) The Blackboard (39:01) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (44:46) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS

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87:17

Week 22 - Burial Ground

52 Pickup ·

2024/09/11

ou’re ownin’ for a zonin’! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe smother issue 22, and in the process explain convoluted celebrity antics, examine the history of Native Americans in DC, and venture into The Nute Gunray Hole.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (03:16) Let’s Talk About The Cover (07:09) Let’s Talk About 52 #22 (10:29) The Backup (52:52) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (56:04) The Blackboard (58:06) The Nute Gunray Hole at

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59:42

Week 21 - Teambuilding Exercises

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2024/08/28

Ah, Shuddup! Gita Jackson and Alex Jaffe kick the twenty-first issue of 52 down a flight of stairs, and in the process discuss Jaffe’s incredible American Idol experience, Power Boy’s deficit of chest exposure, and the death of Manchester Alabama’s second fastest speed-based superhero.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (04:44) Let’s Talk About 52 #21 (10:43) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (41:53) The Blackboard (44:58) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (54:40) A SMALL SELECTION OF

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Week 20 - God Is Fragged

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2024/08/13

I Died And Was Reincarnated As The World’s Greatest Monster! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe breeze through the Morrison-heavy and story-light issue twenty of 52, making space for Tim King’s public apology for being a CIA asset, Steel’s exposed penis, Superboy Prime as isekai, and Jaffe’s biggest DC blind spot.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (05:14) Let’s Talk About The Cover (09:19) Let’s Talk About 52 #20 (10:53) The Backup (28:09) What’s your

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Week 19 - History Repeats

52 Pickup ·

2024/07/31

He knows! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe fly into issue nineteen, taking on Space Pope Lobo, which members of the DC universe are Charli girls vs. Taylor girls, and the most shocking twist of the series so far.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (09:12) Let’s Talk About 52 #19 (12:17) The Backup (38:40) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (44:11) The Blackboard (45:26) Asking The Questions at 52mailbag@gmail.com (52:20) A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS

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Subscriber Feed Preview Clip: The Flash (2023) Review

52 Pickup ·

2024/07/24

Here’s a preview for the subscriber only bonus feed episode featuring a review of The Flash (2023), the capstone film in the grand Snyderverse experiment. Hear all about the many writers and directors who passed through this film’s history, Ezra Miller’s strange crime rampage, and what the future holds for DC movies in the full episode. Check it out by subscribing to Aftermath today!

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Week 18 - Dismantled, with Questionposting

52 Pickup ·

2024/07/17

Emancipate the JLA! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe cross over with Questionposting to tackle issue 18, featuring BREAKING NEWS REGARDING DC CANON and the existence of Tracy Thirteen, Dr. Doom arguing with a drunk person, microdosing Fear Toxin, and the secret unpublished origins of Honest Abe, the Super-Hero Protector of Cincinnati.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent, Helmets and what the hell Shadowpact is doing here with Questionposting (04:50) Let’s

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61:39

Week 17 - Last of the Czarnians

52 Pickup ·

2024/07/03

Only thirty-five more ta go! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe blast off into issue seventeen of 52, where they witness The Time Hands, weird editorial grudges that end up on the page, and Starfire as Leia Thee Stallion.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent (02:25) Let’s Talk About the Cover, and Lobo (03:06) Let’s Talk About 52 #17 (09:57) The Backup (36:09) The Blackboard (39:19) What’s your favorite part of the issue? (41:09) Asking/Answering The

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Subscriber Feed Preview Clip: An Interview with Mark...

52 Pickup ·

2024/06/26

Here’s a preview for the subscriber only bonus feed episode featuring an interview with legendary co-writer of 52 and countless other formative comic book classics, Mark Waid. While this preview focuses on a few controversial Superman questions, the full episode goes in-depth on writing for huge company-wide events, what the Speed Force actually is, and so much more. Check it out by subscribing to Aftermath today!

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Week 16 - Uhebbuki, with Charles Pulliam Moore

52 Pickup ·

2024/06/19

O zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly! All-Star Comics Journalist Gita Jackson and World’s Finest Comics Expert Alex Jaffe team up with the Uncanny Charles Pulliam-Moore for the Two-Hour Wedding Album that is issue sixteen of DC’s 52. Hear whether Captain Marvel is an adult man or three kids in a trench coat, the wedding traditions of the Shazamish faith, and the debut of Cardi Bane.Chapters: Let’s Talk Talent, Covers and Pokemon with Charles Pulliam-Moore (03:15) Let’s Talk

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