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Great interview! Subscribed 👍

Oh dear. So not very bright people can’t handle a very intelligent person speaking. Bloody hell stop listening if you dont understand.

This was great. Very insightful.

Great to see this man!

I didn`t know anything about Desolation Jones but now I need this book while I wait for some more Echolands

Despite mixed feelings about Maximum Carnage, DeMatteis interestingly enough did both the forwards and afterwards of that story in the paperback version in the 00's.

Echolands will be worth the wait no matter when it comes out!

great interview! Renren has a lovely voice. Like the ideas discussed! her work is absolutely gorgeous.

Way back when Desolation Jones was in progress, I shot a bunch of research pics of Los Angeles for Mr Williams. Sadly he left the book before long. Excited to listen to this

Come on Batman... BatMAN!!

I’ve been reading comics off and on for nearly forty years and when you talk to these old masters I realize how much there is I don’t know about comics. The quote he cites near the end caught me totally off guard. Hilarious.

Haven't watched yet but very curious!

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Go Sean!

GREAT INTERVIEW!!!!!🔥🔥I loved hearing the individual stories, heart, soul and thought that was poured into Akin Ka and Fairy Bad mother ❤❤

good interview!

Good interview

Are you going to do Superman Exile omnibus

Also note the changing colors of the speech bubbles when there's not enough space for a long, clear bubble tail to help us identify the character speaking

Haden!

I’ve been revisiting this series off and on for the last few years since I got all my comics from my parents house. I remember when I first collected the first 18 or so issues, that I just dropped off because it got so weird to me. However, I was fascinated with the writing and the art. I don’t even know why I suddenly decided to look up a video on Starman. He just comes to mind occasionally and I have to read a handful of them and then again I drop off as it is so strange at times.

I wonder if Alan Moore's 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow' was the start of Lana Lang going from Lois Lane's rival to the girl who lost out to Lois. That scene where she and jimmy get the super powers in the Fortress of Solitude just in time to hear Superman tell Perry that he loves Lois but will never be with her to not hurt Lana was so beautifully done that I feel like it set the paradigm that followed. "We'll show him that nobody loved him more than us". This was my era too. I long ago stopped reading superhero comics but I kept all of my Supermans - near complete run from Byrne all the way through the triangle era (yes, every single title, including Man of Steel, the quarterly, one offs etc) and still regard them fondly. I am probably a similar age to Paul and also British and I also first read them in that old British reprint comic (still have those too) but I think he's misrmembering slightly. I believe that comic ended long before getting to the material in the official triangle era. The original Lori Lemaris story is one of my favourite Superman stories no doubt. Beautiful fairytale story for superhero comics original audience: 6 - 8 year olds. But that story also Byrne had already retold before that Aquaman appearance. I totally second your choice of the Superman in exile in space storyline being a high watermark. Even today, long after moving on from these types of comics I still think of those stories from time to time.

Most people dont realize that the Triangle Era actually began with the John Byrne Man Of Steel miniseries. Everything was connected in the books all the way through Exile, and by this point actually putting the Triangle on the books became a mere formality. And that continued on every Superman title until just after 2000, when the last of the “Byrne era” creative teams were rotated off the books at which time the yellow “diamond” replaced the triangle. The books from that point loosely followed continuity, the art got too cartoony to match the animated stuff happening at the time, whole concepts were abandoned and they tried twice to retcon the origin until Superman Birthright came out officially changing the status quo. The books took a nosedive in quality and art after 2000ish If you were a 3rd grader like me when the Death and Return came out, it was awesome because these books constantly referenced things that happened years earlier, somethings all the way back to Man Of Steel # 1 (1986). And back then finding comics was easier than today. I bought them with my allowance at grocery stores too. And in those days there was no internet so you had no clue when the next issue was coming until you saw it on the magazine rack or a spinner rack at a grocery or liquor store. Good times

I received my copy today. Its my favorite era of Superman and simply the best

I just finished season 1 yesterday and OH MY GAWD I loved it. That was some of the most gorgeous animation I've seen in years, and I'm sad season 2 won't be out until late 2026 or early 2027.

Fans at the time were very irritated by the return of the villain, Norman Osborn, in the nineties.

I missed you guys and you return with my all time favorite: Superman! And more than that, with the run I got to first meet the character better.

Great video guys. I’m looking forward to reading the TE omnibus.

The Legion that show up in Time and Time Again is a fucking mess. Jurgens wrote it as the Levitz's Legion BUT that Legion was no longer in continuity by that time since issue 4 of the "5 years later" Legion by Giffen rebooted it by erasing any mention to Superboy and Supergirl.

Remember, John Byrne when he reintroduced Mr Myxzptlk he made him show up dressed like The Beyonder.

Great video! I've been a fan of JH Williams' work for many years and I can't WAIT to get my hands on his Dracula book! I don't know if you guys know this but Marvel published a Dracula adaptation in the late 80's, later reprinted by NMB in the early 90's, by John J Muth, that had a similar strucure of almost-but-not-quite-illustrated-book-mixed-with-sequential-panels. It's really beutiful, worth cheking out.

1. Curt Swan. 2.Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. 3.Joe Shuster. 4.Jack Burnley. 5.Bruce Timm. 6.Alex Ross. 7.Nick Cardy. 8. Wayne Boring. 9.Neal Adams. 10. Max and Dave Fleischer

avatar is the only animie-ish cartoon my wife was willing to watch. we loved the netflixed version also

Nostalgia. Awesome interview!

Hey, just wanna say that I read Mark Russell and Steve Pugh's Flintstones comic after the recommendation in this video, and it really is a great comic. Thanks for mentioning it!

Make him gay. That’s what you like.

I’m making him gay OK

I hate John Kent space they made him bisexual

What about if you Shazam?

Great stuff, thanks for doing this!

are the starman compendiums complete? do they left out anything?

Hey Comics Cube, I was just wondering when you were coming back? That's all, just wondering. Take care.

Its a fact "The crew and casts behind Spider-Man films have declared him canonically Jewis"

Great interview, love it!

Just read book 8.. I’ve been a fan since book 1.. great stories! Maraming salamat Budj and Kajo!

What a great chat.

great long form essay round table discussion on this story. regrettably you all pretty much missed a golden opportunity to discuss the rotating creative teams beyond a few writers name dropping and even lesser so in regards to the art teams. this is easily one of the worst disservices to the medium as the main reason i loved NML was to purposely go in blind week in/week out to see whom was working on which book for what their versions of characters. after 10yrs of listening to various podcasts and reading reviews, i still can’t believe this still happens today so strongly to this day. otherwise; great stuff!

The bit with the childhood ‘nemesis’ is hilarious!!

An extended run on SUPERMAN by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons... Sorry...got lightheaded, there...

Top-notch interview. Bill is highly an underrated visual genius!