Mike Sangregorio
Longtime comic-book podcast guest and "Alternate Realities" alum, a recurring guest on Anthony Desiato's Superman and Batman podcasts Digging for Kryptonite and Lighting the Bat-Signal.
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Sep 19, 2026
Anthony DesiatoHOST
Like, where were you in your life and fandom when this was hitting? What do you remember about this?
Mike SangregorioGUEST
I was shopping at a store called Comic Book Heaven, which is unfortunately no longer there.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And when this book was announced, I had read Dark Knight Returns, but I didn't have – this wasn't – to the older guys who shopped, mostly guys who shopped at the store, this was a huge deal.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And I was trying to kind of understand where they were coming from, where the enthusiasm was.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And then by the time I thought like, oh, I think I'm getting this, the book came out and then everything deflated.
1 HR 1 MIN LATER
Anthony DesiatoHOST
I mean, is there anything we haven't talked about that you want to talk about with respect to DK two?
Anthony DesiatoHOST
Like, where were you in your life and fandom when this was hitting? What do you remember about this?
Mike SangregorioGUEST
I was shopping at a store called Comic Book Heaven, which is unfortunately no longer there.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And when this book was announced, I had read Dark Knight Returns, but I didn't have – this wasn't – to the older guys who shopped, mostly guys who shopped at the store, this was a huge deal.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And I was trying to kind of understand where they were coming from, where the enthusiasm was.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And then by the time I thought like, oh, I think I'm getting this, the book came out and then everything deflated.
1 HR 1 MIN LATER
Anthony DesiatoHOST
I mean, is there anything we haven't talked about that you want to talk about with respect to DK two?
Anthony DesiatoHOST
But either way... film certainly has a long way to go before it's, it's in the clear.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
I, I mean, um, I don't know, that doesn't sound great, but that also doesn't sound that surprising.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
And again, I, you know, when you talk about production budgets, a lot of this too, since this is part of a series and a larger series, there may be some way of laying costs.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
Like some of this might be like, well, while we had everything set up and we had David corn, however you pronounce his last name, Thank you.
Mike SangregorioGUEST
In costume, we decided to film a couple of Man of Tomorrow scenes and do that.
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