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At, at one point she did have Superwoman powers in a, a Superwoman series that I actually read for a long time because DC Comics, uh, tricked me into thinking it was a Lois Lane story-

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... and then it ended up being a Lana Lang story, but I kept reading it for a long time, uh, 'cause I was very invested in Lana Lang and John Henry Irons.

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Uh, up next is an all-ages book called Princesses of the DC Universe by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges, with art by Alba Glez.

The reason I wanted to highlight this one is, um, it's, like, usually when you get these stories about the different female DC heroes, like in the DC Superhero Girls or whatever, it's sort of the same batch of heroes.

But this is built around Yara Flor, Natasha Steel, and Miss Martian.

Kind of blows my mind.

Um, but it's the last line of this solicit I wanna talk about This is the type of line that, like, 15 years ago would've got me hot and bothered, but now it does almost nothing for me.

Uh, now Ray Palmer, AKA The Atom, is leading the charge to fortify the DC Universe, and to do it he'll need to unite magic, technology, villainy, and the cosmos.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, anyways, it's just very well done, and Mark Waid just does a very good job of, of sort of setting all this up.

And so in my view, I view this as kind of like a must-read, especially if you're a Batman fan because this is sort of res- reestablishing and resetting the early years of Batman and Robin, and a- anyth- all things Batman and Robin in the DC Universe, just like he's doing with, uh, the World's Finest.

So this really is...

DC in many ways is more and more Mark Waid's wheelhouse, and this only, this, this goes to show whether Mark Waid is working with Dan Morra on World's Finest, um, or in Justice League, or here in Batman and Robin.

Um, DC's doing something similar called Start Here.

We've got DC vs Vampires out this week.

Uh, so there are a, a number of other, uh, reprints, including New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident.

Um, a- and, uh, a second printing for New Titans 38, which is where, um, Static joins the team and, and what have you.

Yeah.

Uh, first of all, I am so glad that after a few years DC kind of was like... 'Cause, you know, Vertigo, I wouldn't say was precious, but there was definitely a line where it's like, no, you know, all right, we- we got the DC Universe, we got Vertigo.

You know, there was a little bit of crossover as far as the supernatural stuff.

Guys like Matt Wagner would break the rules and just-

Mm-hmm

... put DC heroes in things like Madame Xanadu, who did start in the DC Universe, and he's like, "Tough, I'm doing it.

You know."

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Um, it was a really cool time for us all to be kind of hanging out.

Obviously, you know, he'd been apprenticing under Scott, uh, and ha- already was kinda hip deep in, uh, DC Universe.

And we were getting kind of our first shots in there, and we were talking to him about, um, you know, Batman and Robin Eternal.

Um-

He was the showrunner on that show.

This was kind of what had, uh ...

That was kind of our first step into the, the DC Universe, and we'd been talking to him about what ...

You know, how can we spread? How can we, what can we try? What, what Robin can we grab? Like, ooh, a Jason Todd mini or a, an Arsenal.

That's the whole series.

Any cop detective drama in the DC universe should be in Gotham.

If you don't wanna have superheroes running around with rings-

Yes

Uh, so, so, so, uh-

Mm-hmm

... we just, uh, finished the, uh, the purchase, and one of y'all biggest property is the DC Universe.

Um-